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monitor, mark out time and aprize man, as a well-known cock, the morning watch and time. of action. Great Luther, high and mighty Lord, centre and grand Link of the old and new Reformations, and whereas Aaron, highpriest of the Jews, wore an Ephod, compofed of fore and back parts, coupled on the shoulders with a circular hole in the centre, through which was placed and appeared his head. like manner the two reforms, the old or backfide, and new or fore fide, coupled by brotherly love, with our joint head or common father, placed in the intermediate fpace or centre, comprize the alliance and form one fociety, which will be impregnable against Pope, Turk and every other oppofer of what kind or fort foever. This fimilar complexion engages and demands our first and great Cardinal's Pontifical robes (he being Head, Pope, or High-prieft of the two Reformations) be according to the pattern handed down from Aaron, all which will be finished and our Holy Father habited this night, as ordered, at our common expence, not exceeding a fall ftipend. The patterns are as follows. Exod. 28th chapter. An Ephod of gold, blue, purple, fcarlet, with fine twine linen, cunningly wrought, two fhoulder-pieces, joined at the two edges, a curious girdle of the Ephod, of like workmanship, two onyx-ftones, on which were engraved the twelve tribes, fix on each. In lieu of the twelve tribes fhall be engraved on the left fhoulder, Old Reformation, and upon the right, new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, our

Holy

Holy Father's Head iffuing out of the centric cavern, adorned, bedecked, bedathed, and embellished with fubftantial requifites, a true copy of Adonis, offspring of Sinyras and Myrrha, remarkably beautiful, and extremely beloved by Venus and Proferpine. A curious mitred. cap, engraved on the front, imitating Aaron's, but with this difference, that on Aaron's was engraved Holiness to the Lord our holy fathers fhall be, Holiness to our Brains. This, well wrote, will display great magnificence, and draw great refpect to our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. A breaft-plate alfo, copying Aaron's, but with this difference, that on Aaron bore the names of the twelve tribes of Ifrael upon his heart. Our Holy Father will, on his heart, bear the name, of our incorporated focieties, as aforefaid, on the two onyx-ftones, placed on his fhoulders, that is, the old Proteftant Reformation and the new philofophical reform. Our Holy Father will be fanctified, and being prodigious grofs, will difplay great Majefty enthroned, dreffed in his robes, ornamented and decorated in all, and every part, and enriched with a border of bells and pomegranates round about, fo that we can never fufficiently admire the ftrangeness and grandeurs of the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. We have, in imitation of Aaron's fons, ordered, with this difference, twelve fuits, inftead of three, for the greater glory, a common expreffion of old Ignatius of Loyola; for, as he would have it, of God, but

Us,

us, the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. Thefe additional fuits will add greater glory and honour to our triumph, and with the prodigious communities held out to the fenfes at large, compact and draw the vigorous world with univerfal concourfe to our Areopagus, or midnight fittings or feffions, to receive univerfal freedom in every inclination that is capable of Titilation. And all, and every the aforefaid bleffings commenced and was fettled in common-council affembled, according to our joint confent, you being head, and chief of the committee, before the almoft fatal catastrophe, in which conflict, though the most noble, difinterested, and heroic that has been known, yet, had not your wind returned, we fhould have been left in a difmal plight, incomplete and inconfolable. We fhall, with grand fhouts of applause, at the midnight watch place you at our head, bedecked, robed, and made fine, in our new dreffes, calling aloud on all fides for illuminations throughout the streets, to join the proceffion, and with one continued roar, both vocal and inftrumental, proclaim the victorious triumph of the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere.

Loud thunder roars, from pole to pole,
The war-jong note, with bells that toll,
Intone grand eclat, man's no foul.
Echo refound the pleafing lay,
Man matter is, form'd out of clay,
Enlightened philanthropy's day.

Tol de rol tol, tal de ral la a.

Mofes

Mofes. What was difguftful, you us tell,
Is now fragrant, exhale a smell,

Which leads the gay, and's now the belle.
What times are ours, when fcurvy race
Gives law to man, as is the cafe,
Unlink'd from shame, and void of grace.
Tol de rol tol, tal de ral la a.

Ignatius. Hodge-podge rabble, as Screech-owls

Screech,

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Like ape luftful, betray the meek,
And virgin rofe, you baftards feek.
Myfelf, like you, I had no peace,
But only when, immerg'd in greafe,
Foul luft, I mean, on which I'd feaft.

Tol de rol, tal de ral la a.

Your abandoned and reprobate state is truly pitiable, and when I confider myself a chieftain or leader, of your irrational ribaldry, filthy, dirty, and impious philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere, I deteft and abhor myself as I really am, the vileft and moft perfidious reptile, not worthy the name of creature; unless a fiend, even this far furpaffes my depraved, degenerate and vitiated ftate. Had I lost my reason, ignorance would be a barrier to plead my innocence; but my reafon remained and I a rebel reprobated and brought it into fubjection, making it a time-ferver, bearing down remorfe and ftings of confcience, contriving, pleading, conniving, confenting, enjoying and willing, a temporal and base plea

fure

fure of the flesh, preferable to its duty and eternal felicity.

Club. By judging, condemning and reprobating yourself, you accufe, reprobate, condemn and vilify the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere.

Mofes. If your new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere be truth, there is no God, and if no God, there can be no judge, if no judge, no judgment, and if no judgment, no trial, if no trial, no condemnation, and, if no condemnation, what you have advanced is abfurd and obnoxious and difgraceful to reafon, common fenfe and found philofophy, which proves your new philofophy of this your enlightened age and northern hemifphere to be an impeachment or accufation against reafon, truth, wisdom, and found philofophy, degrading human nature. On the reverfe, if there is a God, as all nature bears evidence, but yourselves, mock tribe, your new philofophy perifhes; fo that, view it at what afpect, you will, you will prove it a common dunghill, fabricated by the ignorant and vicious bucks and bloods, to deftroy harmony, order, faith and honour, with each other, and live reprobates. Ignatius and I will meet you at Luther's, in three days, in the morning at 12.

Scene changes. Mofes, Boy, and Notaries.

Boy. Daniel ath chapter. Meffiah fhall be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the

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