Excerpt from The Limits of Civil Bedience: A Sermon Preached in the First Church, Dorchester, January 12, 1851 IT becomes me to state, what those who heard it will perceive, that this Sermon has been somewhat altered from what it was as preached, - not at all in respect to any principle or position, but by the enlargement upon some points, which the time allotted to a Sunday's Discourse forbade in its delivery. Let me further say, that I have yielded with no little reluctance to the request for its publication, - a reluctance which has been over come, in part, by the known fact that its views have been greatly misrepresented, unintentionally or otherwise and also in the hope, perhaps a presumptuous one, that it may do something in helping to guide some few minds with regard to the subject it discusses. The temerity, as it may seem to some, of publishing views opposed to those of so many who have the respect and confidence of the community, i do not feel. Truth is independent of persons. It is not received of men, though they may help us to obtain it. Whatever there may be of it in these humble pages, is not mine, but God's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.