places at once; Since the Infallible Apoftolick Chair (that pretends a Succeffion) has known that Hypothefis themfelves, but a few Hundred Years.

4. From their heavy dull Nature, who hate Motion fo much, that in thofe Rivers where they are found, they always keep in the ftilleft places; therefore ftill palces being moft agreeable to their Nature, are likewife moft agreeable to the Production of their Nature.

fwer would have been, Because Red is the fainteft and nearest to White,and every one knows that 'tis moft Natural for like and like to go together. If it be further ask'd, Why fome Per

Q. Why Carps breed more infons have whiter Skins than oPonds than in Rivers? thers? We anfwer,From feveral Reasons, viz. From the Mothers Imagination, from Hereditarinefs, &c. but the truest and firft Reafon was a Delicacy and tenderness of Temper; Thus the Spanish Nobility, (who upon the Moors Incur fions retir'd to the Mountains and mingled not with the Moors, as did theCommonalty) are of fuch a delicate Complexion, that both their Skins and their Hair are White, and the roughest temper'd Perfons amongst 'em (that have not mixt with black inferiour Families) have got into no farther Colours from white than Yellow orRed,and every one that has confulted Hiftory, are not unacquainted with the tendernefs of their Education and Conftitutions.

QVVhy have red-Hair'd People the whiteft Skins?

A. VVhite is no Colour at all, as is Evident by the melting of Snow; for if Snow were a Colour, it would be the fame when it melts; So that it is only an Accident of Dilations, for all Liquid Bodies, nay even Ink it felf when dilated or froth'd up? appears white. Again, Red is the most Imperfect of allColours,for every one knows that has but little Converse Q. VVhy crocked People are far with red hair'd People, that their the most part very good Conditihair is fooner changed intoned, or very bad? White than other Peoples. 'Tis fo in things that are dyed Red, as Ribbond, &c. it fooneft fades and refolves again into White, which will imbibe all Colours it felf; fo that the first Question is unnatural, and ought to have been thus, VVhy have the whiteft Skinn'd People the reddeft Hair; and the An

A. The Queftion had been more proper thus, Why are Crooked People, commonly the moft Ingenious? Perhaps, becaufe Nature for her deficiency in one thing, wou'd make amends. Thus the Blind have good Memories, the Deform'd are wity, &c. According to the Poet,

To change a beautious Lump for ftock of B

pinched to Deat not to alter their as Grafs and We Corn, Hey-feed were Beafts wher there were no W 'em, which is Dyet to Carri ver they are Eat.

But to the prefent Question, the tho' many were
Suppofition is falle, Deform'd
Perfons are but few, and there-
fore more remarkable. Juft fo
fome Perfons will fay a cut
Finger is hit oftner than the
reft, which is an Error; for
when the rest are hit, there is
no notice taken of it, becaufe
tbey are not hurt; but when
the cut Finger is hit, be fure
the Pain caufes a remem-
brance, and makes it remarka-

A. The first bids,fair, whereever it is, for the Company of

2. Why the Beard grows gray the Hair of a Ma 4. From the di quantity of the maintains both,the much, and has bu to fend it forth but little flefh up

the other two; perhaps a Mer-but about the F
chants calling Antwers the
Question

2. VVhether a Rook eats Carrion or no?

A The Querift has been very angry with us that we have not yet anlwer'd his demands; but for fuch ulelefs Questions as this, we muft let 'em alone till their turn comes. But to the Queftion, A Rook does not eat Carrion, tho' Crows do, which are only distinguifh'd by their Bills, a Rooks being White, a Crows black; the Crows lived well enough in the great Froit (about Nineteen or Twenty years fince) fo many things dying for them to feed apon, butRooks were obferved

great deal more f alfo more conftring than the rest of th therefore the Exc not fo eafily emi well fed; and h that they alfo dec er, by degener White.

Q. Since in bred your Skilful Fockeys and choice of the to Temper, Mettle, come into a good Ra flesh, VVhether migh alfo a good Race of was taken as their

both

as to Soldi

men, Politicians, &c.

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and union fo frequently com
manded, whether (I fay) this,
Schifm will be justified, or excus'à
in the Day of Judgment, by the
Law of Toleration?

A. As cur Law defign'd to
Patronize no Vice here, fo
it won't excufe any here-
after: Its intention is good,
but if perfons make use of it
to ill ends, they will be an-
fwerable for it at the Day of
Judgment: Schilms will be,
whether the Law is filent or
not; they were before Tolera-
tion for Liberty of Conscience,
and they are no more now, but
lefs: That long unhappy Se-
paration betwixt the Church
of England and Presbyterians,bes
ing nearer an univerial accom-

A. This is a merry sort of a Question at first fight, and not to be defpis'd neither for the Comparifon It admits of a Pofitive Answer, that an Unmixt Generation of the best Soldiers, might in a few Ages fet upon a Second Conqueft of the World, and fo of the reit; for Cuftoms and Habits have mighty influence upon Humane Nature; but yet to be ty'd up and bound in deeper Obligations than GOD and Nature have always limited, wou'd look Tyrannical,andMan having not free liberty to choose an agreeable Converfe further than Generation, it wou'd argue his Mind and better part of little Ufe, and the most that could be preiended, wou'd be a Subordina-modation than ever they were tion and Subjection to that dull filly thing the Body; fo that by fuch an Alteration of our Liberty, we fhou'd by feeking a Perfection of Bodies, lofe the Bravery and Noblenefs of the Mind, which all wife Men will conclude a very unhappy Exchange.

under Reftraints and Penalties,

Q. Suppofe a Man fall make an Agreement with aRichDealer, whith Agreement is afterwards put into Writing, prepared by the faid Dealer, and feeming to be according to the Agreeement : Both Parties Sigu and Seal it: Afterwards this Dealer confuitQ. In order to reclaim fome ing a Cunning Lawyer, is ad Erring Friends, who out of fan- vis'd, that he may avoid the true cy,diflike the eftablifht way of the intent and meaning of the AgreeChurch of England, though they ment (at least in the Senfe they can't produce one plain or pofitive both knew was meant by it) to the Proof either from Scripture, or others damage, for Relief herein True Reafon, to demonstrate any he fues. But if the faid Dealer part thereof to be truely finful, by his Purfe or Cunning, fhall obor wicked, only they like one way tain the Sentence of the Court better than another; I wou'd defire in favour of him, Query,whether your Sentiments whether Schifm this defrauding a Circumvention (which is an Antichriftian Divi- is pardonable, by a bare Kepenfon,or Separation among the Mem-tance, without Reflitution? bers of the true Church, where both fides profefs all the fame neceffary and Fundamental Points) being certainly a Sin, as being contrary to that univerfal lave

A. No: Reititution in Cafe of Injury to our Neighbours, where the thing is poilible, is the only demonstration of the

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the benefit of Affliction to little Souls, who are trangers to Reformation by Gratitude, and the advantage to the Publick by their Labours; 'tis our Opinion (tho' we pretend not to inftruct the Magiftrate) that 'tis the most proper Method that can be taken.

Sincerity of fuch Repentance:
Nay further, without a Refo-
lution, if poflible, to make
Satisfaction to the Injur'd,there
can be actual Repentance,
either for that or other Sins.
For to fay, I repent of Injuring
my Neighbour, and continue
that Injury, by Non-reftitution,
is a Contradiction, and one ha-
bit of fin is as certainly Dam-
nable as ten: The Acceffary
is under the fame Circum-fingle Perfon.
ftances, and his duty is, as by
his Advice he caus'd fuch a
Cheat, fo by his Advice he
ought to caufe a Reftitution,
or at least do all that lies in
his power in order toReftitution.
Q. VVhat is Solidity?

Q. I defire your Opinion what Book you would advise me to for my private Devotions, as being a

A. What fo many great and good men have been concern'd in the Compofing, viz. the Liturgy of the Church of England. if the Labours of one Man, then Dr. Taylors Compofures, or The whole Duty of Man.

Q. One married to a Man by the Laws of the Land, but not by the Laws of GOD and Na

A. A clofe connexion of Material particulars, ufually fpeaking; but in ftrictnefs of fpeech 'tis a Continuity of Mat-ture, as she thinks, and one who ter, as Glafs and all Diaphanous or Transparent Bodies. Q. VVhat is the difference between Subftance and Body?

A. So much as is between Substance and Substance, or Body and Body.

is of a temper fo rigid as to abufe and beat her, and is alfo guilty of all manner of Debauchery, query, whether it be fin for her to leave him or not?

A. He that retains not one Ear for the accufed, is unjuft; but upon a fuppofition of Abuses, Debauchery, &c. the last if. prov'd to be matter of Fact, is lufficient caufe to be divorced from Bed and Board; but the Law allows

no Second Marriages whilft either party lives.

Q. Whether the condemning of Thieves to fome certain Drudgery or Slavery for their lives, or for a limited time, according to their Crime, as in Holland and other places, to the Gallies and Mines, wou'd not be an affectual Affrightment to others, it being a lafting one, when the Speedy lofs of their lives, being Speedy and tranfitory, is not fo terrible? And whether this Kingdom might not receive advantages by their labours, and their own Soul an op-in a few Months; Query,having portunity and fface of Repentance? fuch a Guft of the Greatest, and nothing but the Sweets of Love, whether it is as great a Vertue

4. Confidering the Frame of thefe unthinking Wretches,

Q. A young Man not long fince married one who had all the Qualifications and Charms a Man cou'd wifh or defire to enjoy, butTy rant Death, a refpecter of neither Age nor Sex, depriv'd him of her

to

to live fingle ever after, as if before he had devoted himself to a Celibacy, provided he had the gift of Continency? Or whether one is not as difficult as the other?

he fend for the Aftrologers, Southfayers and Wife Men,promifing them rewards to read the Writing,as well as to make known the Interpretation? Neither of which, tho' the Story A. The Querift fpeaks ex- tells us fome of these Wife Men treamly fenfible of that melt-were Chaldeans,could any of 'em ing, languishing Paffion, but do, as the Eighth verse informs withal a little unintelligible, us? 'Tis lawful here to infert which is as pardonable to any a probable conjecture of our under thefe Circumftances, as own, and we think this might little Apish tricks are to Chil-be because it was written in dren. Tis not a vertue to live Hebrew Characters, which was either fingle or married, but the Sacred Language. 'tis a vertue to live well in either state; if either way of living has more advantages for vertuous actions, 'tis the fingle (generally) where the Thorn in the flesh is absent; and 'tis the fame thing after Marriage as before, if it be poffible to come into the fame Cirmuftan-peated both, verse 25. tho' he ces again as to the concerns of interprets but one, verfe 26. the World. As to the latter The reafon of which was, bepart of the Question, we be- caufe they both being the fame lieve 'tis harder to refrain In-words, had the fame fignificaticontinency after enjoyment on, being only repeated the than before, because habits more vehemently and folemnly (good or bad) are hard to be to affirm the things, as is com broke, tho' poffible. mon in all Languages. Thus the 'Aμùv 'Auir, and our Verily Verily.

To the Second Query, The Interpretation of thole words, the Hiftcry fufficiently unfolds 'em, and there's no need of repeating it.

To the Third Why Daniel omitted one of the Mene's we anfwer, he re

2. In Dan. 5. 25. in the Hiftory of Belshazzar we have thefe Words written on the Wall To the lait. Why Peres MENE, MENE, TEKEL- inftead of Upharfin? We are UPHARSIN. 'Tis defired you'd apt to believe the word Peres refolue us what Language are may be falily pointed in the Cothey? What their fignification?py, and to ill render'd in our Why Daniel in the repetition of Tranilation, the fame Letters 'em leaves out one of the MENE's, with different Points making repeating that word but once? Pharas, as the Latins have it,of And why he changes the last word Phares as the Seventy,which infrom Upharfin into Peres? deed thele laitule inboth places. 4. To the first Query we re- Now there's no more difference ply; The words are Chaldee-between Phares and Urpharfin, But why then cou'd not the than between the fingular and