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under foot : whose scholars, as Wickliflfev' would preach tbeir discourses to the people, tmdi fiiee the Hsite, whatever it might be ; by the side] of whom our chief men of war, a* John of Gsunt, used to stand, ready to defend iliem lo deutb. l* do admire, that a people, whose chief statesmei as Rurlcifirh and Bacon : whose chief lawyers, off Sir Matthew H^le; whose chief pstnots, as* ITampdcn. and Pj-m, and Harry Vane; whrw*' chosen spirits, as Milton, and Newton, and Boyle, and 1-ocke, did all coimt it most worthy of them toresttheirimprovementsupontbe purification and enlargement of religion, and never sought iti txtf way its overthrow : well knowing— being ma^ttcr spirits nf the mind, not money-changers — that Christian ruligi^n is reason perfected, atid hl>eTty secured, — that such a people, who by these prm- ctples, have been made fitedfest as old Rome itself, and now wield an empire wider than that of Rome, should have come to this pass of darlcnessuid delnsion. (hat its high-spirited and liberal niken, with one voice, fhotitd shove religion to a side, and bold her in abeyance, and taunt her with scorn, and distinguish not between her form and beauty, as upheld ib those catablishmcnts which our fathers set up, and the groit^^esi superstition which tlicy fought against, as (he very incarna- tion of the devil's falsehr>od aT>d murder,— that in- of crying for reform of abuses hero, as thoy So in the slate, they should rather court an over- throw ; Raze, raze it. Oh God, why hast thou blinded us! Oh our (tod, why hast thou forsaken OV EDUCATION. tts 1 Why staiHlcst tbou iiftir off from the voice of our w«epJD|;? Hetum onto us, O OodI Ketum unlo usp itiou who hast bi.-«n the strength of our fathers. Deliver ii», O Lordt for there U aooe that fighteth for ue, but thou nlonc. #< \- I thank my God, that there is still a rem- nant amongst us, in whcm is the uld leaven ■W thbt lleibrmed nation, and who know bcttar [ttings than are tAii^hl by l&u^'f»pnrrg libemliiy, [or whom tiK' muUitudes are now Hsst^mblcfd inio Lhis city, to be refreshed with the tidings of Zion> ^)ro8pcrity, and lo know each olliera hearts, and ■welcome each othera facea with the smile of bre- icrhood, and streaigthcn each other's hands with |tthe faith of that strength which re^iideth in the LHctoary of God ;) to whom I now camostly call, >'ftji to the saviours of their country, agaiiut the favadiog deluge of unprincipled knowlcdec, and atrictly charge them, by the authority givtn to mc in the church of