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Show t 5+ 3 E 55 J _ 'So {trong did the argument from the words: of Paul iappear againlt the papal ul‘urpations on the ileum powers; {or it every foul mult he fubjecTt to them, (and it was to the Romans the words were addrelTed) And if to make no difiiu‘cnce in enforcing obedience the bifhop or pope can plead no exemption, (f0 thong, on thofe quiz/2i", and tholb Wit/mus, that community which llily, did this argument appear) that toms of the can- trines. might be li'rit‘tly denominated ROMAN; it, without fug- onii'ts could conceive no way of eludingit, hutby main- gelting any diltinc‘tion, to employ the tinne- liine‘lione, the divine favour and the divine difpleal‘ure, with them both, he to maintain, that reli‘dnnee is no [US (ml/mm! in the one cute than in the other; audit to maintain this, be, as has been alfirmed, to iii/Ml more to whom this language is Zléltil'Cil‘Cil, I do not ice in "ill-1t manner our antagondts will r.':c;n‘ our Lord and his Wellies from this; ind, imputation -----‘ Evt ‘ has nothing bun aflrged from {criptnrc on the otier fidef' It is true that, :1 few piiliiigjt‘s which, n5 rippearo from the exprttiium emphr'yitl 111.41 li om the context, relate. faith; to th: l'oirilutd lairgdgxn or the Menhh, and the means \\ hereby it ought to be promoted and happened, have mull, uninturally tun forced into the flrvice of pcli'dchl projr.\':iors. Yet nothiig can be clearer, thus that the intention of thofe V, ‘n', " v‘ ‘ v. . u _.« n L pure", lo nu nom neing to {ardent e :1 model to worldly taining that all fuch injunétions are merely prudential aa'via'r ; that as the ehrill‘ians were then the weaker party, who, if they had not paid willingly, would have been compelled, and might have inflicted in other refpeCts, the npol‘tlo thought it advifeahle for them to comply, lince they could not make their condition better by n reful'ai. Thole DE‘CCCPES then we to he viewed in the fame light as We ihould view the tounlhl or :1 friend, who, when we were {etting out- > on a hourncy, ihould warn us, that if we meet with , highwaymen on the road, we ought to give them our money rather than endanger our lives. A curious politics. "as to contradil‘tinguilh ti)" C.':‘ill'(/.', a heavenly rum, 1 innit acknowledge, to the did‘tates of infpi» polity, to all of them. ration. They do not therefore invalidate the methods proper to be ul'cdin there; but t;~.;n‘cilaly pro. hihit the ehriltinn paltors from admitting: tiloilfi method .into the ferviee of religion. lion ever much thtit'l‘orc their: infliuc'iions may militate agninlt the ereétion of .1 thirituzl tyranny, or i-iicrzzrcly like the liomilh, they nowile allct‘l the fecular power. This, with its Villllflld in‘rangernmts and cflices, tho' of a dilfl‘i‘tnt nature, optrziting by dillcrent means, and ton dilitrtnt end, {0 far from being: {uperl'eded by the other, is declared alto to be Mr ordinances/'00:], and ineccll‘ary to human l'ociety in its prefent corrupt flute. It happens unluckily for our opponents, that as monarchy was the eflablilhcd power in the time of our Lord and hit apofiles, uhcn thefe in their injnnt‘iiions, (ltxl‘cend to particulars, they always fpecity the l‘nl'iordinations of kinle government. in {Lox-t, the argument from lbriptnrc: i". every View I take of it, appears fo full, to txnlirit, ll) deci‘ five; that I could UUdCI‘iiliBC to dunonftrate that the dihblutc At the fame time i' do but juitice to thoie cafuills "when I conic-fa, that I have not heard any" thing to ipeeious, for obviating f0 {trong an argument from itripture, advanced by any of our champions on the tide of the. American revolt. For this reafon i {hall fuppofe that fuch of them as think the doétrinc of the bible of an}r confequence in the debate, fatisly their confeienees with the glofs above-mentioned. Be it then, that there is no right in any government not and ('chmlzle lclTons ofa late father to his ion, on the fair Jet} ot any/ray ard diflimu/atiozz, are not more irreconcilable to the pug-e morale ol' chritlianity, than the libertine and hardiv 131%) ngnicions mtximé, tho' fulcnptxblc of a more 1PM", "flowing, of fame democratical dcclarmere. 113 |