Familiar letters: vol. I. Written by the Right Honourable, John, late Earl of Rochester, to the honourable Henry Savile, esq; and other letters by persons of honour and quality. With letters written by the most ingenious Mr. Tho. Otway, and Mrs. K. Philips. Publish'd from their original copies. With modern letters by Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Dennis, and Mr. Brown.

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Familiar letters: vol. I. Written by the Right Honourable, John, late Earl of Rochester, to the honourable Henry Savile, esq; and other letters by persons of honour and quality. With letters written by the most ingenious Mr. Tho. Otway, and Mrs. K. Philips. Publish'd from their original copies. With modern letters by Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Dennis, and Mr. Brown.
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Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.
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London :: printed by W. Onley, for S. Briscoe, at the corner of Charles-street, in Russel-street, Covent-garden,
1697.
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"Familiar letters: vol. I. Written by the Right Honourable, John, late Earl of Rochester, to the honourable Henry Savile, esq; and other letters by persons of honour and quality. With letters written by the most ingenious Mr. Tho. Otway, and Mrs. K. Philips. Publish'd from their original copies. With modern letters by Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Dennis, and Mr. Brown." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57489.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

There is lately publish'd in Latin, Evangelium Mdici, se M∣dicn Mystica de Suspensis Naturae Legibus, siv de Miraculis. By Dr. Connor, of the Colledge of Physicians, and Fellow o the Royal Society. In Octavo. Te chief Heads of the Matters that he treats of are as follows:

  • I. Of the Nature of a Body, particularly an Organical one, where the Structure and Natural State of the Hman Body is explain'd.
  • II. How many Ways the Natural State of the Human Body, is said to have been Supernaturally alter'd.
  • III. Of the Laws of Motion, and of the three different Suspen∣sions of the same, in order to explain all Miracles.
  • IV. How it can be conceived, that Water can be changed into Wine.
  • V. How it can be conceiv'd, that a Human Body can be Invul∣nerable, Immortal, and can live for ever without Meat, as after the Resurrection.
  • VI. How a Human Body can be conceived to be in a Fire with∣out Burning.
  • VII. How we can conceive that an Army can pass through the Sea without Drowning, or walk upon the Water without Sinking.
  • VIII. How it can be conceived that a Man can have a Bloody Sweat.
  • IX. Of the different Ways a Human Body can come into the World; where is given an Account of its Gnration by Concourse of Man Woman.
  • X. How we can conceive a Human Body can be orm'd of a Woman without a Man, as Christ's.
  • XI. How to conceive a Human Body to be made without Man or Woman, as Adam's.
  • XII. How to conceive a Human Body Dead, some Ages since, to be brought to Life again, as in the Rsurrection.
  • XIII. How many Ways it cannot be conceiv'd that a Human Body can be Intire and Alive in two Places at the same time.
  • XIV. Of the Natural State of the Soul, and its Influence upon the Body.
  • XV. Of the Supernatural, or Miraculous State of the Soul uni∣ted to the Body.

There is in the Press, and will be publish'd next Trinity-Term, A Third Volume of Familiar Letters, written by the late Lord Rochester, the Duke of Buckingham, and Sir George Etherege, which will be intirely theirs. If any Gentlemen are willing to oblige the Publick with any Letters of those Ho∣nourable Persons own writing, they are desired to send them to Sam. Briscoe, in Covnt-gardn, who will print them in the next Volume.

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