The Supremacy of the Sovereign A Sermon Preached in the Open Air at the Grove Adjoining the Richmond Hill Railway Station, on the 24th May, 1855; Being the Thirty-Sixth Anniversary of the Birth-Day of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria

Excerpt from The Supremacy of the Sovereign: A Sermon Preached in the Open Air at the Grove Adjoining the Richmond Hill Railway Station, on the 24th May, 1855; Being the Thirty-Sixth Anniversary of the Birth-Day of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria

God is holy, wise, just, and gracious; and, therefore, when He is pleased to adopt us as His children, and when we are enabled confidently and faithfully to look up to Him as our Father, and to endeavour, by His grace, implicitly to do His will, and imitate His divine example, we are, in pursuing such a course, not only discharging our duty to our heavenly, but also to our earthly, parent and sovereign; that is, so far as weak and fallible beings can discharge their duty.

But let us proceed, at once, to consider thi two-fold duty contained in our text.

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