But then for the City Buz, how cred, the Woman having folemn is that conceivable without fpea-ly promis'd in the prefence of God, king? O, very eafie: Do but, for To obey him, ferve him, love, an Experiment, ftop all the mouths" honour and keep him, in fickaforefaid, in the Courts aforefaid," nefs and in health, and for and yet we'll pawn our Rep. up" faking all other, keep her only on't, you fhall hear a Noife and a "to him as long they both Buzzing ftill. There's the Law-fhould live.

yers Gowns, the Ladies Petticoats, Q. A Gentleman making his the Fish-wives Baskets, which Addreffes to a young Woman, was would fupply the Place and Office well received both by her and her of the Bees Wings, to fay nothing Parents, and on her Defire proof the Motion of their Feet and mifed her Marriage, if her InHands, the melancholy Sigh of rents would confent to it; but foon the poor Client, when, it may be, after his Pafion fo far over-rul'd the Caufe and the Lawyer both him, that he made her an abfolute go against him, and the fagacious Promife. At length the young Hum of fome Reverend Coif, Gentlewoman was fent to the difputing Law through the Nofe, Boarding-School, and not long afas if Dame Aftraa were dumb, as ter, the Gentleman began to treat well as blind: All thefe together with her Parents concerning her will make fuch a Noife as you can't Fortune, who would not answer imagine, though they are fcarce bis Defires, though very reafonaconfiderable in themfelves. Nay, ble, nor fo much as confent that we are apt to believe, fhould all he should marry him, till a cononelt Citizens refolve together fiderable time after; on which n one Moment of Time, at a he began to be cold in the Matter; ignal given, only to kifs their and his Circumstances being fuch, Vives, there would be fuch a long that if he had staid fo long a time univerfal Umph! -rais'd up- as they appointed, he was in dann it, as might be heard, for ought ger to have been ruined. At the ve know, beyond Highgate. fame time it happened the GenQ. A Perfon being fome time tleman had an Offer of a more nse married to a Young Woman, confiderable Fortune, and writ to ut not bedded, she did after mar- his Parents concerning it, ftating iage, folemnly promife, that he'd the Cafe as it really was; on ever alter what she had done; which they advised him to quit ut at a certain time come and the former and embrace the "Ofve with him. The Time appoin-fer of the latter; which he aced is now come, but her Mind cordingly did, and was married fo changed, that he declares to her: Since which the other has e'll never come near him: Qgiven out: That would he have Whether he can do this law-itaid he should have had more y? than his Demands. The Question

4. No, doubtlefs, neither by the is, Whether he did not err în Laws of God nor Man; the ftrong marrying the Second, when he ords having pafs'd between 'em, had fo abfolutely promifed the firft, nd a Contract both Civil and Sa-concerning which he is now exHh 2 ceedingly

ceedingly troubled, and defires your Fudgment concerning his Ation, and Directions how he should now behave himself, with Scriptureproofs for all you affert.

the matter. However, it looks fulpicious, that the weightiest motive to the Gent. changing his affections, was, that he apprehen

ded his fecond Miftrefs had a better Fortune than the former. The only thing that can almost excuse him, is what he pleads (that he had been in danger of Ruine, had he ftaied unmarried till the time appointed) but the Question still is, how great that danger was, and whether true, and real, or in his own Fancy only? If real, it would have excused his Marrying the fecond, fuppofing he had at

4. The last demand is unreafonible, and is fcarce now expected even by the wildeft Enthufiafts in matters of Religion, much less in the common concerns of Life, we being left to the Conduct of our own Reafon,and general Notions of Juft and Right in those matters: Orif Revelation is any way concerned, 'tis only by giving general Rules of Prudence, Truth and Justice, all which the Gentle-first ufed all his endeavours to obman feems to have broken, and tain the firit, and had been quite therefore can only fet himself right defperate of fucceeding. again by Repentance, and asking could his Parents confent or repardon for his Error, both from fufal, vacate his first absolute proGod and the injured Perfon. In- mile. Yet after all, it must be deed he has made feveral falfe confefs'd it looks well to be troufteps in the whole Affair, where- bled for an ill thing, even when it in he can't be excufed from great can't be remedied, especially in an Rathnefs and Imprudence. He did Age when fuch as call, or fwear not well in beginning a bufinefs of themselves Lovers, are so ready to that moment, without his Parents laugh at their own Perjuries (and Content and Advice, at least their think that Heaven will do the Permiffion. He did yet worse, fame) when they have no Temptain making fuch an abfolute Pro- tion but Variety, to fo base a Sin inile,whereby he ensnar'd himself, All the Gentleman can do in the and brought the prefent trouble on Prefent Cale is, as we have before his mind. He again did ill in be- advised, to ask God pardon for ing to very hafty with the Parents his Difobedience, Rafhnefs and of his former Mirefs, who being, Unfaithfulness,and the Perfons init fhould feem, very young (by jured for his Inconftancy and Faltheir lending her to a Boarding-bood. But not further we think School) the old Folks, 'tis like, to disturb his Mind, or make his thought it more prudence to de- Life uneafie: Sure enough, this lay her Marriage fome time lon- Marriage holdsgood,now 'tis done, ger, at leaft might expect the though we think he ought not to content of his Parents, and that have done it. they themselves should move in

MEthinks the Hour is come,

The Hour that goes before my Doom;

My Doom that ever fhall abide.

Methinks my Pulfe is low,

And my Breath quick hafting to go,

And my poor Friends ftand grieving by my fide.

Methinks my Heart is weak,

Surcharg'd with Pain, ready to break; Methinks my Eyes are fixed in my head,

Looking, but knowing none,

And fcarce my felf by Standers by am known:

My Hands and Feet are ftark, and other Parts are dead.

Methinks Death's Door is ope'

And in I must, there is no Hope:

Fain would they ftay me, but I give a Groan,
I give my Farewel-figh,

And like a Clod of Earth I lie,

At which, agaft they cry, He's gone, he's gone.

Methinks I am cold Clay,

Which in the dark deep Earth they lay,

Where I obfcurely melt, and am not seen,

till one dig up the Stones,

And asks, whofe Skull is this, whofe are thefe Bones?

And now I am, as if I ne'er had been.

Thefe Stories pierce my Heart,

Like a black Sentence, like a Dart.

Canft bear it? Yes, I hear my Lord was dead;

And in a Rock was lain,

Whofe Death makes mine both Life and Gain,

Whofe Grave turns maine into a Rofie-bed,

Q. I requeft Gentlemen, that you'd he pleafed to reconcile the feeming Contradictions in the four Evangelifts about the fuffering of our Saviour?

that none of the Evangelifs but St. Mark has precifely obferved. So that these Words, Now it was the third hour, ought to be confidered as a Parenthefis which relates to what preceded ; as ifthe

lated their Accufations against our Saviour, and the Sentence, that Pilate pronounced upon him before

was the confequence of it, defigned to speak of the time in which Jefus was brought before the Governour. 'Tis, by a like method, that the fame Evangelift concludes the Crucifixion, v. 33. Now the fixth hour being come, there was Darkness over the whole Land until the ninth bour. As this Expreffion did not fignifie, that the Crucifixion and all the Circumftances of it, which St. Mark hat related, were paffed before the fixth hour; but on the contrary, that they began at that time: Sc

A. They all Four agree in the principal Circumftances of this Hi-Sacred Hiftorian, after having retory,exceptone, wherein St. Mark and St. John, feem differently to relate the time of his Crucifixion. They unanimously fay, that dark-he paffed to the Crucifixion, which nefs covered the whole Earth,from the fixth hour until the ninth hour, during which time theSaviour of the World was nailed to the Crofs. But St. John fays, 'twas about the fixth hour, weg worm that Pilate was ftill fitting upon his Tribunal, and faid, after having fcourged Jefus with Rods, Behold your King, 19. 14. and St. Mark 15. 25. Now it was the the third bour xai esaufwoas aurdy and they Crucified bim. We might here make fome remarks upon the Original and Invention of hours, of their Divifion into four Quar-thefe Words, Now it was the the ters, of three hours each, into hour, that our Evangelift speaks. double hours, fix of which made after having given the Hiftory of a day; upon the four Watches the Jews Procefs against Jets of the Night, and the common Di- Chrift, fignifies, that he entered at vifion of the Day into Morning, the ninth hour in the Morning: Noon, and Evening; and of the And it was about the ninth hour manner of beginning the day, and that the Romans used to give Aucounting the hours amongst the dience. And in refpect to St. John's Jews, but that the Digreffion manner of fpeaking, That it was would be too tedious for this about the fixth hour when Pilate place; and therefore we fhall o-faid to the Jews, Behold your King, mit it, and endeavour to reconcile them in as brief Terms as we can. The Jews affembled early in the Morning to confult how they might destroy Jefus, and re-although it be but a little pant folved in this Affembly to accufe Eleven or near one; and in the him before the Governour. And fpace of near two hours, many this Accufation was made at the things might pass, third hour, or at the ninth in the Morning, which is a Circumstance

we think no one can make any difficulty of it, fince every one knows, that in our vulgar Language we fay, it is about Noom,

Q. I

Q. Is the Caufe of the Wind Circumftances are agreable, and the Motion of the Planets? Or your Fortune proportionable to doth it rife out of the Earth, ashers, why not your felf; for we fome hold? won't speak a Word for ye.

4. Our Saviour who knew Nature well enough, has told us, we know not whence it comes, nor whither it goes. The Sun is certainly the Caufe of the Planets Motions.

Q. How doth Sound fo fwiftly run through each Particle of a Bell the fame Inftant of Time that the Clapper hits the Side? Is Sound a Body, any more than the Flame, or a Flash of Powder, &c.

4. By Reafon of the Contiguity of Matter. Sound is no Body, but Air fo and fo modified, and put into such and fuch different Motions, which are as well diftinguishable by the Ear, as Taites by the Palate.

Q. Is there, do you think, fo large a Part of the World ftill to difcover, as America?

A. Yes.

Q. I've for a confiderable time had a very pafionate Love for a Gentlewoman that lives near me, but never yet had the Happiness of her Converfation, he having very precife Parents: My Defire is, you'd advife me how I may come to Speak with her, and make a Declaration of my Love?

Q. What Ufe did the Jews put Swine to in our Saviour's Time, fince they were forbidden by the Law to eat them?

A. They fcarce fheer'd 'em (as good St. Bennet feems to have done, by the Worshipful Sirname they give him). It's likely therefore they fold 'em to other Nations; though Dr. Hammond affirms thole People of Gadars were a mixt Nation, the greatest Part Syrians, not Jews, as Fofephus de Bello Fudaico, being numbered by him, among the Grecian Cities which Pompey took away from the Jews. And this is the Opinión of Conftant. L' Emperour, and most others. Though it feems it was ufual for Swine to be fed even by the Jews themfelves; otherwise there had been no need of fo many Canons and Laws, in the latter Ages of that Commonwealth, to restrain 'em from it; and 'twas befides a thing of ill Fame amongîtthem, and an Ufurer and Swine-Merchant, were, it feems, Names of equal Reproach. A greater Difficulty still remains in this Story; Why our Saviour should let the Devils do fo much Mischief, he being not wonted to work any de

4. How fhou'd you? Go over and ask the Old Folks leave,who ten to one have more Wit thanftructive Miracles? We answer, you; or elfe they han't liv'd to much purpofe. You fay they are precife, and it may be they think you extravagant, with more Reafon: But let 'em be as precife as they will, there's no doubt but they'd be glad of a good Match for their Daughter ; and if you have a good Character, if your

He did but fuffer them to do this Mischief, as God himself fometimes lets loose both wicked Spirits and wicked Men, for the wife Eads of his Providence: And the End here was a jutt Punishment of these Gadarenes ; not lo much, we fuppofe, for their keeping thofe Swine, they being most of 11 h 4

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