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SERMONS.2tfin <strong>the</strong> ^'^<strong>ca</strong>nt territories <strong>of</strong> Ameri<strong>ca</strong> belonging to Britain: But <strong>the</strong>fe emigrations are now ftridtly countermandedby <strong>the</strong>fe pitiful tyrants, and defpotic Germanfovereigns ; but <strong>the</strong>re is not <strong>the</strong> leaft reafon toapprehend that fuch unnatural edicts will ever be iffuedout by our gracious fovereign, or by tjie wifdom.<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Britifh parliament. I will not fay but thatth<strong>of</strong>e <strong>of</strong> your talk-mafters who <strong>late</strong>ly attempted to^have <strong>the</strong> ports fliut,. when <strong>the</strong> people were ftarving,may attempt fo inhuman a thing: When <strong>the</strong>yfee great numbers <strong>of</strong> you leaving <strong>the</strong> country (which^I fupp<strong>of</strong>e, will and muft be <strong>the</strong> <strong>ca</strong>fe), <strong>the</strong>y may atlaft come to underfland, that in proportion as <strong>the</strong>country is depopu<strong>late</strong>d, <strong>the</strong>ir incomes mull be diminiilied; and may drive to get you imprifoncd in thislaud, to tug like galley-ilaves, not for your own, but<strong>the</strong>ir private advantage. But <strong>the</strong>re is not <strong>the</strong> m<strong>of</strong>tdiftant ground to fufpeite and devour you 5 no Og king <strong>of</strong> Ba-

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