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U, because «nch a xtate uf things i» HM yffijucc uiUu llic I-ord, and will bring dowQ lipOQ ufthifi rigbteouB judgrpenu. If any of you, looking docpcr, can perceive that, wbercvcr there is & practical disavowal of Chriat'a authority 09 * Kiag over power, thore mtiat aUo be a practical I disavowal of his authority as Priest over righteous- ness i aod that (he malice of Satan di*e8 not slop al dt^iroying otie of \m oflices, but proceedetii to fpb^ert them all ; then must you perceive, as 1 dp, that thift disatfection h the forerunner of infi- delity, if not the con&cqucnec of it ; and that there COB be no obedience of (jod where there 14 a speaking ctjI of dignities; and you will mourn over the evil, as a great spiritual evil ;— in whiob light indeed it is that I have &et ii before you If, moreover, you be conscious to yourselves, ijiy be- loved brethren, as lam to iny9elf> of having so drunk into the spirit of tt^c limes as to have yielded in t|n»e pa-^l to the temptation, neither understanding llie principle of Christian governnkent, nor the principle pf Christian «ubjectiori, as laid down iu the Holy Scriptures, and continually taught in the church of Chruit, then you will tnoum for your own sins, and have a tenderer feeling for those of your l^ighbours. Butletall of us mourn: doindcedall of you monni. For unless we mourn with godly sorrow, I see not why th? Lord should remove bis hand from off us. Pharaoh repented not, and the plague was increased ten times. Why the Lord should not so deul still with wicked nations, 1 see 3 r 9 040 god's COXTftOVUKSr WITH THE LAUD- [, DOC; but judeed do aee that this is, and ever tmi hwn, the method of his dcaltug. For from these cauGcs it hath come to pass thi the proper leaders nnd guardians of the people a| pointed uDder God. ha^-ing deserted their pro; ofiices over lhe»i, llie people are hecotnu hi sheep without a shepherd, like wanderers withoi t home, almost like men without a country : that they arc blameless, as we shall berea amply shew, but that through our forg;etfi of Gods supremacy over all power, and pro| and wealth; our negleet of those good officer, eodft for which he hath appointed lliem tobeui tofi^cther with our devotioa to idols of populi opinion, of silver and of gold, of Belial and oui ward vanities ; it batli come to pass, that for the ccnturj* the golden cord of hfe hath beeo untwii itig, and now hardly huldelh together the orders the community. And the lower ranks bare themselves into the nrmfi of democrats, havo poifioacd with