AND

CIVIL GOVERNMENT,

IN A

COURSE OF LECTURES,

BY

J. M. MATHEWS, D. D.

“He that raleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God."

2 Samuel, 23 : 3.

NEW-YORK:

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,

285 BROADWAY.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord 1850, by Rev.

J. M. MATHEWS, D. D. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Printed and Stereotyped

BY D FANSHAW, 35 Ann, corner of Nassau-st.

CIVIL GOVERNMENT, AS ORDAINED IN THE COMMONWEALTH

OF THE HEBREWS.