Pleasure in this World to engage your Time or your Thoughts; and will not fpare fo much Leifure from your worldly Affairs, as to fit and prepare your felves to receive his Mercies when he offers them, you may justly fear, left he alfo fhould be provoked to neglect you, and never offer these Favours to you again, but take you out of the World in the midft of your Affairs, before you have got your Pardon fealed, or made your Peace with him: For he has not obliged himself by any Promife, to wait your Leifure; therefore you have no reafon to expect that he fhould do it. Let us then never neglect this fo Beneficial a Service, but as often as we have Opportunity let us make our Oblation to God of the Memorial of Christ's Sacrifice, that by receiving it from him again, we may therewith receive the Pardon of our Sins, Reconciliation with God, the Encrease of ftrengthning Grace, and become fo firmly united to Christ, that nothing may ever be able to diffolve the Union; but being begun here in Grace, it may be confummated in Glory, thro' the Merits and Mediation of the fame Jefus Christ our Lord; To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be afcribed, as moft due is, all Honour and Glory, now, and for evermore. Amen.

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On MAY 29. 1713. Being the Day of Thanksgiving_to Almighty GOD, for having put an END to the Great Kebellion, by the Reftitution of the KING, the ROYAL FAMILY, and of the GOVERNMENT.

By THO. BRETT LLD. Rector of Bettelhanger, in Kent.

Published by Her Majefty's special Command. Lefs Disorder may be apprebended from the Pretensions of the Roman Bishops, than from thefe Maxims that put the Power of Fudging and Controuling the Magiftrate into the People's Hands, which opens a Door to endless Confufions, and indeed fets every private Perfon upon the Throne; and introduceth an Anarchy, which will never admit of Order or Remedy: Whereas those who have but one Pretender over them, could more eafily deal with him, and more vigorously refift him. Bishop of Sarum's Vindication of the Church and State of Scotland, Printed at Glasgow, 1673. p. 68, 69.

LONDON: Printed for John Wyat at the Rofe in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1713.

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ftife him for his Sins, and that although he had been miraculously cured, yet if he did not take care to avoid those fins for the time to come, he had Reafon to expect fomething worse than any thing had yet befallen him. Now what our Blefied Lord faid on this occafion to this Man, when he had cured him, may be very well and properly applied by every one in particular, or by a Community or Nation in general, to themselves, upon any fignal and remarkable Deliverance.

It is certain, and we every year acknowCollect ledge, That they were the crying Sins of ary. 30. this Nation, which brought down that beavy Judgment upon us, which we were as on this Day fo happily delivered from. We were as on this Day made whole, not only delivered from the Miferies and Oppreffions of an unparalled Rebellion and Tyranny, but re ftored to our ancient Laws, Liberty and Government, together with all the Bleffings of Peace and Plenty which attended them: And being fo made whole, it is certainly very proper for us to apply to ourfelves this Precept of our Saviour, and to put it in praetice, that is to fin ng more, left fome worfe thing come unto us And that we may fin no more, at leaft that we may no more be guilty of thofe Sins which brought down heavy Judgments upon us, from which, by the Miraculous Providence of God, we were, as on this Day, fo happily delivered,