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GoapeJ arc the only ^'nen winjse hearts are to be restrained from feel- ing the mi&eries of our fellow-countrymen; or» if our heartA fee), thai we messeagers of Altuighty truth, interpreters of God s providence, and hia counsellors to the nation, arc the only meii whose Iip9 are to be refrained by a latee dehcacy, and lur mouth muzzled by a wicked authority of tipinion. As the I^rd hveth, it never yet was so dt>ne in Israel, that there wa^^ evil in tlic ctty, and Ihe Lord did not reveal it unto his prophets ; nor lUfras it over m endured in the church of Christ, ^Tfctt the minifttcra of the Gospel should not fear- tarily expose the sins of the nation, and make known the Hufferinps of the nation, and the causes why the lord's people were brought to trouble 896 cod's cnMTnovEfisv with T»r. land, [Vit^ or dismay. And, heboid you, brethren, I am purpoAed to enjoy all itie liberty of |>ro|>hebying,f for which thv fIderK contended* »nd by the like grace to contfjod for it unio ibc dcaih. That the people who do know the Lord may take couDsel among themselves, and not be shaken with tbo blows, nor alarmed vriih the terrors of the wick-^ ed, who know him not; and that 1 m&y save my own soul, acconiing to that fearful wo« upoa the prophet, which I do now read to ygu, as my conglraint ai;d obligaliou lo fal61 ttie office with fear and trembling, which 1 have undertaken, o£ declariog the sin and iniquity for which the land lahourcth under Ibe frown of Jehovah. — Ezek. xxxiii. 2—6: " When 1 bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the laiid take a niaa of theiE coasts, and %et him for their watcbman : if, when be fieetb the sword come upon the land, he blow, the trumpet, and warn the people; then wboao-- erer hcareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come and take him away, hiH binod ftball be upon hin own head, lie heurd the t^mnd of ihc trumpet, aiid took Dot warning, his blood ^sll be upon bim : but be that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman ecc the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and tlie people be not warned; if the sword come and take any person from among them, he is taken away in bis iniquity, but bis blood will I reijuire at the watchman's band/* Now, then, lei mc fur^t my fears, and speak before my God, according a?i his Spirit shall give lae utterance, all the sLn» and traa^rcssious of this people, that our souls may be bowed duwn bofote bim like the bulrush, searching first I I I Ill,] (JOn'a CONTKOVPH*^ WITH