A. 5 Miles, 850 yards, 2 foot, 10 inches. Q. A. buys 2 parcels of goods of B. one in time, and the other out of time. A. Ships off the goods out of time, knowing them to be so, and fwears that the goods he now Ships off, he bought of B. B. supposing it to be the parcel in time, fwears that the goods he fold A. paid the custom within a year, and fo A. receives the drawback. It is plain bere is a cheat to the Queen, but the words of the oath A. takes, being only, that the goods be nove Ships off were bought of B. Quere, Whether or no be takes a falje oath? A. It is a false oath, if not taken according to the intent of it, as well as according to the letter of it, and the intent of it was to secure the Queen's right: Q. Whether it can really suit with the convenience of any state on a politick account (not considering Religion ) to encourage any vice, or neglect any virtue ? If so, whether the fault is to be imputed to the unhappy constitution of that state, or to politicks in their own nature ? A. That this may suit with a convenience of a Rate, is evident from the success France hath found thereby, yet tho' the fault, (according to the circumstances of things ) may be at times imputed to either of the afore-mention'd, in this case we judge it is to be imputed to the ambition of the monarch. Q. What is the use of the intestinum cacum? A. Some have conjectur'd this intestine to contain a certain ferment: Others think there is a separation of liquor perform'd by some glands in its cavity, which liquor serves to harden the excrements pafling: throʻ the colon: Others take it for a second ventricle, wherein the prepar'd aliments may be stored up, and fo long retained, till a thicker and more nutritive juice may be drawn from them : Others suppose it to be the receptacle of the excrements of the foetus, of which it is always full till after the birch : But the, use is not, as yet, fully determin’d. Q. Great Apollo, Pray let me know what are the names of the threescore and ten Kings, and where lay their kingdoms, that had their thumbs and great toes cut off, and a and gatherd their meat under the table of Adonibezeck ? And you will very much oblige an unknown friend, and great promoter of your undertaking. A. When we are once come to write a weekly volume in folio, we will give you an account of all those Kings names and territories, with their several: lengths and circumferences, and not only give the die mensions of their thumbs and great tocs, but also of all their other members, to which treatise we now before-hand refer you. Q. How is that extravasated ferum, which is collected in the abdomen of dropsical perforas, evacuated by urine and ftool? 4. Since there are not any pallages discover'd, which may carry tbat collected humour to the reins, we are of opinion that the blood muft abforb it, and then refund it again into the urinary receptacles, so that diureticks by pouring forth the blood, and forcing its ferofities more plentifully to the kidneys, cause the waters fluctuating in the belly to be allured to it so emptied; but the water that is evacuated by stool we cannot conceive to be brought from the cavity of the abdomen, but rather from the coats of the intestines, or their adjacent parts, which being irritated and disturbid by catharticks may probably make such a discharge. Q. As you're Gentlemen, I desire your advice what: means I can use to forget a person that I love more than all the world besides, and that will be my ruin to marry! I don't see him, and think as little of him as I can; prayers against those thoughts are vain. I beg to knows your opinion in your next paper, for I leave the town suddenly A. Prayers are never vain, when they are sincere and hearty, but on tbe contrary will, in our opinion, be your beft defence against the powerful temptations of a head-strong passion. You find it difficult to forget you love, for no other reason than because you think it so: you must refolve against the folly, and will certainly subdue it, such a resolution may bim; the man a may be easily strengthen’d by a prudent reflection on I the consequence of a marriage, which you confefs will be your ruin. This, Madam, is the best advice we are capable of giving you, and will, we hope, come time enough to find you in London, since it may perhaps prevent your impending misery. 0. Gentlemen, I have long admired a young Lady that fits over against me at church, to whom I have sent several letters, none of which are answer'd otherwise ikan to forbid me ever looking at her: Now I believe they are read and answer'd by fome other person, since I never fee her, but ne seems to love me as much as I her, our eyes being seldom off each other ; and if I endeavour to obey her (supposed ) letter, which is, not to look at her, she fits seemingly displeafed with me, till my eyes are on her again. Now, Gentlemen, what shall I do in this case, since I cannot possibly come to the speech of her ? A. Repent that you spent your time fo ill at church, and then, if your designs are juft and honourable, you i may have better hopes that heaven will prosper them. Q. Whether the foul be pre-existent to the formation of the animal, if so, was it so ab orbe condito, and what was its vehicle from that time till it was infus’d into the body? A. As we cannot agree with those who derive the foul from feminal traduction, which supposes a material principle, so that the foundation of pre-existence, namely that delinquent fouls were thrust into bodies for a punishment of their delinquency, is entirely overthrown by the happiness of our great progenitor in a state of innocence; and therefore we conclude, that the third opinion of immediate creation, though not without its difficulty, is the most eligible of the three. Q. Pray, Gentlemen, oblige me with answering, whether our Church, when she says (the words which we have heard with our outward ears) intimates that we have inward ones; if such, what, and where they are ? A. The Church sufficiently explains her meaning in the succeeding clause (may be fo grafted inwardly in our hearts] and therefore our ears, which are external, are oppos’d to our hearts, which are internal. Q. What is your opinion of.Deucalion's flood? Ā. That a deluge overwhelm'd the greatest part of Greece about. 884 years after that of Noah's, while Deucalion was King of Theffaly, is a matter too well attested to be call'd in question. Celfus (the Epicurean) pretends to say, that Noah's flood took its rise from hence; but Origen confutes the vanity of fo ridiculous a pretence, by the unrivalid antiquity of the mosaick history; and therefore it was the usual custom of the heathens, to appropriate to their own nations the general history of the world (with which they are acquainted either from tradition, or the sacred records) so the Grecians very probably substituted Noah's universal deluge in the room of Deucalion's partial one: And thus it was handed down under the modifh appearance of a borrow'd dress, with the additional ornament of poetical attire. Ovid's Ratis, and Apollodorus's acégvas, point to their original, Noah's ark; but as it is observ’d, so it is worth observing, that in the Phoenician language the fame word equivocally significs both a son and a ftone;. from which ambiguity the celebrated fiction of re-peopling the world by stones thrown by Deucalion and Pyrrha is not improbably deriv'd. Q. Where was our Saviour after his refurre&ion, from the first day to the eighth day, and after that to the miracle of fishes ? for that was but the third time of his being seen after his resurrection ? A. As this is a matter no where reveal'd in Scrip.' ture, nor a proper fubject of enquiry, so that excellént sentence is the best answer to the question, Secret things belong to God. Q. Pray how is it that the Evangelifts Matthew and Luke disagree about our Saviour's genealogy? Matthew Says in his, i. 7. that he is defcended of Solomon; and Luke in biş iii. 31. that he is descended of Nathan? Let the reason of this difference be known to your well-wisher, ' W. M. a A. Julius Africanus, a christian historian, who flourish'd in the third century, gives us this solution of the seeming contradiction, Matthan descended from Solomon, married one whose name was Estha, and by her bad a son named Jacob. Matthan dying, bis widow married Melchi, descended from Nathan, and by him had a son, whose name was - Eli. Eli dying without issue, Jacob; as being his brother by the mother's fide, was oblig'd by the law of Mofes to marry bis relict, by whom he had Foseph, reputed father to our Lord. As therefore St. Matthew gives us 7oseph's. genealogy by his natural father Jacob, fo consequently he mentions Solomon, from whom Jacob was lineally defcended; and as St. Luke traces the same Foseph's linc by his legal father Eli, fo he theace afcends to Nathats who was ancestor to Eli. Q. I love, alas! but why should I complain : . 4. Forbear, fond youth, thy fad complaints to tell, Ne } |