thecary's fhop has never been ftocked with more drugs, than this " Appeal" is stocked with maffacres. They have inferted in it, the bull, "In Cœnâ Domini," which has never been received in any Catholic kingdom; and from an old book which was foifted on the public in the beginning of the Reformation, as containing the fees of the Roman chancery, they conclude, that "a Roman Catholic can fleep with a woman in a church, and commit "there other enormities, by paying nine fhillings;" and that " he may murder a man, "and commit inceft*, on paying seven fhil 66 66 lings and fix- pence," though fhillings and fix-pences are English coins, not current in Italy; and in Catholic countries, the murderer expires on the wheel, and whoever commits inceft, or profanes the churches by carnal fins, is burnt at the flake. What is more furprising, Gentlemen, thefe new apoftles of the Gordonian affociation, who to use the words of our old friend, Hudibrafs, "Their holy faith do found upon imagine that they are the delegates of Heaven for the falvation of fouls: their hands do not brandish * See the "Appeal from the Proteftant Associations," page 18. Printed by Pafham. brandifh the glittering fpear on the American plains, where D'Eftaing and Prevoft difpute the laurel but, like Samuel, deploring the lofs of Saul, their eyes are bathed in tears, and their "bowels yearn for millions of fpirits that have "no existence but in the prefcience of God," who can pity error, and forgive it, and who is more concerned in their falvation, than Lord G***** G***** or Mr. Wesley. I am afraid, Gentlemen, that you mind your own fouls and bodies more than you mind thofe of others. To roufe you from your fpiritual lethargy, and inflame you with fome fparks of love for your neighbour, I fend you a piece of a fermon taken from the "Appeal "of the affociations." After deploring the lofs of millions of "common people, who are prohibited from reading the fcriptures," (though it were charity to teach them firft how to fpell)," and "who have fouls as infinite, in value and du"ration, as the proudeft prelates, or highest "monarchs upon earth,"-they go on: 66 to "tolerate Popery, is to be inftrumental to the "perdition of immortal fouls now exifting, "and of millions of fpirits, that at prefent "have no existence but in the prescience of "God; and is the direct way to provoke the vengeance of an holy and jealous God, to ઃઃ bring down deftruction on our fleets and ar"mies."* I really imagined that the Proteftant affociations were not fo cruel as to refufe me mercy, and exclude me from the kingdom of Heaven, if I lead an honest, sober, and virtuous life. I am convinced, that feveral of Admiral Rodney's failors are Roman Catholics, and that the bullets which told fo well, in mauling poor Langara, were were fired by hands that croffed a Popish forehead. Oliver Cromwell, feeking the Lord, and preaching upon the Sabbath-day, in a leather breeches and buff waiftcoat, with his trufty fabre by his fide †, did not fcruple to enter into a confederacy with Cardinal Mazarini, against the Spaniards: it was equal to England which of the two was foremoft in the breach, the French dragoon with his whiskers, after faying Hail Mary, or the Roundbead with his leather cap, after groaning in the Spirit. Spain loft Dunkirk, and England triumphed. King William, who; to his honour, could never be prevailed on to violate the articles of Limerick, had fix thoufand Roman Catholics in his army, when he fought the battle of the Boyne and the Catholics and Proteftants of See the "Appeal from the Proteftant Affociations," page 18, and cry out, Ohone! ohone! ohone! + See Gregorio Leti, in his Life of Cromwell. of Switzerland maintain their independence against all the powers on the Continent, in confequence of their union. But the Proteftant affociations, like Ezechiel, have fwallowed a book in which are written verfes, and lamentations, and woe! Already their luminous fouls, enlightened by the prophetic fpirit, fee future times unlocking their diftant gates, and pouring forth millions of monsters; and from a defire to procure the falvation of Adam's children, it is to be dreaded, that, at-long run, they will imitate the holy fanatics of Denmark, who, in order to procure Heaven for young infants, after being baptized, used to flaughter them in their cradles. AN AN HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE TO THE SCOTCH AND ENGLISH INQUISITORS. BY WAY OF AN APOSTROPHE GENTLEMEN, As a colour to your disorderly and unwarrantable proceedings, you impofe on the ignorant by your cant words of violation of faith with heretics. Like Boileau's heroes, you are ranfacking old books, canvaffing legends of exaggerated maffacres, and like scholars, who, after In their Appeal they relate that a hundred thousand Proteftants were maffacred in 1641: at that time there were thirty Catholics for every Proteftant, and a hundred Proteftants escaped for every fingle Proteftant that perifhed. Let now a balance be ftruck, and the numbers of inhabitants |