fefs, that it is expenfive; but although it be attended with expence and fatigue, yet we must grant, that both are made amends for by the great advantages which are drawn from it. By travelling you have not only the pleasures of passing through different countries and the various climates which the terref trial globe divides, but also that of feeing the various nations which inhabit them; hearing the different languages which they speak, seeing their customs, fashions, manners, laws and government, their geniufes and characters, which very often are quite oppofite to ours: all which are points of knowledge very useful to men. We cannot but remark, that all the most famous poets, from Homer, who firft fhewed them the example, when they would lead their hero to the paths of virtue, give that which he already did poffefs an opportunity of fhining; or, laftly, inftruct. him in the arts of government, have always in their epic poems made him travel.

HISTORY alfo informs us, that the greatest men, when they were defirous to attain perfection in any art or science, have always spent many of their years in going round the world, to find out and converfe with those people who are skilful, in what they wanted to learn, and was most in reputation, in order to profit themselves of their fuperior talents, and gain improvement from experience. I here also must add, to the glory of our age, that this example, fo useful to all those who are defirous of improvement, or to

obtain a knowledge of the world, is daily imitated in thofe good heads of families who are rich enough to go to fuch an expence in the perfecting their children's education.

Now this pleasure, which, here upon earth, is not to be obtained without great coft and much fatigue, nay, even not without being expofed to many dan gers, you have in hell for nothing, without being exposed to any kind of labour, or running any risk: for there you will find, not only when you come there, but even on the road, as I have informed you in another place, English and French, Spaniards and Portuguefe, Italians and Germans, Savoyards and Swifs, Varafdins, Talpacks, Crapalks, Croats, Walla chians and Pandours, Hungarians and Bohemians, Dutchmen and Pruffians; Poles, Saxons, Swedes and Muscovites; Danes, Laplanders, Sarmatians and Perfians; Arabs and Tartars; Armenians and Abyf finians; Moors, Ethiopians, Turks, Jews and Barba rians; Indians and Tonquinefe; Chinese and Mala baric; Moguls and Hottentots; Batavians and Japanese; and Africans of every country and of every colour; Americans, whofe names have fcarce been known, Cherokees and Potowas, Hufons and Alonquins, Ilinois, Iroquois, Suriquois and Micmacs, Mexicans and Brafilians, Topinambous and Peruvi ans; in a word, all the nations and all the people who do, or ever have dwelt upon the furface of this G 4

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vaft extended globe, are here affembled all as in a general rendezvous.

Now let me afk you, if in all the universe there can be any fingle view of numerous crowds that could be even named with the most diftant thought of a comparison to this great affembly? What are the noted fairs of Sainte Germaine or Bourdeaux; of Holland, Leipfic, or Mayence; of Franckfort, oz of Bristol, &c. ? What are the fo-much-boafted exchanges of Europe, those markets for the commerce of the whole world? What are the trading towns the most populous of China and Japan, of all the east, nay, even of the universe? Can any of them, could they all together prefent the curious eye with fuch a fight? No, furely. And what ftill adds a higher relish to the pleasure is, that in this great multitude you will receive the joy and comfort of finding your friends, and even meeting your moft diftant anceftors, whofe names you never heard mentioned, and who, for many ages, have been quite forgotten. A pleasure fo great, that there have even inftances been known of perfons, who have rather inclined to go to Hell, where they have been fure their anceftors refided, merely for the pleasure of feeing them, than take the way to Heaven, where they were fenfible with reafon, they could never find them.

THE truth of this affirmation is proved to us in history by the example, amongst many others, of a certain king of the Frifons, called Radbord: this

prince,

prince, according to the relation given us of him by both the ancient and modern writers, when he was on the very point of being baptized, took it into his head to ask the bishop, who was going to perform the ceremony, whether in the paradife which had been promised him in confequence of his changing his religion, he should meet with his ancestors and predeceffors? The bishop anfwered him, that, as they had died Pagans, they could enjoy no part of the heavenly heritage, but were all in Hell. "Nay then," replied the king, drawing his foot out of the font into which he had already put it, "if that be the cafe, "keep your paradife and baptism, I will rather go "to Hell, and be there amongst a good and great

company, with my noted ancestors, and other peo"ple of my own kind, than in your Heaven, from "which you have excluded fo many brave people,. "and filled it up with none but beggars, fcoundrels, "and people of no note." This anfwer, and this proceeding, prove, without reply, how much our first Chriftian princes were inftructed, and how well convinced of the truth of our holy religion; and at the fame time does much honour to their convertors. do not know, if thefe of our times do owe much more to their directors and confeffors.

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God, the angels and the faints; honour Hell with their prefence.

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rors, and all other great lords, by whom hell is inhabited, be not fufficient for to take away your fcruples, and engage you more quickly to go to augment the number of its inhabitants, here is a new argument, whose powerful charms, I am perfuaded, you will you cannot refift: yes, I am certain, that burn with envy to go there, as foon as I have told and demonftrated to you, that God himself honours it with his prefence: this is a facred truth you cannot disown, unless you would dispute the immensity of the fupreme and fovereign perfect Being, by which he fills all space, and is ever present in every place, whether in heaven, or earth, or hell, and in every part of this extenfive univerfe. If you fhould be fo impious, or rather fo extravagant, (which, however, I am very far from suspecting) as to refuse me your belief of this moft indifputable truth, I need do nothing more, intirely to confound you, than fend you to David, that royal Prophet, that infpired Writer, that Man after God's own heart, who, in the facred

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