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t proof of it, that though many attempts have been made togire ns au all-embracing system of schools, which should contain religion as a capital object, it hath always failed through the unwillingness of one paity to trust their children to the tutoring of the other. And in the midst of our sectarian contentions, the enemy of our religion hath come in with his so- phistical and poisonous principle : * Oh yes, re- ligion is too sacred a matter to be trusted to the public teachers : therefore, in all our schemes for education, let us agree upon the reverend and most respectful exclusion of it altogether/ But a great inheritance is not to be lost be* cause the two sharers of it cannot agree upon its division ; no more are our children to be escheated to the prince of darkness, because we are not ON CDUCATIOX. agreed upon the bcsl way of inv^nling ihc Princo of Utght in their pos»>s3ion: at least, I for one, will lift up my protest against *o gro%^ a fraud cocnmined upon Gods rigbt in tbcm, and their right in the Gospel, us this talso pi'iuciplo involves, and that fur the gmrcst reasons. Because in a Chrbtiau laud like ours, all .things are acknowlcdf^ed to be God's: and from ,ll)e king upon the throne, unto bis meanest sub- ject, all hold their tenement of place and power. 4beir talents and opportunities, as stewards in ■Christ's household. The king supreme, being tU much Chrii^t'fi vieegereul with rcsjiccl tu go* verujueat, us the minister of the Gospel is his ^lOTtness with respect to holiness ; all mttj::ifilracy. with all autlioritjr of law and political institutions, being as much the responsible iastilution of God for the administration of natural justice, and the protectioTi of religion, as the church is bi»; respon- Mblc institution for tbi^ maintetiuiice of thc^ Gospel. So that itit be true in law, that all property is held of and under the king ; it is true ia divinity, .that the king and all other constituted authorities, hold their power of und under God. For this is the fundam^^nlal princijde of ChriRtiau religion, that the earth is the Lord s, and the fulness there- of, which Christ hath purchased from under the curse by the sacrifice of himself; that he is now •become the Prince of the kings of the earth, sitlelb 1 amongst the gods, and doth with them according to hiK will. And wherevcrr the Christian religion is acknowUdged, this, which isone of its fimtpiinci- ,ptes,musibe acknowledged; and is acknowledged in our land, notwithstanding tho modern maxim, that all power originates from the