Be this as it may, politicians are too apt to consider religion in no other view than a state- engine , contrived to agitate the fears, and by this means to keep the people in sub jection.
As Bolingbroke on the mother's side was related to the Puritans, there is a report that his dislike to Religion arose from a good Presbyterian uncle making the ne phew read a series of dull sermons, on each verse of tbe 119th Psalift, every Sunday evening!  Be this as it may, politicians are too apt to consider religion in no other view than a state- engine , contrived to agitate the fears, and by this means to keep the people in sub jection.  Whilfield somewhere in his works remarks — " I had the other evening the honour of Lord Boling broke for an auditor ; there he sat in a chair with all the dignity of an Archbishop ; and when I came down from the pulpit after the service, he bowed and said, ' I thank you, Sir ; you have handled the moral attributes of the Deity well !'