Letter of the Text, and may affure himfelf of the Reward promifed in it, namely, the Wine of the Wrath of God:

2dly. It is no lefs impoffible for us to conceive, we have any Right to fell the Liberties of our Children. The Power of Fatherhood is the Power of Prefervation, not Deftruction. Let him look to it, who fquanders the Patrimony left him by his Ancestors and entails Beggary upon his Profperity but let him look nearer to it, who proftitutes that Liberber for Hire, dh and entails Slaverion them What our Ancestors bequeathed to their Pofterity, we fhould carefully tranfmit to ours. The Ufe, not the Difpofal of the Bleffing belongs to us and he who infamously barters it away whatever Price he may receive on this fide the Grave will find some farther Confiderations, thos erhaps fuc

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hands of Traytors, who, we are affured, will flrip her of her Liberties. If we are bribed to arm Villains with a Sword which we know, nay but fufpect, they will rip up her Bowels with, we are Patricides in the utmoft extenfive Senfe; we have received the Mark of the Beast, have drank the Wine of Proffitution, and may affure ourselves a Taste of that bitter Cup of the Wrath of God.

Having therefore with that Brevity, which fo obvious and plain a Propofition requires, demonftrated to you the Nature of this publick Proftitution, I come now in the fecond Place to diffuade you from fo black a Crime.

And first from the Confideration of your own worldly Intereft: Indeed, if there was no other Restriction, this alone might well be deemed fufficient; for viewing it in the Light of Prudence only, I should conceive the fhorteft Deliberation would determine a reasonable Being to reject any Price for the invaluable Bleffing of Liberty; that all the falfe Gloffes which Vanity or Luxury, Avarice or Ambition could caft on the richest Bribe would be diffipated by a Moment's Reflection. We may fay of Liberty, compared to all other worldly Poffeffions, as the Scripture doth of a

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