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Whereas you give Us to understand, that you have taken upon you the present care of the Government, until you should receive Our Order therein, We do hereby Authorize and ⟨image 40⟩Empower you to Continue in Our Name, your Care in the Administration thereof, and Preservation of the Peace, until We shall have taken such Resolutions, and given such Directions for the more orderly Settlement of the said Government, as shall most conduce to Our Service, and the Security and Satisfaction of Our Subjects within that Our Colony.

It was in the time of our greatest Heats and Straits, and at a time appointed for a General Assembly of this great Colony, that the ensuing Sermon was expected from me. Through the Grace of God, the Sermon Then was not altogether unacceptable to some who desired the Publication of it. But I gave not my full Consent unto their Desire, until now, they had an Opportunity (with their Renewed Importunity) to join it with another Discourse which they have obtained from me; and tho' the little Differences which were among us, when the Sermon was preached, are now s• well Composed, yet I flatter my self with an opinion, that the things here insisted on, will not, should not be judged Unseasonable.

It was in the time of our greatest Heats and Straits, and at a time appointed for a General Assembly of this great Colony, that the ensueing Sermon was expected from me. Through the Grace of God, the Sermon Then was not altogether unacceptable to some who desired the Publication of it. But I gave not my full Consent unto their Desire, until now, they had an Opportunity (with their Renewed Importunity) to join it with another Discourse which they have obtained from me; and tho' the little Differences which were among us, when the Sermon was preached, are now s• well Composed, yet I flatter my self with an opinion, that the things here insisted on, will not, should not be judg'd Unseasonable.