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He who is not of such a temper must be careful not to impose tasks of extraordinary difficulty, but may use his natural gentleness in imposing such as are ordinary. For common punishments are not imputed to the prince, but to the laws and ordinances which he has to administer.
The wells of salvation overflowed; the palm trees of sacred ordinances shed their sweet fragrance, spread forth their shade, yielded their fruit, for these followers of the Lamb. The presence of the Lord was deeply felt. These Covenanters worshiped here in spirit and in truth.
It is a life concerning which it could be said of the last of the Old Testament saints, Zacharias and Elisabeth, "They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." This is the walk Jesus came to make possible and true to His people in greater power than ever before.
To this end they have need of a supreme power and of one sovereign prince or seignor, who may command all equally, having a constant regard to the public weal considered as a generality, and not with regard to the profit of the one or the other individual Province and, causing promptly and universally to be executed such ordinances as may be made in the matter of war or police, according to various emergencies.
Dread of Indians, and need of mutual help, massed them closely together, and the town ordinances forbade scattering.
And if there wants a definite measure of the respect paid to social ordinances, we have it in the torture to which ladies submit in having their feet crushed.
The general police enactments, such as the restrictions on the right of association, came, it is true, into operation also here. Such were the ordinances, by which Caesar attempted to reform the Italian national economy.
His great abilities, already developed in his "History of the French Revolution," had given him a commanding position among the journalists on the liberal side. Both of these distinguished writers, and many others, assailed the ministry with such popular effect, that it was clear that their utterances must be silenced, or the ministry must fall. Hence the Ordinances were issued.
Therefore there was a law given them, yea, a law of performances and of ordinances, a law which they were to observe strictly from day to day, to keep them in remembrance of God and their duty towards him. But behold, I say unto you, that all these things were types of things to come. And now, did they understand the law?
Phrygia, Bithynia, and Paphlagonia were to become dependent on Rome; the regions lying farther to the east were left to themselves. The affairs of Asia Minor were regulated partly by the peace with Antiochus , partly by the ordinances of a Roman commission presided over by the consul Volso.
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