A Sermon, Preached in the Center Church, New Britain: May 19, 1861 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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I take this command of Christ as a condensed expression of what the New Testament teaches, respecting the duties and obligations of the Christian citizen. Cæsar is made to impersonate civil government; so that what is here said, applies not only to those to whom the text was addressed by our Saviour, but to us also, and to the subjects of every civil government, in all time.

In pursuing my present object, I call your attention first to the fact, that civil government is necessary to the existence of human society. And I surely need not go into an argument to prove this. History proves it. The Bible gives abundant reasons why it is so. Without a power to check and restrain him by force and present penalties, man, as the wild beast of the forest, will prey upon his fellow-man - the baser passions will rule him - and the ties of family, and the rights of property can not exist.

I will not attempt here to examine the different theories which have been devised to account for the existence of civil government.

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