Mr. Turner en Crimes tmd Put, 



At the head of the one, is the great <w 

 things, as the fupreme eternal Leg 

 Executor. At the head of the other, - 

 civil governors, who are appointed to 

 thefe important offices in thofe tempora 

 ties, into which men enter during thei 

 nuance in this world. 



Each of thefe conftitutions of governm 

 attended with many advantages, the one pro. 

 ting our moral, the other our political happinc 



With refped: to the former, however, the eter 

 nal laws of moral obligation, with the different 

 degrees of moral enormity, are fo deeply engravea 

 on the human mind by nature, and fo forcibly 

 republifhed in the books of revelation, that they 

 feem not fo much the objedts of fpeculative dif- 

 quifition : every good man is fenfible of their 

 obligation, and of the proper rcftridlions with 

 which they are to be taken. But an attention to 

 tjjie rules by which ad ions are eftimated in a 

 political view, is highly neceflary for all men, 

 whatever be their moral charader; fince other- 

 wife, they may be milled by the idea, that the 

 fame general rules obtain both in the divine and 

 human governments, under the political as well 

 as the moral conftitution ; fo that, if they be care- 

 ful to keep within the bounds of ftrid morality, 

 they can never become amenable to the laws of 

 civil fociety *. This, however, is, doubtlefs, an 



• Compare Jui^ge Forfter's preface to his Reports, 

 quoted in the Jal page of this cfl'ay, 



X 4 error, 



