To the magistrates
You truly honorable men, the magistrates, whom God and the king have commissioned, in a lower degree, to administer justice: may you not be compared to those ministering spirits who will attend the Judge coming in the clouds? May you, like them, burn with love to God and man. May you love righteousness and hate iniquity. May you all minister, in your several spheres, such honor has God given you also, to those who shall be heirs of salvation, and to the glory of your great sovereign. May you remain the establishers of peace, the blessing and ornaments of your country, the protectors of a guilty land, the guardian angels of all who are round about you.
1771 text
2. Ye truly honourable men, whom God and the king have commissioned, in a lower degree to administer justice: may not ye be compared to those ministering spirits who will attend the Judge coming in the clouds? May you, like them, burn with love to God and man! May you love righteousness and hate iniquity! May ye all minister in your several spheres (such honour hath God given you also!) to them that shall be heirs of salvation, and to the glory of your great Sovereign! May ye remain the establishers of peace, the blessing and ornaments of your country, the protectors of a guilty land, the guardian angels of all that are round about you!
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Sermon 15 in the 1771 Works. Romans 14:10. Bedford, 10 March 1758.
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