and pointed againft gainfayers or whoever dare to contend or oppofe my mighty tranfcendency Pope, Centre and grand Link, which vanquish, unite and link, in one bond, the two mighty empires of both Reformations,

Mofes. And yet with all your boasted grandeurs, and mighty armies, as Haman envied Mordecai's humble tranquillity, fo you envy and are piqued at poor Ignatius's heroic death and restoration; your palled, yet unquenchionable luft, avarice, envy, and a train of unbridled inclinations, that human nature is fufceptible; you have (pig like) made it your study to feaft and gratify, as you boaft, from your infancy to your prefent fuperannuated stage of decrepidity; be warned; the day of your life is far spent, the evening is arrived, and night clofe on your heels, when, without a speedy change of morals, I much fear you will go empty, with your grey hairs to the grave, and in the regions of death howl your eternal lot.

Club. Rabbi, your forward speech is no ways grateful in the ears of the new philofophers of this our enlightened and northern hemifphere; but to charge the lord of the mighty empires of reformation with being wrong, is beyond all difpute unprecedented, unpopular, degrading, frightful, old fashioned, unpleafant, hard favoured, innovating, infane, untractable, difrelishing, anatomizing, deadly, no ways useful to genteel fociety, bringing an old exploded bugbear to intimidate and frighten, as the old women do children with raw-head and bloody bones, or old Harry the Eighth; fo in like manner your old fpiritual malady, ftings of confcience, and re..

morle;

morfe; for what? why truly, no other reason but offending the Creator, and being deprived his prefence, which a new philofopher heartily wishes never to behold, nor be plagued with his threats, careffes, or torments, but to enjoy the good things prefent, let the next life, if any, provide new pleasures to fucceed this, that we may without abatement inebriate, and enjoy each other: this should be the language or garland of fweet perfumes, prefented to our Lord and Father, head and chief of the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere.

Luther. One hundred and fifty years was the life of old Par, and, I think, one hundred and fixty, the age of one Gibfon, myself feventy-five, or the like of that, do ye mungey; now, fuppofing the cafe thus, look and observe my compilation, then cry out, 'his fellow is not, O Ifrael, my fkin is ftretched by firm, hard, and fubftantial flesh; as the head of a drum braced for battle, fo that with every requifite I enjoy, I have not, or the like of that, arrived to the zenith or meridian of life. Odds bobs! I am lufty and ftrong, and can roar out a fong. All things duly confidered, I am the great one of the earth; I bless my stars for the inftantaneous exaltation, inttallation, fuperabounding excellencies, with unparagoned attributes, which form me with grace, the darling of the univerfe. Whilft I remained an humble dependant and parfon of the old reformation, I was much embaraffed and overwhelmed with qualms, fears, ftings of conscience, and remorse or lownefs of fpirits whenever I enveloped my outward man in the fweets of the Belh, or tranfgreffed Mofes's command

ments;

ments; for, though a proteftant, I had not the knack of coining new tenets to give peace, cr relieve the mind; which untoward weakness, I fuppofe, or the like of that, do ye mungey, was the original spring of the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere. Ignatius, my coz, relieve me, your lord and fire, who am exhausted and borne down by the exceeding great weight of glory that is come upon me, a happy hagges, as the faying is, do you mungey, or the like of that. But then, and fuppoft, you will answer me, or the like of that, do ye mungey. Moft mighty monarch feated on the fupreme throne of glory, and cloathed in the robes of majesty, wielding the fceptre of power, which bends all things to your nod, it is not becoming me, your vaffal, to affume even to live in your godlike prefence; the aspect of your grandeurs melt and chill my heart. My deareft, begotten in the bowels of charity, how is it that your great and heroic courage, and dauntless foul fhould recoil and fall back in my prefence, and not in thofe regions of death: this is a fresh acquifition to my immenfity. I am curious to be informed of the manner and different ftages you have paffed through in life; firft, nɔ doubt you paffed in childish actions, then as has come before me in Jefuitifim at their diffolution; your body at leaft fome of you took umbrage at your then Pope, for difbanding, your fociety, who, as you confidered yourselves, his body guard, chief order, the more honorable and fubject to no controul but your own fuperiors; your general you confidered as you now do me, or the like of that, Pope and fupreme of your fociety,

and

and crown on the head of the pope, as the faying is, or the like of that, do ye mungey. A great logician of your fociety, a few weeks before I came on my travels, in company with myself and four of our minifters ufed a variety of vague fubterfuges to fereen the fociety, and condemn poor Clement; his argument went as he wished to prove that a fpirit is immortal, confequently cannot be or fuffet annihilation, even though criminal: this he ufed much fubtilty, art and cunning, to prove and confirm by the fiends, who, though continuing their faction, ftill remain in power; upon this ground he placed his battering ram, and when he had stored himself with a fump uous dinner, he began, and did fo ribroaft Ganganelli that he kept us the whole evening in one continued roar; he is the most artful wag that, as we confeffed, ever wore a breeches. One while he endeavoured to fhew the exploits of Ignatius,' when an officer in the army; his undaunted courage, which act finishes with the being vanquished by the enemy, after playing off a thousand feats of chivalry, and a broken leg: this first act continued from five to fix; in the courfe of which he found it convenient to take off fix bumpers. He then enters on the fecond act with his hero, taking up the lives of faints, whilst bed-ridden, 'from his wounds, and obferved a warfare which he thought both honourable and profitable, as it glorified his Creator; and, as a magnet, draws fouls to his banner, or fweet yoke of the gofpel. After fome time fpent in rigorous pennance, he threw himfelf proftrate at the feet of the Pope, and obtained his bleffing, priesthood, and general of a new order, with this appellation,

"The

"The fociety of Jefus." His conftitutions are copied from the life of Chrift, so that whoever would know the life of a Jefuit will read and understand that of Jefus, from whom they are named. The fociety presently became formidable, and our great general deputed miffioners to traverse the earth, and fow the maxims of the gospel both by word and example in all hearts, by whofe means chriftianity in a fhort time flourished in countries until then unknown, but to the wild and favage inhabitants, who being brought to the knowledge of their duty, became prudent, docile, dutiful and good chriftians. It was a common remark that the year the Auguftine Friar, Luther, quitted his order, Ignatius of Loyola was called by God to raise an army to beat down that Herald, or Trumpet of the Reformation. The old Friar, to gain difciples, found it proper in part to copy Mahomet in tickling the flesh by this predilection held out; the invitation anfwered the defired effect, thousands of all denominations flocked to the ftandard of pleasure, and in a fhort time they became formidable to the old chriftianity. Let us for a moment view the two competitors, the old Friar drawing chriftians to his standard; the Jefuit, Infidels and favage nations, to the ftandard of Jefus Chrift, both equally great in their profeffion. After the two patriarchs finished their course, their fucceffors trod in their steps two hundred and fifty years, when, according to their now afpects, they arrived to the zenith of their predeftination. The fociety of Jefus disappears in the old priesthood, and proteftancy by fulness. are become naufeous, obfcene, offenfive, ranka

rcus,