that can be made or done for it. That, when all is said and done, things may, by a dispensation of God's providence, produced by an act of God's mercy, turn out to be in that same state, in which they would have been, had nothing of this sort been either said or done,—such is the most favourable result, of which, under the guidance of the most prejudiced judgment, the most sanguine imagination can entertain a hope.

And, in that most favourable case, can it really be said to be thus destitute of effect?-Yes: but in no other sense than that, in which, after having, for a length of time, been employed, dose after dose, without success, in the hope of curing some disease, opium may be said to have been destitute of effect. The non-existence of particular effect-viz. of the particular good effect hoped for-is but too true. But, of a general effectand that a most disastrous one-the existence is at the same time but too true-a prostration of strength-an universal debility" that prostra"tion of the understanding and will," by which the constitution is destroyed.*

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RECAPITULATION.

On recurring to the Observations contained in the preceding pages, the following are the vices which will, it is believed, be found to have been proved upon this formulary, the peccant matter

*And the production of which is among the declared objects of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION, according to the form given to it by the BENCH OF BISHOPS; and in particular of the BISHOP OF LONDON's labours in support of it.

of which is, with a diligence unhappily so successful, injected, by the hand of power, into the breasts of the great majority of the population, at the very first dawn of the reasoning faculty

1. BAD GRAMMAR. For a passage teaching bad grammar by example, see p. 64.

II. BAD LOGIC; viz.

1. By inculcation of matter plainly useless. See p. 25 to 31.

2. By inculcation of manifest surplusage. See p. 8, 9, 10.

ble. See

p.

3. By inculcation of matter plainly unintelligi8 to 16, 23 to 35, 38, 40. 4. By inculcation of propositions inconsistent with one another. See p. 14, 15, 16, 17. 5. By inculcation of instruction which is either erroneous, or at best useless. See p. 49, 50, 51, 52.

6. By exemplification and consequent inculcation of the art and habit of gratuitous or unfounded assertion, and groundless inference. See p. 35, 36, 37, 46, 47, 48, 49. 7. By inculcation of matter, repugnant to those Thirty-nine Articles, to which the whole body of the Clergy-Bishops and Archbishops included-together with all other ruling and otherwise influential persons, -who become partakers of that course of education which is in highest repute, will, upon entrance into that course, after being thus impregnated with the repugnant matter of this formulary, be forced to declare their assent and approbation on record. See p. 36 to 37.

8. By inculcation of matter savouring of Popery. See p. 75 to 80.

III. Matter, the tendency of which is to operate, in various other ways, to the depravation of the INTELLECTUAL part of man's frame, viz. 1. Matter, by which the principle of vicarious obligation is inculcated: i. e. by which children are commanded to believe, that it is in the power of two or three self-appointed persons, by agreeing together, to oblige a young child, in conscience, to pursue to the end of his life, any course of conduct, which, at that time, it may please them to prescribe. See p. 6, 7, 8. 2. Matter, by which the young child is himself forced to utter a rash promise, binding him, during life, to pursue the course of conduct therein and thereby prescribed. See

P.

17.

3. Matter, by which the child is initiated in the art and habit of lax interpretation: i. e. of declaring, in relation to the discourse in question, whatever it may be, his persuasion, that such or such was the meaning, intended by the author to be conveyed by it: viz. whatever meaning it may at any time happen to suit the personal purpose of the interpreter so to convey, how wide soever of the import really so intended to be conveyed. See p. 53 to 57.

4. Matter, by which the intellectual part of the child's frame is destined to be debilitated and depraved by groundless and useless terrors. See p. 12, 13, 14, 61.

IV. Matter, the tendency of which is to operate, in various other ways, to the DEPRAVATION of the MORAL part of man's frame: viz.

1. Matter, in the texture of which Hypocrisy
is plainly discernible. See p. 15, 16.
2. Matter, by which lying is inculcated as a
duty-a duty, which the child is forced
to declare himself bound to persevere in
the performance of. See p. 4, 5, 18, 24,
25, 38, 39, 53, 54, 60.

3. Matter, by which Imposture may be seen to
be promoted. See p. 55 to 89.

4. Matter, by which Forgery may be seen to be knowingly uttered. See p. 19, 20, 21. 5. Matter, by which encouragement is given to sin and wickedness in every shape.

p. 86 to 89.

See

V. Matter, the tendency of which is to operate, in an immediate way, to the injury of the SENSITIVE part of man's frame.

Matter, by which groundless and useless terrors are infused, as above.

Such, on the grounds all along referred to, and plainly brought to view, is the character and tendency herein imputed to this Church of England formulary, with the matter of which every English breast is, by the government at large, under the guidance of the ruling part of the Clergy, designed and endeavovred to be impregnated imputed, and with what justice, let any person in whose eyes either the morals or the understanding of the whole people of England are objects worthy of regard, and who at the same time has courage to look in the face truth, however unwelcome, and opposed by prejudices

ever so inveterate, lay his hand upon his heart and pronounce.

Ill will towards men,-towards all men, in whatsoever rank in life situated, with reference to him in whose breast the corrupt affection is evident-equal, superior, or inferior,-this, taking the whole together, may now be added to the list of those fruits, the seeds of which are so thickly sown by this machine. Ill will and, from ill will, oppression and persecution :-oppression the chronical disease, persecution, the acute: oppression, universal, habitual, and sluggish; persecution particular and casual; according as opportunity happens to be favourable.

The genealogy is in this wise: From imaginary grace, imaginary mystery, imaginary sacrament, come imaginary blasphemy, imaginary sin from imaginary sin, comes real antipathy; and from men, in ruling and otherwise influential situations, real oppression and real persecution, on that one part; real suffering on the other :-for, by the imaginary sin, is produced, in the ruling breast, along with the antipathy, a pretence for gratifying it.

GOOD MEN, GOOD SUBJECTS, and GOOD CHRISTIANS such, and in these very words, are the goods, which,-in giving the explanation of his truly admirable, and beyond doubt ultimately and highly useful, system of intellectual machinery, over and over again, and always, by means of a set of instruments, of which this formulary is the earliest and beyond comparison the most extensively employed article, over and over again: and, as here, in placard lettersDr. Bell undertakes for the manufacturing.