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Excerpt from Joy and Gratitude to God for the Long Life of a Good King, and the Conquest of Quebec: A Sermon Preached in the First Parish of Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, Saturday, November 10th, 1759, Being the Anniversary Birth Day of His Present Majesty King George II, and Appointed by His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq.
Government began in patriarchal authority, and was gradually improved into more ample power, and extenfive dominion, ellabliih'd upon new claims, according to the rifin g exigencies of thofe little com munities, and the opportunities which artful ambi tious men feized upon from time to tirhe to aggran dize themfelves, and fubjeet cities and kingdoms to their will. There is fomethirg in the very cou?i tution of man, and the general condition of the in habitants of the earth, which tends to divide the world into diftinet nations, and produce the various forms and degrees of dominion which have appear'd in all ages. Thus the civil power: are ordained sf God, defigned originally for t c benefit of mankind, erected in various forms by his fpecial providence.
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