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romifh innovations in the chriftian faith, made frequent and ftout oppofitions against them, and refifted unto death the new abominations of Rome. Butchered they were for ages by the apoftat priests, and the blood of thousands of thousands crys to heaven for vengeance against the papal cruelty. With fire and fword, the furious fpirit of the popes and their flaughtering ecclefiaftics pursued those martyrs, and destroyed an incredible number of the beft of the human race, to fecure to themselves the honors and profits of the world, and establish their facerdotal empire. Noble Zulima, were I to give you the particulars of all these things, it would take up days to narrate. Were I to open all the bloody fcenes, the view would strike you with horror. Let it therefore fuffice to fay, that for ages the bloody tragedy was acted by the priests. They confecrated the most shameful villanies under the fpecious name of catholic zeal.

But as almighty God is infinitely good, and his tender mercy is over all his works, he was pleased at laft, in his good time, to turn the hearts of princes to the affistance of thofe fuffering christians, and made them his inftruments to fupport a reformation that again reftored his holy eternal truth. The reformers, our fathers, fupported by royal power, were then able to appear in chriftian

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focietys, and rank themselves under another
form of miniftry. True religion appeared
in public again in feveral nations of Eu-
rope, and in the communion of protestants
(the reformed fo called from protefting against
the dreadful popes, the dreadful priefts, and
the abominable doctrines they had taught the
world, contrary to the faith and piety of the
gospel); In the communion of protes-
tants, I fay, once more, the world was blef-
fed with the faith of the apostles, excellent
prayers, perfect facraments, faith and repen-
tance, the ten commandments, the fermons of
Christ, and all the precepts and councils of the
gofpel. Mankind were taught by the re-
formed minifters to worship God through Je-
fus Chrift; to live in obedience to the divine
law, and to be ever ready to die for it; to
pray for all men, even our most erring bre-
thren, and strive to promote the happiness of
the whole human race. We were then done
with faints and angels, the wafer God and
the Virgin Mary, holy blocks, and holy bones,
indulgences, and amulets, agnus Dei's, and
confecrated clouts. Truth and purity, and
love, were restored. In the beauty of holy-
ness we now serve the Lord. No impious
prieft can harm us in thofe happy regions
where the pure reformed religion is profeffed.
Those bears, thofe wolves, thofe tygers of

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And now, illuftrious Zulima, to shut up my account of our religion, I take the confidence to hope, that you will be a convert to that pure Christianity I have delineated; and though you cannot subscribe to, but reafonably abhor the fenflefs rites and deteftable doctrines of the Church of Rome, yet that, you will be a member of that proteftant communion, whofe religion confists in worshiping the one fupreme Spirit, the univerfal Lord, the Father almighty, as the Difciples of the glorifyed fefus; in humbly imitating this amiable fource and ftandard of perfection, according to the rules layed down in the facred writings; and practising that efficacious virtue, which concurs in every thing, in our measure, in promoting the Deity's benevolent intentions, towards ourselves, and the reft of our fpecies.

And the better to effect this good work, I invite you, noble Zulima, to England. Come with me to my country, and you fhall be most heartily welcome to my house, and to share in that happiness the good author of all things hath bleffed me with. Thefe ladys you fee with me here are my companions. We live in an uninterrupted felicity, and fense those unmixed pleasures which flow from the laws of God, promulgated by the holy Jefus.

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There, noble Zulima, you fhall fee our Bible in the languages you understand, and talk fo well, the Arabic and Portuguese, and from that heavenly fountain, you may draw for your own ufe, that pure chriftian deifm, which displays an univerfal love to all the proper objects of it, the Deity, ourselves and mankind. With me you shall be the votary of the most perfect religion. We will live in the fuburbs of heaven.

Zulima replyed: Mrs. Benlow, your dif course hath aftonifhed me. I am under eternal obligations to you for the information. you have given me, and I now confefs myfelf a chriftian. You have given me a view at large of the state of revelation; its truths and the abuses of them; and from this moment, I joyn in the reformed worship of the One Lord of all the worlds, in the Name of bis Son Chrift Fefus; and fhall endeavour to make his facred Gofpel, when it comes to my hands, the perpetual rules of my actions. I accept with pleasure your generous offer to go with you to England, and adore the providence of almighty God for bringing you in fo wonderful a manner to my acquaintance.

-In fhort, reader, this Princefs, with the confent of her uncle, came away with us, to vifit Great Britain, (the happyest and best of all Countrys) and is now one of my family. She is a pious, upright christian, and

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August 24, The 24th of Auguft, we departed from Our depar- St. Nicholas, and were loaded with fruits and ture from curiofities of many kinds. The governor made all the ladys prefents of one thing or other, but on me he heaped favours, when he was made acquainted with my religious thoughts, and his niece had farther informed him of the invitation I had given her to England. He was greatly pleased with this propofal, and expreffed his obligations in the strongest and most polite way. He told me, that as neceffity only had forced him into the fervice of the Portuguese, fo reason now obliged him to leave it. He had at last received advice from Tombuto by a faithful flave, that the people were in arms against his wicked younger brother, the reigning tyrant of that country, who had ufurped the crown, upon the death of their father: and he intended to try what fortune would do in recovering the throne: that it was not for himfelf however he went upon the defign; but for Zulima, his niece, who was the daughter of his eldest brother, and by her birth and virtues entitled to the fovereign power. How, or where to leave her, while he went on this enterprize, had I not made this offer, he could

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