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ho the other day clove bis friend to] the chine, in order to possesR the small cootODl of his tilL bhould say in the prison, " If 1 oojuIi but sec my prie»t, 1 know I should gel tobcaveii.' It \% very fine for our &eiitimcnlaUata to apcci late upon the sublime eflect which tho potnp I vtt 1 VU.] lH£&AND'a EVIL COKDITIOK. 1^17 the catbodml A^rvice httb upon the mind ; I would rattier a«y» upon tbcfteoiie aiul the mind acting by ihu Kcti» : but 1 huvc nu catbedml to take my poor Irish people to, and so must dUpeoAe with Ihc glory of St. I*eter'« and Noiro Dame, I have but poor cabins of meeting- houaca^ with which to fc^e the oetise of tbc people for wliotioinifiery I Jilead. It is a sensual religion, without the com- brt* or entcrtainmeiiU of tlie sense. There is Dontt of the witchery of art to hid© their wicked- . Des#. but bare blank wickednea^. I have neen J the poverty and meanness of it. 1 Imvc^een the violent passionate actions of the people, and H^ bt'ard their incoherent mutterings. and witnessed ^M their prostntiorifi and beatings of tbe breast, and ^H felt that it was very fearfij) to be (^er^ umo God ^m as his holy worship. Now tinte would foil me to H set forth at one beso'ing what must be more pa- ^1 ticutly discussed* the various forms of evil which ^P flow in upon a people who giTe up, first, their iMJent wcllboing to the sense ^ secondly, who allow their natural understanding to be over- ruled by it ; lliirdly, who allow this natural feelings or aentimenta of the heart to be tainted by it ; andt I lastly, wlio allow the faith of the Spirit aUo to be 'subjected thereto. All this I have written out at %ngth, and would fain declare, were there some- what of former latitude allowol to preaching, in order to shew, upon the neutral ground of reEUon and common sense* without any Protestant pre- judices, what must be the eftecL 'li The eccond great idea or doctrine of revelation \st, tile incarnation of the eternal Son of God, in order tn insiki^ ktiowu to txfj ibt- lore of his Fwther and our Father, the oAeringof himself as a ran- 1218 iaeland's evil coKDinov. {Dis. som for our iins, and the work of the Holy Spirit ill our Mtiirtirication, The mediatorial offices of the Son of God, us our Prophet, Prie&t, and King, have, ever sioce the begiotiing of the worid^ bcc» believed ia by the church, and regnrded as the pillar and ground of the truth, being ncecsstry lo. manifeH t.iod*H tkohne^*, his mercy, and bis ilova; Id humbleandcmpty the sinner of