have removed the weil, which-qur, protestant divines, and others, hash 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 Itrong.T 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, muft be falfe. fo that our Scriptures, delivered by God to Mofes 1450 years before Chrift, with all the prophefies, and promifes, 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 repose; and that this church or covenant fhould 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 fpoke to man; Chrift and Mofes, our two lawgivers, mutt -be of all men the most base, to palni, and cover, their drine under the fanction of almighty God. Whatever the errors, if any may be, they moit affuredly must be authorised by Chrift; and, if fo, cheriso not the Meffiah of our Scripture: for Ifrael is affured, and the God of Ifrael has fworn, -Urbar que lecond covenant hall remain perfect, -holy, and obedient, in union with him, as long as the fun and moon endures, This is the covenant Sved V A 2 God God almighty has made, and is as prefent to the nation of the Jews, as I now fquedze both your hands. (Mofes fqueezes their hands and weeps!) Luth. & Calv. 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, fuchras 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, million, and authority, from her Divine Head, whofe spouse she is, and in whom his foul is well pleased; he teaches, guides, inftructs, and confirms her with the plenttude of fpiritual bleffings, as the old Scripture' which St Paul quotes: This is the covenant which I will make with the houfe of Ifracl, after thole 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 shall be my people. It aftonishes us, how our first protestant #fathers, Luther, Calvin, and others, that were brought up and trained in the Catholick religion, and were well verfed in her faith, and had clofe connection and correfpondence with the Scriptures, fhould expofe thofe very Scriptures, that makes the moft folemn promifes, bound by an oath on the part of almighty God, to preferve her pure, fpotlels, holy and free from error, that the hould be his body, his flefh and his bones, and himfelf her Head, and his Spirit her conductor, " and and faithful guide to the end of the world, to be feen and made ufe of by their followers, when they might in every chapter read their own condemnation Mof. But it is more aftonifhing, that, you can mifreprefent a facred character, and charge her in the face of the fun, I will not fay God, as the major part, I fear, believe there is none, with the molt diabolical, and blackeft infamy, that even hell, if poffible, would blufh at, at the fame time spretend to preach up the fame God, who has dworn to preserve, and keep her undefiled. It would have been more eligible, when you quitted the ftandard of chriftianity, finding, as you endea voured to perfuade the world, that almighty God had broke his oath, and his darling fpoufe had jilted him, and become the vileft prostitute, for your to have formed a fyftem of religion upon fome other bafis. Mahomet, I will grant you, has been beforehand of you, or you could have acted his part, in making use of the Prophet, which our Lawgiver has foretold fhall arife, to whom we are to adhere, which would not have been quite fo bare-faced as to reprobate your God, Church, Scriptures, and totally all truth. Luth & Calv. What you obferve bears fo much, according to the Scriptures and primitive Church, the face of truth; but no doubt the first Reformers, who knew the truth, but being anxiously fond of a depraved, vitious, and wicked life, found themselves preffed to give a loose, in order to appeafe nature in its higheft flights, which they willing to palliate and cover their own infamy, by cafting the most unheard of contra dictions dictions and blafphemies againft Chrift and his Church; they, I lay are the greater criminals, but as to us deluded mortals, that are to w mortals, that are to unfortunate as to be hatched in their neft, receiving and imbibing, from the fitft dawn of reason, their pernicious impreffions on our infant minds, which Ram grace nothing lefs than a fingular and can irradiate and efface,ne. S Mof. Your Meffiah fhall answer you by his gospel: The blind lead the blind, and both fall into the ditch; and you cannot plead ignorance, as your Saviour tells you, for your boaft is of your knowledge of the Scriptures, in which which you think you have eternal life, and it is the Scripis pletenih spos tures that effablishes, and confirms, both the pr pro mises to Chrift aud his Church, with their eternal Chriftused -3317510 union. anew, loodɔl,isdav we Luth. & Calu. We have agreed. and the Scripture affures us of the infallibility of the new covenant, or church of Christ, but we afe ignorant in what manner it confifts, and in whom it is lodged, whether in St. Peter and his fucceffors, or in the Priesthood-in general, or in the whole body, Chrift being the Head Us Proteftants teach and are taught, that the Pope is the God of the Catholicks, and that they confider and believe him to be infallible, and that he is not capable of fin. Mof. Call in that boy, who is a papift; he isa lad that may give us fome farther knowledge. Boy. blob od J.M. Boy. Your will, Gentlemen. Luth. Iuth. Calo. Will you answer a few quetions? Bay, Concerning what matter? Luth. & Calv. Some points or articles of your religion. Boy. It firft will be neceffary to know my Examiners. Tuth. I am a Parson of the Church of EngJand. Calu. I am an Elder of the Kirk of Scotland. Mof. And I an Ifraelite, or Jew Rabbi. Boy, I ftand, as Chrift, before an unmerciful tribunal; and therefore, for the honour of truth, two Notaries, to take down our words, as d delt vered, to prevent mifreprefentations, to the dif honour of Chrift. T Enter two Notaries. Being feated. Luth. & Calu. In what fchool were you infucted? Boy, In the fchool of Chrift. Mof. How many Gods have you? of usin Boy One ol, Lyth, & Calu. The Pópe, a ni vuri Boy. This reminds me of your two unhappy progenitors, poor Luther and Calvin, with their never to be too much lamented offspring, who have lopped themfelves off from Chrift, and his church, and become heathens and publicans... Luth, & Calv. From whence got you this information Poland ? f 05 20 Boy. From the God you abandoned. Euth. |