This and every day is the day, in which we ought to give thanks, this is the place, and in every place we ought particularly to commemorate God’s mercies, but this most particularly, for here we ought not to have come, without intending to perform acts of religious worship, and as we are assembled in God’s holy sanctuary, let us offer our most solemn prayers individually, in heart and voice, confessing without him, nothing is strong, nothing is holy; unto Almighty God, therefore let us, and the whole nation, give as our bounden duty, praise and thanksgivings; that it hath pleased our gracious father to stretch forth his arm and protect our fleet, and scattered our proud and insulting enemies, in the imagination of their hearts. This is becoming every good christian, every disciple of the Lord, every virtuous nation, every regular society, every christian parish, where virtue and religion are particularly professed, and as I hope we are such, and have been as fortunate as the disciples mentioned in my text: have cried out in good time, Lord, save us, we perish; now therefore depart with these words of the Royal Psalmist, not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give the praise, for thy loving mercy and salvation’s sake. Happy are the people that are in such a case, yea blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God. Now to God, &c. &c.
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