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pretend that the Apostle when at Naples turned towards
the tom of the Mantuan bard & exclaimed O that I could
have converted thee. The following verses refer to the circumstance

Ad Maronis mausoleum
Ductus, fudit super eum
Viaerorum lacrymae
Quem te inquit reddidissem
Poëtarum maxime.

In speaking of Christianity as intimately connected with
the melioration of man, as of the christianity of the
gospel is meant; & I take it to be an unanswerable
argument in favor of the reformation that it was greatly
forwarded by the literary stand timber of the age. When Leo
the 10th so zealously patronized the progress of letters
he scarcely foresaw that how much he was advancing the reforming
spirit. While this Bulls were were fulminated against the very heresies
on the one hand of which he was the author; – for they
had their origin in the enlightenment he so zealously
spread. The church of Rome was particularly unfortunate
in the its advocates at the moment of peril –
What are such names as Garape, Tetzel or Cajetan
when opposed to Luther Erasmus, Melancthon
Zwingluir or Calvin? – or rather what talents could
expect anything but disgrace & defeat when they

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Box	110	Main Headings
Folio number	139	Info in main headings field
Image	005	Titles	on the literary spirit of christianity & of reform
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	6
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Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::p i [?] [motif]]]
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