Conscientious Obedience to Governors Recommended

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Excerpt from Conscientious Obedience to Governors Recommended: A Sermon Preached Before the University of Oxford, on Tuesday June 22, 1756, Being the Anniversary of His Majesty's Happy Accession to the Throne That our gracious Creator designed men for as much temporal happiness, as they are capable of consistently with their eternal interest, seems evident amongst other considerations from the inexhaustible variety of good things, with which he has furnished this lower place of their abode, and for this end he has formed them for society, and made government necessary. Among beings pure and perfect and impeccable, an equality perhaps might be possible, and they might want no other governor than the adorable Sovereign of the universe, but this is a bare supposition. According to the best notions, we can form either from reason or scripture, concerning spiritual beings, (of whose nature, as it little concerns us, the divine wisdom hath thought proper to make but sparing discoveries) there subsists a regular subordination among them, and it can scarce be doubted, that this economy is necessary to all created, intelligent beings. God hath been pleased to make man little lower than the angels, and it is more than probable, that the resemblance between the angelic and the human nature consists in this subordination, as well as in the faculty of reason, of which it appears to be the natural consequence, and therefore the merely animal creation (for want of a sufficient degree of consciousness) is very little capable of government or social union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.