Seabury on Reason and Religion in the Great Republic

On this anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury, words from his second charge to the clergy of Connecticut, in 1786.  Seabury here articulates the Old High Church opposition to both Deism and Enthusiasm, indicating what would be a key characteristic of the Anglican/Episcopal vocation in the first century (and beyond) of the Great Republic:

Deism, with its necessary consequence - no religion at all, or rather adverseness to all religion, if I am rightly informed, has within a few years, made great advances in the United States. Other causes may have concurred; but I cannot help thinking, that the wild, ill-founded and inconsistent schemes of religion, and systems of divinity, which have obtained in the world - I fear I may say, particularly in this country - have opened the way for the progress of infidelity. People of sober reason and common sense may hence be tempted to think, that Reason and Religion can never be reconciled. They too who have been beguiled into a belief of such ill-founded systems, or enthusiastic opinions, finding that they cannot be supported, when properly attacked, may be led to suppose that all religious principles are equally unfounded with their own. The next step is to become proselytes to the opinion that all religions are equal, and no religion as good as any.