A

DIALOGUE

Between the

Rev. Mr. JENKIN EVA NS

Affistant Minister to the Curate of White-chapel,

AND

Mr. PETER DOBSON,

A Man of SENSE and fome LEARNING, and a CITIZEN of LONDON;

CONCERNING

BISHOPS,

PARTICULARLY

The Bishops of the Principality of WALES.

First printed in the year 1744.

A

DIALOGUE

CONCERNING

BISHOP S.

D.

T

you

HE reverend Mr. Evans here! This is a favour indeed; I hope have not been come long? E. About half an hour; I have been amufing myself in your little library; upon my word you have a pretty collection of books and well chofen.

D. You know, doctor, I have in a great meafure left off bufinefs; my friends give me a tolerable education; I was brought up at St. Paul's fchool, and I was pretty near the top; I have taken care to preserve at least the learning I had, and can still understand a Latin author reasonably well; my father defigned me for a clergyman, but having a dispute with the minister of the parish about his dues, he put me into trade; Mr. Evans, you are a happy man, you were brought up at the university.

E. I thank God, Mr. Dobfon, I have fucked the breast of alma mater; I was fent to Jefus college before I was twenty; in two years I was made fenior fph, and had not feen four and twenty when I was batchelor of arts.

D. I fee you have my filio common prayerbook before you: I bought it when I was churchwarden of the parish.

E. I think I always find it open upon the table; I am glad you put fo great a value upon that excellent book; I am fallen accidentally upon the office concerning the ordaining and confecrating of bifhops.

D. I am glad of it with all my heart; I have longed a great while to know fomething about that bufinefs, but you will never have patience with all my impertinent queftions. [Now must I humour th's choleric Welch divine, or I fhall get nothing out of him: he is a firange mixture, God knows. Afide.]

E. I fhall be ready to answer any thing that lics in my power, but it is a ferious matter, and requires great gravity and confideration.

D. To be fure it does; then Mr. Evans, fince you are fo good, pray tell me in the first place what's properly meant by a bishop?

E. A bishop according to the Greek derivation is an overfeer.

D. Why is he called a bishop ?

E.