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can tend to preferve it in purity and vigour, to enforce its true fpirit, or to promote the genuine operatiort of its falutary influence.-They will venerate it themfelves, and recommend it by their own example to the veneration of others. They will inculcate in their children an early and habitual acquaintance with its history, its nature, and its excellencies, together with a steady and rational attachment to its principles. They will support it, at all times, by a firm and refolute, though a decent and orderly adherence; knowing that irregularity and violence would involve a direct violation of its fpirit: and they, will, if occafion fhould require, be ready with cheerfulness to rifk their lives in its defence:

So fhall the BRITISH CONSTITUTION, the fuitable and happy portion of thofe who deferve to be free, remain firm, immoveable, and unimpaired for fucceeding ages; fecure againft the attacks of vifionary theorifts and of wicked incendiaries; and uniting within itself the fecurity and energy of a well-regulated Government, and the ut moft attainable degree of real political LIBERTY.

God forbid that the Search after Truth fhould be difcouraged for fear of its Confequences! The Confequences of Truth may be fubverfive of Systems of Superstition, but they never can be injurious to the Rights, or well founded Expectations of the Human Race.

Let thy fair Wisdom, not thy Paffion sway.

Bishop Watfon.

Shakespeare.

BY A DEIST.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR B. CROSBY, No 4 STATIONERS COURT,

LUDGATE STREET.

1796.

[Price One Shilling.]

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE

HE following letter is the substance of a few marginal notes, made with a pencil, while reading the Bishop of Landaff's Anfwer to Thomas Paine's Age

of Reason.

They were scratched in hafte,

amidst the frequent interruptions of a young family and domestic affairs.

Fine language is not affected; indeed, the less of it, the better.

If any one thing is more defirable than another, it is an univerfal tongue, as incapable of fophiftry, and as unerring in its deduction, as arithmetical calculation; and as clear and decided as algebraical, mathematical, or aftronomical precifion.

In

In fuch a language, the word of God would probably have been written, if, befides the book of the creation, any book of the Deity had been neceffary.

If such a language fhould ever be brought about, it will establish right thinking, right acting, and human good; and do away that babbling, delufive, and very mischievous thing called ELOQUence.