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the fhoe-maker of Breflaw, the other was a man 

 of confequence, Cuntius, whofe ftory was lately 

 tranilated from Dr. More's Antidoms Adverfus 

 Atheifmum, and republifhed in the Antiquarian 

 Repertory. So troublefome and infolent was 

 the revived fhoe-maker, that the people whom 

 he diftreffed, were on the point of leaving their 

 houfes, to fettle elfewhere(u). 



Dr. More thought thefe narratiqns fo con- 

 vincing, that he concludes them in triumph with 

 thefe words : equidem fateor me tarn tar do effe inge- 

 nio. Hi comminifci plane nec^ueam^ quid hie Atheus 

 excogitaturus fit, in Jubterfugium fibi et latibulum, 

 contra tarn manifefvas evidentejque demonjirationes. 

 When the good doftor calls the infidels with 

 regard to apparitions, atheifts, the reader may be 

 apt to fmilej but this frightful epithet was nor, 

 with him, an unmeaning term of reproach, as it is 

 with fo many perfons, in ordinary books, and in 

 ordinary converfation ; it was a conclufion from 

 the doftor's fyftem, which he drew in a curious 

 manner, though with abundance of zeal and 

 confidence, at the clofe of one of his feftions, in 

 the performance juft quoted ; " as it is a maxim 

 " in polity," f^iith he, " that, no Bilhop, no King, 

 *' fo in metaphyfics, we may fay, no Spirit, no 

 " God." 



Paracelfus found a ready theory in his philofo- 



phy, for this fpecies of reanimationj the devil, 



according to him, can do wiiat he will in his 



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