Excerpt from A Sermon, Delivered Before the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Pennsylvania: Held in St. James's Church, Philadelphia, May 3, 1815; And Published by Request You should be excited to zeal and industry in your holy vocation, in the next place, from considering the inveterate and mischievous libertinism of the age. The tares of unbe lief, unhappily for mankind, were sown in England, and on the continent of Europe, along with the good seeds of the reformation - It was the natural progress of the human mind to make this transition from the extreme of superstition, of a foul and abominable superstition, to that of infidelity. It was not to be wondered at, if when mankind had once thrown off the shackles of papal dominion, and the thunders of the Vatican ceased to drown the voice of enquiry, they felt some reluctance at such a season, to submit to the whole some control even of the genuine doctrines of the faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.