wonder is, that all this has been effected chiefly by the Means and Management of the Roman See, who tho she has almost renounced the Faith her self, yet out of political Views labours to encrease her Converts here.
This is an odd Scene of things, my Lord, and yet as true as 'tis surprising, and I doubt not in a few Years we shall see, that as the old Empire of the World forsook Rome to settle in Constantinople, so Religion possibly before this Century expires may do the same; and as the Pope is almost turn'd Pagan or Turk, the Mufti will set up for Patriarch of the Eastern World, and the great Head and Father of the Christian Church here.
What the Consequences of so prodigious a Revolution may be, I shall not presume to hint, to so exquisite a Judge of such things, as your Lordship is confessedly allow'd to be; and therefore leaving them to your own judicious Reflections, I shall only observe, that had Great Britain continued her Care and Protection of the Grecian Church, with her true Christian Zeal, possibly we should have made as large an Harvest of Converts in Turky as by our Supineness and Negligence the Jesuits have done.But
