and faithful guide to the end of the world, to be seen and made ufe of by their followers, when. they might in every chapter read their own condemnation. Mof. But it is more aftonifhing, that you can mifrepresent a facred character, and charge her in the face of the fun, I will not fay God, as the major part, I fear, believe there is none, with the molt diabolical, and blackest infamy, that even hell, if poffible, would blush at, at the fame time? pretend to preach up the fame God, who has.. iworn to preferve, and keep her undefiled. It would have been more eligible, when you quitted the ftandard of chriftianity, finding, as you endea voured to perfuade the world, that almighty God had broke his oath, and his darling fpoufe had jilted him, and become the vileft proftitute, for you to have formed a fyftem of religion upon fome other bafis. Mahomet, I will grant you, has been beforehand of you, or you could have acted his part, in making ufe of the Prophet, which our Lawgiver has foretold fhall arife, to whom we are to adhere, which would not have been quite fo bare-faced as to reprobate your God, Church, Scriptures, and totally all truth. Luth. & Caly. What you obferve bears fo much, according to the Scriptures and primitive Church, the face of truth; but no doubt the firft: Reformers, who knew the truth, but being anxiously fond of a depraved, vitious, and wicked life, found themselves preffed to give a loose, in order to appease nature in its highest flights, which they, willing to palliate and cover their own infamy, by cafting the most un-heard-of contra dictions دم dictions and blafphemies against Christ and his Church; they, I fay, are the greater criminals;1 but as to us deluded mortals, that are fo unfortu«: nate as to be hatched in their neft, receiving and imbibing, from the fitft dawn of reafon, their pernicious impreffions on our infant minds, which.. nothing less than a fingular and powerful grace can irradiate and efface. Mof. Your Meffiah fhall anfwer you by his gospel : The blind lead the blind, and, both fall into the ditch; and you cannot plead ignorance, as your Saviour tells you, for your boaft is of your knowledge of the Scriptures, in which you think you have eternal life, and it is the Scrip tures that establishes, and confirms, both the promises to Chrift aud his Church, with their eternal union. Luth. & Calv. We have agreed, and the Scripture affures us of the infallibility of the new covenant, or church of Chrift, but we are ignorant.: in what manner it confifts, aud in whom it is lodged, whether in St. Peter and his fucceffors, or in the Priesthood in general, or in the whole body, Chrift being the Head, Us Proteftants teach and are taught, that the Pope is the God of the Catholicks, and that they confider and believe him to be infallible, and that he is not capable of fin. Mof. Call in that boy, who is a papift; he is a lad that may give us fome farther knowledge.---, Boy. Boy. Your will, Gentlemen. Luth. & Calv. Are you a Roman Catholick?; Boy. I am, at your fervice. Luth. Luth. Calv. Will you answer a few queAtions? dubq, a mod Boj. Concerning what matter? Luth, Calv. Some points or articles of your religion. Boy. It first will be necessary to know my Examiners, Luth. I am a Parfon of the Church of. England. Calu. I am an Elder of the Kirk of Scotland. Boy. I ftand, as Chrift, before an, unmerciful ribunal; and therefore, for the honour of truth, two Notaries, to take down our words, as delivered, to prevent mifreprefentations, to the dif honour of Christano 10 Enter two Notaries. Being feated.d "Luth. & Calv. In what fchool were you inftru£ted? Boy. In the school of Chrift. Mof. How many Gods have you Roighet ta Luth. & Caly. The Pope... Boy. This reminds me of your two unhappy progenitors, poor Luther and Calvin, with their never to be too much lamented offspring, who have lopped themselves off from Chrift, and his church, and become heathens and publicans. Luth. & Calu. From whence got you this information? Boy. From the God you 18: Luth Luth & Calo. The Church of Chrift became adulterer 300 years after her nuptials. Boy. By the established law of the Scriptures, . as Mofes well knows, the adultery muft be proved, without which Chrift orders the fhall remain with her husband; but, whether adulterer or not if God be true, no third covenant, which totally excludes Proteftantifm. Mof. That is a truth, that neither devils nor men can ever overcome. Luth. 3 Calv. Mum-- mum--mum. Mof. Is the Pope God? Boy. If he is, the Proteftants have made him one. L Luth. Calv. You adore the Pope as infallible. Boy. The Catholick, or Chriftian Religion is infallible, and will be fo, if the oath of almighty God be true. Mof. How will you prove this? Luth. & Calv. This is impoffible if the Proteftant religion be true. Boy. As to the Proteftant herefy, it must rank with its ancestors, and therefore cannot be admitted into the fcrutiny. In answer to Mr. Mofes, I prove the infallible christian church, or fecond covenant, by the Jewish and first. Luth. & Calv. How will you prove the first? Boy. It needs no other proof than originates from the God-head, which is granted by univerfal confent, by all nations, and ages, who acknowledge their Creator. Mof. You speak with the zeal of an Ifraelite, that will put to flight the fiery darts of the énemy. Luth Luth. & Calv. You confound us with our own weapons, the Scrptures. Bey. You ule Scripture, as Satan, againft Chrift. Mof. What disturbs the Gentlemen is, that their Chriftian brethren fhould, after fpilling fo much blood to beat down the heathen gods, beat down Chrift, and worship the Pope, and many inferior gods. Luth. & Cald. The Proteftants are averle to more than one Godbu Boy. We date your pedigree from Arius, who was fo jealous of the fingular number in the Godhead, that he chofe rather to become a heretick than acknowledge the divinity of Chrift, as go out of 100 of you do this day. Mof. Beringenious: Do Catholicks put their truft in the Pope's divinity Putoda a sofy highs Boy. Juft the fame as the Jews put their trust in the divinity of Mofes Luth. & Calv. How then can the Pope be infallible? sqof £ Boy Infallibility is the property of the divinity. Mof Thefe Gentlemens are taught, the Ca+ tholicks believe, that the divinity refides in the Pope, as all Chriftians believe it to refide in their Meffiah, fo that by their conjectures, the CathoJicks have as many Meffiahs, or Gods, as they have had Popes. Boy, Our Meffiah of the new covenant is both God and man, the fecond person of the adorable God-head, whofe Holy Spirit rules, governs, actuates, infpires, and teaches his Church all truths, and abides with her for ever; fo that it is not in B the |