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 manifeſt Contempt of God and his Authority, and a pernicious neglect of our own Salvation: And ſuch Perſons as will not be convinced of this now, will be taught it in a very terrible Manner hereafter.

GOD's Judgments upon Earth againſt the Prophaners of this Day, have been too numerous and too notorious to be deny'd, which are but as drops of the Storm of that fiery Indignation which will at last conſume all his Adverſaries. And ſurely they cannot be accounted other than the Enemies of Gods and of their ow Souls too, who reject the Bleſſing of the Lord's Day, by uſing it to a quite contrary end and deſign. To prevent which our Church has required a ſolemn Humiliation before God for the Prophanation of the Day of our Lord, as well as for Murder, Adultery, or any other immoral Act: As we find in our Liturgy, where, after the Rehearſal of the Fourth Commandment, we are required to implore Forgiveneſs of God for all that we have done contrary to this holy Law of His; and to pray that He 'wou'd give us his Grace, that we may, never commit ſuch grievous Sins any more, in theſe Words: Lord have Mercy upon us, and incline our Hearts to keep this Law.

And foraſmuch as our Supreme Lawgiver has in this Law of his required, that ſuch as