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MEMORIALS
OF
HUMAN SUPERSTITION;

Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on theHISTORIA FLAGELLANTIUM of theAbbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canonof the Holy Chapel, &c.

By One who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

Honni soit qui mal y pense.

THE SECOND EDITION.

Page. 391.

LONDON:

Printed for G. ROBINSON, No 55, Pater-noster Row.

M DCC LXXXIV.


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THE
INTRODUCTION
OF THE
PARAPHRAST and COMMENTATOR.

THE Abbé Boileau, the author of theHistoria Flagellantium, was elder brotherto the celebrated Poet of thatname. He filled, several years, the place ofDean of the Metropolitan Church of Sens,and was thence promoted to the office of oneof the Canons of the Holy Chapel in Paris,which is looked upon as a great dignity amongthe French clergy.

While he was in that office (about the year1700) he wrote, among other books, thatwhich is the subject of this work[1]. This[2]book, in which the public expected, from thetitle of it, to find an history of the particularsect of Hereticks called Flagellants, only containedan aggregation of facts and quotationson the subject of self-disciplines and flagellationsin general among Christians (which, ifthe work had been well done, might howeverhave been equally interesting) and a mixtureof alternate commendation and blame of thatpractice.

The Theologians of that time, however,took offence at the book. They judged thatthe author had been guilty, in it, of severalheretical assertions; for instance, in saying,as he does in two or three places, that JesusChrist had suffered flagellation against hiswill: and they particularly blamed the censureswhich, amidst his commendations of it,he had passed upon a practice that so manysaints had adopted, so many pontiffs and bishopshad advised, and so many ecclesiasticalwriters had commended.

In the second place, they objected to severalfacts which the author had inserted in hisbo

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