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      "VThilc sacred Salem felt the direful rage , Then Edom ' s sons could no soft pity share , Uor melting cries their harden'd breasts assuage * Nor shrieks of woe , nor groans of deep despair .

      Tho * righteous heav * n correct with sei > vile chains , The hour ^ nay com e relenting at our moan , Which rolls the tide of vengeance o ' er these plains , And raging pay , with Justice , groan for groan . > f M . - ¦ : ¦ ¦ . 1 I Ye soft Assyrian nymphs who careless roam , -

      Monthlyretrospectofpublic Affairs; The Christian's Survey Of The Political World.

      MONTHLYRETROSPECTofPUBLIC AFFAIRS ; The Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .

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      Study of Politics . —French Revolution *

      A late celebrated bishop of this realm has observed , that religion and politics ought to be the chief studies of a creature like man ; and without doubt the leisure that the business and rational amusements of life permit to any ^ individual , cannot be better employed than in

      these pursuits . The politics of a Christian are not indeed of this world ; but , a $ he lives in this world , and revelation itself opens his views to the political concerns of life , he cannot be indifferent to the scenes , in which he lives , and in which he must be interested , both a » they affect his own country and the general welfare of mankind . Two

      obstacles present themselves to these studies : the one raised by the plfiest , the other hy the statesman . The former fears inquiry Jest his favourite system should be overturned ; and , like Demetrius and his workmen , he cries * out :, Great is Diana of the Ephesiang . Pry not too narrowly into mysteries . The triple headed Cerberus is at the entrance to frighten away CY ^ ry rttde , or rash , or

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      Or lie reclifa'd beneath tS ^ embowVing . tree ' , ; " \ ' . ' The hour may come , far distant from yourhonte , * ^ >• You'll feel the pangs which sorrow gives to me .

      The tender child , unconscious of its foes , ' ' Some ruthless hand its youthfiif blood shall stain , His heart shall joyous laugh to hear your woes , To him relentless you shall weep in vain *

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      meek intruder . The statesman is equally fearful , that much knowledge will injure his schemes : that the people * obedience to laws will be shaken by too much inquiry into their propriety and utility . Both priest and statesman have acted for centuries upon these maxims ; and the consequence has been the French revolution , that terrible volcano , by which God and nature have torn dQwn institutions founded on superstition and fake policy .

      To live in such scenes must have created many an awful thought in the mind of the true Christian . He must have remarked with sorrow the varying councils which have guided the cabinets

      oFprinces , and the decisions of the multitude ; he must have lamented the want of that confidence in scripture , which would have taught cv «; ry cabinet , that to resist God is a futile attempt ; and it could never have been the in

      tention of Divine Wisdom , that a grea ^ nation , like France , should ^ lway ^; be kept in the chains of th . c / abwffinabicarj 4

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      Study of Politifs . —Frtnch Revolution .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/47/