...promote the advantage of rulers but of the ruled. They are ordained and invested with authority to be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well. They are the ministers of God for this end, and are appointed for " this very thing." On this ground...

...human governments, mingling with justice, which takes off the appearance of cruelty, and makes them a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well. Nor need our faith in the compassion of the Deity be shaken by the strong and terrible expressions...

...falseheartedness are equally improper in a minister of the gospel. There is a faithful magistrate, who is a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well. Jehoshaphat, who was himself a faithful prince, appointed such to administer justice under him, giving...

...people. Here you are a nursing father, and Hautia Vahine is a nursing mother, to the Church. Here you are a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do •well. In no other place could you do so much good by authority, by precept, by persuasion, and by example,...

...men." Is he a MAGISTRATE, supreme or subordinate ? It is as "the minister of God," that he seeks to be " a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well." Is he a SUBJECT? " He submits himself to every ordinance of man, for the Lord's sake." ' VIII. Station...

...due time, will make his enemies be at peace with him. " If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well, God, my God, will be with you in wisdom and a sound mind, and make you blessed instruments in his hands...

...virtue ; by a conscientious regard to all the i laimg of moral and religious obligation, he becomes a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well l and thus, in him, is it substantially demonstrated, that " righteousness exalteth a people." Nchemiab,...

...rejoice, yea and will rejoice, when in divine Providence they are committed to the hands of men, who are a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well. Such men, it is our happiness to believe, God has given us, to rule over us for the year to come. And...

...good, even as a civil magistrate, as executing that office well, and in being, as he expresses it, " a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well;" not in their religious, but social capacity, in punishing the outward actions of men of one sort, and...

...from individuals. Civil governments as such are of divine appointment, have authority from on high to be a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well. They are the vicegerents of Jehovah, designed to cooperate with him in the administration of a part...