the end they make this conclusion-Sed quomodo hoc fit, nescio, Deus scit.

DOCTOR DALE.

Dr. Dale, who was ambassador to Flanders from Queen Elizabeth, being engaged with some others in a negociation, a dispute arose concerning the language in which they should treat : the Spanish minister said that the French would be most proper, "because," said he, your mis"tress calls herself queen of France." "Nay "then," replied the doctor," let us treat in He"brew, since your master calls himself king of "Jerusalem."

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POSTHUMOUS EXCOMMUNICATION.

Two remarkable instances of bigotry are found in English history. Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, ordered the body of fair Rosamond to be turned out of the choir at Godstow, forgetting her penitence, and the claim, which upon his own principles, she had to all the benefits which that place could procure for her. Jeremy Collier, with a kindred spirit, has recorded this fact to the bishop's ho"This," he says, "was done like a man

nour.

" of conscience and courage! "primitive bishop, who was "sure vice, though under

This was like a not afraid to cenroyal protection."

The other case occurred during the same age of rampant prelacy. Boen Gwyurth, the king of South Wales, was buried at Bangor. During his son's reign, Baldwin, the archbishop of Canterbury, came there to preach the crusade, and seeing his tomb, he charged the bishop to remove the body out of the cathedral when he could find a fit opportunity," in regard that "archbishop Becket had excommunicated him "heretofore, because he had married his first "cousin, and that notwithstanding he had con"tinued to live with her till she died. The "bishop in obedience to his charge, made a "passage from the vault through the south wall "of the church underground, and so secretly "shoved the body into the church-yard." The question whether the dead are capable of being excommunicated or absolved, has been discussed hy Vigerius; the territory of the church, he says, is in this world, and the dead themselves are on the other side of the border; but as their bodies still remain within the church's jurisdiction, the right remains of conceding to them church burial, or depriving them of it. And in proof of this, St. Gothard once ordered all the excommunicated persons, who had been buried in his cathedral, to rise and walk out, which they accordingly did in the sight of the people.

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CARDINAL BELLARMIN.

Godeau, in his Eloge of Cardinal Bellarmin, gives the singular vow which he made when he had the prospect of the triple crown before him. The terms are as follow; "Friday, Sept. 24, "1614, at the convent of Novices, at St. An"drews, being employed in affairs of devotion, "after mature deliberation, during the sacrifice "of the mass, when I was about to receive our "Lord's body,, I made a vow to God in these "words; I, Robert Cardinal Bellarmin, a pro❝fessed member of the society of Jesus, vow to

Almighty God in the sight of the Blessed Vir"gin, and all the court of Heaven, that if I "shall happen to be raised to the see of Rome, "which I do not at all desire, and pray to God "that it may never happen, I will not advance "any one of my relations, by blood or marriage, "to the dignity of Cardinal, or to any temporal

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principality or dukedom, and to the honour of "count, or any other title, nor will enrich them, "but only assist them to live in their own proper "stations, with decency and ease. Amen. Amen.'

PAPAL BLASPHEMY.

The art of religious execration observed by Rome pagan, hath been kept up and improved by Rome Christian, where the holy pontiff and

his ecclessiastics denounce the most horrible, infamous, and profane curses against the disobedient, against schismatics and heretics, with all the pomp and grimace of paganism, and with the same efficacy and success. Their pagan

ancestors, to give them their due, were much more reasonable petitioners, and only desired that their enemies might be conquered; but these pious christians prayed for the eternal damnation of their adversaries, and devoutly hoped that their curses were ratified in heaven and in hell.

We shall now present to our readers a form of cursing employed formerly by these spiritual fathers against unquiet and untractable children, and have only to observe that of all the aberrations of the human mind, we defy any thing to be produced half so shocking.

"By command of the Father, Son, and Holy "Ghost, of the blessed Mary, mother of our "Lord Jesus Christ, of St. Michael, John the "Baptist, and of Peter and Paul, princes of the "Apostles, of St. Stephen and all the Martyrs, "of St. Silvester and all the confessors, of St. Aldegrend and all the holy Virgins, and of all "other saints whatsoever, both in heaven and "earth; we curse and cut off from the holy "mother, him, her, or them, that have (done so

"and so), or have known thereof, or have been

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advising, abetting, or assisting therein. Let "them be accursed in their houses, granaries, "beds, fields, lands, ways, country seats, towns, "and villages. Let them be accursed in the "woods, rivers, and churches; accursed in pleadings, trials, contentions and quarrels : "accursed in praying, speaking, and in silence; "in eating, drinking, and sleeping; in waking, "feeling, walking, standing, running, resting, "or riding; accursed in hearing, seeing, or 66 tasting; accursed in all their works. Let this

curse smite their heads, eyes, and their whole "bodies, from the crown of their head to the "sole of their feet. I conjure thee, Satan, and "all thy black guard, by the Father, Son, and "Holy Ghost, that ye do not rest day or night, "till ye have brought them both to temporal and "to eternal shame, whether it be by causing "them to be drowned, or hanged, or devoured "by wild beasts, or torn in pieces by vultures or

eagles, or burnt with fire, or murdered by their "enemies; make them odious to all creatures "living. Let their children be orphans, and their "wives widows; let no man relieve them from "this time forwards, nor have any compassion "for their fatherless children; and just as Luci"fer was driven out of heaven, and Adam banish