1 depoliting their eggs and trail, in return, into the fmall tubes, pipes or fiphons, prepared by thefe angelic and moft exquifite confectioners. Hoft. None fuch crows fhall feaft on carrion in my house; but fuppofe it fo, you have no pretenfions to nobility. *, Luth. Sirrah, I am of high extraction, of the moft fublime spiritual nobility. Hoft. Explain yourself, if you pleafe. Luth. My primitive, firft Grandfire, from whole days I have fucked my nobility, whofe mark in baptism (Luther) I am honoured with, is confidered by the children of God, as the primogenial and great champion of Christendom, the great Sun that in these latter days have illuminated our earth. Hof If you hold your nobility from wormcaten ancestry, you become a pifmire, b Luth. If Luther had lived in an heathen age, he would have been honoured as a divinity. Hoft. His actions, that has reached us, befpeak him heathen and not christian. Luth. You can make no difpute against my relation's nobility, Doctor Tillotson, late great Primate of all England, whofe Chair of State I purpofe filling, when vacant, by heirship. Hoft. A Calvinift confiders the race of Luther as baftard papifts, unworthy notice. Luth. You are truly of the breed of Calvin, the most ftiff necked, and flint-hearted crew that the Lutherans ever had to do with. I have now finished my mince-ftew. dainty? What is that? Ε What is What is your next Hoft. SIXTH CONFERENCE. His Reverence Mr. Luther to his dearly beloved in God, the Reverend Rabbi Mofes, full Health, and Apoftolick Benediction, Greeting. I wail and lament the blind and lukewarm ftate of my fellow-creatures, and am anxious for learned and zealous gofpel-labourers; as fuch I hold you; to be placed in the vineyard of our Sion. I therefore confider it faithful to. prepare you for this noble work; you will accordingly attend at the ufual hour, and please to finish the great work of falvation; and, as another Mathias, fupply the place of Calvin, as he did Judas, who fell by tranfgreffion: fo Calvin; my Dear Reverend Brother has fell; he has really reconciled himself to the Catholic Church, and is fet out for Bruffels to become Religious in a Convent of Friars. I regret the lofs of fo noble a companion, who was at all times a jovial friend. Rabbi Mofes will attend the Reverend Mr. Luther to-morrow, as defired; begs the presence of the Catholick boy as before; he feemingly have fome knowledge to fatisfy in his own te nets. Adieu, Enter Enter Mofes, Luther, Boy and Notaries. Luth. Hi ho! poor unhappy man. Boy. Has any tidings from England disturbed you, Sir! Mof Your flocks are well, we hope. Luth. Calvin! Calvin! Calvin! how treacherous? to quit and lay the reckoning on me. I have hitherto difcharged my bills without expence, and brought up my family free-coft; but I am at last catched by a Papift-Calvinist, the two that I hate. Boy. Pray, Sir, do not furmise that you will fuffer by Mr. Calvin's departure. Mof. If Calvin's change be diffimulation, I be come upon the spot a milanthrope. Luth. A contrivance betwixt two Calvinifts, my hoft and pot-companion, to get at my gool. per annum, which I have preferved, feeding myfelf and family on the benefactions of my dear flocks, my three milch-cows. If I am kidnapped, I am ruined; to die is far more defireable, than to break even one mite into my darling, the uprifing and down-laying, my first and last thoughts, the Bishopric of Canterbury excepted. No, if I cannot get off, I am refolved, rather of the two evils, to rot in gaol, with my darling Spouse, than pine and die a keleton with grief.gmentow Mof. Mof. What, pray, may the bill amount to? if you are fhort, my purfe, Sir, is at your command; make ufe of me, as you please. Boy. Mr. Calvin, who is joint-debtor in this matter, has given orders by me to his Banker, to fatisfy to the amount of one hundred guineas on his account. Luth. You fpeak as the Herald or last trump, Arife you dead; you have quickened me with out mercy; you have his letter? his account with our hoft is about 25%. I have charges against him to the amount of the furplus. Mof. We will call up the hoft to know his demand, as I love juftice; as you arrived together, and were pot-companions, I fuppofe you are at equal expences. Luth. Provided he had remained, as he was; but becoming Papift, he has fubjected himself to the penal ftatutes; and, as the Scripture well ob.. ferves, There is no peace to the wicked, faith the Lord. So that as a parfon, I am, according cloth, being bound tooth and nail, against Papifts, to demand his money wherever it is forth coming. I therefore demand, Boy, his order to his Banker. It is an old faying, that it is an ill wind that blows no one good... to my Mof. Your boaft is, that your Proteftants relis gion is founded on principles of univerfal; toleration and benevolence. If you have penal acts, your boafting bears the face in this, as in, the reft or other parts, of your reformed system: but: take this with you, that you are in a strange land, and do not expofe your avarice and contemptible fpirit; fpirit; the account betwixt you fhall be adjusted; Calvin will discharge his and part, mainder. you Boy. What are the errors of Popery? the re Luth Numberlefs; in fhort the whole system; to enumerate, we must begin, if you will, at either end, and take peg by peg, and piece by piece, until we have fapped, deftroyed, undermined, and taken away, both root and branch, fo that not a veftige or footftep may appear, and then dig and wath the earth, as that groveling worm there before us bathes the floor with his crocodile tears. Boy. The ground, or foundation, of the chrif tian covenant, in communion with the Chair of Peter, is CHRIST; if you reject the foundation, you reject christianity. Luth. Proteftants reje&t the evil and retain the good: this is a myftery known to none but our felves, that if there be two principles in the Creator, one good, the other evil, which laft Peter's Chair has embraced, is no detriment to the infal libility, it being equal in both. Boy. What you advance as the principle and ground of the Proteftant religion, that Almighty God is infallible, both good and evil, implies a contradiction, which confutes itself, and gravels in the fame abfurdity, repugnant and ridiculous in the extreme, as is fet forth by others of the lame family; That the infallibility, according to the Scripture promises and Chrift to his Church, which are comprifed in the Creeds, remained always, at all times, through every age from her ella |