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if or if I should , that it should be of public service for I am not par negotioj yet in the strength of God , and I hope with a single eye to his glory , I set about it : that I may endeavour something and spend my time to some good purpose ; and let the Lord make what use he pleaseth of me ; I go about it with fcar and trembling , lest I exercise myself in things too high for me , &c . ; the Lord help me to set about it with great
humility . Dec . 9- I have pleasure \ x \ my studies ^ for which I praise God ; having obtained help from him , I
go on with much comfort to myself in my , . Notes ¦ on the Pentateuch ; whither they will be of use to any other , and be accepted , he only knows , who knows the hearts o \ the children of men . 1705 . Oct . 14 . A day of rest , but a day of work ; the work wlticli they do that enter into the everlasting rest . In study finishing Exod . 20 th . Next day went through Exod . SOth with pleasure . Blessed be God for the fresh oil .
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No / CIV . Anticipations of the French Revolution ., t-otd Chesterfield , in one of his Letters to his Son , dated April 13 , * 752 has the following remarks on the dispute between the King ° f France , and the Parliament , which attej ^ his keen sagacity .
, 1 he representation or- the Parliament is very weft drawn , Maviter in modo , jortiCcr in re . Ihe y fell the Kins very respect-* Hv * Vnat in a certain case , which wjy should think it-, criminal to & $ ?? tfiey would a ^ t obey him . ll j > s" 6 atK '' a tendency * t <> what ^ ive Ca * l here revolution principles . I
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do not know what the Lord ' s anointed , his vicegerent upon oarth divinely appointed by him ^ and accountable to none but him for his actions , will either think or do , upon these symptoms of reason and good sense , which seem to be breaking out all over France ;
but this I foresee that before the end of this century the trade of both King and Priest will not be half so good a one as it has been . Du Clos , in his reflections , hath .
observed , and very truly , qiiil y it un germt de rahun ( jiti commence a se dexelofper en trance . A de * vcloppcment that must prove fatal to regal and . papal pretensions . Prudence may , in many eases ., recommend an occasional submission to either : but wheivthat i ^ nor . tnee upon which an implicit taith . in both . couM orly be ftiuudeij , is once removed , Gud ' s vicegerent and Christ ' s vicar will only be obeyed aii < i believed , as tar as what the orK- ord <* r ! s and th" (» : her sav ) S - is contoi ( liable to v <\ i-o \\ un . l to truth . ' Vol . III . 2 b 9 . 290 . 5 th ed . 8 vo »
As to the matter of fact , of the perceptible difference of the politi - cal mind of Fmnce within a low years iin the middle of the last century , the following evidence may tilso prove amusing , Lyons , 0 I . 2 , 1754 »
Ci The people in the provinces , through winch we have pa ^ ed , complain- extremely of the rupine of the farnj « rs-general , ' 1 h <* [ peasants murmur , but maintain their
loyalty ; yet that virtue is much less than I found it twenty years a ^ o * They then adored their King , they now think it sufficient to'honour him *"
Lord Cork ' s Letters ^ 2 d . Ed . p , , 10 v
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Gleanings . 481 n
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 481, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/33/
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