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Show e R 0 V ER B s XXW. 21. WIVIEDDLE NOT VVI'I‘H THEM THAT ARE GIVE N TO CHANGE. ~ UR religion teacheth us to confider all afilic‘ tions as challilemenrs for fin, and as mercifully intended by our heavenly father to bring the allliéled to refieejrion and repentance. National calamities we are taught to regard as the punilhments of natio. ml vices, and as warnings to the people to bethink themfelves and reform. [)2 tbs day of advmflty cwg/Mer, is an admonition equally appetite, as applied to individuals and to nations. "Then the trouble itfelf, Whether private or public, is the immediate and natural confequence of particular vices, it is more efpeeiglly a call to examine into thofe vices which are the (linear fource of our calamities, that by the grace of God we may fori‘ake and avoid them. Thus a bad liote of health caufed by debauchery, fpecially warns the fullering perfon of the 'neeeffity of temperance in the indulgence of appetite; And the miferies of a civil war, whether incurred by immodemte ilretches of power on the one fide, or produced by a wanton abut} of liberty on the othera are loud and partieular calls to the correé'iion of thefe enormiries. If this be ajul't reprefentation, no chrillinn cam e‘eafonably doubt that our prefer}: dilirefsful and itin‘eaming eireumfianees in regard to America. gnght Lobe thus MiCWCd by every ,Britifli fubjetil; or: |