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a ita occasions, and pro&tabic to them all ; full of help- ful miniiitry, gracious encouragement, and as- surance of reward. Tlierefore it hath couie to pasa in all the Gothic nations, and it was so among the ancient Britons, that the ^uperintendnncc of edueatioo hath been left to the guardians of ro' ligion. In all Christian countries it hath been so; and in the primitive church, the rearing up of the catcchumetis was as great a care of the priest as the edification of the members of Christ; and all the universities of Europe have been con- docted by pri^tfi, and etill the greater part of them are so conducted ; and \rc owe the preservation of all our Icammg to the priests. And though now the spirit of in6delity is beginning to work strangi' Tevnliitiotis in the isemiimneaof l^aruin^, it is only a recent innovation, thereof no uiatciials for jud^ng are yet properly before ua: but if we may judge from what hath passed around us. we will Burcly conclude, that a knowledge disaevercd from religion, and serving no cuds of religion, will tiervenoends of social nor private well-being; and though it may increase individual power, and 83S OK CDCCATlOir* \m bring a sbort*livcd han-c«t or iodiridual ftnd ni<^^M xiouid vaiiJly, and obtain commaadoTcr the visible ^^ uAivcn^, and accunmlate nclie^ theace, it wurlcelh not in the «pini, Dor upon the spirit: brin it no rederaptioiif affords to it oo consolatic lays over it no sweet reslraintsof love, Dor Mr© obligations of duty,— makes no provieioD for t ftorrows, and troubles, and adrersitics of the soul, and bath no tendency to dignify and enohle th mind in its high places, nor build tip society i any of ltd strong holds. It is education resdo upon rcU^on* and superintended by religion, which hath made us vrhat wc arc: and let us b<*«^B ware of divorciug the>he two helpA meet for ocM^^' another, lest we bt*coint* like utlier natious wtiere they are divorced. But what if the miniitcrs of reliij:ii>n thcmselvt become sucurian, and make reli^^on the band maiden of ignorance^ of tyranny, and stiperstitioa i Arc they to be coDtioucd in the education of our youth? No, nor yet in the education of our men. They vrill ft(>oil our men as much as they will spoil our youth. What is to be done? The re- medy h to be found in the judicious combmation of the other ixvo powers to watch, each one for itself, that the children be not oppressed by priestly authority, nor spirited away by supersti- tion, firom the right ciiltivatiim of ihe krtcwledga oftlie natural and the inurEil worlds. Th