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chapter of his Epiftle to the Romans, im- 
-mediately occurred to him, namely, ** The 
juft foall live by tis faith.’ On this, he 
omitted the .performing of the prayers, 
and, when he returned to; Wittenberg, he 
held nothing elfe but this fame chapter to 
be his chief fundamental, &c. 
I PauLus LuTHERUS, DOCTOR 
have written this with my own hand at 
Augfburg, the 7th of Auguft, ao. 82.” 
The bible in-which Paul Luther wrote 
the above, is not in the Helmftadt Libra- 
‘ry, but only a copy taken by fome un- 
known hand. That Dr. Paul Luther, 
who held the ftation of phyfician to feveral 
dukes and electors of Saxony, and died in 
1590, had, in the year 1582, or at any 
other time, been in Augfburg, is not men- 
tioned by thofe who have written his life. 
However, more than one occafion may 
~ -have brought him thither. 
The anecdote is the more worthy of no- 
tice, as we know fo little of Martin Lu- 
ther’s journey .to and fojournment in 
Rome (See his Life by Walth, fec. xxiii. 
xxxiv. and Table-Talk, xxii. p. 2378), 
and we thus learn from the information 
- communicated by his fon, that, in the 
~ performance of a work of devotion, which 
was confidered as meritorious, and in the 
~ midft of afolemn pomp calculated to drive 
away all reflection, the thought of the 
worthleffnefs thereof ftruck his mind like 
_a flafh of lightning, and purfued him on 
his return to Wittenberg. 
WILLIAM WHISTON. 
_ Whiifton was much taken notice of 
. after his expulfion from Cambridge, and 
had the friendfhip of all the eminent 
whigs then in London: among thefe, Se- 
cretary Crages, Addifon, Steele, Mr. 
Walpole, Sir Jofeph Jekyl, Sir Peter 
King, and Lord Chief Juftice Parker, 
were his moft intimate. Dining one day 
with Mr. Craggs, when Addifon, Wal- 
pole, and Steele were prefent, the conver- 
fation happened to turn on this point, 
¢¢ Whether a fecretary of ftate could be 
-an honeft man, as to his veracity in deal- 
ing with foreign courts, confiftent with 
the good of his country?’? Craggs faid 
it was impofiible; Addifon and Steele 
were of the contrary opinion. Having 
long debated this matter with fome warmth, 
during all which time Mr, Whifton con- 
! 
tinued filent, Mr. Walpole infited on his 
{peaking his opinion: he begged to be 
excufed, as not having made politics at 
all his ftudy, though the moral duties be- 
tween man and man he thought very 
plain. Being preffed ftrongly to give his 
fentiments, -he faid he was very clear that 
the duty of {peaking truth was fo ftrong, 
that no apprehenfion of any inconvenience 
arifing from it could be a fufficient reafon 
againit it: that it was not always our 
duty to fpeak, but, when we did {peak, it © 
fhould be the truth, without any prevari- 
cation: and that he did firmly believe, if 
minifters .of ftate did in general praétice 
it, they would even find their account in 
it. To which Mr. Craggs replied warm- 
ly, «¢ It might do fora fortnight perhaps, 
Mr. Whifton, but it would not hold.” 
Whitten immediately afked, ‘* Pray, Mr. 
Crages, did. you ever try it for a fort- 
night??? To this no anfwer was return- 
ed. Walpole cried aut, ‘* Mr. Whifton, 
truth has prevailed; Craggs is convitt- 
ed.” 
DRESS. . 
However the purveyors of fafhions may 
impofe on the public as genuifes, they are 
in general mere copyilts of ancient modes. 
There has not been a fafhion introduced 
for the laft twenty years, which is not to 
be traced to its fource in old paintings, if 
we except thofe which feem to arife from 
the economical neceffities of the times. In 
all fafhions of drefs, the changes are fo 
frequent, as not to be worth the ferious 
notice which fome writers beitow upen 
them, although ridicule will oftea drive: 
‘an abfurdity out of the market before its =. ~ 
time.. The drefs of our prefent beaux, 
their poultice neck-handkerchiefs, panta- 
loons, overalls, &c. &c. will-not be 
known a few years hence, any more than 
the fafhion of 1770, which we give asa 
curiofity— 
The following, fays one author, is the 
drefs. of a modern fine fellow. ‘* A coat 
of light green, with fleeves too {mali for 
the arms, and buttons too big. for the 
fleeves: a pair of Manchefter fine ftuff 
breeches, without money in the pockets 5 
clouded filk ftockings, but no legs; a 
club of hair behind larger than the head 
that carries it; a hat ot the fize of a fix- 
pence, on a block not worth a far- 
thing,” 
ORIGINAL 
ory 
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