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Show (18) (19) land; there who have laid their feheme {0 deep, and covered it {o well, that thoufands who are ripening it, fufpeé‘t nothing at all of the matter. Thefe well meaning men, fincerely believing, that they are ferving their country, exclaim againfi grievances, which either never exified, or are aggravated above meafure,and therebyinflame the people more and more, to the with of thofe who are behind the fcene. But be not you duped anylonger. do not ruin yourfelvcs for them that owe you no good will, that now employ you Only for their own purpofes. and in the end will give you no thanks. They love neither England nor America, but play one againfi the other, in fuhferviency to their grand defign, of overturning" the Englifh governments. Be warned in' time. Stand and confider before it is too late; before you have entailed confufion and mife'ry on your latefi pof'terity. Have pity upon your mother country ! Have pity upon your own! Have pity upon youru felves, upon your children, and upon ail' that are near and dear to you ! Let us not bite and devour one another, left we be confumed one of another! 0 let us follow after peace ! Let us put away our fins; the real ground of all our calamities ! Which never will or can be thoroughly removed, till we fear God and honour the King. AL it..." 1.00}? 1 ,‘.¢..,,\u‘§: y).w,,,t§ ' Sermon preached by Dr. Smith, in Philadelphia, has been lately reprint], ed in England. It has been much admire ,.l but proceeds all along upon wrong fuppg- fitions. Thefe are conluted 1n the prece ing traét: yet-I would Jufi touch upon h them again. . Smith fu ofes, 1.. They aveza. rigll); of grantingptheir own money;3 tltifig is of .being exempt from t‘axationd yf r" :01. fuipreme power. If they ‘. conten moirethe neither this, they contend for lefs than independency. Whythep" orhey talk of their " rightful Sovereigp. y acknowledge no Sovereign at al . t, the ‘ can fe. of contend for "the lib'eii‘ila" isiinother mifiaken‘fuppolitipn. pr Whatyliberty do you want, either my;er y 9 You had the very fame li relitrious D you had: but . we have in England. I fav, J y the fubfiance, 'ou have now thrown awa You have no and retain only the. flmdow. . bm whatthe t , liberty, ciVIl or religious no. But Congrefs pleafes to allow. |