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were commanded to be preached to those enlightened people? 

 Shall we keep our Asiatic brethren from the fold of that heavenly 

 Shepherd who laid down his life for his sheep, and declared that 

 he had other sheep, which were not of that fold; them also he must 

 bring, and there should be one fold, under one shepherd ! 



This discussion has already far exceeded my intended limits, 

 or it would be easy to produce examples from Eugenius the Ro- 

 man pontiff, from the emperor Charles the Fifth, and many other 

 sovereigns; from the cardinals Beaufort, Wolsey, Richelieu and 

 Mazarine; and from men in every distinguished situation, whose 

 dying testimony bore witness to the vanity of their former pursuits. 

 Solomon's pathetic motto confirmed the vain regrets of these 

 exalted characters at the termination of their career. They had 

 attained the summit of their ambition, but great was their disap- 

 pointment and affecting their confessions at the last awful hour! 

 Divine grace, and the influence of the Hol_y Spirit, can alone con- 

 duct us safely through life, and support us at that solemn hour 

 which every child of Adam must experience. Modern philosophy 

 may deny the doctrine and despise the influence of this celestial 

 Comforter; how different were the sentiments of Seneca! To 

 such philosophers, the noble Roman asks this important question, 

 " Quid aliud voces hunt; quam Deum, in corpore humano ho spit ant em?" 

 " What other canst thou think this internal monitor, than God dwelling 

 in the body of man?" 



The wonderful and sublime subject of the sanctification and 

 redemption of man calls forth all our admiration and all our love ! 

 How do the Avatars, or incarnations of the Hindoo deities, re- 

 cede when we contemplate that awful mystery which even the 



