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Show (22> (23) as lafiing as the world, and {till increafing; as eichmliances; not for the lake of reproaching If thole who brought us into them, but to excite your gratitude to God, for our deliverance out of't'hem, and for our prefcnt happy condition. God is my withers, I both wifh and pray. Britain, which has long been the principal {uport of liberty in Europe, and is, at leaf? war, the chief bulwark againlt that molt execrable of The REPEAL, the REPEAL has at once, in a all tyrannies, ‘Poperfy, {hould in deliroying her good mealure, reliored things to order, and com- colonies dellroy hcrfelf; (Heaven forbid it I) pofed our minds, by removing the chief ground what would become ofthofe few flares which of our fears. Thecourfe ofjullice between man are now free 9 what, of the protellant religion ? and man is no longer obllrué‘ted ; commerce lifts The former might, not improbably, {all before up her head, adorned with golden ti‘clles, pearls and precious Hones. All things that went on right before, are returning gradually to their forv the Grand Monarch on this fide the Alps ; the latter before the Succcflv of the apoflle Judas, and Grand Vicar of Satan, beyond them ; and f0, at length, one univerfal defpotifm {wallow up all! mer courfe ; thofe that did not, we have realon Some of us had, lately, painful apprehenfions of this kind, when there was talk of a great military force coming toflamp America into a parti- perfon you meet, wears the {miles of contenttho' they had received their manumiflion. Indeed, cular kind of fubjeétion, to which molt people all the lovers of liberty in Europe, in the world, here have an invincible averfion. have realbn to rejoice; the caufe is in fome mesh i to hope, will go on better now; almolt every ment and joy; and even our flaves rejoice, as It would, doubtlefs, have been a noble elicit: fure common to them and us. Blefled revolution? of genius and» humanity in the ---~-..what 111211! I call them ? jinn/[err or financier: ?---to extort a glorious change 1 How great are our obligations little money from the poor colonies by force of arms, at the rifque of {0 much ruiichicf to America, to Britain, to Europe, to the world. And the golden temptation, it is laid, took with too many, forawhile. A Pandora's box, or Trojan horfe, indeed ! -----O miferi, quze tanta infania, civcs ? Creditis avcél'os I'm/2'6: .5' ant ulla putatis Dona carere doll: Danafim ? fie notus- ? 'l‘ But not to digrcfs. I have now briefly reminded you of our late fad, perplexed, alarming circumfia cc: ; ‘ fit". 11.. for it to the lupreme Governor of the world 2‘ He hath given us beauty for (flex, and the oil of gladmfr for :1}: fpirit of lyea‘vimfr : He hathturned our groans into longs, our mourning into dancing : He hath pm 01/" our fizc/cc/otb, andgird» ed a: wit/3 glazing/r, to the end that our tongues, our glory may flag prayer to him. Let us all then rejoice in theIord, and give honor to him; not forgetting to add the obedience of our lives, as the bell lacrilice that we can offer to Heaven; and which, if neglected, will prove all our other {acrifices have been but olientation and hyva crify, which are an abomination to theLord. Th |