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; not giWng place lo^ iHftLAKD'a EVIL GONDmoN. laav Uiem for a moro<tnt, not com promising the truth for ftDy sake, but rather exag^rating it, after the maDD^r q( an nncient pro|>li6t; for the days are cloudy, and thetiaics are evil. You may &b well think to charm the occau with a song, &» to dissolve Popish errora \Tttbout atrite, a strife of argumcat; ami wlkerever tliey have had the upper hand, it hath ?>ooii beeu tnudt? a i^triPe of blond. Tfacre- fore» who saith by peace you flhall prevail, speak- etbalic: whoso saith by gentle comprotniseB you shall take Ihcm, and by the munly and sted^t declaiatton of truth you shall lose tliem, doth utter a lie. They have poMeascd stroug-holds of erfx>r, which the armoury of truth alone can cap* ture; truth »et in array, iruth set in battle-ar- my. It truth was ever calkd upon to be a cham- pion, and a cbampion-errant, it is in Ireland at this time, where error hath cngroMcd the great multitude of 50uUp and is bringmg forth deeda of darkne^^, and is extending his dcuninion of dnrk- De«i uiure aud more wildly. For every armed man now kept to rein in these fierce pa&siona which iheir superstition lutlh begotten, give me an armed miniatcr of truth* and there shall soon be peace and quietness ; give me one for every hundred; give me bat one for every thousand, who tihall be at liberty to go forth, and with suf* ficient knowledge furnished, and with ready skill accomplished, and after a few years of hard fig:ht^ ingt you ahall sec the troops of the alien dis- comhtcd. If theae riewa of human nature and of religion be juvt, and ihts%t illustrtttiuns drawn from the ob- Bervatioa and history of the world be correct, and God knows we have sought to declare nothing but the simple truth, it follows most clearly, that 1238 irklavd'c lvil cokditioh. [ whttctcr doth tend to tiikc theme reiU of mi frnm ihf^ spirit of the [irofite,^ til liejttdtOiwr front the sen.^iui and bniial coiiditiori in whi4 they are fouDd. To which end 1 know nothii so cHtctua) as the preaching of the word of Gi which is given OK express purpose, and by (tod*i Spirit endowed wilh power, to redeem the spirit froiD the dominion of the flesh and of ihe canii mind; which ftprit being redeemed, flfives rise to another law opposite to the law of sin and deal which is in our members. The evil of the pn 9j8tem is, that it is a compensation in seosibl merits for sensible offences; so that the i^e-nse honoured to ntone fair lite Men»e, to eolightL-» tl seose, to inni.-dy the «rn>;t; and ttie