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'SERMON'5. 117ful combined kingdoms to tremble; who had faga^city to choofe a Wolfe and a Hawke to execute hisplans, and under whofe animated adminiftration noofiicer dared to protract the war, that he mJght thelonger enjoy the emoluments and honour of command.In the other v/ar, the nation may have been lefs fortunate,both with refpe(St to plan and to execution.Be that as it may, v/hen a martial people have failedof fuccefs againft a weak enemy, it becomes- them tobe fenfible of their own weaknefs, and to humblethemfelves before God. Jofhua, by his devotion ;Jofhua and the elders, by their humble pofture, (howthat they are fenfible of their weaknefs. They cometo God to receive afliftance and dire£tioh from him-;and God in mercy tells them how the curfe was to•be removed from the camp. And n^y it not be hoped,that, if all ranks be humbled and repent, God willin his providence difcover to eur moft gracious king,and to his forrowful, confounded, and penitent minifters,how this war is to be fuccefsfully puflied, orfinifhed in fuch a manner as (hall be moft for the advantageof Britain and of the Colonies alfo ? On thisfall-day v/e are called upon to fend up our ferventprayers to Almighty God, that a fpeedy and comfortableend' may be put to this irkfome and ruinousAmerican war. And who is he that doth not wifhand pray for fo defirable an event ? But all our petitionsfor worldly things, even for fuccefs and victoryto our armies, are ftill to be offered up in fubmiflionto the will of God. Will we dictate to inlinite wifdom? will we wreft thje fceptre of government outof God's hand ? All that is yet done may, by prudenceand a feafonable departure from violent andcoercive m^afures, foon iflue in reconcilenient andpeace. But what is yet to happen in this great conteft,God only knows ": His counfel fhall (land, andhe will do all his pleafure.'' Wq muft refignedlyleave the iffue of it to his infinite wifdom. We know.