I am persuaded, therefore, that a Regimen, so reasonable and so salutary, will recommend itself to your special notice, as the likeliest means of putting some stop to the licentious principles of the times. I will not suppose that your zeal to do good can be, at such a juncture, less operative, than that of others to do mischief. In a word, by adapting a set of clear, plain, earnest, and scriptural sermons to the authorized office of catechetical examination, we shall provide, at once, that our Congregations be instructed in the right way; the way which the wisdom of the Church prescribes; and that we ourselves be duly qualified to impart that instruction.
The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen[49].
APPENDIX:
CONTAINING
FOUR OCCASIONAL TRACTS
ON
DIFFERENT SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS.
OCCASIONAL TRACTS,
CHIEFLY
CONTROVERSIAL.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The controversial Tracts, which make up this Volume, were written and published by the Author at different times, as opportunity invited, or occasion required. Some sharpness of style may be objected to them; in regard to which he apologizes for himself in the words of the Poet:
——Me quoque pectoris
Tentavit in dulci juventâ
Fervor——
——nunc ego mitibus
Mutare quæro tristia.
R. W.