Hoadly 
 
 The Restoration Made a 
 Blessing to Us, By the 
 Protestant Succession
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES 
 
 FREDERIC THOMAS BLANCHARD 
 ENDOWMENT FUND
 
 THE 
 Lord Bifhop of BANGORs 
 
 SERMON 
 
 Preach'd before the 
 
 KING 
 
 At the ROYAL CHAPEL at St. James's f 
 On the 29th of M A T 9 1716.
 
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 The defloration made a Bhffing to ^Vs^ 
 by the Proteflant Succeffion. 
 
 
 SERMON 
 
 Preach J d before the 
 
 KING 
 
 A T T H E 
 
 ROYAL CHAPEL at St James's, 
 On thei^thof MAT, 1716. 
 
 Being the ANNIVERSARY 
 O F TH E 
 
 RESTORATION- 
 
 By the Right Reverend Father in God, 
 B EN J AMI N, Lord Bifiop of B AN GO R. 
 
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 The Second Edition. 
 
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 PSALM CXXVI. 3. 
 
 The Lord bath done great things 
 for Us whereof We are 
 glad. 
 
 N all great Revolutions of 
 States and Kingdoms, which 
 We are called upon to cor$- 
 memorate in a public Man- 
 ner, We muft confider what 
 Concern We our feives 
 have, in the lading Effecls or Confequences 
 of them 3 and what ought to be the real 
 Cround of our Joy upon fuch Occafions. 
 A If 
 
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 6 A SERMON {reach* d . 
 
 If We feel no kindly Influences from them 
 upon our own Affairs , it will be Impoffible 
 to warm ourfelves into any Difpofition of 
 Mind that can be call'd Thankfulness: 
 Which muft always be founded upon 
 fomething, in which We ourfelves have a 
 part. They -will be only like other Hif- 
 torical Matters of Fatt'^ fomething to a- 
 mufe and entertain Us , ferving to pJeafe 
 our Curiofity, but not to raife our Gra- 
 titude. And if We feel the Sentiments 
 of Joy and .Thankfulnefs , riling in our 
 Breads , ; from fuch Principles and Mo- 
 tives, as no True Chrijlian, Proteftant, or 
 Britann , ought to entertain : Oar Joy 
 then becomes the fame with the Joy of 
 our Worft Enemies ^ and the Exprefiions 
 of it no better than the Tokens, either 
 of our Bli.ndhefs , or -of our Corrupti- 
 on. 
 
 -... 
 
 In this- Nation particularly , it is cer aiol 
 tain that, .-in. all Affairs which concern 
 dor Cmfti&itotin^ either in Church or State, 
 nothin^Gcarl he more abfurdj than for the 
 
 Frienaf
 
 beforeibe KING. 7 
 
 Friends of both, and the Enemies of both, 
 t o have the fame Mouvements and PaiTi- 
 ons, upon the fame Occasions. It is im- 
 poffible for a Proteftant^ if He knows 
 what that Word means, to raife his Joy 
 Upon the- fame, Foundation with a Pa- 
 pi ft. , It is impoflibk for a Lover of his 
 Religion, and his Country, to rejoye.0 
 with Thofe who firmly believe it to be 
 their Duty to rejoyce in nothing more, 
 than in the Ruine'of both. 
 
 As our Joy therefore, could not pofllbly 
 difcover it felf upon this D^y, if the Pro- 
 vidence of GpxJ had done Great Things, not 
 for Us y but for our Forefathers alone ^ and 
 had permitted them to flop the Eleffing from 
 defcending,- or ^o Convey down a Curfe in- 
 ilead of it : And, as Our Joy cannot, in 
 the Nature of things, be the Joy of our 
 Enemies ^ becaufe it muft be raifed upon 
 fomething of our own Happinefs, which 
 They have hitherto always made incon- 
 fiftent with Theirs : Let Us now proceed 
 upon this Foundation, and confider, 
 
 The
 
 8 A SERMONpreacb'd 
 
 The Great Things God hath done for />, 
 in that whole Scene of Providence, which 
 tbrs T)ay opened. 
 
 This will naturally fix our Minds, in 
 a more particular Manner, upon the Btef- 
 fagf, in which We are immediately con- 
 
 cernM. 
 
 . ' 
 
 And this will unavoidably lead Us to 
 fame Thoughts of Importance to the prefent 
 
 and Future Intereft of the Nation. 
 
 . i 
 
 Now, the Whole Scene of Providence, 
 which This "Day opened, and which, taken 
 In one View, 'can alone be fa id to make 
 this Day a Blefling to Vs 9 is indeed a 
 Scene , full of a long Train of Incidents, 
 and a-vaft Variety of Circumftances, enough 
 to make both Prince and People, in this 
 Nation, for ever Wife and Happy. 
 
 The
 
 tff&re the KING. 9 
 
 The firft Part of it, is a King reftoretf 
 to his Kingdom -, with his Brother , in 
 view, to fucceed Him : but this, not till* 
 on one Hand, He had feen, both by Ex* 
 ample, and Experience, how terrible in 
 it's EffectSj the popular Dread of Arbitra- 
 ry Power could (hew it felf, whenever it 
 was fet on fire , and not till^ on the CK 
 ther hand, his People had fufficiently felt 
 how great an Evil the want of their Legal 
 Government was. 
 
 One would think, here was a plain 
 Middle way of Wifdom and Htppinefc 
 pointed out, even by Senfe it felfc But 
 there was another, and a very different 
 Turn given to this Affair, by the Indefa- 
 tigable Workings, and Artifices, of out 
 Enemies. An Univerfal Madnefs of 'Loy- 
 alty ^ (falfly fo called,,) as well as of JMbth 
 ners, psefently took place : And the Peo- 
 ple came prefling in Throngs, befeeching to 
 be accounted Slaves, rather than Subjects 5 
 and begging, in Words, for Opportunities 
 B tf
 
 io A SERMON preach'd 
 
 of Unlimited Submiffion, as if they were 
 begging for ABs of Grace and favour. 
 The View in Tbofe, who then had the 
 Direction of their Paffions, was to keep 
 that Spirit up to a pitch, till a Popijb 
 Heir was fecure of the Throne. Nor 
 could all the Knowledge of the Nature 
 and Principles of Popery, nor the avow- 
 ed Contradi&ien of it to the Religion and 
 Liberties of their Country, engage the 
 Hearts of many , or divert them from the 
 Refolution of trufting the whole Concerns 
 of a Proteftant Nation, in the Hands of a 
 Popijb Prince ; Who at length took pof- 
 feffion of the Throne, to which He was 
 thus called. 
 
 ' 
 
 - 
 
 Nor had He enjoyed the Power long, be- 
 fore He obliged His Friends with frequent 
 Trials of the Sincerity of their Profefli- 
 ons. For, as it appears, He had fo much 
 better .an Opinion of their Integrity, than 
 his PredeceJJor had , that He really 
 thought them in earneft - 5 and refolved to 
 hazard all, -with a dependence upon the 
 
 Honefty
 
 before the K I N G. 1 1 
 
 Honefty of their folemn Pronilfes of 
 Unbounded Submijfion. This indeed pro- 
 ved fatal to Himfelf, in the Event : But, 
 in all humane appearance , was much 
 more likely to have proved fatal to the 
 whole Nation. 
 
 If We flop a little here, and confider 
 this Unhappy Prince, pofTefs'd of all the 
 Power our Laws could veft in Him, and 
 flatter'd with a Power above all Laws , 
 and armed, in all humane Appearance 
 with" a fufficient Force to put his Refo- 
 lutions in Execution , We may ask any 
 Proteftant in the Nation , if He will 
 but put himfelf into that pofture of 
 Mind in which every one felt himfelf 
 at that Seafon, What was then become of 
 the Bleffing of this Day .<? And , what 
 would it now have avail'd Us , that 
 our Forefathers faw their Legal Conftitu- 
 tion reftored to them , and rejoyced to 
 fee it 5 if the very defloration of it had 
 proved, in the IlTue, the Ruinc and De- 
 B 2 ftruction
 
 t* A SERMON 
 
 ftruftion of all the Legal Rights of thei? 
 Pojlerity. 
 
 But the Grand Deflgn of Providence ex- 
 tended much farther. There is a Principal 
 fart of it yet behind : And this was, to 
 tnake it a Ming Blefling. And the Way 
 was laid for this, in a method, if you 
 confider it in itfelf , the moft eafy and 
 natural } as Providence always loves to 
 work by humane Means-} if you confider 
 it in that gteat variety and vicuTitude of 
 Circiimftances attending it, the moft in- 
 ftruftive and ufeful to a 'Nation : And, if 
 you confider it with regard to the ma^ 
 ny Probabilities that feem M to weigh 
 agamft the fuccefs of it, little lefs than 
 miraculous. When it was fix'd by Provi- 
 dence to bring about the defloration of the 
 Royal Family, and the Legal Confitution of 
 this Kingdom :, and to continue it a Bkf* 
 fng to the Generations to come j it was 
 necef&ry, in order to this, to make fuch 
 a Difpofition of Affairs, as might be fuLj 
 j and adapted, to *he AcGompliihment 
 
 9?
 
 before the KING. 13 
 
 of it. But firft, the Nation was to feel 
 many and various Trials j many Vicif- 
 fitudes of Hope, and Fear -, many Con- 
 flicts between the Attempts of Popery -, and 
 Slavery, on the one hand, and the ftrug- 
 glings of True Religion, and Liberty, on 
 the other j before fo great a Work could 
 be concluded- And tben, at length, the 
 Embarrafsments of Humane Madnefs were 
 to be difentangled j and all the Plots and 
 Efforts of Cunning and Power, united in 
 order to intail a Curfe upon all Pofterity, 
 where God defigjn'd a Bleffing , were to 
 be diffipated, and fcatter'd into Air. 
 
 With a View to this , a Prince was 
 born fome Years before the Reftoration, 
 that He might be ripe, both in Age, 
 and Abilities , for the performing the 
 great Defign , juft when thofe Attempts 
 (liould be ripening into Execution : And 
 was afterwards^ by a kind Difpofition of 
 Providence, to make the way the eafier, 
 married into the fame Royal Family, from 
 He defended. Ancl accordingly, 
 
 when
 
 14 A SERMON f reach* d 
 
 when the Scene of Ruine was opened fa 
 plainly that no Eye was then too blind 
 to fee it, He appear'd in all the matu- 
 rity of WHdom , and vigour of A&ion : 
 a Prince, inur'd to Labours and Hardfhips 
 from his Birth, prepared for the great 
 Work, by his perfonal Accompli fh ments , 
 directed to it by his Defcent , and his 
 Marriage j and qualified for it by his In- 
 tereft and Authority without, as well as 
 by an Uncommon Greatnefs of Soul with- 
 in* Such a peculiar Conjunction of e- 
 very thing defirable in the Perfon , to 
 undertake a Work, hazardous enough , 
 one would imagine, to deterr the Greateft 
 Minds from thinking of it , and fuch 
 a Difpofition of the various Interefts of 
 the States and Kingdoms of Europe , as 
 both required and fupported the Under- 
 taking, muft appear very furprizing, in 
 fo critical a moment of Time : When, if 
 \ve fpeak within the compafs of Hu- 
 mane Views', nothing but fo unparallel'd 
 a Combination of Circumftances could have 
 afforded even the leaft hopes of Succefs. 
 
 The
 
 before ihe KING. 15 
 
 The Event of this was happy beyond 
 Expreflion : And the Madneft of Popery 
 and Arbitrary Rule , was ftop'd in the 
 Vigour and Warmth of all it's Power, 
 and Hopes. But even yet , fomething 
 farther was wanting , And that wa?, to 
 fix the Succejjion to the Crown, in fuch a 
 Manner, as the Experience of Feeling and 
 Common Senfe in Judging , of neceffitjr 
 direfted the Nation to do. This Day 
 muft have been mark'd with fomething 
 very different from a Ble/fingj if the Re- 
 volution had ftop'd where it began 5 
 and , after a little prefent : Refpite , had 
 deliver'd the Nation back again, into Po- 
 pifi Hands. And where indeed (hould 
 We now fearch for the Bleffing of the 
 Reftoration , if We did not fee it, and 
 feel it, in the 'Blejfing of the Proteftant 
 Succejjion. 
 
 This was the Great View of Heaven, 
 in it's firft Defign. And, therefore, We 
 fee with pleafure, that, when it was re- 
 fold
 
 16 A SERMON frtacbd 
 
 folv'd by Providence to make this Da} 
 memorable by the Reparation of the 
 Royal Family, and our Legal Conftitution, 
 it was refolv'd by the fame good Pro- 
 vidence, that, in the very fame Tear, 
 upon the very Day before this Great 
 Work was to be accorapliftVd , a Prince 
 fhould be born, in Whom that Re/lora- 
 tion fhould , in due time, centre j and 
 to Whom alone it (hould be referv'd, ro 
 compleat the Bkfftng for Us , and to 
 tranfmit it down feeure, to our Pofterity, 
 in his own Illujlrious Houfe. 
 
 ' 
 
 .This , I fay , is the whole Scene of 
 Providence y ..which this Day open'd j and 
 which , taken in one View , can alone 
 be faid to make it a EleJJlng to l/>, ot 
 to our Children after Us. If you view 
 the Refloration, without,, the Revolution , 
 and the Proteftant Succejfion } it leads 
 you directly to a Popt/b Prince , holding 
 an Arbitrary Hand over all your Liber- 
 ties , tearing up the Fences of all your 
 Laws , fixing all Right in his own Will 
 
 and
 
 before the KING. 17 
 
 and Power ^ and perfecuting all his Sub- 
 jefts into" the Exercife of his own, Su- 
 perftitious, Idolatrous, and Cruel Religi- 
 on. And this is the whole of the Blef^ 
 fmg, in which you would Tee it end at 
 laft. A Blefling, which may be a fir Re- 
 ward for the Slavijh Bigottry of Papifts ! 
 But for Proteflants fit only for Tkofe 
 of them, who deferve it* And They de- 
 ferve it, who chufe it -, whom no Experi- 
 ence, no Confideration, no Miracles of 
 Providence, can engage to prefer their 
 own Happinefs before their own Deftrudi- 
 on* 
 
 But if We view the fame 
 in another Light, as the Refloration of 
 our Legal Conftitution, fecured by the late 
 Revolution, and fix'd by the Settlement of 
 the Crown in the Proteftant Line ^ it ap- 
 pears a Blefling to Us indeed, by leading 
 Us to the Happinefs which We our felves 
 at prefent fee, and feel, but cannot de- 
 fcribe. 
 
 C We
 
 iS A SERMON freacb'd 
 
 We have now, therefore, by an ea- 
 fy and natural Train of Fatfs , brought 
 down our Thoughts to the prefent Times, 
 in which our Eyes behold the Grand 
 Dejign of this Day, brought to Maturi- 
 ty j and plenty of Happinefs held forth 
 to Us , if We have any Senfe or No- 
 tion left of what Happinefs Means, by 
 the Proteftant Succejfion now taking place. 
 A Bleffing, recommended to Us, by the 
 immenfe Difficulties cafl in it's way, be- 
 fore it could be fettled by a Law ^ 
 and the various Hazards of looting it , 
 lince it was fo ! And a Bleffing^ which, 
 unlike the other Bleffings of this World, 
 fully anfwers, in the Enjoyment, all the 
 Expectations which it raifed in the Prof- 
 
 If it be the greateft Happinefs that 
 can be tafted in Humane Society, to be 
 governed by Laws ^ We feel our felves, 
 and all our Concerns , under the Influ- 
 ence of a Legal Government. If it be 
 
 certain
 
 before the KING. 19 
 
 certain that Tbofe Princes are beft qualifi- 
 ed to govern well by Written Laws, who 
 have govern'd well without them , this is 
 a peculiar part of our Happinefs, to have 
 the Execution of our Laws , and th'e 
 Prefervation of our Rights, vefted in a 
 Prince ^ who never betrayed, even when 
 his Will was his Law, the lead Inclina- 
 tion towards any Defigns, but what are die 
 Dictates of the ftrifteft Juftice. And if it 
 redoubles a Bleffing, to forefee it flou- 
 rifiiing amongft our Pofterity> in future A- 
 ges j let this be acknowledged a great ad- 
 dition to our prefent Happinefs, that We 
 may promife it to our Children after Us, 
 under the Influences of Thofe who are to 
 fucceed Him, 
 
 This is fuch a Syfiem, fuch a CoUetfe- 
 en of Blefftngs, as ought, in Juftice, to 
 be view'd with the moft paflionate Sen- 
 tentiments of Joy and Thankfgiving. A 
 King upon the Throne, form'd for the 
 Happinefs of All who live under the 
 Shadow of his Authority : By his ex- 
 C 2 perienced
 
 ao A SERMON preach* d 
 
 perienced Virtues, entitled to the Love 
 and Affefiion of his Subje&s -, and by 
 the Laws of their Country, (built upon 
 the Fundamental Laws of Humane So- 
 ciety) entitled to their Allegiance : Great 
 in Htmfelf, if the perfedion of Juf- 
 tice , and Honour , and Equity , be 
 true Greatnefs , and Great in his 
 llluflnous family , if the Profped of 
 tranfmitting Blefiings to Pofterity, by 
 a Line of Princes defcending from Hira- 
 felf , makes up any part of Greatnefs : 
 And in a peculiar manner, Great in 
 his Influences upon the prefent State 
 of this Nation , as He (lands pofTefs'd 
 pf an Unfhaken fteadinefs of Soul, not 
 to be moved from his People's In- 
 tereft ^ and of a Firmnefs of Mind, 
 yncable of the Impreflions , either of 
 pear, or of Inconfhncy. Without which 
 JMoble and Happy Accomplifhments in 
 the Firft Poffeffor in that llluflnous 
 flwfe, which the Providence of God 
 hath now iix'd upon the Throne, it 
 juftly be feared, that this Happy 
 
 Settlement
 
 before the K I N G 21 
 
 Settlement might by this Time have 
 been fliakert , and the Bleffings of the 
 Proteflant Religion^ and our Legal Li- 
 berty, (for which We have been fo ma- 
 ny Years contendingj might once more 
 have been in danger of vaniming from 
 
 our Sight. 
 
 s 
 
 And even ftill, the Sufpicion of 
 fo much Happinefs ceafing in time to 
 come , " might be very uneafy to Us 9 
 if We did not fee in his Royal Heir 
 and Succeffor , a Noble and Generous 
 Zeal , avowed with all the Tokens of 
 the mod Sincere and Upright Heart, 
 for the fame invaluable Goods. 
 
 Nor will I ever pmit , when I 
 ain recounting the Inftances of our 
 Publick Happinefs , to mention that 
 Race of Princes to come : From Whom, 
 what is it that We may not expeft? 
 When We not only think of the Ex- 
 amples of Good Government they will 
 have feen : but confider them now un- 
 
 der
 
 52 A SERMON preacb'd 
 
 der the Eye and Direction of a 
 Prince fs^ in whom the perfechon of 
 Good Senfe, and the perfection of Good 
 Nature , are United j and out-done by 
 nothing , unlefs by that Sacred Regard 
 to True Religion^ which will make her 
 Story the Delight of Goo_d Men in Ages 
 to come. 
 
 This is the Fabrick of Happinefs 
 in which our Souls may take their 
 Reft. How much lefs than this, might 
 We our felves have been well content- 
 ed to hope for? And, indeed, What 
 more than this, could any Nation ua- 
 <3er Heaven well wifh for > And yet, 
 Againft this whole Scheme of Elejjings ^ 
 againft their own , and their Neigh- 
 bours Security ^ againft their own 
 Laws, and Liberties , againft- the Efta- 
 blidiment of every thing valuable in 
 this World , We have feen a Rebel- 
 lion raifed , by the Wicked Perverfenef^ 
 of Men, without the Pretenfe of a 
 Provocation , befides the fingle Provoca- 
 tion
 
 before tie KING. 23 
 
 tion of offering them Happinefs, in 
 a Way, and by the Hands, which 
 They were not pleas'd to like : And 
 this , before their Paffions had any 
 thing offer'd to them, to fet them 
 on Fire. And We have feen an Ad. 
 ministration reviled , and inf ulted , by 
 Thofe , who themfelves had tafted 
 nothing but Good from it. 
 
 When one reflects with Coolriefe 
 upon what hath lately paft amongft 
 Us, it feems as if the fullnefs of 
 Happinefs had it felf fet on fire the 
 reftlefs Malice of Thofe, who were re- 
 folved not to acknowledge or enjoy 
 the Bleffing offered them ^ and that 
 the Rage of Enmity hath been for- 
 ced to be raifed the higher, and the 
 louder, by all the Management o 
 Artifice, beamfe there fo was little to 
 complain of. 
 
 But this is the Glory of an 
 AdmmJftrat2on :> when Thofe who moft 
 
 revile
 
 34 A SERMON preacb'J 
 
 revile it, cannot do it without bear- 
 ing Teftimony to it themfelves. Ic 
 is the Glory of an Administration , 
 when the Reproaches, with which 
 it is to be loaded, are caft into Future 
 Times , when the bitterefl Enemies it 
 hath are forced to call in the help 
 of the moft fruitful Invention j and, 
 for want of prefent Grievances , to 
 fill the Minds of Men with the Suf- 
 picions of Evils to come. It is the 
 Glory of an Adminiftration , when , 
 before it can be blackned, and made 
 vile , the Names , and Natures, and 
 Boundaries of Things, mud be alter'd 
 and remov'd : Light put for Darknefs 
 and Darknefs for Light j Legal Juftke, 
 (though mix'd with more Temper ; than 
 ever yet was feen, in any Nation, 
 upon a like Occafion,) treated with 
 the Indignity, due only to the Heighth 
 of Injuftice ^ the moft neceffary Self, 
 defenfe reviled as Cruelty^ and a Falfe 
 Compajjion placed in the Seat of Mercy j 
 the Safety of a Whole . Nation, and 
 
 all
 
 kfare the KING. 25 
 
 all it's Concerns, weighed in the Ba^ 
 lance againft Trifles-, and even Pope- 
 ry itfelf painted with Truth, and Meek* 
 fiefs, and Love, in it's Face, as an 
 harmlefs agreeable Thing, worthy to 
 be received with the open Arms of 
 Friendfliip, by Thofe, it would de- 
 vour* 
 
 -3ih When thefe are the Methods of 
 attacquing an Adm&tfiration , it is 
 a very happy Sign, that they, who* 
 make ufe of them, have occafiori 
 heartily to wiili it much worfe thari 
 They find it j and a very ftrong 
 Argument to all Good Subjech, ta 
 wifh as heartily that their Country 
 may never know the want of an 
 Adminiftration , which is not reviled 
 by it's Greateft Enemies , unlefs it 
 be in fuch a Manner, as to add ftf 
 it's Reputation and Honour* 
 
 * Wfcal
 
 A SERMON preacb'd 
 
 What is it, that an Uneafy, 
 Thanklefs , Generation of Men would 
 have? Bletfed be God, The Publick 
 Efforts of their Malice are once more 
 diflipated. They are conquered in the 
 Field. But their Spirits, and their Tern- 
 fers^ and their De/igns, do not at all 
 appear to be conquer'd : If We may 
 judge from their Indefatigable Diligence 
 and Art, in filling the Heads of their 
 Well-wifhers , as foon as one Defpe^ 
 rate Attempt is over , with Hints and 
 Expectations of Another , and from the 
 Unparallel'd Infolence of their Agents 
 and Followers, even whilft They are 
 begging and waiting for Mercy, 
 
 It may be very hard , to find 
 prefent and effectual Remedies for fo 
 great Evils. But this One thing, I am 
 fure, is very plain, and very proper to 
 be mentioned, that, in order entirely 
 and fuccefsfully to conquer fuch 'Ene- 
 mies
 
 bcore the KING. 27 
 
 mies, We muft firft conquer Our felves. 
 
 -Did all who truly wifti v7 j ll 
 
 to the prefent Eftablifhment , unani- 
 moufly purfue the fame good Ends, 
 there would be no ground for Fear. 
 But whilft the Paflions of Well-mean- 
 ing Men , upon every Trifling and 
 Private Occafion, join themfelves with 
 the Dtfigns of Thofe who certainly 
 mean our Ruine *, it is tbh that fwells 
 the Current :, and that feeds the Info_ 
 folence and Expectation pf the Common 
 EJnemy. 
 
 But, to conclude , If a long Series 
 of Experience can make any Nation 
 wife, We, of all'Natipns in the World, 
 have that Advantage. We are not only 
 made happy ^ but made happy in thofe 
 Methods, which cinnot but teach Us to 
 value our fiappinefs -, whilft , That 
 which Others learn by Reflexion and 
 Judgment, We have had brought home 
 to Us by the Senfc of Feeling, and 
 D 2 Eje.
 
 38 A S E R M N f reached 
 
 Eye-fgkt. The Enemies of our 
 pinefs themfelves, ought to learn Con- 
 vidion from AH that this Nation hath 
 been Witnefs to -, and to become 
 Friends, And for Thofe , who are 
 truly Friends in the main and 
 efTential Points of our Hippinefs , 
 certainly it is Time for all of them to 
 think it Wifdom, to give up even their 
 private Schemes, and Notions, as welj. 
 as their private Refentments and Views, 
 to the Public Good , and , at length, 
 after fo many Viciflitudes of Hope and 
 Fear j fo many Struggles between Life 
 and Death j fo many Hazards and Dan- 
 gers efcaped , to unite in ftrengthning, 
 inftead of weakning , the Hands of 
 Tbofe, who have it in their Will, as 
 well as in their Truft, to eftablim Us 
 upon a Foundation never more to be 
 ftiaken ; That fo, the Beft of Kings 
 may have the Be/I of Subjefts , and, 
 Authority and Law , Obedience and 
 JJberty , may be feen united , in all 
 
 their
 
 before tie KING. 2p 
 
 heir Vigour and Glory , and defcend 
 down, with the Bleffings which accom- 
 pany them, to all future Generations. 
 Which God grant for the fake of Jefu* 
 Chrift, his only Son, our 
 
 FINIS,
 
 BOOKS Writtenfy the Right Reverend 
 BENJAMIN, Lord Bifbof 0/Bangpr, ami 
 friniul for Jain.s Knapton, at the Crown 
 in. St. Paul's Chiircb-Tard. 
 
 *Tp H E Meafmes.of SubmiJ/ioittQ the Civil Magi- 
 
 T ftrate cpiifider'd. In a defenfe of" the Doc- 
 trine delivered in a Sermon, preach'd before the 
 Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, 
 and Citizens, of London, Sept. 29. 1705. The 
 Fourth Edition. In which are added, i . An Ac- 
 cefon-Snmon, preached March 8. 1704-7. 2. A 
 Sermon concerning the Unbappinefs of Abfohte 
 Monarchy, Sec. 3 . A Sermon concerning St. Paul's 
 Jkbavioitr towards the Civil Magifrate. pr. 3*. 
 
 The Original, a'ld Inftitution, oi Civil Govern- 
 mexti Dilcufs'd ; viz. I. An Examination of the 
 Patriarchal Scheme of Government. II. A Defenfe 
 of Mr- Hookes's Judgment, &c. againft the Ob- 
 jeSions of fevemllate Writers. To which is added, 
 A Large Anfwer to Dr. F. Atterburfs Charge of 
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 Several Djjicourfes concerning the Terms of 
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 of Salvation considered. And particularly, Of 
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 Sins. Of relying upon the Merits of Chrift. 
 Of Man's Weakncfi, and God's Grace. Of Re^ 
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 Crofs. Of trufting to a Death-bed Sorrow. Of 
 the Parable of the Laboureis in the Vmeyaid. Of 
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 pr. 
 
 The Reafonablenefs of Conform it}'- to the 
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 Several Trails formerly Publifhcd : Now col- 
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 3. A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Framh Attzr* 
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 ] 7C9. 7. An Humble Reply to the Lord Bifiop 
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 which are added, Six Sermons, never before Pub- 
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 1 be Pi-efent Delufov of Many Prntc ftants Con- 
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 1715. The 4ffe Edition. Both theft Pi irt dfa- J. 
 Krapton. at. tie CK -wn ^ m:d Timothy C'hilde, at 
 the \Vhite-Hprt 3 w St. pauFi C/;a; clrtard. 1715
 
 SERMONS lately Printed fot 
 TIMOTHY CHILDE, at the 
 
 White Hart 3 in 6V Paulv Church* 
 Tard. 
 
 TH E Right Reverend the Lord Bifhop of Carli/le's Ser- 
 mon betore the Lord Mayor, <&c at S firm's Church, 
 6n tajler Monday, April 2. 1716 Being the Spital Sermon. 
 A Sermon Preach'd at the Vifuation of the Clergy held by 
 the Bifhop of Wincbeftct, at Kingfton, May a<5. 171 1. By 
 Jfugh Boulter, D. D. Reftqr of Sc. Olaves Southward 
 
 The Fcundation of Submiffian to Our Governonrs{ A Sermon 
 Preach'd at Sc. Olaves Sut,.voa.r^ November 10, 1715. By 
 Dr. Boulter. 
 
 A Sermon Preach'd at 'the Confecration of the Right Re- 
 terend the Lord Bifliop of Lincoln, Febi 12. 1715 16. By 
 Dr. Boutter. 
 
 A Sermon Preach'd before the Lord Mayor foe. on Wtdtie\- 
 daj in E^ilcr Week,- April ^tb t 5716. Being cne of the 
 Spitral Sermons. By Dr. Boulter. 
 
 A Serm ju FnMch'd at the Confecration of the Right Rc- 
 Verend the Lord Bifhop of Ghua t}ei\ $M i6> 1714 15. 
 
 The Duty of Pruife and Thantygivit'g: A Sermon Preach'd 
 before the King, Mny 29. r i 5. By Dr. Burfcough. 
 
 The Revolution recommended to our Memories: A Sermon 
 Preach'd at Ipeftm'mfter-^bbey, Nov. 5. 1715. By Dr Br- 
 fcougb. 
 
 The Folly of thinking the former Times better than the Pre- 
 fent : A Sermon Preach'd at the Affizes at Wirichefter, Aug. 
 3. i -7; 5. By Thomas Durnford, M. A. 
 
 Of true Chriflian and Englifk Courage : A Sermon Preach'd 
 at the Aflfrzes at Hereford, Aug. 14. tji . By Richard 
 Smattrnke, D. D. 
 
 Chrijlian Lyjly, with the Duty of Mifiifters relating there- 
 ttnto : A Sernrm Preach'd at the Affizes at Bury St Ed- 
 titond*, Mar. zd. 171^-. By George Raymond, M. A. 
 
 A Sermon Preich'd" at the Confecration of the R ; ght Reve. 
 rend the Lord Bifh .p ot Sangor, March 10. 1715. 16. By 
 Jobn Hoadh, M. A. Arch- Deacon and Chancellor of the 
 Church of Sarum. 
 
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