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For Shepherds to Butcher

Posted by on October 1, 2013 in General | Leave a comment

If we look over the prophets [of the Old Testament], we shall find that the rulers are peculiarly guilty: the princes were become mighty oppressors: and when foreign enemies attacked them, unnaturally joined and conspired their ruin! This was a crime of the highest nature. For nothing can be more aggravated than for the shepherds to mislead and butcher the flock they were set to defend and feed! And the guardians of the public interests, to turn traitors and assassins to them that raised them to their high places!

– Samuel Webster, A.M., of Salisbury, MASS. Election Sermon, 1777.