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MR. TIMOTHY THOMAS's MEETING HOUSE, NEAR DEVONSHIRE SQUARE,

AT THE

BAPTIST MONTHLY MEETING,
September 22, 1803.

. MAN DISOBEYING,

HE WITH HIS WHOLE POSTERITY MUST DIE:
DIE HE OR JUSTICE MUST; UNLESS FOR HIM
SOME OTHER ABLE, AND AS WILLING, PAY
THE RIGID SATISFACTION, DEATH FOR DEATH.

MILTON.

DIVINE JUSTICE

ESSENTIAL TO THE

DIVINE CHARACTER.

THE profound, the awful, the interesting subject appointed for our consideration at this time, is, THE JUSTICE OF GOD; and the inspired saying to which I would now direct your serious attention is contained in

PSALM LXXxix. 14.

Justice and Judgment are the habitation of thy throne.

A declaration this, which is truly poetical, sublime, and important. The mode of expression is concise; the imagery is grand; and the sentiment conveyed is vastly momentous. For it enters deeply into the Divine Character, as revealed in Scripture; and into the great Plan of Redemption by Jesus Christ; as perhaps may appear in the prosecution of our subject.

Justice and Judgment are the habitation of thy Throne. JEHOVAH is here exhibited, by the sacred poet, under the character of a Sovereign, and of

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