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Dr. Pocock, down to the mean Author of the following Sermons. And, while Your LORDSHIP Continues to repeat the fame Acts of Generofity, You must be contented to receive the very fame Acknowledgments; fince We, who fhare the Obligations, can scarce find a better Way of expreffing our Thanks and doing Juftice to Your Character, than by informing the World, Why, and How they were derived to us.

The Secrecy, with which Wife Statesmen conduct their Designs for the Public Good, so as that the Execution alone fhall make the Difcovery, hath by Your LORDSHIP been as carefully observed in Your Private Schemes of Beneficence which have seldom appeared till they took Effect, and furprised even Those, who were most nearly intera 3 efted

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efted in the Succefs of them. By this means, You have, after the best manner, forbidden all Applications, by rendering them, not only unneceffary, but impracticable; and have enjoyed to the utmost both the Honour, and the Pleasure of well doing.

Indeed, there is scarce any Virtue, which either disposes the Mind to deferve well of Others, or adds Comelinefs and Grace to deferving Actions, that doth not manifeftly appear and fhine in Your LORDSHIP: And by these Recommending Circumftances, You engage the very Hearts of thofe You Oblige, and double the Value of every Kindness You do them.

To give, hoping (and looking) for nothing again, is the GofpelRule of Beneficence; and Your LORDSHIP hath ftrictly observed it. For none of your Gifts have been clogged

clogged with Conditions; You have expected no Returns, but what every one, who hath a thankful Mind, and a juft Sense of his Duty, would even choose and delight to pay: You have aimed only at doing as became You in Your high Station; and when Thofe, whom You advanced, did likewife as became them in Their Stations, your Defires were answered, and You had your Reward.

It is well known, with what Courtesy and Ease You have always treated Thofe, whom You have once obliged; on that very Account they were fure of having a nearer and freer Accefs to Your LORDSHIP, instead of being kept to the Ufual Terms of Distance and Dependance. You have been fo far from ever putting any Man in Mind of what You have done for him,

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him, that You would never bear to be put in mind of it Yourself; and have not been more careful to prevent Solicitations, than to avoid Acknowledgments. You had the Thanks of Your Own Confcience, and You neither needed, nor defired any other.

It is the peculiar Happiness of those Perfons, on whom Your Favours are placed; that they receive them from an Hand eminent for its great and lafting Services to our Church and Conftitution. For there are, I think, no Enemies whatsoever, either of her Doctrine, Discipline, or Worship (either within Doors, or without) but what Your LORDSHIP hath, in the Course of your Epifcopal Government, withstood, and baffled.

You were one of thofe Seven Prelates (worthy of honourable Remem

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brance) who gave the most Effectual Check to the attempts of Popery in a late Reign, and preserved the pure Profeffion of Christianity among us by the fame Suffering Methods, by which it was at first propagated. It can never be forgotten, with what a true Christian Spirit (fuch as animated the chief Pastors of the Church, in those Days, when Epifcopacy was a certain Step to Martyrdom) You stood forth, and offered yourself willingly to witness a good Confeffion; how Solicitous You were, left the TowerGates fhould have been shut upon thofe Excellent Perfons, ere Your Distance would permit You to accompany them in their glorious Confinement; to partake of which, You made as much Hafte, as fome Men afterwards did, to draw the

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