dedication*. 
This Truft in a particular manner re- 
quires moft humble Thanks ; and fo do o- 
ther great, tho’ too little regarded Bleffings* 
which we partake with all Your Subje&s; 
and which, next to Almighty GOD, we 
owe to Tour Majeflys great Care, Protection* 
and Wifdom : I mean, that we have lived 
in a manner eafily and quietly, when al> 
moft all our Neighbours have been under 
the great Calamities of War and its Confe- 
quences, Plague, Peftilence, and Famine, in 
the Bowels of their Countries. 
The beft Return for fo many Benefits 
that can be made, and I dare prefume the 
moft pleating to Tour Majefly, would be, that 
all of Us,* in our leveral Capacities, fhould 
fhew Ourfelves Thankful and Dutiful to 
GOD, live in peaceable Submiftion to the 
Laws of our Country, of which Tour Majefly 
under GOD is the great Guardian, and be 
ready to do all good Offices which Civil 
Society requires of one to another. 
I do 
