XX1V PREFACE TO soil, and all the objects which endear it who, in addition to this instinctive at. tachment, feel, acknowledge, and enjoy, in their native country, all the substantial blessings which make life worth living for; -a constitution, the best that mortal man has ever yet devised ; a religion, above the powers of man indeed to con- ceive, but reformed and carried to per- fection by his agency, taught by the wisdom of God, led by the guidance of his word, and the direction of his Spirit ; a system of civil and religious liberty, which, while certain miscreants at home are labouring to destroy, under the pre- tence of improving, some,foreign coun- tries are imitating and all are envying ; institutions, which promise to convey the chief of these blessings to the re- motest lands ;-if all these assertions are true, let it be again asked, whether, if an intimateknowledge, and a long enjoy- ment of these blessings, should have pro- duced a filial fondness for such a country, that attachment can be denominated pre-
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