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Show (52 SUBJECTS. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL have made a much better Provifion for his Cm; ture's, than what is here fuggef‘ted: Certainly he might have rendered their fevers] lnterelli lefs repugnant to each other; or rather, he might have caufed them all to fpring from one common Center, or to unite in one common Bafis. And we are confirmed in this Train of Reafoning, when we reflect, that even the Btnevolence and Power of human Governments, 63 with refpeé‘t to human Governments; and if they, notwithl‘tanding all their Faults and Fail- ings, can regulate Matters {0 much for the better; how then comes it to pals, that we fhoald afcribe f0 much Imperfeé‘tion, fuch Want of Benevolence, fuch Partiality, nay fuch premeditated lVIifchief to that great and equal Government, which prelideth over all? Js it narrow and imperfect as they are, do aftually do you think, that the Almighty God cannot govern two large Dif'triéts, France and Eng/am! for provide for the Safety and Welfare of their re- Example, as well, and as wilely, as you can go- j‘peétive Subjects by this very Method of an vern two {mall ones 9 Or is it, that he hath f0 egregioully blundered in his firft framing the Union and Coalition of feparate Interells. Thus for Example, the Inhabitants of one County, or of one City, have not {0 much as an Idea, that they are, and muff be, according to ‘ the unalterable Courfe of Things, the conl'titu- 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 Difiritt, cannot grow rich, or profper, 'tillthc Diftriéts, or Towns around it are reduced to Poverty, or made a dreary VVafte. On the con. trary we naturally conclude, and jul'tly [00,11 that their Interefis are infeparable from our own: And were their numbers to be dimi« nilhed, or their Circumi'tances altered from Af- fluence to Want, we ourfelves, in the Rotation of Things, fliould foon feel the bad Effects of .{uch a Chance. If, therefore, this is the Cafe, ‘ with Conl'titution of Things as to render thofe Exploits, called Wars, necelTary for the Good of the Whole under his Adminil'tration, which you would juftly confider to be a Difgrace to yours, and feverely punifh as an Outrage? burely no: And we cannot without Blafphemy, afcribe that Conduct to the belt of Beings, which is almolt too bad to be fuppofed of the worft: Surely it is much more conlonant to the Diétates of unbialled Realbn to believe, that our common 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‘lnterel't of Nations cannot be repugnant t0 thol'enioral Duties of Humanity and Love which he has foiuniverfally prefcribed. So " ‘ «ii-Ullllllllm i "" w... I q w |
