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aw of the wolf: so that the ProtcsUint Church of Ireland wassaffered to be managed like a cloae ministcrini burgh, or something worse, and sheep- shearers, sheep-ftlayers were, with exceptionst too fewto be meEitiofied, poured upon r he idobtrous people ; whose idolatry was eutfered to root and 1330 IKCLANDft irnL COKDlTlOir, [USt, txwtitKeirmorcfirmly; whose daricotf as wualUnrcd to engrovs Uip (teople more and more dafkly, he* c&usetheqiiecuons of Pa|ral iOolmry or Frotcfttant worvbip WHS not of imporiaDce lutticitrnt ouoagli to take up u tliougtit in a cectury which wm u&bcrctl ia by the wits of Queoa Anne, and aeen out by the inhdets of pRine and the French Ke* ¥olution. Ah. my (lOil! thou hist been vary patient, tby long-sufTering hath bcon very great; it U ticDe, ye>, it U time that thoa shouldesi arise: who can deny that the time is fully come? And accordingly, when the time of sbakiDg the idols of the oatioDs, end giving the sign of ibeir downfall came, at the clo5£ofihpirappQ«Dted period of lime, unien anil a b»lf, iu the Freadi Uevalu- tioo, idolatrous Ireland felt the shock, and bath been shook siiU, and idolatry- tolerating Britiio hath almo.'^t had a third part of her domi&ioD fent away tn>m bcr. if any man a^^k rno> why toanr" rection arose among tiie Catholics of Ireland, the tno&t ignorant part of our people, and the least pervaded by rerolotionary principles; and why disaiTcction still shevreth ita hydra he:id in thoie parts? I answer liim, because of the idolatry of the oDe part of tlic people, and the carcleaancss o^^H the other part to protc&t against that idolatry, and. ^^ ^iboveall, because of the indiSerence of the British goverrunent to the qitcsliou of Oud'a ivorship wiUiinthis doniin'ron, which in the chief and grant quc»itioQ of all His controversies, it came to pmn Ihatbcscnt into the midst of that unhappy land tbo scourge of civil wutt and kcepeih there the mou of the vclrano Ktill open, .ind readv to send forth Its do»tructive Itrvs. But ou r governors, unlaught' by experience, unread m the history of l^od'a pro- |V11.] IHt^LAND'c KVIL COrfDlTEOK. 1231 ridence orer the nations, iloating tind da-aming on about questions of commerce and trade and .finance, ftfi if Mammon H*crc tbc KinK^^'^^i'^ES &°d Lord of lords, arc now come to the awful cri£<is of proposing to icgitimitise the idolatry ^ not only to «ii<lure it, but to patronize it ; aud some go v> far ii» to pru]K)»e to hire and puy II I am nut a pDlitician^ ant) do not choose to intermeddle in their angry quarrels ; but I am a minister