Church of Home.

1.Bir hand give him Money, but after

Efore a Juglar's Tricks are discover'd we ad

-wards we care not for them; fo 'twas before the Discovery of the Juggling of the Church of Rome.

2. Catholicks fay, we out of our Charity believe they of the Church of Rome may be faved: But they do not believe fo of us. Therefore their Church is better according to our selves: First, fome of them no doubt believe as well of us, as we do of them, but they muft not say so: Besides, is that an Argument, their Church is better than ours because it has lefe Charity?

3. One of the Church of Rome will not come to our Prayers, does that agree he doth not like them? I would fain fee a Catholick leave his Dinner, because a Nobleman's Chaplain fays Grace, nor haply would he leave the Prayers of the Church, if going to Church were not made a Mark of Diftinction between a Preteftant and a Papift.

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Churches.

HE Way coming into our great Churches, was anciently at the Weft-Door, that Men might fee the Altar and all the Church before them, the other Doors were but Pofterns.

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City.

'HAT makes a City? Whether a Bishoprick

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Answer. 'Tis according to the firft Charter which made them a Corporation. If they are incorporated

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by Name of Civitas, they are a City, if by the Name of Burgum. then they are a Burrough.

2. The Lord Mayor of London by their firft Charter, was to be prefented to the King, in his Absence, to the Lord Chief Jufticiary of England, afterwards to the Lord Chancellor, now to the Barons of the Exchequer; but ftill there was a Reservation, that for their Honour they should come once a Year to the King, as they do ftill.

Clergy.

1.Though a Clergy-man have no Faults of his own,

yet the Faults of the whole Tribe fhall be laid

upon him, fo that he fhall be fure not to lack.

2. The Clergy would have us believe them against our own Reason, as the woman would have had her Husband against his own Eyes: What! will you believe your own Eyes before your own sweet Wife.

3. The Condition of the Clergy towards their Prince, and the Condition of the Physician is all one: The Phyficians tell the Prince they have Agaric and Rubarb, good for him, and good for his Subjects Bodies; upon this he gives them leave to use it, but if it prove naught, then away with it, they fhall use it no more: So the Clergy tell the Prince they have Phyfick good for his Soul, and good for the Souls of his People; upon that he admits them: But when he finds by Experience they both trouble him and his People, he will have no more to do with them, what is that to them, or any body else, if a King will not go to Heaven.

4. A Clergy-man goes not a Dram further than this, you ought to obey your Prince in general; [if he does he is loft how to obey him, you must be inform'd by those whofe Profeffion it is to tell you. The Parfon of the Tower (a good discreet Man) told Dr. Mofely, (who

(who was fent to me and the reft of the Gentlemen committed the 3d Caroli, to perfuade us to fubmit to the King) that they found no fuch Words as [Parliament, Habeas Corpus, Return, Tower, &c] neither in the Fathers, nor the School-men, nor in the Text; and therefore for his part he believed he understood nothing of the Business. A Satyre upon all those Clergy-men that meddle with Matters they do not underftand.

5. All confess there never was a more learned Clergy, no Man taxes them with Ignorance. But to talk of that, is like the Fellow that was a great Wencher;he wish'd God would forgive him his Leachery, and lay Ufury to his Charge. The Clergy have worfe

Faults.

6. The Clergy and Laity together are never like to do well, 'tis as if a Man were to make an excellent Feaft, and should have his Apothecary and his Physi cian come into the Kitchen: The Cooks, if they were let alone, would make excellent Meat, but then comes the Apothecary and he puts Rubarb into one Sauce and Agarick into another Sauce. Chain up the Clergy on both fides.

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High Commission.

MEN cry out upon the High Commiffion, as if

the Clergy-Men only had to do in it, when I believe there are more Lay-Men in Commiffion there, than Clergy-Men; if the Lay-Men will not come, whofe Fault is that? So of the Star-Chamber, the People think the Bishops only cenfur'd Prin, Burton, and Baftwick, when there were but two there, and one fpake not in his own Cause.

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House of Commons.

for the Common Wealth.

Here be but two Erroneous Opinions in the House of Commons; That the Lords fit only for themselves, when the Truth is, they fit as well The Knights and Burgesses fit for themselves and others, fome for more, fome for fewer, and what is the Reason? because the Room will not hold all; the Lords being few, they all come; and imagine the Room able to hold all the Commons of England, then the Lords and Burgeffes would fit no otherwise than the Lords do. The fecond Error is, that the House of Commons are to begin to give Subfidies, yet, if the Lords diffent, they can give no Money.

2. The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty A&ts of Parliament, but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

3. The Form of a Charge runs thus, I Accufe in the Name of all the Commons of England, how then can any Man be as a Witness, when every Man is made the Accufer?

Confession.

'N time of Parliament it used to be one of the

"I Hrft things the House did, to Petition the King

that his Confeffor might be removed, as fearing either his Power with the King, or elfe, left he should reveal to the Pope what the House was in doing, as no doubt he did when the Catholick Caufe was concerned,

2. The Difference between us and the Papifts is, we both allow Contrition, but the Papifts make Confeffion a part of Contrition; they fay a Man is not fufficiently Contrite, till he confefs his Sins to a Prieft.

3. Why,

3. Why should I think a Prieft will not reveal Confeffion, I am fure he will do any thing that is forbidden him, haply not so often as I, the utmost Punishment is Deprivation; and how can it be proved, that ever any Man revealed Confeffion, when there is no Witnefs? and no Man can be Witness in his own Caufe. A meer Gullery. There was a time when 'twas publick in the Church, and that is much against their Auricular Confeffion.

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Competency.

HAT which is a Competency for one Man,

is not enough for another, no more than that which will keep one Man warm, will keep another Man warm; one Man can go in Doublet and Hofe, when another Man cannot be without a Cloak, and yet have no more Cloaths than is neceffary for him.

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Great Conjunction,

HE greatest Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, happens but once in eight Hundred Years, and therefore Aftrologers can make no experiments of it, nor foretel what it means, (not but that the Stars may mean something, but we cannot tell what) because we cannot come at them. Suppofe a Planet were a Simple, or an Herb, how could a Physician tell the Virtue of that Simple, unless he could come at it, to apply it?