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nce; but to resolve chat, come wbftC will of them (aud lot them have the tnal), they shall not banUh from the schools in which your rhilrlren are, or in whiolt you hAve an iiiiluctiLN'^ tliut old^Ttt m»i Milidesl ruutidalion of pcrscoal character^ of social wdl-lwing, of preseot and eternal blessedness, the holy Scrip- cures. These being prcacrred will act as a test and a louch*fltone upon these novelties which, if 1 were to judge by any thing. I would judge by this criterion, what influence they have iii atuact- tog or withdrawing the mii]d& of tJie youUi u>, or from tJie oracles of God, and the priaciplea of the doctrine of Chmt, They will call this bigotry ID me to set forth ; and in you they will call it bigotn- to carr\' it into effect. Therefore, 1 go on to jui&ufy the doctrine, by examining the third quenliou projioseti : In what hands iheftafi^rintend-* aoct; of education mtglit bext be Mi, so as to pro* tecttc the most effectually from becoming s^ctarinn; that ifi, from afplyiiigitgelf only toafracijonof the homanmuid.andadcpartmcnt of human wcU*t>ciog. III, There can ije no inconsistency, as hath been tihewn above, between education and religion, pro* vidcd they be both free from narrow and sectarian principles, and conducted for the end of opeiiiog aud direetin;:; the facuhic^ of the »oul ; education to open, and religion to direct ttiem. If i know any thing of Christian religion, it i% for tfa^ learned m nt^CL'sxary ;is for the unlearned, the same to barbarians and Scythians, bond and h^e, bringing the method of redemption, and the moans of regeneration, which all equally 3 H 826 QV £Di;cATio>r. [Dit* need. And, masmiicli as edncmtioDdisws out tbo nrioas powers of the iDteUectaal andmonlbeiii^^ k emblct tts to judge by the more teiU of th«l religkm which prescribes to tbem the rules of theitf bemlUi and salratioD. So that there can be no doubt, that the eridence of the Dirine origin^ and the bleuedEiess of the enjoymeats of leligioa; are heightened to the man of caltiTated mind ;— jut 8A the (ace of heaven shews more intelUgent to the astronomer, and the face of nature riiews more beaatifal to the poet, and the face <rf men more expression to the artist, than to those whose bcolties of observation have not been derehiped. At the same time, there is not so much in this, as ini(^t at first be imagined; because, as haA been said above, the true face of religion is not discerned bjr the eye of the intellect, but by ■ spiritnal faculty which no human teaching can cultivate* Nevertheless, it must be