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Show (to) in) fillent with the common good of the Britilh empire : More than which we cannot reafonably, and, I am perliiaded, do not deflre. Thefe things being premif‘eddet me now pro- ceed to thofe refleclious, exhortations and can- tions relative to them, which were the chief at the. late alarming CRISIS, when f0 much depended on the meafures that were then fpeen dily to be taken ! He hath changed his royal pnrpofe, and that of his Parliament, in a mat~ ter which nearly and elicntially concerned, at And the prefent oc- leafi our temporal happinefs; difpofing them to take off from our necks that grievous and caiion being a very peculiar one, fuch as never heavy burden, which, to be fore, was not put defign of this dilhourl'e. before occurred in America, and,I hope in God, never will again ; I {hall crave your indulgence ifI am confiderably longer than is cufl'omary upon us but with reluctance, and thro' the difhonei‘t artifices of certain wicked men who, perhaps, intended, if poifible, entirely to alie- on other oceafions, which are leis out of the nate the affections of the Colonifts from their ordinary courle. In the firf‘t place then, it is evident from the preceding view of things, that we have the greateft caufe for thanld‘ulnefs to AlmightyGod, who doeth his will among the inhabitants ofthe earth, as well as in the armies of heaven. He, in whole hands are the hearts of all men, not common Father the King, and from theirMo-v tier-country. O execrable defign ! to the ac- complilhmeut of which, the pernicious meafure al‘orefaid apparently tended. Butblefl‘ed beHe, who govetneth among the nations, that he hath confounded the devices of fuch treacherous men. To allude to the plalm, a part of which excepting thole of Kings, ii) that he turneth I mentioned as my text ; " if it had not been them whitheri‘oever he will, as the rivers of the Lord who was on our fide, when men role water, hath inlpired the people oi‘America with a noble lhirit ot'liberty, and remarkably united them in {landing up for that invaluable-blefl'ing. Up againit us," and if they could have had their wicked will, " then they had fwallowed us up " quicl; ;"~~" then the waters had overwhel~ He hath railed us up friends ofthe greateil enii- " med us, the liream had gone over our foul ; hence in Britain, in our perilous ciicnmitances. then the proud waters had gone over our foul. He hath united the hearts of almoli all wife and good men there, to plead our caufe and Jive/r new ihccelslhlly. rile hath bleiTCd the King "Will an upright Minil‘try, zealous for the public good, and knowing wherein it confifls. :He hath given the King wildom to dilbern, and integrity to purine, the 'ntercils of his peopl e. " Bleilh(.l be the Lord, who hath not given us " as a preyto their teeth ;" the ravening teeth of tholb cunning few/err, from whofe treache- rous/time we liavejuilelcaped ; " our help be" ing in the name ofthe Lord, who made hea- at " ven and earth." To Him, therefore, we 'juilly owe. the undiflbmbled gratitude of our C 2 hearts, |