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Duty of Suhmission expjoined.
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any state; and the danger is greater, in proportion;
as, from the propinquity of habitation and inter.
course of employment, the p3$sions and counsels of a
party can be circulated with ease and rapidity. It is
by the·e mean, and in such ~ituations, that thE' minds
of men Cit c ~o affected and prepared, that the most
dreadful uproars often ari!i\e from the sljgh~e!';t provocation~.
\Vhen the train is laid, a spark will produce
the explosion.
CHAPTER ITI.
'fHE DUTY OF SUBMISSION TO CIVIL
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GOVERNl\IEN l" EXPLAINED.
THE subject of this Chapter is ~ufficiently distin~i~hed
from the suPject of the )a~t, as the motives
which actually produce civil obt'dience~ may be, and
cften are, veri different from the reasons which make
that obedience a duty.
In order to pr~we civil obedience to be a moral
duty, and an obligation upon the conscience~ it hath
- been usual with many p