Now fober and mild,

I'm terrible toil'd,
It's acuteness may deline my fate.
Your thickning advice will fave my thin cafe,
And get up my frength, and shew my poor face.

Your indigent fupplicars. 4. Mr. Squirt, let us tell ye,

You must chaften your belly, And forbear the stomachical prizes ;

For by what you confess

You seem prone to excess, Whence this laxative ailing arises. Therefore

you, who through thick and thin go, we affure That a regular life's the best method of cure.

Your provident Adjuvant, BETHLEM, June 12th, 1708. Q. Say, great Apollo, tell us why We harmless fouls in Bedlam lie, Confined to chains, and cold, and straw, Parsial effects of city law; Whilf those enthusiasts freely roam, And find in every place an home, Whose whimsies of new revelation Make schisms and parties in the nation; Whilf they talk idly and profanely, And city magiftrates hear tamely, Tet fend 'em not a colony, To fill up our fociety? Signed in behalf, and by the order of the whole fociety of Bethlem, by Zaga Zago, ambassador from the King of the Abyssines, moderator of the faid fo

ciety. A. Alas! poor fouls, your senseless trains, Proclaim th' infection of

your

brains
If all the craz'd were thither sent,
Where should the multitude be pent;
Except your fabrick first were growa
To half the bulk of all the town?
The little hardships you endure,
Are meant in order to your cure;
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and con.

Whilst those enthusiasts you name,
No whips or phyfick e'er will tame;
Nay, had you them, they'd in their fits
Expel the remnant of your

wits. Sign'd by Salutifer, Messenger of Apollo. Q. Ever since I have taken in your papers, I have read them with great satisfaction. I desire you'll favour me with

your opinion of the millennium, mentioned in the 2 oth: Chap. of the Revelations, with the reasons pro

4. Not to be dogmatical in so obscure a matter, we shall endeavour to give such an exposition of the passage, as seems to us to carry the fairest characters of truth; for we are inclinable to suppose from this: and other correspondent texts, that when the glorious conversion of both Jews and Gentiles, represented in. the Scriptures, shall be happily accomplish'd, that then those noted prophecies of peace, plenty and righteous-. ness shall be more eminently fulfilled; that during that blessed revolution of a thousand years, fatan shall be: restrained from going about, seeking whom he may devour, and all men shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest, in fo signal a manner, as though there were a resurrection from the dead, not an uni. versal, but a partial one, a resurrection of those only who had suffer'd persecutions for righteousness fake, had submitted to the stroke of martyrdom, and therefore noble defenders of that faith, which was once delivered to the Saints; and from Luke xxi. 24. We think it at least improbable that the holy city shall be sebuilt, and the Jerusalem which is below become in an inferior sense the mother of us all, of all chofe who Thall be living in that happy interval.

And this exposition we ground upon the easie and natural figure made use of in it, upon the absurditiesdeducible from the literal interpretation, upon the harmonious completion which it gives to the ultimate: intention of those noble descriptions, of those engag. ing prophecies, to be met with in the Prophets and Apostles in the Old and New Testamento.

The absurdities of the latter are chiefly these, Firf, When St. Paul gives us fo accurate an account of the refurrection of the just, it seems a little strange that he should take no notice of this previous one, the refurrection of the martyrs.

2 dly It can be sure no reward of their labours to those blessed Saints, to be remanded back from an heavenly to an earthly, from an immortal to a mortal state. 3dly, A promise of a resurrection to a life of sense, to an earthly inheritance, is inconsistent with the spiritual nature of Christianity, with the purport of its more alluring promises; and contains a doctrine worthy of a Moses, shall we say, who abounds in temporal promises ? No, of a Mabomet, of a sensual Mahomet. Since therefore that grand impostor patch'd up his religion out of the Chriftian and the Jewish, it may be no improbable conjecture, to fuppose that from the doctrine of the Millenaries he took the first draught of his justly exploded paradise.

Tho' the Millenaries found their opinion upon feveral texts of Scripture, yet since they look upon this passage in the revelations as their strongest fort; the different but yet natural interpretation we have given this, will (we hope) be thought sufficient.

But the modern Millenaries lay claim to the genesal suffrage of antiquity. But that it was a controverted point among the ancients, we may gather from Justin Martyr, and Irenaus, great sticklers for the doctrine; from Origen and Eufebius, great opposers of it. But for any one to be convinced of this, he need no more than read that noted occurrence between Dionyfius of Alexandria, and Nepos an Egyptian Bifhop.

But the modern Millenaries should not too much in. fift upon the fuffrage of the ancients, since they differ from them, as in other things, so in a very material point, namely in the extent of the resurrection specified.

As for Irenaus's tradition from St. John, it is easily confuted, in that it is delivered in a manner too ridiculous to be depended on, and is also on the fame foot with another tradition, not admitted by the very Millenaries themselves.

Nor can we rely on Papias (tho' contemporary with St.fobn) since thro' the meanness of his judgment he had never any authority in the Church.

Q. If a widower marry a widow's daughter, and the widor

marry bis fon, and each bare a fon by these intermarriages, in what degree are those two fons related to each other ?

A. Each of them is at once both half uncle and half nephew to the other.

R. IF 120 eggs are bought at two a penny, and 120 more at three a penny; and the fame 240 fold again ad five for two pence (which seems to be all one) it appears by the rule of three that there is four pence loss. Query the reason of it?

A. The reason is, because the reduction of the wholo to an intermediate price consists not in the equal number of eggs bought, but in the equality of the money laid out upon them. As therefore 120 eggs at two per penny coft five fhillings, so if you lay out five Thillings more upon eggs, at the three per penny (which will purchase 180 eggs) and then fell the whole at five per two pence, it will bear you harmless;

for the cheaper you buy a commodity, so much the larger in proportion must be the quantity you buy; if you would reduce that and a dearer quantity to a mean value. And this will be apparent in the very initance of the eggs, if you begin your computation from an unité; for if you buy one pennyworth of eggs at two per penny, and another at three, you may indeed sell the whole five for two pence; but then there are three eggs on one hand, and but two on the other, whereas in the instance you propose there is an equal number (namely 120) on both hands.

Q. To Apollo I do a hard query advance, Sir,
For fools can ask questions that wife men can't answer.
Why did Mofes, that wife legislator ordain
That women alone for adultery were flain ?

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The fault on all sides doth equally bear,
Man, the aggreffor, doch oft lay the fnare,
And he alfo of reason enjoys the best share.

Aurelia requires your answer. Poftfcript. I desire in your answer you will keep close to the side of justice, political reasons there are many : 'tis my misfortune never to have heard that partiality of punishment in point of our sex well defended. I take it as allowed, that both sexes have the same appetite and propension to this vice; if it be with respect to the marriage debt, in what we call double adultery, both are guilty am like ; as to the injustice done to families, they are also equally criminal,

A. What! will you not own more injustice is done, Tho' men father babes that are none of their own? Tho' this fpurious offspring come in for a share, And with his half-brothers commence equal heir ?

Postscript. We very much wonder, Madam, that you fhould endeavour to foreclofe so unexceptionable an argument, since the husband's bastards cannot be obtruded upon his wife, nor are they generally so well provided for as her legitimate children.

Q. Sirs, if the two female children, to be seen near Charing cross, should live to be women, do you think it poffible for them to bear children ? if so, is it not likely they should conceive together? If that may be, hom shall each. mother know her own child?

4. We see no impoflibility of their bearing children, tho' some improbabilities; nor that they may not conceive together, as well as one woman to bring forth two at a time. As to cach knowing her own child, though possibly their throes may come upon both together, yet since one must be born first, doubtless the mother must know when she bas discharged ber burthen.

Q. Gentlemen, pray give your opinion, whether the swa monstrous children lately brought into England, muft not of necessity die together? if not, what will become of one when the other dies?

A. Tho' one of these children (being not so healthy.