faucy Antelope, but your whole race, in proportion to each one's dexterity.

Hoft. That's well entered in the journals. I have, this being now the great fast of your common-prayer book, provided that lenten difh that has drawn fo much grace from you; it is an Olio of all the different entrails of many kinds of fish I could pick up, the extreme exhalation is chiefly from the ftaleness, some being of a fortnight, I won't promife, if not a month; fo that you will perceive little difficulty in chufing, and, according to your repeated directions, to difguife the offenfive fumes, put much garlic, fhallots, onions, pepper thime, and other herbs, a sausage, and four pickled herrings; it is well cemented with ten brown bifcuits powdered; they have been fimmering together fourteen hours.

Luther. What it is compofed of I know not, but the nofegay is mandrakes. O lovely nymph, what muft or can your rapturous foul be inflamed with, but the balmy delights of the celestial odour. O that honey-drop lip, diftilling the balmy dew of elyfium, warbling the delights of the gods in foft enchanting verse. Olyre, thrice bléffed, for the sweet embraces, the lilies. O divine touch that infpires, enchants, and lulls the divinities with languifhings of love and foft delight, I dread diffolution, or inftantly, great Cato like, would fly by this inftrument (in a rage takes up the knife) inftantly and claim my dove; but other loves preponderate and keep me from the darling and fetter of my foul.

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Hoft. Reverend fir, why fo angry? I hope you are well; your mind feems greatly agitated; pray, compose yourself, your dinner waits.

Luther. Love is ftronger than death and fweeter than the honey-comb. My first fermon, on my return, fhall be to expatiate largely on the power and force of love. In the mean time, I will give grace. O Lord, your goodness is beyond controul, fuffer thus much, now the joy of my foul, deliciously delightful, reversed, delightfully delicious: this is living, O ye gods, I do not envy you, you lamb of the flock, you drowned your Lord and inebriate your shepherd. O God of my heart and delight of my foul, how brimful, to the throat of my ftomach, O fuffocation, choaking, and ftifling of my full man, what has heaven to rival the overflowings of thefe infinite and incomparable bleffings, and never to be too much enjoyed fweetneffes, overflowing and fovereign inebriations, which ocean of never ending pleasures my longing gust cannot be fatiated, nor my will cry, it is enough. Give me a mug of brown nappy, I find it vaftly reviving, and adds fresh vigour to proceed, as I fhould die to leave the leaft atom either in difh or plate; flip and fee if the pan be empty that there be no wafte, and the fame time kill two birds with one ftone, order in the difh of chops in which fhall feal the firft part.

Hoft. The pan is cleared, but has flipped your memory: Chops, reverend fir, are forbid. Luther. I give no fcandal, I hope, to the Hollanders or Genevans, I give none to my

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own flock; for every man's confcience cries our, enjoying is the delight of the heart, and all works of fupererrogation in religion are erroneous, damnable, and fuperftitious, accord-. ing to my creed and your's, if you are a proteftant; fo, by the faith 1 hold, I must eat the chop to remove scandal.

Hoft. Endeavour as you will, your church appears to all others as baftard papifts.

Luther. This chop is as tender, so that I seek it as a lamb does its dam: now fome drink, and then the maccaronie. This laft is, without compare, your mafter-piece. The tart is excellent; but the jorum crowns the banquet. We will return thanks. We give thee thanks, Lord of all good gifts, for thefe and all bleffings we have fo plentifully feafted on. So be it.

Hoft. I cannot make out what your new philofophy confifts in; one minute you acknowledge a God, another you deny him. What I have learnt is, they are a remnant of the Jewish fynagogue turned Sadducees, which were chiefly concerned in the death of Chrift: they allow but one nature, which is matter.

Luther. This particularly has been found proper in our enlightened age, and more forceable among us of high condition, in order to appeafe and allay the petulent humours that feems to encreafe and follow with wifdom to the brain; where fhe, in conjunction with her mate, fettle the fyftem of future operations; and then, like a centinal, guards the avenues and conductors of the reins and fenfes ; are ready for action with keen edge and no remorse; for the

after clap or fting, equals, or rather over ballances the pleafing fenfations even in this life; the pleasure momentary, remorfe long and tedious; fo that according to the golden rule, which is never to regret or difturb one's felf for what is paft, or what is not arrived; but grafp, gripe, and fcramble for what is fubftantial, which is what can be felt, that is the prefent ; this is fubftantial philofophy, and which cannot be enjoyed with impunity, without first fecluding the fpiritual part that beats at the door of the heart, by which spiritual philofophy you are at all times, if the body is in good plight, ready, alert, brifk, lively, nimble, and upon the watch as a cat to fpring on your prey, of what kind is not material, the fenfes are your guide where ever the inclination points, obedience is at command; our cloth it was thought advifeable fhould take the fair fex under our immediate tuition; they have made a furprizing progrefs; our bright day has difplayed its rays on their quick conceptions with great refulgence, fo that they rival their fond mates, and give grace with gratification to our enamoured wifhes we enjoy, whilft they make large ftrides in the new philofophy, whofe theme is pleasure and gratification, our true devotion: this ftring tickles the cockles of my heart; fouls we have none, like phantoms they disappear before the brightness of our wifdom. Of thrice happy enlightened age.

Hoft. I am told they copy Sodom and Gomorrah in feafting on unnatural luft; that you have brothels or ftews for fodomy or male gal

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lantry; thefe fparks of the higher rank term this fice of their new philofophy, refinement on the paffion, and quinteffence of the touch. It is not a new philofophy. I will though an illiterate Swifs, hold up to the world your diabolical philofophy to fcorn, and that it has ever been exploded even from the time of our father Abraham. In the the 19th chapter of Genefis you will find perhaps your original. "There

came two angels to Sodom at even, and Lot fat in the gate of Sodom, and feeing them rofe up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face towards the ground, and faid, my lords turn in prey you, into your fervants house, and lodge to-night; and he preffed on them greatly, and they went in with him. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, encompaffed the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter; and they called unto Lot, and faid, where are the men which came to thee this night, bring them out to us that we may know them; (a common phrafe in fcripture to lie with another) and Lot faid, I pray you brethren, do not fo wickedly; I have two daughters which have not known man ; let me I pray you bring them out unto you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the fhaddow of my roof. But they faid, stand back, and they faid again, this one fellow came in to fojourn, and he will needs be a judge; now will we deal worfe with thee than with them; and they preffed fore upon Lot, and came near K 3

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