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viii DEDICATION enjoy " the glorious LIBERTY of the fans I AM, with the warmefi gratitude, and highefi veneration, Right Honorable and Moll Worthy PSALM CXXIV. 7, 8. ' Our/021113" efl‘aped as a bird/from the flare 0ftbefow/em ,- the flare is broken, and we are cfmpea'. 0er 176/1) is in 1/26 mmze of the Lord, "who S I R, Tour my? ohedienf, ' made heaven and earl/J. HE late gracious appearance of divine pro» vidence for us, in the day of our trouble, fecmed f0 feafonable, {o fignal, {o impor- tant; in a word, [0 interefling to the prefent and Mqfl Dufjflti' Mm? Mo/il Hamill? Servant, future generations, that we of‘this Society thought it expedient to agree among ourfelves upon aday, in order to take a particular, religious notice of it; and to praife the name of the Lord, in whom is our help. If there had been any probability of our being called together for this end by Troclczmaiian, as upon fome lefs memorable occafions, we lhould not have been defirous to anticipate the day, which might have had the appearance ofolientation. JONATHAN MAYHEw; But of that, fo faras l have heard, there was very' little, if any, profpeft, By this perfectly voluntary, and free- B will