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This giving great offence to Janni, and fome few priefb ■ 

 that lived with him, it was told Michael, who, without ex- 

 plaining himfelf, laid only, " As to the fact of throwing the 

 hay, they are a parcel of hogs, and know no better." Thele 

 few words had (luck in the ftomach of the prieit of Adowa, 

 who, with great fecrecy, and as a mark of friendfhip, begged I 

 would give him my opinion what he fhould have done, or 

 rather, wh*t would have been done in my country ? 1 told 

 him, " That the anfwer to his queilion depended upon two 

 things, which, being known, his difficulties would very eafdy 

 be folved. If you do believe that the winefpilt by the mob 

 upon the fleps, and trod under foot afterwards, was really 

 the blood of Jefus Chrill, then you was guilty of a moll hor- 

 rid crime, and you fhould cry upon the mountains to cover 

 you ; and ages of atonement are not fufficient to expiate it. 

 You mould, in the mean time, have railed the place round 

 with iron, or built it round with ftone, that no foot, or any 

 thing elfe but the dew of heaven, could have fallen upon 

 it, or you fhould have brought in the river upon the place 

 that would have wafhed it all to the fea, and covered it ever 

 after from facrilegious profanation. But if, on the contrary, 

 you believe, (as many Chriflian churches do) that the wine 

 (notwithflanding confecration) remained in the cup nothing 

 more than wine, but was only the fymbol, or type, of Chrift's 

 blood of the New Tellament, then the fpilling it upon the 

 fleps, and the treading upon it afterwards, having been 

 merely accidental, and out of your power to prevent, being 

 fo far from your wifh that you are heartily forry that it hap- 

 pened, I do not reckon that you are further liable in the 

 crime of facrilege, than if the wine had not been confecra- 

 ted at all. You are to humble yourfelf, andfincerely regret 

 that fo irreverent an accident happened in your hands, and 



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