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f righteousness by the Spirit, it ts clean avoided, by the doctrine of outward works, and acto of penance, and atU of supererogation, and what- ever outward forms of things they have aubslitut- ed for the spiritual rcaUticH. My soul gathen wrath and indi^^nation at the meditation of all these idolatries; my spirit is vexed within me: and 1 am often moved to dash away this mediia- tiun of cool and temperate reason which I have undertuken, aiid in which I liaie thus far pcrt*:- ivered a{;ain£t the temper of my mind, Now, whereas I believe that ihc Christian rcli- kgion L«, in its true form and perfect intiuencc over 'the spirit, exactly according ^ the worship and office* of the Three Persons in the Trinity arc Vll.] IRELAND ( EVIL CONDITIOK. 1223 $ preached iinto, believed by. and coDstantljr pre- sent to the people, 1 might Atop here and go no fartlier into detail, in order to nhcw liow in hH Ihe wholesome and bleiued applications to the mmd, to the heart, nnd indirectly to the eeose, M^hieh the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost make to mankind by the quickening of our spirits, must necessarily be loat, must neccas&rily be changed in their cha- racter, and itiAde iinwhnlasoiiie and mi^^chievauH, when tbcsu ofBces of the personal Godlitad are rendered out of spiritual lan^ua^e into sensual language, brought out of tlic invisible into the visible, by the ill-judged accommodations of priests unto an ignorant people, or rather by the pusillanimons yielding of llif^ true spiritual inter- pretation to the hunger and thii?4t of the vulgnr ami popular mind, for intellectual, aisthetical, and senguaK rather than eptritual repreeenta lions. And certcs it is not against the Koman-Catho- lic Church that I level these censures, nor for the Hi!>emian Society that 1 make thi^ advocation ; 1 hsre nnollier ont-nty to contend wilh. cvm 8utun, enthroued in the citadi?) of sense, and wooing the beautiful world, wedding the mind and heart of men to the sensible and visible forms of things; and I have another to plead for. even the poor sin- oppressed, Satan-riudcnspint of man. whom Chriet hath come to redeem and save. And I do feel, as hath been said, that we Protestants stand in almost equal peril with these Catholics, which is not tlie less dangerous because it is not so munstrous m appearance, and 1 do wish in my heart, that the Roman-Catholic Church would send forth some very spiritual men, who might retaliate upon us. tliose acts of love which our verv active, but not I9S4 IRKLAKD'fi EVIL COMDiTfOV- [JX^ very Kpirihiftl mon,