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Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards

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Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.

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