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Show [67] [65] ilers, and in fo readily paying them fuch an who are guilty of this undue obedience to unlimited obedience, as is due to GOD alone. tyrants. WE may obferve farther, that thefe men are faid, ver. 4. to wmflnip [be dragon ; not that it is to be fuppol'ed that they in direct terms paid divine homage to fatan, but that the adoration paid to the bealt, who was fatan's vicegcrent, us free, and to ltrive to get the vidory over the bealt and his image, over every fpecies of that thofe who pay an undue and finful vene- tyranny. Let us look upon a freedom from the power of tyrants, as a blefling, that cannot be purchafed too dear; and let us lalels ration to tyrants, are properly the fervants of GOD, that he has {0 far delivered us from that did ultimately center in him. {1/1110le DOES it not then highly concern us all to Band faft in the liberty wherewith heaven has made Hence we learn the devil, they are worlhippers of the prince of dark-net‘s, for in him all that undue homage and adoration centers, that is given to his minil‘ters. Hence that terrible denunciation of divine wrath againlt the worlhippers of the bealt and his image : Rev. 14th, ver. 9th, Ioth, and nth, If any man war/kip [be berg/23 and his idolatrous reverence, which men are lo very apt to pay to arbitrary tyrants; and let us pray that he would be pleated gracmully to perfect the mercy he has begun to thew usliy confounding the devices at our 6116111168, and bringing their counlels to nought, and by eftablilhing our jult rights and privllcdges, upon fuch a firm and lafiing balls, that image, and receive lair mark in bi: fore/Jead, or in his band, t/Jefame flmll drink qft/Je wine of the ‘ZL‘I'af/J of GOD whit/J ix poured out wit/Nut mixture into the [up of his indignation, and 1.7: flm/l [2e tormented wit/J fire and brimflone in [be Préj/E'IZFC' of [be boly angels, and in tbe prefeme of the powers of earth and hell {hall not prevail againlt it. Me Lamb ; and t/Jefinoee qf t/Jeir torment 4/2016!- event; but in a more eminent manner does eI/J up forever and ever : And they have no rig/25 day nor wig/1t, ‘ZU/JO war/bi]; tbe berg/Z and bi: image, and who receive t/Je mark of his name. UNDER Goo, every perfon in‘ the community ought to contribute his afli'ltance to the bringing about fo glorious and important an this important bulinefs belong to the gentlemen, that are chofen to reprel‘cnt‘ the people in this general afl‘embly, including thofe, We have here fet forth in the clearelt manner by the infpired apofile, GoD's abhorrencc of tyranny and tyrants, together with the idolatrous reverence, that their wretched {ubjeéts are wont to pay them, and the awful that have been appointed members of the honourable council board. denunciation of divine wrath, againft thofe 8U31‘(l121'-13 HONOUMD fathers, we look up to you m this day of calamity and dilll‘c'ls, as the who . paring-aid. a ‘w: mum-amiss "3 |