covenant, with Almighty God, which we can, at all times, produce, on which chriftianity depends and receives its life. On the contrary, herefies, as we proved in our other conferences, have no affinity or relationship, but are aliens and strangers to the covenants.

Luther. What you both observe are grounded and immoveably fixed on both fcriptures and creeds; One, Holy, Catholic and Apoftolic Church. This is the blast my refolution, determination and mental reservation is fixed and resolved upon; at my return to England immediately to found the laft Trump, which shall be the Thunder of Heaven, that will rend the rocks, change the ocean into foam, pierce the lower Hell, and fet all nature aghast, dying with horror and dismay, not knowing the result of the General Decree, which shall be to erase every Scotch or kirk tenet from our Holy Scriptures, Common-prayer Book, and all books, fo that no relic or story shall squeek Calvinism, or any Diffenter, Non-juror, Schifmatic, or heretic whatsoever, within my metropolitan jurifdiction; every hair shall stand stiff an end until peace and truth be restored to the church. the Roast Beef of Old England, and O the Old English Roast Beef.

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Boy. Thirty-fifth chapter of Ifaiah. wilderness and the folitary place shall be glad for them, and the defert shall rejoice and bloffom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and finging; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory

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glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees; fay to them that are of a fearful heart, bestrong: fear not: behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped; the lame man shall leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb fing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the defert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes. And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness: the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the Redeemed shall walk there. And the ranfomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness: and forrow and fighing shall flee away."

Mofes. Here the prophet lays before us the blessings of the new covenant that our God will make with Ifrael, His Power and Magnificence, the most glorious reign of our Meffiah; he must and will fulfil his promises to His people whom himself has chofen; a day to Him is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, the God of armies will bring infinite. bleffings

blessings and comforts to the loft sheep of Ifrael.

Luther. But, reverend fir, don't you observe that the prophet marks out the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apoftolic Church, which is the Highway, that fools shall not err, in which no lion, or other ravenous beast, Calvinist, Papist, Anabaptist, Quaker, Mahometan, Jew, Pagan, Free-thinker, Materialist, or Stranger, shall enter or be foffered to peep his deadly and unmeaning face; but this pasture shall be for the fole use of our flock, the fold of Chrift. We enjoy an everlasting banquet, and filled with every enjoyment, compared to a man sitting under his fig-tree, wallowing in milk and honey, the interpretation is, our hearts are brimfull, fhook together and running over with exultation and never-ending Jubilation. Amen.

She is fat, she is plump,
I will tickle her rump,
The only lafs for me.

I crave pardon of your reverence, but being over-ruled by the spirit, I broke forth and intoned the aforesaid folocifm, which, or fome other ejaculation, frequently gorge and burst from the fullness of the heart and impetuosity of the fpirit. The canticles of Sion are stronger than death, and sweeter than the honey-comb. Ob! who will give me the wings of the dove, That I may repose in the arms of love? O, Rachel. Rachel, you darling creature, Love's prize; I die for every feature.

So be it.

Moses.

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Moses. The ranfomed of the Lord shall return to Zion with fongs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness; and forrow and fighing shall flee away; this promise remains to everlasting. O long wished-for return.

Boy, You will allow, with the prophet, that your Meffiah was to appear at the time of Jesus Chrift.

Mofes. In this both Jews and Gentiles agree. Boy. You will agree that he was to confirm his covenant with many for one week, and in the middle of the week he should cause the facrifice and the oblation to cease.

Luther. This lad speaks abstrusely, mystically, and what can neither be gainsaid or understood. I often broke my brains at this school of mysteries, but never could make any hand of it, and so I gave it over; it often detained me in bed in a morning ruminating and breakfasting; turning, and falling asleep; fo that the whole day passed in a mift.

Moses. We observe you never made any great progress in the truths of scripture or you would not remain in an unmeaning religion or falfeperfuafion, purely because you received your instruction in such school. How often has it been proved to your conviction that you are in the school of heresy, and confequently in a deplorable state, during our conferences; yet, your defire is, to return to England, and even affume the chief chair.

Luth. O Tillotson, Tillotson, you arch wag, how natural is it for the fons of the prophets o pro. prophefy; even so by hereditary claim and furvivorship, should one relation inherit another's honours and emoluments, either in church or state. Oh, the honours of my dancing days, the fupreme chair, the centre of spiritual ple nitude. As the scriptures well observe, I will not give my glory to another.

Boy. And in the middle of the week he shall cause the facrifice and oblation to ceafe.

Mofes. Taken each day for a year, three years is the time prophefied from the date of the mission when the facrifices and oblation was to cease; but our facrifices and oblations continued forty years after the death of your Messiah.

Boy. Jesus Christ entered on his mission at the age of thirty, and was cut off at the age of thirty-three; which, as you explain, the prophecy exactly agree, and as the fame prophecy tells us, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. Is this plainly foretold that He was to be put to death, but not for Himself? if not for Himself, he must die for others, which correspond with the decifion of Caiphas, your high-priest, that passed the fentence of death upon Jesus Christ, in these words: It is expedient that one man die, and the nation perish not; that is, not only Jews, but together in one, the children of the new covenant dispersed in all nations, both Jews and Gentiles.

Moses. What you advance perfectly agrees with the scripture prophecies; but the ceasing of the facrifices and other parts of the Jewish worship, in three years after the death of Jesus,