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hope
it
will
soon
become universal.
May
the
God
of
heaven
fulfil
our hopes
!,
6.
It
is
a very
remarkable
part of
ourjoy,
that
we
are
also blessed with a
queen
of
an excellent character, and
a
spirit of
uncommon goodness.
-
One
who
bath been
trained
up
not
only
to
practise
religion,
but
to
under-
stand it
too.
One
who
bath not
wasted
her
life in
the
gaieties and
softnesses
of
a
court,
but
hath pursued
solid
knowledge in the things
of
nature, and
the
affairs
of
'morality One
who
bath learned the
rules
of
virtue suf-
ficient
to
teach them
as
a science,
but
who
teaches them
with more
honour and
success
by
her own
daily
prac-
tice
;
and
is:
not
diverted
by
the splendid
temptations
of
a palace
from
the
richer
improvements
of
the mind.
Blessed
be
God for a
British queen
who
bath
shewn
such a
sincere
zeal
and
love to
the protestant
religion, as
to refuse
the imperial crown
of
Germany, lest
she
should
be
entangled or
defiled with popish
superstition; and
who
takes
a
peculiar pleasure
to
train
up
her royal
offspring
in
all
the paths
of
virtue and
piety.
May
divine mercy succeed
her care
!
She
is
a princess whom
we
hope the
providence
of
God
hath raised
up to the royal dignity,
that
she
may
become
a more
powerful and extensive
pattern of
every
virtue and every grace, and may help to
correct
the man-
ners
of
the
nation, and the degenerate customs of the
times by
her illustrious
example.
7.
Among the
blessings
of
this day
we
must
not
forget
the
numerous race
of
young princes
which,
we
trust,
are
born to secure and
perpetuate our
happiness. Children
in
a
m
ore
general
sense
are the
blessing
of
the
Lord
;
but
a
numerous
progeny
in
a
royal house,
who
shall be
all
trained up
in
the
protestant
faith, are a
peculiar fa-
vour
of
Heaven
to
Great
Britain.
What a
happy pros-
pect
is it,
that our
late sovereign left such
a large
poste-
rity behind
him.!
Had
his life
been
single,
or
like
that of
king William,
not
blessed with royal issue,
how,
dreadful
would
our present
case have been
?
In what dangers and
contests had
he
left the
succession
to
his
throne
?
And
our
nation
might have felt the fatal
effects
of
it,
groaning
under popish
darkness,
and
wallowing
in blood.
Who can
review such
a
multitude of
mercies as these
Ore,
but must
have
his
heart
filled with
joy
and.
thankful-
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