Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-01-15

followers of the Prince OF Peace were
decried as very dangerous men; and
those who were the most influential
in carrying forward the work of persecu-
ton against them, as we'll as against their
Great Leader himself, were the religious
teachers of the day; but the common
people heard Him. and his followers
gladly until the clamor of those who
lived on popular favor was hushed to ST.
lence. 1t has been so in every reforna-
ton since. 1t will be SO throughout all
time. Truth is great, and will yet, und-
er God, prevail against the clamors of
earth and hell.
One thing more, and then the consider
alton of friend Curtis argument.
This may be the proper place to ans
wer those who ask what propose to do,
IN what am now undertaking. NV ans
wer is this Il propose to meet and refute
tie arguments schich are brought 10 sup
port The doctrine that human governments
are 0pprocsngly ordained of God. |
shall admit, of course, that he suffers them
to exlst-that the Scriptures everywhere
recognize their exlstence--and that God,
under special rerelations has as often as
he pleased made his o,on use of them
But | shall contend that they are the
fruits Of mans depracity, and not Gods
ordinances
will now proceed to consider friend
Curtis first Grgument-to be found in the
Telegraph of December 25th.
He undertakes to prove that God de.
signed the establishment and has mani
tested his approval of human govern
ment-l. From the domestic relation. ,
he stats with part of the 10th verse of
Inc 81 chapter of Genesis. His quota.
ton and Interpolation runs thus: Unto
the woman ne said, = thy desire
shall be to thy husband'-or rather TIM
"'sSes and 'o'H shall be subject to thy has
band and he shall rule over thee.'
Let US now look at the passage as it
stands IN the Blble-putting in what he
has left out, and leaving out what he has
put in. 1t reads thus;
Unto the woman he said, will greatly mnlt;nlv
| thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thoy
snail bring forth children aud thy desire shall he
70 my husband, and he shall rule over thee'
would not make too much of his in
terpolation, because it affects the argument
little or nothing any way. But his cmiss-
aon was of importance, as will be seen by
all at once. on comparing the aohole verse,
as | have quoted it, with the part of it
which he quoted. The difference will be
still more striking, and the importance of
it enhanced, if we take in the context
Let US then look at the verse taken in con-
nection with the two verses preceding it
and the one following it, in the order in
which they stand in the chapter. The
whole will read thus:
"And the Lord said unto the serpent. bec,ns.
thou hast done this, thou art cursed above II cat
tle and above every beast of the field: mon INV
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat ali ,bs
| days of thy life: - nv
And Will put enmity between thee and the wo.
man. ana between thy seed and her seed it shall
| Dfnlse thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel
1 Unto the he said WI Il,
my sorrow aud thy concepton in sorrow thou
shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be
TO thy husband and he shall rule over thee,
And unto Adam he said. because thou hast har-
kened unto the voice Of thy wife and hast ca ten of
the tree of which commanded thee saving thou
shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy
sake IN sorrow shall thou of it all the days of
thy life,' sc.
1t will be seen from the text and the
context that God was denouncing iudg-
ments upon the serpent, the woman and
the man, for their transgresson of his
law. In other words, he was arravino
before them the consequences Of their
SINS. The serpent should go on his bel
ly-there should be enmity between his
seed and the woman's seed the woman
should conceive and bring forth in sorrow
her desire should be TO her husband
and he should rule over her; the man
should eat of the fruit Of the ground in
sorrow all the days of his life. And all
this the results of sin-the consequent
hulls of their depravity and perversness.
do these passages set forth duties to he
performed Do they not rather foreelI
ecents and consequences 10 transpire2-
The latter most plainly and unquestiona.
hlu La thn -o. I'LL