perfidious feƐt they may be. So help me God. disins Tartar I LUTHER, in my father's fhoes,

It will go farther and declare to the whole world, that the Church of England, of which I have the honour to be a member, and more than a member, a Prieft, that confecrates the true and fubftantial Body and Blood of Jefus Chrift, de clares and lets forth, as you have plainly heard pé avouch out of her Common-Prayer Book, jult as the has placed the words in my mouth, That our Lord is truly, really, and fubftantially prefent, as follows, by which we will prove ourJelves no Calvinifts or double-tongued m

creants.

Whereas it is ordained in this Office for the -Administration of the Lord's Supper, that the Communicants fhould receive the fame kneeling, yet leaft the fame kneeling fhould by any perfons, either out of ignorance or infirmity, or out of malice or obftinacy, be mifconftrued and deprayed; it is here declared, that thereby no adoration is intended, or ought to be done, either unto the facramental bread and wine, there bodily received, or unto any corporal prefence of Chrift's natural flefh and blood. For the facramental bread and wine remain, ftill in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored (for that were idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Chriftians.) And the natural body and blood of our Savionr Chrift are in heaven, and not here; it being against the truth of Chrift's natural body to be at one time in more places.

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(At Receiving the Communion.) We do not prefume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies, We are not worthy fo much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table, but thou art the fame Lord, whofe property is always to have mercy, Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, fo to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jefus Chrift, and to drink his blood, that our finful body may be made clean by his body, and our fouls washed through his molt precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in.us. Amen.

I confefs myself in a great strait,

And to extricate myself is not poffible,
Jefus is verily and indeed in the facrament,
That is, Chrift, God and Man.

I am ordered to proftrate to my God,

It is nothing more than bread and wine al
To believe Chrift prefent is Idolatry,
As he is in Heaven, and can't be on earth,
The Real Prefence is hard to flesh and blood,
But nonfenfe never can be understood.

DRYDEND

In what line am I to fhape my conduct.
To be, and not to be, is, I am, and I am not.
Mof. You have put forth a riddle, folye it who

The task is too knotty, for angels or man

Luth., Your timely affiftance may fave my livings,

Whofe three tats produce, Nine hundred pounds

lavings.

Boy

Boy. Your honour, dear Sir, if at heart no remorfe,

Should raife you above fuch defpicable drofs. Luth. Difmay and anguifh, My God, yet not my God.

Mof. There you will grapple, whilst tats duce fuch milk.

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Boy. Vain deluded man, didst thou but know 'thyfelf. Luth. Anguifh fills my heart, My doom, O 'grim despair.

Boy. I beg leave to repeat, what Mr. Calvin mentioned from the Gofpel, Whofe fins you forgive, are forgiven. Thefe are the words and commiffion of Him, who is to pronounce our doom, to his Pricfts; Will any Chriftian fay, thefe Priefts blafpheme, when they use this power in reconciling finners, either in the facraments of Baptifm or Confeffion, to their JUDGE?

Mof. No Chriftian will doubt it; but Proteftants, who, with us Jews, deny it, because we do not believe Jefus God...

Luth. In this alfo I am preffed and entangled, in the like fnare, as the other. For we damn ali who die un-baptized, and that Baptifm forgives fins, at any time or age, from the hour of our birth even to the hour of our death, and might be administered, by Jew, Turk or Infidel; that the facrament do not depend on the perfon, being only an inftrument; but in adminiftering the facrament properly; the facrament receiving its efficacy from the Godhead.

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But, fay we, the Tribunal of Confeffion is ca trived by the Pope to frighten a pack of idiots, women, and children, to hear their fecrets, and pick their pockets, a meanne's never to be fab mitted to, or encouraged, by men, or others of understanding. To think that man can forgive fins, is grofs idolatry; it robs God of his honour, and places man upon an equality with God, which is the height of blafphemy.

Mof. But what fool but muft fee, that both Sa craments, Baptifm and Confeffion, ftand upon the fame ground, and receive their efficacy, with all the other parts of the chriftian doctrine, from the Holy Ghoft, which is the promife of Jelis Chrift. This convinces me more firmly, they do not believe in Jefus Chrift

Boy. What fays your Common-Prayer Book? Luth. I dread as much to look, or open this book, fince I have found it a fnare, as i herew fore hated and detefted Popery. But as you defire, I can refufe you nothing. Here it is in the Vifitation of the Sick. The Parfon fhall de fire the fick perfon to make a fpecial confeffion of his fins, if he feel his confcience troubled with any weighty matter, after which confeffion the Parfon fhall abfolve him after this fort.

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Our Lord Jefus Chrift, who hath left power to his Church, to abfolve all finners who truly repent and believe in him, of his mercy forgive thee thine offences and by his authority committed to me, I abfolve thee from all thy fins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Amen.

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The deeper I fearch, new matter I find,
To torture, and add fresh grief to my mind."
Old Cromwell, that fake, with Calvinist crew
Have pawn'd their black eggs, and mixt with the
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Mo Your yefterday's meal don't feem digefted it was a molt extraordinary mels for a Par fon of the Church of England to fealt on, at this penitential time of Lent, whist thande • Luth. As I obferved in my foolish rhyme; You are not unacquainted with the late catafrophe: I call it late, because near, a molt melancholy event, and firft in the annals of Great Britain, contrived and carried into execution, by that fcourge Oliver I juft mentioned, and his fchifmatical tribe, who, to obtain their execrable and abominable end, put to death our Lord and King They could charge nothing againft him, but wifhed to change the conftitution, and mix their impious eggs or poilon, both in Temporals and Spirituals, as you cannot effect one without effecting the other; it being their known principle, invariably fixt, never to be patriots for kingly or fovereign authority in the State, nor hierarchy in the Church. America and our Welt India Colonies, where they fwarm, and have the afcendency, prove what I here affert; as they never would permit a Bishop, and, with much reluctance a few parfons, and them they make beafts of. They are averfe to what they call fpiritual jurifdiction, or maw-worms. It is againfi tucir religion to be otherwife. G