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er^e God inward- ly, with all ihe fruits of regenerated tiouls, would I desire that ye should serve hitn outwardly, in derout ack^o^¥lcdf^€nt of lus presence in all tliingH, and diligent obHervmtion of bin hand in all events- This leads ua to consider the improvement of this mystery of the Dirine providence which we have opened up. 8uch, dear brethren, is the light cast upon this my&tery^ by the patient expectation of the Scrip- turea. And as the revievr which our subject led ufi to take last Lord's night of God's judgments upon the apostate Christian churches^ awoke in our minds many reflecuons concermng the immi- nent peril of the like judgroonts in which the Bri- tish churches stood ; so the sure promise of re- demption unto Israel, and of destruction unto all her enemies, which we have this night takeo^ awakeih anew our fears for the British natioot which hath had but too deep a hand in the cruelties and oppren^ions of those witnesses of God in the day of his judgment, who shall arise and bcartcsti* monyaUo against England, which, in the times of oM, was fftmo\is Ox her banishments and confiH* catioiks, and cruel tortures, yea, avid empledgments of that nation, as if they were to be rated as so many heads of cattle, or so many thousand pounds stock. Nor is it necessary to go far back, in order to fmd the examples of a severe and cruel polic/ IHh Rlftt^S or 1111 KAKT. wbich ItfitL been, 1 Uiink, pmvidtmrially rGve«) ffi ib^B« v^ry days, lia Atill ftdtoriDg ic yots, a incyrl>ortitod *ilh the slsitttice of the knd, end Ihc (aws oi our free towns, yea of this vt-ry city of I^ndoA^ Ml (^t^hm^.A aa Ilia iiurftG of tfac orU nad tf lib^ty;— tfothut. if I berigfatly inromruKi, ihr«e gM^Yadone are fbond neces-sary to wipe off tho opprobrium ofbe^ng n Je\f, und entitle him to the oTdinary privileges of another free-born subject of Ibe tcttlm. And yet thcw vrt the chosen people of God; God's fbiMr^n, in whom he dcligtiMh; prodigft) jmlee^l, and for a n^eason sliidirig &r off l>om hiB loTe^ but chartered and marhed to lum ; wlio ^lall be a nation of kin^, and to whom nil other kings shftll be but as servants, but» wblch chiofly conccnieth un, upon whone exftctoni Uod shall exftcl Iwo-fold exaction, aad most lerrible re^pcinsibilily in that j^rvut slntighter of ihe n tionft. Metbinks, therefore, I am eerTinp wtII m vocation of & Mitti«cerr of the Ooep*!, ordained b a National Church to minister the tnith to children in these part$, fo adtoonifth. and ex and entreat you, a^ yon tender Ood'ft m