27  And ^aif the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.

  4  Therefore, if it were possible that Amlici should gain the voice of the people, he, being a wicked man, would ^adeprive them of their rights and privileges of the church; for it was his intent to destroy the church of God.

  2  For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who ^bchose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.