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 Correspondence. 279 the Doctrine of the Church of England" 4to. Lond. 1686. It was the margin of page 44 which directed Wheatly to consult Menardus. (4) This remarkable passage in support of Trine Immersion is ad- duced by Bingham (B. xi. C. xi. Sect. v.) thus : " St Austin joins both reasons together," &c, while faithful Wheatly (who assures us in his Preface, that when he "could not mend an expression" in the books from which he was copying, he would never " do it an injury by changing it,") has the phrase, " St Austin joins both these reasons together." We meet with, on this occasion, an instance of a custom which should earnestly be protested against; namely, that of having recourse to the citation of spurious authorities, when those which are genuine are felt to be inadequate. The extract comes, as Mr Clay observes, through Gra- tian, {De Consec. Dist. iv. cap. lxxviii.) and the same " Homilia 3" is al- leged by Ivo, (Decret. Par. I. cap. exciv. fol. 34. Lovan. 1561,) and Peter Lombard, (Sentt. Lib. iv. Distinct, iii. fol. 297. Paris. 1553.) but is not quoted by Burchard. The Sermon in question is one of those pub- lished, in the year 1631, by the Jesuit Sirmondus, who does not admit its authenticity, but places it in an Appendix, (cf. ejus Opp. Tom. i. col. 202. Venet. 1728.) It commences with the word " Promisimus," and is addressed Ad Neophytos, " De mysterio Baptismatis." (Vid. Opp. S. Aug. Tom. vi. App. col. 770. ed. Bened. 1701.) R. G. II. On a Fragment of Euripides. (No. I. p. 133.) " Versiculos illos Euripideos noram : protulit primus ex Basilio mag- nus Porsonus Advers. p. 245. ed. Lips, eosdemque suppleverant alicunde A. Nauckius PMlolog. v. p. 556, et F. G. Wagner in. p. 192 poet. Tragi- corum. Nemo tamen sensit fatuum esse o~o<p6v. Substitutum id genuino vocabulo est ab da6(pois consarcinatoribus florilegiorum, cum ipsum Eur. credere liceat scripsisse : roiov yap (vel toiovtov) avdpa, kclv ims valrj xQovos, Kav p.r}iTOT ocraois Trpocrd' iSco, Kpivco cro(p6u." F. W. Schneidewin in a letter to C. Babington. [Wagner enumerates the lines among the fragments of the Anonymous Tragic Poets nor does Nauck assign them to any author : they must, consequently, on the authority of the Cam- bridge MS., be now first inserted among the fragments of Euripides. C. B.]