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ded thata book should of itself convert the world, else no more than a book would have been given; and it never bath happcnod tbat the Bible of iuetf hatli wrought any great reformatioii in the church. It ia the spirit of man, quickened by the Spirit of God, through means of the Bible, and with the sanicmcanv going forth to quicken other men, that every good work hath been wrought in the church by God. And^ for my part, 1 shall never allow it to be said, unconlracliclcd in my presence, that the reading of the word, wiiliout tlic preach* ing of the word, is likely to accomplish any thing good or great in thechurch of Ckri^t. it is aAt-r this klolatry of the hook, the Bible, that the ig- norance of Proteaiants runneth, whence there never was such zeal for the letters and teavca of Ihc book, nor such plenty of them diffused abroad ; and I believe in my heart, there never was less zeal for the spiritual treasures which il eontaineth, Dever a more insecure faith, never a more scanty knowledge of them. Oh that I saw some of that zeal which hath overspread the world for the writ- ten word, traQsicrrcd to the living Word ; andaome of that diligence about the verbal propoeitiona. 4 L Iil3 IHEtAKO'a EVIL CONDITTOItl znd natural applications or the former, tumcd tbe ^ptrilual communion atul ItriDg pr^ence ttie latter. The book, th^ T^ible. i>i Tast has ing to work OD u% Protestants vimttHv etfecu tiioBo which have been wronj^t upOD tbc Ca liC5 by ihc wafer-god. For our God is ra become a cumber of orthodox doctnnc*. ore gelical propw*itionj, than ibe peraonal Cre and Preserver, and Redeemer of aM thing*, who bath, by the tvritten wofd, sent u%, at it were, gracious inviiaiioo and welcome to come and spo our spiritoal being with him, and rich offers every bic&smg, ifytc will yield ourcooMot. it 111 no more. Tt is not God. it in not mau, it hut the grftciodft invitation <)f Ond to mstn, tlierefore, it must not be exagKcraiad into ere Aung. NcTerthelc^s it is most necessary in t [Vresent condition of Ireland, and where^ixr a c trovci^y hath been excited, ot mugt be excite which is tbc ca&e at present and must be m the cjuie tx^fnre any real and Hnhntantial impr inent in ihoir cDiiditioh is efTcctcd. Wfa^« coin is circulating with good, yon must hove touch-stone, s« well for the hoDOorof the foikd for the detection of the evil, because there tad of all. The Romiifh phcsta, by instinct aware the opinions which would thus he put out of ci culation, have already resisted the diflbaioo the Scripture