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ttles which it fought afrainst the Arians, gradually suffered it to forge her chaiQfl: »o the Protestants having seen the victonea which -were won by free discussion, and bold inquin% and ready protcsUtion. have allowed themHelves to be brought by its excessea, into that couditiosi of unbelief in which we arc now found : of which unbelief I will freely say, thai it is as universally diffused as the spirit of su]>er5t]tion is diffused throughout the Papacy : and while 1 say so. I do it with a full apprehension of what is called the religious revival, Muc.e Wesley's lime, Ijoth in thfi church and out of the church* Of the former, will say, that they have mingled the Holy Spiii with the spirit of exjiediency, which ii» unbelief, 11.] THE 1IIREK UNCLEAN SPIRITS. 881 and so constituted a selRsh 9ect. instead of wit' DC^sing in the bo^Qm of the church agaiiist the backsliding thereof.— Of the latter, namely, the WcslcyoD Mcthodtst£» i will say. that they have fixcdbelicf ac the low-watcrmarlcof ArininiaTitsm. which doth but cover the sole of a mati'a foot, iuad said, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther. And this I say with a perfect con&cioosnesS of the ex- cellent men who introduced this revival, such as Romaiue, Ncwioo, Scott, Wesley and hie followers, whom 1 believe to have been men of God; I say it also with a perfect consciousness, that amongst their diflcipics arc found a righteous seed of faith* fill onc5 : but I am not to seek in this matter, nor to be deluded by i^tich apjiearancci^, having, from the study of the history of the church, [jcrcL'ived that every schism, and every heresy, every cor- ruption and innovation, was introduced under the covert of very pious and holy men. but un- skilled and unwise, ra&h and self-willed, and vn- acquainted with the depths of Katan. Ilowerer men may differ with respect in the prcvalency of thi» spirit amongst ourselves, no one will differ with respect to its prevalency over the continental QaiionB, where all the Protestant churches, with- out a single ezceptjon, have follcn a prey to it; and from theae the infection hath caught the Pa- pacy also, until Uith Prvjtehtantism and Popery hang upon tlit- nations like llw la^t rag of a beg- gar's outward garment. In the univcrtities, id the pulpits, in the schooU, in the cities, even in the courts, and everywhere amongs^t Uie people, the spirit of unbelief rageth hke a pestilence. The beast of the ten Koman kingdoms ia all over-* writleu with names of hlaAphemy. He still bcareth the drunken whoic ; but he is ready to 882 rn