A Discourse Addressed to a Congregation At Hackney On February 21 1781 Being
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We are too corrupt to deferve the favour of Providence. Let us then accufe ourfehes. Had we been a more virtuous people, or as really a nation of chriftians as we are fo nominally, we could not have been brought into 'this fituation. It is fit, that having become more irreligious than perhaps any civilized (a] It will be eafily feen, that I do not riiean here fuch ruin as is implied in the deftru&ion of a free confti'tution by the extenfion of power and influence ; for this, while the world con...tinues as de'praved as it is, rrien pofleffed of power will be always aiming at ; and it is a circumftance which makes them the moft dangerous of all the enemies of a free-ftate. E people t 26 ] people that ever exifted, and loft that vigilant, jealous, and enlightened fpirit of liberty which once characterized us ; it is fit, I fay, that having thus degenerated we fhould be degraded. Let us then ac- knowledge the juflice of Heaven in our cor- rection, and prepare to meet thofe {harper corrections which this kingdom may have ftilj before it, remembering for our en- couragement that better ftate on which I have been difcouriing, and at the fame time making it our conftant bufinefs to fit our- felves for it, by difcharging every duty of life and godlinefs, and particularly, by act- ing the part of faithful members of the community to which we belong.
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