THE

PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS

OF THE

WORLD AND THE CHURCH.

A PRUDENT MAN FORESEETH THE EVIL AND HIDETH HIMSELF; BUT THE SIMPLE PASS ON, AND ARE PUNISHED.

PROVERBS XXII. 3.

THE

PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS

OF THE

WORLD AND THE CHURCH.

BY

A CLERGYMAN OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.

PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE:

AND SOLD BY L. AND G. SEELEY,
FLEET STREET, LONDON.

MDCCCXXXVII.

Lukewarmness of professing Christians—Spurious liberality-

Sabbath desecration-Drunkenness-Swearing-Lying-For-

nication--Infidelity-Former unfaithfulness of the churches

Conduct of Dissenters toward the Establishment-National

Impenitency. . . . . .

LECTURE II.

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Luxury–Unprincipled conduct of public men-Disobedience to

Parents-Spirit of equality and sedition—Increased attention

to Prophecy-Revival of Popery-Its causes--Act of Emanci-

pation-Liberalism and Ignorance of professing Protestants

Protestant Emigration, occasioned by political incendiaries and

oppressive Landlords-Corruption of human heart-Character

of Popery, by Dr. Beecher-Danger of the Empire-Scripture

confirmation of the same point. . . . . . p. 34