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capital offenders in the commercial system ; tn which ibis country hatb bail tits national oonfidence, and from which broken reed, the Lord, if it were possible, doth desire to remoTc the confidence of the nation unto him seir And when the first violence of the blow de*' scendt'd like mi rurlhquulce, your politicians^ and etatesmen, and the thousand pens who uphold ungodlineas, making traffic of the wiu of the people, pronounced that it waabut a sqaaltathe heavens, such 09 were ever occurriDg, which wottk) aoon expend its strength, and leave the air moce salubriouii, and the earth more fresh and fragrant, and tbe spirits of men more cheerful and happy than before. And when, from this place, which they would fain pnt to ailei>ce. that it should not presume to speak of God's national diGpCQ^atiocis, for the Hake olwhich it was appointed to Miifs truth, aa well as for the private aiul llic (Mrr^oiittJ well- being of men, f dared to declare that the hand of God was to be seen manifested in the suddenneef, and terror, atid wide-spread calamity of the viai- tatton, and that it behoved ua to bumble ourselves for our own funs and the sins of the people, and to weep before the Lord^ 1 know net what angry and venomous tonguea were lifted up, as if I bad an evil desi]^ aia;atnst the country and the com- mon weal, which I mou zealously affect in de- siring to rcfttore to them the ark of their salvatioo, which is the fear of the living and true Uod. Bnt, behold what hath coine to pasa, lo the cou- 0 i I l^ftDI in.] OODVcQWTUQVJifiSV WITU 7Ht LAUD. Wfe fu»oti of these fal^c prophcU, who cry Peace, pcftce. prcwperity, pron|>enty, riches. anJ trea- »iire, and ^lory ! Six raonihs have run their course, id the squa] bath Dot pa^ftcij, hut Umh tettledj and deepened, uDd darkened into tbo blackest eloud which ever brooded over any land. The cloud bath shaken fiminc from itx skirls, and Ibrealenctb to sbdtc pestilence from its boaom, if the people will not turn unto the Lord. It hath riiOTed Llie untional conncili^ <if ihe realni *witb much keen debate : and many prudent niea- sureB have tbey taken for the remedy and mitt^' lion of the evil : and to repress the violence of ila outbreakings. the 6vrord hath been UD^shcatiicd; and to comfort itn mijiery, every one^ front our \09i gntciouK tovere^ii, liath contributed hi» mite of chanty ; and all tonf^ues have spoken of ^it, and all writers of every cLasa and order have ^■written of it. And tfamk yv, then, men and bre- ^nhron, tliatwc mini&lcrs of the