A new method of making common-place-books / written by the late learned John Lock, author of the Essay concerning humane understanding ; translated from the French. To which is added something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same subject ... There are also added two letters, containing a most useful method for instructing persons that are deaf and dumb, or that labour under any impediments of speech, to speak distinctly; writ by the late learned John Wallis.

John Locke

Date:: 1706

Credit: A new method of making common-place-books / written by the late learned John Lock, author of the Essay concerning humane understanding ; translated from the French. To which is added something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same subject ... There are also added two letters, containing a most useful method for instructing persons that are deaf and dumb, or that labour under any impediments of speech, to speak distinctly; writ by the late learned John Wallis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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X ÈBIONÏTES.] Sell all that thouhaflf and give it ta the Poor^ then come and follow me ? But at that the Rich Man be- gan to fcratch his Head, and was not at all pleas'd with the Advice that fefus gave him. And the Lord faid unto him, how fay you I have fulfilled the haw and the Prophets, Jince It is written in the Law, thou Jhalt love thy Neighbour m *fhy felfs and lo there are many of thy Brethren, the Children of Abraham* who have bad Raiment %and die with Hunger, while no Help is adminifired to them fromyou, thdyourHouje abounds with all Good Things ? And having turnd to Si¬ mon* bis Difciple* who fat next him, Si¬ mon, thou Son of Johanna* laid he, it m eaficr for a Camel to go through the Eye of a Needle, than for a Rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Ebion alter’d this Paffage of the Gofpel, fcecaufe he did not acknowledge Chrift to be the Son of God, nor a Law-giver, but a bare Interpreter of the Law which was given by Mofes* Grotius A44^*-

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