FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. THE Religious Duty OF OBEDIENCE TO LAW: A SERMON, Preached in the Second Presbyterian Church IN BROOKLYN, NOV. 24, 1850. BY ICHABOD S. SPENCER, D.D. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY M.W. DODD, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL, CITY HALL SQUARE, OPPOSITE THE CITY HALL. 1850. TO THE REV. DR. SPENCER: The undersigned having listened, with much pleasure and as we hope profit, to the Sermon which you delivered yesterday morning, most respectfully request a copy of the same for publication, believing that much good may be done to the cause of Religion and Law, by the dissemination of the truths expressed therein. Brooklyn, Monday, Nov, 25, 1850. JASPER CORNING, FRANCIS H. ABBOTT, LEBBEUS CHAPMAN, F. DEMING, GEORGE A. TALBOT, A.M. FENBY, THOMAS COCHRAN, WM. BARBOUR, J.B. WICKHAM, SAMUEL HUTCHINSON, WM. H. AMES, L. HOPKINS, JARVIS BRUSH, S.N. BROWN, GEORGE P. LORD, H.K. CORNING, THOS. BAYLIS, W.K. BROWN, M.S. GOODMAN, JAS. WILDE, JR., GEO. A. TOWNSEND, DAVID B. BAYLIS, HENRY W. BARNES, ELI MERRILL, W.M. SANDS, ISAAC OTIS, ALANSON TRASK, CHARLES CLARK, JOHN T. LAWRENCE, A.S. MARVIN, WM. M. HARRIS, R.R. FIELD, SAMUEL T. HUBBARD, RICHARD W. HUBBARD, A.G. TRASK, JOHN H. PRENTICE, WALDO HUTCHINS, E.L. BUSHNELL, SUMNER STONE, JOSEPH STEELE, JAS. McLEAN, J.C. MEEKER, J.S. PIERSON, A.G. JENNINGS, JR., B.W. DELAMATER, W. SPENCER, J.C. DURYEA, A. CRITTENDEN, HENRY ROWLAND, WM. BULLARD, JN. BULLARD, JR. * * * * * To JASPER CORNING, Esq., AND OTHERS: GENTLEMEN--The sermon which you have requested, prepared without a single thought of its publication, and amid a pressure of other duties, I submit to your disposal;--governed more by your judgment than my own, in reference to its fitness for the press. Yours, very truly, I.S. SPENCER. Brooklyn, Nov. 26, 1850. SERMON. Titus, III. 1. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work.