Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

All that know you, may it please your most excellent Majesty, know, that you have a great deal of important and weighty work continually before you, which must necessarily fill your Royal Head with Thoughts, and your Heart with Cares, that keeps your eyes waking while others sleep without Interruption or Disturbance. There is abundant reason for us all to pity your burdens, and to pray that you may be counselled by the God of Wisdom, and supported by the God of Power, and have the Arms of your Hands made strong by the Everlasting Arms of the God of Jacob, but no reason for any Protestant among us to envy your Honour and other Prae-eminences, which are just, though too small recompenses for the hazards you have run, and the Kindness you have shown, and the Thoughts, Cares, and Pains you have taken for the saving of a People looked upon as being within a very few steps of Ruin. None knows the weight of a Crown but he that wears it. While it glisters it sits heavy; yet, Great Sir, among those other Affairs which do incessantly engage you, let the promoting of Morality and Piety, the beating down of Ungodliness and Profaneness put in for and obtain a principal share, for they do deserve it.

All that know you, may it please your most excellent Majesty, know, that you have a great deal of important and weighty work continually before you, which must necessarily fill your Royal Head with Thoughts, and your Heart with Cares, that keeps your eyes waking while others sleep without Interruption or Disturbance. There is abundant reason for us all to pity your burdens, and to pray that you may be counselled by the God of Wisdom, and supported by the God of Power, and have the Arms of your Hands made strong by the Everlasting Arms of the God of Jacob, but no reason for any Protestant among us to envy your Honour and other Prae-eminences, which are just, though too small recompences for the hazzards you have run, and the Kindness you have shewn, and the Thoughts, Cares, and Pains you have taken for the saving of a People looked upon as being within a very few steps of Ruine. None knows the weight of a Crown but he that wears it. While it glisters it sits heavy; yet, Great Sir, among those other Affairs which do incessantly engage you, let the promoting of Morality and Piety, the beating down of Ungodliness and Prophaneness put in for and obtain a principal share, for they do deserve it.