say the Romish writers, who was burnt alive for having written against the luxury and the power of the priesthood, and for having raised a rebellion against the pope.  When the learned De Launoi had successfully attacked the legends of saints, and was called the Denicheur de Saints,—­the “Unnicher of Saints,” every parish priest trembled for his favourite.  Raynaud entitled a libel on this new iconoclast, “Hercules Commodianus Joannes Launoius repulsus,” &c.; he compares Launoi to the Emperor Commodus, who, though the most cowardly of men, conceived himself formidable when he dressed himself as Hercules.  Another of these maledictions is a tract against Calvinism, described as a “religio bestiarum,” a religion of beasts, because the Calvinists deny free will; but as he always fired with a double-barrelled gun, under the cloak of attacking Calvinism, he aimed a deadly shot at the Thomists, and particularly at a Dominican friar, whom he considered as bad as Calvin.  Raynaud exults that he had driven one of his adversaries to take flight into Scotland, ad pultes Scoticas transgressus—­to a Scotch pottage; an expression which Saint Jerome used in speaking of Pelagius.  He always rendered an adversary odious by coupling him with some odious name.  On one of these controversial books where Casalas refuted Raynaud, Monnoye wrote, “Raynaudus et Casalas inepti; Raynaudo tamen Casalas ineptior.”  The usual termination of what then passed for sense, and now is the reverse!

I will not quit Raynaud without pointing out some of his more remarkable treatises, as so many curiosities of literature.

In a treatise on the attributes of Christ, he entitles a chapter, Christus, bonus, bona, bonum:  in another on the seven-branched candlestick in the Jewish temple, by an allegorical interpretation, he explains the eucharist; and adds an alphabetical list of names and epithets which have been given to this mystery.

The seventh volume bears the title of Mariolia:  all the treatises have for their theme the perfections and the worship of the Virgin.  Many extraordinary things are here.  One is a dictionary of names given to the Virgin, with observations on these names.  Another on the devotion of the scapulary, and its wonderful effects, written against De Launoi, and for which the order of the Carmes, when he died, bestowed a solemn service and obsequies on him.  Another of these “Mariolia” is mentioned by Gallois in the Journal des Scavans, 1667, as a proof of his fertility; having to preach on the seven solemn anthems which the Church sings before Christmas, and which begin by an O! he made this letter only the subject of his sermons, and barren as the letter appears, he has struck out “a multitude of beautiful particulars.”  This literary folly invites our curiosity.

In the eighth volume is a table of saints, classed by their station, condition, employment, and trades:  a list of titles and prerogatives, which the councils and the fathers have attributed to the sovereign pontiff.