him with a how-do-ye-do, fuppofing the cafe or the like of thắt, do ye mungey, as is fuppofed ye younklins, from your entrance into the fociety, made the fpirit of your founder, your pattern, from whom you copy your lives and morals, the greater glory of God, his fpirit and fayings, continually inculcated from the elders or leniors to ye younklins, from Ignatius, in regular fucceffion, until the restoration or return into the land of Promife, the original priesthood, you being heretofore a chip of the old block (the old priesthood) or, as the gardener has it, a layer, laid by Pope Paul the 3d, in his Bull, dated the 27th of September 1540, to ftem the impetuofity or torrent of proteftancy, which, like wild fire, frightened poor Paul, who, as the faying is, made a blanket of Jefuitifm, to defend him from those fiery darts, or the like of that, do ye mungey. I beg your excufe, these little interludes, which I am accuftomed long fince to, of breaking in, or protracting what I would wish to be understood, that is, or the like of that, obferve, do ye mungey, fetting the cafe, thus, as I was faying, Pope Paul the 3d formed a fociety called Jefuits, and commiffioned them to inftruct the weak and ignorant in the rules and knowledge of the Catholic Religion, to ftem the torrent of fchifm, herefy and infidelity, and preferve unity in the bond of peace. According to our great apostle Paul, the then Pope's namesake, or the like of that, do ye mungey, master Wisacre, from the aforefaid date 27th of September 1740. Thefe lads receiving their authority from his

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Holiness, prefently multiplied and became confpicuous, colonizing in every state and nation, they, as Nebuchadnezar's Tree, difplayed its branches throughout the earth, and, with furprifing agility, and numberlefs feats of chivalry, about the grand epoch or period of the proteftant greatnefs, from the year 1760 to 1770, both empires keeping pace with each other, arrived to the goal, as tight a match perhaps as ever ftepped at Newmarket; let me confider the diftance, or the like of that; take 1540 from 1760, will leave you 220 years, with the before and after felvage or fagenda, which will fpin fome years, or the like of that; but as I was faying, or the like of that, both focieties kept pace and ambled together exceedingly well 220, or if you would rather have it, 230 full years, and, in all likelihood, as they both are Coufin Germans, fpringing out of one common stock or grand-dame, that, as the one has disappeared in its original Catholic Mother, the other crumbling will foon follow.

Mofes. Your Reverend Hero is a picture perfectly correfponding to the fchifmatical tribe, in the time of our Law-Giver, which subject I dwelt upon in a former Conference, the Tree you noted in the dream of Nebuchadnezar, with the vifions and predictions of the prophets, fhew that, kingdoms rife and fall according to their periods, ftated by the Divine decree. Your fcriptüre breathes the fame fpirit, your Saviour tells you, not to be anxious, for your God will provide, that not a iparrow can ceafe to live, or leaf shake, indepent of His Divine Will; fo

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that according to our fcriptures and yours, the Divine Will rules and orders the hearts of princes, and brings all things to the place of their deftination. Thefe younkers cannot, with the least degree, without criminating the Divinity, hold themselves excufed from the general order of the creation. The feveral parts I have converfed with fince the diffolving the Bull of Pope Paul the 3d, by Pope Clement the 14th for forming the fociety into an order of Religious, tranfplanting them into the original priesthood, to restore amity in the bond of peace. to the then distracted church, which met with the defired wifh of Christendom, agree that the body was perfectly refigned with Job, 1ft chapter, 21st verse.. "When he was stripped of all that he had, even his children, by his enemies, naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked fhall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; bleffed be the name of the Lord." In all this Job finned not, nór charged God foolishly. Men of virtue who, with their founder, to prevent the enemy, had voluntarily ftript themfelves of all temporal goods, honours, applaufe, and every earthly advantage, wifely confidering that the Flag of the world oppofed that of falvation, and to prevent future relapfes, bound themfelves in the most rigorous vows, to be and remain naked, chafte, and obedient; alfo, a fourth vow of particular obedience to the reigning Pope: more could not be granted or complied with. The fociety was vigilant and exerted. themselves for the converfion of the Eaft and

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Weft-Indies. The enemy, finding himself vanquished, and the infidels refo:ting to the ftandard of Chrift, made use of his accustomed ftratagem, by prompting many who confidered the refpectability of the body, a fufficient motive to enlarge their temporal glory, by mingling with the fervants of God, as Satan, you will fee in the fame chapter aforefaid, prefented himself with the fons of God, they to give praise and adoration to their Creator. Satan, to moleft, vex, and destroy Job, a man, who by his fanctity became his enemy. In your gofpel the college of apoftles raised the envy of Satan, who obferved Judas to poffefs the love of pomp, riches, and temporal glory, which fupplanted the love of the Creator, made use of him as a fit inftrument to diftil his poifon into, to cut off their Meffiah, and destroy the fociety. So thefe younkers, as you term them, who pay Latria to the temporal glory of the fociety, not that they have any predilection to the fociety in general, or particular, more than Judas to Chrift, or college of apoftles, farther than their own advantages lead them; but by a falfe wifdom brought, as Judas, infamy on their own heads, in which they have involved the fathers with themfelves; the one fuffers with joy and refignation to the Divine Will, the other part, boisterous, arrogant, impudent, haughty, proud, lofty, felf-fufficient, bearing down all things, and placing the idol of their fupremacy above all authority; fo that this fupercrefcence prefently gave the alarm, and the. fumes fickened the princes and others, who.

with joint confent agreed to expel the fociety from their feveral ftates, or kingdoms, France, Spain, and Portugal, &c. actually drove them out of their dominions, and not only folicited the Pope to disband, but refufed Catholic fubordination or to communicate with the chair of Peter, on any other conditions. The general fchifm had made fome progrefs, and the cafe now lay before the Pope, whether the unity and peace of the Church be preferved by unbodying the fociety, or not? Clement the 14th was left as a general hemmed in by a fuperior army, had no alternative, the conditions were pofitive, unbody the fociety, compofed of the fubjects of our different ftates, whom we have expelled, purely for being of that body, or you, by contumacy, like a foolish king, facrifice the nation to the humour and whim of his minion.

Club. The fociety no doubt could claim a regular and legal procefs against the malecontents; the Pope was abfolutely in juftice; had he with the courts of Rome, France, Spain, Naples, Vienna, Portugal and other departments of the church, not been in league, and all the matter was brought to an iffue, Clement fhould have reinftated the fociety in their birth-rights and immunities, with a fharp and fpirited reprimand to the Princes for their cavalier and arrogant behaviour to fo great and wife a community. Your Eminence will be pleased, therefore decide as the facts have come before your fublime and most wonderful supremacy,d Loraing dođu na

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