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dom from beneath^ which has enabled her^ with
the most nnprincipled dexterity and success, so
to accommodate and subdue religion to every
variety and degree of human yitiosity, that the
sins of men have been one of the most produc-
tive sources of her tm&thomable revenue.
Another object is, to shewj that the refor-
mation <tf those churches^ who withdrew firom
iUtk dominiftin. That such a view maj not be the moat ctfa-
or the neanU in tha field which thej aarr^, than ia
anffident xeaaon to admit. Some tiiiasa atand between them
and thdr ultimate objeet. These an the tbinsi wbidi lie neev-
ert| aiid meat aeoaibly afiiBcty Of mther engroaii tiie ^petite aad
expectationB of the pnnaeia. It ii to the xemoval of theae that
<Mr jMVMftf eiaia ia confined ; and thejmay be belioTed in lay-
ingaow Bat that they do not widi to arrive at the l»KEiBOn»hov-
ever dimlj aeen, and that th^ do not denietopOHefli^ theiiH
aelvea» the tempoial dren and in pzeaent powwrion of
a puri/Seel cathoBe chnidi, ia as palpably ftlae aa ma em oath
awom by a zegolar perjuiar. These good people d(S in very
deed, exhibit the apteat illuatfation of the wallrknown apologne
of ikefoM andike ffrapesy that ma ever enacted bj human im>
tatoia of the moat acute of inferior animala. Shouldamnch
provoked Fkovidence, emplo jing ita usual instrument, the infii-
toation or fcoliBh eraftiness of the guillj, deliver into the haada
of the direst eaemy of pure Christianity the sinewB of all al^
tivo exertion, the property qf ikePfeieetmUekueehr'^taenf
dotal band of BoBaalaeusta wonldyivithoat loss of a moment^
and with not the digfitest qualm rdalive to lbinflrpiolMQB%
thMw their whole bo4y sad finwe oYer the whole sniftee of the
land, and eat 19 all ita produce, tiU nelabladeof any things
awrOithaii having, remained. The garden of Eden would be
thus tuned into a wildemcfls to the eztenninated, ( id ett^
el eeelt ewputm^) but it would still reaudn to them a garden
of delist— a garden of the soul, in which thor idola^, the^
