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Fourthly no true Christian can become a ruler over a people who se true king is Christ. (:A true Christian can have no other sentiments but those of equality with others; any action which would spoil the brotherly relation is un-Christian:) He must keep a brotherly equality with all and everybody, love his neighbor as himself, and do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than himself. How could he be a king if the gospel prescribes to "bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ?"

It is shown in the example of Solomon that the burden of rulership is difficult. When he died and his son was about to become king, the Jewish people came to him asking him to be kind and to lighten the heavy burden which his father had imposed upon them. And he, taking counsel with fools, and being a fool himself, answered the Matt. 22:39.

Phil.2:3.

Gal. 6:2.

Rehoboam. I-Kings 12.

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