Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-11-22
SOVEREIGN PEOPLE
VS.. GODS PEOPLE
ARTICLE 4.

Proofs:
/ The middle class of professed
sovereigns, which we're better than the
mobocratic sovereigns, are mentioned
but four times in all of the New Tes-
lament, and in every record they are
mentioned expressly to show that they
were not Gods people at all. but
opposed to them. The four records
are found in Acts 1880 aud 80; Acts
It's aud Acts 1899, rendered "the
people," only, In each record by
King James version, but In. each case
ought to have been rendered the "de-
mos-people, or~better still, "the
demos-professed sovereign people" for
that is exactly what oil of them have
always protested to be. In the Acts
t2:99 record. right translation of
the Greek reads: "And the demos
professed sovereign people gave a
shout saying, 1T is the voice of god
and not of man." Just exactly as
their political brethren do in America,
when they squall, "Vox populi, vox
Del, /. 2, "the voice Of the people
is the voice Of God" thereby making
God truckle to the demos sovereign
people, and we all ought to know no
such people can be of God. l know
1t, sure, therefore cannot, nor will
not. be one of them, lest go to hell
for it.
g The laos-people, not like. the
demos, body polite, especially the
subjects of prince.people, as Lid
dell and Scott's Lexicon deGNes them.
are 140 times mentioned in the New
Testament, and they, and they only,
are the people who are called by God
and His apostles as the people of God,
because it takes just exactly such peo-
pie to be this subject people of Prince
Emmanuel Christ, and all sensible
people know that there is no sover-
eighty about subjects of Prince, and
therein lies their unlikeness to the
demos people. They are not alike,
and are not akin. Sovereigns and
subjects are not Synonymous, nor in
terchaugeably used, but are opposites.
are in fact antipodes, as far apart as
are the North and South poles
3 James 4:6 and list Peter SIS both
say 'God lesisteth the proud, and
giveth grace to the humble both Of
which relate to the professed free
and Independent professed sovereign
people, because they are prouder Of
their assumed sovereignty than any
thing else. and this is exactly what
Peter 1910, rightly translated,
means, for they say: "But ye are a
chosen generation, a royal priest
hood, holy nation, made all around
about from center to circumference in
to the laos subjects of Prince-peo
pie: So that ye should declare the
wonderful virtues of Him who hath
called you from out of darkness into
His marvellous light: "Who in time
just passed were not the laos-subjects
of the Prince people, but now are the
laos-subjscts Of nce-reople Of
God, who could not then obtain mercy
but now have obtained mercy" which
plainly shows, in connection with 9th
er correlativs Scriptures In same epis
tie, that while they held to their old
Norman, barbsrous, cannibaliBtic SOW
ersignty. devils hellish doctrine, they
just simply could not obtain mercy,
because God extends neither grace nor
IN
eigns, but after they renowned that
hellborn doctrine of, free, independ-
ent sovereignty, and had been made
all around about from center to cir
conference, the laos subjects of Prince
-Christ-they did then OBJ
tain mercy. This doctrine will stand
when the earth and world are both on
FIRE. Ia the very nature of things this
doctrine is bound to be true, for no
sovereign needs, nor can possibly oh
tain either mercy nor grace, for both
are for only the humble, dependent
subjects.
A. The foregoing doctrine in item 3,
is made far more clear by Christ who,
in speaking. rot to the "penes, "-poor
who works day by day as day la
borer for. his living as hireling."
but of the "ptoch os' poor, a much
poorer sort of neople than the hire
ling, in Mat. 5:3, by a right and full
translation of which rs said: "Bless-
ings to those who crouch or cringe
covering down for fear of their enc
mics, away down utterly below the
demo-ssovereign people as bsggers,
liks begger man, to be as poor as
begger, to the Spirit, for because of
tbs N is the Kingdom of heaven"
they being like helpless strangers,
were peculiarly under divine protec-
tion," as the Lexicon says.
This plainly shows that Christ
meant that because of these humble,
non.resisting, inoffensive beggers, who