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ne upon earth, not by the Gospel, but by that wick* which the Gospel alone can destroy- Who ai (hose seducers that talk continually against tl bold voice of truth, because of the troubles it may engender? They arc the men who ly said of Christ and his Apostles, " Cesar come, »nd take away our state and nation/' Oi grtratcr than Cssar came^ and took away that stal and nation for which they were afraid ; even li whom they did silence and persecute with tl jQtri^uJn^ ftpecchei. which saTotired of but were fuUof spitcfulncsa; which were oul ly for mildness, but the covert of the blackei croelly. And I will tell you ih'ts ot»e word, (hi if the mediation of faithful ministers of truth terfere not between God and idolatrous t he will brinf; famine, and peatJIcncc, and ciril wi ag:ain, as be hatli already brought them ; and shall reach uuto thy land also, O England, WI hath power over that idolalry,aRdhajilbaaely in it for thy political convcnieocy, instead of peoplii every parish with a Boanerges, a son of ibundi who might make known the terrors of the Lord, thecomingdo<>tnti)>on all who adhere to the moth^ of harlotK, and have traffic in her mL^nlumdiu*, Vlf.] tRELApTDS EVIL CONDtTJOK. 124.^ To the manly inntruction of the ripe.n^l niim! by {irffacliviig, that royal ctrdinancre cf the king- dom, and satisfactioD of their doubts, by ap- peal unto Scripture, that end of all contro- versy^ I add, OS my last means of reliering Ireland, the active and persevering: education of the rising generation. Ciod forbid thai 1 should slide into the weak and helplesa nieastire of these times, that the pre«eiU i^neraiionmustbe (fiven np, to whom we are sent ; for this ijenera- lioD of the ehiirch i» God s minititef to tbi$ ge- Iteration of the world, and the next to the next : we are made to be the witneAsea against thoxe with wliom wc live and mort? »nd have our being, whom we shoulder and jostle in the arena of the present life. And another sa^n of our poverty and pusillanimity it is^ thid other measure of the timcA : wc must girc up the present generation, and work with the children, A^ if Paul should become a schooLmaster, and Peter an uaher. Fye upon it, thti« to have pulled your missionaries from their hicrh estate, and made them school* keepers. Is Christ become feeble a^inst men? Is Satan to have the men. and Christ the chil- dren 7 I'his comes of your low and paltry view* of the missionary' calling, into Uie right appre- hension of which ye will not be cnlargt^: ye cannot cope with wickedness in high places, and have c