Social Conditions
Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.' Matthew 7:12 (NLT)
'The suborning
of false Witnesses, and Perjuries in the open Courts of Justice, and the
Raising of Mobs to rescue Offenders, can aim at nothing less than the
Wresting of the Sword from the hand of Justice, and employ it to be a
Terror to the good, and a Protection to the Wicked.
The crying Sin
of Sodomy, and the unnatural practices, worse than brutish, was,
perhaps, never more common, except in those Cities which are set forth
for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. The horrid
Oaths and Curses, which are heard every Minute of every Day by those who
go in the Streets, from the Mouths of Porters, Coachmen, Carmen,
Watermen and others, calling up GOD Almighty to damn their own Souls,
and the Souls of those to whom they speak, are enough to rend the
Heavens, and sink us into Hell. The impugning the Divinity of our dear
SAVIOR, (and even by some who have subscribed to the two first Articles
of the Church of England, and by others who have received the Sacrament
of His Supper immediately upon it) is such an Affront, which no crowned
Heads would endure, if offered to a Son of their own, and can we think,
that the King of Kings will always be silent, when the Glory of his only
SON is so deeply concerned, whom he hath appointed to heir of all
things and by whom also he made the worlds.'
Source: Arthur
Bedford MA, 'A Sermon before the Societies for the Reformation of
Manners', Thursday 10 January 1733, Jos Downing, London, 1734, p.18, in
Sion Library, Lambeth Palace. Biblegateway.com; google.com.
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