A sermon preached before the stewards of the Westminister Dispensary at their anniversary meeting in Charlotte-Street Chapel, April 1785 : with an appendix / by R. Watson, D.D. Lord Bishop of Landaff.

  • Richard Watson
Date:
1793
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Credit: A sermon preached before the stewards of the Westminister Dispensary at their anniversary meeting in Charlotte-Street Chapel, April 1785 : with an appendix / by R. Watson, D.D. Lord Bishop of Landaff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, as facred as the monarch’s crown; with inflexible In- tegrity they adjudge to every man his own. Your property under their proteftlon Is fecure.—If your perfonal liberty be unjuftly reftrained, though but for an hour, and that by the highefl: fervants of the crown—^the crown cannot fereen them ; the throne cannot hide them; the law, with an un- daunted arm, feizes them, and drags them with Irrefiflible might to the judgement of whom?—of your equals—of twelve of your neighbours.—In fuch a conftitution as this, what is there to complain of on the fcore of liberty ? The greateft freedom that can be enjoyed by man In a ftate of civil fociety ; the greateft fecurlty that can be given him with refped: to the protection of his character, property, perfonal liberty, limb, and life, is afforded to every individual by our prefent conftitutiom The equality of man in a ftate of nature, does not confift In an equality of bodily ftrength, or intellectual ability, but in their being equally free from the dominion of each other. —The equality of man in a ftate of civil fociety, does not confift in an equality of wifdom, honefty, ingenuity, induftry, —nor in an equality of property refulting from a due exertion of thefe talents; but in being equally fubjeCt to, equally pro- tected by the fame laws—And who knows not that every in- dividual in this great nation, is, in this refpeCt, equal to every other ? There is not one law for the nobles, another for
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