Проповеди и лекции

ctiiied men, who are dintinct and separate subsistences, and do intercept not only the honour of Chrifit, but the very worship of God. Now no man shall persuade me, that the common people do not worship the Virgin Marj% and the Saints* when I sec them paying their devotions at the fifarines, addressing prayers to them by namcr bestowing upon them their gilU, keeping their days with moat exact obsorvnncc, and ex- hausting upon the tutelary saint of their village, J'OT of the house, or of the day, all the acts of their devotion : aod if any one say me nay to this [•conclusion, then I aslc him at w!iat linief^, and seasons, and by what acts do the people bestow ., their worship upon the one living and true God? ,,'for I find the whole viEible diligence of their de- motion elsewhere paid. You have, therefore, all the evils of a Polytheism, to begin with, their sainu being in tnith their very gods; and to such an extent hath this prevailei.1 in Spain, that the various parts of the body are conceived to be under the care of their several saints, to whom. 1216 niUANii'a lvil conoiiion. [. JaaIIca&^ofi[ifirmity, prayer Uto be inEda.&n4| offering, tliruu^h the mediam of tlie priest; «iid Ao it 15, [ know, ulso m Ireland, ^iih respect lo holy w«ils, &a 1 myself have witnessed. Now^ ffotn Ulolfttry, what eviU spring, ^vhat judgmenU are threatenect, aod hive b««n executed upon it. by God, and ho«^ very J<;;l1ouc the Lord ii of hi* honour who knoweth not. Ibat bath pcni^d the history of Uivinc Fruvidcncc since the world be- gan. And, even without a threat^ or execution! of a threat, it nauKt lie w, that whili? this lasU, the mtoda of the people must remain in beij:garly, vfretcbednei^!4,theirinventi(^nft$leep. their ioduvti idle, their knowledge childJah, their whole alavish. For what clcratioQ of the etoul can there be in addressing our prayer« unto o»e who was lately a man aa wc were ! what idea of a couatant, wise, and holy providence, which i» tobecoaotei* acted in \i& courses by the iniercesaioo of a tbou- Gand diverse agents, bribed to our aids witti gifU aad ornaments ! what redemption from the power' of sin. by tho help of one outward to ourtelrear who ha(h do power to enter into tlie eoul, and set kfi evil diBposilicus into a Diviue and holy order 1 Wbai sorrow fur aiu, which can he compensalod by a piece of money ; what idea of ain doth ii preaoppoae, when «uch a syUem is practicabbtf \VI)at Acnse of duty, when the violation of every duly can be e^ttimatedT No wondt-r that the murderer, w