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Mofes. For unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there fhall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with juftice, from henceforth even for ever, the zeal of the Lord of Hofts will perform this.

Mordecai, Abfalom. This is blafphemy. The Lord of Hofts, the God of Ifrael, born a child: This is death by our law, and it was by this law Jefus Chrift, for affuming this infinite title, fuffered death.

Aaron, Eleazar. Are you so abandoned to accufe the fcripture of blafphemy? your ignorance fhames us. From the beginning it was never known that Ifrael ever had it in idea that her prophets blafphemed.

Mordecai, Abfalom. You understand not, firs, what you would be at. would be at. Will you answer a civil queftion? Under whofe rod fell the prophets? Ifaiah was fawn afunder, Jeremiah was thrown into a dungeon, and in like manner happened with the reft; fo that not one but was hated by Ifrael. From this I will prove that Ifrael and her prophets were of oppofite religions, which did not fquare, but was much out at the

elbows.

Mofes. Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be you lift up, you everlasting doors, and the King of Glory fhall come in. Who is the

King of Glory? The Lord ftrong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates, even lift them up, ve everlasting doors, and the King of Glory fhall come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of Hofts. He is the King of Glory.

Aaron, Eleazar. You will not accufe the Royal Father of our Meffiah of blafphemy. He speaks of the immenfe glory Christ should be honoured with, and positively avers that he is the Divinity.

Mordecai, Abfalom. We declare Aaron and Eleazar guilty, with Mofes, of blafphemy, and according to the high-prieft, Caiphas, worthy of death.

Mofes. I proclaim and announce Jefus Chrift God and the promised Meffiah, myself his creature and a Chriftian.

Aaron, Eleazar. Dear Rabbi, for the honour and cause of our forefathers, retract thofe words, and do not fuffer thefe mifchievous wranglers influence to warp reafon and religion.

Mofes. I have no cause against my nation; fo far from it, I would, and I think I fpeak my fentiments, offer my life to see my nation christian.

Mordecai, Abfalom. You need not fear qur influence over Rabbi Mofes. You fhould rather be fearful of his two affociates, Luther and Calvin.

Mofes. There was little danger from either of you, as I at all times abhorr'd mal-contents. Jofbua, Nehemiah. Six of us, dear Rabbi, formed a confederacy to confute the chriftian

tenets;

tenets; but when we engaged, both fcripture and reafon difarmed and compelled us to yield. We therefore confefs ourselves vanquished, and with you affirm Chrift our Lord and Meffiah. We defire to put an end to this Conference, and repair to the chriftian priesthood for inftruction.

Boy. It will be proper, before we break up the conference, to know the chriftian faith in the Godhead, Incarnation, Death and Refurrection of Chrift. Here it is.

Whofoever will be faved, before all things it is neceffary that he hold the Catholic Faith ; which faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Tri>nity in Unity; neither confounding the perfons, not dividing the fubftance. For there is one perfon of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghoft. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft is all one; the glory equal, the majefty co-eternal. Such as the Father is, fuch is the Son, and fuch is the Holy Ghoft. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate, and the Holy Ghost uncreate. The Father incomprehenfible, the Son incomprehenfible, and the Holy Ghoft incomprehenfible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghoft eternal; and yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal. As alfo, there are not three incomprehenfibles, nor three uncreated, but one uncreated, and one incomprehenfible. So likewife the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy

Ghoft

Ghost almighty, and yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghoft is God, and yet they are not three Gods, but one God. So likewife the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Ghoft is Lord, and yet not three Lords, but one Lord. For, as we are compelled by the chriftian verity to acknowledge every perfon by himself to be God and Lord, fo are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to fay, there be three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none; neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghoft is of the Father, and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers, one Son, not three Sons, one Holy Ghoft, not three Holy Ghofts. And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other; none is greater or less than another; but the whole three perfons are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in all things, as aforefaid, the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be faved, must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is neceffary to everlafting falvation, that he alfo believe the Incarnation of our Lord Jefus Chrift. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confefs, that our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Son of God, is God and man; God of the fubitance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of the fubftance of his Mother, born in the world; Perfect God, and per

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fect man, of reasonable foul, and human Aesh fubfiiting; equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead, and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood. Who, although he be God and man, yet he is not two, but one Chrift; one, not by the converfion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking the manhood into God: one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of perfon. For as the reasonable foul and flesh is one man; fo God and man is one Chrift, who fuffered for our falvation, defcended into hell, role again the third day from the dead. He afcended into heaven, he fitterh on the right-hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence he fhall come to judge the living and the dead. At whofe coming all men fhall rife again with their bodies, and fhall give account for their works. 1 hey that have done good, fhall go into life everlafting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith; which, except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be faved.

Mofes. I confefs myself your debtor, and that to you only, by the grace of God, I owe my converfion. Happy conference with your father and Calvin, when I called you in, to explain the chriftian tenets. I heartily acquiefce and fubmit to the expofition of the chriftian faith, and all things the church of Chritt commands. I am ready to attend you to the altar of Chrift, there proftrate and implore affiftance from the priest.

Proverbs.

Wifdom hath builded her house; The hath hewn out her feven pillars. Of who

does

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