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An Argument for "Discourses on Christian Nur- ture," addressed to the Publishing Committee of the - - Fos- Sharp's Discourses, and Sprague's Discourse, on Chal- --- - THE eighteenth century, rife as it was in doubters and deniers, had its hearts of faith and tongues of fire. The assailants of Christianity were, indeed, more than met by its intellectual champions. In point of scholarship, science, and philosophy, faith bore the palm in the desperate struggle. Gibbon wrought no harm to Lardner, nor Volney to Priestley. Butler, and Kant, and Reid tower above Hume, and Diderot, and Condillac. If we speak of theorists of nature, how small and contemptible seems the system of D'Holbach by the side of that of 'Swedenborg! Who compares Helvetius with Cuvier ? But there is one thing more rare, as well as more power * 1. The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism. By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq., LL. D. Third Edition. 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NO. 1. 1 ful, in a period of doubt and disputation, than scholarship, or science, or philosophy. Apologetic literature, so characteristic of the theologians of the last century, is at best barren in vital force or quickening energy. Earnest faith is the thing needed, faith whose words burn as well as enlighten. Such the eighteenth century had. The age of Rousseau and Voltaire was the age of Whitefield and Wesley. Providence appears to keep up a pontificate of its own, very different from that in the gift of the Romish cardinals. Its holy unction dwells ever upon some consecrated head. If Fénelon bore it in his time, it is not difficult to point out his successor. From the death-bed of the Archbishop of Cambray, we look towards England for a person worthy of being named in connection with him. Remembering that Europe was then entering upon that The date is 1715. transition period of doubt and infidelity that has so marked the whole century, not forgetting, that at that time in Geneva, in Switzerland, there was a child of three years named John James Rousseau, and in Champagne, in France, another of two years named Denis Diderot, and that the young Arouet, afterwards called Voltaire, at the age of twenty-one was already astonishing the saloons of Paris, and alarming the court of Versailles, by his genius and satire, we pass on, and, crossing the Straits of Dover, approach the cliffs of England, and look upon the land of our fathers at that interesting period. The revolutionary struggles of the nation had subsided. The belligerent parties and their descendants, both Puritan and Churchman, enjoyed the privileges of civil and religious liberty with comparatively small restriction. But with quiet times worldliness came. longer provoked by persecution, nor startled by danger, the No Established Church and the Dissenting sects had settled down into a comfortable indifference. tions, indeed, there were, exceptions among high names Honorable excepin literature, such as Bishop Wilson, Doddridge, and Watts; -exceptions, too, in quarters then indeed little noted, but since well known by their fruits, as in the case of the family in Epworth, Lincolnshire, which furnishes us with our present subject. In that place, a market-town of some two thousand inhabitants, dwelt at the time of which we are speaking a good Christian minister, who had little sympathy with the general indifference. He had been for more than twenty years |