His Fourth Reafon is as weak, That he knew fort of bodily Indifpofition that could have fram'd the Agitations. He fhould have advis'd then with other Men, who knew better than himself. Enough would have told him, many bodily Diftempers are attended with Tremblings, Convulfions, Hiccupping, &c. Again, his fpeaking Latin is a main Reafon. But why fhould this be fo Miraculous, when in his Youth he learnt as far as Horace and Virgil? But this he had forgot, and could not before this Gift understand a common Author, and now out of his Agitations, is utterly unable to compofe any thing like "what he delivers in them. Still I cannot conceive the Miracle of this; for it is common to Men that have their Spirits or Fancies too highly exalted. How many furprising Things will Diftracted Men fay, that they are uncapable of when fober? Men Light-headed and in Fevers, if ever they learnt any Latin, fhall be likely to repeat it then; and this they were as incapable of as Mr. Lacy, when in Health and in their Wits. Some make Verfes in this "Condition (as well as Laugh, &c. like the Infpir'd) when perhaps they never did, or could do any fuch thing in their Health. If thefe Matters appear wonderful to any, it must be because they never took any Obfervation of what daily occurs in Perfons labouring under Diftempers of this kind.

Lastly, Mr. Lacy infifts on the forcible removal of his Body. This is like the reft. It has not the leaft appearance of a Miracle, efpecially as they defcribe it. If Sir Richard Bulkely had confulted with good Phyficians, they would have told of greater Wonders than thefe in Men they hold to be under Natural Diseases.

B. I am fatisfy'd about thefe Prophets, and do believe they will fail in other of their Predictions, as they have done in those they have already made; and then fure other People will be fatisfy'd in them likewife. If they do not raife the Dead, &c. as they give out, they themfelves must be fenfible of their own Delufion.

A. I hope indeed they will, and I pray GOD they may. Mr. Lacy has fairly promis'd the World this, and if formerly he was a Man of Honefty and Religion, as fome fay of him, it may be the greatest Inftance of the Divine Goodnefs to him, to retrieve him from his Delufion; and upon his fee-. ing himself farther difappointed of miraculous Gifts, according to his Promife, he will owe the World a publick Recantation. However, if no miraculous Proof attend these Men, and confequently the moft honeft and fenfible of them are reclaim'd; this will be a fresh Inftance of the ftrange Power of Enthufiafm: For how confident are thefe Men, that they are Divine and Heavenly Meffengers! And agreeably to this, how difturb'd and full of Indignation at all that do not own them as fuch! Ought not this to teach us to keep ftrict to found Reafon and Revelation as our Rule? To admit of no Pretences to Infpiration that contradict thefe? We have the higheft Security in this. For if Men be really and Divinely Infpir'd, their Infpiration muft affift them to speak confonantly to these. Let us try therefore all Pretences to immediate Revelation by found Reafon and Scripture, and if Men foar beyond thefe, out of the fight of the Reveal'd Word and Human Reafon, let them go

B.. I hope I am arm'd against all Pretenders of this kind. I will not fail to communicate thefe Notions of yours to my Neighbours, fome of whom want them much.

A. It is odds but that you are traduc'd, but that matters not. Farewel.

BOOKS lately Printed for John Wyat, at the Rofe in St. Paul's Church-Yard.

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Difcourfe of the Great Difingenuity and Unreasonableness of Repineing at Affli&ting Providences, and of the Influence they ought to have upon us; on Job 22. 10. With another Difcourfe of the great Duty of Praise and Thanksgiving, and keeping our Minds in a Grateful Temper on all occafions. By Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.

Practical Difcourfes on feveral Subjects; being fome Select Homilies of ¡the Church of England, put into a new Method and Modern Stile; and fitted to common Ufe. In Two Volumes 8°. By Peter Nourfe, D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majefty.

The First Principles of Modern Deism Confuted; in a Demonftration of the Immateriality, Natural Eternity, and Immortality of Thinking Subftances in General, and in Particular of Human Souls, even upon the Suppofition that we are intirely Ignorant of the Intrinfic, Natures of the Effences of Things.

The Reasonablenefs of Affenting to the Myfteries of Chriftianity Afferted and Vindicated. With fome Remarks on a Book Entituled, An Effay concerning the Ufe of Reafon in Propofitions, the Evidence whereof depends upon Human Teftimo ny. Both by John Witty, late of St. John's College in Cambridge.

A Practical Treatife of the Regulation of the Paffions. By Francis Bragge, B. D. Vicar of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, and Prebendary of Lincoln.

A Practical Expofition of the Catechifm of the Church of England, in Thirty Lectures. Pursuant to the Defign of the late Reverend. Dr. Busby. By. Benj. Farrow, Rector of Coningsbolme in Lincolnshire.

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