A Word to a Freeholder WHAT are you going to do? to vote for a Parliament man? I hope then you have taken no money. For doubt less you know the strictness of the oath,-that you have received no "gift or reward, directly or indirectly, nor any promise of any, on account of your vote" in the ensuing election. Surely you start at perjury ! at calm, forethought, deliberate, wilful perjury ! If you are guilty already, stop; go no further. It is at the peril of your soul. Will you sell your country? Will you sell your own soul? Will you sell your God, your Saviour? Nay, God forbid! Rather cast down just now the thirty pieces of silver or gold, and say, "Sir, I will not sell heaven. Neither you nor all the world is able to pay the purchase." I hope you have received nothing else, neither will receive; no entertainment, no meat or drink. If this is given you on account of your vote, you are perjured still. How can you make oath, you have received no gift? This was a gift, if you did not buy it. What! will you sell your soul to the devil for a draught of drink, or for a morsel of bread? O consider what you do Act as if the whole election depended on your single vote, and as if the whole Parliament depended (and therein the whole nation) on that single person whom. you now choose to be a member of it. But if you take nothing of any, for whom shall you vote? For the man that loves God. He must love his country, and that from a steady, invariable principle. And by his fruits you shall know him. He is careful to abstain from all appearance of evil. He is zealous of good works, as he has opportunity, doing good to all men. He uses all the ordinances of God, and that both constantly and carefully. And he does this, not barely as something he must do, or what he would willingly be excused from ; no, he rejoices in this his reason able service, as a blessed privilege of the children of God. But what, if none of the candidates have these fruits?

But what, if none of the candidates have these fruits? Then vote for him that loves the King, King George, whom. the wise providence of God has appointed to reign over us. He ought to be highly esteemed in love, even for his office' sake. A King is a lovely, sacred name. He is a Minister of God unto thee for good. How much more such a King, as has been, in many respects, a blessing to his subjects You may easily know those who love him not; for they generally glory in their shame. They "are not afraid to speak evil of dignities;" no, not even of the "ruler of their people." Perhaps you will say, "But I love my country; therefore I am for the country interest." I fear you know not what you say. Are you against your King because you love your country? Who taught you to separate your King from your country? to set one against the other? Be assured, none that loves either. True lovers of their country do not talk in this senseless manner. Is not the interest of the King of England, and of the country of England, one and the same? If the King is destroyed, doth it profit the country? if the country, does it profit the King? Their interest cannot be divided. The welfare of one is the welfare of both. Have you an objection of a different kind? Do you say, "I am for the Church? The Church of England for ever ! Therefore I vote for ; he is a true Churchman, a lover of the Church." Are you sure of that? Friend, think a little. What kind of a Churchman is he? a whoring Church man, a gaming Churchman, a drunken Churchman, a lying Churchman, a cursing and swearing Churchman? or a red hot persecuting Churchman, that would send all Dissenters to the devil at a clap? For shame ! for shame ! Do you call a man a Churchman, who knows no more of God than a Turk? call a man a Churchman, that does not even pretend to so much religion as would serve an honest Heathem? He is a lover of the Church who is a lover of God, and consequently of all mankind. Whoever else talks of loving the Church, is a cheat. Set a mark upon that man.

Set a mark upon that man. Above all, mark that man who talks of loving the Church, and does not love the King. If he does not love the King, he cannot love God. And if he does not love God, he cannot love the Church. He loves the Church and the King just alike. For indeed he loves neither one nor the other. O beware, you who truly love the Church, and therefore cannot but love the King; beware of dividing the King and the Church, any more than the King and country. Let others do as they will, what is that to you? Act you as an honest man, a loyal subject, a true Englishman, a lover of the country, a lover of the Church; in one word, a Christian one that fears nothing but sin, that seeks nothing but heaven, and that desires nothing but God; nothing but glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men I