A Failure In This Duty Did Once

That Some Forms Of Government Are Preferable To Others, Cannot Be Doubted; Yet Neither Our Saviour, Nor His Apostles Have Decided Where That Preference Is Due.

A Failure In This Duty Did Once Involve Our Nation In All The Horrors Of Rebellion And Civil War.

To Fear God, Is One Of The First And Greatest Duties Of His Rational Creatures.

A State Infinitely Worse Than That Which The Most Inflamed Zealot, The Most Violent Republican Or Enthusiast Even Pretended To Dread Before The Rebellion Commenced.

It Is The Band Which Unites The Interests Of Individuals; It Secures To Them Their Respective Rights, And Preserves Them From Injuries; It Is The Source Of Numberless Blessings, Which Are Interrupted, Or Wholly Vanish, The Moment It Is Disturbed.