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    authority in trust to deprive their brethren of those rights and prerogatives , for the preservation of which they were intrusted with their authority j and , by the artful abuse thereof , are studious to render themselves , as far as possible ALMIGHTY ,

    the sources of wealth , power and dignity , seating themselves in the throne of Christ $ if instead of watch * ing over their charge with piety , selfabasement and devotion for good , they watch for opportunities to en *

    snare , impoverish , debase and subdue their brethren ; THEN , and in such case only , will they , as mighty men , be mightily tormented ; for their portion will be with that great oppressor aud deceiver , the common enemy of mankind , whose condemned dominion

    is now no longer by authority , but by permission and delay , and is the effect of craft and force as yet undefeated , and animated by appetite , despair and impudence . The mighty are set up to public view by their brethren , and by God ,

    as examples of temperance , frugality moderation , continence , humanity , justice , benevolence , godliness , and of whatsoever thing is holy , of whatsoever thing is just , pure or virtuous : if therefore by their example , connivance , countenance , pusillanimity ,

    or for profit , and a desire to serve themselves , they premote or eoeourage vice , idleness , vanity , luxury , delicacy , perfidiousne&s , debauchery , wantonness , gambling , ungodliness , reprobatism * ignorance , stupidity , effeminacy , falsehood , injustice , treachery ,

    rapine , vrildness , tyranny , unreason * ableness , servility , pomp , glitter , knavery , audaciousness , extravagance , riot , revelling , profaneneas , profligacy , drunkenness , bribery , venality , perjury , and such like ; they therein more than participate with the cor *

    rupted . But if they associate with them , and , presuming falsely upon the connivance of the divine justice , accept the wages of unrighteousness , notwithstanding they are taught that

    this eateth , or corrodeth like fire : or if they in any-wise contribute towards the extinguishing their brethren ' s fear of God , or the sensibility and remonstrances of their consciences , or their gospel light , or their graciously in-born dread of wickedness : tbsk

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    will their guilt accumulate indeed , proportionally with their mightiness , and they will hardly escape the judgment of Satan , and of his chief angels , and ministering tools to corruption , namely , the being , together with

    then , mightily tormented . The corruption Had ruin of mankind , and the populating the infernal regions , is effected principally by example , and most of all by the example of the mighty .

    These reflections are by no means to be considered as novelties and nostrums of my own , but as principles advanced by the best authors , and occasionally introduced by me to illustrate the point in hand . He must be a man of very little reading who knows not that Mr . Locke has long since maintained that ,

    AS TO PROPERTY , It bring the command of God to all men that they should subdue , or cultivate , the earth , the improver , in doing so , annexes thereto his labour , which being his own natural property , no other man can have any title to . — This labour , annexed to

    lands before unoccupied , that is unappropriated , gives him an appropriating title to them , on condition only that he leave as much to others , as they can make use of . —Labour therefore is the just ground of ever y man ' s title to property , the son inheriting . the fruits of his father ' s toils . For

    every man , being naturally master of himself , and proprietor of his own labours , will thus have , even within himself , this ground of property—the products of his labours being as it were his creatures , and to which no other man , or body of men , but

    himself and his offspring only , can have any claim or pretence at all ; the exclusive right thereto , and enjoyment thereof , becomes the just foundation of all wealth , or opulency , constituting the difference between , a rich

    man , - the son of the industrious , and the poor man , the son of the idler . — Riches then , acquired in righteousness by industry , are the natural reward of industry , either in ourselves or ancestors ; and justly so , because , whereas he who cultivates ten acres

    will thereon produce more fruits than one thousand uncultivated acres will produce , such a cultivator may be

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    400 Principle * oftrovernment .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/24/