Calv. And the Lord thy God fhall raise you up a prophet like one of your brethren, him shall you bear and obey, and it shall come to pass, that every Joul that will not hear that prophet to do whatfoever be commandeth them, fhall be cut off from the people; and many other texts. But what has Luther to do with thefe fcriptures? they are the promises to Jefus Chrift and his church; fo that it is clear, when a man would fit in the chair of ftate, which he is not intitled to, how does he perplex and bewilder himself in a maze and labyrinth of abfurdities, and the most laughable conceits and contradictions? This is the cafe before us. Luther has no other means to confirm him in his arrogance and affumed authority of excommunicating and branding all who find it advifeable to separate from his communion, with the odious names of fchifmatics and heretics, but by taking to himself the fcriptures, which intereft is promised to Chrift and his church. Chrift inftituted Peter his vicar, and established him chief of the new covenant. Luther, like Cæfar, could not content himself with an equal, turns out Peter and feats himself in Peter's chair, in order to fhew his power and arrogance, and deal out excommunications as to him feems meet, against men far more fpiritual in the work of the miniftry, and better calculated for the chief feat or chair of Peter. For, as the old chriftianity forfeited their recognizances, it was proper that their vacant feats fhould have been bequeathed by the general voice of the congregation to men endowed with the fpirit, Such voice would

have placed Calvin in Peter's chair, to the general edification of the church.

Mof. Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah.

Luth. Your folly appears even in the contracted face of old Mofes.

Calv. It is your fhuffling, Luther, into Peter's chair and claiming the power which is promifed the Meffiah.

Mof. Your Pandemonium rivals, if poffible, your original; and you two, Punch and Harlequin, are the moft laughable figures, both in fhape and ftrange conceits and contradictonss that the earth ever produced. I am perfuaded neither believes the leaft of all the incoherent ftory you have been labouring at but to fatten and fill your carcafes, who are like a couple of fat fwine, at the cost of your blind and deluded parifhoners.

Luth. & Calv. You confider us as mal-contents, reftlefs hypocrites, and without good morals, and found principles, crafty, biaffing the ignorant, and plunging them into every vice and diabolical impiety.

Mof. Your protefting againft almighty God and his divine fcriptures marks your condemnation and reprobation.:

Luth. & Calv. We have taken both fcriptures into our poffeffion, bequeathed us by our ancestors, and are refolved to be valiant against all who dare gainfay us.

Mof. Your refolution is the reverse to your original ancestors, who quitted the religion of their ancestors, being Roman Catholics.

Calv.

Calv. They were idolaters and image-wor hippers.

Mof. What fay you, Luther? Your fociety and the church of England are not fo fqueamish. You are from London

Luth. Similitudes originate either from love or hatred, and produce the like effects. This we know both by public and private occurrences. A man that has rendered his country great fervices is immortalized by the justice he demands, and esteem of his country, to perpe tuate which his image is fet up to be refpected and transferred to future generations. England holds forth, in the Tower, her kings in armour on horfeback; alfo, her kings in the Royal Exchange; on St. Paul's, the Evangelift and many other holy images, with the Crofs on the top; by this teftifying her obedience, gratitude, and esteem for her fovereigns and religion. Near the door or portico are the memorials of queen Anne (whofe glorious wars are the boast of every British fubject) furrounded with many other emblematical figures; the glorious queen Elizabeth, near Temple-Bar, reminding her country of her great feats and conquering powers. On St. Dunstan's church, just by this great queen, are placed the image of that great faint, from whom the church bears the

name.

Mof. Who was this St. Dunstan? I never knew that the Reformation canonized.

curious to know.

I am

Luth. According to his life, he was a Roman Catholic, bishop of Canterbury, who died in

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988.

988. We fhall next vifit the great church of St. Peter, Weftminster Abbey, the common fepulchre of both catholics and proteftants. Here Calvin will, as he can place himself in fpirit, meet with every idolatry, both catholic and proteftant, from the prince to the beggar, idols of angels, men, women, children, beafts, birds, reptiles, Death, old Time, fhips, anchors, cables, arms of deftruction, both great and small, and many images, or emblematical allufions, too numerous to dwell upon, or a Calvinift's ftomach to contain. Obferve the mufcles of his face are contracted and drawn up to the fize and as white as an ego 90

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Mof. It must be the image of an egg, mean a cow's bladder, filled with lard, your medicine operates powerfully."

Luth. From the abbey I will next escort you through the towns and villages through England, &c. where you cannot ftep but fome of Calvin's idols forefink and imprefs their hideous forms on your mind. By thefe figures the different trades and fhop-keepers acquaint you in what line of bufinefs they are. I never was curious to take a trip either to Scotland, Geneva, Bofton in America, or any other Calviniftical jurifdiction.

Calv. humbly pray your excufe; but neceffity perfuades me to retire; I feel a large demand which cannot be withheld have you a privy?

Luth. Turn to your left, where you will meet with due fatisfaction; but I hope not with the difafter poor Arius experienced in Conftantinople,

tinople, where he was escorted by his friends in triumph, where he had a lift, and going into a privy, his harfler, or bowels, fell out at his fundament, where he was found a lifelefs, empty trunk. He feems to be the original of the Calviniftical herefy. This was in the reign of Conftantine the Great, and was the chief caufe of the council of Nice.

Mof. What charge lay against him? ་ Luth. Denying the divinity of our Redeemer,

which is a tenet of Calvinifm.

Mof. What were the number of the council? Luth. Upwards of 300 bishops and fathers of the priesthood both from the Roman and Perfian empires, in the year 300 and odd, when the Nicene creed was fet forth, and a little time after St. Athanafius's, which have ever fince with the apostles been confidered and held in equal efteem and veneration, both by catholics and proteftants, as the other fcriptures.

Mof. By what bishops and fathers was this Council compofed?

Luth. Chriftians, without doubt.
Mof. What chriftians?

Lutb. Roman eatholics, in communion with the Roman Pontiff, Pope Sylvefter.

Mof. You think Arius was a Calvinian pro teftant and his affociates, &c.

Luth. There is not the leaft doubt, and we, with the council and church, through all ages, excommunicate and reject all heretics and difturbers of the chriftian peace.