Mofes. What was disgustful, you us tell, Which leads the gay, and's now the belle. Ignatius. Hodge-podge rabble, as fcreech-owls Like ape lustful, betray the meek, Tol de rol, tal de ral la a. Your abandoned and reprobate state is truly pitiable, and when I confider myself a chieftain or leader, of your irrational ribaldry, filthy, dirty, and impious philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, I deteft and abhor myself as I really am the vileft and moft perfidious reptile, not worthy the name of creature; unless a fiend, even this far furpaffes: my depraved, degenerate and vitiated ftate. Had I loft my reafon, ignorance would be a barrier to plead my innocence; but my reason remain→ ed and I a rebel reprobated and brought it into fubjection, making it a time-ferver, bearing down remorfe and ftings of conscience, contriving, pleading, conniving, confenting, enjoying and willing, a temporal and bafe plea füre fure of the flesh, preferable to its duty and eter nal felicity. Club. By judging, condemning and reprobating yourself, you accufe, reprobate, condemn and vilify the new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere. Mofes. If your new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemifphere be truth, there is no God, and if no God, there can be no judge, if no judge, no judgment, and if no judgment, no trial, if no trial, no condemnation, and, if no condemnation, what you have advanced is abfurd and obnoxious and difgraceful to reafon, common fenfe and found philofophy, which proves your new philofophy of this your enlightened age and northern hemifphere to be an impeachment or accufation against reafon, truth, wisdom, and found philofophy, degrading human nature. On the reverse, if there is a God, as all nature bears evidence, but yourselves, mock tribe, your new philofophy perifhes; fo that, view it at what afpect you will, you will prove it a common dunghill, fabricated by the ignorant and vicious bucks and bloods, to destroy harmony, order, faith and honour, with each other, and live reprobates. Ignatius and I will meet you at Luther's, in three days, in the morning at 12. Scene changes. Mofes, Boy, and Notaries. Boy. Daniel gth chapter. Meffiab shall be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the 4 prince that fhall come fhall deftroy the city and the Janctuary, and the end thereof fhall be with a floods and unto the end of the war defolations are determined. And be fhall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week be fhall caufe the facrifice and the oblation to ceafe, and for the overspreading of abominations be shall make it defolate, even until the consummation, and that determined, shall be poured upon the defolate. 1 Mofes. This fcripture is accomplished and fulfilled in us this day. This a truth known to all nations of the earth; but where is the covenant confirmed with many, and who is the Meffiah that confirmed it? These two effentials fhall be the principals of this debate, and which knowledge all Ifrael moft ardently hopes for. Boy. You agree, that Jefus Chrift is of the lineage of David, and that he was put to death at the time marked by the above prophecy. Moses. Moft affuredly; I do not deny thefe two points; alfo, the accufation for which he fuffered and manner, circumftances and what occurred in his life and at his death, which was on a gibbet. I have already given you a detail to which I refer, and to his disciples who wrote your Gospels. Boy. Change of religion is of that delicate texture, and muft proceed from self-conviction or infufficiency of the religion they are in, which fhould be its own criterion. This fhall be the standard that we will abide by. I will therefore, make no ufe of the new fcripture until we prove them fo by the old; from the old the new muft ftand or fall, and this depends on Jefus Chrift being the Meffiah. Mofes. Your reafons are placed on the moft folid rock, this being a proof that cannot be contradicted, or ever after raife doubts or fcruples in the mind. It is the most firm basis. Boy. Notaries, will you bring forward the heads or points difcuffed and agreed to. Notaries. One God, but diftinct perfons. Meffiah God and man, who confirmed the covenant, when he was put to death, rofe from death, afcended into heaven, where he fits on the right-hand of God. The Jews as was foretold by the prophet, affifted at his death. Forty years after, according to the time marked by the prophets, Jerufalem was deftroyed by the Romans, under Titus, the temple destroyed and facrifice ceafed, to the time prefent, near two thousand years, and the Jews no longer a nation, but a proverb and a bye-word in the mouths of all nations. The priesthood of the new covenant, after the order of Melchifedech, whofe offering was bread and wine, when the temple ftood it was a heathen temple, at prefent a Turkish mofque, and Jerufalem trodden down by the Gentiles, &c. Boy. Pfalm 2. Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thin? The kings of the earth ftand up, and the rulers take counsel against the Lord and against His Chrift. Let us break their bonds afunder, and caft away their cords from us. He that dwelleth in heaven fball laugh them to fcorns the Lord fhall have them in derifion. Then fhall be fpeak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in bis fare difpleasure. Yet bave I fet my King upon my boly bill of Sion; I will preach the law, whereof the Lord bath faid unto me. Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten Thee. Defire of me, and I fhall give thee the beatben for thine inheritance: and the utmost parts of the earth for thy poffeffion. Thou shalt bruife them with arod of iron, and break them in pieces like a potter's veffel. Be wife now, therefore, O ye kings, be learned, ye that are judges of the earth. Serve the Lord in fear, and rejoice unto him with reverence. Rifs the Son, left He be angry, and so you perifh from the right way; if His wrath be kinaled (yea but a little). Bleffed are all they that put their trust in Him. Mofes. 1 his Pfalm is a fur.her confirmation of the Heads going before, quoted by the No taries. Boy. You will reflect who it was at the time the Meffiah appeared, was appointed by the heathens, kings or princes in Jerufalem, or over the Jews, they being tributary to the Romans, and who were the rulers of the Jews, alfo, who or what perfon they raged and took counfel againft: afcertaining thefe heads will lead us with other fcripture confirmations to the .Meffiah. T. Mofes Herod, Pontius Pilate, Annas and Caiphas, were at that time appointed; but who the Meffiah, that they, with the reft, raged and took counsel againfl as a criminal, we know not. Roy. The Jews have been noted for tranfmitting occurrences, particularly in matters of religion, |