PREFACE.
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PREFACE.
THE late REDEMPTION of between Two and Three Hundred English-Prisoners, that were languishing in Barbary under the Bloody Tyrannies of the Emperor of Morocco, is a Thing that furnishes us with wonderful occasion to Celebrate the Goodness & Glory of our Great LORD-REDEEMER. And none have herein had more plentiful Occasion, to Glorify the LORD, than that most considerable proportion of the English Prisoners, which are now returned unto NEW-ENGLAND, the Country to which they belonged; and the People of God in this place, whose Prayers to God, for these their Brethren, were so fervent, so constant, so remarkably prosperous.
THE late REDEMPTION of between Two and Three Hundred English-Prisoners, that were languishing in Barbary under the Bloody Tyrannies of the Emperour of Morocco, is a Thing that furnishes us with wonderful occasion to Celebrate the Goodness & Glory of our Great LORD-REDEEMER. And none have herein had more plentiful Occasion, to Glorify the LORD, than that most considerable proportion of the English Prisoners, which are now returned unto NEW-ENGLAND, the Countrey to which they belonged; and the People of God in this place, whose Prayers to God, for these their Brethren, were so fervent, so constant, so remarkably prosperous.
A Time for solemn Thanksgiving with & for these our Brethren, was kept by a Number of Christians at Boston; on 15. d. 1. m. 1703▪
And it was that Thanksgiving, that produced the ensuing Meditations ▪ (whereof indeed a part was also delivered Three Days after, at the more Public Lecture;) Now Published for a more lasting MONUMENT of Gratitude, for the Goodness of our Saviour 'Twas not fit that so Remarkable a work of Heaven, should pa without yielding some Revenues of Praise to the Name which is Exalted […] above al Blessing and Praise!