![]() ![]() ![]() And we earnestly exhort all with whom we converse, as they fear God to honor the King.” The Address was not sent, mainly because it might have been taken to imply that the Methodists were “a body distinct from the National Church.” in 1745, the year of the Young Pretenders’s invasion of England, he wrote to the Mayor of Newcastle, “All I can do for his Majesty, whom I honor and love - I think not less than I did my own father - is this: I cry unto God, day by day, to put all his enemies to confusion,” etc. In 1744 he wrote an Address from his Societies to the King in which he says, “we are ready to obey your Majesty to the uttermost, in all things which we conceive to be agreeable. For these also, by means of the eye or ear, may more deeply affect the heart: and when viewed in this light, trumpets, staves, apparel, are no longer trifling or insignificant, but subservient, in their kind and degree, to the most valuable ends of society. The occasion likewise of this assembly adds not a little to the solemnity of it: to hear and determine causes of every kind, some of which are of the most important nature on which depends no less than life or death, death that uncovers the face of eternity! It was, doubtless, in order to increase the serious sense of these things, and not in the minds of the vulgar only that the wisdom of our forefathers did not disdain to appoint even several minute circumstances of this solemnity. How many circumstances concur to raise the awfulness of the present solemnity! - The general concourse of people of every age, sex, rank, and condition of life, willingly or unwillingly gathered together, not only from the neighboring, but from distant, parts criminals, speedily to be brought forth and having no way to escape officers, waiting in their various posts, to execute the orders which shall be given and the representative of our gracious Sovereign, whom we so highly reverence and honor. “We shall all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ.” Rom. Paul’s Church, Bedford, on Friday, Mapublished at the request of William Cole, Esq., High Sheriff of the county, and others. Sermon 15 20 20(text of the 1872 edition) The Great Assize 21 21Preached at the Assizes held before the Honorable Sir Edward Clive, Knight, one of the Judges of His Majesty’s Court of Common Pleas, in St. ![]()
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