Divine efficacy without humane power. Opened in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Church…

IT may justly seem strange unto you,¹ That, when Joy is one of the swiftest affections of the soul, and of all other most impatient of suppression. This Sermon, ⟨image 4⟩preached before you on one the greatest solemnities of Joy that this Nation hath seen,² should have yielded such slow and lingering obedience unto your commands, and like Cushi should come last with the tidings of a Restored King, for which I have no other Apology to make but this, That the joy of one Service did retard the hast of another. For having, together with some other of my Reverend Brethren, received a command from his Sacred Majesty, (whose heart is zealously set upon healing the breaches and divisions which are in the Church of God amongst us) to draw up some materials towards so happy a work; and finding, That in papers of such a nature, brought under the view of different judgments, (wherein every clause, yea, many times single words and particular expressions, prove the subject of long debates) it is impossible to make such dispatch, as otherwise ⟨image 4⟩the urgency of the design doth passionately call for: the necessary and constant attendance upon that service, did put for a time a suspension upon the obedience, which I was ready much sooner to have yielded unto your Commands, for publishing this Sermon.

IT may justly seem strange unto you,¹ That, when Joy is one of the swiftest affections of the soule, and of all other most impatient of suppression. This Sermon, ⟨image 4⟩preached before you on one the greatest solemnities of Joy that this Nation hath seen,² should have yielded such slow and lingring obedience unto your commands, and like Cushi should come last with the tyings of a Restored King, for which I have no other Apology to make but this, That the joy of one Service did retard the hast of another. For having, together with some other of my Reverend Brethren, received a command from his Sacred Majesty, (whose heart is zealously set upon healing the breaches and divisions which are in the Church of God amongst us) to draw up some materials towards so happy a work; and finding, That in papers of such a nature, brought under the view of different judgments, (wherein every clause, yea, many times single words and particular expressions, prove the subject of long debates) it is impossible to make such dispatch, as otherwise