took Two, and there being not Materials enough, finifht but One and a Half, and by Reafon of the Continuity of the Matter, they became connected. -To the latter Part of the Question The lefs draws Nourishment from the greater, by the Anaftomofis, or Infertion of his Veffels, with thofe of his Brother, as the Child fucks the material Blood; the Umbilical Vein there being in both but one Principle of Sanguification; for another Inftance much like this, See Vol. 1. Page 60.

Q. Where lies the Infalibility, when the Papal Chair is

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A. If Infallibility were confin'd to the Chair, every Perfon that cou'd fit in't, might (during that Time) challenge the Epithet of Infallible; but we can't believe any fuch Thing in or out of the Chair: So long as we find Inftances of one Pope or General Council, Anathematizing Damning another, for being of another Opinion, and when the Chair is vacant, all the Infallibility, (or what else you please to call it) is potentially, tho' not perfonally Exiftent; and when a new Pope fhall be inaugurated, and the Conclave arife, there is no more than a Change of a Name, not a Power: As for Inftance, a Gentleman dies, his Estate is yet an Estate, as certain as it was when he was living, and will be an Estate afterwards, when the Title of fome one of the pretended Heirs is ratified.

Q. There is a certain Perfon in Town fo very Noify and Trou

blefom, that he occafions Some of the Neighbours to leave their Abodes to be quiet; if there be but half a Word fpoke, he'll make a Verfe on't; and will also preach on't for a Week together, Night and Day, except when he is a Sleep If you can, pray direct us what to do, or we fhall utterly defpair of a Cure for him.

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A. Shave his Head, Bleed him, keep him Dark, give him. Opiates, and Diet him, thofe of bis Order, who are coop'd up in New Bedlam; perhaps now Oliver's Noife of Glory Glory, Glory, is ceafed, he may rave that he doth not fucceed him; for he also could preach a Week together upon one Word: Therefore this Perfon is properly his Succeffor, and mad that he is not taken Notice of as fuch; perhaps it increafes his Distraction, that of fo many Neighbours who hear him Night and Day, none of 'em take Notice how apt a Scholar he is in Bedlamitism: If to this Method, Good Counsel is added, and yet he is the fame; fend but his Name, and Abode, and in our next we'll affure you a Remedy, upon which you may write Pribatum eft.

Q. If a fingle Man be in Debt, and has an Employment that will maintain him in an ordinary Way, and have not the Gift of Continency, the free from actual Commission; Whether is it not his Duty to Marry? And if it be, Why is it not bis Duty to ufe Means, provided it be without palpable Lies, to obtain a Wife that is able to relieve his

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Neceffities, and not difcover bis Circumftances till after Marriage, ther than to take one with nothing, to expofe both to a Life of Neceffi ties and Dangers; confidering alfo, that by that Means he is not likely to be capable of discharging a good Confcience, as be defires, in paying every Man his own.

A. Our Opinion is, That he ought not to bide any Thing from ber, that the enquires after in that Nature. The World looks upon it to be a Cheat, to expofe any Thing to Sale, and conceal the Faults; and this Cafe is not very different. Nay, though fhe is not inquifitive at all, he ought to de clare it, to avoid future Plagues and Uneafineffes; for if he be a good Woman, he cannot like bim worse for fuch a Freedom, but look upon't as an Argument of his Kindness. But he muft chufe his Time, and take the fofteft Minute for Juch a Task: Sincerity and Truth are pleafing to GOD and Man, and never fail of Esteem; when little Tricks and Circumventions are unmask'd in a little Time, to the Difgrace and Infamy of their Authors. The wife Men of the World read you a contrary Lecture, but perhaps their Scholars may be found more unhappy in Practice than you. Quest. A Minifter that I know, as often as he reads the Collect for all Conditions of Men, c. coming to thefe Words, efpecially thofe for whom our Prayers are defired, be alters with this Addition, For whom our Prayers are or have been defired: -Query whether in fo doing he is not a Jefuit,

and prays for the Dead? Or whether he thinks the Litany defective?

Anfw. 'Tis to be hoped 'tis neither; though the Best that can be made on't is, an inconfiderate Zeal: 'Tis an Infringe ment upon the Obligations of his Ordination, not to follow the very Words, without any Alteration, tho' it could be fuppofed to be for the better; bis Zeal is not bounded in the Words of the Common Prayer, which is certainly the most decent, full, uniform Method that can be laid down by Men. ·I knew one that received a fevere Reprimand for acting beyond his Limits, and the Orders of the Canon, by fuch another Alteration, Vi. in the Deprecation against Plague, Famine and Peftilence, he continually added, Plague, Famine, Fire and Pestilence; which is much more rational than this Paffage of the Proponent's; for that is really an Inconfideratenefs, even to Jefuitifm, and will be found a. Praying for the Dead, as alfo for Recovery, &c. to Perfons that are well, and have more need to return Praises; befides the Scandal it may bring upon our Commu. nion among the Diffenters.

Queft. I knew a Young Man that often found Money, but it was obferved, that always fome ill Accident followed it immediately; as the breaking of a Leg, an Arm, or fomething else that was affecting. Query your Opi nion of it?

Anfa. Perhaps the Money enabled him to take in Cour

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fes, which were liable to fuch Dangers, as Drunkenness, &c. if not, we fee no Reafon at all for a finding of Money to be the Caufe of any fuch Misfortunes; but rather that thofe Misfortunes would have happen'd, whether the Money had been found or no.

Q. Why are Eunuchs never af. flicted with the Gout?

Anfw. There is not one Eu nuch in a Million of Men, and if one Eunuch of a Thoufand be Gouty (as 'tis reasonably fuppofed fuch an Inftance may be found amongst those luxurious Ones in Turkey,) 'tis near proportionable, and perhaps as much as falls to their Share. So that the Paucity of their Number feems rather to answer the Question, than any Reason that can be brought to prove why it never happens.

Q. I banged a Cat lately in my Garden, full of Kittens; and when he was dying, the Kittens cryed within her: I demand where they had Air to make the Sound?

A. Within the Cat's Bow els; for nothing has less Air in it for being Dead, only the Lungs are idle, and keep it not in Motion.

Q. I have been fure to one Three Tears, and now am sure to another: Pray tell me which of thefe I have most Right to?

A. - -You mean, Who bas met Right to you? And then your Answer had been, He whofe you were firft, for afterwards you were cut of your own difpofing; and all fubfequent Grants are like

fecond Deeds of Gift, which fignify nothing at all.

Q. What is the Manner of the Pope's Election?

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A. The Manner is as follows, (Heyl. Cofm. p. 112, 113.) In the Pope's Palace, on the Hill Vatican, are, amongst other Buildings, five Halls, two Chappels, and a Gallery feventy Foot long: The Gal lery is appointed for Conference, one Chappel for the Mafs and for the Election, the other with the Halls are for the Cardinals Lodgings: Every Hall hath two Rows of Chambers, which are purposely, for the Time, made of Green or Violet Cloth. Το each Cardinal is allowed four Servants to lie in his Chamber. They that are once within are compelled, unless they be Sick, ftill to continue there; and fuch as are once out, no more permitted to go in, left by that Means the Cardinals should maintain Intelligence with any Foreign Princes. To this Conclave (for by this Name the Place of the Electi on is called) is but one Door, to which belongeth four Locks, and as many Keys: One Key is in the keeping of the Cardinals, one of the City-Bishops, one of the Roman Nobility, and one of the Mafter of the Ceremonies. There is in this Door a Wicket or Hatch which is opened only at Dinhers and Suppers, whereof the Mafter of the Ceremonies keepeth the Key. At this Hole the Cardinals Servants receive their Meat, every Dish being first diligently fearched, left any

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Letters fhould be conveyed in them. As for the Lodgings, they have neither Holes nor Windows to give Light, fo that there they make Day of Wax-candles. And left the Pope fhould be made by Force, both the City and Conclave are ftrongly guarded. When the Cardinals are going to Election, the Privileges of the Cardinals are recited, which every one sweareth to obferve, in Cafe he be chofen Pope. Then the Master of the Ceremonies ringing a Bell, calleth them to Mass: Which ended, there is brought to every Cardinal a Chair, and therein a Scroll of all the Cardinals Names. Before the Altar itfelf is fet a Table covered with a Purple Cloth, whereupon is fet a Chalice and a Silver Bell, and about it Six Stools, on which fit Two Cardinal-Bishops, Two Cardinal-Priests, and Two Cardinal-Deacons. Every Cardinal writeth his Voice in a Piece of Paper, goeth to the Altar, prayeth GOD to guide him in the Election, putteth his Voice into the Chalice, and departeth to his Seat. The first Bishop taketh out all the Papers, and delivereth them to the firit Deacon, who unfoldeth each of them, readeth (without mentioning the Name of the Elector) the Name of the Elected; and every Cardinal in his particular Scroll noteth how ma ny Voices every one hath. The Account being made, the first Priest having the like Scroll, pronounceth who hath most Voi

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Which done, the Priest ringeth a Silver Bell, at which Call the Master of the Ceremo

nies bringeth in a Pan of Coals, and burneth all the little Papers, wherein the Names of the Elected were written. He that hath the most Voices (fo that his Voices exceed the Proportion of two Parts of three) is acknowledged Pope, and a dored by the rest of the Cardinals: But if they exceed not this Number, they must begin all anew. If in the Space of thirty Days the Election be not fully ended, then must the Cardinals be kept from Fire, Light, and Victuals, till they are fully agreed. The Wicket which we before mentioned, is called the Golden Gate which stand an infinite Number of poor People, on whom the New Pope, having opened that Gate, bestoweth his Fatherly Benediction, and remitteth to them all their Sins. Then ftriketh he continually on the fame Door with a Golden Mallet, which whilft he is doing, Workmen without break

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The Chips, Stones, Duft, and Dirt, which fall from the Gate, while it is opening, are gathered and preferved as choiceft Reliques, and the Golden Mallet is ufually given to that Cardinal who is in moft Grace with the New Pope.

Q. Tu are of Opinion, that Heat produces Rain; if fo, why then have we not always more Rain abundantly in the Summer, than in the Winter?

Anfw. If you please to confult that Anfwer again, you will find that we never laid down fuch an Affertion; there is certainly a vast Difference be

twixt Attraction and Procreation of Showers; not but that at the fame time, we allow Heat fome little Share in the Caufe of Exhalations, &. And tho' the Temperateness of our Climate alters the Cafe much in Refpect of the Indies, yet we find that we have the most Rain about April, when the Sun has got the upper Hand of thefe cold Impreffions, which the Winter had lodg'd in the Bowels of the Earth, by driving them out in Vapours and Mifts, which meeting together, condence into Clouds, till they are too heavy for the Air to buoy up any longer, and fo they difcharge themselves again upon the Earth and Waters.

Q. Whether or no Cain had any Help to build his City?

Anfw. Yes, every one knows how Old they lived in the Beginning of the World; and if ye allow only Six Hundred Years for a Life, one Male might have above an Hundred and Ten Thousand come from him and his Children in that Time, upon Suppofition, that every one might get seven Males in one Hundred Years, as you may fee by a Trial of Multiplication; fo that Cain could not want Perfons to be afraid of, nor Perfons to affift him in his Building.

Queft. Suppose there was a certain Place fet out for all NightWalkers, to meet in at a certain Hour, as at Amfterdam, whether it might not prove a great Means to disappoint great Mifchiefs, that enfue upon NightWalking?

Anfw. 'Tis a very Unchriftian Maxim, to neceffitate one Evil to avoid two, tho' indeed if you leave Religion out, 'tis a pretty Sort of Policy, and many Evils would be avoided by it; but we hope there's much bet ter Measures on Foot, agreeable both to Christianity, and Civil Politicks, and therefore we need not to choose one that's diffonant to either, nay, to that which is really both, I mean Christianity.

Q. If any Person under the Effects of too much Drink, fhall happen to express himself unkindly, or to offer an Injury to a Friend, for whom by the whole Courfe and Series of his Life, be cannot but be judged to have a great Love and Affection, and at all other Times to bave been Expreffive of it, whether this PerJon fhould be judged to be truly of that Intention or Difpofition to bis aforefaid Friend, wherein be expreffed himself in his Drink, it being fuppofed that Men Speak Truth in their Drink, tho' when they are fober, they may for their Credit or Intereft, only diffemble and hide their Natural Difpofitions?

Anfw. We can't think this a fufficient Inftance to destroy Friendship, no more than other Actions, which People are guilty of in their Drink, and hate when they are fober, fhou'd be a Standard to judge and determine the Actions of a Man's whole Life. We take not the Depth of a River, by an accidental Flood or Draught; but according to the Natural and Ordinary Current in its Chan

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