24 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



manists, under pretext of Christianity, will swear, 

 that to worship images is no idolatry. And some 

 others of such voracious appetites, that they'll 

 eat the horse and digest the stirrups. And some 

 amongst them (I speak what I know) are never 

 satisfied till glutted with spoil, which exposes 

 every man to the lust of his adversary, whose 

 power is as equal to restrain his w'll, as the body 

 to refrain from drought in a fever. 



Am. I make no doubt on't, we have Coper- 

 nicans amongst us, that can fancy the earth, as 

 the orbs, turn round ; so rapid are the minds of 

 some in this adultrous generation, to be winding 

 and turning, till He comes that will overturn 

 and dissolve the elements like ice in warm wa- 

 ter ; so melt down the creation with one single 

 blast, and strike that dead that violates his regal 

 commands. The all-glorious beatifical star of 

 heaven's high tribunal is already risen in our 

 earthly horizon, which virtually lifting up itself 

 by magnetick power, lifts up our souls also by 

 a magnetism of Divine sympathy, whereby we 

 shall ascend above these muddy cisterns of earth 

 and clay, to blaze aloft in those illustrious and 

 most illuminated mansions of beatitude and 

 eternity. 



Theoph. I grant what you say. There are a sort 

 of men that flatter themselves with self-right- 

 eousness, and shape out condemnation as a re- 



