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65 This production was an efficient auxiliary in advancing the author's opinion. It was replete with sentiments the most sound, and facts in the highest degree imposing, whilst the judicious selections which it contained, from various authors, in support of his philanthropic doctrines, showed the extent of his research, and the depth of his reflection. The style of his work was plain, but energetic; it exhibited a mind at once fortified by manly firmness, and influenced by christian solicitude and benevolence. He concluded his book, in this solemn and affecting manner:

"Let such behold, and see, if there is any sorrow to be compared to it; which God is my witness I would rather have chosen to have bewailed in the wilderness, were it his will, than thus have appeared against a crime so much in request; which promotes idleness and haughtiness in the rich, and hinders the poor from bread; which bring evils in the commonwealth, engaged me for the welfare of all, to give forth this