reformers from popery, there is a considerable danger on either side in forming a wrong judgment. One is, indeed, that a prejudice against the instruments may endanger our contracting a prejudice against the cause. Of this extreme, in this protestant country, I imagine, we are in little danger. To prevent it, however, their faults ought not to be mentioned without doing justice to their virtues. The other is, lest a prepossession in favour of the cause prove the source of a blind devotion to the instruments. Of this extreme, the danger here is, I think, very great. Nay, though different men's attention, according to their various circumstances, has been fixed on different instruments in the hand of providence, in effecting the wonderful revolution then brought about, yet an immoderate attachment to one, or other, has been, since the beginning, the rock on which the far greater part of protestants have split. THE END. |