The Panoplist, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Panoplist, Vol. 1: For the Year Ending June, 1806The singular advantage and in¿uence of pea riodical publications have been generally acknowledged and felt. Under various names, as Newspapers, Maga zines, and Reviews, they have been employed, more es pecially within the last ten or fifteen years, both by the enemies and the friends of religion and human happiness, with extensive and astonishing success. While one spe cies of these publications, conductnl by unprincipled and designing men, have administered poison to the publiclc faith and morals another, conducted by the wise and the good, have circulated the antidote. One has been an engine to throw the world into convulsions the oth er God hath probably ordained to be an instrument of hushing it into peace. The wrath of man has, been made remarkably to praise the Lord, by awakening ex tensively the active zeal of the friends of evangelical truth, and by prompting them to make uncommon oxer tions to difi'use, throughout christian and heathen nations the saving in¿uence of the gospel. While the enemy, armed with a. Specious and subtle philosophy, by secret Hutches were pouring in like a ¿ood upon the christian world, and threateningit with moral desolation, the Spir. Itof the Lord, -in the fervent prayers, the vigilance and active exertions of the faithful followers of the Lamb, hth marvellously lifted up a standard against them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.