Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

By this means they confirm and establish it. They are strong supporters, while others are wicked and cursed underminers, Psalm 75.2, 3. When I shall receive the Congregation, i. e. The Government of it, when I shall be once seated upon the Throne, I will judge uprightly, or Righteousness, a vein of Righteousness shall run through every one of my Actions, they shall be done according to the Rule of Equity. The Earth and all the Inhabitants of it are dissolved. The Reins are now let loose, there is a visible, apparent disorder both in Church and State, all things are for the present in Confusion, and therefore running apace to Ruin and Dissolution. I bear up the Pillars thereof. Some do look upon Religion and Righteousness as the Jachin and Boaz, those great and mighty Pillars which uphold a Nation, ⟨p. 347⟩and Magistrates are the Persons appointed to bear up those Pillars; if those be the Pillars, these are the Basis upon which they stand, and these bear up them by judging uprightly. In this way it is they bear up the Fabric, and keep it from crumbling into pieces, and falling to nothing.

By this means they confirm and establish it. They are strong supporters, while others are wicked and cursed underminers, Psalm 75.2, 3. When I shall receive the Congregation, i. e. The Government of it, when I shall be once seated upon the Throne, I will judge uprightly, or Righteousness, a vein of Righteousness shall run through every one of my Actions, they shall be done according to the Rule of Equity. The Earth and all the Inhabitants of it are dissolved. The Reins are now let loose, there is a visible, apparent disorder both in Church and State, all things are for the present in Confusion, and therefore running apace to Ruine and Dissolution. I bear up the Pillars thereof. Some do look upon Religion and Righteousness as the Jachin and Boaz, those great and mighty Pillars which uphold a Nation, ⟨p. 347⟩and Magistrates are the Persons appointed to bear up those Pillars; if those be the Pillars, these are the Basis upon which they stand, and these bear up them by judging uprightly. In this way it is they bear up the Fabrick, and keep it from crumbling into pieces, and falling to nothing.