A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency George N. Briggs: Governor, His Honor John Reed, Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1847Dutton and Wentworth, printers to the State, 1847 - 35 pages |
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Page 30 - Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries ? either a vine, figs ? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Page 5 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 17 - Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Page 21 - And whatever the world may opine, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earth-worm, but will most indubitably make a blundering patriot and a sorry statesman.
Page 16 - ... lead to its violation, with the hope of escape from justice, is adverse to the end of government, and cannot be truly philanthropic. True philanthropy will awaken feelings of the highest respect and most profound reverence for law. It will prompt its possessor to acknowledge " the powers that be
Page 5 - THE most essential quality in any government," says a distinguished writer, " is justice." This is unquestionably true. It may be safe, therefore, to affirm, that any government is good, and accomplishes the object for which it is properly instituted, in proportion as the principles of justice are inviolably maintained. The only perfect government, of which we have any knowledge, is characterized by the never-failing administration of justice, at the head of which, as Supreme Lawgiver, Governor,...
Page 3 - DD, for the discourse delivered by him, on the 3d instant, before the Government of the Commonwealth, and to request a copy thereof for publication. CHARLES CALHOUN, CLERK. DISCOURSE.
Page 6 - the common good," and that government is instituted "for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people, and not for the profit, honor, or private interests of any one man, family, or class of men.
Page 14 - In the so-called faith cures, in which the blind are made to see, the deaf to hear, and the lame to walk...