discernment; I would have them distinguish a Passion, from the effect of it; a Design, from the execution; Vice, from Crime; Pleasures, from Vice : I would have them excuse our frailties, and condemn our disorders; I would not have them confound light, simple, and natural appetites, with wicked and perverse inclinations : in a word, I am for Christian Morals, neither severe, nor remiss."
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66 THE IRISH PROPHET A NOVEL. A T the time that Monfieur DE COMMINGES was Ambaffador from the Moft Chriftian King, to the King of Great Britain, there came to London an Irish PROPHET, who pafs'd for a great performer of Miracles; according to the opinion of the credulous, and, perhaps, his own perfuafion. Some perfons of quality having defir'd Monfieur DE COMMINGES to fend for him to his houfe, that they might fee fome of his Prodigies, he was very willing to grant them that fatisfaction, as well to gratify his own natural curiofity, as out of comValentine Greatraks, the Irish Stroaker. See the Life of M. de St. Evremond, under the year 1666.
