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accommodations; and certainly, every

man that has his seven senses about him must see, that the one is a much better kind of a lodgment than the other; but as our play said last night, 'any fool knows that.' The next question is, how are we to get to Heaven? We are the boys to direct you; your parsons, and your bishops, and them kind of people, will tell you long rigmarole stories about practising virtue and morality, as they call it; that is a very troublesome kind of way, and a great restraint upon a poor fellow, and up-hill work. But we that follows the true doctrines, myself among many others, gets you a short cut, all easy and down-hill, all that you have to do is to believe.—What? you will say; why what your preacher tells you; that is, the whole sacret of getting to Heaven. If you do that, there's nothing to hinder you to take your glass, or any other

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