1 も our nature and offer it up a facrifice to the Di vine juffice, to blot out and cancel the debt, which none could effect but the Divinity. 40th Pfalm, Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldst not, but a body thou haft fitted to me: Holocaufts for fin did not please thee. Then faid I, Behold, I am in the bead of the book. Genefis 3d chapter, 15th verfe, It is written of me, that I should do thy will, O God. The mystery of the plural number in the Divinity, in the 1ft chapter of Genefis, the Spirit of God moved upon the waters, and God faid, Let Us make man in Our Image, after our Likeness, becomes familiar and clear. r. Boy. Malachi ift chapter. From the rifing of the fun even unto the going down of the fame, My Name shall be great among the Gentiles: and in every place incenfe fhall be offered unto My Name, and a pure offering: for My Name shall be great among the Gentiles, faith the Lord of Hofts. Mofes. Malachi was the laft of our prophets. By this prophecy a new scene is opened, in which is prefented the completion and end of the old and bringing in of the new covenant and worship. The old was confined to the temple and Jewish nation period, until the Meffiah. The new is univerfal, in time, place and people. From the rifing of the fun to the fetting of the fame My Name is great among the Gentiles, faith the Lord of Hofts; and in every place incenfe fhall be, and a pure offering. And this, according to other prophecies, as long as the fun and moon endure. These are the words and promife repeatedly confirmed N and and irrevocably fealed and bound by the oath of the Eternal God. Here we fee prefented in one point of view the infinite Majefty and goodness of our God, who beftows unintermitted bleffings on man. Shall man, ungenerous creature, continue unfaithful to the invitations of his God? No: but where is Ifrael to feek, in what place is this pure offering immolated? there Ifrael will repair and invoke her God, and join in offering this univerfal and pure facrifice to her Lord. Boy. What you covet is the chriftian facrifice inftituted by Jefus Chrift, who is the promised Meffiah of your fcriptures. Mofes. This cannot be; it is impoffible; Ifrael can never fubmit. No, this will not come to pafs. One the detefts, as most infa mous to carefs and offer facrifice to. The height of madness, deteftable, infamous. Boy. Had the Jews acknowledged Jefus Christ, in that cafe He could not be the Meffiah. Their rejection, &c. prove the fcriptures true and Him the Meffiah. Mofes. This matter fhall be difcuffed. Scene changes. Luther's apartment. Luther in bed. Luther. O my belly, you implacable foe, Frying-pan like, but, whilst thou art greas'd. Hoft. What will my Lord bishop be pleafed to order? a little caudle, fummery, peafe-, por porridge, or what not. All things are at your fervice, free-coft: I beg you will live until you quit my houfe. Luther. You comfort me in death, you have a good heart, and nothing like ftriking the iron while it is hot. For fear I fhould recover, when you might alter your charitable difpofition, we will, therefore, pafs receipts; bring pen, ink, and paper, and you bear my future expences, until I recover my native land: you shall also insure me, alive or dead, into good Old England. On these conditions I am willing to live, if I can keep my breath, otherwife I am refolved to die. Hoft. Can it be credited that the primate of England has plotted to live at the expence of a poor publican, who can fcarce keep foul and body together, and bring up a numerous family. Luther. But then, and fuppofe, or the like of that, do ye mongey, or fetting the cafe as thus, Nincompoop? When you made your propofal I efteemed your docility and was unwilling, as your fpiritual father, that fuch noble fentiments fhould unfpeed. I was and did refolve, therefore, do you mind me, or the like of that, not to be a whit behind you, but, the faying is, arrive at the goal before ye, Gaffer. Do you confider it is no finall portion in our divinity to prompt the willing heart to every good action; but the niggard is left in his fin; fo that, fuppofing the cafe, or the like of that, as the faying is, I had not unfolded to you this mystery of my fatherly watchfulnefs to increase N 2 your your mint; you would have loft much and I more; but, as the matter ftands, fuppofing the cafe, or the like of that, do ye mongey, that you call in a notary, to note and fettle our contract, and the like of that, as I was faying; otherwife I ftand in jeopardy, peril, danger, and hazard of lofing my breath. Be quick, I advife you, I feel myself convulfed, no time is to be loft, don't you notice the enormous fize and growth of my old friend for greatnefs, largeness, bigness, pot-bellied nefs, and agony, as a woman in travel. I fhall die, niggard, mifer, little mind, unless you relieve me run for the lawyer. Hoft. What a navel! I declare it is not unlike the cat's head you eat in your Olio; you undoubtedly fwallowed the cat's head, which appears and holds you in this convulfive ftate, they are venomous and favage when confined and pent up; in like fort, the crow and alfo fix rats, all which you have cooped up in your dirty fack. I will grant all your defires; pray give me countenance to apply to your fociety of philofophers of this enlightened age. Mayhap, they being enlightened, may deliver you from thefe favages,-runs. Luther. He is gone; he is honeft and free from guile; my plot has taken place. I have now been with him three months, enjoyed all things to my wifh, and moft abounding, without giving him one halfpenny. This poor ninny-hammer offers to give up all, befides which, he fhall likewife bear all my expences while I chufe to remain, and to England. Be fides this, I fufpect the fellow has got money; I am refolved to ftrip him, as a poulterer does a bird's breech, I will not only fleece, but skin the nincompoop; I have no charity for a ninnyhammer, half-witted rafcallion. I fhall return very differently to the generality of Englishmen; for their improvement it fhall be inferted in all our newspapers on my arrival. The great Metropolitan, Primate of all England, Wales, and Berwick upon Tweed, to his dutiful and lawn lambs all health and spiritual melody, be it known, that your lord and father is fafe arrived from his travels, with open arms to communicate to you the plenitude of fpiritual benediction. Be it known I have fought a good fight, as father Abraham returning from his conqueft of the four kings, loaded with spoils, fo I am like fort, with this double difference in my scale. First difference. He was prince, but no prieft; but I am, in fpirituals, prince and prieft. Second difference. He kept for himfelf nothing; but I get all and keep all. He vanquished four, myfelf four: Hoft one, Mofes two, Calvin three, my fon four; and let me tell you, these four, well fcraped with my three teats, and what I have fcratched from one and another, fince my childhood, with what I hall be upon the watch to catch at, wherever it is to be picked or tome at, in the course of feventy years outstanding, will be capable, with the donation of my pretty lambs, make, as the faying is, a Greafy Bishop. At the end of that period I fhall lack five years of old Par, and fifteen of, I think, one old Gibson, he would |