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16 among us, and from a tedfat Adherence to that Truth we may promie our elves the ame Favour and Protection, which hath put o viible and o advantageous a Difference between Us and Other Nations.

Only let, that be Ours, I beeech you, which is here commanded to be Irael's Care: To adorn this Truth; and to anwer that Goodnes of our Almighty Protector, by a Converation uitable to Both. Nor let us be wanting to That, for which God hath done o much, in all lawful and prudent Methods for ecuring, increaing, and, if poible, perpetuating this our Glory: Epecially by a watchful Prevention of that unwearied and implacable Malice, which labours for Michief from a Principle of Religion, and teaches our Ruin to be meritorious: That furious Zeal, which, when it cannot call down Fire from Heaven, is not ahamed to impregnate the Bowels of the Earth with it, thence to undermine, and catter, and conume us. Above all, let no Diviions within (fomented indutriouly by them that are without) render us an eaie and unthinking Prey. For, after o many Warnings and Experiments of an Enemy ubtle and retle, ininuating and bold, and always in perfect Agreement againt our Faith and Contitution: Any Breach upon us, for want of a yet more United and Enlarged Strength, will deerve hereafter, not to be pitied as Our Misfortune, but cenured as our Folly and Reproach.

Oh! therefore that the pat Bleings and Ecapes, to which we are indebted for remaining hitherto a Reformed Church and a free Nation, may be o devoutly commemorated and o religiouly improved by us, that my Text may be anwered in the Latter, as punctually as you have een it is in the Former Branch! May the inetimable Mercies we have received, and the excellent Religion we profe, be effectually taught our Sons and our Sons Sons:, And may the Lord, who hath o ignally been Our God, be likewie Their God for ever and ever. Amen.