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sub- serviency, and acknowledge as the god of their idolatry ; it hath come to pass that in the place »f this, the orthodox doctnne of the Christian iburch coneeruing power and governmentr false :lriui:s haw become popular and prevalent, 'hich, like all errors in principle, have brought tg with them a flood of errors in practice, I think there be no longer any hope of re- ieving the land from the necessary conAcquence a deluge of God's indignation and threatened r^urM!s. The idol to which power haUi paid icourt, in the disbelief of God's sovereignty, liath |{)een the sovereignty of the people: couceniing )vhich I will shew you the true doctrine, that 1 pay not be mistaken for a setter up of arbitrary [and despotical principles, which 1 abhor. The ^end of law aiul governnkent is the peace, and ;prn^perity, and blcsM-diiess of ull ^ priiict», and iiiobles, and people ; not of any class above the :st, but of all in their severed places and relatione. And that this end may be established, the Lord I I i 9012 OOU^S COMTHOVAKST WirH THK LAUD. [Dm* bath written in fau vord with great breadth and oomprehcDsivencss, aUo with much fninutoiMti:^ and a[iplicaticm,thc duties of every office, from ihtt^" of thi: kingwho sittcth upon the throne^ unto that of the servant who grindctb behind the mill ; and bfttb pliiced every one under the mame eternal obliga- liQUB, afi tb^ will answer to liitn at the great day of judgment, to fulfil those obli9;atioDs of their ^ereral calli&g« by tbc rule and meafture of hii own blcAscd word. Ilia word, therefore, iaUi ^ound&tioa of all laws, aud law ought to be but the applications of the morality of lh« Gospel directed to the Tariotm case*! and oceurrencen of life ; and his word needeth ro infallible imerpreier, for it is oxceeding broad> and he that runneth may read it, and the way-faring man, thoQgb i fool. Ahall not err therein. The pope is not that infallible mtcrprctcr, neither is the king, neither is the church— that \», the visible church; and still lem IB thttpeopU ; nor tb the British legislature, nor it expediency, nor human philosophy, nof human reason in the abttract : there is no infa]* libility of interpretation ; and there is therefore, no authority over the word in any of these powers, or all of the.<e powen« clubbed tog«.<ther; no mors is there infallibility in tlif? ministry of the Goape], which is appointed to be for ever declaring the word to pope^ king, visible church, people^ Bntish legislature, expediency, philo^phy, and rMsou: nor i