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trade be more acted on, and the rights of the people more clear- ly recognized and defined, and intelligence of every kind more widely diffused? tniisinuch as ao IIP O0D*8 COVTROVCRSY WITH TIfK LAfvA. {Dit. God'0 auUioritT and word are not adcnowledgod in the wiser sdietnea and richer froiu of Spirit, it U an iisurjnttion at>d rebellion agai the HigheAt, not the less hateful, btU ntfaer the mere so, that it i» done in the light of reason, and the informatioa of oxpcncoco; vid ccrt&inljr tt^^| on that account the more hopelcsjt, :*eemg wc ha^; had llie universal re^on and eternal rj^ht Det« of Cbrii;!, and tlie ministry of ever peace in our hands. And \rt iizve had the foun- dations of the state rested thereon, all the forms of the state moulded thereby, and, 1 may say, tlkt very life at this Protefitent land preaenred out of tlwsefoimiainsof liriri^ w»ler», which w<.^ are now forgaVing and destroying, and hewing out unio ourselves cisterns, broken cisterns, whieh can hold no water* Our syfitem of statesmanship and lord- ship, and merchandize, of which we boast our- selves that it ifi carried on in the light of greatef ■wiadom and understanding thantliat of our tors, may be »o; it may be severely righteous Sparta, ttmavbecivilizedas Athens, rich aaTyrt^ and Rtable as old Rome; yet though tt combinod all the elements of all powerful states within itsdC I lake leave to say, that it \% becoming as heathen* tsh and unchri^itiun a^ they, an[) will not bees- dured like them, for we are not nowin ignoranoet but in full possession of the truth, thai Christ ii Lord of all, and that all who acknowlodgo not, most be brought under his feet, and strained to bow to him in judgment. II, From this first head of discourse, I advance to the special wis and offences of common people, which are tlie counterpart of tb« IIL] 0OD» COHTftQVEHSY WITH TBK LAtfO. 923 fDrmi.<r, and may l>e ftaid to have been brought w by them. Seeing it ii a universa] principle of all GDciety, from the state to ibe family ; nay» I might &ay, from God the Father of all, down to the lowest of his creatures, that the duties axid offices fay which they are bound togetlicr should all rleaceod from abore iw acts of condesceusiouj and then returo from below in act« of thaukfuU &eBS, The Lord hath fio constituted us, afi that every act of goodness should be^et a reciprocal act of gcoduc&d in return : but be hath mdicatcd it to be his will, that the honour of making the overtures, and comiiK-Qcing the commerce of luvc, should be from