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Show so COMMON SENSE. COMMONSENSE.' w-wts vet to form. are Caz/oft" is the lcripture duariiie of courts, yet it is no [UIJLWI fin rl'l'atChinl government, for the Je its at that time Were without a king, and in a Rate of vafiltllage to the Rue mans. ,5 " Render unto Ca‘fizr the thing: which . Near three thoufand years pafl'cd away from the Mofaic accourt oi the creation, till the jews under a national delu- fi n itqucflrd a king. Till then their form of government gexccpt in extraordinary cafes, where the Almighty interpo- ica) was a kind of republic adminiflered by ajudge and the elders of-hcttibt‘s. Kingsthey had none, and it was hed liniul to acknowledge any being under that title but the Lord of Hills. And when a mani‘criouflt teflréis on the idolatrous homage which is paid to the perfons ofkihgs, he heed. the! wonder that the Almighty, ever jealous of his honor, flmuld dilapprove of a lorm of g0verriment which foimpi- ouflv invades the prerogative ofiheaven. Monarchy is ranked in {cripture as one oft‘he (ins of the Jews, for which a curle in refeive is denounced againtt them. The hiflnry oft-hat tranfaéi on is worth amending to. 'I he Children of lfrael bciflgt‘ppt' filed by the Midianites, Gideon marched againfl them With a {mall army, and vifiotry, through the throne interpt fttion, decided in his favour.- The Jews elate with fuccefs, and attributing it to the gene- with fome fecular concerns, they owe in an abrupt and Claw mmous manner to Smut-4, laying, [Ha-lo! any art old and" tho/on: wolri' not in rloy way; now mob or (I ling rojmlgo u:lirie all the other nations. And ht re we canno' but uhl'ervc that their motives were bad, viz. that they mtg-hr be like unto other nations, i, e. the Heathens, whereas their true: lory raid in being as much un/rl'c them as ooflihle. But" fl): thing difplm/od Samuel whim they firid. Give u: a ding to judge ml; and Samuel prawd unto tbo Lo'd mm the Lord faid unto Samml, Hurley: unto the mice o/rbe people in all that they for unto (beer for rlm- bow not "szsz too: but they loom njxflel mo, THAT l SHOULD NOT R‘lGN ovate THE .41. . loading to all the work: which they loom donefloce‘ 2/): do] that I brougbt tltam up ou: of Egypt, win unto this day; wborlwitb they bit-v: irfalen mo and firm/lotion Godr; _ [e do they alfo unto tboo lVow tbrroflr: boarl'on unto their voice, bowbeit prote/l folemrily onto 15 or and flow them the monitor of III: king thatflioll reign we them i e. not oi any particuiar king. butthe gc .crt- manner of the kings of he earth, whom [final was {i eagcr‘y copying after And notwiihflanding the great dtflance of time and difi'nence of manners, 'he charat'ter it liill in (album, find Samuel tolril all the word: oft/6e Lord unto the prop/o, tb 7t afl's/l of him a fling And I): ford, 115i: fboll [22 the manner of the ling that rallhip olGidetin, propol: d making him a king, laying, Rule tltou over art than and tlJyfon, and (by [on'r fon. Here was temptation in it's {iiileii extent; not a kingdom only, but an hereditary one, but Gideon in the piety of his foul replied, I will not rule over you, neither flooll my [on rule over you, TH 8 Loan SHALL Ron. oven YOU. Words need not be [ball reign over you ; in: will take your/om and appoint tbm for [Dion/elf, 'or bi: cbariorr, and to be his bar/omen, and/I'm? [boll run before bit chariot: ( ms de‘criptmn agrees With the pr rent mode of impxefli 'l', men) and/1r will appoint bim mptoinr owr thou/9nd: and captain: over fifties, and will/Eula": to ear bi: ground on'lro rz 'p lrit bows/l, and to male bit in- more explicit; Gideon doth riot darling the hr/inor, but deni- eth their right to give it; neither doth he cor‘hplimmt them flrumnt: of war, andin/l- ummtr ofbir chariot: good/1r will toll toil daughter: to at coufit'timariei, and to be molt: and with invented declarations of his thanks. but in the pofitive flile ofa prophet charges them with dilafieéltion to their pro- to 5; bad"! \ n s desert": hr v'x .erice and iuxurv as well as ‘ the upp i-fl'n-i o" k "tog/h) am] he will rel: your fold: andyour per lovereign, the king of heaven. all-w yam: euon lie [ml of. on. and give tbmr to bi: fvrvont: ; About one hundred and thirty years afterthis, they fell again into the fame error The hankering which the Jews had for the idolatrous cohort): of the heathens, is {cmething 071'! be will ml; the moth of'yourfi-d and of your vineyards; anogiw 15m: to bit officer: and to oitfirvont: (0y wh3ch we fee «It annoy. c "my: lil mt fiHLli'tlllm are the handing exceedingly unaccountable ; but in it was, that laying hold View; a! kings) and be will toxic tin tontb ofyour mm firventr, of the milconduét ot Sarpuel's two tom, who were entiuflcd with and your maid/armors, andyour goalie/110mg mm andyour Jrfli',' |