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THANKSGIVING, For the Succefs of His Majefty’s Arms,

_ more particuarlly, in the. Reduéion | “ of Quebec, the Capital of Canada.”

By Amos Adams, A.M.

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Rejoice not when thine Enemy falleth, and let not

thine Heart be glad when he flumbleth ; left the

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™ gE THINKS, my Hearess, I fee Joy and M Triumph in every Face, a Smile in every

Countenance : Surely no Heart can be-a’

Stranger to the public Joy, no Tongue can be filent amidft the Songs of Triumph and Viory, This People have given ample. Demonitrations of their Loyalty and Gladnefs in all the publick Tokens of civil Mirth; the adopted Language of this People feems to be that of the Church. ‘ When the Lord turned ¢* again the Captivity of Zzon, we were like them that ‘dream; then was our Mouth filled with Laughter ; ¢ and our Tongue with Singing :—the LORD hath « done great Things for us, whereof we are glad.” Methinks I participate the publick Joy ; I feel a little thofe ‘Tranfports of Affection thar kindle in every Brea(t, and expand every loyal Heart. There are none

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who appears to lead in your Devotions, and to dire&

your Praifes this Day. It is therefore my Defign, not to reprefs, but to guide and dire& the Tide of Joy: I would have it to be a human folid Joy, by no Means tinétured. with Malice or Revenge, or any of thofe favage Paffions, which fhould never have Place ina Chriftian’s Heart. I would fo form and direét it, that your Joy may flow from Hearts filled with fincere Benevolence, and not be inconfiftent with that great evangelic Law, ‘ love your Enemies.”

I po not profefs to. have any particular Turn for fuch occafional Performances as this ; ‘« for I, Brethren, when I came to you, came not with Excellency of Speech, or of Wifdom, declaring unto you the ‘Tefti- mony of GOD.” Your _paft Experience teaches you not to expect from me a Difcourfe polifhed with a no- ble Delicacy of Sentiment and Stile, an exaét Propriety of Language, or the curious Paintings of fivifhed Elo- quence ; which perhaps this, if any Occafion, may. feem to require ; and with which you may fometimes be en- tertained by Men of polite Tafte, of diftinguifhed Ge- nius, enriched with theElequence of Greece and Rome. I only afk your patient Attention to an honeft, plain, unadorned, and. I hope not unfcriptural Difcourfe,

which I defire may be profitable upon the prefent Oc- -

¢afion : I don’t expeé to charm your Ears, Oh that J thay fuitably affe& your Hearts.

Tue Words now read are not unfuitable to be tho’t on at thisDay; they cannot, when duly underftood give the leaft Check to a truly human and Chriftian Joy ; and give me Leave to remind you, fuch an one is only acceptable in the Sight of GOD, whom we this Day profefs to adore.

_ Tue wife: Man tells us, in te Verfe preceeding our Text, ‘ a juft Man falleth feven Times in a Day” i.e. into Calamities, of which he is evidently {peaking in the Context, “and rifeth up again.” Altho’ by

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them out of their Hands ; “ but the Wicked fhall falf itito Milthief, i. €. ‘into ‘unavoidable Deftru&ion, which is often their Cafe in ‘this Life, and always in the Life to coine. Then this néceflaryCautioh is added, “Rejoice not Whett thine Enemy ‘falleth, and ‘let not thine Heatt be glad wien ‘he ‘ftumbléth, &c. ‘that is, pleate ‘not thy felf'in his Deftru@ion. °Which lainly teaches’ us, that the Love ‘of our Enemies is a Brace of the ‘Law, ‘as ‘well 'as-of the Gofpel: df ‘Jefus Chtitt: + Tue Caution ih‘ovr Text, I’ am ferifible, muft be taken in ‘a qualified atid’ limited fenfe; and there are féveral things neceflary to'be faid to’the right under- finding Of it, which I fhall'briefly'métition, “As | First. Ir ‘is not unlawfal ‘for a People to rejoice when ‘GOD has ‘given thet the Victory over their E- neties,!* Tis here fippoted ‘that our Friemies ‘are’un- juftly fo, that ‘they ‘without Caufe rife up againft us, Solomon'cat’t ‘be fuppofed to prohibit in ‘an unlimited and’ univerfal manner Joy and Tritmph at the Fall of our Enemies, this ‘would be to contradi@ the Ex: dinples ‘of the Church of GOD, It is {6 “far front being finful to rejoice at the Ruin and Downfall of an unreafonable and implacable Enemy, that *tis our Duty'to Praife GOD when we are able to fet our Feet. upon ‘their Necks. Such Eriemi¢: are the Scourge of

* Mankind, ‘and - their’ Fall ‘jg a ‘publick Good, a coms

mon Benefit, *Tis indeed‘ fad that any of the human Race fhould ‘be thus pernicious and inalicious to their

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F it may ce faid, our Text tefpects-only our perfonal Enemies : be. it {05 yet I think the Arpumene as {trongly concludes againft all Malice atd-revenpfal Delizht in the Fall of our national Ene- mits, where the Guilt of Individuais is commonly lefs aggravated, as their Enmity is generally only the Influence of an ambitious ‘Price. “ Reafons of publiék Safety may vindicate the Deflruaion ‘of dur Hational Eneriies, ‘hich may not take Place in Cafes of private Injury. But -ncither in the one Cafe, ner in the other, is

Malice or a revengeful Delight in ourFnenmies Pall to be account- ed-lawful.: but are, in every Cafe, Violations of thatLaw of Cha- rity, which GOD has eftablithed as the Bafis of Order and Happ.

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Fellow-men, that meerly from Principles of Pride and Avarice, they fhould become the Plagues and Diftur- bers of Mankind. ’Tis to be lamented that there are any fo Ivft to the Principles of Humanity as to, delight in War and Blood: that any fhould defignedly facrifice the Lives and Happinefs of .Mankind to unnatural Paflions. But-fuch fa fuch Princes, fuch Nations there have always been.in the World. Cai in the firft Age of the Worid was a Murderer: GOD. has in all Ages permitted the Effects of fuch favage Paffions, doubtlefs for wife and good Ends.—T he Saints in all Ages have invoked the Affiftance of. Heaven to _van- quifh the Enemies of Mankind. And if it be juft and lawful to feck to GOD for, Succefs in a juft.War, it is doubtlefs equally right and Jawful to rejoice and yive Thanks when he has heard our Detire.. Profperity in a Juft War is a great Blefling of Providence: itis a natural Duty we owe to, the great Governor of the Univerfe, to obferve the grand Events of. his Provi- dence, the fignal difplays of his Power and. Goodnefs, in the Punifhment cf;the Enemies of GOD and Man. And not.to obferve and rejoice in fuchFavours is to fruf+ trate one End of his Providence. When'GOD dees great and wonderful Things for his People, to pafs them by unnoticed, argues.a flight of the Goodnefs of GOD, a want of a due. Regard to the People of GOD, anda Defeé in our Love toMankind, whofe Profperity is often greatly affected by the Succefs of War. *Tis our natural Duty to eye GOD as fetting at the Helm of univerfal Government, exerting his Influence and ex- ercifing his Pleafure in the Fate of Nations and King- doms, we are vto be affeéted with real Gladnefs and Gratitude to GOD, when he treads down the Enemies of Mankind: Yea when GOD gives his People fignal Succeffés againft their Enemies, when the Pies of their Pride and Ambition is broken, they are to give vifisle aad publick Demonftrations of Thankfulnefs,

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the good of the Church, and the ‘Tranquility of Man- kind, When GOD gives his. People remarkable Tris umphs; they are.not only to feel a Gratitude to Heaven, but there-are to be publick Methods of teftifying our Joy, for which we have a divine Warrant: I don’t {peak here of Feftivals, and thofe civil and common Yokens of Mirth, that often take Place; but of praif+ ing GOD with Songs of Joy and Triumph. Publick Praifes. publick Rejoicings, are proper for Times of Triumph. If our common Mercies and Deliverances call for daily Acknowledgements, much more ¢o fuch grand Events of Providence, as greatly affeét the Tran- quility of Nations, and the Intercit of Religion. Vic tory over an Enemy is often a great znd fingalar Fa- vour ; and deferves fingular Thankfgivings. Agreably we find the People of GOD by the fpecial Approbation and Appointment of GOD, have in all Ages comme- morated their remarkable Viétories and Triumphs, by publick Songs of Praife and Tokens of publick Re< joicing, they did not pafs over fuch great Deliverances without extraordinary Tokens of. divine Gratitude. Thas Mofes and the [/raelites rejoiced in the Deftruc- tion of Pharogh and his puiffant Army, and fung an Hymn of Triumph at the Red Sea, compe‘ed on Pure pofe for that joyful Occafion, “ Then fang Mo/es and the Children of J/rael, this Song unto the LORD, and fpake, faying: I will fing to the LORD for he ‘hath triumphed glorioufly, the Horfe and. his Rider. hath he caft into the Sea.” When GOD granted the Tfraelites a wonderful Vi&ery over Sifera, aud delivered them from the Hand of Fabin ; Deborah and Barak recorded their Victory, and left a Song of Triumph as a lafling Monument of their Joy and Acknowledg: ment of the divine Power and Goodnefs: 4 Pattern of Eftern, early, and truly noble divine Eloquence, when David ad obtained great Victories.aver lis Ksemies he was careful to record them, and exprefled his Toy in Songs of Praife: he thus concludes the Eighteenth »Pfalm, which was compofed’on fuch an occafion. ‘* It , B is

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is GOD thet avengeth Me, and fubdueth the People

under me, he délivereth me from mine Enemies, yea.

thou lifteft me up above thofe that rife up againft me, thou haft delivered me from the violent Man, therefore will I give Thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the Heathen, and fing Praifes unto thy Name ; great Deli- verance giveth he to his King, and fheweth Mercy to his Anointed, to David, and to his Seed for evermore.” So when Fehofbaphat obtained a fignal Vi&tory over the Ammonites and Moabites, all the People came to Feru- falem with Joy, for the Lard had made them to rejoice over their Enemies, “ and they came to Ferufalem with Pfalteries, and Harps, and Trumpets to. the Houfe of the LORD.” 3 Secondly. Wr mutt not be glad of the Fall of our Enemies, and the Miferies they fuffer in themfelves conlidered. ‘There are fome who can {port themfelves with Firebrands, Arrows and Death ; they take a fecret Pleafure to fee and hear of Battles, and the Horrors of War ; they look on thefe’Things as-a civil Game ; they contentedly fee the Lives of Thoufands wantonly thrown away, and take Delight in Feats of Arms ; their Hearts are fo hard, their Paions fo Savage, that the rooft inhuman Murders do not affeét them, But this is ay inhuman'Temper ; he mutt be {trangely hardned in- deed who can fee Men cut to Pieces, who ¢an behold with an unrelenting Heart whole Countries laid in Afhes, We mutt not delight to fee the World dif eopled by the deftructive Sword ; we fhould keep our Heats ten- der to the Suffering of our very Enemies. We mutt never be pleafed with the Shrieks, tke Anguifh and #+ing Groans of an Enemy, or {port ourfelyes with their Blood. Such a cruel Difpofition has been often difcavered ; how many infulting Tyrants have over-run

. Nations, carried Fire and Sword through a great Part of the World, merely for their Paftime, and fported themfelves with the Blood of Millions ? How many cruel Generals with Legions of barbarousRuffians, have made it their Sport to drench whole Countgies in Blood,

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and delightfully glutted their execrable Paffions, like fo many incarnate Devils, with unfpeakable Barbarities, on Perfons of all Ages, Sexes and Orders ; not except- ing the tender Mothers, and harmlefs Babes, in ‘their diabol.cal' Paftime,—witnefs the Savage Barbarities of Legions of Ruffian Banditti in the Prufian Dominions, too {hocking to Name,—witnefs alfo the inhuman Crus «elties of American Savages, the very Thought of which ig enough to chill our Blood: And it would be happy were this favage Paftime confined to heathen Savages ; too much of it, alas, has been feen in Chriftian Princes and Armies, how awfully degenerated are Millions in this apoftate World !

Thirdly, We mutt not be glad when our Enemies fall, merely from the Hope and Defire of enriching our- felves with their Spoils. The pleafing Prafpeéts of being delivered from our Enemies, the Hope of feeing our Trade and Commerce protected, of feeing our Country extended, with the Bleffing of an undifturbed and lafting Peace, and of tranfiniting our Inheritance, withPeace and Security to Pofterity, may lawfully make a large Addition to our Joy upon the Fall of our reft- Jefs Enemies, and with fuch Profpeés our Joys may well rife to a fuperior Heighth this Day. But is it not too manifeft that Wars in general, though they have pleaded fome better Defign, have been profecuted fole- Jy with a View to worldly Intereft ? ‘ From whence” fays the Apottle Fames, « come’Wars and Fightings a- mong you; come they not hence even of your Lufts, ye luft and have not; ye killand defire to have, and cannot obtain, ye Fight and War, yet ye have not, bes caufe ye alk not; ye afk and have not, becaufe ye afk amifs, that ye may confume it upon your Lufts.” Wars | are too often defigned merely for the Acquifition of Glory, the Aggrandizement of Empire, and the Emo-' iument of Riches, Principles on which the Tyrants of the World have often attempted to enflave the Globe to their Love of Fame and Glory :—Witnefs Lezwis XIV. who under the Stile of Fis Mo/? Chriftian Ma-

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effy, in Violation of folemn Treaties, attempted. in ‘Lime of Peace to wreft whole Countries from their Jawful Princes, to enlarge his own Dominions, with this fair Excufe, “ That he fhould employ his Troops fin fuch a Manner as his Dignity might demand.” But it is awicked Attempt to invade the Rights of Mankind, becaufe we covet their Country, their Trade or Riches; as Nations have no more Liberty to covet one anothers juft Rights and Poffeffions than private’ Perfons : as nothing can be a fuitable Motive to de- fre and “attempt to deftroy our Enemies, but the Ne- cefliry of it for the general Good: fo when our Ene- mies fail we are not to be glad merely as it will ex- tend our Dominion and enlarge ourTrade. This is Mat- ter of Joy only as it is the happy Means of fecuring us the peaceful and certain Enjoyment of the Privi- leges and Poffeffions, the Lives:and Religion, which GOD has given us a natural Right to claim. It be- comes us then when our Enemies fall, to'rejoice. from a good Principle, not merely from the Hope of acquire ing Ricues, extending Dominicn, military Glory and “Triumph from their Fall, but from a fingle Regard to the general Geod ; the Prefervation of our Lives, Pro- \perties and Religion, We muft look through all Vic- tories and Triumphs to Peace and Tranquility as our final End. Thus the great GOD, in all: his Punifh- ments,rejoices in the Good of hisCreation as his finalEnd. Fourthly. We mut vot rejoice when our Enemies fall from a Principle of Revenge. By Revenge, in this criminal Senfe, I mean a Delight in doing Mifchief to another, becaufe he has done us an Injury. ‘This is a Vaflion very {weet to corrupt Nature ; ‘tis often difco- vered in Individuals and in civil Societies, but is un- Jawful in both, When an Enemy bas beer perfidious, bale and cruel; when we have long felt their Smart, we rau ally thirft for Revenge, we are impatient to think of Mercy, Leni'y or Comraflion to fuch an iil- ceferving People; we rejoice whin we can render to them es they have done to us, when their Blood is

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{pilt to atone for the Blood their wicked Hands haye fhed ; we are ready to fay, nothing is too cruel, nothing too hard for them to fuffer. here we are in Danger of carrying the Matter too far, and of nourifhing in our Breafts that Revenge that muft not be, felt, even towards an Enemy. . “Ye are indeed to adore the righteous Judgment of GOD in revenging their Cruelties upon them even in this Life ; we are to adore that awful Providence which has recompenced their Iniquities into their own Bofom, and mercifully nut it out of their Power to proceed in their execrable Pparbavities upon us. It was with this Temper thatthe Pfalmift gave Glory to GOD for avenging him on his mercilefs Enemies : ‘it is GOD that avengeth me.” Tt cannot be imagined that “David rejoiced with a Love of Revenge; much lef§ that there is any fuch Princi- ple in the Hearts of thofe pure and perfe& Spirits, of whom the Apoftle tells us, ‘* I faw under the Altar the Souls of them that were flain for the Word of GOD and for the Teflimony which they’ held, and they cried with a loud Voice, faying, LTow long O LORD holy and true, doft thou not judge and avenge our Blood on them that dwell on the Earth.” So we find the Saints called upon to adore and rejoice in the jut Judgment of GOD on the myftical Babylon, “ Rejoice over her, thou Heaven, and ye holy Apoftles «and Prophets, for GOD.hath avenged you on her.’ Fifihly, Wr muft not Rejoice when our Enemies fall with an unrelenting Heart and unpitying Eye. The Gofpel of our Lord Jefus Chrift enjoins us to “ love ourEnemies,” to embrace all Mankindin theArms of our Charity and Compaffion ; it allows of noMalice ar Spite orHatred towards any Part of the humanSpecies, That

Love which leads us to wifh well .o a Part or particular.

Society of our Fellow-men,. when Chriftian, will ex. tend itfelf to all Mankind. We are indeed byNeceflity of ‘Nature obliged to love ourfelyes in the firft Places but the Love of Self becomes vicious and excefive when it makes us malicious, or at lealt regardlef3 as to , : every

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every Body elfe. We are next to our Selves to be kind to our Families and Friend: ; but then our Regard to them is exceflive when it leaves us regardlefs of the public Good. ‘There is a proper and laudible Love of our Nation and Country, which leads us to wifh them well, and to feek their Profperity, and fometimes venture our Lives-in attempting the Deftruétion of a Part of Mankind for the Safety of our Country, becomes a Virtue. But even the Love of our Countr becomes exceflive and faulty, when we are thereby de- tached from the generalGood ; when we are led to feck its Intereft to the real Prejudice of any Part of the hu- man Species. We muft not confider our own Nation or Country as a Family having Priviledges or natural Claims above the reft of the World, all Nations are one Offspring, they have one Father, they have the fame natural Rights, they make but one Family, divided in- to fubordinate Societies, for the betterGovernment and greater Happinefs of the whole. It therefore becomes every Man, every Chriftian to have a tender Regard for the Lives and Happinefs of all that are clothed with human Nature. We fhould pray for our Enemies, and with them well, fo far as the general Good will permit : an unrelenting Temper is unchriftian even to an Ene- my. Jt may be faid by fome that fuch an unpitying Spirit was encouraged by GOD himfelf in the Iftaclites, when he ftriftly enjoyned ther utterly to extirpate the whole Race of the Canaanites, not-to leave them Root or Branch, but to blot out their Name from under Heaven. But ’tis worthy to be confidered this is a peculiar Inftance of divine Vengeance, nor is this Seve- rity to be anExample for us in common Cafes, and, fuch a Condué in the Ifraclites had been utterly unlawful without the pofitive Injunétion of Heaven. It is alfo to be faid in Vindication of the divine Condué; that the Canaanites were guilty of monfrous Vices, there never was upon Earth a more abandoned and profligate fet of Men, There are feveral Paffages in thePfalms of David in which at firft View he feems to difcover an unpitying Temper

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Temper to his Enemies, as when he prays, “ let Death {eize upon them, let them go down quick into Hell.” But thcfeCurfes of David are uncommon and can hardly be rade an Example -for us; he {pake under divine Infpiration, in the Name of GOD, and perhaps often by Way of Predigion; and it is obferved that thofe Paffages which favour moft of a bitter and unre- lenting Spirit, may, agreeable toGrammatical Conftrue- tion, be underftood by Way of Predidtion; thefe are not the Defires of one that delights in the Ruin of his Enemies, bur they are the Language of the Church acquiefcing in the righteous Judgments of GOD; thus that moft dreadful Commination in the hundred and thirty feventh Pfalm may well be underftood, “ Re- member O LORD the Children of Edom in the Day of Jerufalem; who faid, rafe it, rafe it, even to the Foundation thereof, O Daughter of Babylon who art to be deftroyed; happy fhall he be that rewardeth thee as thou haft ferved'us. Happy fhall he be that taketh and dafheth thy little ones againft the Stones;”” we find the Pfalmift often breathing forth the Sentiments of- Love and Tendernefs toward hisEnemies. In a Word, tis dreadful to be obliged to the hard Neceflity of deftroying Mankind, though not of our Nation and Intereft. Pain, Poverty and Death are fhocking to them, as they are to us, they are Flefh and Blood as well as we, their Lives, Properties and Country are as dear to them, as ours to us, they juftly demand our Pity, even amidft the triumphant Songs of Vic:ory. A Gofpel Temper will feel a Tendernefs to an hemy, aid.a Vidtory will fill him with Compaflion, Thus the glori- ous GOD expreflés his Tenderne{s toward his rebelli- ous Creatures: Judgment is his ftrange Work, and he has {worn that he has no Pleafure in the Death ofa Sinner. We are then in our triumphant Songs to har- bour no uncharitable Paffions; we ‘are to feel a Pi

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made themfelves the Subjects of publick Vengeance, it will be proper for us to confider, even when we are rejoicing for Vitory, how many Thoufand Perfons, in- nocent as to the publick Guilt perifh in War ; thePride of Princes and great Men, facrifiees Thoifands that have

“no Share in the publick Guilt. ‘aofe that fuffer, that fall inBattle, are commonly innocentSubjetts, altogether

Strangers to the corrupt Maxims of thir Princes, “ as for thefe Sheep what ae they done,” had we been in the fame Circumftances we fhould probably have fhared the fame difinal Fate, and equally merited the Deftruétion we rejoice has overtaken them, Thus rea- fonable is a tender benevolent Spirit even towards our Enemies. ne

Laftly. We muft not glory over our Enemies, as if by our own Power or Might we had gotten the Vic- tory. Tam far from leffening the Praife that is due to the Merit of brave Men, who have proved themfelves the faithful Friends of the Publick, and loved their Nation more than Life, the fincereft Gratitude, the publick Hononrs, unfading Laurels are juftly due to

them who chearfully expofe their Lives for us ; lafting

Tokens of ourGratitude are a Tribute due to the Me- mory of fuch as have purchafed our Happinefs with their Blood. But Religion teaches us to afcribe the Glory of all military Accomplifaments to Heaven. We fhould confider the fupream Ruler, without whom not “a Sparrow falls to the Ground,” ‘as holding the Balance, and pointing on which Side Viétory fhall light. « Thou haft faved us from our Enemies, and haft put them to Shame that hated us; in GOD we boaft all the Day long, and praife thy Name for ever. Selah.” Turse Hints and Obfervations, I flatter myfelf, ate worthy to be taken into our ferious Confideration,

this Day, when GOD is putting Songs of Victory into,

our Mouths, even Praife to the GOD of our Salvation. Ler us then fee to it, that at this Time of publick Rejoicing, while we are fhouting Victory, our Joy be huaian and Chriflian ; fuch a Joy as will be pleafing to ° GOD,

gee

GOD, be, glad deeply of Gor mift, < O vifit of thy thy Nat

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ngeance, 1 we are fons, in- thePride hat have ffer, that together es, ‘* as we been bly have rited the “hus rea- ards our

mies, as the Vic- is due to emfelves ved their ude, the ly due to »; lafting ) the Me- nefs with sribe the Heaven. it whom Iding the yall Jight. haft put aft all the lah.” > myfelf, ideration, ctory into, Salvation. fF publick ir Joy be leafing ‘to

GOD,

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GOD, and give Glory to him. It is lawful for us to be glad, yea we ought to rejoice. Tis our Duty to be deeply affected with, the marvellous Loving Kindneds of God. “ Remember me, O LORD” fays the Pial-

j mift, « with the Favour thou beareft to thy People, O vifit me,with thy Salvation ; that I] may fee the Good

of thy Chofen, that I may rejoice in the Gladnefs of thy Nation, and Glory with thine Inheritance.” Lewis XIV the Great Grand Father and Predeccflor

_ of the prefent French Monarch, early laid the Plan for

enlarging und aggrandizing the French Monarchy in Europe and America: And ever fince, the Court of France has been making all poflible Advances, to un'- verfal Empire; in which they have (through the kind Interpofition of that GOD who fets Bounds to Kings doms) been hitherto difappointed, after. the Profufion of Millions of Blood and Treafure.—France_ has long

_ been the Scourge of Europe, the Difturbew of the pub-

facade oh sa eS hE i RS SR EE IS PERG nie

+ lic Peace, and the fworn Enemy of the reformed Reli- ~ gion ; fhe has long been careful to intereft herfelf in: ~ the Contentions of Europe, and never failed to improve > every Advantage to aggrandize herfelf. > fay whether Lewis XIV. was more infamous for his

*Tis hard: to

Cruelty or his unbounded faithlefs Ambition, The

» dreadful Perfecution he carried on againft his. own ' Proteftant Subjeéts, in which not Jefs than Eight Hun-

dred Thoufand Souls were driven from their Native

Country, and double that Number were compelled to

abjure their Religion by cruel and unparrelled ‘Tor-

ments : his perfideousRevocation of theEdié&t of Naviz :

his inhuman Orders for burning the Palatinate in. Ger-

many +: his perfideous Invafion of Holland in Time of C

profot nd

a + This tragical Sceae was acted in Feb: 1689. “ Their Houfes an:

* Palaces” fays M. de Voltaire, ‘* were rafed to the Ground, ay the very Graves were ranfacked by the rapacious Soldicry. yw! 0 imagining they fhould find Treafures there, diflurbed the Afhes 0° the Dead, This was the fecond Time, that beautiful Cou. y was laid wafle under Lewis XIV: bat the Flames with vhics

Lint dite,

18 A Sermon .on . the _§ i to the /

profound Peace, when that’glorious Prince, afterward © tent of

William M1. was raifed up to fave that finkingState from 7 grafp : becoming a Province of France * : thefe will ftand to 7” Ay ¢ the moft diftant Ages, infamous Monuments of the Pride, | been a the Faithleffhefs and Inhumanity of that Prince, * prefied In the Beginning of this Cedars the Houfe of § have e1 Bourbon became more formidable to the World than # pire. 1 ever, Lewis had by his vi€torious Arms carried Fire 4 Peace and Sword into the German Empire. The Emperor 7 Breache

was on the Point of lofing the Imperic! Throne : 3 ing fron

France was yveady to give Law to the whole Germanick © our hap Body, and of annexing Spain and Jtaly to the Domini- © glorious ons of the Houfe of Bourton, © Burin this important — Fyance

Crifis, when the Religion and Liberties of Europe were © growing

awfully threatned, GOD raifed Me the Britifh Marl — Nor borough, tohumble the infulting Tyrant, and free the ' theKing World fram Bondage. The memorable Battle of Blen- * pleafed

heim, a Day never to be forgotten, gave a fatal Turn > gainft d to difcover the He Turenne had deftroyed two Towns and twenty Villages of the Elefor Palatinate, were but Sparks in Comparifon of this laft terrible De- fien wa: ftruction, which all Eurcpe logked on withHorror. The Officers z BI i themfelves, who executed thele Orders, were afhamed at bein g Domini the Inttraments of fach Cizzlty,—when he figned the Deftrution = of Ger of a whole Courtry, he was feated in his own Palace atVerfaitls, long CO} furrounded with Pleafures ; and it appeared there, only a lawful | meric A&t of Power, and the unfortunateRight of War. Had he viewed “ a a the Adair itfelf, it mutt have filled him with the utmoft Horror. —~: '% é & Nations who had hitherto only blamed, while they admired hig 38 in th Ambition, now exclaimed aloud againit his Barbarities,” 2 Princes, This lnvafion of /o//and was in the Year 1672.° M.deVoltair, Rome, in his Age of Lewi; XtV, gives us’a fhockiog Idea of the Bafe- - The L nefs of that Prince in this Attenipt upon his “ ancient and faith- Py 4 iat, ful Allics,” and of the dillreffed State. of that Republic. “ke F is fingular, fays he, and deferves to be remarked, that among powerf: all the Enemics that were going to fall upon this little State,there » ginning was not one that could alledge any Pretence for a War,—againtt Bar who: Turenne Conde, Luxembourg, Vauban, and an Hundred and thir- =

: ie . Is ne ty Thoufand Soldiers, a prodigious Train of Artillery, and*Plenty © 4 ® of Money ; al! that Hofland had to oppofe was a young Prince, @ OF. ofa weak Conflitution, who had never feen a Siege, nor a Battle,

pupshe:

and about twenty-five Thoufand bad Soldiers, who con(titated the whole Guard of the Country,”

afterward State from ill ftand to F the Pride,

nce,

Houfé of |

Vorld than

arried Fire

e Emperor 1 Throne : Germanick 1¢ Domini- important urope were ‘ifh NAarl- id free the le of Blen- fatal Turn

to

illages of the t terrible De- The Officers med at being he Deftrustion sat Ver fails, my a lawful lad he viewed oft Horror. — admired his ies,” A, de Voltair, a of the Bafe- ent and faith- public, §* Fe , that among Je State,there

} A uy ar,—2gain{t :

red and thir- y, and Plenty young Prince, , hor a Battle, o conititated

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1 to the Affairs of France, and funk her, from that Ex- ' tent of Power, which fhe has never fince been able to ‘ grafp: broke her Meafures for enflaving the World. As Great-Britain, ever {ince the Revolution, has been a Weight upon the Wings of France, and fup- » prefied her in her Rife to univerfal Empire, her Princes

19

i

have ever been the fworn Enemies of the Briti/p Eme * pire. No Method has been unattempted, cither in Peace or, War, by Intrigues in foreign Courts, by | Breaches of Treaty, by raifing Rebellions, and abbet- ~ ing from Time to Time a Jopih Pretender, to {ubvert 4 our happy Conflitution ; Great-Britain, ever fince the * glorious Revolution in 1688, had Reafon to look on | France as the faithlefs. Enemy of her Religion, and > growing, Profperity. _ |

_... Nor many Years finee;.the Moft High; who rules in | theKingdoms of Men, for wife and good Purpofes, was © pleafed to permit the mott formidable Confederacy. a- _ gainft the Reformed Religion, that perhaps was ever | difcovcred. The Principals in this Confed racy were the Houfes of Bourbon and Aufria, ta which the

age of Saxony King of Paland acceded. The De-

fign was to dethrone the King of Pruffia, to divide his Dominions, anid extirpate the Proteftant Religion out jot Germany; while France was {wiftly purfuing a ~ long concerted Defign to become fole Miftrefs of North- > America. :

’ Tue King of Pruffa, equally shining in the Cabinet 4as in the Field, éagle-eyed to pierce the Cabinets’ of Princes, and fpell out the dark Defigns of Hell and a Rome, foon became poffeffed of this important Secret:: _, The Lion was reufed—in clofe Alliance with Great. © Britain, he adventured: to wage War with the moft 7 powerful Eropires in the World. This was the be- } ginning of that War whofe Flames are yet burning ;

qt, whofe Rrange Events the World. flands amazed, © ’Tis needlefs for me to enter into a particular Detail of the ftrange Events of this bloody War, or to reckon / up the Doils, the Defeats, the Victories and bilge e : c

a

20 A Sermon on the

of the Pruffan Monarch. According to human Pro- © bability, he was but aMorfel to thofe devouring Armies © that were brought agoinft him: All the Friends of 7% Liberty and Rehgion trembled at his approaching De- 7 {t-uétion... But GOD has fhown us, that “ the Battle © is not to the ftrong,” Through the kind Interpofition | of Heaven he till lives: he lives, he fights, he tri- 7 umphs, he rifes from Defeats to more illuttrious Vic- @ tories : He maintains his Ground, be baffles the Power | of France and Auftria, aided by an Hundred Thoufand © Ruffians, favage and cruel: he {pares no Toils and Fa- © izues, he fears no Dangers, his Prefence gives Life © to all his Undertakings. Certainty none ‘but one di- 7 vinely aflifted, I had almoft faid infpired, cou'd ftand 7 undaunted in fo many Calamities, and not fink under ~ the Fatigues of War. We. admire the Man, we [adore _ ithe GOD who has given fuch Power unto Men, May ~ ‘Heavery ftill préferve that precious Life,-to be the © ‘Scourge of Antichriftian Power; may he tive to tafte 7 ‘the Swects of Peace. 7 ! © Suen a Series’of unexpested Triumphs, obtained in | “the critical Moment, on moft of which the whole Fate 7 “of War was nicely fulpended; and: particularly that © ‘slotious Victory lately obtained by Prince Ferdinand, © "by which the Eleétoral Dominions of King George were © faved from theArms of France,demand from every one af 7 ns the mott unfeigned Acknowledgments on this joyful | Jecafion. We may look on all thefe Victories as our 7 “own. Our Safety is wrapt up in thofe glorious Events ~ ‘of War.——'* Why do the Heathen rage and the People — imagine a vain Thing, the Kings of the Earth do fet q ihemfel ves againft the Lord, and againft his Anointed © ~He that fitteth in the Heavens ‘“ dacs’ laugh ;. the Lord’ has had” them in Derifion; He ‘ hath fpo -to them in his Anger, and “ vexed” them in his fore 7 . Difpleafure. “The Heathen raged, the Kingdoms were | moved; He uttered his Voice, ‘the Earth meited : the @ Lord of Hofts is with us, the GOD of Facod is our Refuge. felah,” : CACTUS tank | Non

7

Bek ken

i juman Pro- i ing Armies © Friends of 7 aching De- © ‘the Battle 7

nterpofition hts, he trix J (trious Vic- % s the Power d Thoufand © ‘oils and Fa- a > gives Life © but one di- — could ftand i : fink under © , we [adore

en, May to be the - iive to tafte

obtained in whole Fate cularly that Ferdinand, George were © every oneaf 7 n this joyful @ tories a8 our © rious Events ~ 1 the People — Earth do fet ‘Anointed-— %

ee

ngdoms were |

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Nor are the Tokens of divine Regard to. our own Nation lefs worthy of our thankful, Notice. . The precious Live of the King in. whofe. gentle Sway. the whole Nation has long been happy : The Heir to the Crown at full Age : The excellentAdminiftration of the pubtick Affairs by. a wife,Miniftry, are Pledges of divine Regard to 2 finful Nation, not to'be. forgotten at. fuch a Day as this.

Tis furprizing to think of, the multiplied Inftaneés of divine Goodnefs, in the Succefles that have attended the BritifM Arms in the: Courfe of this War. Tlie Deftruétion of the French ‘Trade and.Commerce ; the Capture of fo many of their .Capital Ships; the ,fre-

-guent Defcents that have been made on the Coafts af France ¥ our evident Superiority at,Sea ; -our blocking up their Squadrons ; difappointing them in their darling Defigns ; and this Year putting it out, of their Power to execute an Invafion upon any Part of the Kingdom; Thefe Advantages muft be very diftrefling to.a proud

Nation, and humbling to the haughty Gau/ ; they, have fully retrieved the Glory of our Naval Power, fullied by the Lofs ofan important Fortrefs, and ‘teach us the

strength of Britain, when. properly exerted, under: the Smiles of Providence: Thefe Inftauces.of Goodnefs

‘demand the grateful Praifes. of every Heart to that GOD who, ‘* meafureth the Waters in the Hollow. of his Hand.” ! 1!

Ir is well: known that one principalMeans,long fince determined upon in the Court of France, of extending their Empire, has been to extend their Settlements in North-America, "Vhe Defizn was long, fince laid to extend their Garrifons andSettlements around thefeBri- ti/h Colonies,. to fecure the Lakes and Rivers & Pafles ; to fet impenetrable Bounds to our Settlements ; to force the Zadian Nations into their Intereft ; and make wfe of them as the Infiruments of their Barbarity : And whe the lucky Momentihould arrive,they had nothiag I¢e‘s'in View than ftriking a fatal Blow, and {wallowing

“‘ up

22 A Sermon on the

= ali: thefe Colonies at once. To this, of Jate, their

ogrefs has been very much accelerated. Ob what the f an extended Empire ! what’a ftupendous Pitch of Glory and § did that Nation promife themfelves ! With what Plea- have fure did the proud Monarcly furvey the future Gran- Day. deur of fuceeeding Kings ; his own Nation, at onee the Wor Roman Empire, Lords and Sovereigns of the World ! vifib

Our Danger, our deplorable Situation, our perpetual loft. Sufferings,were not for fome Time fo fully attended tq; beco but at lengthGOD who “ maketh manife(t the Councils > Mer « of the Fieart,” was pleafed more fully'toreveal the or ta Defignsof our Enemies, to imprefs on the Hean'ofour | T Gracious Sovereign, a moft tetider Regard for thefe and Branches of theNation, and all at once to unite thePow- & 7 er of the Nation to witliftand’ ‘and break the Power of q tye

France iv this new World. © thy

Inthe Beginning of thefe Troubles, GOD was plea. fed in rightcous Juilgment toi chaftife and humble us, that he might exalt'us and do ‘us good in the lattcr End, ‘Our Armics. were defeated, otir Fortreflés taken, our “Troops returned from one ineffectual’ Campaign after another. * : :

Our firkt Attempt to recover our Claims on the River Ohio, were froftrated. with’ the difnal Slaughter of a brave General, and feveral’ hundred veteran Troops. Our Frontiers, for feveral hundred Miles, became in- ftantly a vat Field of Blood, a vaft Extent of Country became deferi., every Poft alarmed us with fad-Relati- ons of favage Darbarities, the bare mention of which would too much damp the Joy of this Day,

To this followed the Surrender of our Garrifon at Ofwego,with the Loft of all our Intereft upon theLakes. And to increafe our DiftrefS, our Fnemies' entered the Confines of our Country, quickly compleated the Con- queft of our Frontier Garrifan WilliamsFlenry, and at

Oe > < Cc

the * Tt mul notvbe forgotten, that even in that dak Tay, Providence a of ¢ - jn {ome Inftances favonred'us—the eafy Reduction of the Neuzral P fan

Country of Neva-Scotia, at the opening of the War, was aq . had Affair of very great Importance to the Welfare of thefe Provinges,”

>

te, their Yh what of Glory rat Plea- re Grane onee the horld !

Jerpetual ad ta; Councils eveal the irt of our for thefe thePow- ower of

was pleas imble us, tter’ End, ken, our

ign after

the River hter of a . Troops. came ine ’ Country ad-Relati- of which

arrifon at theLakes. ntered the the Con- ; and at

the

, Providence the Neutral ar, was af

So mae on ae ae

Bs a if * ‘ = htt aek eel ot Cans Bn” eee = PS ES ane SEP OM eee iE yg aoa TR et OMe ete ate eg a ree ge : ue ces ee * eh ame Oe ES i ieitmalialidiaa

~ and dreadful Ruin. _ with jhe'favourable Afpeét of a kinder Providence. The

> hada large Addition toour Joys, another Token of a

returning

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the fame Time threatened a dreadful Irraption withFire and Sword into the Bowels of our Country. You can’t have forgotten the Surprize and Confternation of that Day. Oh it becomes us at this Day to remember the Wormwood and the Gall, - WhatFear and Sadnefs were vifible in every Face? We were ready to give up all for loft. We feared foon to fee our Country in Flames,to become a Pre; to an Army of Savages, whofe ‘ tender Mercies are Cruclty.” to eae the Slaves of France, or to die in the Caute of Liberty.

In thofe Times of Darknefs wecryed unto the LORD, and our Voice came into His holy dwelling-Place.

Tue Priefts, the Minifters of the LORD, wept be- teen the Porch and the Altar, and faid, * {pare thy People, O, LORD give not, thine Heritage to Reproach, tidt-the Heathen fhould rule over therm,” In the Mount GOD was feen, from that Time he has favoured his Land. His Language to us was, “ The LORD will be jealous for his Land, and pity hisPeople; fear not, O Land, be glad and rejoice, for the Lord will do. great Things.” Here GOD was pleafed to fet’ Bounds to the Enemies Triumphs: when ourEnemies eame into our Land, the Spirit of tae Lord lifted up a Standard againft them ; GOD faid to them, as to the raging Ocean, ‘* Hitherto fhalt thou come, but no fur- ther ; and there fhall thy pro 1d Waves be ftayed.”’ Thefe were diftrefling Scenes to prepare us for Mercy: The Triumphs of our Enemies were in the Hand of an al- wife GOD, but io igs Steps to their more compleat

‘he laft Year dawned upon us

Surrender of the ftrong Fortrefs of Lawésbourg, with a

_ numerous Garrifon, and the Deftruétion and Capture of feveral Men-of War, was a rich Token of the divine

Regard ; this Succefs revived our Hoyes, filled our Hearts with Giadnets,and Jed us withSongs to the Houfe ef GOD, to celebrate his Praife. No fooner had we fang the Praifes of Heaven for this Conqueft.. than we

eo ‘

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24 A Sermon on the

returning GOD, in the Reduétion of Fort Frontinac, with great Treafure, ‘This procured the Evacuation of the French Fort ‘Du Que/ne, with their Settlements on the River Obio ; fo that we obtained with inconfiderable Lofs what colt us’ feveral hundred brave Lives to. at- tempt in vai before, Here a ftop was inftantly put to the dreadful Incurfions of the Savages, on the fouthern Frontiers ; thus clofed the laft Year much to theAdvan- tage of the Britifo America. | Tuts memorable Year was ufnered in with the early

Pledges of the Continuance: of the divine Favours. Shall F mention theRedudction of a Fortrefs on, theCoatt of Africa, and the Ifland. of Guadaloupe in the We/t- Indies ?. After a fhort Siege, with the total Defeat of an Army fent to tts Relief; the ftrong Fortrefs of Nia-

ara, which commands the Communication between the tikes, was reduced by the Briti/bArms, with littleLofs, except that of a worthy General. Upon this Conqueft, all their remaining Fortrefles and Settlements, in that Part of the World, were deferted with the utmoft Preci-

‘tation, and we inftantly left Mafters of the inlandSeas, and the Nations of Savages, who a few Months before, were our formidable Enemies. ‘This, My Brethren, is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our Eyes.

Wuite Heaven was giving us thefe Advantages, the yitorious General Amberft, with the Army under his Command, croffed the Lake, and entered without Lofs thofe Lines, which coft us above five hundred brave Lives to attempt to force ‘nvain the laft Year. ‘The {trong Fortrefs at Ticonderoga prefently fubmitted ; and ina few Days Fort Fi vederick at Crown-Point was found abandoned: What 4 furprizing Change is here? What a different Afpeét do our publick Affairs wear, from what they did but two Years ago? How did the Tidé of Joy {well in our Hearts, when the repeated Fidings of our happy Succefles crowded upon us ?

But our grand and moft impertant Conqueft, which has “ more efpecially” called us to theHoufe of GOD this Day, is yet to mention. While General Amber ft

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was thus making Advances towards the EnemiesCountry; General WO L FE, with a Body of chofen Troops, convoyed by a firong Fleet, penetrated the Enemies Country, by the Way of the River S?. Lawrence, and Jaid Siege to their Capital. In the whole Conduét of that Enterprize, tis pleafant to obferve the vifibloSmiles of Providence upon that fuccefsful Undertaking—the early Arrival of the grand Fleet, a profperous Voyage, the fruitlefg Attempts of the Enemy to burn our Ships, feemed to be Prefages of a happyConqueft. But to pals ~ by other Circumftances : In that important, that critical Moment, when the Fate of all’ was tryed in Battle, | What'a vifible Interpofition of Providence do we behold, to crown our largeft Withes with Succefs? When we confider the Circumftances of that glorious Day, already éome to our Knowledge—the fuperiot Nunibers of the _ Enemy --the Intrepidiry of out little Army—the fud- | den Deftruétion af their broken Troops——and the _ Strength of their Capital ; we ftand aftonifhed at the 4 divine Goodnefs. ‘* Not uato us, O LORD, not uti- tous, but unto thy Naine, we give Glory~—Thy right * Wand, O LORD, is terrible ; thy right Hand hath » “dathed in Pieces the Enemy”—It has been obferved, 1 that the Fate of mighty Empires often depends on a 4 Combination of minute Circumiflances; the greatelt |) Vidories have been won by feizing a particular Mo- © ment. But, methinks, if ever Providence united a © Number of fuch Circumftances, and pointed to the ¢ris tical Moment, it was when this Viétory was obtained. i Thus GOD in a Day gave usa fignal Conqueft, made ) us Matters of the impregnable City of Ovebeck, which ~ Nature and Art confpired to render invincible.“ Oh that Men would praife the Lord for his Goodnefs, and - for his wonderful Works ; he hath broken the © Gates of Brafs, and cut the Bars of Tron in furider.” Burt is there rior a Cloud to fade the over-powering. Lufire of that Day ? The Excefs of Joy,.which the News of this Conqueft could not have failed to ex- cite, was much obftrudied by the Fall of that noble ~ General,

~

26 A Sermon on the

General, who muft not live to reap the Fruits of Viétoa: ry, to compleat his Conqueft, and wear the Laurels o that Day, to whofe Glory, his Wifdom and Valour fo greatly contributed ; the ‘Tears of Sorrow burft from the Eye that fparkles with Joy.—Might he have lived to feel the Joys of Victory, to reap the Fruits of his ardwous Undertakings, to receive the Approbation of his Prince, and the Acknowledgments of a greatful Peo- ple? But Heaven forbids,...:-. Tis not my Province to vive the Charatter of this young Hero: His rare Military Accomplifhments ; his prudent Zeal and the glorious Succefs that has crowned his bold, but not rafh or unadvifed Attempt, will tranfmit his Name dear to our Childrens Chilccen. : . Tue Canadians have long beena Scourge to New-~ England. The Hiftory of our Wars will abundantly difcover the inhuman Cruelty of that People in abet- ting, encouraging and aflifting the barbarous Natives “9 their unheard of Cruelties committed upon the Peo ple in this Land. GOD is now revenging upon them the Ocean of innocent Blood, which has Tong cried from the Ground for Vengeance againft them, Our Fathers long fince found the Neceflity of reducing that Country, that this was the only Means of the peaceful Poffeffion of this Land, and twice, alafs, they attempted it without Succefs, ‘The.firft Expedition was commanded by Sir /illiam Phips, who failed from hence with Two Thoufand Men, on the Ninth Day of Augu/t, in the Year 1690, and landed near Que- bec on the fifth Day of OFober following. He land- ed his Troops at fome Diftance from the City, and, twice attempting to penetrate 1 Wood that led to the City, he was repulfed : and having re-imbarked his Army, his Ships were difperfed in a Storm, and by 2

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Train of Difatters not more than half his Army ever ae

returned, A dreadful Biow to this, then infant State. The other fuccefslefs Attempt was in the Year 1711, 9 Year frefh in the Memory of fome of my Hearers. But the Mercy that Heaven denied to our Fathers was

referved

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* referved for us their Children. This is the joyful + Feftival they defired to celebrate with unfeigned > Thankfgivings. The Language of their Hearts was that of the Pfalmift, “ ife waiteth for thee, O- > GOD, in Sion ; and e fhall the Vow be per- ©) formed.” ‘May this p E the Dawn of our future Peace ) and Jong Tranquility’: Now we hope to tranfmit this Land, purchafed with the Blood of our Fathers, a fair > Inheritance to our lateft Pofterity. Oh, could: our dear ~ Forefathers look out of their Graves, how would they ~) congratulate the rifing, the extended Hopes of their ,)) degenerate “Offspring! How chearfully would they join the facred Songs of this Day !—Is this that long ©, expected, that long wifhed for Day ? “ LORD, thou ~ haft been favourable unto thy Lesid . thow haft broughe , © back'the Captivity of Facob ; thou haft forgiven the |) Iniquity of thy People; thou haft covered all their Sin, Selah, | ‘Thou haft taken away all thy Wrath : thou hat turned thy felf from the Fiercenefs of thine Anger— I will hear what GOD the Lord will fpeak ; for he will fpeak Peace unto his People, and to his Saints ; but Jet them not turn again to Folly. ‘Surely his Sala vation is nigh unto them that fear him; that Glory may dwell in our Land. i Turse Things, my Brethren, are the Work of GOD ; His Influence, his Superintendency is as real when he governs and fucceeds fecond Caufes, as when he ‘exerts the miraculous faving Strength of his right Hand : All fabordinate Caufes are but Inftraments in the Hand of the firft Caufe, and exaétly accomplifh’ the wifePu pofes of his perfee Mind, It is a free and unde- ferved Mercy thatGOD has given us, When we confider how unhumbled & unreformed we have been by former ) Chattifements, we have Reafon to wonder at the Good- “© nefs of GOD, that he is now proving us with Mercy. If he had punifhed us {even Times more for our Sins, we mutt have faid, righteous art thou, On Lord, in thy Judgments. Surely then to defpife the Mercy of GQD, nos ta rejoice in hig Salvation, not to acre ihg

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the Power and the Viétory to him, who has glorified his Power iri the Sight of the Heathen on our Behalf; will be very provoking to the Eyes of his Purity. Waite then we are adoring the holy Severity of 5 GOD in. taking fuch fignal Vengeance upen ont anci- ent Enemies»; and while we are joyning our hearty Prayers, as becomes Chriftians, that GOD would pity! our Enemies, and fanatify his awtul. Vifitation upc. ‘them, for their Repentance, and. Return to GOD. Oh let us love the Lord our Strength and our Re- deemer. Iset.us fee to it, that we rejoice in GOD with a true fpiritual Joy. The civil! Demonftrations, of publick Rejoicing ‘may be fuitable Tokens: of our Loyalty, and of aurAffection to ourCountry and Nation 5) *~ has been the Cuftom of Nations to encourage mat tial Bravery by Marks of the publick Notice. But. thefe are not the Methods of exprefling our; Thank- fuln & to GOD. We muft {ee to it that we praife him with our whole Heart, that we love him, and de-~ light in him, and dedicate ourfelves to his, Glory. This is not to be a Day of carnal Sport and, Meriment; fach Things do not become the Praifes of GOD., How unfaitablc, how provoking mutt itbe to GOD, for any éf us to go from the Houle of GOD to vain and carnal Sports end Revellings > Ye will make this Day ‘ft Ini- quity, even our folemn Mectings.” ) ‘” Ler us alfo rejoice with Trembling. It does not become us ‘to be lifted up with our Succefles, and for- get the uncertain Fate of War, or our abfolute Depen- ance on the GOD “of Armes; left he vific us with ‘Jadgment. We ore ftillin: the Field of Battle, we are Aill engaged in ar. The Fate of Kingdoms flill hangs quivering oa the Point of the Sword; ‘« the Race is not to the (wift, nor the Battle to the itrong sell we have nov yet put off the Harnefs. Ob !et us join our moft fervent Supplications with our Songs, that GOD would finifh his Work, and compleat our De- liverance. that ‘+ he would choofe our Inheritance for ys, the Excellency of Facob whom he Joveth.” aul Ly

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Ix a Word; let the Goodnefs of GOD lead us

slorified Behalf,; | toa cordial Repentance and chearful Obedience. rity. the Judgments of Heaven have net been duly attend~_ erity of , ed to, nor have awakened us to put away our Sins, ar ancix) (me let this great Mercy melt our Hearts, and produce the r hearty. § kind Effect. Shall we not prove 3 kind, loving, holy wuld pity’ People to that GOD, who has fhewn -us this great on. upea Kindnefs ? Our Love and Gratitude have now their o GOD. Tryal. Shall we dare to provoke him again with our our Re- Sins, and make him ferve with our Iniquities ? Let us in GOD fhow. ourfelves to be a kind and a People, that nftrations it may not repent the Lord of what he has done for us. ns of our Being delivered out of the Hands of our cruel Ene- i Nation ; mies, let us ferve him without Fear, in Holinefs and ‘age ,mar- Righteoufnefs before him all the Days of our Lives. ice. But Te will be very difpleafing to GOD if we forget his r Thank-: Works and grow worfe after all this Kindnefs. “*¢ And we praife, | after all that is come upon us for our evil Deeds, and n,.and de-' | for our great Trefpafs, feeing thou our GOD haft is, Glory. 9 punifhed us lefs than our Iniquities deferve, and haft Meriment; | given us (ach Deliverance as this ; fhould we again D.. How break thy Commandments, and join in AfPuity with D, for any the People of thefe Abominations ? Wouldft not thou. and carnal be angry with us, till thou hadft confumed us, fo that . ay ‘¢ Ini- there fhould be no Remnant nor efcaping ?” t does not « Awp now bleffed be the LORD GOD of Ifrael,

from everlafting to everlafling ; ‘and let all the People fay Amen ; praife ye tne LORD.”

es, and for- ute Depen- ific us with ttle, we are gdoms fill ord; ‘ the he ftrong 3”, > let us join Songs, that sat our De- critance for oveth.”

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