fpiritual, which they call foul; the other earthly, the body. The foul, being the intellectual and fuperior part, is to rule and keep the body in a state oppreffive to the fenfes, and oppofite to the pleasures and allurements of this life, to confider this life and pafs through it a pilgrim, or man of forrows, expecting pleasure and eternal comforts when death feparates our twofold nature. All blemishes, which they term fin, are to be rigorously accounted for, and punished in the next life, if we were convinced that giv ing him a meeting might not caft fome blemish or fhade our enlightened and bright philosophy, we fhould be disposed to see him to make enquiries.

Hoft. You were all inftructed, when young, in the religion of your forefathers, I fuppofe, chriftians.

Club. We acknowledge your fuppofition, though we are of different countries, and were of different branches of chriftians, to be true; but being men inclined to various powerful paffions, which could not be gratified without remorse and ftings, we were not difpofed to fuffer, embraced the Enlightened Bieffing, the brains, in a torrent of light, poured on the head of man, in this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. O my, what a blaze!

Hoft. I will hold you a rump and dozen, as the faying is, that you are twelve, but not one trained Calvinist.

Club. None.

Hoft. Prefbyterians are inftructed to render life comfortable, by flaying the old man with

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the fword of the fpirit, that is, to appeafe the flesh, by giving it the full fway and defire of her wishes, that we obtain liberty of spirit. This is a faithful faying, "Mortify the works of the flesh, by deftroying the old man. If you live to the flesh, you shall die; but if you live to the fpirit, you fhall be faved: fo that there is no condemnation to the spiritual chriftian; for, let him do what he will, he finned not for all things are lawful to him by the art and cunning of fpiritualizing all fleshly actions, fo that whilst we enjoy, we live, O my, what sweetness!

Calvinifts, like goats, rut out of measure, Bleat out in fpirit, a twofold pleasure; But to you half men, you lofe all merit, And half your pleasure, thro' lack of Spirit, · For quitting paftures you were once train'd in, And difown your fouls, and turn then nothing.

Club. Envy, defpair, prefumption, fchifm, herefy, contention, Pride, railing, infidelity, gluttony, hatred, lechery.

The above heads, if we understood right when we had an idea of God, was oppofite and contrary to the Divinity and forbid under pain pain of eternal punishments. This was the caufe, as we could not refrain to embrace our new philofophy, in order to ftrengthen ourfelves for enjoyment without after-claps or bitings of confcience. We acknowledge your lenient medicine, if any efficacy can be drawn from it, would have much weight to our return

into the chriftian bofom; but, according to fome philofophy, if you should prove to have a foul, you will be in much more danger of reprobation than our new philofophers, we deny him, you acknowledge him and make him an accomplice, partaker aud partner in the very deeds that he detefts and forbids. You cry, it is well done, a twofold pleasure, fpiritual and earthly; in fhort, and to be brief, if impudence has any merit, Calvinifm is a child of paradife. O the mifery of an infatuated and conceited, vain pride.

Conceited monsters, of a twofold race,
Enthufiaftic tribe, your wizard's face
Contradict your Lord, and impede his grace.

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Hoft. I humbly crave your Enlightened's pardon for my abrupt intrufion on fo high and mighty a fociety, who has it in contemplation to relieve the great world from all impediments. which they have been infected with for near fix thousand years, on the heels of which bring in rectitude cloathed fn her natural and first-born' fimplicity, ftate, drefs, condition, and inclination, free from impeachment, shame, or remorfe. The earth is man's and the fullness thereof, wherefore do we refufe to couple, as if man, and only man, were the captive chained down with more than favage flavery and cruel reftraint, fuperfluity and experience. Extravagance will be exploded, and like our neighbours of every degree, from the favage who wears nothing more than pure nature, to the gentle 0

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worm that glides along the furface of our mo ther earth, enjoying true felicity, when and where prefented; then will fhame and violence be caft out, and love and enjoyment fucceed; then will the fenfes feaft, and the paffions be glutted with virgin honey.

Club. His lordship might be anxious for your return, we will therefore difmifs you with this advice, to apply as his case seems philofophically, to crave the affiftance of the midwife, it being a fimilar cafe with the fair fex in travail. To fome experienced old woman, who we suppose by the affiftance of a greasy or oily clyfter, profufely injected into the anus of this great prelate, it will be neceffary to touch over the pipe flightly, by a little tincture tantaridise, in order to enliven the palate and other parts adjacent, and cause a quick fenfation and titilation, which will give vigour to the philofopher, and by a fudden and vigorous exertion, with the affiftance of the midwife, deliver himfelf from those favages.

Hoft. There comes Rabbe Mofes, if you will give me leave I will let him know that you would be happy to make fome enquiries in which your Light is much interested.

Club. We wish the Introduction.

End of the Tenth Conference.

ELEVENTH

ELEVENTH CONFERENCE.

Mofes. GENTLEMEN, your will.

Club. We wifh, understanding you have been from your youth in search of the philofopher's ftone, to make fome enquiries which we perfuade ourselves will caft much light on our new philofophy, of this our enlightened age and hemifphere.

Mofes. Upon what firm have you placed your philofophy.

Club. Our firm is Materialifm.

Mofes. To fet forth the luftre and brightness of virtue or good morals, and the filthy and wicked tendency of vice and immorality, I much approve, and the wickedness of our age require found philofophy to ftem and beat down beaftliness.

Club. You favour the old fashioned chriftian philofophy which reftrains our paffions, and puts us in a ftate below our fellow creatures, which man confiders as a high infult; we act modeftly when we crave the liberty granted to our neighbours.

Mojes. You have, and ftand at par with your neighbours, why, therefore, do you complain unreasonably?

Club. So far are we from enjoying the sweetnefs of fociety allowed our neighbours, that they roll and glut themfelves, whilft we ftarve with hunger.

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