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Heathens, are still retained. A Roman-catholic, 
however, who prostrates himself before a 
wooden crucifix, or a member of the Greek 
Church making the sign of the cross, will not 
readily admit that the figure of a cross was 
used, as a symbol of resurrection from the dead, 
long before the sufferings of our Saviour. Like 
Alhericus examining the writings of Abelard ', 
either of them reading such an assertion would 
deem it pregnant with the most noxious heresy; 
and yet, exactly after the manner in which 
Abelard refuted the charge of Alhericus^, we 
have only to open a volume of one of their own 
Fathers, to prove that this is indisputably true^ 
Jews. So A If inn {Epict. lih.W. C.J.) To> Qiov Wiy.ay.oif/.fji; hifitfit 
atirS Kvon \>.itifo\i' *^ Calling upon God, toe pray. Lord have mercy upon 
us !" 
(1) See that most entertaining Histury of the Lives q{ j^belard and 
Heloise, as compiled from orifiual documents, by the Rev. Joseph 
JBerrington, printed at Birmingham in 178". The passage alluded to 
is in page 13S, and contains a salutary lesson for bigots of every sect 
and denomination. Mr. Berrington's Work perhaps comprises the 
most able survey extant, and certainly the most amusing, of the state 
of literature in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. 
(2) See Berrington'i Hist, of tlie Lives of Abelard and Heloise, 
p. 137. 
(3) Soa-ates Scholasticus, lib. v. cap.l". Camb. \'i!20. — See "Greek 
Marbles," /». 78. The learned author of "An Historical Dissertation 
on Idolatrous Corruptions," (f^ol. II. p. 5S, Note. Lond. 1731) says. 
The Cross in Egyptian Hieroglyphics denoted Life Eternal ; and that 
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