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ORDERED, That Cotton Tufts, Jofiab Thatcher and Elijah Dwight, Efq’rs. be a Committee to wait on the Reverend Mr. Lyman, and thank him, in the name of the Senate, for the Sermon delivered by him this day,' before his Excellency the Governour, the Council, and the two branches of the General Court 5 and alfo to requeil of him a copy for the prefs.

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SAMUEL COOPER, Clerk. N. B. The Addrefs to His Excellency John Hancock, Efq-, Governour eleEi, was omitted in the delivery, as his choice and acceptance of the office, ivas not then declared. Election SERMON.

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ROMANS, chap. xiii. verse 4, firft claufe.

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For he is the Minijler of God to thee for good.

IT is the appropriate privilege of chriftianity, to áfford doctrines and-‘precepts adapted to the circumftances of all characters of men. Other fyftenas of morality are partial in their inftructionsj deficient in motives, and erroneous in the maxims of, human life.. But the author of our faith hath grounded our obligations upon a rational foundation, excited us to duty by fuitable and efficient motives, arid extended his inftruilions to ...