Gospel, must naturally have occasioned indistinct traces of similitude between the Heathen mythology and the Christian dispensation. It was owing to such coincidence that St. Paul declared to the Athenians, "That God whom ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.” In viewing these occasional resemblances, whether or not we be permitted to investigate their causes, the fact of their existence is indisputable. No one, duly considering the solemnities observed at Easter by the antient Saxons prior to the introduction of Christianity', or viewing at this day the ceremony of the Greek Church, particularly that of Moscow, when the priests are occupied in searching for the supposed body of the MESSIAH, previous to a declaration which ushers in the festivities of a whole empire, but must call to mind the circumstance related by Gregory Nazianzus, of the manner in which popular Pagan rites were made subservient to the advancement of the Christian faith3; as well as the remarkable fact, that, on a certain night in the same season of the year, the Heathens similarly

(1) See Gale's Court of the Gentiles, Book ii. ch. 2.

(2) See Vol. I. of these Travels, Chap. IV. p. 74. Octavo Edition.

(3) Orat. de Vitâ Greg. Thaum. tom. III. p. 574.

(4) Vid. Jul. Firmic. de Errore Profan. Relig. &c.

laid an image in their temples, and, after numbering their lamentations according to the beads upon a string, thus ended the appointed days of privation and sorrow; that then light was brought in; and the high-priest delivered an expression, similar in its import, of resuscitation and deliverance from grief. In tracing such resemblances, the celebrated Middleton, writing from Rome, observes, "We see the people worshipping, at this day, in the same temples-at the same altars,-sometimes the same images-and always with the same ceremonies-as the old Romans."

No. II.

PASSPORT

GRANTED

TO MESSRS. CLARKE AND CRIPPS,

TO PASS AND REPASS THE OUTER GATE OF ALEXANDRIA,
TO AND FROM THE BRITISH CAMP.

"Armée d'Orient.

"Au Quartier-Général à Alexandrie, Le 24 Fructidor, An 9 de la République Française.

RÉNÉ, Général de Brigade, Chef de l'État, Major

Général de l'Armée,

"Les Postes de l'Armée Française laisseront librement passer et repasser Messieurs Klarke, Crypps, et Schutz, Officiers Anglais.

"RÉNÉ.”

END OF VOLUME THE FIFTH.

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