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Show E 46 ‘l E 47 it more, if all tin-ole glorious privxleges {o pompgufly dilizl-nycd, link, on the ferntiny, into a meer pafit'e party-conflias tit-it'ricndiy to the difcovery of truth, by writers Whole fame, in other refpeé'ts defervedly litbmiiiion anti arr/trigz'i'mm, and ifthisbe the true hills great, has drawn a veneration even for their crudi. of civil liberty, the inhabitants of l'erfia or cszxpm, tier. have more freedom than we Britons, as their acquiefcenee will be fouml much perfefler than ours. The name, how illufirious lower, as to facrifice to it But let us not be {-3 much dazzled by any 3:1 the rights of truth and juflice. C'onfirler, I pray you, is it creclible, that in at and goverrm'usnt, thcin rL tthe matters will oc eon~ lull nine sen nations out. of twenty now exiiling in fidercd by them as on {r footing with the laws oi" the. odd (I mimic, tor axyguznent's fake, that there ome which come within their dcfcription) the leis power the. people have. in matters of leg 1 Univerfe, and beyond their red ‘l . On the contrary, the greater power they have, the more they will he aceullomed to {crutinize public meal‘ures, and ti)" _ are under no obligation to obey the who powers? Is there no right but that of the firongcr more they will find thcmfi‘lyes difpofed to grumble. fubfii'ling among them 9 How does this doé‘trine quadrate with that of the New Teflamcut ? I hope I {peak whofi: ibuti‘men's on this {object [have been examining, no i‘ornilof government, wherein their radical maxims have no place, can he called jg? or lrgz‘r'z'xi-zaz'r, or can lay a moral obligation on ,1or petty-ls: to obmlience. ‘ E my other form,' fay Likv, ‘ as it is founded in violence of one kind or other, ‘ to, u hen a proper opportunity offers, may inilly be ‘ overturned by violence, ‘ turned, my, ought to. be oven that roon. may be made for a free and ‘ rightful government, the only one that binds the ‘ confeience.' I fhould think that the bare mention of conlequences {o baneful to fociety, logically th~ dueible from :1 fet of principles, would Hartle the benevolent and judicious, and make them coolly reexamine the principles which lead to fuch conclufions, by whatever refpeétable names they come recommended. I know that forne fuch paradoxes as I Imye been combating, have been adopt ed, or rather ‘i‘xaihly thrown out in thehcat of difputation, and to the difciples ofChrill, to thofe who believe the {criptures to be a revelation from God. If {0, Iperfwade myfelf, my hearers will not be rafh in admitting any theory which will not bear the tell of Holy Writ. We have already tried thofe novel maxims of our modern republicans by the light of REASON; let us bring them alfo to the chril'tian touchflone, the BIBLE. This is a field on which, as far as Ihave obferyed, the combatants have not at entered. But furely, if we have not renounced the faith of Jefus, it is of the utmoll confequencc to us to know, how for any principles, however artfully inculcated, are conformable to the heavenly lefiinns tranfmitted from our Divine l‘w'lailer. Hear his faithful firvant Paul, Let awry fast] he furl/'35} _ to 5/7: (rig/Jar pat/yer: ; for t/lwrr is .420 power but of God. 1"1‘: pawn"; that (36 are ordainedo," Cod. U710. farmer 3,1j,,,,,.¢f,,~fl ,«g/f/igg-l; 2/39 power, 1272131315 2‘1": crdz‘mzncry'tfia'. 4m! :99); tr'mt rg'fl 1/1"? |