Tree of Knowledge, but also largely of the fruit of the Tree of Life:--in this Holy House too where he received his commission[382], and vowed before GOD and Man, that he would "be ready," (the LORD being his helper,) "with all faithful diligence to drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to GOD's Word:"--before _such_ an audience, and in such a place, it must and _shall_ be lawful for me solemnly to denounce as false and deadly,--full of nothing but pernicious consequence,--that system of practical Infidelity which enjoys such unhappy popularity at this hour; which, under the mask of Science, and under the specious name of Progress, is spreading like a fatal contagion through the length and breadth of the land; and which, if suffered to go unchastised and unchecked, will end by shaking both the Altar and the Throne!.... Look well to it, Sirs, if you care for the safety of the Ark of GOD. For my part,--like one of old time whose words I am not worthy to take upon my lips,--"I cannot hold my peace: because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war[383]!" The case is not altered,--rather is it made worse,--if this hostility to GOD's Truth proceeds from persons bearing Orders in the English Church. ("O my soul, come not thou into their secret!") The case is not altered: for the requirements of Physical Science are still the plea; and _Divines_, in _no_ sense, these men are, however unsuccessful they may prove in establishing their claim to the title of _philosophers_ either. Nay, Sirs,--suffer one of yourselves to ask you, whether these disgraceful developments are not the lawful result of your own incredible system, of sending forth, year by year, men to be teachers and professors of Divinity,--to whom you have yet never imparted _any Theological training whatever_[384].