bers and galleries in Lucifer's palace being full of them, if you have any defire to be acquainted with. them, you can have no greater difficulty to find them out than the popes; their tiaras, their mitres, their ftrings, their red and green hats, their palliums, their croflets, their gold and diamond croffes, their cloaks,. and their rochets, which are hung about the Gides of the walls; their bulls and their indulgences, their jubilees and briefs, their manitories and mandamufes, which are there affixed, will mark out to you their degrees and dignities in a manner, that you cannot

err.

NOR think, that what I have here told you is a fatirical fiction, which I have here invented to cry down in your mind thefe refpectable perfonages. If you do not believe me in this particular, you have but to look into the history of the life of pope Julius II. or that of Michael Angelo ¶, that famous reF 3 ftorer

+ He was called Julio de la Rovera, was nephew of Pope Sixtus IV. and fucceeded Pius III. As he was of a very warlike difpofition, it is faid, that he was elected pope for this reafon, and took the name of Julius, in memory of Julius Cæfar. He commanded his armies himself, and was very near killed with a cannon ball in one of the engagements in which he commanded; however, he was a lover of the liberal arts, and contributed a good deal to their

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ftorer of the arts of painting, fculpture and architecture; in all which he was very excellent.

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re-eftablishment.

He died of a flow fever in the year one thousand five hundred and thirteen, after being a pontificate nine years and fome months, at the age of seventy.

¶ This famous artist was more known by his Chriftian name than by that of Buonarota, which was his family's name. He fprung from the ancient family of Canofe, and was born in the year one thousand four hundred and feventy four, in the caftle of Chiufi, in the country of Arezzo. He was put to nurfe in a village called Settignano, most part of whofe inhabitants, and even the husband of his nurfe, were fculptors; fo that he may be faid to have imbibed this art with his milk. He made fo great a progress, that by the time he was fixteen years of age, he exe. cuted fome pieces which amazed every one who saw them; and they were very near equal to the best models of antiquity. The famous Laurentio de Medicis, that encourager of arts, hearing of his talents, fent for him, and kept him till his death; from thence Angelo went to Venice, then to Bologna, and laftly to Rome; in all which places he acquired an immortal reputation by his works. It was in this laft city he executed the picture here referred to; which is thought to be one of his chief pieces in that way. The world, however, is much obliged to him

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there find that this noted artift, having by order of this pope, executed a picture which reprefented the day of judgment, placed amongst other figures in hisscene of hell, many cardinals and prelates: this pic. ture, however, incenfed fome of these dignified churchmen, who complained of it to the pope, and begged of him, that he would lay his injunctions on the painter to efface them. To whom the pope anfwered, "My dear brethren, heaven, you know, F 4

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for a piece of architecture, which never has been, and, perhaps, never will be equalled; namely, the ftately church of St. Peter at Rome; all executed on the defign and plan which he drew for it, excepting: the frontispiece, which is not his, and is greatly in-ferior to the reft of this admirable building. To these three talents, which never were feen before him to be united in one perfon, nor in fo high a degree of perfection, he added a fourth, that of poetry, having compofed feveral fine pieces, which have been collected, and printed in one volume in quarto at Florence, in one thousand fix hundred and twentytwo. He died at Rome in the year one thousand five hundred and fixty-four, at the age of ninety. His body was a little time after, at the request of Cofmo de Medicis, carried to Florence and buried ; where that prince made a magnificent funeral for him, which was honoured with the prefence of all: the connoiffeurs and friends of genius in that age.

"has given me the power of recovering as many "fouls from Purgatory as I chufe; but you are cer"tain as well as me, that my power does not extend "fo far as Hell, and that those who come once "there, must remain there always."—An answer which fufficiently fhews, that the pope was very well convinced (and can these sovereign pontiffs, who are God's oracles upon earth, be ignorant of any thing?) that Hell has been always furnished with prelates, even of the highest order. This is the firft clafs of inhabitants in this dark abode.

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of fectaries of different kinds, with a view of their different fquabbles and controverfies

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E fee in the fide next to them, in a feat by themselves, other perfonages, who have made as much noife in the church and the world as the laft mentioned. Thefe are the noted propagators of herefy, who have fo troubled and confounded the learned doctors of their times There you may fee a Simon Magus, a Cerinthus, an Ebion; an Arius, a Neftorius §, an Eutyches, a Macedonius, a Ma

nes,

§ Bishop of Conftantinople. On the day of his confecration,

nes, a Donatus, a Pelagius, and fome hundreds of others (for in every age this grain has abundantly in creased); and in these latter ages, a John Hus, a Jerom of Prague, a Martin Luther, a John Calvin, a Zuingle, and a great number of others who have come fince. There cannot be any thing more pleafing than to fee all these famous perfonages. pulling ES

their

confecration, he addreffed the emperor who affifted at the ceremony, in the following very remarkable words; "Give us, O prince, the earth purged of "heretics, and I will give you Heaven: affift me to de"ftroy them, and I will affift you to deftroy the Per"fians." Such was the fpirit of charity and peace, which animated the clergy of the highest rank in the firft century. Pulcheria, fifter of the emperor Theodofius, uniting her power to his difpofition, oppreffed many of the fectaries with the utmost rigour and feverity. However, he was obliged to undergo the law of retaliation. A fcholaftic difpute, merely on words, arose between St. Cyrille, the patriarch of Alexandria, and him, which put the whole church of the Eaft into a tumult. After many debates and councils held for and againft, Neftorius and his party were at last excommunicated by St. Cyrille, who made him be depofed and banished. He died of a fall from his horfe, which he received in his journey to exile. This has not yet prevented this fect from multiplying greatly, and leaving at prefent many partisans in the east.