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THE RELIGIOUS IMPROVEMENT
us
honour
the king,
for
these
three
commands are
joined
together
in the
New
Testament
;
1
Peter
ii.
17.
Rea-
son
and
scripture unite
them
all.
Let
us
submit
ourselves
tó him with all chearfulness,
as one
whom
God
has
appointed
to
be
the guardian of
our
religion,
and
our
liberties, and
all
that
is
dear
to
us.
Let
us
ever speak
of
him with
honour, and
not
mention
his name
without a
becoming
respect. With a
just
im-
patience let
us
frown
upon
all
tale-bearers,
and
discou-
rage every whisperer, those secret and
vile
instruments
of
public mischief.
Nor
let
us
give
countenance
to
sly
and private
insinuations against the
dignity
and honour of
our
sovereign.
Let
us
reverence and love
him
as one
that
is
exalted
to
be
" the minister
of
God
for our good
;"
Rom.
xiii.
4.
It
is
on
him,
under God,
that
our
eyes
are
fixed.
it
is
in
him
that
our hopes
of
happiness centre.
Under
Christ Jesus
who
is
the
Lord of
glory,
we must
look
upon
GEORGE
the Second
of
Great
Britain, as the
chief
guardian and support
of
the
protestant
religion in
the
world.
5.
"
Let
us
offer
our
daily and
ardent
prayers
to
God
for
his
long
life, prosperity
and peace." Addresses'
to
heaven for the Divine Presence with
him,
should
be
joined
with all
our
vows
of
allegiance. We
read
in
Joshua
chapter
i.
17.
that
when
the tribes
of
Reuben,
Gad
and Manasseh surrendered
themselves
to
the
con-
duct of Joshua
in
the room
of
Moses,
they
joined a
hearty
petition
to the
Lord for
him
;
" According
as
we
heark-
ened unto
Moses in all things,
so will we
hearken
unto
thee, and
all
that
thou commandest
us
we will
do
:
Only
the
Lord
thy
God
be
with thee, as
he
was with
Moses."
When
Solomon
was
placed
on the
throne of
his
father
David
before he
died,
David
is
supposed.
to
write
the
Psalm,
which may
be
a
proper
pattern
for
our
present
petitions
in
'this
manner: As
thou
gayest
our
late
king
"'thy
judgments, O God,
so
give thy
righteousness
to
the
-Icing's
son
Let
him
judge
thy people
with righte,,
ousness,
and
thy
poor
with
judgment. Let
him save the
children
of
the needy,
and break
in pieces the
oppressor
:
-Let
him'
come-
down like
rain
upon the
new mown grass,
"ás
shòwers'
that
water the earth.
In
'his
days
let
the
4..ighteotis`-
flourish, and
abundance
of
peace
be
derived