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I will never implore the Deity to slacken that avenging effort which hath
the good of the state in view.

Edipus Tyrannus, 879, 880.

NEW YORK:

JOHN WILEY, 161 BROADWAY,
AND 13 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

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CONTENTS.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.

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The argument from Scripture.--The original ordinance considered,

CHAPTER II.

Argument from Scripture continued. Circumstances of the human race, when this ordinance was promulgated,

CHAPTER III.

Argument from Scripture continued.-Universality and comprehensiveness of this ordinance,

CHAPTER IV.

Argument from Scripture continued.-The Mosaic Statutes, a luminous commentary upon this ordinance, .

CHAPTER V.

Argument from the New Testament.-The ordinance not abrogated, but confirmed.-Proof from Paul's writings and experience,

CHAPTER VI.

Proof from the consentaneousness of Divine Providence,

CHAPTER VII.

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Argument from Scripture continued.-Purpose and design of this ordinance.-Its sanction of the civil magistracy.-Of the Origin of Government. Of its power to take life.-Benevolent design of this ordinance,

CHAPTER VIII.

Argument from Scripture connected with the argument from expediency.-Wisdom and necessity of this ordinance.-Commonness of the spirit of Cain in human society,

CHAPTER IX.

Argument from Expediency continued.-Consentaneousness of the Law of Nature with this Enactment.-The Power of Conscience, and the Necessity of Righteous Law to sustain it,

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