to a good prince, who is guarding and fecuring the common good.

Thus, have I briefly fhewn, what some of those useful reflections are, which these two great anniversary folemnities appointed by our governors, do naturally fuggeft unto us, when confidered as founded on the forementioned principle: and, how they point out the political behaviour, both of prince and people, And, may they never anfwer any other purpose, nor have any other effect, than, to engage both prince and people, in the faithful discharge of that duty, they owe to each other! And, may his prefent majeftyKing George the Second, and his royal iffue, long rule this nation in righteousness: and thereby, most effectually guard and fecure the common good; and may they throughly confider, and well understand, that this is their greatest fecurity, and the establishing their thrones, upon the most firm and lafting foundation!

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Wherein is fhewn, that reafon, when carefully ufed and followed, is to every man, who is anfwerable to God for his actions, under any or all the most disadvantageous circumstances he can poffibly fall into, whether he refides in China, or at the Cape of Good Hope, a fufficient guide in matters of religion; that is, it is fufficient to guide him to God's favour, and the happinefs of another world.

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OME time past, I published a tract entitled, A difcourfe concerning reafon, with regard to religion and divine revelation. What I have offered upon the point, has met with great oppofition. Whether, and how far I, or my opponents are in the right, with refpect to what is advanced in that tract, must be left to the judgment of our readers. The fufficiency of reason in matters of religion, is now controverted; and the question is, what it is, that reafon is fufficient for; or what is meant, by those who maintain the

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