TO THE REV. DR. SPENCER:
The undersigned having listened, with much pleasure and as we hopeprofit, to the Sermon which you delivered yesterday morning, most respectfullyrequest a copy of the same for publication, believing that much goodmay be done to the cause of Religion and Law, by the dissemination of thetruths expressed therein.
Brooklyn, Monday, Nov, 25, 1850.
JASPER CORNING,
FRANCIS H. ABBOTT,
LEBBEUS CHAPMAN,
F. DEMING,
GEORGE A. TALBOT,
A.M. FENBY,
THOMAS COCHRAN,
WM. BARBOUR,
J.B. WICKHAM,
SAMUEL HUTCHINSON,
WM. H. AMES,
L. HOPKINS,
JARVIS BRUSH,
S.N. BROWN,
GEORGE P. LORD,
H.K. CORNING,
THOS. BAYLIS,
W.K. BROWN,
M.S. GOODMAN,
JAS. WILDE, JR.,
GEO. A. TOWNSEND,
DAVID B. BAYLIS,
HENRY W. BARNES,
ELI MERRILL,
W.M. SANDS,
ISAAC OTIS,
ALANSON TRASK,
CHARLES CLARK,
JOHN T. LAWRENCE,
A.S. MARVIN,
WM. M. HARRIS,
R.R. FIELD,
SAMUEL T. HUBBARD,
RICHARD W. HUBBARD,
A.G. TRASK,
JOHN H. PRENTICE,
WALDO HUTCHINS,
E.L. BUSHNELL,
SUMNER STONE,
JOSEPH STEELE,
JAS. McLEAN,
J.C. MEEKER,
J.S. PIERSON,
A.G. JENNINGS, JR.,
B.W. DELAMATER,
W. SPENCER,
J.C. DURYEA,
A. CRITTENDEN,
HENRY ROWLAND,
WM. BULLARD,
JN. BULLARD, JR.
To JASPER CORNING, Esq., AND OTHERS:
GENTLEMEN—The sermon which you have requested,prepared without a single thought of its publication, and amid a pressure ofother duties, I submit to your disposal;—governed more by your judgmentthan my own, in reference to its fitness for the press.
Yours, very truly,
I.S. SPENCER.
Brooklyn, Nov. 26, 1850.
Titus, III. 1. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powersto obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work.
Ro. xiii. 1-7. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Forthere is no power but of God, the powers that be, are ordained of God. Whosoever,therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God, andthey that resist shall receive to themselves damnation: (harm, loss, or ruin).For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou thennot be afraid of the power? do that which is good and thou shalt have praiseof the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou dothat which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he isthe minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.Wherefore ye must