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nature may be perused with much theological pTo&t and instraction, l^rhich without it arc a chaos of confusion, a book of riddles^ a cliaiii of paradoxe^t, and aefiea of contrail ict ions, Tliat seminar)- of education, therefore, from \vhich the Scriptures are ex- cluded, wherein the doeirinc^ and the proeepta of the Scriptures are not constantly inculcated, and in Scripture- wise commended to the heart and conscience of the youth, is to be accounted a |Jace for neglecting man's beat and noblest, his everlasting capacity ; for crushing to tlie earth that immortal siuric tvhich should have soared • I D« EOUCATIO-f. 7D8 I-} to hestven ; for exiing^uishinc and amiiliihtins that Dirine sptrk wtiicb tho Son of God came to kindle anew in every bcart, and which the Spirit of God abidcth for ever to watch over, and to noumh :uid jireftcrvi* for ererl^ii^tiiig- Witli fe>i(>cci to that second farm and degree of our capacities which hath rerereiicc to the kno^v* ledge of our own intellectual and moral nature, gives us tl3c command of the lArioiid feelings tDd afTectionx lying in such disarray within OUT breast, and prepares us for discharging arigfit the rariotia officeH and duties we owe to ourselves, our iieighbonra, our kindred, and our country; and whereon personal Iiappine5» and the common weal chiefly depend;— this faculty we Chrifltiana arc of opinion is beat cuUirated by the knowledge of tjod, wbuHfi revdatioUj by univer&al consent evi'n of its enemies, contaiuft the beat code of moral duties the world hath ever poa- 6e£s«d. And we would btit'c Uie authority of God employed to support that which the wisdom of Ciod hath devised; and therefore we think, that ia a well-comiiirled education, the knowledge of our»elve^ Khuuld come out uf tbe kitowle<lge of God, which ia set forth, not in the abstract, but ia relation to humnii nature; and moraU grow out of reitgion, as the bnmchca. and leaves, and flowcre, and fniiU, grow from tlie root and truiLk ol the tree. .And I nee not, indited, how in a Chhalian atate like Briiaiiit where everj' moral and political duty i» entwined wiih relc^Eon* in the rcry texture of society ; where our poeiry, and our literature, and our pbilosophy. heretofore delighted to graft thcmselvcK upon tlie aame venerable stem, and amce ihey separated have produced nothing hot 3 I- l^our, biuer, and poifoooot ^pei: mod where. Sabbath after Sabbath, moral duties are incul- tated OD reltgioiw pcinciples in our cfaufcbea, and in our uaivcTsiliCM, and in our chief schoote,