A Sermon, Delivered Before His Excellency Caleb Strong, Esq., Governor, the Honorable the Council, Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 26, 1802: Being the Day of General ElectionYoung & Minns, state printers, 1802 - 36 pages |
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... exists independent of the governed , they cannot be faid to be free . Their fecurity for the few privileges they do enjoy , depends not on their acknowledged rights , but entirely on the will and difpofition of the perfons in office ...
... exists independent of the governed , they cannot be faid to be free . Their fecurity for the few privileges they do enjoy , depends not on their acknowledged rights , but entirely on the will and difpofition of the perfons in office ...
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... exist without their authority , No fectarian creed is impofed by law upon any man , nor have we any national formulary excepting the bible ; and every man is at liberty to interpret this according to the dictates of his own confcience ...
... exist without their authority , No fectarian creed is impofed by law upon any man , nor have we any national formulary excepting the bible ; and every man is at liberty to interpret this according to the dictates of his own confcience ...
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... exist in our Country , which have been so unfavour- able to the attainment or preservation of Civil Liberty in other nations . We have no great Military power to awe us into submission to unjust and arbitrary measures ; or to put on us ...
... exist in our Country , which have been so unfavour- able to the attainment or preservation of Civil Liberty in other nations . We have no great Military power to awe us into submission to unjust and arbitrary measures ; or to put on us ...
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... exists , renders them incapable of self- government , and of discerning the nature and proper boundaries of Civil Liberty . Notwithstanding all that has been written on the semi - barbarous state of Society in this Country , there is ...
... exists , renders them incapable of self- government , and of discerning the nature and proper boundaries of Civil Liberty . Notwithstanding all that has been written on the semi - barbarous state of Society in this Country , there is ...
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... exist here . The frequency of elections produces a sense of responsibility in those who are appointed to office ; it prevents in a great degree that abuse of power and inattention to the interests of their constituents which has ...
... exist here . The frequency of elections produces a sense of responsibility in those who are appointed to office ; it prevents in a great degree that abuse of power and inattention to the interests of their constituents which has ...
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Page 3 - And their nobles shall be of themselves, And their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; And I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: For who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Lord. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Page 7 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 23 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 11 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 24 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 28 - But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed...
Page 24 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise. Do good in Thy good pleasure unto Zion : Build Thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Page 21 - And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. 6 And nation was "destroyed of nation, and city of city : for God did vex them with all adversity.
Page 5 - The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Page 10 - ... remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.