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ally; befides bringing up, and educating yourself, wife and family, free-coft; as I can prove, fave Seventeen fhillings Nine-pence Three-farthings to the indigent every Christmas, have all my incomes bringing daily increase in our funds. I have, through the efficacy of this divine book, three flocks, who, by their daily free-offerings, fupport my family, "whom f from their infancy bring up to earn their, bread by the fweat of their Brow.

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SIXTH CONFERENCE."

His Reverence Mr. Luther to his dearly beloved in God, the Reverend Rabbi Mofes, full Health, and Apoftolick Benediction, Greeting.

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I wail and lament the blind and lukewarm flate of my fellow-creatures, and. and am anxious for learned and zealous gofpel-labourers; fuch I hold you; to be placed in the vineyard of our Sion. I therefore confider it faithful to, prepare you for this noble work; you will accordingly attend at the ufual hour, and please to finish the great work of falvation, and, as another Mathias, fupply the place of Calvin, as he did Judas, who fell by tranfgreflion: fo Calvin; my Dear Reverend Brother has fell; he has really reconciled himfelf to the Catholic Church, and is fet out for Bruffels to become Religious in a Convent of Friars. I regret the lofs of fo noble a companion, who was at all times a jovial friend.

Rabbi Mofes will attend the Reverend Mr. Luther to-morrow, as defired; begs the prefence of the Catholick boy as before; he feemingly have some knowledge to fatisfy in his own tenets. Adieu.

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Enter Mofes, Luther, Boy and Notaries.

Luth. Hi ho! poor unhappy man.
Boy. Pray, Sir, why fo fad.
Mof. You are melancholy, Sir,
Luth. Hi ho! poor unhappy man.

Boy. Has any tidings from England disturbed you, Sir!

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Mof. Your flocks are well, we hope.

Luth. Calvin Calvin! Calvin! how treache rous? to quit and lay the reckoning on me.I have hitherto discharged my bills without expence, and brought up my family free-coft; but I am at laft catched by a Papift-Calvinift, the two.

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Boy. Pray, Sir, do not furmife that you will fuffer by Mr. Calvin's departure.

Mof. If Calvin's change be diffimulation, I be come upon the spot a mifanthrope.

Luth. A contrivance betwixt two Calvinifts, my hoft and pot-companion, to get at my gool. per annum, which I have preferved, feeding myfelf and family on the benefactions of my dear flocks, my three milch-cows. If I am kidnapped, I am ruined; to die is far more defireable, than to break even one, mite into my darling, the uprifing and down-laying, my first and laft thoughts, the Bishopric of Canterbury excepted. No, if I cannot get off, I am, refolved, rather of the two evils, to rot in gaol, with my darling. fpoufe, than pine, and die a keleton with grief, tas pa

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Mof. What, pray, may the bill amount to? if you are fhort, my puffe, Sir, is at your com mand; make ufe of me, as you please.

Boy. Mr. Calvin, who is joint-debtor in this matter, has given orders by me to his Banker, to fatisfy to the amount of one hundred guineas on his account.

Luth. You speak as the Herald or faff trump, Arife you dead; you have quickened me without mercy; you have his letter? This account with our hoft is about 257. I have charges againft him to the amount of the furplus.

Mofo We will call up the bolt to know his de mand, as I love justice; as you arrived together, and were pot-companions, I fuppofe you are at equal expences.

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Luth Provided he had remained as he was; but becoming Papift, he has fubjected himself to the penat ftatures; and, as the Scripture well obferves, There is no peace to the wicked, faith the Lord. So that as a parlon, I am, according to my cloth, being bound tooth and nail, agaiuft Papifts, to demand his money wherever it is forth coming. I therefore demand, Boy, his order to his Banker. It is an old-faying, that it is an ill wind that blows no one good. Do homin me Mof Your boaftis, that your Proteftant refi gion is founded on principles of univerfat toleration and benevolence. penal acts, your boasting bears the face in this, as in the reft or other parts, of your reformed fyftem but take this with you, that you are in a strange land, and do not expofe your avarice and contemptible

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Boy. What are the errors of Popery 2

Luth Numberlefs; in fhort the whole fyftem; 10 enumerate, we must begin, if you will, at either end, and take peg by peg,, and piece by piece, until we have fapped, deftroyed, undermined, and taken away, both root and branch, so that not a veftige or footstep may appear, and then dig and wash the earth, as that groveling worm there before us bathes the floor with his crocodile tears.

Boy, The ground, or foundation, of the chriftian covenant, in communion with the Chair of Peter, is CHRIST; if you reject the foundation, you reject chriftianity.

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Luth. Proteftants reject the evil and retain the good this is a myftery known to none but ourfelves, that if there be two principles in the Creator, one good, the other evil, which last Peter's Chair has embraced, is no detriment to the infallibility, it being equal in bath.

Boy. What you advance as the principle and ground of the Proteftant religion, that Almighty God is infallible, both good and evil, implies a contradiction, which confutes itself, and gravels in the fame abfurdity, repugnant and ridiculous in the extreme, as is let forth by others of the fame. family; That the infallibility, according to the Scripture-promifes and Chrift to his Church, which are comprifed in the Creeds, remained always, at all times, through every age from her

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