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Show PREFACE. HE following Sermon was drawn up on a few days notice, and without any View to the prefs, at the requef't of fome of the Author's worthy Friends, to whom he could refufe nothing of this kind. At their requef‘r, it is now likewife fubmitted to the Public, as it was preached, without varying or fupprefling a fingle fentiment or material expreflion; and with the addition only of a few lines, and three or four explanatory notes. THE Author confidered that, al- though he was called to this oflice by a particular body, yet he was to addrefs a great and mixt afTembly of his fellow-citizens, and a number of the firfl: characters in America, now met in confultation, at a melt alarming crifis. A N IM A T E D with the pureft zeal for the mutual interefls of Great-Britain |