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Show ( ii ) ( tain and the Colonies; ardently pant-z ing for the return of thofe Haleyondays of harmony, during which both countries (0 long flourilhed together, as the glory and wonder of the world ; ' iii ) ment, under which his family inherits the Throne. THESE, with a few things which feemed necefl‘ary refpecting the church at this time, are the topics handled in he thought it his duty, with the utmofh the following Sermon. If the princi- impartiality, to attempt a Rate of the ples it contains are but thoroughlyfe/f, unhappy controverfy that now rends the empire in pieces; and to ihew, if peradventure he might be permitted the Reader will not regret that the limits of a fingle difcourfe would not al-« low a particular application of them. to vouch for his fellow citizens, f0 far They will lead to their own applicati- as he has been converfant among them, on; or, at leaf't, that field is left open thattheidea of an independence upon the Parent-country, or the lead licentious oppofition to its juft intcrefis, is utter- ly foreign to their thoughts; that they contend only for the fant‘ftity of charters and laws, together with the right of granting their own money; and that to fucceeding Preachers. UPON the whole, if the kind ex~ peétations of the Author's Friends can he in any degree anfwered; ifwhat he has delivered {hall tend " to promote the Cau/e chsz-ty and Vivian" and particularly, if it could find its our rightful Sovereign has no where way to the clofets, or rather to the more loyal fuhjeéts, or more zealoufly hearts, ofthe Grim, and after all the attached to thofe principles of govern-= arguments they have heard from o- merit thers) could in the leatl lllduCC th: :2". to jutter |