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covenant, with Almighty God, which we can, at all times, produce, on which chriftianity depends and receives its life. On the contrary, herefies, as we proved in our other conferences, have no affinity or relationship, but are aliens and strangers to the covenants.

Luther. What you both obferve are grounded and immoveably fixed on both fcriptures and creeds; One, Holy, Catholic and Apoftolic Church. This is the blaft my refolution, determination and mental refervation is fixed and resolved upon; at my return to England immediately to found the laft Trump, which fhall be the Thunder of Heaven, that will rend the rocks, change the ocean into foam, pierce the lower Hell, and fet all nature aghaft, dying with horror and difmay, not knowing the refult of the General Decree, which fhall be to erafe every Scotch or kirk tenet from our Holy Scriptures, Common-prayer Book, and all books, fo that no relic or story shall squeek Calvinifm, or any Diffenter, Non-juror, Schifmatic, or heretic whatsoever, within my metropolitan jurifdiction; every hair fhall ftand ftiff an end until peace and truth be reftored to the church. the Roast Beef of Old England, and O the Old English Roast Beef.

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Boy. Thirty-fifth chapter of Ifaiah. wilderness and the folitary place fhall be glad for them; and the defert fhall rejoice and bloffom as the rofe. It fhall bloffoi abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and finging; the glory of Lebanon fhall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they fhall fee the glory

glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees; fay to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong fear not: behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and fave you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf fhall be unftopped; the lame man fhall leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb fing: for in the wildernefs fhall waters break out, and ftreams in the defert. And the parched ground fhall become a pool, the thirfty land fprings of water in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, fhall be grafs, with reeds and rushes. And a highway fhall be there, and it fhall be called the Way of Holiness: the unclean fhall not pass over it; but it shall be for thofe : the way-faring men, though fools, fhall not err therein. No lion fhall be there, nor any ravenous beaft fhall go up thereon, it fhall not be found there; but the Redeemed fhall walk there. And the ranfomed of the Lord fhall return, and come to Zion with fongs, and everlafting joy upon their heads they fhall obtain joy and gladness: and forrow and fighing fhall flee away."

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Mofes. Here the prophet lays before us the bleffings of the new covenant that our God will make with Ifrael, His Power and Magnificence, the most glorious reign of our Meffiah; he muft and will fulfil his promifes to His people whom himfelf has chofen; a day to Him is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day the God of armies will bring infinite. bleffings

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Luther. But, reverend fir, don't you observe that the prophet marks out the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apoftolic Church, which is the Highway, that fools fhall not err, in which no lion, or other ravenous beaft, Calvinist, Papift, Anabaptift, Quaker, Mahometan, Jew, Pagan, Free-thinker, Materialift, or Stranger, fhall enter or be fuffered to peep his deadly and unmeaning face; but this pasture fhall be for the fole use of our flock, the fold of Chrift. We enjoy an everlasting banquet, and filled with every enjoyment, compared to a man fitting under his fig-tree, wallowing in milk and honey, the interpretation is, our hearts are brimfull, fhook together and running over with exultation and never-ending Jubilation. Amen. She is fat, fhe is plump, I will tickle her rump, The only lafs for me.

I crave pardon of your reverence, but being over-ruled by the fpirit, I broke forth and intoned the aforefaid folocifm, which, or fome other ejaculation, frequently gorge and burst from the fullness of the heart and impetuofity of the fpirit. The canticles of Sion are stronger than death, and fweeter than the honey-comb. Ob! who will give me the wings of the dove, That I may repofe in the arms of love? O, Rachel. Rachel, you darling creature, Love's prize; I die for every feature.

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Mofes. The ranfomed of the Lord fhall return to Zion with fongs and everlafting joy upon their heads; they fhall obtain joy and gladnefs; and forrow and fighing fhall flee away; this promife remains to everlasting. O long wifhed-for return.

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Boy, You will allow, with the prophet, that your Meffiah was to appear at the time of Jesus Chrift.

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Mofes. In this both Jews and Gentiles agree. Boy. You will agree that he was to confirm his covenant with many for one week, and in the middle of the week he fhould cause the facrifice and the oblation to cease.

Luther. This lad fpeaks abftrufely, myftically, and what can neither be gainfaid or understood. I often broke my brains at this school of myfteries, but never could make any hand of it, and fo I gave it over; it often detained me in bed in a morning ruminating and breakfafting; turning, and falling afleep; fo that the whole day paffed in a mist.

Mofes. We obferve you never made any great progrefs in the truths of fcripture or you would not remain in an unmeaning religion or falle perfuafion, purely because you received your inftruction in fuch school. How often has it been proved to your conviction that you are in the school of herefy, and confequently in a deplorable state, during our conferences; yet, your defire is, to return to England, and even affume the chief chair.

Luth. O Tillotfon, Tillotfon, you arch wag, how natural is it for the fons of the prophets

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prophefy; even fo by hereditary claim and furvivorship, fhould one relation inherit another's honours and emoluments, either in church or ftate. Oh, the honours of my dancing days, the fupreme chair, the centre of fpiritual plehitude. As the fcriptures well obferve, I will not give my glory to another.

Boy. And in the middle of the week he fhall cause the facrifice and oblation to cease. *

Mofes. Taken each day for a year, three years is the time prophefied from the date of the miffion when the facrifices and oblation was to cease; but our facrifices and oblations continued forty years after the death of your Meffiah.

Boy. Jefus Chrift entered on his miffion at the age of thirty, and was cut off at the age of thirty-three; which, as you explain, the prophecy exactly agree; and as the fame prophecy tells us, the Meffiah fhall be cut off, but not for Himself. Is this plainly foretold that He was to be put to death, but not for Himfelf? if not for Himself, he muft die for others, which correfpond with the decifion of Caiphas, your high-priest, that paffed the fentence of death upon Jefus Chrift, in thefe words: It is expedient that one man die, and the nation perifh not; that is, not only Jews, but together in one, the children of the new covenant difperfed in all nations, both Jews and Gentiles.

Mofes. What you advance perfectly agrees with the fcripture prophecies; but the ceafing of the facrifices and other parts of the Jewish worship, in three years after the death of Jesus,

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