SECOND CONFERENCE.

Mers. Luther and Calvin to Mr. Mofes, greeting, pray a fecond conference this day at fis o'clock this evening precisely.

Mr. Mofes declines, evening meetings in future; but, if required, will not refuse to meet before dinner. Suppofe at ten to-morrow. Agreed. Luth & Calv. WE give you joy, Mr. Mofes,

we hope our medicine has operated the defired effect.

Mof. A diabolical effect, a baneful medicine and diforder, fwines flesh and gluttony. Wickedness.

- Calv. Wickednefs to you, but purity to me. Luth. You cannot change gluttony into purity.

Mof. Pork and gluttony are deadly poison. Calv. To a Jew or carnal man, I grant you; but to a spiritual member all things are lawful. Mof. Is this your reformed fpirit of the latter times? A bleffed reformation.

Luth. We bear a part in the reformation, but decline the extremes.

Calv. We have ever branded you baftards.
Mof. You are very pleasant.

Calv. How fweet are thy tidings, O Sion! Mof. Doth your Sion grant you these privileges?

Calv. New Jerufalem is come down from heaven and dwelleth amongst men.

Mof. This cannot be the fume of your laft night's fupper?

Calv. Thefe are words of the fpirit which carnal men cannot underftand; however, I will endeavour to hold forth a carnal fimilitude. If fo be you may efpy through the veil placed before the eyes of every Ifraelite or Child of Mofes, otherwife you never would have crucified the Lord of Glory.

Mof. I will condemn you by your own confeffion. You fay, through ignorance, Ifrael crucified her Lord. If, through ignorance, we are excufed from difobedience and malice, it was, therefore, innocently done. On your fide of the queftion you acknowledge this Lord of Glory, yet you exert every means that is poffible for the heart, and invention of man to invent, to oppofe, villify, contradict, and put to fhame, destroy and annihilate both him and his church; confounding his precepts by va rious blafphemies, and has for upwards of two centuries. raised the moft unheard-of perfecution, and every defamation against his church; at another time own her purity and perpetuity, and that her decifions, or creeds, are of the fame nature and authority with the other fcriptures. By this rebellious, envious, and untoward fpirit, the niany perfuafions, oppofitions, hatreds, contradictions, impieties, ftraining the fcripture text to favour what it condemns and numberless materials of this fort to raife a fabric which you call the Reformed Church; I fay, by fuch madnefs and folly you have brought on yourfelves the ridicule and laughter of every perfon, even the illiterate, of what religion or denomination foever.; and this ever

has,

has, and ever will be, the wages of folly, and non-existence.

Calv. What mean you by non-existence? Mof. I mean vacuity that admits no fub

fance.

Calv. You then terminate our reformation in nothing?

Mof. Reafon and common fenfe grants this. Luth. & Calv. You have advanced a matter we deny.

Mof. I fhould not wonder if you denied your own existence, which many wifh.

Luth. & Calv. That the chriftian creeds are popery?

Mof. You have not the veil over your eyes not to fee what is clear to an ideot.

Luth. I hope our forefathers have not been guilty of this abomination.

Calv. We were weary and looked two ways. Luth. We endeavoured to guard in like fort to fcratch both you and the papift.

Cale. You will be Efau's feed, as Jews. Luth. The creeds are christian and not popish. Mof. All your fathers and church hiftorians grant that christendom, or church of Chrift, three years after the nativity of Chrift, became popish, after which period, two of the creeds, Nice and Athanafian, by the general council of Nice, and foon after by Athanafius and a council held by him fet forth. It is in vain to except against this truth.

Luth. You lay things before us that are not lawful for us to confider.