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Britifli Apollo :

ContainJng Two Thouland

ANSWERS

TO cu R laus

QUESTIONS

1 N MOST

ARTS and SCIENCES^

Scriousy Comical, and Humorous,

Approved oiF

By many of the Moft Ldtraed and Inge-
nious o£ hoihUniverfitieSy and of ihc
RoyahSasiety.

PerfwrnCd hy a Society of Gentlemen.

V O L. III.

The Third Epition-

L N D N:

Prftitcd for Theodore Sanders, at
the Bell in Little Britain , and Sold by

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(i.'lT TH51HER th. Mdvki if Gamaliel (Ads iil)

i W ''^ reUtm to ih9 Aptfiiet^ mi the rtUgion thty

iMuiht^ ife not a good ^rptment in bthMf if tho Mahu-

^ ipecan rpligioft, whkh has maJe/o groAt « frogftfu ^d

' bad fi long a dm0tm in the vitld i

A» Gdfftaliel&w, that the cbriflian religion was
|>ropagace4 by fuch unequal agents, fuch weak, Cacb

(3 feeble mftruments C^bo had uabeard of diiadvan-
stages to ilruggle with, both with regard to the na-
.ture of tbf do^bine taught, and the powerful adver-
iarics that oppqaM it) that he prudently concluded,
that a religion fb ftrangely circumilantiated,. cou'd
jkt^en ^aki^ Credit is' the worlds ualefs oiiracuIoDfly
Supported .by a. power divine. But this bears no tnatf»
jier of. analogy* to the U»homxt«n imppfture \ frhiah
ipread fo far by tire power of the prevailing fword.
and was of a nature politickly tccoffiOBodaCcd tofiejh
md Moody ' - .

Q^ WhfitH tho.reafoH and uft of the cohmmof figmoo
in iho calenders of Common* Prayer* Bootks^- S^si^ tho
iisyi.rf tiff mofithi f ' . . .

«^v Tbe cehifM fpecified is composed out o^ thie
goLdeU; |>ua)b^, ,or cydc of t^e mooa» which i& a
rfvolutton of niiieieen years: .And therefore ycxiin^j
^hCcMve,, that .there is no number in the ^column ex>
y9U IIU H b cev'ding

6sfS The British Apollo.

ceeding nineteen. As often as that revolution is per-
Ibrm'd, the new mocftis, the full moons, and all the
other configurations of the moon return to the (ame
folar day. It therefore you obfcrve, what day of any
month the moon changes, you may conclude, that
upon the expiration of nineteen years» the moon will
change on the very fame day of the month. And
therefore by the column you may know, on what
day in any month the moon changes. For when you
have got the golden number for the year, look for
that number in the column of the month, you dc-
(ign i and the day of the month the faid golden num-
ber is affix'd to, is the time oi the moon's changing.
And therefore, if any refcrve this paper, they may
knoVir the changes of the moon, not only prefent»
hot for an hundred, or any number of years to come.
For if you know the golden number ( whvh. every
almanaek will tell you ) you may eafiiy find out the
faid number for any year to come by proceeding to
nineteen, and from thence back to an Unite, ind fo
on till you come to the year yoadefign. And when
you have got the golden number for the year intend*
cd you muft app^y it by the foremention'd rule.

Q^ I obftrveyou art 9f opinmt $hat ibe earth has «
Jou^ motion^ viz. Om rem J its own axis m 24 hettrs^
and thi ether, through the- twelve figns m %6f dtyst or
thereabmtt. '''•-,

Thefirfi I can et^fy eoiiteh/e; best th4 'tnttui f^fHtxts
fne : Fer I canmt undirftand hew the et^th in its knrmal
eneeim flmdd make fueh a ce*i(uUfaHe incliaMtm^'te ^he
fm^ and (none that can he ferceix/d) te the fixed Jlar^

A. The objedlotf will readily vaniih, \^ you coitiiider,
the fixM (hrs are fo vaftly diftant from the earth,
that they cannot exert ib attra6^ive an influence, as
to determine the Motion ^i the e^rth from that di^
jt€t motion, which the great Creator mny at fb-f^ be
'itippos'd ro have imparted to it. Fovtho^ inhiial wo-
tion of the earth is a miit*c^ motion, <comp<js'd of 4
right, line motion, -and a tendency towards' the fan«
jl^ere \x not for the forma*, the earth wou'd move

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TJ&^British Apollo. 699

dlrcaiy to the fun. and wc (hoa'd be burnt up wfth
heat. Were it not for the latter, k wou'd be conti.
nuaO/ moving to a greater diAance froin the fun.
and wc (houd be frozen up with cold. But thefe
two different motJons fo determine each other, that
wc hipptlj enjoy a delightful medium. MmM^ w
#^ w*/. O Urdi m wifdom baft thm m^ thm bU.
Q^ re fins of the Bntifh Apollo,,
ffhtmfi manjf wife mm dofQU§9,
Tray teil m the nafm,
Why agumft a wh fiafim,
S^ lav d^hJi^th$f»^9 i
U. The ma, which the fwallows derour
Dcfcend, when in clouda hangs a fliower.
And that is the rcafon.
Why near a wet fcaibn.
The fWallow direfts her flight lower.
Qt W€fimy\a UttiT /' other day.
As 90 wtro motftening ostr eUy,
Sot touching matttr fh/io/ofhic.
Or any other foarmg. topic j
Btst an odd faying, that's fo very
Cttmnt 'fnongfi sfs when we're merty j
Highly conceiting there woteld follow
Solsaion, by tho^uxt Apollo i
Btti difafffomted ef that fUafs^e,
Wheth&r thro' left, or warn of Uifiiro^
We ftiU addrrfs, in f anguine hofo
To will not Ut the, ^Jflm drop j
But compliment us hmeft fellows, ^

Jind the original meaning tell us. L

Of finging old rofe and burning the bellows. \

-A Your ditty, merry fellews, know.
Came to our hands ten days ago :
But then our brains ilpod mathematic.
And all our flightis were moft extatic.
Till now, like you, our elay we moifien.
And fi> by chanpc, your qucftioi) hoiftin.
An anfwer then, wc*ll gi?e you> very
True an't plcafe yc. Sirs, aiid mrry»

H h a' jiigh^

> yoo The British Apollo*

Bighfy conurting ihtxt V9i\\ foWow

Thanks lo your faithlu^friend APOLLO.

In good King S$ifhin"$ dd^ys; the RAM,

An umiemAnn at WOTTINGHAM,

Was kept as our wife father knolV5»

By a hriskfemAle caiJ'd OLD ROSE j

Mai>y like you, who hated thmkinj;

On any other thefne but drmkingt

Met there, d' ye fees ra fimguine hope»

To kifs their landlady, and /^^^ ;

But one crofs night, 'mongft twenty ^ther » . .

The fire burnt not, without great fotkttM

Till ROSE, at laft, began toy^«f.

And the mU bUtdes^ to dft^ue and fffing 3

So, by their exercifk and kiffes^

They grew as warm^9& i^rt theff l^fhes s

When [coming fire, the JOLLY FELLOWS

CryU SiNG OLD ROSE, AND ^roRN tHE

BELLOWS.
This is our attfwer to your- letter. ^

Which if yoB like not, find a k?tfer^

Q. Vardm, bright opfmg of i^ fire fti^Omt^
Pardon young Th<k)dorV unwary erime^
My folly has with lively grief vffreft
Idf tender foul* and Irft no f^ce for r^
I fight Vve offended him I lovt, • -

let my flowing tears your ftty mote i'- '
Mxcufe the fault, 'twas virgin modtfiy, .
Jhat forced the fuit^ th' unhttffy fuit for mt,

1 hope your love admits of no delay , '- -^
Milfi miners too vigorous grown to fear decays

IZXttf rather adds unto my chttft defiresp
Xtfis rather adds unto my purer fires :
Smile on your captive with a fkafing ray, .
And then III name the place and hafpy day,

Theodera,
A, Whilft Iheodora thus in vaik «<!onceals
Htr felf in vam her paffion 0ie reveaJs ;
Apollo now his brightcftriysj^rs on, • « .^ ^

^d Jmiles all da/, lijut mull at nigbt be gone,

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No fiioftal infiaeocc can his preftnce ftay^
Each may caii this, but none the next, their dty*
No more frocNtfimtum then,*^but fhew
The mffitty, or bid the God, w<^>«.

X&0 EptMfh of His BjyAl Highnefs, the hte Princb
George of Denmark.

Hire IJiSf

WHO, Ihall I fay ? No namt can fuit his praiie s
May tliey the kfmnl give who claim the ^j/s.
Ta' mdalgeat i99J(/?«r bw-e lb mr/^ a (Way,
His firvanfi thought it empirt to «^«jr.
The hmhand rulM fb ttfi^/ of ooify Ari^f*
ThefifVtreign cou'd not overlook the «//f.
Nor did /;^ huskand overlook tht ^^uem:
A Utrzxigtij wingUd, y tt z tmnefal iccwt,
Wat wifdam greeted ineffettfivi l9ve ;
The firptat tempcr'd by the galiefs dovt,
Stptttnefs and gfoadeur with fuch luib-e (hone,
Vsk'htm the bttnded couple made but ONE.
To6^4M;'» with wondrous fteadtnefs inclia'd.
He drew the pt£hirQ of his c9npn\ mind*
To firti thr r::rr;;r;, Woithcr muit we roam ?
Ill ir»r a LYON, but a LAMB at imnt.
When bravely he the Svtdtjh troops difoiay'd.
The hrother and thefubjeSi he difpiay'd, ^
When TUimJk v»lour did with BELGICk join.
We view*d SCAMANDER in the fr^hrcd BOYN. .
'the Boyn that RtyifH with heliconiaa ^-eams*
And iavilhty tafpires poecick themes.
JSknMitrk h\$yemi^9A dofSi the beefier part
Ow happy rfie ^but BOTH enjoy 'd his HEART.
In Bf4iam'% \6nt he had fo la^ge a (hare
A% tho' htfirfl had br«afth'd Arir^mirii; ah*.
Each hsA hk love, the gretu «^/, and the fmaU,
And yet to ANNA he bequcath'd his tUL
Does chilly fpice the teeth of time controul f
WpV'pcfcioufly eiisbilm*d in ANN A's /ml.
Doe j mdrtie blazon the fipsdchrttl womb f
F^fhe is HIS tnem(m»f> t^ht world HIS temi*

H h 3 Qi »«!•

yoz !the British Apollo.

Q. HMving an aequMntanfe with a l^dy^ who ftfpfi^
in m rtfotution of aSjiMining from things ftfMgUdt okeymg
the command in « Istiml fmfi, NotwithJUnding fome
arguments ufedt tho* not in her opinion fnficisnt to prove
her zeal [uperjiitious j therefore would defire you to lend
( I would fay, hut that I fljali never be aUe to repay)
fame of your cogent reafons, which no doubt but will con"
vince her^ and bo of fubUck ufo^ her difiemfer being to0
epidemical,

A. Hiving another qucftion by us concerning ab*
Ainence from blood (as in the ufe of black pudding.%
and the like) .as well as from things ftrangled, we
fhall take this occafion to give a folueion of them
both, iince an objcdion may be Parted to the one».
.which is no ways applicable to the other.

But we mud obferve, that the Lady very properly
underfiands the injun^lion in a literal ienik, tho'
yet (he is under no obligation of obeying it. For if
fo plain and eafie a paffage ( for the command is gvrttit
in the method of a flatare law» where figures are
never us'd) may be evaded by a metaphor* we mtf
'drpouJld away the whole volume, of the Scriptnret,.
and give a looie to the molt ezcrava^tffu Optnionr,.
But we beg leave to propo(e the (ireis of the ob«
jedion, that a folution may be given with the grea*
ter clearnefs.

The prohibition ii a Chriftiao, not a Jewiih Law i
rna^ed by the great apo0olical council at ytmfaUm^
under the direSion of the Holy Ghoft : It fetmeth
good, faith St. j^atnes the prefideot of the council, /#
thi Hofy Ghofi and to m i and fo on : The probibitioa
vras impos'd, not upon Jewiflu but Gentile Con-
verts i impos'd upon men, who were usder no ob-
ligation to the Jewifli Ceremonies.

But ia anfwer to thil plaufible obje^ion, we (hou*d
diftinguifli between a temporary and a perpetual lawi
between a law that has a peculiar regard to prefent
circum(lances» and a law that is always obligatory.
To apply the didiodion to the preient cafe» wc may
remember ( for St. Paitl has taught it us^ that the.

Judai-

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Judaiziug Chriftians wooU fidn have impos'd tbo
whole yoke of ordinances upon the Gentile Con-'
▼errs. But tho' it Termed good to the Holy Gheft
tb admit the Gentljes 2$feilcw tiiizms with sht Smnttt
without to burdenfotne an ob(ervance, yec be mighe
think fir, to gi?e as little ofFeoce as poifible to the
Jewifli Converts, that the Genti'es fhou'd srt)(hin
from Ibroe few particulars, to which the Jews might
have a more than ordinary aver Hon. But what re-
fpe^ can this bear to ms^ whole cir cam (lances are Co
widely dififerent ?

It may perhaps be at ibme coi^idcratton too, that
tliis law was ena^ed before the dc(lrii£^ion of the
temple, which wa» to compjeat the abolition of
Jewifh Ceremonies.

But to an abftinenee from blood it may be faid*
that the prohibition was enjoinM to No*h and his
^»* Srcrr whom we all defccnd, before the z^^i^xi^
gation of the Moiaick InJtituiion*

But here alio we ihou'd have a regard to a tempo*
rary, a cir^umftantial law. For we mav consider,

X. That as Mam and his children before the flood
were fufler'd to cat no other food, than what the
fruits of the earth afRorded them, £o to NoJih and hi|
children after theur defcent from the ark, this charter
was enlar^'d, and living creatures were included in it.
But left the novel uiage of killing thoie living crea-
tures, from which they had. before religiouAy ab-
ftain'd, (hou'd infpire them with crifelry to one ano-
ther* God might think fit to reflrain fuck auelty hf
a proper fytnhol, by an abftinence from blood. But^

2.. This abftinence frooa. blood might have been en*
joynM as a Jhad^w if better thmgs to ccmi^ as a tjpe
of infinitely precious blood i the blood of the cove*
oant i that blood, which Was to take away the fins
of the world. But what have we to do with /hs-
4kws, who enjoy the fiUtfisaa f What have we to
do with typest who can look back upon the great-
Mrehitfpe as happy Chriftians ! who are gracioufly al-
low'd to iay i Old things sn dom jhha^, all things ar§

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704 7S^ British Apollo.

biccme nev. But if we are pleas 'd with fymbolicil'
re^efen rations, with emblematical rf femt^ances, we
• m^ behold ( and O J that we wo«|'d but frequently
behold t^ycm ) more Hgnificant fymbols, more Jivelf
emblems i oamciy the bread and wiae in the blefled
Sacrament.

Q^ Uky any infant that fucks a vomMn that is mth
child, fhcuU have an anttpatiy to chcefe, as thty artainlf
havtt ^

A. Such is the frame and conftitation of our na-
ture, that when any thing has been very oflFennve to
ir, we retain an a?eriion for it^ But the milk of a
woman that is with child, turning fouriih, eaiily curds
as it were into cbeefe in the llomach of an infant
lucking \u and thereby becomes fo very hurtful to
him, that it often endangers bis life. 'Tis no won-
der then, if thofe who efcape the danger, have a

ftrong antij;;:!;;- :^?Jnft "^^^^^i wWcI: i;, ^ucn Tc.
fembies that milk, which was more like to prove a
poyfbn to them, than nouriflimenr.

Q. I have fent ye a nut to cracky yvhiek I kelievt
wilireak your teeth, However, fiwe ys an admiraify
skilVd in tranflations, as appears fy your excellent ver*
fim of Mr, Drydcn'i Latin Diftich, fray tranflme the
following Epitaph, "mhieh is very ancient, and made by u
Monk, on the death of an ingenious Organiftj / don*f
queflion hut you hum the meaning of it. WhM I mean
6y tranfiating it, is to make it EngHfli and lofe nothing
of the flampy •which antiquity put ufofo it ^ do that f
you can^ Sir,

Mufiius (^ Mcdicus Lancton jacn hUco Joamni5>
Organa namque loquifeceraf Hce c^afi.

A. Right vmflnpful querifl 5 Anfwer a fool accord*
in^ to his foWjt is a maxim of an admirable aotho-
rjty, but not applicable {you know) to you, who have
dotibtlffs more guts in your brains, than to think that '-
, a Monk cou'd puzzle Apollo ; therefore have at you,
worthy rea?^, in m Bngtifh JBfitaph, every whit as
moffkijh as that orfginal,

* Mui'

7%# B KIT I SH A P O L L O. 705*

MfifieiMt aad Vhyfician eke,
' John'lAnHw Ifeth here.
Who ttiade the orgamj^ (offtMlt,
Behold even us it were,

Q^ I0f4t'u if thitt dies as i$ wen beH 0U of fir»
whm burning f

u4. It is a reiinous liqaor, not mach differing' in
its nature from turpentine.

Ql // is tht frjiSice of mU chkurgkal assthrs, tfhen
tumour Appekrsy to difcufs it if they tan, Nom T defirs
to know, why it is not bitter to fupf urate ahd difchargo
the offending humour, ahdifnot, whm does become oftho-
offending humour vhen difcufs' d i

A. Tumours are of various kinds, as they arife
from various caules, and fbme are mod properly diA
cufs'd, and others moft properly fuppurated : But dif*
cuflion is performed by fuch applications, as by thcff
hearing and tenacious parts diifoive gvomous and co-
agulated niatficr, and render it fluxible, whether it b^
blood, ierum, lympha^ cholcrick, ch* phlegmatick hu-
mours i whence by pcripiration or excretion thty
may be difcharged: And where fuch a method i»
fufficicnt to procure rcjiefi none furcly will undergo*
the pain' and trouble attending fuppurations.

Q^ / have had the hard fate and misfortune to enter-
into the lift of old maids, and cenfiquently to be Jlighted
and dtfptfed by alL They fay our very looks and quMs^
ties dtffkr from the reft of womankind i fray. Gentlemen,
mfarm me what is the cAufe of this change, and whether
marriage now J am grown fo ftale, would have any effeSk
upon me f But alas ! I need not talk of that, for I am
aim oft in defpair cfa husband. Therefore good Mr, A-.
polio, yoH that know all things, fray fut me in a way^
for in jhort, I weu*d do any things to.be rid ef tie fcdndoL
of an old maid.

A. It is no wonder if croilcs/ vexations, tcaiing*^
and difappointmentSy (houM alter ^e.looks and qualities
of a pcrfon : The only remedy wc can propofe tO'
your forlorn condition, is that you immediately take
* )nAo\tin at Wafping^ and wait the arrival of a ri^y^oc

J^6 The British Apot^Lo.

Jf^fl-JndtM fleet i aod if there be any compaflioD leTc
in humane nature for the rood ob(blete of your (ex*
jou are moft likely to Had it amongA the tars, after
their long lent. '

Q. Ingimms ymths (or fy what title flM
^ humble jnufe addrefi your gUr'tous Jhrine )

H^ eafe fe many grieved breafis m thrall,
Aod hofve fitch Urge fojfijpon too of tnme.

To you the douhtful Celia novo does fend,
To tafe th^ ambiguous burthen of her mind $

And hopes as yoH*ve commm^d our feo^s frimd.
That thefe may too your hv'd acceptance find,

DsU MS horofar we may perfeiftion trace,
Hvwfur with her to heaven a rifmg know,.

Before the rays of her iUufirious face
Are lo/if to gmde ourfootfteps as "we gOm

Or can we here her fpotUfs wings Sf^^
Affd black contagion from our breafts removO'^

Or not {as clog* d, as vehicles of cUy)
Vntil wa moun$ thofe hspfy realms above,

A, So mvay fraikiof humane life attend.
Such ftrong temptations our weak minds aflli1«

That tbo' to gain perfeSm here, we bend
Our utmoft force, we of our ends muft fail.

The utraoft fiep^ that we have pow'r to tread.
Is, by SLfiri^y religious life below.

To gain ifuU ajfurance^ when we're dead, ^
Infutsare life we (hall ptrfeSion know.

Q. Oppreft with griping poverty and want-,
Xoungp and tmskill'd in M the arts if gain^

Fterce hunger and melanchofy kasmt
Over nyfiul with falvage rigour reign,

I cannot foot h the vices ef the age,
2ior flutter 9 and on great mensfieps attend,

Thefe are the corjiant ftibjeHs ef my rage,
Nff" ever can my haughty fpirtt bend,

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The British Apollo, tojt

Vefimffhe tteBfuns m my fml imia.
Tkufares^ vthich gemlt youth mn fcMrce farh$mrt

And bid me tread the ettpe faihs ef v'tce^
Baf fiiU my vertM does fecme me there.

Tet fain Vd live, and like 9tty felf appear p.
Bui fcern to rife iy flattery, or deceit ^

Let others tofalfe cheating, arts adhere^
By honefy, mtfratsd, I wottd be ffreat.

Jkach me,, ah ! teach mo then» ye h^rds / tofhtm-
The dong'rms fhehes on whkh mfiaken yotttlh

(For warn of guides mifiid)i do often run.
And raife my finking ftate^ yet fttU preferve rery tnt$b4

A, Since honottr rules the di^tes of ^oar iiiiad»
Averfe to vulgar and ignoble arts.

To flattery, or fordid, fervile kind»
Whlltt knave and /m/ play their alternate parts:

Wacrc but in camps, wou'd you expe^ tor«y>,.
And give a luftre to your lowering fate,

XJifitlfy'd glofy there will be the prize.
And there you may be innocently great t

Qi^ I have keen a prentice noeo five yearss
And trtsfy I may tell it you in tears i
hhave tmdergone many a cruel kang»
Jnfometch that I think it is better far tohang^
J- urn now incMd to the wars,
Since a fword'^rves mere honourakle fears.
Than a tough cttdgel\ pray inform me how
I: fhall proceed, and your praifes IwiUavow /'

A'. What piry Yis fuch a bud of honour
Sbou'd be croft by fortune! Oh! 6t upon her!'
Since you no more generous find her.
Well to your cudgcll'd carcafs be kinder.
And give our beft advice, and (hew the wavs '
R-oper your courage to great deeds to raifcfr
On training days go to th' artillery ground;.
Olr Tttttle-Fiildst in both equally is found
Undaunted prowefs. Mark how they face -
WithilcrD looks,, then (hoot, and file ofiF:wltb graere;

U*h tf- TJ5c«;

fo^ the British AiPotLo:

Then altogether ( which a ftorm you'd'ihrnk )
Rattle their pikes and drunv and Lwuni and ftiak.
And after mark, what far, exceeds all thefe,
' With what fury they fall on ducks and fatted geeie«
What valour^ in their ftomachlies, '
When they affault huge appie pies.
Defy red fiery tongues and potent muftard,
And fcalc the lofty v<^lls Of truftard ;
Yet haVe like generous ibtih^ n^we grace.
Than to cut and mangjis human race.
Such brave ejcploits as thele mu(l fl«ed$
Raife you to. the attempt of gioriott« <iec(i»»
Ma^ tough already by found banging
And make you give o'er all thoughts of haogmg.

Q^ What is the meaning of thfe vtorM m thi fievnd
chapter of the Coloffia&s and the i^th verfe : Let 970*
man ke^uile you of your reward in a voluntary humiUfy,
and Tvorjhipping of angels, intruding into thofe things which
' be hath not feen, ^vainly puft up by .his flejhly mind f

A. As this whole epiftlc in general, lo this palHgo
in particular, is levell'd agafnfl thofc heretical teachers,
who endeavpur'd to iniimiat^ iht unwarrantable doc-
trine of worfliipping, of adofing angels* >

But we muft oblcrvc, tfeat what is tranflated t;»-
luntary, and. is corniced ^VhhHmiliiyy liais a different
acceptance in the Greek original, ami is a nominatifc
participle joined in appofition to the penfon, irttm
whole fly inlinuarions the CbloJJians were to beware.
The original therefore may fc traoilated thus : Let -
no man beguile you of your reward, delighting ( for
fuch an acceptation of the word ©«A»i» is warranted
by the Seventy^ in humility, ^c.

Here then we are forbid fo to dci?ican, fo to dc-
balc our fel^es (under the plaufible appearance of
modcfty and humility) fo to overlook thecfignity of
our nature, to forget, that we are made but a little .
lower than the angels, as to be induc'd to^ pay our
homage to thofe our fellow- creatures, our adoration*
to thofc our fcllow-fervants*

The British Apoleo; 70^'

Tbe foremetidon'd yoocbers of lb unwarrants^Ie a
do^trior, are therefore iaid to intrude into thrfe thmis\
which they hsd not /ten, and to U vainlf fuft u^ «»
their Jhjbfy minds, becaafe they made prttcncc Co what *
the/ knew nothing of, and gave this 2fk6tcd but falfe
plea for the woHhipping of angels* becaufe fas they \
ignorantly, but proudly laid) God Is inacccflibly glo-'
rious, and therefore not to be approach'd to, by puny.
mortals. But rbants b( to Gdd, that (ai this apo*'
file dfewhere teaches usj we have thro' CAriJiactefsmt»'
tho father.

Q: Hov do the furts efnuuter cohere f

Ji. As there has not hitherto been 6;iveh by the!
mod able philofbphers any fatis^dbory folution of fa
obfcure a matter, fo that it may perhaps be doubted^
whether human reafon be caplble of foivine it. A.n4
indeed how can the queftion be otherwile ihar\ dif- *
ficult, when orie of tne very terms of'* which it' is
compos'd^ is it felf of a very puzzlipg 4iature> For as
the parts of matter, conternittg \Vhlch the'qucfy i«.
propos'd, how they cohere, 'mUft be diviiible into o-
ther parts, fo you may dan tbe queflion afrclh, how
the parts into which they are divifible, do them-
selves cohere. And fo you may proceed in iafinittim,.
inafmuch as matter is divifible in infiaitfim.

Some attribute the coheiion of parts to the preA
fure of the air or {«btl6 matter. But here we hfay
enquire, what it is that makes the parts of that fub-
tle matter to cohere. And if it be anfwer'd, tbe ftill
more fmall, or fubtle matter j- we may reduce them,
to a confcflion of what they wou'd be loth to own 5.
namely, that matter is not only infinitely diviiible,
but adhially £0 divided. And as ,they wou'd confirn^
their iblution by the experiment of two hemifphcrcs,
fd the very experiment they propofe returns upon
them, for it plainly flicws,. that if the prefTure oi the '
air or fubtle matter were the cau(e of th^ coheiion of
parts, it wou'd follow, that upon our diflradiion of
the parts in any other lines than right oppofices, there
wou'd confcquently be no coheiion.

1 Other*

jfa fBe British Apoclo;

Others pretend to folve fo difficult a point bf no
other caufe than that of reft« Bat as reft is nothing
but a privation only* how can we imagine* that a.;
privative (hou'd caufe a pofitive ? But as reft inuft.4
give way to the fmalleft degree of motion,. it thence,
siaturally follows*, that we may as eafily feparate tho ^
coherent parts of a continuous |^dy, as any two
contiguous ones. And this wou'd entirely overthrow
the eflential di£Ference. between continuity and cbnti-

There are not wanting tho(e, who afcribe the phae-
nomenon before us to the nature of the particles, of
which matter fs compos'd. For thofe particles (iay
they ) are fo configurated^, as to twine within one .
another in fb particular a manner* as to be. the caufe
of a cohefion. But then*, as before* it may be retort-
ed with- enquiry, wl^at makes the particles of thoft.'
▼cry twining particles to cohere them&lvea*

Or (hi that ktifs hmfi^

Oft by argument** dint.'

{BtathilJevilish^t)
Ciuld nevir^ come to emhfim ;,

Jho* tften we tiy^

jind in pajpms dofyf
*2iil at length we are ^l,Q'er in cvnffipen :.

The reafi/he will rule.

And calls me a f pelf \

And te firve her own fiead

Ibis maxim dees plead.
That a vertmm woman's a crtrwn

3> the fuffy her confirt^

And thus we oft try for*t^ .
TUI the words ef. the wifi knocks me drmt*

Alt laft we*ve agreed

To fnd with all fpeed '

To him, that is willing^^

WthoHt a round fhiUing^.

92f Bit'itiS'H Apollo, jit

Such Mdvice thai k iM^m» U ifit^.
So J hig ym'U fako fmm*
Tb fittU her brmu
JindJ3m§tfif hnfm'mm fccgti^
A.. We*]] gnat then this crown^ '
(As a maxioi let down).
Does the monarch adorn^
By whom it n worn^
But as crowns to their kings are inferior^,.
So are joih tbo' a fb<N«.
Tho' iniipid and dal^
To your vapouring madam iiiperior.
Q. Apollo, lifim^- Vfny lend ( liih) ym» Mrr».
^«r# « weefing msid tf thirty yurt.

Nine difappotntfttentj mmneyBeen J*v$ httd ;,
litf 9h ! this Ufftf .this Ufi:de$$ tftakt m§ tmuL
fvt JUghtid goidn$fa^ wifdwe^ yntth 4f»/ wealth, i
One fatid fir rm temm% foviag hetdtk t
And nei» fmuft.O madwfi I O hemtrh'd i
Wkdd J hnd dfdt er been m$ tybi^rn tttitcb%
When I thtfp frot/d, thtfe fitrnfnl werds Ut fy^
Be gene, be ffm, ne mere U metenei nigh
jyettr Phoebus nid me m thit fttUm hettr^
J knete yeu enn, ifyet^U exert yettr fewer*
A hemtetifh ijl te yettr tUtnr hrtng,
Aftd thnnifitl fengs ferfetttnlfy w'dlfing, -^

Stark ftttrmg Margery;
A, A weeping maid you fty of thirty years.
By this fiire all your rooi/lure's run in tcafsi
Tet ftill you are alhe, rejoice in that,
NfM deaths, Tou know enough to kill a cat.
Nine years of penance for your fault en joy n^
And after that, add hut the other nine s
And then with this comfort well abiblve at fail,
Tb them the ettd ef aU the coftrtjhifs faft:
XovteU the world, how many in your May,
Yon fcorn'd, whilfinem believe a werdyeufiy*
(Xl ^^"^ ^^^ Ormond-ftreet«.
Old Apollo J petti

JP?r« riddle 7/t/«^i6toppe^ ' ..;-. o r^^ '-. -^
Of the fcx they jail feir, ' ■"■

Tray, let him find htrptit ^ kettm^-Sil^^ '. .^..^w
Her beam fs 4uf fwudl, ' . / iv

jindher wit ww nf ail, ' ]

Oft /he's fick, when th$rt*s mthmgdms ail h»V
Her hthcT and mmbet, .-

^ftf skilPdin the art^irf a TAVioili-^ «' ■ ^'
She's a widow ef\lat€, ■ ■ :i i: <
^nd hen vriutt^fieal^poi^;^ /• • r-r/ • - .-t

Has ampmh that Uiipk^ttf-maH wa«f, /> l.'

Butjhefwears^ihir^'^k,: ^ ' ^ • .... 3
jnb# « lord^ eirl, 0^«4uloe ^

And no 4tkef man JhaU twM at k»^

N^ tkeyfty,<^that herwoitk. '^

Makes amende fir. jfetn^TdU''^^^- ^= *. '

Ffirfulltvinmxf-dioii£kki>Jhe^t^,.ysif', v • •

Ihen Jkce Vm bta }p^t^ ' - I '\ .

Shou'd Iof^4$v^4s/tr^' ■'\ ,. .. 1 . , . •

Pr^, 4^>« thi^ Jht ftttf^fiiU ff my4oti sit r

A. Since i^rance yWvc gc^t^.
Tho* but poor is ypiic lot,
You can hardly. jfiaJl ftiort in vqut n/ea/ftre^\ . \
For- tho\e^j'. Will carp, ' . - '

Ten to oae bjut .youUl /?//<^ «i vi«r treafun^. . \ -

When, you aini at Jbcr ^ai/, * ' .

Sure the. pridt; of old Sa/fmi^uR, ail bcr, ' '

For 'tis ftrange if tbe Joot,

Wight qot flpop.tp. J9p^' r^ J, ., . ^

As foon as.ay«%^,yyrqj.4 <^/(^^ .^^ V. .> . 4 - . '\

Q. Z^ /V ltn^ii\fak k^ piirfini Ufi^ the fifception if a
vow of hdy ceHi^\y/ to' fhariy/^dVfiled'he'ibephi^
an uttdefiled virgin l^- • '* . ^ *. i • < . /. •

SIvBritish ApOLi-a 713?

jl. As ceUhiCy figoiecs (for fo the Gretk origwiiJ
imports) afioglc or unmarried life, do wc fuppofc tim
p^ibo. who makes a yow of celibacy, to iutmi it
la that fe&fe.

There are fevcral particulars, (as the judiciouf
SMmderfiu oWttves) which tho* exjweflivfljr iocluded
ia a tow or oath, ©ay yet, upon intervening circum*
llances hi reasonably difpcnsd with, <m the qcceflary
provifo, that the principal inteoiian be no ways co-
croachM upon. For inibincej tho' a pious clergy OJa»
ftould make a fokann vow, that he wUl take a voy- ^
age to one of f^oxAmmctm plantations, the inoft dcl-
titutc of 4)reacbcrs, in order to propagate the true^
religion i yet, on fuppofiiion, that bctore he entred
on his voyage, it fliould fo happen, that all our Ame-
rkm pJantatkMis fti«uld be difpcopled. the obligation
of his vow would immediately expire. But that
iucn a ofc IS no ways paratici to your »j w... -• — -^
appear, if we confidcr the reafon why the forefaid
obligation is entirely candel'd, upon the intermediate

revoititioo.

And tfaereafen is» becaufe as the propagation of re*
Itgion was the primary intention of tli truly zealoiit
clergyman, and the voyage to Anurictk no otherwifc
intended, than as barely fubfcrvient to that defign 5 fo
the exception fpccified was tacitly included in the
vow itfelf. For had he been reminded of it before
he nS3K!c the vow,hc iVcw would have midc it With-
out refcrve. Tho* yet he might not have cxprcft d
the condition, btft would perhaps have anfwcr'd. Chat
his vow would be founded on the neccflkry wp|Pj;
fitiori. that the pliMltation wonki continue to be wM
inhabited. But he who makes a vow of cddacy,
ddiga^, iHK only to prefervc his virgin chaftity, tut
alTo to fceep unmarried. And had any one meotiMi'd
td hita 4o pecWliir a rrferrej heWoi*J nit, '(proteWyi j
we *nean> feive tft in regattfed ir. ' ' .. ' '' '^

But weJ (hall endcavofif to give ftjrthor pfoof^ tW i
an abftincncc from marriage, as well as from the ufc

714 y^^ British ApoLto.

of the nuptial bed, is an edential ingredient of tfee
fbremention'd vow.

I. He who engages in fuch a vow, defigns (as ^k^c
are apt to think^ to retain (as far as humanity will
permit) fb heavenly, fo angelical a chkCthj (tor the
angels neither nrnrrji nor 0f$ given in mMrmgt) as to
amiain from ail the embraces of a woman. But it
is a queftion, whether he, who marries on fappo&Ir
that he does not infringe his Vow» will cn)oiQ bim-
felf £6 fevere an abAinence. But,

Ziify, We may iuppofc, that he may have it tranii^
ently in his thoughts, to devote himfelf more entire-^
]f to his Maker's fervice, while difencurabfir'd' fron*
a marriage ftate. For when Sr, Paul encourages bat-
chelors to continue fo, he- proposes this as a motive-
to Co pious a felf-denial: He, thai is unmarried, caretB*
for the things that belong to the Lord^ hw h^ f»ay fkafr
the Lord, f-* iw. *A-f •; rr.T.Trifd^ ctrretkfo^ the thinip
that are of the vorld^ how he may pleafe his wife.

But we may confider too, that a cohabitation witb
a wife may prove a fnare to the perfbo ;^»ecifiedr
a«d at laft unhap[»ly prevail upon him to violate his
vow. And £nce he petitipas to his God»^ in his daily
prayer, to deliver him from temptation, it is fiire an a&
of vcrj high prefumption* to ru(h headlong into that
temptation, which he earneftly implores to be deli-
vered from.

Q. Why an infant^ hem in tbefeventh menAigemrrilf
Uvett whin em bom in the eighth fre^mtfy dies f

jL Becaufe the infant is ever moving towards the
birth in the feventb month, at which time, if it be
Arong enoughs it comes to the birth i but if not* it
remains in the womb commonly two months longer,
itt order to get ftrengtbi but if after the motion, at
ftven months end, it be not born, the fituation is
iqov'd, and the infant io debilitated thereby, th|a^
Ibould it come forth in the eighth month, it could;
fotfcely li?e» by redibn of the hurt recei?'d>. thereby.

ne Baitisii Apollo, yif

hear tobaccoy mihmt ffijndimi iht btakbf

A, It may, and is commonly uied in that manned
inftead of tobacco^ with a great deal ef beaefif* in
peroral and cephalick cafes.

Q. Whyt whtn a cold or an agui Unvot my does itgi^
neraUy bndk out mbout the tmttth t

A. That eruption is not common in agues* but it
is generally accounted, and found a £dubrious fymp-
torn after the taking of cold. For when nature dif«
charges her felf of thofe ferout acidities thro' thofe
parts, others more fubje£l to catarrhs remain fafci
and the ofiending m|(tter being thus ej^pell'd, the dif^
order ceaies*

Q^ / hwe often expermctdp that fmmg in * eottehr
with my net Jhta, the coach feems to^ movO' the contrary,
way to vhat it reaUy does t

A, While our bodies are mo?'d in a coach, the >
nimal fpirits floating in the brain rcceiTC a contrary
tendency, as it isufual for the conteni- to receiVe from
the moviog contimnt. Since therefore when our eyet
are (hut we cannot judge of the tendency of the coach's
motion, any othcrwife than by the motion of the
fdrefaid fpirits, our imagination confequently fuppo-
ies. that t4ie coach mo¥es eontrtfy to the reality of
its genuine motion.

Q. Which way flfM T (/weH yotttht) fiek t^$httm^
Not tfMxfitnt jojfs, hit fieeh as will retmm. . '.
Oft-times imidfi aftmu ef heightm^djeyu^
When wine inc&en etnd comfnny decoysp
A/ecret nnxUtis thottght my mirth difireys*
ThenfMUly i refihe, Sttt ail in vain»
Soon n^thofimro it laid, fm esugbt again.
Teach me hno to refolvey (and Sreak the chain)
Rofo^ thofe fidUet, and thofe Ms difdain.
Who iavijb of their geldm hoetrt and days,
JJve to themfelves, not- to thfik. Maket^s fraifei y

A. Consider the effe^s,- the fordid ftaina - - a-'^
Attend the yice^ with all the griefs and paias:

That

}

ji6 S^f. British Afon-o.

Tto r$(fjm, ih^X bright fiamp^ by winch weVc gracTd,

To differ u» hem imfu, is ^ti^ defao'di

Tiut they're jg^oxt blfft ia fenfual detigbt»

By quicker f«li(b> Aronger ap;>cttte,

Free from remorfe, which mankiad mufl endure^

Rendered by ,G(io&k>iu rea&n Mmone impuf e*

Confider, on the wife^ whtc (bameful rapes

It makes, reducing thtm to.fwine and apes.

And how tbofi wsmtmany jtys obtain,

l0fig y^ara of penance in diieaie and pain.

How* when the brainf are in confuiion hurl'dy

^U thoughts are ftifled of wiethtt vmld \

'Whilft by fach npjHous, dull daMght as this.

We relifh hen no f erf eci joy, and forfeit /»rarr Uifif

Tiny Imvf tmghi me u make a fmgy
Mjtch I wiio my miftrefs guvti 7

On nohich Jhe cdl'd me -mitty knave -y >-

^d think ym w*. I fiM her have f ,^^ J.

■ K7:b G^ti^mn^ fcmt jMoje^ tiii-tfte^ • \

Of m^nert tending tethe 6eiiy*

Jbfdym fljddifetf how I tnttfirmt \ ^

7b fmg k in kerdsk vem i

'Ferfinee 'nms yim made me a foes, ' i ^•

^d taught mi mt, e*er J cefi'd knew tr, V

It isyoHr right nev te befiem it, J

^ Our. inodpfty will never own,
T9 teach fachtwr as yon Jbavc vflitwn ^ • •. " ^ '
\l^hoftJines are of' more force, end^ loader f • '^

^an ftrongettmeftard, tM'gttii-^wderi-

•Twill ne'er be rcaeh'd by naortal eyes >• ^ ^ - ^

So foft and fwert yoor mifsbers rmoi

Sure treade was your hdieon i >

Nor cou'd their-fiiwoehiieft £> pi^cvsilj

"Were that not mix'd wvth dOfibi9-ale;> '^

Vet fince you oofidofixad ih ask, . '^

That we wou'd fet your muft a task.

On which ypu mighty .in ike^ he$M /

H6a^i(h and gild, like any (hicki

And

And thsititht{<sime\kB)hfrfittt€r; • i

Suppofc ihciti hogf^cirthen pktid-, S - -*

Your miftrcfs cit it'tatiBg'iprtw,

And feeding tWJtb tfcc tatfs to aff.- ^

A fpacious field ttrrs to «nrkrge do.

To fee her broil, and torn, and eWge oa;

And all her brighter air» cfiicoyer,

Perfpicuous to the dflllcft lorer :

How eagerly, wBilH hot, fhe fnatftr,'

Then firatcheis oil t from' Ibalded cbapf i

Whilft tears bcdctor het fiming fkcf^ -

Chang'd by ibrprize into grioiacei '

To hear her after, fyh in WHfbi

(Which iU-bred dowYia will call j('B*h)' \^* .

Then aB jiiw<»^ ^dti ihayf41I, - .^ -

In fpice and gums, tsreathes is tite fittelL ; '.

This often Mth been dbne fn meifter^- r , ^,

On fucjh wh6fi breathi; wwer Hbt twdifriwiet^., '*

But thefe Wc ofchr ttiiitfi fp fhtW^ ;* ' * , , *
What one of fancy bright; Irfee^ou, :^ ; '^ _
May on fech lofty fuBjcawftfc,V^- \"' ;-^ ^' ^ ^
Whim ale inibfrci, «i*:/to»rt fWit<;'- \ "* • ; •'

Jin Ode, ocfafin^J hy thtlaH'^Mofii vHf^,

A

S in a dark recefs, ^
With fblcron (ilence crovi^'d.
The fad URANIA- i&t.
And nwttrnfd the cfvi^\ /M^iff^^
Which in one inau(piciOus d^, • ' • - ■

Snatch'd tfN ^hr coitifoirtl of imf YiU i^mf. '
The »7m/^j who fill.h«r trmnt ^

Seek to rcdrcfs
UtT forrowsy but, ak^J In Win, ' ' '
They at the avful vifim g»ik)W, - f ' ^'
With hpr into one PIECE df W<M»'

AW fymfatbiioiiig in ^ ^«f pr^fid^ '
At length thu» kin4, pi^pi(io'i&9 hlM%

1 1

enough

7C^8 Tke British Apgll<>.

Enough weVe try'di^e ^bjiH ^ mt tm)€^
Aadfr^'d her, by affli^lion^ to the higb<^
To make her (hew more M^ia,
And judlj claim ,her tltU from a^ivt,
^yfffffrages, none but z/MJivme,
Like hers, cou'd bear, aad meefyffed (hine:
Bat now we'll change the fane again)
Since wondroufiy ihc'as bom her griefs
By wondroas ways we'll give reluf,
Crown'd with.atrain of j^^/, in number more*
Than e'er of yWTtfv/ (be has feJt before.
And be as ready to indf^ge, 2sjhe is to imfhn.
The lofs Jhe\zs luftain'd of late*
Of hfr i^i^ifal'd frincely mate^
Shall be made up, by nuoi'Tous ^Jkig (hewo»
To chUdrei^ ecp$alfy her Qwn^
Whom we will daily blefs, .
^Vitjb fucb fuiprizing tame of wenderfnl fiucffs^
Thiktfirrens never more (hall find ^ ffaee^

Her comforts to deface*
But fie in them, and r% 10 ^ delight.
And i0/i& in iearch ot ptuttud h^pimefs unites
With mfdemfrom above we^U ivfp mipire»
Ani tbmwith pious duty fire.
f tf their triumphant Swords we'll bind*
Sure vidlory, which fhall ^
As oft befall* ' ' J.
As enemies they find :
Heavens faidn mi n and roaring thtmders round, coofirm'd
it all for fate.
Hark! harki tbcf //e«[^« of heav'n is come.
Loud peals of joy prepare*
Its paffage thro' the air.
Whim the divifiing ato[ms aU»
With violence rccal,
To gjli^i^ hafiy room.
Great MarlS'rough, and invinciUe Eugene,
Have wide difplay'd the glorious fcene.
And giv'n a^/ow hath pierc'd the heart of Trance,
And lill on their retiring tvoops advance.

Rejoice^

Jie British Apollo. ytp

Rejoice, je Brintmt, thtgHMw^l^s m^ dtm^
Which Ihtll vilthgkijind. ^ *hHu with fmij k^pm. '

Q. /• the Ufi ihrnfie^ tf the fumd Mt §f Stmudt «^
is fmdy the Lord was wrath with ZXrwi for nombBr-
sng the people, wherefore he- fent a pcftiknce amoagft
then)> fo that there died of the peopb 70000. Wlm»
therycH think they were nvt hmffif^ fina tktjf SUmtfm
their enm pu^ hutf» Dvtii^simfm^knai

A. The deftru^ion of thole 70000, -was a pmnfli^'
inent to Demnd^ but no other than « mislbirtttiie to
tho/e unfortui^ate per^c. ' 81K wtohcr they were
ij3pp7 or onhapp^ after their -deceile^ the deteriniiia-
tion depends upon tbe< nature of' tbsir adioos: For
tliey who died in a Hate, of smpeaifesc'e : wers un-
doubtedly unhappy, noc ^or IMvid^i Bo, but their
own trao/greffions. For both parts of the preceding
aflertiooy namely, that the impenitent were unhappy^
end that theimnhappincfs proceeded sfiosB their own
proper fins, they stfc both included in that (mgjk §6tk»
tence 5 the fettl tha$ fimetht that fhdU Jm.

Q^ Since ys mre fuck inkers nt tmnfiniimt I wmdd
define yeu to gkfe 4 jkeke to the etmdttwrintm J^icht «MI^
'Sn accmnt ef its ONgimU:

Vttitt cum puero> puer alter, iponfi* maritus^*

CuheNo, ly mpha, i^ne> dolore, oidit.

A. Soiinev think; that the compendious difticb waa
compcf(^driby'a{flh(H>Ibc»y of'the OkifMMir-i^ But
we are apt to tiiinlc this -to be a miibke occafioncd
by that famous monofti<b,*l7i»//'« IfiuMica^ Sec. whirli
ia iaid toaowe its* original to one of fohat ieiool/v

The vul^r aoeoont 'ist^tbartbe Davii^ imdnthe
appearand of an human (hape, upon a eomrad iii(itli
one of £M0e Ichool, composed the 'diftichr IbriHim..
But tho* we cannot rdy upon the relation, yet as
-feme troth mtjhe dftea ffnind amol)g.«iag|cd^fi9i>
gerier, (6 this may. lead usito a no'imfrbb&ie cqik
jedure. that an^ iaton Lad wascthe ancbot of the ta>
t£tt, The'.tcat\j&adoii you may ha?e as fblk>ws; ' ^
Wenther with Soy, t'other hy, fp^fit ^ UMh
T3t knifr^ wttter^ rofe^ grief ^ reftgn their fnte.

^«o Sf3&^ British Apollo.

Q« B I Smn. KXi. . ly MmelfA piys u DaviJ^ frhj

tftthou akme^ aad. ao oian with thee ? M -vtrfi th

^j^hy wf fB^ }f.%oimg VH^ thai were vtth David. Fry»

jL D0%fid WZ$ a giaadee of the firil rank in |he

-court i^ SMdC And therefore we may fuppofe, that

rie iie?£r trayelM to aaj difiaoce from.the court wit)i-

^ut a iplendid traio, a immerous retiaue j well thcr^o

-ibr€ migiit Mfmluih fahitq him v^ith, the quedion,

*^i^ itrtjihmaintei^ svd n9 mm -m^h t^t, i no; i^aa.iQ

•iCoaipfffifbaj1'9^th what I J)»ve tt^i^fn. to fxped.

• . -Q.. Mir^h^u^U ff, a MMh-M riefem^DM^ whetf>er M

iiffaccettiMtmike/^p.cfiSadi i. -

' .-^jfi Th(r'.ft'jdiaith'bedVepcntaiKe:Weive(Plways «viil-

lablc to faUatioft^ yct'no wt& mao would yeature an

:^ctdniit7'on €q hazardous 4 dyti. Who of us can aflure

.c^ &iycr» that fbme acute diftempcr ihaU jaot hurry

.n« away; aad.;give.us no warnkigt to nitijce up: our

-ac^Qimti* b^Mwt g4 hence^ md h no mm fief^f W)^6

of us can a^^e our Mves^ that, ao .iu\ti<kie^ death

'(&on fiotaw^t tts> that fome One.of the teathoofand

.acci^tf^ that may .be61 us, fl^aU not^ iusHnoa .\is

from hence in a melancholy momcat* and ,aot pet-

m^ us farimueb as to iiaake our exit with timdhavi

fmrcy ufon my, mfernhU /ml f Who Cif us Cafli aHure

soar &M(ih that \S a kiiufdy diicafe (hali allow us an

xy^o^iiiiity.of.r«peqHo9e» we:ihilB:}riet<!n!ite (be

roppdrtuBity albw'd u»; and otdel^yolir ^o ap|>ea£b oar

icfiaded Godi But to the^pteddiont. . ^. j -^

Ai^nricr a £nirere repentance* 4kt whatdticneivfc^iwr
!V^e ftt abooit iU ia iyaikble ;ito ial'Viatton i ujion tlieifub-
dcqiieat account. . ^ .» : .r. - ; •

.' -Na itiad^dUi truly ^^^mt him of^-^bit'fiffi. wJthoat
l£an>-Qperadoa of thorblefled S^nriti^ ;Nb>M«» cjfo
-thus .idmBtmtf. Chrifl, jml^ft the \Bal&et9 drnT» him^ Bac
'Wr roliy ld^>eDd upon the Igoodad^ of. the Fatlugr*
•that he will not taiKalhse bay of^hi? creatures* th^t
he wiUnot draw any man tovbta -Sody'a&d yti defig^
his ey«rlafiing ruin. m C.k

>>.!•. . .'»

o ^ But

7^^ British Apollo, yit

Bat with what confidence can we hope, that the
Father will bring us to repentance, will draw u< to
his Son, when we have & long flighted his promi&s,
defpis'd his threatnsngs, trampled upon his mcicfp
defied his juftice, wottld turn if hU r^prf, andfiughi
mr fhe Lord, while he mght be found t With what con-
fidence can we expe^ to reap, where we have mtfewnn
to gather, where we have net Jhew'dt tto enjoy the
pri2e> before we begin our ceitrfe»jio pofifefi a crown^
before vit fight the good fight f

But here it may be perhaps objeded, that many
iadually repent, when the time of their diflblutioa
draweth nigh > that many bewail their (ins, bitterly
bewail their pafl mifcarriages. But alas I may they
not bewail, bitterly bewail their fins, without a fin-
cere repentance, without a rightly troubled fpirit*
without a truly broken and contrite heart, without
that fturifice, which thou, O God, wilt not de/fi/e f
Xure the natural man, without any divine afTjftance;
may. bid adieu to fin, when fin has bid adieu to him i
may renounce his once darling vices, when they have
loft their imaginary charms, when they are become
tafilefs and ungrateful to him } become fo, not as the
coniequence of his.goodnefs but of his weaknefs^ not
as the produd^ ot his piety, but of his infirmity.
Sure the merely natural man may be able to lament
his evil pra^ices, when the punifiiment of fin is (b
very near, is even at the doori when death, when
the King of terrors fiares him in the face, when eter-
nity is in view, and the very fairts of hell have in a
manner taken hold nfon him* And th^t a death-bed re-
peotance is at Icail very often no other than fuch a
prefent forrow, fuch a temporary concern, fuch a
circumfiantiated bewailing, we are unhappily inform-
ed by the examples of the many, who upon their
recovery return with the dog to the zomit. Antiquum te-
nent (as the poet exprcfTcs it) go on in their former
courfes without an awful dread, /(/? a worfe thing Jhould
tome upon them rand run with their old companions
so the fame excefi of riot.

Vol. III. I i At

yzi ^e British Apollo.

As therefore we nsuft leave the death-bed penitent
«to that God, who is a fiareher rf the heart, fo we
Ihouid do well to fufped the very worft of fo ftdlar
dous, fo treacherous a repentance. We fhould do
well to be afraid (for we have reafon enough to be
£o) left our injur'd naafter, when in our laft hour he
'fhall behold the aAguifh of our fouls, fhould upbraid
tis in thefe bitter, butdefervM, expredionsj Becttufi I
4>avi called, and ye refnfed, I have ftrttehed out tny hand^
tmd ye regarded not', it is reafon good, that I (hould
hugh at your calamity, and tmck, now your fear eatneth^
Tho* ye call upon tne, yet / wiU not anfwer; fince ye
feek me £o LATE, ye Jhall not find me.

Q. Under/landing by me tf your anfwers, tbutyou hold

»ith modem aftronomert, that the [un remaint fixi, and

thiU the difftrent feafcns ef the year are prodacod By the

ernnual motion ef the earth, I defire you to give a br'uf

J defiiition if its pefformance. Tor to wte, the opinion ef tha

» i metre ancient aftronemers, that aferibe etdy a diurnal mo^

, tim to the earth, and the zodiacal to the fun, appears

\ ftnuh mere plain and demenfirable. For if we allive the

* I firmer, how cemes it to pap, that we fee feme northern

Jtairs at their fitting (as we commenh call it) always hu

juft touch the horizen, and that the earth is not either

fometimes fo deprejfed as to reprefent thofe fiars at their

leveeft defcent higher than the horizon, or fometimes fo ela*

vated as to ehfiure them. Or, to explain mi meaning

better, why do thefe people that live tender the poles always

fee the fame fiars in their zenith : and thofe tender the e-

^uino&ial line, ftillfind themfdves precifily tender that eir^

cle, as well whim the fun is in Cancer or Capricorn, su

in Aries or Libra, which feemeth to evince, that the earth

bath no other motion than that upon its axisT

A. Sir, we wonder, that you fhould think the
new Copcroican fyflem of the earth's annual motion
lefs intelligible than the old Ptolemaick fyftem, which
contains fuch manifold unimaginable chimera's: name-
ly, thofe of fblid fpheres, epicycles, ftations and re-
trogradations of the planets. As for the feafbns of the
.jrear, we owo> that they would be incon£ilcot witk

' the

\

fhe British Apollo* 71}

the annuri motion- of the eaitii, were it not fog the
third motioQt or motion of inclinitioD or dccliaad-
<m, tho' Indeed the' matioii of iodiiiatioii 19 not (o
properly a third or di^in^ motioa from the Acond
or amiual one, as a peculiar modifiottoa of it* But at
that peculiar modification contiaoattj ddic£la the aiia
of the earth from a parallefifin with the axis of the
equator, it occafioof the iame variety of ft^^onst aa
the annual motion of the fun would do. f

As for what yoo alledge of thoft who always fte
the lame ftars at their aestth, wc may confidcr, that
the whole pfao»e of the circle, which the earth anau*
ally defcribe$> is £a iocoAfid<i^s4»k in sc^ed to tho
iraftly diftafit fphere of the fixt fiars» that if it be
fapposU continued thither, it witt appear, no other
than a point. And if So^ it can .make no lenfiUe
dfArence with regard to tSte feemini; ^ea^th or other
pofition of the ftarj. And the Ame notion accounts
for your other Jaftances, whkh are of the fame na-
ture widi the preoediag one*

Q. Jtrof f^vom fn$ wkh tki tmuu tf /»Aiere : /e
vhat cwfiitHtvm ,k is bmuficud, mtd u wbsi mju*
tiousi

A. Tobacco is by natuse hot and dry \ it difiniOeiy
refolves and cleao&s» is purging, emctick, anodyne
and vulnerary., and is chiefty boaeficial in cold and
moid conflitutions, and hurtful in the contrary.

Q. Whap mMhs Thames i»«/«r flinh, mhJ thm firrn
fwitt upou a vofagB^ tmm 4lMn my uhtr wueri

ji. If your ol^vation be true, it may pirobdbly he
caufed by a greater plenty of fiilphur and (alt in lhat»
than in other waters. , •

Q Te fatreJ friends vf jtift 49d vkiuom hv»t
TtiTi desiring wretch^ k$w t$ remcvs-
His nnx'tous cttresy opprtji with double w$e^
Farfiok ^ Julia, Mndii¥ Strephon to^
The fair I thought ftm^in fveiy ftfrl,
Had long mdulg'd fhy fond tptmj^ed heart :
The yettih aU virtuet in his brtap ctnfin^d^
WasficHtf wim^ gmmmh jufi and kind.

I i 2 In

7i4 ST^ British ApoIwLo.

In their kv*d convirfi years I did empkft,

JBlefl 4/ / thmght with more them nrnttd jy :

But fee the effe& cf fMimmy 6lifi,

XkUuiing Juiia rei'd me of my reft.

The dear ttnkind, ttmniudftd of my love,

Slafted my hopes and did tmeonftaat freve;

JBut ftill my Serepbon confiant did remain.

Sis iaUnjf frimdjhip did ajfuage my pain,

Jb Ungfh the dowtms of an engaging maid,

(Bane to ttyjeys) his nobU heart enga^d^

WithfiUmn vows Jbe has the youth ingroft.

Urns lave, and happy friendjhip both Tve loft ',

If ekmunce has tmtms to footh to reft^

jtnd fitch it has as well your works expreft,

O PhoebuSt o*er a wretch refleByoter rays,

Di/pel the difntal gloom, that clouds his youthful days^.

A. Unhappy (Wain, your trouble's great, 'tis true,
To Jofe your deareii: friend* and miftrcfs too.
Nought nu)re than fcorn can make a lover grieve.
And who, alas ! can lofe his friend, and live ?
But fince (thro* providential means) you grants
That all fliblunar joys duration vant>
A preparation for this change declare.
And let your breaft ferene, and calm appear.
So ihall your wond'ring fair her flames return,
So ihalJ th' enamour'd youth with former friendfhip
bum*

Q^ Hail bright Apollo ef our Britiih Ifle,
Whofe charming Lyre does aU our hours beguile.
With hesmble rev'renoe at your (hrine / kned^
T impiore your Godfliip wou'd the caufe reveal,
ff^f arrsongft'oU the tnvm'rM^/^feather'd throng,
Jhe cocks haveftdl the moft harmoniousy^^/

ji. The feather'd choir, who firetch thchr warbUag
throats.
And fill the i90ods with fweet harmonious notes.
Have by ftrong heat their mellow'd voice rcfin'd.
Which onfy warms the cocks of all the kind ;
Crarop'd by chill cold, each hen attends her mate,
Andy unlike London wives, 1$ feUom known to prate.

TlbeBKiTiSH Apollo, jy^

Q. I dejke so know, if the reium from tbo cafthay
mentioned in the ivtb cbap. rf Judith and the 3d verfct
was that cf Mandlcs* if not, to wh^t time mafi »e of-
fign thataBion cf bersy or is it vheilffaMoas t

Jl. The captiiFity mentioned in the pa0age you a(-
iedge, was that under Amiochus MpiphantSt rcprefented
at Japge in the firft chapter of the firft book of the
idaccaSees.

Q> /- have taken ottt a dog's ffleen^ and he is alive,
and I perceive no alteration in the ieaji in him: prapwhao
is the ufe of the fpUeni

A. Authors disagree very much in this point. The
ancients held it to be the receptacle of the melaacbo-
lick humour : fome of the moderns will have ic to
he, either a blood-making or a blood- perfe^ing bow-
el : others look upon it as the elaboratory of the ner-
vous juice: others again, that ic only promotes the
\€i\OTi of the liver, by farthering the feparation of
the bile, ncu' is the true ufe of it as yet fully diice-^
ycred.

Q. What is the eaufe (f fnmng m tmesfleeff

A* Snoring we take to be nothing elfe, but a noi^
and troublefome kind of breathing thro' the noie, oc-
cafion'dby fome impediment, cither within or with-
out the noflrils.

Q. I vmld defire to knovt why the tea is fal$, and thr'
Thames /r#/2r, and where it it that the vater goes at kw
tide i

A. The ra}tne(fi of the Tea, moft probably deriveir
its original from the fait rocks (of which there ar^
many inland about the iea} and the great abundance
of ialc contained in the earthy thro' which the waters
of the fea pafs in fubterraneous caverns*

The Thames h ialt, till mingled with fo great 8
quantity of frelh water, as to make £0 proportiona-
bly diminutive a quantity of fait to be impercep-
tible.

The water at ebbing flows down to that part of
the fea, which lies between the tropick of Cancer and
the Eqi^tor.

yi6 fbe British Apollo.

On the tMng rf the fi$aJel ^ L ISL E, tSc.

TRiumphant heroes, MARLBOROUGH Mffd EU-
GENE.
"When will you terminate tbe glorious feentt
Not mnter with its inau^icious forms.
Dark, fullen brows, cold damps and threatntngftorms^.
Your thnfi of glory can allay. vfhWikyeH
Thro* all obftru^ions, your great end purfue :
In vain tbe galikk fvm'rs your fine withAand»
3Vben over nattire you extend eemmmd,

Juftly tbat people's term*d a dmcmg nutien^
'And luckily tbey brougbt the knack in falhion.
Since now their heels Sand them in far morcJieMd,
Than Lewis bis, or Mumi^nens grezttr head*
In vain tbey toih in vain tbey fart'^*
In vain intrench , (re(blv*d before to^.)
Cou'd prevocations, threat s^ ox fccm prevail*
Or ar^ thing, pre%'ent their turning taii,
E'er this, by one decifive blow you'd laid
The^rant flat, and all his Jhame difplsy*4,
Kowe'er at lafl yOu have him in tbe teyis
Now force him to difgorgc his ill got fpeiif
' Whflft the propitious heav'ns on your brave tf^dly/'
fmi c.

Q. P0jtther that flace ef Scripture that fi^st If thy
right hand offend thee, (^c, does not irJtmate that fee
JImU enter ossr eternal fiate^ with the imferfeBions we m^
have had in out hodies, whilfi living in this world, thd I
am not ignorant of the meaning cf the former pare rf the
rcerdi \ but it is this fart I eonfider, where ot& Savicsa^
fi^s, ?ot it is better to enter into heaven halt or maim*
ed, than having, ^c.

A. Your concluiion would be true, if our Saviour
intended thefe exprcflions in a literal fenfe. But tbe
figurative meaning of the paflage is, that if any pre-
dominant lufl, any prevailing padion be as dear, be as
ufcfbl to us, as a right eye, a right hand, f^* We
inuft bid adieu to fo dear a luft, to fo ufeRil a pafli-
on,fince it is more proHtable for us to enter itiat the

ftrait

77fe British Afol-lo. 717-

ftrait gate, that leadeth unto life, under the no fmall-
uneafinefs of firugglirg with our brutal part, of
wcedling with flcfh and blood, than to walk in the-
broad road that leadeth to deflrudlion, with all the
pleafure and eafinefs that may accrue to the fenfual
man, from gratifying his inclinations, from fwimming
\vich the fiream, t^nd felkmng the dev'uts and defio 0/"
ifis own heart,

Q^ 1 have heard feveral relate Jimes »ith dlverfi'
•Mths in them: and fupfofe Irehearfi the fame fimes wttk
ihi oaths :

H^ethir fmh rehear fal isJmfuU and whethtr I menr
the fmalties the lavs enjoin for /wearing f

A. Tbo' the Jaw of the land has 00 regard to the
repetition of another's oaths, yet a tender conibience
Tfould be rery caratious of fuch a repetitioni for the
following reafon ; when an oath (from ib provoking
a trao(gre(1i(in, good Lord deliver usj when an oath?
is profanely utter 'd, the |;pod, the pious man, im-
mediately cries out, thjt it grates- his o&nded ears.
Whenever therefore we rchearfe any oath that we
have been fo unhappy as to hear, we bring the iln*
as it were, upon the flage again; we make the com-
pany auditors of difobFiging words », renew our owo
unhappinefs, tho' overpafi i and give thofe about us
an ungrateful fellow-feeling of fi> unfortunate afcene.
That fentence therefore of St. P^nfs, with an incoa-
fiderable variation, is very applicable here ; It is even
a fharne to fpeak if thofe tinnis, which an dom tf then^
in fteret.

Q. A young man, an ttpfnntici^ tnanied a young w$^
man 9 6sa never bedded. He hasfince got another woman
with chiH and went oWm with hor, fo that he has noi-
kern heard 0/ for almofi thefe three years faft. The law^
yers tell us, that bed and board is the fttndamental a^ ef
tnaniage. The. query is, whether tins ywng woman may
not lawfully many another man, her ffrmer being btst
half it vMrriage, according to the 4mw rf England ?

1 4. . ,rf.Wlut^

72.8 ^e British Apollo.

A. Whatever the cafe, you propofe, may be with
refpc^ to an earthly judicatWe, it is a compleat mar-
riage with regard to an higher court, the court of
confcience. The perfons mentioned Were undoubt-
edly man and wife in the fight of God. And whM
Cod has joined toiether* no nmnflmU put nfmder. But
tho* the marriage were compleat yet if the unwar-
rantable z€t0 which the husband was guilty of, were
committed afterwards, that adulterous o£ftnce, in the
judgment of our bleiled Lord himfelf, cut afunder
the gordian knot. The woman therefore upon thh
fuppoial is at liberty to marry, if ihe has the adrice
of a very able lawyer, that by fo doing fhe (hall
make no encroachment upon the laws of the land.
For otbcrwife (he cannot overlook that apoftolical in-
jun^ion ; fubm\t your ftlvts to evety ordinance of man
for the Lord*sfake,

Q^ / once courted a lady, who telling me I was not in
•ajmefli I wijhed a mofl dreadful mifchance might befeX
me^ if I ever married any other \ but fince that^ fhe haV'
ing proved a bafe woman, I am going to marry ano"
ther.

An You (hould have let us know, whether, when
you fay, that the perfbn you had once a better opi-
nion of, has proved a bafe woman, by bafenefs you
mean the lofs of her virgin modefty. For fince a
married woman, if fhe defile her husband's bed, is no
more a wife, and might lawfully be put away, would
th<^ law of the laod permit it, as may implicitly be
colle^ed from our Saviour's words i HiTofoever futteth
av^ay his "wife, excepting in the cafe of fornication j fo
much more does fo inexcufable a bafenefs cancel an
obligation inferior to that of a marriage- folemnity.

But we would advife you for the future religiouf-
Jy to avoid all manner of imprecations, and not rafh-
]y venture to entangle your felf in fuch enfnaring-as
well as unwarrantable circum fiances.

Q^ // hath pleafed God, that hitherto we have bad no
children, nor probably may^ $ en winch my husband for
fome time hath grown a little melancholy. I entreat you

Ifould

The British Apollot. jzy

wmU 6efi kind, as t0 find Um what cwnforts jf§H urn
undir fiuh ctreumftaoces,

A* Madatn, we never ezpofe any thing l)ut the vi«-

ces and follies of the age. As to the qiKry, it may

be obferved, that providence is fo indulgent to man*

kind, as to afford comforts in all conditions of life*

bow Cfcemingfy) unhappy foe?er they may be> if man

takes the pains to fearch them out, and ftthmits to

the convid^ion of them. As to the cafb before us«

moft fure it is, that children «r# cmain trmUes* hnt

tmcertam comfim, in their minority,, their inicnfibl-

lity of our kindneifs to them, renders us little fkiP

fadion from the gratitude of their returns. As they

encreaie \n years* we but more and more part with *

them, to fcboo!5, then to uni?erfitits. Inns of court,

trades, <^c. during which time, the diftance prudence

commands us to keep prevents all pleafure of con-

▼erfation. And when they come to years of difore-

tion, too often the return for all -our cares, pains an4

expences onh their education, ^^ is fray Father Se-

fUaj'd to die I The consideration whereof (hocks even

nature. If they happen to be fools or vicious, they

admioiftcr only difgrace and aiSi(^ion , if they excal

on the other hand, they edipfe and defpifeus. If we

are deprefs'd in our own circomftances, they add the

extremity of afili<^ion,in the coniiderationwe ihould

bring them into the world to be miierablet i^ w^

enjoy the afHuepceof ail things, it generally debauches

their natures j be/ides, as afHidlions ftick fafter to us

than comforts, the infelicity of deprav'd children is

more infiipportable, than the enjoyment oTthe good

is fatisfadiory. On the other hand, he who has no

children, is not only freed thereby from infinite cares

and troubles, whiph afT^ult thofe who have, but alfo

enjoys even tranfports in miiery iri«:lf, when he con-

fiders he has not made others miierable with him as

be finds many of his neighbours^ around him have

done: and if he enjoys great plenty, he has opportu-^

nity to adopt for children, pious ads of charity.

which will be ib far from upbraiding their Father,

W $ or

730 Tlbe British Apollo.

or wifhiog his life (horMed, tbtt tfaev will aflift faim
In obtaining eternal life, in the bcatinck ▼ilioa,

Q^Yi Ukruid fms cf itrt^ by hwvm difyn'd
'7b Slifs, imfrwif mid ctdtivau mmkindi
ffh9 mighty tbh^s in Ufiyfirsim Mrf^tfi,
jtHd m Mwib fimiftg ^ tii Qtd ^onfifs;
Hff tQ the wmcM alm^s yM rtltrf, *
Bind itp theif wwndu fmd imdif fwik thnt gritfi
Xh this $»ei mir§ 9Xtndycwr gen'rous did
'3^ an n^gh&edp bfi, ahmdtfi^d mm d,
"Hvm had tbf glemnt mt$t cf the dty^
Vnm mmsl view wiihdNtmn bis ssU eidtiming ray,
Aftd mm the fakfa^d eWffmfs ef the nighty
Thre* gletmy dmsds dk^*d a fiddy light :
Mem he the /hcU& efa verdant greve,
Seteh as the Geds admired* {when Geds made leve}
I met the Itvefy ebjeB efrwy fiame^
3!lf charming Strephonn ■ ■ ^ehttnhapfy ntmet
Qm fikmnrvews we msunaUy remwd^
And with delight the facred theme fmfis*di
Till he^ ngardlefs ef wy peace andfame^
Trtffd me tojojs, which I want werds te name^
Wuh grief and anger fiU'd, long time Ifireve^
Agtunfi the terrene ef invading love \
"But he with frefh attacks my heart ajfikiVd^
Till fftr my faming virtue he at length prevailed,
Te all love's diiiutes lehedience paidy
But new (tee late) I find I am betray\d^
The Swsun ■■ . ■ l

PTith baft ingratitttde myfiame reqnsteSf
Laughs at my anger, and my paffion jlighte^t
Where /hall I Jfy, eh ! whither jhall 2 run.
My /home, dijhmur, and my (elf tojhun f
Miere Jhall J ftisftd me front tins dire dijgrace^
And in what comer hide my guilty face t
How /hall I to my foul lefi peace re/lore.
That peace, which / tooiappdy enjoy' d before f

A, As fair (^oeinda'i charms our fex upbraid*
To be fo cruel to fo kind x maid>

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1V[hoIe numhrt^fah^gi nnfuni might recIaiiQi
And make iaybmfansXQit their horrid oamej
So (he reftorcs our digniryr agaia»
By yUHmg ttp to our deffotUk reign*
CinceiS our plot of tyranny, when /^
Her lArtM fUys with greater cruelty.

When fuch (Irong folid fenie and poinant wit^.
To grois Macfous arguments fubmit» /

Yield jewels of ineftfmabie price^
The purchafe of the fordid rags of Vice :
Who can prefume, he (hally^vwrf^ ftand.
Except opbeld by £ome fnferkrlmdi
Implore that unfeen pow'r with flowing eyeii
There your ridrefi, CioriMda, only lies :
Implore his aid, your virtue to rcflore.
With refolutioij to relapfe no more.
Your vh-tue thus recovered, may be flronger than C
before. JP

Q^ Apollo's Tons, 6i cMUhus howji gmd9
FAME'S CHARIOT. Ut mt Phaetonian^iV^
Tpfftfs yomr hearts, m high your thoughts mte,
Andym tmimely mut pur bvothcfs fate.
For nme revolving manths your gUty bright %
Has fliorst cir Britain viti rtffUndent light % •
But now your flagging m u ie fufinoly roves
In traSs inglorious, fatgiag nought but loves,
¥ar /home you Bri tains roufi^your flrains preparel.
To welcome home our heroes from the war.
The labours of the dufly field relate^
Wtth all the toil and anions of the great*
Or elfe let flinging City r foint your lines,
Jo U/h the follies of thefe vicious times.
Dare to be bold, in vtrttse't caufe engage,
Jlnd cru(h the growing crimes of this degenerate agir-

A. Miilaken bard, is love lo low a field.
To whom the Gods ibcir awful fcefters yield.
Who triumphs o'er the attributes of heaven.
And with coeleAial Hames, infpires the beH of meof
Who is all harmony, to whom the fpheres^
Tune all the meafures of fucceeding vcars ? -

IJ6> YetT

f^z ^be British Ai^OLLa

Yet Ftmts not fo abfolufdjr reigns,

Within the empire of our glowing veins.

But Man (hall have his due, whene'er we meet*

Aa hero worth j of our mufe to greet.

We'll alfb laih with juft foetick rage>

By an alternate ftroke, the vias of the age.

Q^'I/ is M revivid axkm^ that when thtm is placed
in the finer fnedium, and the objeH in the gro^r* that will
apfear digger than it really is I but contrarywife, when the
eye is in the groffer meditttn, and the objtS in the finer, I
dejke to know, hew it will appear then i As far example^
if a man was to Sve to the bottom efa clear river, and
book up to an objeB placed above him in the air, whether
the obji£l wetddjetm to him Ufs than it ist -

A. As every received truth is not an arionr, fo, if
what you alledge were a received truth, yet it could
not pais under the denomination^ of an axiom.

Some eminent philofbphers have been fo far from
acknowledging what you fay to be a recefv'd truth,
that they have on the contrary maintained the fame
phaenomenon to proceed from a reverted fituatio]}^
For when askt, why the fun and moon appeaV big>-
ger to the fight when near the horizon, than when^
in their meridian, they have accounted for the matter
from 4ht denlity of the air between the eye and the
horizontal luminaries : for as the air does more con*
denfate near the furface of the earth (as is evident
from the noted experiment of bhidder, containing a
certain portion of air, which continually rarifics and
gradually extends the bladder, as it is carried from
the foot to thefummit of a mountain) fo there are a
greater quantity of vapours between the eye and the
toreiaid horizontal objed^s. n

But tho' do^or WMs confutes this hypothefis, and
gives another and truer fblution of the matter, fo
neither does he eftabliib, what you call a receiv'd
axiom $ but on the contrary afferts, that refrad^ion in the
cafe before us can do no other than elevate the ob-
je6t. For a ray of light falling obliquely upon a
grofier medium defiedis to a greater diftance from a

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perpendicular. Whence it is, that we behold the fuo
•ad moofit when below oar horizon, and defcend
from a pofTibility of a ftratt line's being drawn be«
tween us and them. And hence alio it ii» that by-
the help of glafl&s we can view diftind iflandi, when
otherwife bv reafon of the coovexitj of the eartfa»-
they woa'd be in?ittble.

But left yott mav be apt to think* that G^nee, as w
ray falling obliquely upon a groiSer medium defle^s
from a perpendicular, ib a ray falling in the fame
manner upon a finer defie6^s nearer to a perpendicu*
lar, therefore iu the former pofition the objed^ may
be lefs, fo in the latter it may be bigger thin it re^
ally is. But in anfwer to this, as the one i»>cootrary
to what we have oUerv'd from do^r ffkitit, £o wo
beg leave to ofler two particulars,

1, If the matter were true, this cou'd atfe£^ no o«
ther objeds than thole, from which the rays fall ob-
liquely ,upon the grofler or finer medium.' And there-
fore, where the rays fall perpendicular, the obje^
wou'd be neither bigger nor lets than it really is. But
you propofe the matter in an irreftridive manner*.
But,

2. If the rays falling obliquely upon a grofler me-
dium, and therefore defle^iog from a perpendicular
Were a^ually to leiTen the obje^, as to its appearance,
it woa'd not therefore follow, that the rays falling
in the foremention'd manner upon a finer medium,
and therefore defle^ng nearer ta » perpendicular,
wou'd magnify the objed. For if the firft caie were
granted true, the reafon of it wou'd be infer'd from
the rerufion of the rays by the forefaid rcfledion.
And yet in the latter cafe there is a retufion alfo, tbo'
proportionably lefs, and thereibre in both cafes the
obje6b woa'd be lefs, with this only difference, that
in the one caie it wou'd not be fo much leis as in
the other.

Q. Hov mujl I mitffiund thife wtfnky they may re-
ceive you into cverlafting habitations, wm(# they //'

there tneant f the wordi aft m Luke xvi. 9.

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A, The aatccedent, to which cbe relative T/tey re«
fers, 15 the mammon of UQrtgbteourner& But then it
may be askc, why the relative be ooc in the £ime
Mimber with the aoteocdent ? To which we anfweri
that the mammoa of unrighteoBfteTs is a periphraiis
for riches, a plural word. And ft is a for: of figura
to make adjed^tves, verbs and relatives* to agree with
the word coucht under the periphrafis,

Tbi fitreft ktme^ mid antidot$ tf law \

JRr ih I tif» rtmidyf wbtu H fhm'd tMfi^

Staves m$n okmximi tbm the dkt dijeaft.

Is there we ether mere expedient way^ y '

Ne ether memts^ thtu tmt hv^s fttMtrt alb^ i C

J^jeetr ikhke lU grt^teftd tribute fmy, y

A. In marriage, leve is made naore itrm and ftroog»
By joys, which to no other ftate belong ;
Free from remorfe and fcandal, which but fow'r
The fweeted {aWics of a loofe amour :
But you. propbaoe the iacred name of love>
'Tis luft you mean» wliich we fcom to improve,
Loflth'd by the good, and punifh'd from above.

Q. YoH mil ebligi me with the trmJUtien of the twe
foUowng verfes eomfos*d by Pirgil :

Noiie pluit totd ; redeunt fpe^acula m^ne :
Divifum imferium cum JOVE CifiSAR habtt..

A* All night it r*m y dae {hev$ the morninj^-^i/^:
Ci£SAR and jOVB, a /flitted: fccpier wield.

Of thus,

All night it rains } fihc/^ffwi hdecit the morn :
CiESAFl with Jove divided rule adorn.

Qlf0>y the Traufi, a feofle near the Thracians, wht9^^
an infant is newly born^ they fit dewn and cry over it,
and carry, a dead num out with finging and dancing i.

A. The caftom might proceed from the opinion
they might entertain of this troublefome world $ and^
therefore might CJadu^e it more eligible to ^ye than.
to be born.

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Q. Im Enxj. xxi. 32. vt rttU amfimkg the fUgm
rf ktuH i tku the i»i^ 10m fittiam^ fir it wss in the
^«r^ Avr the vhetu mU the tye were wet frntteth fir^
thy were net gretem uf. JXt» fitee the hitrUy-hmveft n.
the Uaefi with us^ I d^ to knew the eliffmnt feajbns fit^
thefe Mftrem ferts ef eem,

jl. TJk barley iurveft in tiffft wtf • month fijoner
tfaa^ tint of vthax and rye. timy ( the grcit Ronrnm
naturtlift, wtio flowrifli'd wbik ^yft wts « Roimfl
province ) ioforms iis» that birley in xhak comtricik
began to ripm in Mm^^ and wfar^ in AfrU,

Q^ fmjf^ tenmed A{k>Uo» 4livet^ thefim hmek,
'Js*t fremjeet or from fnuUl-ceMl we have eter Umf-SUek f
1^'li end n d^nte if venchfafing gn imfaWt
Jbtd highly ebbge years te cemmnnd. Sir.

A. From iboc oF a lamp oa a canopy placed
At a diftance, which foon with chat tin^^ere is fac*d.

Q^ In the xiciii. chafier {f Deuc. the 18 verfe, TboOv
ihalt not bring the hire ot' a whore» or the price of
a dog into the boule of God. for any ?ow ; for even
both thefe are abomination tuito the Lord thy God*.
N»w / d^e the expUnatien tf this vtrfet smd why the
deg it stn nimmnmm te the Lerdt

A, The former pare of the vcrie implies, that if
an immodeft woman proftitured her body for fikhy
lucre, (he muft not expe^ that he^ whe is effstrer
eyes thnn te behold imtpsity^ wou'd accept of an offer-
ing C ^of *>t wia uAia) to vow an omring unto the
Lord, and therefore it i^ fiid, fir *wy 'vem ) wou'd
accept of an o^ing from^ fa unwarrantable a gain.

And fo gceat an abomination was a dog repntrd^
by the kviticai inftitution, that if any man fold a
dog (as the latter part of the ver(e acquainta us) he^
Was not permitted to purchafe any facrificc with thft
money, in order to make an oblation to the God of
JJraeL

To the queftion* why a dog was in fo diftinguifh-
ing a manner abominable to God, we anfwer, that
(aa the great Bechartm very pertinently obfcrves) the
ancient Bgyptisint paid their homage to their great God

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jbi$ibi$t as iiierc^Ijphic&lly reprelented with a bead
like a dog's. Ai^ cho' we caanot be informed front
hi&otyt whether .thrs particular part of their fupcr-
fttcious worihip obtained io early as the days of hAofot^
jet it caoDot be difallow'd, that this paflage in the
Moiaiclc Law makes it not improbable*

Q. Dots thifod marmfi mth theifodyy or is k breathed
ma the infaof m full perfe^tvn i if the fertnert and tht
ififtmt die, what Ufs if immertsUtf can the feml have t
Jf the iatter, vhy is net a child cafaHe <f reafianih
things ae the minnte ef its birth f ^ce the body femes
enly as a fefofiieryfw the fonl, and it isa&tated by. that
ahne.

A, Which fide ^ver of the queftion be true, tfie
Goniequences you £>em to draw are eafily to be a-
voided. For, \£ infants are bora with but fmall capa-
cities* but capable of impro?ement by fenfation and
reflexion* it no way follows, that the foul of a dying
infant periflies-with the body, fince as it will resuia
after its ieparatioo from the body, with the fame
fmsdl capacities it enjoy'd while in the body ; £n
God, no doubt, will raife tRoie capacities to fo ad-
Tanc'd a meafure of perfe^ion,. as may^ ik it for the
€ternal enjoyment of himlelf. But if an infant is
born with the fame perfedion, with reference to his
foul, as it can afterwards enjoy, t^hen arrived at
manhood, then it naturally follows, that the faculties
of tbe foul lie dormant and unexerted, 'rill the or-
gans of the body by advances and degrees be fp par-
ticularly conformed, as^ no longer to reflrain thofe
manicled,. as we may call them faculties. And this
cannot feem (Irange to any one* who-confiders that
tbe fumes of wine can fo alter the difpolition of tbe .
body, as to reduce the moft enlarged, faculties of tbe
moll ingenious pcrfbn to their primitive una^ivc
dormitance,

' Q. H^fen Hoah's fitod »as, nether aU the world »4s
then covered with water /.

A, DHcalion*s flood indeed was a partial one, - and
confin'd to the territories of Qretce. And tbo' tbe de-

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rcription of that flood (as accurately repreiented in
Ovid's Metamorfhops) very nearly comports with Mtftt
his defcription of Noah^s flood* yet this is no more
than an addition of circumdances, taken notice of by
Mifes of an univerfal flood, to that partial flood unda
King Deucalm.

Some indeed have thought Kotth's flood to ha?e
been alfo a partial one. Bur fucb a groundlefs con^
ceit is entirely overthrown by two paflaees in Scrip-
ture. We read in Gen. vii. 19. That tSe wum frt-
vaiVd excteJingfy upon the tarfh, and till the ingh Mis
under the whole heavens were eever'd. At rerCc the ft ifl.
we are told, that altfi/h died that was tspen the earth.
And the following relation is fnli of pregnant notes
of nniverfillty.

If therefore fo plain, fo exprcflxve a defcriptron
may be figuratively confin*d, there can be no fuch
thing as wrtfting the /cripttsres to oter own dtflmSiets.

(X In our coal pits about New>CaflIe, when they have
intMy dug otet a vein, they flop it up with all tmaginte-
hie diligence, that the leaft air tnay not po0fy enter ^ lefl
it fire the remaining dufi of the coals, and irritate it with
the ifre(^i&U rage of gm-fowder, to hhw up all above
it i as was lately unhappily experienced, iy the Irfs of th$
kves of above 40 perfons.

A. There may be a very good reafbn for that can*-
tion of not letting in the air into thoft pits 5 but we
do not think the greater danger lieth in that the re-
maining duft of the coals might be fired by it. For
fuppofe it fhottld, no fucb dreadful blowing up as
happen'd lately, would follow -, 'tis rather to be feared
led the nitrous particles, with which the air abounds,
mixing with tlM loofe (ulphurous matter of the coal
mine, (hould make a compound not unlike to gun-
powder, and apt to be fired accidentally feveral ways*
as by lighting a candle, a pipe, or the flriking of
fome flint-flone, but not by the air alone.

Q^ J defireyou would give the befi account you can ef
cocbineie whence it comes ^ and the origin ef the fame.

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jL The drugg, which we diftinguiib by the name
of tochmUt is commonly reported by the Spamturds,
( who in their dominions in the Wejl'Indies are the
matters of Sufficient opportunities to know it throughly
by the qiiandties prpduc'd) we iay, it is by them
reported to be nothing but the carcafes of little Rics^
not nHu:k unlike the infed call'd a lady^M^ which
breed upon the leaves of the prickly Indian fig^tree^ and
when they have attained to full maturity, are fmo<*
thcred by the fumes of herbs or ftraw burnt under
then), and Ming down on canras (beets, are dry'd
by virtue of a conftant fun-ihinei and the wings
rub'd off in gathering, leave the body round and flui*
vei'd* in the form and buik vi'c have our codnmk in.

The merchants tell us, there are four fcrts thereof,
As id* TUihalkbe, which is of a black dull colour,
but the longett grain. 2^\y, M$ifiek$y which is a
grey fort, and the meaneft oiF all the kinds, gdly. Gd-
lUcMt in colour between both, of the fame Hze but
much excelling in goodneis. 4thly. lUxcaU or Ufifets^^
which h tht reddeit in fhew, and the richefl of ail in
uiie i but all tbeie forts make up one commodity, for
the merchants mingle them together, and fell them
promifcuoudy for the hbft kind.

It i$ called Coch'mtU by the Spaniards, as a diminu-
tive from the Coccms of the antients, Coechus Baphicus,
or h^tQm^mt which we now coMKirmtSt from whence
that precious juice Alktrmes is taken.

But not to enter upon the merits of the cauie, re-
lating to its being a By or not, wc ihati inform jou«
that though common credit fpeaks the dragg a pro-
du^ of no other part than thofe above-named, yet s
Gentleman of our fociety difcover'4l on an ilknd,
ibuth of Tpudast in the JEgeanfia, a certain kind of
buHi or (hrub, the talleft not exceeding two yards in
bei|;fat, and of breadth proportionable j they bear a
leaf- thick, long and narrow, and a certain cod hke
thoie of vetches, which contained 4, 6, or 8, more
or kfs fmall peas, ct fometbing like 'em, cover'd o-
ver with a hoary kind of downynefs and juicy like
the h^y of a red wall ipider. Looking

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Looking on the ground be fmud it cover'd with
the faHkn prodttd or a former year, the cods were
open, and on taking up the Ittde fruit they bore» he
found, them both in tafte» fornii bigacTf, coioar and
cfie^, no other than tbeCMbi»ip/f you-fpcakof. Hence
the querift may diredl his judgment on the fubje^
as he thinks mofl: reafonable.

Q. Dover mtn, mU /peMkers^ tmd n§ lumnt. iVhmm
ih§ mgkal tf the frovtrb f

Am A learned man propofes t rery probable opf^
nion, namely, that the proverb took tu riie from
ibme tumultuous court kept at IViw* where was t
confluence of many nocfy and boifteroua&amen, who
. are generally too ready to enchroach upon the wo«
mens prerogative, and are ufualiy io fuU of talk as to
leave no room for attention.

Q. Apollo, [tiy from vheneo 4rifi
Thofe fallacies which blind our fye/,
H^ch give us hopo^ otuh duff fur imri
Wo fh^li enjoy, thtm o*er iofcro i
Tet tho* wo find it (idl $0trm,
OfiT hopes we fodijhfy fffifotit
Bv'n to M age, and them Seiievo
In joys, whiU»yoH$h eou^d never ghfo,

A, We hofOt nor are our hoifeo in vaia»
Altho' our wifli we don't obtain i
Since theie a reUxmum grant
To life's vexations i cares and want \
And in the mid ft of famt give enfe^
Aid in the midli of troubles pleafi^

Nor is it varin, to hope for more
Sttcceedhg jofs^ than paft before.
Since knowledge with experience joyn'd.
Yield brighter 4rAiffforts to the mind,
Than giddy youth, fenfi there's the fourcc.
Alloy 'd by feandal and remorfe.

Hipe^ by baljaneick pow*r controul
The griefs and anguijh of the foul,
IV(^»ote tta energy divine.

And make it e'en in dtsrkneft fhine^

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Siifimn our pilffi$m$g^ below.

Support againft the fatal Slow,

U^tthilrMiw the curtains of our mghty

And-givc us hero a gUmpfk o^ future fidds rf lights

Q. / caugift sfifl, {others amongl
Whofe head was full five foot long.
And his tail was ( truly )
Aj long as his head and half his bede^r
And his body ( without fad )
Wks jufi as hng as his head and tad.
This is my quefiion,

' Uefdve if you can, ,

Bm Img was the body . ,

And fifPs tail then i
A. Wife Sir, a fiftccn-footcd difli
Exaa:]y nicks the tail o'th' filb.
Oi twenty feet another -
Contains the body without any pother.
Qi To fms ef ApoIJo, / <ften have heard,

rL ^^*^/^^^'' y^ ^^ <^'«^, l^ad never a beards
If he had, pray inform me how this fotUkfh fiwy

Was invented at firfi,fince it fuUiesksgfwyf
J^ who amongft men, but is counted as no mtuf.
If bear dU ft he is, and is hifs'd by the. women :
If not, how cou*d he, who was counted fo wife, be
Of futh^ a crime guilty, and be fuch a nixjy f

A, 'Tis a wonder more ftrange, how the queri^
can dare.
The phjz o^ bright Phoebus with man's to compare :
Or fuch praiie to that troubieibme part can impute,,
which makes its flern bearer rcfcmble a bnit«.
Were a beard by the God of all fcienccs worn.
It mfgbt then the philofopher juftly adorn 5
But as>/ is without it, nor Mercury has it,
^ It argues philojophum barba non facit.

Q^ Why does a mifl often precede an hot dt^ t

" •^' Heat and cold owe their original, not only ^0

the vicinity or diftance of the fun. but alfo to the

various difpofitions of the atmofpherc. And ti^ is

evident from common experience^ fiace in the bcgin-r

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wag of fammer we have ibinetimes hotter weather,
than when the fua approaches the northern tropick
of Ouutr.

In a mornin| therefore preceding an hot daj, the
atmoiphere is io difpos'd as to receive from the iiia
fach a proportionable degree of heat, as is fufficienc
to exhale fuch a quantity of moifture, as enough to
compofe a m\£t*

But this obicrvation is n^ore generally taken, when
a Eiltry day fucceeds to preceding cooler ones. For
in cooler weather there is a greater portion of moi-
fture, near the furface of the earth* for the fun to
exhale andetevatc.

Q^ Th$ Brazil- fleet brings loooo ar^hs rfgM{i4cb
Mraiwiighs thirty two fomd) andagrtat qitAntity of ditt*
mmdj, 6efidts their other ufaal merchandizM : Thefieei
is valued at fify' millions ef cru/adesi each cru/ade is worth
three Jhillmgs and four fence : 2 defire te know what tha
vhole fleet comes toi

A. Tho' the queflion be of vulgar operation, and
may be folv'd by a very fmall proficient in arithme-
ticki yet iince the Braxjl-fleet is the greateft that ever
arriv'd at fortngal (by reafon that the fortuguefe have
lately iprang a new mine in thofe parts) and therefore
' many, who underftand not fo much as multiplication
and divifion, may be curious to know the value of fo
remarkable a fleet, we think fit to accjuaint the querift,
that the value amounts to eight millions, three hun-
dred and thirty thrpe thoufands, three hundred and
thirty three pounds. Ax (hillings and eight pence.

q2 ^^ where the rofemary grofWi^ it is /aid there tho
voman reigns t

A. Roifemary is held an extraordinary thing to for-
tify the brain, flrengthen the nerves, and recover lod
ipeecb, which lad virtue renders it highly valuable
amongft the female iex : and floce . the woman go-
verns thro' the power of her tongue; it is no wonder
fhe takes care to cherifh that herb, that mav afford
ha fuch a fovereign afllflancc, in cafe of a failure.

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Q. HUfAt fartimlar mark may he fowU itfcn AJlk&t'^
$n, t9 know rohithir the pirtf dHtmi*4 ifd by efhrn f

A. A fymptom of that kind we believe is ftarce-
ly difcernible upwi diflcdion, becaufe tbe operatkni
of opium is chiefly upon the anima] ipirjts^ out it is
poffible, that a qqaotity of \x. crude taken into tbe
Homach, may inflame and diibrdcf it in a very great
nieafure : an inflance whereof^ Dr; lAtud in bis "b^
on Opium, gives us in a fisiaFl dog» into whole fto-
anach he fbrc'd about two drams of it« which firfl
dozM him, then t^rew him into convollioos, and
kill'd him. Being open\), the infide of bis flomach
was as clean as if fcrap'd* and waih*d from all ilinlc
of the glands, with ibme rednefs here and there, as
is an incipient inflammation.

Q. Toymfcf aid, all o'er in deef de/pairt
Thi womded foul with tnmbUng dots affear^
Overwhelmed in thou^t diffih/dJn anxious foinfm
^utfoon thofe fears, thofo very fears an gone,
90?en at your feet fhe makes her piteous moan^
7%e daring Atheift trembles, when he reads
tour cogent arguments, and with reluSianee pleads ^
That bright Apollo, does his thoughts contrml,
And checks th*^ impetttosss faUies rf his foul.
To you the iitjur'd virgin does complain.
To you fhe fues, nor does fhe fste in vam»
Thus your extenpve bounty's not cenfin'd.
To all obliging, and to tdl yot^re kind.
^Encourag^d thus, I trouble your recefs.
From you, from you, it is, Iftek redrefs,
Vfifold the myf^ry of thisfacred text,
Waich has of late, my troubled foul perplexti
To wit: the Tea fhall ^ then give up her dead.
On whom innumerable creatures fed,
There in ten thoufanJ, thoufand pieces torn.
To various parts by different creatures bom.
Who foon perhaps to th* greater kind become
A prey, and in their bellies find a tomb.

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f0Hlfl thy fhtmfihes v^hm 4 UttU fptM^
Suifirvignt mfw food H httmMfi foetk
Oteii me then horn can the Jeep rtfign^
frtmt Jhe wiihm htfftlf does me cenmm f

JU WficniMSveo'sabnnfcgtrainp (hall dreadful fiNmcFs
T&e trembltog rocks fhall into atoms bound.
All nature ifaall a deep attention lend;
Earth, air, and fca tbeir Maker's voice conmend.
Each dement tbeir captrres (hall re(lere.
And death (grim monarch^ (ball prerail no morr.
Th' earth (hall obey with emulating (Irife,
And mouldring afhes quicken into life.
The willing & diigorge the mangled prey.
It (hall enfold, on t£at portentous day.

Q^ No mere delays^ dear yo§ab» mj fi^ md cimrms,
J yield MM eajf viShn to yom arms i
And m» htvUo you Md^ to that wart
90jire onfyfft endearments, weafem are.
Idyfaancy does my exfe^atim move,
Wtih hopes if moroy than bare platontck lore;
'ExpeB me then, bright darling of mfonl,
Wtfi ef that phci, where /porting biueios rowU
Within the park, thofe flea/km reyal groves ,
Shall be the witnefs of our tender leaves ;
Jaft at that tmoy vhmftars ef Ufir lights
Vamjh, ajhan^d at yotsr great TMthe^s fight %
The morning that Juuetds yonr next reply.
Thither withjov will Theodora jfy,

A. Myfterious fex, form'd to amuie mankind*
Who can the depth of all your riddles find?
Fair THEODORA owns her fclf z lover.
But (bill declines the obje^ to difcover.
Oneof .a^'s fons, Ihe grants the grace.
But names not which, of all ^pi^^^'s race*
In (acred bands of amity they're t^'d.
Nor wou'd infringe the*w/, e'en for a bride»
In mutual courtefies dwells their delight.
Each cautious to invade another's right j
Till Theodora then her fwain reveals,

WIa\^ (tiz dtclmts obfcurtly, ^t conceals,"

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Q. Hither hU lawful ta flay oi eanlj •cr n$t ; and
^ n ist hvw mufl wt flay vUh9H$ a. breach tf a/r^ €f th%
commandfnenuf

A. To play at cards is undoubtedly an innocent
diverfion, fo it be confined within ics proper bounda-
ries* And therefore cards fhould not claim too great
a portion of your time, ihould not get the afcendant
of your heart, ihduld not make you greedy of filthy
lucre, ihou]d not tempt you, either to deceit, or
paffion.

Q^Mayfemd crnpm mamy t

A, Since fecond couiins are not within the pro-
hibition fpecified in the i8th chapter of Liviticus,nos
in the canon of the Church, which is a tranfcript of
tl^e faid chapter > and fince withal they are a fecond
remove from the prohibited degrees, ^we fee no fba-
dow of a fcruple, why they may not be joined $agith(r
m holy matrmvuy*

Q. li^DOUi is the word parUament deriv'df

A» The word is of French original, and is deriv'd
from the word farkmnu, which iignifies difcour/^
ing, conferring, or cpnverfiog with* And this h a-
gain deriv'd it farler la mente, to ipeak ones mindj
becaufe in conferences we declare our &ntiments«

Q» I am very often troubled (whea I am, as me may
fay, between fltep and awakes vhich may praperly Se
called JlumSering) with a grievous weight , by reafin 4f
which I am not able to ftir neither hand nor foot ^ and
have, not the power ef /peaking ,* which when it firft trou'
bledme^ I was very much furprix,*d i but being oftm uftd
to itt it is not/ajrightful,

^. ...This diforder of your's is that which is called
Incubus, or the Night Mare^ and it h cayied, as fome
will have it, by thick, melancbolick bloods but we
rather inOpute it to malignant vapours afcending to
the brain, and fo af&dbing, the nerves, as to hinder
the influx of the animal fpirits to the h^art, and or-
gans of refpiration j fo that .the motion of the heart,
and pneumomck veiTels, being hardly performed, th&
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fcnfe of weighty and other fymptomu abore mcar
tioned.

Q;^ PThat is if th^t engenders lice, and why fime folks
i$ Ifrad them, and ethers are emirefy free fretn them f

A, As to the ordinary generation of lice, it ii
commonly imputed to filth and naftinefs, and a cor-
rupt motft humour, which is animated by the heat of
the body. But there is another fort of loufinefs, which
is purely a difeafe, fo that notwithftanding the pati«
ent ihould bath !nd (hift every hour in the day« yet;
will thefe vermine abound: and this is fuppofedto
proceed from excrementitious and preternatural ha-
moursy communicated from the blood to the ctttis^
Where breaking out into fmall puftules, the lice af9
engendered, and thence extruded.

Q. IfSe are eemmc^d that Qod is good%
"Far be dah give tss daily feed:
We knefv his pUafure is tefavei
Buaufe be made his Sen a Jlave.
Jbsd we heftevet that trtte delight
Hits in a world that's ota tf fight.
That if m faith we emit ettr Jreath,
ffkgain immortal lift ky death.
We knew Uktwife this worlds a cheats
We find its joy fo foon retreat.
Naf, at the hefi we do bitt fisaro
Ostr good, with a vexatiotis care*
Then why fi flow, Jo loth to leave
This earth, that we may heaven receive.
Ibis faradox, Apollo, fray exfUin,_
How in »ii foul thefe s^erent fajpons reign f

A. Uofrimds on earth fb dofe are join'd«
As human bpdy^^ to the mind.
Which fympatluze in ev'ry thing.
Together laugh, grieve, figb, or £ng j
Of equal joys is all- partake.
And ibftr for each other's fake.
And is it Grange, when thefe inufl part*
That naiiire ihockt> ihould give a fiart?

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And when thefe antient, deareft friends
Muft part, for fucb vaft dr£R:rent ends*
Whilft one afcends yon azure skie.
The other'n earth, muft mouldring lye;
And yct^a firm and vig'rous faith
A pow'rfo wondrous ftrengthning^hath;
That ev'n in this fad parting, 'twould relieve*
Since always 'tis dcfcdive, when we grieve.

Q^ Tell me, why hunffmen, when laid dewn $o Jleefi
Ctmm their aBive minds in Jhrnber keep;
Buf to the woods and caves will take their way,
jSnd httnt by night, what they had caught ty day,

A* When we to (pedal things our thoughts re(lraiil»
Tfaofe thoughts leave obvious traces in the brain.
No wonder then, the fubtle fpirits greet
Thofe parts, where they «n open paflage meet.
And when they thro' the fame apertures dancet
The iame ideas in our fouls advance.
\ > Q^Behdd! behold! Apollo, y^f.
'A fufpUMnt here with bonded knee.
And hands extended to your Deity,
Offering ttp facrifices to your Jhrme,
And raifing tnfhies to you moft divine^
Jn hopes you will not now my caufe reje&.
And on my firmer troubles once fefieS:
But fatiify my poor deje^od n^ind.
If in your recipe's you can but find
A cure, fir one with pox and gout affiled.
And by mefi wife phyficians now reje^ed.
lAft to defpair obtaining of a cure.
And fired with patience cruel pains t* endure^
Baging in every hmb and every part,
'From head tofiot,frem hand to heart,
Twice have I undergone a powdering courfe.
But yet ne'er better t fir I flillgrow worfe.
Now if you don't extend manum (ariantem,
Vll hang wy [elf. Tours , Henry. Rogantem .

A, Since pcfwd'ringCourfes cannot move your ills*
)9^t thefe your ailings fail the dodor's skills*

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T oar own prefcription ipt^GdCt then, the rope
It cures deibair, and cancels flatt'ring hope.
Hemp IS a ibvereign balm for ev'ry wQie*
And what you ought t'have tailed long ago*
And tho 'tis late, yet bettir Utt than rnvgr.
One dofe thereof prevents returns for even

Qi Aether a fxtus that diet at thi ixfiratim rf ii^bi
months is finfikle tf a futttn fistt*

ui. Since a foetus is before that time inform'd with
an human foul j that immediate to its expiration it is
ienfible of a future ftate is what cannot be denied hj
any, but fuch as difallow of (oh ! that there were
none, who either by miftake, or prejudice, would
maintain ib dangerous a do^ine} tiie natural imrnori^
tality of the foul.

Q; Does it not fetm frdaMe^ that Ovid had fime m^
tion of the. Scriftttre, when he /peaks ef Deucalion'/ jte/.
which fiems to aUude to the flood in NoabV titno: and
AgamemnonV going te facr/fico his daughter, had not
Diana intervened, feem to aUido to Ahrz^m's facrificing
his fin Ifaac, iutd not the angel hafpily prevontid itt

uf • That the heathens in and before Ovid's time^
borrowed many things from thofe oracles of truths
their writings and ufages manifedly declare* As God
in Detaeroneny is call'd a confuting fire, fo Hteetiut
is of opinion, that this memorable pailage gave ocar««
fion to the terfian idolatry of adoring fire. The law*
givers of the gentile world evidenced their admirati-
on of Mofes's inflitutioo, by a transcription of ieveral
of hts^ laws; as may be plainly gathered from the old
attick law$, and the twelve tables of Borne.

As for the heathen mythology, which owed ittt
fettlement to the antient Greek poet, a late learned
prelate is of opinion, that it was not borrowed from
the Scriptures, but derived from the traditionary ac-
counts of thoie occurrences, of which <Af(i^j gives us
an hiilorical relation*

But if it be enquiredl, a» ft pertinently may, how
came their mythological accounts, if deriv'd from the
fi)ttntain«heady to dificr in fo peat a variety of cir-

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ctiinftaQoes from the biliory of Mcfet, to the eoquiry
wc fubjoin the fubfeqaent particulars, which are moro
largely handled by the foremen tioned author.

1. We cannot but be feniibleof the very great un«
certainty confequent to tradition, fince we often ex-
perience, that even a modern tradition does frcouent-
Ij reprefent occurrences under a ftrange diveruty of
material circumftances.

2. The confufion of tongues at the tower of BM'
M made tradition to become more uncertain and pe<
carious.

3. The equivocal words, fo famiHar to the oriental
knguages, might ftill add to the unartainty of their
di^nant accounts.

4. Upon the increafe of idolatry in the world they
might accommodate their accounts to their fuperftiti-
otis obiervances.

f. What new traditions tb^y might meet with in
their travels into other countries* tney might bknd
and mingle with the old.

6. The Greek poets might purpofely make confi-
dcrable alterations, to difguife and co?er the traditi*
en, tfiat they might witl^ut difcovery of the cheat
accommodate the ftory to their own country.

7 . As for the diverfity of names ; in that (as B0'
thartfts observes) they applied the method of the ori«
clital tongues to the idiom of the Greeks \ whence their
proper names, as deriv'd fr«m appellatives, have the
fame iignifiation in the Gntkt as have the Saipture-
sames in other languages.

The learned prelate, taken notice of above, thinks,
that }Xeah*% flood, and that of DeueiUien^s are the verf
> Ibme: and that fince Detudhn was the moft ancient
ICio^ of Theffiilft the Tbeffalimns therefore appropriated
to mm the antient tradition of HMb*$ flood. But
£nce Deaealhn's flood is fo remarkable an 4r« in an-
tient hiftory } fince both profane authors and the chri*
Aian fathers are fo particular in the flory, we think'
oarftlve^ cxcuftble, tho* we diflent from fo great a
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whoever reads Afollod§rus\ at well as Ovut% de«
foipHon of BweMlMs flood» he cannot choofe bat
fee various applications from tbe general to the par-
tial deluge. Which latter, according to an antient
author, was eight hundred and eighty four years after
the fbriner. But as fome carry tbe epocha lower
down, fo others remove it higher.

What you fay of IphigemA may perhaps be a no
improbable conjedhire. But fince Agmmmtim and
Jt^h^ are fuppos'd contemporaries, ibme learned
men are of opinion, that the ftory is derif'd from

thence.

Q. Whtnce was the oriimal faying Jeriv'd,thAt 4 r^ii-
tented cuckold gees to heaven f

A. Probably from this fuppofidon, that he who
can be contented in that condition, can be contented
in any date of life.

Q.Ti&ff' net aChriftwh Jit mj durken'd hetfi
Cmtmns afiul, to tenerms tbougktt mclin'dt

And far th* a0mg frvmr fm'vt exfre/f.
Accept the triSute rf a grateful mind.

The fucred Scriptures, yen defke. Id rendt
And there csmfuU thofe oracles divine i

But as a juft okieHion, firfl I pleads
ffbat grounds t mtat knowledge have you, that each Bm*

ffks by th*Alt»ightf pen'dt 'tis this Vd know 9
^ts this will fix wy mfmt faith fecure}

Tour efforts ufe, convince me, this isfo
tjy folid reafmt that a God allfure,

Hiaofo throno on yonder azure roof it placed,
should from yon vaulted palaces depend

(There with refulgent light in gkry grac*d)
TinfhuH mankind, that he fhou'd cendefeend

To me*s myfterious ■ ■

A. What } ihall God condefcend a world tp makr^
Yet difregard the very world he made ?

Shall the Creator his own works forfike.
And chtldren by ihtxr father be betray'd ?

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IF dazling grandeur does our thoughts furprize»'
As tho' below his frovidential fate.

Yet this will clear our whimiical furmizc*
He's ioBnitely good, as .well as great.

Such flagrant miracles the Scriptures prove
To owe their rife to the celelliai fpheres,

That (hort refledlions will our doubts remove*
^Increafe our wonder, and allay our fears.

Such awful mjderles themfelves unveil,
Difclofe their beauty to th* admiring eye.

Thus to exclaim the reader cannot fail.
Him, him I view, who dwells in yonder skic.

The certainty of figns recorded there
Attefting myriads zealoufly proclaim j

Nor will contemporary oppofers dare
To call in qutftion fo renown*d a fame.

Begin, ingenuous Indimy to enjoy
The raptures, from thofe facrfd truths accrue y

Trace blooming honours, joys, that never cloy |
And biifsiui pachs of Qiotlefs fame purfu*.

Q. In youthful Uoom fine from domeftkk c»r$
Or -want penurious, coy DaphneVy^oroi
My hours in rural fforts rovohing faft*
O^tr- hill and daU on Sorrel> no&U ftoed,
{Pleas' d with the grateful dm of weU-mouth'd bounds)
The rapid chafe undaunted Ifurjuii
Sometimes at 6reak of dawn, o*er ity crufi^
With engine fatal to the volant kind,
Whofe blaft fulfhureous, mounts the towering lead»
Cheeking their flight, precipitant with death.
And vhm your fire does fuUry rays difpence^
Then unto cooling fir earns with luring halt; ^
I do retire the finney herd to tdke»
At hour 'cf dusk, then with companions hoon,
BUthfome and jocund, o*er the fparkUng glafs.
Still mindful of the GoLDiK Mean J paft
My time in harmlefs chat and repartee i
Or el/e with virtuous ^tymfhst in ruftick dance

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By tharming fiunds ihJpirU, the mgbt I wafii.
Sagacious bards, diSiatt your facred rules
7> fny HnJUbU fid\ which may refiram
My thoughts, too much to fenfusl joys mclm'd,
jtfid pUu/uro to enjoy, us not to taint my miud.

A. Hail happy bard, who in a ftate retfr'd/
From all the ooxious vices of the town.
And anxious cares, which prey on human Wfc^
Pafs fmoothly on jour bliisful days in peace,
(A ftate which monarchs wou'd afpire to taftej

So {oft the hUmdiJhnmts, your hours beguile.
And with fo fweet a face of innocence.
The iharpeft fight they challenge to explore
The hidden trades, which may infe6l the foul.'
Be vigilant then, on your guard, to know.
How they deprcfs your virtue, or exalt.
If they refrefh or more ^fk6t your mind;
If they're your end, or but fubordinate
To purpofe more fublime; if at the creature
Tou flop not, but thro' all the various turna
Occur, you make your ultimate fole end
The great Creator's dignity and praife,
Then in an heav'n on earth youll pais your happy
days.

Q. Hm iot^ mttft Theodora /w lo vsiitt
l^er fljo her hvefy cimrmtr am obtain f
How leng her hitter plaints undfyhs reheuffi^
Tell o*er and o*er her wcunds m humble verfef
Amdfi the glmius youths that dazling flune,
InyoHT Sright fynod, in four toyzX line, i

My iim*rous tfuill does wUlmgly imfartp
Which has my love, vhieh has my abfent heait.
'lis he who with fweet numbers long huth chairm'd^
And new of all its force my foul dtferfi^d*
*Jis he, who writes fo heav*fdy,fo divine.
Conveying feeret wounds by ev*ry line,
Whefe nervous verfe, and lofty vig'reus fyhtt^
"Bjevijh eafb lij'ning maid with pure delights:

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f0fo. willing frh'ners makes the beauteeus nine,
Hisilft others arms thcyfeornfuUy 4/eclme.
Tofet m clenreft light the doubt, Uis be,
Hlnfe province it has been, to treat with me, '

^. So fbf t, fo fweet, 7our charming nunobers floWj
So bright a/bu!» their tuneful Muther Siewi
Whilft theoJora by tbcfc powerful arts,
AflaultSa overcomes and captivates our h^rartsi
Enough to (hake our undivided fbte*
Were not our amity conHrm'd by fate.
The glorious prize each claiming to belonj^
To fccrct merits of his happy fbngj
Whilft we alternately our force rejoin»
Ambitious in your favours All to ihine.
Since, each then to that province hath afpir'd.
And each with hopes of fair fuccefs is fir'd i
Which is the happy fwain» we all fubroiti
To the unerring umpire of y<Fv wit.

Q. In the xxth chapter rf St, John and the xyth
▼erfe, Jefus faith unto her^ viz. Mary Magdalen, totuh
me notify 1 am notyeit afcended t9 my Father, 8cc. And
yet in the zSth of St, Matthew and 9tb verfe, it'sfaidt
And they .came and held him by the feet and wor«
ihipped him i and in the 24th chapter ef St, Luke it's
to the fame peerpofe, viz. And the fame dty» at evenings
Jefus flood in the midfl ef them, and fays, Behold my
hands and my feet, for it U I my ielf s handle roe and
fee, CSTr. N^ J d^e yem^ ^hmn whether Chrift did a*
fiend, er noi before he made Ins publick afienfm f

ji. That Chrift did not after his refurredion a-
fcend into heaven before his publick aicenfioiiy h
what all expositors are agreed in i and therefore the
difficulty lies in the ezpofition of tboie memorable
wordsj Tottehme not, for I am npt yet afemdid to my Fa-
jher. And as this paflage has tortur'd expofitors, and
therefore put them upon variety of interpretations, fo
we beg leave to propofe, what (eems to us to bid the
faireft for the genuine fenie« But we would firft ob-
ferve, that what we tranflate, touch, fignifies al(b to
detain or hold faft* ' And therefore our Saviour does

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not forbid iier to touch him for the proof of his real
humanity, but as fhe roaybefuppos'dout of her ardent
love (for our Lord himfelf auures us, that /he hved
much) to have detained him longer than he thought
convenient* fo he alfo may be naturally fuppofed to
liave reftrain'd her unfeafonable love in the foremen-
tioned words, which we would thus paraphraftically
expound. " Detain me nor, M^t from the bulincfs
** vhich my Father fint me t9 do, J» I mm vet yet nf*
^* tended t$ my Father, 1 have not yet difchargcd my;
'* mediatorial office, an office neceflarily confcquenC
** to that expiatory facrifice I ofFer'd upon the crofs.
.** Since therefore I have fo great, ib important an
** employment upon my hands, interrupt me not with
your mw impertinent embraces, but fuller me to
make needful preparationa for fo vaft, £o moment-
ous an affair. Sufier me to confirm my melancho-
ly difciples, my defponding brethren in the grand
article of my refurrefiion from the dead. Suffer me
*' to /hew my /elf alive tmto them, by mtmj nrfiiMiSle
*' proofs to be pen ef them forty days, to/^ak of tho
*' things pertaining to the kingdom ef Ced, Suffer me
•* to difcharge this weighty bufincfs upon earth, that
" I may be ready to afeend up m high^ to load captm*
*< ty captive t to fit domn on tho right hand ef God, to
'* make interce/pon for tho Jms of the peoplo, to receivo

'* S'fi^ /^^ '^'*> ^^^ ^* ^^^ ^^ '^ ^^^^ among
** them. And when I have performed all this, vhm
** I am a/ctnded to my Father, then I (hall be ready to
" receive you at your difTolution : you and every o-
" thcr depaf tiog faint, into my everlafting embnicer»
** my eternal arms. Then I ihall no longer £iy. Do*
<* tain me not.

Q. Is there any charm, incantation, or medicino in m-
turo fo powerful, as to bo able to forco the appearanco
tf any fpirit^ datnon, or apparition of a doceafed por-*
font

A. We cannot think^ it, for two realbns*

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X. We cannot c6nceive, that matter without 'the
mediation of a vital union, can operate upon an im*
material fubfhnce^ unlefs by the intervention of an
almighty agency.

2. If matter, while within moderate degrees of
vicinity, could influence a fpiritual fubftanccj yet tbe
unknown diflance of feparate fouls would natural!/
prevent the application.

,Q. In thi fern juar Thorney in Northampton (hire,
J hav^ fttn cah trees of a black coUw, that have been
taken out tf the ground about two foot deep, and twelzfe
itr fourteen foot in length. I define your opinion, whether
they were there buried, or of natural growth, by reafem aU
the winter the ground is cwrred with water, nor aire there
a,ny trees growing within three miles of the place, I have
heard alfiofthe hke in Chefhire.

A, It is thought by fome, that thofe trees which
are found laid down fo deep in tbe earth, have been
there ever fince the flood, and that having at that
time been rooted up and carried to and fro, by the
violence of the water they were left in feveral places
vrhere no trees grow, and remained covered by the looft
earth or mud, which by degrees fettled from the
waters, as they did either evaporate or retire inta
their channels. That is the moft probable account that
can be given of thofe who lie pretty deep, and are of
a conflderable bignefs: but as for thofe you mention,
perhaps it may not be neccflary to have recourfe to
that general inundation of the earth, but only to fome
particular one.

Q. How do you prove that there are antipodes f

uf, Oa fuppofition that the earth is globular, if a
ilrait line be drawn from ary part of the fuperficies,
and extended quite thro' the globe, Co as to pene-
trate the centre, they, who inhabit the two extremi-
ties of the forefaid line, arc call'd Antipodes : and
therefore the folution of the queflion depends upon
the proof, that the earth is globular, and this is prov'd
by the following arguments.

I. The

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r. The fan ri&s fooner to the eaftern, than to xh^
weftera iDbabitants of the earth. And pilots, who-
iail fouchward, view fuch (brs above their horizon »
as were before below it, and obferve the £ime Aars to ap*
proacb nearer to the zenith, in proportion to the dif-
ferent degrees of ktitude they advance .to. But nei-
ther of thefe two phaenomena's, deducible {from the
longitude and latitude of places, could be admitted aa-
matter of fad, unlefs the figure of the earth wae
fpherical.

X. When the earth comes between the fun and anjr
part of the moon» it cads upon the moon a conic
ihadow: and opticks afTure us, that if any {olid bod/
caft a conic (hadow upon a ipherical body, that folid
body is alfb fpherical.

9. Our Europeans have feveral times fet fail from
J^urope, aud gone direflly wefl fouth to the MagtUnmc
fea, and thence weft-north, till they have returned in*
to Europe from the Eaft, and have obferv'd all the
fame plixnomeoa, which naturally refuk from the
property of a fpherc.

4* When we travel a diftance from a mountaio»
where our profpedl is no ways bounded, firft' the
lower, and then gradually the upper parts of the
mountain vanifli from our fight. And when we ap»
proach the mountain again, we may obferve a re*
verted fcenf. And this appearance or difappearance
of the feveral parts of the mountain holds an accu«-
fatc proportion to the fpherical tumour of the earth.

And indeed there are^ great number of appearan-*
ces obferv'd by both geographers and aftrononers,
that cannot be otherwife accounted for> thaa by the
Ipherical figure of the earth. '*

'(^H^en in a dumpijh humour ^ as Ifatt
The time unto my fmcy adiquati i
My mindi my thoughtful mind was whclfy bent
On you, and on the queftion I havefent,
Tofolve the which, I tim'rous crave jour aid,
Xet to imphrefi much I am afraid^

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tifty^u frgvdkt, diffUyyoar dreadftd $re»

1^ finding fmh your rod, and mt your lyro :
' JKe thtrefore pUat'd to know^ I'll wait vith fUafitrip

^or yoMfJolutian M four gtoMefi Uifitrg,

For what I vory fain wou*d underfiand

Is, whin 6f the divine, almighty hand

Wkro angels m'adef ■ ■■

A. D' you ask, when angels into being ro{e ?

'Tis what an anecl can alone diiclofe.

*rbofe elder brothers made a tuneful choir.

E'er jidatfo was inform'd with heav'nijr iire.

But whether they were in their infant dace.
When the Creator did the world create i
Or whether crown'd with a maturer age,
Vfhen devils vented their infernal rage »

' ,The facred penmen no difclofures make :
And if th cfrefilentf who (hall dare to /peak f

Q^ Is it a fin, to f»ear by the name of God in a trtee
thing, for methinks the commandment only forbids tofwear
in vain t

A. God's name is taken in vain by a twofold per-

foni by the falfi, and by the ^^mm^n fwearer. The

one klafphemts his Maker's honour, the othe^ fPorts

with it. And therefore both unhappily forget that

' holy and reverend is his name.

fiut what, tho' the commandment had not forbid
cuftomary fwearing ? Is it not fufficlent, that your
Saviour has forbid it> forbid it in a ful)» ita an exprcf«
live manner ? Swear not at all ; but kt your commum^
cation be yea, yea ; nay, ney :' Far whatfoever is mor0
than thefe cometh of evil. v

Q. My we can from Greenwich at high watery
jjlainly d'lfcem the cattle feeding in the Tde of dogs,
and not at low water, altho* we and they are in the famo
flace f

A, Becaufe at that time the water is high enough
to receive the light, refledlcd from the cattle in fuch
a^anner, as that the iame light entring a grcder
medium, and therefore deiledifng farther from a per-
pendicular, may by fuch a defldllioa elevate the ob-

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jc6ks to fuch an height, as to make them become vi«
fibie to thofe at Gretnwtch,

Q. H^v long this kiniJom hath retain* J thi name if
England i vhtn and by whom it rteeiv'd that title f

A. Bgbtft (fon of Alcmand) one of the Kings of
the Saxon Heptarchy, and 18*** King of the mftSaxoiu^
by his warlike atcbievennents ( for he was one of the
famous heroes of the age } conquered the other fix
Kings, and reduc'd their dominions under his obedi-
ence. Whereupon in the year 819. he was crown'd
at ffiacbeftir fole monarch of Sottth-Brttain, under the
new title ef England, which he eftabliiht by royal
prochimatioo» as deriv'd from his anceftors, the Angles^
who afTifted the Saxons in the conqued of this coun-
try.

Q^ 7 defre your opinion^ why ftghied coals are red, and
the flames of a different colour ?

Ji. As according to the incomparable S\i Ifaac Sew*
ton, all colours have their exiilence in the rays oF
light, £0 objedlsare of different colours, according as /
their particles are dilpos'd to fwallow up Tome, and
reficd^ other of the difForm rays. As therefore the
particles of the flame are differently modified from
the particles of the fiery coals, fo the particular mo*
dification of the latter renders them capable of reficdt-
iog principally thofe rays, that are endued with t
red colour, whereas the modification of the former
difpofcs them to the refiedkion of all, or almofl all
forts of rays, from which variety of mixture tbe co-
lour of the flime ariies.

Q^ / have of tin taken uf a fire flick in my hand, and
turned it f»iftk about ^ fo that there fiems a cirtU of
flre^ tho* the pr^ is but in one place at a time,

^. The, phtenomcnon proceeds from no other caufc
than the fuccefTive motion .of the fiery particles, which
by its difproportion'd fwiftnefs fo dudes tbe optick
nerves, as that they are not able to reprcfcot the in-
tervals.

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Q^Ow yQti$hful /parks, anifuch are termed the wku
Na^t and nne GeDcletn^o, ( ^ut hew this fas

Their genius, mje Apollo mufi advifi,
Whofe fame fo great all others we deffife )
Jn their briik (allies, fatyrixje, lampoon^
The fairer fex, and as a grofs buffoon.
A marry'd man exfofe, nor will believe.
That matrimony any joys can give }
Yokes, halters, pillories are their frequent jejt^
"By which their parts are wond'roujly exfrefi :
Now tell us whether this true gentry Jhews,
Or wit fublimc, or whence the crroi flows f

A, Far is't from gentry, fincc the befi bred mm
Efteem the fex the nobie^ gift of hcav'n j
The neareft to the glorious forms above,
FramM to exalt the extacy of love >
To crown with utmoft blifs our wishes while
They raife our joys to raptures with ^ finile. ,

Much lefs is wit m thofe poor thoughts mala* *l

tain'd.
It rather (hews, that to the dregs *ris drain*d i
Since all they prate, is only what before,
A thoufand times has been repeated o'er j
They fanfie that t\ieir fovereigns they arc.
And have prerogative t* infult the fair j
Bafe, abjedi thoughts, which nobler brutes rcjeft.
Ought they nor, if thty'd govern to preteB T
Much lefs with hateful cowardice pretend.
To triumph over thofe, unarmed to contend.

Their fenfelcfs palate, through % vicious life.
Gives them no taft i*th* bleflings of a wife %
AVhilft ( as it i$ the cuflom of a fool )
What they cao'c comprehend, they ridicule,

J>*ye hear ApoUo'/ font /.

, Qj^ K'tne taylorsjja to make a man,

uij you did fiem to prove,
J^ faying that a Utjfy maid.

Who met eight near a grove }

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And Jhew'n^ them a black fudding

I>id fright them dn^dftdly.
Who thinking that k vas a gun

Did lofe their coin threby.

JUJoro /, who am a taylor fireng^

And -Ktll defend the caufe^
Will fight with any two of you

At either fword or paws.

*Caufe yoH ftich fcandals raife on Hs^

Methinks, 'tis very hardm-mO ;
JfyoH will meet betweert both f*rkf

The valiant Jon'than Pardoe.

A. Thou threatening ninth, of temper odi

Whofe manhood none believe >
Who laugh fiy when all the nation moums^

And when that's o'er wilt gritve.
Jlujh*d on our griefs, like crows on corfsp

Thou woud'll extend thy fpan.
And fancy twelve' pence more a day,

Will build thee up to man.
March to the parks, a dwarf black guard,

(Thy match) fhall meet thee nimble.
Thrafh thy lank hide, although thou'rt arm'd

With needle, yard and thimble.

To a young Lady complaining that the Spin net /he ply»
ufm and [ung to, was out of Tune*

STill you complain, and ftill oiy fiuly
Is fwcetly beckoned to your found,
About my lifted f^ty phantoms roll,

My thoughts in fairy circles dance around.

Each piercing ftroke your nimble fingers give,
Not only pleafes but dilates my mind,

Ifwell methinks, bfyond my felf Md leave
The tajle of frail mortality behind.

My beating heart of heavnly force pojpjl,

Knocks loudly at my eitrthly breafi.

Fain

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Faia wou'd bi gmty but knows not where %

For when iUud into air.

The fititf J is left which fummon'd it away,

Tijen all impatient of delay

The raptur'd fugitivi is dowwmtirds fungp ^

Clings to your inflrummt tho' loofcly ftrung, L

And hangs upon the mufak cfyeur tongue : j

Still you complain, dill love infpire.
Like men, who live in an infixed air*
I gape for breathy but Arait admit dtfpatr.
Each tHneful accent, arm'd with pointed |>3in»
Raifes the boundlefs fwy cf depre.
Which your harmonious ehatms can never lay again*
Ah cruel fair, too late alas ! I fee,
, The needltfi firatagem of your difJain,
You might with open force have conquered tne^
For all repftance had been varn.

But 4^.' you a6^ like Tome delufrve foe^

Who docs a fieming ignorance difplay,
A while with aukvard geflwes waits each blow*

And with a tufty fvmd difputes the day.

Till his tmrnary enemy amaz'd

To find a fndden change in his alarms.
So htigftirprix/d has on the wonder gaz%

That wanting skill to ftght he throws away his

arms.

Q^ Could ourftrft parents Adam and Eve ha^epmitJt
had not the devil tempted them I

A> Our fird parents perhaps mighi never have traof-
grefs'd, had they not been tempted : But that tjiey
coH*d have (inn'd^ or that it was /^/r for . them to
have finn'di may be readily colleif^ed, in that thcf
were created with a freedom of de£lion ( for other-
wife they cou'd not have been tempted to fin) and
in that he, who tempted them, was once a Seraph,
and yet ventur'd upon fin without a tempter.

(^ We food in Rom* ▼•14. That death reigned
from Admn to Uofes^ even over them that had not

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finaM after the fimilitude o£ AJam'i tranigrelTioo. ^
I^cm fiM thofi Ante-Mofricks cond noi vioUtie the t^tr*
law if Mofes, -rnhkch dmnmc'd dtath U its tranfgrejfiiru
imrytt weregmilty rffimmg tifier the fimilitude ef Adam'i
tranfgrejtm, hew came denth to reign ever them f

A. The very fame Apoftle in the immediately fuc-
ceeding ?er{e intimates the reafon in an hypothetical
fentence, if thro' the egettee of one many be dead^ Adam
by bis difobedience to a pofitfve law (and therefore
to difobey a pofitive law is to fie after the fimiHtudo
^ AdaroV tranfffreffign) intail'd the heritage of death
upon his whole pofterity.

Q. *JUfkid m the 27th Terfe, ef thefirft chapter rf
Geneiis» that God created man in his own image, io
the image of God created he him. And in the latter
fart ef the ffud waCe^ 'tis faid again, male and female
created he them.

A. The word man in the paiTage alledg'd, coaches
a fpedes under an individual, and therefore imports
mankind. For at that time Adam and Eve composed
the whole fpecies. And therefore him agrees with
enan, the word couching i them with mankind, the
word coucht.

Q. Whether thofe that fhdll be extant ait the d»f ef

judgmem, Jhall fufir death, or ennj change in their bo^

dies, bttt receive their blifs or w^e withoia any alteration i

Und wlkther thofe that /hall be rais'd, fiail be in aU

things Uke unto them t

A, To both the queftions we reply- from no lets a
J^lbn than St. Paesli Behold I Jhewyou a tmfkry, wo
(hall not alljleep, bnt we /hall all be chatted in a mo*
menf, in the twinkling of an eye, at the lafi trttmf (for
the trumfet /hall /osmd, and the dead /hall be raised in*
corruptible, and we /haU be chang'd) For this corruftiMo
mufi ffst on sncorrstption, and this mortal muft fut on im*
mortality, i Cor. xv. yi, yi, f 5. From which me-
morable pailage it evidently appears, that the dead
Ihall be rais'd, and the living chang'd into the very
{ame nmilitudc* into an incorruptible, an immortal
fiacc. For Chri/i /hall change our vile bodf ( whether

dead

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dead or living) iJi?at it may he like unto his gUmus 60^^,
accerding to the working whereby he is nble to fubdue nil
things unto himfelf. But if we enquire into the more
particular (imilitude of Chrift's glorious body* and
confequently of our own future Ix>dies> St. J^a^v gives
us a fulJ» tbo' a negative reply to fuch an enquiry ;
It doth not yet appear what we Jhall be j but wt know,
that when he (hall appear, we JhaU be like him > for we
Jhall fee him as he is. And O ! that our praflice were
agreeable to our curiofityi that we were willing to
obferve the inference deduced from hence by this di*
vine Apoflle > Every man that hath this hope in him
(the joyful hope, the ravifhing expe6iation of being
like the bleiled jefus at his great appearance^ purifieth
iimfelf even as he is pure.

Q^ Why the trade-wind in the Weft-Indies always
Uows within one quarter of the compafs^ and at all times
.rf the year f

A. As winds are dldinguiiht into conftant and in*
conftant, general and particular, fo the wind you (peak
of is both conflant and general. And because it is
general, that is, blows in many places from the Ame
point over a large quantity of the globe, it is there*
fore called a trade-wind. It is an eaft-wind» and blows
in the atlantick* ethiopick and pacifick feas. It \i
lead variable in the latter, iince.fea-men can fail from
AauapuUo in new Spain to the Philippine ijlands (a voyage
or 1 6f o leagues ) in 60 days» without . any occafion
to ihift their fails. This wind is obfervable, not only
.within the tropicks. bat even to the 30th degree ot
latitude on each fide of the equater.
^ Some have attributed this wind to the daily rota-
tion of the earth, which as it moves eaftward, ib it
Jeaves the air, which is a fluid behind it, whence it
blows weftward with refped: to the iuperficies of the
earth. And this folution receives fome countenance
from that other phaenomenon of theeaft-wind, namely,
that it is conversant near the equator, and under fuch
parallels, where the circks defcrib'd are the largeft,
and confequently the rotation of the earth the grtateft.

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' But the CfipernicMts, in defence of their modern fy-
ilem of aftronomy, have clearly overthrown this plau-
sible folution. For ( as they well obferve ) lince the
air gravitates towards the eartb» and adheres ro it» it
is naturally carried round with the fame motion.

Csrfejms draws the pbsenomenon from the influ-
ence of the moon. But iince his folution depends
upon feveral phyfical hypotheies> and is withal re-
jcded by Vtirmms, it is enough to have barely mcn-
tion'd it.

But the beft and indeed true folution h taken from
the fun. For as the courfe of the fun is weflward,
and as the air is mod rariHed under the fun^s mcrt-
diauj £0 it follows from the neccfTary laws of fta*
ticks, that the air which is more condenfe, readily
flows to that which is more rarified, in order to
preserve an equal balance. Whence the air, which is
not at a greater diftance than is mention'd aboTe» from
s vertical fun, naturally follows the courfe of the fun*
But fince the fun, asitpailestheecliptick, goes north*
ward and Southward, it foiiowsr that to thofe who
Jive under the line, the foreiaid wind is fometlmes
full eaA, fometimes eaft>north« and fometimes eaft-
ibuth 9 and that to thoie, who live in the temperate
2rones, it is fometimes full eaft, namely, when the
dedenfion of the fun iz too fmall to make a difie-
rence ; at other times, to the northern iailors it it
cail-ibutb, (o the foutherii eaft-nortb.

Q^ Tray exfiaia the metming of the Eaton MflUh t ,

ji. The ftory is reported of a butcher^ who with
the fame knife he kill'd a wether, accidentally flew
one of his (bns, who was unhappily too near the
wether. An immoderate concern for fb unlucky a
mifchance tempted the father to hasg himfelf* The
other fon was unfortunately drown'd, and the mother
was £0 ien/ibly aflt^ed with the tragical miifortude*
of her family, as to expire with gridf.

Q. fl4y a candle, theJkfM being put Mt, ftmU fend
forth ftteh an odmtsfmtU^ whereas fiar/mg^ it is net in
the leaji offeree f

A* That

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JL That ofFenfif e fmcll proceeds from a faetid /tzU
phur; wbofe particlesi wbiift the candle flames fwifti/
fly awaj, -ccnjojn'd together as it were in a torrenr,
whereby the ill favor is prevented : Bat when the
flame is pat out» thofe (ulphureous particles are Sepa-
rated and retarded, and through their fluggifh flight
we become more fenflble of that ungratefui fmell.

Q. 7}) vhfit C(mfi$H$kn is tis Seneficial, and to what
injurious f

A. By tea, we underfhnd you, green tea, which
moderately heats and dtits, opens, refolves, and at-
tennates, is diuretick and anodyne : Takes away pains
of the head, is good in di Realties of breathing, and
eafes griping In the bowels : Contemperates the blood
and humors* and is fuppos'd to expcll fleep, by re-
prefling or reiblving the vapors that afcend to the
head : And fb corroborates the brain as to enable it
to be without fleep whole nights without injury: And
is chiefly beneficial to cold and moid conftimtions.

Q. To fiurod fai$s» vho wth h^s divine^
To folvo our doubts and fUafi the town comhtne^
Who 6f your wondrous fwV of verfi can heal
Our blitding wounds, sth i condefcend to teil.
How a moft wretched woman may regain '
That peace, which now alas ! Jhe feeks in vam i
I lov*d a youth 6f nature farm'd to pleafe,
Adom'd with every art to gain accefs
To a find woman's heart, who thought her filf undono
TiUJhe eou'dfix the wondrous youth her own,
Venus frofitious to my wijhes proved.
And whilfl I figWdfor him, he own*d he Icv'd.
Spring-tides af pUafure did my breafi invade,
When he in moving founds his flame betruyd,
For he was all n^ joysy and I his chamber-maid $
But oh ! what words, what accents /hall I chufe, ^
What God (hall I invoke, what facred mufe,.
3> pam tfie reft fit for Apollo*/ eye, J

Whilft cwfcious hlufhis of the deepeft dye i-

Inflame my cheeks, und damp my rifing joy i j

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Mb ! the tUehft fftiU wy fenc'tl gwdes,
utnd fwt w deity o*er hoken vems frefijes.
This desr» this levefy yenth J have bettafi^
uSndfMtaUji Mmtber man my hushand made.
JDrvme Apollo, ifyottr art can Jhne^
%0Ma recemfenee te injur' d leve I ewe,
L/tt deffatrmg wreteh the ftcret kneml

A* Can fuch delioauents ask an aid divioe ?
Can fuch unhallow'd bands approach our ihrioe ?
Can thence fuch criminals a pardon gain.
Where juftice flows, and wifdom's didates reign ?
Kot HelUn't crime a deeper tinware gave,
Whofe faithUfs fight procurM old TVey a grave«
Scarce Vanaus ottfprings a^ed greater iil.
When each her Lord did at the nuptials kill.
Nor could vindidi?e heaven x\Si guHt forgive.
Or let (uch finners unrewarded live^
lUUgm's hypocrites, and thofe of Uw,
Could never merit favours from above ;
Go then, perfidious wretch, remain diftreft^
And fed the tortures of a perjur'd breaft.
Let youthful phantoms ever plague thy flgh^
And loft enjoyments rack thee day and night.
Let former biUedeux frefli woes prepare.
And every line a dread indi^ment bear ;
Let.paft defaults thy fiiture Uifs deftroy.
And long regret prevent all accidental joy.

Q* S^ns ef the Deliao God, I fray allpt,
The caufe why Jhayfefi wit freves greatejlfit f

A. Such think their wit wiU never let tbemwant*
And thence th* ingenious prove extravagant,

Q^ Apollo, Tm pietmf and a jelfy ircwn wench
Leve mirth, whm en Uwdmfs it dees mt intreaeh $
Pm ceetrtedfy cneiffi Unnyem weu'd/meart
That withjujh and Sloed he at enmity were |
A mire hag ef bones frem his feet to his erewn* '
And his sinn fits mpen 'em like a locfe meminf gfnm i
New fay. H what nfi can I put this feat creature,
fxfepting to teak 90^ tmd Is^gh my felf fatter f

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A, He may be for moral inftru6lion and u&,
Which on both accounts may your liking induce »
If the andents a skull plac'd each day on the table.
To mind them of death, and that life was unftable,
A ikeletm is more txpreffivi, your fighf
It not only takes, but you feel it all night.
Of ufc in your gardens, he like wife may be.
For his ckittering bones, when they're hang'd on a

tree,
May frighten the birds beyond maukin or fnapper.
This caution alone you mud take, that your clapper
Inform him no fecret, for fear he's fb tkn
^hat people may read it quite through his skin*

Q. 2> vtfi and fnofi Mghtful too i

TU/pmd tfns voice in crigs,
^ in tears 1% waft theft qfes,
Vnlefs lam relieved iy ym,

J love ; but dare n*t let it be knr»n^

Who can like me complain ^

lb love and love in vain !
My Jove s kind of dream is grown.

Fear, anger, hope, give all your aid.

This tyrant drive from me \

If your fociBty
Cm do*t, for you my prayers are made t

A, Obferve well all the fwains, you fee.

Perhaps you foon will find.

For (hape, for face, for mind,
A nobler fWain, by far than he.

Thus you your flame may fmother.

If cv'ry grart and air,
i You *mpartially compare.
And by em heat, drrue out another.

Q. In the bible we meet with this expreffton, wine
that cheareth the heart of God and men : Tray, how
can wine cheat the heart of God f

A, Princes and magiflrates are ftiledGods in Scrip-
ture, agreeable to that pafiage in the Pfalmift* I /aid

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ye Mfi Gods, mUyt mr% all the chiUrm rflhi mtfi Wgjbi
And to this verjr paflage our Saviour has recouriei b
H net written myour law, I find ye ttre God* i

Q^ The frephet Ezekiel, chap. i. ^hes hi tm se*
ctntMt ef a vijien rf fettr Uvmg creatttres, Thejr had the
likenefs of a man, ver, 5*. As for the likenefs of their
faces, they ibur had the face of a man, and the face
of a lioa on the right fidt, and they fcmr had the face
of an ox on the left fide j they four had alft tb»
face of an eagle, ver. 10. There were alio four
^if heels of one likenefs, and their appearance and their
virork was as it were a wheel in the middle of a
^^heel, ver. 1 6. This vifien is aeknemUd^d te he et fyf§
ef the EvangeUfis, and thtfubjeBs they write upen agree^
mSle hereunto. The mm*s fact i$ afflied to St, Matthew*
she lien to St, Mark, the ox to St. Luke, and the eagle
t& St, John. And the reafiH is obvious, that the fymbelt
mre aaaftedte them, net only from the beginning, bnt alfo
fireae the whole tenour of their Goffels. Thus St. Matthev
Segins with his manhood ^ deriving his pedigree from A bra-*
ham. St, Mark acknowledges him a king, tyfiffd by
the lion of ]ud^. Gen. xlix. ver. 9, 10. fuda is a lion's
whelp, c^f . The fceptre (hall not depart from j^ttda,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet until ShUeh
come > and unto htm ihall the gathering of the peo-
ple be. And accordingly he begins with this glerioas \an£t
harbinger, his m^ or ecyftX^-^ who lion^like cries out
'j^«(|bu»V«]i rijy ohp, 6cc. and tkfo* the whole does inform
us, that that man ,whe eon do fo great miracles mufi be
more than a mere mate, ( Lord of all) andfo concludes
bis .Gofpel with Chrifl^s afeenfm. St. Luke begins with
his friefthoed, and therefore is typified by an ox or calf,
the principal of their, faerifices. But abirve aU, St. John
fours high, and with an eaglets fight piercing the clouds,
not enfy reaches bis fotd, but even his divinity* Wor the*
the other have given us an account of his body and car*
nal genealogy^ none bat St, Jo^n has told us A«f&^
erd^ i'y'tnTo, The word was made fiefh i which is the
reafm, as you may well obftrve^ that he was fo much
admired by the Heathens, Agrnable to this interpretation
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it vlmt Ljrra fiys^ m Glofs. ord. fup. i. P. Joan. In
aomioe bumanitas, in leonc regnum. in vitulo facer*
dotfum, in aquila divioitatis iacramcntum. And Lu*.
dolphus ySi)fi» de vita Cbriilf» Marcus in Evangeiio
ibo intendit bominem* fcil. Jefum» cile & fuifle vir-
tutum dominum & imperatorcm & regcxn oconium.
jind vkMt it fit §ifirvM6ii, »» tlmt tb»* thije differ in
their writings aSota tin pffict, yet Ukt th§ fmr whukp
they mU ttgm m tkt ftrfimt Jefus Chrifi.

A. Sir» as we tbink the objedion you are pleas'd
to make to our explication of tbe four fymbols* a
fjpecimcn of jour ingenuity and learnings to we pre-
sume upon your candor, tbat you will not refent our
endeavours to refute it. We therefore beg leave to
propose the fubfequent particulars.

I. The pafTage in 'EzjtM is introduc'd with the
repr/efentation of a whirlwind frtm tbe imthi tbe ufual
laoguage of the prophets, when they ipeak of tbe
p)ini(hment of tbe Jews by the King of Bsiyhn. But
this is incompatible to the four Evangelifts, who be-
gan in ^Mdes to preach tbat Gofpel which went forth
as lightning from the £aft. And this is agreeable to
tbo£ ancient prophecies concerning the Mefljah,men-
tion'd by Jofephm and Tmsus^ tbat fome great per*
ipn (hould come out of the Eaft and rule the world ;
which tbe former as well as the latter (to curry fa-
vour, we may fuppofe) imptoufly applied to Vtffafi^
mtt created Smperor in yHdea-

a. The various circumfiances of tbe four living
creatures are circumftanccs of terror » and therefore
very proper to decypher tbe dcftrudlion of tbe Jews
by the northern monarch. But this is di/agreeable
to the nature of the four Evangelifts, who were fent
upon a pleafing errand, were embark'd in an arnica-
Ue defign, were employed in an alluring embafly,
and difcover'd the grateful engaging news of a fricnd-
\j reconciliation with an ofiended God. Well there-
fore does ^f(mt propbefy, hew heatitiftd upon the
mo^mus Mre the feet ef htm (a iynecbdoche of one
luiiibpr for another^ ^t kingetb geed tydinp* thmt

ftMiJhetb

fhe Bmi'isH Apox>lo.' y^^

tfMUhiih fetutf fhMt hk^tth goU pfdrngt §f g%^d, timt
ftMJhiih fidvatm^ thtufimh unig Sion» tiy Gpd reign*

J. As there are feveral iuterpretations of the four
lifing creatures, £o that feems the beft, which fup*
pofes them fyrobols- o£ four principal angels, com-
miffion'd from above to aflift the King of Bi^lm m
the deftru6Hon of fnfufrkm, and to c^ftife the fiws
wherever they (hould flee. And the number fmt tmy
n6t improbably allude, either to the four divi/ions of
the camp of Ifrttfl ta. reprdcnt their intire de/bue^'
tion r or to the four corners of the world, to fignt*
fy that no diflant refuge ihould.be able to protdSI
them from Almighty vengeance.

And the fbur^ living creatures Ipecified point out'
the angels qualifications to difcharge their office. For
as a man is endowed with wifdom, a lion with coa*.
r^e, an ox witb patience, an «agle with fwiftnefs^
ib theie didowmems are iodifpenfibly oecefiary to
thofe mefTcngers of deftru^ion.

4. Your expoiitton fuppo&s the fir ft i/mbo] to
be a man, ours an angel.

f. St. tuki is io tar from beginning with his
priefthood, that he begins with his regal office : for
the aogel fays tp Mwy* H* flM S0 uWd g^iat» and
(hall be called the Sea tf the higheft, and the Lord Cod
fiaU give Httt9 him the thnme iof his fatffer David; and
heJhaU reign over the houfe ef David for ever^ and of
his kingdom there Jhtli be no end. And indeed we canr
not ice how the. Evaogelift could begin with hit
prieftfaood in an hiftorical manner, fince our Lord
diicharged his prieftly office on the crbfs. But if you
refo to the prophecy of Zacharias, the father of tht
Baptift, yet the prieftly office is fiiUequent to the rer
gal in the order of the narrative. .

And whereas you iay, that the miracles recordeili ^
by St. idark ipeak our bleHcd Lord to be more than.
mao, this no way diftiogui(h/es Sr. idofk from St.,
Mauhete, iincc the form^ is aljowed to be an epito-
mi&r of the latter.

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<^ Gentlemen, I {Me noe iufiyou karveekbep^jlm 0^
hmxdeftm eU^km^ wke earner frv^d ma^romfi^f^
4tu*$ in/pirUst vhich he e»fops te fi^ht for a fmali fM^ .
ter^ Md not fi^fy affirmt,^ ^u» ffoinMt a eniSft0$$^fyK^d
by tnany ferfim^ that thefrid fwnfiers veea vemked em$
4>f his ifody Mt feetmd di0ani times.- He father fiffimu
that he has em now in his Bodf^ vhith gnamtt him fff(*
t'muaV^s stnd cmfes him t$ ettt sks wfftch m moMfiiSk*
ibree er^fesir geed fiem4uheA

jt. Without feeing t^c old fitllow jom fposk «€ 9V
his moAftFOus fostus^s, whi(^h we toppo^ to be h%n
man, we may be podtive* that notwithftanding kin
afipinatioDk and ^cf cificaces, be is a cheat aod an ifn*
podor, and that be is not like to find any credit, fant
with the noofi credqlous and ^norant part of man-
kind: for as it is certain tbat no fuchnEumftroq^prer!
dudiions can happen but- Where natural ones do» it:i«
no Mt certain, that no hunyaki io^tuis can bcgesc-*
rated in a man's fto«\acb> where neither the OEiateri^
^nor the efficient caufe can be found. Somte ocbev
fmaH liviiig creaftuFC& indeed niay perbqps be faatc])C<2
there, when we happen to fwallow their eggs i* <iMf
meat or drink ; but we fuppofe no rfafonaj^le body
wHl think, that the eggs out of which die botnaa
foetus's su« produced, are liable to be fo fwaUow**
td up,

Q. Gentlemen, n. friend ef' mine een/kntlt.frM^ifitJii
eh CHtting down tk/h trees of » ceptmii \enfy'\^'er<itic9i.m'»T
nmte in the year, (which junShtre he had fipmi x^ lat0
famous Van Hel^Miont) that he alfr esses one into, finadt
focket'tieees^ and gives grutis feme thoufinuls yearly fir thn ^
general good, that indiJfsstaSfy harve wressght great cknu
and are deemed to fympathiae with nature in all her deir
ficiendesi as the fief ping of idceding eitbet at nefe or'
wounds, are repercujjrve anddifOstient in tneft fweilingtt.
aches, lamenefs, and fains^apmereign balficmto fire^^h^
en the fight, and differfi rheums fiem the eyes .* snwnrdiy.
are reputed carminative smd' Mettifhafpskk, Inflmt^ th^c
have aSfidutefy been beneficial in mofi diftemfeN ind^nti.
to body J both internal and external,

w£. We

tT"

We are not altc^her ^orant of the repatcd
virtues of the afhen-Hick:, ot o( the mlghtjr oirioGtf
in^udng a proper time to cut this wood $ fiveral
agreeing that Midfummtrdfy i$ tbe time* either be-
fore iiia- Tiling,, or precifely at noons others fzjmg^
between ii and 12 at Nighty ^nd others, that it la
moll ef&^huUy gathet'd when Sol and Lum are ia
-conjundion ijx Aries. But we have not as yet had
any eye witaefles' of the famous exploits hereof: fo
that we ihall beff leave to be better fatisfied in h$
performaoces, before we pretend to account for ft.

Q. GentUmw^ I hsve obferv'd that this year 170&,'
-#i^ Eajgliih Church eelehated the Eafter ht^ dyi on tht
4tk fAptUf O. S. which is the iph N. S. and th§
Roman Chttnb on April 8, N. S. the Jew» on the fth
•l^* S. fi tbttt there it but fevtn days difference- hotwten
th0 two ChtiTcheSf wtd ten dtys differmcep'om the Jewf
^0 the Chtereb ^England. Now n» the ytnrfoUemmg^
1709, I find that the Eogliih Chttch cekhraies en the
±4$h of ApriJ. O. S. which is the ph cf May, N. S.
the Roman enthe iifi ef March, N. S. the Jews am
the ±6th of March, N. S. fo that the EugYida Chwcb
'd^trsfive whole weeks from the Roman, ttnd thi Jews
twy near fix weeks, I have a hook in Italian, entitled
Pa(cha2ogia» which expUins the reafon of this difference :
■htt T, not underftmding Italian, would defire of you to tit
f»e knew the reafon of this difference f

A. That you lie undet a niidake, as to the difler^
ence-you mention concerning the obfervatioo of
l&afier folemnity, will apg^ evident by thelubfixjoent
' account.

In the early times of ChriSianity, the eaftern and
weilern churches differ'd about tbe time of celebrat-
ing £i^. The former followed tbe method of the
^ewifh PafTovcr, and kept their ^afler on the 14th
day fubiequent to the appearance of the moont
whence the^ fampus controverfy that eniued concero«-
ing ir, was call'd qdartodecimaa. The latter deferr'd
the fblemniry to \}a&^Hniay following, that our Lord*iB

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refurredlion might be commemorated on the fame
4iay of the week; on which he rofe. As therefore
jfhc eaftcrn churches jbin'd ifTue with the Jevfs, fb
Cbe difference obfery'd hy the weflern Churches could
not exceed fix days : for when the 14th day after
the appearance o( the moon fell upon a Sunday^ the
ytns and both the eaUern and weftcrn Churches^ they
all three concur'd.

But as there was a difference, tho' an incon(idera«
ble one, between the eaftern and wef^ern Churche?,
£0 they both vindicated their refpe^ivc cuf^oms from
apoflolical tradition^ and we fee no reafon why they
both might not appeal to the genuine, tho* a diftf- '
ing tramtion ; for St. Vhlllp ztd St: John i^jght Very
rcafbnably, in {o indifferent a matter, condescend to
4 compliance with the jcwifh converts, who abound-
ed in the LefferAfia, where the rule of keeping £«/?«•
on the jtwiih paflbver .was principally oblcrv'd.-
Whereas St,P^«/ and Stt. Pf/^-' might command it to
be celebrated on the firfl day of the, week, in fuch
places where the number of jcwifh converts were left
confiderable.

In ;the year ly;, Fofycarfus (Bifliop of Smyrna)
took a journey to Bjome^ in order to debate the mat-
ter with ^«/<:f/«;(Bifhop of Rome) and the chief pre-
la'tcs of the wcflcrn church. But tho' each party re-
tain*d thcJC diftinft cuftoms, yet Polycarp and Anketuf-
fcceived'thc facramcnt together, as a token of their
chriftiaft charity, and parted from each othfer in a ve-
ry aniicable manner.

In the year 196, the controver fy was re viv'd with
greater heat hy ViHor fthen Bifhopof Kome^ a man of
z different temper from his prcdeceffor Ankttus: for
fee excommunicated all the Afiatick Churches for their
non compliance with the 'Rcmm cudom. A prelude,
5s it were, to the after-encroachments of that impe-
rious fee. But as the Ajiaticks maintain*d their ufaji^c
under the dire£lion of Pofycrates (Biiliop of Ephefuf) €0 it
^ is to be fcar'd a difunion had enfu'd, had not t he fy nodical
letter, writ by Inmus (Bilhop of Lyons in Gaul) pre-
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▼cnted (sts we may reafonabl^ fuppofe) the melaadio-
]y confequence.

In the year ^zf* when the famous Nicem Councii
(which was the ftrfl general council) was converi'd
by Conftam'me the Great i a council confiding oF ^ift
biHiops* and many confeiIbrs> under Ho^hs oi Cofrdnb^
their preiident : this comroverfy was finally adjuded,
and the obfervance of the Roman ufage prefcrib^d to*
all the churches of the world. And it was fure the
moft reafbnable that this uTage (hould obtain, fince
the Afiaiick cuflom was probably (as is obierv'd a-
bovej no other than a compliance with the peculiar
circurodaoces of time and place.

And now you may eaiily obferve, that the various
drcumftances of this relation make it highly impro-
bable, that modern Rome Ihould in this particular re-
cede from the ufage of ancient Rome,

Q. Tour reafon for the following proverb, viz. Ram/ey
the Rich. .

A. This proverb takes its derivation from an abb^y
called Ramfiy, which was accounted the Crcefiis of all
our EngTtJh ones; for the revenues thence ariling, ac-
cording to the (landard of thofe times, did amount to
7000 7. per anrwmt out of which there wad a main-
tenance for iixty monks and their abbot j each monk
receiving a hundred* and their abbot a thoufand pounds
a year. But after the difTolution of monafteries, the
yearly revenue of this abbey was reduced to 1985 /,
which difcovers a very great difference in tbcfc eiVt«>
znations.

Q^ Gentlemen, from country fillouvs,
Wha iing old rofe and burn the bellows^
A queftion comet
Strephon /■» lufifiil blood alt o^er
Lay with a damr^d kfeB'tous whore^
As he himfelf hat fince made knovpn
To friends and quacks about the torvn;
!Por to his Jljame^ tpiih burning pains
Hi is l^erplex'dm^s Sack and reins^

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Wtth itching great to that degree.

Be cannot reft or eafybe^

jind fears th* e^di, M dry infeBion

Should prove his rtiin in ferfeBion,

Nov prajf rejblve us, wet or dry.

Can the French fox be cur'd, we cry f

A. Strephon*s alarm'd with groundlefs feafsw

The pox no fuch diftindion bears ;

Thofe difF'ring terms which you rep^«

To conflitutioas do relate j

And therefore if 'tis thus you incan»

Whether in habits dry and lean

A pridine vigour e'er obtaiQ'd^

It is with dimculty gain'd.

Q. Whilft flagu'd with torments of a l^vi»Jkk mmd^

No eafe from fair Orindi*s fride I find.
To your leam*d oracle, fam*d Sirs, Iffy,
Tofohe the riddle rf Wf defimy,
ffhenfaft we met, tho* then without depgrt,
"My eyes on hers were fixt, and hers m mine.
The darts theufitwfoon kindled fiamos efhvii.
^dto improve 'em, ev*ry motion Srevey
Thus totuht we farted, but rm evilftar
l^ire^ed me to tread the faths of war:
When I was abfent, Jhe her thoughts confefi^
,4nd to my friend fer me efteem exfreft:
Soon I retunfd {for Mars was not tny trnde^
\jtfter I hoji the Britifli ctmf furvey*d,y
0dnd thus encoura^d did the nymfh adiee^
Jind fityfrom her tender heart tmflerei
She us*d all arts my faj^n to beguile,
.dndfeem'd en every word I faid to fmile {
/ thought my felf on future joysfecure,
Jtndfor her fake did m^hty fains enieere :
Sttt on a fseddenfhe grew cm andjhy^
And did withfsem her former vows denyi
Surfrix,*d Jhe left me in a furious huf.
And faid myfortt^e was not large enough,
Thm tell me. Sons of Phoebus, ought the fair i
On this fretence to tftLve me in de/^ie (

A/ut

^Gmnftfirdid imeftjl fP tfmke her $mm t

A. L6vers In tfieit owiv cftuft tdo ptrtial art.
And oft «n^)«dge ttK aottons of the /Sirs
Wrt^ft tvVy look^ and xsw*vj ftnilc believt
]>efigii*d> fi«(h hoipBi trf «Wta7 to girc:
Bttt tf the nymfh hu bid the fwtm self
On ^mkiU ^> more tliaii /^ kt^gm^i e/the eft^
Or in fatficHUty ber faroars fliewo»
Which ought to be to none but lorers known ^
And he ne'er fbriciitcd bis property,
Bf frnHfereeioo or iaoonftancy :
e^eitme engages faer, to f*wnif$ pailr
And ^to#M: Will oUsge her in the i«/ft
Q. Offity «AmAv wfkinfight,

S$mds if inf Mifynigh^t
Jiymi^ hdyfi tharmmg m ntafnn^

All §he G9ds did f§mim9

ntfp ffudie b» tkmfim^

H^Mi yei& frmmiif ftjt
jM hm I mt^ /^^ *»*^ ^i

A^ k$tm thejufi wmfmy

-)^ my Imiii ont tfje^^
j^ tmti kerftumi n tm difimmf^
A Since all day and night.

She Hanii in your li|^,
A fttftoe fhe furdy luoft be v

G^ PigmMim*^ pray'r

To fofben the fiur.
And your fortune you'll fuddeoiy fee.

Q. I m>M viUmgfy nmh ehme tf « firfii^ tp mf
Hfife, vhth whm I migjbt rMti(f»^ txpH to f^s mw^y»
n^ time tnth tmteh fmi^a^m Mnd emfe : I have two
ftffm eferedm&, eijml m age, fwttme, and hemmyi tha^
me is 'mhae we eM geed'htm<nir*dj amd every wayfafet
mmm9Cidsf4ini.the ether very rtUffms, hu efm^pms

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fifr mofiagifig dfmeftiek affiuri, Nom 2 difin u kmm
jfihich Imny ventun to make my vift f

A. As we gather from the AntithcHs, that the
good faumour'd Lady has no great relifh of RtKgt-
tm, fo we would advifeyou tomarry neither of tbena.
Oeconomical difcrction is one of the oeceflary ingre-
dients that go to the compofure of a female conibrt ;
and be a woman never fo piouQy addidled, (b religi-
oufty inclio'd i yet without a due mixture of prudential
cotKiud. flie cannot tell how efiPe^uaDy to inilil tbe
iame commendable principles into her tender children*
to form their pra^ice agreeable to her own, to or-
der their converfation aright, and train ^heni upin the
nurture and admonition of the Lord And as-their civil
as well as religious behaviour claims a juft> regard, as
their temporal as well as ipiritual proviHon demands a
ihare* tho' not an equal one, fo here the pious, but
imprudent, mother is utterly at a lofs \ flie often ex-
poies her family to the derifion of the worlds and
fometimes fo manages the things ^ this preient X\i^^
as to have a fatal influence on better thiqgs to cooie.

And yet who would chufe a confort who will not
be a (harer in his devotions as well as in his goods \
with whom he cannot go hand in hand in the fir*
vice of his Maker j who will forbid him to cry out
with a pious Jofhua^ at for mo and my hou/e, m will
fervo the X^rd ? Who will chufe a conibrt who wiUboC
allow him to allude to the joyful Pia!mi(l, / was gkd
T»hm fm [aid unto me, ve mil go into the hwfe tho Lordf
"Whofe negligence in her duty may not fuflFc|r hipijto
depend with fo well-grounded an aHlirance, that he
iball at leaft have a comfortable competence, the' riches
and flenteotifnefs may not he in his houfe,

Ufc therefore a cautious indudry ( fo^ fo weighty
a concern delerves it) in the choice of fuch a wi£e,
in whom piety and prudence meet together, in whom
religion and diferetton kifs.each other.

But fiace a wife, as well as children is a bJeflujg
that- cometh of the Lord, addrefs your felf to heaven
in fo ipomentous. an /^Sniri petition the Maker, the

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u niter of hearts; and eipc£b a con fort endow'd whh
fuch lovely qualities, expe6i her from that generoDS
Bencfa6tor who is the givtr tf evtry good and ftrfra^
gift. Say with Biiezer, with Abraham's fervant on-
thc likeoccafion, namely, when he fought a wife for
his mafter's fpn, Lord, fend mo good ffnd this day.

But be fure to qualify yourfelf for fo defirable a^
blcffing, to become a fubjc6fc worthy {o extraordinary,
a favour. For to have a prudent, a Religious wife,,
and in conicqucncc of that, to have dutiful, to have
hopeful children j.to expeft £0 unrival'd a felicity. Is-
fure prefumptuous in any one but him whofe piety-
has rhade him a favourite of Heaven \ for thus fhail
. the roan be bleft that feareth the Lord.

Q^ Why is a mjinfiid, when he ffeaki at random, la
tM like an apothecary,

A. We tarke the original thereof to be a common •
error among the vulgarj who, when aa- apothecary
endeavours to exprcfs hi mfelf properly, andufesibme
terms of art, are generally at £( lofs to underftand -
Ifim i and then to hide the dcfe6ls of their own ca-
pacities, immediately declare his difcour/e to be rao-
dom, and altogether foreiga to the purpoft, wheu>
prchaps only foreign to their appreheniion?^.
Q. H^as there ever any fstch thing ar giants f '■
A, Some indeed very ft renuou fly contend, that the
notion of giants is a mere chimera, and fie oiily to be .
iR*d as a bugbear to frighten chiMrett : But' we beg
thofc Gentlemcns pardon^Jf we arc -willing^to be 1»
credulous as to entertain fo chimerical a notion. Our
own age has protiuc*d Come perfonsofa very un-
common fi^cj and pray where- is the abfurdity of-
fbppofing a race of men of even a more gigantick-
frature? The very learned Huettm, m-hx9 qftoftions At**
getanky has furnifh'd us with giants from e very coun«-
try in the world. The ancient Poets flourift upon -
the unufiSal flature of fomc portentous men.* Anti*
Homer tells us, That the cor^ of Tityon lay ftfctcbc~
upon nine acres of Jand. But tho* the Pbns muft'
not be taken for- HfftArians,- (nice where they -do' not :
ibcgg, they yet hyperbolize j we are yet ready; to per*-

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fuade our fclves, that they found their poetical de»
fcriptions concerning this» as it is evident they do
concerning many other fubje^ls, upon traditionary^
accounts of former giants. And as AntAus was a
mighty fubjedii with the Poets, fo fhaarch ( a judi-
cTouSf a.grave Hiflorian^ acquaints us, that when 5>r»-
tifrictts (that politick lUfman, who fo often put Pompey^
to the nonplus^ was in Spain, the corps of that pro-
digious giant were found, and prov'd to be of a Ma-
ture not unequal to the poetical deicriptions of hiro».
Andtho' that it was Anu/^ Ihould be fuppos'd to be*
a roiftaken point, it yet equally proves the notion.
,we are upon.

As it is the wiiHom of prudeace to u^ variety of
methods to accootiplifh its dcfigns, fo why might it
lK>t> in thofe early times, rai£b up a progeny of gi-
ants to chaftife their wicked neighbours, to infult a
puniihable people, to be a terrible fcourge in the haads>
«f the Almighty ?

But they who believe the Scriptures (and O that
aooe of our countrymen were chargeable with infi^
iielity^ can't chufi but yield a full afTent to fo uncon-
trovertible a truth;) In Gen. \L 4. we read that fifire
j»tn9 giants in the earth in thofe dap. But tho' the ori»>
ginal primarily imports a giant, and we are therefore
of opinion that their extravagant ftaiure is included'
ia the word, yxt iince it is of equivocal importancCr
and therefore is by fome tr an dated Men rf violence,
vtt (hall not urge the paflage to Jthofe who ar« of a^
4i^erent pjcrfualiOQ^. Jn Deut. iii. i}. we read Bafhan
VMS called fk land cf giants : But Jkce what we tranf-
hte giants may be no other than a proper name, and'
therefore may be tranilated Rephaims, we (hall not in-
iift upon this neither j tho' yet we muft obfervcthat
as many proper names derive their original from ap-
jpellatives, fo the inhabitants of Bajhan might hav«
taken their name from their gigantick fiature. la
I>eHt,n» 1 1, we are told that the Emims were count-
ed giants : Now (mce a diilindl:* proper name is added,>
fome would be ready with affurance to conclude, that
the word giants maft of aeccfTity be an appellative.

Bttt

Biie we fhall not di&mble the propo^ of a leiniedi
msoh who i^ys tbac the Bmims migbt ba^e bcoi aUb
Mfphmms, but calkd Amwi/ by the Mm^s, to difiin^
guilh tbem from ocber RephMims.

But to pafs from probable cobdofioaa and corrobo-
rating circamftMicet» to abfblute, to uodoobted ccr— >
tainty, we need no more than appeal to Nimh. mt
5i« 33. A»d mU tife fe9fii tififkh wfrmm it (Canaan).
mr$ cf ffua JUtiiir^ ; mU thin wt ftm tin gmnts» tbt
fim tf Anaki vhkk fftmaftbt gitrnts i mdwewinmmtt^-
ttm fight 4# grufilf>ff$fii andfi vt 9fra m their fyjbt..
And indeed it was the affirighnng ftatore of the (|i-
gantick CunoMtitet, that fo difcourag'd the fainting;
IffMelitfii that tfacy bok'd upon tbem as an unooi^-
^erable people, as-tooftrong for even heaven to eopls'
with, as too formidable for the a^ighty condador-
of their armies, as an over-matchfor cl»Lordof boftt..

Q^(0mtisthefiuit

A. A created (to difitnguiih it from God).imawh
ferial (to diftingui(h it from cbe bodyj.tbfiiking fnhk-
llaace*

We might have added, imbodted, to dilHogmfli it-
from Angels, had not this been an exdufion of the-
foul, while in a date of reparation. But if it be en«
paired, how then^afeparare foul is diftingtiilhabk-
from an Aogel, weanfwer, that, for ought weknow>.
there may Im 00 diftindton.

* Q^ HUfat froofhsvt vti tf thi find's? imtttmaS^t i^-
therfnfm rmfini or the nature of. the thing f.

A, Cicero, tho* an heathen, pledged theantiquitf/
and uofiverAlity of his own perfuaiioo, namdy, thacc
the (bu) is an immortal principle. Whence sc may be-
fairly: argu'd, that4t mud have a foundation in natu^-
ral a^ well as revealed rdigion. To proceed thero*
fore to the arguments deducibie from reafbn.

1. We msy gather the immortality of- the foul*
firom oor very defire of an immortal -kttt^ For tho'
we mod acknowledge, that the very ]^rinctplcs of
felfrprefervation, which we Jbare in common witb«
the beafts tUt ferififj while implanted in creatores ca-
pable, of teafoaing, cannot be feparated from a defire ofr

780 The British Apollo.'

immortality, ycc wc may con^der, that if we (tell
not enjoy that imtnortality we fo earneftly pant after,
we, tho' the nobleft workmaofhip-of the Almighty
Artificer, areo/all ctczturtsthnnofimifiraHt, Forif the
fcul pcrifheth with tjie body, what has our Creator
done, but tortur'd us with dcGres that (haii never be
fatisfy'd 9 rack'd us with wiCbes that have no £oua-
datioo, and tantahz'd reafoa with fruitlefs longings*

3. Can we think, that God would raife us abotre
other creatures, conftitute ns lords of the whole crea-
tion, put ail things in fubje£lion under our. feet,, en*
cJow us -with. exalted faculties, render us a tranfcript
of his own perfe£lioos, aud yet ihake oar lives but,
9$ it were, a fpan long, Qutftript» Woiiderfuliy out-
fiript by our (lives and vaflals ?

3. It no ways agrees with the moral attributes of
Cod, that virtue ihould not be rewarded, that wick-
cdnefs fhou'd go unpunifh*d. We ma(l«tlierefore re-
cur to a Future ftate.'if we wou'd juftify the good-
Befs of our. tender 'Father, wou'd clear tjie jufbce df
our righteous Mailer, wou'd vindicate the providence
of an almighty Governor.

* 4* The foul is of an imnnateria] £ubftance« aod
therefore voiJ of. parts. But we have no other idea
of perifhing, than as it h a diffolution or feparatioa
of parts.

But tho' fuch arguments as theie adminidred wotk*
^rful deitgfat to the wifer heathen, -yet that they
are not fufficicnt for impotent,. for feeble nature, Wf
liave a melancholy inflance fro ma doubting Socrates,
And therefore happy we, if we a;e but (enable of
our bappineis, that wc enjoy the clear difcoveries.of
that ever- to- bo- valued Gofpel, which hingt lift and im^
mortality to light.

Q: The Ufi chapter of Malachi, ver, plf Ofid 6th^
Behold^ I mil fend you Elijah the profhet^ Srforethe
^^in^ of the great and dxeadful day if tho Lord.

And* he /hall ttarn the heart of the fathers, to tho ckiir
drefiy and the heart of the ^children to their fathers, lefi t
come and fmitt the earth with a cierfe*

I drfreyou to acquaint toe who this Elijah roas^, th^
frcphet ffeaki ofi A. FroRi

^tf British A;POLL0. -jSi

jL From this pafTage in the prophet, the fms were
of opinion, that ZUjah was ^ppoiac^d to ^excendfrom
heaven, and uQier ii^ as a glorious harbfnger*. the
triumphant advent of thegrcat, the auguft Melliah:
from hence alfo fome of the primitive fatbert were
perfuaded, that JE/r/o^r would precede the fecood ad-
vent. Butfince you are dedroiis of being inf6rm'd
who it is that is co^ich'd under the perfon of Elijuk^
read froni vtrff the nth to verfi the iSih of the
firft chapter of St. Lhkt.y and there an angerfirom
heaven will both'acquajat jsyi^ with^ the per/on, and
explain the name.. Fjoc'as be defcribes ,the office
of a fore-riinner In 'a' palpable allufibh to fhH'pro-
pbefy of Malachi, fo he. plainly intimates, that he was
therefore prophetically fliVd Elijah, bacaufc he (hou'd:
come in the fpirit And powit cf Elijah. And if (net to*
take notice of Icfs remarkabie rcfcmblanccs) we com-
pare the behaviour oi John the Baftifl (for he is the-
perfon mentio»'*d by* the apgel) to H^nd the fynnt
king, with the parallel behaviour of Eifj^h' to a no^
lefs tyrannick jiha^, we may &y of John, he was an.
EUjsihi we may lay of ZUjakt hq. was a John,

Hear alio what the bltiTed Jcfus, what xhc very
Meifiah, whofe way he was to prepare before him i
hear what evet> he. voucbfafes to fay concerning £o -
renown'd a perfonage. For when his difciples faid».
f0y fay the ^cri^es (fhoCc expounders of the law.^and
prophets, who ^eriv'd their notion from this place
in Malachi) that 'ElitiCmufl*firfi cotnf'^ He made them
this reply 5 Elias is come alre^dy^ (John the Eaptift^y/ho
vfi^z fecond^/w, has already gone before my face)
wd theyftntw. him nofy bu$ have done tinto him what-
foever thiy lified : For Berod had beheaded John in prf-
lon. And fp plain were thefe our Saviour's words,
that the difciplej, who were generally tut flow of
Ui?derflanding,,.^rere not at a Jof? to. know Ws mean-
ing i For it is immediately fi^bjpin'd ; then the dtfci*
Jies underfioodthat hi ffah unto ibm of John thti Ba^;

yfZ ?5>e B H I T IS H A PO B noi ^

Q. tm afiUt mtifi #im»,

2>f i»i*t tAl M the town^

7bi ff Uttff S'a^t Piigarlick is pmrrfi t.

Ttir ftun^ an one

tike f>fe's hen mime

tPhen th^intintiori like mine hks mpmfii

^fys that (he's yotmg,

But I'm fiite hf e$trs*d tmgWt

tike Xantipt>eV> Jeeh dmik a run hsrgak it

Ser imfmre Jhe is eld^

Jni A damnMe fields

Wbntdftue fpt foer tmecem etp^rC^

She*$ ai gry as a< eats-

T^th As Hack as ^fmr hatf

Her legs crocked ar$ like a biUet :

Her month is fi v^ide,

2*j#, the* rve tft trfdi

A three fenny loaf wiU [cum fill ih '

Now, Sir, if you can^

Tityme/fooUJhman^

jtnd extend your cemfajjkn if aaeyt

tor having a treatwte^

T0SO in every featteret

In air and in Jhafe*s fo like grtnnf,'.

A. Ah ! poor flavc, as now ty^d

To a BiUingr^ate bride.

Take ibme comfort as well a^ compafljoo : .

Since adt^antage to you*

From this croft may enfue.

By- promoting your mortification.

Q. Gentlemen, it is well kne»n to yete^ thai at the

crucifixion of our blejfed Lord and SavieiHty there was at-

the fame time ttoo malefa&ors, loho re'ceh^d the like fU'^

mflment. PPhereas the one revitd him, fi^ng^ Luke

xxiii. 2^. If thou be the Chrift, fave thy fclf, and*

ui i the other conttary-tpjfe re6tik*dhis felkf» fufierer,

faying, in the .40/A verfe, Doeft not thou fear God,

feeing thou art in the fame condem nation f««i^ like*

vife faid to Jefus in the ^id verfe. Lord, remember

^e whea tlK>u comeft into thy kiog4om« H^btr

...... ^^

fpr Ins fahh, hi ntmiii htm ^s an/mer, ver. 4;. Ve-
rily I fzy unto tbee» to day (halt tiiou be with the
in paradife. W^mtu wt are very evidmih tnugift fy
the My Scrifturey that he was Sttsy'd two /ays kefen bis^
tffmrre&kn : As it appears Luke xir. 7.

u£^ As wehaveelft where obferv'd» that thofe wordr-
ef our blelfiKl Lord majr .prehaps be iotended of fai».
I>iTinity» fo we have obferv'd withaL that his Ibnl,-
immediate to its ieparation from the body, might
take its flight to heaven (If heaven be dd^n'd b/
Paradife) and return the third day from thofe blefsfal:
nanfions, in order to be re-united to its foriaken in«
timate.

Q^Tray inform me, tfit*^s fofft^fur a fesdmee hfe^
faradiCd m heaven, to fesum again to its body, andJmeUi
again en this earth f

ji. We muft allow it poffible* becauie it implies
not a contradidion. But we cannot think it proba-
ble, that a gracious, a munificent Creator, who had 1
admitted any of his creatures to the beatifick vifion,.
to the blefsiul enjovment of himfelf, to the raptures
that mufl neceilarily accrue to thoie who fee God and.
Uve, ihoald find it in his heart (unkfs for ibme ez»
traordinary purpofes infcrotable to man) to banifl) him •
fo perfcd a fruition, to remove him from fo ravillk-
ing a prefence, to remand him back to a valley of tears*,
and oblige him ta cry out in his melancholy complaint,.
If^oe is me, that I am forced to dwell with hhfs^^ and
have my habitation among the tents of Kedar.

Q^ / was lately reading in the 2th chapter of S9. Mftrk,
where at the loth, nth, and nth verfis, I read tho
Harlfees demanded ajignof Chrift, wfnch was demed
them. The (juery therefore is, what was tho reafon of
their requeft and his denial f

A, In anfwcr to the qucftion, it is proper to ob-
ierve, that the demand of the prefumptuous Pbariiees
was not (imply a fign, but afignfrom heaven. And:
this (ign from heaven was more perhaps than, proba-
bly, the fign o^ the Son of man cming in the clouds of
Heaven, reprefentcd in Danid's prophefy, chap, vii*

ver^ i^

1

y84 ^M B'M T. I s H A po L ft^ o.'

, viar, 13, 14. iat tjiat tjhe ancient ^/ir/ gathered ibme
parciculars concerning the MelTiah from that great
. Pr-ophet (.hpwcver the modern yews, out of preju-
dice to ChriHianity, place him in no higlier a clafs
than that of their «V«»*, their holy, not infpired wri-
ters} is evident from. a double inilance^ namely in
that froln^him they borrow'd the very word Mefliah,
(a name fo cuftomary with them at the time of our
\ - Lordy appearanice in the flcfh) and in that one. of
, their C9untryn>cn (Nehemiah by naraeX ^o years
before pur Saviour's incarnation^, ventured to afiiirm
jEcom Daniel's weeks, that the advent of th^ MefHiJi
cou'd not be defer*d beyond fo years. And that this
,was the iign demanded, may be further concluded, ia
that our bieiled Lord, a little before his death, pro-
mis'd the very fign required, promis'd to come ia the
doudi of heaven^ but in fuch a terrible, fuch an af-
frighting manner, as they fbould tremble to behold
jhin} in» And this promifche punftually perform'd,
before tl^ gemration vms paft avay, when he commifll-
on'd the dcftroying Angel to level Jirufalem, Cthat
,ciLy of tise great Kj^g) to level her with the ground.,
and Uy her honour in the <itifi : When he ufher'd in
the fad cataflrophe with fuch adoni/liing appearances*
.^d ^cQt forth fuch alarming prefages of impending
ruin, prcftges particularly enumerated hy jefephuit
jheir o^n hiflorian.

{ But as rDamH^s prophecy was the ground of the
iRharifecs requeft. So their unworthinefs. to be coni-
ply *tt with* was one of the reafons of our Lord's, re-
fufal. ..For they hadfeen many of his miracles, had
been witneffes to his mighty works, hatd been autheq-
tically informed of fuch flupendious figns, as (lartled
the gazing world, ind yet believed noi. Nay, infidelity,
.tici^ infidelity,, was Lbcfavalleftiof their crimes : They
hlackcn'd /potlcfs Ji^nQcencc 5 they traduc'd even him
»/:v did no fm^ .and blafphcmoufly accus'd him of dia-
bolical delufion. And did they deferve the grant of *a
particular fign, who bad fo ill reported of his marr
\gllom xorh i Did they de&rvc to view him conning

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if» the clouds of heMvtn^ who had accus'd him as cofl*
federate with bill f Did they de(erve any ^vour from
the Son of God, who caipe oo purpofe to mock him*
to tfl£ilt him ? F^r/^tbe text aulires us, that they b^
gan /# quefiion with himtfieking tf him sfignfr^m hen-'
vm, tepffimg him* Signs and wonders are fit to be
indulg'd to none, but iuch modeil, fuch humUe meo,
who are billing to believe, where reafba will war-
rant their belief, who are open to convi^ion $ who
are ready to give up their affcnt to a well atte/led
truth : And therefore it is, that we read of a certain
people* that hi cmld d^ tn nugla^ virk Mmm£ them,
Secf^Hfe rf tffeif tn^tUef. »

X^4 11^. the Seating of s drum in m Mmfe Jhoutd
ttitn their drink fmre i

A, By railing a great commotion in the air, which
being communicated to the liquor, caufeth in it a
new fermentation, and by that au exaltation of its
tartarous paics»«Aa4.a |)epreilk>a or diilijpatipi^ of the
^irituons. . ,.. | .' ,

Q. f^ d9 fd«am% fnmt.dmtb Hke ssketatnT

A. Since dmb <9I^. be no otherwi£ than li(erbglvJ
pbically dccypiiie(ki,.)io.w.can an. inyifible eaufe be
jnoce .property r^prcfcgted, than by a viiible e^e£l?
And fince it is the prerogative of death to change the
beautiful, the comely body, into the grim deformity
of an affirighting skeleton, what more iSgnificant to
imprefs upon oar minds a CeuiMc idea of the King of
terrors^ {o reftrain the wafuonn^fs of our de&es.with
a fecUng appreheoiion ojf our, mortality i .to wean our
^SeStiQns i: to take off our foadneis from fo frail, .|b
{wrifbifig^an enjoyment > to center our provident con-
cern in the indu^rious culture of our immortal parr,
ior the daily, in the conAant improvement of our
£o\xh ?

Q^ // is eften feen that men receive gttaX vmnds^

cofUufions^ r^^. and yet live i when on the of her. hand% 4

{jcfouh. tf,a,*fkf prkk of a thorn, or fud). like tr'^>

' rnany t^ei.pi^es rneriaL ^raj^t give yowr optnioflt m»

f^u ^tli fnfonjideraifle accidents are. fa d^gerous in the

^fe^uence,^ "' ' ^. Such,

78^ f^ Bftff istt Apot.t.d.

JL doch ttrftfiqueoces sore tnofHy dvn^og te aa ilT
habft of body, wbcreiti the bloo^ afid bufnours are
fe ejttreani})r Tftrated^ t^e tuOeid of beiag balft&iick»
they prdVe cohbUr^, whedoe a trivial malady oft<ftb
degeneracea into a fatal evil

Q^ Wh) h thi Mfhis ^ Smeb €$d bum iMHr fkrni
thjh tftrnfcMLt

A. Btcatife the Stmh coal is dadoed v^th fDOf«
folpbur, aiid lefaeartby and Watery particles dian yotfip
otoer coid*

Q. I J^ to hum thi f^fin, vbf tll» time si fak f

Jl. Urwertceifes Its fiifiiit quality from tke &^c
particles of food eaten, which, thro' the natvval beat*.
)and coflcoi^n of the b6#ela> ut exalted e^n to 9.
Tolatility.

Q^ Tt v^iu Mh^a]f$ tnj. ophim^ tbm the greONf/i hap^
fine/T human ^ •»»$ MfatU tf^ i»ms wbt^i ### vmmms
ferfins €0itra&ed fitch u fritnifiif ms thtH thy. i»^
<n^ h MtotMid two Mhs tiStmod Sy omfittL 2k-
^mrge Mn the thi^rMBer^ or cmvtmmdu tffin^ M Jtimd
fliip^ h hm-iktikfi to jfou, 0fdfimg$ n m p^pofi $.

Mtf t difitt yottt JHJjfffMfUSy mHnItt At. ib f^fioio fit Mi

difiinffms ^ fiferioHtf, etc. commmd m <p^, to ^
comfatiHt witlifiieh m fiiend/hip i w iti^hor H €m 6$
mmtMd with mm than tm ferfin m 4 iIapi r

jL The diief purport of your qoeftioii (by thofi
terms tmmtmnd and ohty,) appears to be, wfatdicv z-.
real fHendibfp can be maintain^ in t tMiriage-ftate^
to which we ^Arer, with the learaod Dr. Tkjfbn
that marria^ is the queen of friendflitpa^ and the
tneafore of^al! others, there being a OD|iinMMiaiiOQ>
^.all which can be comniinkated by^eifdlhlp. It
is liiade ficred by tows ahd lore, by bodks and fottU,
by rdigiott, by nwt, by eontmon oounfila and com-
mon fortunes. As for the terms of ceanmrnd ttid
aApF, they being fhitsMe to the nature and di^ofitions-
of^the two lexet, they are & iir fromdoogitiiig
firom friem^p, that tfaey rather gite many oppottu-
n\dts to exprefs love and tendmefi to each other.
In. the man». by a itlasatiott of bia ancfaority s and la

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the womaa, by t ready BAanMom beyood iut Iojubcm
tions : And wiMreaf iboie objed, tint the fair Sol
are not capable fyf ftorecy and ooaAaacyi Uftory af*
ibrds as noble exiinpkf of the hu in bad^ at w«
can boaft ofi What noUeoefi was it in tint Lady*
wbo fiick'd tbe poifonous pumtonc natter* from tho
wound of our brave Prinoe in the Mf Lndk friKa
an Mjfcffim had pierc'd faim widi a venoniVJ arrow ^
What a glorious ejcampie of retainiag counlei wu
PorcM, wbo being fiear^ of the weaknefs of her Ssx^
ilab'd her firlf into the tfatgfa* to try how ihe cOold
hear pain s and then gently dM her BmtMs^ for not
daring to trvft her, when (he cou'd bear ki nrach ?
We cou'd inftancc in many xame* As to that part of
your queftion, whether a frieodlhip can be maintain'd
wkh more thannone at a time^ we anfwer» a friend-
ihip in the fnoft abAradcd fenie, can be maintain'd
hut with-one. For as ibon as I hare made fiich %
iricndi he commands all I have in the world ; §9 I
have nothing left to be at the di^pofitioa of a third,
perfon,
C^JI^ IS X«U^| k fnftrfy utfd ii hmfkt
A. Yes dottbtk&y as properly as an eanii^ mxf
be call'd a man.

(^ / hmm ktft et mpm iif vM syomtg wvmm this Mf
yiHTp d^gmng to m^e her my w^ mi (he hnth p^m

tMmft ibin J mm in timfmy, with hwt Md m mm r«t«-

tkmff birst which kmmithi JMt fiwt thi Mmnii^, Jh§

fimufirmi^ 1 mid iflkifs hir% immidimdf flm wifu hwt

6f$^ kaismtwdUng l/hmU/h heti fltukhttm^i

wmmtgVNUntnmf, flntt tdwi^ftm #

A* Ala5« poor Gentleman ! Let not the abnndance

of yoor love be the ocaikm of fuch fiirmtfeSk Mo*

dxStj t% tfae peculiar ittributc of tbe female fcx» and

if any be dtvefted of it, flie may then properly be ftid-

to drgenerate ^om the fime: -foA this we take to.

be the ffronndf of your inttmatlons, aad the invalid

caufe of your rafli complaint. Blame not then your

£ur oACk if ftc gjrd^you {wot tokou of J^r ntrau:

cndowiacnta^.

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endowments, or if (he receive your favours- wkb a
willing indJfFerence, like that of clie poet ;
Dhmfr»irantm detvrqtat' ad* ofmU
Cervtctm^ ma frcili ftvitid negate
^UA pd/cttm mugis gMudeat erifk,
Imerdftm rafen occnpet.
When flit's to balmy IcifTcs prone.
Or with a fidHous frown denie$>
Or fbmetimes joys to fhatch the prire '
Which flie thro' force would have her own*-
Q. Ofifring pf Phoebus, in wbofe iv*ry Im
Tmimrtai mt, andfiliJ learning flnne^
Him /hall I (as J ought) Xour fame dif^^
And in what firms mf grateful tribute pay f
Accept my. thanks (for they alone are left)
Wretch that I am i ef all things elfe kfreft^
B'er I've difcharg*d tht debt I <md before^
I once again feek to augment the fiertt
And bankrupt-like am come to borrow more.
'• '-A' •mhik ymr.pUafing numbers charms my foult
And aU her pajpms all her cares controuli
JBut,^ i /t t.the fnurth'rery fight, my pains returtt^
. And' oh I again m hopelefs fires I bum -y,
Love's fecret peyjhn glides tiro ev*ry vein^
And reafon faintly does her [way maintain ^
jMy paffkm mutinous and headjirong grow».
And loudly threatm to, admit the foe, ,
Jhen facred hardst X 1
If my repefe or happinefsyou prizif
Hafie^ qtsick^ hafte, and four in fr^ fupfUes^
*''Teet once agatn e9cert yoter pow'rf til artt
And by ftrong reafin*s rules reclaim my wavYt^g hearti
f ity my frdiltksti and my faults forget.
Aid break the dangerous fnares with which J am befet^

A. Shall creature;,, deditute of rcafbn ihun
Thdfe accidents by which they've been uodone^
And (ball Clorind0j 'fraught with wondrx>us fcnie^ .
Ji^tbk'the fiance,: by doubling the offence • .^ .. j ^
-- To fall ia buoiap, ^d rcjcnting heav'a ^ , . ^^ . ^
impior'd, lo^mnpcence niay rciaflatc again is ,

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Bat to repe^ a •crime, Jegratles our khid^

Sullies tbe body, and dethrones the ihifid.

Such who from feofual thoughts their meaiurei takCi

And only dreamM'tn when they're moft 0wah$ s

Black fpots in their Jark lives c» ta^tr furprjze.

Nor can they fkB, who oe'er had pow'r to rr/^A

But it ChrinJ^ from her tvw^rmg fight »

In v\t and fmfty from her prodigtons b^iglH $

If ihe ihall fink from her mbgktm'dx^mit

A {ccotkd fatt of. A«gik we inay^fiear ; : .-<

A fpot upon £6 bright a foal .'vill-Abap - .

Cmffic$tous to the gazidgvtold tiekxw.; < ^ ;

Oh ! Dpead SL'fu^mdfrU, led n^'ef again . . c

Your luftre be reftor'd, nor recbnci^'d to heav'a*

Q;^ Divifie Apollo, tiU vu, rfhy / >

Jin crimes, when o*er the fea theyfy^
Within their throats do Mtry fimit
jbsd not lohen on the earth the^ fti^it . . /

jtndwkyy vhen fleef^ does them^foffefii. J

They in their claws aJknAxofofs / -» ?., ./.

A, Would you a true iblutfoa gam»\ V /> v

Or reafons for theft rhimes obtain,
Vouchers produce, and good ones too^
For this your ipfe dixit will not do. . '

Q. TeU me, dear crml youths O ! ttU me^ vthf
Tou ftrovo to wottsid me by your late npfjf t
With kteneft htyt fought u piercti my btart,'
Methinksy you rathtr cordials Jhoidd itt^art,
Is*t not enotigh to foe my too find armtt
Now you have gained a eonqmfi. fy fottr chmms f
Js't mt enough to captivate fnyfotsl.
Wherein thofo jkong tssmuktems pajpans rotd»
Of Love, rf hope, of far} Unhappy tiuud,

Whofe powerful Jeve her weaknefi has Setray'd i ^ .

JOon^t pierce a virgin's . beastly who does admo - ,

Tostr grateful name more than flse did before. i

No more thus peffecttte a vanqmfls^d fatr^

By Urns that ettt too deep for' her to ieetr*

If Theodora writes refined laySi

*Jis by the influence <f your brighter raiji :

^Ht the reverfu , i Ti^l

- U]

2?&»/ / might f^'Htjty tbmp pmu$ t!lM*tfiid%

^i^tU name wf ming wid» mrMiy wHl^

A. WiU rhfim^s cnisltj eUaA,
So many .flaves be kc^ upon riK* fad^
Whilft Ihe takes pkaftro^ inhidr to its kiseficfi dirtMb.
To ftrike de^ wounds ra tbctr rotentive hcarta ^
The moft tymokk of jronr fix a^re.
One conqueft only et one tine tS^ctfiitt :
Sat you, by your myfterioas wit and ieiiie»
Keep federal at ovoe ia datk.fo^ieBQe...
DifTolve the cb»o^ nd point one by your c^'
^Which mift the ibij^ be, and udkich. mnfi lAr*

Q;^ Ijmd Britijh hwrds rtfAv9 mt skb*
Why feur dHs fwfU tmtfB to fifi f

A. Ic is becaufe tfao nervce thfot^h. fiear»
A kind of refolution bear: . .

The fphin6ler henor invaKd grows.
And from the bladder urjoe ilows.

Q;. With mU fiimigm 1 acitft four fimtt^
Wh$ are fi dtef and karmdif dhmo^
in your kmd freetps dartmg m taeh Um :
Mxttnd yottr wMted kindmfs to a fmahh
And ^he him eafi tf his tmnmtmg fam,.
Z9ve*s the dife^e^ ^ dnfnfi Sylvia^ Ok I
Tho mare I low -her alder fit^ deih pom.
H^hen I advance etnio ker fak^ felfy
She frefently tterm taUt and aUU me.idf^
And fmdfy other namet, too moan.. to, tolk
<:a9ne out of Sylvia'i momh to one thao Uvii fo. W^
'S imfo0U to $hink fwv vain I ftnve,
!rb gmn one word cf love to lee hm live.
i fight I mimn^ look fale^ nay- almeft dio^
IBut ftili her Ifeart no f^ deth dkfcfy^
TeH me then dire fortentors ho» so gain
My deareft Sylvia, and remove my fam f

A* If you mik^ doat, ebufe Some deienrtng (tie;
^ho knows to value your fincerity ;

Wbofc

}

WkA «Vidcr brfi9i tt^ an .^l^j^ prove
T« ^11 jour c^rc^n aod jrcn^pc love for Iqvc* • ^

Not 4Si^«M(-ti)[^ to %iMi^ jm- wiUi dir<}«Hi# .
But wkb £pp4 tnafwors ijootb your am;roi^ paiaJ
T0 ndk pf 4yuig for fo vile a f^ir^
t Shewrs tMt y^'re Iqft C9 r«afoai^ ab I bcworcj
Haur you foriakf tbat glorioMs^ g^it dim^
9[^ offer iw^eii A at ^ (eimle (brioq.
Bin if yoft uplift % ^wc0 ^^w ttfinii^
Di%)iife your ^icf» nor l«fi hci {jsc Jom mpmi ;
«(wr if yoii <MQi to ito0fs fte*ll trcait y^ ftiU wftli

W09ifA >ii art afi4 aa^re botb arc fly
WJicA we a(l(ire($« but foUaw when we fly«

Q. I<9 //&« xx^ virfi nf th* ?. ch«fiix §f $r. Mattheixr;
W mtd thm : Bat I &y unto ycm* dbat whomever it
iingfy with, his brother with<Mit a cauir* .ihall be in
daoger of ih(6i ju4gpi«i^ s and whoipcvci: ihajl Ay to ;
his hrocber H^iMXf,. flifU ^ in dagger of. tim coupfe] ; '
but wJio£»e«<». A^aji (ay* Tho» fooL flbU be in daa* ;
ger of hell*fife« I^r^y e:^f^m this virfiL

A. It is ob^vU tbat tbe ]cvn bad tbvee dilllndl
ceorts of jufticc^ Tbe lowcft <;oQfifted of tfafce men>
and rcftmUed a bench of jufticca with ua. Tbe next
was con)|iQs Vi of twenty tbree» and might be com-
|)ar'd tot our QjiecnVbencb. Tbe \Ag^ calFd t|)e
^reat Sanbedrm. was xnafie up of £ev^ni;y, and bOro
analogy to our Parliament. Several leariied men are
of opinioot that ibi4 threefold. gf;»iatioa of our blef-*
fed L49rd'i» refers to tboie three d\Skm&, courts of Jur
iVicei But we cannot fte how the Sanhedrim could
be xqsreftnted nnder the exprefljoa of hdl-fire.

timhtk is a wovd of iif^n^ originaU and iignifics a.
vM% idle» pittAil woithleia fellow. But as-j^fiif in tbe
Scciptiire notion of the word imports, a. pro^ b^ne
wicted wretch^ fo it. is a iiiN»4 of ^mtn co^umdj;
than Rixr^4.

Ks he who is* only inwardly angry with hisbrotbei:

without a cauft) cannotcooic under the corredikiofi of the

Magiftftate, who ia fioc privy to tbe^ conxrcptioas o£

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hisoiiod; {obyjmlgment weunderftand thej'udgincnt
onnger of that God who U ^fMrchercftki hetm. Bat
if a sian proteed from angry thoughts to Teproa^fa*
fu] iariguage, fuch as the calling of his brother ( of
.what is all one.'^j of his fellow creatures, for wc
are all brethren } BAfht^, he (hall be in danger of the
couniel i Aat is, fuch contumelious ufage ( to alledge
to .y^) is tin heimHs crime j jH it it an iniqitity t» U
fttn^/M hy the judges. But if he advance (out of ma-
iiee and reveiige, as we mud; fuppofe alfo in the pre-
ceding cafe) to the higheft degree of oentutnelyi to
that flanderous reproach of. /^,/M i the penalty lOr
flidled by the counfel will be the fmallifeft of hf s pu-
Diflimenti for he will be more particularly fubjed to
the vengeance of eternal fire.

How different is this paflage (as is obferv'd by Dr.
Hammond) from Homer's morals in the caf^ before
us ? who introduces the goddefs MinervM forbidding
indeed Achilla to draw his iWord to fight his antago*
nift Agamemwn, but giving him permiffion to raiyadd
ilandcr as he pleas'd. But our Lord (fb pure; To re-
finM is his IVitem of morality) commands Us*not only
to forbear all manner of contumelious language, but
alfo to rellrain the very motions of the heart, out of
the abundance of, which the mouth ipeaketh.

Q. P0Hther the reeeiv'mg the Lord's ^ttf per if tUfoltt/e"
If necefftay to fdlvation, to thofe who tire of i<^ tig€ r«
ftirtake of it f ^ •'

A. The Apoftle fiiys, we mud biliig ttery thought
into captivity to the obedience of Ch#id. Howomch
more mud our a6tTons be confdrftiable to bis holy
]aws» to his divine commandments? And yet our at-
tendance on^ the ho}y Eucbarid, is What he propoies
to us un^er the authority of-apei^itoptory.commaDd,
do this in rememhttttee tfiHe, ''- WWltf^thctt we Hand
indiaable of a noncomplia&ie^^^ith- £b indifplenfible
an injun^ioQ, we unhappily come under that (arcaf>
iScii rcprehenfidn, why^caU-'ye me- ISofd, Lord, and d9
not the thing that I commmd yoH-f If we negled); the
^xfTembling our fdves together, (as the baaiuier of too

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iDaoy is) at the Lord's Tabic, wiutever formal con«
feflions we may pretend to make, we do in t&O:
diiown oi^ mader, deny the Lord thai bought ms» and
impioufljr cry out with the mifaeants io the Goipek
ve mil not have this man to reign over us.

Is not ingratitude a heinous, a damning fin ? and
' confequcntly gratitude neceflary to lalvation ? And yet
' by negled^ing the blefled facrament, we add bafcnefs
to di^bedience, and ingratitude to rebeliion. For is
it not an unheard of indance of ingratitude to refuie
to remember him, who in fo wonderful a manner re-,
membred us > to refuie to do fo fmall a thing^for him»
who haj done fetch great things f(nr us, whereof we rejoyca
to refuie to banquet with him, who faded forty days
for us ; to refufe to eat bread and drink wine for his
fake, who for our fakes hzd gall to eat and vinegar /s
Jj^k f From fuch a complication of difobedience and
ingratitude, good Lordy ddiver us»

In I Cor. X. 16. we read. The cup of blejfifg, which
we Slefs^ is it not the communion of the blood of Chrife t
The bread which we break, is it not the communion of tho
bo/fy. of Chriji f From which paflTage it naturally fol-
lows, that the blcflcd confequences of our Saviour's
fuderings, to wit, the overtures of grace, the remif^
(ion of our fins, the opportunities of repentance, the
affiilance of the Holy Spirit ; that they are all con-
fin'd to the inllitution of fo heavenly a repaft. And
if Chrifl has enadted a peculiar ordinance to bcfiow
his favours by, can wcexpcdi to partake of them, tho*
thus appropriated, while we neglcd the proper con-
duits of conveyance? As well m\^t Kaaman, the5y-
rian leper, have been cur'd of his Teprofy by wafliing
in Abana or Pharpar, which he boaded to be better
than all the rivers of Ifrael. He therefore did well at
laft to. comply with the entreaties of his fcrvants,
and follow the diredlipns of Eli/I?a. For no {boner
did he wa(h in the river Jordan, the river appointed
by the prophet, but he was immediately clean. Come
then to the blclfcd facrament, frequently partake of
that heavenly banquet, if yc would be cur*d of the

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leprofy of fin, wouk) be nmd9 wM$, would rfo/h'^anJ
k9 clean,

Q. tfffither M bird dies s nnfmul dmh t thave for
fevetMl years oiferved, thaf I never found' in mf pUco »
kvtd df^dt miefs ftarvedi or flm^ or by fome antimefy

A. All IJTing creatares, conyerfint in this lower
world, are fabjeft to a natnra! diflplutioo \ and there*
fore bhrds are not exempt from the comtx>on lot. As
their cotnpofure contains the principles of comip*
tion. fo what you feem willing to believei raxutot
poflibhr be true upon any other foun(Jatioo» than the
prepotterous fuppofition, that in all birds* an untimely
death prevents a natural. In fuch cafes, the experi-
ence of one man ii not (bfficient to found a truth
upon* For tho' you io the courfe of many years
might never have found one Qicb, yet it does not
follow but that others might have found many, for
a flight obfervation will nirniOf yoU with many in-
ilances of a reftmbling nature. But £n<:e you fpeak
of fome birds you met with tfiat were Harved. how
do you know but that it might he a natural diftem-
per, that fo pall'd their appetite and weakned their
ilomach, that they could not eat, and therefore were
reduc'd to {o lean a condition before their expiration }
You may condder too, that the birds which are kill'd
are more ready to be met with than thofe which die
a natural death, before which they may retire to ob-
fcure, and fbmetimes to impervious places. It's well
know/1 alfo to all chat deal in birds, that many die
of the pip, the rank, ^c, thp* every way provided ,
for with the greateft care.

Q. I defire yon would teach me the etymd^y ef your

ftile in your paper of Friday the i yth of DecemKr, m the

lafi fide^ firfi coluwrn, under the article of Leghorn, you

Jay Cinter alia) where there was a garifbn,. e^r. ^ay

does not the particle there redound, where being immeS-

0tely prefixed ? It is the opinion of feveral as well as my

felf that the whole daufe is nonfenfeby reafin of that word :

f d^Jire at ymr leifure yon would either convince tne, at

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fhe Br iTisH Apo^llo. 7Pf

»eU MS others, ^ f¥t ^tfr^t ^ c$t^m^ tmm ny tfmm
tfyotirs.

jl. If the word there in the pkico atyedg'd, were m
adverb of place, we would atSow «1k cridcilin Ko be
good. But m cdac article it is no more ^bao wbat
grammarians ^1 an espletmi and rAeforicians a pl»-
onafm. Both wbicb rerma (mporc a rcikmdaot or
infignificant word* And tbis expletive is u^oaUy at-
tendant on the verb (ubftantlve cbra' al] the teniei.
And tbeproprietj of tbe Bn^Jh toogae baa lb far a-
dopted tbfs piecHiallical word, tbat in ma«7 inihMiees
it cannot be omkted. So that it ia at once (a ftem*
ing paradox >boti> redundant and seetflary toe< We
hope yon wiH aliow tbe following ieneenct to be.no
ways improper, There W4s st thne, wben^ 8cc« Now
you cannot but perceive, tbat tbe word 4her§ is no
adverb of place, fince the ientence ^p^s only of
time, which is dflHn^ from place.

Q^Jn a memmgp when I rife eest rf tnj Mf as fieit
m I am get ttfert rny feet» f hsne st violent fmrn m mf
head» tmd a ittle giddinefs, vhieh dees net Ja/I #^av* s
nrnute or two i I d^e to know the cAmfef

A, The caufe of this your p^n^and giddfoefs, we
take to be a great weaknefs of the brain ind nervous
ftocky whence the inotion of rtfingmay eaufe a per*
turbation of the animal fpirats, or quicken tbe mo-
tion of the blood' for €o fmall a tijne, in fucb a- man*
ner as to produce this diforder.

Q.'I have freqnmly ebfert/d^ sand have heard ip ssf-
firm*d by feveral, fia^, eytn grave-diggers, That the esrrfh
•Mch is dug otft if a grstvemU netfiU it 0fter the esffie
is in, which, withoHt difpute, adds to the repietiett efie.

ji, Notwithftanding this carious obftrvatioa of
yours and the gravo-dfggers, give us kaye W dOubt
of the matter of h6t, fince it is fo common to ka
the graves in eviery cfaurch-^yard raisM in proportion
to tlu; coffin within it.

Q. There is a coHteft ketween the fen and thefin-m*
law of a deceas'd Gentlewoman, which Jhsdldefr^ the charges
of her fmeral* They are ef e^al drcHmJiances, 6cc.

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^. Their ciccumftaoces being ^qaa], the Con ftands
much moreengag'd than the Ton- in-law, both by duty
4U]d natural alfe^lion,

Q. Ts Mifif youths^ '»h9 dU things undertake^
And iM ptffirm in love's punndrmg faths^
ytmebfofe fny t^t^um anfwer, fuch ns mtiy
Ijift's fntd rngtng fin qme exmgmjfhp
Tet gtntly fan the flnmes^tf chtsfi defite,

Whence is% the perfeB libertini in whom
The bendfirwg p»ffi9ns and wild afpetiies
Mali with dUermUifray i teafin dethron%
Jind cenfcienee ntm no more t Whence is% I faji
2his man thus tibtrndtx^dt Ins end obttundt
Mis bififid heat in ChloeV arms Mjjwag'd,
JCSo call the froftitute ) inftead rffenfo
CjfobUgntitn and eftehn he looks
iVith hutre^mul contemft upon the fool.
The find dJmded partner ef his crime f
Whilfi he who aSs by reafin*s fteady laws^
And makes religion's clearer light his gstide,
Uos panting on the hreefi of his chaftfatr.
Love and refpeB increafing in his find.

JL The USertino^ with kstt/Ufinfe alone* \
A&^s the mercenary pro(|itute i
Which iatiated, finks into remorfe,
.Sowr'd by reflexion on polluted joy :
But chafter flames envigorate delight.
And give a Uofiy uncheck'd by confcioas guilt ;
Whiilft mioghng fouls abforb the flowing joys.
Dilating to unlimited extent.
- The beauties of the mind thefe captivate,
Vfhidtk firetcb like their expanded origin»
In future worlds, afliiriog endlefs blifs :
The other's limited to fi-ail decay.
Sicken and die, with the deficient caufe.

Q:, TeUmit bright God^ (for thou, or none can*ft tell.
The myfiick powers, that in Slefl numbers dvfeU^
Thou thufr groat nature kmw*fi^ nor is it fit
Tins noblsft gem rf thm own crown t'omit.)

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TeU me, from wkinci theft htMvoffy charms mfir
Teach the duU world ^admire, what the^ de/j>ifi f

A* Since thus fubmiflively you fpcak io rhimr,'
Know that great power confifts in tmefie^Uma
By words well choie, and a jnft t$tm of thought.
The wond'rotis charm^ the mighty mag^^t wrought :
tVhich, as it seeds no ornaments to fhine,
Commands re/feB, and fpeaks it felf DIVIN£.

Q;^ TeU me, Apoiio, ^yo^ durfi. Sir,
Why. fame love crumht and others cruft. Sir f
Tbt reafin why J fend this query.
It is, beasufrt^ can ajjitre ye.
There is a familf in this town. Sir,
That crufl wM not with them go down, Sir,
Send me, Apollo, if you can, Sir^
A ctvUy or a crufly anfwer,^

Toitrs, a fuhfcriherw
A, Why crud ofFeniive proves to fome, Six,
Or why fuch moft delight in crumb, Sir,
We hold the procatardlick caufe. Sir,
Is deficience in their jaws, Sir ",
Or elfe their teeth are like to break. Sir,
Or eife their ftomachs 4re but weak, Sir«
Or d£t they covet better fare. Sir,
Or elfe they do*t to' make you ftare» Sir:
Q, Wo finer d§ intend.
With frovifo you'll lend
Vs a few of Sright Pho^us'i 6rainsi
Tb be tmdtrtakors.
As we aire cttckoUl-mukers,
Or elfe wo.mufi drop ottr high flroiftt* .
We four, when wo tm^
Our ktams m .a cUtftort
I>o feem fo wondorftd Jhalkw, .
ThM we fhould be willing
To ventttro t^ JUUing,
2lt pttrchafii fome more ef Apollo.
UaMakirs ttre as fiUow :

T« P. M. M« M. T. P. K.

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A^ 'Tis a ffga 79a what brains,
( If your aim is at gains)
Tihaa to &ek to improve them ilo moff «
Wken 'tis known* what m^-mans
^t up UBikyidkirfi
Tho* REMARKABLE biocklwads before.
You've hcar^ m«« tbanonee.
Of a notable dunce.
Who three timet iet up for an 4Mr^»
Your puric too he'lJ qucflch»
When heated with pence.
And your goods with a whi/nfa^ waur,

Q. Oh t tell me, (for 'tis j$u the dmk mtifi ^tUmr) ^ »
Jfhve IMS mtoM a Slifs, ifikjf frmt*d 6^ foMTr >

Or damn'd to dotshts wa hnow not tthf^ vimt \ 3
'But if a cutfe on human^rKce defign^d.
Why is not man Ufsf(md% or heaven moro kindf

A. No joys are in thcmffthcs fall and coiifp!car,^
But need their contraries, to make them grtat^ V

And muft be chcck'd, to make them more dilate: J
^hus doubts and fears the future blifs refine.
As dars unveil'd, with greater luflre (hine.

(i WhM Jhotdd be the reafon, tbm vhen I am 4#
ehurch, Iflmldbefo fleefy mm thmi a$ amtker tima%
and when I am at fraym, Ktfiy I flmdd hmfi'fi'HMi^
firange notions at that thne, mere than 0t another T 1 00
what I can to prevent thefe things ^ hut €tm*t*

A. As you propofe two queftioos, ib to the ft'ft
we anfwer, that the caufe of fa uHfealbnahk a drow-
fioefs may not improb*ly proee»d from your not
being fo fenfibly' «miai^ with piiky and dcvotion>as
with either fecular tMni m maitefs of diveriion;
And tho* from your cnddwottrs 'tir fnviml^ lethar-
gical a temper, you may bereaidy towjc^i*, thai ^oa
dciire nothing more than to ftciftfe the important
concernment of eternity, yet we btgleavc to tell you,
that to defire a thin^, and t(y be ftrltMy afftaed «ch
it, are not terms cquiVrfeiit. S«ti«V biw pklus per-
A»s^Wft<fly^*o«lpffin/that they are confcious of no
laviihing delight, in what i$ to others the rapturous
" ■ s ♦ • : 0>nteai«

2is BitiTiaH A^OLi^cf. 799

conteinpkitkMi of ^fter things m ««m. Ncm^ tlwe
they are defirmts of iach a ravtflmig ddigbi, u m*
dent from tbq complaiat itfetf i thit ti«7 e»j«y ttoc
the ol()eA of tbctr defire, ^ippoirf from tkD mltter of
the cotii)>lMiit.

Tht wlk Wff tbcreforc to merwomo the drgirfi^
nefs you oompliin of, » tccooteoipiate the^Muri^ tf
holimffi to reflet opoa tiwt GocL who ii/mm tinUt
tkitkildNn tfmm} to cooider that Son of Ood» who
nfmU^grmi and tfmth; to taedttate^ fraqoeatly to
meditate, on the Beatifick Vifioa, oa that fkk^ 9f
fjf wliich is in the fnfiim of oiit hcapenly Fttlnv
»o thijk rkvtrt $f fkaptn^ wkitb am m hit right htmdfkf

tet if you are of a mehmcfaoly tcmpw, that nuif
pfobably render yodr tindoavouri inefiPel^ual. And in
-aSt tbey d<% yon maft look upon yoar fuccefskA
enterprize, not as youv fin, but naisfortuacfy and con-
icqueiuly make it the otije^, not of yonr concern
hot rcfif^ation.

The reaibn of your fteond qu^y, is the.prodoft.
df yoor firft. For if yon aretiot fdnfibly afiPeaed
with your devotional eroployn^cnc, no wonder that
evriry trnpertinenn ereiy ramUing thought fliould in-
trude itfidf. Bnt if yoQ ihaii hatii uled your lUmoft
endeavours to prcrent it, witUoot tfUk, yea muft
reft contented uod^ it, and depend upon the goodoefs
of a gracious Mafter^ that he wiS not impute it as a
Sin* will not evpdd to mtp when he hut mt Jhmt.

Q^ I ffeMfiin knew if it be ft fin te die/er Uve ef
*mtt '^ mthtkim kmmit f

A. To cbiBoft ratifer ro Maiit to the King of xm^
rOrs. than fufier the objcdi; of our love to be ac^lnt-
«d With 6«r WMknefs, it it not on^y a iks bat no
1^ tba* thMtotling^Aieof felf^nuirdcr* The gresic
fke neeefiWy law of felf^prefdrvaeion^ ifidf^niiUy
obliges us to guard, to fbcure obr lives, by all inno«
eibt, aU Ht^fllnfal^e Methods. At tbef^ore to fyffer
mit fehtu 16 be deftroyed, when capable of prevcnt-
iilg itk or at Mt *f end^ai^ourliig to preterit it* ta

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virtually to dedroy our felves, fo we Should ftraggltf
to dived our felves of thole three general fatal caufes
of £o unfortunate an event^baflifuInefsCfor it dcferves
not the name of modefty) pride, and obdinacy.

But iince another queftion, which you ^t with
this, difcdvers you to be a woman, you may be rea-
dy to reply, that iuch a difcovery of your love (for
^y that other queftion» we perceive the cafe to be
^our own) is derogatory to the cuftom of the world,
to the decorum obierv'd by the female iex. To which
we reply, That when fuch a particuliar decorum is in-
. coniiftent with the principles of religion, and inter-
feres with a neceflary duty, there is no indecorum ia
the violation of it. For if any tbir^g be Icvefy, any

thing rf goad report ^Yt^^^^ ^V fraife, any decorum
to allure us, it is fure a Arid obedience to the laws
of God. If therefore aa unfeafbnable, a guilty bafli-
fulnefs, ihall prevail upon you to conceal your love,
to the hazard of your life, as we have already pre-
xK)unc'd you guilty of laying, in a manner, violent
J»ads upon your felf, fo you incur alio the additiona-
ry guilt oif disregarding that apoflolical iit|un6tio0. Be
not corformsSli to thisvorldp .

Not but that we wodd advtie you to be prudent
too (tho', indeed, love and prudence are not infcpara-
ble companions) and endeavour fuch a method of
difcovery (and love, as well as necefTity, is the mo-
uther of invention) as that the perfon, who has
gain'd fo unrival'd a pofleilion of your heart, may
not be leniible (tho* no part of the tranfa^ion muft
tranigrefs the iacred boundaries of truth) that yojt
-were willing to let him know what a conqueft he
lias made.

Q. Frim vheneo arife, or what mayoicafimthofe migih'
ty pillars of water, comffimfy termed by the fadors, va*
ter-fpouts, which ajcettdfrom the ocean, andfpread them^
felves into the clouds i

A. Thofe pillars of water, not unfitly called hy the
Tailors, water-fpouts, are occafion'^d by a great quaiv-
tity of vapours arifiog fuddenly.ftom the bottom of

the

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the fea, thro' which thcj pafs with that violeRce» that
thej often carry the water before them to a great
height in the air» from whence afterwards it baa beea
obferv'd to fall again»a5 if it had been pour'd out of a buc*
ket,e7en when the sky has been ?ery clear. But how
I (will you faj) can thefe vapours be produc*d from
' the bottom of the fea, and be forc'd thro' fuch a
depth of water? to that we anfwer, that this moft
needs be^,tbe cSc€t of fome internal heat or fire con*
tain'd in the bowels of the earth, on which the iea
liethi and that there is fuch a fire, none can doubt,
if he does but read that curious and wonderful rela-
tion of a new ifland lately form'd, not far from that
of Ctrndia,

Q, fray tell me the meMmg ef an old proTerb, I m^
mth in latin authors, they fay, when it man has badluck*
he has rid SEJAN's HORSE.

A. The fame ungovernable fiiry, which provok'd
the foftdace of Borne to tear in pieces the great SEJA-'
NUS, urg'd them ro ftdl denpn and break a fiatue of
Ins, which flood en heirfebatk in the city : but the herfk
continuing entire, a certain whtmjkal fcer fellow got
afiride, by way of RhoJomffntadOy which the MOB in-
terpreting as a contempt of their proceedings, beat his
brains out with the broken pieces of the ftattie, .And
from that unlucky accident, the proverb, you have men-
tioned, took its origin.

Q. I defire to know the reafon, why, when a man hath
been in love with a woman, and hath married another,
he is more in love with the former than he wss before f

A' The' you fuppofe the cafe to be general, yet it
is not without exception. For fometimes the confi**
deration, that we cannot poffibly poflefs the objcdt
of our wishes, draws off our minds from what it
is in vain to wifh for, refirains our thoughts from
' what is without our reach, and forbids them to make
excurfi^ns, where there is no magnctick center of
our hopes. But where a difappointmcnt (as indeed
it often doesj rathef cncreafes than.diminifbes our de-

Mm/' fire.

9qz Tibe BRirhu ApoLta-

fire, the phishomcnon proccfeds from o'tir mtuM iiH
Aitaxions td iriritatc otir mother £w, and long for
tfirfbrbiddicn fruit. So woftWtfs, fo empty are ^H
fublunary enjoyment*, tfeat the WMmmon obfcrvatioa
IS « nUt 85 cortjmoft. That the poflcffion of a cfc-
fir^d objea hWi fhort of the expcaation. As there*
fere tKe liopes of whatever we would obtain, cortic
nearer to Aeetijoymcnt of it, thaa the impoffiMlity of
obtaining it, which is tht hrthdt remove from it^
tlienee it may not imfrob^Jy proceed, that tht l«Wf
inflames us wltB greater inten&nefs of defire.

Q^Iioas Idtety tHhtH mth a violent bleeding at my
mfe, to that Jegfee, that all perfins, who then fav> me,
iudged tne to be a dead man, byreafin of the great quan-
tiiy of blood J hfii bti^ (fter thoir openif^ a vem, itj^ft^
J d^e to knovf the reafm^ ^hy that blood which came
from my nefoy Jhould be as good • colettr as it is pcjtble
for blood to bei and that which came from my arm, on the
tontrary^ as bad^ thotigh both came away at the farn$
iimei .

«er. Becattfe the blood flowing from your Role,was
emitted from &me capiUary. vein or artery, who£b
capaekics are itcted only for the flneft of the blood^:
whilfl: the greater vefTtls, as tbofe of the arm, jugiH
]ar5» 0»e, are capable of containing, the grofler as well
as the parer»and always a^tbrd a tnixcure of the whole
mats.

a W^ are WeliKmea etdfd HtBts.andfo often w-
poaehed with ridicstk And contempts when ifs wtU kneme^
that tomtry- ^ff^ds many- learned and eminent mon^ mnd
theft is no country but affords * great many fools mnd
blockheads f

A. H^lfhmen are call'd Taffies from the corruption
of the word David, being the name of the tutelar
faint of that country. And as the generality of the
world is £o delighted with norelties, arid confequenN
]y avvrfe to any thing of ancient date $ fo are thef
people of that county fo eommonly {but infipidly)
ridtcol'dy hecaufo they loyally perf^vere in the ufe of

their

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their priftioe cuftomi and language^ iMch is deobt^
Icis of very great aati^ty.

Q^ fPhat U m»t$admpp^ ^ha» m mghf $ldmmdt
ji» It is podible for ^n iMuadfotne 7«iMg mtid (#-
be more unbaji^if tfian an «g^ <iM ode. Fot hippU
nefs confifts in our own eaic and Atisfiidioa, and not
in the opiniena of otberi^ Thoefera an ugly oUI
maid, who tbinks fhe neifhtr iDoka dd nor u^y»
(and there be fuch) in more happy than aft haiidm^
yom^ ibaid, who^ not coHtttUtd witA the beauty
nature hath given her» is continually trying- to im*
prove it by art (and tbflre' be fddiP jdfo.) But theit
if by happincis, y«tt mdan whit^i the mod real and
perfe£b happinefs^ (^k^ a tlm^ imfiimi' vM- if ^
ftmt tvwwdi Goi'tmi fMm) ^ ugly old maid ha*
much the advantage af- aA handlbm yimivg a««r ^
being free from thofe €emptlti<MM ebe oth« la aU
ways liablor.te*

Hull, and Haltfay, goodLOfd deltvo'u^?

A. The.pvuteHi ia •f ifMidem drigrn, iikT dW64
its introds^ofl. t^ an Ordvr mife by the magillratea
of HULL and HAiiLlfAX, %^ 9hip a)] beggars out
of the towiH who came «ear thifn. This provnk'd
the ibfeping^ morttfls^ to <dd HfiLL, to make the
:third to two alike drteiled ptecet .

Ikfy capthMitd hmtt t9h lmi% ^ttrtvfdi

Then mfcient tf my fn, fm ufitfs nit^s

Bfricm I fmfit afll0$i/hidsnd 0mmx,'d,

jSU hope iff utnrekMffitiffs'i^i'^it • '

jis yet I kn0» not whi (hi »Mt, n^ »heti

Thi ctnttr tf my iremkimg ihmghfs was fix*4^

jit length lf«m\ ^km elhl fhi n/iiy thoaghi

Sinks frightid natufi to tmehitta U»^

3y mortal to Si^ horn) Mght 4f the^^

But ccenmon at ks light j ken^^ cht&mt flu yieldi

Jb mortals hafi^fotlafl hefhm. mi ibom

Jho bUfs, thi Mghtift ef owtfix ^mtfd^urpi

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T0MU flmll I,dat I to your alisr 6am

Jin. himbU jfuppltani, infiruH me tbm^

iiffw^frwk my wixms mind, 1 may rem$vt

Theft fains ineffable i fir I as fet

Camot bMd her charmis mthota delight,

B(U$ when I think a mind depraved beneath

2he charming Fiom'r dees lurk, hate does enfue^

Tbo^ notfo potent 4o eradicate

Firm rooted love, and to reft^remy peace.

' A, When hcav«n enrich'd our bodies witli f mck

fcnie,
'And appetite, to tafte the. joys of life;
It more earicb'd our.brigbc capacious minds
With iteafon to dila^ or check tfcofe joys»
In their own nature turbulent ixn^ wild^
Tending io felf-defiruSieiih if not rul'dt
Dirodedt and in limitations held :
Let reafon (as fhe ought) then bear the fwaj^
She will inform you, that tihe profiitote,
Tho' fair toiight* likp gilded fepulchres.
Contains within /i loath^m fcene of ruin j
Which with contagion foul* your body £K>n
Will ieize, and with remorfe perplex your foul i
Deftroying thoie fantaftick joys* with which -
You now indulge your thoughts, and in their room
Will introduce grirf, horror^ and defpair:
Unhappj choice ! but if in time you ilrive
Againft temptation^ heav'n with fre(h fupplies
,WiIl aid you to a perfeiQ; vidory.

Q. "iSs done ! at length the mighty conflt^^s o*er»
7hel(i;uefy trmtorJhaU prevail no more.
No more with treacherous arts invade my breaft, .
Nor with negleSed vows difiterb my reft.
His perjur*d accents I no rrwe will hear^
Nor to his fuff*rings lend a favoring ear :
Ar from the falfe^ deluding fwain Til go,
JFar from this difmalfcene of fate and woe $
In fame obfcure recefs fU Jhroud my fhmue,
jSnd to the lifi'mng wjaJs. f«y wrongs proclaim.

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PPhere httmhkfwiunt in pescifid tats rtfid$9 ^ ,

StTMngers t0 avarki, t> iufi, and friJi, C

To any, malfdf evety vice bifidt % j^

Wh€fi harmkfs /ports their haffy hours imph^f

And no diftri^Smg cares their fMco nmeyi

Where no inconftant^ with enfnaring arts,

'Edfe oaths and votost betrttp imguarded hmrtti .

H^e innocence is not 0pfrefi*d by mght^

Whore pleafitre cromns tie day, and love tho night.

Thither VUJfy^ and there my crimes confefs.

To heaven's exalted cottrt "my prafrt addrefsi

With penitential tears my gudt deplore^

jind never t never think if Strq>bon more*

A. Not any hero of a former age»
Nor grcator now» which treads the modern flage,
Cou'd ever boaft a vi^ory like thine*
Nor trophies (hew with equal luftre (hino.
Thev who have conquer'd nations wild and rude^
Still by /«^i0r LOVE have been fubdu'd:
The great, the wife, have truckled to his powV*
Their grandeur yielding to a ibft amour.
In a triumphant (hining chariot ridc»
Thm who haft conqtter'd him, who conquers all hefsdi.
Tis wiiely .done, now thou'rt fecurely great*
From frefh aflaults, to make a fafe retreat.
In rural joys, there let thy reqmems flow.
Congratulated from above* and wooder'd it below.

(^ Harmonious youths^ whtfe matchUfs numbers fldno^
With charming eloquence it^ evlry Ime,
Tell me (for you, and none Ukeyou can tell)
Where the myfierious f^mgs of nature dwell:
What fecret force doth oft my tyes confine.
On bright ClarindaV* tho* with^t defign, . .
Whilfifymfathix.mg glance returns from her*s to mine,

ji. Nature like nUo, conceals her mydick head.
From fecret fpriogs, confbiqious channels, fpreadj .
The latent caufes Sill we feek in vain,
While vifiUe the firange effieds remaiQ i
Her unveil'd modefty. we often prpve,
S€illiind torfooicwbat darkxbttt^jte Qbjfcure in love.

Q^Ahooi

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Q. Ahoo! m/h9i» P9ihm,
^r<m (ill ntrnflmi d$ foikvfi
Jdi^ dy hraavegrMt Wiflktums 4^ndj^JhnH

Shame tHumtnf ufind^
Tor de damnahU pkgne in frif ^rmhesi

Ddrtmyt Owen Mar. Swkifff »

That e&nfhtttedfmid tdmf4
hid uld' mt, fhm iJhoM tMh gUt^ ^

But a'$0f if my /kofti.

If didi ma9^9 me tp hmfj
Iho* my tootx.es I cmdd Imdy md^i

Den doftwhofe "Vff n^effnUsy ^ ^

To thefe podic* inqumaiis
Tut ^jto/r f^m dey grm tsofMflffn^i «

Leajht by fodtntiffrujhonj

Bey fkgm df idMo mflfMi

And dm bo cmkmn'd m/k imfoflmr,

Dy ihtfUrow'stFcr great;

And hy geud (haitft Batfhk's (hoe-bdchte

wdfcar it viiqti9f(h

Dy jfit M^ccntriihy
And mauke dy tali nitomock to trucle*

But tAukt drs ardvifh,

(T^iU cure m a triih)
Vid gan- powder n»b dy ftiire o'er,

Dat's if dou hvflit ooe#

Den fiftf it, d^y'JI rmi*
And ne'r mauke aAfntiltft airy moftr.'

Q^ // 1 freely b^ow af^fimbU kmdnofi mwiypwnd
in his dtftrejsy but afterwM'di bfi reduced t4 A far lower
conditio than he u Mt frefim in : ^jtotyt lohothor it U^
lawful fir kim, in cafe bo be -m dett^ ti deliver mo, hy
m aB ef ohurityt from tko f<dfi»blo dm^ tf fiwrm-
ingf ' [

A. In anfwier to tk» quefiioOf we tna^ conSder^^
I ft. That common eqaSty makes, it kwHil fbr any
debtor to ddlivei a mrer ftrtnger from ib tttrrible 4i4
' . ' " evU

fbi BRITISH Ap6llo< 807

etil as thit of ^«rrkig, prorMe^ it be no confidera-
We dfftdtaDtage to his crcdhtn : and i^ff)', That •
return of grjtftvde is litdc othct thatt the p9jmtiit
of a debt J and that, tho' the kindncft reecrt ed were
avditftfMMy dtfnat^n, yet in {btf\e rcfpe^^, the gene-
rofity of ttic giver cnhiftces the obifgation. Whence
it iaaturaUy folto^rs, that tho* we are invol^'d in debt,
We itiay pr6ceed farther in tftit kindnefs to a friend
th^ has oblig'd us, than to a firanger, or a cotximon
acquiikitafiee onfy.

Q. H#9 Jo ym reimcih 3t, Paoi'i tHomtfMfitifim tf
p tf f tt m d wginity to that cotnmmd if God to Noah anJk
hh ftntsy eocreafe and mdlriply ?

A, We iDoft ftceJy own, that bbth Jew* zttA Gcn-»
tiles look'd upon themfeives a» under afr oblfgit^on td
encreafe srtid iWtfltJply then* fpec?es. The former firoiri
the tefy precept ^ prop^ilc, thought ir unhwfui td
coRtkftie in a virgin ftife beyond the age of twenty.
Nay, they proceeded fo far a* to decJafr^, that to re-
njti» tttfinarried longei* tfhsiii the fc^remenrfened tirtw,^
virtdally implied the^^ri of homidde. tycmgus (that
famous lMctit0mMn lawgiver ) made it one of 1h#
]aws, that batchelo^s afref- fuch an ^ fh6uM be fbr^
bid to be rpe£^at«r» of thepuMick games. fUto (tHaif
divine philofopher) pronounces the foremen tioned per-'
ions unworthy of any honour at all, the' St. Vnnl in
effedt ^tfX'Xtt^ them to be worthy of double honour.*
We learn from one of Hdarthl's epigrams, thit in hi»
time the father of three children was honour'd withr
a peculiai* privilege, which was theiVfdre tfall'd yttf
ifium iJbnornm. But aot^'lhfhrftdiflg fuch authority,
Ivhich we have been fb free to own tho(e words to
}i(oah and his A)ns, are fairly recoAcileable with St. ?««/'9
advice. And this we fliall evince by the fublcquent
particulars.

I. All words imperatively utfer'd do not include
the obligation of a command. As when a (crvant
asks leave of his maf!er to go abroad, and the ma-
fter replies go ,•' the word go^ tho* tn the imperative
tnood^ does not imply a command, but a permi(riorf
to go. a. Thofe

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2. Thofe words, mcruife and mtdtipfy, might* if
abfolatdy taken, be no other than a form of ble(fing«
And therefore their meaning might be no other than
this, I will fo proiper your endeavours to propagate
your kind» as that ye ihall encrea(e and: multiply.
What therefore determines the words to (be obh'ga-
tion of a command, is the fpeciality of the time in
which they were pronounc'd, namely, when there
were but eight perfons in the world, and God de-
£gn'd to people the earth by fo inconiiderable a num«
ber. And this dire^ls'us to the meaning of St. Paul's
tdvice, and ihews us that it u temporary, and bears
refpe^ to the circumfiances of time and place, to
tbe then prefent condition of the Roman provinces*
which were fo plentifully inhabited, as to fufier no
manner of inconvenience from the virginity of £o
vqry few. comparatively fpeaking, as he foreknew
would be willing to follow his advice. If therefore
we live in a country were the inhabitants are too
fcanty to make it flouriih, or obferve, that fuch num-
bers engage in a virgin-date, as in all probability will
depopulate our country, we are undor an obligation
not to follow that counfel of St. Faults, which» un-
der fucb circum (lances, has no manner of regard to
us.

Some will have it, that St, P^aTs recommendation
of virginity reipe^s only thoie times of perfecutioo»
agreeable to thofe words of pur bleifed Lord, con*
cerning the deftru^bion of Jirufakmt when the Chri-
fiians were to flee to ?ella^ Wo unn them that are
with child, and to them that givo fuck in thofi dayu
But tho' in fotnt places he pro^fledly alludes to thofe
perilous times, yet clfewhere he has a plain regard to
Something elfe, when he fays, He that is unmarried
eares fir the things that belong to the Lord^ how ho nmy
pleafe the Lord, And indeed the Chriftian ioditution
recommends fuch indances of piety and devotion, o£
mortification and felfdenial, as both Jews and Gen-
tiles were generally unacquainted with \ infbnces of
tn unufual dedication of our felves to heaveo^ tbp' ki

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Sie British Apollo. 809

tbe cafe before us not iHitter of precept, but adTice i
not indifpoiGbAy oeceiTaryi but bigbly commendable^
when under the reftri^iont fpecified above.
, Q^Jnihkeytp the tMi of EmjUb^ m thi Hiarg^ W9
mat mth the werd Prime : f0mt is tbe meturnig tfitt
. A, \t fignifies tbe qpad of the moon, or the revo*
lotion of 19 years i which for its excdieacy is cali'd
the prime or gdden number. For 19 years contain
^11 the various revolutions and coofigurationi of the
jnoon $ and therefore wlien the number of years it
expired, the revolutions and configurations of the
moon return in the fame order as before.

Q^l am mm, mnmgfi tnmi^ etberst heceme tin btttiehU
fftitcr t0 ym, en hehalf §f m Gentlemmh vhtfe motkffy
weM net fennit him te Jrttm hit emt fiBttre^ Wisdi"
fcendid rf tm muimt tmd netiefiumi/, and is ttmverfalif
efleemed te hUfve m very gre^u jUre of ntutftUfmt, geed
learning, n Uberd edttcntien, tmd m gHM detdtf htmtt^
iiity, and other tneral virtttes. His perjfon mtiyfnfi^ when
there are not n jwy of eritieks $ and hefidts, he is in s
fair WM if making a fOf^tderaSk fignre in the world. Mttt
of all bUffmgs, there is none -he Sfiingm/hes himfelf ttfom
more, than fy hemg fi^fflsmtttdyUhvo with a Ijtdy^s
ftoeet temper, very\agreeatU»mod»fit.^d virtttms.i an4,
in a word,a Lady oMd with all thegra^rfa ,weman.
But, Gentlemen, the bterdon of the Jong liet heroi M
God has hlefs*d her with all theft excelknt endowments,
hoih of body and mind, fo has he likewife heftow'd m her
it very fkntifnl fortune, far /uperiour to that bf her ad'*
mirer, who is very little indebted to that gifj^ : And, pm
the whole matters this one tpteftion wjU arife,

neither the Gentleman, notwithftanding his inetftalhiy^
may not, without the kafi etnfure tf the mtfi malignant
fpirst, snake. Ins humble court, or at leaft his com^int,
to this fair Lady } andeffteialfy, when 'tis mfsder^d, that
nothing in the world was ever more difinterefied andfu^
rer than his ttffeHionfor her t

A. If the Lady's fortune be fufficient to maintain
them both in a credible manner, fo that there be not
a profped of brkiging her under unhappy circumftan*;

CCSil

cesi ifnA If the Geattenmi cMgO^fts not his own cir-
cuBdUHMes to her, we think his ottenvpt £6 far fronii
givtng juflf 6»ife of Ctfufuffe^ tiat h will »ot only be «
7^e£«»ii cm bfs dfAsretion, bcit |Neriiaps aM<>a Kadr»
to oliiifitakifig boy of «i opporttiilityy f«4iicb pfovU
dence fifems to oHkr Iiiid, ^ the reftoring tht gFan-
deor of tH^ ftmitf i

vmioii of Urn f

A. The true definition of oold m tb«t >it n « ^tnrati-
on of a pMtfeitlar nootiom Pon a»beat h oothin^
elfe than tnotloo parricolirif modtf^'d, ib Oftid 4i eonfo-
qotffit^ 'spiftMi^a- o# tfaK pfti^i^tef' \A^ of iftotioB.

Q. IPki Wat f^ fiiffi ifnmi$»r tfp^iri

As Tbere'gvoW^ a kind of md'in i^l^fii^s of
ECrYPT) Qd^'d f0ffm$ JRJktieu, of ^• ftyiiiK)r,^fHtfinen<>
tat (uMhiftee; Hila the gwit ^/r/»f MditfrdlF'PHlA
LADELPHUS,^ foft contriv'd m a<:ert«tn ^mniiij wa«
ter, dryM 'erff in the fun, Whieb tffmwarda divided
Into fhvets, wete then €»tt'd ?ir)»frv^ frdifi tlie teed
MiNcK th^e 'em^ iod ^ "th^Jk th« famous library xA
PHfLACrELPHU^ «Hs eompos'd MvjfWi^

^^fhm wMs Mf c^igmS4ftt$ft9V0rMfifhgf Ai

^. WheO die aum^ faiiii Was im treFfaHy r««eH'd
bHSngUnJi GldtK^^kin was»fi}of« than aHthe otlier
eotttrtri^, fiUM with convents, nuiNierics, and facfr
Viit botrfes^ dedicated to God's iertke$ wbo,becaufe
bis influenfee (hOne moN bHgbtly there than dfe*
ifihMfts Was Iftilghi'di by the cortiimoji people^ more
immediately coivre^ilftit Witbtbo meti6i Qkaeifhrfhif
tbM (^ber ]»!C^,

Q^ OHtymgii/e mS'nitf§» U Mt^ pi rM'cmi-^
mu yom mikrtii^nx mtil H fi$dh h the Mkrf tbr
Atbenisft orade ?

' A. By ftttiitg fOrth to the World a faf greatct ifa-

rietv than they did : By contitHiaHy minf^fnl the fN^

piih with the Mghfift: By carefuiry avoidinfg fedi

gtofs tfr^ors tbey wtr* ibiiitftimes gtrflty of, in point

Of ilhmkf.^nd abfUI'dtties (ftow* o^pldd^j in point

of

Thi BRITISH Apollo. 8i^

of fbtkfifhf : By enodmittois on virHut and AtyrkA
refle6fcions on via «nd filif : By at ofdtog fmydif'
fittest aad nicking tfas ktemttrs^ %ho tmnsp \Ss. wc
doabt not of fwelKng our unlerMikcii^ ta t far
greater bulk tbaa ibeirs* mcbout danger of bsttfg .
lapprefs'd by Churth or Suub^

Q^ The feafon ff the j9af fMts mt in imnd ef mkimf
ywt whence fptme the et^em tf new^yeiffs g&flif Mni^i ef
ehtt/mg king and ^een en Twellth-^y.

A* It caitM origioally from a oaflo2n of ihe frkni"
five ehrijhanst introduc'd in imitatiofi of tbc Emfinie
KINGS, who on tbat ^y pfeieilied iiM»y tcftfyg^i
to our Siwieier Chhfi* Hcaoe 'tis» tfart tbofc wh6
faappeh to be king and ^»#m on twdfth^j^i fonntrly
were us'd to make coa^derabie pieioKs-to etch otteft
and to entertain tbe com^ily.

Q. Meft reUnnd fagei, isie fe indeed^
Thne they who are ingag'd m matfiage^kiMdSf
Shotdd ne abftraaed friend/hip hddbefidet I
Te this J crave an an/wer, and yet mere.
Hew I have diffHig*d ym in my lines i
Tor when my af plications I repeat^
Te friends fi geid, and Je genteri ns yetri
If no ripfy .cnmi in yoter chanemgfeng^
I mttfi conclude Hey felf is in tho wrongs \

A* In firiendly officet of dmrs kiodb^
A number may thehr iereral parts Mgage,'
Firm and ilncere : Some by iaftnidiiofM apt.
By counftl and adWoe, ablbl?e and ea(e
The doubts and fetrs attend precivioos Wt i
( In thefe #« friend!y> (hal^ with our beft skill,
Aflift all, which addrefs oop wiilfng aid)
Some by tbair weakh may foocoar/fontt t^ flrMgt&
And courage rc£^ar thtrr friend's deaMr iift^ s
Bttt Wfaert tfie friettdfiiip's firm, fat), and Cotnpleat,
All thefe coMsmer; and all kcs GoTttfO«iU
Making, of two, but one etfhirged fool.

Q^Some fa^ fbm A-paMer was hea^mly wife,-

jfiul rljghtly firetM thinp t9 tcme:
Some faf.H wmt cniy pH^^ii^ di/^/ifr^

that cttnningfy play'd in bis room. Som^

^iz The British ApolLtO.

<S9me /4jf h i»as mt^xraft, and dm by the Devil i

So theft kind tf whims they tnaintain :
tmefwf it 'mssfofM frephetick Sybil,

f^fik ethers cfy, Leger-de-xnain.
Oraculum I>clphi if is where 1 mean,

Where Apollo, the^ fay, did give anfwers^
H^en he wittilf cuWd (as I have feen) /

Net afim ef ettr ancient great grandfirt,
Jis Crxfusftr one, who to his own cejl,^
' Wth the Ddphick Mnigm^'s was caught:
When all his 6ra/ve army he lofi,

Wtth affttrance of viBory fraught.
Mfieh, if it Se true, J fhaU wiUmgly doubt,

H§w you can your fonfhips gather : '
idnd frem that you can fcarce make it out,

2)&«/ e'er you came by fu^ a father.
'Then yrnr readers will wonder to fee you fucb foeisy

To he impes'd on iyfiech a falfe name,
^ndyoH will befiyVd a parcel of fools.

To play fftch an odd kind of game.
I advifeyeu, in order yotir credits to fave^

In your next your excmfes to fhow,
And to let tis fie what good title you have,

IhM fer fuit^re yowt wmh wo may know :
J/yeu can difprove what I to you fend,

Af^ in tbife crofs rhimings have wr'tt ;
Then every one your choice wiU commend,
And dfplaudyour Delphian wit.

A. W«re the Ihl^ick Ap<dlo a Sflnl dcfin'4
Or did pricfts m his temple reply, .
Were ;hjs notions of merd diabolical kind.

Or did lie oa fome wizard rely :
Were he all thefe, or none, it does aothiflg relate.

Or can tend to the prefcnt occafioo :
W^e your judgment but found, for a farther debafte^

You had never made this preparation.
. Tis the Brstifh ApeUo, whofe arts we profefi.

Far flirpaOing the Delphick pretenfions ;.
And why him as our father we may not exprcfi*
Don't appear from your weak reprehenfioos*

\ : But

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I Bat tlio' you in £\x<h matters fagacious appear»
And your knowicdgc lucfai wifdora dilpays.
Yet vj'i piomifc, it you to your father will fwcarj
Tba .*''5 .i tri'^riily vote you the Baj/s»
Q. Wjfl IS Apolio ? Wfiire li'Wit?
jind what have you to fay to it i

A, His bting all cne B«ri/i rehearfc.
And wu inhabus your fmerjo

Q^ I always thought it a Ramamick tali, }

That t'er Apollo would again reveal
h hfyfterlomficntsy hid in the dark womB
Of futwe ttme, and tell what is to come,
' But now I find it true^ and you his faeft,
Ordam'd to give the wretched fun relief.
Tor you foretold dear Julia would obfirve^
My fatimt fufferings, and mv grief regard,
jM that in time the r^mfh tny faj/m would neiMrd i
That faithful StTcj>hon would again return,
Jbid frimdfhip would with greater Lttfiri bum.
For the fond youth, and his beloved fair.
In friend/hip, love, and joy, have mutual fharo.
So that infiead of lofing of my friend,
I have another by his marriage ga'md.
Oh ! that theft pleafures might for ever lafi,
\ Which now revAv'mg time has brought to fafs.
I My grateful thanks for your profhetick lays ^

I I give y and would, if able, fpnad deferving pratfe,
\ A. The force of gratitude is great, 'tis true.

At once it praties and rewards us too.
Go on then, generous youth, enjoy thofe charps.
That ever fpring from beauteous 7«/w's arms.
May faithful Strephon ever call thee friend,
And this augmented friendfhip have no eni.
So fhall-thyjuft affc^ions merit gain.
And fa thy gen'rous patience happinefs obtain.

Q- Xbur reply, leam*d PhoebcanSj, 7 look for e*er this.
To my query, concerting the doxies of Greece.
Jf by /pells they can play fuch an ill-naturU prank,
Ai f eni^ate the fiouteft if men quoad banc »

IwohIJ^

tf4 SR&^British Apollo.

I wmUwf Mfpeur with mferfimnce mJe,
But when mere fi$bftantifd dtmands iim^t mtruJi,
I then beg your gcd/hip v^ lander wiUfauher,
But Mgt vith an arjfivir, your Jlt^ve

Cbellea Knackctory. ]tmpkj S^cr.

A. All the Pfjinks which are praflifc^ bj tjiofe
crudjiltcrs, ^ '

Arc neitber perfgrxncd bjlpejis, nOr by philters/
But by drugs of more force, to obtain tbdr curil ^n4^
Than e'er was conceived by the fiibtle old fiend.
And therefore HJemfr^ be in their fad cafe,
( Tho* we wou'd believe that his f|>oaft has more

grace;
Ne*cr ask of th«^ de'el to releafe frpm tho^ harms^
Since there be counter-dru^s, which wiD prove cou|i-

ter^charins.

Qi Genefis chap, i ft. v^rfe jth. And Gcd called th$
Ught day, and the d^knefs he called night: And the
evening and the e^mi^g were the firft day, Npw^ pray
Gentlemen infirm me, ' at what hour in th^ evening does
the day begm I

A. From the pature of the JewiAi day, wh|cb
was probably indituted h^ Mofes, and frpm the regu-
larity of that hour above any other tiour, we may
rcafonably fuppofe, that the firft day beg9n in the
place vvberp Paradiie afterwards flood ; ( for under
diilerent meridians, it muft have ^een' different psorts
of the day) at fix m the evening.

Q^ IVM ym be fleas'd ta exhibit the nature of our
Judges earning -y and whether he will appear with bh
crofsf as he did to animate Con dan tine the Great ?

A. Since nothing has a fbonger influence on the
pradices of men (fo deprav'd, fo degenerate are, they
that /f«r, tha' a more ungenerous., a 'more ignoble
pafTion, wijh greater efficacy prevails,, than the ten:-
dernefs of love ; ) fince nothing more powerftilly re-
trains our adtions, than the augufl, than the awful
manner of the fecond advent, the Scriptures are net
wanting to defcribe the coming of our Lord, as the
Judge of 1& the earth : To deicribe it in many of its

vsbriou$

ibe BtitT I su Apollo. Sif

yarious cifQiiiiftMart ^ draimStmpn fo tenriUjr far**
priftingt tfaac tJx>ie exwtffions maj be pertiflcntly
applied, tho' int^nM o} hii mmikBition in t]befleflu
wA$ imy aMi^4hday if kii^ tommgt mtd wkofimU-fitrndf
wbm h$ affearHk f

In that aiBftxing day, all natufff (hall be alannM*
lb§ heaviin JhaU pi^fi m^ with a grmu nM, muLthi
iUmmts flM melt vfitk ftnumt isetii \ chat chofe wordi
BKiy, in a maaocr be Wim^^if foHU'd, A9f y%f/l^ e$mi
Uk$ a refiur*sfre. In that amazing daf , tin fim flM
k$ dftrMd^ tht^mom Jhdi ntt jgivi bir Highi i and a
worfe than Egyptian dturkocfi w^d pverfpread the
dfflbhring uniyerfe, but that the fiafttcf of fo dreadftd
a -cooflagretioo, (hall fiipplj the roo«i of tboft csttn*
guifli'd lumiaaries* In tbat a<naxiqg .dajr, we fliall
Sebold our crucify'd Redaemer, emtfrngm tbt dmds uf
ktwvm^ attended uHttbly to. the majN^y of an oniver*
&I Judge i fir ih0 thmrkts cf\ tk^ Imd mti 6$ tmntf
thoHfundp ivtn thmfands if Aagek\ add God tbc Son
will be nmong them mote- awfulijr ' rcfplf odcnt, than
was God the Father in eht My flaa of Smb. Then
the trumpet ihallibund, and Gcd^ evem^th$ mtfi mgl/Oy
Qod JhiUfpeak^ eind cM tin world frrnn tb$ tifing up if
thi fun smto the going dovm tfthefitmo* Ho fhUl omU
the heaven from ttberve^ find the oafth^ that he may judge
his people. Then the very dead (hall .hear hia voices
and mouldriitg duft obey the funvmons. Then fhaH
be pundudly fulfilled thofe memorable worda, nil
kings Jhnllfatt down befm him i nil nations /hnlldo hittf
fervtce, Tho' jbme (hail do it with UDeairnefs and r^
ludance, with horror and de/pafr, yet alt (hall wor-
fiiip him. Then probably the croTs will be exhibited
in the moft confpicuous manner i exhibited as an enm
fign of the greated honour; that as under Cmftautm
the Roman 'eagle iubmltted to the crofi of Chri^, fo'
now, aB the regal,' alfAe imperial ilandarda of the
wprii},, mayxmAfcie their fubmifTion to, that unrii^'d
tone. • TfaenP/iit/f will ^hrtle to fee the fccnc rcver/1,
to view his prilbiier his judge j but may yet cgtpcA
a more upright fentence, than he faini(elf proaouocM;
z for

8i5 7%^:British ApoLLuO;

for ChnSt (hall jitJjgf "the vM in rigkiOMfnrfu Then
that unjuft judge will fharply upbraid himfelf for
ibewiog fuch regard to that, reprebeofioo of the Jews,
Jfthou lit this man go^ th^n art mt Cati2x*s friind i
ancc thofe very Jews will now be ready to exclaim*
Midd^ a greater than Caefir .is hen. When we fliall
faave all appear'd Before the jtidgment-feat if Chrifi ^
when the adlions of .our lives, the words of our,
cDoutbs, and the meditations of our hearts (hall have
been laid open before Inm^ with wham we have t4 do i
when the great, the univerfal fcrutioy ihall be over,
then the Judge (ball fay te the Jheep on his right-hand,
Comoyo bkffedefwy Father ^ inherit the kingdom prepared
for yon from the fomdation if the world i but to the goats
§n the left. Depart from me ye cstrfed into everlafting fre^
prepared for the devil and his^ angels. And when thus
God. (ball have pia all things m£r the fept of his Son,,
Han flsall the Son himfelf befi4bje& to him, who put all
things tender him* that God may he all in all.

Q. Xour fpeedy anfwer is difir*d fy a fnbfcriber^ Whe^-
ther the fea be not the alone occafan of the ebbing and
fowing of our Tjiaines ; or has the moon any infisence
on the Thames, fo as to caufe it to fbb andfiw, w'uh*
out the muadation ef the fea t

A. The ebbing and flowing of the Thames^ pro-
ceed immediately from the inundation of the iea, but
mediately from the influence of the moon upon that
part of the ocean under the ecliptick, which is per*
pendicular under the meridian moon. And therefore
rhe moon can have no immenie influence upon the
Jhamet, which is fituate fo many degrees from tfie
northern tropick of Cancer^ which the moon never
pafles.

Qi^ The two following improbabilities are told, me by per^
font of very good credit, asm-witrnfftsih/Breto^ which mahs
me defirous to give you jbe trotsble of enqttiriig therein,
and to give a folution, or fome probable^ reafom fpr i$. , .

Jhefirflis^ A woman of abont eighty yearue^i, ihot

bred fever al new teeth, and her old grty havrs falling cf^

a now brown head of hair g^m m the place of it i the

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?3&^BiiiTisH Apollo. 817

wthgri$ tfiimther woman, that after half an hottr*s ptating
an cUan linens there appeared upm eviry part ef it blew
anffes, that rtmam'd upm it until wajh'd out j tmd this
always happened^ noswithftanding jhe fmet'tmes wore other
fdks Unen as well as her own.

Id. Of tbefe two ilrange relatioai, the firft fcemt
to be the I^^improbable, or rather Is the moll pro*
hblc, partfcularly as to the breedfog of new tectb»
iince we have ^ like actefted by federal ancient and
modern writers j^ut we will onlj mention a yerr
remarkable inftance of it, related in the'^Ephemeria.
German, of the year 1684. ^^^ ^^^ ^ hundred and
twenty years old, living at C^es in 1666, who two
years before had bred new teeth, not without great
pains i and the fame man faid, that about that time,
being at the Hague^ he had feen there an Englifhmaa
two years older than him, who bad told him, that
being in bis 118th year, he had likewife got a new
let of tecfth. This might induce one to tnink, that
men are born with the £teds^ or buds of more than
two rows of teeth* but that few are of So flrong a
. conftitutioiis or live long enough to bring them to
maturity, or perfe^lion. We do not meet with (o
many inftances of old grey hairs falling, and of brdva
growti^ in .their dead, tho* faraeelfus boafled of a
quinte^QCe of bawm, by which he pretended not
' only to wor^i: that happy change^ but wholly to make
old people young again.

As to the febond relation, it looks indeed very tm^
probable, and much like a Popiih legend ; but fup-
poling it matter of fa£^, we may reafonably fuipeft
it to nave been only a trick of the woman, who per-
baps might ib paint her skin, that the linen being
applied to it, would take and retain the fame marks.

Q^ Whence tomes the proverb. As drunk as David^t
fow ?

ui, Vavid JJoyd, a Wel/htpan, kept an alehoufe ia
tbe town of Hereford, and had a kind of monflrona
fow, with fix legs, which he ihew'd to cufiomers,
as a valuable rarity.

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Ii8 The British Apollo.

This David'i wife Would often ^ife to make her fdf
quite drunk, and then lie down to fleep an botir ot
two, that the might qualify her felf for the pcrfbr-
inance of her bunnefs. But one day the houfe was
full, and (he could find no other place to fleep in
but the hogfty, where her husband kept the fow a-
boye nam'd on clean flraw, fo (he very orderly went
in and fell afleep by fa6r harmonious compantod. But
the fow no fooner found the door uj^on the jar, but
out (he dipt, and rambled to a condderable diftance
'from the vard, ih joy for her deliverance.

David had that day totoe relations come to fee
bim, who, bad been agafnft bis marrying ^ and 'to give
them an opinion of his prudent choice, he took oc-
cafion to inform 'em, he was forry that his wife vrn
then abroad, becaufe he wou*d have had 'em feen her.
For ( {2j$X>avid ) furely never man was better match'd,
or met with a more honell, fober wife than I am
bleft in.

They congratulated his good fortune, and were af-
ter a (hort time defircdby DaW, togofcethegreatcft
wonder of a fow, that ever had been heard of in the
world. He led them to the hogfly-door, and open-
ing it to Its full widenefs, the firA thing tliey faw
was his good wife in Tucb k poUure and cofiditioo,
as upon her (larting up, and calling Dat/iV HUSBAND,
gave occafion for a hearty fit of laughter, and the
frwirb you have meotipn'd. '

Q: ^^^ ^' ^ certain pmg Z^dy, who in beauty and
tpifdom, &c. is inferior to none {But I rover had aiy
cower/ation with her, only I hear others fay, that fie it
extreamlj witty, 6cc. ) This Lady and I go to the fame
churchy I fit as it were behind Mr; but fie, as I eftm
' perceivOi turns her eyes ufon me, which fixis a fancy in
' njy mind, that fie kVes me very well,' which I am im-
fortunate to know by you^ whin convenience gives leave I

A, Be not too ha'hy to cntehain fiich fancies \ fbr

by the purport of your letter, we hive niuch teafon

' to believe you are 'mfftaken. A beautiful young La3y

• and miArefs of fo great wifHom, wou*d be caution'd

thereby

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. Tie British Apoli^o. , 819

tbercby ( bad (he really conceived a paoioA for 70a )
to conceal iu till addreft* aad act profti(uCe it hj
glances. Her casing her eyes upon you» nuHr be
from another intent^ ]perhaps only to feed this nxtcy
in you for her own diveriioo* when axsoagft her aT-
ibciates. Of this we may be pofiti?e» tMt either
you are miftaken in your alculauon* or mifinform'4
in the chara^ler of her wit and wifdom.

Q^ Why ur$ frnm mm nwt btun thm €thrt f

jt. The difference of men in that refped> proceeds
from the ditference of conftituti0Bs» the hot and moift
tempers always affording- more hair than mj otha*

(X j£ thmfimd racks md d$4ubi I ftii^
P0^ art or dangir can't caaceaL
But that which nnfl auimms my pahh
Jhtne!

I lovej alas !mmmhut kvimmm vam%
Jtnd mort Ti tt&^mm^hm grUfsfo tuar iff tneml
jUvanc*d to tha^ht* ^t maki *nn hUid a-new*

Oh then ! dear hfsffy yosuhstyour candiMr fiam^
Let Umfidfireams of tender fUyfino :
Nor let me that {wgkBed hy your fyre)
In tortttre live, and in de/pair expire :
Bftt te4ch a wretched fair one how t* obtain
Content, and dear lovM iiappinefs agma,

A. Thofe racks and deaths wou'd (Irive m vm^
To give your temdtf h^m pain.
Did reafin coce your live Controul :
But oh !

Your cheico firft ptided tortures to your fiul:
We might have helfd you, had you ask'd btforot
But fuccours come too latOt the war once ^V.

Oh ! Lovely^ lofi, mthinkmgt ciptrve FAIR»
Not only pity fhall fucc^ tliy pray'r»
But fuch advice as may /i^ peaco rcftore.
And never give the £cofe to languifli more 1
On barren ground, the fun wou'd vainly fhioev
The fruitful foil alone ftiou*d feel fucb rays as thine; ,
Q. To qnackt of the age^
' mn apfnar on theflagot

N n a Twiu

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Sto Tfie British Apoi^lo.

Twice week wuhyosir faektU

T^r thofi who da tack it^
WM fhr*d with sdviee fir Mfrftm i

I0nch packet contains

Th* efi^s efyom ktuns^
MxcelUng fills, fwders, or flaifitrs.

So VUteUyou tm grwf^

And beg your rekrf.

Like the croaking of frogs.

And the grunting of hogs ;

Then like daps of thrndtf,

PFiich furprize tno with wondtrl
Tm affrighted wHh ncifis-fo various :

Ah ! then^ now or never^

Tour opmm dtHrOtr,
For wy health tm afraid is precarious :

Thus rfUto I am feiz'd.

And Utterly teax,*d,
Wub rumUmgs all o'er tuy Abdomen, :

00»ch ptakis fuch a clatter.

And this is 4,ho matter,
Nov give your advice, oryo*ro no meal
A, Some will fay, that *tis wind*
Id your bowels confined i

Others think and aver

Noxious hubours lodge there*
"Which theft nolfy diibrders engender :

More may judge you thro' fluking

Id this your fad taking»
French frophit, or fome fuch pretender :

Bur, if laftly we may*

Our opinion diiplay s

•Tis thtflux of yp^r wt.

That oecafions this fit »

'Tis the volatile fke^vas

Of your exquifite brains.
Thus aiSeds your whoU mps thro' redundance :

So a SibyUmo breaft, \

When with wondtrt oppral^,
f eims diftraded, and raves tbro^abundance*

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j^ l0Mt jcfSi exfstick jojfs fofe/s wy himtt^
X¥bM raftwu w Jtffm'd throttih rv'ry ptirt f
TliMfures refin% myfprightlyfml Hvw nmfi»
T^ hear my hw ituhanar nm Ins lov$ :
'BtMviJhing viit^s h gtv%s my mind^ whm I,
Wkh fleafrnt fiauri fcems tf 6iifs tffy.
Love nvm mtb fran/pert ruUs mthm my krwfit
Beftre with mighty weights rf grief fiffffjl.
Fitrewel all anxteus cares^ new J addrefs
My cooquer'd conqaVor with affw^d b^etb*
Jb^i all Apollo'i ghrims effspring mine f
Art theft bUfi youths deveted to my fhrine ?
A blifs teo gx^at^ a Aluflnng maid te crvwnt
When thai reward frem eni$ tea high remwni
And mufi young Theodora new dire^
Herfelf to ene, and the bright reft rejoBi
Jairden her crime, who thinks /he has engrefid
Men numerous charms than sil the choir can boaft ^ .
'Til then o*ercome^ wmgd with defire^ I fy
2b his fair arms^ »ho writ the lafl reply*

TheodorSr
A. Fiird with tumultuous jojs» the youth we left^
Almoft of life, by too nrneh life bereft ;
Who& mounting foul, iair Iheodora rais'd*
BjT lines more eafily stdmir'd than prais'd*
Since the kind fair refolvM to eafe the pain,
(How e'er't might hap) o*th' next replying Twain ^
Since equalfy each for the charmer bums.
We've hopei, we now Jhall all be lev'd by turns.
Chance threw the longing Twain upon her brcafl*
Chance equalfy may favour all the reft i
If ib propitious to our wijhes fhe^
Next Theodora (hall our Goddefs be.
Then a new fyftem to the world well (how,
Of love, e'er this, none e*er were bleft to know \
That he intire, in a divided heart >

May reign, and like the foul himielf exert, C

Se all in all, and all in ev'ry fart. y

Q. Apollo, fray anfwer^
2Mtt I/, if you cant ^tr,

N n 3 The

8it 7*^ British Apollo:

The quefthn I'm abont to frofofe :
If y 014 fleafe yo» may hanttr^
If ym cann$t aufwer^

Why dy hiking ftrong Uqmrs Jhould eaufB a nd mfe f
A, *Tis the fiimcs of your wine.
Make your MJfrit thus fliftie.

Which afcendJng the top of your mmnufh
Nature healthfully throws*
On your prominent aofe,

And proclaims you a jolly compmion.

Qj^ ify Sirs t you can mform me quicks
I03y the devil's called old-nick?
It being a fad affront, alas i
To my neighbour. Seignior Nicholas. ^

A, This for a proverb came to pafi.
From an old fubtlc Nkholast
The politician Matchiavei,
As cunning as the de*el <f heU,
But if your neighbour can forbear,^
To chri((en thus his fon and heir^
He may ( if he's Co politick )
Efcape diftin6Uon*of old-niek,

Q^ Our bleffed Urd it freaumly [aid to h Me ffhfl
md facrifite, I defke f her fere to be informed iit^w^
refpeh he may be cattd a pteji, fitce he fitm not h'm^
felf as. does a friefi the fadr'tfice^ but vtas vkkmly fut /»
death by his inhumane crucijiers t

A, That our Lord was at once lK>tb prieft add fi*
crifice. we learn from St. Taul himfelf, who tells uf»
. that he offa^dup himft^. And this he may irery pro-
perly be faid to do in that his death, with re^e^ is-
deed to the perfecutiog lews, was fufficiently ?ioJenr,
but with regard to hinuelf intirely volantary. Hear
what he fays himfelf > Therefore doth my leather iove
f»e, beedufe I lay dvtsn my life, that I might take it a^
ge^in : No man taketh it from me i but I lay it down if
my (elf : I have power to lay it down, and I have paver
to take it again ; If with dejke, he had not defired to
die for dinners, could he not have hedj chofen, whe*
thcr he wou'd have been madeflefhf. and dvtelt among

us i

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MS f ButySif t^is caufi was he km^ t» this md came h$

ifU» the -mrldi He fore-koew the V'arious circumftancef

of bis apprehenfioQ in the garden, and therefore coul4

have deliver'd himfelf from the ffmre $f the hunter %

but the cuf which his Father gave Mm, he was willing

exceeding willing to drink it. When he was aftualiy

apprebendedi and in the hands of his raging adverfi*

nes, thinkeji thou, that he cou*J net have frayed te hie

Jatheu f^^^ ^ wotdd freferuly have given him more

than twelve legions rf Angels ? hut hew then flmU the

Serif tures befulfiUedi that THUS it Jljould bet THUS,

becaufc be himfelf had voluntarily determined fo«

When bis enemies revil'd him on the crofs, If he h

the King ^Ifraelj let him now come down from the crofsp

he could have immediately come down to the con-

fuGon.pf thofe infulting wretches. But fuch was his

love, to us, that he thought it expedient, that one man

fhokli die for the feofle, and that the whole world perijh

net, And now, who /hall lay any thing of conflraint*

any thing of compulfion to the charge of him, who

made fo voluntary an oblation of himfelFj and there-*

fore was a9 properly a prjefi, as he was a facrifice, m

^i^fir eyfr after the order ^ 'Mclchifcd^ck ?

Qj^ ?r^ iftfym me to thehefi of yottr inowled^e, hf
jpkfit extfwl. 0nd viji6le figa, Ood under the patriarchal
ififpenfutim, i^iffd his acceptance, gr tefufal of their ob^
iatien f For th^t he did give fome intelligible fignature,
}»hereiy they v^e, afcertAmed ^ifher of his favour towards^
w diffles^fure ag^ft them, is evident by Cain'/ being fmr
fiifUj 4hdt God had reffeSi unto Abel'j facrtfice, and no^
unto his( r .'

^, The Uv^sCifi tb;|t,Gpd tcftificd his appffoba-*
tiop of ^hffs offering, by fire from heaven i but the
ht^ bi/hop of J£ly more probably, by a flr^am of lighi^
or fimi from th^ SHECHINAH, or glorious frepnc^
of (3od^ to whom it was offered* phieh burt^ uf hb fa*
crifUe. And as he obferves, that what we tranflatc»
.*Ae LordJpad refpeii unto Abel and his offerings Th^od(>-
tip3f*ya^flatcd thus, 'ATi/SAivJ'fir |jt5 t«« £hyo-/«$ *A^i^,
.;i; M&ino-i, bo lookd upon AieVsfacrifUu^ and fep thern
•\ >:. ■ Nn'4 ^ ^

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fin fire. So he takes notice withal, that fbme ancient
Fathers with St. yerbm, approved that tranflation.
AQ(i he confirms this very probable opinion from ie-
veral inftances in after times ; as you may find in
Ltv, iz. 24. fuJ£es vu 11. 1 Kings xviii. 38. ^c.
I Chron, xxi. 26, 2 Chron. vii. 13. and it is obftrva-
ble, that tht Hthiw word ^^y^ fignificsboth to aceefu
and t$ reduce to ajhesj as acceptations of equivdent
importance. Whence that pafTage in ?film xx, ^, Re-
member all thy offer'mgs, and ACCEPT (or confume to
aOies) thy burnt famfice,

\ And as it was anciently obferv'd, that the deril
ever lov'd to be an ape, and to mimick his Maker y
So the fore- mention 'd prelate brings remarkable in-
fiances of diabolical delufions, in imitation of this aa«
cient u£ige, from Homer and VtrgiU thofe princes^
the one of the Greek, the other of the Lat'm poets.

But wc muft o^fcrve, that God witnefs'd his ac-
ceptance of the facrifices, and of the other acceptable
actions of the pious Patriarchs, by a fbmewhat dif-
ferent procedure i the former ( as is obfcrv'd above )
by a flream of Jight» or a flame from the SHECHI*
J^TAHi thelattor by the SHECHINAH itfelf; the
SHECHINAH, which was very probably a glori-
ous, a refulgent light 5 a light perhaps not unlike to
that, which made its appearance to St. taut ; a light
eibwe the brlgbtneft tf the fern. But this light which
in part composed the SHECHINAH is fuppos'd to
Jiave been accompanied with a numerous retinue of
attending Angels. .>

Q. f0fat is fw» t

A. Snow \s vapors congeaPd by the cold in the
upper regions of the air. Hence therefore is the rca-
fon, why fnow \% of fo loofe a contexture s namdy,
becauie it proceeds from thin and rarified vapors.

Q. V<hat is the memng ef the fhrafe. To break
lh'ffcian*s head ; and whence camrthe exfreffim f

A* Trifcian was a learned Grammarian, who fioo-
rifli'd at Confiantinople in the year j;zf, he ^^n^^^'^'
curate in Grammar, that 'to fpeak falfe Lati ' %

52r^ British Apollo. Sif

companyt was as vngrateful to him as to l^reak his
head. And indeed it is even now cuilomary with
roan/s when very much offended at any poceedings
of another^ to cry out, I had rather you had broke
my head.

0^/419 iiiga^d t$ a vety btiua^idymng tsufy, and
havt bitit thefi i Mtmihs, I havi tftm mj^i her t§
gram $ni that bufi. vhkh A twjitgd flaf affirJs ; but
fie denies met the* fie omm we tare as Uwfnlfy mtm nnd
mfe as ever »# can be in the fight ef Qed, She eannee
My wf^i difimft tny receding from ny fremifi, ner dees
fie^ Jmce her jemtwe is fittUd^ and every thing c0ifum^
mated with Soth friends cenfent, Mf arguments have
frevail'd fe far with her, t&u fie has fremiti me the
gratifying ej my reqnefi^ ^f y^ faveur me with an affirm'
matrve anfwer^ I beg of yen tp fay yea or nay, asfeen
as feJpbUt fmce 7, as well as fhe^ am refdv'd to ob^your
sbSatet in the mojl JiriB fenfi.

jt As fure as you think your felves, conlider, ma'
ny things happen between thelif and the cttp. But fhould
no prevention happen, and your requeft (as it is not}
were lawful, what man that has any regard to his
honour, would cuckold hirofelf, and leave any pcr-
ibn at liberty, without bein^ able to bring any to
account for it, to call his Lady i n Since the

Lady fobmits to our decifion of the nutter, we
wouM believe, ihe does it in a full aiTurance, that rre
wou'd by no means allow it.

Q. I defie yet$*llinp)rm me, why people's b^s are more
aft to break infrofiy weather, and left aft to cure t

A, Becaufe in fuch weather, the drinefsof the am*
bient air exficcates the bones, and renders them more
brittle- than at other times; and the difficulty of cure
proceeds from their want of due moiflure to pro-
mote agglutination.

Q. 1. 90fether felenites changes their celettr as the moem
does her phrafes t

zd> Phfether afierius kindle themftheSf being exposed
to the rays ^ the fun t

^d. Whether gagates kindle in [waten tmd extingusfh
tjf^feiyes meylf N a j; 4flS». Whether

iz6 The British Ai^ollo.

^h. Whither anthracites kindk $heir flames m wster,
and deaden them in the fire f

A, Thcfe are the notions of VVny^ and Iffdenrus^ an^
ftre look upon them to be altogether groundlefs and

whimiical.
Q. fray favour me with the ftverai ^poms attending

i» confumftion,

jS. The chief figns then of a confirmed confampti*
on, are, a very tronblefom coughs ^ plentifiil, thick*
and fometimes difcolour'd fpfttle, languishing and pin*
ing of the whdlc bodf, lofs of appetite, difficulty of
breathing, thirft and fervent heat of the Wood, noc-
turnal fweats, and an utter decay of the fkfh^ almofl
to the drinefs of a skeleton.

Q; I have for fever ai years dfirv^d^ n^, I have hem
an e^e-witnefs, to Jimn young fe^le (tho* 14 or tf years
ef age) to eat f and ^ gfavel, and cl^, and feveral more
fuch like thingSy yet cotdd never apprehend what could ^9
the inducement rf it, they having neither a grateful fhtell
n9r tafte.

A, This kjnd of appetite proceeds from a didem*
per of the ftomach, for the vitiation of the acid there-
in, cau^ng a deiire of fuch natural food, and that toa
iirange degree of longing, £0 xis not to be fattafy'd
without eating plentifully of the fame.

Q^^Thanks to my faithful friends, the Britifli Bards,
Whofe prudence, charity and kindnefs weigh.
Not all her wifhes only, but our words.
And find them back adapted and refined,
WoWd all -who ready conpder well the wottth,
And by your genius cultivate their own, -
The erring world might nicefy be reclaimed.
And vicious f thoughtlefs morals grow both good and wrfe.

Something myfterious in your anfwer's couch* d.
Or elfe my judgment cannot reach your fenfe i
Wis my complaint indulged or condemn'^d f
However it be^ incouragd by the frank
And gm*rous promptnefs, to refolve our dotsbtsl • ^^^

I fhall approach your fhrine, for fecond thoughts ^
If too much fondntfs for my friend fnaybo'^^
Or mmmal^ or indifcreeir ^ vain. -A/At'^

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ji. As friendfliip is the moft exalted Ui&,
Which human luiture caaafpi^ri^to taftej
And therefore inoft allures, and charms our fouIs»
And fwalloWs up' our yieldiag facultlcf»
Gilded withTpecioiis.^Wt of iaapcence»
Of vertue, honour* >tod of gMtitade i . .
We therefore <Kigbt (6 be i^n our guard.
Left the t^mptatidn ihould confederate
With nature (of it felf, too much indiA'd)
To yield the fort^of i'ealbn» ttnadviied, ' - *

On articles pre^rious* W^ chkttt
Thefe precepts, -aiki no dMg« ihaU attend^ .

When mlogiiflg ibafo aUgdiMt the flowing jojfi*
And your indearments grown reciprocal* . . .

With extacy conftfs the bottiidleis>b(ifs i .
Rev'olve then on the' Author of thetn all»
Who fbrm'd your foul capacious to retain.
And tafte immenfe delights i that he's the {cource*
To wbofe indulgence all thoft dreams you owe ^
Your praife and thai^s firft ofier at his duroar».
And rajft your love iuUer Went lo that end 5
A true p^tooick paiTjon t;heo .you've ggin'd,
.With, AOthipg noxious, or injurious ipixt.

Q. Ntm, kt Apollo's feet I hnmbly lay
A CMufit which wiH dmm^ bis keemfi r^«
*Tts hi, who kindif fuctoHts tht dtprefs%
Idufi heal the ragmg mimijb rf my krti0^
7ofs*d m the waves ef in^JUeJs love^ * '

Tet ne'er the pert ef hafpinefs csm frove^
Ttx'd en no fin^e fair-ioit nor ewk.find
A nytnfh with charms fufime 40 her^kind^i
All aret methinkh ^fte fi^mnly Mghi,
The fair ^ the Mack,- the Siiwn, give ei^aUy detf^*
Nifw if, fir one ordai^d, I feel this pain.
Too long, aUs ! Vve fought the nymph in vain.
Let great Apollo then» produce the Jhe»
To n^hom this tthfix'd heart mufi eonfiant h.
Shottld his own Ihpline$e/ir jhe powerful charms, >
Like Srave 'Evis^t'f unlimited alarms^ . >-

I'd Jhrm thojort; and meU her m mf tlrmt^ ' i

H n 6 4. What

8z8 fbe British Apollo:

^. What wou'd this erraat-knigbt» whofe loftj
. ' ' drain,

'Afpires to rival Dt La MancMs vein ? . • ^ ^
Whofe rambling genius nothing can $ontent^ ^ .^
But the inverting nature's goveramotr
To change the fpecies of tbie beauteous race, ...
And raife fome form with more than human gratfc.
Since nothing yet has foch perfedlion fhown,
.To merit him i The fair> the blacl^,. the brow9y
Give equal joy, yet unc0iicirn'<j..he yicvfs^
His mind fo vain, it knpw.s not v.hese to cbuie i
Bdt roond the comnaf>Q Gratters hk ddire^, ^ ^
And cools his filthy ftr^ms in: viler fires : . . \
But if divine Afilk*$ care you'd }M:ove» ,
Let honour's rules inilru^k you l)our,.to love .* • ^.
Beftow your generous warmth on .one dear Oie,
As ^tis ordain'd by a divine decree.
Thns when you've learnt t'obey right reafon'^ voice,
,Then flmhts will diredi ypu in your choice. -, ^

Q. Gentlemen, thtfi verfes are made ufm tBee LAdiis,
great friends i thy defire yeur ophuw, "vhieh ef shemtiH
amhor liked beft^ the matter being ef e$nfeeptehee to thein

May Cxih's Bhom fir e^^hfl,

jind Cloe's wit increafe,
• Mtiy Daphne ftlll cmmm chaft,
Jbid wonder will net peafi^

A. Fair CMs wit he thinks fQ great

It cannot be mcnas^i
The hfi hed0i$Sts^thcfaft to fato

Yields : Thofe he praifiss leaft.

Q. Apollo, your Jlavet
Are a parcel if knaves.

Or elfe you y»Hr felves are to btame 'i

Sor your papers, which u/e^/ . \
2b he ettr morning mufe; .' * ' "

Ti0 night nom we caf(t kf^ve tJk fami.

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TAe Brftish Apollo. 82^

/ hfpeym wHl try
Kr ta re^
Th§ fiwtt^ eiih& m you^ §r .tht hoy.
Thta HH mayu^tftuy uikome^
SxfiUmg him to. come.
For ottr time «« em Seiter empkm.
ui. The fwifc fljin^ God .
Stiil keeps bis own road ;
Then yott maft ha?c aJter'd your ifation :
So at the iamc timer
You canitoc his frimo
Imagine, with his dotlmtm.
An advantage/in this,
(If you tikeft not anifi)
7ou wiH find, iiace yon hare it at laft ^
Expe^atkfrhc&ies,
Which often betides
More pUofiire^ than ptfent or fafl^
Q^ A GmtUwum of my aeeputintmiee' was hiefy drin/t*
mi s Softie, tindjpeakmg ^ a eertsm Jjufy, curfi hot in
ibenamerfGodihHtsddedvrithdy let /he' is n dear gkU
I defke to kuom^ whether hafronotmeing the ottrfe is a fin
'Mfid if it hot whether his faUiming words, Xet /ho is t^ doMr
girU do nor leffin the/k t •

A, His proDunciation of the eurfe tho' it were at*

tended with no injurioua defign, yet as taken in the

moft inoffenfive &nfe, it is undoubtedly a iiQ> in that

it is a dallying with religion, a playing with thcraoft

important nacter, a fporting with no Icfs a being than

bis Maker, a tranfgrefling the tlurd comn^andmenr,

m takhig the nseme tf Cod in vstin. But as the fin of

•curing Is* highly aggravated, by the propenfenefs of

the inaUce that too frequently attends ,it» To. tboic

mollifying words, which the Gentleman anaex'd to the

curfe he utter'd, leflcn the propenfenefs of his malice*

and con/equeotly fubtrad, not from the intrinfick

•iSufulnefs of the curfe, but from the aggravating

ctrcttitiftadces o^tt. Subtrad, we fty» froop them,

not 'totaHy rtoiove them, iioce; the Gemkman, not-

that foft crprefl]on» Ccptns chargeable

with

830 7!&^ British Apollq;

with fbme degree of malice towards ey«n the rcrj
obje^b of his love : For from fo odd Vtnixture, this
feems to be the tenor of hu tsbcn pre&nt . t(Mghu.i If9
re/imtfmecfherfrMeidii^SrthAt'lcMfvififtegr tocmfe
her, andy^ tit thefime tmB/ystb^mi^rfs rfwyheMrt.
As therefore we cunoo^poffiUy. acqmc iheQicptlciDaii
of (in, fo we are afraid ( tbo* he's the ht^ jvdge of
his own thoagbts,' and therefore theonly proper ^cr-
fon pofitmly to determine that) that he. miift j^ead
guilty to fome kind of aggrafraeioA too. Well there-
n>re were it for us, if we wonfd pay % ibr^ obedi-
ence to that truly cbriiliaa.kw» to. that Jorcly, that
endearing precept j a precept worthy that Soo of God,
who came onpurpoft to bkis the world ; no^ to curfe
us, but to.be made a. eorfe for uai Biifii tifid etftfinot,

Q^ Gentlemen, fnfpofe it cmdd ke dnntinftrMedt fhdt
liberty in mtm was incenfifiint with fnfiience in God,
which were it mere fiffefer me to day f

A, The quellion is oft nice importance, Gocethe
•denial of either of the things propos'd) dcireAi the G€4-
•hiead'of an indifputabk property, .oc ^n «fleotial attri-
bute. To Ay, that God ^ora not forefee all hoakin ac-
tto/)Si tho' as yet in fiiifure, ia to difown our Maker,
to af&rt either the eternity of the WQr]d»iQr the for-
tuitous concouritf of jambting atoms, and impipuf-
)y to deny, in derogation .to St. VunL thm ike k^fifi-
hie things tf the creatieOfare cUitrly feen iyiho ibmgs that
ure made. For if Cod be our Creator, the Author
of all the faculties of pur fouls, he muft jconiequcot-
]y (bre-know the leyera}refoks,theTariDua:ifliA$, tbfi
mofi contingent determinations of thde BftcuttiesA hc
himfelf h t& author of.. To deny iY^t$ in «E)aQ,
«nd yet fuppofit him not only a puniihabk aieitu«9,
but undoubtedly to be puntih'd, and that, too wilii
very great feverity, if he does amiis^ What i» this but
to deny the tendernefs of our Father, the goodneAr
of our Maker, and pronounce God jio be tter tb^n ^
stialtcioufl Being, than an Oomipoteitt cfih l^o^Alr
nighty eraelty? But tho' the dental of thn £»rincr
makd God and man perfcft. Anuigeui to ^ooniiiott^Cf*

and

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STse British Apollo. 851

and gives us the iibertjr to fay, with » {vofiigtte
Tharaoh^ 1030 is tb$ Lml / yet tiie dcoial of t^ i«tter»
if it i«ein to allow God the relation o£ a Creator^yet
K dedroys the fweetnefs, the cxcelleacy of that re-
lation. And as to be tv\l u a worle deficiency thaii
not to b% at ali I ib to be an ^ti creator^ is iofcriolr
to a M creator. Add to tbis^Xhat goodnefs is God's
darling attribute* tlie pcrfediion lie mo/l of all glories
^in : For when Mof^i de&res a profpc^^ .of iiis glorjr»
this is the anfwer he receives, / toM maki nyf GOOD-
NESS to pa/s before thee, hy which remarkable reply
Ihe very oUarJy focimatcsy that Vu goodneit and his
glory are equivalent exprefTions. And therefore Wf
cannot put a greater indignity upon God> than^y lay-
ing, in contradidiion to the Scriptures, that iie n not
merciful, nor ^raciouu nor nbundam in geednefi^

But tho' the denial of the laft be the molt pernici-
ous, with regard to the capacities of men, who often
very fteadily believe a God, and yet in confequence
deny him, while they entertain mihaken notions, and
rgnoraatly • aflert fome particular opinions contrary to
his eflence » jct if we canvafs the matter in aii ab-
ibiute, in an irreftrsdlive fenie, we may trace things
to their fir A princtpies, we ii»ll find, that to deny
either of your two propofiils, is equally pernicious.
For as to fay, That God made not the world, is as
nucb as td'^y. That there // w God ; fo inafnaucb
as God is of an indivilible nature» and all hd% attri«
hots make up but one iimple cilence, to deny any one
of them, is to Ataj them all % and confcquently to
uogod him, to turn him out of being. Let ua
therefore- part with neither our own liberty, tHor.
God's preicience, while ^enfibick while conicious of
the fatal confequence.

Q^Isk feJJihU to freeze mul fiw» together t ,
' A. As the two phsenomtoons, which you queftioa
whether they be compatible, itfe matcer of £a&, . an^
obvious to common* notice, (of 'Whtch your own
obl^rvafkm niight lately bate cohviSK'd you) fo we
know of oa oonfidcrttUc ol^joAiQntQk. ilf theieforcf

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you will be pleas'd to propoie any, we (hall ende»-
Tour to oblige you with a folution.

Qj^ J have lately fmoisk*d tobacco, more mt of a fro"
'lick than any tJmg elfe. Whenever I fmoak, it makes me
/pit a froiigtotis quantttj of an Aqueous Saliva, y^r^flw/

to the quantity of fmr ounces, in the fmoakmg one fife.

1 am natwaiy leany but, t thank Qod I have my health

very well : Nov^ Gentlemen, I heg the favour of you to
'laform me^ whether it be whoUfome for me to ftnoak f I

Jhall either froceed or dejift aecording to yottr ingetuom'

advice,
A. We advife you theo to defift, fioce in fiicii

quantities of fpittle it is poiTible that fome portion of

the nutritious juices may be evacuated, and your

health thereby impaired.

Qj IPhat is hail i

A, Hail is the thicker clouds congeal'd in the
lower regions, as fnow rs the thinner vapours con*
gealM in the higher regions^of the atmofphere.

Qi I defire to knew who brought furgery uf firftp. and
bow it came to be found out i

A. The art of chirurgery was doubtlefs imparted
to mankind af his firft formation by the. all-wife
Creator, and by the fame providential means it was-
communicated to others* for the neceflary afliftancc
of the afRi£fced, according to Jefus the fon of ^aeh,
who faith, Of the Lord eometh healing. Nor was the
knowledge hereof only confined to mankind, but evea
the brutes were endu'd with a (hare, as appears in the
Bifpotamust or fe^horie, an inhabitant of the rivev
Hikf who upon his. discovery of a plethory, or ful-«
tit£s of blood, opens a vein, by rubbing bts thigh a-
gainft the (harp fands on the bauk-fide : Nor is the
pra6^ice of the goat \e£s remarkable, wha upon the
diminution of his iight h^ films, catara6(s, c^. firlkea
his head againft the thorny bufhes,. whereby the caufe-
is removed, and his fight recovered.

But Vliny tells us, t&t fodaliritts and Maebaen, the
two foni of JBfwk^t purfuiog their Father's ftu«

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dies, were the firft and chief regulators of that art»
and were thence accounted the inventors thereof.
Q^ Smci matters jocofi, with ferims y$H jumbU^
Tray aafinr this trtfing demand fmn your hmUt.
' Q^ I am hy trade a cffffee-matt, a pimch-maker, m
barber^ a tooth-drawer, a pdUr, a gimcrack-celUBorf m
gMme-keefer, and as yen may ferce'rve^ a Grub-ftreet-
dahhr, Npv, as there was once an aceumtiUthe trMyter,
fi I fancy my felfan aecttmulative Vertttofi, and am in*
tUn'd t$ addrefs Dr. S— --n, in order to 6e admitted a
brother of that mofi ingenious focietvi bttt fianding niceJf
tepoa reftftation, IJhould be damnatfy houlk*d at a refisfaL
Iheriforo intreat yoar learrted janch,
T* advife me as a man of funHoi
2^0 matter what thotsght now frevaih
*If syott. Gallants, muft tttm the fealet,
f0fether your moft obedient fo, (o.
Be coxcomb, or a Vertuofb.
ji. Since matters ferioas .will not always pais
With th' grave^ we divert 'em fometimes with $n

afs.
An accumulative Vertuofi i Why you are an aecu«
mulative one in the moft fuperior fuperlative degree.
Never any digniFy'd by that title, was tnafter of To
many acqaifitions, to qvalify bimfelf for one. Firft«
Your dealing in contemplative coffee, wboft aduft pro^
pcrty reduces the body to a pbilofbphical confiftcncy.
Then speculative pttnch, which after fiat mixtiOf leads
you into the Jtfcana of fympathtef, and their won-
derful ef!eds. By ' barbing, you bring rude matters
into form, and ob^ioiis to ped^Aion. Your drttw^
"mg teeth gives demonftrtitibn of that axiom. That
pain whicb is great muft be fliort $ by twitcliing
them out. Ytatfiiffing (hcw^ the harn^ony of icience.
A gimcrack tolkHor is a Vertttofo's true badge. Your
gamt'keefing inftru^s you in the locomotive faculty ;
And a Qrtdflreet'dablor, is often the conclufion of the
matter. Therefore, I4>0n the whole/ if Dr. ^ i ■■ iti
rt?\iits youf we ihali fu^ft he is not versed in all
the& qualifications hittifclf.

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834 ^e British Apollo;

The learned Vcrtuofo's teU us, . . •
And they* you know, ^are fubtil fellows)
Exfreams point at the ianie by turps ;
Thus ice^ they fay> in Greenland burx^f :
And thus a modern Vertt^ofp, ^

And a notorious coxcomb^ fo'^fo, i . \

May both be really the fame,
And only di f&r in the name.
Q^ Tell me^ ye -wmhy fins of fuch <» fit,
103Q was the man thM$ firft he di4 tf/ptftf
la charaSiTi ohfcure to vent his mind*
And by wyfivrtQHs firokes did words define i
Who firft did JhukUd words m verfe controuk
And with hartnonious numbers charm'd the foul :
And l^ftiyftng;^ Apollo'i darling fan,
Pfho has wjt^ n^ofi refp^mdent ghry Jhonef

A. From what/ orig'nal metre lirft arofiv
None but tbe/^rr^^'^;'^^/^ difclofe.
For e'er the infancy of time begua»
Unnapafur'd y^t by. the created fun.
The forms of entities from Cbios iprang
A(l4iaMMr ^irth^'OQcloftia] feri^>hs fang,
Tb* QRBiT Cbeatoh'js ajrti%e and pr^ij^. . ., ,,
Perhaps in. pipd^s pf jrai^ortal Ib^m :
Mf IWicc. 0mc4 nyar^ref 4ad pic^rtiw'ij ict^' .

Firft Ificrcd iywm o^^d^ ^^^br ^nd (w^-^ j

Then ancient Patria;c>ti^ harps and org^n^ forQe)*4«y
Which devotees vitith^z^ 9nd ardqur warm'dt
Thus iings the m99 o(Uicin lefty powers*
Th' Almighty rod ; yet o'en th^t rod a^re^

Anudft ftfli^^ions of uncommpa |(yeig|itr .i
Obdurate patiencb fil^ncing F^et.i ; , ;:. j _; .

Nor ran, I lefi ib^ ngble ili^ins zimJvcA - -

Rais'id by the touch 0i the Jfffian iyr^y^

W'hether his hy$ enchant bewilder'd kingsi»*

Or to the King of h^ven tjbc prophet iiags :

Whofc fon, with fupernatur^l wifdom fraughtt

Ballad of ^balMs t* mipiratipn tfught ;. . .

Tho* with, a. (iecmSqg vairtoiinefi ofOilei

Enough to make an am'roua reader fmi{^i ,

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And e'en old age to cloie endearments move.
With a vivacious energ^ of love.
So foft his fpoufe's hreails, her eyes To bright*
I^qr' cheeks Co fair» hei downy neck (b white.
Her lips fo fweet, with fucb a graceful air.
Wave the curl'd ringlets of her golden hair.

Hence Heathen poets, to abufe mankind,
A fort of a coUegme fatn*l^ hign'i ;
Where a wing'd horic, fpringing's aerial flight,
Spurn*d up a fountain on ^amajfia height.
Then a young Cod o'er nine t^r Ladies plac'd,
(Who a too wanton regency embraced)
Call'd Cod of nwfick, f^trff and iave»
The flrongeft cfaaroifi that can our paflions move '$
Who learn'd ^hefe nymp^ to fing poetick fongs.
And to his harp conform their warbling tongues*

Hence other poets t' imitation taught.
Of fair Euridlct and Chryfeis wrote i
And of th' Qrphnm lyre vaft wonders tell.
How it ftruck dumb whole colonies o( hell«
How rapid rivers that had long ohey'd,
Frogrei&ve n^otipos of their fountains head,
Queftion'd that ppwer, which drove the curreot oOf
And would fiaad fiUl ro lift^n to his fong.
How he made bniMis of ftoqes, ^d ftonea pf bnitef»
At leafl both leem'4 rfcjprOQtlly mute i
For whilil he pby'd, the bratcs like ftones appeir'dt
And ftones, bVxcbai>0i of airs attentive heard. *

This was jgfril0*9 &tA and elded iipn.
Who (hackled word^ in tuneful n^eafures fung.
Then Grmm generals, fwolo with pop'kr fame^
Ow'd to blind Htmur an innmortal name^
Which el& had bsoi. induffarioufly forgot, ^

As deftin'd with their carcafles to rot.

Next theie the MMtwn^ barii^ and vsnufiu,
Demondrate their originals divine, . .
Since they not only unoorrupt furvive.

But immortsdity to otbera give*

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H^/tUif^s by them jadiciouily po]itc»

Tho' Onv/ev feefns an aboriginal wit.

And thougntful Dryden, by laborious toil,

LearnM facets to breed, or glean from foreiga fbiL

Wbilft fublime Miifm on aerial wings.

Fluttering fufpence* melodious numbers itngs.

Befides fome poets of the prefent age,

'Whofe charming mufes ftoicks would enga^.

Bards of found wit, and folid fenfe approv'd,

Who, when extin6t, will be admir'd and lov'd. '

Therefore^ kind Sir, your inquifition ipare,
jif^ has his darling every-where.
All nations under him fome favourites praife.
To whom they give dcfcrvedly the bays :
Some for one end, (bme on another fcore.
Apt as the charader each writer bore.

Q: Apollo, tell me, fiwe ym are Jh/im,
T0?ether or m in heaven J JhaU Jhme f
Re/olve mo this, and then Vd quickly know,
]B^ your noxt anfwer, if you're fi or no,

jf. If in your life no vertue brighter (hineii
Than the dim fancy in your clouded Ums^
There's little, very little hopes, alas !
To thofe iUttfirious realms you'll ever pafs.
' Q. Apollo, lay down this your trading in vtrfo^
' l^or by that the mofi wifdom you^Uflmo^
4^d fiich paltry queftiont no longer rehearfe,

tvithyour anfwefs as infolent too,'
JRw four papers degrade the bright name they affutini

By their mean and impertinent flrantt
And your notions are perched on the totoVmg pUtme,

Wh»e a/prightUer genius Jhould reign*
Jrom mdifferwt at frfi, they dwindled to duU,

And now to infipid are grown,
Jbey exaiily delineate the depth of your skull.
Therefore deem'd as the drug of the town.
And the proverb's invalid ns plainly you fhvw»

C Tho* in impudence ftiU you're the Mder )
That the longer they live, ftill the wifir they grow,
Jdr Apollo 'grows older and oUler*

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^. When blockheads rail oo> witboat one jcctcnce

At what, nor ofeferve any rules.
All that can.be gneft hj their delicate fenfe

la, that they are but iU-natiir'd fools.
Did ever yet niicj, in any difpute,

^Gainft notions, in numbers lay down j
E*a hope his poor flock of duH brains wou'd confute,"

When fie never durii touch upon one.
The wife, the weli-bred, and the karn^d (not a fiew^

Approach with their praifes our (hrine i
Wc want but fuch clouds to oppofe us as you.

To make us the brighter to fliine.
But you have been bit hy a former reply.

On which, with thcfe fliarp lines you've tilted 5
The ebrious revenge, to whi^h always fly

Bilkt whores, and their'bullies, when jilted.

Qg^HHy thi wfird Selah is put 0$ th$ tnd tf ftvtrid
V^rfu m the ffalms f

jf, SeUh is either a mufical note, and according to
Xmchs imports the elevation of the voice, as though
it were irregularly deriv'd from Ssiah to elevate i or
it fignifies a common panic.

C^ The uuMfimfs thMi m Ute ill ncddint htu brtnght
m mtf if the ataber ef this MJJre/s to yeu. The accideni
VMS this :

Swim months fiaa; through the exeefs ef drinking^ I

wtssfetz^d with 4 very high fiver ^ and in the deUrium, I

gofve my vift a Uaw upon her left hrenftt ( as fhe was of'

firiug mefimething to ib'iiA) which ( in the judgment rf

her plyficiMs ) ftodtt^d a earner^ ef which fhe Uttfy dy*d.

Now, I defnre 19 knew whether I am accountable fer
tuny a^ttn committed without confdoufne/s, altho' it's th§
cmfeqtuttt ef a crime eemmitted with.

A*, Where there is a melancholy confc<]uence of
any crime, we have been 'guilty of, which is intirely
accidental, and coyld not poiTibly be forefeen, we are
chargeable with no other guilt, than that of the
crime it ielf. But drvnk^neis is attended with many
jterrible confcquences, which ftrangely aggravate ita
fiqfttlncAy and render it the more txceediog fitful. A

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838 7^^ Bbitish Apollo.

fcYcr frcqachtly proccedsr from drlnlifng to etccb i a
coniequent delirium from fuch cxcd[s>- and unac-
countable adlions from fach ddirium. . Wben^e we
become the more ftridly bound religfoufly to abAain
from tbofe offences, of wbtch we know not what
may be the difmal ifiiie. And tbcrefbre you' do wdl
to DC uneafy, fo you be but careful, that your uneafi-
ticfB advance not to any, the leaft degree of unwar-
rantable de/peration. For you mtift not look upon
your felf as a mnrderer, but as a kind of inadver-
tent dcccilbry. And indeed all drunkards are equafly
guilty with .your fcif ; fincc, however thi^ might
have been niore happy than to have met ib /aftu a'
cficumllance enfuing from their drunkennefs, yet they
could no more than you, warrant to themi^ves to
undeferved an happinefr. Not but that you are yet
obligVI more feVCrcly to bewail your drunkeoncis,
$nce the tragedy that enfued* muft have given y<m
a more lively fenfe of (b dang^ous a fin. And upon
the fame Account yoti are under a AriAer obligation
neV€r to repeat the crime, never more to be drufik
mih wine, wherein is excefs,

(ysirsy I Am a comtry breiymni creature., notkne/m"
^ingihe' ways of that wieked fffWUy ^as fitn drawn imo
the fnares (f live bj a ymn^ man, after a little wbili
[ keeping company, whofwore iy alt that wasfacredand divim, '
^ would marrv me, if I wottid djfttfe him, T i&^'d eio
man in the world fo ipill as hirfs^, which I Sotmd "witb
'm fervent oaths, and fijcero frotejlkthms as this wicked
wretch did to me* The nfght Before the marriage we
met at a tavern, where he Jhew*d me a ring and hcenfe,
and that we were already man and wife in the fight of
Cod i and bv that time a pint had gone round, mthmg
, wonld keep his hafe hoHds from under my pitticoatfi of"
fering fuch things as rny modefiy will no^ allow tni iofo^
I peat i upon which 1 fieti out of Hfis arms, alnd fnadt m
refolsaion never to fpeak toffim a£afn. Now the qtufikn
is, whether I commit a fin in not marrying thfs man, w
whether h'ts infufferable tudinefs U m$ fufficicmfUffm
$0 part for evert

A. Madam*

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-" Jf.'MiWafte, tlki'rodencft tvhfeh 'ybtir Lover was

fb uidiitt^dfbTnf^Ijr, as wdl as finfiiflj guikj of, diftn*

^ages you frptn your former obligation, fioce it gives

^oti ttt'feafta jaftTufpEdoA, that he dcfigo'd only to

Atisfy fais brutal luft, Md^tlien to have bafely left yoa

in the lurch. Arid tho* from the tenor of your que-

#h>R, we may probably colleift, that he is ftill wil-

linrg* to (engage in a naptHII fhiie, ret you may con»

fidcr, that th^rearetoo*rt any itf the world, who arc

Yo tnflatn''Vi with love ive dareiot fiy, but with a

bafer paSon towards xht obje^s of their Inft^ 9s to

be ivnling tofobmit to^rtiatritnomy, .if the^ caiinoc

obtain t&if fatisfadidh in the Way of libertmes. As

therefbre Ms willingnefs to 'marry, cannot apquit hhn

of fo ungenerous a deiign, io it fuggeds too, what

'fart of a husband you have reaibn to expe£t.

But after all, id fb tender, in ib nice a point, we
are of opinion, that yoiu wott*d aft 'the prt.of a diF-
crect, of a prudent Lady, not to Be too hafly in yoor
final dctctitfiriitioh, it^ ycttt^ Jaftrefolve; biit to ^ait
patiently a WMI^, to eitamhie the conduft of his life,
to niiikfc t narirow icrutitiy into hfs future deport-
ment, and at lafl to determine your refolation, igrceMy
to the naturis 6f the obi^vatton you fhail have nrade.
Q^ In the ijknd of Borneo, thrrt is M rivfr cxWd
BaojarmafTeen, ifheri the En^lijh fiiUhrjf waifehUdi md
h*s w frejh initttf fiver; knd ^Be ■ Wafer'' v^ pbd' and
vMefime id drtnk excepirtg i)^^ fno>ifhs 'in ike year (viz.)
Auguft 0nd September, dtsrmi^hith tb»e, there is m
dal^i itM^ in the itdter; and then the t^aters are
umphoUfim t$ drink, and yet Jotni^Ut ^i er fix miles
farther Uf it iigoed : Ninr-l tkjtre yeti^U grve me the
reafm, why /4i waters make fitch a delUftd ran fit and
its Being fi ffejudicial to drink i fir the natives differ in
their opinions mc&n'mg it f " ' ,^

A. iTbe uiwholefbmnefi of thefe Wat^s, does !n

. all probability proceed from foiiie hdxious af/d poyfb-

nous vipotirt arifing at th^t time from the V^rth.

Ufidcr that place of the river j and thteMbl^fUlgri^h-

iog that is heard, is nothlt>g elfe btit the- noMe thcfe

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vapours occafioa, as they break qi^t of ibme-fiibter'^
Ttoeous cells, and are cnakiog their way through the
-water.

Q^ A Gentleman 9as faymg, that be had read ef it
certain place m Italy, where there is a cave^ and « li^
near adjcymng^ which are of fi very different a nattire^
.that if a dog he fut in the- cave, he is n$ foomr in^ Bta
^aUs dawn dead; hut if he he immediate^ taken oia, and
fnt in the ftfare/aid lake, h0 ^rtaes, toffe, again f .

Query, Whether the dog . be really deafl, (foot, what
wayie the caufe of his feemmg to be fit . : * ,

«4. If the dog was really. dead, you may be fure he
would never come to life again, but he may be fb in
all appearance, the motion of the blood and fpirits be«
ing at that time very inconsiderable and impercepti-
ble, tho' not quite ceafed i as has been oftentimes ob*
ierved in ibmc flrong hyftcrick, or ap^opleiSlick fits,
which have been^hft cauJfe 9f,fomc people being mi-
ferably burie^ alive. .

Qj . the reafm, why fime people, when^ mmfd far
^ twfnty three, or more years ( when young and healthful)
. have no children^ and after that time expired, thy (per-
.haps) breed apace t .

A. The cauife of that we take chiefly to \jt in
the Ovarium, Muliebre, the eggs of which it is made
^V> M'Jg •t firft unfit to b© impregnated by the ipi-
rituous parts of the Semen VirUe^ but in proccfs of
time they may grow* ripc^ and Well diij>ofcd to be
. fecundated by thcw.[

Q. Gentlemen, fray tell me the meaning if that vtjgar
axprefpm, viz. a Canterbury ftory ?

A. The frequent pilgrimages, which in ^opifh

times were made to Canterbury, gave this aricicnt fay-

Jng birth, by'reafon of tht tedious ftories, which

were told by pilgrims, with dcfign to divert each o*

, thcr as they walk'd along, and thereby JeiTcn the fa-

. tigues of the journey.

Q. Some dtildrm are torn with cautsXpot unlike vfiil
€auls) over their faces, which are accounted very fortto*
natt to them. And 'tis faid^ that maftm of fiif^ will

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\. t9 fea with them. I »ouU hig the J^"^*^ 4 ^^ ^ ^

fign the retfm^ whffmH children oM^'are 60n with thofi

umlss Mid the occ^m thertcf I IVmher ym think tbef

drag 0Uiy fairticidkr firtrnm to fitch as are hm with

4hmt and whjf tkgfjboifid^fi defrtd h tbtfiomm f

JL The ancients were verj fuperftitious in tlvtr
opinion of fuch being fortunate* who were bora'
with caub about their opids i opt only A, but tbac
^ioo'd fuch j«r£>ns loie them* the good fortune
would attend the finder* and great iums were gi^Q>
to midwifes for tbeo). Bdfumtn^ affirms^ that ?r4tMs^
a dergyman,, bought fuch ao one» through ,cxpe6ta«
tioB of being fortuo^e thereby, ^dvoa^us purchasM
. them at great rat^ expedmg fuccefs and applauie la
' their plfi^iigs bj mtue of theip i nay« fome faiU
' cy'd, that fuch who polTefi'd thern» were not fubjeft
to the miferks an^ uifelidties of bun^ape life. We
fuppofe this fuperdiUQO ^ofe from ao pbicrvation of
the fticceA of tsuffi^l who happeii'd to tq come ipto
the world, as *tis leUted pf Jpiim/iis^ 7|ip arriv'd to
the fbrereiga dignitjf of the (empire, 19 the manage^
mentof which* all t(ua^$^cccQJcd:,f^coirding^
deiire. But jfiooe fuoD e^teds wou'd pifke a cpnfufioii
in lift iptttod ch^iq pi[ oati^fil cai^ij, W9 look upop
pthem a^ idle fanc^> ^ud grofmdleU ,CQPcei(s,

flrong cotifii^iffn, m^^ ^^ w» */W *^ %«. '^^V*. W»
this dMy is n ypm 4 W ^W ^^-fi f^J^^^ tf^
hath mot'Ht$/un fgrt <f£utchtrs ipt^t f&r (tiffort, Mo'
dreji 4tft^ tjuffj maopiTf vh. V^ef-Jl^ies, mmtfi-cutt*
lets, vidi, &c. kit he certainly ajoaked ah^ut thr^of tho
deck m the mormng^ and cmtiattes fo two hofd^s, whtlfi no
fort efji/h or poulay. (^ that efftU ufm^ hkn, s^ftheugh
the former is liked as well, Xostr fnlt ftn/w'er is d^ed
as to the reafin of the cafe t

A, This difturbapce of a0i£i:ipg the queri/l, jkrifes
from indigeftioQ : Beef, mutton, veal. 0*^. being
more grofs, and *cbn{e(}(|encly more (ti$c^lcIy cop-
coded than filh, poultry, &c:

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€41 the British Afollo.

0^ n/m ^DcHus nU, why fifing fame,
jlddtdthe Great, t9 Alexander'* nmi j
2hat title mfy to a prince belmgs,
mo by juft war, fights to revenge his wrongs 5
Whofe iimard virtue teaches him to ufe
Mith heavenly reafon, what the heavens frodtM. '
Jfho, whm viBorious, weighs the comnm good, 1

Jieftrains th wanton wafie of humane bkod, >

j^egleSts the firpent, and infli0s the rod. J

Such was not he, for majacre and flame,
Enjk'd hit conquefts wherefoe*er*he came,
Jill on the pinnacles of pride he trod,
Jbid caWd his mother whore to be a Cod.
Nor was his luft inferior to his pride.
Sis Godjhip nothing to his tafie denfd.
,Wi7cs, whores, aind eunuchs waa on his d^M^p
JSo hot the God, fi vigorous his fire-.
So wmderfid profufe, that for a ki/s.
Me fir'd the palace of Pcrfcpohs j
2dtirder*d his nearefl friends, who kd the way.
And brought him fife to unrverfal fway.
Confider wife Phoebcans, then reUte .
mother 'twas vice or virtue nmfifdhim Great.

A. Were he the God, he vainly wifli'd to be.
He might have liv'd from hunbnc frailties free.
But tho* the height of glory's fpire he knew, i

E*en in that height he was but man like yoH. \

E'^cr then you blame his vices, Jearn to ht
Lord of as many virtues, as was he 5
Then will you own thofc monarch^ to ex«el.
In whom rt ore virtues ihine, than frailties dwell.
Q^Jftlafthe is found,
Ihebovl have bound,
And fend him to you for correBion j
tray b^ not fevei^, \'

to my poor little dear.
As you value his mother^ s affeSiion:
Twice the ehUd has been ftrifd,
Ww in dogrel equifd,

tve

^e BuiTistt Apollo, 841

Jho' 1 emum hit tkuk.

Now ccoutcs man chcr »
ttki i^afe nM^Sm mMckmg Mies;

^anitfium 'm ntfi$mkrMiis
if CoVs tut n fimdh

MerkogX nHfi/»$i$h wiSw^k)
^•'U then m^ifitfi,

-^^ ^/e ts nfifi pUm,
^d hisfrnfoitr ehmn^
Bm if, ^er all, trt^mt Me ^^
^^^ MaJbeiirm&:iiie^.

^f^'d iikethe peer Mfsm the fiiik ■ .-
BftfT»hileMitiisfme,

Hke M ceqfte$ I pTMie,
^ ^^^m 0»ay firm the text -
^^hencepeif (ew'mf^aimy .

^iTaio Jbe p^^igean have amtexi.^ ' t
-rf. We giFejonmueb J07,

On the fiodiag' jdurboj f - ,
And fince Ijc'i mit'd to our arms..

We'll be kind net^feort-^ •' *

To your pooi; little W^, . . . , .
For the fake of his mother's brijgiit chat m* :

We re glad he'sOiecQ ilript.- • .; ^ ,u

Since he's better cqwpr^ .- « .
«is w/«, and his aiir^ and id$ drefi, f

A dignif/d birth, 4, \

From parents of ifronli* .
And a frank education confdi*

P 9 * Cemmm

* t

• «

*
f

^^

«44 The h^iTnnAfP^^^^

Will5%v«fniiicat.f0a! :. »
The honour yoB'te UWjeif rfo^giW

That he williQHcb.iadiec

ildiere him&lf FaUwr,
And that the boy ijpfaogjfrom hi»J»^«

Already /tf/'s hiBUEtt

Is toucht by yottc att^

His D^^^ no mose^ : . .

He'D court as before,.
But to yott his offieriogs tetflg*

And can you impottaac*

IVhat as his bed: ^fatuat,
«With eageroefi he wauVH eoiteao^

3iiA Bmhmr t That he.

Thus faveurM (hOttM be»
y hen yvve niig1|t be pwud of his place.

But now we cpflae aezt*

ToJthe point of your tezti
The friefis for their>ir«i IMW «linir*d»

And which they you know.

Have advantage to Aow,
And by ^hat can the fair.mcre he firVI?
a Pr*y <«ffiw* ir^ PhoBbans, afcs* ii ^ymem,y
^taeaJhmU cmt women, ^ wtmm «* men ? 1

And Women have onjy « jwgaof e voice.
Q;. Priy. »*iM*'* i»^. ' Ap#>.

Xm, /it ycttr vMm ^11^ f^f i

Wkj m^bsr m /<*>»•

Is, ym'd wkUm thuwj^w

In wbkh I fi^ifi^f
Tm^U ever n^gf*

fb^ BitrTisH' AFoxLOr Z{f

A. From their genuine flame,

lidar giFct tbem the namer
Whidi C/f/«r4 the latinifl renders :
^Aa4 iimppies that heat»

l>oe$ thoie £ymj>tom$ cre|te»
Whach niake tbem iuch paihfid olfoderi;

But 'tis plain to the view.

As all Microicopes (hew.
That with prickles three pointed thej ?«r nts

Which occaiion that pain.

We bf touching them gain^
And the tumors wherewith tkej perplex at.
Q^ Th ytmifi I^Sim fiyi tJktvhm ]b&ph mmfiH
fiaac WM ytt Ihmg. ^my, H#v em h bit fi^a »r
find in Geneiisr tbi daah ^ I&ac smarm #» tb$ fnk
^Jofcph?

A, The realbn which yoa allodgB, is not fuffici««'
eat to confute the Jewiih Riabbins, fioee all hiftorianr
take the allow'd liberty to inveit the order of timca
and relate fubfequent occurrences before their antece-
dent ones. But what irrefragabJy confute them, ul-
that at the fir/l ?erie of the Chapter, whore the fell*
ipg of J'o[f^ into IB^ft is related, Ifru is mention--
cd as already dead. Beddes, we might conclude %
probability againft them another way. JpMcvfzt three*
Ibore years old when jMcob was born, and died at aa
knndred and iburicore. Whence Jtuob muft have
been but an hundred and tea. at his father^s deaths
Whereas he wu an hundred and tburty at his deicentr
into Effft. Whence it follows, that Jofrpb muft ha?r
been, according to the IJibbmst at kaft twenty yeart
in £^/# before his fiither. But the two years of ft^
mine, which were already pafti the ioren years o£
plenty, and the two years after the pardon of the
chief butler, to TImtao^s dreams, added together make
but eleven. Which being fubftra^fced from twentr*
nine remain* As therefore he was but two years ui
pri£>n after the delivery of the chief butler, & the
time of his imprifonment, and of his being in M^i
ifair's houie, muft have been confequently eleven years.

O 3 BuS^

946 The British Apollo.*

Bat this is what, fh)m the teniMr of the bi&orj, we
think to be improbable at ieaft.

Q. Pray txflmn the Ufi v§rfi rf fhi Uft Chafter tf
. 5/. John : And there are alfb many other things which
Je&s did, the which if thej ihould be written ever/
onct I fuppofe that the world it felf could not con-
tain the hooks that fhould be written.

Ji, Origin interprets the word x^wrm, not to fig-
nify amiMh as does our tranfiation, but to import
receive pT admit ef. And therefore according to that
great man, the filnfe is, theftufendums greatnefs ef thi
»orks to be^ recerded in the books that Jhould be written^
wmld make tbemfeem to the world AS IDLE TALES.
But as Origm was full of error9> fo we beg leave to
add this to the number, for the following reafonsi

»• According to- this interpretation, the greateft of
our Saviour's miracles are buried in obfcuriry, and
thofe only of a lefs magnitude recorded in the four
£vangelifts : But to remark occurrences of a fmaller
import, and overlook thofe of a greater j this is £0
contrary to the method of hiftory, that we dare hoe
lay it to the charge of thofe divine Hiftorians.

2c We cannot think, that the Son of God, who ne-
▼er did a miaacle but for great, for important ends,
would ever have performed his greateft miracles,
would ever have fuperf^ed the fiated laws of nature,
have inverted the fettled order of the Creation in the
mofi furprifiog manner, unlefs he defign'd it to be
of ufe to the generations that were yet unborn,

3. The Scriptures very plainly acquaint us, that our
Lord'^ reiurredion was the greateft of all his miracles.
Aqd.can we think, that he would have a greater mi-
racle publiih'd to the world, as the main pillar of his
religion, and yet defign to have lefs miracles fiip-
preis*d, left they ihould be lookt upon a^romantiek
and fabulous ? But the publication, of thofe other mi-
racles, which were neareft in dbgree to that of his re-
furre^ion, could probably have had no other cffoGt
than the advancing the credibility of his rifing fronv
the dead.

4. They,

^e British ApoLi^a 847

4^Th97» wfio'be]je?ed the miracles, that are ac'
taaily recorcted', would have believed greater miradec**
had any fuch been done. For fince the miracles al*
readj written, cannot otherwife be accounted £ost
than by a neceflary recourie to a fupematural agency,
lb, fiich an agency muft have confequently filenc'd all
our fcrut>les concerning the moft dupendious miracles^
fince we cannot but confefs with our blejQcd Lord*
that with God nU things MnfcffihU.

5*. The very expreiTions in this memorable pailage
dired us to number, and not to magniti^de. Aifir/I^
There are alfo MANY other things, which Jefm Md, xJ^
If they JhoM ^ written EVERY ONE. And ^My,!
/uppcfe, that even the world it felfwotUd mt contain THE
BOOKS that JhouU he written. The books,, not the
works i which plainly intimates, that the books whicli
fhould be written wouM' be many in number. Whea
therefore we behold fo many chandlers of number,
and not £o much as one of magnitude, reafbn fur«
will bear us out« if we expound the pailage of the
ibrracr.

But to leave Origent tod give you the ienl^ in
which moft interpreters are agreed, the cxpreffion is ^
accounted fbr by a rhetorical Hgure, call'd Hyferhle»
which by fbmethisg literally iomdible couches fi>me«
thing elfe very wonderful and evtraordinavy. And
this is a figure frequently made uie of by all (orts of
writers, whether lacred or profane. The meaning,
therefore of the pailage, as hyperbolically reprefented,
is, that if all otsr Saviottr's anient were to he committed'
to writings very many wotdd he the hooks, that of necejp"^
ty muft he written.

But if any are better pleafid With Origen*$ inter*

pretation of the word x'^^^t^^Y may yet apply to

' number inilead of Magnitude^ And then thefenfe wou'd

bcrthat, if all our Saviour's miracles were reccrdedt thy

wou*d hefo numerous J as tofeem incredihle to the world.

But we would propoie another expofition as mat'
ter of conje^ure, and leave it to the reader to choo^
it> or r^e^ it. The hooks that JhouU he writtm^vtould

O o 4 he

S48 STi^^ British Apollo.

htfo mmy tlmf they W9§dd frighm ntmiAiUtr$m ttU^
Pig than^ md ht the caufe vf their repakn wjtb the warlJ,
w&# an gmmMf battr fhd$*d with fim nfrrntms, thmt

Q. Smte timi ngp I had an i^i^m fir k^ymng Ladjh.
land /he, I am very veil ajftsr*d, had the fimifir tnei
hat wyfrUnd fmmtig very much agamfi it, w had a
frivate C9irrejfw4tnai but fty frmd hapfenmg m^e /#
ptffe^ if$ ^ charging me with it, 1 9wmd it, hut fay^
eng in a paffien, J wjh 2 might never fro^, if iwr I
had her, mt confidering what I faid} which at fim as
mtir*d, was a great treuUi hath t0 me and my friend.
Kcw, /ma that, there is 4 vety great frebahUUy if all ear
friends agjtemg to it. And that I have ai/e,f9r theft^
•Uvm pears, Iroed in the hm/e with a young Lady who it
9tow adeut fiventeen years ef age. Since I/kft knew h&,
I always fancied her for a fret^ tempered child, and for
that rMfon, Wf dlwayr coiled one another husband and
joife. She always feemed tmeafy^ though ft veryyoungp
when I was abfent, and I harve always, fince I hiew her,
tarried it very kind to her, and have told her that I
would not haveatjy bodf but her, ffithin tins little time,
feme body has tobl her, that I am gwng to be married,
which as fim as fhe hoard, /he burfi into tears, and ever
fibte hits feMd very difconfrlate. I muji needs own I
reaHy reffe& her, /he is very handfime, ahd^^fortstne every
wag mfwtrable to mine, and both her, and my friends, I
know, wndd be ^ery weU fatis/y*d^ nay, extreansly plea/d,
ffkwttsd match, Mtw, Gentlemen, in the i ft place, I
iegy<^ opinion, jiAfctber I p^ht expeB -a cserfe tofillew
me, if I had thefirfi, according to my rafb wi/h. And,
iiiy, whetb^l -btin iedvo thofecond Lady, and if I mOr-
iy her, thefifi telb me, I /Ml make her tmferabk,

A. Yba krveomltt^ ksmt particular circumftaaces^
which are aMUutd^ necei&ry to the dcterintnatsoii
of the cafe. Bat we ifaall propoie the folatioQs^ that
ntfturally relblt ^om thofe fuppos'd circumftances ;
whcQce you may readily feled thoie particolar ones,
which' yoor eob&ibufaefs of the ieveral circumftaoces
will eoaSle you to chiile as the moft pertiaent.

If

The British Apollo. 849

If you made a promift of marriage to the fiirft
Lad/, ackher jour rafli wiih» nor any promifi to the
ftcood, can fuperiede jrour former promiie. For the
natore o^ the thing evident!/ (hews* that prior obli-
^gatiops muft neoemril/csMiccl all fucceedingones. Bst:
* wewou'd entreat /ou to obferve, that 70a might have'
eimgfd jour felf to her without a direft^ ycrbal pro-
miie^ For marriage ma/ be aduall/ condnded with-
out the Tulgtur expreffion of the affirmative Tm. Aod
injced. fince words are no other than the indications*
of the mia(l whatever v^ords are & Chow direfi ib-
,cver^ the/ are equally bifidiog with the moft pofitive '
t€iau» Nay* m o&igatioa may become vahd by m*
-Bicrt tacit compliance or con&it.

If /oil were Aot e^||g^ to the firil' Lady, but are'
at perfc^ liberty, /oufliou'd, then coniidcr, whether'
you made any promife to tlfe iecQndr'^whether>tha
esprdfions, which you us'd, were defign*d ferioufh^-
fotr. jocularly only. For in cafe you promis*(f the &»
Gond, and not the firfl» then your rafh wifli, and the
promift which you made, both of them concur tp
oblige you to a compliance with her reajboable de«
&c» But here aMb ydu muft ob&rve, that tho' your
eqrreiTiona were intended onljr as jocoie, yet if ihe
took them in a ftrious acceptation, and you, notwith-
Ifauakdtng you were feaiiUe that (he did Co, proceeded
to repesit thcnw comoK^n, eq^ttv will enforce thoft
^q^mpns with the ohlfgat|on of a promife.

If you are at. libcarj^ with reipea ^o both,, yet,''
fince the firft Laffy, io cafe fi£ your refiiial^ may, ac«-
cording to what you fay, poffi% en>ire with the o«'
t^ciliearing concern of ib fatal a nrisK>rtune« but pro*
hahty be for ever miimUet your ra(h wi(h can no
wa/i hindtf the performance of' fo charitiaUe an ac-
tion, as that of refcniog a L^y from either death or '
ini6l/» N^» fiqce your addrciles to the Lady are
^ ttnhapii/ caiife oif whatever Ihe txatf undergo, Jt
is abfelureiy your duty to. prevtot the cpnie()uence«
And iure a rafh wifli can never be aliow'dto interfere;
With an iodilpenfiblf* a neceiTairy duty,

P o y But '

I

8fo "pji British Apoi.lo.

Bat th^nt in cafe (as is f^A before) you are at per^^
feSt libehy with reipedl to both, you mull yet take
it ioto your further confideration> whether your rc-
fufal may not prove as fatal to the fecbnd as to the firfl.
For, on condition that it will, your rafli wHh will .
entirely turn |he balance in her favour.

As foji^^h^conient of friends* you &f that ther^ Is
a probability of their approbation of the firft Lady.
Bat if that probabih'ty ihould fail» you muft apply it
to thofe of the foregoing circamibnces» whith you
know to be your own cafe. For it is too te4foa$
for US, who are ignorant of the true circumftances^
to. apply it to alh But we mud remind you to con-
iider. Whether they be fuch friends as have an autho-
rity over you jT and that* tho'theybe fuch, they have
only a negative, not a pofitive vote;

But if you find your fdf at a lofs to make a proper
application of the afore^iid point to your real circum-
ilances, acauaint us with thoft rol circumftaaces;
and we (hall endeavour a fblutton.

But if by virtue of the preniifes you fhall deter*
mine in favour of the firft Lady, we muft advi& you
ftncerdy to repent of the rafhnefs of your wi(h, hear-
tily to bewail £6 indifcreet a procedure, and implore
yoar of&nded Maker with an humble fervency, that
he would be graciouHy pleas'd to avert the con&quencc;
Kay, tho* you fhould never marry her, and therefore
not become oboojtious to the import of your wi(h»
yet you muft not omit* to entreat a pardon for £o
rafli, fo unwarrantable vt iraproaitioB, for /jfe^kittg fi
ftnadvifrslfy imth yimr lips}

Q^Gemkment where 'JhomU unpimded hmctnce eifffy
fw direStimt ^ui to ApoWs /hme f Hen thenfeH I
addrefs, imd hegyen tofavom me with a /ptedy emfww.
1 am WW almiji eighteen i s QentUmm htts hem in icv§
mth me {as he petends) aheue a year, 1 ewn t hawe^ ufed
him iU, nay (/ may fay) mdefy. Bui he nctwhhfiamding
ftill fterfues me with hif addreffes* I can't fiw I have any
■Ofverfim to his ferfen or cireHmfiances, ha having fi long
ferJ0ed in my eafrieieus hftmmr^ I am rtnify afraid ta

eniertm

2he British ApoLbo. 9fi

muertam Wf /park's ff^ffkn, fmrmg, he fmfiuf pte m this
maxim ( vlieh I am told is general amrn^ the/ex) tf
gaining me, if Sue t§ 6e revei^Jfpr Wf fanner carriage^-
Jffi, and I emfent to entertain his kve, the' hmmtriMit
I mufi U miferahle,

A. Forbear, rafli Lady, to entertain this your im-
cbaritable opiaion of a Gentkfnan, who, by your
own confcmon, hath been a captive to your charms^
lb confiderable a icaibn, and AilJ rejoycesr in the fiic-
cefTion of his flarery. Love, Madam, cannot admit
of that fallacious maxim, and it is beneath its de-^
votees, to ftoop to the pra&iac of fuch an uogene*!
rous revenge ; Nor can your capricious humour fig**
nify any other than a Gfa$a tretervitas, which is«
general promoter of the growth of admiration, and
coniequenrly proves the fhongeft attradlive. Our ad^
vice is therefore, that you would yield to the purfuit^
and compenfate the author of fuch a generous allec^
tion, with the pofTeifion of your pcribn ; fo may
you both become partaker& of. that extatick unioa
mention'xl by the Poet,.

jFeiiees ter ^ amplius
^aes irrtsfta tenet ceftOa
Thrice happy they> wix>(e nuptial yoke
Can ne'er by any means be broke..
Q^ Apollo, / knev
Wtfk reajtrn do Jheim
ISf problems JuSime and' reclufe'r,
And therefore 2 ftaad»
IVah ny cap in my hanjt
^or an anfwer to. come from ymr mufel
Tray» whf^ts it that
Triof brandy kills cat, .
Since men take the fame as phyfick t
I'm fure it is true^
Vray anfwer me fo^
A fpoenftd er lefs .does the trick :
Iferiouffy ask.
And fit no hard task,
Sabe mt-^fevere nerfatyrick,

O o 6 A: Since .

^

Iji Sra^^KkiTisM Apollo.

ji.tinct yoa fiem fii ezad,
In the matter of fii^»
Aiid fb faithful appbff in yoih* query i
Sbme repl? wt (haK Aiew,
Be't a £ilfc one or true,
Ndr ihall reafons Qtynal fdSre you.'
Then ^{b i^eftmes,
Tis the volatile fumes
p{ that liquor, which cauft fnfibations :
/ ' Whole extravagant heat
Does the fbitits deicat,
^Atkd engender fuch ftrange alteraHonf.
Qg^U is4 idmmm rtcMd 9^mm^ tlmtufivmb Jk
tf trn V9in4i$t l^ithmi Am dt^Hghftrs bHwun^ btu tkf
fmr tf biO^fevirMt dijutfes. Nhf, Gtmletheit, I tm
mfwvfith&n^ S:c. hut mverthUfit the ii*A n difeAfi
^^n I btaK niifi frimb Ms thetootb-ncbi wbkb is s grid^
miMfinefs u im, tb^t I abw, amcng M tbe mbirlkvm
fins, fliidd he fo wffmwm** IJmM h ixtnmmjf ^
U£4ujok, ifyM -^Mdfini 9Ut fme tti^fins fir k.

A* We not difcourag'd that ^ou can cure lio diftaib*
for 700 are much more happy than thoie ieventh ions,
who believe they 'tm. JSince they, in reality, are fo
far from being able to cure others, that they are not
able to relede themfdves from the complicatkm of
diftempers both of body and mind, thqr labour un-
der, as the Hiff0, VftftmSt Vmtf, ApB^skn^ &c.
.which are the ingredients that compound their fidtb.
Q. God Cupid Us dart
IiMsfie*d dipt in n^ beart^
Thro* the ^es if%t hmocmt fitr^
Whofi charms 0n As Mgbt
As tbefim's dMKxJImg light.
And of gco^tifs bas t» equal flfMrji
J bavettmfttd, Vve tj%
And as rft kmadinfip • - \^

Uiwiivtr my kpdmp I nrmi^n : Vv

She re/ohmg t§ die,
Katber tb^te eempfy,
tk.ffve eafetepy kfifnl intemlenl

fTfe British AfOLiiO. 8f j

Fc^ fif uSU mi m kntf,

ThtU thin is m rdkf
7b ii irmnid, ixapi tm tUmmfy\

Tor tiUU ffla is far^

And r«» fkhit mft^n^
2^ M hMeft ofie kffg&Jhdtt uny*^

Krt^ iim tnind i^ dij^ib^

SkuU I p»Mki up tbi matib,
' Wit bettir fir wmfip SBd fo fidn bir f

SiM Jb^s m^u VikMd^

A. Qm yott tbink fh« k pMr«
Tiio' of wedtli Ifae'i no Itart^
Who (bch a bright jafrd poficlRM»
' A« ebMfii^, which
You cannot bewitdi»
Bj cither yoargiid or tUdnffist
Since you ha?e in vain^
Endeavoor^d to gnn.
The fkvittt wott'd be her iMKiM/,
Your wmtb tnoft be gr«t»
And large jonr ijkti.
To atoae ytfor attoopt on her mtn;
Then fairhr importme
The wifiMi ai a ji9i$0i
' Much greater than jon have d^?*d:
Fdt tiftue diit^lfaiaes '
Tlw pdodoA of niiotfe#
And tneritt a noMttr regald. ,
Q. QiUAo 4»i^ Belinda m tmMf m m^ ibm^h^
i»g tym^ifibitig^, smdfiOfilbMfrifikrd H^fi ^^
fiurmi mfmmrkiM, tbm thy tm'tfi nmb Mi m-
dmitbixmuiFfkim if^ ^*^ mMfaiSm gindir. lOw,
Gnnlimith if bos ban m b^lkfsftti fi ^ ¥^ (^ Calif-
lov ii^mrkr/, md I dlfsrt ti A»»» M^ *f m$dti bit
and amfbici bit if bir sbfittd Jh^s^ i
ipidity ! oh no. It i< rather a foTtof policj;
the fair fex fitqnentljr puta ifl pinaice to ac-
ift that defildi, Chcar uS tbeo» dl&oi&fokt*
- ; * -'- • fwain.

Sf4 ^ BRiTts^u Apollo.

fwaia« rally up frefli fot ces, and reCokt with tber
Poet,

Nil fm^vftfn^ sua humHi tmi^t

Nil mm^U lo^MMT, .

I'll fcorn a mean, a vulgar liac, .

I'll nothipg ivksk but what's (ii?ioe«
The force of eloquence U very great, and there if
no doubt but that the energy of yours will reduce toe
exorbitant power of CaUfio's charm. It is the plea*
ibre and pride of that ieic,. to tyrannize orer their
admirers, and bring them to the fubjeftion of the
meaneft yai&ls : But if, after all theft repeated onftts^
the confequence proves nnfiiccefiful, we muft at laft
recommend youitothe old rennedy, vk* Patience, ^
not forgetting Htr0c§*$ petition to' Kimu. on tbe^like
occafion.

Bfigm^ fiMmi pigilk

Tangi ebUm 0fil arwgmtwfg

Goddeis that dops o'er love prefide,.

Let ChUi for her Iaii2t»^ be try'd, .

Scourge her, and make ^er ^xafe her pride.
Q^ I r§Md in P|:overbs ib$ %^h. Jinn is thatfctUm^
tirewl tmdy$t mcnafith.

A. The pcrfon thmfuutirtAt rnti ye$ mcrMfttlh is
the liberal, the charitable man» Such the promifes
annex t to the duty of charity i £ich the bleiungsthac
frequently attend (tj that wmlt we give away^ a por-
tion of our fubflance, fb we do it with prudence and
difcretioo, we enlarge our (lore.. And tlxrefore (tho*
a ieeming paradox) diyifion Js,eqttira)eo€ ta multi-
^icatfon here, and fubftra^ioo in cpntriuri^y to its
nature, beopmes addition. If we devour bread ta
the hungry, .and^ in inaitation of our cb^itable Lord,
be(h>wr»^ ^ 'tHTifivi lo4ve{ upon the needy, thefaint'-
ing multitude, our poviiionsu will eifcrMfi iy ditrnm^
tm, ^tkd^\^ffM$mimf that OM\\/mim ^o us, will be*
tjoeliii iftukitsfyiU. W$ need ;ip Ipng^r fo wend^ a^
the widowV'Crufe, at her ti^iraculous iupply. For the
riches of the tender-hearted man, whafe bowels of
compaiiion will notfuffcr him. toforg^ tkf fm^ ^tnd

\

m€$dfypHOt only not diminHh* bat mukiply^ bjbis g&<
serous donations. And therefore the corecouf, the
icraping wretch is not more covecoas than inipoli-
tick, while his very fmwmfnifs u 4ittle ^tter thaa
frtfufiiufsyvad reduces him to that beggary be fo mncb
dreads. For timi h (as the wife man imqaediatdy
fabjoyns) timt imtbMith men ^tm^is mm, bta iitnkL'

But if SoUmtm^t oUenratton be not always h'teraHy
tme^ while fome of us fimtrt and yet not mweafei
wo ihaU yet be iiire to experience the truth of it in
a figurative, in a better fenfe. For the fwe^t> the
comfortable, the raviihing reflexions, upon what we
give toperibns in diftrefs, will afJR>rd us a more i^eai^
ing oooteot; a more delightful fatisfiidiaii in what
we have, than if our com, and wim, tmd cjfl were to
increafe. And indeed, he only enjoys his weakby-who
views himielf under the notion of a fteward, and is
therefore careful to make provifioo for his mafter'a
houAiokL to^ive them thw 6n$d m imfinfm^

Q. I hirv$ htm^ngn^d to ^ yotmg Jau/j^ fimivmttp
and vhm I cjum cutrfmythm,^ lacfUMmiid mjf/nmds
with it, and ufid my utmifi mdtavmrs to gain mf di»
fin, httt in vain ; herfrimis bmg mmh ag^^ it, modi
mine tf the fame mnd. H^. neither rf tts hatmg anf,
thing bta tehat ear friends fieefe to give tts, and tisey
feenMtg en, beth fides to have an anmfian agak^ it; we
Mb agrnd together to affeint a time in erder to r^fi
each ether ; and when we met, ntf thne /he /aid eencem^
ing my J&fdeatgjt^.wat, thtkt flm weu^d never h my Mv-
drance iflenre te marry anether, mtd that if fitefie me.
go inte the ehso'ch fheweidd net ftit one hit te forbid it.^
;^tery, whether erna I may take this^ as a Jifeltarge frem
her, and marry anether with afefe confeienee f

A, Thole etpreilioQS of your miftreis are no man-
ner of diichargCj jbut rather a demonftration of her.
refentment. For though ihe feems unwilling tOi dil»
charge you, yet we bq>e you entertain not io mesa
an opinion of one, whom you thought worthy to
be the objeft of your affedionsi as toimsgiDe, that:

upon

^^

«poii Y^r mmwa^ with «notbcr» (be woidd kqop
ib far bdow htr SsMt u to forbid, tbe btaiUt at to
tike fo mii«b aodoe of one* who wts ib vogeaerotts
lis to forAke bdrr«iid fbrce ydu to mirry bar, i^lic-
tber you would or no^ And iberefbre b)^ber refinr'd
nfijp (be pbiiily iatimatesitbat your premt procteed-^
ioff are wbit (he no wtys eip€6M tt ybur bMds,
lliat ber former ftntiments of you were ^uite of an-
otber ttmn i tbit (bcf dwayt Mk'd upon you, aa ooc
of fo eonAio^ (b merous a temper* as Wou*d ne-
ver Se&tt to be di&gpfpdi but woaUfatbiBr. wait
witb patienoe, till proftdciioe migbt puiE It in your
power to diftfaarge your oUigatioas, to perform your
pTomiieff*-

Q*^ An MmumUmct ^nrnt^ vfo i$ i^fHmiUe to m-
Jkrgem : Apmdtflm md $h$ tnk/knm§ ifm C p,

tvgnMmik km fir d fria, tmd is mrA. litfitt ytm
ifinm, wketbtr it h bnifid. fif tk$ .4iffHiitk$^ t§ keef
tkt mmtfi^fir bis mm wfi^ m whttim hi ought mt to-givt
klmms^f Tls9^fmfi»i[^kttd tkomi^smmn^tdd
mtb^vi gtm tothi mifitr ifhisfimdlmdlttt hm bit

Mf^0tm* ^ '

A As tbe wbole ttnie of an appirentiee ia hirma«
Iter's pn^arty j fo wbateyer be earna dttnte his ap-
preiitice(b]p» it bis maAfer*s gain. But to end tbe dU^
pnte at onoei in iueb ca(es» wby do not apprcoticeft
aik tbeir maftei^s leave ? For if tb^ n»ly» "Fbat tl^
ane under apprebtttfi<iins» left tbeir maiers (bonld jre*
Mk tbem ; it maf be readily retorted, wbatber tbi^
^ not loolc upon tbemfihwa aa under fiich obedience
to tbeir mafter'a wBl, at not to o(&r at aiiy tbing^
wbich tbey imi^o tboo' ma(la*a wouki ooc tikm
tbem id ?

Q^ ^^ mm wkb tufi tntdfitttt nctfu
With fiffiS psu9 msd isffimfii
Ms rttrtuJmts smd ktufy fUks^ »

Wbtft tf$n (tatisst bt trbtusfh fs^jpxf)
jMfritfitm gttdf bad 90 dtfenti^
9Ht tbo JUigbt gmrd of mmomt i

Vo

No eUfimg iifctiti ibm cmUfle,

Bsa Mnjkk m Md hmmfij :

JUfm^i h amfirt to conffhot

Tho growA ifJ)mfathotiek firo.

Thai $ttUOi^dt Jul oafy'roid

1^0* sUfhe 4)mmU ifwjpuA:

Winch fitm*dfH$iro from evny pmrf.

And mmih tho world bnumb her emtl

B$a t0 eomfrlxjo in tm tho tefi i

jb much AS mortal o^or wm kkfii ^

tVhkh Capid, that tn/Mng hoy.

With omyfim, and grftd^d tbo joy :

Hofic'd his aim, thm drtm his mw»

letjfy 4 dart, andjhot mo ^hrf i

U ^c*d my vtitis in o*ry fart,

Andfent tho ttfoBm to rny heart. ':

Jjtvain Ifirive to wremh it thentf^

In vain tofroidom claim fretoneo:

In vain I vijh ■ ^tftill dej^^

Ifjfkks and clings^ and rankks theros

J^d nam imfiohod o*ir in fire,

I httm and langui/h with defiro :

Grief, hope, andfiar pojfefs my mind,

And difcontent in all I find,

A, When roan lies all in?olT*d w!tb tktt^

Aod each acciflion ftrtves to plcafe i

When pains, nor want, nor grief controul*.

Thcvfoft reccflcs of his foul j

Indulgent heav'n, left he forgets.

The fource of all his benefits,

And lazioefs fupine deftroy,

(Rc/ign'd thereto) at laft his joy,

Diflurbs the oulet of his breaft.

The falfe delufion of his reft.

To make him better thoughts attend;

Of joys more folid in the end :

Some he'n with pains, and fome chaftite

With lofs of friends, and flowing tyesi

With difappointments Ibme, find want.

Tin their fal& notions they recant j

mi'

fifS ne British. ApoLLOk

And fome he £uSct$ to defpair*
Seduc'd b' allorcments.of the fair.
Rouze then your foul with thoughs fublime;^
Aod (hake oIF each y which (hews a aime
Beneath its glorious fc\(, let nought.
Be into cogitation brought ;
So all attacks you'll (bon defpife, y

-^X^ether from, cares or grief they ri(e, >.

7fv»f ^frfpmtmtnfjt 9r pur Sylvia'i ^f/. J

Q. "Brtiyt what is the difftrfnce bttwun the firangwy
wdftrMlgtdkih they being both meritica'd in the biUi of
Adertnlity 9

A. Both the(e words bear the (ame (ignification ;
but the old women, the fearcbers, u(e them in a dif-
ferent fen(ei underfbindine firangulion to be' a fuffb-
cation of the lungs« which is altogether ridiculous-

Q^ I mn sbeta twenty yews ' ffage^ and was never
bleedid (ha vety ttft to Heed at the mfey. and have a
icng time fmnd mi felf a little fcorbutick. I defire yowt
opinion, whether I Jhotdd get any benefit by. bleeding, or
whether J had beft to let it alone f

A, It is our opinion, that bleeding will be of great
benefit to you, fince it appears fo plainly that a -foil-
nefs of blood attends you : Nor will it be lefs health-
ful in rqgard to. your fcorbutick habit, the blood in
fuch caies being ^nerally very corrupt.

Q^WhatJart ^ fludy a young Gentleman that Is very
filid, and hath wherewithal to profecute k, ought chiefy
to afpfy Umfelf unto ; and whether the matherMticks is
not the properefl fiudy f

A. As z young Gentleman, plentifully provided
hr, (hould endeavour after a competent knowledge in
all the fciences, (b to what in a more particular man-
ner to apply himfelf, he (hould ferioudy coniider, to
what fort of dudy his geAius more particularly leads
him. For wBatever be the dudy, which his genius
cnclines him to, he may be fure of labouring with
more fuccefs, and of making more confiderablc ad-
vances in that than any other fiudy;.

ne British Apollo*^ 8|9

0:^1/1 dg thing, winch I thMs/m -, if his mm
fin^ dom I emmit a fin, in a^iog thutt ^Mch Ithm^ht

A. As to dp a floful a^ioa, while we think it in*
xiocent, is a fin of ienorance, fe to do an innocent
a^on, while we think it finfiil, is a m^nlfin. For
confdence is the- immediato ftandard of good and
eWi with, reiped to man ; and therefore a^ deWaiioii
from that tmnaediate ftandard moft be confiquentif
finfal. And of this you may make tt proper jndg*
ment from one man's behaviour to another. For if
your friend do any thing that proves ofienfive to you,
but at the time of doing it is intircly ignorant that
it won'd do fo, you never call his friendihlp into
qweftion, never accuft him of infincerity, never Jay
the damage you receive to his guiltlefi charge. Yoa
never o£&r to do this, if under the guidance of rea-
ion, under the condu^ of ^iicretion. But if your
friend do any thing, that prbves inofienfive to yott»
but at the time of doing it, is of opinion that it
will prove ofFenfive, ydu immediately take it unc
kindly at his hands, immediately refent hi* uofriendlf
ofage, and expoflulate the caie for Co unezpeded n
deportment. And in this, prudence will vindicate
your behaviour, fince it is too flagrant to be denied,
that however the iifue be of harmlefs coniequence,
yet your friend who is ignorant of that harmlefs con-
fequence, gives an evident demonilration that he is
under no concern for your welfare, has no regard to
your fecnrity, but refolvcs to gratify himlelf, to con-
fult his own intereft, tbo' to the detriment, to the
diiad vantage oPhis friend. It is eafy< therefore to de-
termioe the cafe before us, finco men of reafon cdn^
flantly take their eftimate, of either a kind or injuri*
ous treatment, from the witf, and* sot the tlitd.

Not but that we may be fometimes guilty of a
wilful fin, even while ignorant, that it is a fin : For
perhaps our ignorance it an affefted ignorance. Per-
haps we indoArioufly avoid the knowledge of our
duty, becaufis unw^ing to perform. Perhaps we en^

deavoujp

dttavome NOT u Imm our pMjbt's will, left we £hoJ^
be beiecn with many ftripes: NOT to- kaim Ms vHk
that we may be beaten with few (tl;iat b» with iio>

But tbp' our igoonnce be not aflededr jet it maf
be the ]MroditA oTaguiity cafeleflnefi. Pcrbafw we are
Hot fo diligent as we ought* to exaimine theaature o£
the aftions we are ready to perform \ to bring them^
to the toachAoae of impartial realbn i to ^y either
the JMiMw^ or ibt fimt^ulmfi of tUUnl. Fb>bap»
we do not ulc oar fiocere endeavours to know how
to refiofe $b% tvil$ md tkuffi the goed^ to acquaint our
iehres with our Ma|ter's p leaTure* to learn vhM$ $hr
mil «f ih iMi iu And theKfore though whatever
"be not of faith» is fia» yet the terms are not conver-
tible'; yet it no way^ foUows,. that whatever is of
fiiith, is not fio.^ Whence we are indi^nfiUy oUig'd
to make aa induftrions u& of rea(bn> that candle of
the Lord I to ftudy^ in proportion to the opportuni-
ties we enjoy, the left obvious diftin^ons between
vtktoe and vice » to read, to ponder,, to digeft the
]kble» t\At dMy ^ii»i^frtm m bilff't frequently to per-
nio thoiie inftru&ive writings, m which we are fure
iM kaff§ iinml lifo. This we are indifpenfibly oblig'd
to do, that we may bfs tho& blefled, thoi(e ever blef-
&d fervtfntv ^ho both ko$m tim UriTs mill, md d^

k t99^

Q* $irh Xm m$ d$Jhd fy a- wetMJber u wwr £»»
TmMTiMi ficinyi to wt^int ymr fukfcri&ir, vho ms a do*
firt to mm tho m ^ drMviag and Ummg, vfloMt Sook is^
mo/I oonvmmtfor ayoimg ktgitmer t

^. All we can gather from moft bopk» we have
met with on that iiibjeft, '^ that the authors knew
little of the Oitti themleives, i^or can the colouring part
be deroOnfb'ated, but by OMSmflo as wall as fro^.
Therefore, if you WQU'd be » proficient in that moft
ingenious art* we adviie you tO' tmflr to no books-
(by which you may gdn ofil)r ill habits» hard to be
rdioquidi'd) but obtain the indruAiens and directi-
ons of fiMiie Me m,i&^ If therci be any particulars

Jon.

Tie BnirisR A pox.1.0. ^1

jfm wpold be refbfvM in, either rdatiiig to ifrvMg^^
frifirim ctlwtmg'f p/r^akiit ardtmumci^ fcc. perhaps
me/xizj p7c you more &fisi9ift1on thcreio* thaii jom
ynH meet with in any sitfthors.

Q^Prtfmm, md hii^fartbt fiUm $nttf Ufdd to k
MOmt Mul fimvhi$ ciutfis diib lajt^dmdmik melmh

jg. The ufin^^f the ^leen remains as ret dilputiUQ;
'but it is aeroed'on by noft, that it icnres in fome
miik or PtberA to, the perj^ion of the Uoods ft
that acconiing to its degrees of obfiniaioD» or i6abi-
]lity of performing its office, it may be Hid to be de-
fedife. And thoogh the learned .Dr. ^^lMm$ hadi
derived the hypochondriack paifion from the vitious
€0iiftitiiti<» of the ftomach, yet it is ipiputcd bj
.moft phyfidanSf to t)ie vices of this boweL whence
the blood becomiiig degenerate, and, tainted with me-
Janchbllck fieadencilds^'is contfmia^ oommimicating
,i$$ jdvJi rcq^em^ts to th^ brdA and nerves^, caufinf^
.that variiety of fancies* andiynptdms wl^ichqc^r i«
this malady.

Xi-HUm WA$ London-Aone fitfi mSiJ, knd whn
WMtStf dtfy^ ^ its eri&iion i

A* Jjondm-fitm was iirft ereded in the year 1414*
and was theii ^efigfd to mark the eaftern boumh of
tbis^eat city, ^ere.ace other Jittte niceties rdat-
fsog to this luttory of this fion^, slf which yoii*Il fad
in v5»sv, and ftveral.lat^' aothors.

Q. / 4W ii pfrtimh mUhd'vt cw^ft HtHi^* lOo

ferfitu M0M'wltS the vnmeal iifMfe^ fit fhtly Mnnn

kdgtt I m not H€^iMmted with the tnti mgnud taup

^ that difia^, I hmf$^ ttad ntw^f numrs m that

fukjeB wkh9ta nitif fittisfawm : It not bmg p^mi im

my ofimm, t^/ay, that th cauh is malign bmnomSi fcf

fmms f9ks% &C. vhich bmg if heat ftst in mtimti ^^

ffifedt (kc. fit€9 that itti "wt ofCMtit fir its nal fitfi

frinc^, it Jhe» hom gmfrMUit^c, witch is what I

wam t4 kn9w ; \Thirefiri if ym can iafwm fkt^ sr fv-

xommmd m%. to anj rational tnatifi that wiU» I JhaU

^em it as a vtty gnat favour f

mm* Sw

fUmkym a tfitfm A^'t avili

Wb9 wMs tht fiffi flMi^>
tnbir gm/t jMmeto fb$ itiftmu tild de?il I

Who §a.9k$ilfjier^,
iAnd i»7^ 'tis a quefttco oioft chrS^

To make ^Mmi fij

¥^001 bis liiroae ia tbe skjF*
And fetch 700 up nevrs from thesUvtt*

We'll make you to kno«r»

That with eafi we c^n Itnw
Both e^fe^iHid their pdmitive cau&Si

Wbidi wc do to knpiove

The good fwfk we love*
Without itoiiog at mttd tiffhui^
) Kaow then that if «Ui

A>Awi/>U^»didMd
11ie*r#t«ffi next 4(4r </ the ilm^f
« H)B was bl<ft «s iamc goes,

Wfiho j^liy^rediiiiofer
And his name it was J»mf Km^.

. He was m/LfdUi togetho'
With a difiM, caH'4 Oix^h JCdbr^

Afld tndSs two a& tis fiidi «.

Gtoirfe they wanted a bed, ...^ ^
Made ufe of a butt ia thie cellar.

Mean while it M\ out* •

In the Areet was a rout;
The ^Mfi&e/ could iearoe get along*

And a pared of Iheq^ v

Driving by ehanc^ to creep
Clofe op to the wall iVom the throng;

Fob wide 'were the grates.

WUth made the Sua gates.

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To let his light into the ggllar,

Apd down fellji.rain.

As black as old Ckanh
While Kem^ ^a^ toying with. Jato.

You may judge the Airprise,

Made the pjay^fellow^ riie,
IJiiuck this di%race h^d defigo'd 'ens*

Uphalf n^ked they ran*

Both woman and iQtn^
And fwore they'd .the deviJ behind 'em*

Now the wag«. Sir, d' ye fce»

As wags there will be»
Bdog p}ea$*d with this pleafiat aJvtBtMn^

Gave the tavern the name»

To poor ynnni^% fliame.
By which you at preicot muft ealerJ
Q. Tv9 thofm m fMkf% .

Of marriagt^ vhwb U fmhieUglf^^i
But tluu wbkhJc$h ^wxv

htf mtudmbead JliU I retam^

l^ -w^t Jfiij njkgmity d^wt^
That tJus fiory my cmragi dots c^clt

Th*t when maidenheads mnu

Aod each ahtr grett^ ,

The firft ek'dd is sdmap nfeoU

So Apollo, / fray^ym

To fof^ if^Hs trste^
if not, I dtvtfifw. to^ njemure

With A vtrgmthat^t chafte^

Who is not in hafle^
Ttii I ifavefu^Wd mysindenttsre,
A, Whether idoocs we owe

To fuch contract or no»
To live (ingie we warn you the rather.

Since your brood may take ftain

From default of your brain*
And re&mble their iniipid father.
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I

t66 l*be British Apollo.

Q. "Us fit the lovely H-»i— ih that I hum,
Tts fir the fweet, the vertMus Bi ■ me I mcum :
jiml wofdil you, Sirst advife me thus to dje^
And never tell the nymph the reafon vhy t

*Iis true, her merit fir exeeedeth mine^

And that*s the reafin why I do decU^e,

To let her kntm to what degrees I pine.
Say, JhaU I go, andftammer out my f^itft
Or in fofi numbers find to teg reliefs
Or JhaU I ftill indulge my humble fiars,
And^ Hke a hermit ffond my days in tears t

A. Since ihe excels in merit, 'twill not be
An equal match, or jaft attempt in thee }
To ftammer out thjr grief will never do»
For they delight in paflions fmoothly £ow :
Thy numbers pronmiie Icfi, thy tears but provc«
Thy head is full of rheum, but not of love.
The fureft jpfoof of paffion thou canft give.
Is firft to fend the caufe, then ceafe to live.

Q^ If lam a fiunder by trade, and take an affe^en^
tice, his indenture obliges me to teadf him the my fiery
af my trade » NoWb Gentlemen, fifpofe I fpend a great
deal if money in the inventing any thing mw in my
trade, am I injuftice and duty bound to cammttmcate the
inventim to my fervam, jmce, when I took him, I mdy
fromii'd to make him amafier of hit bufnefs i which I
can do, without communicating this to him, fmce no man
pf the bufinefs can teach him more than I have taught
him, without my teaching him this, fince, if he fhews it
to one, and another to another, that whidf I might have
got by^ by being common, becomes ufelefi to mo i

A. As indentures fpecify, that a mafter muH teach
his apprentice the myftcry of his trade, fo the word
tnyftery Ognifies no more than what other mafters are
generally acquainted with. And therefore no inden-
tures, as ufualiy drawn up, can lay t mafter under an
obligation of making to his apprentice any further dii^
covery.^ But maugre this, it may be ftiU objedcd,
That i£ a mafter be ingenious at his bufinefs, this
gnav bp the reason why the parents chofc to pat out

their

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Tfje British Ap6llo. 867'

their child, rather to him thaa to^aoothcr* in expedbi-
tion that he wou'd teach him to be more expert aod
skilful in his' trade. ' And therefore the mafter by a
concealment of a iecrer» does confequently of&nd, not
againft any exprcG bargain, or the open tenures o£
the indentures, but againft a tacit kind of agreement
cd^ertly implj'd* And for any one to offoid, even
againft a tacit or imply'd agreement, this is fucb aa
inftance of infincerity, as the refinU the fublimated
precepts of the GofpeL will no ways juftify. But ia
anfwer to this obje^ion, we wou'd obferve, that fuch
cxpe^ations of the parents from the mafter, can, ia
equity, reach no further than the common refults, the
general ifTues of his extraordinary capacity and skil*
, Falnefs in his occupation. For otherwife what en*
couragemcnt can mafters have to be at the expence
both of uncommon charge and uncompnon induftry
in feme fiogular, improvements, if their apprentices*
as ibon as from under their tuition, muft be co-part«
ners in the profits ? It is abundantly fufficient, that
tbey who are capable of making fuch Angular im-
provements, are alio generally capable of inftru'^in^
their apprentices better than con(imon maAers, .in all
the other particulars of their trade. But to prevent
contentions and unreafonable expe£^ations, fuch raaders
wou'd a£!: wifely and difcreetly, ihould tbey exprcfly,
mention fuch equitable exceptions.

Q^ In 1 Tim, iv. 14. we rtady Alexander the cop'''
pci-fmith did me much evil, ^uery^ Who was that
Alexander, and what harm had he done St, Paul ? It
follows, the Lord reward him according to his works :
Now is that imfrecation ef the jipofiU confifient with out
Saviour's golden rule of blefTing them that curfe us,
and praying for them that defpitefully ufe us and per-
fccutc us ?

ji. There is no other certainty coficerning this

Alexander roention'd by the Apoftlc, than that he was

> by occupation a coppcrfmlth, by inclination an e-

1 ncmy to St. Paul, If he were the fame (as it is

probable he was ) with that Jkxandtr brahded with

P p 2 . BymeniHs

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S6S The Britis;h Apollo.

HymenAus in Ta,\, 2,p. it foilows, that he was once
ii member of the church' Catholick« but iifterwards
excommunicated by this Apofblc. For of thoie two
it is expcfly faid, whom I huve deliyt^d to Satan, a
peripbrafis for whom I have excommunicated: And
if this be the perfofl) from St. TauVs joinfng him
with Hymenitust we may not improbably conclude,
that they were' both chargeable with tbe fame crime.
AntJ in i Him, if. i8. we thus read con cerriirig B^-
men^us and Fhiktuit 'a>ho concerning the truth hive 'err'd^
faying^ the refurreiiion is faft already y and overthrow the
faith offome. Whence it follows, that St, Paul there-
fore look'd upon Alexander as his adveriary, as ono
that had done him much evil> becaufe a broacher of
herede ; a teacher of falfi doctrine ; a idenyer of that
fundamental article, the rerurre6^ion of the dead ; a
deluder of the weak and ignorant ; an enemy to tbe
form if found wprds i and an oppofer of hiibrelf in
that noble work, which he undertook upon no other
principle than the glory of God, the honour of his
Saviour, the benefit of his fellow creatures, the falva-
tion of their immortal fouls. And therefore, fuppo-
Ung that that cxpreflion, the Lord reward him accord"
ing 10 his works, was intended as an imprqcatioD, it
muft be allowed,, that this at leafl very nluch abates
the feverity, the'hardincfs of it, fince he means it not
as a perfonal revenge, but out of a fervent zeal for
the^ progrcfs of fuch a faith as h pure and undefil'd,
and therefore doth as much as fay in that expreflion
' of the Pfalmift, Lord, revinge thou thiffe own caufe.
But what, tho' the injury St. Taul received, be en-
tirely perfonal, (ince the "ancient fathers unanimoufly
agree, and that very rationally too, that the paiTage
before us is not a curfe, but a predi6bioo ; is not an
imprecation, but a prophefie, that the Lord SHOU'D
reward him according to his works. And it is agreeable
to the prophetical ftile, to uic the prcfent optative
for the future indicative. And it h very obfcrvable,
that the royal raanufcript reads it not dyrMn, but
ffTfpf'u^ii 9 not the Lord reward him, but the Lord

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Jhj/dl or vill reward him, f^c. Here therefore the
ApoAle no ways derogates in his prance from that
engaging, that alloriog charader he elfewhere gives
as of hioifelFi and others bis brethren In the faith, ^-
mg revil'dy we kUfi i being ferfetuted, tH fitger. it t U-
ing defam'dt w^ inireat. Who then (hall lay. any thing
. of malicer aay thing of revenge to the charge of him»
^whp could blefs his revilers, intreat his defamers, ami
meekly fuffer the Ccvcrities of perfecution ?

Q. r defire to know the meaning tf the grgttnSlhtg of
jbe gMts» which, feme fer/ms hmte ttbm/i cmtimuiily^ mU
■yet feel no ftm i , . .

A*. This noiie in the Inteftines proceeds from •
collc^ion of wind therein, thro' fafting and empti«
ne(s \ which gradually {eekiog a paffige* and meet-
ing with little or no obftrtt£tiou» Is at length diC>
cfaarg'd without pain.

Q^Supfo/e a fime was drop*d down from nfteefk^ or
any high freeipice, whether ft falls fafier when it comet
nearer the hottomx than when It was firfi drop*d I

A* As the earth fs the eenter of gravitation tcf
.all things within t;he region of this atmo^here, fo all
fuUunary bodies ^avitate mo^e or lefs in proportioo
to their vicinity to, or diftance from the earth* Whence
it naturaUy follows,. that the motion of afione drop'd
jfirom a fteeple is continually accelerated aa ic draw»
.nearer to the ground.

Q^ Where is Camphire founds and if T, that stm t^
emteh addiHed ta the pUafstres ef Venus, fltotttd take m
Uttkef itf whether ar no it woted tteti ha prejeulieial to wf
health I

. A. Campbtre it Isroogbt to iit irom Chimt^ Japanir
yav^i Borneo, and other parts of the E^Indies^ hciag,
the gum or rofin of a tsill tree» not unlike a wdnut*
tree. And tho' iRhafis, Zacatus, Lufitmtus^ and fome
other authors of note, hold it to be an ej&tingaiflier
of luft i jret (ince it is agreed on by the geiierality of
writers^ that htmp is an eminent fpedifick in this cafr,.
aotliiii^ ieems to fuit with your confiitu^tido. fo well
Hi a Bridewell adminiflration.

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Q^ 7 havi A kng while itfr^d to know the mginal tf
this f!;over&, viz,. Like Httm*s dog, neither go to church
nor ilay at home ; and cculd think vf nm% fitter to re*
folve this queftion than $h§ Brivish Apollo ?

A, One HUNT a labouring maD» at a fmall town
in Shropjhire kept a maftifF, who was very fond of
following bis mafter up and down : I<tow HUNT
wais a rdigiou$ man, and every Sunday in the after-
noon went to church with all his family, and lock'd
his maftifiFior the hoaie till he came back again.

The dog it (eems unwilling to be left alone, com-
plained in melancholy notes of fuch a difmai ibund,
that all the village was didurb'd by his inceilant bowl-
ings : This made HUNT refblve to take his dog to
church next Sunday.

The dog however, who perhaps bad formerly been
beaten by the fexton for difturbing the congregation,
cou'd be brought no further than the church door,

^for there he^hung behind, and tug'd the firing by
which hismafler held him. HUNT grew angry at
the obftinacy of his inaftifF, and after having beat him

'fbundly, and let him go, and with up-lifted hands and
zealous accent, cry'd half- weeping \ Ob ! what viU

> this world come tot my very dogs hate learn* d to frac^

' ti/e wickednefst and are neither contented to go to chterth,
or to fiof at home. Good Lord deliver us. The people
pleas'd to fee a man (b ferious upon fuch an occaHon,
laug^^d poor HUNT and his dog into a commoa

'proverb*

CL l^f^ftf^^ tiomes Borax, and what are its epedHties f

' jl. Borax it imported to us from Artnenia^ Maeo^
donia and Cyprsss, and is two- fold, either native or

,fa£Htious: The native is a kind of mineral fait found
in Silver, bra&, and copper mines ; 4nd fcarcely knowh
to us: The fadlitious^ which is commonly ibid in

•ihops, fs a compo/ition of faline bodies, and is dia-
retick, healing, and aperitive.

Q. MeJStfirs, me te do Franfli Troteftam^ me come

, ^er for de religion^ and finco me httve eat do goode
AogUfi) henf and de momm me have no tmidfer to go

sum

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Mny mwe in Noxaaapdie, fif eet de garlix^ di grsnou*
iUes, de chamfignoih nor vmt d» vo^den JJm, Me be^
pardon for dis trouble, and fray you for to give oncer t§
dij qHefiione, Sufpofe dot dere was peee^ and de Franlfi
Zing make frockmatme for ail his fubjeB$ to return inSQ
dare awn countre, and fromis'd liberie de confcience : Now
de queftiono be, weder or no dey be obli£d to ob^t and
leave do land de Canan for £gypc ?

-rf. Dou callfl: dy felf dcFranJh Protcffant, but Jo'ft
feem rader to proteft againft de ?oodeo fhooe, and de
garlix, den againll de Popery s and we have great
reafon to believe, dat de Anglijh beuf and de muttoa
bold yoa vader by de tooths, den the Frotefiaat re-
]i(hion by. de art. Derevore we hope de jQueeii: o€
Britain, vil fend you to 6j own land of ^gyfOt with«
oat (laying vor de pece y and den dere wUl be ao ac-
caHon to anAr de queftione.

Q^ From Albion'j Uft^ towers^ where notfe confw%
Terpetnal din, and reJUtfs clamottrs feign :
To rural filitude I did retire.
Where aU my hours revolv*d in balmy peace ;
From toil, from care, and human amferfe free^
^cipt my faithful Corydoo» a friend
iregnant with virtue, whofo capacious foul^
Sciential knowledge, eloquence fuHime,
i>id coMprehend with i^fculapian arts,
C Support to Wortals who're by^ nature fiaU)
Our grief was mtttual, mutual were our joys,^
jtndjlri&eft harthony our fouls did join,
€3ne beauteous fair did both mr hearts inffirey
With equal ardour, and with equal flame.
But I miSgnaiit, coofcious of his worthy
Stifled my growing love, to him refign'd
(What 09^ he defervd) the charming maid ^
And rivalfhip ( caufe of inteftine jars )
X>id knit the facred knot with firmer bands,
jU length (Oh! dire reverfe to all my blifs i}
The generous vouth, by irreji/llefs fate.
And by ffis Konour*d parent's dread commands.
Was foT^d to Utkve the darling of his breafl,

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And thefe Mghtful)grovts^fir lands remott :

ret, tW remw'd, ftillypur Mfamick lays

M^ cmfm his mi our deji^ed fouls,

And heal the fmart'mg fangs which abfence gtvtjt]

AJfa/aghg every ^nxkus thought and care, > '

Chearing the ffkits of the drooping fair, >.

And peace reftore to three, bpprefs'd with black defpair. }

A. Where love ftupeodious, and fuch (hocking

proofs
Of friendnijp more fubh'ine, fo mix their ties.
And bind afFe£):ion in a triple^knor,
^ith firmnefs indifToluble and ftrong,
Great is the happinefs which muft attend
Your joys inceflant j But Oh! Greater far
"Mud prbvc the grief, produc'd by abfence forc*d,
"Where fbuJs united are by intcrcft's call,
And gain attradlive, fuddenly disjoin'd.
But Oh ! that mighty proof of love fupremc.
Which to your rival friend your miftrefs gave>
Will furc incline you to confider well
That duty to his parent's will and fcarch
.Of fure advantage fir ft his 'abfence wrought.
Then will you eafily your peace regain.
For friendfhip, on'ce iincere will fo remain,
His joys are joys to you, his grief to you is pain

Q^Whm^e is't that widows muji 6e won,
IBy vfgorouffy pufhhg ont
When maids that ne*er did tafie the fin,
A man by fbw degrees muft win i

A. The 'hiaid a profpedl hath of days.
May give her thoice, and thence delays >
But widows having pafs'd their prime.
The value know of precious time.

Q. / lorve, Apollo, and VU tell you why.
It is not beauty that atlraSs my 'eye f
No, that inflaming y that puijfant dart.
Could never wound my faniy^ Ufs my heart s
Nor is it riches, no^ that courted bait, ^ %

Too mean 9» motive is t' a foul fo grfas.

Nor

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Kar h it thcfe phantajiick jtySf whi^h bftver
About iht wahtffn, unreclifimt^ lovtr ;
Alas ! 'Fruition will the (hiii difcover.
But Vis tm a£hv9f humbU^ vintitflus mind y
J^fe (tre frm hantifs in thifimnU land:
7?/ thefi t lave, from thefe tU pruer ftart ;
And e're fU change" w^ love, TU change my hearti
2hen, lights of natttre, I affeal tcjfm.
If this afi^on te intire ma true ;
^ this mil Uft. vhen crazy time's duO fUugh
}VUl paint hit fUrrofWiM the (igfd hrow f
.^'A* Virtue is ficauty always iii its fpnng^
Which every day wil| frcfli en; o^ merit bringi^
Beyond the reach of malices or the pow'r
Of time, with teeth of iron to devoun
Increafe of joys with that of diys it gives,*
And when all other beauties diet it lives*
The noble thought then cheriib, happy Twaiiii'
A blifs you'll tafte which others feek in vain* ,
Q. Tqh*h a blockhead, Apollo, and if ever I meit ptti
J^ George, ^ I can, lU heartily beat ym : . . ^ , ,.
Xou're ti dc^ ^/a doublet ,^nd your /mjf aye no manner St
fy their toughnefs, J judge they were' dli got bv'f^nnQtSi
Wah a world of ill'bree^ingt.alndfafyr.Mfbmted^
Xou the widow af Ormond-flreet oaf^y affrmed s
Had I then beta in town, as I'm now come among yel
I had beat upyour tp^ters , and thrafh*djm to mummy y^
Tor as Vm a fotdter, J believe on mv word,
There^s not one ofyqu all that, c'ar^ handle a fwwd. ;
Why, ye foots, tm hex husband a taylor was known,
She has. now twenty ihoufand goods pottnds of her Own-:.
And were fht a fow, fince fhe's worth fo much money,
Xm^d wade thro* her dirt to come at her honeys
Know then Tm her lover, andjmce you're awarO on*t,
Xau had bejf hold your tongues., and [ay more, if you darej

,on*t. .

- A. You callyourfclf fold icr, indeed„by Jour tluilcr,
Tpu. may be (oroe faggot to pals at a mufter,
If your midrefs, a$ taylor, is but a ninth parr.
To make up the reft, fure appointed thou art ;

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And between yon, one body compleat will be founi,
Since fhe has the fubHance, and thou haft the (bund;
Bur« methinks> grenadier, youVe inarching too hard

on.
Since, if fhe is injur'd, we muft not beg pardon. .
That innocent maids love foft things; is no wonder.
But no widow's plea^'d with a man who knocks
under.

Q. ji cmty is a thing, I real^ think»
Wks mvar yet, by tmy^fim to 4rink,
Jf thtre's 4t reafin for*t» AipcMo, Jhevf if.
Why fo much ur'mt always runneth thro* U T

A. Prom greens they fuck large quantities of jQi^r
,Whick do the fame eSe^ as drinks produce.

Q^I am a widow in great difirefst and have Been eb-
hged to contraB many debts tofupport me and myfam^,
which I am never tile to fay,

I have an offer to be a houfe^keefer toanoldGentleman^
and hffromifes to fay all my debts, provide for myfamSy,
^d provide fir me after his death ^ bttt I muft cofnfljf
with him to be his bedfellow, I defireyoar advice^ whf'
ther it be better to comply with him, or live ftill in tISis
depiorable condition, and never be able ti fay my jafi
debts f

A, Tho* you Tswy defke to do jufticc to your
creditors, and difcharge your debts, yet you cannot
over look that golden, tho* too much negledled, rul^,
J^t to do evif that good may come. But iince fbrnicatr-
^n is fo palpable a fin, that you cannot but be* fcDfible,
that no caufe, how great foever, can juftify your
compliance^ you give us reafon to fufped^ at leall,
that your fear of your creditors is more prevalent
with you, than your juftice towards them. But
what, will you (land in awe of men, of puny nior-
t«l5, and yet not dread to oflfend your Maker > Td
deliver your fclf from thbfe who cm confine your
body, and after that have no more that they can do^ will
"you venture to provoke the great A^cngtxiwha ca^
deflroy both foul and body in hell i To difcharge o^e debt
cf «» hundred pence, dare you to contrafl another of ten
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The British Apollo. Sjf

thou/and takntj f Are you intirelf fcukfs of your
greateft Creditor* who» unlefs^oM agm with him quick'
fy, while you are in the way with him, will infallibly
eaft you into fri/oa f verily ( £iy's your tender Saviourr
fays even he, who came down on purpofe to pay all
your debts^ thou Jhtlt by no means come out thence till
thou haft paid the uttermofi farthing.

But you iay, that hence you (hall be able to make

provifion for your felf and family, fiut, alas! to have

recourfe to fo unwarraii(able a method for the fup->

port of your felf and family^ what is this but to di£»

claim a providence* to withdraw your confidence fron»

God« to truft in the arms tffltjhy and difcard that great

Froveditor, on whom the eyes of all wait, that he may

give them their meat in dsse feafin. Dare therefore to be

innocent in fpite of poverty i be courageous to withw

fiand the fin, tha$ does fo eaftbf hefet yoH i commit yeuf

way unto the Lord, and repoi^ your depeodance upoa

him, who is a Father to the fatherkis* and an hnf«

band to the widow ; repofe it upon him, who has

proa)is'd> and will perform it, dweU in the land, and

be deling good (and therefore to be iiire be doing no

evil, commit no fornication^ and verily thouJhaU be

fed,

Q^ Divines tell fss, that the fosd comes from God. Neve
J defsre to know how we can be faid to be bom in fin, when
our fouls der'rvefrom God i for nothing comes from him that
is impure ?

ji. From that pailage in the Ffalms, Behold I wae
fijafen in iniquity, and mfm did my mother conceive me,
fome ancient hereticks took occai^on to pafs fentence
of , condemnation upon marriage, and impioufly to
aHcrt, That the knowledge of a woman is an impure
defilement, and an adl of fin $ as tbo' the meaning
of the paflagc were, My father in begeu'mg mer and my
mother in conceiving roe, wen chargeable with the com-
mifjkn of fin> And to fuch hereticks does S. P^ia/ allude
in. 1 2im* iv. z\ ^ where he calls the prohibition of
marriage the dodvlrine of devils. But the true import
of the wo£ds> at once takes away, one of the chief

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foundations of that heretical optnioo, and evidently
ihews, that thdy contain a dodtrine no ways incon-
Ment with that afTcttion, Thaf the Jml umes out of
the hands cf its Creator, untainted with any manner of
inapuritf . For here the FftUmifi elegantly difplays the
original dcprtvity, the printiigeniar corruption of our
nature, which we futfceflircly dcrivt from our lips'J
from t)ttr ftnfcl parents. For as every thing bdgets its
Hke> lb ft is natural tor corruption tb beget c6rru[$-
t!on» jfs is the earthy, fueh mud be /% alfo vho have
hm the image of the earthy. But fince the foul is not
derif'd ex traduce, from tradition, but from immedi-
ate creation, it follows, that original corruption de-
fcends from ^dam to us, his poSerity, by thtJ medi-
ation of the body, in which only we are capable of
partaking of our parents fubf^ance. And radeed fuch
iias been the conftitution of the body tvcv fintc xht
fall, as ilrangeiy to fwiiy the fokl, that its bofom in-
timate, as to create ayet'fenefs m the will to thfe t)tir-
fuit of good i as to indine the afIe£lioiis to every
evil work j as to caufe the pafHon^ to rebel againft
the government of reafbn, and traitereroutly dethrone
their Sovereign* Hence it is, that our inclinations to
fin are flird, by the fchoolmen, ^•ptjf^et r^^wo^, the
concupifceoce ef the flcfti. And therefore We may
very properly be faid to be coneeiv'd irs fin, flnce^ at
our very conception, we receive from our parents
that material fubdance which contains thofe £tt^s,
thofe principles of corruption, which are ready per-
-haps to exert themfelves in fome meafnre and degree,
as foon as the foul is united to the body. And there-
fore fays the Vfalmift, The ungodly are froward even
from their mother* stdinnh,

Q* Mtm did the method of computing time from the
year of our Lordfirfi begm ?

A, Till the year of otir Lord 284, the ChriJIians
univerfally made ofc of the heathen -computation^ as
the ^RotMm Ab Ur6e Gondtta, froth the building of the
city J the Grecian from the inftirution of the Olympic
Came j the Antiochian from the rccover'd liberty of
a the

TTje British Afollo. 87^

the city of Aniwh, But iaafp;iach a^ T>i0dtfiMn {C9*

partner with MaxMan ia the Empire of ttMut) to*

wards the latter end of his reign rais'd a terrible per*

fecucion againft the G&r^/4»i (whi^h js oall'd the tenth

general perfecution) and no where difplay'd his Ibry

with ihbre ieveritj tfaait in ^£ypt, theoce the ^gyfu*

mn Chrifiians took occaiion to compute their time

from 2>i0ti(/^'s advancement to the throne* which hap>

pen'd the 284th year of Chrifl. And this computa-

tioo> with fome dififerencp* the SihhpiMu ereo ftili

make nCs of in their EcdeHaftical . accounts, tho' in

civil matters they make uie of the common JEra, In

the year f 32, while J^j^xmw was £m|>eror> Diamfms

"Bscigtius inilituted the method of dating time ^om

oor Saviour's Nativiiy, But as he computed it from

the fir£l year of the Cy^Uof the Mc(m, and the 47 1 3th

year of the Julian Period : fo Bede has fince coropu-

tAS it from the fecond of the one» and the '47 14th

of the other. Which con)put9tioa> as thus alter 'd

by Bede, is the &me with that fve. now vulgarly make

ttfe of.

Q^ Histther or noy when m M, if ecvtring the fac$
vith the cionths will make ene pale, andif fo, what fheuld
Se the reafm, and whether- wMefom » trnwhek fount

A. The covering of the face cauies it to fweat,
which, thro' the difcharge.of fpirits. aud bumoors*
renders it pale i and it may be term'd wholefbm or
unwholefom, according to the necefTiiry or unnecef^
fary pra6i:lce thereof. . ^

Q^ There being a young Lady that woi-nuatrf.^ fome
time ago, to a man that was mafier of aU perfeHiau but
having the misfortune of being fo dtif that he tan re-
eeive no intelligence but. thro* a horn 3 hut when he it in
bedy he can hear as well as any body can^ withotit his
horn J Fray, tell me the reafon of his hearing fo well ih bed,
when he cannot hear fo well when he is up i . .\

. A* Horns are really very troubfefotn furniture, and
*th. we muft confcfs, the Gentleman's great misfor-
tilne to be troubled with. them : Yet hath he fuch
an advantage, as to make a virtue of ncccflly, and to

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87S ^^^ British Apollo.

make that ufeful to him, which proves no fmall a£-
fiidiion to ochdrs. But^it may be thro' the clofenefi
and ffilloefs of the place, and the vicinity of his lov^
ing l?ed-fel!ow, that the voice is there more readily
coDvey'd to ^e ear, than in other places.

Q^ Why dgih faliy be'mg thrown into the fire, frojttce
Judf a 6lew'tjh flame ?

A. That biewifh flame proceeds from fome few
particles of fulphur, v^hich are intermixed with it.

Q^ Th^e wtt$ a time when fair Panthaea*^ eyes
TiWd tt^ry heart with wonder andfurprize j
XA* MJmirm^ crot^d ^th pride her laws obe^y
Ten thoufandcaftrves own her dazUng fwayt '

And at her feet their filemn homage fay.
Her fraife alone engroff'd the voice of fame,
Whlfi Mling ectho doe$ her worth proclaim,
WoodSi hiUs, and dalet, refoand with fair PanthseaV

name*
Among fi the number of her kve-fick fwams,
1 hv*d the charmeri told het all my pains :
Long time Jftrove her flinty heart to move.
Long time, alas ! mj labours frwttefs prove.
Until at length ( Hefl found t ) fhe whifpering fsgh'd,

I Uve.
Who eon deferibe the tranfports fiWd my fouh
7h* extatkk pleafures thre' my fenfef roU f
Jnfautt'rmg accents I my 'thanks expreft,
Whilft k(df'6reath*dfighs and vows imperfeSl fpohe the refl:
With fokfim itows fhe fwere fhe wotdd be rmne.
Nor to another e'er her charms refign,
Mut oh ! ■ • • I

Who ever rightfy knew the charming race ?
U^ can the ftdfe feducing fair ones trace,
Thfro* all the wild Maanders where they Jiray,
And lead us blind-fold in a pathlefs way f
Wh^fth eneeurag'd bf her flattering fmiles,
Hofd for the blefl reward of all my toils \
The fair, regardUfs of her vows and fame, y.

Wholly regardlefs of my facred flame, L

"Bjafljly^ inftead of me, ejfpous'd dt/grace and flam f» i

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T^^Britisu Apollo." 87^

A, ntlgWnng fwaln fedtud the kvly maid, y

By whoft enticing treach'rom nnfs bettnifd, S.

She's new to luft and t'^^ ^ Jhameful viStim made, j

Nowt now Jhe fiohfhm her ence envy' d height.

Like falling angels cloath^d in fiU^'d robes of light.

Tet mighty Bards i ■

TotiT foweyful lays "vhich check each bsftftslflamet

Ihofe might e'en yet the fugitive reclaim:

Then tune, ye Deiians, tune your warbling lyre.

Tour matchlefs ftrains the charmer Jhall in/pire.

Free J^ from vice, and quench each loofe defire.

ji, Conlider fair Famhea, e'er too lace.
E'er {hame and fbrrow arc confirtif d your fate >
Tbat blots impre({ upon a ground Co bright.
Look blacker than the fllades of fable night.
Tbat falling angclfr more confpicuous fliow^
In uglinefs, than word of forms below.
Conlider your (hort plcafures (purchas'd dear^
li4ake you the fcorn of all the virtuous fair,
Tbat banifh'd their converfe, you'll (lalk alone.
Or worfe, be orjy to loach'd* wretcbci kuown»
Confider ]a(^, the horrors of that dooro>
Which mud:, alas ! inevitably come.

Return then, whilft there is a glympfe of hope>
Return, whilft yet the gate of mercy's ope $
Let flouds of tears wafh all your ftains away.
And'let a Magdalene the path difplay:
So (hall you bereftor'd to peace again,
From prcfent (hame relcas'd, and future pain.
Q^ Good Mr. Phoebus,
in otnmbus rebus.

So wife andfo wondrous witty.
In defence of the town,
Whicn you think to run downl

Sttindfair, for I mean now to hit yotc*
Tou no longer Jhall reign.
Like ?hi\tp in Spain,

WithQHt ay right or frttenfon :

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If I ckny Jorhethjnj^ frovi,

That wU make ym remoye, ., »
7!hen fay^ fm not good at hvu^m*.

'Tist that you're a chefU^ ^^

Not Apoiio the gr'eait .
Whofo kindly at Delphos did/mde-y.

For he, as mofi knew.

Run away long agOf
And left the difconfolate ijlel

Nor areyeu his f my . ^

For he ne*er had but one,
^nd he teas thrown headlong by Jove :

Ipor medling like you,

(And as moji ajfes do}
With that which they know nothing of*

Nor have you pretence.

For his fortion cf fonfe.
Like him to be called Apollo i

For your packets Jo full,
. Of Pro and Con dull.
Trove vour crown to be wretchedly /halloWi- ~

Jf this you confute,
And in.your next do^t.
Til be fo fubmijfively civil i

That J'U puliickty own

To all in the town^ i

Tou^re a match even fit for the D ■ /.
A, Pretending to hit as.

You fooliflbly twit us,
With notions affronting the town^

WhiJft in its defence.

You bring the weak fcnfc
Which, languifhiog, -lies in your crown :

Your omnibus rebus

For rhimibg to Phoebus,
Which hundreds have fcnt us before^

Shews how noucfa pretenfion

You have to invention,'
And how your great learning runs o'er,

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Don Philip of Sfain,

Will iafcly remain,

/nd cas'Iy fccure cv'ry pafs, -

1£ they who attack, .

Should brains as much Tack, j/'

As this our bold hectoring afs.
That the God did remove
Long (ince, you wouVJ prove.
When 'cwasi but from fuch Barren ground.
In the fertfler foil,
Of this happy ille,
He's as eafy as e'er to be found.
'Tis ien'rantly done,
To talk of one fbn.
Since of all whom the God Soes inQ)irc»
Thofe notions which (hine.
Shews their birth arc divine.
And thence 'tis they call him their fire.
His Haeion's fall

Did caution us all, :r

A judgriicnt more ballanc*J to (liow.
Nor doubt we to fly>
Till we fcafcely fhall fpy
Thee, a poor crawling ihtcQ, below.
Q. ^ certain ferfm tpho wU not 6e herfnaiedcf tii
ntcejpty efbaptifmt would not fitffir hts children to btbttp^
tiz/d, one of them being at age, perjftjij in his f4ther*s opi'
nion. Now query, whether he can be Jav'd without faith
and repentance in bapttfm j and whether he may be call*d
'aChriJian!

A, The prqmi/cs of the Gofpcl arc made to none
l)ut thofe who arc admitted members oT the'cTiurcli
'by the facraraent of baptffm. Whofiever, fays our
bleflcd Lord, believeth, and h baptized, Jhall bo faved*
Not whofoever believcth only, but whofoevdr both
believeth and is baptized withal. But where any one's
refufal of that facred ordinance proceeds, not from ati
afFcfted, or a carelcfs, *bqt from a blamelcfs, an in-
vincible ignorance, inflcad of rafhly judgioe, of im-
prudently condemning "hitn. We ihould do octtcr to

lcav.e

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leave him to the mercy of that God, who may. p^
don, where he has not promis'd, may vouchfafe re<*
mKTion, whete he has not oblig'd himfelf to do it.
But happy thofe, whom ba^tifm enables to challenge
the performance of a promife, to lay claim to the af-
furance confequent to an^ obligation. But what.ihall ^
we fay of thofe, whom obilinacy blinds, wboie coo- '
tempt of that heavenly inilitution owes its unhappy
rife to a perverfe, to a refraftory temper ? Such men
would go to heaven on their own ferms, exped the \
beatiHck vifion on their own conditions, and will I
not allow the author of their future happinefs to pro- |
pofe the method of obtaining it.

Perfbns as yet unbaptizM may be mifcali'd indeed,
but not call'd Chridians, iince, as a Chriflian and a
member of the Church Catholick are equivalent ex-
prcflions, fb the Gofpel acquaints us with no other
way of becoming fucb a member, than by the ne-
cciTary, the indifpenfible neccflary rite of baptifm. '

Q^I am (U frefent CaMahigian, an J fo 1 have bm i
fhtfe two years^ hut hefon 1 vas admitted^ I cafi mjf af- '.
fthmt Hpm U young Lady<, a ckr^man*s daughter, fr \
Seauty and education not dej^fable, hut a ftrfm whom I
Uve intirefy, I have made my addrejfes to her, and am
^ received $ i»e have kept up a friendly eerrej^aulence /9-
gether feme cmfiderahle timty by Utters, though prhatelii}
hut as iU-luck l^otdd have it ute have had letters mttf*
' cepted, which has caused a great deal cf unhapfinefi ih
twetn Us, efpeeialfy to me, who have mcur*d thi*difpUA'
fure if my parents and f articular friends thereby, Tar ym
mu/i know, that this Lady has but little or no fortune,
and in Jhort^ money has been the caufe of aU this diflrMC'
tion» ^uty on one fide forbids me, love on the ither e^s
on my wiUing mind, to perfifi in my undertaking $ it
what to do I know not. Here therefore your judgment {<»
which i mightily depend) is to take place, ' Let me there^
fore horeat you (urging that *twill be a great piece <f
charity) to haften the fiUttion of this my demand.

uf . Your afFcftions fugged to you, that your pre-
&ni happioeis depends upon tiie accompllihment of

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your ^eiire i and your education teacSes you« that
your future welfare will be confequent to the per-
tormance of your duty. But where the one unfor-
tunately interferes with the other, we need not re-
jnind a member of the Uniyerfity, that the fitffermgt
nf this fh/ent time nn not worthy to bo eomfa/d with
the gmj winch pM be reveaVd in us. But the beft»
nay% the only method to reconcile fucb inconfiftent
intereftsy and make them amicably unite together, is,
firft .to coniider, that your parents have no more than
a negative voice, and in confequence of this, to wafc
with patience and fubmifTion, till the fcene be chang*
cd, till the proipe^ be inverted, and providence (hall
^gracioufly vouchfafe to crown your wiihes wi^h
their deiir'd fuccefs. But the mean while you muft
be careful to take rcfage in that godlinefs which is fro*
ftubk unto mU things, having the fromife ef the life that
now ist an J of that which is to come, 'But if the Lady
be impatient of delay, and not willing to prefer her
love for you to any intermediate opportunity, that
(hall prefent itfelf, you may comfort your ielf under
your misfortunes, with the pertinent reflexion, that
yon were not in fo abfolutc poffeffion of her heart,
as you might fondly imagine, and that (he is palpably
deficient in one of the principal accompli(hments> that
^ouid {o recommend her to a prudent lover, as to
engrofs his intire affc^ions, namely, that of con*
llancy.

Q. Ifbence proceeA a fudden ft or ting in one^s fteef f

Ji. It proceeds from divers, caufes, as irightful
Creates, malignant vapours offending the brain; con-
vuliions of the nerves, and other d\£oxdtTi incident to
iickly con(litiitions«

Q^ ffhether or no (according to our modem method of
JpeWng) you make IcsiA ft and both for a note of prohibition^
and the fup^Utive degree in quantity f

ji. The word, which you are pleaied to call a not<
of prohibition, is not a note, but a particle of pro-
iiibitioif. For the wprd Utote, does not belong to the
parts of fpeech, but to what we call Stofs, as a note

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of interrogation, or admiration. BcBdes, the word
Zeji is a particle or adverb, not only of prohibition,
but alio of debortation, and therefore your definition
is but a partial one. The word ,as thus, Lmft, or
thus Left Jpelt, is too frequently promifcuoufly writ-
ten for both the particular and the fuperiative decree:
butfopromifcuousa ufage of the word, af ponipos'd
of the fame letters, is not fo agreeable to the modern
Yules of Orthoefek, And therefore Left is the parti-
cle, and Lenfi the fuperlative degree.

Q. P0iy red hair, formerly fo much Admhr*d» vaa
Mf of fajhlon, alias famy, tmd whj bUck came fo much
in f

A. It IS a niiftake, it was a bright yellow, not reiJ
hair, allow 'd of for a perfedion among thp poets. Tho'
we believe the fame colours are equally admir'd now
as then, according to the various fancies of people,
and the different humours of fcvcral countries : Wh^t
might probably give occaCon to the ppcts to diftin-
guiHi that colom*, might be from obferving that the
greateii beauties have been, Iby the moil famous Jrtiils,
painted with fuch hair \ but that was only to ^iye a
warmth to it (a principal beauty in painting) and let
any ftridty examine the works of oi^r befl modem
mailers, they will finda.great many yellowiih, ^glov^
ing firokes, in the hair of fuch perfbns, who natu*
rally have t!he paled, afh-colour'd hair ; nor would
the pidlure look well, if nature were exadly copy'd
thereia. . .

(^ Z have madi choice of, i^^vfortfy Jriendt < whofi werA
and [mcfrity I dm very iofell ajur'd^of^ Sho tn^itoi to'm
after the moft affeSiionaie, tender,^ endearw^foofmer imor
ginaSli, But when we are in cwnpanf t^ttbir^ fho it
a perfe^ contradjBion to her lettors. She likes the liberties
X tdko with her, but ftill continues refirv*d t^ mo,
. Bffw fhall I frtvad with her to.ft^w me 4f wtich
kkdnefs when prefentp as when diftant f or-tntfftj.cmteni
wyf elf with thi benefit (f her fritndjh'f, withut the flesh
fitreefit i

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A. Madam, we ice no reason whj you fhould the
Icaft doubt tbc (incci:ity of tbc Lady's fricndihipj ilncc
what is writ, is a furer demonflration of the difpo-
ficioQ of the miad, being the e£Pcdl of deliberation and
iecond thoughts, than what U ipoken only : ^nd ail^
are more cautious of what they give under their hands,
Jeft it becpme an'evidedce againd them. The reafoa
of that feeming refervednefs fn her in converfatioo,^
mayarifc from an unhappy temper ( that epithet mgy
motr jQlHy be apply'd in point of rricndfliipj whfch
allows not that prefence of mind, which fome are for-
tunate in i and this feems the rather {b> becaufe (he
is plea$*d with the liWrtics you take.

Q. W% Jhotdd Crocus, or Saffron^ •which is rf a red
colour whtn Soiled^ or Jleefed in any liquor, make it yel"
lovf -

^ We beg leave fo far to objedl again ft your rf.
fertion, in relation to the C9lour,"as to fay, that it
more naturally difplays a golden colour, "than a red .
one, and then it is nd wonder why its infuHons are
of the like hue. ' . ' \ .

Q. Learned Apollo, tell mo why.
The larh which foar fi very high.
On their return are always fossnd.
To take their lodging on the ground :
Why on high trees don't they fepofe.
Or in the hedge, as others does i.
As feoms fnofi properly incUn'd, ^ .

To fuit their l^ty to^foYmg tmnd f]',.

A. To ihun the harfti. dilcordant note«
Of fy Ivan, and promifcuous throats.
The lark afcends an higher fphere, -
And joys to (ing her anthems there.
Till with an humble flight ppfTeft,
She fceks the lowcft place for reft :
As wifely judging on the ground
The fafeft feat is always found.
A moft pathetick emblem this.
To digit out the furcft blifs j
Teaching that grandeur's moft refin'd.
When 'tis with condcfccnfion joyn'd. Q^B#4r

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Q. Dear aU-knowifig Sol, fin of Laton an J Jovc,^

S^, whence this oU freverb took bearings
That fiitten-conH-flnte's the beginning rfhve,

And 4 t I d in your teeth is no fwearingm
Tho^ the query be coarfe, 'don*t think that I finttyo/t,

JSy thy thwuTring dad in the ify,
I [hould not have ask*d, could I tell it mthout you,

' Nor wofdd I provoke you not L
Cb y Kn y, . Vcrtuofo Smmmmmri

A* Joan P/tffX: being catch'd at a time by heripark»

To coQCeal ft, (he yielded with fpeeds
Quoth hti Jhitten-come-Jhite^s the beginning ofkve^

And io they moft fwcetly agreed.
One BuUock was fet in the flocks for an oath.

And finding the (liame above bearing,
Cry*d out to the conftable, in a great wrath, ^

WeU, a ti .d in your teeth is no fwearing.

Q. As late in Morpheus leaden arms I lay.
To my recefs, an envoy fnatch*d his vay ^
Fraught with the news of dear Piofa'/ death.
Who fuddenki it feems, refy^d hfr breath :
Wakingy and fear d, did I with horror cry.
Oh fate ! had I butfeen Piofa dye -,
The haffy Jhe^ that gave Melofii birth.
Bad I behold her fudden flight from earth.
Then fatisfa^ion had o^enefme my griefs
But I, alas ! mourn 'thout 'the leafi relief
Thus reafon nor religion can expel,
the grirfthat does my tmur*d bofom fpeU :
7hatjhe*s fecure in btefs'd Elifium j plains
Alas ! no Jhadaw ef a doubt remains
Then, dearefi youths ^ feme pity now exirf*
And beams of comfort to my mind impart »
Teil me from whence the boding vifion came^ '
That did Piofa'j fudden Heath proclaim i
And why I thus lament the happy dufi,
Of her, that dy*d fi welt, and Itv'dfo jufi i
Speak, facred oracle, my tears regard,
jkor longer let your gracious ears be bar*d ,

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T07at the* my mufe is frd and nnfolite^

Htr Icve's fincere, and all her thoughts an white*

A, 'Twas mighty love that forc*d the dreaful veol^
Love* that's immortal fure, the meiTage feat.
For 'tis not fate, with all her pow'r controuU,
Or bars the blifs of fy mpathizipg ibuls \
And as your better halPs entomb'd and gone^
We need not ftudy to derive your moan«
Your mu{e then lummon to prepare her flight«
Lethertranfport you through the realms of light 5
Still foar aloft, through liquid skies repair,
And Afdy wfng you to Elifian air ;
If there with refidence Vio[a*% \i\t{%*^^
Then fhall MiUfa be with recent joy9 poflefs'd.

Q; Oft havt I read your lines, admir'd yem wii,
^m ftiU I find Vm the reverfe to it.
And though yeu bddly teurjt to the shy,
Hwitd^ym firfi your tender fimons try t
Say, 6y what means the art J may acquire,
Toftpfmyboundkfs wifli, and. quench m' inflamed defire ?

A. To find your wants, in one fure way to rife
To fenfe, for none but fach are counted wife.
Boldly attempt ! if nature be unkind.
Denying aid to your afpiring mind ;
Decline (contented with your humble fate)
For art, tho' it may mend, it never can create.

<^ f^fether it be mt uncharitable to curfe mr neigh-
bout, as the office ^ cemmination enjoyns us f

A. The curfes repeated in the commination office
are taken out of the Mofaick Law, and therefore
were pronodnc'd by God himfelf. And when to
thefe we fubjoin Amen, we do no more than fay, the
will of the Lord be done, who has entail'd a curfc
upon each of theie wicked pra6lices. And as it is our
duty to ceiign our feires intirely to the pleafure of
the Almighty, to acquiefce in all the^ proceedings of
our Maker, ihall we refufe to acknowledge the ju-
(lice of the great avenger, tp fay, Righteous art thou,
O Lard, who in the Gofpel as well as in the Law»
hath made fin and puniibment to go hand in hand, to

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go alwftys band in handy unleis repentaace lotervctA
and ward o£F the blow?

Q^ Wha$ reafin hud Cain to 6e afrmd rf Uf^ fl^m
Gen. iv. x j. ivhereas tot do not read that there vus_ m^
more than two befides hhn thm in being ?
ppho was Cain'/ wifef far the reafin aforefaid t
A* Tho* the Scriptures don't take notice of anj o^'
ther perfons before that time, yet neither do th^j iayy
that there were no other : And fure Scripture fileace
can never be admitted for an argument without par-
ticular reafons to enforce it. And therefore we may
reafbnably fuppofe» that fbme at leaft of thofe ions
and daughters mentioned in Qm, ▼. to be born to
Adam^ were in being before that time. And this is
^ alio a /olutjon of your fecond quedion.

0^/0 the flory ^Soloroon'i ^uignHni I Kings xxvL
27. 09 reading the words mcel^, to which woman. do tb&f.
appoint the living chiUt actor ding to thejlricl rtdfs of
Grammar t

A. Since Solomon (kys, give her the child ^ the ftri£b
rules of .-Gran^jnar,' were there nothing t\£t to deter-
mine it^ wou'd refer the words to the laft ipeaker,
who was the woman that wou'd have the child di-
vided. But here we may reafonably fuppoic, that So*
i(7»M0 pointed to the womgn, who out of tendernefs
for her child, choie rath(|r to. part with \t iq her
competitor tiian have it> flain > by fo inhuman a dtvi-
iion. And then tbf fir id: rules of. prammiir. will reftsr
' the .words to the perfon h? pointed to,.

Q. Gentlemen f 'Tis a hard fiafon^ and J do^bt not a

time wherein charity may be very fiafinabU, It hath

pleafid God to give ,me fime fidflance in jhe world more

than fupports my filf and family j and from divers other

confiderations C^'^') ^^ children^ no focffr relations^ very

great, and an interrupted ftate, andfourfe of health* &c.

From the whole. I cannot , but from the providence of God^

judge, but he does in an effential mariner call to me to do .

good. Now I am much at a lofi with refpeS to the ob^

je^s of charity i for loath would I that, a real objeB

dhofidp awy mrelieved., I pray, what methfid fl^^ ^

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fake, feeing hoth the deferv'mg and undeferving prefent
themfeheSf what fruderft meafures /hall I take, to kncv
9ne from another, that fo the real poor may he helped^ and
the iax.y idle poor dtffourag*d I

ui, Excellent the conciufion which you dravtr from
your flowing circumftanccs, from your profperous
eUatc, namdy, that the kind, the bountiful bcflower
of the fabllance you enjoy, has appointed you a ftew-*
ard of his houfhold, to fiU the hungry with good things,
to make provifion £ot the poor and needy, to give
them their meat in due feafon. And we cainot but
think you worthy of double honour in that you are de-
iirous, not only to be a Reward, but a wife (Reward*
dcfirotts to make choice of the moft deferving obje^s
td relieve the undifguis*d ncccflitous, but yi»i pretend-
ing counterfeits empty away. You acquit your felf a
very faithful difpenfor of your maftcr's bounty, while
you neither retain too large a portion to your felf,
nor yet arc willing to take the childrens bread and eafl
it to the dogs, Tho* yet, not wit branding your moft
cautious induftry, the dogs will fbmctimes ent of thi
meat which falls from the childrms fable. We perceive,
that you have icarn'd a very ufeful leflbn from the
inclemency of the weather { hare learn'd from what
of courfe you muft have felt of it your felf, t;o pity
thofc m ferable pcrfons, who muft feel it more j ac-
cording to the compafHonate Bido in the poet >

Haud tgnara malt mferis fuccurrere difco.

But as for the worthinefs of objcds, it is an ob-
fervation not more common than deferving o^r ic-
gard, that there are none more worthy than decay 'd
diftrefs'd houfe- keepers, and thofe unhappy peribns
who cannot dtg, and yet to beg they are ajljam d. And
as fome tradefmcn have fijffcr'd more partic^ularly
from the Severity of the feafon, and their families been
reduc'd to very great extremities, fo you wou*d do
wtll to ufe an induftrious application in thefearching
out fuch as thefe ; You ^ouM do well to enquire of
your acquaintance, whom they can reccm=rr.end, ei-
ther upon their own knowledge, cr the W^^l atteflcd

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aflarancc of their creditable friends. But if your tno^ ^
iJcfty will not fuffcr you to be known rf men Ctho*
to be known of them with fo excellent an intention
is no violation of the rule of fccrecy ) you may em-
ploy your mod intimate companions, your bofom
confidents in ib commendable a fear cb.

But amid ft the various objeds that unfortunately
•bound, we cannot, wc muft not overlook the new
crt6ked fcboola of charity, thofc feminaries of p cty,
tbofe nurfcrics of reh'gion. Here, flnce you fay, chat
you have no children, you may yet have chHdren tu
your defiut in that you may enable your fclf to fay
of fome of thefe in allufion to a charitable, to a ten-
der Job, they vere ^ou^ uf with me as with a Father,
Here you may behold ( fmcc the difcovery of real
jclb}t6ks is your principalinquifition) here you may
take a view of unfeign'd want, of undiflembled ne-
ccfTities, of unafFcded poverty. Here you may be-
come at once, both a father to the fathcrlefs, and aa
husband to the widow. Happy the n>an who thus
fcMiereth abroad^ who giveth to fuch foor as thcfc j his
fightewfnffi rema'meth for ever^

Q. MfOi is the wind f

A, The wind is a more than ordinary commotion
of the air, and of the vapours which it carries with it.

Q^ / WM much furfrtz.'d when 1 faw your anfwer te
the word inauguration, applying it to the ^th of March, ^
wi^n the vord in the DtBionary gives it to c$nfecratien
and inJIaUat/on, and dedication. The medal ftruck fm
the coronation^ calls the z^d of April inauguration day.
Do^or Hcylin in his Cefmografky^ page x^^i fpeaking ^
Weftminfter- Abby, fays it is famous for the inauguro'
fion and fipnlture of the Kings ^ and page iSy fays that
Scone in Scotland is the ufual place for the inaeigwa'
tron of the Scott i/fj Kings, Frankfort ri&e place for the in'
auguration of the Emperors^ with a multitude more of
witneffes I find in that ieamed author, and many others,
nay, even all that 1 have read on that fubje^. New
how inauguration d.iy can be the %th of Mzrch^ and not
the %id of April I fee net the Uajl glimpfe of reafon,

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fray givt m% ywf opinion why it it tbt %th of Marcfa» Mi
tdfo the derivstion of the woi^d f

A. Our former folution being too precipitatfy wo
beg leave to prefent you with a full difcuffion of tlic
matter. , But that this may be done with^ the greatcft
perfpicuity, we fliali iirft comply with jour ]aft de«
fire, and give you the derivation of \\\t word tMugmr'
rmm. It n a compound of the particle i», and the
fimple auguration, which fimpJe word is deriv'd from
the Latin jiugfsratio, which figniHes divination or
foothfaying. For as the Roman Authors or South-
iayers perform'd their fuperflitious ceremonies of au-
guration, when magidrates were iblemnJy inveAed
with publick authority, fb it is metaphorically tran*
Hated to th6 Chridian ceremonies made ufe of at thtt
coronation of our Kings and Queens.

If therefore the quefhon be proposM, whether the
8th of March may be call'd tnafj^uration-day, we an-
{wcr in the affirmative, that it liiay be fo call'd in a
figurative fcnfcr, namely, with regard to that known
maxim in the law, Rtx AngltA nwi^tifn mmtitr^ the
King of 'England never dies. For no fboner does thfc
predeccflbr go off the ftage, than the fuccelTor is in"
veiled with as compleat an authority, as tho' the ce-
remonies of inauguration were aftually perform'd.
With relpeft therefore to fo compleat an authority
the 8tb of March may by way of-metaphor be not
abiurdly denominated inaHguration-dof,

But the literal intention o^ the word applies it to
the 23d of Affili (ince on that day the f>Jcmnity of
inauguration is pompoufly perform'd. And therefore
that day is generally ftil'd inauguration day^

Q. It Being maintained in argument, that a place may
he fiU'd with nothing, is not fuch em offer tion contradk*
tofy tath to reafm and fen fe ?

jL If the word may, be put to fignify a polTibility,"
as the tenor of the queftion fcems to import it is.
then it muft be granted to be a plain abfurdity, unlefs
we will allow, that fullnefs and cmptinefs arc terms
equivalent : But if the place be a de^terminatc one,

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ted the word mny import a prohibition, then there
is no contradidtion in the cafe. For to fay, that fjch
d determinate p/lace may be fill'd with nothing, is the
¥cry fame as to aflcrt, that it may not be fili'd with
any thing. In which cafe an affirmative propofition
couches a negative one. For the rules of logick will
allow that in a pjopoHtion, where the copulative is
affirmative, and the predicate negative, or vice vtffa,
tbofe two oppoiire terms are io convertible, as to
make both the affirmative and negative propoiition to
be fynonymous in fcnfe.

Q:. Bright beams of Apollo, vhofe right does extend,
To anfwer all queries that any /hall fend t
J humble my l^lf to your rays fo extenpve.
And luftWing fir earners fo all cowfrehenfiit :
Termit me a rtafon to comprehend quare,
A cup to a ftool may be caus'd congelare ?
Aqua, nive, faleque. hoc facile faSum :
Nempe jujcta ignem, ego vidi ada(f^um.
' A. Haii, Sir, with your glorious addreffes abounding,
That fo learned appcar'ft, and fo nice in propounding;
Tho* the fire in ibme mejfure relates to this matter*
Yet your problem's fufficient to make our teeth chatten.
Comprehend then that fnow> when commix'd with

your falCf
Becomes loofe from each cor^ufde call'd Glaciale.
£t cum ilia zicinis in aquis mergantur,
Statim illis particulis aqua ha congelantur,

Q^ I. ;/ tears but provfi

The head Si full of rheum ^ but not of lovf»
Tour logtck does a weeping Jefusflain,
A Paul, a Peter and a Magdalene j
For each of them by their exarnple fhovo^
Where loxe is true, there tears in plenty Jiowi
ApoIloV fcorn, his pride does rather proi'e,
Jhan tears fhould flow without their fountaiftf lovc

A .'Tis you prophane,

Vhcn fcrious matters with a yV/f you (lain.
Our fir ft aflertion, we with eafe can prove,
Xean are not always the cffcft of love*

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Arc there not tears of angi/, umvs of wiUu
More falfe m whrts, than weeping crocodiles t
And are there not ( tho' overcharged with grief ^
Such as can vent ^o tuirs to give relief?

A noble Roman, when he'd (lain his fin^
As fbon as he di (cover 'd what he'd done;^
Paternal love and grief fwell'd to that height.
They preft him to the grave with their own weighty
Yet not one tear efcap'd, and wou^i you prove,
Becaufe he (hed no tears^ he had no love ?
Or when C^s oft you may) you meet zfunk%
Flowing with tears^ n%y^ ibmetimes when ^t'iJrunk,
Will you conclude, the rheum advanced it's courie
From lovot thsit /acred love mud be the fburce ?

Q^ /» days that's pafl, free from aU worldly can
Of things frecatioHS, bt$t in joys fMme,
And fleafstres vaft, my bitfiful hours I fpent^
At Isift ((^fickle chance! Oh dire reverfel)
A beauty fatal has d^Jlurh*d my rejl,
My heert furprix^'d, and with deluding light.
Through mazes endlefs led^ una^ive I,
No more thofe, fkafures tafte with grateful gufl ;
J^y former quiet, how /hall I rejlore,
Hefolve me this your god-head III adore f

A, By warm defires attacked by love inflam'd,
Ko wonder former plcafures taftclcfs arc :
The foul transfixed by more fublime ideas,
Views with diidain ail objed):s but its love;
So fcemingly divine arc all its joys.
So great is beauty's force, it boldly triumphs*
Over our ftrongeil reafon, and in vain
Its boaded energy attempts our care.
Enjoyment only can our peace reftore,
That paft, love's trifling pains can vex no morev

Q^ Dear Sol, Jtnce you re of race divine,
J draw you for my Valentine;
For know, my hey, Vm one o'th* nine
V>u know TnaliaV fair and young.
Can entertain you with a fong.
Has witj I ■■gf Phoebus £t[f has none^ \

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lU* WW y(fti'r$ fy— — o« Eaftcr Jay,

We'll dance and toy, and frisk t away ^

Then hey ! for Sol and Thalia \

ToH thin fhtkU fay off former fcorei,

utud get a race of ions of whores,

Shalt rival dad in his am9ur5.

This Phoebus is the prefer time.

To chttfe a lover in the prime,

uindfo good morrow Vakntioe*

JiHt yon can anfwer befi of all.

Why Valentine my love I call.

Since no man's thotight fo wife as Sol.

A. Good morn Thalia, fair and young»
To whom all epithets belong.

May furnifii Seh immortal fongt

In yoH weVe all the nine in one,

"Whofc bright unrival'd numbers run,

Like the fwifc chariot of ihcfim*

The more Th^Ua to regaU,

And (hew how much her charms prerail»

Which like our influence nc*ct fhall fail.

We'll double in the follow'og y^Wff^,

The bloom, the fweets and cv'ry thing

Shall fome new joys amafied bring.

'Midft them Thalia we'll embrace.

All nature's foftcft pleafurcs trace.

And propagate a glorious race.

Not in the extacy of love.

On ihining all the Gods above,

And might become the pride of fovo.

Q. In Gen. v. i. we read of our firfi parenlt that
Ctd called their name Adam. Now I thought that
Adam was the name of the firfi man only f

A. Adam in the-Hcbrew fignifies man, and there-
fore by way of eminence is appropriated to the pro-
toplaft, or firft roan. But it fometimes denotes the
fpecies of human race, and therefore is inclufive of
both £&yies. Whence the original words might have
been properly tranflated, he called their name mankmL
And therefore Adam^ or manhndf it a fpecifick dif-
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ference to diftinguifh us from other fpecies of the
^common genius, animal.

Q^ The an/wer you gave to a qutflion conarmng thi
ufe of remfm m matters of fatth, feems to me iy n»
mtafis appojhe or pertinent. The dtfign of the ijteejlion
is plainfy this, Whether a mem cou*d be oblig*d to believe
imy propofitm t^s an article of fahh, which fhond be re-
pugnant to the clear and felf evident dilates of his rea-
fon ; fmce fuch a contradiSitm in any propofition to the
clear and felf-evident principles of reafon r^oiid be a clear*
er demonflratian of its faljhood, than any argument,
that coud be brought in proof of its divine authority cou'd
be of its truth f Now the dtftinciion rchich you lay dovf>
betroeen things above, and contrary to reafon, does not at
all affe^ this queftion j for the propofition here fpoken of
is plainly fuppos'd to be contrary to nafn, *

A, Tho* you arc plcaS'd to fay, that the folution
of your queftion was by no means appofite or perti-
nent, wc beg leave to tell you, that we do not think
that we have reaibn to recant our notion of the mat-
ter, fincc fomc things may iccm to be contrary to
our reafon, when the reafon of their fecming to is
no other, than becaufe they are above our reafon.
And of this we may inftance in matters capable of
Buman demon ftration. For learned men do very ©ftcn
advance paradoxes which to others, who are unac*
quainted with the folution of them, becaufe unslcilful
in the fciences to which thofe paradoxes belong, fccm
utterly repugnant to the dictates of their reafon.
When therefore we meet with a doctrine fccmiogly
incompatible to reafon, we ftiou'd confider, that if
the nature of the do6!:rine be fuch as to be naturally
incomprehcnfible to human intcllcdl, it yet may be
true notwithftanding its fcemingly inconfiftericy wiib
reafon 5 and that, if it be plainly and c.carly rcvcal*d
in the word of truth, it advances from poflibility to
certainty, and not only may be true, but atflualiy is
fb. Since therefore men of ingenuity and reaf^in
give up their afTent to the fore- men tion*d paradoJccs,
where they may depend upon the kaowlcc^ge and

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integrity of the perfons that advance them, Hiall we
have a greater regard to man» who» how learned (o
ever, is yet our fellow-creature, than to God our
Maker ? Shall we demur to divine* infallibility, and
yet pay a deference to human fallibility ? What isthiSf
but to fet the creature above the Creator, who is God
ever all blejfed fir ever. But as for thofe dodirines
which are upon a level with our reafon. There, li
they feem repugnant to our reafon, we are fo far
from being oblig'd to believe them, that on the con-
trary, we are oblig'd to fufpcnd our belief of them,
till that feeming repugnancy be rationally removed*
In fuch cafes to believe without reafon U no faitti,
but weakcefs, but infirmity, but credulity.

But as the myfterious do6lrines of Chr idian > ty ;
tho' they (hou*d feem to any one to have as evident
charaders of falfhood as the arguments produc'd for
the authority of the Scriptures can have of truth,
there i$ yet a iigna), a material difference between
them, £nce the feeming felfhood of the one proceeds
from the incomprehcnuble nature of the fubjed^, and
therefore may be other wife, notwithflanding its feem-
ing falfliood, and becaufe we are favoured with a
clear revelation of the matter, undoubtedly is other-
Wife i whereas the feeming certainty of the other is
deduc'd from fuch particulars, as are the proper ob-
je6):s of our reafon, as are equal to our capacities.

Q. I have been born and bred well, and have lived
tenderly and handfomely as mofi Gentlemen, hut by-feve*
ral misfortunes, fome occafion^d by my own filly, and fome
by the vtllanies of others, which together have been my
ruin : And this cold weather I am flung into a fr'tfon,
'where I find little but Jione walls » fcarce bread and water,
befides the common basket, nor bed, nor fire, and wha$ is
wor/i ill company, f0?en I complain, I am told by the
jaylor, if I will pay for if, I may have a handfime room
in another part of the prifon, a good bed, good fire* thufe
my company, have my friends come to fee me, and my
'Visuals as I pleafe. Now I have m money but what is
vy creditors, I have offered them it all for my liberty*

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OfiJ aU the fuhmijpm an honeft man ought. But find
thtm as inflexible AS the iron gratfs and Jione vails alfotit
fntt fo deJtreyouT advice as fom as fcjjibtet fince they wfU
net accept my offer, if I may not make ufe of their ef"
feB$ in my power for my better and convtment [nhpfleucit
or whether I ought, notr»ithfianding their inexorabler*efiy.
give ail Hp to them, and content my felf with a languifh*
ing deaths as fach a miferaSle condition in a Uttle tmo:
tnuji produce f

ji. Common equity allows U5 to have a /ubfiflenae
in the world, to have a ncccfiary provifion, how
deeply focver we may be involv'd in debt. And
therefore tho' a court of judicature may permit him,
the court of confcience will fofbid the creditor to
rifle his unhappy debtor, when he enjoys no more
than a common fubfiftence, than a ntccflary provi*
fion. And we wou'd propofs this as one of the rea-
ions of fuch an equitable allowance, namely, that
whatever a debtor iparcs his creditor out of the ne*
ceflaries of Wh, h far more valuable to fo necefiltoui
a debtor, than the debt it Mf to the Icfs needy credi-
tor. And therefore \f a creditor be rigorous in the
ta£c before us j 'while he demands his own, he de*
roands more than his own, and becomes an extor*
tioner. And therefore without the leaft (hadow of
injuftice you may make ufe of fuch a^ portion of
what you have, as will deliver you from fo deplora-
ble a condition, from the afflidling preflTure of to un-
comfortable a (late. But we wou'd willingly remind
you to be extreamly moderate in fo rational a redreft
of fuch fmarting grievances. And we think this me*
TTiCnto to be the more fcafbnabic, inaftwuch as you
make mention of a greater comertiency, nay, proceed
a ftep higher yet, and fpcak of the hand fomnefs of your
room. Tho' yet we mufl allow, that the tendemcfs
you take notice of, as to your former living, may
make fome things to become necejfary to you, which
to others are matters of a more comfortable convenience^

Q^ Hither worms in ones face ( that make one look
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m gfofs hahit of brdijfy and th$ nwms to he rid if tiem t
A, Worms in the face are generailjr caufedbya
corruption of the blood and humours^ which ex-
trudes putredinous matter to the skin, where being
vivify 'd, it is converted into worms.

Q. Why are not the planets frefaed to the days 0f
the week according to their ceUffial order I

A, The Heathens who denominated the days of
the week from the names of the feveral planets^ fu*-
perAitioa/ly. imagin'd, that each planet rul'd an hour,
and was fucceeded in this imaginary empire by that
planer, which was next in the cele^ial order. And
liace they lookt upon the fun» not only a^ a plaoet
( though the beft modern adronomers are of another
opinion^ and that with reafon too) but alfb as the
principal of the planets, they therefore fuppos'd ft io
govern the firfl hour of the fird day, and thence de-
nominated the flrO: day of the week, dies filis, Sunday.
And fo proceeding according to the order of the pla*
nets they nam'd each day from that planet, which
was predominant, the fir& hour of each reipe<^fve
day. If therefore you compute the matter, you will
£nd ft agreeable to fuch fuccefTive governments of
thefe hotirly monarchs.

Q. Why are hath waters fo hot, and what is the ria*
fon that tt turns filver, if dipt in it^ to fuch a golden w-
Utir i

, A. The heat of thofe waters proceeds from futphar
with fome nitre and hitumeny from which lad we
iuppofe iilver to receive that golden colour.
. Q. An acquaintance of mine has a fon^ who is eX'
eeedmgfy troubled with hleedcng at the nofe^ fometimcs in
the night when afleep, and almofi Jirangles him e'er he's
awaken'df other times without any agitation of My, or
provocation, otherwife it runs a bUedi)ig^ and coKfinues
fo a long timet that his ffiendi are afratd heUl bleed to
death one tane or 4ither, Phlebotomy he Las found //y ex*
penence will do no good. H'has (IjohU he the caufiy and
what rtmedy will prevent the iffutng -of fo violent an
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A. If the party concerned hath been free from out-
ward caufcs, as rails blows, wounds, (^c* we take
this hemorrhage to proceed from a pletbory, or fiil-
jQcfs of blood, whereby the veins may fuflfcr a forci-
ble apertion : Or from its ill quality, namely, ii»
^ bear, tenuity, or fliarpnefs, dilating the vcflcls, and
rendring it fluxilc even through the coats thereof*
And as maladies of this kind fp frcautntly admit of
cure, fo we arc of opinion, that it is not out of cbe
power of an able phyfician to perform the iamr.

Q. To tnefier poUow Sur yo mun kno that I Irvf m
Cbe(hflier when I 0m a jphcm, hut Icume to this towne
Mbout fum bifms, and 1 hardo whot bravo fokojo wvng,
fo I had a minde to ax you won queflion, and that is
whidder a pawnd of good fat ckiJb/Mr chife, tr a p^vnd
of beacon wood drop moft butter if they -mar to be rofitdp
yau mim make hafle wit ha at^nfer or glf I JhalL bo
£Won whom agane and fo I remane yore U^g frend
Tummos.

A, Rod a pawnd of gud cheflier AttVi for yowf
breekfauf): an aufter run whom agen as faft as eef
you had a balee at your breech ond zo you will knaw
whith drops moft hog or chc<:2e.

Q. Why there are more larks than torn tits, when torn
tits frequently hatch 24. yoitng ones at a time, and larks
never above ^ or f ^

A. As for the number of the torn tit's young bncy,
we doubt yoq arc miftakcn, ilnce nine or ten are
commonly found to be the number thereof. And
whereas the torn tit breeds bur once a year, the laik
breeds thrice, vix, in May, July, and Augujt.

Q^ Te wife Britifti bards, if it is your dejign,
lb be thought Phoebus fons, and friends to the nine^
Tbu (Ijould not rsegUB, but refolve very fomy Sirs,
Thofe perfons that civilly ask you a boon. Sirs.
Vm fnre I havefent you three quefiions or four.
Since which J have read full thirty or more
Of your excellent papers^ but never could find
Any one of "em anfuoer'dy which I vow is tmkin^

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Jf you'll giv$ a good reafon for this your negle^f ^

I fiall ever your goJJhifs adore and refpeS j

N»y, yet Vll do more : For J folemnly /wear,

JBy the Jhr'me of great Phoebus {whofe heirs you appear

To be) That VUtoiUmgly fay my half crown

Per qHorteTt for papers of Jo much renown ?

A, Of fceming negled when any accufe us.
They ought (or wc think it is but to amufc us )
To fend at the fame time their queflions kgain>
Or elfe mud exped^ that their Tending's in vain.
For tbcy might have mifcarry*d, for thcpublicku«fit>
Be anfwer*d before, or defediive in wit :
But fuppofe none of thefe, that they're fit for an air-^

fwer.
No wonder if thirty before wc advance, Siip,
Since rarely one comes, but an hundred before.
Are plac'd on our files, which folution implore.
Q^Iam faily diflurh'd.
And 6y my Yfifc eurb*d,
f0fich makes me jufi out of my wits,
J took pen and ink,
Endeav'ring to think,
Being now in my frenfical fits :
To write to you Apollo
Pf^ho/e judgment VU follow.
Which if to me yo/t'U fleafefor to grant-
Thro* England and France, ]
Vllfing and til dance,
Andtncom\\in\s ev*ry where chant,
A cup of good ale,
Niither new nor too fiah
J^/JC wife ioves, and is like a good feUowi
She^s as ehafie as a dove,
she fwears by above, *'
£ut fixe loves to drmk, rant and to bellow.
When fuddCd floe II come
'From the diet to my home.
She fits dovn and doth fi'efintly fcold, Sirs,,

If I fqucez^e a word in, I

Tho* as fmall as a pin, '

* 2^ Ijoufii is tco littU to hM heK 2X*«

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The kmves with tht handles^

Nay the candltfiUh and candles
Jb m/ head. Sir, Jhe f^ffintly fings^

Then Jhe laughs and fits down^

Whenjhe's crack' d my foft crown^
^nd recalls my love hack vhen Jhe fingf^

J frefently go.

And fay how eoud'fi do fo
lo thy husband, my dear eft dear wife t

Then fhe flings, fcoCis again,

And injIiSis me more pain
That Tm truly quite weary of my life*.

Nowfainwou*dlknofWt
. That is what I fiiail da,
For to live thus I cannot endure. Sir ?

If you'U fhtw me the way

To tame her that day
'Reward you I will to be Jure, Sir,
A* Alas ! thou poor wretch>

It were better to fhetch.
Than endure fuch a terrible life r

Nor can we procure

A remedy fure,
A£ainft fuch a de'el <f a wife*

Yet fbmetbiog we'll fell.

We hope m^y do well,
When fiird up with ale (he's grown mellow^.

Strait put her to bed,

Then thru ft in inftead
Your fclF a large hog for ha fellow.

Pcrh.ps the^ Turprizei

When (he opens her eyes,
May make her the fi>ul vice decline f

Befides.the difgrace.

Which will fly in her hc^
Whenever (he looks on a f»me.
Q. Since every day fuch norfeufe you rehearfi,
And anfvrtr trifling fo$ls in do^grtl verfe.
Tell me, ye bards, (for 'tis an open fhame )
Why -^ou prefume to ufe Apollo'; m^mei.

Vile fins ^Fleckno, {for hud Ykckno fien
Tomr papers, fttre his heirs pu all had Seen,)
O ! fay, whvjfM abnfe the Del f hick G^J, \

And ptiblijh in his name how werks abroad f I

jf. Eternal dulnefs only to repeat, I

The naufeous reliques of a former treat ;
To rail in ^rcfs, but not one notion name*
To which the blockhead can objeBion frame i
No wonder you were never hit before,
'Bovc notice of £\icki faarling curs we ibar.

Q^ Apollo, thou^rt ftsre the mcfl lucJty at wruhgl
As ever "mas bkfi with the aart of inditing:
Tkm pleafeft all people, nay each oppofice.
In thee (tho* they hate one another) delight.

pjjy, the grave, the religiotfs^ mar^e^ n^, the fg»y,
H^o're above all mankind do Acknowledge thy fow^r.
And at the fame time boif^ the airy arid youngs
Are charmed by yotvt numden, and pfeas'd vith yottf
fing. I

The church, the diffeiuer, and even the quaker.

Do own thee an henefi and jufl undertaker ; '

Nayy thou pleafeft what ^never was heard tfinftory, ]

The rigideft whig, and the furlieft tory :

7 hear but four forts which objeB to thy rules, !

Tht/re the rakes and the atheifts, the knaves and the
fools i

Becatife often lafht, and nothing but Jhame

£xpos*d to the world, can thefcoundrels reclaim %

O ! fay by what myfleries thus you engage.

The wifefl, moft Uarn*dy and bcji of the age,

In which your fine notions fi brightly do ftme.

They prove'thy great skill and confefi thee divine.
^ Ai, The rttle for a principle firft we laid down.

Was to feck to improve and not anger the town >

AW faBions we (liun, and ail parties difown.

To probity making our refuge alone ;

As knowing inveSiives wi}l never reclaim.

The authors of fuch always lofing their aim.

And malice, tho* witty wi'l never engage.

Much k£s ever tend to improving the age.

i Thofe

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Thofe fcuiriloiu blockheads, who think they provoke.
When meeting a jufl and fityrical ilroke,
Miftake us, alas 2 we deipife the abufe*
Nor can own an (m^er fo poorly to hfo,

Q. 'Br ty favour me with $bo true definitm of n ml*
racle f

A. Some define a miracle by the ab{blute difEcuity
of the thing perform'd : But £nce ail things are npt
only fcffbU with God^ but ea/y to a power omnipo-
tent, the definition will no ways bear*

Others define it by a performance, that exceeds the
power of any aeated being : but fince we are unac-
quainted with the natural powers and faculties of in-*
Tifible agents, this definition alfo may be objected to*

And therefore we think it the moft unexception-
able defioition of a miracle, that it is an c^€t fuper-
ieding the known fiated laws of nature.

Q^ I Mm fy trade a butcher, and do kill a frttty

fnanj (beep in the fear. Now (here is a fiaf upon the

^reaft, heleng'tng to the skin whm fifed from the Jheep^

which I alyfays cut ef (^tho* no ways cuftomary for other

butchers fo to do) whereof the wool h'mgs me in a&out

fo /hillings or g pounds a year. The felmsngers who buy

the skim, did they examine every individual skin, as they

do net, weu*d either exfeSl that flap, or make an aUow-

once for it. Upon this account there be fome perfons, who

charge me with the crime of che/nting the felmcngers, wko^

fince they never make an ixaB fcrsetiny into the skins they

buy^ which wou*d take up too much of their time, and

then mixing them with other skins, never know that thie

fiap is taken away, till they come to drefs them^ and then

can never know whofe skins they were which waru this

fiap. But face they have the liberty of^ examining the

skins before they buy them, and have what they 6argain'd

for, I cant think my felf chargeable with, the aimt of

cheating the felmongfrs.

A. It is an argument, how little you can vindi-
cate your unchriftian pradlice» fince you take flicker
in £b infignificant a plea as that ot a carelcfTucfs, in-
afmuch as the fclmongers ^ufc not the liberty they

enjoy.

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po4 ^^^ British Apollo,

enjoy; of examining your skins. We therefore bcf
leave to confront fo frivolous a pretext with tbe
fubfequent particular.

I. Juftice is fo nice a point, fo tender a concern-
ment, fo jealous of its facred privileges, that no cauie,
how great foever, and therefore to be fure not fo
flender a cauie as that of carelcfTncfs, can juftify any
the leaft encroachment upon its inviolable rule?. Irrc-
verfible that noted fentence, Fia$ jufiitia, ruat mufi'
dus ; wi mufl rather fuffer the fabrick of the Univerfe te
be diJfolv*di than ary ways hfringe the frerogati-Ve tf
jfifiice* *

2t You £ay, that you therefore defraud your chap-
men, bccaufc thro* their neglc£l they defer ve the ufagc.
But, who made you an avenger of demerit ? Whence
Tdo you derive authority to encroach upon his prero-
gative, wh^ has plainly told you, that vengeance h
his, and he will repay it,

J. But what, tho' vengeance were your's and you
were commiflion'd to repay it ? yet, what pretence
can ydu have to punifh that negle^, which you your &lf
excufe ? For you iay, that the examination of the
skins would take up to& large a portion of their time
And therefore you are not only unju(l» but unchari-
table too, in that you take advantage of other men's
neceilitfes, and make them therefbre fu£Ferers, becaufe
unable to prevent it.

4. But tho' their negledi ^were not at all excufta^
ble, you might yet fuppofc, that they were therefore
negligent, becaufe they took you for an honcft man,
and repos'd a confidence in your dealings with them.
And therefore on this fuppofal you would be charge-
able with a complicated guilt, chargeable, not on-
ly with injuftice, but alfo with that nvan, that un-
generous, that ungrateful niifdemcanour, a breach of
truft.

f. Since the fclmongers, when they find, that they
have been fraudulently impos'd upon, cannot poflibly
be fenfible, who it is that has impos'd upon them,
jou caufe the reputation of your fellow butchers to-
be.

7%e British Apollo, pcf

he caird in qucftion s you! fully the good name of
your innocent neighbours, and make upright dealers
to be fufferers for your guilty pra^ice.

6, The argument of careleiineisv if at all allowed
of, will reach farther than you your felf would ha7C
it. For it will equally permit your own fervants to
triHe, to defraud you, at what time ibever you are
carelefs of your cfFc^s.

Unhappy Man ! yea, doubly unhappy Man ! firft
In the commidion of fo inexcufable a crime, and thea
in the allegation of fo unpromising a plea, as is a dif-
tiiid): enormicy, an additional tranfgreilion. Let there-
fore thefe words of Solomon be always in your view f
A jufl weighf and balance are thi Lord'u Let thoft
golden words, which are metaphorically applicable to
every other method of difpoOng of our goods ; let
them be your daily, your conflant motto; fo (hall
yo${r rl^htioufmfs be as clear as the light, and your jufi
dealing as the noors'day,

Q. ?ray reJoLve me, if there are, 9f ever were, fucb
creatures as pigmies f

A Some skeletons, which a little re/emble a manV»
of fmall monkeys, have been fliewn for fuch, which
perhaps gave occaHon for this opinion. Many fmall
dwarfs there be alfb in the Turktjh Seraglio, and for-
merly in the courts of Zngland : but that there is,
or ever was fuch a diilind^ nation of people, is as
falfe as Pliny*s people, who had no Mot4$hs,^ but liv'd
only by the fmell of flowers and fruits.

Q^Is there any fuch thing as the Vhilofofher's fionf^
'^ there bt, what is it f

A^ To anfwer your laft qucftioii firft, it \s a mere
• chimerical notion : never any, who pretended to it>
ofler'd a reafon for it» and what has no foundation
In Vifiafon or Nature, is not worth a <;ontrover(y.

Q. / have feen a bladder blown but about halffuU,
yet being laid before a large fire, it hath fweWd till it
burft.

A. The air \s rarlfied by the heat of the fire, fo
there not being that campreHure of the ambient ait

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pOjS Ti&tf British Apoi^lo.

.to reftrain tBe effort of the included^ the efiPed jou
mention, follows.

Q. P0mtis the reafm ihttt marbU fveati (as tbey iml-
gftrly term-it) before ra^ny wemher t

A* It is the nature of air, to t>enetrate and fill up
Vacuities \ all bodies being porous, are by coafequence,
receptive thereof. And as it is the nature of air to
penetrate, fo it is alio to circulate, as water does,
but fafler, being, of finer fubllance. Now in rainjr
weather, the air being more thick than at other tinaes,
with vapours and exhalations, it cannot penetrate the
iharble, before it puts off its more grofs particles,
which it leaves upon the marble, and is that thej call
fweating.

(ypfhat is a Mnceft and -whence is it tred^ and
vlyJocaWdi

A. A cancer is a bard tumour, (of a blue or black'
i(h colour, full of (harp pain) befet with many veins,
(big with a black humour) refembltng a crab's-daw,
from whence it borrows its denomination, and ta-
Iceth its original from blood, infe^ed with a malignant
difpofition, and venenate nature. This humour con-
creteth it felf in the beginning not exceeding thebig-
nefs of a pea, and afterwards groweth greater in bulk ;
efpecially, if it be enrag'd with (harp medicines, where-
by it encreafeth in acute hot pains, foraewhat like
the pricking of needles, derived from (harp vitriolick
particles, and the poifonous quality of the blood,
grievoufly torturing the nervous and ihcmbranous
parts, the fubje6fc of pain in this difeafe. There are
two kinds of cancers, the one not ulcerated, the o-
,thcr ulcerated^ The firft proceedcth from a more

fentle and lefs malignant mafs of Blood, ea/ily con-
ning it felf within the empty fpaces pf the fleiby
parts, without much pain. The laft is deriv'd ^om
a moft hot mafs of blood, (full of fierce, faline, and
malignant particles) which being fettled in the em-
pty fpaces of the veilels, parteth them from each o-
{^er, and raifeth a tumpur, arising from theie (harp
vitriolick humours^ corroding tne fle(hy parts and

skin,

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skin, whence gulheth out a thin iharp gleer> very of-
fenfive to the adjacent parts.

Q^ ^ ferfin,whtn dift mm^ vent, took baif^ crown,
that wanted three /hillings and fie pence of weight. How
can half a crown make three fhitUng$ and fix fence of
weight t

A,, That is nothing llrange, for we have (een an
half crown fo much dipt* as to want a crown of
^veight. Several half crowns, before the dipt mo-
ney was caird in, weigh'd but nine pence apiece.
If three of fuch would not be the Handard weight
of one, by confequence one of them wanted a crown
(10 fuch mmtfi of weight.

Q^ Who was the hefi author, thai ivor treated of
fainting i

A' Sfgnior TauUnuSy an Italian, writ the bell treatift
on that art, which hath come to our knowledge, but
'tis a very fcarce book. In Englt/hp a Gentleman of
pur Society writ one ibme years fince. AU we Audi
fay of it, is, that had he feen one before in MugH/h, which,
difcover'd that the author fo well under/iood the art»
he had not writ his.

Q. Saf^ Britiih Bards, with parts furfrixJng Hefi^
Whofofterlmg wit is more refulgent far»
'Xhan glorious Titan'i daaUng beams appear^
And of all nature's boicoteous gifts pojfeft :
Jf filver fwans pref aging death is nigh,
fVtth tunes melodious, o» a gliding Streamf
Their parting life from death ftrivo to redeem,,
Or fing in motcn^fd notes their elegy.

A, The iilver fwans, no more than other fowi»
With, tuneful notes prefage impending death.
The notion of their dying, tuneful breathy
Was meant an emblem of a pious fou]«
Such, whofe fair life, white as xht\x fnoru^ down,
* Not ftain'd with the onprobrious marks of vtfe»

Arriving at the gates of paradife.
Their end with joyful rofignatwn crown«

po8 Tbe British Apoli-o.

Q, Tb mi, Apollo, pity Jhow,
Who tuny fhat motion-work^ /i BEAUj
In rhknes I muft my cafe Jifclofe^
JFor, (flap my vitaU) I hate frofe.

1 courted Caelia fir my vijfe.
Kind fie agreed to change her life ;
The day was fix* d, the ring was got ^
The par/on ask'd to tie thi knot ;
But, curfe on it ! my courage fail* d^
And o*er my \oyt d in"d tear prevaiNi
Yet, by next day I did recover,
Addrefs her like repenting lover \
But fhe^ proud minks, with fcorn deny^d.
And vow' d fin* d be no beggar*i bride.

So tell if I, aim mente proba.
May wed fome other bona roba j
And t hen y good Sir, you will disburthen^
The haded mind, efb £ A U.

-Jack N— •— rdca;

A. Cum mente proba ("tho* infana)
We think you may e'en go to any.
For tho' you the aggrcflbr were.
Yet having thus released the fair.
And (he again hav'ng you difcbarg'd.
And from his cage, the owl enlarged.
Both are free from Marriage thence,
A9 you, your fclf, are free from finfe.

Q^ Say, Britifh Bards, when Foreign l^^ealmsfMhetr,
The wDnder which began the infant year i
That England'^ bands in twice t^m^ hours was known,
tull Double in its bulk of riches grovm.
How will they entertain the firange report ;
And how much Great Britannia'/ friendHiip court !

A, When foreign Realms fird hear the wondrous
news,
They'll fwear 'tis forg'd, their judgments to abufcj
But this wants Confirmation, 'twill be taught,
And Confirmation, which will se'er be brought,
That great Britannia can fuch fums engage.
When Wars have laHed almoil half an asc :

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Tlien to exert £\xch ftrange, furpri^ing pOw'rs>
2^Ulhns to raiie, in twice ss many hours !
"But when it comes confirm' d^ how will X^ fimd^
l^fa' amax^ed world with umbrages confound I
How will Britannia rear ber awful head^
And ftrike her enemies vt'xthfear and dread!
"What cannot then, (the whole report will run)
What cannot be, by great Britannia done f

But when it reaches to the head of Vrmnce^
•Twill throw the frightned Monarch in a trance*
To think that he hath try'd fo long in vain.
And with the utmod eff{»^ts of his irain.
The title of a trifiing bank to gain j
Whilft all hhflatfemen did thcfcheme prepare*
Vhich gave a little crack, and vanijh'd into airj
The monarch charg'd it to hisfubjeSls crime,
And gravely cr/d, THIS IS A WORK OF TIME.
But, when he hears, this wondrous fpeech took more
Of time, with his great thoughts thereon before*
Than great Britannia took to raiie the whole.
How will't afff^ his Mantenonian fouLf

Hail mighty ANNE, to whofe g;reat AuJ^cet
More blejjfngst as tinparallePd as thefif
We owe : Hail SENATE, wife, auguft, ferene,
For aidingi to your ^/<?jy, ^f^ a ^ueen.

7b the British Apollo ..i 7 think my felf

jbou7id to make you P Amende Honorable for my
rudenefs, which I leave you* to make as fubUck as yoH
fleafe,

PArdon, bright Bard, fince Jhe with blufhes fucf,'
The timVous iallies of a daring mufe.
Who only aim'd, by her prefumptuous flight,
To add new beams unto your dazzJing light.
For v'trtue, when opprefs% appears more bright :
Uone e'er cou'd hope, by fuch enervate rhymes,
To make you lefs admired by the times *
Since every SUN, frefti fcenes o£ wonder brings*
And all are calm'd, when Heav'wly Fhoebus fings,

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jTio rSJ^ Bbitish Apollo.'

Each tmuf*Jfitd dotb now with tranfport fec» >^

His Jouifs expeird, each text explained by thee, C.

Emits to all its fscred enerff, j ^

Whild mture*s fecrets 70a with cafe explore.

Find out new mines, and ^^rthe tmcimt ere ;

Such thmghtt Oh Heaven I in fuch exprcilive terms.

Shines through the whole, that every feofe alarms,

To pay the homage due to your amazing charms^

Bur, who can paint the fbft, endearing «it/.

You teach the fak to captivate our hearts ?

Whilft dach fond yoiahp your Uys do £0 inipire»

That all are Grangers to a loofe defire.

And only burn with a ferafhickfre.

None e'er prefumes to tread a path unknewn^

But adcs your leave before he ventures on.

Who can exprefs, wlien you voucbfafe to iport.

In fufii(k verfe, among the vulgar fort.

The poignant wit, that breaks through every line,

Unveils' the radiant God, and forces him to fhinc 1

Then, Heavenly Sard, , ■ ■

Since confcious of your worth, no mortal dzre,

Attenlpt to rival your exalted fphere.

Forgive my mufe, and once more tune your Ljre,

Lure dbwn your fofteft notes, your awfitl ire.

Left overwhelmed with grief, my trembling mt/fe

expire.

Q^What is the Jsgnification rf water in baftifm f

A* As water is of a "cleanling nature, fo that in-
ward and fpiritual grace, of which water in bapttfni
is an outward fign, ckanfeth t^from all fin,

Q^ P0y is the foul called (he?

ji. Becaufe the foul metaphorically conceives, and
thence bears analogy to the female kind. Whence
our thoughts are ftil'd the ifTues of the brain ; and
the writings of learned men, fometimes call'd their
children. Or this diftin£l:ion may have rcfpcft to the
nature of the foul, in that it is originally pure, like a
modcft and untainted virgin ; but by her compliance
with the lufts of the flelh, with the vanities of the
world, (he proAitutes her virgin honour to every

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milawful fuitor that addreffes her, and thence unfor-
tunately becoms.a common harlot. '

Q^ Whithtr fmh are all equal in reffeB cf thofe femerj
and aBilities vhieh they aB in thek/everal bodies i 9r elfi ara
fimt of them (fmore noble^uidexOiUed qualities than others :'
If we aUow the firmer^ every day*s experieme fiems t^
sergue againft, hy that vaft diffroportion that is clearly di/m
covered betwixt the judgment, mnderjlandtng^ &c. cf/enf
nsen^ and others, jf the latter be allowed, conjjdermg the
circtemftances of/ome men^ vhu wsgovemabU bodies weak
inferior fouls are jyn'd to, it feems to refUB on the gocd-i
nefs of God,

Jl, I. The ohje£^ion; if at all allowM of, is equal*
]y forcible, which ftever -of the two portions be ad-
mitted. For it equally tt^<e,6i% on the goodnefs of
God to create a foul of vaft capacities, and then unite
it to an ungovernable body, the organs of which he
has £o diipos'd, as to caufe thefe vafl capacities to lie
dormant, and unexerted, as to joyn a foul ,of origi-
nally mean capacities to fuch an ungovernable body.
But,

a» The obje^lion is of no avail in either of the
two pofitions. For he, who has fmall capacities,
with an ungovernable body, is probably, at prefent*
in a better flate of that of nonexidcnce; but, un-
doubtedly, if we add another life co the life that now
is i whence it follows* that God has been good and
gracious to the very man we fyak of. And what«
though we (hould allow, that God has not been
equally good and gracious to him as to other highly
favoured perfons, (tho* even this mzy be call'd in
queftion too upon other confiderations ? } What the'
we (hould allow of an unequal diftribution of his
goodnefs, is it not enough that God is good to all
though not equally good to all ? To allude to the
Apoftle, may not God be allow'd to fay, / will be
mote abundantly gracious, to whom I will be more
abundantly gracious ? Shall our eye bo evil becaufe God
is good f We Tt\zy as well complain, that we are not
all unbodied fpirits, all of us Cberubims and Sera-

phims I

piz Tie British Apoli^'o.

pbims ; we may as well complain, that we are msdi^
s Uttli Uwer than the jfngels,

Q^ A certain Lady was [9 much aidtBtd f§ vtnaj^
that the repeated embraces pf her lovers gave her no [Of
tufa^m. She conpjlted eminent fhyfic'tam in order te
correSl it \ was eften let blood, - and took aU the cooling'
thmgs that could be thought of, to endeavour to fu^due thet '
infatlable apfetite, but all in vain. It was her requefi
to her parents, fome time before her deaths that /he emght
be ofen*d, snd the phy(icians, in the diJfeSion of the ma-
trix, found Jeveral curVd hairs, which they judg'd to be'
the caufe of her conflant defires that way. Whether that
unfortunate Isdy was guilty of fit, in thofi repeated aSs j
tfvenety f

jt SuppoHng all this to be true in matter of h^,
it appears only that this Lady, from the almoft con-
tinual irritation caufed by thofe curled hairs, bad
an extraordinary drong propenfion to venery, but the
queftion is, whether that propenfion was fuch as flie
could by no means refift ? If fo, (lie was not guilty
of fin, dn^cc no adion, but what is in fbme- maoccr
voluntary, can be finful. But we can hardly be
brought to think that God would ever put any man
under fuch circumftances> as make it unavoidably ne-
ccHary for him to commit an a£l:in itfelf unlawful*
and abfolutely prohibited by him. We arc rather
apt to believe, that if that Lady had ufed her ut-
mod endeavours, and had not only had recourfc to
the phyficians of the body, but alio to that great
Phyfician of our fouls, fiie might have been able to
fubdue that infatiable defire, which having not
jdone, if it was in her power to do it, (he cannot at
the bar of ftridl juftice be acquitted, th«* (be may
jfboner find grace, or be beaten with fewer ftripcs,
than any who never had fo very firong t<Jmptation.

Q, In hovp many years doth the church of Rome leef
a year of Jubilee i Whether it is not held once in fifty
yean f

jf. The regular, and therefore more fo^emn jubilee
is once in an hundred years. But in this, modern

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has imitated herandent motlier. For the grand
fecular games were regularly celebrated but once ia
I century. But from the fbiemaity under Aitpiftmtt
to tbac under CUudms, there were but 6^ years in-
tcrvaL From tint under CUmSm to that un^er Di^
mhum but 41. From thence to that under jtnmMma
Vtus f^. From thence to the next under Srvems
fj. And from thence to tiiat under PMf^, (which
wras the 9th and \a& time tboie games were celebra-
ted at Bmih) 44« But prefent U/niH is ftiU more ftc^
ouenc in the celebration of her Jubilee, n^naclyi it
toe expiration of every five and twenty years.

Q. May the My^ frofery /^uikmg^ bifaidtpfittftdn^
m the fud mfy f

JL. Pain is a preoeption or coniciouibeis of fome^
tiling ungrateful and diiagreeable. But perceptions'
or conicionfneffrHs incompatible to a material fub«
fiance, and confequeatly to the body.

^, fir they not »tfy. diftrty mt$ Mother^ hut other fmM_
birds t why do tfutny actotmt it it frimo to hwrt Ht

^ It \% a pretty familiar bird, dcliehts us witb
its fweet notes* therefore \% in gratitude cherifh'd by
us. What xpalice fixver \% i& its nature towards o«
ther birds, \% nothing to us, nor a fault in its fd^
iiiice it but follows uie di^tes of its own nature.
: Q: Wbethof # foetus ^hf cm fable if refikrathn ? To fuf^
pfe it is wot, is tojupfefe 4 life vithm bre^th^ to fup^
fefe it ist admits ef the fiUenoing objeBims^ That it eam^
not expire^ becattfe then is no vactmnh the Amwon in
\which thefietus is contained being fnU of water. Thao
\uton sn/firation, it muft at thejame time draw in tha
water, n not to the ftrsmgUog^ yet to the great detrimeni
tfthefxttss f . .

jL We anfwer in the negative, visC. That the
foetus n not capable of refpiration ^ and as to, the
difficulty you take that bpinion to be liable to, wo^
find none in tlie fuppoiition of a life without breath i
for Qncc the animal's life does merely confift in the
motion o£ his blood, and other juices ieparated front

Vol. III. R r it.

it, 118. long as* tim motion can be performed witbotit
Ih-catbitfg or refpiration, it cvicfently follows, that
life toMf aJfo be wkboat it. But we~iUppofc yott
▼cry well know, that in a foetus the blood not paf-
fitjg from the right ventricle of the heart into^thc
left, thro' the kings^ (as it does in a bom child) but
ctrculatin^ iromedtately by £bme Mother peculiar paf*
feges, refpiratioiH which ferves chiefty t6 tSihite the
hings, is- net nedefllafy to maintain 'that nlotion, or
circui»tion of the Blood, and confequently lift it felf.

Q^ If her mofi ffimenfrMajfJly ^een Ane flmd
tnak it fetce vid de tirnnte de la Trwu^ wedar yw
mhJat dert vood retvme jnart nftfgtf into de Frmictt
.like I define to da, or more flay here i

A. Wen derc be de pecce yxd^ Frarice, de bcft Re-
fngeevil prefer dere rdifhiontJ vid good mattonaocf
good 'beef; and -de ledder (boo,- to dcre relffhione, vid
de garlick, de onion, and de vooden ^xsio^

Q, Trk^ felt me, A|>GiIo, <« fioH ns ym*nt roonh
Why feofle fufpofe^ thit a man* s in the'Tnoon^
jind which way he rtach\d io that lofty plantation^
Pflgtther ridingr or fwimming, or iy ambulation.
Or whether your qutrp ihay not ^ he afraid^
lCh(ft madam yoierfifiir'f no longer a matdf
tLefolve me, great Sirl for m T am a fiAHer, >

She looks a little darkijfhfitce the man has been in her',
' a:^ That no miaiffj in the moon^ wou'd be argu'd

*oft vainly, ' "^ ^

Since terreftrial fpe^tors can fee him (b plainly :
And how he got there nothing tends to the matter,
5Vhether coaches he took, or went thither by water.
But that Lt>Wa's a maiden we never pretended,-
Since thatHar-gazing-fbtt.to. her maniions afccndcd:
iVpd tha(. iflue.they had, is undoubtedly -true.
Since her lunatick brood's manifeftc^ in you,

Q. Ulaat was the name of the flaee of our Sa;tkvfi
hafiifm ?

• A^ The three firft Evangclffts acquaint us, that it
was in the/tver for dan, B^t St. John is more par-
ticular, and gfyes us two jiddittonat marks of diftinc-
^ - - ^.^^^

tl0iO* ift.^Thac the |>]sce of our Saviour's baptiftn
was ^Mi/ ygrdan, that is, on the other (ide.of J^^-
4Um hem JuJda, idly. That it was in Btthahmrt^ i
vvhich place was Situated in the SytbvfoUtan country,
where the Jews were co-inhabitants with the Syn"
phoefucians. The word Bethk^ara, originally impliea
the place where .the IfrAelitts pafs'd the ri?er ^tfr-*
dan ioto the land of Vromp. , And therefore what
place more particular!/ prbper, more proper thaa
BisiH^tmat ty:pi^a]ly to repre/enr, that as j^i'^^i'^*. that
h^pick General^ „ led tbe Iffiulites. from^ thence into,
the land of Coitaan, fo fefftft (which name imports
the fame with Jofhua) Jtfus» that Captain rf cm ftil*
'vaiiWy Was there baptiz'd, in order to preach that
Word, which fliould diredl his proielyces to th% htik^
V0n^ Caman^ toahe new Jerufdem I , ,i i

Q^ Mjf ptuffsm dfing^ I 'Sfas early uWffiUid ff^ th, c^rn
af my guofdians ^nd rdatiout^ T»^gavtjp$ a very m^
gtnmt4i educatim, iVkehl-tpas judgid capaHe ihert^
I was adrnitted 'tnt9 tht umvtrjky, / hone pitied shl^ .
kind ^ life, tofilhw what my iwlinaim mofl led me /#»
viz. to fervt my ^aeen and country, I am now going
abroad^ and the ehttfefl thing that detains me is^ in my
father* s wiU I find thefe Words ^ Af for my fbn, 1. re-
cpmmend him particularly to the fcrvi'c^. of.Ga^t^in.
' the miniflry of the Church* and therefore dp Ja^ a
fatherly charge upon hris> to 6t and preparcnhinife^fT
for it, if no impediment of nature reii^r bia> iinca*,
' pjbble thereof. Now^ do I difo^ey a deoeafid parem's (Am"
mandsp {which I reckon as great a hr each of the fifth*
Commandment as if living) tho' I take not orders f Wor
X,ajfure you I have often ferioufiy cenfidered on tht dftty^,
e^joynd, hut cannot ferfuade my fiif to undeH^lnoJar
gre^t a charge as is inc^mSent on -a minifter^ atid ^re^x
fore in confcienee Jhouldt, not attempt it, whtcb I hope yt>ili'
hriftg me under my father*s lafi »ords, viz. If" nu i*jnm'-
I pediment, of natuVc, f^c. and vhat greater can, there
! he than^ man*s confcience f

A. It is fuflicicnt, that our» heavenly Father ha»
£.'cured the' authority oiltving parcntSi not only wir^

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9x6 7%e BRirisii Apollo.

cbe guarantee of a pofitive injondion, but ^tb the
liliirement of a promife too» the promife annexM to
the fifth Gommandxnent. But that a father fhouki
extend his ^commands to fuch a diftant period after bis
di^lation, and retain, a parental authority, wbeii re-
tnrdM to his primogental duft, this (eems to be more
than is enjojn'd by either natural or revealed religt-
on. Not but that it is very commendable, and praile
worthy to pay obedience to the dying words of an
expiring prent ; and in many ^ticulars to decline
it« is nusbecomins the relation of a ion. Nay, if a
father leaves a cfatM an cllate of his own acquiring,
on condition that he obey his will, there a noiH
compliance can be juftified by nothing lefs than a vo-
luntary furrender of that conditional eftate.

But aa it is a cuftom* not more common than
i0ipnidettt^ to difpoic of children in ways of Uw'mg
not at all agreeabfe to their genius and indinations,
(k compulfion is in nothing more imprudent* in no-
thing more abfurd, than with regard to the iacred
eoank>yment of the gown. And therefore the Or-
«^muft be exceeding ffreat, and the Utcnrtrs as
exceeding )te, where that command in the ftrideft
ienfe can be apptied to thecal before uss comfdtbm
i$ tmm m. Nay, indeed, we can no ways conceive*
bow a peribn compelled to holy orders, can confcica-
tkmfly make anfwer to ^mc particulars in the or-,
dination-office.

But, after all, we beg leave to propofe a queftion
or two, which, we pmiime,^ will not be thought
Impertinent. Why would you decline the gown ?
Is your genius uofuitable to the fun^ion ? If fo,
we have nothing more to (ay. Have you negleded
the opportunities you enjoy'd, to qualifie, to prepaie
your (elf ? You may redeem your time by your fo*
tnre ioduftry $ it may not be, perhaps, too late.
i>o you find an averfenefs in your will to that di-
vine employment ? It would be noble, it would be
generous, it would be fometfaing more than filial,
jjf out of regard to that earneftnos of defire (b vifi* -

" : bly

The British At ovhtol ^vf

biy apparent in jour depanlng. father, you would
flnre-at leaft to cpnquer that arcrfenefs, to work up
your indifferent, your reludlant thoughts, to work
them up to an inclination, to a defire, to a chearfyl
dcfire of being admitted a fellow- worker in the LordTa-
▼ineyard, of becoming an embaflador of Obri/f .

But if after a diligent application you (hall be (en«
fible of fome deficiency (trio' a too diffident opinion
of your felf muft not pervert your judgment in the
xmtter) fenfible we fay of ibme defidency, which
renders you unable to difcharge the office, you will -
be fo far from* being any way? oblig'd to a compli*
ance wi tit your father, that by fo unwarrantable a
compliance, you will at once a^ repugnant to the
didiates of your confcience, which is abiblutely and^
irreflri£3:ively a fin, and therefore not to be fuperied^l'
by the injundions of a parent, and alfo be no betttr
than a prefumptuous intruder, than a bold invader*

Q^ A friend of mini had the mi f mum to keak his
leg J vhich by the unskilftthiefs of the fitrgten, or fome •-
ther eaufe, wmj forc'd to have it cttt fff jnfi bttm fh§
kpee,^ He had upon the Uaft toe of that foot a conoi tfihlch^
gave him te great deal of f/tin, efpemlly againft ba^^
weather. He is mw as fenfible of fain as every and fMs-
eafe by rubbing or knocking againft the bottom of the wooden
leg with his cane. What fhould be the reafon he is fo fn^
fible of the fain, when the caufe is taken away t

jL Tho' this cafe may appear very flrange to many,
jet there- isr nothing more common among thofewbo
have had the fame misfortune to have any limb cut
c£F. However, the reafon of that odd Fhanomenon it
not obvious to every one's nnderftaadin^ dnCe to
give any reafbnable account of it, it mufl fbft be ac-
knowledged, that we are mifbken when we judge
pain or pleafure to b; in the body, and that they arc
a modification of the foul occafioned by fome motion
made in any of the nervous parts of our body, and
communicated to the brain, without which commu«
sication we cannot be fenfible. of any pain or pleafure,
a$^^)pears in dead palfies i but on the contrary, if

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S^i8 TI&VBritish Apollo.

the filaments of the brain, which arc as it were the
roots of air the nerves come to be /hakeQ> as they
were when that motion was communicated from the
limb^ it will occafion the faoae fenfation of pteafure
or pain in our fouU as if the motion was really begun
in that limb, and that onFy by yrrtue of God's wife
inflitution, when he firft made and eftabli'fh'd that
wonderful union of body and ipuJ,

Q. In the wood cf BoJogne» in the neighbourbodd cf
that city J fevtrd trees of the Utgefi growth were ff lit by
the extreme Jharpnefs of the cold : 1 defite you to affign
the reafon^ rohy ,the extreme frigidity of tho luir Jhodd
^eanfe the folsd' trurdts of the large^ trees to ffUt afmderi
A. The extreme coldnfsfi of ^hc air feeqas to be
owing to fome ver^ (harp and piercing nitro.us falts
difperfed in it, which iniinuaUng themlelves in great
quantities into the wood of fome trees, like fo many
junall wedges, may be able to iplit the biggeft of 'em,
and efpeciaily thoic whofe pores are fo configurated
as to admit tbem, but liot to give them a free and
cafie paflage,

Q^ How came the women to take theuffer-liand if
the men in England, above all other countries , suid whe-
ther the chronicle, or any other hifiory gives the reafom for it f
jl. There is ao. chronicle, but will inform you of
the mighty valour of Queen Boadicea^ 2nd the fervice
• clone again il tl^c jCfanes by female courage* one of
which occafians. ^yc ji>at fexAhc honour you take
notice of. Tho';*tis iio. wonder that our piglifh Ladies
are rcfpcded mbri; tban thofc of. other countries, fincc

, fuferior worth rmy iUjftly claim^i^ei-wr dimity*

Q. Aftronomexs affirm^ that the Sim takes a diitrnal
cottrfe^ and pretend to know how many milts in it, it
fetcheth, which, if it be true, fray inform mt how thefol*

. loving happens ? .

i ^Mtt^> ^ M ^^' ^f l^OQ^on for a pari of England,

.flying direffly C9ntraay Xfi.the Sw^*s eourfe, (^as th^ affrn^ )
/ have .the Sun^o.my^ infaginat'm juft o,vtr nay head at

, firfi ftttiii^ oidtr ^f^-'ff ^ide two or threo htms, 1 Jhall
firceive the Sun jiiji imfof^g ov^r me.

^ A. Irk

S^^lBUlTISH At^LtrOr pip

^. In aafwrei to y our ^Qeftibo, we wosM obfi»^e»

1. Thit finoe'wv «re ii^UMd ftveril ddgvac* of la-
titude frGRi cbe* iK^rcft vicinity of tbe Sun, namety,
from <tW nOithatti tropi(rk of Cmifr i ■ v^t therefore
l^g lesve to ml} ^ou, that m no 'part of t^t^nd, K
•i6> time of tt^ fcar, ho> not on St. 9«riM4«f i^,
aebd in the motl (butlierA part'^arnji^^/, you caik^
^rcdve ^he Sun to be juft overymip head.

2. That in fo great a fpacc as the forementjon'd
degrees of laritude, confidering iVitfral the vaft dfftancc
of the Sun to that part of the earth, to which h» is
at any time perpendicular,' fb AnaKa )iiMftsty as th^c
-of & or 3 hoors riding ean make no ^fible difference

to the eye of the traveller. But,

X J. The beft modern alftr'dnbmidr^ ire fo far from

allowing the diurnal courfe of the Stin, tlwt they

^eny his -annual courfe, and m^inlaffi hira to be iiii-

moveably fix'd hi a center, as we have more than

once obfcrv*d in former papers. But the rcfuk of your

queftioo (sthe fame, w^^cther the Earth or Sun iye

the center of the world. And ^nce there are fo great

a variety 4>f ^the very ikme Phdwmena*s, whfc4)ibever

of the two be fuppos'd to move^ they wbo fub*

fcribe to tbcCd^ernf^Ao-ryftein, may often intccom-

fnodation to the vulgarly recciv*d opinion, (and in

fcveral particulars they generally do fo ) exprefs them-

felves in the Plolematck (lile.

Qj Fray render into Englifh 'ver/e theft iw9 fdkwmi^
»hiw -arefmnd in Raphael the painter's kfi,

lUe hie tfi. Rafhael, timteh, quo fifpite, ^inei
Rerum magna parens, ^ mmentt mm,
A, This he, whom nature f^ar'd ; loth to his art
In's life to YIELD, and at his death DEPART.
Q. The anfwerym gave to tlufe jectshtr fellows^
q^ old Rofe's (ingtog and burning the bcHows,
Jfks fo very ingemus ^ gained you renown.
In cottage, in palace, in comtry andtowt :
Wherefore^ T, tho* a ruftick, have ^r^d to make ioU,
The meaning to ask of a faying that's old.
That the cfigin taufe of the wwds yon* d unfold*

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P2X> The BmtiSH Apollo.

-fl^i/kh ^tw §n uid wkm we fit tittk mtU,
Xftr a f»t tf goU mU, 0t$ the fign rf th$ hgitk i ^
Of tbtt h^ffy pur tkaf wert itsk'd m the thmtk^
JbU §f thM firkm maid th$t was irft m the Ugrcb,
And Jkch like- dtfimrfe^ wkich mU the pUm knnfs^
Mm whm w$ with €M$m « fiertt d^defi^^
Wt oy, I^e it ipok€lD, $ir, unto the ro£; ?
Ji, You ihall meet with aa anfwer ai true ai U
ihoOt^ Sir,
Of bufwng the heUowh 0ndfmgmg tU rofe» Sir.
And £nce tbou ict'ft up for the joeukr trade.
Be it known that we love fuch a jolly old blade,
^You nouil kxiow> Sir, the Roie was an emUeoi of

old,
Jf/hoCt leaves by tbeir doftnefs taught (ecrets to hoUi
And 'twas thence it was painted o'er tables {o oh
As a warning, left when with a frankneis men icoft
i^^tthitir neighbour, their Lord, their hi prteft, or

their Hation»»
Some amongft 'em, next day, (hou'd betray conTcrfr
tion,
Q. / have a Welch r fi/«/, geat fplattef a nail I
^ mfirtfi doth nuike hts ehaps wMer^
TU* hiimddk fe gny^ his Uwdmfs d0n*t.fiul,

jind eamtjily longs to h at her,
ffhoever heholdeth her dtlUate Jhafe^

fVith tifffs and my ptsnch'anel keldtrs,
IVillfwear from tss three was coffd the rape
' * Of Sufan attacked Sy the elders.
The damfei is verfms^ nseft prudimly fhy^

And of fuch a cummg ^haviottrt
Sometimes I think he, then again he thinks I

Am gotten mofi into her favour.
Apoiio, rU ftick to thjf Jhr'me like a Sur,

Umilyou do find tss feme rules. Sir,
Hew we may dsfcoMr which (he does prefer^

Or if fije snakes both of us fools j Sir f
tff; To make yon both nizeys, it never can be,
. * iSince natstre hath made you fuch tools,
llcl^or'd.you your childhoods, then certain^ 7k»
Will never of children make fools. To

The BiiiTisir.ApOLE.0. joi

.*Fo telU in her faroor, wbicb of /m umA are>l

Is bard, %ce bv cither harangu'd.
We've reafon |o think that (he did not jBKicb care^
If both the k»d dders ware bm^d.
Q* ^ t^ i$Qar tbm in.
7jmr 4Uvkt ft«y mftm
7^ $fte M poor mU'tMo enMOtn,
ffho iy fo^^os mi cisftp
And oiker mfltt^^ ^
Ij fodm*d to ikfcmnanm mfmwu
Wormy wfio*$ tmt^t^Jirmu
AM Vm « t(di maih
My tyos »o fi$idrmto tny hUd%
Wkh lof^ Uuatno^jtws^
Hiijgm liko to trrit oUm$l
And « c^Uttr «/ fdo at ono dmd f
A. Bj the image lure meant,
Yiva almoftrepff^^llli^.
; A juft inftance of heaiiglt #y[>kaftiiw$ .
. Eor your- terrible ]^ii^
. Aa farce humane ititr
Seems to favour oU ^huMnoKXM.
Tho* his vices were grcat»
Yet his woea were compleat*
And whatever the quails may aflure ye,
5ucb ft diet as \AStr
Tho' .you jthink^ it amiiK
Is the means that may probably core yotx;.
Q* H^sat It tho itnport of thofi wrds mi dor.
jLvu zt.-Jf Mf,mMtt loofo mt tho Lord Jefus Cbri/I> Ui
him he Anathema Maranatha I

A* AMthomit is a Grook word, and primasily^ fig*
.mfie^ an execration, but metonymicaUy, a p^&n de-
.voted or accqried.

Maratuuha, is Sj^ruuk, and fi|;nifies thaLord comei,

.that is, to the utter extirpation (^^ fo profii^te.a

wretch^ or Jet him be rekvv^ to the dreadful com*

ing of the Son of God, to the, terrible appearance «tf

tbojtulgo of idl tho oarth* Sitke therefore Afyr^mtha

Js;Of the like import with An^thomt the ApoilJc

Kr f maker

nia)ceS('Ule:«f^*botfa (be wtfrd» to reprcftnt, thatfo
blafj|>bemous, fo exccf alxile a ptfribb is worthy of a

Q^I defreytiki^ £iv$ sn ^x^0imi0m pf Gen, ly^ 16^

Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord?

^. In the former part of the verfe we read that

Seth bad a fon whom be call'd Eft^s. Now the word

in Hebrew (ignifics a ma^i 9Xk&is defiv'd from a radix,

which imports to htfickly 0nd wettkfy. And there*

fore Sfth, by coatVeiting xh%t appeUative Into a propa

name, and imposing <it on^bT#^on, iecms at 'that time

to have more particularly confidef'd the weaknefs and

imbecillity of human«Vace, of which every day's expe*

rience prefented him with, more pregnant and lively

inflances. And fironl 44ie^eonnderatHMi of fuch de-

. plorable weaknefi/ ^h jameotable imbedllrty,- he

might be naturally* luiftlcfd to perfuade his family to

be more ferious^, niore Afemn rhah men litfd^generally

been before,ihi the'^iitieS'Ofpkty/in'theexerrife of

religion. And it h n6 UB^mntaion fixdde of ipeech,

to couch the comparaHvcf degree under that of the

pofitive. • I -^

Qj^ W&y was a fim'1»iirried *»wntm ammg the Ro-^
mans obUged to t$tuh.jm-tmd wm^^

A, The 'leu^m f^fied <anfidt Witfi ahy Arid
propriety of fpccch be fa id taWldng^tit^ ileW married
women, becaufe it ^iw part • tof ^Mft jiuptml fblem-
»ity. Upon IHefeidif^ettttartcfe into the bridegroom's
boufe' (afftejp '\^hfcb*tiiwr€? were Avi^al cercniu>nics
periWnacd ) ttip keys of the houfe wa-e firil ddiverM
to her. ( to denote that (he was the miftrefs of the
•fiimily 5 tho\ indeed there are too many husbands a-
ibo% ^(S'Chvi/lians; .who oie eveti their prudent and
difcreet wives more like menial Servants than mi-
tltrefle^ of Ae hoyj&.iii reidyire tbcy to 'forget that
%iHirr^ge^promiitf, Hfk&'w^gbodt t fhee Maw) ^tH
ititn th^ bridegroom preftnftd iier With li^a'veflels,
the one of fire, and the other of water. Anti as thefc
two ytff^As were mtended for emblematical reprcftn*
tativesj ]fo one of tbefe two dtfieieat /ignifications it
* • "" " ' ~ " ' - - alTignVJ

^^. BRITISH Apollo, pzj

«4flSgfi1) to thems •ittmen m'ftn U of a purifying^
and water of a cleandog nature, fb the coAonMurjr ule
^f thfcBS wt arc fpcaktng of, Qi)ix.%ire b«t that un-
^in^ jHirity, that uwiolabierClMtity, that becomes
the wife of our bofom : Or thoie two elements iBiy
be deflgn'd as a pledge of the bride and. bridegroom's
adhering to on^ another in their greatefl neceffities ifi
their utmoft needs. And therefore this pledge is cor-
Yef^oti^hit to tboie tifotaa) attd becotoing pfOmiles ia
our matrimonisrroffice tf hifirtg bse another in fick^
mfs mdiw^tetikh. ^A ftV»^nd"INttft' n^ay )*eprbfenc
fuch a Arid adbcfetKe upMi <ai MDfi»14 iiecount i ei-
ther* becafife as i\iej <«r6 ifodf^uliifuK €\st^ to^cdflTarf
i^mcfits, fo they fhay %e tUtetiphofrkaUy fignifiesnt of
all the nedeffirtea t^\Wt\ 0^ s§ VhSt comraoih %rng
may expound it, I ifiUgb lM fk% md W4t&*t9fifU$

But as ei<!tier of theft t#0 r<Mbn»'f«>ri)igtt'd» (b
we cannot fee, f^y%otb df theMa A ^MicfeviK^frthot
^Ve been intocTM by the VUftolfr. .

Q^ The meariin^ of that exfrl'jgfon, n6 ]pcnny, no. pa-
tftr nofter ?

ut. No penny refers to the P^/»r's pence, a tribute *
with oqr anceddrvbefoxe the ref^r onacion paid to thf
Pbpe of ItMM. .And .« fitter n^er ar^ the two .firft
Words of the ltord\s Jr^^ir^ \vi LMtin^ to tteyaie ni^d
for the title of the* whole. And therefore the ix^aa?
ing of that expreifipn is^ tig nm^» no fra^srs^

Q^ll^ tt tkt fmmh fix xtrrA$it9d t^ » fhip.t

A, Bccaufe a (btp carrfes burdens, and therefore re* "
fcmblcs a pregnant woman. And this rtf^mblancc \i
mpre remarkaHc with regard to rhft ftiodcfn drefil
iSce the fails of ^ '/hip arc ftmewhat ^gftt^Ie tp a
l*iom^n*s toppings. And j^crhaps th<^ iuthbr^ of thJs*
denomination roig?it dcfign it s^ a fjityr upanHh^ fejc^
drthmfcitigthat a wa^ferilig (hip^tfi&t is refi'd up and I

down by every wind, ^as no unfuitable emblem oi
their reputed inconflanq^.

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^ J

r9i4 yfc British Apollo.

<^ why the $nM$0fi ndnmrs tf tm^ 4te gmerniOf
great dev9t%t$ u hve f

' A. Becaufe Iwe is the barnmf of the /M^ mi
{therefore fympathixtfs with that which afife^b the
finfi. " .

<!^ ff%enc$ cMme the faying^ that London-bridge is
built upon wool-packs ?

A, An impoft laid on wool, maintain'd the charge
when-iliat prodigious pile was raised.

Q. re Britifli bards; <0vif^d with ^mmts bays^

Pfhife eUqttma foU$t^ Mf$d wit dhfti, ^

M'Drydeo, WalierV» andthemtfi fMhrn ^Y* ^^^^

Imfravithepnfintjm wiil Nrfs/acceedrngtimirj

ytrmu ikywth wifh Mtximt cart epfreft^

2b vent^ the JMtPig paffims rfkis ireMft.

I ioycy ha dare mt^mttfinoi Im/e'decUiti ^

Lejt t$ mffrknd I fimdd wijuft affear^

t0fe Seing fire'd to Imm his dar^ fttr,

CemfeU'd me r> attend^ te foeth her eare^

Jl»d keep her tender Jetd frem fhmgmg m de/pdlr.

J ffvn'dlUng hadtev'dthe dmrnung darne^

And that her ccnverfe vmU rrvive tm fiamet

I

Xft vmld I rather jufi and faithful pteve
Unte myfriendi and firm tnvas&tg me,
Bat 6h ! Her parfeS form ! Her mtkmg eyes!
Jtnd tender accents de my fud fitrprixd*
PPhatJhaU 1 ih,ye erodes divine,
Din^ my wuth, guide my mftalii mkuU
That lof^ has with alternate paj/kns jt^eve^ f]

Se that I m«j eur friendfliip mere in^we, >

Jind ^ it can be demy love with pktonick love \ J
A. Moft gen'jrons youth, that would'ft at ona im»
prove.
The tics of friendihip, and the Uift of lo? c»

If

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SJfiBKituu Apollo, sai"

If Ibe poflHsM qpears wttb. tboughCA^refiQ'dy
nefpile external rormSf tnfped^ the miad :
Let food ahrms aa more your hre^ coocroul.
But learn to pris^qr bright firsfif^ fi>u]».
So (hall 70a iln/f znd^fiwidfUp too parfue*
And ft ihaU both their iimn fix in you.

Q. A'Jf , /«/? mf , G01/ Apollo, w^

Philander, whm Mimi,
Tirmfy nfihis bis fiite u trjti

JbU mtiki tus paMm kntmu
" Tb$ whm hit9 bU Cbloe gm^

Sf fiemi wHb0$ti ^Ufkis,
SMfs rmbmx to tbi furftfi, hm^

jAd deeenty fitiris f

jL From diffrent caofo this may light.
The fwmn may in his mind,
' Tijitm an idt4 far more bright^
On v^ much dedinM.
Or not vp to her pow'rfiil cbMrmi,
So when he makes^bisyiM^,
• The morgjf of brisk aisrms
May ilrike the kver putii.

Q. Ti fios rfdurk Pinto, smi mi tf Apollo,
H^hcm none haTmwti ibv#, Mdmne 6§$t. fwAifilbmi
I difk ym n till m$ the nnfm, ( d^tfiH)
¥0y one dtg dub/mtU attnoiber do^'s tail f

A. For th' reaibns aforeraid» yMi jUKov us tbus»
With queHlons your felf the more fit to difcufs 1
For iucb (hallow judgments they being moil fit.
Since the foolifheft ptffy the reaifon may hit,

(^ 'Bf»f. tdl nu, Apolk),
9Pbf U is wbm I M2i«,
I biiir tie fmnd wn Mgsm i
If this ym d» mfwer,
Tfu'U gnMtlf sdvmu$t Siri
Th wi$ tf Si tgtittry /wain f
A. The noi& mo? eth round.
Till ibme vmttif is found,

X ^hcnct

"p2d5 STbi Br i t i s m ' A Jp di. l a

Wheved it ^mity pfpfftMj^' dbt^.
Much Mte to a^,
When 'tit AnicktD a wnlf.

It returns to the jWfc^r again. »

Q. pf^ Mi Mielchffedeck ?

jf. Meichifidtek Was King §f S^km, ^i prif/l tf the
high God. And as he waiii prkft, fo be was a gttiter
one than Aaront in thajt wbni mmtlm fritfi mtft^ even
the Son of God himfIeK; Jie was cftliVI i^arr tke-efder
pf Melchifedecit, and nar 4^ ajb ariir 4^ ^iMVilr He»
who was ^i^ trightnefs tf hh BMthm*4 jfarf^ ^tmdtlk ex-
frefe image of his fnfon % he» in whom <Mr fUnefs tf
the Godhead dwek Soddf i evm ht Wias M ftief^fiif k/er^
after the order of Melchifedeelt,

• Q. ffhethir the magm thM were tmd ctmt^lMil.tbe
kteakmg of the great fwoji* werf net fae^tyt I v . .

A* It is to bev fuppos'dj that ifuch wagcren as
thefe look no further {yeix)!i i*ej{ard tQ .thaif freient
thoughts^ than^loncceirary tS^Qns, tbao to nataral
produdtons, than to leoonchcauiea^ For woiikl they
but look up to the firft, to the direi^iag cau& j would
they but conlidcr, that it n God ytho giveth Jh$m like
voolt andfoattereth the hoar-frofl like ajhes ; that it is
Gpd who cafieth forth his ice like morfeU, fo.that none
are able to a&ide hit frojls ^ that it is he who fendeth
forth his word and melteth them i who bhweth vith his
mnd^ (md the waters flow j would they but coniidef
this, thcj would out of modcfly forbear to play with
an over- Filling providence, to fport with the deiigni
of tBeir Almighty governour, and adl {q ludicrous a
part in any thing, that concerns the proceedings ot
their Maker. If therefore they wouW but ftatc their
wagers/ as. they juftly might j were they but to fiy,
7 will venture foy or fo,' that God willremcrtft the fiofl
by fnch or fucha tone, they couid not chuft but blufli
at €0 unwarrantable a pracHce.

Q_ / had twenty founds left me by my uncU, which
money was to be paid ttte when J ivas eighteen^ which I
now am. The money was put in my father^s hands, who
it a very fubftantial ffMn, and I have hit bond far it, but

'Vhrnfr if ^ Uwfkl fir jjie n uihe th$^mcnej/ cmrary u

Jl A»4t 4s your 'father tbtt detains^^our fight, to

the leift you owe*' to- fo near, fodear a relative, fs to

receive jour due by no other method, than ;hat of a

dired, t( not a voiuotary paytncrit. And "therefore

"•me 4nay«d<hters you in the vcfj words of an Apottle^

Wfy J$ym nU niher fiifftt wrong f Whf doym mt fa-

iher pfir y^r^^ t9 ht- defrauiifd'r But Wh%t, tbo*

t^ ftt^n thftt would injun; yon^ were a f!ranger to

-you ? If jufticc'pertmt you tb fcjz* yourownl yet

fo fraudttleot, fo clandefline a feizurc is no w^ysiuit-

sble to the candour, to the finccrity ot a Chriftiao«,

, And rtMfi-tffb^e, t^o' by ib crafty a proccifurt jrpa may

<laim one p^rC of a true Chriflian'^ charad^r. may

{retend to-be as wife ksaferfmt; -jit wtcatj^ot ft-
urc'^ )Fou^ the other;: May the better part, cannot
ecknowledge yoQ tpbe «/ harmk/i *aiA iouk. But coii-
teder''«4oii ttiat yoo know not whsrt! unhappy d]Ar-
ence6;'\4^t melaneholy dtflurbances, fo treacherous a
jullite may unfortunately produce f • Where is then
youf compliance with th^t admirable precept, f^lkw
$fHr th thng$ ihta mfiktfffr pente, Btit. allowing, that
lio coofider^Kle diffcrenfecf, no great drfturbances en*
fue, yet- innocent perfbnl -may %^ tall'd inqiieftfon ^
yte may caufe a-blemiffito that gitffd mmt^ 'which h
itli& -iBah' freiiokf difffMnt ; i6 ^that "^ftx'^ frvowi
Which"// rdther toiti^fin thaipfivtr i^ntt gdd. And
tfcereforie? wcperfoade'our felves From that tendernefa
of confeiencr, whfch the intenrion of your qdeflioa
fe«ms to manifeft, that you will not be fo ungenc-
rOuifly warptljy st felfifh lore, as to be pryuft to 0-
thersi io-ofdci* to db'jdilice to your Fcff,
<■' Q^H^sytht'^fikl xf f^dn, at fmeiif^ affenri fi lhely\
vipn^Hi mt'd'^iiivfifh^afh fnd vpfrehenjtve, 'cApa6k rf
ttJiiriihg iip fivefil fixities in their genuine order, and
yet jhnU-in Ufi ififtant he reversed-, thut life that diffUytd
ft felffr vigermjfy, finks to the lowefi eth of anxiety i and,
that fregrwtief, tkaifaHtioHfmfi whkh before fc flentiful^

'9^9 STke B-iti T I s H A p'O l x.;o^

.^m% lies dffrmMfU 49J mixirtij. 2W^#i GmAmtkZ
jffuruiifini, wlytbefmtkusifsbeJwl^fimUSifMiyi^
H fi fudJin n tranffefifm^. /me me eecafim^d iy e^
freoMt^ fear of danger, ^c w^mimi^l^ieeujiefprixjef
A. That the foul of man in her. prc6at &tc of
liiiion, does very much depend in her. opentioa8»
from the difpoution of the body, hath been fercral
times inculcated in ibme of our former papers. Hence
'it evidently follows, that when any fudden dteratxoa
B»>pens in the body, the fame may. and does often
, anally happen in the foul. But t(^ be a littfe mors
particular* we muift further ob&rv^ that no coofti-
tuent part of the body may receive £0 ^uick su alte-
cation, nor £b nearly a£(eds the ibul, as what we caU
' the animal ipirits, that i^ that iiibtle li<)uor lc|Ntfated
from the blood, in the cordical pai't of the braxq, and
which aif^uates the fame, and the nerycs^ derived from
'it. Now, when, that liqi^or is duly qu^ified, and
confifts of fuch volatile and balfamick parts, as it is
.naturalTy made of, and moves regularljv tl^en the ibol
is chearful, vigorous^ and capable of exerting well aB
its ieveral operations. But when on the contrary^
.tiiefe ipirits coniift of too gro(s and Huggifli parti-
cles, or have contraded. ibme other ill quality, and
£ill into diforderly caotions, then the Com. muft tike?
wife grow dull, or anxious and uneatie. Whatever
then may cauie fuch fudden alteration in tbefe animaT
Jpirits> may or dotz likewiie produce one in the ibul.
And there are ieveral things may do it 5 but we think
there is none fo conimon and unive^fal, as the diffe-
rent constitution of the atmoiphere, or circumamhi*
lent air, which according, to the different vapours and
. exhalations with which it is filled, or according to its
greater or leiTer weight, hath a. very, differed infill?
cnce on the fpirits, and the brain or nerves in which
they are contained. Next to the. air, we believe no*
riling is more apt to cauie that fudden change in the
difpofition of the animal fpirits, than % troublefbaie
weight upon the ftomach, from ibmething of hard
^geftiott» or fome grofs humours gathered thore..

ne British Apollo, pjlj^

Q. fPbat is jUef't Whtn is thtfiini tf M mm whm
h*s ajkef f Hm is it tmfky*i then t Smm MHtftbi^
fiman, tbof it goes from kisth vhich I tuiq bs^J^ endk i

A. Not to take notice of that prepofteroos teoet»
tbat the ibul takes its kave from the fleqping, bodyb
we would obferre, that it is a cootrorerted poiaCi
mn anima fimptr €9gitit^ whether the ibul always thinks.
They who maintain .the affirmative^ aca>ant for our
non-cpnicioufaeis of what we thought df, while wc
were afleeps unlefi we were in a dream, by the pka
of non-reminifceoes. . But we think the o^ative ap-
parent, in that we may obibrve when we ml ^fleep,
not all at once, but by advances and d^ees» that .even
while we are confcious of our thoughts, thofi: thoughti
approach continually nearer to inadvertency. We are
therefore of opinion, that from the intimate union oi
the foul and body, our faculty of thinking lies uncx^
erted in our deeping bodies, as being impeded bjr
that particular dilpolition of the organs.

qT, Whjf dns fiiow (tnd water nw^d togethtr with fa^^
msikeH fretzi f

A. The fmall and inienfible particles of which wa«
ter and other fluids aw compoied* are in a conftoual
motion and flux, Aiding like fo many fmall eels one
upon another, and when that motion comes any ways
to be (lopt, the fluid muft lofe its fluidity, and he
thickned or congealed It is then to be fuppofed, that
. out of the mixture of fliow with fait, there arifelh
fuch a compound, as is apt to ioflnuate it felf into
the pores of the water, and fo entangle its panicles,
that rhey can no more move as they did >i|/»rtf, nor
.continue in the iame flux.

Q. Why dvth fntm melt fomer upon fiene than ttfm
mead f

A* Snow melts fboner upon (lone than upon wood,
becanfe the moifture of the air ftops and gathers more
upon the Surface of the ftone> its pores being clofqr
and fmallcr, than upon that of the wo04* whofe
pores are bigger and loofcr.

^ Pyhet^ et w 1/ freezes m the mt whm kfnewf ?

A. SAOf»

A, Stt^w being nothing Irat water orvspoors eoa^
f ealed, we intj coniidefitiy affirm, that it freezes in^
that place frmn whence it comes. Befides^ fince when
<lrfflows it-isTilWays rcry tfAii here bckiw, and Ence
«xp^rieiict» fts -weH as remn teaches, that it is ftill
ccOlder in ' the' middle rejgion of the ak, Whe^e^e
4ireteors M- f(M*(iied, we maj very rcafoolibly con-
'4elirde, that in fnowy weather 4t is cold enough there
to freeze. *

Q^ h i$ t^^ M ^ tSmtleman t9 he in lovi mth *
'LMdf, and na to^6t nneafie if he knems he hss a rrvnl f

ji* Wc -believe ft is not only poffible for a Gentle-
man to be eade when he has a rival, but that he may
«H(b receive •iiidsBi^'ioA from thence 5 we' mean if he
•Bas ah afcetfddnt over him ; but if hi^ rival be fa-
"vour^d, it wiH try his< utmolfl philoibphy to retain a
"ftrene mind.

Q. I depre you to favour me roith the method of fcan*
mtig the underwritten verfe in Lilly'/ Grammarm

Pro ialro 'falfo falui« 6c amicio anaicui dot*

HeJ kt t ifimu . Sfmdmphs ^nMrefis.
A. Pro Sal to Sail o Sala i^eca mictami ciii dai.

Qi ^ght ^i^Mckoftrttth, convinced ij'thte^
'' IhAt mm eommifflm*d hy Akmghtj fawW
"Rteeiv'd the precepts pf divinity^

• Tranftnitted from an unexhaufted fbre.

JBy heaven's omnrfcient wifdom thus inffir'Jt *

In eharaSets rndellbU 4f9 ptn%
( Thus vith celefiial ztal of brightntfs fir^d)

The faered writ, and what therein's tmtav^d,^
Comjim*dofthis^ but more than this Vve readi

• Horn that the Chr^ian*s Qod from realms ^6&vii
3^ earth, from thpfe delightful masons fid.

All el'er eompajfen, and all over love
To fave mankind
^ut heffe myfakh, my infant faith* s confused,
' f09en I rtfiei on tl/ manner of his birth.
When providence his mercies thus diffused.

In fiifding (fhis darHrfi-Smmemh.' "

If

t *■

"The Hvitrtiit Apoi-lo. "p^i

Jf frtm thofe regims pf eternal lights

uilmighty fower did his oppring fend^
*Xis ftr/mgCt when from thofe orBs he took his figbt»

Angels themfelvei did not, the godhead tend {.
And thoufdnd ferafhi WiybUng forth his fraife%' -^

Rejmd that thef cohd inMs,freffnce waih ^ ♦ r

ff^ft the cekfllal choir their voices rktfe,

With himns ofj(^ his worth to celebrate.
Since eaftem monarchs^ when theyVe [em abrond^

Thoufands to them a dread obedience fay,
PTtth adorations treated as a Cod,

IfifirMffo/'thHs, their vafals thus obey,
Jf then to mmarchs here fuch fow'r is gh%

Omnitofenfe may fure reijttire much more,
lis this that {hocks my faith to think that heav%

f0fom all tSe fotentates on earth ,a^ore» ' ' ,

Shou'd fmd his darling fo obfcur^
A, Whj Angels did attend the infant God,

And hcav'nly choriftcrs proclaim *d hi^ praifir i
OF pardon fang, (not judgment's drcadfbrrod) . -^

And ufhcr'd in hi* birth with tuncfiil lays* ' '. * "
" Eternal fame to majcfty. above j ' ' . *

" Melordious chardis of peace on earth l^ilbw :
" Mercies declarative of bouridlcfs love, .

" The tree of life to banifh'd mortals fliow. '
But wou'd you ask. why fo augufl a King.'

Cbofe not to feize proud Rome*s imperial feat i
Why (craphims zftabUd monarch fing,

And tell poor (hcphef ds his gbfcurc. retreat ?
God'i thoughts are not'as,man*s i our ^aicer'j; v/[^/,

Ref^rain am\)itious nature's tow 'ring *wing : "
Then fhepherds firft efpy heav'n's fhrouded rays»

And firaphims a flabled monarch fing, ^

'Tis God's delight to raife the hwnble foul«

And mount the lowly to jsl nobler iphere :
He loves the vain afpircr tq controuU

And make the comet's blaze to difappci^.
This ! This ! Ah ! This the bumble virgin's themci

Who> the' an uioknojvii nuud> cnclQs*4 ber fire »

> But

9}^ Tie British Apoii^l^o.

But fcarce couM think it other than a dreanj»

When queens wou'd gladly to her fame afplre*
Mfims fearch, that chriftian pr<^het read j

Atd there th^ unpitied man rffinws view :
behold the monacicb pre-ordain'd to bleed.
And King MfJJtah to his grave purfne.
Had Chrifi appear'd with radiant fplendor dred.

While cherubs thro* the worid his name re(band'»
Tbt frmci rfpeaa had left mankind unbleft,
And jS^s that rebel, no Mtootmem found*
But to a mnk, ^ki»fy King vft owe, . ,

The King hy Zachaty defcrib'd of old;
That we, bleft mortals ! ftall in raptures fibw.

And in thpie f!arry orbs, the angelick choir enfdi
Kow the forlorn refumes his fplendid beams*

£ncirc]ed in his primogenial light >
Afigels revere his emanating ftreams.

And iaints adore the beatifick fight.
Thus they, who this fuSmiJ^e G^d fhall tracc».

Content to bear the poignancy of fliamer
Shall fhine as fbremofi in their chriftian race^.

And 'greater lights fuperior glory claim*.
t . Q« To ymtr father Vm ioU,
Sy the learned ^ eid^
Tie £p0d pilaws were wane to repair^
When their cattle were fira/d^
Ought was Ufi or mifiaid,
Jbtd he'd tell when th^'d find *em, and vherfs
. Now my mifirefs is fikd^

(Oh I. the thought ftrikes me deadt)
Jtid has left a. fad lever tehind her i
But your dud having made
* Jill you heirs to Ms tradt^
fray tell «w, great Sirs, where to find her f-
ji. Such cattle as yours.
Are out of our pow-rs.
They'll turn into £6 many (hapes,
.^ They'll flip your hands h^re, .
' "And you mifs of them therci.
So fWiftly the phantom efcapei •

May;

He BtnTisH Apollo, pj^*

Nay, did not our JaJ,

Find his cafe full as bad.
When on Dapkms he coa'd not prevail i

Then pray foolifli Kalfb,
Ke*er tbink your ftlf fife,
Hhilfi ym hold « vtt itt iy th§ faih

Q. i§i reiki m Gen. y« 28, 29. i^ fiOffmfijf wmit^
And Lamteh lived an hundred and eighty two yearsb
asd begat a ion : And he called his name NM^ lay-
ing, this fame (haD comfort us concerning the work
and toyi of our hands, hecaulc of the sround which .
tbe Lord hath curied. Tour expofim ^tbifinfe I

ji. It fitas ufual with the patriarchs^ when tbey
gave^ names to their children, to turn appellatives into
proper names, and that agreeably to the circumftancea .
of times and peribos. And therdfore thoie expreifions, '
the fitmi fiuM comfirt. m\ Sec. are a paraphraftical in*,
terncetation of the word Kwh. For the Hi^m ap«
pi^Iative nU %nifies refrtlhrntnt.

But to ihew vou how l^oMh was a comfort Cor '
refreihment to the then preient generation, epnarnmg
the wgrk and t<yl of their hmuh, ieciufe efthe grmnd
iMch the Lvrd hfid e$trfed» we mud con6der, that af«
ter a curie was p^ upon tbe earth, for the (in of
OUT Bt& parents, (be who was before an mdulgienc
mother, became a fevere ilep- mother, and in furniih-
log her ions with neceflary food, (he verify'd thole
words denounc'd to Adam, in the fweat ef thy face
fluUt thou eM hrend. Then ceas'd that golden age, of
which the poet fpeaks ;

hi^ etism fruge$ telUts iosraia ferebat ;
Ke§ rittev^ttm itger gravidis csneSat mfiis*

,A plenteous crop arofe from unplow'd earth $
Andlfields nntill'd, cou'd boaft a num'rous birth.'

But as we read in Gen, ix. 20. that l^o/Ut heg^n to
be an husbsnJman, ( which laft word in tbe Hebrew
original, is by way of periphrafis expreft, man ef
the eartht and therefore gave birth to that poetical
fiftion of Satwn aad BJna) fo Lamech kerns to pro-

. phcfic.

phefie, that Noiih and his pofterity fhouki make fach
improfcmenc in the methods'" of agriqulture^ in the
art of hjishaodij» (hoiild invent tifch proper' inftru*
meots, and other ncceflajrie^ for that employ ipent, as
that the fatigue, the drmlgery of husbandmen (hould
be abundantly \e& than 'it had been oefore.,

Or the words may be a predi^ion, that Noah fliould
ftknt a vmejrarJ, For fmct tp'me •maketh glaJ the htwa
iffhUk, ^ fo What mdre proper than wm^ to cohifiit
husbandmen in all the vcrk and wl of tbtir hands.

'/f .'the' word rrfped^ the curfing of the gtotmd fty
ah^i\iverfa! deluge, (thd* this con(!Tu6tiori fceoiF not
to US' to be fb altogether natural) then it neceilarily
follows, that Nm^ is therefore foretold to comfort
or refrefh mankind, becaufe defign'd to be the refto*
ref '6f the poft-diluvian world.

' <5. /« the fhilofiphtcal tran/aSiioTU of June ii. i66^l
th^ Iht a chronological account cf the fever at inctndmmi
or *firis of' mount* i£tna, and afterwards proceed thus,
Norn whether thefe^ eruptions are' caused by aSittul fuher>'
raneous firei^ lighting upon a combUfiiHe matter^ or by
fire ftruck out of falling and breaking flmesl whofe fparkt
nieet with nitrofulphureous, or other inflammfibk fidftan-
ces; heap\d together in the bowels of the eart^, mid hj the
expanfive violence 4f the fire, .forc*d.;fo take maro room,
ayd fo bur fling out wi}h the impetuojuj we fee, may net
he. unworthy <?/ a 'phdofopher'sf peculation. '

ifOWy Gentlemen,' the query, H^ot in your judgment h
tie taufe of theft eruptions f

A, We thmk thcic eruptions . may be caufed not
only tbcfc two ways, but alfb, that the oombuftible
matter contained in thofe bowels of the earth with-
out the help of any a€hial fiibterlraneous fire, or foi&e
accideQt%. lighted by thefallibgaadfiriktag of ft^Ots,
mayrtake fire of.it fclf, mperiy by the intcftine rao-
tionof its/ particles, as we ice thatra heap of hay, or
foroe other matter will fomctimes do.

Q^ Tour opinion is defired, to inform how the word
Doctor ought to bt fpelt accofding to the true orthogra^
phy thereof. Ont of the parties contending holds, that the.

JyUablet

j^Mailit JhoM M diyhlid skm, TU&. Ho^m^^ ih otktm

timui^ vi&. i^^,: 0f9d hth frferriktmj^ts\to fmt dem»

fim t :..••:".>..>

. wf . It is a ^eral ruk in: irpfidmt thst wiiere twr

cimfoBffUift ia> a- dcfivative ^rocoed froiii:.oBG jwly.ii>

the prinmiTew there ortbograpby places iwtb the omm

fimamsin the/£uaBe.'fylkbl«.. Since tJie»dof(i the nvoB

<on£»nants B in the word Do^^r, are derived fvon^

the confonant c onljr ji»/tiM; i9^d I^oi' xbc S i^hft

not be disjoyoU ' but iMvr nmft be. tkat^ wrk D^-

Q. , / h»vi tftm heiHrdpeoph of v$rj^giod wxptrh/ici in

CvUieriis ilifeiurfe, whetbir cr nti th§ e^.voe9 wrm^htp

does not from tho pilUt4jb»$ mo Ufi to.kefpMp.dk earth,

in timo*irow, and come t^ iti former ff^/ftmfijMUdoK^'

^tont? • -V

uf. If we do not miAake your m^awng^tyou icent

to intimate, that^in a Coljery, .tbe>kit]0r jooociWties

left after working the cpal^t.of it,\maf.in ttwatba.

filled by the growth of tho& piRarf jMet are left to

ktep up the earth, biit as we do not hear that it was

ever found to be fo ,byexp(»i4a£ci io neviher do we*

think it confonant to xeaiipQ that oiinerals flioiikl

grow like« or rather much ^noreithto the organii'd

bbdies of vqgctablet ^ animals.

Q. / am one that commonly wt^erjz tr- 18 tk^fts in

a dayp for I cannot jemt^nvxy nme Ung. .Now 1 defirm

to knoio from whence fo large a quamity if urine fljould

froceed, fmco I drink as feldom as any perfin whatevelf't

and thei^ut little, I Ukemife fwat very mutb all tho

ftffnmer, whether I /iir or not* night and day, and fonU".

times in the winter, 1 am alfo very much fuhjeB to Idetd

at nofe all the wiruet\ inhether I ftir or not^^ but, Mery feU

dwh or never in the fummer, I fhould ho very glad t^

know from whence the caufe. proceeds, and whether aA

thefe evacuations will ^ be prejudicial to my heOleh, if

they fhould confinue fome reafmaJfU time^ and, whether it

would be proper tb flop any of thefe evacuations i

A. Tho* you mention frequent difcfaargcs of urine,

yet you don't ^give us any account of the quantity^

which

9j6 fbi British Apoli^o.

which fenders the qucftion dobious} but iuppofing \t -.
•H exoeft in quantity, W6 Ukc it to proosed from
tlie loofe texture of the bJood» whence great quanti«.
ticf of the fiTum become precipitated, which by their
^ootinoal courie through the ureters into the bkiddcv
promote thoft frequent evacuations. And fromfuch^
train of iymptoms, doubtleis the body fuficrs grq}^
ficjudice.
<^ Apollo's ions, mb cm^rmftri^

hfyftmmu tbmis with i$^
Whofmnymr fmhn'i HBm fiu^

Whm mU the tnm ilns fUi^.
JBxfmmdyi mtkk emj^rmg Sirs,

(Jbtdmtff yt m^er mmt fide)
Wbtu hieroglyphick don nfm

Wr9m Oxon's almanack.
Smmbmg tlm muhm fmtlf m$Mi

Wat wondrous, wm n$ed dutkp
A9d wbta mennfu hu cmam^

21^ tmm €9n*t find it out.
Bwr y#,>^ wifdom's cudder «ir»,

UiifiU wbMt hi itncisUs with uru
And fid the Britilh fphiox.
Jt. In truth good querift, tho* we like '
The brisknefs or your wit.
At fuch a mark we dare not ftrikc*

For mhm£;s feldom hit.
Whit tho' we wifdm»*s mddir were^

And cou'd ier ItfCons teach,
So over-bold we feldom are.
To aim aiavi her resch.
Q^ IbU me whtnce the frevtrk J^tm^^
Happy as tho day is long ?
H%ether 'fis s waiter's d^.
Or whither 'tis m fiimmir*$^ fay ?

jf. Both wmter days, eisAfttminir too,
Will tnetsfhoriadfy do.
For as the light which forms the day.
Till er'oing comes, feels no decay.

But'

I TV Bait IS 9 Apollo, pj^

I But free from darkoefs brightly fliiaey,
While Hc^us gallops thro' the fi^nSi
So doth your fwvfrb wifli to man*
(Whether his life be yard or fp^in)
A conftant courie of gliding joy.
Which intervening cares can ne'er dellfoy.

Q. H0H, tftrnful 6arJs, whofi movmg ik^pttace.
In ttttmkws fruti m/pirits tv*rs fmfi :
I0>en^ir ym cmdtfiiid u t9ue» ycMr fyn^ y ^

H^h finis ttMn^erteJ^ v$ confifs our fire^ V

Th9 nw$ w$ fid tin warmth^ the mtriWiJiittJifreij

Such hiating virtm from your Imet difiiUs,
10^ ivry thmght with rtant fUnfure fills'^
' Vmr fUi^g Jlrains refini wr intellect ^
OeMT uf m^MkiSt smd cmal 0U defr0s,
Sjnct thus W9 tsfti, Mnd feel th$ fow'r dhmi,
Jnd reap Jutb mtrture from $4ch nervous lino j
Vnlifs we fitu^dyour anger f ond your rodj^,.
Wt*drMe out Phoebus, and we*d ftilo you Godf.

O! Wou*dyou like the old prof hetickjke^
€entfy knpofi your rodw and me mfpire^
With thoughts fublime my fiupid mind endue.
So JhouU I think, and Q>eak» and write like you :
A, Yourfiito propitious to your wijhes fecms.
The God already vifits you in dreams^
FilPd with the facred numen, foon you*ll wakc»
And wondrous things, and wondrous numbers fpeak.
Such pregnant hopes, your flowing Unes inaport.
You ne^ not court a mufe^ btjhe hnfilf wiQ tOHrt.

Q. MyflatttroU tAtttt a yard and ha\f^
^^i^oody in bulk*s at big as a etdf
\aa$U brought to town m a Rumfor^ waggon^
And my legs are as lof^ and as thick as a fl*ggeie :
Then finee to jeur Godflnp comes nothing amkfs.
\l\requeft you wUl give mo an anfxur to this :
Adrnii en fh$ erofs efSt, PzmVs I was mountedf
mneh all folk jfmce fimjh% for height httvo eueouated
A firu^ure fiwUgious i
Bitt Iwon't bi tedious,

I VOL^JIL Sf *2V

^

^38- Tjbe British Apollo.

lis this I VMvV km9f
Ofyom Godjhif, and fo
Wtwa^ ttU you my ]ixjt tmd frfifwtm :
2> ibofi who*u bekvft
H9» li^ I may /how*
Tmr ofmm*s defr'dt
AlU ^puMy required.
By tmibtu will call you by the nami of u whirfinf
If thus you rifnfi an anfvier that's eivH^,
nm he*llfi»d Mr, Phoebus and his works to tho domJ.
id. Your csirfs at that htight^ wou*d mod certaiolf
ihow, '
More fit'd to youryM and ywtfenfi^ than ttkwz
Eut not to be long.
(1^ hifi ^ your fing)
In zfSweting ftramsf
C Vile iiTue of brains )
Tbis feves foi an anfwer at leaft»
The ««^ mounted there,
A ^00^ 'would feem here.
If not jufi to artf
We care not a f«— »t.
Vlifcfi has the advantage, the^o^, wthetiofi.
Q^Fray, A^o, unfold,^
This frwerh of oUt
And mw to my quefiion fray hark.
How eamo it to bo /aid,
Joan tbtjoUj cook-maid
Iras good as my Lady in the dark ?
wf. When the clouds of the night,
Eclipfe from pur fiebt»
Even Icnies that might How up defir^
-Four ienfcs of nve.
Being ftill kept aliv^
We oi^oy what we cannot admko.
Q^In I Cor. X7. 24. art ihefi words, (Then^cometfc
ilie end, when he ihafi have deliver*d up the kingdom
to God, even the Father.) Trsy, what cod is moaui
iifro, aiad iUfo idfUf kingdom ?

i i

di. Ho

r

The Britisii Apollo. 91^

A. 7hi end^ is the time of the genera] refurredioa.
or the day of jadgtneDt. Tht kingdom is that fpirituaL
kinedom of (Arift^ whereby he rules tbofe which the
Father hath put under his feet, and is the head the
governour of the church. But when the church mi*
litaot (hall be tranilated to the church triumphant,
when the judge of all the earth (hall have difpatch'd
the univer&l audit, when the kingdom of grace ftall
be fwaUowed up in the kingdom of glory ; then will
Cbr^s mediatorfliip, and confequently his kingdom
ceaie i then will the Son himtelf be fubje^ to the
Father* that God may be aU in all.

Q:^ Hm/mg had s greMt di/puti wfh mi, (^fingh
frfon ms J Mm) whnhgr dnmkmmjfp^ fitmcatinh ms
fins rf mi etptal dtgree, I d^e jm tberefKri t$ infsfm
mi, whkb is $bi gnatifl bifvn Gdd!

A. They are both iins of £o deep a dye, as to be
ftigmatiz'd in thq iacred oracles, with the fivereft
cenfures. But tho' each of them is inchiive of fo
peculiar a turpitude, that fornication m (bme refpe^^s*
and drunkennefs in other, may fiem chargeable with
the htgheft ^)iik,.^yet from that memorable paiTage
in I Ok. «t. from \i^ i %tk vtrft, to the end of the
chaftir, one wou'd be apt to conclude, that fomica^
tion, in the general, were the moft aggravated fis*
And fiace the foreiaid paflage includes ?ery powerful
and perfiiafi?e arguments againd Co enormous a tranf^
grei&on, you. wouM do well to perufe it with an at^
tentive fcrioufbcis. But if it he obje^ed, that by
feme other ftnlawful adions. We fin alio agtinft our
own bodies, we anfwer, that the ApoHle in the cited
paiSige, intends not the argument as utterly excluiive
of al), but raoft other fios, and perhaps with regard
to drunkennefs, inclufive of a more eminent degree.
I^mQft be confef!, that druakennefs is attended with
a large train of very fatal coniequences, chat balance
many arguments on the other fide.

But after all, in fins of {o great a magnitude, and
at Icaft very nearly equal in their guilt, you fhould
not make it matter of concern, nicely to diftiogulfh

S { % which

(

^o T^e British Apollo.

which of them 15 the ^rcatclY, but rather with equa^
cju-e. with equal foUcitiiide to avoid them both. .

Q: ^^^ *i meant £y Gen. i. 27. mhir» mmhmi^,
mM9*s atMticn^ it fays, male and female 9Mde be:them^|
wberetts vi i$ not rtsd of wom^ tiing mnjfi till 0ftm<
jhi faJi/aSSatb r

A' That man as well as woman was created afterr
the iirft fabbath, fipce his creation too is related after
it* namdy at vtr. 7. ^of chuf^ ii. But for clearing of.
the whole, we would ob/erve, that the divine hifto-
fian in the \fi chtkf. gives us a fhort aod general ac-
count of the formation of our fird parents, and then,
proceeds to the fan£);i6cation of the fe^enth day, bvt
in^^hnf. ii. he refumes the relation>in a more particu-
lar method.

Q. Whether tt is na mere Muersfofg t» the fnfrutj ef
i4# £nglini tongue, in com faring em tkmg with mtetmt
$0 make ufe of thao» than then ?

ji* Than \$ more agreeable to the Ortheepeia of mo-
dern Engitjb. And it mufl be alfo allow'd to be moft
agreeable to rcalbn, becaufe it diflinguifhes the eon-
jun6lion of comparifon from the adverb of time.

(^ ffhetHer hak^ when fowdered mth cemrnm.f&wJer^
m»y he tommorhf caUed ceUtered f

A* The reafon we i^uppoie^ why you doubt of iu
K, becaufe white h vulgarly reputed 00 colour. But
the incomparable Sir Ifaae Newton has demooArably
ihewn, that white is c^mpos'd of a doe proportkm'd
mixture of rays of all forts of colours.

Q. From whence, arofe, the cufiom of ^tUemtng the k^
mejit of the cler^ to fame cendemned criminali f

A. When knowledge was reduc'd to So |bi^ an
ebb, that he was accounted ap admirable fcholi^ who
was able to read Latin^ the benefit *of the clergy was
tUowM of, as a proper method for the encoutage-
ment of learning.

Q. Apolio, Tray infefm ut^ why a man^ ( who immo'
dffhf fhewt hts backfide throK^liHs ftfkt holts) is term'd
it Heathen l^hilofipker i

'a. Beeaofi^

I

The BiviTiSH Apollo. j^t

jf. Bccftufe the Piiiioibphcrs of old de(pi7ing wealthy

ind all the vanity of gaudy habits contented them*

iWcs with (lich poor dreiTes, as have given occftfioa

the proverb you have raention'd,
^Q*^ Whether th$ conjnnBm (or). ^ ccfuUthi w dif'
Itve f Becaufi « Uarmd man, in 4 Use Mrgumenf
fed the former f

The coDJuo^ion (or) is » disjunflive. But

there is a disjun^ion io all copulatives, and

[ation in all disjundiives, (but with this difle-

[hat a copulative, joins the words, but disjoint

but a disjunctive disjoins the words, but

fen it) thence we fuppofc;, the Qcntleman's

have taken its rife.

fame pecfU verf freqtitntly talk to themfeheo,

flone, nay, even when they, valk m tboftretrs

i

^^ other than the- produdi of an ill habir,

therl^ft is of the fame nature with tboie rarr-

which diflerent perfons a^e di&rently

if imp^h yfimg ferfm heMfh U lif mi&

[advantage to the one, and a difadvan-

'. And this it occafion'd by that at-

prevalent in human bodies.

what is the true intention of flayt f

mankind by their moralitj^ and di«

ir humetfr. At lead it ought to be

fafitrot and fatiifaUm reeenjer what
\ottbU has loft i

can abiblutety recover the former
refpe^s, becaufe they ma ft alfb re-
has loft ; and rarely recover what
loft, by reafon, (if riolent^ they of-
lood, humours and juices of the body s'
Ideratfon, all ought to fummon their
to oppofe thoie fatal enemies* to an
id not give way to them.

STj \ Q: mm

>94^ Tie British Apollo.

90fm tbtjr ^ b$Mv*m 0n damTd t*%urtud w§i,

Ssft whsi's ihi torturing rtiik thtf tmdtrg§ i

I)§ thty the ragi tf liwd fimnis fuJUm^

Wttb mdkfi m^pfi mtd maffMUi ftun j

Or 0rifrejb fMngs fit iVir tm ^gtm»

Wiib cmfmm hamrsfir thtfi cnma tb^'v dtm f-

A. The rebel bodjr, partner in the fin.
Will (hare the woet which (hail in hell begin $
Twill fmart for guilt to dreadful tortures doom'<b
Whilft always burning* and yet ne'er confum'd*.
It durft not hope» its pains (hall e'er expire.
Immortal fuel to immortal fire.
Eat* O ! therackings of a confcioas mind !
Confinous of fins, in ho((ile clqb combinM ^
To plague the man, thej once with Judtis kifi*
With artful fmiles, with ialfe delufive hUis»
And t^peacliCroifs embraces (lily lurVI.
To deathleis torments not to be ettdiir*d«
The blazing glory of eternal light,
Ezchang'd for difmal (hades otendleis night*
With keener poignancy will pierce the heart*
Enhance the pangs, and fublimate the fmart.
£xcIufion from the rapt'rous fight of God*
Will add freih tortiire to the g^ing rods
To think that be no lefs than heay'n has loA^
lyhtle unmixt wm (p dear a Utffing coft $
That he, than Efau motti with folly fraught*
His imhright fold, nor yet the fcitMg$ bought %
'Twill urge his foul condenuv^d witn fiends to dweO i^
'Twill CTown his anguifh, and compleat his hd(.

Q. Could I htlkve Philander rniltji mm;,
JiMd tluu bU kve far mi wm*d mt» diclki,
Utm fpm wo$dd Sylvia thm.bir y'Mi^g bmrt r^gn f

Bh$ wbin I tbidt b$m tft tbi A^ mmdp
^ Ijf mmtf diCiirfml mtm btuk bun bttr^'dt ~
^'h Jib ! then my hUod jhrmks btuk^ tbm Sylvia u aftmif

7U9»wit's numfbtm$ viMors^ ym wbi fim
Ji$s/msfar all fbmgj tbtu mn dam bAm,

^fipJML I mg PhllsuiderV ft^ kinm f d? ^

^

r

Ti&^BRTTISR ApOI^LO. P4^

ji. A ftrong aod vigorous defence comfficiids
The hrave be&ger*8 gallantry and tends
To prove that his attempts were all for gUnms mdu

Oppofe then all tb'addrefl^s of your fwain.
Give him no hcfis^ but give him no iifiUim%
' Let him mjh 00, yet let him not t— wm$h cmmpUm,

His cmfiwuy in tinM, hisfiutb may prove.
And that ( with reafbn^ your compamoa mo?^
Aod then yiKLjigkm£ may cmfeppu Uv0»
Q. Since ym're plimUfw U tmfm^^
Btyi, womm and men, Sir^
J fn/time t^ to find ym this ^er^
f0?ich is, I dmU dosth.
In jMT f9m*r to mah ottt.
Or dft I womld m V havt tome natr jff •
/ am kiMitbful andfirongt
Brisk, JoUy, and ymng^
Xft whomver my nofe I do blow^
rm ready to tumbltt
f0fhh makes me to grumilo,
Area/on rf't fam I woM knom i
Ji. Two ways it may eome»
By o'erpoizing your hum*
tl^iiiU your brains with your flraining you jumbkf
Or your nofe by lewd jilts*
Miy be loofi In the hilts»
So the pain may incline you to fumUe.
Q; 2Sr Ddpbicks, '^ p were but tnn mm^
Tott'dm^er ajfume tho name (/Numen 1
Whm Uk»Jly friefts, SebsndyoH he^
To premft the helMni dei^ :
IBut ifyou*re ef immortal raeOt
Wbf dye your pedigree difgrace^
90>on to fourfilves yem incenfi kindle, ^

HWfi oteer votaries do dmndle.
Ihus in yottr kksndmng metre fyrtc.
Ye ffread your fidfetne fanegrick,
Pretending that your booth itfaUt
HUfm nmi coma ith tbo fW'p ^^

P44 ^^^ British Apollo;

Own then far /hmne ym hauls of Uggns^

Tm're pr'afts, and quacks, and fettfagiirs,

yjbai M y^kr twn tradts fianmg wtre,

Now bsMis f4lf» ^Ify fhter j

Fiigning you've goi the leamed's ftfifiJ^

Selfpraijmg bards in petticoats,

Wiilfi I to faxe abfierging Manus*

Clap yptif performana to my Anus.

A. 'TJs plain, jour trade has been to sobbUf

By tender-laying lines which bobble i .

But mark, what for a proverb, pail,

Frefame not fitter 'yond your la(h

Vnthought of thing tbou'rt in a inaze»

To, hear that others merit praife i

<And 'cauie thou art a ftranger to it*

Dotl fon6\y think tbat we muft woe it.

Wc plaudits ty'ty week decline,

Vou'd rnake thee like a pageant ihine.

Until the unregarded elf,

Thus furbilh'd wou*d forget its fklf.
Like JS,fop*s toad with poyfi>Q fraught^

To be an ox's rival thought,
Thou fwell'ft with envy, but beware,
Thou doft not his misfortune (hare»
To burft, and fo infietd of fenie.
Vent but negleded noiie and ftench.

But mod we find thou doft engage.
The blunted Atyr of thy rage.
To fee a female's thoughts out-ihine.
That glimro'ring, glow* worm light of thioe«
Th V cold^ etUhatm^ ne'er alas !
WiU for zfetuaU vigour pafs i
Vhat lines canft hope then to produce*
Who has no flrength to farce a mufe?

k is not ftrange fuch an infienus^
Shou'd ufe our papers at his aumsp
Since in his head, his writings (bow.
He has no more brains tbao btkw^
So there as proper^ may be iaid»
Tq be apply'di as to his head.

Q^ I. mi*

The BRiTfSH Apollo. 94f

Q\ I Whkk Uth$ mtfi muimt, thi church of Rome
•r th§ church of £ogJand ?

2. Haw hag gfier Chrtft^andwha wms it, PHftfrUMjr%
that fiffi freachedthf Goffdinthis iJUndl

3. lVer0 naf m§ Mi eftMflf'd ctmnh Img bt[tir$ th9
Popes of Rome imd M^muthmty m $bit iflMndf

4. WbM*s tin mtMung cf tb$ w»d e^tholick, Mnd vhf
W(9^ church of Romdn^MRw that nanu t9 th§mfdvtsi
mnd donotvi fum to tdi§m cf it, fy eMttgthtm Romaa*
catholicks?

f. ffifat0MthrtnMtsSt/l9Btbiignti^ig^ rfotttCk/reh f
A ffetdy anjwtr woM it th$gr9Mtfi Ktidnfft inuginM^^
a dear frtmd kamg nbmt to afcJUtixjto that thurch, en
mn 0pimon of its btmg thi Muient^ aahohck Church, tmdthar
w» wtnjifi convmui iy hit.

jis An anfwer being of [peedy coofeqaence, we Hiail
fay fb much to tbeprelent cafe, as may be fufHcicnt to
reftrain a reafooable perfon from«fo fatal an ap^acy,
and give a more diftin^ repiy to the ieveral queries
in tbeir proper couric. '

The firfl quedion is of the £ime nature with tlHtfr
common query of the Romanifts, whtut vttsycuir nii*
i^'M Seftrf^ iMiher f to which the general aniwcr is
■p the BibJff. ^k we therefore fcparated from the-
^Sburch (f Rfime, iRiure Shi had foriakcn the old reli-
gion, the religion begun by Chriftv finifh'd by bis
Apoftles, care^Uy preierv'd by the firft ages of the
Church. Whence our reformation, however falfly ac--
cos'd of novelty, was yet no other than primitive Chrii-
tianity reviv'dj whereas the Rimsn was an upAart,
was a novel Church, novel with rcfped to the aoti*
quity of ours.

Whatever objet^ions may be ftarted in favour of the
Church cf Rimt,th\$ one obfervable is fufficient 10 coiv*
found them all; namdy, that we cannot poflibty com-
ply with her propofals without incurring the guilt et
lin. And fure pofitive inftitution mofi always allow
the pre fcrcncc to moral re^itude, which ercrnaily and
irrsverfibly obliges. And to inAance in that prei>9fterous
doAiioe of'traafubftantiation. we oaoAot poffiblycom-

P4S TBe BmiTtsn Afoll0;

pljf tberev7itb» without at •Dce preteodiog to beliore
what our reafon will not fuflier us to bielie?e» and
committiog thateooriaous, that notorious fin, thcfio
of Idolatry : the fin of provoking a J9»lms Qedy rf
fhmg bis gtmy t§ tamtbir. And therefore, a permiifioa
to go over to the Chmch tfVjmf is witmmt the li-
mits of Omnipotence it felf, which cannot di&nnul
the :verj loweft.pf moral precepts^ cannot repeal ^
iDDch umiiftifi bi^rfthefi Om nmm i i m mt s.

Qj H9m do you rtcoadkjhoff two foomrngfy d^^n9^
rohmom ffvoBusofjiiii^t'sdiatbt m Mat. xxvii. f.smd
A€ts i. . a 1. 1^ tbo/ormtr wo ruJ» he caft down the
pieoes of filfcr in the Temple, and tieparted, and went
and hanged hirafelf: mutmsbo Isttir, and falling head-
long he burft afundcr in the inidi^, and all hiabowds
gttfn'dottt? '/'

^. Dr . Hmmnondtsiktz notice, that»r«)g^«f fignifica^
tojfr4W|^,as well as to iftmgi andv^m 7jN^fit^,fid*
fing on onesfMCol as well as kendbng. And theref^ebf
the former pailige he would, hare ns nnderfiwt that
ymdm was fb overwhelmed with grief, as to^ in •
vanner ftrangled with it. But he thinks it^nbtfiii*
whether the latter pa|PS^ fliou'd be rendrcd jMnpssf , or
ogfmifisfiui, finoe^wie know not wAhe»e «x]yiT'd
smndediately after m was ib overwheK'dWth grief $
£>rfbme time afterwards^ when his n)|daiicboly waa^
ffTiv'd at a criiis, threw himiHf down'^ a precipicr^
IXpon which we wou*d ob&rve, that if' foch a in^
gulation be admitted, it is more probable that it Was
sot immediately previous to his death, fince this will
lurnifli us with a reafon why St, Mtnthtvo omits^&t
jremarkable an occurrence, as that of Ji$dMs itirjhni m»
frndirm tho midjt\ for if there were fome interval &•
tween, the cvangelift soright think fit to relate only
what immediately became of 'y«igf.

A latter commcotator alledges many infiances to
prove, that dnal^^xfi*^ figaifies to hmg i. but beauie it
hss that figrificatioo, does it therefore follow that
it has no other? may not U^ri^xi"* ^^ well as othef
words» be e^ vocal in its import^ aad indeed, Ir^-

mm

ItBi Er r t ryir A rcrz e a. 947

i|««#< ttict te ID the icaf^of {lifiFoadng or ftni^og,.
And the pailagff cited bf Dr. Hammmid from St. Chf^^
fifitm^ m\x& be allow'd to fix tbi< figbificatioa upon*
Ae word, ankfs a mio . may properI)r4^ Aid to be
hang'd witb the terrora of oomcience. '«

If we admit of our tranflation* tbe paflages maybe'
reconciled thus, j^iuias might endea?our to bang him-
fclf, but by the jerk of his body, when removed from
what had before fupported him, break tbe halter, and
fiyjing headlong on. the^cund, or upon his face, might
burft his belly* And if any thiak either the break-
ing of tbe baiter, or the burftiog of tbe belly, to be
any ways in its felf improbable, we* may add the ju-
dicial concurrence of a vindi^ive providence..

Q. fflmt is tbipamuBg tfth$ word faculty, vhm t^^
flseJ t0 Uamng f

ui. iksthe word fseitlfy, fubjediYely. confider'd, im-^
ports the capacity or genius of a man; fo obje^ively.
confider'd, it iignifies thefeveral arts and fdences: aa
23&M^, £49, Fbyfokf fh^ofiply, &c.

Q^ fPhithn there, it mg [uth thmg mfu&m f

A,. Sudiion, if allow'd of, is no otho* than a /peciet^
of attractions £0 attra^on is acknowledged by the
beft modem Philoibphers to be an obfcura term, and
is call'd by Sir Jfoac Uewm, a tendency of one* body
to another! which tendency, he fays, is in allbodiei,
bat more intenie in iome bodies reipcftively to other
particular bodies i wjieace he folves the ilowiiig of
tlie tide by fuch a tendency, and not by preflore. Biit
it is unimaginable that tber^Alould be fo powerful a
tetfdeocy in the water to th$ fucker (*> word fram'd
agreeable to the vulgar notion) of a poSBfj^MJ/^ ^
to Co great an heights bgt theinllances of what is vul-^
garly call'd fusion, are clearly folv'd by the preflure
of the air: for when the fucker (:to uie tJie vulgar, the'
improper word | when elevated in jthe pump, protrudor
the air before it, and leaves the borebdow itinaman*
mf deditute of airj the air that preiKs the furfaoe of
^ water in the well round about the pump, maker
^ water natar^lly flow t{> that part» wixre itmeetas

k

j>48 The Britisi^Apollo.

not with in equivalent refiftaoq^ whence it cohfcquenf*
]y fiCes in the pump. And of the nature and the pref-
fure of the air« we may frame a very eafy conceptipo^
from theinfbnceof a barrel of bees i for the air in and
. tbout the foifet prciling upon the beer reftrains its flow-
ing, unlefs by a vent at the top the there circumam-
bient air be a counterballance to.the aforefiiid prefTure*

But to thif it may be perhaps objedled. that hov
can the rifing of the fmoak of tobacco thro* a pipe
he otherwiie accounted for, than by the prevalence of
liidioa? to which we reply, that this Phimmmm alio
Is prodnc'd by preilurei for what we call the draw*
Ing of our breathy Ikadiflention of the lungs. Whence
the air in the pipe, our mouths* and other intermediate
parts, having immediately recourie to iucb vacuity l
and therefore the air that prefleson the iurface of the
bowl protrudes the fmoke upwards, where it finds not
a proportionable refinance. And this (blution is equal-
ly applicable to all other iuftances of a fimilar nature,
as the blowing^ of a pair of bellows, fji^c,

Q^ 'lis wtU kmwHi that when a ftrfin has any paint
▼12. as fain in the fide, Jhmach, gripes, 8cc. whilt thy
heldthiir Snath thi pain ceafes,

A, We dp much queftion, whether what you afTcrt
be tr«e of all pains in genera] \ but as to any pain in
the fide, flomach* or guts, it is not improbable but
that the holding of ones bieath may caufe fome altera-
tibn In iu becaufe during that fhort interval of time,
the rucceffive motion of contraction and' relaxa'
tion, which is C9ntioualIy perfortned for expiration
and infpiration, not only in the ped^oral and intercoftal
SYufcles, but aifo k tho/e of the abdomin, is fu (bend-
ed, and by confequence the pain that is moft feic in
the time of the aforefaid contradHon is taken away, or
at kaft fbmewhat alleviated.

«(J. iPhmce is dttii/d the tpord-^irds, for TMs>

A' The word W deiiv'd from the Bard't, the moft
ancient order (and very reafonably belicv'd a religious
order) of perfbns among the old Britains: they were
toore.tho DmA, tho* aficswards tclifi'dhj them in

- "• point

point of authority and repatatioo. Thej are takes
notice of hj ftveral ancient authors; as StttA$, Hi^
tkmst &c. thejr were wont to fing tbepraifisf ' in wo '
fct to muiiclr) of eminent and renowo'd perfc
whence they are call'd by the fore-inention'd aath
Poets, Songfters, Conpoiers of veries, and the ] ^
They were-employ'd in the apotheofis, or deifica #
of diftingui(h'd heroes. They reoeivVi their mod
the finging from the Mohmmmv, who Were the
that by the neceifity of their affiiirs, and their e
ordinary skiil in navigation, under their great I
HtreuUh not the Qftdun Htnmkt^ but fOn to the
of 2)Tf, traded with the inhabitants of J^m, but
xfpedally with the more Southern parts of it, u
there are ftiU feveral femarkable relicks of fhce^,
nntiqaity/ Nor is it any objedion to this, that t.
were caJi'd C0<J^ a Greek word for foitst as deri\
from «VJW, to fing > For the Qndfms themieJtres i^
ceiv'd the method from the Phcemtims $ from whom
when they hfed Jearn'd to traifick Into theie parts, they
impos'd the IWemention'd name, dthil upon the Bar*
di, in order to dtceive poderity, and be reputed among
the future firMm as authors of the method. Andthia'
is but agreeibtf to their ufdai cuftom of arrogating ail
inventions and antiquity to tbemielves \ of which, a-
mong axhoufand more, DtucMMt flood is a memO'*
rabfe in (lance.

Q. / hi^ving Utefy Sem invhed' to tin tu^tnumn's bottfk^
U dttnce ccuntry'iUnces, one efiht company hogan iho new*
fcgarics j / bring a ftrangtr fo moft ^ the eomfnnyfrr
down, and de/ar'd to be txeusU for that dnneo, fo all tho-
ttmpany faid it was very ill heeding to Uan/e ^fffo,

A, We would believe you were (o well iatisfy'd in
the conJu£l of your acquaintance, that they Would ad-
mit none but civil contpany; if io, it wds not a very
agreeable temper, to be the only perfon that excepted
againd that dance, it bdngatacit rcfle^ononthe reft
of the Ladies.

Q^ Apollo, tell me, fei/ me what' is lovt,
Love^ the grand ffring bji which the VMid dees ftwfo^

n tWi^.

V

PP The BtLirisn Av^i^im

jpbai h ki tnmfivm, exferknci fhmu
But v»{fai*s tin fd/ubfimia n$m0» km^s-
is ^t^jh^Hfim wAf tf tin brmnt
^Mttms Ifti em thm v*^ cmuft^ gmi
Js it tk$ dmmir^p if Udiis tfsf

T^dotttbitartif m-ftmUfAi gUtttfmg Sktis.
Th^ Phoebus, htdtthy kiUk fat m thy ligbt^
jbd €vm M thmit with tin vtU ^mgla.
Whiuthm ttrtfia, tbf mfmM tf9du0ft.
Btu SiMtt^ iftruet Stiund nm* Upmg rMft:
Ibifkrthert^. th$ grtsttrfmi it dmrts.
Jit fitrtht/ifitm <m tfts, thtmat^ tamr btmt^
Mmebi^ttbia thUis^ttathmrUtmh

Tbat ihou'rt k^oWo^wmtitfrf*^^^. , ^ . . y
A.Lrv§, t\ntiMmmmsifmg$,oa whichwc^fctoM

This GltSi firft mtfsm had, and finoothly rolTd }
rh'Almighiy fiat ^utbtiM-lMdthamt^
Firftufhcr'd forth by ibft firtipiMckpamf,
Which cfei fioce in tuoefiil order move
Exprcflive, all of fcifwwwy and ^. , ^

And iw/# which ftrikcs us niortals here below, j^>
From mtfiiu and mtts mearJMt flow j , r

StJborditate to thtx Jkft mtving firing.
Which tunes oui: fouls whilft we itspraifcs fiag.

It is no fhtmtmn of an airy brain.
Nor #rw ^^ A^*'- '^y''* ^ ^^ ^•^ to ff«w 5
No» 'tis a pnfMlfttic mti we find
In- others, tun'd exaOly to our mmJ,
Which mutuj^y Mttrsa, and to I»c^|»V^ arc mchn d.,
(^. H^htn bififfil Apollo
^MT BzphneJidfflitnv*
Old Pcneus, /6f hgg'dtodtfiry htri
jbid ki^ Ovid/iyi,
Trtmsfwmrd htr to Ayi*
MMthtr tim the het/park /heu^deitjty btiK
Sime tk fo9r Gtd tfwMer
Mtltmmthti*d his dmghtet^
j^ Sol tmifo eager fw rafe, .
Why a Ged ef fiteh pemtt.
The matd te depwer, ► ^ rrt^

ftdmtOatfgebtragmitHhetM^f' 4. ?W

fbilkiitriin Apollo. p/r

3. Tho' S^s pow'r is pbtcr,

Thao the weak G»iPs of mutr.
Yet virtMe G> ftrobg bound the thmfh

That jif$lla, oot T'ot, •

Did he equally mi»
Coo'd have ofler'd the i^^mfb any hmni *
Q^ THtM£ gmd mutJUr ?dU

ToHUt fimber M ^volkm
Xiffv hifmx wl^ti mmdm ». dm

Vbr at wiio*j m xfwwr

Jtofir kuU at damir

tmr kvmfrimd Bumkin Glumftj.
A. IDe am PoHo's hcrdfman
Vdr beater rewards man
Aid wot ere hfs feather dud voUow
His zdh has more wit
Vor gfeatur things vit
Vor Jove was an afs to wile Polio.
v/ <2^ ^ th' advice cfafrmd t9 Enf^d 1 wna,
T0 /k Cloriana, aadgaif^d her am/ent $
9b$'d even cbann I eeu'd wijh te Mdd.
Hat the emefef ail ebarms, that effka^ ^i^ »
fP^fUh' when I iB/eever^ my hve gfew as dW
'S if 4i.quotidia9 ague hadfiiz'd en ntf wOL
Tim ^iUme» Apollo^ ^J^ canuU why
f GeU^s fuch a jewel in aof, man's qw t

A. *Tis a jewel to none of a genereasroaiea^f
Compar'd to the werth of a eharming yeattg creature $ ^
And thole earth horn foals ^ who to prize it are faid» ^\
Tho* their y^ri& is for goUL yet their brams are of lead* ^'
Q. Apollo, inform mo^ (;fcr*t feems fomethiag eddy'
Bow chances^ or comes it to fa/s^ Sir,
That fomethnes yow anfwers frofefiyea a God,

And femetimes you're dull as an afs. Sir.
Toter paper (hall fujfer, if you are not ctvil.

For daihy to flames 111 allot it :.
Mat if you rofohe, ^without playing the dmmjp
^s trohaUe I mry promote it.

1-'

9^x fhe Baiti^h Apo};£(h

jt, whok you hzrc the SpUm, then you tbiak
we are duU,

Or your duim/i which pallet £oT/fieen$
SuppQ&s us nv^jr, when we are mfAfitU,

And iUrk^ when we're ^/jiSr/ and firmf.
But we cnuft intreat you decline our frMMM«%

Which we wouM not owe to fuch Sfi$ls i
For fliou'd it be thought .that you have; a irsa mrim

Of our writings t v^c Ihpu'd be thought /Mr*

Q^GriM Oracle* a/upptisai 4U yfur fief

T» iuft his Jiudfuf thoughis Mad HokkUd mind,
WiMch iottg tht mffiwk fMfen*sf9tight to find.
Wy tbi ladle 'hwe nU otiers is iftiem*d
Ihe ftmft*s wiafen, and is Uwful detm'd*

JL. Againft th^ cuftom little can be Aid^.
Since vnfty winftns fuit an tmpy hind:
For none but fuch the bcuqr weapon (hun»
Accept the Indli, and decline the tn^ui,

Q. / Uttli intpMdyet tmfn$ nnd^Mt,
Myfiomnch fmttd To my fm^il iflnto $
X UttU hnvt, and yet n monjf^low^
lUi^i whta I nmjobtr too^ as wtU ns tneOom
Say how fo much nrifa from fo Itulo^
Or elfi, I f^t Apolio*i but n wUtnlf

A. You're me;ry, 'caufe your ildmaci) if lb fmall»
And your expence on't next to non^ at all ;
You're fat, bccaufe mirth nxakes digeflion goodj
Extrading all the vhrttu of your fb^ \ ^
And '\£ one little were bi^t added more,
A little brains, you'd known all this before.

Q. What «i tht proper minmng ofth^ wordy Martyr? ^

JL. The word is of Gr^fifr original, and flgnifies a viiri-
mfu But becaufethofe truly heroic perfqns, whorea*^
dily part with their- very Xvtt&t m fun Msd cortain h^
of the divine fuvour, which is betttr than lift itfe^, are
the moil unexceptionable witnefles^o that faith, which
was onci delivered to the famtt, thence the word by way
ot eminence is particqiarly applied, to theoi. And
therefore St. John^ tho' he died a natural death at

TZ^tf BuifisH Apoll.0.' s>Ti

Efhefiis, is yet not inpropetly M'd • mmjf, 8 mtr-
f/r in hnmtign, ( which difHogaifhes his otherwiTe ufl*
diftiogutfli'd bnvery from iMrtyrdotn in f»a) fince
^ gave as uoconteAable an evidence to the Qof^d-
truths, as eitfatfr of his two eompinions in that JUc^
triucnWrate > fo peculiarly fivoored by their gracious
MskRer, inafmuch as he chcarfiiHy flibmittcd t6 th^
fiety tfytU of the boihng oil, however miracolottftf
re&ttcd thence by the wonderful interpo/al of an an*
ezpe^ed proridcncr.

Q^ H^ read in Ifaiab, chap, xxxvlit. veric f. Be-'
hold I wiU add unto thy days fifteen years.

HAd rniy man fow9r t» mkrdir hm^ ^ bad mi h U
€cmmit W filf^murdfr f If fi, ii is agMin/htk§ vmd ^
God : If nty Mgamft fit fra-wiU cf mm t

*ui. God who foreknew all the fcveral icctdents of
4ife» might therefore know, that oo nan wou'd at*
tempt to murder him ; and that fo horrible a fin aa
felf-raurder, wou*d not gain admittance in bis thoughts.
Other particulars might be fuggeftedr but this is fuf*
ficieot to (olvc (he do^ibt*

Q^ P0f4t is the ntrft^ tf that Mffirtiw if Sofof^on'k
in Ecclefiaftes the fth^ vfrfi the zd. It is better to
go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to the bouie
of feaftmg ?

A, The preacher intimates the reaibn of it in the
latter part of the verfcj Fsr that is theend efsU mfit^
md the living will U^ it to hem. We dluft all of oa
go, fooner or later* to the houfe of tnonrning in a
Uridler ien(e $ Fer it is apfeinted f^ mm om^ to di$^
and therefore it is uieful. It is neceiOry for us to be
prefent at the melancholy ibiemnity of a funeral, finoe
nothing more proper to read us a leAuie * of morta^
lity, to remind us of our difTolutiOn, ttod prefent ua
with that famous Macedonian motto^ Mifjumre Jvdfet^
XH if. Remember that thou srt mortal. The houfe
of. mourning corre^s the levft^ of our ipinds, checks
our ambitious thoughts, retrains the 6inta(lick ialiiea
of our fond imagtnations, and teaches us to knem tbtn
wtLttro Ha tmit. The houfe of moarning» aa it fean

fonsbiy

S)f4 ?2^ British AroiLa*

£miMj femembcrf at of our kncr esd* of tbat great
d^ we tre all of us to pay s fo it coaiequeatly in-
ftru^s u& fi u wttmber $m iUfh m /# mfply mtt huim
mm$ wifdom v it ioftrudls^ us to mett the epicurcm
fcene, to neitiier mi aor ^imkt to do neither to cr-
cefi* becauie H wtimm w£: lU hmfi tf pmatmi^
it obliges us to refled upon thole nrifcarriages. whidi
repreimt death in £i> terrible a form ; for tbiftrng if
imh if Jm I It both prepares us and reminds us too»
to bewail our finfulnefs, to lament $ht ivd of amr d^-
mgh and thence entitle ouri^ves to an ineftimable
bleffing } ikfid m tbe^ ilm$ m9wn% fir thf flM k
ttmfmtd t Comfbned, as was LtkZMrm in AkrubMm't

But the houlb of feafting is reverie to diis } it dif-
lbl?es our mindfs, enervates our thoughts, e£R»ninatA
our jbuls, and makes us to \Kdt9pSkm vauit^ ; yea,*
to be ligbtir thtm vmii^ it filf. The houfi ot feiMtg^
k fias th$ at/U dmf fat frm m i it flatters tta as if
were with a prefent immortality, as though we were
fieaftii^ on the tree of life ; it &y$ in another fenA^
than the PfaMfi means it» it trcacherouily Ajs, T^sn
G$ds9 mdj$ are Mtb$ Mdrmtftbe mofi Hgb: For
fifiM not Me Ukomm^ yt (tM not fiUl iike eng ef the
*frmis. Well therefore does the preacher %dd^ ^hesre
ef^mfi U mehe imfi ef fBeiermng % bta ibe bemrt e/
fielf is in the hmfe ef mirth,

Q^ Tmr ^imm is defr'd ef Apoflonius Tyanams;
time freimsdid wender'Werkerf wiim fime-men Mr$ ^
wttmi kUf^bmmfif t0 e^e r# Htr Sieffid Lerdi

A. Tiio' ibme perfens are ftrangely food of their
msgh^ darling AfdMus^ they have yet been fuffid*
cntly Mffied -by learned men : But for the iake of
^hofi^ who have not the opportunities of books, we
ftall endeavour a clear difcuffion of the matter.

Since PMe/kittess is the man^ upon whoft authority
the Aory is fo eagerly embrac\i, Jet us examine the
charader of fo authentick a perfbn. Were FMefinh
aisi a jttdicioiis, a grave hiAorian i were he t P/mMt-
*m Mivnmfi M Jus life oS MOmm mmti^^

thefe

thoie diiraden of fincerity £6 einiiMntl7 cooi^icDont
in Fltamd^j kvu i M$ might have given fbmc cottn*
teoance to his relations, tho* otberwHe both upon a
fiender foundation : But when we meet with notfatns
of all this; when inftead of an hiltoiao we meet wttfi
■ rhetorician ; with a flourilher i with one who-
Ibem'd to prefer pleafure to profit* elegance to trutbi.
with one who feems to have chofin rather to have
dtrerted the fancy, than informed the judgment of hi»
readers. When we obienre that he compofed hia^
book of wonders at the command of ^^ttlis the lt#-
mfsn empreis i a Ladf , wlw as he himielf confidSea,.
took wonderful delight in rhetorick ^ a Lady, who
feems to have been a ianch ^i&mi/!^ to have been
pleaied with nothiflgmore than rt bmrfimemmtbugi.
wlien we oonfider the peribn who wrote the book*,
the Lady he wrote it for, and the age wherein he
wrote it (for romances were then in vogue;}^ when
we oonfider theie concurring circomSanees> we
SEiaf weft look upon his reladons *s Ulitdit^ m^.
kfs otherwife confirmed bf « dmd tf wkm£isi or if
by ftwcr, yet osqoeftionable "evidences. But finoe
FbHtfirlfMs was later than Aftttaums, by an iDtermedi«
ate cenmry, he muft nccelEirily refer us to former
teftimonies. And here b^ tells us, that a friend of
one l>«f9H» who had wrote coromenfianes on the life
of his companion :jpollmms, preiented thole commen*
taries to. (he empreis JWb* But this is but the evi-
dence <^ a fingle peribn, and that of a friend withal.
Whio out of randneis for £> intimate an acquaintance*
i»y, and for himielf too, that he might boifi of the
huxiom of a iamiliarity with fo wonderfo) a perfoaage,
anight be tempted to forge fuch blasKiag. wonders, aa
are ibi tmds if neither trmth nor fiimup. Nay, tho*^
I>fimu were a credible peribn, yet we muft depend
npon the bare word of bis acquaintance, that be gave
111 m thofe commentaries afterwards made uie of. Nay*
tho' his acquaintance were a credible peribn too, we
mu&yet rely upon FUbfiNUm and JWiw, whether Ho
macb as one rwtion taken notice of in the commen*

tarici:

9ftf Hi British Afollo.

caries of Dtmis is inserted in FifU$firMiiu's romaooi,
9uc may he doc appeal co a general eradiciOQ of woo-
ders, buc a century before per form 'd ? Alas ! be Jos
himlelf prevented Co nuich as cbe bare fufpicion of
iuch antboricj* while he makes ic macter of melan-
choly complaioc > that while Icfs deferving philofo*
pbers were for £>. many ages in admiration, yet tiie
memory of jlftlUniiu ihould £o foon expire. But tbsC
the very memory of a man fo famous for furpriitog
miracles* (bould in £o fmall an interval be intirdy
eras'd out of the minds of mea» is a mtracle as great
as any of chofcv which j^Momus is fabuloufly re*
vorted to have wrought. And therefore wv canoot
but acquieice in the condufion of. a learned man, that
chere is almoft the fame certainty, that the miradea
of AfoUtnius are fictitious, as that the mtndes of our
bleiled Lord were a^ualiy performed.

But the foregoing argument may be confideraUf
jconfirmed by another coofideration of great impor«
tance. Since the Chriftians made daily prolelytes to
Chriftianity^ by the perfuafive argument of our Sa-
▼iottff's miradea* the Heathens woi£i undoubtedly bava
confronted .them with thoie of ^/«//iNMv/, h^ tbey
been fenfible that any fuch were done. And therefore,
as the Chriftians were continually infixing on this
perfuafive argument $ Co this mu& have necellarily
perpetuated among the Heathensi the daily rcviv*d
memory of thdr great champion AfMnmu^ Upon
which account we cannot chufe.but d)ink, that thoie
learned men draw no precipitate condufion, who de«
mur, not only to Afdbmm'^ miracles* but to bW very
ezillence too. Reajfon therefore warrants us to lay, that
if any give aedit co fuch incredible legends, they folkmi
dtvi^d indeed, but not CUNNINGLY divis'd, fmiUs.

Tho' what has been iaid, fuficiently deftroys the
credibility of PifiUfirMtsis's relations, and we are tben^
fore unwilling to be any furtho* tedious s yet at the
defire of any who (hall read this, we fliall be feady
to offer Come furth^.p^ticulara* which may not per*
baps be unworthy of ri^d.

7T>e BritItsh Apol4lo. pfj

Q. PPbttbn it ^ a^/h ^-^at Skek f^uUkgi, m Ler.
crimp; vii. Tcr. 2;« if is fmi^ WJutibaFer foul it be -
tkat eac^h auiT* nianQcr .0^ bloody eveo that Ibdl OaU
be cut o^F ffpm liis people ? \ .

^. The lAT^ttcd ipSuu(hvi war i^ reftri^hre oocw
aod as ^ as not ipc)liAv#^of the. moi^ hw, whk^'
is of ctq'oal aad .untver(ai oUigattoii» coocerned nona
at the verj. tioie jgtf ^ica deUva;y» but fodi arwero .
members oF the c9maK>n?wiBalcb of ^«dL . And tf i.
the law bas bpea /ince repeai^. bj: the fitmejuthocief \
by which it was eoaiS^d^ ^Do^ ft- is notvajra obU-t.
gatory to the J^f^^/ themrei?e9. But wbefeas a, mora >
plaiifible arg;umept \% dcawn agaiiift fating. Uood fiom
the jTolemn determination of m great apqApliealfiouii* r
ctl at y^uftiUm^ you may fii^ a.cofifutauoaof k in
a former paper,

Q^ iV«X* hvm d$ y0H reemeiU tbefi'wtirdi in tbtCs*.
Uehi/m^C The bodj aod blood of Cbrift, Iffticli la »&•
rily.iind fodeed received bjtjt^ faitbiuitin' the^Iio^d'i; ')
fupper) mfh a frtufttm^i MM rf tk^: riml tr^Htfftlfy'i
amlimen^ I da nffurt^ ym^ A^ am frai^^i ff^ifi^t ■
4ind bofe I fiail dU fi : iut t^^ Q$tjti^ knng 49' *
fyned kf tie Cimrehfir 4h§ iftfirtMmitf MUrtih Jffd
fir pt§fU shMt^.gQ no fmher f§r tbiir ri^ion^ it fi^
> 49 fnt to ftnmir too. .much of trmpUfitmfiMim f
I .^. It Were indeed . to i)e wi^'4» that this pafl^
of £0 excellent a CatecHtfhi were more catitiiMi(Ij(fj|«' ^
picfs'd» .iince inteaditd for the.isftni^lioQ'of ^^hiidreir*
wj>a, mud bt allow;6d to bs^t^ksMMe^ of nicf diiino* t ^
tions. But our mother C^borjqh "Ins abundantly 4t'^ *
mondrated in her canons, in her atticlcs^ in bBt.itp9k**K
munion-ofHce, that ihe intendsi nqt by the words to
inpilcate^. io prepofteroos a dodrine .aa^.tjliat of ;tran-
" iufiftaotiatioD. , When therefore (he Afs^ that 1^ Sniff
taid blood i(ci>r^ ^yofifyf tmd mdtod tnhiiii 0tHf tr. :
ceivfd J^ i£i fiutifyif in tho UntdU Stt^ i She ija^tts no \
more, tWn that ^th^faithful by ^ partaking of .|h^COn?..Y
iecrated elements of bread' aod wi^, do as poi% imd^
ind^od partake of 4I the<bcnefits and advantages of o«r
Sa^ioutls paffioQ^as thoiigb they hatt) anally parfakefi

of

>\\\

PfS SSf British Apoli»o/

of Us mjr body whicb was broken, and ha rerj
UBod wbioi was flied upim the crofi.

wA s cmigb Hit fm^ftik wy ufml tim$ is Mt tm m
^ wmmg tmd Jkm an iti §vemng, Tbt fUegm is
'iUch^mU wbaijkt md inmif ttfittiUs Che/ike «&a^
tbm's fknfiiL Ifimakms Iwva fM be^d'^ieh, M ^Mfm
wifi mn vmy Msly^ fi§if fnmd, mid $Mi beMrty^ ni
momidifs mn wtm U 4 hm^ skdetm, I bma 6m
ftmytms m LondoOf trnd/mtyiurs «/# mss fick tf
Mfkir m dn mrvis, I famk i$t0ce9» smd 4m, mi
mur wm vmi iWMCir«##r^M*» if my fiim'df pibjwk u
tmifitmfnmi, l i^ ^m$ f^M mfirm me m jmr mxt
fofm wk0tm0f ii the tecMpmi Md if I am m a erne-
ftmtftim, wketk& the fmeMtg ef te^gcce, er Uvmg i»
temn, ef either be fermmmt sad what tmif he tetn/mit'
em te ersdhde mj mMladjff'

-JL Tbe firft occafion of this jour indiipofition was
^prdbabij) cold, wbich Uoding up the pores» tlirew
bafcfc ifte ftrofitiesy wbich ftcwM hare perf}>ired into
the imafi of UdodL aad were thence depdited into
the ltuigs» where at lengtb pntrefyii^ this phlegma-
tick mSm was bred : And if joa are not already
coi^aiptive» we lave reaibn to think jott are vcrr
near it» and would therefore have too to cohfult with
£>me of the more learned in pbyfitk for jour further
prefervatioiK

Q« ^ GemMmtm ef"^^ tt affUMn ttmce bemg cmtttt&ed
msyeiiujgtMdjft tmdfit tkmn : But feme tme sfter
she eemt^sM Cfit^ ishm^-fesfm ts tmkmtm^ fem mm m
ksdrn'-emd 'm m^s^t ^^^ ^^ fl^ trijhed bm m geed
jeemtey, wfthft^ferk ether ttfrmts fhe fui ttfmJnm, tee
hng te infirt% mtd vrithsU d^kes him te reUsife her. rf the
mmrMS pnjp*d hetwem thm, as Jhe M iim far rver^
whMs itm mmimglfdmetin Mrfidfi: Same ttme mfter
ehetmfy nfemmg whm Jhehad dmUt; ftqmfiedtb^ Geth
tkmmt te ttmk$ geed the frem^ htt 'had ifsade het fir-
meri^f whieh he refm/kd te dt. I dtpn te kmw whether
$hi GmthmoB itmtta hhtrtj te pttAt the fame effers te

^i BuiTtsH Afox^lo. ^C9

A. \f tbe rdeafcs ii«re as faronHf aade is the
«ontnft» be would hare been aUUntcif at iiberqrto
addrefs aootlier» had^ no Tach affinmc been gifen | bat
Ihookl lie accept her repentance, after lo rade^ ib
grofi an affiront (if wtfnMHtd H u") we fear he wouki
mvemoreoccafion for repentance UmiUf after, when
it would be too late. .

Q. 90y hut mm mify §f M tMng trtmmm his /ke§
Kf$i2 »f ttmtrds hiavmr

jL As fuch- an ercdka of the coantcnance to hea*
Ten* is more noUe and magnificent than a demilli^e
iipe€ti £o it beft becomes that creature, whom the
Ood of nature intended to be Lord of the Creation. •
fflad therefore voucblafed to grace with a majeAick
ibru&ure of body, as well u with fuch a capadqr of
ibul, as flxHild be fit for empire. - And as man of aB
lubhmary creatures is the onljr one eapible of rdi*
gioo $ Co what more proper* than that the very po»>
Sure of his body (houU remind him of his dutj i re»«
jiiind him to €onmiiplate hearen, • to adore the m^
tbor of hk being, the fnfirvir if mm. And to tM»
the poet may Item to hive an eye, wbeshedegantlj
fiys I
Oi umwh jiuSmi mdht ccutmMm tiui^t
y»JSf» & ireB§s ndfidmt uOin vidttiu .
A lofty afpcd God on man befiow'd,
ftb U4ch hmh 9hMt hi to his Midtir tn^d}
And bad him view the ftars, ir^^M sfhh tMel '
<y. thsf^UkpmMmmmitjhmiohmvirlfiihimB
M fim m trmMn^y mid look m fide ns Jttuh. Jhi mere
IJkivt MgmufiU^ thi watfi I mm I amnoi tmdgisn th$
mmmug efh, thenfire d(jko ymr tfmim f
^ A. 'We cannotj Madam« entertain fiich an uncha-
ritable opinion, as to think either malice or anttpe-
thy can nod a feat in your breafi s and thoefore coo«
«Iude, that this .mighty JyeUquismp mxid: be the effed
of inch an irrefiftibfe power, iixch a foTcreigQ paffioiv
as that mentioned by the poetAf«e^iM» :
Ijtt^ mmr fin/us^ ocaks ferjhinght & Msftri
ts^mmem mrimi^ fmrd ms fitfimt mte.

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p6o ?3&tf cB,H:iTi5H Apollo-

i^Tlu^mghlow^.Ae Cc9&9>fA the fight's confinM,
. : And io?e. like wopdrous magick fwtjrs themtnd.

Or;99 it f< more pttbetiollj expreflfldby HipprfWif
' 2^. necxmem imhi, mc cokr

:: Cenk fiidt m^mi: imwkr c^ m ^tfiun
, Mmtim Msm, jirjrtfem^

j^mm Utttis femtus maum ipuhts.

My. ^ourags ltfls» my ^Ipur f$desp
i , And through each trembling incniber. wades :
. The <ifop& which down my temples roll,

Pedtrt} the paflion pf my fool*
:./Q.' wMer^i mm Im trnm tiht m mi$'pd%r thmt m

A. The QUttbcr of the ribs on each fide arc nato-
raijjf equal.

Q, Apollo, Tfmf fdvt pu Tighu Sir,
Jfmhig mmtffoiU tbefyUt £r»
jtU'^ u dm, tire ntifm wfy. Sit, ;
A$4 fl^ jfOHT ffrvMUTboih^ Hy!^»

A. That- onionsk honeft T^Mmsu Hf^»
When eat^ei^ indi^fe the eyes. Sir,
Is true, becaufi they iend, 'tis plain, Sk^
Ofienfive vapours to the brain. Sir.

Q. / bmf s rdMtim gtmfmfy ttfUQU whb th^mt,
Mnd bus him fir JwtfU ysurs* Vrtiy mfirm mi fimn
jihmci it frocads f

JL, To pais by trntuAfm^t tartarous noixture widi
the J^n«niiA% Helmm's acid infedion of the Areb^m,
•nd many other cauies here too tedious to eoume-
rate i we ihall think it fufficient only to offer, that
the gout proceeds from a vicious difcrtnyof the bloody
whofi; acid and fidine recrements, nature, in defence
of the miQre princinal parts« protrudes to the mofl
remote .ones> vix,. the joints of the hands, arms» l^s
tad feet.

iO^ AyMtn^ man if my jtupuMUMna if la yiars tf
4i£if bss btm fvr thefr 4 letirs Ms fftj ufm thi hiod «/
mift mm o/fiur/an, Im having had no mkhana nfcn its
mithtr W0S it ivir/»i wken bi wtt$ m child t

A. Authors

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^. Authors give us ieveral inftances of pcrConu
whofe hair bath turned white and hoary in a night's
tmie, nay, as it were in an inflant, through tome
great fear or extream padion. which perhaps may be
your friend's czCc... Scaliger fays, in Exercitation. 312;
That GonzagM ha?ine impriibned a near kinfmau in
.a ftrong calUe on fu^icion of treafon, that he mighc
'receive the reward of his demerits, news was brougbt
him next morning that he was become all white and
hoary : And Schenkius, Ltmnius, Hadrianus, fumuft
iMdovtCHs Vivex, Callus Khodoginus and others, give
more examples of this kind. As to the reafon hereof,
we take it to be. That whereas the blood and hu-'
mours* which doubtleis nourifli the hair, h render'd
chilly by fear 3 £0 thq, nutriment of the hair may per*
haps be fo far vitiated, as to caufe this alteration i
and they being of a diaphanous fubdance, and confe-
quently fubjedi to bear a fudden change of colour*
But for your further fatisfa6lion, fee DiemerSrceck's
AnatQm, Corf. Human, p. jfp, f6o,

Q^ If whti/i in bUfs, ypHf hapfv k$Hrs ym ffend^
.An ear y OH deign to humane fufferings lend,
Bleji youths, vouchfafe t* ajp/i a wetched fmain^
IVtth your advice, and mitigate his pain.
Love o'er my hearty an empire ne^er cou'd iojtjl:
Nor havs I ever yet my freedom loft,
* No nymph cou'd e'er fuch powerful charms imparU
Jls coud prevail o'er my well-guarded heart,
Urttil the poWrfui little God of love.
To be reveng'di fir ft fhew'd me in a grove,
Ihe charming Phillis, in whofe fparkling eyes
His whole artillery in ambujh Ites,
I0?en firji I faw the fair, a pUafing pain
Vofftfs'd my heart, and ran thro' ev'ry vein (
/ never thought my h^art to love inclm'd.
But beauteous PhiJUs fiill fo-is i^ my mind,
fVaene'er I laid me down to take my reft^
Her lovely imjige flill was in my oreaft ;
Rethought I held her melting in my arms,
fofffs'd of all, and rev'lltng in her charms ;

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Bta when T ea^ wmi to grajp the fitir,
Ifwni but emfty armi^ tundjkemg Mir.
My Jying tea fan yet did faintly tfj,
7b keep the field againft her enemy ^
Bttt love, triumphant^ get the viHery.
jU la/I I let p^ charming PhiDis knen
The pain, which I fer her did tmdergo.
BHtJhet alas ! my bold addrtfs difowns.
And I can nothing meet bnt /corn andfinomi
Although 4ny birth and fortune equal aire^
And per/on not uncomely does appear.
Tell tf^i ye fftges, how her love to gain.
Or hov I may my liberty obtain f

A, Tobe (hock'd at her frowns, becomes your fanhi
The firt is pghtedt g^i^'d ^ em aJfauU i
Renew attacks, nor give her any refi^
Till you have made impre£hn on her breaft s
Nor hope a kind furrender to oblige,
Till you hare gain'd it by a formal fiegc*
Your conAant vigorous^ efforts, may be
Means of that bH/j, you now deffair to fee.
If after all ihe will relentkfs prove.
And deaf to all th* addrejfes of your love s
Then her ingratitude, perhaps may cstre.
And you her fiorm may with negleSl endure,
Convinc'd thii/he has not that^/, chat/vM#
Engaging fotdy you coveted to meet.

Q. Tell me, ah ! lell me, fins of art^
What is the caufe of found of fmmmt^
And why, as we have caufe to thinks
Some do much more than others ftimmk.
Jf this you anfwer, learned fwains.
The next I lety take for your pains f

A. Iiitcfline winds do f-^ts create*
And thu5 infpire your rattle pate :
The ft.— ks attending fuch defcents.
Spring from the foetid continent?.
The hogoes thus which guard your drains.
Speak them the iiTue of your brains.

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Q^ TVtf Gimkwtmin in great difirtp dtfrt yem advict.
Thetr fasber bmg duU tUfmt lo j9»i 0g», their mother
married agiun, A mimfier ef the ehtirch of England, wh§
htfore his marriage with their mother^ told them both ft*
veral times they might live with him^ and he woM havo
ttothing of them for their diet ; which fromife he hath rei"
ttraiedfince he hath been married, till both of them being
tome to abottt ti years ^ ago, and having received from
mo 0f their unkles a finaUfam of money fir their fortune,
bo hath pitk'd a qttarrel with them^ and threatens to or'*
refi them, if they don*t fay him forthwith fir their diet^
H^hen they dtfke him to remember Ins fromife^ he anfwers^
'tis a verbal eno that f^nifies nothing at sill' Some peofU
advi/e them to fay him without any delay, otho^s would
hetve them go to law, either of which advice will ruin
4homy and fend them a begging i

A* Though your cafe may appear hard at firft fight*
yet it is not really £>, further than thus : IF you aiiy
V9Vf pronooted your father- io-law's marriage with
yqar mother* and the match anfwer'd the charge he
took upon him ; or if he exa^ed more for your ix>ard
than you could elfewhere be boarded for ; or \£ your
d^pendance on his promiie prevented you frdm tak^
ing other methods for your fubfiflfcnce ; if either of
thefe he has done unjuftly by you, and difhon'ourably.
In infringing his word in any point. But however
it may be, they are extreamly in the wrong, who
fldvife you to go to lav^ivich him \ for tho' we wiU
not fuppofi? your father-in-law will be forfworn, yet
the Chancery will exa^fi: a valuable confideration ia
fbme kind for the charge he hath been at. All the re-*
]f«f we can propofe, is, to obtain of fome friends to
perfiiade him in the bed manner they can, and to
urge the fandion of his word, and your dependanccf
thereof.

Q^ / happening to be in fome perfons company one evening^
who refieded very much upon a certain young Lady, a
weighbour ofhsim. Now Gentlemeny your opinion is defired*
whether it was proper for me, as being a neighbour, to fpeak
ftp in the Lad/s beiidf (he not being there to anfwer for
Joerfelft T t a .<f. Not

j<54 ^^ British Apollo.

A, Not only a neighbour, bur (hould yru hear
flrangcrs abus'd'by refleSions behind their backv, you
are obliged by cbriftianity and humanity to vindicate
them.

Q. lather tht enjoymg ^of oufward things ^ or the cm-
itmmng of them be the mojl dffireable f

A, To evidence the preference of the latter to the
former, we fhall not inlift upon the uncertainty of
outward things, iince the (Irid^ purport of the quc^ion
has a neccflary regard cither to the prcicnt enjoyment
€f them, or to a permanent continuance in fuch an
enjoyment. But yet we may confider thoic fbwr in-
gredients, thofe allsying mixtures, which even the
very lead allay 'd, the moft un mingled of all worldly
happinefs is conflantly, is inseparably attended with.
Though a man be not made rich, but be always foj
though the glory of his houfe be fuch as not to need «o-
creafe j though according to the meafure of humane
felicity, he his all things at-his defire ; yet he will
fomecimes meet with fudi^ bitter portions, yet gall
and wormwood will £o intermingle with his Aiff
and bis honey-comb, as to give abundant tedfmony to
that divine Aphorifm, mun is bom to trouble as tht
/far ks Jly upward. Though zn Haman be the happy
man that is honourable, not only as was the Syrian ge-
neral with his mafler, but with his fellow fubjcds
tooi though able to lay in the words o^ Job, Whenl
vent oat of the gate through the city, -when I frefared w)
feet in the ftreet, the young men faw me^ and hid them-
f elves, and the aged arafe and floe d up s though thus
able to boa(l of the homage that is^aid him, yet a
clownifh, an uncourtly Mcfdecai ihal] damp his joyi
imbirter his delighrs, and baiiance the bended knees of
many with the undiftinguijljing hth^viour of zfmgU^r
fon. But a difpoiirion that heroically contemns the
Toothing infinuations, the flatterfng addreiles of tem-
poral enjoyments, it is liable to no allay, obnoxious
to no dependences, fuperior to all contifigences, to
all events. He who has learnt to defpife a defpicable,
^hough gaudy fcene? of him we may be allowed to

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£^yj thmgh a thoufrnd accidents befall him, md ten thn^
J^nd are at his* right handy )ec they can not come nigh
htm. To him wc may fipply that cjtprcfTion of the
poet's :

Si fraBus illabatur orbis^
Jmfavidum ferient ruina.
The very world's foundations tear.
And fcarlcfs he the (hock will bear. ■
Ihefp'trit of a man, when it can thus fujiain hit itt'
jirmity^ wlien it can laugh at the treacherous pageantry
of iablQDary happfnefs, it h a never faih'ng baTiam»
(hall we fay, againd the froarting evils that aflault us ?
Yea« it is more than fo j it is as much preferable to
the very balm of Gilead^ as it is better to prevent tbaa
to heal a wound. And therefore fo excellent a fpirit,
ft is not a cure,. but a prefervative, k is not a remedy,
but an antidote. To moralize the fiction of an in-
vulnerable AchdUSf here we may apply the (lory, with
one additional redridlion only j namely, that the brave
contemner of outward things has not fo much as an
ung$Mrded heel. ,

Tranfitory plcafures are fo difproportionate to the
vaft capacities^ to the bouiidlefs appetites of our cra-
ving, our immortal fouls, as fufficiently to verify that
general obfcrvation, ih^t fruition is unequal to' expeHa^
tion. And therefore, while wc expc(& a fubftancc.
yrQ grafp a (hadbw ; while wc expeci a ynno, wt
embrace a cloud. But he, who can contsmn the worlds
and the things that are in the worlds centers his happi-
nefs upon adequate, upon proper objects, the very
contempt of that, which others with fo much eager*
nek purfue, afford him an inexhauilible fpring of
' Hooding joys i afiord him fuch fubllantial comforts^
as fafs all underflanding \ fuch ravifhing delights, ^
the world can neither give, nor take away.

Thofe outward things which Icem fo havt the Ica8
of cmptinefs, are yet, alas ! impair'd by a contrary
extream. They no fooner regale than cloy j no fooner
pleafe than fatiate ; no fooner fatisfy than furfeir*
Cut he > who can overlook fuch vanities as thefc,

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knows how to be regal'd without being cloy'd i to be
'^kt^h'd without fatiety j to be fatisficd without a furfeit»
Q^^ether it be afitfiramMn, after ht bad frcmiftd
to have a certain Lady^ and aftervftrds Jhotild have more
mmd to another t to marry the latter , iecaufe he thmks if
be had the formtr they fhould not live haffily together,
tho' the former has the moft money f ,

A. As we fuppofc your k\i to be the pcrfbn conccm'd^
fo we are obliged to teii you, that you fliould have
maturely examin'd the temper of the Lady, (houkl
have nsade a ftrid^ fearch into the qualities of her
mind, before you had proceeded to the inviolable fo-
lemnity of a matrimonial promife, to that non regre*
eliendum eft, that prohibited liberty of making a re-
treat. For the promifc you made her, was for Setter
or for vporfe, unlefs other particulars than that of barely
thinking, that fhe will not make you happy, could
juftify a di Engagement. Tho* yet a reafbnable fufpi-
cion of your future unhappinefs will warrant you to
make felicitous application to the Lady, that ihe
would be pleafed to be fb kind, or rather £> cofl«
iiderate, (for £nce a man and his wife are no longer
two while one fkfh» their interefts cannot poffibly be
divided) would be pleafed to be fo confiderate for her
own fake» as well as yours* astogtveyouadifcharge.
(i^Wby any man keeping himfelfin one pofiure, (in on
Miry place) and awake, fhould not catch cold as fion os
fUeping in the famt place, and pofture i

A, Becaufe in the time of Heeping there is retrac-
tion of the natural heat ; whereupon the circumam-
bient air enters the pores, and coniequently the ex-
ternal parts muft be rendered chilly.

Q. / defire you to inform me iy whom the lEpiftk t0
the Hebrews was wrefe f

A. Some have attributed this admirable Epiftle to
St. Luke j fome to Barnabas i and others to St. CU*
mens. And the reafon that gave occaiion to fbme to
rob St. Paul of this incomparable treatiie ("for a trea-
tife it has been thought by fome, rather than aa
cpiftle^ ]s« becaufe the name ofthisapofile is notpre-

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fixt to it. But St. ?Mul might pertioently omit his
naixxe* becaufe he was the apollle, not of the ytws^
but of the Gentiles j and becaufe (afs Clemens AUxan"
drmus excellently adds) he had fuch an awful reve-
rence for his Lord and Mafter, who was the very great
apoftle of the Hebrews ^ I am not fent (fays the UefTed
Jefus) but to the loftflnep of the heuft d/Ifrael.

Wc learn from St. Jerome ^ that all the Gredt fathers
and eaflern Churches cntertain'd this celebrated com-
pofure as St. ?(ml\ $ and in this they were followed
oy the lAtim. But iince the argument, eafy to be
deduced from i Vet. iii, /, i^. is fo forcible to any
ordinary capacity, What need we wny fAtther ttfirnvny t

Q. Since 'its the general ofinion ( and it may be clearly'
frovei )^ thai our blejfed Saviour was in the grave^ or
ftate of" the dead little more than one whole day and
two nights j How are we to under/land thefe words in
Mzt. xii. 40. which fiem to have been prophetical (ftk0
time Chrtfi was to con tinue in the fefulchre f

ji. Since our Saviour notwithAanding your afHrrcH
Oft be acknowledged true, was part of three days in
a ftate of death, it is no unufual figure to repreienc.
fradions under the integers with the fubjedis they
are firadions of.

Q^. Xou give an ingenious foetick qtteriftyour ofinrm a*
bout predejiinatian to eternal mifery i which does not fully
fatisfy me, fray^ dtdfM God from all eternity foreknoi»
that man would (!n, forfeit his favour thereby and be an
pbjeB of his wrath t did he not likewifefareknow hefhould,
and determine to fend his Son to dye for finners f did he no$
alfo foreknow thofe certain indrviMtal perfons, even by nmn$
{and thenttmber of *em) that would clofe with Chrjfi, and
thereby become heirs of falvation upon his terms f Sd he not
likewife forefee, that none of thefe would be able to comply
with the Gofpel terms without his ajjtflancey and at the fam$
time (if I may fo fptak) determine to grant it ! granting
thefe, pray, wha( did God do with refpeS to the refl of the
world f I think, he pafs*d *emby, i.e. did notpurpofe to give
'em that grace, without which they can*t perform the terms ^
thereby thy are left to final fm\ which God forefeeing alfo,

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dTtd ^ not furfofe to funijh 'em vith eternal tUmnMftonf
jfihich amounts to the fame thing as the other: fori yiar-
: rel not ahut words > pardon the length, andgivea candtdaih
fwer to a lover of the truth,

A. The whole thread of the arguincntation cen-
ters in this; that God didno^propoSro gfvctothoft,
vvhom be predeflinated to damnation, that grace, with*
^ut which they can't perform the terms of falvation.
But that God did not thus unconditionally and rigo-
roufly predeftinate any to damnation we appeal evea
to him, who predeflinated thofe to falvation whom he
foreknew; the Lord is not flack concerning hhfromife, buP
is long fuflering to us-ward-, not. willing that ar.yfhouldf^
rifljy but that all (obfcrve the note of univcrfality) hi
ihftt all fhould come to repentance,

Q^ Vray, what is the meaning of the words ^Solomon,
Ecclcf. X. and the latter part of the i ofh ver/e — for a
Bird of the air fhall carry the zotce, and that which hath
wings flmll tell the matter f

A. The meaning is, that we (hould religioufly abftain
from the mifdemcanorfpccified (as indeed from every
other fin) and not truft to the fecrccy of the commif-
^on, (ince there is nothing hid, but whftt fhall be made
manifeji, nothing done in iecrct, but what fhall be
frocWtm'd upon the houfetop. For the time will come,
^Nhtnthe thoughts ^all (as well as of many^ hearts
(hall be revealed,

Q^ Mark xvj, i6. He that believes, and is baptiz%
Jh^ll befav^dy but he that believes not y fhall be damn*d.

If mm are faved but fuck as believe, haw can infants
btinafiate of falvation, fince they are not in a capacity of be*
iieving f or if, according to the received opinion of the ana-
haptifls, they can*t be btjAtix^'d unlefs they believe ; hov
mufi children free themfdves from original fin committed by
their firfi parents, fince they are not of years to underfiana,
Tphat a covenant of grace means t but if adults are enfy
to deceive the benefit of this covenant, and chddr en exempted
from baptifm and in u flate of falvation j then the evan»
g^iffls muft be fnppofed to fay, he that believes, and he
iiat biUnts net, yhaU befavd.

N A. Some

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ji. Some general fcntcnces carry with them fuch
neccflary and natural rcftridtions. that wc cannot for-
bear to wonder, that any fhould overlook fuch obvious
referves. And what encreafes our wonder is, that the
moft illiterate in their common converfation do both
imply and allow of iuch eafy limitations. Strange!
that one manfhouldfo readily undcr(land^ another, and
yet be £o very apt to miltake his Maker, though he .
acconrmodate himlelf to his own modeof fpcech, and"
condefcend to a level with his capacity. When our
Saviour therefore fays. He that believeth not, fljall be
4Umn*d, one would think that th© very infants you
alledge, could almoft know, that the meaning of the
pafTage is, he who is in a capacity of believing, and yec
oelieveth »o/, fhall be damn*d. St. PaulCzys, if any man
will not toorkt neither Jhall he eat^ And yet who of us
will fuppofe, that fuch perfons, as through wcaknefff'
and inability of body are incapable of working, are by
thatapoiiolicalinjundfcion condemned toftarve?

Q. IPhaifirt of fruit did the forbidden 'tree bear f
Jl, To pry into/ a master which can be learnt na
where but in theScrfptutes, and which yet the Scrip-
tures give us no account of, is in a manner to imi-
tate oar mother £^'e's curiodty, and, as it were». ta
tad of the forbidden fruit.

Q. Horn old was Adzmwken Eve wnsmadel
Ji^ All that caft with certainty be coilcfted is, that
he, was not a day old. But how much fooncr on. the
fixth day he was created than Bi'f, the Scriptures ac-
quaint us not, tho' indeed we read of ^me ioter-
vening occurrences.

Q. ToH hold the fun to be an immoveable center, and
the earth to be elliptical', ivhifh opinions feem not to be coV'^
Jbnant to Script ure^ or reafon,

'Tisfaidy that in the days of JoOitra the fUn T?as fiofd
in its cottrfe for fome time 5 which I take to be an argw-
ment to proze the fun no fix' d body ^ if it ts, all times of
fheTcar wfifi'd be alike to us, if the foles of the earth ar^
Jix'df, as none doubts but they ape,

T t J jfgain^

,-.—,-

570 Tie British^ Apollo.

jQam^ if tht fun bi fix^dt hiw was it fUted in tht
firmament (as we rtad in Qtudis) for figns and ftafons^
fir days and years f ' "

If the earth ke elUfticaU the city of London and aU o»
ther places on the globe muft be fmttimes elevated^ md
fomstimts defreffed^ to make good fear opinion,

A, The Scriptures were never deligd'd to teach us
a fyflem of aftronomj, and therefore accommodated
theoifeives to the capacities of men, who inthofeearif
times underftood nothing of the earth's motion.' And
this is but a common modeof (peech, fince thofe great
aftronomers» who defend the Copernican fyftem, do y«t
commonly &y, that the fun is fet i which is yet no
other than a compliance with the vulgarly received
hypotheds, and this h as warrantable as cuftomary, un*
lefs where we are profefiedly treating of the matter
in an adronemical way, (ince tlie intention of the {en(e
in common way is the very fame under both,expre(^
fions.

As for your (econdohjed^ion, the CopemkanszKxm
not, that the earth moves round the-equator, but round
the eciiptick, which is all one as i£ the fizn moved
ronndthefame elHptick figures the £ime with r^rd
to the di&rent feafbns of the year ; but becaufe (as
you intimate) fuch a motion of the earth round the
ccliptick would change the fituation of its poles, the
Ccpemicans havehaj^ily found outa third motion, which
they call the motion of inclination, or declinatioD,
which motion holds fo conftant an an^ogy with what
they call the fecond motion, as continually to defied
the sxis of the earth from a parallelifm with the axis
of the ecliptick.

^As for what you iay, if the earth ly cUtptical, (jpc»
it concerns us not at prefent to fay any thing to it,
iince v/e aiierted not that the earth was elliptical, but
that it roov'd round the fun in an elliptical figure.*

^Whether the fun or earth mpves, it is yet the heat
•nd light of the fun that divides time into years, and
thofe again into days and ftafons.

Q.06!

Tlhi BufTrsiv Afollo. 971

Q^Oh! gresu Apollo, to thy /acred Jbrmu
Iff our fiuiri adtrer^ intiy hem » n

Jberi frtftrMi mmj knees with anximt tkotightt^
Wait the [eUitim ef tnyflnn rtquefi^

T$U me, great God cf wifdom, hofm IJhaU
The way to ferfe^ haffmefi attain i
laujg have I wattder'd in a fkomy fath»
Hepmg at Uft forne famt and gfinmermg rof
liigbt reach and lightm my offregtd feuli
Bta oh ! thefim efaUtnjfhopet hfet,
Jbtd I am lift m ever-durmg dark.

uf. In vaia yoa'U travel round the fpacioui g|obr»
In fearch of what this world can never give s
Could you the height of cv'ry fenie enjoy*
Expand in ea(e» a Granger to all pain i
Dull repetition ibon would cloy your {bu]»
And fudden, fure privation, damp the blifs:

No. 'tis Vfithin» this trai^quil ftate is founds

A canfdmce clear and void ef aU effme.

With iurc fuccefs will crown your ardent wiHi ;,

Smooth ev'ry rugged path, give peaceful days.

And with foft downy reft indulge your nights f

Nay, what exceeds by infinite degrees,

It will in/kre a future endlefs ftate.

In fields of light, where floods of pleafures flow;

And one eternal Juhilee goes round.

Q. What fort rfvoodwas it^ where»tth Etithz caus'd
the iron iefwim f

A. As we cannot poftlbly be inform'd what fort of
wood it wa», (b neither does it concern us to kno^
the fort, fiocc not the wood, but a fupernatural power,
was the efficient caufe of (b wonderful an tm€t*

Q^ Who was the firfi King f where and when did he
kegsn his rdgn f

A. Nimrod, the mighty hunter was the firft mo*
narch. In Gen. x. i o. we read, that the beginning
ofhfs kingdom v/zs'BaSel, 8cc. and as DaM wasren-
dred Baiylm by the Seftstagint, fo this comports with
that probable opinion, that Nimrod i$ the fame witli
^Itts, who (as propfaane hiftorians inform us) was

T t 4 the

/

^yz The British Apollo,

the founder of the Affyrttm monarchy.

Q^ Whin mm that are bom blind do dreanty they %e^
rally dream that they fee things^ ferfeSly \ and though they
ffever had any advantage of the rejUSilon of the light ^ytt
th^/haU^ivoyouavery lively account of what they dream,
Mfiinguiflnng the colour between com-fulds, meadow and
faflure- fields i andiftheydreaip of fire, they know whether
it be fmother'mgt cloitr without fmoak, or jUmmg\ andwhm
they awake, can give as lively an account of it as moft me»
who have their fight can do,

A, We muft beg the qucrifl's pardon, if we cannot
\t perfuaded of the matter of fad^, for it has been the
common obfervation of a)l thofe, who have been con-
verfantvitb men born blind, that they cannot by their
moft accurate defcriptiona imprefs upon their mind
any manner of idea of light and colours i whereas if
they were reprefcnted to them in their dreams* they
would tn a manner have a per fe6^ conception of them:
but we would under(Hnd colours with re/pe^ toop«
ticksi for men born blind havebeen obfer v'd to di(lin«-
guifh colours by the'di£(ereneeof the touch. '

Q. Sufpcfe 1 by a houfe, a flable, and a horfe^ as fol-
lows. For the fiable J gave 6 times as much as for the
horfsy and for thehoufe lo times as much us for the fiable ^
thefum I fay in all is u loool. Now 1 defire to know
what each Jtands me in, and tht method of working it by
vulgar Arithmetick I

A' Since the liable coil 6 times as much as the horfH
and yet the houfe i o times as m\}ch as the fiable \ it
follows, that the houfe cofls t o rimes 6 times, thar \^ 6o
tiines as much as the horfe; attottfng therefore i for the
borfe, 6 for the ftable,.and6o for the houfe, the whole-
amounts to 6j, and confequeritly the horfc muft cod
■^V> the ftablc ^^ . and the houfe -J-t- oi i coo /. and this
at once acquaints by way of aliquot parts with the price
of each, and dirc£ls you to the method of the arithme-
tical operation.

Q, Some itars ago my body was
So corpulent and fat t
I might have faf^dforcne o^th rjmts ractp.

s . ' ' e^i

H(^d I been bhft with a frofprtidn'd height z

But mw, tM kvi, that killing gtkf^
Trh grown foktm and thin,

I4yfiijh'ftarv*d bones treSt their heads, as if
Ihey fcorn'd to lie imfrifm^d in tnyflmsl

Inform me then, ye fons offame^
jind with found reafons /how^

f0)ether nobody ftill remains thejkme,
jind what's become of my fat coUops mwt

A. You boaft your former corpulence^
But now bare bones declare ;^

The greateil reafons then arife frooEi heaec^
To make your alteration plain appear.

But. howy through lovet you're thus oppre^
Is clear, fince ftrong defires

Inflame the regions of your fickly bread*
And kindle in your heart confuming fires^
Q^ I07ilfi two months or more
fVith'your fiUnce I bore,
J flattered myfelfwith an anfwer, !^

Believing your God
Might be taking a nod,
' Or fumpingfor wit to advance. Sir,
But oh /• have a care
How you anfwers frepire.
With neither folution, or meaning-,

For 'twill make the world laugh$
To be pds*d by a calf,
' After two or three months nice defining %
For if in thofe lines
One ray of ivit fhines,
Mere Apollo his anfwer in^ts, .
J^y calves may as wen

Put in for the bell, i^

Aid vie with his fms for bright farts.
Then let your next tell
Why mutton- and veal
Fi^eive . their new ri^mei from t he f aught er y
Since to both, when alive.
We other names give,
s,\dndjcu'll hearno more o'this matter , A> What \

P74 75&^ British Apolx^o^

A. What! the calf come agea

With his iracund peD>
To propofe us more bull- elocution i

Tho* Ills radical drain

Does iriforia him (b plaiOf
That he'll ne'er yearn a better folutioii^

And fince in your tbonghr.

Etymology's naught.
For your viduali take this our condufioo i

'Tis a notion of things

Which from foreigners ipriogs*
That occafions this verbal confufimi*

whop whoU /Ml he equal to tho eontonts of « circUl
jt. That is, youdefireus to iquare the circle.

Q^ f0yis the fun tSj Jays mpajphgfrom tho tqumx
1^ March to tho eijutnox ^September, and but ij^Jajfs
in fa^gfrom tho equinox of September to the o^tmox
of Marcbj tho difiofioe being equal f

jt Tho* you proceed upon the old Ptolemaic fy^em,
yet the diflerence is the fame with r^rd to the an-
nual motion of the earth i and the reafon of that dif-
ference arifes from the elliptical figure, which the eartlr
dcfcribes round the fun j for that part of the eliipfis*
which is intercepted between the equinox of Septomior
and that of March, is not fo large as thai between the
equinox of March and that of September i and hence ic
is, that the fun in winter is nearer to the earth in g(e-
•^neral) than it is in fummer.

Q^ I havejomo tme fmce married a wife wkb a very
eonfiderable portion^ I havitk very little Jo begin tho world
withal before I married her : we lived for two year 9 and
upwards as comfortably as man and wife c<mU Itvo $ but
mw of late, whether orno tho Be* ■ ■ / is in her, I cannot
telit for without tho leafi provocation in the world fko is por^
fetually a jarring orfcolding'y fometimes fhe t^lsme,thaO
before fljo married me iJoaJfcarceaflfirt to my batk'y wkh
this and a hundred more provocations fho it perpetually to
plaguing me. I defire to know thofpeediefl andfafefl way

ta

Tke British Afoi^lo. sr/f

t» curi this D^^^^^^l of a wft.

Smtgood wives they are grown [o fearcf,
A tnaii had Setter be
Wtthmt a JUrt upon his A—

Than Itvo a life like mo.

A, Thou unreaibntble man, to enjoy four and twentf
l^oney- mooas, when one is fufficient for others; and
not be contented 1 but before you proceed in your in«
▼edi?es againft your wife, confider whether you have
made yet full retaliation for the fortune (he {nought you
when joa had nothing of your own 9 if nor». it is the
poorefi {atisfa£iion you can make her, to give Rer the li-^
berty of her tongue i nay, poilibly in return for her
taking you without » (hirt, you are in a way to leave
her without afmock, and then with gpod reafon,.

This fermentation of her blood *
Being very like to laft.

E'en be content to ehom the e$id
Of pleafures which are paft»

Q. In this cold and uMendfy dknate^ whether T, /mt
American, ^ the mdvmentj of the ftars^ am throfm (Lke
a/moaking foot toafi into a pot (f hot ale ift Jtnuiry) frono
the glorious beams of the mUvming fan, to thegnajhneg of
teeth in Dorea'i dsssfy territories ; finding necej^y compels
rm to array the outward man with thrice the common load if
Viftmomst to prefirvo and defend it from the injurious in^
fuUs of the inclement veather, do hitmbfy intreat your un*
err'mgfhipSy to advife whether it's beft to wear a flannel
waftcoat next my skin, or not ; I having attempted ro wear
om^ but finding it makes my parchment carcafe always in
humid fisdorification, 1 have defied till 1 had eonfulted
the oracle; who may likewife be very ferviceablo to your
own nation* in Anfwering this quejtian to oblige a Jlrangtr,

A. Sinqe your application of this &ttcy tegument
to your buckram cuticula, hath been tbo procatarac*
tick caufe of hydrotick evacuations, thereby occa-
fioning a gradual reparation of your cadaverous parti-
cles, we hold it more falubrious for you to trarfmo-
grify the prcmis'd tunic, and contrive one which may
be fuipended overyour chilly ilioulders> and furniih

you

yj6 ihe British Apollo.

^ou with fufHcient (helter agaioft northern bla(^s, and
eqdip you according to the diftinguifliing mode pso-
per to fuch countrymen.

Q^ ) I Apollo ! Ova the fiur
Jn cautious charms their rnnard fitants declare i
Jf yeu fdtow th^ can, then fraj reUte,
Jicvt in their phiz to read mv future fate ?

A. Their fpeaking tycs will tell.

The hidden flaaaes within their boforas dwell i-
AVhich a quick-iighted lover cannot mifs,
But thence with eaie may learn his future blifs*.
Q« In vain foor Strephon daify lies,

A frofirate at my feet i
When all his pleading looks Mndfi^hs
But cold indifference taeet ;.
Thf' gentle pity o/tferfuade my hreafi^
That pains Uke his Jhmld furely be ndrefCdi
But fom all tendeme/s retires.

And, as hy feme decree*
Idy heart refifts allfoft defres,.
The God*s no p9»'r an me }
Thus I all lovers Jfy with equal fcem,
And f mile fo fee the cringing idiots mourn.
Till aoj», you Apollonian wits profound,
What fecret powers my heart environed round ^
. A. No fecret pow'r, Semtronia guards
Your yet unwounded neart.
The God of love alone retards
The million of his dart :
As fure as death it fclf, he once (Irikes all.
And makes them vidims at his altar fall.
Then pity your imploring fwain.

And fend him quick re!ief»
With pleating fmiles return his paia>
With b^my words Jiis grief ;
Or elfe we prophefy, you may too late
Repent the caufe of his untimely flue.

Another fwain as deaf to you may rife,
^ Who may revenger the con<^ucfl of your cycsl

^

7%i British Apollo. 977

Q^ JPrsy, how can bvi, /ma all allov he's b1md»
The way fir fntting others eyt$ wt find f

A, When mortals his tyrannick influence fiild»
It is not tht»/^ bi)t ht in thrm is blind*
Q. Vm tW'd of my hfi

With a Jot of a vife.
Who fi confltmtly drunk is as Apollo |

That Vll ask your advice,

^Caufi I know you are wife.
And your counfil quodcunque tUfelkm-l

Quaque no£te fie eft,

Whether drtf$*d er undrefs'd^
JUay, up or « bed, S'tr^ i^s idem i

1 would not fay fo,

Wer't not certainly trtee,
Proh Deum atque hominum fideoh

What (hall I do f

Scio nop, fed fcis to,
Shall J fcourge her, and afterwards fait her\

For I think ilia merer.

Nee whitewine, nee claret.
But a hemp-necktloth (alias an holier,)
A. Since a rice each night

Is your madam's delight.
Ne'er with beadle or hangman confront ber».

But oomply with the punk.

And each morn make her drunk»
For Similia • fimiliis curantur,
( * Our licentia poettca fro fltmlibus, )
Q: If a Gentleman ask

Of Apollo a task,
I hdpe his good manners and deeding

Will clear uf the douht.

And th' uneafinefs put out.
If be thinks the caufe worth the heeding f

The* the lines that I write.

Are not worthy his fight.
His pupil will take*t as a favour^

if the bad he cerreSs,^

And mends the defeSts
Whh his mighty ?sixniJ3xL$*s JUvoter : ^^'hem

578 ^^ British Apoli,o.

l0Hm iMter I drmkf

ffhkh moft pfpfli flunk
It a iifiur as fiber and tpiiet

As coiFee and tea,

It nier will agree
If ah my brains ^ tohich it fits in a rief*

Some vt't then befitm^

Wtth which you fi fioiw^
Te infiruB me, and an/wer the tpteftim^

That in time I may gMt

Tho* with fitsdy and faint
Wffr yenr precepts a better digefiien }

JBttt tf yoH fefi^fi

7b encofsrage my mufi.
With wine Vll enliven my wit^

And fray te the nine.

Who will certainly join
lAy revenge, to make yott fiibmit f

A* That your brains fhould decline,

F^the want of good wine,
And your mufe that appeareth £0 wittj*

Should furni(h her themes

From fuch iniipid ftreams,
Wc confefs is a rery great pity.

Then from henceforth ne'er lack

A full bumper of fack.
Or of good red, or white^ 'tis no matter i

For the learned have told.

And the fame we all hold.
That there's no dithyramWck in vMet.

Q. Jfyve has wings,, why fiays hem tity bretfi^

Confined clofe fris'ner^ fitre he eannet fly f
If he's all blifs, why am I thus diftrefs%

Can I be iltfs'd, and yet each m^mwt dit f
Sayy Uaming^s God, whefr beams ef wifihm /bine
More bright than all yottr filar rays divine 1
Teach me fime way to change to bUfi my [man»
Or drive the con^u'ring aptiye fiim w^ heart f

XHis

flbe Br iTiSH Apollo. P79

ji. His ivni/i they were convcy'dhioi to hit breaft.

Not pris'a.er there, bat j^m he holds in chalin |
He's not all Aitfs^ nor are his fubjeds ble(«*d

Entirely, fince their joys are xnix'd with pains.
In vain to us your fuilerings you tRi{>arty
Since we cou'd not retrieve our captiv'd heart i
Love is the pow'rfuIPft deity above*
And often hath triumph'd cv'n over ycve,

Q^ A young Lady <f my acquamtunct had given her

h another Gentievoman, ahout a year ago as a prefent

fowr flowers \ ihty are very like a camom'd flower^ but dt'

ftitute'of any manner effmelly their ftalk is about twice

the length ef one*s finger ; the root was not brought with

them j the Lady has never put them in water fina they

were given htty and yet they coni'muaUy bud and grow.

Now I beg the favour of you, to ajpgn any reafon for thit

growings fince they have no root, neither is it fcffibli for

any moifiure to be now in their ftalk j they were brought

pom Madera, and Jhe has now about lo full as long and

as big as the firft four. If yostr fociety have not faith

enough to believe it, I will, if you dejke it, appoint '«

place to meet any of you, and fhew you them now with tboi

buds onfeveralf

A. if the matter of fa^ may be depended on, the
^hanomenon may not unfairly be accounted for. For
the flowers may be of fuch a nature, as to condensate
the air they receive within the pores i and we iup-
po(e you cannot be ignorant, that air may be conden-
&ted into motdure i as the fweating pillars in PTe/l*
minftir^Abby are a vulgar inftance.

Q^ Whether the word fomethlng* without any word
jm*d to it, hat any fignification f

A, If the word has no fignification it is nothing ;
but we hope you won't allow fimetking to be nothing^.
and yet nothing it (elf has a fignification too, tho' by
way of negation only } but the word fomething im«^
ports the firfl predicament of being; and when other
words are join'd to ir, they may feem to determine
its generical fignification to a fpecifical one j tho' in-
deed^

S>S(y ^he British Apollo.

deed» we rather think th^t they change its figoifica-
tion» and make it an equivooal word.

Q. I4^at cools f0oner than fealing-wax t

A. Tiie afiledlions of die fickle.

(X: If we divtdi the feopU*d world in halvesy
And one fart iooh, the other fafs for knaves >
Jf this be trsse, divine Apollo, tell
Where the wife herd, and where the honefi dwell f

A. Your dividend won't hold by modern rules.
Since now one knave can make an hundred fods -y ^
AWovi'mg folly then but i^4^ fupplies,
^There's room enough for th' honefi and the wife.

Q^ Tour reafon why tnen^s beards do grew
In fummcr fafi, in winter jJbw f

A. *Tis moifture feeds the hairy ikorcsi
>Vhich heat extrudes, and folves the pores.

Q^ Therf was a certain doBor in Faris» who dfd about
the year io6o. AP the interring of whom, when the priefl
in the form then us*d^ came to the words , Refponje mi hi,
that corps fat upright upon the bier^^and cry d out, Jufto
Dei Judicio accufitus fum, lying prefentlj down again ;
the attendance being afionifWd, deferred the funeral litl
next day, which being come, they went again to officiate
the duty for the dead, which at the fame words rofe 4-
gaij^y and more hideous than before cry*d, Jufto Dei Ju-
dicio judicatus fum. They then deprrd this ftrange bu'
rial till the next day, and fiiU at the fame words the third
tHne rofe up and cry*d, Jufto Dei Judicio condemna-
tus fum. Whether this was the real man that ^ke, or
feme infernal /pirit through his organs ( My opinion is, that
it wat Satan, who thereby might think to drive others into
deffatr ; for all knowing him to Uve a godly hfe, as Bruno
faith, who was eye-witnef: to this, and feems by his wordsp
as if he thought it to be the resd man that fpoke t

A, You fay, that Bruno ( who was profeflbr of di-
yinity at Taris, and founder of the Carthuiian order}
was an eye-witne^ to the prodigy of the Parifim doc-
tor, who has been iince call'd Raimond Diocree, Ante-
ninus (arcbbiihop of Florence) does indeed affirm it ;
but as he quotes no authority, Canus (a famous monk}

afiures

X^e British Apollo, p8i

aiTures us, that be made no ftri6l fcrutin/ into mat-
ters of tadi. Gerfin ( chancellor of the univerfity of
Taris ) prcfencs us with the firll written account of
this flrange ftory } but we have a wonderful deal of
reafon to give acdit to an aftonidiing event* which
the very 6rfi relator recommends no otherwiie^^baa
by report y but tho' other authors have fince treated
of .the matter, yet they foifter in /uch additionary
circumHances as arc dei!ru6live of one another* and
are flagrant forgeries.

They who fay that Bruno was pre&nt at the dread-
ful fped^acle; acquaint us withal, that this was the
occafion of his retreat from Varis to CaUtrm in Jtttfy.
But Bruno himfelf, in a letter to BtMd k Verd (provoH
of the church of Btims) prefents us with a di£ferent
teafon of his choofing -a monaftick life, without tak-
ing the leaft notfce of fo wonderful an occurrence $
and Guibertf abbot of Nagent (an ancient and credita-
ble author) in bis life of Bruno, fays nothing of the
matter, even where it had been proper to have done
it, had the thing. been true. And what is very ob-
iervable, Feter (drfiam'd the vtntrtible) who was con-
temporary with Brunoy is iilent in this affair, evea
where be couM not)iave avoided the relation, had the
account been agreeable to matter of hGt $ nor do we
meet, (as is pertinently obferv*d) with this melancholy
tale in any author for near 240 years after the infli-
tution of the Carthufian order. .

Thefe are the arguments fome eminent Bomamfts
bring agatnft the Hory ,* and therefore, tho' it be mat-
ter of debate among feveral of them, Et adhuc fub
fudUe Us efi^ yet furely we Pro tenants cannot choofe
but jojn ifTue with thofe who defend the negative,
fince a faitfalefs, doubting and tranfubflantiating one,
can never bear a compliance with fo groundlels a re-
Jation.

Q. 1 think 'its agreed m all hands, that extmicn is a
fifi ; 6uf when one commits that crime, is not fi ( clearly
defiled') as fome could wijfj j for to take even legal inte-
reji ofapor man, {fimefay) is extortion. And I defire

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ym'd fUnfe to inform th» ffibUckt ff *tis my fit f§ tMke
more than the Uw allows, when the forfcn that gives h^
not only profftrs it^ but is certain^ st gainer by it, and
woH'd be a ^ofir without b t

A^ If the man who ofi^rs you more tiiao ufual lo-
tered for a loan of money be a poor man* \% U n#
fuiEcient plea to fay,- that be will be a gainer by it»
for din you take^ ad vantage of Che man's necefficies,
and raife illegal profit to your felf from the fweat <^
another's brow, and what h this but in fcripture-
language lo grind the poor f *Tis true, if you can make
an equal proBt of your money in another way, and
yet let it out to a poor man at a Iqgal interefl, you
make hrm a free gift of the iotermi^te difference.
If therefore your own fcanty circumfbnces will not
allow you to be fo charitable, we can fee no reafba
why .your more than ordinary demands, which wifl
be yet advantageous to the voluntary borrower, fhon'd
be included within the notion of extortion.

Q^ H^ich hath fhe moft reality in it felfy the height of
fleafure, or the height of pain /

.^. The height of pain ; fince the height of pica-
fure is generally onJy a releafe from pain, as in eating
and drinking, after the pains of hunger and thirft ;
reft after the pain of labour, (ji^c. Besides, pleafure
fickens with continuation, and dies with habit ; whereas
pain is rather increased thereby in rcndring the party
inore infirm and unable to fupport agatnft rt.

Q. How can death be /wy terror to perfins'not cenvinc'd
of a future flat e^ and yet it is generally obferv'd to he fo,
fven to profcfs*d Atheifts !

A. Bccaufe it is impoffible for any of them to be
convinc'd of the contrary, and the mere doubt of be-
inz ve know not what, we know not where, carries terror
in it fdf.

Q^ Being in company with fome Gentlemen, a diffutt

arofe amongfi us about paintfp^ and carving, fome <»/-.

firming, that thafi two arts wfr«. cffe^hially the [arm,

which others de>y*d ,* but neither being com'mc^d by the o-

tier's arguments, a wagtr was laid, and the tnmttr «-

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ferr^d U Apolfo, mth tnmtMl ccnfm to aSiJe iy kisjtuf^^
fffem in the matter f .

ut. It is a general rule* I0}»t Mgrte m • third, Mgrn
^•ween themfiives i if it te obje£ted, that a hm»k and
a hwnd are the ^unCf becaale both Kring atatttrefl
it foiJows not 9 for tho" tbey agree m the generality
of bcin^ Irving crcstnrw, yet they diller in the j^^^•
Mty of Kind : And as there i$ no tffintmi diffmnct bei*
ti^een twt> partfcalar mm, both being ratmMl nta^
tures i Co tliere is not between pmfim^ and emvmgf
for both tend to Aefimt'end, by reprefenting indi-
vidual fubflances ; and both mt»(l obfitre the lenae
geometrieai fMmky in wfrat tliey rrprefcRt.

Suppofe a painter znd'carvrr were to counterfeit the

iame perfon, doubtleis both wou*d conceive the fame

idea of him, proceed in their mmdii witir the iame

difcourfe of reafm and nrr ^ and obfirve the fame geo*

metrical quantity, endeavtmring to make it as Hke the

perfbn they reprefcntcd as they could : and fo the

draught cxpreiTmg the idea's a£ both worlcmen, wou'd

agree in expreffing the true refimHance^ which \s the

eflence of the art. *Tb tnie* one painteth and the

other carveth j but this rs a material difirenct onIy»

which argues no fpecifical difference in art or faence, ^

and 'tis the epnrial dfjfiretice alone that malceth a di-

ftindtion of.fpecics, and diveriiry of fcience. If it

be obje^ied, that the r/irvrr maketh more of thej%«r#

than the painter, it is anfwcr'd, more or lefs makes

BO fpecifical or proper difference ; therefore it is the

defe^ of matter, and not of art,

Q^ Why have mm hreafii, effecialfy nippUst fiia they
never give fuck f

A, As nature gave them to the women for ufe, fb
did fhc beftpw them on men for ornament,

Q. Why does the Horizon appear plainer in a dmdy dsy^
than in clear weather f

A, To the qucftion. Why the StM, when near the
Horizon, appears- bigger, than when, near its Meridian f
The ufual folution was, bccaufe the Atmofphere i%
more condenfc m its lower than its upper regions i

9^4 Jl^ British Apot*fco.

but Bncc Dr. ffallis has confuted the folutioa, (fie
Brinjh AfcUo, numb.*—) jour ^ueftion is thence deda-
ciblc in thie negative.

Q. ^t I d$rt to kao» where the bird »e call fel-
fare refides til the fummer } tind mlfo the bird caltd
wheat-ear, (thtit are only feen and ctutght en the downs
m SufTex m the rmmth ^ Auguft ) Irje the remainder
ef theyeMr» and why they tare only feen about that timef
. ji. It is our opinion, that the felfare ieeks colder,'
and the wheat-ear hotter countries, as was before men-
tioii'd, concerning the woodcock zad /wallow.

Q^ At telling f As fwttmes fo famous yeu*re grown,
And for fohmg of dmbts you've the vogue ef the town^

Jb your awful feat.

The little, the great ,

The aiy, the ffrave.

The coward, the brvue^ '
In cluJUrs do merrUy hover :

Tho amorous maid.

The toothlifs old jade.

The lever that's crofl.

And the lafs that hath loft
What flfo no more can recover:
Sineo to thefe and to others you give your advice,
fray, tell me your thoughts of my works in a trice.

From VztmGns juji fof*d,

I can* t fay I've kop'd^

But willing to knew

My fortune y and fo
Trom the reft ef the bards Tm defcended.

To come to Apollo,

I0xfe advice I will follow.

And do what he fays.

So I merit ifse bay^^
And from him I hofe to be friended.
Then without hums and haws fray fend me an mi freer, ^
whether thus,,ifftill in my tlyming advance^ Sir, C
/ mayn't for the laurel in time have a chance. Sir f J

A, The man that dcfircs to o'ercomc in a race,
Muft exert all his forces to quicken his face :

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But hop will not do
From famajfus^ or (b s
Nor the caU of our lyre
/Wm a ftripling inipire.
Nor diims of alliance with nlu&s t
' It is merit alone
Makes the genius well known*
Without anjr regard
To yoor rife from a bard.
And 'tis flatt^7 the laurel ainiiM^*
THI yovr labours encrea/e then, and diHgenee oMre v^i
We (haA place you amongft the PJ^/» Mimns.

Q. With Sird-BottU'dnofi,

CMl'd/hoes and tomUfi,
It Apollo, addrefs yow lea^tfd finnii

Nor eoM J titpeSk

Ought hut fight tmd ntgkOi
Wtn mt ym as ^d 09 dhiw.

tm t90 grtiU mth that Gtd ^ * BSKcbltir*'

Thsa fHakts pottnta^et mdt
Whm he has erHer*d tMr Oa Crlbrifhrtte :

So, h here I come

H^h heth trwnfet' mid drmtp
. Jind wkh fitU nfiktimte Jhn^ ye^

2 have a ^racen'i fkett

i0nch proves my dt^rtteoy
And the boy Si Sir, of me make a game ;

How (hall lit cure,

Vor I cftmot endure
Te he hifs*d^ and calCd Saracen Sam ?

A. Since the famous diiguife

Of a Saracen*^- phyz.
Through Bacehut's indalgence thou wearc(i»

At the gift ne'er repine,

Eut ftill wor(hip that (hripey •,
Wbiift his votary thus thou appearefL

And as Bacchus could fight.

And mftormi you delight.

Vou III. U u Char

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p85 ?!&«? Brttish Apollo.

Charge the French then, and battles declare 'em :

Bat if courage fhould fail.

Still your looks may prevail.
And your bulk ( like Goliah*s may (care 'em.

Q. H'heiher H is fcj^le to imvi the fmaUpox twke m

ji. We are of opinion none have it twice, and
liave given our reafbos thereof in a private anfwcr,
they not being proper for publick view.

'Q^'Sttfpcfi I fr^ure « eerttun dtmMge te hedemu m
$Bm, snd efter thai I froeure an equal benefit tebe date
trim i query. Whether I may ww accmnt this bemfa as
m reftitiuien fir the injury, altho' it was net the duty ef
rejiitfttieu that mev'd me to procure it ^ him i

,A. Reftitution, i^ith refped to damage onlj, im-
plies oo more than s^n equivalent ; if therefore the in-
jured perfbn has received a benefit adequate to tbe.dar
mage' (whatever migtit be the motive to the former)
lie cannot be (aid to b^ the worfe for you % and this
muft be allow'd fufiicient to denote a reftitution. But
then yon muft conHder, that the cafe is otherwiie with
xefpe^ to Qod, whom we injure as often as we in-
jure mam : For then we make reditution to our in-
jured neiehbour out of a godly motive, fb excellent a
fruit of unccre repentances not only the confequence
of the fin, but in a manner too the very fin it felf ;
and therefore you have reafon to be afraid, led God
Ibott'd not accept of your accidental refiitution, un«
lefs you iha!] be ready to embrace the firft opportunity
that ihall prefent it ielf, of procuring to the damag'd
perfbn fome other benefit with purpoie and defign.

You (hou'd confider too, that you injur'J your
iaeiehboar, not only in the damage he receiv'd, but
slfo in Exerting the very reverie of that good will,
which was your neighbour's due ; if therefore you
wou'd make an unexceptionable refiitution, yon maft
reftore him both.

Q^ ApoHo, Frtthee h^srm me^ »hf uny moftsd enem
Jhmld b$ tidtd» My Lord. adly» Irom whence it is d^

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^'d 'y aad jdly, If thm Jtfi mB$» rf thai thh^ why
fitViid it not bt abovt Ear), Duke, «r Kin{( ?

^« As words are arbitrary things, fo, before ws
condemn any particular ufe of tbein, we muft confi-
der the different acceptations under which they are
recommended to as j and here it is obiervable*' That
the word Lard, even when applied to, men, has ?ari«
ous (ignifications with us, as Lords of the parliamenra
Lord Chief Juftice, Lord of the manor, Landlord, c^r.
If therefore we were to apply the title of Lard in
the fame extenfive ienfe as we do to God» the uia|^
would be unwarrantable and idolatrous.

The word Lord is deriv*d from the old Saxm HIm^
fitrdt from gtvmg bread i for as hU fignifies bread,
§a/i>rd is the fame with afford 'y and therefore theti«
^2c was given fuitable to the nature of the perlbni
tbat enjoy 'd it, i^ce great men were anciently fi-
saoiis for hofpitality and munificence.

Your third queftion is anfwerM from what is {aid
above, namely, that words are arbitrary things.

Qj^ Pfity txflain thi ^th verfe of the 1 6th chapttr ef
St. Luke. Audi fay unto youy make to vour felvtj frtends
tf th$ mammon of unrighteoufiiffs ; tMt ^ when je fail^
they may receive you into everlaftmg ha^tatibns i

uf. We beg leave to explain the pafiage by way of
paraphraie.

Make fb right an ufe (in a^s of charity and bene-
6cence) of thofc earthly treafurcs, which the chiidren
ef this world are fo eager to obtain, (tho' by unrigh-
ieonihefs and faiihood ) that when your departure Oiall
^proach ( for fo the Greek original fugge(>5 ) thofe
■Very eart'ily treafures, while expended upon proper

ejc6ks, may be the happy occation of your advance*
ent to an heavenly residence, to everUfling hahttationst
Q; H^en a couple are a>ked in the church, the' mini*
fays, Ifary of you knovfiaufe. or juft impediment &c,
ay i'form me what the impediment t< t
A* Thei« arc frverai juft iniped mrnrs, ^vh?' h m.iy
rbid tht bares} namely, fi.ch as foi ow It •^h'-
arriage be intended .wirhout the ..j. . r .. vi:;

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/)f guarxiians i if etthec of xhc perfoM a^kVl be prf*
rflgaged to anotber ; if the couple to be married be
within the forbidden degrees of. conhngoimty f if ei-
ther of them have iUch natural infirnoitieay m unfit
for marriage* When therefore a couple are ask'd for
in the church» if any of the perfoos prefenc are co»-
icious to aoy of theie impediments, tkcy ue under an
iodtfpenfible obligation of declaring ir,

Qg^ Pr^ pj/tgn sbi ru^my why nw^vs cbiUtm vf A
ftrfHMpmu prove ^nferaliy wUJer than mtms^ fim$ tk^
nmf U faid t§ hmtt th9 grtaufi opfirtmu^^ a vkums
^Jucation^ as weU ms sn txemfUay faittm m that ft*
fm$ t

A. The Cuh}c6t of the quefHon is. morp common
^han true : And the principal reafon» why the pcrfiitna
Reified are thought to be generally wilder than o-
tfaerj, may be perhaps, hecaufe the wildnefs is more
particularly remark'd. But if the h€t he true, (tho' ''■
yet we mu^ confine it within, narrow^ bounds than |
is ufually let to it) we may attribute the misfortune ;
to their enfnaring cfrcumllan^s* in that Co, many cf j
them, after their father's deceafe are throwa upon tte j
world, and ezpofed to the infults of the moft vioJeat
temptations.

Qi Pray favour hs with a fiamkar exfUcmfim of tho
I ^th of the fSfh chaffer of Ifaiah, If thou titm mo»f
fbjf footy &c. nith your ofinioVt tfbether from thai text
fiii manner tf recreatiens on thi Lord'a da.y, after the
fuhlick ferv'tce is over, as taking a vatk m tho fields^ er
the like, be ahfolutely finful and forbidden^ ; and what it*
h^ty a man may aUino h'tmfelf fi as to avoid thi two
streams of fuperftition and prophaoeneis ?

ji. In anfwer to the qneftion, with regard to tiK
i:ited text, we beg leave to obferve the following par-
ticulars.

I. The very rigour of the fowjh law allowed its
votaries to travel to a limited diftance, whence we
Xead in Scripture of a fabtaoth day's joumiy i wUcii.
Ay the Jews contain two thoufind cubits j that is,<
pboj^ pighc f|irlongs» or a milc^

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l^y. The exflreinon in IfM^ of turning wr fe$i
frmn tim /Msot^, or of Jm^ 9ur pUafure on that, hotj^
day* the/ imply qOt how Aridly the fabbaoth (hould
be kept \ but enlf Torbid the Jevs to depart from
the ordinances eojoyn*d concerning it.

'^Hy% If the 'ftmfh laMr bid forbid all manner of
Ycfrefhment on the labbai>th day, this could be no. far''
ther obltgitory to Chriftians, than the nature of the
thing requir'd : For )vt are cali^d^ not unto $ondag9^
but unto libtrty. Tho' yet we (bould hare always the
Apoille's caution in our riewi mfy mfk net liitrty f$r
mm 9Ufifidn to thefie/h.

4thfyi The priaiicire Chri/luns, (and who are wc*
-that we ibodd bkme a prance Co famiiiar to tbofii
heroes of the ancient Church?) They were not fo
brigorons in their obKcrvation of the fabbaoth. Wbencef
Ibme have miAilkett the fathers in their argtunent*
concerning it» and fancy they maintain that the Pa-
triarchs before the law obfirrve not a day of red :
Whereas they no noore than prove from the pra^ice
of the Patriarchal that i j^hpifi rigotir was no way*
•bl^atory.

fthijf^ Moderate refrefliment (fuch as walking m
the fidds after the publick duty of the day is over ) ii
aiot only cottTcttienn but even neceffary to thofe,
-whofe daily buftaefs will not ailow them the recrea*
tion their very health remiires. And fure we cannot
forget what the Lor J ef the frhiiMoth has vouchiafed to
fay i tbo/MMtth^ wot msdi for mtm^ not num for th$
fMutb.

But (ince onr gracious Mader has dadt fo lovingly
with HSf Jet as fli^ Our gratitude, by making no cn«
croachmdnts opoil the buiinefs of the day ^ by not
iiegle6Hng the care of our families at home ; by oiur
moderition in the refreihment we fhall take i by tak-
ing occafion fronr the croMtures we (haU ffifev* to a-
dore the great Crostoo ; by making reiigfjHbe prin-
cipd obj&t if in company, of our difcoiub if »-
lone, of our fiafenable meditations* -SV

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990 The British Apollo.

Q^ I^ym tske $k§ tree ^lift, and the tree fif know-
ledge ef good and evil, to he the fame tree ; if not teea*
thinks Eve frtvamates before the falk for God's frobUi'
4ion extends onfy to the tree ^ knowledge ^good and
evil j whereas Eve tells the ferpent, it was the tree m
the midJI rf the garden^ whieh was the tree of life f

A Wc feevno reafbn, whj that expreiltoo, in the
mdfi of the garden^ may not reftt to the iiibirquent as
«veJl as the preceding icntence. And if fo, both the
trees were in the midil of the garden. For we hope
there is no neceHlity, that the word nudf ihould fig-
nifi^ the very center of Eden, htid indeed, the reafoa
of the thing may readily perfuade vls, that both the
trees were fituate together j for this might be done
^with a merciful deiign, that the preftnce of the one
might guard from a temptation to the other j and
thus God might, as it were without a metaphor,
bave faid to our firft parents^ 7 had fet kifore you life
and death, blefling and curfing ; therefore choofe life.
' Q^ Do me the favottr to recondlk the latter fart ^
the 3 \d verfe of the i.fth chapter- rf Mark, with tie
^^th and 40th verfes of St, Luke.^ The words rf the
firjl being thus i Jind they that were cttiqfied with km
reviled him $ and the latter being thsts, and one rf the moF
hfaSiors which were hanged, rail'd on him \ ffying^ If
thou be the Chrift, fave thy felf and us j ^ut the $•
ther atjfwermg, rebuked him, f^ingt Doft not thou fear
God, when thou art in the ume condemnation ?

A, The paiTage in the former, is a figure (call'd
^^cdoche )' which ufes the plural number for the fin-
gular, and via versA.

Qi ^ n^^^ lately in comfany with feme painters, where
n dtj^tste happened about the true definition rf drfusght^
which occafioned feme wagers ; su Ufl 'twas agreed, thot
each fhould write down his own fentiments, and thm refer
themfetves to the mofi ingenious fims rf Apollo, and that
rf their dtjmiiim fhould jump with either of the wagerers,
that purfm with whrfe definition theirs agreed, fhidd be
the wirnier i to whteh tkerrfon »o introat yottrfpeedy ««•
fwer i

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' Jl. Gentlemeo, we' will gi?e you the truth of tbe
zoatcer^ whether or not it may agree with the juifg-
flAcnt of either of the wagerers. Driuigbt is a piyficil
UwM or /mm/ JemMfirntm, and hath always fomedi-
inenfions how flender foever : And fervcs to repiv*
ient bodies according to their /orois; afpedls and fitut-
tion ; limiting and detehBinihg the fixrhce of an q|>«
jcd* and marking out the ieVeral parts therein i for
no fifperficies can exift, without being terminated B/
iioej, freight, circaJar or mixt.^

Q^ / kavi lately fimethmg (^nfiderMi left mi kj wfi^
which the Admmifiratar rtfufit t» ^, Mitd I smH$i abk-
tp go to l4Wt unUfs it be wodtur forma pauperis \ Ifhero*
Jmro humhlff beg yottr- advito^ how to begpt^. fio I em mi
mbio tofeo m council I

A. If your cafe be as plain asyoureprefent It, get
a copy of the -will out of TfoBori Cmnmons, and app|iy
~ your felf to a clerk in Chaneery ; there will be feveral
Gentlemen there of £o much honour, as they will
readily imbrace a juft fuit tho' from a fumfof. Be-
fides» their intercft will incline them, for tbo* thty
kave not their fees, ($•#. on eommeneeoaent of fucli
fuits, yet the law grants them on recovery. What
has brougbr many reflexions upon thofe Gentlemm
in matters of this kind is, that great numbers of Itti*
gious people have troubl'd them with their cafes ( on
the eafinefs of their profecmion } when there has beea'>
no right really oa their fides.

Q. Apollo's fonsf frdff tell mo why
Is gMping CMtching t Tour's Tom Gye.

ui. Gape Tom, on mtmb. olov'n you'll find*.
How gaping does Si&£t the mind.

Q. A chisrl for a muffer I hitt/e^
lll'rmtt$r*dt morofe, and a knave , %

And one mho has bttfinefs goodfioro^
And efton heals mof^ bad fcore i

Ho fmaggers and fmoaiHt

Wl^ots, cttrjos tmdfiknst.

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99Z ^e British Apollo^

Like m Betblem • man vho is modi

Wbm bis mighbaur he's kifs*d.

At Img 4s he lift,
XBr femes home, and leeks ftnfive mnd fad :
' Te iu trmtices fromifes fair,
jiJtd tm them, he'll /hew them thtk [haf0
Of bmfinefs \ Sat all ij in vain,
Ter he t&nks ef mssght elfe ku bis gaem

Me wearies me quite,

9y day and bf wght.
The fimtefy bujmfs to view %

Tmr emmftl I erano,

U^Mcb Ihefo I Jhall have,
^ \thai is,- to huw what I /hatt dot

A. WbatcYcr bis vices may be» •
' They fignify nothing iq thec»
£xcept (what may turn to good life)
^To teach thee to fliuQ the 41^.

I£ he fwa^crs and (Weari«

Frtts. cud&, and ftanes*
|k> odiiQ^is the tjoiaft ^pfiar& 1

It BUV mck thm IQ 0Hiq»

To ^ morfi ihun $0dof99f
And ^ fhtrk wiU m:mikvfM% thjr fcai<

Tbo' fltvery t»w. y(0« eadurf»
.^wtll teach y«u the 4>ptter tp m'h
Aad gfip. yooi^ exfcrifttco, wliich
( Tbo' pains now } will «fcar faridk :

But if any pai^t- ,

He denies of kls i^rt,
k juft ftiit you thpn tf)^y, adyci^rc y

The Taw will '^gf^

( Howe'er he may rage)
^That he fliall perform his indenture.
Monfieur ApoIIo>

Q^Te fie to de vans,
Vitt onar and fcarrs,
1E» pleafe yeu Jo Long havi mendfd $
Bttt here's de cafe ftill, '
To git to de Brill,
^jfijit moy ]i.tno's exftadtd, m

Tie BuiTisii Apovvo. 991

ViUym pUi to Und mo
JOhe Miiog^ to c0m mo from l>(nm^
VUhjofoUmfyfsodro^ .
Jb fHn*iyou'v duroi
Tonmk bitck ms fm as I'm vuer.

A. Dix shilling we'd lend ye^ i

If dat voud befriend yti . .
, But if yon chance dare to be Jkm$
Cefi « prcpos to know.
Vare 'm your hexes grow*
To return ua our Bino agaia.
<^ Toot MuftHr to my qu^ioa, conarimg the ftgjNuSk
fij/ingfrom Edinburgh to Lot^ont fiemsHficonliifiemwkk
thi ruks (fftMfin:for how ctm wefrfpofe ihtro csn 6$
^ny Effluvia's or emtmatioiu of tho pigeons body m thetur^
VtheHjhe if esh'ied'perhafs in a pockety ^«j, or the Wti, A^d
hofidest if there 9er#, the circw^tvoltitton pf tk^ aht wotdM
^mekt) difperfe the track of fcent that Jhehd^ left bet^d her,
e/pecinify when perhaps /he is ^ or lo dkysa goings And
iy obfervatm, they don't retttm aecording to the courfi of
UHroadt as a d^g does of a -hage^ but in a MreSi Ime:

A. To what is here obje^ed* to (hew the incon^
fiftency of our account of this matter with reafon, it
may be repli^> that tho' the pigeon (hould be carried
Jn a pocket* bag, or the like, it would no ways hin^
der the cfHtitia's or emanations from his body to ex*
hale «nd be di^>eried in the ahr i fcarce any thing bat
a glais hermetically fealed could do that, and if it were
poffible to make the cxperi meat by putting her in iuchr
a gbfs, we durft almoin be pofitive, that fhe wouk^
neyer return to £o great a di^nce as Edinburgh is frbm
London* We own» 'tis likely that the circumFolutiotip'
or ^ny other agitation of the air may fcatter ibmeof
theie effluvia's; but we may vdry well Ydppoie, tharT'
they, were not fcattered fo far, or that there remain
ftiii enough of tbem, to makeafenfible imprefflon up«'
on th^ extreamly nice organ of the pigeon. As to
what is ailedged, that they do not return according tiy
the courle of the road, bur in adiredtlincy it does not!

V u f ieeai

jPP4 ^^ British Apolc^o.

leeiD nccefiarj for tbem exadly to foUow every tum^
log and winding of tlie way, but only to deviace very
snucb from it» fiaoe in all probability tbefe efflum's
are not confined in tbe air' wttbin fuch narrow boundia
faut are extended to fome latitadc.

Q. f0uu is the miwung tf P. S. tmd N4 S. thMt w
tftin fttkd ik thf Poft*nian /

A* P. S. ^Mdsf OT fififcript, znd N. S. for nem-fliU.

Q^ Hbw came mmVtjt and kaltomsfirft mte the world f
fy thMt I /ball kw» the erigmal efyeur feeiety, Tettr ruff
emd tugged fac'dferv^au D^i-Miio'd V— — .is.

A. Juft as ^tufSt which our tufif and rugged-fiu^d
ieri^nt may explicate* if he keeps by him the original
of his genealogy : tho* this no more diA:overs tbe ori-
ginal of our fociety, than bis wife queftion does his
underftanding.

Q. I09ether it be m crime to fing modefifings: and if k
he, fray refilve me hew far it ts erimiaai ?

A. If you fing fo much as to bring your Alf into^
a Confumption, it is a crimen and £btar fuch, accord-
ing to the hafte you make thereunto.

Q^ f0>y do mules and moyles never gtnerate $ and what
teafon can you afcrikefor nature's flof ping there t

A. Tho' it is generally reported and believed, that
tbefe animals do not generate, yet fome have been of
opinion, and among them Varro, that learned Bjunann
who hath wrk, that in (bme parts of Africa it is as
common for (he mules to generate, as it is for marea
in Ettrope, But fuppoliog they never do, it muft be
ascribed to fome defc€t in fome of tbe parts fubfervi*
ent to generation in tbe male, or in the female, or ii»
both i but 'tis more likely the iroperfe6):ion is in tbe
Ovarium of tbe female, fince none can be difcovered
in any other, and there may be fome fecret undifco-
verable in that, which yet may be very material. -

Q. ffhat is the reafon thatfometimes the $hf is full (f
Stars, and ether times there is not one to be ftm f

A. Where the cloud pz&shoin off your braia,yo<»
will apprehend the reafon why a clear «ky difcovert
the flars.

3 Q:^ lam

3lf€ British Apollo. 99S

<^ I am acquahaid with agmkwmtm^ who hfit^
f*& {m my 9fmm) to « v«y ftrtmgo mtifmum^ ms filf
Uvi: whtmver Jhe fm « dtt^d d^y or eat, $r any othtf
hemfi, Jhe (as iftnchamed)cMMi go bj them withtit W-
ifog eamtfi^ m them for four 9r fivo mmutts, and tbon
/mils dvwn m a fwoaa,

jL In all probability that muft proceed from ibnie
fpreac fright or furprize, (he* or ber mother being big
^Mrith bcr, has had formerly by fome fuch dead creature* m
Which has left fuch a deep impreilion in her brain^ that
upon any fuch light again, the motion of the animals
fpirits is for tbefe few minutes almoft fufpended* .and
that oF the heart being, alfo thereby interrupted,' or
much leflcn'd, (he becomes incapable of altermg the
pofture (he is in, till a greater fuipcniioa of the fore*
iaid fpirits occaHons the fwoon» or fainting fpecified.
(^ In an old mannfcrip of tin art offamtmg, I found
thife three wordj, Anoptica, Optica, «»4(Catopticai|r#^»
what may the ineaning ef them be t

A, Anopttea is the real and upper line,, by the help

of which weconfider all the parts of the obje^ above

the HortKrn, and thereby bring^tb them to .the inter'

^Bicn^ or line of /hrtnmgi whence, .according to the

fituatioQ of the body, the hinder parts are made tojrun

downwards, and the neareft parts to rife upwards ^ and

from hence the declmings and artfingf, xhz- Jhortnmgs

and mcreafijgt.o£ the parts of the body are caufed. This

line hath its origjnal from the center, or thd beginning

ef the diftance, which is the ^e, £o it returns to the

fS&me thro' the midft. of tlie beams, which couple all

the extream limits of the fiffi^ body^

Oftica is thcfeeond real fight, and direSi line, and if
that which is neareft the object, fo that the upper parts
of the tfi^V^ belong to the forerocntioned line, and the
lower to catoftica ; this is that therefore which prin-
eipally touches. ail parts of the objed^ both above 4ind'.
below, and therefore is call'd the MreB tme» For the-
beams parting themiclves flrongly at the eye, and fal*
ling on theneareii.part of the c^>^>and there cauling
the upper aad ^ower parts to be (horccn'd and diminish 'd,

U. u4. a&ds

and tbe emiaenccs to hide the concavities, oaf the
larger parts to cover the narrower,, making the obje^
to fncreafe and diminifb, according to their refpeddn 1
dii}anccs from the perpendicular. ]

Cafdftktth the third fin offi^y wholb beams 6t)jBcS [;
all the lower parts of the djeS^ conducting them to '^
the point ot interfe&mi fo tnat when the objedi t$ be*
low the eyi, the fartheft part f^ms to r^c^ and the
aeare/l to decline downwards.

Q^ Good Sir, Uave off four news^
7b poft-boys tind reviews*
Poft-men and quahn obfervators,*
To flying polls, md remarksi
jind fofiich kind of (parkst
Xmv% thorn to trtinjlate foreign lettertr
Givf MS more of yottr wit,
• Jhtn onrftmeies yoM hit,
21$ em word, you'U ^hte M the towti
mh highofi ietigh,
Vh read whatfoa wriPOr
Toftr wifdom Mnd Uarn'mg M onon.
O, eX4lt thtnyour voice.
And make batteky4«r chtieo'y
[ ^l» Sing J how groAt Marlbro' thmdtm
In memoraile firams^
JProcUim Oudenard'^ plains^
Jtndhovo the told Britons did wooderSb
That the Dauphin'i fins twain
ffirr afraid ofhnngjlain,
Jkmting their true Bourbon bloodf
Thatfi hot was the fie.
They' were glad to retire.
And hid thenoieives both in a wood.
Tell the world, how Vendome
Shall re infcdta go home,
jft acquaint the old B—Wy his majler^
That La Motte run away,
Thaf brave Vf<kA> won the day.
And that Lifle was taken fm after ^

JIkU i

?S# BRiTrsM Apollo, psyr

Thatjhm Boufflers tlve ptcr^ -
iHom the monapcii h^s tlestp
The citadel cannot fecupe:

That the i^ave bri«ifll/«i^.

Valiant fins tf their dihkt
¥Ptll farce him, as onceatH^ittawtf.

Inyourfing tea refeat.

Hew Tallard was hat,
j§t Blenheim, tmd hravefl wmttttn^tn:^

That, ViVroy-ami Bavftr»

Tho'fi dreadfuh m »at^,'
Were /winged fien aftt» ifh Fimiti^S

Thaf young^ Pftslip^m Spate

Mt^ return home agahh
jtndUa've Charles tagevem fk^4attd^

That Marlbro* and E^ene

H^tll march to the Sienc,
i^er Paris their ^rms fljnU veitkftmMf^

That theaffiting Oatit ^

Shall like ?hztioxxfaU^
Tor tfos46ling the world's repofkf

Shall hi> Empire refign *

To a frineefs divhe.
The avenger ofBr'min^sfo^.

In melodious law,

Refiund A N N AV htghpmfi,
Set her deeds in eterai^ Hght >

Mivlbro's hattki dedare*
* Sts i0^i conchi^ and cai^.
And that none can equal hm in figil^*

Sir^ this fftdom^xciefif

And hlame- not the rnvtCtt
Wkd does to advife^s pretends:

Tkke all m good fart,

Sipceit "timts from the heart ,
Xifyottrfaithful\fk6fmi>erandfrio»dt^
A, Yoarhotf#n« *re jrigHf>
" Aod wottM be our (^Hghr,

Ji DM

^9^ fie British. APOLL0I

Did the towo but accord in the vokei.
But we {Hit it to vote»
And could eafily note*
That tium6ers oppqs'd to the choit$^
They urge, they'll not take
Other frims ,£qi Mir fakt >.
If we*ll but a SnvMti ^tdaut
Of news, whick fp (hort»
None mtH can retort^
But for grMUude rafher admit.
Yet when we (hall find
, A bright flj^ttm to our mind,
(Declining all thoughts of evafionJi>
We will gladly exert.
All our fire and our an.
And catch at the neble occajm.
Q. Apollo, ben't tmffj,
Bmt reaJfenjtU why
^h folks an femettmts cMd madams i
Xfanfwer I have, ^

ieotent yen wtUgive,
H fetsr humble fervant^ Jack Adamf»
Jl. Madam, is my lady.
And therefore tl^is may be»
Becaufe in attire they appear*.
As rich ai^ as fine
As the ladies, who fhine
In a nobler and loftier fphere,
Q^ Hew many ingredients do ihere rtqitke t$ maki te
knavi an henefi n;a»t

A. One conHderation will do it without. other In-
gredients, de as J9U vfeuld be dene bf.

Q. Happening to mtj^ an ouhse effpirii of hartlhorn •mith
$hi like quantity offpirit of Sal- Armoniack, altheugh they
were as clear as rock water, and feemingly free from falts,
yet immediately upei(s mixing, almoft aUfeon^d to be ebmiged
to a [alt\ but after four or-fivo days fiandmg, tjimnd
about three drams i»/^volatiIe fiU fettle to the bittern, and
fbtjjpirif is as clear as it was before mixing,

i. Idefii

7%# British Afolxo. 999

1 dtprt u kmm thi fufm nf ik% pdf*s fi$ifidmg^ «il/
[firom whUh of thefpiriis i^fefarMied f

I ifMv$ tftm Bxftriencid, tbtu wMtit, «r mUkftnu^^^
'mill M a cmfid&^U tim$, mi pi the ma-fidi mkmmm
9f thifimcefan, m which ii SiiU, Jhdl bardfy 6$ittknMrm
till it has fttodscofifideraSii time if front the fire. Iwetdd
defireyet^ to snfentt me hew $t is effi^d t

A, 'Tis very well knowa>thac theie fpirf ts> thongli

ieemingly free from all Alts> yet in reality are BOthitig

but the volatile &kt ^i^oUe\ in more or ieii phlegm^

according to their different (Irengtii and goodnels. No

great wonder then, that falts ihould be Separated from

them, as well by precipitation, as by fuUimation. Now

the caufe of that precipitation in the prefent cafe, b

the coalition and union of the two (alts, by which, be*

coming 'too bulky and ponderous to be born by the

phlegmatic fc parts, they muft needs by their owo

vreight fink to the bottom, and foconftitute compound

^t ieparated from both fpirits.

The reaibn is, becaule the igneous or fiery parttclet
find a free and eafy pafijge through the bottom of the
faucepan, but are ftop'd and entangled in the liquor
contain^ in it, and raife it up in Tmall bubbles at the
bottom as long as it ftands boiling over the fire $ but
when it n taken off, the liquor being no longer fa
raifed in bubbles, docs in vttf^ part cloiely touch the
bottom of the firacepaOk and fo commufiiGice to it aiorc
of its heat.

Q. / «ffiy tyesmg man, tthehave engaged^ wiyfilfte a
very pfettyfinfiUe weman, and castnet be eafy me mesiemt
eist rf her fight, mirflse eut rfmmei if I tfiany her, ifeanh
IfhiaU loft my bufinefs ; ssnd as I am, I eon no way enjoyi
my felf Gentlemen, I beg ajfijiance from you m my laby^
rinth of misforiitnesj and T»ilL do nothing ttU J have your
good advice.

ji. We are often authors of our own unhappincfsr
by making a wrong judgment of things, or taking<
them by the wrong handle. If you enjoy not yottrfuU
wifh,yose are the tmhaffiefi creatsere Uving. Pray con*
fider, if your miftreis were falie, loft heC' icputation^

or

lOOO 72re B R I Tt 8H. A F:d L 1*0.

OJ^ hapf«ti*d under fiinie. misfortukiie, bjc if^bkb (he tuf-
fered extremity of misery, aad to which aH mortals
are daily liable wbecbcr (comparatively to iiicb cir-
cum^aBces) you are opt now really iukppj. Thebeft
advice yre can give> is* docc you are in dagger of
lofing. yojiir bufinefs if you now HMrry her, to doi^k
your induftry, tbac you may raife your Alfabove the
dmger of fucb iDJuodion;» and to become Kbfolstcly
mafter of your owo occafionsj the coiriiderationtbs^
aU yimr patni wiJI tend to tbe advaocenae»t of beryoii
We fodearlyiwili mtdgateyottf fuHertogs in the meat
ftfiie.

^ Two frknds rf mine (vMck we mUname ?bi\9n^
mdAkidfm) ImJi » wagtr fime timeMge^ winch mis tbh^
viz. Philander kid thae Liile was taken 6y/mh a day^
Md Alckion Uud i$ was no$: new the next ftfl hee^be
advice i shm the t&wn fsemadred hrfere the faid day, ha
«r ngser^. Phihader did notfyeeify Town aeid CaSde^ha
enfyffud LiQe 5 Alcldon hu^^sthai ha ha9 wmethewageti
fmce liifv Citadel {wimh h part ef Lifle) wm net then
eakem They have temfidstd fomefrefifs'dwt^eren, whegeva
Hfir Akidom hte Philander (whe iifimethagMgiem)
wiU net hearken fe their dHtfienu hue will have rHmrfe ta
ebeUwytrs^ whe Jay he has wen. Hewfinae ExduiBge* AJiey
and Weftminfier-Hall defi ela/hm thwfemimems, tkof
have refdved te appeal te yen, en dernier reftirt, astddt*
fin yetnr pennpeij deeifm in year next paper, wbethei^
tartly faying Lifle, implies both Town and Gaftki *•
Town eMff lifete which ihefirtfsrfthewag^r Imt

A. Sin«e the town of Jjpa wai Ufit before an^
Citadel was built, and fince that was only intended
for the defence of Lijk» we think it may be properly
faid> that JJjk was taken* though the Citadel hdd
out. • .

Q. f0y Owls and Batts are enly te he feenfytag a-,
hettt in the evenings when all ether Mt ate takmg their
re/if and yen will Mge a newfuifiriier f

A* Becaufe their iight is not ftrong enough tobear
the light of the day i ^and al£> becauft their |vey not
tHI then cornea abroad*

?i&^ BRITISH Apollo, lodi

Q. lAity mt iwh he frtft^fmd /» ^ firimmtmal
l^hm occajianed by lirnngi academs 9

A, No death is alW»ys atturiK to ill, tbougb the
caufes may be preternatural.

Q. Ym tpould very much Mp ymt feitlmk^t ht tx*

smd mptt did my mikir ammfi nu. I defiee ta^trnm
' what Jm 4 v09mm is gnikj ^ m e^wivmg m Md f
Jl, The psfiage does no 4rays imply that the mo-
ther commits a fin ih the . conception of her cbiM %
but that the child \% tainted in kt very conception
with tradhionary guHt.

QJ / M€e tmfedt^f^m^ £«^, w»d hmg wiry mm*

' rmts^ the mor$. to engJ^ her tijfwffifnt, I^ifi*d m dmtd*

ful mifihMtci jm^ ^^U-t^ei- if I n«r married My a-

tfyr, Bnt now flu proving a ia/e wofrtun^ I mm going to

fnarry another f ' ' '

A. We fuppoii! a provlfe to liaTe^ieeA ttidoded Jb
the wiih yoa macfe $ and that you made it on a tacit
' fuppaf]tk>n« t^ftt the perfb» ro whiMS yoa made it»
•woqia pr6vc fafrhfW to yon. And therefore^yoQ bate
'^ciopfmoa of 9hae j^i«Mf^ ca^fH, iNOibpSi^iMnAfrybv,
that you are atliberry to marry, dut we caMilie t'clr-
bear advifing you to ab(lain' ftr tk« liariret ii*t only
from imprecations, whteH ire tki^ll bttt alfo from
TOWS, which are often daagcfQHf.

Q. A Gentloman '^tmd Lady kmg im oomfany, pro^
fofed jocofely to marry each othor, and aocotdingly ti.ey
drew up a writing to thi jkmo paifofe^ and tkey both fet
their hands to it, but 4» day tmfiji^A Qo^el^, Whether
th'u will be any obttgOtkh r* mho^ df^hem i J^e infifting
ttpm the note under my hmtdi\^tf^hw H ho any obUga^
tion^ it being but merely dondOntM tilt company f

A. Madam, ("fof^yoli bai^ U^wmiDgiy difcovcr'd
your {t\^ to be the Lady ) we think it not proper ^
to rob a lawyer of bis fee, - and themfbri beg your
excufe, if we only acquaint you, that tn point of
confcfence you are under no obligation to the Gen**
tleman. But we wo4M ftM& yM for the future, to
be more dlfaect in your jocofe behaviour \ for that
' - comiio»

1001 7be BuiTisH Apollo«

common faymg is worth; of your pradical obfir-
vance, Be merry and wife.

' ^ ffh Ims wrote the pUineft jtfrmwufp and where
fnay their works be had (

jL Ltiit*s J0remmiea Inflittttio^ ( which may moft
probably be had in DftckLatte). is as eafy a treatiie of
i^flronomy as you can well defire. ^ '

Q. How tnuft theft verfis he reconciled, viz. The loth
ibapter ef Genefis, ^vetfe f • by thefe ( tiuamag the gene*
rations of the fins if Noah) were the ifles ef tho Gentiles
divided in their Umds i tvery one after his language, after
their families in their nation, (it fetms to tne to imfh
mare than em langttage} in thofoUowmg chapter* and tie
fofi verfi i jM the whole earth was of one langttagff
and of ono fpeech, before the cenfafim ef lanjgttages at
BabelV building f

A. When the divine hi(^brian acquaints us. That
by thi^e were the ifles ef the Gentiles divided, it is not
necefury he fliould mean that rhey were at that indi-
▼idual time, but afterwards fo divided i namelyi after
the confttfion of tongues. But we may obierve with-
al, that Mofes mentions thoifi who lived after the dc;
Uru^on ofBabek

Q^J^ trmbks ofVfe^

^^ plagues ef a wife*.

hfy brains confufed move^

jM are fnbjeB to remo t

Sotnetimes to defhoy^

The dev'l would dec^ i

Opprefi by a dark thought^

7b defpmr I atte. brought^ f

jfnd no where can find

jyete eafi for my mind^

f0fen from my houfe cemo^

I drend to go home $

Kot onif for fear, \

J furely /haU hear^

ut perpetual motion,

(Which is nofalfe tteiien\

m

^^ British Apollo. too^

But Skms rfthi Udlt^
Ani fytMlls tf the craJlif
Wah bottle rf krimijf^
Ani whiti fitiMT'Cmulff
She fiti mtb her ffwk
Jn light i «r fth^ dark i
Jtfer cares /be whe fiest
Sojhe her felf flMfe I
Ihets keeping ber fiMtm,
NegleA refeitstm,

Nam, Jedrefi Apolb,
Teeir eet/tt/H ra feOem,
ffkMtever ym fif,
Tmr 0dvke then I frof i .
£^m (ss 'tis my nim)
I mmf her redatm t
jL If yoar t^t is fb grievoust

Thac yottVe grown mifciiieroiii^^
. And are tcu'd out of it&«
Both hj devil aod wife' %
It \% bard to adtninifter*
But by methods finifter*
Since J^OT/« with his thttnder
( And fure that's more wonder)
Can't ftill Jstt^h tengnet
So immertilh hssng i
What mertni can hope»
With that memher to co^ }

But as to her braod/»
'Stead of iiigar- candy.
Some jnlinp convey.
Such airs (he*ii difplay.
Will fcarce in the dark
"Be born by her fpark.

The UMe with eafe.
You may auell when you plea£s i
Tough eraitree WiU do it.
And make her to rue it.
If fill] worle you find her,.
Then gagg her and bind ber*

1004 72r^ BuiTisH Apoii^o.

To Bedlam convey ber,
Wi^i orders to (hy ber i
Till cured by the fmarn- -
Or tbat's broke. her bent.
Q; Js the brtm ef est ftiftmas ^
A, Some authors ba^e giiren tiut» tbat tbe CMi^s
brain is poifoiious, cai^ng madnefi* ilopidity, and
jbfs of memory : But we can forccly giye credit ta
it, iince the flefli of tbo& creatures hath been eaten
with £0 much i^fttj^ and accoimtod a& czcdlcot diih
too in fbme plentiful countFies.^

mth Mn^her msn's vi/i, which h w vmy flmt ttme grtw
u fuch m miimM^, rW wd\Atery,fiihmJ, mni in thai
mcktdntfs we ctntmutd fur Mk0$$t tw^ y%mt% \ l»heit grow-
ing wiMty rf iseh other, we fmed 1 tver fiace Jhe btuk'
livid heneflly with her hushMnd, Mnd fe eemmties. • AietU
three years fine J cmiraSed m fecmd Mtqttmntanee with
eimther tMin't wife tdfe, mnd hame lived m tbe feme wick'
ednefs with her till her htedgied ditdy emd almofi t$ thee
time. To each tf them^ in 9rdtr te the ehtmmttg my willt
I hnvefalfify nod witkedlty ftmn ferpemsl emftmty, wijh-
ing he the very f me ef hesven, d n t wrnt im^ te my ft^\
emd fartictikffy^ thm neekrng tlm ever I teck in hand
might thrive with me, tf I ever frrbrrt Ihmg either tf
them^ they ettch demg the like, I mve ekftmed^ that ever
puce my frfl perjuiy I bme Seem fr^very einfertttnnte na
every thing I hnve kmierteekf thne tteeerdlng te env wicked
mjhes^ mthing hath (mce thrived wieh me, which Ifamly
believe to proceed immediatdf from the Jtifi judgments ^
the j&mighty, whom I fmm^ and martiy fraife fer
fiotirging tne in fo fecutiar a manner, aceefr^Rng to my
wijhes, in that it hath JMt me im aof eem^tHtied wicked"
nefs, and made me beg adrnee effete^ hem, and in what
manner to behave nry fdf tender fieek emhaffy circtmh
fiances, and partktdarlj hem far i am Mged to keep toy
oaths to the ftcond wemrm, fise being nvm a fridow f

A. The chaftiiement that God has been, pleafed fb
fcvcrefy, but y«t fb ma-dfully to oSSvdt you with,
proceeded not fsom tbe breach Of . jeqr oatl', for you

were

JU British A p^o l l o. roof

^ere indi^nftbly pbli^d to bnA ir. Bat you mufl
i:oa<;jude it to have proceeded, firf^, from your re-
peated ads of fa bciaoui a traufgreffioa at that c^ a-
duhery i (for v(wNfi«M|;erf mtd adukmN Gtd JhM
JMjg^'y} and feeondly, from your brkgHig upon your
fe^f- cbe abiolttce oeccAky of kecomifig a perjured per^

-Since the.ftcoad adulNreif is now a widow, an^l
at Kberty to become j^our ft>ride, the oath of fidtlitjr
you were farHwrJy fb wfek«d at- to make her» will'
not difpenfe with your indi£ference in the matter.
Bat your hardy marrying her will not fatisfy your
confdence, unlei^ you endeavour alio to make her ftn*
iiUe of her former bafenefsi and to excite in her oOQ-
vattd mind fuch « gpdfy fon^w, ss wtrkHh nfemaiM'
wt t$ in repented $/. And you muft endeavour alio to-
make your other adulterous companion equaUy fenfi-
ble ofi and ibrrowful for her deteflaUe procedure.

Bvkt you muft not forget to do your feif, what you
would prevail upon them to do> to exercife a very
£evere repentance > a repentance' proportionable to*
your horrible, your repeated crimes $ kfi vfhile you
preach (as it were) u otkers^ (to the iharers in your
guilt) you your felf become i» eaflawfiy,

Q^ Whether s Proteftant mt^ aHew the tlifiinSm ef
mortal tmd venial (in i Ated hew the querifb tmfwer ?

A, Seeing all venial fin is venial not rn its nature,
but through mercy \ and mi>rtal fin, through God'l
mercy is pardoned » this <)Ueflioa n, what difference
here may be found 'otit between the* one fin and the
other, as will (erve for allowance of (uchadiftinf^ion.
F(W dohg tfhith, the mercv cf God (we mufi knew)
in pardmmgfit is diffenfid oy way of covenant, vhich
requires ^repentance in order t^ pat dm* and we mufi dt"
JHnguifh therefore of repentance, and of fins roqutring if.

There is a general and particular repentance, and there
are fome fins accordingly requiring the one only, and feme
requiring both. There are fins rihich pafs us often -without
fittr Wticti fan alfo of infirmity^ fins of daily incurfion^

which

1C06 The British Apollo.

vhkh MTi fardoaaUe M 9tir general refmtMtce^ when ther^
mrtoiher jins kmwn wilful grcfs /ifUy which «r« mt far*
Jmed mihmt frntcnUr forr^w J» them, mi mmmdmmti.

\ Jbid hereby now mmy the di^in&wn tf venial tkikd ixior-
ti»l fm be made em and ailew'd : A venial ^in being
futh for which a gemral refemance ( through God's go^^
nefs) may faffice i hut a inorcal, fuch for which a par"
tiftUttr ftfomance, even by the ceiyenoM of grace, is ite-
ceffary, as the amdicwn to the feegrvenefs tf it. The ono
is, the other ii not pardon' d without id :>e€unduin kgem
ordinariam / fpeak»

To give £o judicious a querift the commcadatioD»
wliich his merits fo judly ciaiin« we cannot bat al-
loWf that he has ingeniouOy diftingu^fh'd betweea
fins venial and mortal. But we hope he will not take
it amifs it we make a particular relirid^ion.

.As for what you iay of fuch fins as efcape oiir no*
tice, it is unexceptionable. But jet fbmc may think
it liable to a p]aufible obje^ion. For they may be
ready to faj, that iince fuch £nful adioni, as fly our
icrutiny, cannot poifibly be avoided by mere buma*
nity, how can we magnify the grace of God in the
eomprehenfion of them under the imputation of Te-
nia! ^ns ? But to this objcdion^we reply.

1 . Who of us can fay, that we are as cautious as
we (hould be, in the obieri»nce of our anions i that
we watch our goings as narrowly ^$ even humanity
will permit 3 tjiat we fufRsr as few fins, as poifibleto
efcape our difcerning notice? Happy therefore is it
for us that we have to do with fo mild a law-giver,
that is fo gracious in the cafe before us» as to admit
of a general repentance, as an atonement of his wrath $
There tj mercy with thoe^ therefore /halt thou be feared,

2, It perhaps is owing to our being formerly ha«>
bited to z, iinful coui fe, that even now ( while re-
pentance and amendment have- put us into a (late of
grace) fo many kfler fins pafs without obfervance.
If therefore God is pJeafcd £0 eafily ta pardon, of
what we our {qIvc& were originally fuch guilty caufes,

2 ihall

«i

Tie British ApaLLo. 1007

IhmJl not we readily cry out, O ^ivt thanh mMo the
Z,0rd, fir he ts gracious i btcanfe his mtrey endnreth fir

3* The mortal fias that the very bcA o£ men too
Frequenriy commit» may be the unhappy caufc> that
fb many venial lins are overlooked by the very fiimt
that an in the earth. We may therefore be aliu^^ed
to iay. Sing ^aifei unto theHJirdy O ye faints tf his \ and
£hve thanks unto htm for a remembrance^ not only of his
hoknefs, but of his mercy loo.

: As for fins of dA\\y incuriion, we (hould endeavour
at^ our daily examinatioo, (for daiiy lliould we exa«
mine the tenor of our anions ) to recol.'ed: as many
of them as we can, and to the recollediion of each
fubjoin a (hort petition i fucb as, Lordfirgive, And
yet fuch (ins are diflinguifhabie from greater (ins $ are
diAinguifliabk with refpe^ to the fbrms, mortal and
'venialt in that we are not fo (fari^tiy obliged to a bur-
thcnibme remembrance of them again ft the next exa-
mination of our ieJves $ in that, while we are under
ex^minatioo> it is not necedary we (hould be as nice
11} the recolledion of tho^ as of other fins , in that,
when we have clearly recolleded fome, thty require
not £0 particular a repentance of them..

Q^ I am fstthirlefs and motherle/s, Uft to the ear$ of

an old uncle, whom my father always found to bo ajufi

man, therffnre confiituted bin* guardian ovtf what he lift

mo, during my minority j but with this frorvifo. That if 1

matched CMtrary to his mind, he had the power rfdtjpofitg

of it to the next relation. Now coming home late ono night,

C Bacchus being a Uttlt fredominant) I made the maid a

ftria fromife that 1 would wed her, ( hoping to hinder her

from perfuing her skanmmgton like difcourfe, which fljo

had begun ) really mttnding no fuch thing -, and not coipm

fidering what mifchiof would come after. Now my unkh

often foliates me to flaet try affeHions on a young, rich,

and handfome widow } which I could 'willingly do, but the

cook ixciaims againfi too, and vows I carCt do it without

* perjury towards her, fo I always put her off", with teltmg

of hor whm titm aoid offortunity fermu» it [hall be done,

for

ioo8 Tbe Brttisr Apollo.

fir feMT Jhi fiould nfm it to my mt^k : ifyr n^m reed^
itBing my feif, if I f^i her^ / Jh^ f^ ^ imur mf
$tnkU*i dtfpUMfitrtt but alfi iavoht us buh in mi/try » iff
iiing defrivid of my fathtr*s pitrimanjr, vhiek is uM I hsntt
$0 dtftnd upm i if the other, I am afiwd efbteakimg lOf
vefws. Now^ if your (peedy mifwer wU nmhe h mffemr^
what vay is befifor ridding ^J*V ^^^^^thls trttMtf

A. Though it may be difputed, whether a nih pro-
mife made by a drunken man, who is not mafter of
iu reafoo^ he of any validity* yet this is of no coa^
cernment to your cafe, fince you frequently repeated
the fame promife, while fbber* and capabie of com*
manding your own proceedings.

Nor will it at all avail, that yon Jiever reaDy in-
tended the performance, fince the admittance of fa
unaccountabie a plea would deftroy all mutual coofi*
dence and dependance upoff one another. We hrg^
leave therefore to remind you, that fo deecttful a pro-
cedure is an uncommon ftretcb^ even beyond the
pradice of jefuiucal reftrvatidns. The validity of a
promife confifts in the teaor of the verbal erpreffions,
jualefs where the perfon that pronuTcs happens to m\»
dake in the external /ignifications of his inward ftnti-
ments* But that rule o£ equity, which will rdieve the
mifiakco perfon in Co particular a cafe, will no^ways
difengagc you from that gordian knot you have been
fo unhappy as to tie fo faft; that no remedy can- be^
found, unlefs with Alexander's Avord, ( that is, with
the juftly dctefted breach of promife)*youperfidionfly
cut it afundcr. For you dcfigft*d, that the words
you fpoke ihould be taken by the perfon yon {poke
to, in their natural and obvious fehfc : For otherwiie
you could not have accomplifbMyourdefigay oameiy,
that of deceiving her for a time: /'

You cannot plead the inconv^fences that may at-
tend your fidelity, fince t be ^?^^ lias long ago pre-
vented fo feeble an excufe, Whrle fpcaking Itterally of
thofc who fhould be admitted toth^MIl of ^oUi-^ihe'
place of publick worfhip) but figuratively of thofc
who ihould be admitted into iieayen, be eredlently.

iubjoins i

i

TZ^iBftifisH Apollo. loo^

OAjcins I F» tkafftmneb um» hi$ miUmr, and Sfkf^^
fomiuh hm mt^ though i$ he to his <wu hinJrsitfi.

NQt.that y«u,arc' oblig'dinbm«diatelyfo marry licrj
Mrhen.fach inexti^ic^k incarobratices Will uiiavoidibly
cnfue. But you rouft wait witb piiticncc, tilJ provi-
^icace (hall prcicnt you witfr an opportunity of per-
forming the obligation^ you have drawn upon yotit

V/e ho{>e, Sir, that you Wfll ferioufly fcBtA d^oi
•tit lyi/wi/f » wor<te hm$tefiAtfH>^Mthftdnifsiui^
he thence pradetorty, as vftWiLs pioady pro^ok'dtoad
equal hatred of fuchaborminabte crimen.

Q^ my 4hty n$v» take the tffxts, mr the lej/ens fer $b$
mamiug sr evening fervieei mt iftketApocryphi.

^. Youihould faairead(]ed on Sundays, to urhatyon
4»y of the morning and evemug fervice, fioce the
^j^ocryfba if read on the other days of the week. But
the reaibn ««fhyadtber texts tiMlnnd/^ leflbnsare takett
from the ^Aficrj/flm is, becaoft it is Apocyfha* The
word %nifie» an hidden or Tecret thing. For we an^
not healTtiredof any one book ia the Vfh^\t Apocryfbai
that it if tbff word .of God.

• Q^ f0y can « Came} Mrve ail other creatures, tndura
tsfena journ^ u go throe or foter days wthotif water Ho
rSofi kop cotfotriesi ' .

• jt. ^ may eith^ibppfbie a Cstmel ta>ha\rea greater
ijoant ity of radical mdf(luretban other animals i or that
«he doienc^ of hif pores prevents fo violent a per-
ff»ratioQ| .or that both, the itafons may at oncf
concur.

Q. Apollinif fil%

One qftery I will, ...

T^ttnbofo tm a hm that Vm twifi m^

V '^ii^yoH'dfay,

Whether yea, or nay,
. SmQt^lAz^$wase'erag06d(^ifiiant ...

' Ihavo always heliet/d the negative^ htt$ Vm day read*
ing ^zntmfCs trmjoU tfthe Patriarchs, /. 1-14. f^kmg
ef Philip, his words are the fe, at which time he convert-
ed Simon Maf^ A& viii.

. yoL.jii. yix ^. Thf

/

loxo 72reBititisH Apollo.

. ^ The piffi^p 7«a rcftr to so wa|:s impiiMi tha
Sinm M^^Hf wu ever t good Cbrifltao. For to iof ,
fA#c 1^ WBs con«9frMd* mtjr iigoific so aorc, than
^ he OMdc ao ^wo jpfofefiioA of Cbriftimtx* Aad
yiou ctanoc kit be^ f«iiuhle thit tbrnre are too mamy in
the world* wbo emfifs Chrifi muh $hir mm$hi» w m
tfmf' wQfkt Mki^ km*

Q. Wbtthvym thknk it Hfintt fw « ynmg Ltujf S$

4* Noe» ttcep t (he lus t better ftcority of tfec
Q^leoMm.*! iKHMPr aod conflaocj thaa k J8 almoft
pofTible to hav9. For flie miA oopUdcr (be Goaeiny
gonw ia imour*^ boiv ofite* ebo laoft determined
cngageqiemc btre been biiriageik nd Jo fiicb ofts
%vS(it edvao^gec tbey maj give ^nxnft ber. Should
bk piffion. turn to jm|ttdjce» moft tbiags bare two
li9ii<iief« aod be will take tbam.bf tbe wotft^ oi^«
fiflce cUfippoiotfod loveo often grow malicious* be
m:^ fuby^t tbc bo& bf addition of*> or eipungiog
a. vRordj 0H7 coiinietMt bar band to jcoBtriraocea.of
^^ owA wbicb flie aevar thought ofi all which will
be cat of bit power, wbilft he cannot fkf% be erer
lactifcd a. letter (torn her* Naj^ ereo wbilft be keeps
t^Jhmf^ he majT iiiiftottftrae wme worda. to her dt£-
advantage, which a flip of her pen mi^ gfre-greattr
oppoitumty. t0. On. which coofideratiottt tbe weli-
if^ Ladici of tbia age have pmdentijr avoided fvfih
ac€urQff».at were moTn cuHonMr 7 fiirmerlf, and think
n/mOt ^fmm foiSciaPt jw/aw to all ^ptifnmtmkt

cf their humble fervaoti.

Q; H9W twm Elisabeth {tAm lAmj ^fi§d ktr)
t0fry% hw €$m$s it u fMfst thdt tb$ malm ^ my Ltrd
flmU ctmi f tm* wbmtnyit Marjr wm m tm. mo^
ther tf her mtd cur Lord, nor, b$JL Jb$ uld hn tf ber
teing with Md t

A. Mary had alfaidyi conoeiv^d of our blefled Lord,
and^tbcremra migbc not impnt^icrly beeven then ftflcd
hu mother. Aa tp your fecond quoy^. Elizabeth J^aAN
0$ Jh$w0i tmud fy tbt Hofy Qbifi.

.fieBwilrisH Apollo. loii

(^ I Jifrt 4» kn9»t V Mfitrim TUkfrnMif tmrnmii
^mjm wnm t$ J^ m artsm ihmg^ th thing in 'u fdf b§^
mg ntfinngmfi God^ whttber, t^m hh JMhtr is ^W,
iw.ir 06i^gfd i» iUtfp /# ifim mv^ /# initk tkat ctmmmdi

A,. If the command be a reaibnable one, and fud^
«• comes fi^itbta the jtttirdii&fon' of a patent, rfae ^a
is muter %Vk obUgatipa- to fuftor IX% obedience to fur«
^mipt^ lii's father*

Q. / know a young man living in th§ ^ttauff, whti
fUndti^ kji A feimi^ mMking €h€tfi, of fudM pitfh^d
Us hmd into tho tttb of cuwds, mnd flood itftth bit hod»
mffmtt^ ; his roUttion hmg ngrighttd nt this J^B^de^
mttioodintoijt fttn fir hoif, kttt inr tbo int^ritn, im Mnidi
tmtting in, ptdlod kmt cttt, {fitpf<fing hitn dond) wirm
Mf uatH^ thtf m dotnt f ottnd /* hM him^ ktt eotdd mt,
t^sonitardt ftu him into tiNtrm htd, hitt percoivittg hat^
gfmm foldir, Udd him ottt, nnd ff^and ovoj thing fir
his intirtttont $ ^ om 4hi third dttjtt tts they wtro fro*
ending to Chttrth» tho kemnrs hottrd tvnpsfid mifi im
the coffiag nni tnhmg it down md ofoning 1/, (to thoir
mttoMiutnont) thtffimdhim nUvo^ no v^nys (portoivnSU^
nhmtg^d. Now I defro to knm the enm/o If this fitddm
fit I its likewife the rtnpm of his iyinffi kng within tmf
pnepeien of vitsl metien in him f

jL This muft ha?e been a ibong afN>pIe£^ick fit;
tfifiog from a llsddeQ and almo(t total mtcm^tibo of
the influx ^f animal. i)>irits into all the parts of iJm
llodf. and cMfflf into, the heart, bj which means hi<
SMtion, #nd cenfeqaently that or the Uood became
ifBperteptible, though aot utterly abolifli'd. For ^b
k could 0e?er have been recovered without a mirade»
whidi we need not fifppoie in this ca£r, fiace we arc
•not without levcral ioftances oF the like nature, re*
lated bf eminent authors of phy^ck, who therefore
adviie not to be over-hafty 10 bury men feemingly
dead of that didemperw

Q^ ill « Im diffme^ between wf felf 4nd my friend^
U wns debated t H^ddt W4s the ffresttiftfin^ to turn mbsn^
if I ctumot get « ymng httsSand^ thM to mttrfy m dd
mn»p mtd attIM him whm it is d^w i

X X z U. The

xoil y5&^ British Apollo.

*' A, The qucftion rtturns to this, Whether adultery
or fornication be the greater (in ? And there furd/'
can be no room for doubt» (ioce the former is a com-
plicated fin, and includes the latter in the fatal mix*
Aire.

» Q^ frst^ tell me the eaufe ef vitpourst whether h k
m diftemfer ef the My, m^ tmnd- i'*^l-Mm Mft to h§lmie
ef the mind 'y If of the body, vhy net curakU, ms well tu
$th& difeafes f

V A, The vapours cannot be /aid to be a diieale of
the mind, though thcj are often caufcd by mental
diforders ; but it is a diftemper of the nerves, occa-
fioned by an infedion of the animal fpirits with vi-
tiated and heterogeneons humoursi whence they be-
come obftrii^ed in their wonted manner of mflueoce
and* ai^on, and acquire a convulfive diipofition, yield-
ing the variety of fymptoms commonly observed in
fuch cafes. Nor can we allow with you, that they
are incurable, fince they are frequently ieen to gifc
place to proper methods.

\ Ql Mcft wife Apollo j / meant if y^H ean give fMtit'
fs^im /# my demand: Me it known te yw, 4hiU I Mm
MSmt 4hreefcore and tgn years ef age : Btti that*s aU ene^,
or fomething better^ for the older the wifeT. I am e^
^ery foor^ wAre^ u better ftill, fince fortune favours only
fods 5 I am Mfo creekedy which is beft if aU^ fine it
naturally dipAfies and J&fiingttifhes mi with a titlet mt
to be eanieUed by a friHce*s frtfwn. How fitt ie, that I
lam fallen in leve, mofi defperatdf in love, rum to tk
danger \>f reducing my dry old tartafs to powder by tk
flames therecf^ and with whom fhm^d this k, bm n
kauttful yoitng Lady of avaft eftate, and who hath ok*
filt^ely determin'd to entertain none for an humble ler*
Vaat^ but un kandjime young fdbw 4f a fortune equal $0
im own, I n»w demand pf Apollo to rnfrnm me, bf
what methods I Jhall cc^fafs this Lady^ I will frem^
fatieme, both as to time fir managing the affiur^ md
sn emdergomg any penante for eomphating thererf. Were
t young, handfme^ and if an efiato^ every bloekked
fot^d psa me im 4 way, md mj uppreadmg Apollo*;

fhm

r

/irate in fuch cnfu tfou'J n^ dtimnfirMi / tbmght tim
«ny thing Sitter i S^ if you cun m^«^ mt imder ikeft
.difficuUiiSt ym wiU Jefirm Mthi-fiM tfiihtts thi iuimid
0ud witty world giyo ym i

^l, Alas ! Si^cb matters a« thefe are no difficulties^
but mere play for AfMo* We £ippo{e, if we an inr
ftruA you how tot^ecqroe young, handibjoe^ aodricb,
it will fatisfy all your doubta^ which we (hall the
moreealily comp^fs, iince yoa ha?e promia'd patience*
both in refpedi to time for the opcratioOa and for the
.undergoing re^uilitc penance» c^. As to the firA* it
ia but fUying a fewjeara longer, and hy courfe of
nature you .will becoine a child again, and fo ha?e tb«
advantage of her in >pqint of youth. As to recovcriipg
youjr perfon to a propter Ihape, and regular featureai
There is a certain Gentleman dill living, who fome
time iince invented an art, whereby he cou'd reduce
a» very a block as your felf to powder, and after, by
the help of a cement, cad it in a mould of any form^
.And it (bou'd appear as perfe^ vW after* as before,
l^ow a very liuJe of his afTiftance would ^q your bu*-
fiaefsa fiace you are almofl reduced to powder already
by the flames of your pailion \ and then, as to edate*
it ia but (hewing your felf after this mttftmorphojh^
and you will foon be the richeft man in the kingdonu
^ Whothir it u wt retUfy « lye, tofiy^ your hMmble
iervant. Sir, your devoted fer van t. Madam, wbtrenQ
firviu is fioUy dtftgr^i w ititettJed f . ^. . '

A. No» iinjse it is neither given or taken, acpprd^
ing to the ftri^ ica(e of the words, but. only u&'d aa
ji. complii]3ent of civility. All civiliz'd nations u(e
fome ccrenioniea as diffaeot from the Utter \ nay, wf
ihall find many inftancea thereof in the Sitiftwre it
felf. St. Vntd (aid, Ue^ nobU Vefius. Altraham waa
caird Lord by a free people t over whom he had no au«
thority. AiigMtl, to JMvid exceeded the compliment
of ypur firvMU, in laying, a fervant of his fervsntt,
Datml to Darm^{0 Xingi live for ever. And what la
ftill more wide* both from the fpirit and Utter, you
know who is caitv! the mofi Chrtjlian K^fjg.

X X 3 Q; Tray

I0I4 7Z>^ British Apollo.

Q. Vrmf Ut me hm» tht tiymobjfj^ if tin W9rd hn-
dif^ : Fi^ / Ukrit to ihe^n « Sfirent fktf of hmffmeft
fr$m hem/en, rvt. Paradtfe t9- ht the ttiede ef glte Ji»
farted fouls tf fmts befere tBe reJiirrtSteB i tmd hemtm
iebetk cemfietien ef tiuttfelidty, ij the ttmn ef the heij
Mi feuH \ '& net kmg fe f$dly cafMe tf iti remarJs ss
jehen mited te the hedf. * Tertulliaii wtu efefinm,
that Para4ife was a flate fer the remirdrf tbejmlm
fmrtkulm^ fit the geed thmgi k did withet$t the cemtKh'
rence tf the My ?

A, Tfaey wlio jeri? e the wor J from the Greeks de-
rive it from flfle^flf, JstxtM, near i and Aimw 1^$ to
Water : For the pleafantnefs of a plaee is not a link
owing to deKghtfitl ^iogs. The neareft radix io the
Behrew is either one that fignifies to be fruitlbl fer '
the Taradifi of the protopiaft was a fruitftil garden,
or one that Signifies to 'fi*parate 5 for pldifaot gardens
are nerer without inclofures. But Xefi^hcn informs
us, that it is a'P#fjf£; word, and imports a garden or
orchard. Bat from the deh'ciojis plea&ntne(s it h ne-
tiphoricallj put to Hgoifj an invifible place of happi«
ineis.

• As for the opinion of the fathers conoemiiig the
determination of this place of happtnefi, we bavt hi
a former paper dilhm'd the matter. Bat fince the
Scn}>tures are filent in the ca(e, who. can pretend to
certainty in fb doi^tfal an af&ir ? Tho' thia defitht-
fiilnefi concerns onty the time antecedent to the AA
ceniion of our Lord : For the Scriptures ( as we liave
eifewhere (hcw'd) rcrj clearly intimate, that fioce
the afceniion of our Lord, the Coal of the depart*
lug faint advances immediately to heaven.

But we cannot omit, what a learned man oftrs in
proof, that Paradifc before the Goipel di/penfition
was a place ieparate from heaven. For from thtt
text, this deij then /halt h with mi in far0dtfi, - he ar*
goes thus: Paradife, in the Jefwifh notion of the
word* was di/lm^ from heaven. Ou^ Lord us'U the

• r ■

? Pe Ktfixrr, Carn. Cap. 17. • '

worrf

mr^rd to « J^, iRid tto^fbre nay he renfyMkiy lbp«

]^M^4 td iiieend it in a Jewilh Amft. But frtth M*

AniUkn wt beg leave to ofier this mly : At l^aAdiJA

li^ni(i<ri a ^ace of hiippifiell, ib-^iir Lord ni%iic not

thiAk fit to ebrred the ootkm of thie fimt, aad t(iere«

ter« might accomtnodatt bimi^f to tbdr evpreffioih

At»<r fucb an accommodati^ is of tbt lame fiatiM

iprith tbat in J^flmn^ Sim ^tmd ihm fiiii. If tbcrM^M

the argumeDt be allow'd, nt rauft ftodieat^ the M

Prolemaick (yftem agarnft the modern Copemieiiit

larhrch jet the beft aftronoifiera wou'd betmwilltng to

do,

Q. mm ih^ nwf^f #f Mf iftrar. ^ /fo 14th Pfilm;
The fool hath faid in hia htart> there ta no God, m#
Pb h eicflMmed, ihmiy ^ms mtd fMfifktn fntmding
thin h mr ttm jtebeifis f

A, So great is the corruption of human nature, (b

ready to comply with the iboft ftrepoAeroua ahfiirdt*

ties j and witbaJ, £> wtUmg are fbme men to break

thro' ail the barriers that woo'd (lop their career in a

Vicious couriit $ t^ refhove all the impcdihients to t

free indulgence of their iinful hsAt* that pleafare ( tf

^&i^tt)r itNlj delerfe tht natne) tikat pJeainre and

imoannitjr saaT go hand in hand t So corrupt we Hxf

n nature, aaa 10 willing are fome men to corrupt

cren corrupted natufe, that we^ think it po(!)ble foir

them fb to tamper with their reafon, as by admncea

and degrees to warp and biafs it to fo moderate a

tompliance with their impious attempts* aa to vindi-

cate the ffiikmft% faying, Th$M hofhfM m hu htmi

tfpsra h na gU. But iince he cannot look, either

within him or without him, but he beholds a Godi

fince, if he look upward, $h$ htfwns dnhn the gktf

if Gfd, tmi th$ fimMmtttt /hewth hh h^ndf witk : if

he kM>k downward, every ipire of grafs point out

then* Maker i iince be Can no where ( unlefs he cdu'd

return back to his primitive non-exiftence) no wberfc

Withdraw himlelf f^om the vifiNe charadcrs of att

invffible Creator (fir tht iitvi/^ things rfth§ OeMlm

m elmfy fm by tkf things $im an tlMdi ) he there-

X X 4 foro

toi6 The BRitisH*ApoLL.ib.

^ore caimoc maintaia an uoihgken fieadia^fs in bis fi»
crilegious, in his bold invaifion 9 <io, the imprciliofiff
of aa almighty Agent will frequently recoil, upon a
doubting wretch, will interrupt his pleafurcs» will di'-
ilurb his jollity, aQd imbitter his debauch with the
S)elancholy view of an hand writing, not indeed iii/«0
thi walk but as a more intimate tormentor upon h£f
heart. The impreflion^ of an almighty Agent will be
fure to mix with his more fober hours, will interfere
with his neceiTary repofe, and force him againft bis
jwili to imitate the P£dmift, and ttink ufw God m
thi wght-feafm. And therefore, tho* the fool inay £0
baniih from, his; thoughts the opinion of a .Deity, zs-
t9 fay (tho' yet very often, if not always. with fe^iT
and jealouiies) taJkymhU heart then is m God > yet
fuch frequent recoiJings of fiartled reaibn miay war-
rant us to fay, that there it no true» no. thorough
Atheid in the world.

Q. The rtafon why onr Saviour Chrifi is fiiUd tho fern
of Davids it not appewini by tho Scripture-genealiiyt
that the Virgin Mary was of tho Image of David> &
mly Jofeph ? f

A, III the £rft ^9»fter of %^. Lttko wc read, that
while the Angel is acqu^ainting i4ary^ that (he (hpu'd
conceive of the Holy Ghoft without the adiftanoe of
ft man, and therefore cou'd have no refpe^l to Jojefbf
he yet calls David the Father of the child, that fhou'd
be born in £0 miraculous a manner : j^ ho JhaU ho
great, and JhaU he called tho Son of tho Higheft, mtd
God JhaU give him the throne of ins father David.

Had not Af«ry, as well 2^^: Jofeph bfeo of tho hutfo
omd lineago of David, the. ^ows, ^ho were whetted
avith malice and revenge, wpu'd n^iver have been
Wanting to oppofe Chrlftianity with fo formidable
•n obje^ion. But that they never o£Rsr'd at any fuch
obje^ion, we may fairly gather from the (ilence of
the Scriptures $ for the objed^ions which they made
HFC very ingenuouQy recorded there. And indeed, were
any fuch obje^ion made, we muft have * found in
ibme of the EpifUes, fiuse o&ts at a.cMfutatiofb or

at

If

•t kiAibe apoftles wou'd ha?ebeen wholly fileot coa-*
cerniog the pedigree of-oan bleiTed Lord. Butinftead
of filence, they fpeak of it with afliirancf , with con-
fidence, as atfaiog granted, as an undoubted truth, as
an uncootroverted point. And indeed the very Tar^
gium (that jewifh oracle) a book, that bkfphemouQy
jcraduces the. biefTed Je(as» acknowledgea ii^N;)ttobeot
the £»ed ^il>mnd.

t A learned man. ii of opinion, tb«t £jvi^# i. i.f • might
be .rendfcd- thosi I* « ^iwim 4 th$ hM^: tf DaviJ, #^
fpoufid t9 a man wkeftaami wasj^rffpb, atti th$ virgrn'M
n^im* mu Mmy. And to account for the fvnaploce
(a figure that mifplaces words in an irregular ordev
of conftru6^ioo) he bryigs many inftances hrom Scrip*
ture. But we. (hall not iofift upon the paflage, fince '
the admittance of the conftrudioa fuppofea, and noe
proves* the noattcr in debate. .

Q: Bemgfmiwlm ftt^h^^ivm ti^^itrmgbttlfM

inm comn^fktmt iftbingt mtfurMi M*mU ammd asv§»

gt$Mi prodft^ms* AnmgthefirmiTf sf fiffi m rMnk% X

Utck/fy tk§ugh$ upm tb4fmthmcMl fimBkn tf hum^n^

Miis$ 9her9 I find thefivval tmrnkru ^ otgank^ftuts

ff divtrs bodies^ amy 4» i*4ii ntudoff midflriH uftmUtme*

to auh Hhtr (txafmg 'mfixj$. «r ^xfrsordiimry iU tmd

dijkmpir'd gtt/ks.) Unf J wotdd kwrnyhtm thi faces alMfp

tht^ €$^ftmg rftUf0mi,€m^liHmff0^SpmnwfcUt,mim'

Srami,. A|fffi» &9. eome ^(y^h fi dtfferM as they appet»

u bt^ tlmf ^'mg/carcf ns^m the. tmiviffifo tUfily ctnt^^

fy^mi% j$st0 admit if no vasrmtm'm ftaisvt i

< ji. This;niay benumbrcd with the aftoaifhtng won^

ders of that un&thomable providence* which created

all ^ivmg^ in wiigbt and moafure^ And therefore this

fingle inftaace vindicates both parts of th^ Iffdm/To pa-

theticalexc]aniatiort» fmmfildantthfvorks^ Oljtrdi Jb

wifdom haft ihiu modi ifhemaU, .

Qj, H^tkir 'fha^finfsra frohfUsm woman tomarff

m fapifi^ smdtt sMijtenns, viz. iftitey have mj dsildrmi

to lit thfm Mf be Srongbt up m the fopifh reltghn, and

half in the protefiant t

^, Is it not a £o to have fo flccder a regard for

X X / * our

foiS J%i British Apoli.o.

our owncliildreii,asBoc to ttke aHthecfrcfniafiiitbie
fbftt tbev be cdnc»t(k) in tlie true religion; tkit thej he
ourtur'd in the genuine dodrines of the Goipcl $ that
£> important an afiair, at the eternal welfare of their
immortal fouli* be the moft prudentlj proFided for ?
But if a poteftant woman marry a papifton the con-
ditiooa %ccrfied» at to one moiety of her chiktren, Ae
sot only takes no care that their imnortalrry he thus
f^garded/ but by tile very ceoditiott of her nurfiage
care^y proWdea* that cbe my Mfcrfe to this mmy
jinfortoaateiy eaiiie.

ji^'d this Img tim9t ms kvhtg tk$ vt^ mind Ufr mtbe
9^€^ldi Jkrmg hmtMjftmy wkmttkfMd Ua^ h ibmch% bm

if, fit Mtf and afriwd^n ih$j^ ^fmffsmk^ kmltm
p m^wtmMii Mi H mj§f mifkir m I w$M%, fw wbmtvtr
fkufit m$ is emm, iks^ wtvirfiJMiit trifk. Jbsd
HM^ QttHmffHh \fiwi yOH M^t ^ '^Kf'SP ^ ^ ^^ wtndt
pv9 m$ « link tfytm stsMa^smdttUtmt wMk$r JfluM
tbf^m fitffilfima tfk wttld, mtdfitk mjffif$sm$^ §t if I
fiM kt itifir$t$k tm kmrt m my nm m n y '9 fitf it is isu'
ft0U I em bmg/krvt9§ my hmd/kt$, Bti^ymwiUf0f»
'tis imfoffibkfit^m Fkjfidtm H fMfimbt « iwn 'tiUh^iiMe-
^rnsumed wiihtkedifrnfi: tkit tkmis mf tup 1 1 hmvt Itwd
Ml thiftriBefl ^Mtna t$ Wf Ummt tf mm dtdd m tk
TtMrUt ftsf fiiihir is fiixtftmmi gtmdf A^t i§ im$ f§uMi
mU my tndttnfottrx with sht gnmft rttitm rfhve smdkind'
mfs % bstt n^ mother y camrmy totkttindtnttfs tf m fmmt^
his sss*d m» with mil th§ fi^r Mtd tmlMtmfo imstgittMiy
stnd ytt it hMs hem the gremeftfitijeB ef mf theigbts te
fistdy hem te^pieafi smd oblige her^ htte aUtene fttrpfiifer
J never did iusf thi^g thttt Jhe veuldfleMfe H fry wmswdl
denei tmd had Inet been eiieettra^dby tmider fmeher^ I be*
4ieve rmver kaddettem^tlmg welt. ' I thmdt God ihttve
m gresu many kind friends ^ had I btit the' liberty to emfy
them'y and veryfiw enemies that T knew efi thefrlhavif^
I wosdd not be fi fpiteful as to wijh them any ill, their own
eenhaffy temper is fnnijhmem entntgjhfir tbtm^ Ibavohom

5Fhe^ BairifH Apoll»o. 1019

mUwffiifimpt Iwmffiif wiibmi vmti^twUk tki gtan*
0fi fmtww9 MiAmfuimp m tbit^tdi bm 'ttffmf6fih
I €tm hi^ J(ih» hitmft I sm tfthe ctmrtny [tM. and
tl^nfvrtwy fmm€9 is 0kmft mm Htt, So fr/y, Cuttle
tmn, pisy mt, find JM nn ymt J^df ttinkt^fw I ham
m tbmfimd maggt$t mmjf hrms,which ifuif wUl dttmir
thtm mU, hawing bm afim. ftaj^ ^ J^ €mm$ifitjm§t
daift $M t9 wj gngfiy ihidkg mi, fit I have mm^h^

- jf . Do 7011 flf , Mad«nf , tJiit cofwkt jroiibirtf n#oe ?
hapfj lA^\ wiMfeMcomoMftiiicrH (f6ry<Mf (teth
anftreff ofa wMo erain of virtues) bu io H^mmM^
cri 700 CO an t\m know you, tine by the fame en**
dtaf ing method you at oace enjoy the ^/pag pronointc'd
hj the apoflle, a hlefling annexed to a blamelefs car^
rage, v!b9 is hi that Jhall harm ym, ifyi bi fiUimers if
fhafj Tiahkb is pidf and yet avoid the emfs pronoanc'4
by our deareft Lord, a cmrfe entail'd tipon a fitffql coim
y^nce with^ the world, ire toy»t whin all minjfiak
wiUofyin. Stfttdgef that your mother Ihou'd beiw^
kind r unfciad* weftji for we wou'd fpeak the mild*
eft of a perioD^ who bcari £>ftear a relation tba Lady
of fuch ttiitrfual virtue: as yoa are her daughter, you
might demand the tendereft of her aKt£fcioiis$ as you
are facb a daughter, yon an wmhf tf diubk hoHouf
Ihall wefiy ? That indeed \$ not ftri^ty due from a
toother to a daughter, but undoubtedly we may iay
Of double love. But why fb eoncero'd at this ? it
would be matter of rejoycing, matter oFtriumpb, did
Hot jMiit duty oblige you to bewail fo unatoral, and
therefore fo unfortunate a mother, in that you enjoy
the opportuiirtv of forgiving the-in juries you receive;
of displaying the daughter to £0 unmotherly a parent $
of being dutiful na inly to the gad and gentle, (for fuch
you fay your father is^ hue aifbto thefroivard. We
ftfay therefore add» in allaHen to our blefled Lord,

• weep not for your ftlf, weep for your mother, for

* fo unkind a mother.

Sincethe uncomfortable condition you are in is likely
fo b€ of ibcfa dangerous confequeacei wc think it not

Xx6 onl|

jozo STJfe British AF01.I4O.

.e&ly adviJ&blc, but ofloeilary (i»r i«if-pt«ferTatioo'M

'M incumbent ^uty) tbat'^a humbly intreat^your pa^

'rents, and codeavour with earnefthut niodeft impor*

tunity, to prevail upon them, inforcafimablearequeft

aa that of leave to try your fortune in the worJd, to

•throw your £Ai on the gracious prote^ion of an all-

difpoiing providences to place your depeodance oo tbc

tendereft of fatjhers> your heavenly Fatber: fir »be» mr

father mid mr mother firfiki us, the Lord tahtb ms mf.

And iade6J« Madam, 'tt5athoufail(ipitiei,tbat'£bcoa<*

fpicuouf a.virtueihou'dbe buried in oblcurity, iber«

emplary a pattern cloiAerM in a nunnery/ £> bright^

eaiuUe hid undet/ « iujhelt Co illaftrious m tmUite^ Sttriedm

m ftapkin, and £> ipkndid « iight conceal'dfroiiiixi«»,ib

clofely concealed hommm^ that they eannoifiewurieed

works ifuch engaging Tivrks as cou'd not cbooie out com*

xnand their imitation* and tbeno; qblige them pradi*

cally to glorify thotr Father which is in heaven,

> Q. H^ an ^s has a crofsttfon his haekjmca Cbrift nutdt
u/eofone, and not before^ as it is reported t

A* Tbe report is no other than a vuigjur error.
^HowcomesthecatfZXia&fHfs^tobeeaiVdhfrs. Evans?
Jt*s likewife a common thing in ahherrencyy to fay ^ am ug^
fuft. Now it's the ofinicn, (at leafi of the generality) tha$
that animal is not what we commonfycali anugiy creatMN%
ai^d certainly it cannot he in aUufion to the women of the
ttame if Evans. For lean ajfure you. Gentlemen, that it
has hen the oifervatton, (ev€nrfcrieu!lfsinjymmetry)thef
there are more handfome womm of that namot thanefsa^f
Pie name, (froportionaSfy in numheryin the kingdom i Icaa't
hut add the ufual conclufion of our ffeedy anfwer^ ftverd
difpHtes ending onyour determination, andthedotshtlefi mei^
i^uejiions at yottr Gedjhip's feet t yet have feme right offn*
cedencH to a fclutien, as Seing the firfi trouHe given you iy
one of the very firfi of your fidffsribers, ,

A.- We 6q not fuppo& that the ca& bears the name
of Mrs. JEv^fn.sinrefpe^ to the^deforinicj of any wo-
nien of that name, buf rather derive it from a fufpi'-
^ious notion of one Mr&. £949/ being a witch, and
often alTumiag (according to the vulgar notion) the

form

Ji&^BiiiTisH Apollo* lotx

-form oFa cat: ib< chat in allufioti to this, we coscel?«
tim creatcre hatli been ever fincc 7u^riy ib call'd^
L ,^ lam « ^wm^ nuti3, md bav9 M^am 5-0^ Immf
vwnhmdii « Gen$kmmn tf sStut as mtub a ymrf t^ill
ttidt iffxoQd cmfriag$t md a ehammg hummr^ htfn me
49mfm^t bfU he fvfetirs he wiU never vuirry. No^ i €enfefs
ie yoH, that J weuU net for aUthewerid, thM anffhetid
jtnev, I love this man^ which is to thai degree, that i amh
net reft n^ht or day^ I am grewnfi melanehefy.^ Jbfem I
ii^ymt adfout vkichfm: eaghe Iiie» may fmm myUfe,
..^jii,' Madam* \i tiui G^rieman makes lore ta yoa
after fuch declaration, that he never will mart^j, yoi>
ought Co ibiin hiscon'verfktioh with thegreatcftdii^o*
as your moft mortal enemy, who ieeks the ruin of
your eternal happtniefs hereafter : this alio is the moft.
probable way to perfuade him to corrc£b his princi«
pies, and to engage his a£Fedions in a lawful way, which,
bath- often happtt'd to fucb as cou'd' nofeifoS): thetr
wicked defigjHs. Befides, yoar virtoe and innocence
4iereby . wiJ) add {o mach tcauty and Jodre to jm* as
^iengagthis a£[e^Jons the ftronger : nor can yon teii'
but :. his reibiutioof againfl roanri^ are only pre^^
tended, to cry your virtue j tf To, the lead umbrage o£
yeitdiRjg* to unlawful embraces utterly deftroys his good
opinion of you/ but if it be not fo» con fidcr» that i£
yod yiekiiii!^ all probability, by partmg withyourricfaeft
}ewd,fOu will only purchafe a bold indifferenccif not
(corn after. If your paffion'hath got tbatalcendantonrer
you, as not tobexeiifted bythefecoofiderations, your
mo^ certain remedy will be to have recour& to reli«*'
gion, a iericrusaodfedalous application to it, will draw,
down from heaven that afliftanceto your ailaulted vir*.
tue, as not only to fupport you againft all evilconie**
^uencet, but alio will elevate your miiid by iLnldes of.
^ heatififk vi/kn, to a contempt of all the empty. joys
you vainly promife yom", felf trom any thing here be-
iov. ...

Q. fPhy Rofemary isgivenatfitmraU wt^tk-days^and'
why ameng the akcients^ Ewe «»^ Cyprefs?
A, Wehavcgivenarcaibnforthcareof^^irryt in*
I fdfol^^

TI&^British Apollo, loit

h$fd. N. 73* And fuppoie tb^ as Mwi and ^
frifi m always green, the ancients oaade uft of tfaea
•c^ buriaii, as an enoblem of tix imaiortaKtf.of tiie
dcceaied» through their virtveor good works.

Q^ J ht^vi fomd exf^'mumaiify timi tb§ Afjff cf wmnn
^a mH^ ffthaf pdiom via 9f unfm9ufn^$, U it t^h
fiMtid i$ urifisfrcm/piraMl frukf «r « €muk$dfMmf$bM
MMM «ra fr goad m tbtmfihis. Tmr 9fmm tmd r^&mt
tifi dt^tdby tmwka fugm tmdtir $h9ilieffk^i§fa^b»vmg
hMd nufi nmocent frndmnm imnmrfiiim mip^ fmfimtd md
ita/ur^d fy me, who in otkor o»fis ifto^csomiom tomox-
oroMm of fcruftljfiiy* •

A* Bj condemning all, even the beft of tbefab'ier^
of that odious vice» becanfc fou have erperioieatalty
found it in one, (hews yon are guilt/ intheliigbeftd^
gree, of that etil fpirtt yon condemn in them; and
therefore your prejudic'd opinion can be of no force
againft them. Tbe>be(l interpretation we can pat op*
on £o genera] an abuie, isi that it fliews you never had
the good fortune to conrerfe with the bed of the £a 2
oUierwife you woud have been convinc'd, that many
of them abhor the crime, even to the ihame of nua«
tes (and not of the weakeft) of ours.

Q. fti^ wherm fyo the diferom fr^ertks, prft^m
tmd defects, ef gilding md lacquering. '

A, All gilding is perfbrm'd with leaf-gold, and Uc"
ifm with leaf-Hiver, xxti^dL to a gold colour, byavar«
ntfli composed of re&t^'d Spirits and gums. The .
moil beautiful gMng is burnifli*d gold, but iubie^to
an immediate injury by a wet finger, and in alrttletime
lofes its chief Juftre by the moiftnefsof the air* Oyl
gold holds its colour longer than Ucqear, but fboner
grows dull, and cannot & refreih'd. Oyl Ueqrnr is
and fubje& to crack and part in time, but not togro^
duller fo much as gold, the filver being defended from
the injury of the air by the varniHi. Burnifh'di^^Mf
holds its briskneis longer than any of thf foremention'A
being performed on a harder body than thofein oy],a]fo
defended from the injury of theair by the lat/pter, yctift
timegrows paler $ but its colour may be rdlov'd by run-
ning

J0Z5 ^^ British Apollo.

Sling i c over Bgain wltb^Mpv^Ti and ^fc nor as wrett ai at
£rf!t,ltm2iyheohjc£teditlMttberchpUii^tqbe fcen in
many aocittiticats» wbicb retains its beauW, tho*done
many years ago. We an^er, that foroMrly your leaf-
gold was far thicker tiian now; befide^ what hisap-
pear'd to hold longed hath been done on ceilings, where
no filth cou'd lye to contra^ a tamtflf. /

Q» H^ Jhou'-d age h$ mtre h^mmtMi Am y oiidi!» wbkb
Mrrits ^auty md^rfiBkn mitf

A. Becauie wif(ion}andcr]»erJeDce (the companions
of tigt) are the perfe^ions of abe ntnd, and of much
greater <Hgairy than tbofe of the body.

Query i . Wlfnu mUff m cmmry frrmtr {ihm hittha i oo U
t$ fink M fart0 fuitAi^) UMfiiM^fy require with wife f

a. Or a farmer' sfw ihtis hnrie- 1^\. ayeMrfreebold
after his parents deceafe f

I. Or a young man thm*s a hsfkkeraft, who iy his h^
duflry htak ptmld ijpo h Woir, h0tfiug vetking to heght mtk
hit what he borrowed t <

A. To the firfl we anfweff tliat 100/. with awife»
is as much as he oaght to txpe€tp fioce fhe muft e-
^ually (hare in pains and isdnftry in that ftate of life.

a. To the fecond.^ib 100 /. if he has nothing of
his own to ftock a farnn For tho' ly /. per arm, fet-
tled in jointure requires aN>re, yet hi« father may fur*
vive him n>any years, and all that time fte has no en-
joyment of it. .

3. To the laft we anfwcr, hqmaj cxpe^ more or
lefSf according t« ^he tk&e he had i]>ent in getting
the 100/. But no }ufl calculations can be made of thete
makers, without a knowledge oftbeperfon'sindudry,
principles, ftate of health; feSitions to eftacea, ^c*
Q^ SheMCeuM Talhffd fend^
Btit toBouBcfshkfiienJ,

A cag i>f^W Nottingham Afswf ;
IhirSt ym not that his Hood,
Tho* he drinks wine that's good^

Would circulate better and quidt^ I
K Nay.foweU if he fought^

And maintained each redoubt ;

^ Ktf9 beUnono of our r^rf Britiih %/y^i Wbh

1014 ^^ British Apollo.

ffith whai vigour hi w0Mld
Havt iMdtd thtrmgb blood,
Mtidh fmii and have ho»*d Uf dowf$ fhicktr*
Btit thanks be to Jove,
IPor his kindmfs and W,
. That fane's vice vcrfa, no wonder
Though Boufflcrs Jhouldfyt
When brave Marlbro' draws mgh
jinJ great Eugene attach himUke thteadtr*
• For thefi two havebf odds
Otu done dettii'g/odst •
And thtir fraifes have reached Suimmiin Coeli l
And who new eon (hum
The great Scipio'i name^ •

^ciftthefe ( duo fulfsina bellif) ;
A, Hail, poet fublime.

Who fo bravely doth ch>mc»
Doubtlefs fraught with thy Uo$t'nham]i<^ot ;
Be it faid to thy praife» -
, Than thy. volatile ]ay5<
Not the fpiric of harts-bom i$ quicker.
But tho' this koappy ale
Perhaps feldom does fail
To enervate your fancy when writiogs
Yet in Bouffiert it may
A^ a quite different way»
And deflroy ali his condudl in fighting.
But whether or no»
Botiffier*^, fpirits below.
Or his vitals may watit reparation :
We here plainly declare.
Nay ve fately can Avear,
That your clapper needs no provocation*
Q. From a footman I'm rofe.
In livery cloaths,
, To a furgeon ns good as the beft s
I am fHTgoon of St. Thoaui,
GreM cures I do fromifot
2 have judgment as weU as tke teft^

I

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2hmt0llme, I fraf» .

H^ the company fa^p
f 2b4$ I am an impudent ftlh0 i

idn4 caU me Bully* Hacjk»
. . And fay I am a tfHoekt

And after me in the .ftrteu Mtnf*
^ if in keeping fny coach^ .

J m them encroach^
I wiU pillin^ly ky it down i

And teU me my erime^

I will mend 1/ in time, .
. And be eivflas my m town f
^. ^ A, V ^jkip yoa were bred.

How dare you thus plead»
' Aadpreiume oa (he furgeon's petfc^kioH ?

How on patients impofe.

And your weakneis dtfclofe,
Without any thought or refledlion?

IF your crime you would knowt
.^ » *Tis not chariots, or £0,
^ Or ypur coaches that make the tr^igreffioo :

. > ^ 'Tia pretending to know
.; , . , ;Mprc by half than you do, . »

^ Whi^h 6q^\\ fatf^w ^y profefliofib

Q: It is a common extrejj^n of people, when they woul4
Sfitngmfj), the valine 4f a piSlttret to fay^ It is a^fine
paint, or coarf* pyint. JM^if it appears not roMfon^iioi
|« met that then can headiferenee i» the p^^e of coloHrt
in ar^ proportion^ 40 what if in the valuf ofpiSittres, Pray^
^0nfieme9, 40^ f9\e^, Tfthis jke a^ propir vay of e^^prefftig
s^ 'uak[ekpfi^\pi^uir$J > '- * ... '

;. A. Thes^bfAtig two^xolours^ and only two oC
^i;cat pricf?,! viZf.\ Ulframatine and CUnrmine \ the fisft
ibiit the* Jafl-re^f we fuppofe from henc^ th^ 9itkHk
came, that ti^ere .w^^ the }ike difference in the prica
x>i other coloi^rs ; uid then the value of a pidure iay«
in.tbe price (^ th^ (roIoursi'^b^Qk is all ^yr^mg % Foq
the valine of a.pidure \vs^A% ^ fkiiful mtoagoQiienfr
vof.the .colours, ^o^ °^ in .tl)ie.leall in t))e ccjflottrA
themf^Iircs ; ipiv a $\&^^ ,m^. ha^^. ipii^i^^MffMv^
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tx^VUrmnarhu^ andyetnotbeworthafiittfifog morei
and on the other haod,* one may have none of tbofe
colours in it» and yet be' of great'wortb. But tiHiea
we fay, the value of a pidure coofifta in the ibm-
fiMgemtnt cf the cdmrs^ we meia only in reference to
the cokwing fart ^ for to render it a compkat pic-
ture, many other properties tnuft concur, as dffywt
. miinmict^ draught, frepdrtm, fnfieBruf, 8tc.

Q^ What notici is tfi bt taken, when the back fart ef s
ymag man's head is qtute grey, and the fare- fare tBferem i

A, No other notice, than that hb hair is of two
difierent colours, unlefs to icmtiaize the pbilofophi*
cal account of it» nyhkh yet feems to us not to be
the intention of rhe'queftion.

Q.I am a ymmg man, juft gtOng to begin the werldt
hut find I cannot bring my afiirs te beary tmlefs I am
ajpfted with^fime menej, I am efftred vety latefymycbeiee
<f two Gentlevemtn, / think nearfy eqmal in r^^ ef
their fe/rtunes : The em has an affeBedinedeft Mh a lai*
gnijhing and very grave air \ the ether 'a brisks iivefy
and held leek i ar, aecv^ing te the eid fbrafe, is a boi^ny
iafs. N(^ Gentlemen, my freflnt emergena/ wiU mt aUme
ef me te fiay Ung, te fatisfie my felf ef tieir firmer an*
duS ; bnt am reftlved ta be ditermmd by ymr 0dviee$
Mwfr r hefe wiU be veryj^eedy f

A* Since you are m fudi baAe,^ we will not botl
yoQ long. Take the latter, becauie the Lady grmve^am
leema of too ferious and thoughtful • dtipofition tih
agree with your predpitant re^ltitioflt.

Q. I have been rr^mn*d, that a chariot wkh ehr^
wheels hath been made te' go by an engine, withmt tb^
TMf efany ereatttre ta'draw it, and that they cotdd ttsm
and guide 'it with h$uch exaiheefs. New 1 can cencerik
kern ^k a chariot mof be made te go, rfz. By placing
m finaU wheel before, and the fixing two Utrge ems en an
nxehtree ; which axel-tree f^Jfi^g emder the feae he the
iharia, an engine may bi mnde t4 fb^ en it^ a$td aftc
whedi being fix'd m the axd-tree, whin that k worked
mmd, by ^fiqtnnce ike ieheeU tmfi he ^ too, and
okereby f^eetero 4 fregr^e motkfL I dfio cm tommi

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ifcm tke finmtfi wht^t ^ windf the ckm^t kags Stfmti
mfjf h piidid If tke fta : Bui fitce hi p^Uftti fmrningu
mi ff the p^itt wheds mufi make a ^jmcknr dmtmferencw
thm Hh 0^, or dft fh firfi wknl catmoi gmii ##, X
€mm$$ emteerve htm that ctm ht ftfform*^^ finct ih$y mt
If^h fixti to the axel'tm, if ym htuvo m^ mtm tf
thefi thm^s, f^wf vnfotm mo i

A. A GeotteflMrn of our ibcfet^, bath feen the m*
ward operatiott of fucb an engine. You (eem to' haTC
a right notion of the manner of the engine, and baog^
\tk% (^the cbarfoe. The motion you iniift on« is thus
pcrfbrm'd. ^ The engine con6fts of a duplicate form
dF fimilar works, which plays on both ends of the
axel- tree, and the motion performed by the operation
of both hands $ and the axei-tree is cut in two in tho
middle, and jointed by an iron pin» let in at both ex*
tremities next the diviiion, ib that in turning of the
chariot, one end \% worli'd by one hand in propor*
tion to the circulation, wbiift the other hand reftraios
the motion of the other end of the axel-rree.

Q:^ I h^tvo^hotn very much MddtBod to keepino eomfanf
m^ hard drhdkmg, whkh mf m/Htmthn iPOHl/not imr i
for it has eafi mo twice otto a co^sfumftion, of which I
have both timet rectwred*

Through the perfuafiens of mj friends and rektims l-
fervor that ^ico^ and now remain in a perfkB ftate of
healths But bfJfhunmPig me evilt 1 bring upon fnj filf a
worfe^ viz. the hippo \ that infiead of being all life and
jollity as bififre, I look like a flseep hwtg m a hedge, as if
I had neither life noi^fml in moi

Injiead of ctateffisg andfles^g the Ladies as before^ I
have not a word tO' fay for my felf Therefore I eameftlf
beg efyou with aH/peed to tell me^ whether J {hall return
to^ n^ former *€ottrfe of drinking, or what eourfe I fhaU
take to get rid of this my fmock- faced iftemper f

A. Since your eloqtietlsee was wholly inipir'd by
Sacchsesi you hare )o(l nothing by parting with tbae
qualification, becau& it was none of your own. And
we befief^i the Ladies will be better plealed yeklk
your fiience> tlan with ftcb airs as wine were Mkely

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to give you. Nor are we con?incM yoa Have loft
TOur aiTurance by your conftraioed jbbrietys fince you
Aave the confidence to ask, if you (hall return (ltk§
d»g to Ms vcmh ) to your former drunkeaoefi* cho'
At the expence of your health here, and forfeiture of
your happiaei$ hereafter. ^ .

Q. The fiMd'mg tf a quefiim. in ymr fttmerfy f^»
fnpMinded feym in Engiifh verftt without metrtt ««m-
fi$n*d n cwtfovtrfy bttvetn twc» which wms the btfi firt
of foefry, viz. shaf which is mttdo in rbymo^ or tho for»
^?^> frPt^^ thi virfi to ho equal in sU other refpe^s t
A oonfideraile wajer depending horemM tmd tho forties
^ing agreed to fimid to yottr determination^ you are «8-
trpued to give your anfwer in your next paper.
; ^ If a poem of each kind (hj^ki li writ by two
perfons . of equal judgment* doubtlefs the -SLnk will
contain the ftronger lines, the author being freer from
conflrainr. But the condition of the wager being on
fupppfitioh, both are equal in all other refpe^s beiides
rhyme > the rhynoer win$« £ace he gives an addition
of art» which beii^g mftfictd, is by coniequeoce foettcai*
. Q^ Tour wife doctfion d&es the Utfiro Jhom,
With which Apollo lights tho Jhados bdo» i
Ajffft ffiy humSle, yet afpiring fault
Jind my defers with your dear fenfo coir»trotd,
Thefe nice diJlinHims bard to bo exfreft,
J once more offer to Apollo*i breajl.
Ihofef who with vicious hvo alone do burnt
PfiU euro by h^te, lovOt which meets no return t
^ut if I were the wretch^ whops lozo negUBod Winl
it wotld not turn to hatred, but defpair.
Beeaufi I could not fix my love on ono,
Cuidedify that blind pajjkn, love odmo \
^utfromfuch motives of a virtuous land,. ^

TerfeBionU in tho judgment, not tho mind, >

itff charming foul to a fine figuH join*dn J

fit fstsfl be aUfublimo that conquers mOf
idl«4 ^*M^ ^merit's great, fi:fhall my lovo too be,
That not returned, ah ! fieaven what fhouU X do t
Lamntj defpt^ir, la^guijk» and lov$ Utp (00^

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Jih fights fmemly Sur, mfb mtrial pMm,

.jSnd f ifi ji0vi m ufit vomld gUry in his dmn,

H$ 4hen an mfiMp9 rf my lave fi§uld fee.

And iU my death ferhdfs wotdd vslae me z

Shui ef foy fex wm* tver yet did preve,

CgnfiMnt vithout m jjufl return to ipve,

I avm my foul is wkh ftrfeHion j&y«

Affd hath s trtse idea^ vihtuflseHld ife admir*d:

hly paJlan^s fervent, and m merit plac%

Qh ! Tell me thm, if J can err in loving to the lafit
jL Madam, our utmoft veneration'a due.

To one that writes» aad one tbat loves like you.
furfuits like thefe» can ne'er be errors dccm'dp
Where virtue fires, and merk's* moft elleem'd.
Such wiiie remarks your generous pafTion ihow»
And hence perfedion '\% your choice we know,
Thofe fportOBs charms with common lovers prize*
(Whofe judgment ferye alone to pleafe their eyes)
Create fuch hazards of the great event* '
So ioxnc chttfc joys, and others diicontent*
&ut here the catara^ of love's remov'd.
And amorous blindneis is to light improv'd :
Happy the nymph with fuch refolves poiTefs'd,
But happy thrice is he, with fuch a confort blcfs'd.
' Q:. i>0 ^Htes think t

Ji. Tho' many ingenious philofophers have endea*.
Tour'd to fblve the anions of brutes by the power "o^
snechattifm,ye)t. we think the enterprise of much the
iame nature with that of folving the creation by ine*
cbanical principles. Aftid tho' the abettors of them.
both may be nr from deiigningly derogating from a
fupernatural agency i yet we cannot but think, tbat
their proceedings bear too near an analogy to the £^h
fstrean or Iftgretian hypotbpfis. And tberefoce we per*
fuade our (dvch that the.JPialmiit had another notiof^
of tba thing, than that, of only viating matter anil
■ imparting motion to. it, when in a pious rapture ho
elegantly exclaimed, Manifeld are tfy ih^^ O fjord > m

wif4^ hafi thm madi them aUi '

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Since we ice tbe rwoos fignatora of reifbii In the-
adions of brates to ieaj that thef art didowed with-
reafon, is more irratioDal tfaaa if a phyfictm fhocdd
behold tbe federal c o aoirr i ug fynptoms of a difcafc#
aod yet unaccountably difown the confeqoeiiee. The
late naturalift Mr. lUy acquaints us; that he has been
bimfelf a witnefs to fticb contrivances of a dog, as
are unaccountable by reafon, without tbe fuppolsd of
their being rational creatures. And Sir 9§^ttm T)m*
fli's account of a iiirprizing parrot (9nd they, who
will allow birds to We reafbn, wtli not deny ft in
brutes } intirely orerthrows the beft laid principles of
mechanical operation. And we could give a relation
of fttch a fucceffive ieries of management and fore-
fight in a fox, as cannot be accounted for opoiii any
other prindple than that of reafbn.

Upon this account it is, that fbme logicians have
rejeoed that common definition of a man mum^ m-
ti»mU i and chofe rather to define him hj rnnhmA
reHiirfum. For tho* brutes are ,not void of reafbn,
yet they have not fuch a degree of reafon as^ to ren**
der them capable of religion. And this it was (ss we
are apt to think) that put Jtotf upon forming that
fingular definition, Homo eft Mrnmal imfhtme, btpn :
Man is mi unfeathered, two Ug*d mum»U Upon which
we beg leave, by way cf digreffion, to prefent you
with a comical relation. ^

Viogenesy that moroie cynic, who was no friend to
Tlato, becaufe of his courtly compliance with the
world* intending to ridicule tiie foremention'd defini-
tion, intirely llrip'd a cock of his feathers, and throw*
ing him before his ftrhol^rs, farcafifcaliy fiid, Hen^t
FUfo*s man.

Some will tell yon, that the fitmtngty rations]
aftions of brutes proceeded from inftind. But if you
ask them, what inftidif^ isii uniefs they allbw that it
is reafon under another dtroomination, they carniot make
you anyTational-Tcply. Inftinft therefore, as too ufu-'-
ally taken, As more precarious, becaufe more abfiird
than, the hypothefis of mknomt or Utm camfes r an
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bypothefo fcain'd oQix to be a tkrem to ^ociiuice.
But to tell jo\h wh0C we uadevflMd by in^in^, our
opumn is, tiiaC it is mfotk iq geaoral, but in iboie
Ci'Cttufe& itore particgubfjjr cktcrmiQcd to ptrticubr
objc^. la woicii letter tefpeSk it is, wbac wc call
in. mea a paiticukir gcoiai. Aad finoe w« may fre«
( mcatly oMrve. tbat iafne.men of bat oommoa rca«
too* cxcdl othcra of uacommoa parts io fome partica-

\ brs i wocaaaoc wandir» chat.ioiiK of tlie. inferioar
creataces fiivpais fnaakkid m their peculiar excelka*
cies« and yet are fu beliMv ihcm ia tbeir geoeral ca«
pacitj.

But to tbet leemiof ii^>e8rtac»s of rcafiia ibmc aro
readj to ceplft tbat aa Almightf power can fo mo-
deJize matier aod aaotioo* as to malce tbeir eSc&s to
rcicmble tbe confi^icofiei of Jvaftn* Bat we cannot
djilcnible our opinion, tbat there ieeuM to us to be
ao utter iacapacitjr ja tbe£tb>eA« .Aod if there be^
it cooftquentjjr cfmgfi tbe action with nothing
lefs than, a plaio coattadiAion. But to &fi that God
^n do wihat is cpntrtdidonj, isfoBa from aflcrtiog
bis omnipotence, tbat it iiicu«l/ defirc^a ic» aod con*
?erts it iato mere impoteoce.

'Tis true, aa over-ruUug providence by a continual
influenceaad diro^on* can undoubtedly- fo determine
the organa of bnites» «» to make, thett. ,pf odtioe eon*
ftqueDces no ways dJflbnant to the effinSspf rcaibn.
But £]cb a coatinual inAucnceaod dtre6Hon^m what
the defeodors of the mecbanifm of brates whU not infift
upoui And yet if they didi tbirone thing were iuf*
ficient to confute them j namely. That it is the pro-
pertvof wi£iom to wSt by the niioft caTy and fimple
aaetnods*
X But the qucftion is ufuaUy ftarted^ What then be-

/ comes of the ibuls of brutes, which gre confcquently
of an immaterial fubftance,. after their feparation from
their bodies ?. To which we return the cuftcmuny
reply i What, if God aambtlate their ibu}s,.when thqr
have ierved tbe ends of tbeir Cieation, when their
Maice; hat ao farther aft for thcmi aod coafequeotly

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no way diff«ff8g*s hw dWii worfcrtariflMpr by reducing
thtem to thefr primkivc ngo-cxiftencc ?
' Bat- what, the* he do not aonihiUte their Cauls,
Cm'wc ptiriy mortals pret^d to fay, tbat God can.
not difpofe of the ifouls of brutes in the boundlefs re.
gions of infinite fpace ? That he niay not have ii(^
for them, tbo'lntirdy infcrutable to human intellca?
To deny the poffibility of fomc unknown difpofal.
What 18 it but to Gtj, Thzttjod^stbhiigbts are ms mir
th&ughts, and hi$ vpofs as our woffi itkai cur Cnmcr is
niecgetker fiah m ene as our fdoos f-

Q^ iVe read in Genefis, chtff,\. ver. ]. Jifdt G$d
€rea9id the heavens and the ea^th, "Brian this text, di*
^mes colleS the ere^ien of the world ex nibilo. Nem th^
J dan*t in the lea^ douht, Sue^ that there are §ther texts
of Scriptures from rohmce the otiotion of all thasgs ex ni«
iiilo ^ Ood m/y Sefairfy am4uded i^et thero appears tt
me, no neeieffUy ^ underfiarutiitg thif text m that fenfi.
Wor fi^fpofifg God badfrtsn^d the vatrld out ■ ^ fra^iftent
fMtter, the tpmd H'^Il> iMph is hrrerenifer'd create,
ihmgfte^iemly applied in the lU^W -originMl, tofignifie
atker a&ions and tffeBs than a predu&ientxnihilo) might
have Seen properly us'd 6y the infi'tred writer to figmfie
fuch an opertition, and is fi far from 4iuejfaril^ ins flying
•a produffien ex. nihilo, that-a^ii ajfrm^d netfor to have
-teen wtder/M^in /hat fenfe kythe Jewis thet»fel%'4s f

A, 'It is confefaM, that the word' ^eato, does not
"neeef&rlly import a produdibn^e;if)»t^i2».> 'And in cv>
^^ncA of this, fotne may be- ready to alledge thofe
words in the kmechspt&t and God armed trmn, &c.
For man was created out of praeexident matter, namely,
out of the dufi of the grounds But this paifa^ is no
proof of the fignification of the word, (ince as man
-is a compound ci'fitA itji iody/£or\\itttf[t&ofk may
bear allufit)!) to the former, which wa« created out of
fiothiffg. And this particular allufion Is confirmed by
the fubiequent Word», in his oven image i which muft
be aliowfti to ha^e dt ieaft a principal reference, not.
to the body, but the foul. But tho' notwithfiandiog
this, we agree with you,. that the MxtA create f » of
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equirdca} import » aod tiat, were there flothiog
eiie to determine the matter, we could gather notbiog
more with any tnanner of afliiraiice from that cxprei^

tban that the divine hiftory ifirft relates the creation of
the world in general, and then deicends to the variouc
particulars of that creatioo i jet the fubfequcot verfcv
cietermiiies the preceding one to a more ftrid* a more
particular acceptation. For when Mtfes in the drSt verfg
makes mentioo of the creatioo of the earth, heiromc*.
diatel/ iubjoyns, 4»d ibe earth was without firm, mi
mmdt even after tAe creation fpectfied before. Whence
he hiAorically informs us, that God firft created the
matter of which the earth was formed* and then d[«
gefied that rude» ill-fhapea matter, into fo delightful,*
ib beautiful a fabrick.

Q^ / btvtg in a arttiin plact^ heard two ferfins^ viz*
K' and B. emtttndmg &ne with the other, concerning the fiuls
i^ good men departed this life, A. fnid, That they went ta^
beMrtioif. B. defied to know where that place was, which
wa call heaven i which was anfwered^ in the regions above z
Bett B. affirmu that no mm can mfwer the' queftieni ,
therefore I being afuhfcriber, thought it not am'tfs to fend.
t9 you to have your opinion where heaven is i

ji, B, wjs i^ery much in the right, when he af^'.
firmed, that the ^oelliOQ is unanfwerable $ for as the>
Scriptures are filent in the matter concert) iog a local
faearcA, fb reafbo cannot ib much as of!er at a guefs.
AU tlierefore that en be iaid is, that heaven is there
( wherefoever it be ) where God diiplays the bcatificic
viiiofi to departed £iints.

Q. j^bout> two nights ago 1 was in company with /hmi
Gewttmen, and among other difcourfe, a difpute arofe lon^
eermng the P^pifta worjhipping the hofi. One faiJ, it waa
Idolatry i and another: denied it : Now there was givem
an both fides for the confirmation of what they faid, buA
neither ef them being confuted, I apply xny fflftoyoyr oroi
ciif to know which ^ them was in the right f

A' Idolatry is to pay that homage to a creaturer

which is dae only to the great Creator, whoU Gedover

VwL. IIL Y y aUi

Mp SieffeU fit ivtri-'tnd Cidh ^n tequige ii ufuzSf
IBi'd dirihb homage. Af tbetcfate Cfarift'i body is iici
otlrer tbaft 8 cfcatare, it necei^iiy fotl^ws, tfaae m
1^7 ft the afbreftid holn«^ omhot po£y>iy dcape the
cecfure of idolatry.

Q;. May marrisge h reitfraud <fnm $ktm okc$p witk^
mtt offence t0 God t St, Paul'i txpreff^is, An thou hoM
from a wife, feek is6c a wil^ iScc. 2^ m i Tim. ir.
i» 2, ^, hejpenks, ihtt in the Jaeter tiipe^ ibme AaUr
^epart from ihe ftith, gfirtng heed to fediiciog./pidts»
, and dof^rkies of deirils. &c, fo^biddiDg to tmrn-y;

Ho» (to me ft afftars)' tkey wbf fbt6id Hi» fim^
me »s is above ffecified, "Bray recent the fame byyettt
ta^byafs'd judgments f

A, Your firfl quotation hota St. Tatd is not a pre-
cept or command (as may be plainly gathered from,
the ocher wrhfngs of the lame Apoftle ) but barely the
a i vice of a prudent coanfellor. And as this advice voxf
l^ar reliation to Cbri^aAs of all ages* we beg leave to
r^efent the fenfe of it in the fuceeeding parapbraie.
" You, who have the< gift of contfflenee j you, tm
*< whom it h given to forbear a repeal mafriage ; joa^
**- if you will be ruled by me» if you wiU follow the
<^ dirc^ion> I would willingly prdferibe* yoa will noc
'*^ again intangle your ielves in a date of matrtmooy,
*' nor be willing to be a fecond time ifnmerfii'd in
** temporal concerns^ but rather embrace a diienconi-
'* bred life, that you may fludy how to pleafe, sot
<< your wives, but the Lord, and more iotireJy dedi-
;• cate your fdvcs to your Maker's fervice.

^But^we may confider too, t^t this advice was more
particularly feafbnable in thoie perilous, thole paie-
cuting times, when the iingle man was by fiir the
bappiefl i the fingle man who iiad n6 w^e (that en-
dearing relative) no children, (thole engaging d^-
ances) to tempt him to apoftacy for their iecurity:
The Hngle man, who though he had enongb to do to

frovide for his own fafety, yet rejoyc'd in this, that
i$ foUjcitude was confined to fuch narrow boundaries.

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Ycmr fecond ^otatioa refers not to iecond tnar^
riage5> but to a marriage flatp io general, wbicb wa^
utterly, condemned by feyeral herecicks. And Mpifha'*
mm tells us» that this paflage in St. ^aul was verified
in tbe Qu^^hj^ts^ an beredcal &6t, wfaofe principal
promoters were Bht^gmm. Bat there were hereticka
more early than tbeie Caf^fbiy£iJi (for rhey beam
not to a^ear till the iecond Century) who forbad
ittarriage ms an unlawful ilate.

Q^ X 4kfir0 tkt dijkmm and difimBifm letWHU^ th^
ihrd$ populate, 4^ depopulate $ UcMfo mtfl Eng^ifli
WHrnmries fam to ^hwMt th^umfenfi of the firfi word I

A. As for the definition you dtkte^ we muft ex-^
<Q£e oar felves, finoe definitions belong not to words^
but things : And as for tiie diflin^ion between tbem^
.there Is none at all i for they, both fignifie to dffpeo^
pie, ravage, or lay wafle.: They derive their origins^^
fmAtMin wordsi^ and retain the £igoHicatiofls analon
gobs thereunta To. populate* comes from pof0d»f(o^
ptff$d9r. And las .tho^ are derivied from fofttlatts, iim
people, oob vould'be a|it>.itajjeedio.thiiib» that thejr
ihoold figiifie to people, and not difpeople. Bdt ar«
bierary ufage has jocifeaioiended them to ut. under a
kind of antithefis % that is* has ftampM a 6gnificatloia
upon the derivative dire^lf oppofitc to Jthat of the
ptimttive. And Aha' vqrbsicmx^iiMioded of the pre*
pilkton ^r» u£tdly are of a ^^ontAiy imp^ to their
ftnpk origittabi yet tbttit is not abvays^foi is oW«
iag to the foreAid arbitrary^ uii^er Whende it U, that
f^Ur^nd dtf^f^tf figntSe the fatnel

Q^ Whut ian he th€ mm^^ tbof i^^f9tmg Jjidjf JhM
dubtifi biti^ Mt the ndtt^g («r fi^t) of one ptrticuhr
CSmttUmMn i Naft, if if9 oomfMnj^ mi mver fe enerfy, if
htr^^pfms n: seme in^ fin m^Mhm^Sately « ^hAgrm
dm^i^mutnot 4mt\wm'd mut^ te^fiy, . J iutvt<:an mttr9\
fneiMnP viik \$ke Lddy^ md doeut m the leafi Miev^.
her Mfntdm to^froind ftom l^evfoi^ rnyfiriBiff firtttiny^
gitfofmi tmt « d$^md^0elece is laertt^andant i!

^A. The* reaibn of tke Ladv's miihrs at jSght, or
^namfcig of that perfto, m^it be front (oicralcaufes,

T7^ T^*

lo^tf 73^^ British Apoi-i-o.

fte Gentleman n^ight at Tome time have CM fomt*
<!lfag which might ihoek her modefty, which the iigk
. or name of him might recover to her memory : Or
hj accident, he nhigbt have icen her in fomt manner
Ihe never deigned he fhould. But we rather believe
thoie blirihes might arife from lo?e. As to the fcf««
tiny you have made» many lovers have concealed their
fiffi<m m defiance of the ftri^eft icruttny s an inftaooe
whereof happened once tb the knowledge of a Gen-
tleman of our fociery. Some Ladies ittfpe^ed another
Lady, then in the houfe with them, to be in love with
4 eertaiti -Gentleman, from thofe very tokens you have
^iven, but (he denying it with a cold indifFereocy,
they were refolved to try an experiment, Koowii^
the Gentleman on urgent bufinefs ^as to be away a
fortnight, they contrived it ie, that two Gendemea
^as by accident) fliould come to them with burial
favours, who ( upon asking who(e funeral they were.
%t) ihould fay, as before iaftruded, at that Gentle-
man's who died fudd^nly. They did as inftrudled,
opon which the Ladies tH cxAr then* eyes oa the fuf-
pe^ed Lady, but (he appearing no more concerned
than if the Gentleman iMid been whoHy- a Granger t9
her, they di/mifTed all their fufpicions, and partedcom*
^ny. At fbpper tkne, the Ladies being all called to-
l^ther, this iJuly was mitfiug, on which th^ went
<Dherchambcr«butltndfngthe key within, after mack
linocking, without any anfwer, they brokt open the
door, and fcmnd the Lady had hang'd her felf in hec
garter ^ upon which, the Lady who contriv'd that
unhappy thought, went diflrad^ed i which may be a
^rning to ali, howthey try fuch dc/jjerate evperimentr* .
' Q^ I Mm M ypungi^Mn'rf 27 yeMft if Mgi^ mod am
wmh M^mt 300 1. Ihmtfi a/fHmg tbit^iit, Md bif$
me lime or other toheei'cmffukrM»mumy yet mt frefim
I have notaher ziem-oj behg fo; kit fkat of tMrrymg «
frodighp(> fortkne, I don't kke «r fildier*j Hfoy ttnd tbtrO'
fore ril not 'venture.on H a Ar.d m to fttrmtitg^ M I.
huve l:^'-> mcft 6red'to that of any thing, h is nq ttvtt'
JwKi s^a I wtwa iiaereji tofut tneimonjttvU'mtlLym^^-

?i&tf Britisw Ai'oLLo. rc}7

' ' Kow upon th iMe mattir, I fki nv^'mg ^t mMtri"

tmny likely to Miter my amhitm, and I jUttir my filf I

jfljall gain my mis thtrtby, though I mufi w« / did ence

mtumft it, by going to tSe frnme chmch in tho €U0ify, tba$

M Ltidy did ef * C9f(lidefAMo fortune, groat virtue, and

charming beauty, I igled her there, as I did in all other

fublick f laces I could jeHfer, without e-^er joking to her ^

^utjhe^too fom dtfcvoered 1 hadga/fC^d and taken mico of

her, and prevented my doing fratr/ mere* by treating ma

ttfter an unufual manner; but aU Ladks may mt be fo

■crtteU Therefore, Gentlemen, fray give me ymr &finioen

whether my ambition is ill grounded f whether ftranger things

have not hafpened^than my making my fortune to. a great

degree by marriage f and whether my- friends, beeaufe ImU

not give them the caufi, have renfm te fay, I am whim-

ficaly ignerantly proud, and ambitious t

As you advife me, fo I will either decline or ccntinue my
frefent opinion, of^foUofwfuchrtdesor dtreBiom that you Jhall
think Jit to prefcribe i and I heartily dejire your thoughts con^
corning it*

' A, Look upon this vanity of yours ( Ambition \%
too noble a title for it) as an impulfe from your evil
genius : for fince Momus rather than Mart is your af-
cendant, tod youdurft not venture into the wars, you
inuft never hope for acooqucftovcr a fair lady's hearts
They aflFcift only the brave and bold, where there is
neither birth nor fortune to plead. Do you think,
hooping and hoUovwng after your landlord's dogs mu-
fick to charm a lady's ears? or that your skill in fat-
tening fvvinc, and caring rotten (heep, will perfuads
her into an opinion of your addrefs and gallantry? of
your knowledge in dunging land, render her kindnef«
to you proUfick ? ov all your father's team's of oxen,
draw her afic^ions after yoa? no, no, you are popt
out of your element, from which, wbilft you wan*
der, you muftexpe^ only fachdifappointmentsasyou
Bave met with. Therefore wc advife you, to return
to your farm, to lay out your 300/'. in (locking your
groundfi and to difmifs all vnin thoughts of greatnefs.

10^8 7i^ Brutish A?ollo«

Q: I »0uU Mfire fp \fmmfnm vhmc$ the w^rj icot<

fret is dfriv'df

A* Suppofc your felf exempt from paying fc9t and
In, aAd yo}irx>V9n good famuu viiWanfmtifypur qtiefim,

Q, 1 don*$ doM^t butfome of yow ingtmom ficiey hav$
fiiutim curious wjiiteeaao^cird worki^Mr. George Pfai-
ma&aizaar. jiffir 4ho beauty ofi^. Jam Me onough top$Jgt ;
Stafirthigoodmeisandhudaets^ U, I fimid bo gUd t^
b^voApollo's opmiotf,

A. We cao experimentally afTure you» that it is aoc
only quite z&Sti$u$sfidl, but Cfery WMyasgood, and ^d^
as wbat it done in the jE^- Indies ; and in one point &i]l
more exquiiite f for whereas the JMan Jafsin will break
or peel away* if (Iruck with force againft a hard bo-
dy» Mr. ^i^«MMX4Mrh«s contrived a way, whereby
to lay his colours on with io much firmne& that they
can ^ no ways liable to the above-nam'd inconveniencj.
Q^ fif1M> isfbi beft way togeP tbo love rf « jioHn^ gmlh^
Mim/m who is fitnoU ing cay t

A. By a0eding the fame humour.
Q^l090tt JhmUam(^»rf hofmsrdo, tiunhbwdSyaU^
djh smd iovos Mofher i for if he fiews sm indijfereitce tober
ih$t lovfsjum, i$*s mi of/lyiil-Sreedim, hut illnsuare, Ner
tMn he remove his Mimtion from her he loves, /he being
ess msschsis love with him*

A. Sir» ifyou never addrefs'd the firftj it oanoolybe
termed goodnature to requite herpaffion with yours:
but your paf&on for thelail gives us ground to believe
you have addrefs'd her, and (hat her affir^ionia theeSe^
thereof i if ib. your honour is there abfolul^ly engaged*
the breach whereof alone caor^Hc^ m) your good br«d<

Q. According umypromifij imM^ Md to troubUyen
with thefe fewUnes. Tost knnf, thsst Ife^yoH 0whiie Mgo
M queftiont to know whether thefhgke wm poifaioteeer no, vhuh
WMssmfwer^ditt Britiih Apolb in k\. No. 7 7 . wherein Ifnd
yostr opinion was hchningr that thofnnkewss 90$ foi[oneM9»
by yoftr nosninnfing. the mew thni deals in themv andliktf
wife I wa4. of the fame oij^man till now. Btsi to retstmto
my^ofyi there wm a gentlemsn rfffjy acquaintance ufH
^ :"• " . \ "•. to

foketf tt/mh in n box for hkfmuf, atui €V9rf niom^f
Mfid to give it milk > m» one tmrimg lot gavo it/ome tpilk
as hi W4S VMtf t^ Jo, undthon btmg akttli kft, and hit
JMtfitmdMghy^ ho fttt it dottu to hor, t^n the dmimgtf
it, itnmediatefy/he Mtift4^, tmd ilied. 'JChis i u^ it^^fi^^
ufon dtfring in aw^ofyottir papers to kwnp the atahv oftcisUtttrm

^. Suppo^gt^e loaucr of iiidi to be truCf stmxybe
ofiRsr'd* that a rmall portion of the ialival juice of the
ioake may be imermiJc'Jwirii the remainder of the roilki
and thp' it iaoot commonly found ib hurtful* yet may
it prove fo volatile, or caufe fuch a fermentation in the
ftoroach of the car, as may produce inordinate motion*
of thefpirits, turning to madnelsaod fufi^Dcationa.

Q. pTMylit mo knom tht i»#4MM0f</ this proverb, An4
bow it became one i viz,* kt us iet round and iquare, like
a dog's elbowf

A. The meaaiog of the frovtwb is to put a trick upon
AfoUp, and it firft became one, from the whimjtcalfrodtte"^
$ton of ycnr imagiaatioft*

Q. P0fy isthofo\irofc\vih% calUdWintwoH Witch f

A From one yamtf Pfibiing, who in th« reign of king
ymifos the firft grew rich by frivate gatning, and was com^
ptaoijf obftrved to have the card^ you mention, in kia
liaqd, flud never iofbagam^ but when htmifi*dit.

Q^ Havifig coHverjktim with a lady for y m* 8 Vtartf Srph
apiece ofgoldpgiviag her the one btdfi as a pledge^ to be jtifi ta
her at long at we both Jhotdd live, Jhe received it apon tha
fame accmat; giving me her word to be the fame to X0«, if I
wottid promije tobe true ^o her » and 90t keep any other womam
iompany, I agreed to herdemaads^ and was ever ju/i $a
hor. And J do pftbhekly dedare, my thoaghtt mver firof
sd.from hoTf and the morel enjoyed her company, the better
J hrued her, I was always kinit^ her^ and prefented Jter
with very noble prefents^ and fitpported her in a great degroa
when jhe was low in the world, Bnt a relation leaving her
a legacy of ^oryoo' 1. Jhe began to flight me\ andl fmca
falling under hmdrcttmfldnoet, eotddnotdo as formerly, jha
hff^s iptite left andforfiken me, I ftrive all Icon to pat her
90$ tffmy thot^hts^ butfhe has wreHgbtfach an mpreff/gnnpr
ontnyhtaf9,tb^l9annittellha9ttooo9$mnnijl(e^ Whar

Yy 4 /^M»

1040 Tl^r British Apollo*

I tmnMiAiJ ahmii think tf her ^ wlnntiJUtf^ /h SJMs

. m this eaftt and tfhkh vty IJhnUJmdrtlitff

A. You ought to look upon the misfortune you now
labour under, as the chaftilement of your fin forib in*
timate a converfe with a woman, without the previous',
the necf ffiry foleninity of marriage. Tou mufl aJfo
plead guilty to the charge of imprudence too, in leaf-
ing the perfbn, for whom hehadfbvaluahkan eftcenr,
to theeoiharing temptation, of a wavering, an incon-
ilant mind. For as every lin is accompanied with a fpi-
ritual, fb are many with a temporal imprudence. Had
you :Bin€tified your converfation with the nuptial cere-
monies, you had been even ftiH in the happy poflcffioa
of that beloved objef^, which has got (b intirean afcend*
ant of your heart. To make your fclf eafy thcreforeon-
deryour afRi6tingcircum (lances, thebeft method is to
turn the profped^ to behold thedifafler in another view;
to behold it as the corref^ion of a father. theAlutary
corredlion of that tender father, »^ff fwrtthftfytm^ And
'would you but conlider, that wereitnot forthc fmart-
Jrig dtfappointraent you fo much complain of, you fcad
probably proceeded in that unwarrantable courfe, and
might therefore have been undone, undone for ever.
'Would you but confider, that a gracious God has kindly
though violentIy,fnatch'd you from the devour ingflamcli
turn'd you out of that fatal ro%d/thM Utideth fc dejkuS'mi
that leadeth down to the chambers of detuh. * Would you
but consider, that God, even in the midft tf judgment
^hasfemembredmtrcy\ that in as much as you are^m^it
-you are chttflenedtfthe Lord^ that you fhould notbecandemmd
'mth the world. Would you but conHdcr, fcrioully and fire-
quently confider this, your uAeadnefs woukS gradually
wear away ; and that which is at prelenta bitter cup, a
cup mingled with gall and wormwood, wouki inpro-
grefsof time be converted into a delicionsdraught, and
become fiveeterthan honey andthe hon^ ccmh. Then yoa
'would change your melancholy note, and be ready to
cry out with the joyful Pialmift; f/i/GOODy^riRif ^^
I have ^nmTRO UBL B, that I mt^ ieamtfyftafueet.

Mefart

The British A^pollo. 1041

jBefiril i»Ms trwUid, I went wrtn^y btu wm hmut 1 ktf$
thy r»wJ, Then you would acknowledge with the fore*
jBciuion'd Ffalmift, that your »ffli&ionwas a favour^
:was a iignalfavour^OiLtfri^, thm hafidtdi GBiAClOUSLX
mththyfirvant, MceatdmgJa tby-wenL •

But iince you were both fofolcninlyeogag*d« though
forbid £o cuIpaUe a&incmiacy,till marriage (hould have
made it lawful, youareboundinduty to endeavour to
ufe the beft»che moil prevaiJing arguments you are mafior
of, in order to perfuade her to a compliance withtho
commendable purpose of unravelling^ as far aa poflibic»
the iniquit}( of your former doingSi, byaneceflary, an
indifpenfible oecefTary jnarriage. And though from the
oiufe of your uneafinefs, namely, her flighctog of you».
you may have little expe^tionoffuccefst yet you are
under an obligation of a icdulous application, fince
whatever be the iflue,. you will thcQ have dtkuir*dy9im

. Q:, At ther$pmtBmt when aU tht Hodiet tf mtn 4md
»Mfen tbtkt have ihi*d everfitce the beghmngef the wenid,
whether er m thty wiU dimmi/h the/utfMce ef the earths

JL Sinoe ail meaat thsredeoeale return tothatdu(l
of which they were at fird created, it confequently'foN
lows, that when ailtbeicattered atoms of mouldered
carcailes (hall be taken out of tbeterreftrial gIobe<i9Qd
re-united into the fame individualbodies they were be*
fore, the globe, (from whes^ they are takeo).cannoft
be otherwife than diminifliM by: foconfideral^ afub*
tradiofi.

Qfi. Vf«^ give me rmfin^ v^ a rtizar (m frofy vemhtry
difpedht hot Wfiter, aas Jemtut eMfier^ than hefere dipping I

A. The true reafbn is, that the hot water rendertr
$he edge of the raxjBf AimewhaC more fupple, or \t&
brittle, and confequently not fb spt to be broken by^
the hair it is to be.cuh

Q^ Thomas Hadn4tk ef Breoktborp^ ^ tmlis fiem^
Gloucifter, hufiandman (romhis j/omh te h$s death^when
he was at meat, vfktet^ erfitrnmen, withm^deon » with*
ent. when he eat, dtdfrnatt m me fide ef bk jkee uU he
drcltk tmimi^M^tht othirl jbfdwbeMtWifkrdidtUwye

^1% btu^

104* 3^^ British Apollo.

fmn^t m the fitter fide ef hisfkee and My, »nd mi m
$ha$fide he hid when he eat. Me died, ofm Paliy or Apo-
plexy, abom the Sotbyear of hit agg, mofi people Mieve
tf nothing hut old age. His vidom is fiUl iivittg. Ihh
can beattefied by fome hmtbeds of tho pairifkioners* Bo
tlied about 6 years ago.

An We being not wiliiog to qaeftion the trutli of
your relation, (becaafe particular conftitutions, asap^
pears by the obfervations of many learned pbyfi-
Cians, iKive particular fyinptoms of latent diieafea* oe*
ver diicovered but by anatomical (t>iifi^ioB d^<^ ^^
pprioa is dead, as Bonettts, Sehenkms^Worefttu^ and others
baye oh&r?ed) are of opinion, that tho,Httd»ackmvA
in fbme time of his life have been fub}e& to whatphy*
£cians call MetrnpUgftttOt Palfy,afie^ing one fide of the
body onljr, or at haft fomeriolent cold, which crunp'd
aad corrugated the tendons and^ nerves on that iide, £^
as to came a ftifihefs in them, though not iafficicai
io caufe ^ perfcdi palfy, at ieaft not obfisved bj^- la-
bouring men an the ftrengtfa of their years, but carried
off by work, and thcdifcafe bf repeared laboatyMbii
dying day, might be kept off fcom being fiual U>him»
Kow if fo, it'« plain the cafe nuft be oervpus,
and the cauieof fweating in different parts, muftarife
from different motions of the animal ipirits affedliog
the nerves. If the parts fweat by excretion of frrua^
in kboul', 'tis no wonder, becanfe beat arifing from
motion annates the animSU fpirita fb, as-to drive cue
the ferum to the outward parts of the body by expa-
fion of the pore^. But if the. parts fi^eat where the
nerves have any way been corrugated, ,or • otherwi^
violently hurt, that fweat arifes by contraction of the
nerves, as fweatfoUowinggreat pain is very commoo;
by which means the fersstn iffues through the skin, as
accidental!/ relaz'd, caufing what v' we generally call
£oU fvHiutt 5vhich wo takc^to be the' cafe of lAtotfias
Hadkack, who had.an cfiUx of fersem, called madoK^ from
his face, cauied by ao~ irregular motion of the nerves
m the face, or tendons of the mufcles (erving ta mt*
^ication, iormerJy by fome caufe or other uoobferv'd,

affc^ing

Th Bar tisti A p o^s. t o. 104;

a&ftiag tbeaervfscbereuotabeloogingi from whenco-
proceeded iiis fweat in eating, difierem, we are apt to*
beliere* from wbac proceeded from kboar» though
you gave us apt the critical obfcrvatioapf the oature
of his fweat.

(^ Th9 ixirMrdm^y frti^^'m I hmfi ftewuid fr§n>
yMT papers, inJttces me U tmMi ytu wi$b the nffiurt tf
em that w^M ke prettd tf m» ofifwir fremfe mgemwi
ficutjf.

I defeindedfr&m s fomilf that wen heth indf nMtl
smd great, thaiiih mtpat prekat under bntrndigerma or-
tfimfiimceh ya avert'd $0 the gemiftd /Inpiditjt cf t» m^
digerent Ufe: fer then he fetch /parks efoBivsty andemte^
iatm mtbm me, a> render^my thetights uniafy. Mf jv-<
niut prompts me tethe faUi frr if I htt read anf viSe^
rietts news, efhattiesp trmmphs, &c. Vmtrmfpmtdb^ftifU
^. fi^* atdfiem elevated heymd tbt fiMMM fitekefht^
tnamty,

Mtthmh I W9t$id adwmci mg fdffo ett t$ he fanfkt'
ahU t0 my ctmmry in gmurak^ antd ta retrieve thi btfirerf
m^ antifterh to he henefdrim ^ capimlvirtet$,ehmty,.
ondtQ lead an tttthlemifi'd i^hefersGidtmdmmt.

Ji* We advife jrou hj all means to cheriih thofe i^%
of Vktttg, till they ftourifh, fo as to retrieve the glory
of your family, and reader you an ornament to yoi|r
country.

Q^ Semg ym do fiat aUtw angels ta he ef either fix,
why then is the ma/cttline title given them en aU oeeafim,
whenevtr they appeared in former times, either to men tr
women i

A* Becaufe we have no other way of diftinguiibtng
perfohs, than by the mafctdine or fetninine gender, and
are therefore necefiarily obliged to give them the titie
of the fuperior fex.

Q, Reading yesir Apollo ef the tgthinfiantaheutwatett^
ffOHts, was willing to give yon this relation, thinking your
avfwer wide from the matter. On the ^ ef Auguft lafi^
heing on hoard cm tf her Majeflfs flkps ef war, in the
Ut, of 40, about j^o leagues vftmngfrem the burlings*
httwten ko-and 11 tttloek in the forenoon^ wefaw 4^ f

Y y 6 wMtT'^

1044 ^^ Britis^h ApolloJ

• 9mer'J^ts si a gttMt Jifliinei^ mt^f wirieh tfan exfn*

mdifuny hi^fst at the fume time cairn weMher^ andJU

fmoiib^f but what tittle air there was, was abotti E. and

&. N. E. mr eeitrfe N. and N. by W. the jfeut affem-

ed'm the W. and W. by S. the great fiaiu drew nearer

' ms, thai m half an hotsr we eetdd hear the rearing, and
fee the /earning efthefea at the bettem ef the fpmt er fil-

> idr, wtieb was ef a en^iderable thuknefs, tmd not very
^gh, fredigwHs clmds ^ water f^ading from it, refim^
MVf the fiafe rfa vafi tree* New perceiving it tedram

- Or^fiy Hfen us, and having no wind te wear ntr finf, er

make way shhead, this tmcemmen enemy fHtthefaikrssOh

' ekr a dreadful cei^ematien, being efcfinieni if it fheedd

> emm athwart fhip, as it direBly fw^td, the fiif intercept-
■ ing its cemmunicatien with the fea, wetdd catrfe that jk

ef water that was in the clmd tefaUttfenestrheads, which
' m all Itkeliheed mufi have been mr defimSien. Oter officers
teek all the frecasstien imaginable, as furling the/kils, tiMking
t^e the hatches, ftcuring the ferts, and the likei then tu
feen as it came witfm gun'fhot,fiHd a gun withan S found
. baU at it, srfter which it came (as near us I could guefi,
in lefs than 6 minutes) uf to us^ the rosring fiill leffniig
afttr the firing the gsm^ it fleajed God, tt enfy brujh*d
our larboard qtsarter, and did us no damage, Itfiunga
tretty deal of water into- our cabin^gaUeries, and as itpafs%
could difcern it as it were ajlreng whirlwind incemfafstf
ihe fiUar, gathering up the water when paft, ftilllejenifig,
till about the difiance cfgunfhn it wound up its bottom
and went away in vaft clouds. Now it is certain,^ the water*
fpouts, moved for feme leagues without any wind or current,
and what was, was contrary i which if caufed by fire wtdxr
the fea, one would thmk^fhiuld abide in one place, andcf-
ten be fua. at tfjat place, andfemefimes in the night, whieb
mariners tell me never was heard cf. Fray yf>ur further
< opinion, as alfo of the firing the gun, it- being frequmt ftif
fhips t4>fsre at them rs hen they fee any near; nay, when the)
have no guns, to bUxt a rutlace in the stir.

A. Suppoliag the trath of your relation in all ffs
moil minute circumft?nces, it fcem^ rather to confirm
than inraiidate our opinioo» conccrzung tbe cauTe of

the

TieBviitisn Apollo. ro4jr

the water- fpouts. For fincethey liappen ia calm wea-
ther, and the fea being fmooth, ic is a plain argument
^that they are not occafioned by any violent agitation'
from without, but by ibmetbing within the fea. Tou
tell us alio, that as it pai&d by, you could difcern it
as it were a ftrong whirlwind. But what is thir
"whh-l wind but air or vapours, violently breaking out
of the iea ? And what is more likely to be the caufe
of thenrfb breaking out, but that internal heat or fire
contained in fbmc concavity of the eai^th onder the
iea ? Tou add, that the water-fpouts you fkw moved
for fome leaguer without any wind or current. That
fliews ftill, that itwa« fomething from within wbich>
determined their motion this way or that way, and
which we may very well fuppofe to be fbme fuher^
wanenn heat or fire not fix'd in one particular placc».
but at difierent. times kindled in different places and
concavities oi the earth, and following the different
turnings and windings of -them. As for their' never
being fees in the night,, that may be called in que-
ftion : But fuppofe it were £o^ that does not argue-
there was never any at that time, fioce they may pafs.
by unfeen. We think the firing of a gun may be of
fome ufe by the motion it caufes in the air, whicb^
ipay caufe fome alteration in the courfe of thefe wa-
ter>fpouts : But the blazing of a cutlace fecms ta be
very infignificAnt.

Qj By crder Vm goings

As my name is James Lowing,
With full fpee^ for to curry h Holland,

Such a pacquet of letters,

Which come from my betters,
' That fome I believe go to Noland.^

To France I've a pacquet,

I believe they don*t lack it.
Tor it's full of hard worJy to great Lcw.'s |

*Tis to put him in mindl

He's of Pharaoh'j hind;
^d that he'll tn the fen mfike £0^/ brewis.

J 1^

10^6 The British ApoLLOb

JUfe are futh ha/rjh mrmQ9$%
That kei'll maie grimiftfesj,
j&^fendfwhU grandfon witbft^d^ Sir i
' To Jhev htm thtfe l^nes.
And that Britain defighs
Jim another dark Uffon to read. Sit.
To Rome Vve another^
Tor new there's a pother*
'£out waging a way vtth. theif fm i #
I beUeve^ and do think,
Thire^s a damnMe fiink^ ,
And the hnferor woti't kifs hit fees ^
ffith all/peed novo 1
To yotir god/hip do hie,
Te kneip if yok've aty to fend :
Jf not, would you dejke.
Oh ! thou Uarned great fire, ^

That your chariot voh would to mi lfttd»
A» Was not Phaeton's fall
An example to all.
Who WQpld meddle with things too &penof i
^nd are you £o fub]ime»
As our chariot to climb,
When a cart won't appear too inferior ?
But to you, as a friend,
Theic io(lru6lions we Tend,
That you'd forthwith dcCifk your legation ^
Left the letters you bring.
Should procure you a fwing*
Or at leaftwife a Bridewdl collation.
Q^ Te glorious bards of raee divine^
Look down, and to my words incline >
On yon ParnafTus hill I ftood^
And faw your wits, ^if, great, how good
One I would be i but ah ! nrn*t,
Tet ftill TUfJon't deny this grant,
I labour under a difeafe,
O quickfyy quickly lend me eafe ;
And tell me which Vd beft to do^
To run to iCfcuIapius, w you ?

A* Sinct

7%^ British Apollo. X047

JL Sioce your dtfoifk you thus dcciare.
We grieve that you iq pirA/e are ^
You muft to JEfcuUfmi go.
For l^hitbm will be much your foe \
Ihat curing God will mcod your ail,
IVe cure the htaiy and i^ the T ■
Or if ^e will not mind yoiir letter.
There's Mtrcwy can do it bttur.
hioweveVr friend, one cautioa heed,
'Rhitne rvener, if you ]«ope to ipeed $
For we w^tefliek'^ to lee the lines, dear farotfie^^
Speak /y^(i^ at one end. ^od the p^mmx at t'other.

Q. Why is tho north wind coldtr tifan the fouth ?

Jl, Becaufe we vC'KOTth of rhc ftm , and conic-'
quently the north wind proceeds trom regions at a
greater diflance from the fun. >

Q^ // thert atjy ntctffwy ttfid$ vhifh providence ha$
placed a man w. that juftij renders fitch fer/on ridiculous f
Is it net Beth uncl^rifimn and ttn^evermst to ridicule ^ man
fir no other reafin, than orJjf hit 6ein^ fomo nectffar^ trade i
Bttt a taylor aeing as neceffary a ioUing as aw other han*
dicraft, pour can the ingenious ApoIJo Acquit himfelfofthe
forementioned charge, for calling ( VBith the 'vulgar ) «
rmylor, the ninth Part of a man, &c when for ought Jji
ktiows^ hem^behathagoodmitUi andag/ood chrifiiantooi

^. 'Tis £^ange you (hpuld charge a reBe^ioo upon
our invention* which was mad(: before our grand*
fartcr'i da w J \^Iiat v^C iai^ op tt, was only froni
what occancn it firft became a jcft. If after we were
tt^e with one. .who attacked us in the name of a
tayfor. We ^xpedl to be cxcufed, iti taking the fame
'liberty with others as they take with us.

, Q^ What is the caufe ef halving a fimpU ttfon thti
tongue y uind from whence dtd that frying come, 'Xlmt onet
h^htold.a lye. And in anfioering it foon, yoto JuU oblig%
your find, E. W ?

j1, a pimple upon the tongue generally proceeds
from fharpacfs or heat of the blood, floniach, or the
like : Aud as lying U the common and unpardonable

crime

1048 ^^ British Apollo.

crime of tbat member, fo is it moraily obWoM to
impute any of its misfortanes to its dfences..
Q, Tm wits that ar$ fo gr^M^
I03ich tnttkes your papers takt^
I fray 9 refihe mi one qtufiton^
About a friend e[ min$^
Who informer time
Did make great refdutiffu
2> hii love be kmdy
Ilare temfer'd, fweet mindt
\Sid 0U thai could fleafe a fair mtUttt^i •
But that lafitd Jhortt
Wor h^s grvmn very fmart^
Jbfd abufes when^er he comes near henk.
Tbereforet Apollo,
¥er my brains areJhaUom.
Refolve me, I fray, wh^t to do 'r
Horff^ I may rule
Ibis unmannerly fooU
And I fhall ever be obliged to you f
A, By alJ means, prithee write.
And a fityr indite.
Since there's rcaibn fufficient to blam« hior:
Let it fotnt blank appear,
As thy numbers are here.
And 'tis twenty to one but thoii'lt (hame him^
Q, I am a mdom (and in Su/mefsy: 2!w firfons at
this time court me for a wife ; One rfwUch is a T^raitf-
man and in btt[mefs^ char of the worUl, and kvm me 1
think in my heart.

The other is a (Sentleman, at frefent out of hsfiiefi, as
henefi charaHer, hue little or no eftate. This man Im
Uve in my heart better than the other. I being a vndePi
und hearing of your great fame in refihnng th^ queftiem,
mofl huenblff requeft fouf advice^ which of theft ferfms t>
make choice of ; they are both honefi toen, and I amrt'^
folved to change my condition t

A. From the foregoing account,, two. mo tires ap-
pear on the Tradefman's behalf : Fird, His prefenc

proiperitj i and ficondl;* Ui^ n^ afie^oa towards
. " ----- ^

7t>e British Afollo. 1049

you. Dkenriffc, tliere art two mpre on the Gentlo*
man's behalf: Firft* Hts good charader ; aod fecoodlj.
Your hearty afiedioo tov^|ds him. Now the queftion
is, whether or not thedcer hath any real kiadncfi
for you, or whether his addrcfTes be not founded upoa
fntereft ^ if fo, wte advife you to difcharge him> and
cleave to the thriving and amorous Tradesman ; But
if the Gentleman's pretentions be fincere. and your af-
fection meets with fuitable returns* let kim by all
means be the fubje^ of your choice, fince 'tis kve,
and not riches, that ia apable of procuring the greatcfk
liappinefs,

Q. M. St, Evremont m hts wtrks uUs us, Thsu th%
sifffirent nms of the kmgs of Rome> were frejiulicial t0
the growth of the Roman y?4t#. Totsr of mm of the cafe I
' A. With deference to {o great a man, we are hum<^
biy of opinion, that we may reyert his fentiments of .
the matter, and not improbably conclude, that of ie*
cond caufes there was none fo vifibly fubfervient to
the enlargement of the liM9iNfjif/i/e, than thofe difie-
rent aims and defigna he fpeaks of. BfimuUss (the
founder of Rome) was one of the greateft heroes of
the age i but his warlike temper fpurred him on to
iueh bafky eoterpriies, as> were not tar froai proving
the deftru^oo of bit new built city. In evidence of
which, we appeal to hts famous cooteft with the
SaMnest which oblig'd him to fubmit to very fevere
conditions! For bis own feoirity put him under the
neceflity of admitting the StUmes as fellow-inbahitants
with his own fubjeds, and Tssms their King, as part*
ner in the government. And as though all this were
too inconftderable a di^ace, the Romam receiv'd the
name of ^wrius ( a name very familiar to the ora-
tors of fucceeding ages ) from Csshs, the metropolis
of the SMnes. And tho' a^mttlHs ena^ed £omt good
hiws, yet he left the Rgmsms but little better than a
rade, uncivihVd, undiiciplin'd mob. And therefore,
the prudent choice o£ N/ema PomfUitss, who was fon-
in-law to the forcmention'd. r4f f«#, was llie fortunate
oecaiion, that 4 fuoceilbr of the fime enterprising g;e-.

niut

fOfo 7 be British Apoxj^o.

niut wth a aiarml R mmiut , 6id ai0t gra^ at the ter^
ritories of othrrs to the forfeiture ,of his owa* For
HmfU, who was a inaii not of arnu. but Audy, asd
endued wtsh aU the accontpliflimcats pf a peaceful
priQce, reciaibsM the &Jirage difpofitiooof to fabje^4»
fefifisd thdritopoHfli'd tetuper, ittftkutedfeliigiOQ, tliat
principal bafii of alljgoreroaieot, and red^e^ the R^*
tttsns to fb ezceUenr a conftfttttion^ as to leave them a
robuA, tho' yet aa xoAnt ftate. But bad another Nums
ittCceecVd tbi«» a* tedious fiicceifion of ona^ive peace
might have tpo much ibften'd their uoexercia'd difpo-
iicion, might hatre unbent their martial tea)per» and
eiftthinated their Qtinds with Inxurianteale. But this
Was happiiy prevented wi^en another RnmtlHs aroic,
when JkUuiHt/Wuf wasieated ontithe throne. For as
he could not but ohferve, that his people were now
- ftrengthen'd and confirmed at home» and therefore bet^
ter prepared for acquifitions abroad; fo he refolv'd to
ti:;in them up afrefh in the fchool of JkfAr/, and im-
prove both their difc/pliae and courage by engaging in
a war with a neighbour flace. And then he foon taught
the inhabitants ofAlSa, byanintiredaftrndlfOQoft£eir
city, that war and peace in an alternate, in aduefuc*
ceflion,raay wonder/ully advaocemendergoverimicnr^
Tuiius left the Romsm to his Bicosflbr ^ams M^mmH
in a very flouriihing condition, and able to make new
additions to their envied conqueftt* Bnt Aaats^ as though
he were confcious what advantages had acdued from
the fore-mentioned alternations of war and peaee,ett->
deavoured to tranfcribe the pra<^ce of the pacifick?
Uuma, ^nd notfuffier peace to ou&itiattrn. ^ But when-
hh neighbours, fuppoifng hrm a coward, invaded
his territdrics» he repaid the vifir \n an unwdcome
manner, and made them deplore the raflmefs of their
attempt. But tho' he encreafed the glory of the 2^
19940 arins, and obtain'd the chacader sif a great warr
riour; yetwemaynotunreafbnaUyfuppofe^ that his de»
lire of a "peaceful reign might fe far reftrain thefidlus
of a martial flame, as happiiy to become the cauie»
that he never made cxcurfiOiss bryoad liic length, ne« I

vcr

r

7!&^ British Apollo* lojt

ver ?«ntur'd furtiser than either prudence or t^ecedUf
iPirould juRify his condu£b« Now Rome wa^ more
than ever a terror to her neighboujrs, and able to bear
jinotber iiyarr^oar PQ. the throne. Aqd there/bre Tar* *
qumius Tnfcf4s uval'd his. ^redcccflbr, and conquer'd
tweii^e difFfirent Corts of .people within the bouodarics
of Jiufiay, Whence by the way we may obfcrv^e,
what peccy conqucfts the R§man were in thoie eafjy
days, though furpnzipg in proportion to the times
^d' other circumhances. Rome by this time had made
£o coniiderable a Bgjuxc among her jealous neighbour^,
that (he wanted a king, who (hould be both of a mar-
tial genius to maintain her conquefts, to chaftife r<-
volters5 and withaU of a peaceful temper, to make re-
gulations in the (late, to fettle her affairs at home*
and not only make her equal to the acquifitions fbe
was already mifirefs of, but prepare her alio for future,
for greater ones. And that Servrus Tullus was fuch an
one as this, was the very king fhe wanted i he gave
{i^ificient demonfiration, \>y both his foreign and da^
^leftick enterprizes. Such was his fucccis in war,
that he mtxittd the glory oF a threefold triui^ph: fuch
was the model of his government ar home» that qo
number of triumphs could equal his applaufe* For not*
withftanding the battles whirb be fought, he To ad-
mirably fettled .the civil conHitutioUi as to pave the way
for Tarqumiui Suferlus to exert his a£livc, his afpiriqg
genius, not only in def enlive, but oifendve wacs*

But to confirm thep.remifles» we wou*djFeQHndyoi7»
that the feverities the Romans afterwards underwent
from Ftfrjinna king oi Clujuim, itx^ai l^^mitfji Jkiog of
the GmIs^ from Vy'rrhm king pfJ^r^^raindtfrOtt) the C2iir*
/^^^m/'tfo/, abundantly demon ftmte, th^ t^ey ow'd cot
only th^ir fecurity^ but their gbry. to a cautioua ts
well as a brave procedure » and that badxiot ibn!^e of their
:!ngs beea ^.ki^pf C«f»j^r0r«i J^^//, tbey might have
jn their ^k<^i^, not oi^ly as their paftetity dkiii^li-
maMl at their ^ates, but within their waUa; . Aqd.%i
further evidqi^ce -of tbU, v^e mi^ fiikftaoce tii> the
'krave, bur j^ Jiibmmh wbo wtre&ch &eedy»rud»

hafty

lofi Tie British Apollot.'

loAj conquerors, as to run themfelves out of breatfij^
as to outftrtp their own glory, and fatally out- conquer

their own fccurity.

Qi P^^^'ve me ymr of mm emarmng weaklywameif,

hvmflr thi geoeraHty thtj have the firmg(^ children^ There
was lateiy a gentlewoman of iny acMMmtance^ all ibetime

' if her being mth child, was trottileJ every day, two, m
three times a day, with ftruggUng hyjiericaifis, andfweeO'
mg away much eftner ; yet now is deliver* d of m vnyjke
hrf. All the time of her being with child, pto eat fo lit'
tie vi&ttals as is incredible to believe,
A. We wiH allow they often have ftrong children,

' tbo' not generally the ftrongeft \ which may as often

• proceed from the health and flrcngth of the father.
And tho' a woman beofaweakconSitution, yet may
ihe be healthy withal, bear healthy children, and bya
regular courfe of life, fpin out more years than a ftrong-
^r perfbn. But as to the gentlewoman here fpeciff'd,
Ihc may be naturally very healthy, andhyftericalonly
upon the account of childbearing, the expenccoffpi-
rits towards the nutriment of tbe infant at that time
io difordering her, and not the ill quality of the blood
or juices.

Q. Hwf, ffrtat Apollo? an whofrfowerfuljhrinft
jinhttmble fuffliant begs your aid divine ;
'Hhe yottth I love does every virtue boafl.
And amemg others, that which charms me m(fi$
His coi^aticy : for he has hv'd before^
And the* the beauteous mmph is. now no more^
Xetftill he leves, and whatcaufisme new care^
Is; that he loves, and mufiUke me deffair^
Bta could Aurelia be recaWd again.
That haffy fair, who o*er bis heart didreign^
Could jhe return in all her blooming charms,
' And witfi an equal fafjm meet bis amts\
Even then, metlmks, I could beplea/dtofee»
That be were bkft^d, wbat^er becomes of me%
"Butfmce *tis vain to wifh what camm bo^
Ix^tuik tuo, bofw his gmf mAy be refi90fv%
Oabow ntriovetbehfreftiat dem mmd b^htf^df

\

Sic BuxTisja ApoLLdr lOfj

Ji. No means can bwc the joath, 9r eafc hii puns*
^Qt what ZMcinJa's healing weaft contaiof •*
^one can the great affli^on fiir e remove^ .
But fuch a gen'rous* fuch tnnfcendent love:
Brij^ht nymph, proceed, the mighty curepurfuc^ {
A.6t the phyfician» and the patient too.
JLet virtue's lighc thy matchlefs worth betray,'*
And wholefbme rules thy noble flames di^laj*
So (hall the lover former (brrow ceafei
And fo iMcinda too iniprove her eaie :
So (hall the youth embraced recent fire^
And £o the oymph obtain her chail defireJ

Q. T»o ymng gentUwQmtn tmd n^ ftlfbemgmemnpMif

i»iih threi young Udies, Mbm$ twtnty yiars of age each, mui

• difeourfing tf mMtrimotiy, tin Udies unanimoufy Mgrnd, tifMt

4bey JhoM iifink themfehes huffier, iffnany'd, mf U h/%

yoith their bui^ands, than ever to lye with them \ aUedg^

i»g$ that the chief motive to indtuo ier a one of them to

ilker their JIato, Jhottid Ufor the corrverfrtim vhich s ORi-

ftgalftmo am afford, iNinv, gentlemen» J begyotirofimmi

whether fote really think they are to he faraUeltd inthott-

ttiverfi, or vhethor thoyfpoko cordially t It is realma$ter

4ffaStt $milhavee*ftef^dh m thomtfi modofitermo,

. ji. Now perhapr, gentleman, you may think yoa
have given us a happy opportunity of upbraiding the
£iir fex, and rendering tfuit old verflde applicaue:
Mitlieri no creddS, no tnorttea eptidem.

But you are reaHy miftakeo. We have abetter o-
ptnion of the ladies difpoiitions, and think them the
produf^ of a (erious confideration, as judging (uch a
Meeting pleafure altogether infatis£idory, inrefpe^to
the icries or train of affli6lions> which attend itacoa*
icquences.

Q, From whence proceeds the heat of the liver i and who*
ihirthis is the whole occafon if heat an^ fain in the head,
and ttrntatural fiijhingt in thefofe, eJpuiaUf after ooiing
and drinldog, or coming out of the cold to the fire ^ or mh^
tbor this dtfordir ar\fosfrgm afcorhttick taint, attd imfttsi
rates -ef the Hood f

^. Tha

\

\

A. T&hfat of the lircr then proceeds frohi idiffro-
derate cxcrcHH paflions of the tnitid, drftkinghotlt-
qours: or itts caufed from chofcr generated or lodg'd
therein, by* fonit c6ftf uftlon df the gail-bladcfcf, whence
we m«7 fdrfJbnabfy fuppofe thtbteod flfficientl^f tamt-
cd« and^paUe of creating the fymptoms aboretnen-
cion*d, tbokigh other caufes may concur to. the fortlier
produdiftff of them.

Q; ^u the rich and the fo»r^
Lndi tMykKohdwhere^
Send qtufiiofis; rthich ii>eeklji you anf»efi
I thought teo t might
$me terfis tftditt^
fPhich is neither a lye nor romance^ Str,
Lame VulcanV ffiy lire,
Who trades in the firey
And make Jove V invinfiBle thunder ;
' £/4i Wot tbv'ingjdrs.

He fell from the flars, * '
JRefufing Aright Lemnos to ptuifder^
Se*hg'»iUingto'rAife
My firtune (me vfayt,
A Udy of fortune I doat oh :
Hoto fwy^ uticle Titan,
Row I fhall gain f his bright onet
iforf^'d like the wife men of Go tham. ^

A. And will notth^fcbrhs '

' ' •' Of thy 'father's kfgc horns,.
^thj thoughw of ambition detain ?
'"thy arm i> too high.
To th* anvil apply, j

'^ And forge not iucli ^hims in thy Brain. "*
' Q. A Lady defies to know. why a Gentleman] a friat
ef hers^ is always very cbijuettoherin his drinks and ntOet
fo kt other times / *

'-<f. Bccauft folly i« the common eff^flr'of dfun-'

kennefs, and he or (he that pretends tb ad that part,'

inay property be /aid to be either drunk, or dfcliribus. .

Q; P0}y does a iold affeSi the voice fo as to make d'

9san,Jmffe f

wf. Bccaufc,

.i4^.^Bc^)jre» as ar.cold ^i^Cc^.a rQughoQfs in^fbe
tl9rjoiia^^][b,||]e;ii;.t^c pajQlis ^pin tfa^ lung^ tathe
fbrmatioh of tlie vf>ice^ wfiifc rcwAqraltcd frgitT ihf'
aipeutiies ,Qf tbe thrifvitc*. iXMlft . be. cooie^uentl)^' hfi^ml.
|if prppoctipa tQ the. grcfiine^. of thoie alp^'^ittes;

CL ^^^^^*^ ^nw th^ fi'Wito^ Rdfiie v^as not bulli
ia ^Dfi da^ i Tourj, )• TrouHc/bmc. ^ . .

Jl. Really. Mp, Trcmlifm^ .wq bdlc^ iiicfrtfwal of
the fpoviri ypi^ meotioxu to^ a;cvor^;oolj; ilrcpgtbeacd

there coul4 ^c^a^nly be lug^^ping; mpfc U«;ql^^ to excite
a ^/r«i9/ perjevtrttnct andf elaborate afUpHcatloii to fV
4/ii^7, tbaa ii reaiemb];ai;K;e of cbe fx^mfle givea uf
in that pwerh.

P*#//, Boileavii UpYiti^ cr La Fout^in/? ? ^, • ' ,

w^« Where fivtral fftrfau aw i£|. diiCerent* ways of
writing, fevec'aily^ excelkat^ .'tisf patter >cry di^^^
cult to fay downrigHt wbi<^ is the,^^ F^ei^ ^ad you
ask'd, which, was tha beft ^«r» l^rk, 6t drAtiMM
foet, we had ca/ijy' ii^forrn'd y.ou- . ./

Q^ Hly Jhould pedfh fay when they, fie a loemm tl^if
like, that Jhe makes their fnentis water; when Yu obftr-'
mM^ thea vinegar, letfienst and other Jharp things ham^ \
^ that effeH t It it n^ av^ ill complimtnt td /^r teteii^ f
l^jf. Not ac alls Madaai« fiqce 'tis not (har{\ things
only, but. the moil temputious, the moft delicious
eataoi^s which pi;o4uce..fucb fkniktiow in us^: But.thf
faying is metaphorically deduced from the real cSott
of that kind) caul^ by the fight of any dcfirodeatable.

Q. Is /pitting frequent^ frejudicial to healthy and in
what manner f

A. Spitting is beneficial or injurious, according to
the nature of the coQftltutioijj or ftate of the body.
It is helpful in aftroatick, p^ritick^and corpulent
bodies, and it is hurtful in thin, lean, heAick, or fe-
britick bodies $ the retention of the faliva in tbefe
laft being highly necefTary towards the diluting and
rtfrigerating of the blood,

a Q.f^

iof(S fbe British A-polloJ

Q^Hiffdoes muttm ecolfitner thtin unj oibet fuiaif

A. heam£s the fat of that meat is ot ajiafder coa«
'fifience tinui the fat of any other meat.

Q. Frsy uU mi th$ rmfm wkj^ wbtn mm s»b gn
mt$ M em/kmfim, tb» Mr§ fo fst frmn king mad$ n
Mrv tbtf tin fi M ms $bn nuMf m f

A. The ffeafon is, beauu they are not Teally iea*
fible of tibehr illaefs. For the hedick ixntt^ ^hich at^
tends confumptions, preys upon the body in foch a
ddufive manner, as decays the patient with a (hew of
liealth, hut certainly, tho' (lowly fends him to \a%
grave, according to the ingenious Dr. Gmth.
whilft meager ^Mpi gires a iilent blow,
Her ftroaks are fiire, bat her advances flow :
)^o loud alarms, nor fierce aflaults are fliown.
She ftanres the fbrtrefs firft, then takes the town.

Q2, H^rmmous hards^ whtft ih^ptenct imfnvis,
Jffitf tnijf Albion'/ ranw, htt rurtU grcvfs i
Tmr Urns, rvm mt {0 rujiiek) dotk in/jfire^
Th fing rfhawh/^ i$ve, ind fift difrf >
Wih fawu reason md my b&omkfg years^
Jh tmqfm 4htf§ $tnmm^ mtdUfsfmrs^
Thm do inJUve my mind, my fnd difrefsi
Whm wth thi lovely Dapfine / nm bUft.
Ttu/irvili fajjkn to my fonfes bind,
IPhm Jhi afpearsjhe over-awes my mind,
AkW the virtttOHs nymfh is cmdefcending kind.

A. Alas ! Fond Sir, how Arangely f ou proceed*
Your odd requeft has fpoke yon young indeed i
More like a novice than a bmJ yon move»
y^hac! ask for renfin, yet pretend to iivel

I

THE END.

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1 ,

> •

^

T

•

H E

• -

I N D E X

1 , • ».

' A PolloV MJJn/s to /^,/w^. * ^ paee i

XxrAdam, Si. kvLlk\n*s4i9m.^Um 9

^ps, w*y faow upom them {^

^^fAcks tn Apalk?. 4. 14, m.. ao, z^, .^8, rj-, «2»
' J 14. «9> 130, idp, 178, 18*. i8^A*9, atj,
^ #45-. af^J. ap4. W^i^Tllf. Hf^l^y^ Ji^S, a?^,
'^^tTP.Jpo, 4oi* 4irM4«^i. 4^^/4/9, Hj9«» !-<»$,

*^^hmtU0l quefllons. ai, ap, ^i, 77rt4|. ii£
ar^ i^7» i<54. 173, 18}, i]?4, i^, ,.3»^ ^I,

M^ IS H withua pores . . Ati

<^ ix. 7. an J xxii. ^.J/^^^umUFd ^ ^

y$^aniagttdsigenm(U,J9fHU,m^' \ " ^

<Ad^m, ^v htg cintinut in pttKihUfi , ^

xApril /w//. whence ^ ttifim ,^

iAfparagus, w(y affeajh mm . " ,p8

T4nuriis, a quiftm on them ^ §^

jAnpcrica, who its firfi inhahiiffmt ii>

^^3, why Jhmes it ,J|

A^els if iikefl their Maker - , .' 'J?;

^IT

2 * Aficnpm

\

INDEX.

Ssrh, wfy h$t ' 898

flUticul mmuit J^

^ Cnks, r^hy m Shrove- TodxIiTr ihmm 0$ . i^

Ci9&i/4f, why itki thifa^, th^"^ mdM . « iS
Of«p«(^/, vi^ i» the Sanaamv SjU^tim^ ' . , |bi(k

CNiif* »^4^ v«# r^ mark at him ^

dUekdds, why VHMr htms f

fkUturtSf were all msJe atfirfk ^ ■ -9"^

^^prit, what mans ii • 5^

0^»' wiy ftmes its hair 09^ Mj^ ...... 3ft

ChaUenge, hoiP anfwtr'kP 4*

Oekfitetake, if preperh /M^ - . 54

Chifi's temftatien, if real . jr/

Oi^tion, why heifs WW'^/» • x / 6£

Coniclian, why Jthaage edetsr 4f

Ch^, why en cwms ferbid iellsng tlkmf^ * 8j^

Cnnk'dMh.ivfiff^emifiimlr ' 94

Qa^iicles, why net read m thtenk^ pd

Oa9J^ hew fee in the dark ^8

CoiDcdian, // he the a0er er wi$0 loH

Cfiv0eufnefs er freMgabty werfe i xf

C^kMT, what is it 154

CueMds^ when it rains sndflinh ^ i/t

tJet^ehatien day, a feet^ 1/4

€lttfi9 germam, may they mofff iff

Chorea Sandli Vici, hew tiikf^ if 8

» Corinth, i. 17. the memkag ef it \^K
Gha^ity 4f St, Paul, the meaning x jiS}

€(dtf*i w^, v^ daughter 179

Gfeii/ m riu^am/ ^411^, 41 iptefilm 184

Otmmen fraytry 4^ fl^^ x8d

di^j^, where after his reftmefflae i8|

Q^in, whence dmved * ip8

<idehdar9'fii0pi^i^mt'li ^ 214

Catbartifk

I:NPE

Cimfil them t0 e0mi in, tlnmtMXtmgrfk ^^9
Cticks,e££Sp 0n tikn fitch . ^ ; xzf^
CbaQ)aeleon$» ktm f^Mjge cqUmt ^ . ,%zj

Cmu» 9ky fur m ftroakmg 149 ,

C$U, wh0f ti/e caufi rfu ibid..

QtLiu^t fucrificiy vhy not fUafi 24 1 ,

C0xc^m^^ whyfo cMl*d <Z44:

Ct4ck9Uhm, qttify ^ if ^ ^id^

Cftft^ 0n txtnurdmiay mf ,«^9'
Qonjitringyii^thepftimfntortfig.. . . . %,^x

Qfsfriff, whsu is ii .t9 b§jn him . zf^

Childy ham mtirkd ^ 26 1;

dfmmiffitn, tffojf I k^ tm x6^f.

I. Cor. XV > 29. the meaning lyS

Chftflinge, a qtttftim m it. 28^
Clim^ericiUt yattr' tphuin .of it ... x8^

Ovtfott^fi^vcfim if. . . / . ^ 3P^

CMt\nim masle, ctm^it^ CMtPJ nn^ ^o^,

Crttmp in young i'trdsy whnt 35*1'.

Qi//» vfy 4jf»^f4^ with mwftm ^sS

^[i tf C9nfiienc$ , j^-S

ChamaBleoD, » thinfiuh a tbitig 375".

CJ^ ^ canfriemo in tt^^k 3p5

C0»iifn.^w» Rome, ^nU^Ci^ 404
C4/i rtktmg to tfMffiek ^ . 41$

Co]». i* 2ow /Af mtmung 424.

Cbolkk, 9hM$ the cnuft 42^

^. L 33. the meMning 43 »

Chmthf if not heft te keep t$ ene 441;

Csuuhmdesr whence their nitrnOim 44)

Coftivtnifs, why i^^ the bet$d ibid.:

Cem^ hm fentill n fterm ^4.
Chr0, tttire trfjteti hie I2thjir4f^ . . 45-5^.

Civet's trnnjfermMtieny if tme ). 459

0r^'i ir/bii# l^i&etf» thttimmtig: . 46»

Oitftail weeek vthett is it 474

C4/^ vjby light thef m their ^ 475;

Gffffvif ettr fihesy er ethers the gfeateg: ^$tf 48jt

INDEX.

Clvr-i[^/» why itirk Mi higMfs ' 4^9

Crdais Metallorum, «i ^M^pr m'«i^ s^^«

O^f/ Jifcent, why M afftek tffmth S^9

Cuih^ wbf fim€ fick In it ff^

Ciuk$Us, why ftui t9 go t9 hwi/n f^f

CMJhutimy tpaftkn on to iM>

Oiuteomhs y a queftion on them fSS

Ctochd, why tf crocked conditiom ^$4

dhhs, why caWd veal^ f 4^

CXifkCs Accottnty a q$tijihn ihU fS^

IrCdr. i. 14,34. VhW.W. %. fom^ ff^

Ckrijt'i dtfient, a qiteftm thereon SSf

Oeedy why cMd /ymhl f79

€>frm pi^on, 4 query on one f^^

CbUd, tMM ho he 60m a ChrifiiMn j8^

(Shrfptning t^ childf a query mH f ^

T Cor. u If, i#. Mat, xxiii. .3^* J^ foum^ f9?

(Uekneyt whence she bord' • - - 6to

Confirmation, h it nneff«f * '' 6ja

Cofie, whMt i$s virtue ^ 4^t

Confirmntion, ifnecejfury ^3^

C^^, did the devil knno him Go4 ^39

€knmfy what the eaufr ^ 641

Cment, where found ; '* ' '. ^f9,

Confirmation, is Jkfficient ' . -" '\ ' '<-• ^' ^y^

QtnM on infants, why lucly "* (?74

&3r'tft, who bare his crofs ' '' '' • • W\

Charityy your definition of it ,\ c ' ' ^^'

Chmf legion f anguine, why furthefi fkft ' 6%^

Cf^^ion, a quejiion rdafing to it " ' ^f 2

Gmfi, why lik'd iy fonto 797

C^aUndcf, what the ufe '--•'; - ^m

B&ii ii. 18. the meaning \ . . * . ^^f

OMa^yquofliens on it • '\ ■• * ' "T^u^bf

OMiwhatisit '-'^ [ '"- = 8io^

Confitmpion, what the ^pffnt"-^' ' " '^t6'

^dr^, your opinion en one * . < g2^

^ildren, w(y have feme fat9 840

<SMvtburf Jfttiff whmtr iMii

Oudt

INDEX.

Ou, wif ktU'd Sy hanA Bfi

Okmdf ^Roroe §r England, thi nmkm^ 94f

0(M^, 41 queffm en €H§ / ^yS *

Cmfismftive feofh, wbji m fifffiUt of $Mr mdaJ^ i o jd

GMfij why fing hfi 714

€>tU fits^ qHifihm 7)7

OehiMlt, whMf is i$ ibid.

Cmds^ is it Uwfitl ft»f 744

CmfiuftMisdi may thiy numy > ibi<l^

G^«miJt «rf thifijiich 8 1 ^

€3s9ffhire, wkenfitmd • • 9^^

I 0>r. xti. 11, $Jiff m^tmng ^%t

t Or. zv, 24. mt/Zmo ^38

JhflAicry em hi givt tiUiH' ^S-

lyogs^ have th^ f tiling ^%^

Eticquibus ia Terr is, ii^^fkiom f7

lK)fi> 9^ V4|^ /i&r/r /4f/i « 107

DdOkoniacs, wirf /^ riMiMM)! s 1 o*

JBHhtKi, v^tf is i$ ^s8^

AMm/, ipufiim ^ 14^^

Wiikpntfst when€$ ifo»

DkMIionV jSM jiMf l^i^ff 167

Jl^'i haiplmg, vkst cmiH zo6

X^i^y ^ which fix ai^

D*4» Humphery /» dim wiih'^ ft) t

BdAinica to AMs, why/a caltd 2/I

ISM^ hew cMMi'd ijn/mfnfii^ %j%^

Death ef St. Jehn, what was it 27$

Drinking, qtsiflien ^ .^^T

'BiviptiUty injkite, hew hh^ ^ia

Degt why turns 3 t'&nts tomd 327

IMvid'j eharaiitr, hew clear'd fSl

IHim6 iy a fright, yetsr opinien ' ^S^
ihifUting, it it net felf-mttrder mbm tmrndtrtue 4^ ^

Dof

INDEX.

2kif feemdp why mr bUfi . P^ 4^7

Hef^ir, how cwr^d * . ^ • 476

Baysan^firs hid . . 480

THvtfrom whenc9 is it ^ ^ 48;^

BrwikMrds, whyfii d^abU v 49^

D«5J/, vBy d9 th9j mtfwejtt ^%f

I^un^ vbmci dertv*d y^^

I>ii, why da feofU at turn $f the trdt f^f

Dartin^s in the bleed, whence ffz

Dtvid, why fit to number the |«0^. ^64,

"Ory eaugb^bew occaMd . - ..r7r

1^, when begins it y^f

Breams^ hew ecctipmCd ^99

i^t prfi ef the week, why hft 64^

Diabetes, whence froceeds it €^4.

J^patr, your advice iheree» ^6 f

JDe:vfl, dees he knew our fhoughtt 673

Drink, whufiwi^d by a drw0. ^ 781*

iHMh, why fahned like a sktlesm • ibid

t$etry, whence its frrce 79^

Drunk as DavidV fiv^ whenci . 2-1 j

Devil, why eaWd old nick $1%

Dritdting, a cafi thereon 837

D^ifKing, a qsieflion en it t f^

Dreams rf blind men ., ■ . ^7^

Death why a terror to Atbeijit 9$ft/

I^amght, what the definition .... - 5^90^
Death-bed repentance, your th^i^hli em it .,.,; , 719'

D^cnrcr-court, whence the frove^ft ^ • : 711^

Jirtmk, if net whoUfime . ^ , 8^1^

UcvA'twevHy why fp caWd S64

IMitr* howjpelt . ^ ^34.
Dri^ennefs orfornicaticn whifh the gjreatefi fit . fi^

VjdfabUs, wk fpttse raife ffmlti j

; Enrich* d toiler |»

^hoi what its nature ^^

Hiil,. who its firfl author 9$

•&»>!£» if.tUinbefofetheput, laa

Egjptian darhitfs, hmfilt ^ page 134.

Bngland, wifo Hf$ firft inhaBitiptts 1 47

^fim^^ intHulid to it -^.. ... la

itkiSt why mw*d iH 6mtet , 166^

3fff?tk,lm'/HtprteJ,' j#«

Eccle. x)imfiiik:9. .»h4i mmus ^ %,i^

^Sgi w6y hard to break th^ iof^^^w/^- , . i^%j[

fif^iih, if/fokut at the ct^f^^^ ^H'^^f^ ^4r
&ig)aQd, an nor its Mi» mm$diimrp^m^ . ^f 9"

JtJtOti is its httmotsr of anj eoUitr ^.i^

M0ii>, moves it on its axis . '. }^.
IBa^ifh tongue how attained , . ,\ ^] ^.}4x^.
S«Q^ midvife^ who was^^ . " • . , ;.' 1 ,i.t^

K^aV letter^ haw carried i . ,. 3^^

^«^f »^ intoxicated after it . . ^|^

Jb(fr«^ w^ mwo in an tf^MfM Imo^. ^m

Afv». a qtteflion onit ' 4^m
jfytsi whyfome d^mgmjh tdomO' htm $bm 0fh^4 S<^4i

Jfarvigs do thejfij . f 4|^

%^jffubjea to Adam .,» v . . 5$4i

Ss^dcicl XX. 2f • ^Mir ^mm» ^ r , jrs^9(

JfyeaJadj whence casts* d s- > ^ ». ^04^

J^ y i ^ gr fim go round . . 4ioi

Jfyosi of different coiottrs» the camfi 6fji

J^avold. xxxiil. 11, 0xfla'm ^%y

^itkalia'i refentanco ^ * ^7

^zekiel chap. i. the memung" 'j6f

Rafter-day, a cfttifiion on it 77 ^

SoKth its motion <$$&

Saod. ix. 31. explain J^f

^iigiaad, how long call* d fo . . ,757

ik^g ^d flowing whence &t<^

I^fCionSi what the casifi p|4>»

Sccle. vii. 2. /Ae meaning gtfif^
Snjcfing outward things or contempt ofthoitOi ie(lx jK^

Eccte. x« s««^ tha^.mmmmg . j)^

lafstottton^ whai is it \ . 51S11

» .^

INDEX.

. F. ■ -

r», whyjei thi Utth on Mf^ • ^ - |»gc »

^ Trimdjbt, odionif — . . » . .^ . aa
Vnntdflnf^ amftim on it, 41. 8j, irj, rto* 144,
* 1^0, 168, 384, fjS, <f8i, 6j9» 78^ 884.

Mmy> «'e lAwi fuch ^tUtmit ' ■ ' loi

Hi^B ^ iriatfr pa on$ Ufs I'l

¥evm mermhtmg^ 'mbiii tU ^9 ' 127

jntMs, haw ntMrk'd «^^

W^irymgSt how mudo ^ ' ' '.' "! !'P^

rt^nnd Jpirkling^ tboteMfinofU a*^

Tirockkst tht CMHjft of them « - ', . a^jp

^rttmipalini,Jefervefiihmfgmg^ • 34»

IMtiestm , li /^ 4/2wV 37^

l^x, ^9 ?0}»^ withokt-mottths 3^^

Fortttne, is then fuch thing 40^

lS|/^v A03P <^#/irib f» thefeti ' . . . 443

JRf4i64Ef» whence the found ^- . 4T5

J^> ^ii» 41 pretender to it .... «. 478

¥exe$f whence their fceni . . ^ "^TW*

I^op, does it rnin any \ • 538

JFifi^in fait water whjffrelh fJ9

Forteme-tellers, f lawful to go to them 57*

FreewiUy how juflifad 614

Fat, how reduced - - 617

tftSf whv people flronger in them > ^4^

Friend ^ to choofe t - . - '647

FIriendt how know a true one C ^63

l^i do thy fleep 67;

Fhr^ what is the juice jof

FeoTt why makes one topifs ' 790

Foetus, a quefhn on it 747
Firo, whence the Roman eujiomfif woetmiotatottch.it 911

Facfdy, the meaning .v. v : . 947.

Four of cMs, why cMd wiUing witch 1039

Giddimfs,

I N D E X

^'^iJdmffs, vhv m high fUcti^. i\ . , ,: vpage |

t '<japingi wfy catching Vj ^ , . 6%

■XSapmg, how reftrMtn'd ' . ^S

'.G/UUng, hew cur d iy elder ... x . ^l6

-Gmeral, who the greateft . J49

Go/peU whyftmd at it 1/6

Gff^ to fraife, why not JIandhg i^l

iaommg, your opinion of it . .'^T^

i^fs, wiy tranjharent . i<^

'k^lden hw, what viriue had it . . ^ 19B

^Qax4ti whence derived - ao©

Genefis i. a. reconcile a*?

'jGunpowder, good or bad itevention aaii

Gedcfo xvilTiyt^ftdf iw^i«»»ff ., »|4

Geiic£^ vi. 2. /^ wMmff^ iotd.
4Qtmpo»der, or frinting ef mojl ufe ,,.<.. %66

iGnen,:f good fir \th^y^s { u -i. » ;\ >. ,. a$i

(fSoti m Hebrew, why tli»>flm9dt tmmm .^1%

60d i^i>b if^ afm4t0idU ' r : , . . 47^
Glafs,'J>^ break if itifilf .....' 497

GpihetUy how cmm'd in btmamty fo i

Gcncfis xxwiin lo, W«»r o^/www . ,, I'ao

fhncfia i\u fi a»- mmamng . .^ . jj a

Gifll yf/jm brok^ -ipf^d . ^4^

<^ A«f y2iW t9 ^ merciful . \, , . ,. ^, . , i 66 j

.GpuHt* idtre there ever fuch * ' >77
^Gelding, can it be caWd a heffe ... . :. ./. ^^^^ ^^^7

^ddinefs, the canfi ef i$ ;, . . . 79f
'<Wi ex^ence^ a query ;m its itermty ., . , ^ 68y

^rafheffers^ whence their noi/i ,' " 090

;<»r«/««i«fe * if«e)?/*» i»» it ., .... . ^^^

,Cod in QlouccttcT, the meamg 810

Gen, i. 7. the moM^g . . . ^,*;^

IN D E X

Girls, wh §0i fiifj, &c. page Sid.

Cmty wfoenci fr9€etds it O 960
^PH^ i$ youth, how caui^d^ T ' .\ ^•'Hl-

Oen. i. I. ^^«r f^»i«i ^ « . xcrj*

'Oen. iv. 26. #jff/«m ^^*

<l^. V. 28, 29. r*f/^i» F?^

^G«a. ix. 20. #Ar//^/» ibuJ.

? ' n. ■ . . •.

^VAilt vhf m warm wesfher rf

'^^ Hcfo^f^t^tm u ^

"H^-aditus, 9r Democrkuv «; lAt iY]fib# t , $9

^agar <i»i Kcturah, if the fumo . d4

Herrings, why ifytfofom ^ £7

'.KfivTM^AW 1703, 4^M)0^^ ^ 5^5

■®w>, qiaftiom on it, 93».ioi> iM, ifS, f75V*d^»

... 5^40^ 102^.

^HftmmroHs fooms y : . ^ - n<

;£fi^ offtrwwi, ii it not 4 Uwf(iimthtii^iim<iif>^^iy

iBogs, how do th^ fit \lit^fld' * ^ ^Hp

)HmMttroM$ i^ftions, 114, 117V tlfr^t^i^y^g^yaff*

146, lyi, ifj, 161, JrtlSj ' iyj,>2oi> 41 17, *«»}>

ftjo, 238, 240, 244, iff,!^^, AS3, tpffjo)*

30J, 3x1, 313, 317, jif, 3i«, 37^, 3f», 3^.

393> 399» 400, 401,40^3 4i-4,^43'j'» 44f, 444,

:* 45'3» 4r4» 4^i>.477>:47^/4^45^ft^#4^>49^f

"^ yoi-, 5'o8, st^,si^ijrt%''f^4, f^)>94» f4*»

fip5, 900- 5^0*. 9«9.5>^^> S^Jf^ S>i«v^5W3fV^«»
' ^771984, 981-, 1002, loittj lO'k^i fi^iv *^.

«rtif, cMn it k without Jhi' * - * ^ * /. . k jxS
iJ!pii/^A, whert beft rtgam'd . '^' ^^ ^\"*^^ ^"^^ «• " 173
Hotns, 4 gr«<5/?/<w ik their poWfh . *^ '^ - ^^\- ^ • f^4
Sfahfmefs, how ohtain'd . ' ^ ^ t- • • ^i^

H«, two quefiums on it ' • «^ aiS

Hafpinifs ^ frogreffivo '^ '* '• t •. ) .• . j^^

IN D EX.

Hickney, /^# mtmungof tb9 word >. 37|;

H^fiaefit what is it \ ' ^ '>'•''> •:• 4^9

Handfmt^ cm an uglf kmun tbtiik,htr.fif, s- ' • 4^<^
Heurt'bum, what the caafi ». c \ , i , 49.2

H0nmir or tongs firfi invented . . 49$

K4ffr % v^4/ the eaufief.it fiz

Heat and cold, what are thp - . ffg

Hearty why heat on the left fih. ; /8j

UtrpMphrodites are there .. • . • > 1/ ' 61^

Healths to drink, whence came. the tt^m 619

ifyifyt why fuije^ to petrtfa&ioit - > . ^ v44b

liare^ why the /cent, demyt .. • ! . « * ^4?^

H^ews xi. 39, 40. ^)&f tnoemmg ^6iz

HaHy what is it ,^f%

Hebrews, iy whom writ , 966^

Hafpinefs, how attained ■< , • .971

Hat^Jhorn^ a ^s^iothon, if ,'..;...;• <. >^99^

Heaven, where is it >.» •'•:.. ». */. v. ^*#)'J

.3Fft5^, why do we ...•'> , U. 73^

•f^tf, wi?/W, the fnins v .. t \ % . ..^ .*: .<jk4£

JUIiao, why tkm fagan- . '.'\%%

Jofcph'/ genealogy, why give9\. . * .. - Jit
,pifiAif-dtd he fin, in owning him fdf^HA. ,! . . .^4

/i^, »/b4/ is it . '. rii.' i c-r. 8j

Jolepb, s^iEpx not hold intelligence Tfokb T]afi,A ixkfi^kfi^
c abfence * *;•*•.'•- - '^J^t

Jumes V. iJ^yotir opinion thireetn i ( v ■ '- ,lop
yealoufie, why a fign of love . .^ ;..';., _ top
yack a-lanthorn, what is it (id:^

imitation of others, does it not hfe our watttrfil advati-
\ tages i' .'■■•' r. r- - 1 15

J^^i, wAy provoke hunter . ^ : ^154^

-Jmf^ence, why from eageme/t ..^ . i.^'i

^It^hi^'wf^careh'd fyd touch' .. • i.. .• \ ^ j8t
ijnt^inum CACum, of what ufe . ... . ; \ .. 1 84,
Jo^n xxi. 25-. the meaning of it jii|5

fjbtin yiii. 5-8. /^e meaning of 'et^ \. , %^j

•^^n, tt'^ »&/» ^« not the Lord'tsfieffot i ^42

jty and forrow, what their op^^^ "^ .» .•• : i* Sk^dT
. ^ A a a * ' ' JtaloHly,

INDEX.

^ulwjfi'ymit opmm mi$ p%« Top^ 2^

*Jofan ix. /^ menmng 2jf8

liaiah liii. 4. the memmg " , \ , s. %jg

jMftkt, tf^i^ i»hm dfihatt'^ ' . ^ ^7^

fofisiph, if firft or tlevenfh fin ' ijl'

'Jews in Cbina> 4 ^M^yfieb ffn thtm $06

lUktrtue mtn, wly mt $9 frtuck -507

Ideas, if alike in nU ^ ■ 31'

Jews, whyfe centemftiUe » , 33^

yeMku^f, whence proceeds it ->•>•. s ^SS

Jfle or Dogs,^M|ry «i#f> ' -^ « 3i'7

Jf «w», 4 epeeftien en thofi me^ds 9<^|'

Jefiiits hark, hew its divers eferatiem 3^^

Incuhsjfest do th^ gt»erme . S^^

Judges iv. 21. the meamg 4^7

John xxvi. 2(5. /i&e mtaning 44'

Jvfimts, wfy do they fmile 444

'^Judffntnt day^ ^foreknown hy QU the Sen 4S7

yeftdts hark, a epteftion on it 4^^

«Jacob'i rpds, hove affeU the cattle Ae^l

Jja^ax. io. yomr ofinkn thereon \ .(. fiS

Jacob, iffisfil to deceive ins father /14

dfraelitcs, were they 450 yean in Igfpt S^^

-Ingratitude, a queftion on it S9i

Jhfants, why wy> ba^ not nafin 60^

James ii. 24. Kom. iii. 2. reconcile ^<^9

'^udffnmt day, 'a ^neftion en it 6x4

John XX. It, yonr ofinien ^3^

^dea, why varioufiy affiB us 1 . . . ^4*>

Jfiands, how firfi tnhabittd . ^4"^

Job xxxviii. 8. expiam ^f

John w 4. I ft. how recmciN with other texts 6fi

JohnTciv. 28. explain 66]

Infants have they fin to anfwerfm, tfdiefo 67}

yujimen, why ssnhaffy here - » 677

Ii^ant 6orn in the yth month ttftta^f lives, in the Sti

month dies, the reafon' *; . 714

Judith iv. 3. explain •• .^ \ .-. . 71/

yfi^sfenjkal hew reftrM^ . 1f^

Jolin XX. i7.««gi£v»' v 7J'i

fWa^mi^i <Ai^, jfaiyr i^mp^ 814

J '\ Jofcpb,

Jbfepb, «p auBfim on him page %±&

Johh laft chaf. und vtf. the mumHg' 84,5

Jht&ih; h9i»'iptktft . ».>.= ;. {'^

Ihdihn's qtieftm \ - ^^ "^If

iraiab xxxviii. tht metming - * • V w*.i

Ifaiih Iviii. 13^ ixfiicate • ^ r . >- •. ' . ^gg.

' ' K. ■-'.•■'• '•

X^/#, « ^««/?ip» 90 /^/ maim j^y

' I Kings yii. 2y, the meMniifg tf h \ 181"

» Kings i. 17. *^ me/mmg. ^Stf

JBT//^ /I highwiw man, ifUvrftd' ^ij-

ICftfwkdge, why d^U of tfSmgs i»iU vir its 604;

Xijptg, what benefit thence ' • - » ■ '618^

^hg and qwen, why chofe vn twelfth day 81 1'

J&'fff, who was the firfl ' ' ' 97 r

Kings, if prejudicial tvthe Koxxk&kfiMo 1049;

jTpve queftms, 5, 8, 12, 13. 21, atf, 17, 30; 33;
'^ 37, 42, 45. 49, j^; 62, 7a, 75-, 87. 8p, 93,.

' P4» io7» iij^ i2»» 159^ M^i i^-f, ida, 167,

v'l^B, 18/, 186, 188, 190, tyti ^193, '194, 19J-,

198, 201, 207, 20ft aao, a^17, ai8, 22^, '224,

228, 232, 239, 240, 21-2, 21-4, 2tfo, 263i 267;'

~ 272* 21^79, 280, 288, 504* 319,3^, 342, 344,

5ro» If^y 3T^> 3^9^ 371. 377* 378. 382, 383,
39o> 39^ 39S, 408, 409, 4i2> 413, 422i 429,

430* 433» 434» 4J9' 444* 44^» 4/** 4rr5 4^r.

468, 4^5>, 470, 484, 4.8/, 489, 49o> 499, joy,

' cfo<5, fla, 1-27, 5-39, f49, f6i, ytfp, ^6, jy^

f^r> y9i* f97» <Joo. ^•ff ^^*> ^14, <^it, 628,
i 631-, 635, 643, ^41'. 6>-i, 6fZi 6fBi 6^6, 66%,,

^^3> ^7^» 700, 711, 715, 723, 728, 730, 74»i

7T»» 7<J4» 7^« 77*.' 7yr. 7881 789, 790/ 798;
• 799* 803, 8oy, 809, 819, 827, 8^8, 848, Sj-o.
^ 85-2. %n,Sf6i 86tf, 871, 872, 878, 882, 89 ji

^8, 920, 924, 942, 949, 961, 97,, p7^j P78;

999* 1021. 1028, 105S, lojp, 1048^ 10/2/

^liiofwhatfteb/lanci i,» , . ,r i-,

Iteks, why worn by weljhmm . » ' ' ' TJ

XJi^ me im^ temftasion, the'^miHtbfg' ' ' '^

A a ^ 2-^ iw'i

INDEX.

1^9 tr fnimdjltif^ wbuk mtfi n^ page 1 1 j

lM^t$ Md fi/bis^ 9m $h^ mcTM/id i» tfn mksde 1 04

ifi e^WM, ^fiiful IS*

l^mech, wb$m did he flMy ' 13S

liffMr/, i^ar rif$ m Ml crane 13^

X/i^, ivj&«/ »«/ ir Miire tbe/un 147

^i^iS^/ M women, wbence t6f

Lucretia, j^^ fride er vkrfMe dfd 169

iMngs wetmded, a queftien x8i

Ufver, how JbaU J fttgei Jntn^ tSf

Luke xxti* 56. yeftr epinion _ 119

i^nitmge frnm$'m ^ffiich mt4 ^33

LicurgusV kwi, if good 13/

lieptcrs ffiritums^ ifg^^d.in het iountrkf ^♦4

^^fiigle, ifhtft 261

jiviMtbiuh what is it %j6

Utters^ why fimdfw ^it^mtert - 18^

L^^Uude, whi^h the he^ .. , . . "292

teve and wine, a fftv^ , . 297

Luke vi. ^3. ymr ffm^i ef' it . - 298

Leo/huff, how cHt'd • - ' 221

London- briJgfr ^ b^U ofh weol^ . ' 37$» 9^4

tmgittide', . a oHtry ieUtrng te it • ^po

Lpjc i xxu\ 3 8. >iE^ meami 431

^^'w. jf ^t^ffr .( '. .-, u ,j. -..->• - < . ♦;;

Ull>tnin$^lue^ jeh\ hm^hP^ v : ^ - " 4f ^

Ztf6irtine, a quefiien en ene^ s -. • ^ \ 79^

f^ife, whence engendered yj ^ . ^ *. .. gi4f

tjidies verfes en l^ ytur efirm^: ^ .t - / v $28

.lM>iMlon-ilone when -eftSied ,-y , : . ,. .8tft

i N D E^ X.

Lake xvi. 9i exfUit • ' ' ,733' 9°!r

Irwr, tttoM **« *«* (J^ i • - •• ' ,. iWXl

M. '■'■•■■• '7

JJI^Oaf, ifuftim tnit, 36, 96, JJJ» 4t5';J't7»!^^
MuhematiaU qtf^Vm, 4t; iilj ^3>| f:^';I*73|^4

Mmyrsy y9w ofmm m th^ Pf^ffimf , ''^ "' '' ' ' ?p'

Michael'/ r««^<»/i»» wHh ^ dtvH, vhM i^ mjjm if

• their dij^mi ' ' ;' '* " .ipr

Manbcw mos^dH Luke* ' ^'J * Hf

M^t^s, whime the uifim , ''^' ^ ' ' ' ' A9?
Mijioii «• Waller, btfi wi/r^ ' • -^ ^ ' " ' " ' :^^%

M^&gmmt ftrfitml^ cm it be fmd$ '^ ; • * . ' , , ^P^*
Me^myt cMi it he mended , \' /^.,2!2j!;

MiMSch %f, ihf begmsit theyekt"* ''^' *; : , /,' . ^V
Itemtainsi vhat their eaufe ^^ \\ " \^; ^ V^^

M0Jebrane fericard, vhst ufe ' ^. " " ;; J^)^,

ISetfen perfetHMl, is there ' ^'^^^ ,7 ;; ' ;^ ':' M,

Matt vilu 22. w«r <y/>/«w» ofriT 'v -" •'? ; J- ijp;
Mtteeeiy, hew frUvstes it -"^ -""; ''' ^;* ;>'i)i;

fttor. V. 16, Matt. vi. i. recencite^ "'"" :i^9
t'^'c.^'*"" A aa 3 i^«»'

Mu|eQliluUn« yctp' tfinkn therecf , », j§»3

Jiiuanehdjfy hvm cw^4 \ 330

JUiMf».^i^i»tf . J . .. ^j^

Mitt. x?i;i. ; i,.if.pmfifmm { ... , HbkL

Malacht ic i4, if. ^o^Um 43 4

Matt, iivju >i, ^ figt^tfhJm . ^-po

UapekfiringiywhyMp» toheik in wei vmhr tbmdj j 94

> ^ « crim$ n ccnverfe mt^fi^ .. ^ 4»}

^W«j ¥fj!Si mmM Mc ..>..> ^ ^

ilf^ifr %«w, »4)f not MgreesBle^r . ^yf

M#«w7, »hy good in difiw^if»\. . ' ^84

J^(n^9rs M mnn pretends ti carfx^^/riiU . 770

Mark viii. ,0, ir. «//««|v^,,,, ^. , : ; .78,
Xf^tter hov ndkere r j,,. n, v , •«. f^

mick. the dejkitien ^'^ \ : . ': |j;

»Jclchif€dcck, whovnsbe s :" / / " :^|^<j
Matt, xxvii..;'.^ f^ u^t,. nmq^\. V ,, «4^'
Mftyr, i0bMi mesns it * .. ,., ,.^ ^.^5«Ji

Matt. XII. 40. bewmemtt ., ^d*,

l^arjc XVI. Id. /fc m#4»i»^ . n$i!i

J^niSert children, wky werfi ' ' oU

Marlxir 3i.j.««r^«^a ... • W

h^i4t^» why not generm ^, . ... 004

Mmtent why ceei/mef , . .* ,i»|i

JK.DEX

^^gms; why bUck • , p^ge^'

T ; Noah, «*y thi %th fri^chtr ,8^

|9#bf tsijfkrs make mtm^ hm alj

»» rf»#r w4/«r, 4 jwi^ 4» i# ^L

'STi)^ bUtdmg is it omkmK ^i*

Numbers xxii. ao, 2», fMmiii ^L

ISlmnfs, vlmuiJeriv'd / . ,^ .^ij

S*V/, *«i/ Adam «w . . .:, J J

tfM « fi^i0O reUiing n it f ^z

^«^> m th§ head what th§ mft f ^^

Nilf , v^tf»M i^i ov^fjbm . !^J

-^-^j viUftrmg bar make it red T ,-

N«»?uchadoczzar, yeetr v^im m hk ihmm i* ,

l^un^rs, what the caufo . J;

iftfi^red, hem te nmedv . . jZ?

m»ferM»i«««Wr ; .' i!|

Wf; »*K red by fifMg iiqttef \ . .. Jif

IW«, »^ ibnw 0i#ii ' ^

l^th-winl why cAdefi * . _*, ,2!l

Qp^tm^ hew untMl in its bounds . , i , g.^
^.^J^dmaid, wm'dym advi/e hkt^o meim , ^ iig

Q^if, why fame fi^ , , ' tf o«

Qfktm^^^ epmim 0nit . . ^

QfM mve, is it holkw 2!^

9^H i^ mtft fitbjea to thmdir . ./ /. ^^

<wfc • ^«^f«i 09 we I- A, J , -. ^ J^^

^m^lwbm^worfe gj^£

QW«f/«w, v^/ d,y§j« tfaece^mtm \ \ — 81 «I

QttiAs,Mquefimtherem' ^«*

q(^, haw death thmby kimtt iL

pw4 had he nniats ef tin Scr^tm ! . . 747

IND fi.»

9Mks fimdm the earth, ytm opmm m fhm page jf£

pjitches, if lawful J 7

* .Petmy ftft-man^s cemptmt > • ^ 54

lalfttaim rf the heart, the eimfe ^ it 48

f^ffions, wiji flrengefl in wemm- ^ 4P

IBerfitQm, is it attaiuaSh^ i^> 7<^^

ff^kt is it a dutyrte ufeit ^> ~ ' ^^

terjUcutiefh ifaliemed by ^/.*-I^- '^- ^^•^; - . 7^
I -Peter ill. ip» 10. your ofinion '^'- '..•.».»» f©^

I Peter iv. 6. your opinion' * ■ ♦ ioif

Jlanets^ why not injbmie.brttt$t 10 f:

F&Im Ixxxviii. 14. ^mt (»^iW0«^ 0iti$' ti^6

flays, ifimwam to fee ' ifO;

ItoXiwhf mtimrt iheeyet ly?^

IBlamtJtruck, what ij it * ***"

Pfilm xviii. 10, the meaning -^ • **7*

fmfiitimt hew attained .^ \ "^ MdL-

Ifrifiners, may they ^keptfi^ ; V ^ ' if 8

^aiming 9 who invented it 271

l^t^, whence the worl ^7^

^ayer and preaching compared ' 330

Inrvfrb, As the devil look'^d over UhcoId^ 57f

Prbmbs xxvi. 4» y. yoicr weanii^ BPf

fttrgato/y, why aJFgn*d ^ * . 412.

rm and /mart, how ^k^ifiM*^ ' / ^' «' » • 4*0'
J^fm Sentenced, miy he hang yiimfi^ "-V '^ V 45*
Beriius A« ififatyr, your opinion '' ^ 474'

J^ainiing or carving preferable " V ^^J 9^**

Pibte* r^M^ he be accufed jTi^

taradife, where fituated '^'^' ♦^'^' ." » /itf'

^oe$ry% how improve in it ■ . ^ ' /40 '

J^jsrgatory, a queftion on^it^-*^l ' ' "^ - . M* '^ 5'43>'
Hffygamy, a quefiion thereon «■'> ^^ -'' .» i * iio'

Bredeftination ^ y4y, 6otlii6f

fieafures vain, how avoid". "^ • « ,. ' " fyi^
l^oceptt or example fmftprevident'*' ♦• ;^ '• • ^^z-
Peter, ir^ i&« ever come to Eoglaod ' . 601 '

fropbeciest how compatible -wah freo will - ' 601 ^

ffilm cxli. 4. //&« rMMi^ . r ^^^

IN D E X.

Jh^ptii», wbf nim inys SiM page (^34.

Friwif his du$h^ s diaUgui 66^

tmce, bis Jesth, a fatm 678
ti&itres, why tf tnm Jhiki $ke y9 wub pmn fvrU

T$uiy, h9w JhM I $xcillm a 68j

- frim^, bis eharaHtr 626

Trmc9 his ifhuifh ^ 701

Trwu^ th§ fn$iinmg $fit So^

FispeTy wh invimid it ^ 810

Ih'iffi find fismfiei, htm is om tvrd caBid 81^

Priician'i head h SreMk, whfffce, ' 824

FHtry^ who iitvmtid it x 834

Proverbs xxiv. vostr oftmon 8^4

FMJty vhyfivpt fy holding thi brmb 948

lavh^ «r fUtsJwro mifi resU . p8i

.Pialai li. f. ixj^in 1001

Tofffiktit depofstktt, the menmng ^^if

TimfU on tho tongut^ what thi OMufl 104^
parliament, wheme thtwwd , .. 744'

rtimhs. are therojf^ • ^ ' \ \, 99$^^

^JH^, horn felt \ . , ; • ^ti

^Uacks, a qneJUon on them 238

tXEUgion, bom know the trsit .46

. Roman ficnfices, ^.^fiion on them 104

Ke^ even, wly the fyn if a fair ddjf [ j(iy

^jfol totseh, whence the virtM ifi^.

£utt, whence comes it ^ . A^o.
^im^^ whf fo cokw'd '- ^24

fye^on, how lo/i by ftetfrizjo , . x6w

S^ffntanee finceroy what 3|k

MsboWi ifSeforo the fhod ibM.

KM, how infmall drops ^f^

Ri|tb iv. 4. 4»^ tf. reconcile 381

Aitj(^i»0», why fubje^ to the gotU , ' 438'

tlf$n^ 6j/ moonlight^ 4)e ca^e 474.

y^/f|ijNi, w^ ffiMif i KT jim^ HI mitr'd . 48 i^

^i^fin, if iofi at diotb ^18'

I N D EX.

luihf Hn mnamig rftbi tmi page f%f

Mftififnittti htrm emfky ' f^S

MUnoc^osy^ TH^hMt is ti ffz

Ademption if Cbrid; m mufiicn ihtrm ^ fff

JMs, why thtft €4dl*d bilhop and bis clerks f6j

Mfl^gisitkwfidtbofihaviwnng'dus' f9^

Wver by BriftoJ, ^ frtm nature vf aft 600^

Miffemiuyr why u^d Mt f$mirdU 640

Rcy. yf'u 9, i9i II. exflam 6f^

Ramiej ths richr whence th$ fi^kg 77^

'Rfkaims two firangt wes. ii6t

"BjuiX fttfgntUt M qutftm onh p'fy

"BifiHuim^ a qwfikn thtrem ^36

Ji0jurre&mj a q$teftm en it * 1041:

Rqine was not built in a diy, whewe the/aymg 105-5^

IRig^h handy ifi$9§mdy whM the miomng - yi6

"Bji^fi t9 Apollo 771

^ COctvLttii's ddmmk ' ^ 32

Szmflfon, gttilty if feif-nmrdtr • 39

SelfimtJdirm, why deafd chnfiimhmat ^f

Seulk, whyfettms only inftm fZ' *

Sfnngme/ft »hat tho cau^ y^

^tn^ etighuU, what y^

Sngufm eftho tyo^ 4 Muftm on i^ 4o

Shndofwsy how snvtrtid 66

Shiif, why ikat ntjhemng 69

SfotUamoHs frodUBions» a quofion 70

Sobrkty^ what tho rttUi of it 73

Skfi'whenoo its colotin v ^^

SavfOttr*s expiration, whyfofiddilt . < ,77

Shorfnefs <f fight, whona 78*

^coccocrof8> whoneo worn 80

St^'tnurdir, if bravo ^y*

Sacrament, a quejiion on it ^ • 9^

Storki, €ome tMy into menairdiot 109-

StuU'what isit '^ * 11 1

SitU; how to mond hor^ . ' ' ' u6

spirits tf mon, whence do thtj^exetl '^' ^ • if8'

^/iTftt, what the ufi (fit • ' • '\ ; - mo
Stttp, bow excited by /orrom • • \ « ixy

Swanr

INDEX.

^dlimvsy where m winter . , xijT

tl^M^ defmed, where ^figa ,,^ / \ 14P

pms imfmrtdhy, whm^ " \ ' ' 141

S^knens, what do th^ feed en .14^

Svwd'bUde^ how melted by Ughttmg ibii

£^ "'^ ^^^ ^^^« ^41^ i/^

$tvvi9Hr^ hem old when crut^^d if^

S^.<ff God^ hv» fr<miivfdtf< [179

^•edtwhv produce, divers xoimn , / f^ * \iQz

SfTftm, how evacmted ' ! " '' i8jr

^^«</» if tre-exiftent i2$
falts, why Jhoot into f/tch fhapei..' . , .^ ' 1 99

^e;^^j, , j^ bttre frier^fhif VMy be ibid.

Sia againfi the Holy Ghofty what ip 7, 24^

Shem, v«i ^« i[;i»g ^ Salem ip5

Sosils departed, jfo/er of inion^ \ .204

Scrifturef, how the word of G^d ^ ^ loiS

^jpir///, i6 ^^e^ generate ibid.

■Strings, why xoldejl in ftimmer I '"'\ , 211

Sabbath, when.^^mmem'd\st ^ - ibid.

Swallows, why neji in a chithnty '^' ^ 2i5

Stfiury influence, what is it . . ' ^ '220

Sexes, if diflinguijh'd in heaven 234

Stsn, when neareft to tis * " ^Ji*

5/*f/, why foon foftned 235

jSaHsbury-Breviary 4 ^wwy \ ; 24 j

Son of God, why jhe judge- ^ \ . ^/J

Stafffmering, how cured ^ * v ^^g

Spermacaeti^^/f;i^ . ^ . ^ , 270

Soldiers mercenary, your opinion of them ^ / 271

Soid, where in a fwoon 287

Straw, how does if frefirve ice ^ 293

Snuff, your opinion of it 294, 341

£9«/ ^r ^04/y, greatefi finner . 3 14

Saoi.i. I J. explain . ^ ,V . . J^l^

.Sleep, can people fin in it' .{, T ! !, 31'
iw??, i/(»i ir i/^we 0» Eatter day ^^ ., ; ' . jjr

Solitude, a poem ^ 1 ^. '33,(S

Sun, why darknid at the crucifixion " 3/2

< Samudi f a perfonal aftearanco 3^3

INDE3f.

J?^, hw^mgiids it vMtr 5^

"Sp^dangh v% thrvrnn Mt vidJmgt y v - -Jt^

Stomst do they grow * 574

^infi, which the noNeft Sf7

iaeramefft, hew csU'd s fufper 5*7

4r#< what cnufes the ehb fiindfim 4^7

tedj whence ih fikmfs * ^ * . .. ^^^

torn. xxxi. 4. Uft chaf. wbai mdnmg 4*J

Urkfant, fiuy he deteS inf-mafib^^cnm . 4J7

Slpi>enthfin, can he ctere d^ea/et ^ ... 449

"S^day, may ene waOt m thiJieUi '^ <' 44*

"Saitmandeti is there «« ^ '• ._L_k!, * ^^*

'hngUferfifu, can thtynotcwvrrfa^e^memnf 4/4

.». <?tfofgc, v4« »<ii ^^ 4T»

•5^w'i i*/4r/, iffv I unck teit '^ 474

Stick, w^ creeked in the^watar : ' ' 4«

'^if^flij. i»l^4# «&« caufe^(iif^ . - - iW.

'f /&#^itfc i^/Kk'CT', wA«/ f^ Ubte .; ; • , ^fj

SfeaaeUs, hew Img went ^ ^ 4«f

Seut, deesitkwwitsftatejkfiafierdtm ftj

ii>^s, do they fee *^ ' '' / ' ^ ' : J^f

^», mm andfiofs, which higheji ' jf^T

;iiM«, ii it digger than the earth i'74

tacratMnt, a qutflien thereen • X^o

Skiff why people walk init ' y ■ S^4

'^Sneezing, what the cMife ' '. ^ ■ - v fp^

•Sii, can the fame kve the fame as well as the cootraty

'^'Serpent, bewjs/ftto.pmjhitff'thtdevirsfaedt 605

]sptdtr, hcfwfpinfrom treetdti^ee ' "y 6oj

Sieip why iifi en the right-fide ^ ' ^

• SeUls m heaven, knew thty- their friendi en earth 6 fy

'Sih, was^there any hefrre Mofc* ^^fo

^ Sin ef uncleannefs, what ^''' v * - -^/f

'^^iottrU ft^erings, hew fafficient. • ' '<^73

Isokndti hew commHoicated. . '^74

'^ snake, is it peifinem - *' '*' ' ^*'

'Sfecifick C. P. »i&y mver given ie? r^#;* ^' • tWtf.

Seidier, hew he ene iknocwtty ' iW»

5y09^ efthe Mvangelifis, whence -^ • - ' 6^0

Salt'

INDEX.

S^peifT, tmi feterfali j/^ttt $b$ difirma page 48 1

Sc/dli immar$Mli^ b&w pfvtd Ibid.

Snd, can it returm $9 $he b^dy ^83

Sacramem^ if meeff^j H fklvMm 792

^aeramttu, a quefitm m tf ^%^

S»o», what is a £24

Stfrgery, who invented it Sjz

Selab, the meaning «f H 32^

Sterets, your ofinun if tW0 y^M

Sevtntb ftn, earn bt ctsf S/a

Strangwy, JkangmHi^n htm diffw Zy%

Stteikn, what is it ^^f

Smn, a (ysefiitn on it . ^j*

Something, has it Jigtujkation ^yg

Strange relation ty a dead man 980

Small fox comes it twice 98^

Scot-free,, the tmotmg rfit 1038

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