tinianus, dated at Rome, June the 6th, A. C. 445, by which Valentinian III. enjoined an abfolute Obedience to the Will of the Bishop of Rome throughout all the Churches of his Empire, and declares, that for the Bishops to attempt any thing without the Pope's Authority,' is contrary to ancient Cuftom, and that the Bifhops fummon'd to appear before his Judicature, must be carried thither by the Governour of the Province. And he afcribes these Privileges of the See of Rome to the Conceffions of his dead Ancestors, that is, to the Edict of Gratian and Valentinian: by which reckoning, this Dominion of the Church of Rome was now of 66 Years standing; and if in all this time it had not been fufficiently established, this new Edict was enough to fettle it beyond all queftion throughout the Western Empire. WHILE this Ecclefiaftical Dominion was. rifing up, the Northern Barbarous Nations invaded the Western Empire, and founded several Kingdoms therein, of different Religions from the Church of Rome: But thefe Kingdoms by degrees embraced the Roman Faith, and at the fame time fubmitted to the Pope's Authority. The Franks in Gaul, fubmitted in the end of the fifth Century; the Goths in Spain, in the end of the fixth, and the Lombards in Italy, were conquer'd by Charles the Great A. C. 774. Between the Years 775 and 794, the fame Charles extended the Pope's Authority over all Germa ny and Hungary, as far as the River Theyffe and the Baltic Sea: he then fet him above all human Judicature, and at the fame time affifted him in fubduing the City and Dutchy of Rome. By the Converfion of the ten Kingdoms to the Roman Religion, the Pope only enlarged his fpi 4 ritual Dominion, but did not yet rife up as a Horn of the Beaft. It was his temporal Dominion, which made him one of the Horns; and this Dominion he acquired in the latter half of the eighth Century, by fubduing three of the former Horns, as has been faid above And now being arrived at a temporal Dominion, and a Power above all human Judicature, he reign'd with a Look more fout than his Fellows, and Times and Laws were henceforwards given into bis hands for a time, times, and half a time, or three times and a half; that is, for 1260 folar Years, reckoning a time for a Calendar Year of 360 Days, and a Day for a folar Year. After which, the Judgment is to fit, and they shall take away his Dominion, not at once, but by degrees,to confume and to deftroy it unto the end. And the Kingdom and Dominion, and Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven fhall, by degrees, be given unto the People of the Saints of the Moft High, whofe Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and all Dominions fhall ferve and obey him. We'll give in the next Journal the remaining ARTICLE XIV. Johannis Petri Koblii in Academ. Scient. Petropolitana Hift. Eccl.& Human. Litterar. Profeff. Introductio in Hiftoriam Litterariam Slavorum, imprimis Sacram. Altonavia Impenfis Jona Korten. 1729. in svo. p. 418. Pag. 254, &c. That Introduction to the Hiftoria Litteraria, par- B EFORE we prefent our Reader with an Abftract of this Author, it will not be, improper to give fome previous Account of the Slavonian Nation, Language and Letters. All the Europeans were originally called Chittim, or Scythes; thofe that inhabited the Southern Coun tries, Spain, France, and Germany boafting of their Valour, named themselves Celta, or Helde, which fignifies in our Language, Warriors. The People of the North retain'd the old Name of Scythes, and changed it afterwards into that of Getes and Goths. Probably the Sclavonians were a Branch of thefe laft mentioned: What Country they inhabited firft, can not easily be determined; in all likelihood it was fome part of Ruffia towards Pont. Euxin. formerly call'd Roxolania, from whence they penetrated as far as Sarmatia, and fettled near the River Vistula; hearing foon after, that the Vandalians, in order to invade the Provinces of the Roman Empire, had left their Native Country near the Shoars of the Baltick Sea, they fent their Colonies thither, and took poffeffion of all the Land between the Vistula and the Elbe. To this they added by their Valour the the ancient Kingdom of Moravia, Containing Babemia, Moravia, Silefia and Lufatia. How and when they came to inhabit Thracia, is uncertain; but certainly they were Mafters of almost all what we call now Turkey in Europe." -THEY fpread themfelves over Illyrium, and fettled in Dalmatia, Croatia, Carinthia and Garniol. Two Brothers Czecus and Lechus, having put themselves at the head of a numerous Army, marched out of Croatia, and conquer'd, the firft Bohemia, the other Poland; at laft fome of them call'd Ugrior Hungry, made an Irruption into Pannonia, and founded the Kingdom of Hungaria. By fo many Conqueft's the Sclavonian Nation grew very powerful, and was poffefs'd of a very great Empire, Ruffia, three Kingdoms, Poland, Hungary and Bohemia; feveral Provinces, Turkey in Europe, Illyrium, Croatia, Carinthia, &c. And in the North of Germany, befides Moravia, Silefia, and Lafatia of Pomerania, Brandebourg, part of Saxony, Mecklenburg, and Holftein; where still the famous Cities of Hamborough and Lubeck, Wif mar, Roftock andGryphowalde,retain the old SclaVonian Laws. They went under feveral Names. 3 Thofe in Germany were generally called Venedi, Wendez; thofe in Lufatia, Sorabi or Sirby; the others, Hungarians, Bohemians, Ruffians, and all in general Slavi, from Slaw; which, in their Language, fignifies Glory or Praise. They had different Dialects, which is no matter of Surprize to them that confider the Extent of their Dominions. Frenzelius and Herbinius pretend, that their Language is derived from the Hebrew others from the Greek: our learned Mr. Bernard: in his Etymologicon Britannicum fhews, there was a great Conformity between J the 1 र ( the Anglo-Saxon, and the Sclavonian Language. In our Opinion, the Sclavonian, as well as the Greek, Latin, German, &c. were only diffe rent Dialects of the old Scythian Language, according to the different Climate they fettled: in, or the different Nations they were incorporated with. The best Sclavonian is fpoken? near the City of Kiow in the Ukrain, or according to others in Sclavonia; but it must be obferved, that this Language had the fame Fate with the Greek and Latin, to become a dead Language, which is understood by the Learned, but in common ufe among no People. As for their Letters, they had none before the ninth Century, when Cyrillus and Methodius invented fome for their ufe: Count Herberstein in his Commentaries de Rebus Mofcovie, fays, that at: first they had no Letters, but that Michael King of Conftantinople fent the Sclavonian Letters into Bulgaria, in the Year 6406. Aventi nus in Annal. Bojor, writes to the fame purpofe about that time Methodius a Philofopher invented the Sclavonian (Venedas) Letters. The fame is recorded in an old Sclavonian Book intitled, Stepennaja Knigas and in the Letter of Pope John VIII. to the Moravians. Thefe Let- ` are call'd Cyrillians, and are the fame with the Greek, except the Capital A, which is an R inverfe: U, for H. H for N. and III for T. two Diphthongs b for IE, and I-O for OY and three new Letters invented for the particular ufe! of the Sclavonians R. SH. II. TZ. and III.2 SHTSH. Some time after a new Alphabet (in: their Language call'd Asbuchi, from As A and Buki. B. the two firft Letters) was invented, when and by whom is uncertain: They call Y thefelt |