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ac- tice which will beget scepticism and unbelief, il in this. And to this maybe traced thatalmosluu'- vcfsal scepticism which U entwined with know- ledge,and sealed in our schools of kno*n-ledge,iiTitil it seemcth to be almost inseparable from them* B« il observed, therefore, that Ihe point for which wc argue, i» not, whether religion should be lauj^ht in the school or in the faauly ; but, whetlier in a land professing to be governed on Christian principles, and to establish the Christian religion amongnt its people, it be not a glaring inconsi^ency, a gro&K solecism in law, and so far forth the entire rejection of religion, that the sehooU where the youth arc taught, should not recognize the authority of God, and advancement of Christ a kingdom, as constanllv and unequivo- cally an the churches, chapels, or conrcnliclcs, where the men are taught. I am nol dividing the matter of religious education between the home and the achooL between the parents and the Icachcrs, but >hewing that it is beyond the power 1,1 OS RDUCATI^^S, or u Chriflti.iD parent in entrust the traioiiig of the spirit etktruKtcd to hiin, tosiiy one wlio t» un* principled in Christ's Gospel, and uncareful of its obli^tione : oven a& tt is littewiso beyond t^)}0\rcr of a CbTittiau government to constitute achoob which lihali not acknowledge, in the ordering^ of kftiiwletl^e Hiul the tTt^lriicling of mind, llie same autht^riiy ofCUrist, tlnnitiivcrflalGovemor, wliich every ChriMian polity should acknowledge in all its act^ and ordinances. When I say beyond the power oi the Chrtstiaa parent. J mean tnconaist- ent with the baptismal covenant, by which he i bound bimseifi and when 1 say beyond the power of a Chrbtian government, 1 mean inconftistent with the covenant whicli it enters into with Christ, ' when, for the bcncfita of bis lavra and ordiuances; and word and Spirit, it doth acknowledge htm as Lord of all, and expect ihi^ blc^^rij^ of his good providence, which are on this condition bestowed upon every state. They may, both parents and I governors, violate the one covenant and tho other, yea anddo so continually; but thcydoitatthc risk of offending God, to whom they have devoted their children iind their people, of calling down his judgments in due time, and, if they repent not, of being finally cast off an apoKtate?, and long enduring his wrath and indi^^^ation in every form ;— &.? at thi4 day you see in the ease of the apostate Jeu-jt. the apostate MoliiimTnednn^, and the apoHtate Papacy, which are every one of them b!ighte<:l with the £tem atiJ