A View of National Felicity, the Cause of Gratitude to Go
J. Adamson, D. D. Psalm 48:12-14 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.… d: — I. THE NATURAL ADVANTAGES OF OUR SITUATION. 1. Our soil is fertile, liberally rewarding the husbandman with "grass for cattle, and herb for the use of man"; with all the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life. 2. No country in the world is more sufficient for itself, or more independent of every other; while from innumerable ports we disperse our superfluities and the fruits of our industry to every nation under heaven. 3. Our climate is mild, temperate and salubrious. We are neither scorched by excess of heat, nor made torpid by intense cold. 4. Our people are hardy and vigorous; patient of toil; docile, generous and open; attached to their country; intrepid in war, industrious at home. II. THE EXCELLENCE OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 1. Ye have personal liberty, which, as it cannot be taken from you without a crime, so neither can ye alienate it of yourselves but for a time, and upon such terms as still keep you under the protection of the laws, to guard you from abuse, and to secure your hire. 2. Ye have political liberty. Every man is allowed to declare his sentiments concerning the measures of government, and to animadvert on them in the most public manner. 3. Ye have religious liberty in a very eminent degree. Every man is allowed to hold his own creed, and to worship God in his own way. III. THE FAVOUR OF PROVIDENCE. (J. Adamson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. WEB: Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.