the God of Israel made choice of our fathers, and exalted the people when they sojourn'd in Egypt, from whence he conducted them by the terror of his arm.

rulers are not a terror to virtue, but to vice. would you then live without any dread of the civil power? do what is right, and you shall have his commendation.

but that I may not seem as if I would strike a terror in you by letters:

Those that transgress reprove in publick, to strike a terror in the rest.