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a duty to refute more fully the falsehoods 
which have been revived against that 
eminent reformer in your Magazine. 
My opponent brings forward a string of 
authorities to prove his assertion, that 
“ Bucer was born a Jew, and died a Jew.” 
The first is Lindamus, Bishop ef Rure- 
monde, who ts so far from being a writer 
of respectability, that he is not to be de- 
pended apon in any thing which he as- 
serts against the Protestants, As inqui- 
sitor-general fur the faith against the He- 
retics in Holiand, he manifested his zeal 
‘with so much spirit that Philip the Se- 
cond, King of Spain, made him thie first 
Bishop of Ruremonde, of which he took 
possession in 1567. Now, Sir, let any 
man judge whether I bave not a right to 
except to the naked, unsupported asser- 
tion of this flaming bigot and persecutor? 
Posscvin harely quotes Lindanns, conse- 
quently his testimony might have been 
omitted; and the very title of the Je- 
suit’s book, De Atheismis Hareticorum, 
ought to make any man ashained of citing 
such an author. 
But the Anti-Bucerist dwells with the 
greatest satisfaction upon his quotation 
from Surius. The story he has given us 
from: that writer has farnished him with 
matter for some savacioas remarks; but 
he should first of all have proved the truth 
of the tale. © Surius, however, bad as he 
was, had more modesty than the Anti- 
Bucerist, for he cautiously says that he 
had been told the story bya grave and very 
learned man; and then, after giving the 
relation, he as cautiously says, “ Utrum 
autem hee prorsus cerla sint, non pos- 
sum affirmare, preéseriim quéd ille quoque, 
qut hee referebat, se ab alis aecepisse dice- 
ret.” —“ Bat whether these things be cer- 
tain I cannot afirm, because he who told 
me them said, that fe had only heard 
them from others.” 
So, then, here is a hear-say tale re- 
ported by an ignorant bigotted historian,* 
from some one whose name is not men- 
troned, but who candidly confesses to Su- 
rius himself, that he could not vouch for 
the fact from lisown knowledge. But who 
will pay any respect to the assertions ofa 
writer who could undertake to defend the 
infamous massacre on St.-Bartholomew’s 
day? Your correspondent very properly 
claims Sanders as belonging to his party, 
ealling tum “ our Sanderus,” and he is 
welcome to so respectable a character ; 
yet even Sanders, as notorious a liar as 
* Sothe great Cardinal Du Perron called 
kim, ‘‘ an ignorant Beast.” 
Vindication of Bucer. 
[Oct. 1; 
be was, had some modesty in this in- 
stance, and would not venture to declare 
positively that Bucer died a Jew. He re- 
ports, indeed, what he had heard from 
others, that Bucer was inclined to Judae 
ism, and he relates a conversation on the 
subject, which he says passed between 
Paget and Dudley ; but who, at this time 
of day, will believe Sanders, when the so- 
ber men of his own party, and ia his own 
time, were cautious of reporting after 
him? ; 
I have never said or hinted that it was- 
a reproach te be born a Jew; but it is 
evident that the zealous Romanists, by 
inventing this fiction respecting Bucer, 
did think that such an origin was a re- 
proach, otherwise they would not have 
taken such pains to blacken the Reforma- 
tion with Bucer’s supposed Judaism. 
But whether Bucer was born a Jew or 
not, I undertake to prove, against all his 
defamers, that he died @ good Chris- 
tian. 
Your correspondent refers me, on one 
occasion, to the second volume of Bur- 
nett’s History of the Reformation, Novw 
in that very volume he will find King Ede 
ward’s Account of the death and obse- 
quies of Bucer as follows: 
“ Feb. 28, (1551,) the learned man 
Bucerus died at Cambridge, who was, 
two days after, buried in St. Mary’s 
church, at Cambridge; all the whole uni- 
versity, with the whole town, bringing 
him to his grave, to the number of three 
thousand persons. Also ‘there was an 
oration of Mr. Haddon, made very elo- 
quentiy, at his death, and a sermon of 
(Dr. Parker): after that, Master Red- 
man made a third sermon, which three 
serinons made the people wonderfully to 
lament his death. Last of all, the learn- 
ed men of the University made their 
epitaphs in his praise, laying them in his 
yrave.” 
Haddon’s Oration is in print, and may 
be found, with a Letter to Peter Martyr, 
on the death of Bucer, in “ Vite selec. 
forum aliquot Virorum qui doctrina, dig= 
nitate aut pietate inclaruere,” 4to. 1681. 
There the reader will mect with the clear- 
est refutation of this infamous falsehood, 
which was not invented till several years 
after the public funeral of this eclebrated 
reformer. Now I may ask, how came 
it, that when the body of Bacer was. 
ineanly taken up by the Romanists in the. 
next reign, and publicly burnt with his’ 
writings, this very extraordinary charge 
of his Judaism was not once mentioned ? 
How was it that the persecutors of his.re-” 
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