Rights began again to triumph over the Malice of their Subverters. This Reſtitution of Both we owe, next under God, to the unwearied Toils and glorious Conduct of a Prince, whoſe Memory, (if it were only upon that account) ought to be very Dear to us. But when we add, that there too was laid the Foundation of our preſent Happineſs, the Stability of Her Majeſty's Throne, and the unparallell'd Bleſſings of Her Reign, What Honours can be too great for Her Royal Predeceſſor's Name? What Diſtinction too ſolemn for This ſo auſpicious, ſo important Day?
I am under a neceſſity of contracting my ſelf upon ſo agreeable a Subject. But, by the Little laid upon it, You, doubtleſs, are convinced, what Right we have to the Words of Moſes here, and that indeed they hardly come up to our point. For I know not well, whether it might not look like a Diminution of his Mercies and peculiar Providence toward us, to lay, that our God is nigh in all we call upon him for; When in Many Inſtances he hath even prevented our Wiſhes, and in Moſt very far ſurpaſs'd our Expectations.
II. With regard to Iſrael's Second Advantage we are beyond Compariſon ſuperiour. For how juſtly ſoever the Preeminence were aſcribed to the Jewiſh, above any other Law then obtaining in the World, yet may we truly affirm with S. Paul, 2 Cor. iii. 10.that what was then made glorious hath now no Glory by reaſon of the Glory that excelleth. Such is our indiſputable Prerogative as Chriſtians.
But, ſince it hath pleaſed God to permit, that even Chriſtians ſhould be miſerably corrupted and divided; We ought to eſteem it our peculiar Felicity, that we are Members of a Church, Of whoſe Faith and Practice God's written Word is the Rule; Of whoſe Interpretation of that Word the Senſe of the Firſt and Pureſt Ages is the Standard; Whoſe Worſhip, and Ceremonies are ſolemn without Preciſeneſs, and decent without Superſtition: Whoſe Offices are ſound and prudent, apt and edifying; Whoſe Religion not only dares, but deſires, to be ſeen without Diſguiſe, and
