Ce fera cette paix dont fa Bonté suprême Et que poffede un cœur qui rentrant en foi-meme Enchaffe tout vanité. PIERRE CORNEILLE. Thefe Letters are yet extant in the Nunnery, where LONDON: Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, MDCCLXVI. D, ΤΟ The RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM, LORD BISHOP of GLOUCESTE R. MY LORD, T O have let the pen fleep, after your Lordship had pronounced me able to serve the cause of our Di vine Mafter, would have been an act Before, I entered the of defertion. lift only as a voluntier, and poffibly, like most other voluntiers, I neither did much good nor much harm. But when you, my Lord, who have given fuch proofs of your Generalfhip, recommended me to the field, I could no longer stay behind, nor, like other military Chaplains, during the heat of the battle, keep my ftation among the baggage. BUT your Lordship has been fo fuccessful in your fpiritual warfare, that have left little for me to do. you You have defended religion with equal happiness from the uncandid attacks of her enemies, and the miftaken kindnefs of her friends. You have put the Wolf to death, and the Nurfe to No, not to filence, my Lord; for in that cafe the muft have been put to death first at least. BUT what will your Lordship fay to my forces? my forces! that confift of one bare-headed Father, and one defenceless Nun! Do you afk, why I have employed Popish advocates in the caufe? I answer, that the circumstances of the parties were favourable to my defign, and that THEODOSIUS and CONSTANTIA write not in defence of any particular fect, but in the behalf of Christianity. |