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 in men who are endued with the natural light of Reason and Common-Sense! Perhaps it may be often attributed to the fear of temporal Sufferings and inconveniences which supercede that Reason and Conscience which should always controul the actions of Men, and distinguish them from Brutes (19). They forget, that whilst they yield an implicit active obedience to the unlawful commands of any temporal Monarch or Legislature, through the fear of present inconveniences or corporal sufferings, they rebel against the King eternal, who has power over their souls as well as their bodies(20).

It was on this Principle alone, this sense of superior Duty arising from the fear of God, that I founded my Address to the Gentlemen of the Army, in my little Tract on “