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it is you who must make them good, by proper inftruction and proper government. If you fuffer them to meet temptation where temptation is fure to meet them, never complain of him who corrupts your child; you are the corrupter yourself: to you he owes it, that he is undone. And perhaps there is not a more provoking circumftance, nor a greater call for divine vengeance on a wicked nation, than this; that the youth are prepared and brought up to inherit all the vices of their fathers, which cuts off all profpect of a reformation, and ftands as a bar between us and mercy.

On you therefore, fathers and mothers, your country, and the church of God, call for affiftance; your endeavours may go a great way towards faving us, and this wicked generation may be spared, for the hope of feeing the next better.

In a word, let every man, whatever his ftation is, do his part towards averting the judgments of God: let every man reform himself, and others, as far as his influence goes: this is our only proper remedy; for the diffolute wickedness of the age is a more dreadful fign and prognoftication of divine anger, than even the trembling of the earth under

us.

To our own endeavours let us add continual and fervent fupplications to the Almighty, that he would fpare us, and not deal with us according to the multitude of our fins; that he would give us the grace of repentance, and open our eyes to fee, before it is too late, the things which belong to our fal

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May the God of all mercy hear you in this day of your diftrefs! To his protection, and the grace of our Lord Jefus, I earnestly recommend you.

I am

Your affectionate brother

and fervant in Christ Jesus,

THO. LONDON.

THE

TRIAL OF THE WITNESSES

OF THE

RESURRECTION OF JESUS.

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THE

TRIAL OF THE WITNESSES

OF THE

RESURRECTION OF JESUS.

WE were, not long fince, some gentlemen of the

inns of court together, each to other fo well known, that no man's prefence was a confinement to any other from speaking his mind on any fubject that happened to arise in conversation. The meeting was without defign, and the difcourfe, as in like cafes, various. Among other things we fell upon the subject of Woolfton's trial and conviction, which had happened fome few days before: that led to a debate how the law ftands in fuch cases; what punishment it inflicts; and, in general, whether the law ought at all to interpofe in controverfies of this kind. We were not agreed in these points. One, who maintained the favourable fide to Woolfton, discovered a great liking and approbation of his discourses against the miracles of Chrift, and feemed to think his arguments unanfwerable. To which another replied, I wonder that one of your abilities, and bred to the profeffion of the law, which teaches us to con

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