A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

2. As to old Eli. Did he Know all this? 'Tis true, especially of Great men, that they, usually, are the very last, that are informed of the Evil of their own House: but yet as to Eli,

1. It could not probably be, but when all Israel rang of the lewdness of his Sons, he only should be ignorant of it. But

2. Or, if He knew it not, can his Ignorance be excused? It being not an Ignorance merae privatis, but pravae dispositionis: for where should Eli have been but in the Temple? either for action or oversight? The very presence of the Priest keeps Gods House in order. 'Twas his grand duty carefully to inspect them, at least diligently to enquire after the due administration of Gods Ordinances, and a just and seasonable rebuke, and restraint might have happily prevented this extremity and height of prodigious debauchery. Nothing but Age can plead and apologize for Eli, that he was not the first Accuser of these his Sons will you call them, or monsters. But

2. Or, if He knew it not, can his Ignorance be excus'd? It being not an Ignorance merae privatis, but pravae dispositionis: for where should Eli have been but in the Temple? either for action or oversight? The very presence of the Priest keeps Gods House in order. 'Twas his grand duty carefully to inspect them, at least diligently to enquire after the due administration of Gods Ordinances, and a just and seasonable rebuke, and restraint might have happily prevented this extremity and heighth of prodigious debauchery. Nothing but Age can plead and apologize for Eli, that he was not the first Accuser of these his Sons will you call them, or monsters. But