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Show [ 69 3 utterly unworthy of regard. Better far to let them have their beloved independence. I am not lure that this would not have been the hell meafure from the beginning I {my this however with all due fuhmiflion and deference, for I am far from confiderI mg myfelf as a proper judge in {0 nice a queltion. WHAT then is the conclulion of the whole? It is prceiiely that we follow the admonition of the Such there were in the days of the apofiles. Of fueh,' Peter in particular warns chril'tians to beware. The defcription he gives of them bears too firiking :i refemblance, in (natty principal features, to the foflious‘ and difafl'eé‘ttd of our own time, not to deferve our molt feiioes attention. Like fome of our Americ an oratore and popular tribunes, they delighted in a bonllfel, tumid, and homballie difiion. They {poke mifimprovement of former mercies, which have provoked heaven ngainil us, le: us 2.8; [tr/"rye, yet GREAT til‘y'l/VELLING ward; of vanity c. They dq/J‘bifetl gavarnmmz‘, were preflmzpi‘zmzr, fey-willed, and not afraid z‘o/pm/«c evil of diglziz‘ier d. In regard to the body of the people, our deluded fellow-fuhjeits on the Other fide of the Atlantic, let not 212.12g our liberty for a tic/3e of 7}Z.'Zi7i;‘i6t'{/fifr)3‘, a useonfider them as objects of our pity more than practice too co urn-on in the-{e of our indignation. wife mm, with which we began, that we fear the Lord and the king, andmedc'z'lu mt wit/i t/wm Hint are given to change. Whillt we {incerely repent of the .333, he! as hie/gr. '1)(1}2f5 ome'; entertnining :1 pr ricteiltztit'm ofthat modern political hypocrify, wig-Eel: ranticr the difguife of farriafifz'n (a :zrznze one; refiieftahle, now brought into difgraee by frequent itiiiii}:>pliczttion) at: tempts tofi‘reen the ‘C‘JGI'll der‘igns and melt perni- cious prafiices. Let as often reittl‘ teat it is no new thing to find men who fuming/f: Hit-7‘5} to others, tum/c NM} 1.5 'rin/cizw are fiveJ'.;‘;*r,mz.«"r vfz'crrzzpz'wiz l'. I i ‘ N " F v \ candidates for the ofiiee- - a ‘ l And if, by any Chang... there were forte finch (mlOilg them, there is little brawl to think, thrir, during thegeiitrgtl flinttzit, they could L); honoured with the popular millage. rile "~':'ili,‘il‘ and the bull, "'6 may .3311ny cousin-3c, 1m; my firm. mm their elections altogether. And what the .21 CuiiiL-gnexzee would M: is very evxdezit. In behalf of the mere populace, the unthinking multitude, it may with truth he pleaded almoll in every infurreé'tion, that their ig~ noranee is their apology. Thy/2.11010 not "Lu/mt they do. They are but the tools of a few afpiring, interelied, and deligning men, both on their tide of the 1water, and on ours. Already, alas! they have fe- rerely felt the efl‘ecfis of their folly. Let us ardently prey to the Father of lights and of mercy, that he would open the eyer of the people, aiid turn the [hearty oftheir leaders. Too long already have they been wandering in the dark, not knowing whither. Pretending to purfue liberty, they have turned their incl; upon it, they have fled from it. Seeking to avoid llnvery, they have plunged headlong into it! I‘v'iny GOD who ruler}; f/JK raging of [lie/m, and ‘ Dr Tucker has advanced {time verv llld‘uilijic argu meflfi in [upport of this zineai'ure. See his tracts. i, 1 _ 3g " 31‘316 u, ‘2‘)- fl filer/'1 22'): wife of NM waver, flii'l z‘lm tzmzzu'z‘r of the pref/:2! May he foon refiore them to their fenfes, for their fakes and ours! C 2 Pet. ii. 18. d to. |