Discourses and essays on subjects of public interest / by Stevenson Macgill.

  • MacGill, Stevenson, 1765-1840.
Date:
1819
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    every probable mean for reclaiming public offend- ers, and encouraging in them the desire of reforma- tion. Nor let any man imagine that this duty is con- fined to any peculiar order or description of men. In the general design of preserving or recovering others from the power of iniquity, every man is con- cerned. Every one has for this purpose his pecu- liar sphere appointed him by God ; his portion in the vineyard which he is called to labour and im- prove. Private individuals, heads of families, mas- ters of servants and dependants, teachers and guard- ians of youth, elders and ministers of the church of Christ, magistrates and rulers of the land, all who have a general superintendence of the morals and character of the people ; all in their different spheres have a peculiar charge entrusted to them, and arc called to preserve and reclaim their fellow-creatures from sin, according to the talents which God hath given them, the sphere in which they move, and the influence which they enjoy. But what is to become of those whose crimes have separated them from their brethren and friends? who have forcibly burst every tie asunder, with- drawn from every mean of recovery, associated them- selves with the abandoned, and to whom, in the