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Show C 5-5 'Il [57'] cllablilhed and upheld by univcrfitl content, but the new model, whole underl‘tanding, tho' very acute, freebooter's has, in feveral inltances, proved the dupe of a warm imagination and ltrong pallions, intoxicated with the right, the right of the llrongcr: that there is no law in fuch, but. clubalaw; that there is no motive to fubmilhon, but that which ought to in. chimerical maxims l have already confidered, has, "lluence us, in cafe we were cncountrcd by pirates, with infinite labour, chalked robbers, or rullians of whatever denomination; that there is no difl‘erence between thele and civil rulers, mocracy perfefily Utopian, fuch as never was, and never will be, brought into efcfi. This man, tho' but fuch as obtains between leis and greater villains, a profeflt-d admirer of the gofpel, and at times, he not a ditl‘crence in kind, but in degree. would make us think, a believer, had too much difernment not to diieover, and too much candour not to On this hypot-heiis, ifthe apoltle had been advilinf; chrittians, as to the conduct they {houid maii ‘i ain in cafe of be- acknowledge, that it is irnpollib'le to reconcile chrilliu 112g attacked by robbers, his fly,11 e and reaforing ought to "have been the fame. But will any chriltian, anity with the idol of a republic which he had reared up. I am furprifed that none of the twijflaz'perr of this; Will even a candid infidel, who has read it IDOL in our illand feems to have attended to this writings, affirm that he would have tried arguments? \Vould his reafon for their compliance remark 21. the fame author, that it is only in a very finall city have been, ‘that robbery is of (331? that the birth- that his fcherne is practicable '3. l C a I, ‘ wayman hrs r A ‘ "n" 45 good, cxnrefsl . - must/[er for . their a.) y 1 ‘ retritjlzwz...*zerl to rob on the highway? that refilling . b . ut the plan of a dc» ‘r-mr‘n is reliltmg Garfr ordinance, and the fure way C ofincurring the drvrne vengeance E' or, Could this have‘ be e, n ctlred a l arguingD ' r on the1 merely prudential ' conlideration or not idly oppofinq‘ afuperior force? . irelylto. unfold what is Implied m tome opinion s As little have they attended to another of Iain not f0 much allonilhed that they have not difeovered, what. to me is equally plain, that comma/z/cw/L' (with which I could n-‘ver find the gofpel at variance in any thing} is not let‘s its foe than chriltianity. That our religion itrongiy inculcatcs the duty of fubjecls to the magii‘trate (which this philofopher B; ‘ C is a luilicrent refutation. O U ‘ I 'l V o . But what can more eit- pliCitly exclude this abt‘urd, not to fay blafphe mous cavrl, than what follows, Be J'efl/djefr' a/fo mt 022/}! for carat/2, ém‘ for can/gimme fa/l'c; not only from fear of wrath, tue punilhment that may be inflicted by the ofi'ended magiltratc, but (even if that could be calls being favourable to tyranny) is undeniable. It gives no preference to one form of government above another; it does not enter into the quellion, but it. is friendly to order and to the public peace, which it: will not permit us railrly to infringe; it teaches us to refpeé‘t the dil‘penl‘ations of providence, and to feel; the good of the lbciety whereof we are members. The 1 eluded) a8; thus from a principle of duty towards God, who requires it of you. A celebrated foreigner, a republican too of the ancient landmarks of the conttitution it forbids us 5 Ron fl'cau Du contrat focial Liv. iv. chap. vui. b Liv. in, Chap. XV. |