Excerpt from The Claims of Past and Future Generations on Civil Rulers: A Sermon, Preached at the Annual Election, May 25, 1825, Before His Honor Marcus Morton, Esq., Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts
Tms declaration of our Lord contains a principle of great extent and importance. We all practically ac; knowledge it in the common intercourse of life; in what we expect, and in What we require, Of our fellow man It is recognised in every form of government, and in the very constitution Of civil society. It constitutes a prominent feature, in the divine administration - the equitable rule for deciding the retributions of the world to come. It reaches the case of every individual, no matter whether he occupy the loftiest, or the obscurest station in society. And it is withal so simple, that the most humble capacity cannot fail to comprehend it. You must extinguish the light of man's reason, or his original sense of right and wrong, before you can even bring it into question, for it is founded tn the unchanging laws of moral obligation.
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