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Rh Antiquity? I have done with you.' Whereupon I turned from him as an obdurate person."

I cannot forbear an observation upon the correct distinction of Traherne, that they only can be claimed as Rome's martyrs, who suffered for Transubstantiation, the Pope's Supremacy, Merits, Purgatory, and the like. These only, and most truly, are Rome's, or her Sovereign's martyrs.

On the subject of such martyrs, there is a fine apostrophe in the highly interesting and strangely overlooked work of the celebrated Dr., the Pseudo-martyr, in defence of James the First's Oath of Allegiance, but embracing allied topics of much originality and moment. In the "Preface to the Priests and Jesuits, and to their Disciples in this kingdom," towards the close, he breaks out — "I call to witness against you those whose testimony God himself hath accepted. Speak then and testify, O you glorious and triumphant Army of Martyrs, who enjoy now a permanent triumph in heaven, which knew the voice of your Shepherd, and stayed still he called, and went then with all alacrity — Is there any man received into your blessed legion, by title of such a death, as Sedition, Scandal, or any human respect occasioned? O no; for they which are in possession of that Laurel are such as have washed their garments, not in their own blood only, (for so they might still remain red and