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 p'M O U know, My Brethren, that the Re- 
 /afiofi, I now bear to You, makes it my Du. 
 ty, upon the prelent Occafion, to fay 
 fomething to You. And, as this is the 
 firft time of our coming together for that 
 Purpofe : I think, I cannot better employ it, than by call- 
 ing to your Minds, and my own, fome of the molt Im- 
 portant and General Toinfs, which are of equal Concern 
 to You and Mc ; and of the greateft Weight to Us all in 
 the Difcharge of our feveral Duties. And, for this good 
 End, nothing appears to me to be more proper than 
 
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 I. To confidcr our felvcs, not only as Chriftians, but as, 
 Minijlers of Chriji 5 and as having particularly devo- 
 ted our fclves to the Service of God, and of the Souls 
 of Men, in the Chrifttan Church. 
 
 II. To confidcr our felves as Vroteftants i and as Mini- 
 jlers in a Trot eft ant Church. And 
 
 III. To confider our felves as Minifters in the Church 
 of England, peculiarly fo called, as it is at prefent 
 Eftablifh'd amongft Us. 
 
 The Divifion of our Thoughts under thcfe Three Heads 
 will be of great Ufe to Us : as it will lead Us more di- 
 ftindly to confidcr the fcvcral Adverfaries We have to 
 deal with, and the true Line and Meafure of our Duty 
 with refpedt to Them ; as well as the \A^cight of our Of- 
 fice, and Our great Concern in the due Performance 
 of it. 
 
 I. The firft and great Point, is, often to confider that Wc 
 are not only Chriftians i h\xt Minifters oi Chrift, who have 
 voluntarily and delibcrafely taken upon our felvcs a Sacred 
 Office in the Chriftian Church ; and have devoted our 
 felves peculiarly to the Service of Thofc Souls for which 
 Chrift died. 
 
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 This is an awful and folcmn CoufiJcratiou, which ought 
 to govern our whole Conducl, and fpread its influence 
 over Every Part of our whole Behaviour. As We have 
 chofen this Office, I truft, upon fuch good Grounds and 
 Motives, as will juftify Us, before God, in what We fo- 
 lemnly declared at the firft Step We took towards it, Viz. 
 That \Ve truftcd We were moved to it bj the Holy Spirit 
 of God ; it behoves Us, as much as We value the Favour 
 of God, and our own Eternal Salvation, to take the great- 
 eft Care that No One of Thofe committed to Us, fall {hort 
 of the great Reward which all Chriftians have in their Eye. 
 If fVe be not wanting, on our Part, towards this ; no Wick- 
 ednefs or Wilfullnefs of Others will be charged upon Us, 
 But if there be any wilful Defeft in our Care and Watch- 
 fulnefsj Thofe whoperifh will not perifh without w/r Guilt 
 mixt with their o-jon: and We muft anfwer at the Great 
 Tribunal for our Share in fo unfpeakable an Evil. 
 
 But not only this. The frequent Confideration of Our 
 felves, as Minifters of Chrijl, will be an infallible Rule 
 of Judgment and Aftion to Us, in every Circumftance 
 of our Office. It will guide Us into the true Notion of 
 the "Dignity of it : And it will lead Us to keep up, in 
 iomc degree, our whole Conduct to that 'Dignity. There 
 is, without doubt, a great and highly valuable 'Dignity 
 in our Office. But it is in vain, my Brethren, for Us to 
 boaft, or fo much as to fpeak, of it, unlefs We underftand 
 
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 what it is ; and, after We do underftand it, unlefs 
 Wc live and ad, as if We our fclvcs were fcnfi- 
 blc of it. We muft firft reverence Ourfelves, before We 
 can expect that Others fhould reverence Us : Reverence 
 ourfelves--, — Not by demanding outward Marks of Refpcft ; 
 but by fuch a Behaviour, as will naturally command them, 
 by attracting the Real Efteem of thofe around Us ; and by 
 fuch a Condud, as will convince all who are WitnefTcs to 
 it, that We are in earneft, and know what We mean by 
 the juft Value We fct upon our Office. 
 
 Our ^Dignity is our nearer Relation to Chrift : And 
 this nearer Relation is contradted by means of that parti- 
 cular FunBion which We have, under his Eye, and accord- 
 ing to his Will, deliberately and fcrioufly undertaken; the 
 Office of helping forward and promoting, in the World, the 
 great End which He propofed in coming down from Hea- 
 ven, and living and dying for Mankind. Now, all Relations 
 to Chrifi, are either our Honour, or Reproach j our great 
 Glory, or our great Shame -, our higher Reward, or our 
 deeper Condemnation ; according as We our felves behave 
 our felves in them. A wicked Chriftian has indeed a wor. 
 thy Name, viz-, that of a Chrifiian : But He himfclf has 
 noDi<^nity by taking upon Him that Name, whilft He con- 
 tinues wicked. He reflects Shame upon the belt Name in the 
 World ; and the Name He has alTumed reflects Shame and 
 lanominy upon Him, whilft He fhews himfelf utterly un- 
 worthy of it. So it is, and fo it muft be, mjf Brethren, 
 
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 with Us. The O^ce We have undertaken, is a Glorious 
 Office ; I will fay, a Godlike Office, — to carry forward tlic 
 Purpofes of God himfelf, in the Dircftion of Mankind to his 
 Favour and their own Eternal Happinefs. There is a T)ignityt 
 and an Honour in it, confider'd in this View, not to be equal'd 
 by any of the higheft Offices of this World, deck'd out with all 
 their Pomp and Shew. But Pf^e can have no'Dignity accrue to 
 Us from this Office, if We be fo unhappy as openly and 
 plainly to oppofc our fclves to the mainDcfign of it. The 
 higher the Honour, the greater the Dignity of the Office ^ 
 the more confpicuous will it render every wilful 
 Deviation of ours from it. In a Word, It is impoffible. 
 He fhould have Dignity in Himfelf, or conciliate Refped 
 and Honour to himfelf j who, making the beft and moft 
 glorious Profeffion with his Mouth, is fcen openly to con- 
 tradift it in the Tenor of his Conduct. i/<? only receives a 
 'Dignity from it, who adds fomc Dignity to it, in his pro- 
 portion, by his excellent Life and ChriftianDodr inc. And 
 it is He only who cannot fail of procuring to Himfelf the 
 Refpe^i of All whofe Refpcft is valuable, who fhcws 
 that He relpctts himfelf j and, not in Words but in Deeds, 
 looks upon himfelf as more nearly, than others, related to 
 his great Lord and Majler. This, I fay, is tfw^" great Ufe of 
 our confidering our fclves as the Minifters oiChrifi i that it 
 will lead Us to the true Notion of the Dignity of our Office, 
 in the imitation of Him whofe Minifters We have under- 
 taken to be. And this Notion, thoroughly imbibed, and 
 received into our Hearts, will fpread it felf over our whole 
 
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 TJves ; and engage Us to frame and fafhion our vholc 
 Deportment in inch a manner, ns that V/iiat is, in it fclj\ 
 the Higiicft Glory, may not, thro' onr <?tC« WiUfuhiefs, 
 become our Shame -, and tend to our Indignity and Con. 
 dcmnation, when wc fhall come to appear before our 
 Righteous Judge. 
 
 BuTtlicre is another and very importantUic tobc ftill made 
 of this frjl and principal Point, viz. the Confideration of 
 Our fclves as the Minifters oVJeJus Chrift : and that is, to be 
 perfuaded, from thence, to take all our Direclions ; all our 
 Maxims ; all our Rules both of Life and Dodrinc } from Him 
 alone, whofe Minijlers "Wc profcfs our f«dves to be. From 
 the firfl: Moment of our devoting our fclves to his Miniftry, 
 We become totally engaged to him. We are no longer under 
 any other Guidance but His. This is implied in the thing it 
 fclf. It is an Abfurdiry, a dircft Contraditlion, to call or 
 think our fclves The Minijlers of Chrijl, unlcfs Wc c- 
 fteem our fclves under the ftridlcft Obligation to con- 
 fult and follow Him alone as our ultimate Dircdlor and 
 Guide. This is indeed, at once our Honour ; our Hap- 
 pinefs ; and our T^uty. It is our Honour ; becaufc it is 
 our Adherence and Refemblancc to Him, to whom God 
 hath given a Name above Every Name. It is our Hap- 
 pnefs •■> becaufe Wc may be fure. We cannot err, or wan. 
 dcr from the Truth, or from any thing neccflary, fo as 
 to hurt our fclves, whilft We follow fuch a Guide in the 
 Uprightnefs and Sincerity of our Hearts. And it is our 
 ^uty i becaufe We have made our fclves his Servants and 
 
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 Mtnijiers : and, as placed in fuch a Relation to Him, muft 
 be guilty of a great and unpardonable Sin in not doing 
 it. 
 
 From hence it will appear to Us, that We muft throw off 
 all regard to Our felves, to our own Wifhes or Inclinations, 
 to our own private Opinions and Notions, any farther than 
 as they are perfedly agreeable to his exprefs 'Declarations, 
 And from hence it as plainly appears, that We muft not be 
 the Follo'-juers or Minifters ol Men, in any fuch Scnfe as is 
 inconfiftent with our conftant Uniform Regard to Chrijl 
 and ^/jWill. There is no other infallible Oracle for Us, 
 but This : And This will be fufficicnt for all our Furpofes, 
 if We have no Purpofcs but what become Chriftians, and 
 are fuitable to our Holy Profcfllon. In our Lives and Con- 
 verfations, This is common to Us with all other Chrijlians, 
 that from his Laws, from his Promifcs and Thrcatninc;s 
 We muft take all our Rules of private Behaviour : And We 
 have This to add peculiar to our felves, that, from the fame 
 Director we muft learn efFecIually to be Examples to the 
 Flock ; to cxcell in good V/orks ; and to let the light 
 of thofe good Works fo Jhine before Men-, that They may 
 from them be led to glorify our Father which is in Heaven.. 
 
 And then, as to our Trenching, and that Great Duty in- 
 cumbent upon Us of inftrucling Others i how can Wc pofli- 
 bly hope to do it, either with Satisfaclion to our own Con- 
 fciences, or with the Hope of God's Favour accompanying 
 
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 our Labours, unkfs We frame and faOiion all our Teaching 
 upon the Gofpel dclivcr'd by Chriji, or by his immediate 
 'Difciples from Him ? 'Wc fay. We arc the Alinifters of 
 Chriji \ bcfccching Men, in his Name, to be reconciled to 
 God through Hiin ; and to be what He has declared They 
 ought to be, in order to be accepted by God. How there- 
 fore, can We be the Minijiers of Chriji in this Work, 
 unlefs We take all our Dircdions from Him : when it 
 is fo very evident, that, as far as We negleft to do this ; 
 as far as We follow our own Imaginations and Con- 
 ceptions, or the Imaginations and Dircdions of any 
 other Uninfpircd Men, without comparing them with 
 the Will of Chriji ; fo far, We ceafe to be His Minifters or 
 Servants, and become the Minifters of our own Will and 
 Pleafure, or of the Will of other weak Men like our fclves? 
 And how can Wc teach and advifc and befeech Men to be 
 reconciled to God ; and to behave themfclves fo as to be 
 accepted by Him ; without declaring to them thofe Terms, 
 «pon which alone They may be thus accepted ? And how can 
 Wc lay before them thofe Tertns, unlefs We know them our 
 felves ? And how can Wc pofllbly know them our felves, 
 but from Hint, who alone had Authority from God to 
 propofe them to the whole World, where- ever the Sound 
 of his Gofpel fhould be heard ? 
 
 You will forgive Mc, My Brethren, if I infift upon 
 this as the Principal of all Confiderations in which 
 We have any Concern. It is in order to imprefs That upon 
 
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 my <ywn Confclcnce, as well as Tours, without which We 
 cannot take One right Step in our whole Duty > but under 
 the conftant influence of which, We may be happy, and go 
 on fecure in the Satisfaclion of doing our Duty thro' every 
 Branch of it. I fhould efteem my felf utterly unworthy 
 of the Name of a Minifter of the Gofpel-, and much more 
 fo, of the Relation which I now ftand in to You ; if, in 
 putting you in remembrance of any Inflanccs of your Duty, 
 I could ever forget this Great Foundation of all j or fhould 
 ever ceafe to inculcate this upon Tou and My felf. That it 
 is in vain we call our fclves the Minifter s or Servants of 
 Chrift, unlefs we take Him and his Gofpel, as He left it Us, 
 for the Rule of our Preaching his Will : and that it is in 
 vain we preach to Men the glad Tidings of Salvation, unlefs 
 We ftudy thofe Sacred Books in which alone thofe glad 
 Tidings are to be found ; and ftudy them fo efFeftually. and 
 with fo juft Conceptions of them, as from Them only to lay 
 before our Hearers thofe Terms of Salvation, which They 
 alone can teach us. And happy will it be for \Js, if We 
 continue conftant to this Rule. It will be our Guide, and 
 our Support, in every Branch of our Office. It will over- 
 rule our Hearts, and Pradice, in every Circumftancc of 
 it. It will be a Fountain of Infallible TiireElions to 
 our Flocks. And it will entitle our felves to the Favour 
 of that Great Mafter^ from whofe Mouth alone we thus 
 feek for True Knowledge. 
 
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 II. The fecond General Point, I mentioned at firft, was, 
 That We ought often to confidcr our felvcs as 'Proteftants ; 
 Members and Minijlers of a Church reformed from the 
 Superftitton and Tyranny of the Church of Rome. And 
 I mention this, to put our felves in remembrance of 
 what Length of Time, and our own feeming Security 
 from Danger, may too often remove from our View ; and 
 yet, what is of great Importance to have often before our 
 Eyes. I would not have it thought, that I intend by 
 this to ftir up any undue Zeal, or Refentment, againfl the 
 Perfons of Any who are Members of that Communion. 
 I think They have the Common Right, with All others, 
 as to their Religious Tenets, (properly fo called) to be 
 treated with Humanity, and to be convinced only by Ar^ 
 gument. What their 'Principles lead to, with refped to 
 the Cinjil Government ; or what their Prafticcs threaten j 
 This is the piroper Concern of the Civil Government. 
 But as to Us, whofe only Concern, as Preachers of the 
 Gofpel, is with their Religion, (which is to be treated by 
 Us with Spiritual Weapons only,) the prcfcnt Confidera- 
 tion will be of a double Ufe. 
 
 The firfl arifes from hence, That it is very apparent, 
 from the Experience of every Week, and almofl every 
 Hour ; That Thofe of that Communion ceafe not, Day or 
 Night, to perpetuate and prefs all their antient Claims ; 
 that Tlicy watch every Opportunity, aiid make ufe of 
 
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 every Art, to Ingratiate, firft Themfelvcs, and then their 
 'Do£irines, to the Minds of the Unftabic, and the Un- 
 thoughtful Part of our World ; to infufc into Thofe who 
 come in their Way, the mofl: agreeable, but falfe, Notions 
 of their Rchgion ; and to fcducc Many out of the Flocks 
 committed to our Care. From hence, I fay, arifes One 
 Rcafon for our frequent Confidcration of our fcivcs as 
 Minifters in a ^roteftant Church; That \Ve may not be lull'd 
 aflecp, whilft fuch an Enemy is fo'juing Tares in the 
 Field of it ; That we may not be led to think that the 
 antient Controverjies between Us and Them arc of no 
 Moment : but that We may frequently review them in the 
 Courfc of our Studies; and fo thoroughly comprehend them, 
 that We may be ready and prepared to rcfolve the Doubts, 
 and anfwer the Scruples, which may at any time be 
 artificially conveyed into the Minds of our People j and 
 be always arm'd with every thing neceffary to combat the 
 Sophiilry, and to wipe off the Falfc Colourings, of the 
 Adverfary i and fo to preferve Thofe who, without our 
 Help, muft too probably be carried away with the fair 
 Outfide and Appearance of things. 
 
 AnoTHER Ufe of this Conjideration will be. That, right- 
 ly apprehended, it will prevent Us from giving Thofe fame 
 Adverfaries that great Advantage which they have always 
 made Ufe of moft effedually againft Us, by preferving 
 Us from all Incenjijiencies, in our Arguings and Praftices, 
 as Trotejiants. 1 mean, by leading Us (as it mnft do, if 
 
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 we purfue it juftly and finccrely) to an Uniform Set of 
 Principles and Behaviour; by (hewing Us theneceflity of 
 not Claiming, or Pradifing, Anything our f elves, which 
 We utterly condemn in Them ; and for the fake of v/hich 
 {chiefly, if not only,) Wcfeparated from them. [Viththis, 
 Wc have nothing to fear from any the ftrongeft Attaque that 
 can be made from that Qiiarter, in the Way of Debate 
 or Argument. But without it, I will be bold to fay. 
 They are fo well inftruftcd, and know fo well the Force 
 oiTopics tzkcn from o«r Weakncflcs, and Inconfiftcncies, 
 that it is in vain to hope for much vSuccefs againft them : 
 Not to mention here a very important Confideration ; That 
 All Truth muft of necellity be Uniform and Self-Con- 
 Jiflent. I pafs on now, 
 
 III. To the laft G^wer^j/Point I propos'd at firft : which 
 was. That Wc muft confidcr Our felves as Minifters in 
 the Church of England, peculiarly fo call'd, as it is at 
 prcfent Eftablifh'd amongft Us. And this I am To far from 
 wifhing to be ever left out of our moft ferious Thoughts, 
 when we are confidering our Office, or our Duty ; that, 
 I think, We are under all the Obligation to the contrary, 
 which the Voluntary and Serious Engagement of Our Selves 
 to this Church can poflibly lay upon Us. I have time 
 only to mention one or t'is:o Particulars under this i/frf*;^ ; 
 which yet will comprehend moft of What may, at another 
 Opportunity, be more largely infiftcd upon. 
 
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 We have deliberately chofcn, not merely Conformity 
 to this Church, but the Minifterial Duty in it. And if 
 We have acted iincercly in this, as I truft We all have ; 
 This Choicey 1 think, muft have been made, becaufe It 
 appears to Us, (who muft be determined by our o'X'n 
 Judgments, as Others are by Theirs^ after the moft ma- 
 ture deliberation, all things confidcred, to be the moft 
 Unexceptionable and moft Excellent of All which have come 
 •within our View : Or, in other Wordsj TiChurch, in which^ 
 We truly think, We can do GOT), and the Souls of Men^ 
 moft fervice. This therefore. We are obliged, agreeably to 
 our voluntary Engagements, to defend by our Arguments • 
 as Perfons always ready to give a Reafon for the Choice 
 We have made. This wc are obliged to comply with, as 
 to Its Rules and Orders, in all our Adminiftrations i 
 as well as to adorn by our Examples, whilft We continue 
 Minijiers in it. 
 
 In all our "Defenfes of It, againft Thofc who differ 
 from Us, on each Hand, We muft never forget the Tisi'o 
 former Confiderations, that IVe zicChriftians, and Tra~ 
 tejiants ; and that This Church is a Chrifiian and a Tro- 
 tefiant Church. The View of thefe two Toints will make 
 all our Arguments Powerful and Confiftent. The Meek 
 and Good Spirit of Chriftianity will govern all our Zeal, 
 and give it not only a Beauty, but an Ejfe^, beyond 
 what it could othcrwifc have. And the great Pouudation- 
 
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 -{lone of iiWTrotcftantifm laid down always for the Ground- 
 work, will probably make whatever Wc fhall build upon 
 it> Uniform and Strong beyond ail Danjzcr. Thcfc Two 
 abiblutcly necclVary Points, will teach us to cndeavour 
 to convince the Judgments of Thole who differ from 
 Us, but not to confound or injure their 'Terjons i and 
 will, at the fame time, ftiew Us the Ofil/ good Method 
 of doing it. 
 
 I N our Minijlrat'ions in this Church, Our Engagements 
 oblige Us to keep to the Rules and Orders laid down plain- 
 ly and cxprefly in it : Which, as it is eflablilhed by Laixj, 
 has by that fame Law tied Us down to the Orders and 
 Ceremonies appointed in it 5 and indeed, has cffcdually and 
 plainly forbidden all other, befides Thofe frefcribed in the 
 Book of Common-Trayer. 
 
 These Orders and Prefcriptions, I think, wc are ftridly 
 obliged to obfcrve, as the Rule and Mcafure of our Beha- 
 viour in all the Adminiftrations belonging to our feveral 
 Offices. And this Rule, I truft, (as We ought, fo) We 
 may all follow, as the fafeft : without being cenfurcd, ci- 
 ther on one hand, for not adding Other Ceremonies, Arbi- 
 trary and Unprefcribed ; or, on the other hand, for not 
 omitting or varying Any of Thofe which arc ajp- 
 pointed. 
 
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 W E muft add to this a Conftant Gate to perform the 
 publick Services of the Church in a Manner that may 
 fhew Us to have a Mind to prefcrve and to conciliate a 
 Rcfped and ferious Regard to them : behaving our fclvcs 
 in all owiAdminiftratmis, with the utmoft Decency and 
 Gravity: reading the 0/^ffj with a diftinft, deliberate, and 
 manly Pronunciation 5 without the Affectation of anything 
 Theatrical on one hand ; or any thing Low, Carelefs, 
 Dead, and Spiritlefs, on the other. And to all We mud 
 add the ftriclcft regard to our own Lives and Gonverlati- 
 ons j That our Conduft may adorn our Profelllon ; that 
 our Gare of our Flocks may be fuitable, in fomc Degree, 
 to our Obligations ; that our Examples may teach : With- 
 out which, all our IVords and all our Treaching, will not, 
 I fear, teach Any who attend upon Us j or reconcile any 
 One of our Adverfaries to the Communion We would moft 
 willingly recommend to Them. 
 
 And thus I have given You my beft Thoughts, upon- 
 Thofe principal Points, which I propofed to fpeak of at 
 this time. To Thcfe, all other Particulars relating to our 
 Duty in our Fundion, and our Behaviour with refpcft to 
 All around us, (whether agreeing ij:jith Us, or not,) may be 
 reduced ; and rightly judg'd of, from them. But the Time 
 does not now allow Me to fhew this dillindly in the fe- 
 veral Inftanccs which might be named ; or to enter into 
 any other Important Conriderations, as I once defign'd to do ; 
 
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 and as I {hall ftill hope to do, upon another like Oppot- 
 tunity, if it (lull pkaic God to bring us together again. 
 
 And now, My Brethren, having put You, and My 
 felf, in Mind of Thofc General Leflbns, in which You 
 and My felf arc equally and conftantly concern'd, in the 
 Execution of our Office ; Give me leave to add one Word, 
 before I conclude, with relation to that Terfonal Inter- 
 courfe which muft necefl'arily be between Us. And, as to 
 this; I fincercly fpcak it, I deru-eNo7?^^^r^from7<?«, but 
 in Proportion to the Regard You fhall ever meet with from 
 Me. If You find that No ditference, real or fuppo- 
 Icd, in our Opinions upon any fort of Matters, fliall at a- 
 ny time hinder or obftrud the Impartiality of Jnflice in 
 all my Proceedings with You ; if You always fhallmeet 
 with a Kind Reception, an Open Ear, a Ready Affiftance, 
 the Sinccreft Advice, and Every Inftance of Friendfhip in My 
 Power, always prepared to exert it felf for your Service : 
 I may then hope. You cannot refufe Me the juft and na- 
 tural rcfult of all this ; the return, on your Part, of what 
 I {hall always highly value. 
 
 M Y B R E T H R E N, It is my Heart's Defire, that 
 our whole Behaviour, in the Relation \Vc have con- 
 traded) may be to our mutual entire Satisfaftion. No- 
 thing, I promife, fhall be wanting on my Part, which 
 is agreeable either to Juftice, or AfFeftion. I (hall always 
 be glad of any Afliftances or Advices from You,, as Occa- 
 
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 flon fhall offer. And I ("hall now end All, by praying God fo 
 to dircd both Tou and Ale^ that Wc may live together 
 here in a well-grounded Peace and Love; and, after our 
 Courfe of Duty run, may meet one another, at the Great 
 Day of Accounts, with Joy unfpeakablc and full of Glo- 
 ry : When Our Great Lord, (whofc Minifters Wc arc, if 
 We follow his Diredions,) fhall come to judge the World 
 in Rightcoufnefs ; and to render to Us all, not according 
 to the Opinion of Others about Us, but according to our 
 o-ji'n Works, and to what Wc our felves have taught and 
 afted, during oux Miniftration here below. 
 
 F I N I s. 
 
 D
 
 Books Trinted for James and John Knapton at the 
 Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 
 
 Books Written by the Right Reverend Father in Gody 
 Benjamin, Lord Bijhop of Salisbury. 
 
 THE Reafonablenefs of Conformity to tKe Church of 
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 to Lay-Conformity. To which is added, the Brief 
 Defenfe of Epifcopal Ordination. The 4th Edit. 8vo. pr. 6 s. 
 
 The Meafures of Submijfwu to the Civil Magiitrate confidered. 
 In a Defence of the Doftrine delivered in a Sermon preacli'd 
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