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But the climax of all is the happy i llustration of Mr . Vaughan ' s most excellent patrons ' , the Corporation of Leicester ' s , share in the attributes of this divine power , whereby they too are made out to he the representatives upon earth of the second person in the Trinity .
" Now , therefore , what remains , but that I solemnly commend this subject to your most serious attention ? In addressing the mayor and corporation of this ancient and loyal borough , as a preparation for the annual election of their chief magistrate , I do a work of Caesar and of God . Caesar must have his
subordinates , even as God has his Caesar . There are many magistracies , but one magistrate ; he who wears the crown , the chief of the visible , but the hidden sceptre-bearer , God's delegated chief of all . What subject then so suitable to the occasion as that which gives origin to
the occasion ; God ' s transfer of his power to the second person of his substance , made empty , made a creature ; who being unseen , must be represented by seen ones ; to whom , therefore , by his Constitutor ' s will , lie transmits a portion of his authority ; to Caesar variously divided ; to you , my honoured sirs , as well as to the king \
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what he sees not , that eye must be a visible one ; eveu the Jews with God ' s king avowedly at their head , and set out to them as bearing that office in all their ordinances , called for a king as though they bad not one , because they saw not one . As the reproduced Head cannot , either in his predestinated or realized elevation , be of the same form with the
as yet undissolved material of the world which he has earned and received , and cannot therefore be visible , or iu any wise sensible to sensible substances ; as his life must be different , his presence reserved , his communications select ; he must exercise his headship by a Vicegerent . There must be a Ccesar , in short , a sensible head of rule , in the
person of either one or many . Necessary government implies restraint and imposition , not indulgence and flattery , as its characteristic properties . The Universal King must universally be the ultimate object of rule and justice , that all may know , own and serve him . Here is seen the just and unalienable alliance between the Church and the
State ; ridiculed as it is by the profane , perverted by the selfish . The State exists for the Church . The Church overr shadows the State , " &c . Having settled the origin of monarchical power , the preacher descends to particulars , and makes out , we take it for granted he will admit , not only the king ' s title to the money his subjects pocket , but , by parity of reasoning , to all the sign-posts and other subjects of the emblazonments of his person : —
" When you see your kiug ' s head upon a crown-piece surmounted with his style , what does this declare to you ? What but that the current coin , every sovereign , every penny , is truly and properly his ? Why U it not his , if it derives all its value from him ? I
cannot give value to that which is not mine , and it is plain the king ' s head gives its value to that paltry substance which has w . orth to procure all the necessaries of life for me , What is it without his stamp ; and what right has he to stamp ? Evidently his right is his supremacy , his power of paying , I will : and where that power is exerted , it is manifested to be . All the currency of the kingdom , then , is the king ' s ; and if you or I possess ) a . shilling , it ia because the king has given it us ; and if we possess a piece of paper , whether from the Government Bank pr from a private company , which fetches something , it is because the king has given the issuers leave to use their ereclit . "
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Art . VI . —A Sermon preached at the Ordination of His Grace the Lord Archbishop of York , held at Bishops ^ thorpe , July 2 , 1826 . By the Rev . William Hett , A . M ., of Jesus College , Cambridge . London , Rivingtons . 1827 . Although as Presbyterians we may be allowed to wonder that the office of
exhorting the candidates for ordination to the discharge of their clerical duties , should be allotted to one who was him * self only about to receive that full measure of the Holy Ghost which was to confer on him the rank of a priest , yet we must admit that Mr . Hett has acquitted himself of his task with great ability , and addressed much excellent advice to those who , Hke himself , were about to enter on the solemn duties of a
minister of the gospel . It has been hie object , he says , to shew them " what ought in these times to be the habits and general behaviour of a clergyman who is solicitous * without giving into a spirit bordering on fanaticism , to discharge the work of the ministry with fidelity and earnest ness ; and to uphold the credit of the National Church by a conduct seemly
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/50/
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