ings, do not correfpond with the marks the fcriptures have pointed out to lead Ifrael to her Meffiah, we therefore clafs and reject these men with Jefus, whom you call Chrift.

Boy. You confufe and reject the Chrift or Son of God, with the imps of hell, and have brought on yourfelves the malediction. pronounced by the fcriptures, Ifrael's reprobation, which you are a witness to this day, a bye-word, and trod upon as vagabonds by all nations; and that determined, fhall be poured upon the defolate. Daniel 9th chapter.

Mofes. The Almighty God has rejected his people from the date the Meffiah was promised, this Ifrael knows by near two thousand years rejection; and this reprobation clearly foretold througeout the fcriptures, the cause for rejecting, condemning, and putting to death her Meffiah. But from whom is Ifrael to feek redrefs? fhe has been guilty of the most black facrilege, robbed her God of life, and entailed on herself eternal infamy.-Mofes weeps.

16 THIRTEENTH CONFERENCE. ob aga Scene. Luther's apartment. Luther, robed as a Jewish High-Priest, feated in his night-chair, for a throne, mounted on two fools, the Club robed and feated in great fate on his right and left, Rabbi Mofes and the Ex-Jefuit, Ignatius, in front, facing them. Three Notaries feated at a table, &c.

Luther of my heart, you are returned

from an unpleasant jaunt. I am told, dear Cozy you loft your wind, but being poffeffed of a larger portion of brains, the God of the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, you contrived and effected. your escape back, to regorge with your beloved brethren, and duck anew in fleshly gust; yet, happy you, my Coz, that has, no doubt, ufed your vigour in the enjoyment of thofe feas of delights you plunged yourfelf with the Itarry nymphs, feasting with infatiating glut. O ye gods, why am I here in the old mire, filth, common stew, or brothel, in which fixty and more years hard fervice have rendered irkfome. I confefs my Eminence is fixed and placed on the high turret or pinnacle of this world, riding on the heads of princes, trampling on the necks of the Great, and ufing as a footftool all the tribes of the earth, iffuing my thunder against the strong, and pin down with strong fetiers all who dare gainfay or fquint awry. Dear cousins, I grant, dread and fright will be univerfal throughout the world, my power being immenfity; but the fword of the mighty is both fharp S 4

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and pointed against gainsavers or whoever dare to contend on oppofe my mighty tranfcendencyo Pope, Centre and grand Link, which vanquish, unite and link, in one bond, the two mighty empires of both Reformations. To 25

Mofes, And yet with all your boasted grands deurs, and mighty, armies, as Hamans envied Mordecai's humble tranquillity, foo your envyo and are piqued at poor Ignatius's heroic death and restoration, your palled, yet unquenchion able luft, avarice, envy, and a train of unbridled inclinations, that human nature is fufceptible; you have (pig like) made it your study to feaft and gratify, as you boaft, from your infancy to! your prefent fuperannuated stage of decrepidity, be warned; the day of your life is far spent, the evening is arrived, and night close on your heels, when, without a speedy change of morals,{ I much fear you will go empty, with your grey. hairs to the grave, and in the regions of death: howl your eternal lot.

Club. Rabbi, your forward fpeech is no ways grateful in the ears of the new philofophers of this our enlightened and northern hemisphere; but to charge the lord of the mighty empires of reformation with being wrong, is beyond all difpute unprecedented, unpopular, degrading, frightful, old fashioned, unpleasant, hard favoured, innovating, infane, untractable, difrelishing, anatomizing, deadly, no ways useful to genteel fociety, bringing an old exploded bugbear to intimidate and frighten, as the old women do children with raw-head and bloody bones, or old Harry the Eighth, fo in like manner your old fpititual malady, ftings of confcience, and remorie;

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mosfe} for what? why truly, no other reason buts offending the Creatorg and being deprived his prefence, which a new philofopher heartily wishes! never to behold, norbe plagued with his threatsy careffes, or torments, but to enjoy the good things prefent, let the next life, if any, provide new pleasures to fucceed this, that we may with out abatement inebriate, and enjoy each other this should be the language or garland of fweets perfumes, prefented to our Lord and Fasher, head and chief of the new philosophy of this ours enlightened age and northern hemisphere.

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Luther One hundred and fifty years was the life of old Par, and, I think, one hundred and fixty, the age of one Gibson, myself seventy-five, or the like of that, do ye mungey; now, fuppofing the cafe thus, look and oblerve my compi lation, then cry out, his fellow is not, O Ifrael, my fkin is ftretched by firm, hard, and fubftan- ! tial flesh; as the head of a drum braced for battle, so that with every requifite I enjoy, I have not, or the like of that, arrived to the zenith or meridian of life. Odds bobs! I am lufty and ftrong, and can roar out a fong. All things duly confidered, I am the great one of the earth; I bless my stars for the inftantaneous exaltation, inftallation, fuperabounding excellencies, with unparagoned attributes, which form me with grace, the darling of the univerfe. Whilft I remained an humble dependant and parson of the old reformation, I was much embaraffed and overwhelmed with qualms, fears, ftings of confcience, and remorse or lownefs of fuirits whenever benveloped my outward man in the fweets of the fleth, or tranfgreffed Mofes's command

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ments; for, though a proteftant, I had not the knack of coining new tenets to give peace, or relieve the mind; which untoward weakness, d fuppofe, or the like of that, do ye mungey, was the original spring of the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. Ignatius, my coz, 'relieve me, your lord and fire, who am exhaufted and borne down by the exceede ing great weight of glory that is come upon me, a happy hagges, as the faying is, do you mune gey, or the like of that. But then, and fuppofe, you will answer me, or the like of that, do ye mungey. Moft mighty monarch feated on the fupreme throne of glory, and cloathed in the robes of majesty, wielding the fceptre of power, which bends all things to your nod, it is not be coming me, your vaffal, to affume even to live in your godlike prefence; the afpect of your grandeurs melt and chill my heart. My deareft, begotten in the bowels of charity, how is it that your great and heroic courage, and dauntless foul fhould recoil and fall back in my prefence, and not in those regions of death: this is a frefli acquifition to my immenfity. I am curious to be informed of the manner and different stages you have pailed through in life; firft, ná doubt you paffed in childish actions, then as has come before me in Jefuitifm at their diffolution; your body at leaft fome of you took un brage at your then Pope, for difbanding your fociety, who, as you confidered yourselves, his body guard, chief order, the more honorable and fubject to no controul but your own fuperiors; your general you considered as you now do me, or the like of that, Pope and fupreme of your fociety,

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