preaching, and in the writings of the apofdes, and by him to give many motives to men, to incite them to perform their duty, as fet forth in his written laws, and in the

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The fum then of this article is, that upon the first promulgation of the gofpel, while the converfion of the Jews was the principal object of our Saviour's miniftry, and afterwards of his apoftles, the argu

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reflected, that she carried a virgin. So he tells us in his letters; and of confequence, a fit fupporter of St. Peter's chair.

St. Ambrofe is the next fupporter and faint. He was born at Treves in the year 340,-and died the 4th of April 397, aged 57. This holy prelate was a great contender for tritheifm and the rights of the church, and writ many worthless pieces for them and perfecution. He acted an infolent and senseless part, in the cafe of the emperor Theodofius, in the affair of Theffalonica, when that prince ordered the feditious to be destroyed: and he died foon after the greatest and moft bleffed of men: (fay Paulinus and Baronius, who both writ his life.)- The beft edition of his works is that of the Benedictines, Paris 1691, 2 volumes, folio: with many notes.

As to St. Gregory of Neocaefarea, and the four other faints of the name, to wit, the two Nazianzens, Nyffe, and Armenia, I fhall have occafion to mention them in the next volume of my journal, and there fore, fhall here only obferve, in refpect of Neocdefarea, ufually called Thaumaturgus, or the avonderworker, that he died in the year 265, according to Baronius, and the faint of Armenia, or in 270, according

more ftriking example of our Lord, his only-begotten Son. Let us be chriftians then, my dear Bob, and adore the divine goodness, for the life eternal prepared for the righteous, as declared in the facred records. Let us hearken to the apostles, (who, knowing the terror of the Lord, perfuade men), and fo govern and conduct ourfelves by the rules of revelation, that when the man Christ Jefus, who appeared in the world to redeem us, will return to judge us by the gospel, we may afcend with him to the unbounded regions of eternal day, and

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ment of prophecy was, of all others, the best adapted to perfuade, and conquer the prejudices of that nation. But in preaching the gofpel to the Gentiles, not acquainted with the Jewish fcriptures, nor tinctured with any Jewish prejudices, the teftimony of its miracles, and the purity of its doctrines, were the moft affecting proof of its divine origin. Yet when by the evidence of these, people had once received the chriftian faith, and acquired a competent knowlege of it, they would then perceive, that the argument of prophecy, was a part alfo of the evidence, effentially necessary to complete the demonstration of its truth.

cording to Fabricius and that the best edition of his works is that of Gerard Voffius in 4to, Mayence, 1604. His pieces were likewife printed at Paris in folio, 1621, with the writings of fome minor faints. This folio is a collection of things written by faints.

in ever-blooming joys, live for ever in the prefence of God. I have done. Where you think I am wrong, you will be pleased to fay.

My friend replied, that he had no objection to make: he was quite fatisfied; and obliged to me for my advice. Thus ended the conversation between Bob Berrisfort and Jack Buncle.

1725. July 3. My departure from Yeoverin-Green, and arrival at a fhaking bog, at the bottom of a mountain.

94. The 3d day of July, I left Yeoverin-Green, and fet out again for Ulubra, to get my horfes and portmanteau, but proceeded now on foot; because, by climbing over a high mountain, which it was impoffible for a horse to ascend, and then walking half a mile over a fhaking bog, where a beast could not go, I was to fave many miles; and befide, Mr. Berrisfort was fo obliging as to fend one of his fervants back with Mr. Harcourt's horfes, which I knew not which way to return. With my pole in my hand then I fet out, and after I had bid adieu to my friends, who walked with me a couple of miles to the foot of the hills, I began to mount the Alp at fix in the morning, and at eight arrived on its fummit. Here I had

a fine road, due fouth, for an hour, till came to a very steep defcent, that led to the fhaking-bog, as my paper of directions informed me. It was an ugly way down, and the better to go it, I refolved first to breakfast, and bid Tim fee what he had got in his wallet. Immediately he produced a roast fowl, a manchet, and a bottle of cyder, and among fome trees, on the brow of a hill, by the fide of a fpring, that ran off the way I was to go, I fat down to the repast. I gave my Lad half the Bird, and the other half I dispatched in a very short time, drank a pint of Cyder, and was on my feet again. I then began to defcend, and in an hour made a fhift to get to the bottom, tho' the way was bad; being very fteep, wet, and flippery. I came to a dirty lane, about two hundred yards long, and that ended at the fhaking-bog.

The nature of a shakingbog.

95. This kind of bog I take to be an abyfs of standing water, covered with a thin arch of earth, that is, a water communicating with the abyss fo covered, or weakly vaulted over and of this opinion I find the right reverend Erich Pontoppidan is, in his natural history of Norway. The bishop does not tell his reafon for fo thinking; but mine is, that I have feen in Ireland the arches of feveral

feveral of thofe bogs broken, and a deep unfathomable water at fome diftance from the arch. They are very dangerous, frightful places, and many of them play up and down, like a long plank, in a very furpri zing manner.

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96. To go half a mile over fuch a bog, and the most elastic of them I had ever tried, was what I did not much like; tho' the author of my paper of farmer's directions, an old fervant of house. Mr. Berrisfort, affirmed it was quite fafe; and as to Tim, he would not, on any confideration, cross it. He was pofitive we fhould fink beyond recovery. What to do then, was the question? I tried for fome time to go round the bog, at the bottom of the enclosing mountains, but that was foon found impoffible, and therefore, it only res mained, to go up again to the top of the hill, and try onwards for fome other descent beyond the bog. We did fo, and after walking two hours fouth-west, at ad good rate, had a view of a deep glin, to which we defcended by an easy flope, and marched thro' it, to the weft, and northweft for two hours, till it ended at a wood. This we paffed without any difficulty, as

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