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SIR,

E Your MAJESTIE'S mot Faithful and Dutyful Subjects, the Epicopal Clergy of the Diocee of Aberdeen, Do from Our Hearts render Thanks to Almighty GOD, for Your MAJESTIE'S afe and happy Arrival into this Your Antient Kingdom of Scotland, where Your Royall Preence was o much long'd for, and so neceary to Animate Your Loyal Subjects, our NOBLE and GENEROUS PATRIOTS, to go on with that Invincible Courage and Reolution which they have hitherto o uccesfully Exerted, for the Recovery of the Rights of Their King and Country, and to Excite many Others of Your Good Subjects to join them, who only wanted this great Encouragement.

WE hope and Pray that GOD may open the Eyes of uch of Your Subjects, as malicious and elf-deigning Men have indutriouly blinded with Prejudices againt Your MAJESTY, as if the Recovery of thoe jut Rights would ruin our Religion, Liberties and Property, which by the Overturning of thoe Rights have been highly Encroach'd upon: And We are perwaded that Your MAJESTIE'S Justice and Goodnes will ettle and ecure thoe jut Priviledges to the Conviction of Your mot malicious Enemies.

Almighty GOD has been Pleas'd to Train up Your MAJESTY from Your Infancy in the School of the Cros, in which the Divine Grace inpires the Mind with true Widom and Vertue, and Guards it againt thoe fale Blandihments, by which Properity corrupts the Heart. And as this School has ent forth the most Illutrious Princes, as Moes, Joeph, and David; o We hope the ame Infinitely Wise and Good GOD Deigns to make Your MAJESTY, not only a Bleing to Your Own Kingdoms, and the true Father of Them, but a great Intrument alo of the General Peace and Good of Mankind.

Your Princely Vertues are ch, that in the Eteem of the bet Judges, You are Worthy to wear a Crown, tho' You had not been Born to it, which makes us Confident that it will be Your MAJESTIE'S Care, to make your Subjects a happy People, and o to Secure them in their Religion, Liberties, and Property, as to leave no jut Ground of Ditrut, and to Unite us all in true Chritianity, according to the Gopell of JESUS CHRIST, and the Practice of the Primitive Chritians.

We Adore the Goodnes of GOD, in Preerving Your MAJESTY amidt the many Dangers, to which You have been Expoed, and notwithtanding the Hellih Contrivances form'd againt You, for encouraging Aaines to Murther Your Sacred Person, a Practice abhorred by the very Heathens. May the ame Mercifull Providence continue till to Protect Your MAJESTY, to Proper Your Arms, to Turn the Hearts of all the People towards You, to Subdue thoe who reit Your Jut Pretenions, to Etablih You on the Throne of Your Ancetors, to Grant You a long and happy Reign, to Bles You with a Royal Progeny, and at lat, with an Immortal Crown of Glory. And as it has been, till is, and hall be our Care, to Intill into the Minds of the People true Principles of Loyalty to Your MAJESTY, So this is the Earnet Prayer of

To which His MAJESTY was Pleas$e$d to give this mot Gracious Anwer.

I am very Senible of the Zeal and Loyalty You have Expreed for Me, and hall be glad to have Opportunities of giving You Marks of My Favour and Protection.