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1707.

1708.

In this Year, our Author published likewise the New Testament, tranflated into French, with fome explanatory Notes, for the use of such Readers, as knew no other Tongue. Nor muft it be forgot; that in this Year too, he published his Bibliotheque Choifie, which may well enough be called the Sequel, or Continuation of his Biblioth. Univerfelle; for therein he pursues the fame Method of interfperfing Differtations on feveral curious Subjects, and the Lives and Praises of Men of Letters, which are to be found no where else.

IN the Year 1705, our Author digested into proper Order, and amended from several grofs Faults, the Copper-Plates of the Atlas Antiquus, &c. published by a famous Map-feller in Amfterdam; but thro' his negligence and parcimony, who would not be at the expence of reforming the Plates, the Maps are still full of Errors and Mistakes.

IN the Year 1707, were published all the Works of Defiderius Erafmus, in ten Volumes in Folio; to which our Author, in conjunction with fome other learned Men, added fhort Notes, and diftinct Prefaces before each Volume: in which he has endeavoured to give that learned and ingenious Man his juft Commendation, and the Reader a proper Character of all his Works.

IN the Year 1708, our Author published the Hiftorical Books of the Old Testament, according to his own Tranflation, together with a Paraphrafe, a Philological Commentary, Critical Differtations, and Chronological Tables; whereof he has given us a full and fatisfactory Account in his Bibliotheque Choifie, Vol. XV.

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IN the Year 1709, he revised, and added 1709. fome Notes to the new Edition of Sulpicius Severus, whereof he makes mention in his Bibliotheque Choifie, Vol. XX. P. 2. Art. 6.

IN the fame Year, he revised, and added large Notes to the new Edition of Hugo Grotius de Veritate Chriftianæ Religionis, enlarging it with one more Book de Eligendâ inter Chriftianos diffentientes Sententiâ; which he takes notice of in his Bibliotheque Choifie. In the fame Year he published likewife his Collection of the Fragments of Menander and Philemon, which he illuftrated with aTranslation, and Notes; and of this, in like manner, he makes mention in the fame Bibliotheque, Vol. XIX. Art. 7.

IN the Year 1710, he published a new Edi- 1710. tion of Livy, in '10 Vol. 8vo. with Notes of his own, and all the Supplements of Freinshemius corrected and amended, whereof he gives us a full Account in the aforefaid Bibliotheque, Vol. XIX. Art. 3.

IN the fame Year, when a beautiful Edition of Salluft was published by Dr. Waffe, our Author fent its Editor a fhort Life of that Roman Hiftorian, which he had chiefly collected out of the Writings of the Antients.

IN the Year 1711, our Author published 1711. the three Epistles, which are found at the end of Plato's Works, and are commonly afcribed to Efchines, Socrates's Scholar, in a fmall Volume, and with plain and eafy Notes; to which he fubjoined one Book of his Sylva Philologica, and mentions the use and design of the Edition in his Bibliotheque Choifie, Vol. XXII.

The pious and learned Mr. Limbarch dying 1712. in the Year 1712. Mr. le Clerc made his Fune

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ral Oration, and printed it with this Title; Oratio Funebris in obitum Rever. & Clariffimi Viri Philippi à Limborch, S. Theologiæ apud Remonftrantes Profefforis, defuncti die 30 Aprilis, Anno MDCCXII. habita à Joanne Clerico die 6 Maii quo fepultus eft, in 4to.

IN the Year 1714, the Death of the Bookfeller who printed the Bibliotheque Choifie, obliged our Author to difcontinue that Journal, which was fwelled up to 27 Volumes; but he then begun another upon the fame Plan, intitled, Bibliotheque Ancienne & Moderne.

THE fame Year they reprinted at Francfort his Latin Tranflation of the Annotations and Paraphrafe of Dr. Hammond upon the New Teftament, with our Author's Remarks corrected and enlarged. He gives an Account of that new Edition in his Bibliotheque Ancienne & Moderne, Tom. II. Art. 1.

IN the Year 1716, Mr. le Clerc published Hiftoria Ecclefiaftica duorum primorum à Chrifto nato Sæculorum, è veteribus Monumentis deprompta, in 4to. This Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, as far as it goes, is the beft we have. The Author has exploded feveral Fables and Legends put upon us by fome credulous or ignorant Writers; and given a fair and impartial Account of the State of the primitive Church. An Account of that valuable Work may be feen in the Volumes V and VI. of the Bibliotheque Ancienne & Moderne.

SOME great Men of the Arminian fide prevailed upon our Author to write the Hiftory of the United Provinces; and he published the firft Volume in the Year 1723, with this Title, Hiftoire des Provinces-Unies des Pays-bas; depuis la naissance de la Republique jufqu'à la Paix d'U

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trecht & le Traité de Barriere, conclu en 1716, in Folio. The fecond and third Volumes came

out in 1728.

IN the Year 1724, Mr. le Clerc publifhed a 1724. fecond Edition of the Apoftolical Fathers, with feveral Improvements. He has given a large Account of this Collection in the Volumes XXI and XXII, of his Bibliotheque Ancienne & Moderne.

AND now being fenfible that Age and his Infirmities were growing upon him, he left off writing his Bibliotheque Ancienne & Moderne, which then made up twenty eight Volumes; and refolved to beftow all his time on the remaining part of his Commentary upon the Old Teftament, but could not finifh it, as we have already obferved.

BESIDES the Books above-mentioned, there are fome other Pieces of our Author's, fuch as his Tranflation into French of Bifhop Burnet's Criticifm on the IXth Book of Varillas's Hiftory, wherein he treats of the Revolutions of Religion in England; of the Bishop's Defence of that Criticifm; and of three of his Sermons, which appeared in a fhort space after one another. A Letter to Mr. Jurieu, wherein he vindicates Epifcopius from the imputation of Socinianifm laid upon him by that Minifter. Several Differtations, Prefaces, and Notes upon great and valuable Works reprinted in Holland.

ARTICLE III.

A Defence of the Chriftian Religion from the feveral Objections of Modern Antifcripturifts: Wherein the literal Senfe

of the Prophecies, contained in the Old Teftament, and of the Miracles, recorded in the New, is explained and vindicated; and the Neceffity of a Divine Revelation, from the manifeft Infufficiency of the Light of Reafon or natural Religion, is afferted. By the Reverend Mr. Stackhouse, Author of the Complete Body of Divinity. Containing 509 Pag. in 8vo. with a Preface. Printed for Ed. Symon, over-against the Royal-Exchange.

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N the Preface, our Author gives us an Account of the feveral Antifcripturists referred to in this Work; from what Rise and Original they seem to have fprung; what Books they have fucceffively published; what the Defign of these Books is, and what the Character and Abilities of their refpective Authors: and in the Work it felf (which confifts of 24 Sections) he states the several Objections in their full force, and answers them, both from Reason and Scripture, with a great deal of perfpicuity and clearnefs.

THE 1ft Section treats of the Truth and Authority of the Evangelical Writers, to which the Objection of Antifcripturists is, "That the History "of Jefus, as it is recorded by the Evange"lifts, and commonly believed by Christians, "is fo improbable in it felf, and when tho"roughly examined, full of fuch Incredibi"lities and grofsAbfurdities, as are quite difho"nourable to the Name: befides, that the

Distance of the Time, wherein it was written,

"and