putting you in remembrance of your duty to "pray for kings, and all that are in subordinate authority under them," and to "honor and obey them in the Lord." And if we should take occasion, from the great lenity and condescending goodness of those who are supreme in authority over us, not to "despise government," not to "speak evil of dignities," not to go into any method of unseemly, disorderly conduct, but to "lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty," - every man moving in his own proper sphere, and taking due care to "render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and to God the things that are God's," we should honor ourselves, answer the expectations of those who have dealt thus favorably with us, and, what is more, we should express a becoming regard to the governing pleasure of Almighty God.

It would also be a suitable return of gratitude to God if we entertained in our minds, and were ready to express in all proper ways, a just sense of the obligations we are under to those patrons of liberty and righteousness who were the instruments employed by him, and whose wise and powerful endeavors, under his blessing, were effectual to promote at once the interest of the nation at home, and of these distant colonies. Their names will, I hope, be ever dear to us, and handed down as such to the latest posterity. That illustrious name in special, PITT,' will, I trust,

was of itself a character of some respect, and gave a kind of rank among us."

Q. "And what is their temper now?"

A. "O, very much altered."-See note 1, p. 134. - ED.

1 No name was more venerated in America than that of William Pitt. He was born in London, in 1708, grandson of Thomas Pitt, Governor of Madras, and made his first speech in Parliament in 1736. In December, 1756, when our armies were beaten, our navy inactive, our trade exposed to the enemy, our credit — as if we expected to become bankrupts - sunk to the lowest pitch, so that there was nothing to be found but despondency at

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be never mentioned but with honor, as the saviour, under God, and the two kings who made him their prime minister, both of the nation and these colonies, not only from the power of France, but from that which is much worse, a state of slavery, under the appellation of Englishmen. May his memory be blessed! May his great services for his king, the nation, and these colonies, be had in everlasting remembrance!

home and contempt abroad" (Address of City of London), the great Whig statesman graciously accepted the seals of government, and his administration was the most glorious period of English history since the days of the Commonwealth and of the Revolution of 1688. America rejoiced, and her blood and her treasure flowed freely. She saw the French navy annihilated, and the British flag wave at Louisburg, Niagara, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Quebec, and all Canada. "Mr. Pitt left the thirteen British colonies in North America in perfect security and happiness, every inhabitant there glowing with the warmest affection to the parent country. At home all was animation and industry. Riches and glory flowed in from every quarter."- Almon. George II. died, in extreme age, October 25, 1760; succeeded by his grandson, George III., with not a drop of English blood in his veins; a very Stuart in principle. He was a youth of twenty-two years, and the crown was placed on his head by the primate Secker, who aspired to be his counsellor as well as his spiritual director. Secker was the very one who suffered at the hands of Dr. Mayhew in the controversy about the society for propagating the hierarchy "in foreign parts;" "and," said the pious Dean Swift, "whoever has a true value for church and state, should avoid " Whigism. Pitt resigned the seals of Secretary of State on the 5th of October, 1761. He opposed with his might the proceedings against America. The peculiarly impressive circumstances of his death, May 11th, 1778, hastened, if not caused, by his zeal and energy in our behalf, are familiar to all by the celebrated picture of the "Death of Chatham," - the piece which established the fame of the eminent Bostonian, Copley, whose son, Lord Lyndhurst, yet lives, one of the most venerable and eloquent members of the House of Peers. Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, Pittsfield in Massachusetts, and many other towns, perpetuate the memory of the national gratitude, which was expressed by legislative addresses, by monuments, and by every mode of public and private regard. He died poor-" stained by no vice, sullied by no meanness." - ED.

To conclude: Let us be ambitious to make it evident, by the manner of our conduct, that we are good subjects and good Christians. So shall we in the best way express the grateful sense we have of our obligations to that glorious Being, to the wisdom and goodness of whose presidency over all human affairs it is principally owing that the great object of our fear and anxious concern has been so happily removed. And may it ever be our care to behave towards him so as that he may appear on our behalf in every time of danger and difficulty, guard us against evil, and continue to us all our enjoyments, both civil and religious. And may they be transmitted from us to our children, and to children's children, as long as the sun and the moon shall endure. AMEN.

A

SERMON

PREACHED AT CAMBRIDGE,

IN THE

AUDIENCE OF HIS HONOR

THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Esq;

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF;

THE HONORABLE

HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL,

AND THE HONORABLE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

OF THE PROVINCE OF THE

Maffachusetts-Bay in New-England,

MAY 30th, 1770.

BEING THE ANNIVERSARY FOR THE ELECTION OF HIS
MAJESTY'S COUNCIL FOR THE SAID PROVINCE.

BY SAMUEL COOKE, A. M.

Paftor of the Second Church in CAMBRIdge.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY EDES

THE

AND GILL, PRINTERS TO
HONORABLE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

MDCCLXX.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 30, 1770.

Resolved, That Mr. Gardner of Cambridge, Mr. Remington, and Mr. Gardner of Stow, be a Committee to return the thanks of this House to the Rev. Mr. Samuel Cooke for his Sermon preached yesterday before the General Court, being the day of the election of Councillors; and to desire of him a copy thereof for the press.

Attest,

SAMUEL ADAMS, Clerk.