REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING. 531^ 



ways in the fentiment and defign of ferving his God as 

 far his apprehenlion of him extends ; and that, accor- 

 dingly, it is not altogether reafonable to difturb him in 

 his devotion, however lilly it may appear to us ; and 

 Hill more unreafonable to bellow upon him a title for 

 it, which he conliders as an infulting epithet, and by 

 which he, in his opinion, fuffers a grofs injury. 



Thirdly, I doubt very much, that, not only the fd- 

 ciety of Jefus, in corpore, but that even the warmed 

 and hotteft among their fanatics, ever thought of 

 making an object of devotion of the heart of Jefus, 

 coniidered as a mufcle that admits and propels the 

 blood. But how myftical or how fenfible foever (ac- 

 cording to the frame and receptivity of the fubjecl) 

 the fo zealoufly propagated devotion to the heart of ' 

 Jefus, might have been, or frill is, yet I think* 



Fourthly, The cafe is juft the fame with them as 

 with their fellow- believers of the remoter! times, who 

 were to the full as zealous in behalf of the devotion to 

 crucifixes, miraculous images, holy particles of the 

 true crofs, and things of like nature. The reafon of 

 , my not agitating the queftion, however convincing the 

 arguments, by which this fpecies of devotion is wont 

 to be vindicated, is fo apparent that I need not men- 

 tion it. But this I may furely be allowed to fay, with- 

 out offence to any believing or unbelieving foul : if 

 Pafcal and Arnaud and Nicole, and all the other holy 

 eremites of Port-Royal, with their brothers and lifters 

 in Janfenius, may adore a facred and wonder-working 

 thorn from the thorny crown of Jefus ; if the Neapo- 

 litans may adore the holy blood of their Monfignorc 

 Santo GennarOj (who yet in comparifon of the god- 

 man, was only a poor worm), and even would take it 



U m q, amifs^ 



