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Club. This is all stuff, to be throwing money upon the dead, that can neither thank you, or. make use of it. Abfurdity.

Moses. My duty is more precious than all the gold of the Indies. One foul is more dear to the Almighty than millions of worlds.

Sexton. My good lads we are arrived at the lodgings, take the corpfe up to the one pair of ftairs, and there lay it in his bed as Rabbi Mofes has ordered, with care, betwixt the blankets, then call in the faculty, that every trial may be made to restore life.

Mofes. I find you have done all things faithfully, let the apartments and all things be kept warm; have you called in the faculty?

Sexton. They are fent for, and here is an experienced nurse that will attend; I muft return to my duty.

Nurfe. Sir, all things fhall be duly adminiftered, and every care taken.

Faculty. 'Tis paft recovery, it is in vain to attempt, there is not the least appearance of a restoration; however, we will ufe every trial in our power.

Mofes. I beg every means may be tried to reftore life,

Faculty. All things are done you fee, fir, to no purpose; there is not the leaft appearance of life.

Mofes. Nurfe, keep you the corpfe between the blankets, and let there be one more blanket laid over the corpfe, until fome fign of putrefaction convinces us there is no hopes; I will

not leave the room until I fee the end.

Nurle.

Nurje. Sir you will be ill, it is now two nights, you have neither eat or taken any reft I pray take fomething and go to reft; I will do every thing neceffary.

Mofes. The ghaftliness is gone off, and I begin to have hopes; endeavour to get a little warm spirits down his throat, it may warm the ftomach.

Nurfe. The teeth are locked fo faft that nothing will pafs; I feel a good fign, a warmth about the breast.

Mofes. Let us rub the different parts, and endeavour to bring on a warmth.

Nurfe. I now, fir, begin to have hopes; I really find life in the heart, thanks to our mer ciful Lord his life is in him. God be praised.

Mofes. Let us continue without ceafing rubbing, to endeavour to bring on a pulfe. I perceive life; hold the glafs to the noftrils.

Nurse. It is ftained, he breathes; O my God! your mercy endureth for ever. I fee a glimmering in the eyes.

Mofes. God be ever honoured and glorified, who creates and revives, according to his divine will; repeat your endeavours to get the cordial into his ftomach.

Nurfe. It has paffed, his eyes quicken, his heart plays, his pulfe trembles, and now breathes; his whole body is in a damp or rather returning perspiration,

Ignatius. Through infinite mercy I am reftored. O my Saviour, my Lord, and my God. Thou art truly God of power, juftice, and mercy. You create, destroy, and restore

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whenever your pleafure is, my good God, and in me, not worthy to be called your creature; thefe great properties of your Godhead, in this inftance, is moft abundantly fhewn forth. From this I date my life, what has paft till now was a ftate of reprobation, though born of chriftian parents, and received every advantage and inftruction from my infancy, in the rules of christianity; yet, my heart was prone to vice, happy, if happiness can be obtained in wickednefs, in complying with every wished-for fleshly pleasure, and whatever was fuggefted to my mind, the thirst of glory egged me in making large ftrides to arrive at the fummit of my ambition; and to forward my purfuit I inlifted myself under the banner of Saint Ignatius; but with a very different fpirit to that he purpofed in his conftitutions and rules for the fociety, which was, to the greater glory of Almighty God, and falvation of their neighbour; but mine, to my own greater honour and glory, and by example make others as proud, conceited, and joyous as myfelf. My hours, which fhould have been occupied and devoted to my God, were filled up in contriving to promote refpect to the fociety, and that they might appear as confequential as applaufe is capable of raifing matter. This thought feemed inherent from the day I entered into the fociety, and perfuaded myself that it was a duty incumbent on every member of the fociety to raise her hor nour and dignity in the most confpicuous manner, to trumpet her great feats and noble conqueft with heroic exploits. But in the midst of

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my fantaftical reveries, when my folly, prompt with a notion that the church could not subsist without the fociety, which, to me, was fupreme and impenetrable, the Bull, for the abolition of the fociety, came forth, which, as at hunder-clap, almost robbed me of my fenfes. After the fit had given room for reflection, I found rancour and refentment for the ftretch of power affumed by the pope, as a burning coal, take place, and my heart alienated from her allegiance. I refolved to turn protestant, and commenced preacher, in which occupation I found fingular delight, in arraigning and calumniating the church of Rome, which raised shouts of applaufe; ftill I found a reftleffnefs when I was alone; to remedy this malady, I married, but still, when the novelty, I call it fo, having kept myself chafte fince I was in the priesthood, until I quitted my allegiance. I then found home irksome, which brought on a fhyness, fo that I found variety was the only medicine that could warm and take off the chill that infefted my heart. In this purfuit I fpent my leisure hours; and that I might ftill farther indulge my infatiable appetite, I ingrafted myself a member of the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, in which fociety I gained great refpect, being ingenious, refolute, forward, in the execution of what they hold heroic designs, which confift in denying a God, and be guilty of the most wicked and unnatural actions, without remorfe or restraint. Mofes. What knocking is that, pray come in?

Meffenger.

Messenger. I am fent by the club of the philo fophers of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, with this letter to your Rabbi, and wait your anfwer, by a line, as I am ordered.

Mofes. In halfan hour you will call for an answer. Ignatius. Pray, Rabbi, give us the contents? Mofes. The club of philofophers of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, to Rabbi Moses. "Sir, in council affembled, we have come to this determination, according to the true intent and meaning of our philofophical conftitutions, that you, acting contrary to the rules of our aforefaid philofophy, in preventing the interment of the dead body of the late philofopher, Ignatius, endeavouring, with needlefs trouble and expence, to restore his life; that you defray the whole expence, and, upon receipt of this, have him buried. The Club have alfo affigned to themselves the bet won by Ignatius, in favour of this our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere. Adieu."

Mofes. In perufing the uncivil letter handed me, by a messenger, from the Club of Philofophers of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, I obferve, the intent bears a dark complexion and vexatious afpect, being the fruit of an avaricious and inhuman fpirit, and by no means founded on the principles of wife philofophy. Rabbi Mofes, therefore, will. be glad to have the matter difcuffed at fix o'clock this evening before three Notaries, in

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