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Tranfport making them infenfible of Pain. 

 Tbofe that got the Fire, applied it imme- 

 diately to their Beards, Faces, and Bofoms, 

 pretending that it would not burn like an earth- 

 ly Flame : But I plainly faw, none of them 



'* could endure this Experiment long enough to 



*' make good that Pretenfion. 



11. *' So many Hands being employed, you 

 may be fure, it could not be long before in- 

 numerable Tapers were hghted. The whole 

 Church, Galleries, and every place feemed in- 

 ilantly to be in a flame;, and with this Illumi- 

 nation the Ceremony ended. 



12. " It muft be owned, that thofe two with- 

 in the Sepulchre, performed their part with 

 great quicknefs and dexterity : But the Beha- 

 viour of the Rabble without, very much dif- 

 credited the Miracle. The Latins take a great 

 deal of pains to expofe this Ceremony, as a 

 moil fhameful [mpofture, and a Scandal to the 

 Chrijlian Religion ; perhaps out of envy, that 

 others fliould be mailers of fo gainful a Bufinefs. 

 But the Greeks and jirmema?js pin their Faith 

 upon it, and make their Pilgrimages chiefly 

 upon this Motive : And it is the deplorable 

 Unhappinefs of their Priefls, that having aded 

 the Cheat fo long already, they are now forced 

 to fland to it, for fear of endangering the Apo- 

 llacy of their People. Going out of the Church, 



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