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[Footnote 070: Calvinism and Arminianism compared, Introduction,
cxxxii.]
[Footnote 071: A dialogue on the Reformation was also in the
contemplation of Mr. Gibbon: "I have," he says in the Memoirs of his
life and writings,[072] "sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of the
dead, in which Luther, Erasmus and Voltaire should mutually acknowledge
the danger of exposing an old superstition to the contempt of the blind
and fanatic multitude."]
[Footnote 072: Vol. i. p. 269, of the 8vo. edition of his works.]
[Footnote 073: A full account of the writings of _Wicelius_, and of his
projects of Pacification, is given by _Father Simon_ in the _Biblioteque
Critique, par M. de Sainjore_, Tom. ii. ch. 18. He concludes it, by
observing, that
"the great love which Wicelius had for the peace of the church,
might induce him to use expressions, somewhat harsh, but which
really ought not to be censured with too much rigour. It is evident
that his only view was to be useful to persons of his own time, to
whom he consecrated the latter part of his life.
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