Grand Maſters, the Romiſh Clergy. How eaſy is it to miſguide the Stranger, or delude the Ignorant? Would the Moors fear their Emperors, or the Egyptians pay ſuch Adoration to their Sultans, as at this day: we ſee they do, were they not made to believe implicitly that there is a Divinity in the Perſons of thoſe Abſolute Tyrants? Nor do the Men I speak of, exerciſe leſs Domination over their People, forgetting the Words of our Saviour, that, Bleſſed are the meek in Spirit, they look, and move, and ſpeak, as if they knew themſelves to be of a different Specie from their Hearers, and frown them into that Awe, and Reverence, which they ought to acquire only by a Superiority of Goodneſs. I heard an. old Man ſay, that a certain Chaplain, (who ſhall be nameless, leſt any one ſhould think I mingle Prejudice with Truth) ought to be honoured as God upon Earth, and that as ſuch he would always honour him. But this poor Man has lived to ſee his Error; for this God whom he would have worshipped, was ſoon after detected of a Crime for which he was obliged to quit the Iſland, to avoid the Puniſhment the Law ordains for it. If any Man think me to blame, or that I
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