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fession coii’d not bear so scandalous a Reproach.
But since the most bigotted Authors of the Roman
Communion acknowledge that there has been a
prodigious number of abominable Popes, why
fliou’d our She-Pontiss be esteem’d a more hideous
Monster than the reft, meerly because flie was of
another Sex ? The Church of Rome then ought not
to make such a terrible pother about an Affair
of so little consequence : And certainly Mr. Blon-
del had much less reason to take Pepper in the
Nose on the same occasion: His Zeal is at belt
but impertinent, and his Charity unprofitable.
Such an insignificant Remedy as that which he ad-
ministers, can never pur if'e the whole Mafs of the
Papal Blood, which, by the unanimous Confession
of Historians of all Religions, is extreamly soul
and corrupted. And it must be acknowledg’d,
that Mr. Bion del's Harangue on those Principles of
Generality that prompted him to undertake this
Work, is too tedious and full of Affessation, to
persuade a judicious and unbyass’d Reader of the
Author’s Sincerity.
But I must at last conclude this Subject, by tel-
ling you all I think, and even all that I know of
my Adversary. And, to speak freely on this oc-
casion, I may venture to allure you, he was act-
ed by Interest as well as by Ostentation. A Man
of Honour who liv’d at Paris, and knew that
Writer particularly, inform’d me, that he learn’d
from the first hand that he was bird to write a
Treatise against the Story of Pope Joan. My Au-
thor is in all respefe worthy of Credit; nor is
Mr. Blondel the only Man in the World who has
been persuaded by Silver Arguments to adt such a
part.
’Tis not without Reluftancy I mention any
think that may be made use of to blacken the
Character of a Man, who, to take him in the ge-
neral,
fession coii’d not bear so scandalous a Reproach.
But since the most bigotted Authors of the Roman
Communion acknowledge that there has been a
prodigious number of abominable Popes, why
fliou’d our She-Pontiss be esteem’d a more hideous
Monster than the reft, meerly because flie was of
another Sex ? The Church of Rome then ought not
to make such a terrible pother about an Affair
of so little consequence : And certainly Mr. Blon-
del had much less reason to take Pepper in the
Nose on the same occasion: His Zeal is at belt
but impertinent, and his Charity unprofitable.
Such an insignificant Remedy as that which he ad-
ministers, can never pur if'e the whole Mafs of the
Papal Blood, which, by the unanimous Confession
of Historians of all Religions, is extreamly soul
and corrupted. And it must be acknowledg’d,
that Mr. Bion del's Harangue on those Principles of
Generality that prompted him to undertake this
Work, is too tedious and full of Affessation, to
persuade a judicious and unbyass’d Reader of the
Author’s Sincerity.
But I must at last conclude this Subject, by tel-
ling you all I think, and even all that I know of
my Adversary. And, to speak freely on this oc-
casion, I may venture to allure you, he was act-
ed by Interest as well as by Ostentation. A Man
of Honour who liv’d at Paris, and knew that
Writer particularly, inform’d me, that he learn’d
from the first hand that he was bird to write a
Treatise against the Story of Pope Joan. My Au-
thor is in all respefe worthy of Credit; nor is
Mr. Blondel the only Man in the World who has
been persuaded by Silver Arguments to adt such a
part.
’Tis not without Reluftancy I mention any
think that may be made use of to blacken the
Character of a Man, who, to take him in the ge-
neral,