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    dfai ' teaQdM have pfofitt&ty , Ilkfe dtirsdifes , k ** d froth childhbdd df the delu&ibh ift Salfeni rfcsf > ebtirig witbhcritft ; but they may tfdt , atty iftbrfe th&ri biitttelVes * hftVfe he&rd thfe particulars related by sttt impartial HistbHari , atid elucidated by the lights of philosophy and exjieriencS . Thte is done in the little Work before us , which for the s<s of its ebthmeht&ry , as well as its narrative , wfc should lik § to put ihto the hands of Mr . Irving ' s followers , ( if he still has &ny , ) &rid of ndt & Few disciples of the managers of orthodoxy « Lhd methbdisiri iri this country . Though society has

    advanced t 5 d far , We trusty to be again liable to the visitations oil Siatein irt 16 & 2 , the satii £ inclinations may extet in certain ecclesiastics , the same weaknesses ih certain of their followers , ready to efcert their evil influences , in rnodes accordant with the spirit of the times . However extravagant iti its horrors , therefore , this tiarfativS indy kpj 3 ear td us , it \ vill ever reitiain as an admonition , while the key by which its machinery is disclosed is the

    same which unlocks the tnysteries of our Own hearts . As long as thgre exists priestly rhahd 6 tivring On otie hand , and spiritual . subservience on the bthel ' , this tale of Saleiti will remain a tale o £ the times . However the principles of the pilgrim fathers were strengthened by the persecutions which drovfc th ^ m to the shores of America ,

    their social dispositions were hdt ( how should they be ?) ameliorated by their circumstances . If they left persecution behind , privation awAited them ; And the sufferings they underwent , for a long period after their Settlement , combined with the political and ecclesiastical events of the time , confirmed them in a glodtny fanaticism , which they transmitted to their descendants . These ,

    in their turn , were ( exposed to an aggravation of their prevailing weaknesses , by their position . They were encompassed by dangers and oppressed with hardships . Pirates desolated them from the se& , atld the Indians frdrn the woods , and a barbarous war With these enemies was waged from year to year . They were weighed doton with a burden bf debt , and with an intolerable taxation , —circuit ! stances not the most favourable to the temper ,

    nor cDrtse ^ uehHy to the reason , of a community . Within a short time the toWn had lost all its venerable fathers atid leading citizens ; there were no mbnieti institutions , fib foreign commerce , no objects of general interest to concentrate their exertions , and no predorrtiri&nt influence to guide therii . Political jealousies found their way into the pl&ce ; religious dissensions sprang up ; the Wars with the Indians and the pirates had produced a relaxed and licentious stkte bf thorals nmong the people . A worse intellectual find ftlbral Condition can scarcely b ^ co nceived . Those who wished V 6 restrain the downward carefcf df society , thought of no

    oiher way of doing st > thtth increasing the influence of tlife clergy . Sp ^ tiial efforts wfc re * thad ^ ^ At the beginning df the yettr df the dfelu-Bion r tb r ^ h ^ W th * ^ dWeir df the spiMt of the gospel ; Aht ) Whi te ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/43/