Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. THE DUTY OF SUBMISSION TO CIVIL AUTHORITY. A SERMON, PREACHED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF BRADFIELD, BERKS, ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1830, ON OCCASION OF THE LATE DISTURBANCES IN THAT NEIGHBOURHOOD. BY THE REV. J. F. MOOR, M.A. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JAMES NISBET, 21, BERNERS STREET; AND SOLD BY J. RUSHER, READING. MDCCCXXX. _Should any Profits arise from the Sale of this Sermon, they will be devoted to Charitable Purposes._ The following Discourse lays no claim to originality. The Author acknowledges his obligation to the excellent Bishop Beveridge for many valuable and leading thoughts contained in it. But having thrown them into a new form, and having had it suggested to him by some members of his congregation, that the publication of them, at the present eventful crisis, might, under the divine blessing, be useful, he has consented to let them appear in print. The Author deeply feels the awful responsibility which, in these turbulent times, more especially devolves upon every minister of the sanctuary--to withhold nothing from the public which may have a tendency, through the powerful influence of the Holy Spirit accompanying it, to strengthen the walls of our spiritual Zion, and to preserve among us "that righteousness which" alone "exalteth a nation." It is with the earnest prayer, that the following pages may in the perusal of them be blest to these ends; and that, if they are, all the glory may redound to Him, to whom alone it is due, that the Author sends them to the press. A SERMON, &c. 1 PETER ii. 13, 14.--_Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake; whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well._