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A new edition of Toland's History of the druids: - Free History Ebooks

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^^LIFE OP TOLAND. 11have subscribed ^yith our own hands at Prague,**in Boliemia, tliis 2d January, 1708."The Reader will see from this cei'tificate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>Irish Franciscans at Prague, that Mr. Toland washonourably, nobly, and anciently, descended.We may, however, take it for granted, that hisrelations were papists ;for in his preface to Christimntynot Mysterious, he tells us, " that he was'*educated from <strong>the</strong> cradle in <strong>the</strong> grossest super-" stition and idolatry, but God was pleased to*'^'make his own reason, and such as made use <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>irs, <strong>the</strong> happy instruments <strong>of</strong> his conversion.'*He again informs us, in his Apology^ " that he was^'not sixteen years old when he became as zealous" against popery, as he has ever since continued.'*From <strong>the</strong> school at Redcastle, near Londonderry,he went in 1687, to <strong>the</strong> college <strong>of</strong> Glasgow;and after three years stay <strong>the</strong>re, visited Edinburgh,where he was created Master <strong>of</strong> Arts on <strong>the</strong> 30th<strong>of</strong> June, 1690, and received <strong>the</strong> usual diplomafrom <strong>the</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essors, <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> following iscopy.aUniversis et singulis ad quos prcesentes liters perrenient,NOS universitatis Jacohi Reo-is Edinbnrgen(BPr<strong>of</strong>essores, Salutem in Domino scmpiternamcomprecamur: Unaqne testamur inge^umm hunc bonceSpei Juvenem Magistnim Joannem Tolaiid Hiher^'iiinn,morihus, diligodia, ct laudabili successu se no-\ -2

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