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Romans, Ifrael has ceafed to be a nation; but as fugitives and vagabonds are shifted and feat tered, despised, and hated over the whole face of the earth, confidered by all the tribes of the earth as the common enemy of the human racen and this upon the eve of two thousand years 1 and, at this day, not the leaft gleam or diftant profpect of reconciliation with her God. Al vifion and prophecy are fealed up, and Ifrael devoted as a curfe in the mouth of all nations, her country, at this period, over-run with briars and thorns, and in the hands of a most base people; and, on the ground where her temple ftood, there is erected a Turkish Mosque.

Boy. And he shall confirm his covenant with many.

Mofes. That Ifrael cannot fathom or under-1 ftand, as he has not manifefted himself. OSZT Boy. The fcriptures will be, and must be

true.

Mofes. Ifrael dare not contradict her God: but he has not obtained the promife.

Boy. And after threefcore and two weeks the Meffiah fhall be cut off, but not for himself.s

Mofes. This is alfo incomprehenfible, as the Meffiah is exprefsly promifed to gather Ifrael from all countries into their own land, to enjoy every bleffings, He being Lord of Lords and King of Kings, and that they will be a bleffing to the whole earth..

Boy. Two thousand years experimentally, points out and unfolds your misconftruing and erroneous conceptions of the prophecies. The Promifed Bleffing, at the fulness of time, ma

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nifefted Himself, who you rejected and hung on a tree, treating the Lord of Glory with the vileft ignominy, and has brought down your rancoors and inveterate hatred, inculcated, nourished, and lodged from. father to fon in the heart of every Jew throughout your generations to this day. O the mifery and mif chievous tendency that await the abufe of freewill. This abufe originated in the angels, whence their malice have loft them their ori ginal birthright, and placed them in the prifon of eternal woe. Next falls man, beginning in our first parents, which has multiplied in their pofterity; but Ifrael, as fhe was exalted above her fellows, becomes more criminal in an equal crime but he has perpetrated and glories in her guilt, Black Infamy. The thought fills my foul with horror, my heart burfts with grief. The Lord of Life nailed and hanging on a tree betwixt two thieves, naked, bleeding, and all covered with wounds, fpittle and dirt. In this most ignominious manner he remained at fpectacle and gazing-flock to angels and men, and when He gave up. His life, their rage pieced His fide with a lance penetrating His

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b: Scene changes to Luther's apartment.

Grace before Dinner.

Luther, DEPLETE with keen, eager, fharp R 931 and whetted appetite, I repair to the delight of my chaftes defire. So be. it. batter

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Take off, Nincompoop, the cover, lay all to may furvey the whole, this fide, that fide, infide, outfide, forefide, backside, in and our, round about, fo that I may fatiate the fenfe of fight, the fenfe of finell, the fenfe of tafte, the fenfe of feeling, and you explaining the rarities this delicious banquet is composed of, my fenfe of hearing may be feafted, and by thefe five conductors convey the whole into the heart, which being intoxicated and overcharged with fovereign and fubftantial delights, the whole man may be drowned in an ocean of pleafure and voluptuous fweetnefs, Oh! I die in foft repose.

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Hoft. These are rarities juft arrived in one of our fhips from the Weft-Indies, which I procured, being full flavoured, made into a ragout; it has been fimmering twelve hours, fo that you will perceive it flip down without notice as quick-filver.

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Luther. Rarities of rarities, exquifitely, completely, and curioufly rare: this is beyond any delight I ever feafted on. Truely you prize the Indies, both East and Welt, the paramount of pleasure and every endearment, all productions large and ftrong, no little puny, pigmy, weak, infipid, or imperfect growths, as is produced in our untoothfome zone; but the whole and every part or parcel thereof, fills the mind and heart with the whole apparatus of the human animal with a glur of delights do ads

Hot. The inland in the middle is a fuperannuated Mufcovy drake, the only piece of poultry the ship brought home, being originally nvoin Itrong,

Atrong, the failors fpared its life, four lizards, preferved; three rats, a good bit of a preserved yellow fake, whofe fmell is both powerful and lafting twelve large cockroaches, two Guinea pigs, foufed, with a pint and half of fharks oil, extracted from the liver, far exceeding whalebil, both for richness and ftrong flavour. 91

Luther. A death ftroke in the fummit of extacy; have I banquetted upon i andrakes, and the balfam of life abfent; can I enjoy, and Rachel, lovely nymph, not prefent; this thall never be take it hence, whilft lofe my breath and die fouls, we learned wits have none. O mandrakes and cockatrices, both fcripture rarities: how fweet art thou with the whole, a compofition worthy praife. 19

Hoft. Your reverence ftands not in need of a mefs-mate, you made clean platters before the love fit came on you; you act wifely.

Luther. What can't be cured, may be enaured.

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riously, and no doubt will applaud yourself. The first is, you know Calvin has treated your department of Proteftantifm, being trained a Calvinift, what you are I prefume; and under your roof, to the great difhonour of your houfe has turned papift. You fay he has put himself in a convent of friars at Bruffels; he can never more return to Scotland, the Scotch would hang him up to the first gibbet that prefented itfelf: he has a fmall eftate in Scotland of about three hundred per annum, and money in the funds that brings him about two hundred more; fo that the whole in his gift is rated at five hundred, hard money, per year: he was never married; it is true he has five fifters who he keeps in indolence through his fupineness, and in a little time may be the means of afflicting them with the gout, ftone, and even death, if I do not take this charity upon myfelf to correct this growing evil: my friendship though abufed, can fuffer no abatement; therefore, to affift me in this donation to himfelf and fifters, you will with every expedition leave no ftone unturned, until you bring him to a proper fenfe of his duty to God and his neighbour; and make him have drawn and executed a title, to me of his property, both real and perfonal, my heirs and affigas for ever: be cautious, receive no gratuity, as you will be fatisfied with the merit conferred on you. My fecond injunction is, that you will make use of every fubtilty to get the affignment compleat from Moles to me, of his monies in the English funds; what he has lodged here, or any other ftraggling

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