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begin underlining authority to her councils & energy to her measures. end underlining Her humblest children may thus share in the reward of her successes; while by a different course, they might paralize her exertions, impede her progress, and become responsible for her defeats. "Is it a small offence to despise the Church of God?" says the learned Hooker; begin underlining "My son keep thy fathers' commandment, and forget not thy mothers' instruction; bind them always about thine heart. end underlining It doth not stand with the duty which we owe to our Heavenly Father, that to the ordinances of our mother the Church, we should show ourselves disobedient. Let us not say we keep the commandment of the one, when we break the law of the other: for unless we begin underlining observe both, we obey neither." end underlining crossed x marking across all text before this point If submission to her will be thus binding upon her children, how momentous and important are begin underlining their end underlining duties who express that will; to whom is committed the fearful power of directing or refreshing her energies, of accelerating or impeding her operations, of conducting her march to new conquests, or of dishonouring crossed x marking on right portion of paragraph line through center of paragraph