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but religious and wclI-principlcd moD, be hatti, in the course ol' nccntury, wholly wonoTcr to himself i by changing liberty into liberalism, and religions toleration into religious indifTt^reuce ; and, above all, advo- cating the maxim, that all powt-r ig held in tnist for the people, — which ist a» faUe aa that it is held io triiBt for the nobles or the sovereign, because it ia held in trust for God. by whom the power* that be arc ordained under Christ, who is the King of kinga^ and Lord of lordi< While he was thus Hibvc^fting our liberties civil and religious, by means of thoHe whom we all along ennsidered as their defenders, and bringing in infidelity and indifference even to the Papacy into our councils, by that party of men who liad cast the Papacy out, and bridled the Episcopacy; he was cor- rupting our litemture, which before the Uevolu- tioa was very wise, Holid, devout uiid orlhudoX: and even under queen Anne, tht-wits and essayists smattered and talked about the holy things which their fathers approached with awe and reverence. And if a hook aAccting our Christianity was pub- lished, it was full of reverence for God and iralli, Satan being both bridled and muzzled. But look now what a condition our poetry bath arrived at; profane, licentious, and :mmor»lin the last degree, and our novels most scornful of religion, and mur- derous of religious men ; and our books of science acknowledging no God, and scoffing at revelation ; and our books of education beginning to be con- TUt ThilAhK OCtEAN SPIRITS. [t>U\ I I ctructed «o as diligcotly to exclude all reference to lite peculiarities ^r Christianity; &iid our books touching iln^ national weal, treating of money and ^^ trade, and laughing at the prejudices of oor ^H fiLliers^ who Uiouj^iit govcniment bad lo do Mrlth ^ higher objecu; our reviews and magazines, the proper index of the current ta^le, full of vanity, scandal, and malice, and sectarian fthibboletbs; ourncu'^paper^. the sweepings of ruined minds, and the scum of dis&ipalcd hearts; by vrhich sap- yiiig and mining system, SaL-iu \» elTectiially atid aurely possesehig himself of bulwark« which be could not take by ttorm. Even now the walls and citadel tTOmble, and rock to and fro, and only a few u-atcbmcn are bold enough to man the works; and all the citizens arc rejoicing and making merry* Ijlessing and invoking the enemy, being uilerly blind to his de«igti of destruction and utter ex* termination. As when the spirit of the Papacy won the ascendant, the church, having seen and admired the ba