thefe two moft effential articles of the chriftian religion. We beg three days refpite to examine the primitive church, and compare them with the catholic of our days, and the proteftant churches. Adieu.

End of the Fourth Conference.

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offspring, read offerings.

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but the Lord, read but if the Lord. to the cry, read from the cry. for their wrath, read for wrath. for proved, read forbidding. for nice, read little. 25. for another, read others. for Meliah, read mission. for latter, read letter.

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I have, read I would have.

FIFTH CONFERENCE.

To Mofes our moft Reverend Brother, greeting, Luther and Calvin beg a fifth conference to conclude what is moft praife-worthy: Farewel.

Mofes will enter, and conclude, with Meffrs. Luther and Calvin, the fifth fpiritual conference to-morrow, at 10 in the morning, the ufual time: Adieu.

Am at your fervice, as appointed.

Mofes. I Luth. & Caly. The calipatch: O death, where is your fting!

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Mof. O grave, where is your victory!
Luth. & Calv. The fting of death is fiu.
Mof. And the ftrength of fin is the law.

Luth. & Calu. It is a true faying, one man better fteal a horfe, than another look over the hedge.

Mof. When the feed is ftolen you shut the ftable-door.

Luth. & Calu. This is our cafe: but a hungry belly needs no faufe.

Mof. Your calipatch needed none.

Luth, & Calv. We die daily.

Mof. With making gods of your bellies. Luth. & Calv. The moft violent and pernicious fymptoms.

Mof. To die in the ads of gluttony, and difobedience.

Luth. & Calv. The mifery of loft fouls.

Mof. Who will not controul their appetites? Luth. & Calv. A new leffon to Parfons and elders.

Mof. Better late than never.

Luth. & Calu. Besides illness, we had scruples, Mof. I thought Proteftant fcruples never attacked them, but in the article of death.

Luth. & Calu. This we thought our cafe, and was upon the verge of fending for you. Mof I am neither Parfon nor Elder.

Luth & Calu. You raised our fcruples, and fhould allay them.

Mof. I did not prefcribe calipatch_nor calepa. Luth. & Calv. But you told us of the falt pf Lent and gluttony.

Mof. Your Common Prayer Book and Bible forewarned you.

Luth. The Common-Prayer is a dead letter, but your words are as two-edged fwords.

Calu. The word of the Spirit, that divides, and poisons the joints, and penetrates the mar

row.

Mof. Your confciences will fpeak more for

cible.

Luth. I have been a Parfon 50 years, and ne ver confidered confeffion neceffary for falvation. Calv. Neither I, until our reverend Brother opened our understanding.

Mof. Whofe fins you forgive, they are forgiven thefe are the words of your Meffiah. Luth. My Lord and my God.

Calv. In whom dwelleth infallibility.

Mof. Which he hath bequeathed to his cove

nant.

ture.

Luth. & Calu. We never will gainfay it in fuEufebius (thank you) with Cyprian, Auguftin, Jerom, and other fathers, and writings,

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have removed the veil, which our proteftant divines, and others, had blindfolded us with. That a Jew thould be our guide, fhews the finger of God conducts all things; and, with the weak things, confound the strong.

Mof. I hope, I have advanced nothing but what the primitive chriftians and fathers confirm. For if Luther, and Calvin's affertions against the old church, be true, the whole Scriptures must be falfe; fo that our Scriptures, delivered by God to Mofes 1450 years before Chrift, with all the prophefies, and promises, by the Prophets, and confirmed by an oath from almighty God to the Meffiah, and his covenant, (which you fay is Jefus Chrift and his Church) in our Scriptures, understood, teftified, and confirmed by yours, of their eternal union, happiness, joy, purity, infallibility and never-ending repofe; and that this church or covenant should be taught and kept pure and holy by God to the confummation of the world; I fay, if Luther and Calvin's affertion be true, that the Catholick Church erred, and brought in damnable doctrines, then all our religion is vain, and God almighty never spoke to man; Chrift and Mofes, our two lawgivers, must be of all men the most bafe, to palm, and cover, their doctrine under the fanction of almighty God. Whatever the errors, if any may be, they moit affuredly mult be authorised by Chrift; and, if fo, he is not the Meffiah of our Scripture: for Ifrael is affured, and the God of Ifrael has fworn, that our fecond covenant fhall remain perfect, holy, and obedient, in union with him, as long as the fun and moon endures. This is the covenant

God almighty has made, and is as prefent to the nation of the Jews, as I now fqueeze both your hands. (Mofes fqueezes their hands and weeps.)

Luth, & Caly. St. Cyprian, we obferve, was Bishop of Carthage, and Primate of all Africa, who was murdered for the Catholick religion 258 years after the birth of our Lord; he has fatisfied us in many articles of our faith, fuch as acknowledging Peter to be Prince, and Supreme Bifhop and Head of Chrift's Church, and fixes Peter's Chair in Rome, which he proves to be the centre of unity, that diffufes its rays throughout the whole earth, fo that its fupremacy knows no limits, deriving her power, miffin, and author rity, from her Divine Head, whofe fpouse she is, and in whom his foul is well pleased; he teaches, guides, inftructs, and confirms hen with the pleni ade of fpiritual bleflings, as the old Scripture which St Paul quotes: This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Ifrael, after thofe days, faith the Lord: I will give my law: into their minds, I will write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they fhall be my people. It astonishes us, how our firft proteftant fathers, Luther, Calvin, and others, that were brought up and trained in the Catholiek religion, and were well verfed in her faith, and had clofe connection and correfpondence with the Scriptures, fhould expofe thole very Scriptures, that makes the most folemn promises, bound by an oath on the part of almighty God, to preferve her pure, fpotlels, holy and free from error, that she hould be his body, his flesh and his bones, and himself her Head, and his Spirit her conductor,

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