1 g2 Carrel Liberty to be denied : what. Paffions of men that encourage iniquity, and are againft the Gofpel or the common good, and peace and welfare of the body : In a word to have Government belt fitted to the ends of Government, which is fuch a temporal fafety and profperity as moft conduceth to the fervice and honour of God : But the fpeciesof Government is none of this liberty in it felf confidered. A people may be at much more liberty under a pious Monarch then un impious or unskilful Demo. cracy. The free choice of the moft when they are bad ( as where is it better ?) may enflave the belt : and the awe and intereft of the Rich is commonly fuch upon the people, that a free choice is fomewhat firange. And that fort of Govern- ment may be fitteft for One people, that isunfit for another : And their happinefs lieth not in the fpecie/ of Government let them firetch their wits to invent new forms as long as they will ; but in the Predominancyof God and his Intereft in the hearts of the Governors, and in their Laws, their Officers, and Execution. This is it, and nothing but this, in Govern- ment, that will give the Commonwealth that deferable Liber- ty, in which their welfare doth confift. And therefore thofe perfons areEnemies to the Liberty of their Countrey,that under the Name , would advance fuch kindof Popular intereft as is plainly againft the intereft of Chrift : and mull have Magiftrates and Minifters reftrained from doing the Workof the Omnipotent Soveraign, the one from punifbing in (if it be againft the firft Table,or come but under thename of confcience) and the other from exercifing Church-difcipline,and all under pretence of the Peoples Liber- ties. All thefe are carnal Liberties tobeDenied. CH A Po
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