pens, left little Room <for sober and serious • Reflections. The « Hearts of Men being set open to the Im' pressions and Trans• ports of Joy, foon grew sensual, and the • Prosperity of the Naotion broke out into • Luxury, and into all the Vices which na turally attend it. The • Sense of Religion decayed, and the very Appearances of it were suspected, as a Rem nant of that Hypocrisy 6 with which the late 6 Times had been charged. [ See Page • 10, priùs.] And if we may judge by the • Performances of the Stage, which • formed to the Taste of • the People, there ne ver was a Time when Lewdness, Irreligion, and are s and Profaneness were « heard with more Pa6 tience.' And afterward, Page 9. • Surely • the Gospel of Jesus Cbrist was never treatsed with greater Malice « lice and Contempt by Jews or Heathens, than < it has been in this Chri. < ftian Country. : Is not Sunday become a Day of Diversion to great ones, and a Day a of Idleness to the little Cones? And has not • this been followed by ' a great Increase of great Wickedness and « Violence among the < lower Sort of People? Theft and Robbery, 6 which used to be secret < Crimes, now appear carmed in our Streets, « and are fupported by • Numbers strong e< nough to defy thePower of the Magistrate.' Now on Now hear the Letter, • Blasphemy, and poor Wretches are every Hour wantonly themselves and ready. Add to this, bauchery that prevail incapable of getting an themselves and Fami< lies. The Number of « lewd Houses which • trade in their Vices,and ( which must, at any • Rate, be paid for mak. ing Sin convenient to « them, > |