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318 are not raied above their fellows by uperiour temperance or anctity. They do not cure for the love of God, but money. Thee are the priets of quackery, though it be true they have not the convenient expedient of elling maes for ouls in purgatory, nor churches where they can diplay crutches, and models of limbs made ound by a touch or a word.

I am not converant with the technical terms, nor initiated into the arcana, therefore, I may peak improperly; but it is clear that men who will not conform to the law of reaon, and earn a ubitence in an honet way, by degrees, are very fortunate in becoming acquainted with uch obliging pirits. We cannot, indeed, give them credit for either great agacity or goodnes, ele they would have choen more noble intruments, when they wihed to hew themelves the benevolent friends of man.

It is, however, little hort of blaphemy to pretend to uch powers!

From the whole tenor of the dipenations of Providence, it appears evident to ober reaon, that certain vices produce certain effects; and can any one o grosly inult the widom of God, as to uppoe that a miracle will be allowed to diturb his general laws, to retore to health the intemperate and vicious, merely to enable them to purue the ame coure with impunity? Be whole, and in no more, aid Jeus. And, are greater miracles to be performed by thoe who do not follow his footteps, who healed the body to reach the mind? The&ensp;