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those large and plentiful domains with which the generous Etation had enriched them. They also felt that if the kin;; and governors were stewards of the power under Christ, they also, under Christ, were stewards of the land^ and possessed nothing in their own right, but were the honoured deposi- taries of many talents, for the end of righteousness^ and peace, and mercy; in order to reward the a H 906 QODt COMTROVEBsr WITU TMt tASD- [, indusiriaiiH, and puntftli ihe idle, and pmtect tl orphan, and relieve tlic? distressed, and educal the ignomnt. and provide for the religious struetton of alK Whence it hath come to that from the first fruits of their possessions church hftd to be maintained, that the peo] might he taught the Gospel of the graoe <rf and the schooU to be also in part support that the chitdren of the people might be instmt od in tiic k&o^rled^ of thetr duties to God man. To tbcm aUo was committed tbc mail tenance ofthe indi^it and infirm, whom Cti providence, not their own profligacy, bad ratv^d of the means of life. These were trardenfi ; God forbid that I should call them but privileges, and hoootin^ and divine fiiu cotnniitted by God into the hand of hia worthy deputies, \«hom, t^ir thxt end, be bad dowed with hou&es, and lands, and the mt fruitAilness of the earth. But, alas \ bow hath coma to paas with this degenerate and anbctii ^ gvncratton. who have cosTcrted all tbcae'i ^ifte liu<ts and obKgMioBa iako okk] bartered them for wotmj z wa that fnm the laodlotxl and the teoant, the paternal fc on the one hand, and the reverential feHin^ the otlker, have ahaoat TaaialMri: in the other parts of the idand, 1 way say. have ako^thcr naked, and bemdao lA £krt depttfltia;, for tbc hi oHnchi: A c^rtaintiea of a mooey-befgain, wbem tanei grapples with htterat* ud ■ftotioo ie m tbeshajpconleQtion.aDdhosltlityis ID itasle«d. And tbc church tsfro^edberi awi eaenBerrib agaiMi the peaaencr* of led pert, and the poieaesan vmimt^ her; IlL] QODU COH'T^OVhHBY VITU TU£ LAUD, 907 moflter biretb hid serrant ai tbc least possible price, and the acrvaat scnroth the master with the Ica^ possible service; und inoiioy is th<: jiricoof allobli- gatiijnpp which heretofore were officer of mutual trusiand aflecuon, vmd which God bath cummaud- ed to continue sOp Forrerily I declare it unto you, that a man 19 not a thing to bo bought for money, aor his service to be sold and bought for money ; he is not a Hiave by the ternu nor a too! hired by the mouth ; but he i» a aiun, a