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s, and with many arguments to whi our Protestant idolatry' of the twok ^veib plftV^ cibiUtyd 'But when they argue the inability tbe people to draw thence a »ound code of ttid tbe temlency of tbe unlettered and uncd «d to bring in their own narrow and partial pmalions, it^steari of the orthodox iWr^ 'a VU;j lllfiLA,ND'fl £VIL CONDITION, 12^3 u( U>e church, our atuwcr ebauld W, We atluijt il,; auti Utcrefurts we iateod Ui accoiDpany or Ip follow tliem as we can, with Ikitbful preachers, who Khali lead them into the right interpretation of ilic church, from those mazcft of error with which you have perplexed every docUinc, attd even' preempt of tlic Divine wurd. Uh for a few preachers who, po6sc&8i[^ in their heart the writ- ten word* quickeoed by the Uoty Spirit, would gu forth upon this errand, afid> ca&tjog down the gauntlet of defiance to all the prie&te of Daa), would offer themselves to every proof that U IKJdsihlc of understanding, of devotion, of pcr- foual saflferJug, of tlie written word, of the bis- lory i>f the church, of the diverse eharatlen* of the worshippers, then would I have hope that the 9ible would be sought, would be read, would be quiokoncd ; but without such preachers, 1 do not bchcvc that it will work there, or elsewhere, the fruita Lh&t are looked for from it. The proof of what 1 &ay i£ to be found in the effect produced by the public contmversica of the lasit yearin quickeniug the deuiaad for t^criptui^l kuowtcdge, ^though these controversies were only upon the outworks of divinity, and not upon the great questions which :»tir Euid agitate the souL Once bring LransubsUntiatioD, and image worship, and wurkfi uf supererogation, end priestly absolution^ and purgatory, and such questions into issue, and call them by their proper names of falsehood, su* perslition, and idolatry, and you shall witneasa ferment of soul, and a eallmg out for knowledge, whicli I defy the chains of Satan, or the world, to bind ur re^itriin. They will cry uut. Com* motion, cn'il war, and bloodshed ! and I answer, 4 tS * 1244 lft&LAr«D'« EVIL COKDlllOn. [. Come wbat will, men's souls must be rsv^O ; and under the prc&eat system of idolatry, men's «oul can hardly be sased : thougii Satan fiboutd brii pestilence, famine, and sword, and thrcatcQ their termrst in Ihe train of Uie (iospel, still II nospel must be prL^actu^d ; though the worl should be shaken, and the earth be rctnovcdp tl Gocpel mtist be preached. And why ? because I k the ark of the salvation of men af^oit aU judgments oF tlic Lord, which coi