Officers. Saucy pufs, we act according to the character of our office, if through imprudence or other crime you come under the lafh of our republic, we are her veterans to execute her will.

Mofes. Produce your authority, which fhall be refpectfully complied with.

Officers. Sir, here is our warrant, to demand, feize and convey the corpfe or dead body of the late new philofopher, Ignatius, of this our enlightened age and northern hamisphere, and him fafely convey to the vault where he loft his wind for the cause of truth and virtue, by braving death, according and in pursuance of a complaint lodged by the club of new philofophers of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere.

Mofes. Act according to your warrant; all things are at the difpofal of the law.

Club. Search the other apartments for the corpfe; but, until it is produced, take this Ifraelite and old woman into custody.

Nurfe. I will, pett-foggers, scratch your eyes out, if you offer to come near. I inherit the vigour of the republic, which fhall go down with my grey hairs to the grave. A true Calvinift I have lived, and a true Calvinist, zooks, old Robin, I fhall die, pfhaw on you, brazaloons, I will teach you the rudiments of old Sterling; have-at-you, Dickey; I will give a Roller for your Oliver. So be it, Major.

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ment, will your lordships order him into cuftody as an accomplice."

Club. Moft affuredly, whoever you perceive within the walls of the late philofopher, Igna tius, bring forth.

Officers. Here is the culprit?

Club. Alack, our brother, who was dead, but is alive; he was loft, but is found: forrow and anguish filled our hearts; life, from death, reanimates, revives, and with redundant brilliancy crowns our joy. Who dare kick against the pricks, the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere? Our beloved, embrace your darlings, most valiant champion of the caufe of truth and wifdom, Ignatius. Alas, my brethren, you are witneffes of my death in the cause of your new philofophy of this your enlightened age and northern hemisphere.

Club. We are witneffes to your heroic death. Ignatius. You are now witneffes of my being alive, confirm your fenfes in this truth.

Club. We attefted your death, and are willing to atteft your being alive.

Ignatius. Handle me, and know I am no phantom, but am fubftantially Ignatius, that ftood foremoft in your caufe.

Club. We are ready to confirm what you require by our oaths, or other public atteftations, from which we hope to draw great merit to our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere.

Ignatius. I am no longer a philofopher of this your enlightened age, but a poor popish priest, and humble Ex-Jefuit.

Club.

Club. You revive us by refuming your wonted fatyrical, jocund and pleasant vein; death, with all its terrors, cannot change the wag.

Ignatius. Your accufatións, whilft a member of your new philofophy, are too juft, and it is moft true, from the date of my quitting the allegiance to my God until my death, the fpirit of irony, fetting all perfons or things, that did not coincide with my humour, in a ridiculous light. O the danger that attends man, and but one narrow track marked out by his Creator, in which he will arrive to blifs; all but this leads to perdition and is the production of the flesh, world, and devils, fucked in by reprobate, ignorant, and bafe minds; who are formed for the pure enjoyment of their God, but being privileged with the noble and illuftrious quality of free-agency, abuse this charity of their God, and become obfequious to various obfcene, unnatural, and numberlefs filthy and beastly luft; for it is an inherent quality in man to love, and this, according to nature, fhould be his God, himself and all other parts of the creation in proper degrees of proportion, in due fubordination and rectitude to this firft and prime love. But when, through mifconduct, the pipe, conductor or ftream of this pure natural love ceafes to flow or communicate, the quality still remaining, a reftieffnefs takes place, the mind being spiritual cannot cease to act, and for want of its proper object, fall as a hungry wolf on every creature, without diftinction, that offers the leaft pleasure to his infatiable, burning, and criminal appetite; but without that effect the R 2

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Club. Of all men you hold the first place in mimickry, or whatever you undertake; but death has painted a peculiar fet form on your features, with aspirate tone of voice, that kills our hearts, and makes us quake; we therefore intreat you will reaffume your natural vivacity and difpel our doubts, darling of our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere. Why do you thus play with your lovers, heroic champion, fortress, and chief of our glorious caufe? brighten up, we beseech you, that once pleasant countenance, fmile and revive our drooping fpirits, that we may with heart-felt joy crown the nuptials of your illuftrious brightness, reanimation and restoration to your brotherhood of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. You that have feated yourself by your unprecedented, unpleafant, and confummate merit, far tranfcending even our great patriot Voltaire, who heretofore ftood on the pinnacle or turret of our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, as our common father, who folved doubts, difpelled spiritual mifts, and with his usual pleafantry, took off fpiritual fetters, and cajoled the paffions of his new philofophy, which has enlightened our age and northern hemifphere, finds and brings into action many particles of matter which, until the appearance of our bright Luminary, lay uncultivated and unknown; nay, the greateft and

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most heroic exploit that has made a noife throughout the world was that ftupendous, wonderful, mazing, aftonishing, and tremendous fcene that he exhibited, difplayed and exulted in his last stage of life, banquetting and feafting on his own excrement, holding out to the new philofopers of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, that all material fub. ftances, of what kind, figure, matter, or thing whatsoever, or wherefoever, are to be held, careffed, fondled, enjoyed, and fanctified with equal esteem, which fanctification iffuing from fo powerful and eminent a perfonage, both by word and example, have put all fqueamishness, fhamefacedness, diftinctions, particularities and every impediment which, through spiritual fear, both Jewish and chriftian, have kept, for many ages, the world in a lethargic fufpence, and robbed man of a crowd of enjoyments, pleafant fooleries, and unrestrained intercourfe, with each other, and all other parts of matter; yet this great hero, when he could keep his wind no longer, trembled with the thought of diffolution, and at fourscore years; whereas the mighty Nimrod, great Ignatius, at the prime and vigour of his ftrength, facrificed his darling paffions to the greater glory of our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, bequeathed a facrifice the most noble and generous that ever entered into the heart of man, bereft and deprived himself of life, that he might give life; to whom, to his darlings, the most glorious lights of this our enlightened age, wife men, or men wife, who

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