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ion, and fallem to the one party or to tJiG other. It is barely pofisibto^H that the Lord may bo merciful to os as a BatmwV and prcTcnt the calamity of inward conrolsion. And if I saw a spirit of humibty, and seekiug the ljcm\, ftpread ^bmad, ! ini^ht, nay 1 would gladly prroch good hope- But in all their spffculatioa and diBconrses, through whatever channel uuer* cd^ bearing: no mention of God's jud^ents, and perceiving no acknowledgment of his band, I fed that ft great change bath passed upon us, wbo were wont to call a feat in perilous antl caiamitoutE. titncH ; and that we are firown into the aimilitud*, of the kingdoms of the earth, that is, the l*^\ nations, who during the se^Tml strokca of infidi rage* which they cxpcncnced from the hand of tfa Lord, within the lait thirty years, are said not to have rG|>rnt€rd of their wickedness, nor to have giTen God the glory. Oh that the Lord woutlfl move the heart of our gracious king to call a fiut, ^ L mo GOD** COKTROVE»»r WITH TH£ tASD, 931 and appoint a eolemn assembly, and to require tfae priesta to veep before the Lord between the altar and the porch, that the Lord, brbolding our ^tef and adcnowledgmenl^ might tuni hi» anger away from um, and life upoD tis once more the [hgtit of hia countenance. But 1 fiay unto you, Bicn arul brctbreo, that we merit this jud^eot; IIdv our trual waa in ailvcr and gold* and our na- tiona) credit: theretVrre tbe Lord hath smitten Daal, and B<rl bo^oth, and Ncbo trctublL-th. We paid court, and offered incense to the people, to the aorcreigncy of the people; and this idol alao tho Lord hathfitrickcn, until he ia ci:>rTiipt« end the till odour thereof now comcth unto every nustriL The^ie thing* the wise will undemtand, and nnne of tfielciolifth shall underitand; and the wicked ahall 4o wickedly, but the wise nhall understand. Next to tho political eoro wliLch is oversprcad- bgoarpeople, andgradttaltynndcnnining in their ttonntitutkin the true health and weiUbeing of Society, I place oa the secroiid {^reat abomiuaUon ef this land, tho brucishness, and i^^norauee, txid I may aay mendicant spirit of our country-' jKTOple, which hath it!> ori^n in that woful neglcet of their high othceK, which we pointed out ui the v^n of high estate: who, so far from providing the people with faithful pastora to inatrtict tlietr StruU in tJie knowledge of Chmt, and quicken all the Bprmgs of active manhood, and rai»e in them « spirit of Divine energy, have placed over them Irooes, to waste in idlenesfi the substance of tiie ^rfiu