The Roommate From Hell

369: it was this that our great poet King David desired so fervently & invokes so patheticly,

370: saying by this he conquers enemies & governs kingdoms;

371: and we so loved our God, that we cursed in his name all deities of surrounding nations, and asserted that they had rebelled;

372: from these opinions the vulgar came to think that all nations would at last be subject to the jews.

373: This said he, like all firm perswasions, is come to pass, for all nations believe the jews code and worship the jews god, and what greater subjection can be?

374: I heard this with some wonder, & must confess my own conviction.

375: After dinner I ask’d Isaiah to favour the world with his lost works, he said none of equal value was lost.

379: I then asked Ezekiel, why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right & left side?

380: he answer’d, the desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite;

381: this the North American tribes practise, & is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification?

382: The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.

384: and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed,