Description: [ebay 40] A SERMON, DELIVERED ON THE DAY OF GENERAL ELECTION, AT MONTPELIER, OCTOBER 12, 1815, BEFORE THE HONORABLE LEGISLATURE OF VERMONT. BY HENRY DAVIS, D. D. PRESIDENT OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Published by order of the Legislature MONTPELIER, Vt. PRINTED BY WALTON AND GOSS, OCTOBER, 1815 AN ELECTION SERMON. ROMANS, xiii. 4. For he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of GOD, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. AT the period, when this epistle was written, Rome was sunk in gross idolatry, and her rulers were implacable en- emies of the cross of Christ. The disciples of Jesus were despised and persecuted; and in many instances put to death by the most cruel and ignominious tortures. The descendants of Abraham boasted themselves of their distinction. Because God had favoured them with peculiar privileges; had dictated to them a system of polity, both civil and religious; had anciently proclaimed himself their king; and in later times governed them by rulers of his own appointment. They arrogated to themselves exemption from the ordinances of men, and deemed it impious and degrad- ing to submit to their authority. Many of them, after em- bracing christianity, entertained still the same views and dispositions. And of the Gentiles, also, who had renounced their idols and devoted themselves to God, there were not a few, who vainly contended, that the spiritual wisdom, with
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