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An Election Sermon, &c.
AND I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppres|sed, every one by another, and every one by his neigh|bour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
WHEN we read and hear such threatening predic|tions as this; and see our judges as at the first, and our counsellors and governors as at the beginning—equally wise and good; we are ready to bless our|selves, and to say in our hearts, These things shall not come upon us. That the whole of what is here foretold, has not yet come upon us, we have cer|tainly great reason to bless God, and to congratulate one another▪ But it should be remembered, that