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Show [ :cxxvi L ] Xxxvii ] it may perhaps he allowed (in one Senfe) {e Writers, who attempt, by any to be a /E/"z:7:ge Principle 5 but then we Ell-1:32;; fophiltry, to vyith‘drayv our Brz-v tifl) Soldiers ( 22) from their Obedience tothe have the greatefi Region to lament the ignorance and depravity of thole Men \ivho elleem it fo in any other tcnfe than thatof being too p/ten neglefted and tranf- eternal Law, or from that allegiance which thev indifpem'ibly owe tothe empire of Real/0n and Con/bimzce, may Juf'tly be faid'to grtfiEdl for I trnfl that no Man, who admits or believes the divine authority of the holy Scriptures, will doubt [lie rfrat/9 of it. Ifthis/lrmrge PRINCIPLE had not been (gag/l): true, the Englifh Nation (as I remarked in my former Tract) would lon go have been avg/laced: and I will now treat them more like Brute: than Men. ‘ But as all men of Common 50%? are ‘ enabled, by that beretlztary Know/edge ‘ beforementioned, (Wh-LCh has been 60m‘ man to all ranks of people evenfince the ‘ fall of Man,) to drf'tingmth Goof ‘from Evil (23) 3 {0 they are egually add, that even the very flandifig Army ‘judge (24.) concerning t/oe Legal"): 3;; ‘ enabled (and indeed entitled) thereby to itfelf would, by this time, have been reduced to that aéjeé‘r' State of political my Readers, that I do not rnean Ito. oppofe fihe Mm, Slavery, which at prefent difgraces the but merely their ym-m/anaéle Prmrzplw, witr Otittilea‘r'Iy flana'iflg flrmy of Elm/"€42 r ), and there- fer/anal application whatfoeyer; for, otheriévilfé C], '3]. fore h. }; of Ram: and the Pratt/J 001/5271»!th won t‘ ,e' l incontinent with that " Good-lid! to Me», w 1c fl‘cd enemy, indeed, to flaming final"; but God forbid that I 1h0ul d be {0 t o the m~ azlvz‘zlua/r incorporated therein, whol e rm: borrow", nae rural dignity, and jig/1 privileges, AS MEN, I {hall ever Iy am indifpenfibly obliged t, for my own eternal» (21) I am a profe be ready to aliert and vindicate; and indeed I am bound to do {0 by that indilhenli ble duty which I owe to the great Author of luv/Ia n Nature, i110ppofi~ tion to the {piritual prince of this world, who is ever plotting to corrupt, fully"), and Ely/awe, thatnoblefl work of God, Maméim'.' And as this fame Law and Regard, which I here Iro‘efsfor the INDIVIDUALS of 1'): flrmy, are certainly due alfo to the INDIVIDUALS of ever} crter 804} szm, whole gener al Prz'mzlzsle: are cen- t'ured tn this Declaration, I mull be";r leave to afl'ure m7 verity of my exprelfions (elpecrally agttmH b ""132, inel‘s, to maintain. a ‘ H (31:) See Note in page x. of this I'rzyfarf'.' "mined; a (23) This point 15 more particu ar‘, be L and proved in my Tract/{Zlo'nce‘rn$11,671,N "I e arw f ‘ . . 1071 m d Prim! la; 0 Ears: (lwhiigt Saints? the t notinan/fflm ' fiasrf‘agaye irzzat roufined to Perfons of any PartiiuDar find if "b," r Oflice) " {hall jUDGE THE VvOR " t/ye World/ball Ac judged by you, are ye "5:113:ng "judge the fmal/efl Matierr?--1{n0\v ye no THINGS "/ZmlllUDGE fiz/gelt P-How MUHCH MémEVi 2 ‘ "THAT FERTAIN TO THIS LIFE, ' ' ‘ . I grab. .‘ 4:1." c wrote a d=fiin6t Treat, w 1C Ism all; t‘df‘éiiglilgsagghitalnflvrtiticd " a 'l‘raé‘t on the Law glemy. " |
