and not without Encouragement, when the best Commanders lead the Way, and where the first Attempts carry the Face of Victory. We fhall first premise;

their Affertions we wont pretend to vouch) the latter whereof finds two Regions of 'em, one on the River Thefnodoon, (thofe we fuppofe which came to Troy) the other on the Cafpian Sea. We wont bring That Divine Providence (aceither Pliny or Claudian, or cording to the Schools) is the Homer or Herodotus, all whom Reafon of Order to fome End. we esteem much of equal 'Twou'd be too large a DifCredit, to confirm their Ex- courfe to fhew, how the Proiftence: Only think it worth vidence of God is not in rethe while to take notice, Spect of himself; for whatever that that Judicious and learn- is in him, is the End, and not ed Gentleman Sir Walter tending to the End. How the Rawleigh, did really believe Meajures of Contingence and there was fuch a People, Neceffity fall under the Providence and feems a little difpleas'd of GOD, and not of the Crea that he was not credited ture. How GOD fuperintends in his Relations concerning 'em; all things immediately, as to tho' this in the Weft Indies. the Ratio of Order; but mediOf more modern Authors, Sir ately, as to the Execution of John Chardin mentions them Order. How particular Caufes near Colchis, Mengrelia, and depend upon general ones: And thofe Parts, which feem to be how the Fate and Revolutions of the fame defcrib'd thereabouts Kingdoms, and particular Perby the Roman Hiftorians, par- fons are effected. But thefe ticularly Am. Marcel. and the have been learnedly treated Life of Pompey, who came to upon by abler Pens, and we help the Albanians. fhall only fo interfere with 'em, as to remark, That a particular Change of Providence has appear'd in Their prefent Majefties happy Acceffion to the Crown, fince the Effects do fo manifeftly evince it. To pafs over his Majefty's late Perfonal Dangers, and the daily expofing his Royal Perfon to more, and this when he might fit down with Honour enough. To wave the Thought of an Afflicting Abfence from the Partner of his Fate and Glories, and that all the Charms of Reft and Satiffaction, are too weak to struggle with his great Refolves.

Q. Whether the prefent Offers at a Reformation are like to prove effectual? And what are the best Methods to detect the vile Haunts and Practices of thofe lewd Women called Night-Walkers?

A. To answer this, wou'd be a Task adapted to the Genius of better Pens than any of our Society to engage in: But fince fome Perfons of no mean Quality have been pleas'd to command our Thoughts upon it, perhaps because of the publick fpreading of our Papers, (which we could wish as general as the Subject) we humbly offer what follows;

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Hicks's Hall, by a Number of worthy Juftices, for the Conviction of fuch Offenders: And the like is now a beginning to be fet up in the Liberty of Westminster. Fit Perfons are appointed, and placed in proper Districts all over the City and Suburbs, to take In formations, and fill up Warrants gratis, to carry to the Magiftrate to eafe him of all Trouble, which he will also fign gratis. Her Majefty has commanded the Officers over all the Horfe and Foot, that they keep a ftrict Eye upon the Soldiers, and prevent the common Wickedness and Disorders amongst them. Every Body knows of the anonymous Abstract of the Laws and Penalties.

And 'tis obfervable, the laft Lord's Day, (July 26.) that fome Perfons difaffected to the prefent Government, in Contempt of the late Order for Reformation, went to drink Wine at the Horfe-fhoe Tavern in Drury Lane; being there refused Admittance, they went to another Houle in the fame Street, where they drank themfelves all fo dead-drunk, that one of them never awoke; and the Master of the Houfe will be profecuted according to Law. There is now an Order preparing to be publish'd by my Lord Mayor, for encouraging a Reformation in the City, which will be out in fome few Days. And for a more effectual Suppreffion of Debauchery, Orders are already come forth, that Bartholomew Fair fhall be kept but three Days. We referve yet a fuller Anfwer to this

Grand Query about the prefent Reformation, together with fome fecret Occurrences (that will be communicated to us) for the Subject of another Difcourfe: Only we shall mention one Thing more, viz. That there is a Member of one of the Four Societies of the Law who has not been atham'd to declare publickly in a CoffeeHoufe, that all this Noife is Cheat, and a Trick of the Juftices to get Money; and that he would give Two Thousand Pound for what they should get by it this Year; which is

a fcandalous Untruth, for we can affure him, that there has been already feven Store Warrants granted, for which neither any Juftice, nor his Clerk, have had one Farthing for Fees. And Things are fo well managed, that in Ten Thousand Warrants, which perhaps may be granted before a Twelvemonth expires, it fhall not be in the Power of the Officers themselves that levy the Penalties, to cheat 5 s.

None of these Inftances are Secrets, but Publick Occurrences; and befides thefe, there will be yet found deeper Meafures on foot, which we doubt not, by the Bleffing of GOD, will effectually contribute to the Peace and Piety of this Kingdom. Other Ages have acted by Halves, and play'd with Reformations, but never did any fhew fuch Readiness and Practice in this Affair: Never was there a Caufe wherein Virtue, Glory, Liberty, and all that is dear to the

Good

A. We meet not with any fuch Inftances in Tables of Affinity, nor have we a Denomination particularly for fuch a Relation: It comes near to that of Coufins of the firit Blood, the Relation of a Father and a Son being nearest to that of two Brothers, as alfo a Mother and a Daughter, as two Sifters, confequently their Iffue nearest to the Relation of Brothers and Sifters Children This is an odd Sort of an inverted Affinity, for the Son is hereby made Father to his own Father and his Mother-in-Law, and the Daughter is made a Mother to her own Mother and Father-in-Law. If the Question had been continued, Whether the Mother or Daugh. ter ought to take Place? We had anfwer'd, The Law of GOD and Nature muft certainly fubje&t the Child to its Parent, notwithstanding any fuperin duc'd Civil Law, or Law of Marriage, which in this Cafe is yet more obliging than any we have met with; for the Woman always lofes her Name, and is more properly married into the Man, than the Man into her, (Woman being made for Man) fo that perhaps not improperly, according to this laft Law, we may conclude, that both Mother and Daughter having loft their Names, and naturaliz'd into New Stocks, they muft, according to the Civil Law, reckon their Prehemi nence from the Stock into which they are ingrafted; but the Daughter having married the Father, who is to be preferr'd to the Son, fhe upon the a

forefaid Reasons must take place of her Mother, or her Hus. band lofe his Place But we mention not this to encourage Undutifulness, which the Law of GOD will not dif penfe with, altho' even in fuch an Invafion it will dispense with the aforefaid unnatural Order in Civil Preheminences, which, without a due Discretion, may be an unhappy Novel of Temptation.

Q. Where the Romish Infalli. hility refides during the Vacancy of the Papal Chair? [This was propos'd and answer'd before the laft Choice was finish'd.]

A. Not in the Popefor the laft is in Purgatory, and his Succeffor not yet in Being. Not in a General Council, for there is now no fuch thing ;not in Pope and General Council together, because there's neither of 'em in Nature asunder : Not in the Universal particular of the Roman-catholick Church, for the eldest Son of it, the most Christian King, is as good as turn'd Turk, and worle than all that, is fo ungracious, to call his Mother Whore. Not in the Cardinals, for then poor Infallibility would be torn all to Pieces -there would be French Infallibility against Spanish Infallibility, and the Zealots Infallibility at Daggers drawing with both.-Things being in this Pofture, we think it very dangerous to interpofe in fuch a Battle Royal of Creeds, left they fhould all agree and fall upon us for Meddlers; however thus much we'll venture to say, tho' they fhould threaten us with the. H.

Inquifition it felf, that whenever the poor Spitch-Cockt Fathers agree where to place this rambling Infallibility, it must be either K. Lewis's Gold or K. William's Sword will have the cafting Voice.

Q. I find reported in a Hifto1y, that Eneas liv'd in the Days of Abdon Judge of Ifrael, in the Tear of the World, 2790, and that Dido was Grandaugh. ter to Ethbaal K. of Sidon and Tyre, whofe Daughter Jezabel was married to K. Ahab; Jo that by this Eneas must have lived long before Dido, and all the Hiftorians and Poets fabu. lous, in what they relate of their Acquaintance and Amours; whether of the Two is more probable?

4. The beft Chronologers and Historians on this Question inform us That Etho

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mány Years before.
ver, 'tis Injuftice to blame the
Poet for this Miftake in Chro-
nology, which he was not o
bliged to take any Care of.

Q. Why the Jews made their Idols in the Shape of a Calf, rather than any other Beaft

A. No doubt they learnt in Egypt, where the Worship of an Ox or Calf was notoriously practifed.

Whether Aaron receiv'd the Ear-rings and Bracelets of the Children of Ifrael, and made the Calf of them, of real Gold? And if fo, by what Means did Mofes burn it, and reduce it to Afhes?

A. 'Tis not faid in any Tranflation that we ever yet faw, that the Calf was reduc'd to Alhes: It was indeed burnt, or thrown into the Fire, and melted out of that Form and baal, or Itbobaal, or Futhobaal Shape whereunto Aaron had re(for by all thofe Names he is duced it; and then, call'd) had a Grandion, whofe as our Tranflation has it, fiamp'd Name was Metimus, who had to Powder; that is, ground or two Sons, Pygmalion and Bar- filed it as fmall as poffible, and ca, and two Daughters, Eliza fo ftrewed it upon the Water; or Dide, and Anna. That Pyg- when as the Jews fay, by the malion having murder'd Sichaus, drinking thereof, the Bellies of Dido's Husband, for the Sake thofe who had been guilty of of his Treasure, as Juftin and Idolatry immediately well'd, others tell us, Dido in the and their Faces were difcolour'd, feventh Year of his Reign fail- much as in the Cafe of the ed into Africk, and built Car- Waters of Jealousy, and therethage, which happened by Com. by were discovered to the Leputation an Hundred Forty vites. The Hebrew makes it

Et ויטחן עד אשר דק .Two Years after the building plain

of Solomon's Temple, which moluit ufque quo comminuit. was about fome Two Hundred The Septuagint much to the Eighty Nine Years after the fame Purpole, Κατέλεσεν αυτὸν Destruction of Trey, when AETTO,λεπτὸν, -Contrivit eum miEneas was in a bad Condition nutim, -Ground it very small: to make a Lover of, for he muft The Syriack Verfion, Li. have been rotten in his Grave mavit eum Lima, quoad commi C 4

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