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which the champion of the Protestant faith differs but little, in his fundamental belief from the subject of Rome. The points of difference are at this time well perceived and justly appreciated. They are felt to be fundamental and important, and as they are practically embraced, are cordially defended. With exceptions, which hardly deserve to be taken into the account, those who remain faithful to the Christian cause see where its distinctive nature and value lie, and are ready to sacrifice their worldly fortunes, and their lives too, in the service in which they abide. They do not disdain the secular assistance which is their due, and which they rate at its proper value, but disdaining an undue reliance upon it, their ultimate and supreme hope is reposed in Him, who has all means and all events at his command; and they trust that He will not the less own and vindicate his own cause, because it is prosecuted in simple dependence upon Him, but will, for that very reason, above any other, crown them with a signal, final, and everlasting victory. As in all human events and revolutions, He will pay so much respect to his own exquisitely beautiful machinery of united cause and effect, as to put in
