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two following addresses were delivered in the month February, 1795, and were followed by six others in defence of natural and revealed Religion. There is "a time to keep silence" saith King Solomon;—but when I proceeded to the first Verse of the fourth Chapter of the Ecclesiastes, "and considered all the oppressions that are done under the Sun, and behold the Tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of the oppressors there was power"—I concluded, that this was not the "time to keep silence."—For Truth should be spoken at all times, but more especially at those times, when to speak Truth is dangerous.