Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

  • Lolme, Jean Louis de, 1740-1806.
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M DCC LXXXIV
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    C 4^5 ] CONTENT S. *The Introduction, — — i /^HAP, I. The fubjiance of the account given by the Abbe Boi- ^^ /eau of his dsfign in 'writing his Book: he feems upon the nuhole to have been of opinion that voluntarji flagellations ivere no very antientprafiice, —> if Chap. Hi No perfotis, under the old La^w, infliSIedflagellations on. them/elves, ivitb their ovun hands, or received the fame from ether perfonSf — — zf Chap. III. Voluntary flagellations nvere unknoiun to the flrfl Chrif- tians ~~ ..., — 39 Chap. IV- 7he ufe of flagellations ivas knonun among the antient Heathens, — — 51 Chap. V. The fubjeB continued, —' -ji Chap. Vi. Flagellations 0/ a religious and voluntary hind vcere praStifed among the antient Heathens — 7^ Chap. VII. Containing the mofl ingenious arguments of the Abbe Boi- leatt. The practije of fcourging one's-felf ivas unlinoiun to the flrfl Fathers of the Church', and alfo to the firfl Ancho- rites or Hermits, — — 103, Chap. VIII. Afevj more of the Abbe Boileaus arguments are intro^ duced. Self-flagellations did not make a part of the duties prefcribed in the firfl Monafleries. The only pofitlve inflances of flagellationsfuffered by Saints, or the Candidates for that title tn the days vue fpeak of, are thofe nvhich the Devil has infixed upon them, —■ — 11S ,Chap. IX. Corre^ions of aflagellatory hind, inflicted by forcsy vcere hovoever, though in very earl^ times, the common method of correiiing offences of a religious nature; and the povjer of infliSiing them nvas poffejfed alike by Bifoops, and the Heads ^ of Monafleries, — ■— 131 Chap. X, Siri^nefs of certain Superiors of Convents,^ in exerting their pov.-er of flagellation. The fame is abufed by fever al of them, — — 14 J Chap- XL Difiplines of the fam? 'vjbolefome kind have been pre-