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who is iwl of your household, — to mcrcbfioti abro^ who are not of your nation? What causetb that the earth should be populousj and the men and women on it should live in sweet families, blessed with hoiisejt and umiltng children ? What preaerveth the golden line of life unbroken, the ct>niely i^racc and chastity of life unpolluted ? How come we to have these rehgious privile;^ of wori^hipping God uccord- ing to our conscience t How come 1 to apeak in such liberty, you to bear the truths which 1 gather frum the word »rd Spirit of God, without any to make ufi afraid t It i% from this blessed :ififtlitutton of govcrtiment, which Christ's provi- dence bcstowcth upon all, and in best mea-sure upon those who fear his word, and obaervc bis ordiaanccfk that very institutian whose administra- tors are watched as if they were ravenous tigers, and their haunts inolesied with as many noisy and olaniorous tongues as is the jungle of the tigers, when the buntsoent and herdsmen, and bereaved villagers ri&c with one accord to deliver the neigh* bourbood from tliese wild infe«ters of their [>eace. So it seemeth to me, that tli« tonguvfi of the peo- ple have broken loose upon the administrators of government, and their eye is set with keen observa- tjon to watch them, and their biting tongue to tear up their tender reputation, as if they were a race of natural brute beasts to be taken and destroyed, inxte^'td of ht^-ing the iiieuns untler (loil to Ibis land of ali the blessings whicli, as a free state, we enjoy above ail the lands on the face of the earth. Ho great principle is easily or readily sapped which hath once been rooted in the mind of a people, and m flaCF OOD's COVTROVritftV VPJIH THS LAKp. [Zlfrj tlus good prmdpleofChrisMhe Head of governor* and of pcoplcr requiring of them all obedience Iii» house, fbrconMcirnce nnlce, a> having a Mattel in htftven. gat w firm a root in ttif Apint of Lbs, Britisb people, that it hath Uood the siege longer Lban any one could have expected ; but it is ma' nifeet to mc that it cannot stand it out miaclirl longer. The only hope would be from a race ol preachers bold enough to make known to the rnleri and to the [teople, nut iii general afl I now but in detail, and at large, tlieir aevi-ral dutiev' by one another, and their eoinmon duty unto God smd his ChriaL But It U now, I fear, too lat* in the day: there is not Muff in the church make such preachers of. The church, indeedrl as we may take occailon to shew hereafter, hatb ceased from her office of mediat