. The works of the Reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life time . en,and will not gratify them in every requeft,from prayers fall to menaces, and from me-,naces to rougher methods, in hopes they (halleither beat or fright them into a better hu-mour. So we are told the Votaries of acertain Saint did lately; whom, becaufe ithappened to rain at the time they were car-rying him in Proceflion, to procure dry wea-ther, they very civilly threw him into theriver. The guilt of Rebellion, will, by fuch,be thought to amou
. The works of the Reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life time . en,and will not gratify them in every requeft,from prayers fall to menaces, and from me-,naces to rougher methods, in hopes they (halleither beat or fright them into a better hu-mour. So we are told the Votaries of acertain Saint did lately; whom, becaufe ithappened to rain at the time they were car-rying him in Proceflion, to procure dry wea-ther, they very civilly threw him into theriver. The guilt of Rebellion, will, by fuch,be thought to amount to no more than abreach of promife. The Scripture ftyle, ac-cording to which the Magiftrate is the Mi-nifter of God for goody does much more clearlypoint out the ground of thofe duties whichScripture and Reafon do jointly command jfuch as not fpeaking evil of Dignities, obey-ing Of Civil Power. 369 ing Magiftrates, being fubjeca to the HigherPowers, not only for Wrath, but Confci-ence-fake; becaufe the Powers that be, areordained of God; and whojoever refijieth thePower, refijieth the Ordinance of God, andfhall receive to himfelf LETTER IV. A Defence of the Liberty of the Will. SIR, THE Author of the Brltlfh Journalwill, I hope, forgive me, when I de-clare myfelf to have had fo little curiodty toknow the f jbjecfl of his Papers, that, to thismoment, I fhould hardly have looked intothem, if, by accident, I had not underftoodthat, inftead of Cato with his Politicks, Dlo^genes had of late been reading Lectures ofPiiilofophy from his Tub, and inftrudingthe Publijk in a point, about which, if hisnotion be right, it were much better formankind to continue ignorant and man is a mece machine, and all hisadtions, good and bad, wife and foolifh, fa-tally determined, I always thought a modextravagant afifertion, and fliould have beenfurprized to hear it from any but men whohave been too long at war with commonfenfe, to leave us room to wonder at anycontradicti
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