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dwB ought he applied to Ireland, teeing i do believe that ii, ia only tbese wb*ch will accomplish the work its Tcg^cration. IL With respect lo the remedy to be appli to a people which have been sobered to fall into the low state of superstition and sensual deiGT^a^ lion to whicb Ireland hath come, every man will speculate accordinfr to the taith be is of^ ani the light which God hath given him. Tbose thai have no faith in a revelation of the will of God, and in a providence fulfilling (he same, or only nominal and inactive foith therein, aa is the eaa«j with all our political economists, and almost our statesmen, can of course look oiily to secondary causes vriih which they are acquainted, and in the operation uf which they have faith in whicb lore of secondary causes being but iu- diSer^ntly read, it is a poor and beggarly account), they can gtve of the matter; but such o it il il must be mentioned and considered, because ol the noise it has made, and the likelihood that it will in whole or m part be adopted, Heln^ igno- rant of the spiritual world, and most of tbni VILJ lll£t,AND'A EVIL CONDITION. 1229 ignomnt that they have a spirit, and none of them believing in its redemption, and regeneraticw, and mighty power over the cama) mind and the flet^hly lusts, tboy cODCcivi; all religions to be much about a par vritb respect to political and social advan- tages, and cannot endure that our Others ahoQld have made a difference, which they regard as the proof of their ignorance aiid prejudice, and lo do away with which they regard as the chief work of policy and statesmanship. And I blame not the men who know no better concerning the his- tory of their country and of Burope, and of the Papacy and of the Reforination ; for the mole mii^t nut be blamed beuaunr he pierreth nut the heavens with hisTision^as doth the soaring eagle: but I pity that this island should have come to such a pass as to pfefer such ignorant minds of yesterday, such iT>cn of money and accounts, such ungodly and umpiritual men* to the honour- able office of their representatives; anri I prayGod to give them the spirit of discernment, and the spirit of zeal for their best and dearest prero- gatives, as a nation of reformed Chrituians. We have deserved it by a century of bickering and Contention concerning paltry party distinctions of Whig and Tory, and total neglect of the inte- rests of His church, for which our fnlheniwere so zealous as not to count their lives dear unto themselves, so that it might be defended from the p