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also published a Latin tract against Sherlock, in further continuation of the controversy, in which the attack is carried on with equal severity. The title of the tract in question is, _Decreti Oxoniensis Vindicatio in Tribus ad Modestum ejusdem examinatorem modestioribus Epistolis a Theologo Transmarino_. Excusa Anno Domini 1696, 4to., pp. 92. The tract, of which I have a copy, is anonymous, but it is ascribed to South in the following passages in _The Agreement of the Unitarians with the Catholic Church_, part i. 1697, 4to., which is included in vol. v. of the 4to. _Unitarian Tracts_, and evidently written by one who had full information on the subject. His expressions (p. 62.) are--"Dr. South, in his Latin Letters, under the name of a Transmarine Divine;" and a little further on, "Dr. South, in two (English) books by him written, and in three Latin letters, excepts against this (Sherlock's) explication of the Trinity." In confirmation of this ascription, I may observe that the Latin tract is contained in an extensive collection of the tracts in the Trinitarian Controversy formed by Dr. John Wallis, which I possess, and in which he has written the names of the authors of the various anonymous pieces. He took, as is well known, a leading part in the controversy, and published himself an anonymous pamphlet (not noticed by his biographers), also in defence of Oxford decrees. On the title-page of the Latin tract he has written "By Dr. South." I have likewise another copy in a volume which belonged to Stephen Nye, one of the ablest writers in the controversy, and who ascribes it in the list of contents in the fly-leaf, in his handwriting, to Dr. South. These grounds would appear to be sufficient to authorise our including this tract in the list of South's works, though, from the internal evidence of the tract itself alone, I should scarcely have felt justified in ascribing it to him. JAS. CROSSLEY. * * * * * SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. _Parallel Passages._-- "You leaden messengers, That ride upon the violent wings of fire, Fly with false aim; _move_ the _still-piecing_ air, That sings with piercing,--do not touch my lord!" _All's Well that Ends Well_, Act III. Sc. 2. "the elements, Of whom your swords are tempered, may as well _Wound_ the loud winds, or with bemock'd at stabs Kill the _st
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