maintaining a constant skirmish with cavillers and sophists; whose policy it is, to challenge • a perpetual warfare on the road, in order that it may not be travelled to the end. By yielding ourselves to that stratagem, we con tribute in effect to promote one great end of infidelity. Whereas, if we will only resolutely set forward, and pursue our progress uninter ruptedly under the safeguard of a sound and powerful principle, we may set all adversaries at defiance; and, by pressing on to the utmost . extent to which that principle will lead us, we shall at length arrive at the term from which it was the design of the adversary to preclude us. It is a weak system of tactics, which, in an en terprise of great moment, would stop to engage with every hovering band that attempts to harass the march; whilst, at the same time, there exists a consciousness of force sufficient to accomplish the enterprise in spite of all opposition. To those among the opponents who cherish a general regard for truth, and many such
