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    * ma sion , every thing that happens £ bein < r comprehended in the general plan or intention of Providence . St . Paul thus writes ^ to the Chri > tians at Rome , then

    groaning under the tyranny of an imperial monster—" 'there is no power but of < 3 od : the powers that be are ordained of God . " AVe have , from an authority still 3 \ i < yher thanfthat of Paul , the

    declaration , that the power exercised by a Roman governor was given him " from above / ' No language can be more explicit .

    When , therefore , it is said , that pozier gives rig / it , a figurative . expression is used to signify that the possession of power indicates the rig ht of the possessor , and that both are derived from the

    will and appointment of Almighty

    God-So much for the impiety of , the ^ opinion in question- X * ct us now see whether it may not be defended in a more general way . Politics are only a part of

    morate . If , therefore , any propositions may be justly assumed , as the foundation of morals , similar ones , allowing for the difference between the whole and a part , and 'between terms find subjects , some more and others less general , may be employed as the basis of political speculations . Now , if the

    propositions I Am about to state , are not capable of a strict demonstration , ( hey at least are recommended by a degree of probability as near to proof as can reasonably be expected in topics of this nature , and fully sufficient ¦ f * tor all the purposes of the argument . I assume then .

    1 . That the Almighty Cr < ator of the world exercises over it a 'moral government ; that the gene-

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    Of ' fttgh i considered us founded on Tower . 5 & 5

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    ral anrl ultimate obji'ct of his ad . ministration is the happiness ( taking in the whole of their , existence ) of rational and sensitive beings , and that he bestowed the

    powers of sense , instinct , arid reason , as the means of conducting the individuals , belonging to the different classes of these beings , to the kind and degree of happiness for which the . nature . of each is

    fitted . 2 . That man , created principally and above the rest for social life , has been gifted with superior

    endowments , or with the means of acquiring ^ them . ; that by these he is enabled to discover and obey the will of his maker , in multiplying and securing hfc own engoyments . To th \ s end , social

    compact , laws , magistrates , tribunals , the means Qf puhlic and

    private defence , &c . are indispensably requisite , ^ " Nam genus humanum , defessum vi cole re aevum , JEx inimicitiis languebat : quo magis rpsum

    Sponte sua cecidit sub le £ es , arctaquc jura . " Lucre r . V . 1144 . Accordingly , these have been established vvith various skill , energy , and effect , in proportion to the talents , dispositions , and circumstances , of the people concerned .

    1 . must here press into my service the etymologies of Mr . Home TooJve , on whose authority I assume , $ . u That right is no other than RKCT-ww ( regitum ) , the past particip le , of the Latin verb regere . " • • • u in the same manner *

    cur English word just is the past participle of the yevhjubere . " fc * Law , in our ancient books , was written laugh , lagh > loge and

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 585, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/9/