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Show [ 54 ] [ 55 ] have made a much better Provifion for his Clea» tures, than what is here fuggef'red: Certainly with refpeé‘t to human Governments; and .1f . they, notwithflianding all their Faults and Failhe might have rendered their feveral Interefts lefs repugnant to each other; 0}‘ rathfl, he might have caufed them all to Tpring from one common Center, or to unite in one common ings, can regulate Matters f0 much for the better; how then comes it to pals, that we lhould afcribe f0 much Imperfeé‘tion, fuch And we are confirmed in this Train of Want of Benevolence, fuch Partiality, nay fuch premeditated Mifchief to that great and equal Reafoning, when we reflect, that even the Be- Government, which prefideth over all? Is it, Bafis. nevolence and Power of human Governments, provide for the Safety and Welfare of their re- do you think, that Almighty God cannot go- vern two large Difiricts, Frame and Eng/am! for Example, as well, and as wifely as you can go- fpeélive Subjecis by this very Niethod of an vern two {mall ones? Or is it, that he hath f0 narrow and imperfect as they are, do acitially Union and Coalition of feparate Interei'ts. Thus, for Example, the Inhabitants of one County, or of one City, have not {0 much as an ltlea, that they are, and mul't be, according to the unalterable Courfe of Things, the confiitu- tional Foes of thofe of another County or City under the fame Government: Nor do we at all conceive, that this or that particular Town, or Dil'trié‘t, can grow rich, or profper, 'till the Difiricts, or Towns around it are reduced to P0- verty, or made a dreary Waite. On the con- trary, we naturally conclude, and jul'tly too, that their Interelts are infeparable from our OWn: And were their Numbers to be diminifhed, or their Chcumf'tances altered from Affiuence to Want, we ourfelves, in the Rotation of Things, fhould foon feel the bad Effects of luch a Change. If, therefore, this is the Cafe, with egregioufly blundered in his firfl framing the Confiitution of Things as to render thofe Exploits, called Wars, necelTary for the Good of the Whole under his Adminiftration, which you would jul'tly confider to be a Difgrace to yours, and feverely punilh as an Outrage? Surely no: And we cannot, without Blafphemy, alcribe that Conduct to the bell of Beings, which is almoft too bad to be luppofed of the worf't: Surely it is much more confonant to the Dictates of tinbiaiTed Reafon to believe, that our com- mon Parent and univerfal Lord regards all his Children and Subjects with an Eye of equal Tendernefs and Good-will; and to be firmly perfuaded, that in his Plan of Government the political Interefis of Nations cannot. be re- pugnant to thofe moral Duties of Humanity and Love which he has (0 univerfally prefcribed. q co |
