An oration, urging the necessity of religion, as the only permanent basis of civil government : Pronounced in the Baptist Meeting-House in Providence, at the commencement of Rhode-Island College, September 5, A.D. 1798. By Otis Thompson, A.B. Published at the request of the students. [Four lines of Latin quotatons]. - Thompson, Otis, (Printed by Carter and Wilkinson,, 1798)