Excerpt from Thoughts on Education: Tending Chiefly to Recommend to the Attention of the Public, Some Particulars Relating to That Subject, Which Are Not Generally Considered With the Regard Their Importance Deserves

Confider his own @alifications for doing any thing to avert or mitigate the judgments of Heaven, as the Need there is that fomething be done, and will accordingly contribute his mite, and exert his abi hties, fuch as they are. To ¿ip an opportunity of acknowledging the candid reception given by you to what was offered on that occafion, would be both uncivil and unjult: though at the fame time, To gain the Attention or even the molt univerfal ¿ppro éafian of Readers, willvby no means give full fatif: faction to a writer, whofe aim is at fomething dif ferent from both, and who had rather fee one perfon follow his advice than a othoufand approve, nd yet nagle¿ it. However, they, who give h'iendly monitor a fair hearing, are more likely in, think of taking his counf'el than they' who fo.much as bear him. T hat the fate of affairs in this nation is. Altered very much for the better fince the above-mentioned period, is certain, That in lace of theoiminediate profpeél: of a general con iilfion, likely to end'in the fubverfion of, our civil and religious liberties, or in a. Lal'ting and bloody civil war, we now fee Rebellion mortally'wounded, and breatbin its lalt the {word of ju¿ice drunk with its blocs, and her {elf tired and fatiated with vengeance, the liberties of our country and the proteflant religion the more firmly ef'rablifhed for~ their having been fliaken by the late commotions, And haveywe then no more to think of or to fear, or do we imagine Heaven has but o'ne'tjudg ment to 'punifh national Wickednefs or lndolence Surely, if ever it be the duty or intereft'of a na tion to endeavour, by a fuitable conduct, to gain or keep the favour and proteétion of Omnipotence, it is m'ore peculiarly {o of a people favoured by {0 grainy and fignal interpofi'tions as' we have been.' But alas the happy effeéit, which might have bee?

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