24 No Bucerism: in Reply io Dr. Waikins’s Defence of Bucer. [Aug 1, 
stranger, confirmed the conviction of the 
powerful permanent influence which one 
individual may have, who is habitually 
and judiciously aiming to do all the good 
he can. Boldre church is a mile from 
the hamlet, situated in a sequestered and 
romantic part of the Forest. ‘The silence 
and solitariness of the spot, the deep 
shade of the woods, the !ast memento of 
him who has taught the love of heavenly 
wisdom to the inhabitants, amd immor- 
talized the scenery, all conspire to rénder 
Boldre church-yard a spot. not. to be 
visited without enthusiasm, nor quitted 
without regret. 
The road which is cut through the 
Forest from Lymington to. Romsey is ex- 
tremely fine, and presents grand views 
of these magnificent and extensive woods. 
But around Lyndhurst the scenery is 
rich and varied beyond all description. 
The most lovely abodes break on the 
sight from situations to which Imagina- 
tion does not wish to add, but she ex- 
claims, Who are they who are worthy to 
reside here? they must surely be amongst 
the first of mortals!- Those who are 
formed for all the enjoyment which nature 
affords, will not be satisfied with being 
driven through the Forest; they must re- 
turn, they must wander at leisure, they 
must abandon themselves to the invisible 
Genius presiding in the vicinity of Lynd- 
hurst. C.N. 
= 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
NO. BUCERISM: 2m REPLY ¢0 DR. WAT- 
KINS’S DEFENCE of BUCER, &c.* 
SHOSE historical particulars of the 
war-whoop No rorERy, inserted in the 
Magazine for May(vol. xxiii. p. 327), have 
excited in Dr. Watkins a somewhat ludi- 
creus uritation. In the animosity of his 
displeasure, he calls the author infamous, 
yet complains that he is unknown; and 
with truly priestly slang reviles an adver- 
sary as immoral, for whose designation 
he enquires. To such invective one does 
not answer: but to the literary eriticisia 
an attentive reply shall be given. Be it 
examined, whether Dr. Watkins, or the 
Anti-Bucerist. bas been the more atten- 
‘tive reader of English ecclesiastical his- 
tory. : easel 
Dr. Watkins begins’ with this truism, 
that the virtuous dead ought not to be ca- 
lumniated. Very just. Neither ought 
the wicked dead to be canonized. There 
is moral guilt in attacking the just fame 
of those who died two ar three centuries 
* See Monthly Mag. vol. xxill, pp, 327 
and 413. 
ago. There is also moral:guilt in holding 
up, to public reverence and praise, those 
men, who have been malefactors to the 
community instead of benefactors. This 
has sometimes been done by political, and 
oftener byreligious sects, who are apt sin- 
cerely to confound services to their party 
with utility to mankind. In the opimon of 
the Anti-Bucerist, the founders of the Re- 
formation,bothia England and throughout 
protestant Europe, have hitherto been mis- 
chievously flattered: in proof of this pro- 
position, hehas appealed to history for the 
record of their deeds. It remains to be 
shown that Dr. Watkins’s attack has m 
nothing invalidated the general truth of 
the concise statement made. . 
_ The first charge of misrepresentation 
(to borrow the order, or disorder, of Dr, 
Watkins’s objections) respects this sen- 
tence: “ Martin Bucer was born a Jew, 
and died a Jew,” - Here are two distinct 
propositions, which this Dr. Watkins has 
not scrupled to characterize both as false 
andas foulaspersions. We will now pro- 
duce evidence for their reality. Linda 
nus, the bishop of Ruremond, speaking of 
Bucer, says (in dialogo 2 Dubitant.) 
Sane ut in christianismo fuit inconstantis- 
simus, ita in paterno judaismo constantis- 
simus, p. 146. And again: Alia Christum 
nostrum negant verum illum promissum 
Suisse, sed alium cum Judeis expectandum, 
uti Bucerum moribundum testatum rel- 
guisse narrant fide digni, adeoque quidam 
clarissimi viri, se ab ejus discipults in An- 
gla accepisse. This almost cotempo- 
rary, and highly respectable, testimony 
is positive as to the jewish descent, and 
strong as to the final relapse into judaism. 
There'is more. Surius ( Commentar. re- 
rum in orbe gesterumad ann. 1351 ) says: 
Audivi ego ex guodam grevi longeque doc- 
tissimo viro, fuisse eum | Bucer|judewm, et 
cum guandogue puerum quendum nescvo ex 
qua femine sustulisset, eum circumeidisse. 
The causing his own bastard child to be 
circumcised micht be accounted for on 
the principle that his mistress was a jew~ 
ess: but even this would be symptomatic, 
of his being once ajew. A third witness 
is Mancroix, ~who in the Histoire du 
Schisme d’Angleterre (lib. 2 p. 237) saysin 
so many words: Pour Bucer, il etatt porté 
pour le Juduisme ; aussi elart vl descendu 
@une famille juive : and thea appeals to 
a conversation hetween Paget and Dud- 
ley, related at length by our Sanderus, in. 
which Bucer was stated to have considered 
the Gospels as legendary lives of Christ, 
to be received with some grains of allow- 
ance. Feurzhly, or rather fifthly, the tes- 
timony of Possevin may be adduced: his 
words 
