Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley.
- William Stukeley
- Date:
- 1763
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ I05 ] Nehemiah very pertinently applyed to the Nobles, men of fenfe, and learning; fit to govern, enacft laws, and fee them executed. But chiefly, Nobles ought to fet the example, his the duty of their ftation. the grofs of mankind fee not the fitnefles, and reafbn of things, they are to be led to their duty, tremendous is the conflderation, if the Nobles become culpable, not of their own faults alone, but for thofe of the age to come, dreadful, if their pumfhment is to run pace with the evil confe- quence! Tis not for nought, that GOD almighty was pleafed to gwe us his own example., as a high fan&ion of this oly reft, our blefled Saviour, whilft on earth, was particularly careful, in the like, it was his conftant cuftom, to go to the fynagogues, on fabbath day, wherever he was. the Evangelifts teftify it, in gene¬ ral. many of his beneficent miracles were there per¬ formed : and fame of his difcourfes. 5Tis the greateft folecifm in nature, to think, that government can be fiipported without it; that Society can fubfift. they are fo clofely connected, as to be one individual; the fabbath the foul, matrimony the body of the common-weal, they that negled the fabbath, have no right to the bleflings of Society, they can claim no title to the public comforts of life, peace, and plenty, and the like ; as they have not joined in the common petitions for them; at the hands of our bountiful Creator, they can hope for no private blefs— mgs, on themfelves and familys, they have no love B for](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30408374_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
