. . "This is the reason why Scripture so frequently warns ???not to trust in men, than whom nothing can be more vain.??? (Ps 146:3.) ???Cursed is he who trusteth in man, and relieth on an arm of flesh.??? (Jer 17:5.) Yet we see both princes and men of ordinary rank contrive and resolve in such a manner as if they could establish for a hundred years all that they contrived, and could subject heaven, sea" . .