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Rh 3. Once more. The Excellence of this Religion deerves our particular Regard for the great Widom of its Civil Contitutions. The Meaures directed to thoe in a Governing, or private Capacity; for impartial Ditiribution of Jutice; for punihing, repairing, retraining, and even preventing of Wrongs were admirably tempered for cherihing Peace, and Order and good Undertanding. The Precepts of Humanity, and Courteie, and Compaion to all under any Divantage of Fortune and Condition, and the trict Engagements to mutual Aitance in any common Ditres; The Treatment of Servants, of Criminals, of the Poor; the Fatherles, and the Widow, were nicely calculated for Kindnes and Amity, and killing the Seeds of Oppreion and Cruelty.. The Sacrednes of mutual Contracts, the Rules for Borrowing and Lending, The Years of Releae and Jubilee, and the Unlawfulnes of alienating Etates finally, Thee laid the Axe to the very Root of Avarice and Ambition. So that one may venture to ay, No Scheme of Gbvernment hath exceeded This in dicountenancing a private and elfih, and incouraging generous and truly publick Spirit; in obliging Men to love and live like Brethren, and uniting them in an eager Zeal for the common Caue of their Country, and their God.

I cannot think Jutice done to this Firt Head, till it be left upon You with one Reflection, to which the Words of my Text do naturally lead me. It is, That in the Two Advantages we have been treating of, the Greatnes and peculiar Felicity of Irael did chiefly and properly conit. For thus we find Each of them introduced, What Nation is there o great that hath God o nigh unto them? And again, What Nation is there o great, that hath Statutes and Judgments o righteous?

And Great indeed they were in ome repects, of which I think no Hitory affords a Parallel. A People, whoe vat Increae and Power was not, like that of Other Nations, owing to Foreign Growth of Numbers, ingrafted upon the Original Stock, but all Natural Branches pringing from One and the ame Root, A People, who, thro'