but will never be able to fee to the bottom of those judgments, which are unfearchable, nor to clear up thofe ways, which are paft finding out.

To conclude: I am not, now, making the panegyric of those venerable men, to whom we are indebted for our religious eftablishment. They were our inferiors, if you will, in many refpects. But, if, measuring ourselves by ourselves, and comparing ourselves among ourselves, we overlook their real abilities and qualifications; if we pronounce them ignorant of good letters, because they lived in an age, which we have learned to call barbarous ; and ignorant of the Chriftian religion, because they were not practised in our philosophy; we, probably, do THEM great injustice, and take, it may be, not the best method of doing honour to ÓURSELVES.

A

LARGER DISCOURSE,

BY WAY OF

COMMENTARY,

ON

That remarkable Part of the Gospel-History,

IN WHICH

JESUS is represented, as driving the BUYERS and SELLERS out of the Temple.

A

DISCOURS E*

ON

CHRIST'S DRIVING THE BUYERS AND SELLERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE.

PROPOSE, in this discourse, to take

I'

into confideration a very remarkable part of the Gospel-history; in which Jesus is fuppofed to have exercifed an act of authority on fome perfons, whom the Jews permitted to carry on a certain traffic within the walls of the Temple.

I fhall, FIRST, recite the feveral accounts, which the facred hiftorians have given of this tranfaction; and fhall, THEN, hazard

*The fubftance of this Difcourfe was delivered in a Sermon at Lincoln's-Inn, May 15, 1768.

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