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The Principles of Government, the Definitions of phyfical, moral, civil, and religious Liberty, contained in Dr. PRICE's Obfervations, &c. are fairly examined and fully refuted:

TOGETHER WITH

A Juftification of the Legiflature, in reducing America to Obedience by Force.

To which is added.

AN APPENDIX

ON THE

Excellent and admirable in MR. BURKE's fecond printed Speech of the 22d of March, 1775.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's fake,
whether it be to the king as fupreme, or unto governors, as unto
them that are fent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and
for the praise of them that do well, as free and not using your li-
berty as a cloak of maliciousness, but as the fervants of God.
First Epistle of St. Peter, ch. 2.

Qui captat rifus hominum, famamque dicacis ;
Fingere quæ non vifa potest ;--

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hic niger est, hune tu romane caveto.

Horat. L. 1. fat 4.

BY J. SHEB BEAR E, M. D.

LONDON:

Printed for J. Bew, at No. 28, Pater nofter Row.

M.DCC.LXXVI.

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THE colonists in America, and their confederates in

Great Britain, being fairly driven from the ground which
they firft affumed for their vidication of rebellion; and
confcious that the crown cannot conftitutionally poffefs
a right, by charter, to establish communities of British
fubjects, independent of the national legislature, to which
the king himself is fubject, do, neverthelefs, pertinaci-
oufly perfift in their unnatural oppofition to that fu-
preme authority. Dr. Price, therefore, fteady to the
good old caufe of his prefbyterian ancestors, revived and
foftered by the fanatics in New England, fteps forth, the
avowed and ftrenuous champion of their rebellion.
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