Majefty, that thou haft given our Dread Soveraign his Hearts defire, and haft not denied Us the REQUEST of OUR LIP'S, in Bleffing him and our Gracious Queen with a SON, and all his Subjects with a PRINCE. And then the Priest and People with like Devotion Supplicated, "That GOD would grant the Princely "Infant Health, Strength, and long Life, "that he might grow up to live in His Fear, and to His Glory, and to excel in "all Virtues becoming his High Birth, and "the ROYAL Dignity to which (they

faid) GOD had ORDAINED him. They likewife befought the Everlasting Lord GOD.of Heaven and Earth, who "That giveth to all Men Life and Breath, "He would prepare his Loving Mercy and "Faithfulness, that they might ever pre"ferve this Princely Infant, for the Honour of His Name, and the Establishment of the PEACE, SECURITY, and HAPPINESS of Thefe Nations from "Generation to Generation. And at the End of the Litany the Nation did acknowledge, that by their manifold Sins they had fuftlyprovoked Go D in his Wrath to take from them fo many of the Royal Progeny: And give him Thanks for that in the midft of Judgment he had remembred Mercy, in reviving their Hopes, and repairing their Loffes, by renewing Fruit

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fulness to the Queen, and giving Birth to a ROYAL Prince. And then mentioning their Devout and Thankful Acceptance of this Mercy, they were for Gon's beStowing more fuch Publick Bleffings upon them And made Humble Suplication, that their right Ufe of This might thereunto incline Him. And laftly, in the Communion Office the:Church of ENGLAND did then, after Prayer with Thanksgiving for the King, the Queen, and the Royal Family, and more particularly for the Bleffing of the Breaft and Womb, beg of GoD, "That when the King's Days fhould be

Fulfilled, and he fhould Sleep with his "Fathers in Peace and Glory, his SEED έσ might be Set up after him, and his House "and Kingdom might be Eftablished for 66 ever.

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Sect. 43. Now Mr. Kettlewell hereupon, who always Acted as he Thought, and with himSpake as he Believed, could not with a feigned Mouth fay, Let the Prayers of this Cafe. thy People prevail: But his Heart in all this, always, and in all Things, Answered his Mouth; as ever looking upon it to be an abominable Mockery of Almighty Go D, to presume to appear before his Divine Majefty with any Petition wherein we defire not to be heard: And a' most Terrible Thing to Offer him the Sacrifice of Lyes, as it is much to be feared that

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Some did. Whofe Conduct was no way pleafing to him, who would much rather have Died, than have approached the Throne of Grace, with what he did not believe in his Heart to be moft Right and True: And he could never fufficiently admire at the Prevarication of Thofe (as Some there were) who in their Publick Offices could Pray for the Prince of WALES (as then Stiled) and in their Private Converfation pretend to believe him no better than an Impoftor. Could Mr. Kettlewell but have Believed, as thefe Pretended to do, moft certain it is that he could never have been brought to Act as he did, with respect to this Cafe: or to have diffembled either with Go D or Man, in a Point of that High Confequencé. Wherefore remembrin how that in the moft Solemn Office of the Church, which is the Communion-Service, he had upon Occafion of the Queen's being (believed to be) with Child, fincerely be fought Go D, as he was directed, in the foregoing Forms, "That he would be "pleafed to let the Prayers of his People prevail, fo that their Hopes might not be cut off as to this, nor their Expectations disappointed; he perfifted to his very laft Breath, in the fame Sentiments and Wishes, that the Prayers of the Church which had been offered up for him, and before he was Born, might

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"have that Prevalence with HEAVEN, "That he being endued with all Princely "Ornaments of Body and Mind, and being "Educated in the Faith and Fear of G o D, "might live to be a Signal Inftrument of "Gon's Glory in this Church and Kingdom. " But then he acknowledged alfo, His Quiet that God hath other Views of Things to Provithan Man, and that his Paths are in thedence. deep Waters; fo that we ought not to be too Curious, or too Sollicitous, about the Methods of his Providence; but to leave GOD to Govern the World, and to do our E own Duty Quietly and Patiently, always acquiefcing in his Wifdom and Juftice Wherefore

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Sect. 44. At a Time when a great many in defence y were fetting up ftrange and unworthy of his Notions about the Adminiftration of Divine Practice. Providence, as in conformity with the Polticks of this World: And when moft alfo did feem bent to take up with any Shift or Salvo, which might eafe them of fuch Duties as could not without much Lofs and Suffering to them be difcharged; he thought it an indifpenfable Obligation upon him to Plead the Caufe of Go D, and Ends there of his Government, and to clear his1n by him Providence from the many Abuses, of those Men who look not but down to the Earth, and to Things thereof; and at the fame Time to keep up and improve among his

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Chriftian Brethren, contrary to the Maxims of this World, a Senfe of truly Apoftohical and Primitive Morals, whereof he was himself fuch an eminent Example, and a Relyance on Go D, and his Government, in all Things: Alfo he Spared no Pains particularly to direct them about Civil and Ecclefiaftical Obedience; to fet before them the Principles and Maxims of GODLY Wifdom, as they stand in Oppofition to that of the Flesh; to Comfort and Support them in Suffering,if they Suffer for Righteoufnefs; to Guide them in the Way of Worship, that, as Profeffors of Truth and Holiness, they might perform the fame in Unity with CHRIST's Church, purely and fincerely; and lastly to make not only Sufferings, but Death it felf Comfortable to them, and to prepare and difpofe them in their nearer Approaches to it, for their Entrance into an Happy Eternity, and a Bleffed Communion with the Saints in Light. Now about the fame Time that the Perfon, for whofe Caufe he was a Sufferer, was Fatally pursued both in SCOTLAND and IRELAND, as he had been before in ENGLAND, with an Evil Succefs as it were dogging him where ever he went, Mr. Kettlewell ,was exercifing himself after this manner. For about the Time that he had the News of the Victory gained over him at the Boyne, and his being forced precipitantly to quit

that