Maxims, observations, and reflections: moral, political, and divine. By Mr. Addison.
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.

XLIX.

_IT is a melancholy Reflection, that our Country, which in Times of Popery was called The Nation of Saints, should now have less Appearance of Religion in it than any other neigh|bouring State or Kingdom, whether they be such as continue still immer|sed in the Errors of the Church of Rome, or such as are recovered out of them.