these two most effential articles of the christian religion. We beg three days respite to examine the primitive church, and compare them with the catholic of our days, and the pro. teftant churches. Adieu. End of the Fourth Conference. . 34. 45 E RR AT A. 12. - 9. for brother, read broacher. - 12. - 31. for Goika, read Gath. for where, read when. for Brakes, read Bleat. 25. for claim, read Calvin. for fpirit, read spirits. for another, read others. for union, read communion. for becam, read became. for bę fuch, read proceed from you. for father, read fathers. 8. for made out, read made. 55. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 75 20 .. F1Frn CONFERENCE. 3, To Moses our moft Reverend Brother, greeting, Luther and Calvin beg a fifth conference to conclude : what is most práife-worthy: Farewel. Moses will enter, and conclude, with Messrs. Luther and Calvin, the fifth spiritual conference to-mor row, at 10 in the morning, the ufual time: Adieu. Mofes. T Am at your service, as appointed.in Luth. & Çalı), The calipatch; death, where is your fing! *** .. . Luth. & Calv. It is a true saying, one man bet. Luth. & Calv. This is our case: but a hungry Luth. 3 Calv. The most violent and pernicious symptoms. Mos. To die in the ads of gluttony, and diso bedience.' Luth. &3 Calv. The mifery of loft souls. Luth. & Calv. A new lesson to Parsons and elders. MOS. Mof. Better late than never. ' Mof. I thought Protestant scruples never attacked them, but in the article of death. Luth. & Calu. This we thought our case, and was upon the verge of sending for you. Mof I am neither Parfon nor Elder. Luih: & Calu. You raised our scruples, and should allay then.' Mof. I did not prescribe calipatch nor calepa. Luth. & Calv. But you told us of the falt pf Lent and gluttony. Moj. Your Common Prayer Book and Bible forewarned you. Luth. ? he Common-Prayer is a dead letter, but your words are as two-edged swords. . - Calu. The sword of the Spirit, that divides, and poisons the joints, and penetrates the mas: rów. Mof. Your consciences will {peak more for. cible.. Luth. I have been a Parson 50 years, and ne. ver confidered confeflion necessary for salvation. Calv. Neither I, until our reverend Brother opened our understanding. Moj. Whose fins you forgive, they are forgiven : thefe are the words of your Messiah. Luth. My Lord and my God. Moj. Which he hath bequeathed to his cove, nant. Luth. & Calv. We never will gainsay it in fu. ture. Eusebius (thank you) with Cyprian, Augustin, Jerom, ard other fathers, and writings, care ur words ammon. Prayer hrate removed ihe veil, which our protestané divines, and others, had blindfolded us with. That a Jew (hould be our guide, shews the finger of God conducts all things; and, with the weak ibings, confound the lirong. . Mof. I hope, I have advanced nothing but what the primitive christians and fathers confirin. For if Luther, and Calvin's assertions against the old church, be true, the whole Scriptures must be false; so that our Scriptures, delivered by God to Mofes 1450 years before Chrift, with all the prophesies, and promises, by the Prophets, and confirmed by an oath from almighty God to the Messiah, and his covenant, (which you say iš Jesus Christ and his Church) in our Scriptures, understood, testified, and confirmed by yours, of their eternal union, happiness, joy, purity, infallibility and never-ending repose'; and that this church or covenant should be taught and kept pure and holy by God to the consummation of the world; I say, if Luther and Calvin's assertion? be true, that the Catholick Church erred, and brought in damnable doctrines, then all our religion is vain; and God almighty never spoke to man; Christ and Mofes, our two lawgivers, must be of all men the most base, to palnı, and cover, their d. &trine under the fanction of almighty God. Whatever the errors, if any may be, they mo it assuredly mult be aui horised by Christ; and, if fo, he is not the Messiah of our Scripture: for Ifrael is assured, and the God of Israel has sworn, that our second covenant shall remain perfect, holy, and obedient, in union with him, as long as the sun and moon endures. This is the covenant A 2 God God-almighty has made, and is as present to the nation of the Jews, as I now squeeze both your hands. (Mofes (queczes the hands and weeps.). Luth. & Çalu. Şt, Cyprian, we observe, was. Bishop of Carthage, and Primate of all Africa, whg was murdered for the Catholick religion 258 years after the birth of our Lord; he has fatisfied us in many articles of our faith, such as acknowledging Peter to be Prince; and Supreme Bishop and Head of Christ's Church, and ifixes i Peter's Chạir in Rome, which he proves to be the centre of unity, that diffuses its rays throughout i the whole earth, fo that its fupremacy knows na; limits, deriving, ber power, miskin, and authoz: rity, from her Divine Head, whofe fpouse she is, and in whom his soul is well pleased; he teacbes, guides, instrųets, and confirms hen with the pleni. iode of Spiritual blefings, as the old Scripture? which St Paul quotes: This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Ifrael, after thofe days, faith the Lord: :1 will give my law: into their minds, I will write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they fhall be my. people. It astonishes us, how our first protestant fathers, Luther Calvin, and others, that were brought up and trained in the Catholiek religion, and were well versed in her faith, and ihad close . connecțion and correspondence with the Scripe tyres, should expose thole very Scriptures, that makes the most folemn promises, bound by an" oath on the part of almighty God, to preserve her pure, spoilels, holy and free from error, that the Mhould be his body, his fleth and his bones, andi himself her Heads and bis Spirit her candudar, and |