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Show E 58 l [593 to remove, in the prefumptuous hope that WC {hall ringleaders of the American revolt, thememhers of their congrefe, have, in their lafhleclaratxon, pomted all their malice againfl the King, as tho', in confequence ofa fettled plan, he had been adopting and place them anew better than our fathers have done. 'ay more, it unites in fuel) a manner our allegiance to the fovereign and loyalty to the eonflitution of our country, with piety towards God, as {hows that there Whaling tyrannical meafures, in order to render him- is an intimate conneétion between their: duties. Fear {elf abfolnte. 1/18 Lardmzn't/ze Icing, fays Solomon, and meddle not no infult, by which they could inflamethe minds of "wit/J t/xz‘n'z What are given 2‘0 cr'mngc. an tinhappy and deluded people. To the fame They have accordingly {pared noehufe, rlheir)eitpreihont; the words I have often referred to from Paul, the are itch its. decency forbids me to repeat. he mam: they employ are indeed of a colour with the and they duty is all along enforced from aprinciple of reve. purine. rence to God, At the fame time it! does not preclude p‘ttiality or candour, but reflect, and {my}, in what the conflitutional {upport of any civil right. fingie irritant-e our benign fiverc‘igu hasdaooptjd any. nicotine, but by the advice cf the Britinricggyfizryfrf, purpofe Peter, Fear Gad, bonsai" t/ze Kz'ngc. And in Paul, But let thoie who can lay claim to any nn- tho' as fenfihle as any man, of the {hortnefs of life, and of the fmallnefs of its value, compared with c- or polio-ed g; lilpzzrate intetef'; {om tht~ or "(no iii-rm ternity, did not difdain oftcner than once to aliert his Ilrlfiéil. right as a denizen of Rome, happily joining the [piiit parliament, the legii'lative body of Greet Britain, tindnot concerning the prerogatives of the (,t‘iir‘tUtZ, that ofthe Roman with the moderation of the Chrii'tian ‘1, And in the former part of this difcourfe, I have. {llOWI}, I hope, with fufiicient evidence, that none of the exnreflionsrecommending the duty of allegiance, ifcandidly interpreted by the fame rules which are admitted in interpreting other precepts iimilarly ex- it is lolely concerning the lupremacy 0. mt. we are now contending. And ought not thi crrcunr flame to enhance our obligation to concur tyitn at:a_;rity, r 3 far as our influence Will extend, "11151131. ening the hands of the government, noyv :1 u.1 :1: nccellity of reeling by arms‘to tiring nae? to the k. prefled, can be undertlood to exclude an exception in cafes of duty, tho‘fe infolent and reoellious luojcazs . in the general terms employed in feripture, there is manifeflly included the w/yo/e' of the civil eonftituticn- W618) IL on notice of every plea that may feem to be of extreme neeeility. It was alfo ohferved, that And the whole is more to be regarded than a pa rtliven the royal power, however confidera hle, is flill, in rcfpeél of the conflitution, but :1 part. .In regard to the prefent qu arrel, it may juflly be {and that it is t/M' w/io/c tha t is attacked. ' Indeed the c .. _ rlPet. n. :7. ‘1 Aétszm.. 37. .xxii. as, ] am unwilling {Sq-gilt the argument, Without. {'11ng he other tide 'of the queition. Some ofthe more mo- .‘IEC advocates for theft: people Trill pleayl, that, "2111:; 4 5" out rtetrrrix g to any democraticnt‘ and newling;t 5 principles, or to the footing on winen the coroni enamtnemtelves, a 11d fome of their molt finignme 1 ,. .- to,. 'place their depions in this c onntrv _ thin}:< proper tor cicaxnno . he point, may l fence, theie few quellions |