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we alike deplored that our connection had not been more unreserved.

I set out on my first mission attended by a young disciple of the order, and left Dionysius behind me.

My destination was Cappadocia...... I found the people tractable......and in a few years......I had made innumerable converts to the Kerinthian faith ......and strewed the seeds of fanaticism......so successfully.........over the neighbouring districts, that our Prophet had little difficulty......by his presence and the assistance of a few miracles he performed.......to train these young shoots to his own fancy.

In talking of miracles.......I do not mean that he attracted the moon from the Heavens,........and, having played with it for a while,............sent it back again.......or that he stopped...... at his command.......the current of a stream.......or levelled mountains with

the plain beneath them.....But I mean that he cured many diseases by his imposing and authoritative manner, .......the assistance of columns of incense........and solemn strains sung by whole choirs of our brethren.

I was now deputed to Syria.....The conquest of this colony was material.

...Commerce made the inhabitants affluent, and he wished to have them tributary to his order.

The Syrians are in general of a warm, lively, temper and imagination; and about this time, my frenzy was at its height......I appeared in the congregations that were under the guidance of the Bishop of Laodicea... and was received as an Angel descended from heaven for the benefit and instruction of mankind.

So prosperous were my efforts....... that in two years I had caught one half of the people of Syria, and Pa

latine in the Kerinthian net.......The bishops and other ministers of the congregations were bribed to a tacit consent by occasional remembrances from the treasury of our order, which I had so materially contributed to support.

In the height of all this success...... when my ambition was towering.. an invisible hand........but not from an invisible Superior............arrested my progress.

The arrow came from Parium which wounded me at Antioch......I afterwards learnt that my relations..... next in succession to my estates......... discovering I had no intention of returning, and that I had closely connected myself with the Christians,.....` became alarmed, and determined to find me out......In this they failed for a long time, till old Menecrates.... by a letter from a friend at Antioch

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.......was informed of my being there in the capacity of a Prophet, and held in profound reverence by the Christians.

This intelligence being communicated to my relations........they held a consultation.......on the means most likely to preserve such of my estate as remained still at Parium.....from, what they called, the fangs of the Christians; ......and the result of their deliberation was, that this intelligent citizen of Antioch should denounce me before the Viceroy,..........representing me to be a man dangerous to society, from my restless....enthusiastic.....disposition.... prone to inflame and disseminate discord among the citizens........a fanatic who had madly dissipated his paternal property, from its proper heirs, in support of his unlawful doctrine.

The penal laws were severe against all private conventicles, and particu

larly against every thing tending to support the Christian belief.......Now, although these laws had slept during the mild reign of Hadrian.......they were still in existence.......Complaints were procured to be made by the Priests.......and I was seized at a midnight meeting, while celebrating our most holy mysteries.

The officers, having rebuked my congregation, dismissed them.......and immediately carried me before a magistrate, who asked me if I was a Christian......I replied to him......with the zeal of a martyr......." Yes!"..... In consequence I was conducted to the common jail.

At first the whole city rang with my imprisonment.........but all things have an end......in a short time it was forgotten.......However the Christians took a very decided part in my fate, and left no means unessayed to pro

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