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s there infallibility anywhore but in the judgment-seat of Christ. But 1 will tell yoQ what will bring us nearer s/tntX mot^ n^-ht to in<- fallibility : whi*n every man hath the word, and learuetb it under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, with continual prayer for the Divine blesaing; I Iir.] ood'a cohtroverst with the land. 908 aitd wliea the roiuistcns preach it with large, aod open, and foirless niouth, in the spirit of peace, and of love, aod of a sound mind ; and when the vUibtc church (juriticth and purgcth itaclf from all gio&s and loose commuiiioa, and wjtncsscth for th^ truth in all places ^ and when the laws breathe the spirit of the Holy Scnpture^; am) wheii tlie judges of law are ministers of God for justice, and tbo magistrates for power.^and the great couu- cila of the nation for law-giving, and taxation, and econumyp**aiulthc roinistersof the king, for tht^r various totni&tricH, feel respon^ihlc tolhc Lord for tbe Kake of their royal master and their own aouI ; and the king, like the eye of Providence upon tbe earthy wateheth over all for the Lord Jesus' take; — then those working together with the greiLt body of the people, and upon the great body of the people, in the ways of righteousness, do bring a<it, by (heir hnrmonions co-operation, a reftult which 11 thi' noarc'^t io infiLllilnlity iiitd rightrcjun* neis that can be bad i and then i: may be said of such a community, more truly than can be said of any thing under hcatcn, ' Vox populi cat yox Dei :* The voice of the people ia the voice of (Jod> And now, brethref^, observe the artifice of Hatan to mar the work of God. When by tin; vigorous action of this holy alliance, it had come to pass that the voice of this community, or popular opi* bion, as we term it, had risen to a high dei^e of purity and righteouaness, and was rising higher, and might, if it had persevered in paying obei- sance to the word of God, have clean delivered this latid from all vei^tigeaof eccU?siaHtical and political misrule, Satan did cunningly convert it into an idol, sayingr The voice of the people is wisdom ; 904 GOD« COHTUOVER^V WITH THE LAKD. [. the welfare of the people is ri^tconsncss ; UiqJ authority of the people is sovereign; and crcr; thing, no duubtr v ma nates from the [kcopli Which principle haviug well coococted during thi Ia»l century of rcligioue backsliding, he kruuj forth with the voice of a trumpet in the Revolu- tion of France, and hath by iu menus been cit- de&vounng to revolutionize and subvert all tbingS| And observe you