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Thus, give me Leave to ••y, That if we •ill not Sing unto the Lord, there are others •hat will; and we that will not, never shall! Yea, our Silence may provoke the very •ocks and Stones to loud Shouts, in praising ••e Eternal God.

O come, and Sing unto the Lord; and •ough we do not certainly know what Changes yet may come upon us, nor how •r the Clouds may Return after the Rain; let •s nevertheless be found, Singing to the Lord.

They that Remember how many Princes •nd Interests were concerned for the Protestant ⟨p. 54⟩Religion threescore years ago, and how almost all of them afterwards Disappeared▪ cannot yet be without Apprehensions in the midst of their Thanksgivings. But, though we may not Sing Requiems to our selves, ye• we may Sing Praises to our God: and what ever Fears may be upon us, I am now […] Repeat that Call; Awake, Awake, O Congregation, Awake, Awake, and utter a Song. […] was a memorable Accident which happened near one of the Lee-ward Islands some year• ago. A Ship with some pious people in it was by a violent Storm driven between two hideous Rocks; where she lay on one side so that every moment they expected she would overset; In this Distress, in this Despair, they agree to Die Singing, and ther they sat Singing the Hundred and Forty sixth Psalm. But behold, a Dutch Ship that had newly taken a Spanish Vessel, at that Instant came by, and not only delivered them from the perils of their own Ship, which immediately perished, but also bestowed an other Vessel on them. Methinks, this poor Country has been, and yet is, much in the condition in which That serious people were Well, but suppose we should Sink after al the Excellent Things which have been done for us, (and yet we can't forbear saying, I the Lord were pleased to kill us, would He have