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maintained, that there was no other admiflion into tire 
church but by the repentance in baptifm ; grounding 
their opinion on that of St. Paul : “ It is impoflible for 
thofe once enlightened, and who have tailed the heavenly 
gift, if they fall away, to renew themfelves by repentance.” 
Not that they denied but a perfon fallen into any fin, how 
grievous foever, might obtain pardon by repentance ; for 
they themfelves recommend repentance in the ftrongelt 
terms; but their doftrine was, that the church had it not 
in its power to receive Tinners into its communion, as 
having no way of remitting fins but by baptifm; which, 
once received, could not be repeated. In procefs of time, 
the Novatians foftened and moderated the rigour of their 
mailer’s dodrine, and only refufed abfolution to very 
great finners. The two leaders were profcribed, and de¬ 
clared heretics, not for excluding penitents from com¬ 
munion, but for denying that the church had a power of 
remitting lins. 
NOVA'TI ANISM, f. The opinions of the Novatians.— 
I do not tell you, that this author is wont to be impeached 
of Novatianijin. Bp. flail's Bern. 
NOVA'TION, f. [old Fr. from novatio, Lat.] The in- 
troduftion of fomething new.—I fhall eafily grant, that 
novations fn religion are a main caufe of distempers in 
commonwealths. Abp. Laud's Hift. of his Troubles. 
NOVA'TOR, f. [Latin.] The introducer of fomething 
new; an innovator, an ufurper. 
NOVA'TUS. See Novatian. 
NOVAVO'L, a town of Samogitia : forty miles fouth 
of Rofienne. 
NOUCON'GUE, a mountain of Thibet. Lat. 30. 54. N. 
Ion. 94. 54. E. 
NOU'DAR. See Nodar. 
NOU'DJER, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Ellore : twenty miles weft of Ellore. 
NOL'E (Francis de la), furnamed JSras-de-Fcr, or 
Iron-Arm, an eminent warrior and ftatefman, was born 
in 1531 of an ancient family in Brittany. He bore arms 
from early youth, and diftinguilhed himfelf in Italy. On 
his return to France, lie embraced the Calvinift religion 
and party, of which he became a principal fupport. He 
reduced Orleans in 1567, commanded the rear-guard at 
the battle of Jarn?,c in 1 569, and afterwards took Fon- 
tenoi, and feveral other places. At the capture of Fontenoi 
he received a wound in the left arm, which rendered its 
amputation neceflary; and he fupplied its place with an 
arm of Heel, with which he was able to manage his bridle, 
and which gave him his furname. He was in the Low 
Countries in 1 571, where lie furprifed Valenciennes; and, 
.returning after the maflacre of Sr. Bartholomew, he was 
appointed by the king to the command of the troops fent 
againft Rochelle. On this occalion, his attachment to his 
party, enforced by the juft refentment he might feel for 
the late execrable maflacre, overcame his fenle of fidelity 
to his fovereign ; and he carried into Rochelle, for its 
defence, the forces defigned for its redu&ion. He, how¬ 
ever, ufed all his intereft during the liege to promote an 
accommodation upon honourable terms; and bore with 
extraordinary patience the outrages of the fiery minifter 
La Place, who reproached him for his moderation. In 
1678, he followed the duke of Alent;on into the Low 
Countries, and rendered; great fervices to the States Ge¬ 
neral. He tookNinove, with the count of Egmont, who 
commanded in it; but was himfelf made prifonerin 1680. 
The Spaniards thought this capture of To much import¬ 
ance, that they detained him in prifon five years, which 
he employed in.literary occupations. At the commence¬ 
ment of the wars of the League, he retired to Geneva, 
where he was nominated by the duke of Bouillon his exe¬ 
cutor, and guardian to his After and heirefs. When 
Seniis was befieged by the leaguers in 1589, he was with 
the army, of the royal ills which endeavoured to throw 
provifions and ammunition into the place; and, when the 
merchants refilled to deliver the goods without ready 
money, which the revenue-officers declined advancing, 
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La None immediately mortgaged his eftate for fecurity. 
He continued to ferve with, glory under Henry IV. and 
in 1691 was killed by a mufket-fiiot, at the liege of Lam- 
balle, as he was reconnoitring from a ladder. His vir¬ 
tues caufed him to be regretted by both parties; and few 
purer charafters are to be met with in thelviftoryof thofe 
times. He was the author of “ Difcours Politiques Sc 
Militaires,” compofed in prifon, and printed in 1587, 4to. 
They have been feveral times reprinted, and are Hill in 
efteem. Moreri. 
NOU'.E (Staniflaus-Louis de la), Count de Vair, was of 
the fame family as the preceding, and born in 1729. He 
greatly diftinguifhed himfelf as a gallant officer in the war 
of 1741, and alfo in that of 1756. He was (lain in the ac¬ 
tion of Saxenhoufen in 1760. Louis XV. being told of 
bis death, faid that “ he bad loft the Loudon of France.” 
The count wrote “ New Military Conftitutions,” printed 
at Frankfort in 1760. 
NOU'E, (John-Sauve de la), a French aftor and dra¬ 
matic writer, was born at Meaux in the year 1701. The 
duke of Orleans affigned to him the direction of his theatre 
at St. Cloud ; and Voltaire wrote fome pieces purpofely for 
him. lie died in 1761. Plis Tragedies and Comed : 
were publilhed at Paris in 1765. - 
NO'VE DWIN'KO, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Archangel, at the month of the Dwiua : eight 
miles from Archangel. 
NOUE'E (La), a town of France, in the department of 
the Morhihan : three miles north north-weft of Jofielin. 
NOV'EL, ad;, [old Fr. nouvelle, modern ; novellas, Lat.] 
New; not ancient; not ufed of old; unufual.—The Pref- 
byterians are exa6ters of fubmiffion to their novel injunc¬ 
tions, before they are damped with the authority of laws. 
King Charles. —Such is the conftant drain of this blefied 
faint, who every where brands the Aldan dodtrine, as the 
new novel upftart herefy, folly and madnefs. Water land .— 
[In the civil law.] Appendant to the code, and of later 
enaction.—By the novel conftitutions, burial may not be 
denied to anyone. Ayliffe's Par ergon. 
NOV'EL, /.’ [nouvel/e, Fr.] Novelty.—It is the condi¬ 
tion of common people to prefs into the view, of inch 
novels. Comment on Chaucer 1665. 
[They], loving novels, full of alfedlation, 
Receive the manners of each other nation. Sylc. D . Bart. 
Novel, in the civil law, a term ufed for the conftitu¬ 
tions of feveral emperors, more particularly thofe. of Juf- 
tinian. They were called novels, either from their pro¬ 
ducing a great alteration in the face of the ancient law, or 
becaule they were made on new cafes, and after the revifal 
of the ancient code.—By the civil law, no one was to be 
ordained a preffiyter till he was thirty-five years of age ; 
though by a later novel it was fufficient if he was.above 
thirty. Ayliffe. 
Novel, in literature, a fidlitious hiftory of a feries 
of furprifing and entertaining events in common life, 
wherein the rules of probability are, or ought to be, ftridtly 
obferved; in which it differs from a romance, where the 
hero and heroine are fome prince and princefs, and the 
events which lead to the cataftrophe are, in general, 
highly abfurd and unnatural. See the article Romance. 
Alter a general change in the manners of Europe, a 
dilbelief in magic and enchantments, the abolition of 
tournaments, and the prohibition of Angle combat, had 
deftroyed or greatly weakened the fonduels for romances 
of chivalry, a fecond fpecies of romance-writing took its 
rife. In this there were no longer introduced dragons, 
necromancers, or enchanted cables; but with them was 
not entirely banifhed ablurdity of incident, and impro¬ 
bability of character. This fecond fpecies of fictitious 
writing.did not continue lon-g: the age was becoming too 
refined, and the tafte for literature too- general and ex- 
tenfive, for works to pleafe, in which the characters were 
drained, the ftyle turgid and declamatory, and the adven¬ 
tures incredible. This fort of ccmpolition now afiumed. 
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