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SECOND PART

O F

DRINKING

IN

REMEMBRANCE

OF THE

DEAD.

Wherein the moft Material Objections made against the First Part are Anfwer'd.

Quam Venerationis Ceremoniam vel omnium publicus, vel alicujus privatus mos Deo fecit proprium, extra Deum adbibere Sacrilegium eft. [Med. de Venerat. Sacrâ,

By Pet. Lord Bishop of Cork and Roffe.

LONDON:

Printed for Henry Clements, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard. Mpccxv,

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TO THE

READER.

HE zealous Celebrating the Memory of a Dead Monarch by a folemn and daily Drinking in Remembrance of Him, is a Cuftom fo evidently Sinful and Profane; and yet fo conftantly and univerfally Practifed among a fort of Peo ple, diftinguifh'd in every Reign, by the fame well known Sett of Principles; that the World cannot furnish us with another Inftance to Compare with it, in fpewing the Power of Prejudice, to wreft and distort the Understandings of Men, and to blind their Eyes, that they cannot fee the most natural and felf-evident Truths.

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When that short Difcourfe appear'd against this Profane and Sacrilegious Health (as it was Štil'd) it met with so much Success as to have it dropt by all impartial and confidering Perfons; and fuch as Refolved right or wrong to perfift, began however to Drink it more covertly, and in Company only of their own Strain, to give it new Turns, and invent fuck Forms of Expreffion as they vainly imagin'd wou'd evade the visible and grófs Impiety of it.

But now again, all Referve is caft off; 'tis Drank in the fullest and most express Terms; the performance of it, is thought of Confequence enough to be boafted of in the publick Papers; and it is all on a fudden carried on to a mighty Height. But with what Views, and for the promoting of what clandeftine Defigns, I leave to the Judgment of fuch as are not yet blinded with that egregious Hypocrifie fo feverely Reprov'd by our Saviour in the Jews, who were expert in their Obfervations from the Face of the Sky; and cou'd readily prognofticate foul Weather when they fam it Red and Lowring; but were not able to difcern the Signs of the Times.

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If thofe Views were look'd into, perhaps they may be found fuch as deferve the barpeft Notice, and timely Caution of every living Succeffor to the Throne of that great Prince and Royal Benefactor; whofe Memory is with fo much unfeasonable Warmth, and intemperate Zeal, not to fay Fury, blen ded with that Loyalty which ought to be Pure and Undefigning; and which in fricteft Confcience is now owing to our prefent Glorious King George. All whofe other Manifold Princely Qualifications and Noble Endowments for Government, we doubt not, will every Day more and more, appear to be Crown'd with that excellent Faculty of difcerning the Spirits of Men, who even themselves know not what manner of Spi rit they are of: And that thro' the fervent Prayers of his Truly Loyal Subjects, God will Guide him with his Counsel in forming an unerring Judgment upon the Nature and Tendency of all their Principles and Practices.

Because I appear'd against that finful Manner of celebrating the Memory of K Wm, by drinking in Remembrance of Him, the injurious Turn given to it by thofe Zealots for that Health is, That this is done with Defign to fully and obfcure the Brighte

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