...Oppression makes a poor country, and a desperate people, who always wait an opportunity to change. " He that ruleth over men, must be just, ruling in the fear of God;" said an old and wise king. Envy disturbs and distracts government, clogs the wheels, and perplexes...

...to the qualifications of rulers, or to the political rights and duties of private citizens. For if ' He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God,' then it cannot be wrong for the sacred functionaries of our holy religion, at suitable times, to remind...

...is the beginning of wisdom." The government of the land, to be good and right, must be religious. " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." The people to be happy, must be instructed in true religion ; they are " destroyed for lack of knowledge."...

...Prince, a Senator, a Judge, should be a man who meditates in the law of the Lord " day and night." " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." Of the Temporal Rulers above named, in Nebuchadnezzar alone do there appear any marks of the converting...

...Lord spake by me, his word was in my tongue. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me; he that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." No intermediate agent cer-. tainly was here, in the mind of David. No personality of the Spirit is...

...the picture of a good ruler drawn by the prophet, who, in the name of the almighty Ruler, declares, "He that ruleth over men, must be just — ruling in the fear of God?" We cannot reflect without occasion for the deepest gratitude, that in contemplating the advantages...

...perpetual and most sacred injunction of God, it was on the dying lips of Israel's most holy king, ' He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.'' Of course, all who by neglect or mal-suffrage allow or aid the elevation of bad or weak men to office,...

...or the executing of the laws of the land ? Do you act under the remembrance of those words of God, " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ? "-(• that it is " righteousness which exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people ;"J...

...Rock here speaks, as it were, in the third person. " The Rock of Israel spake to me," saith David. " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." " He shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds." Thus...

...,,v.,i.iv. from the defilement of sin himself." Then, as a King, this purity and holiness are necessary. He, that ruleth over men, must be just, ruling in the fear of the Lord. The unction of Christ is consequent upon his " labour of Love." " Wherefore God, thy God,...