THE

FUNERAL

OF THE

MASS:

Or, the MASS

Dead and Buried,

Without hope of

RESURRECTION.

Written originally in French by Monfieur de Rhoden,
Profeffor of the Royal College at Nifmes in France.
To which is added, a DEDICATION to the
Earl of Shaftsbury, left out in the other Irif

EDITION S.

The Fifth Edition.

DUBLIN:

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To the right Honourable the

Earl of Shaftesbury,

Lord High Chancellour,

OF

ENGLAND, &c.

MY LORD,

Could not without In

justice, have Dedicated this Book to

any but your Lord

fhip, because, as there is no Perfon to whom I am fo much

obliged, fo there is no Member of either Houfe of PARLIAMENT that hath fo freely and generously owned the PROTESTANT INTEREST. As for my Obligations to your Lordfhip, because they are too great to be exprefs'd, it is my Duty to take all Occafions of expreffing my Thankfulness for Them, and therefore I take this Occafion to proclaim my Thankfulness to the World. As for your Lordship's late owning the PROTESTANT INTEREST in the House of PEERS, it was fo eminent, and accompanied with such Zeal and Courage, that (next under GOD and the KING)

your

your Lordship may deservedly be ftiled the chief Afferter and Promoter of it, and confequently the Afferter and Promoter of the INTEREST of England. For the INTEREST of the PROTESTANT RELIGION, and the INTEREST of this Kingdom, are fo interwoven, that the Welfare or Ruin of Either, is the Welfare or Ruin of Both. Now being obliged by your Lordship, both as an English PROTESTANT, and alfo more particularly in my private Capacity, I befeech GOD to grant that your Life may be long and profperous, t your Memory, and Pofterity 7 honourable, as long as the Sun A 3

and