of his Garment: Just after, to the Dew of Hermon, which defcends on the Mountains of

of Sibon or Gilead, lying near

Q. Is not Opinion the strongest thing in the World?

A. No: Reafon or Truth is much stronger. If it be ob

it, and which makes the Meta-jected, That that must be the phor much more lively. Thirdly, Becaufe we find this Hermon call'd Mount Sion, or as the Seventy, the Mount of Sihon. Deut. 4. 48. ven unto Mount Sion which is Hermon. As in a great Ledg of Hills, all thefe being only a Part of Mount Libanus verg-quer'd, as for Initance 5 a ing more Southerly, the general and particular Names are commonly confounded. 'Tis acknowledg'd this Interpretation is alfo liable to Objections, but I think not to as many as

trongest which conquers mort, but above half the World is rul'd by Opinion, therefore it is the ftrongeft. -We anfwer e-that the Major Propofition is faulty, fince it does not fuppofe (as it fhould) an equality in the Subjects to be con

the other.

Q. Whether we are to refolve all Differences in Religion out of the Word of GOD?

ftrong Cat (pardon the Metaphor) may kill but Six Rats, whilít a weak One, fhall kill a dozen Mice; thus Reafon and Opinion in making their Con quefts, chule different Subjects to work upon, but above three quarters of the World being weak', unthinking Perlons, Opinion makes a greater Conqueft of 'em, than Reafon does upon thofe few that it can find worthy its Empire.

Q. How does a Spirit become

4. All Differences in effential Things are by that only to be decided, and are there plainly enough provided for. Leffer Matters are to be fix'd by law-visible? ful Authority, tho' ftill with Refpect to the general Rules there laid down.

Q. What's the meaning of that in the Pfalms-Who feed eft the Ravens which call upon thee?

A. A Spirit cannot become vifible. 'tis not an Object for a Material Eye, being it felf not Matter, What appears to us is fomthing that a Spirit afumes, as condens'd Air, or the like, wherein it acts.

A. The moft Correct Tran- Q. What Reafon can you affert flations have it only thus- why the miracled Stones on SalisHe giveth the Beast his Food, bury Plain can't be, number`d?^I and to the Young Ravens which defign to go that Way Speedily, cryAnd accordingly the if you will give me your Opinion best Interpreters Paraphrafe it; what Method I should ufe, I'll That GOD (by his common pare no Cofts to accomplish my Providences) fatisfies the Hun-Defign in mumbring 'em? ger of thole ravenous Crea- 4. Numbring is the Prerotures, tho' they are continual-gative and Right of rational

our

Trefpaffes and give us Grace to forgive them that Trefpafs tgainst us. Even in this Senfe to long as they forgive not others, 'tis a Sin, and we are exprefly told elsewhere, that we fhall not be forgiven, if we forgive not.

Q. Whether 'tis not time to send out a Hue and Cry after the loft Practice of Chriftianity, &c.

Vol. III. 10 a Demonftration, unlefs | fome wou'd expound them) hindered by fome fuperiour A-fhou'd be taken in a milder gent, we are forbidden num- Senfe, Viz. Forgive us bring in two Cafes (unless fuperftitiously) by Heaven, nor can I ever believe that our free Will is reftrained in it. I'm fure Angels and Spirits act not without particular Commiffion in any thing we do, and fure I am, whatever Power good Angels may have over us by Commiffion, the Devil and his Angels can't hinder us, unlel's we are become fo little as to be bis Servants, by falfe Perfwafion and a blinded Faith, I mean as to any Operations they can have over us, by the Means of Number, Charms, Characters, &c. So that our Advice is either to let 'em alone, which would fhew a great Command over your felf at fuch an Opportunity, and alfo a flighting the Devil, by not honouring him fo far as to doubt of his Power by a Tryal: But if you are re-ready; and we think the folv'd to try, because you think plaineft Miniflers fittest for fuch it a Fable, Ule your own Rea- an Auditor as our Querift, to fon in marking a Place to begin perfuade him of it, and we as you would in other hope that many, tho' differthings, if there be really any ently qualified are going on thing int, as to an impoffibili- effectually with fuch a good ty of numbring 'em, pray give Work; but to expect a thorow us a particular Account of Reformation in this Age, is too your Tryal, at your Return, charitable a Thought, and if and you fhall have our further fo, the fame Question may be Thoughts upon the whole. always in vain urged.

at,

A. This Queftion is of the fame Thread with the two former, as we could heartily wish there was as much Judgment as there is a feeming Zeal, in all of 'em (for we are charg'd as we will answer to GOD that they be all Printed) and we have comply'd, moftly out of Pity. Our Anfwer to this latt is, That there is a Hue and Cry out, (as the Querift ftiles it) al

Q. Whether those that live in Q My Education was chiefly Hatred, Envy and Malice, when at Cambridge, where I continu they fay the Lords Prayer, do ed five Years, in all which time not in a Manner Curfe them-I was not fo induftrious how to feives, and whether 'tis fit for ply my Studies as to keep Comem to pray over that Prayer either pany, especially at drinking in Publick or Private? Bouts; puce my leaving the UA. r Yes, tisa Curfing the niverfity (which has been twoó felves, but if the Wolds Lears) I bave continued under

the

may fecure you from a paralle! Exit.

Q. Whether a Mm in a regenerate State commits Sin?

A. Yes, but not to make a Habit on it; when he falls, he riles; and takes the greater Care of falling again.

Q. What is the Reason of, and when began that Cuftom of changing the Pipes Name at his

Until the Time of Con

the fame Method, which I am fenfible has brought me upon the confines of a Fever, as by feveral light Symptoms I have Reafon to fear, particularly a vaft Quantity of white Scurff upon my Tongue, which is fuppofed to proceed from the immoderate Heat of the Blood: However I find no inward Sign of it. My Age is Twenty Four, my Confitution indifferently hearty (e-Inauguration. Ipecially when I neglect Drinking) I am by Nature very Cho-flantine the Great (who give lerick and Paffionate, I Sleep lit- fo much Goods and Privileges tle, but when I do, I am ex- to the Church of Rome) the treamly troubled with horrid Dreams, which puts me upon Vows of Repentance, but they foon vanish when the Day and old Acquaintance appears; Yet I am (without Vanity) naturally of a good Difpofition and very inclinable to Piety; I defire to know your Opinion in this Cafe, whether you think upon my forfaking Drinking, I may avoid the Fever that vifibly threatens me? If not, how long you imagine it will be e'er it comes, and how Iought to behave my felf in the Intrim? And lastly, What may be the Caufe of thefe terri-difagreeable to fuch a Holy ble Dreams, and what Effects ought they to have upon me?

Soveraign Bifhops had been all Martyred, infomuch that there was no Suing for the Promotion of the Papal Chair; but thofe that undertook that Charge, were confìrain'd by Force or Request to accept thereof. Pope Gregory the Fourth being Dead in the Year Eight Hundred and Forty Two, they chole for the Soveraign Bishop of Rome a Romin of Noble Blood, Illuftrious Education, but of a haith Name, Viz. Hogsface, Therefore becufe this Name feemed to him

Function, and remembring that our Saviour changed the 4. The beit Receipt against Name of St. Peter, he alfo Impiety, an impending Fever, changed his Name and called and terrible Dreams, is to himlelf Sergius, which was throw off all your old Compa- his Father's Name, from nions, and lead fuch a Life as thence came the Cuftom obmay not be a Scandal to your ferved to this Day, that he who Cloth; if you do not, all thefe is chofeu Pope may at his PleaWarnings, together with your fure take what Name pleafes Education, will appear in Judg-him beit; And tho' they change ment against you; Read the their Names, they keep this Life of Mr. Fulks. and you Cuitom to take the Name of will exactly read your own, fome one of their Predeceffors. and we hope a due Reflection See Platinus, Eufebius, &c. Q. What

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Q. VVhat Cou Pilate?

A. Some fay, at Lyons in Fra fay that this N comes from a Fa viz. Pontius Irenea the Samnites, whi the Romans: But will, this Pilate fpect to his Perfo rentage) came to note in Rome, and to Tiberius, Succef (according to Eufebius) was fen the Twelfth Year pire, to Govern Je itiled him Proctor

A. There's a Lake fo call'd in Suiffe, near a Town named Lucerna, in a Plain environ'd with high Mountains; from the highest of which (as fome Authors wou'd make us believe) Pilate ceft himself into the Water; and the common Report is that every Year he fhew's himfelf there in his Judges habit, and whofoever it be that by chance happens to fee him (whether Man or Woman) Dies within the Year: Joachin Vadian, the Expofitor of Pompous nius Mela, writes another notable thing of this Lake, it hath (faith he) fuch a Property, that if any one caft a Bone, a piece of Wood, or any thing elfe in-pire; whereupon I to it, this Lake fwells and ed the Holy City, grows into fuch a Boiftrous Province of Juded Tempeft, that it runs beyond call'd Paleftina, a its Bounds in great Fury, in that Office Ten Y fuch fort, that it fometimes Seventh of which Drowns great part of the Eighteenth of the Country, from whence proceeds berius, he gave great Lofs and Damage as well Death upon our S to Trees and Plants as to Beafts; Chrift. It is alfo and if these things are not calt when Pilate came t in it fwells not at all: was Accus'd before C Foachin further faith, That there Succeffor to Tiberin are Edicts that forbid upon pain Prophaned the Tem of Life, for any one to caft any ting in Statues, 1 thing into this Lake, and that and Robbing the Con divers that have tranfgreffed fury, and other griev this Edict have been Executed for which he was Pliny has a Relation much like Lyons, where he kil this, of a deep Pit in Dalmatia, with his own ha into which if one caft a Stone Years after the De or other heavy thing, there a Saviour, according t rifes fuch a Boiftrous and Furi-which feems to con ous Air out of it, that it breeds a dangerous Tempeit to the Neighbours living thereabout

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Q. Whether a Lady having a Paunch of a Wild Man to her Husband that keeps that browzes upon 2 cerill Company, and debauches him-tain Tree, which bears little felf with common Whores, whe- Buds, round about which and ther (I fay) may not the break the Tops of the Boughs, the bond of Marriage, by fepa- Bezoar Engenders in the Maw rating her felf from him, and of the Goat;it is fhap'd accordmarrying again, or by repay-ing to the form of the Buds ing him in his own Coyn?

the other.

Q. Which is the greatest Sin, Pride or Paffion?

4. Paffion is only an Effect of Pride, therefore lefs by far than the Cause it self.

the

or Tops of the Branches which the Goat eats, which is the reason there are so many fhapes of Be20ar Stones, about as big as half a Hazel Nut, the Natives by feeling the Belly of the Goat know how many

A. Upon proof of Adultery, he may fue out a Divorce from Bed and Board, and one Third of the Eftate for maintenance; but the Law allows not a fecond Marriage whilft he is living: As for falle-Stones fhe has within, and fell nefs to him in revenge,'tis very the Stones according to the wicked and ridiculous, becaufe Quantity Some fay that the perfon that tranfgreffes in- in the East and West, of the jures him (or her) felf more than fame Province, that Bezoars are bred in the fame manner in Cows, to the weight of feven teen or eighteen Ounces apiece, but these are of little value, Six Grains of the other working more powerfully than 'l hirty of this, as for the Bezoar which breeds in Apes, (as fome believe) it is fo ftrong that two Grains work as effectually as Six of Goats Bezoar, but 'tis very scarce as being only found in thofe Apes that breed in the Iland of Maraffar; this fort of Bezoar, is round, a peice of it as big as a Nut, being fometimes worth 25 1. Sterling. Portugals make a great account of this Bezoar,ftanding always up their Guard, for fear of being Poifoned.

Q. Having lately bought an Horfe vouch'd to me for a found one, and upon tryal find him otherwise Query, whether I am obliged to difcover his faults unask'd to him thatshall buy him of me?

4. No, we fuppofe not; the buyers prudence and skill are to be imploy'd in that; but if he leaves it to you to defcribe the Qualities of your Horfe, you ought to tell him the truth, and not to be fo ungenerous as to deceive him.

Q. What Account can yougive us of the Bezoar?

Q. Where and how are yellow

A. It comes from the Pro-Ambergreese, and Musk pro-vince of the Kingdom of Golfonda toward

duced?

A. Amber is nothing but a

*Taverniers the North-eaft, it certain Congellation made in