the son of Zippor king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you bnt I would not hearken unto Balaam, therefore he blessed you still; so I delivered you out of his hand. And ye went over Jordan and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand. And I sent the hornet before you which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword nor with thy bow. And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. Josh. xxiv, 2-13. And the Lord said unto him if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments; then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, there shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. But if you shall

at all turn from following me, you or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other Gods and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them &c. 1 Kings, ix, 3-4. And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field. And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him and rent it in twelve pieces. And he said to Jeroboam, take thee ten pieces; for thus saith the Lord the God of Israel behold I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to thee, &c. 1 Kings, xii, 29-35. compare chap. xii, 16, 17. And the Lord said unto Elijah, go return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be King over Syria. And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be King over Israel. 1 Kings, xix, 15, 16. compare 2 Kings, viii, 15. chap. ix, 13.

Hast thou, the King of Assyria, not heard long ago how I have done it and of antient times that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass

that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded, they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops and as corn blasted before it is grown up: but I know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way which thou camest. 2 Kings, xix, 25-28. Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, the Lord God of Heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.-Ezra, i, 2, compare Isa, xli, 2, and xlv, 1-4. He increaseth the nations and destroyeth them he enlargeth the nations and straiteneth them.-Job, xii, 23. The King's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. Proverbs, xxi, 1. The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amos did see, &c.-Isa. xiii. Of Egypt, &c. -Isaiah, xix. Of Tyre. &c.-Isa. xxiii. Thou hast made of a city, a heap; of a defenced city,

a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city, it shall never be built.-Isa. xxv, 2. See I have this day set thee over the nations and over the Kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant. -Jer. i, 10. Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand and cause all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it, &c.-Jer. xxv, 15-26, vide xxvii. 47-50. The King answered Danie! and said, of a truth it is that your God is a God of gods, a d a Lord of kings.-Dan. ii. 47. They shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee; till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will.--Dan. iv. 25. vide v. Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness, and the first-begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth.-Rev. i. 5. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair; and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig-tree casteth

her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind; and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men, and every bond-man and every free-man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand? Rev. vi. 12-17.

If any credit is due to these and many similar declarations, I know not whether the ignorance of the men or their stupidity is more remarkable, who professing to be followers of Scripture, consider that a christian and a politician are incongruous; and because the church cannot legislate for the world, or in other words, impose upon unregenerate individuals, the discipline proper for saints, absurdly infer that believers in the Son of God, in their capacity of citizens must not distinguish themselves, by influencing the public counsels, to the furtherance of just and equal