You have expected no Returns, but what every one, who hath a thankful Mind, and a just sense of his Duty, would even choose, and delight to pay: You have aim'd only at doing as became You in Your high Station; and whenThose whom You advanc'd, did likewife as became them in Their Stations, Your Defires were anfwer'd, and You had Your Reward.

It is well known, with what Courtesy and Eafe You have always treated Those whom You have once oblig'd; on that very account

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they were fure of having a nearer and freer Accefs to Your Lordship,inftead of being kept to the Usual Terms of distance and dependance. You have been fo far from ever putting any Man in mind of what You have done for him, that You would never bear to be put in mind of it Your felf; and have not been more careful to prevent Solicitations, than to avoid Acknowledg ments. You had the Thanks of Your Own Confcience, and You neither needed, nor defir'd any Other. It is the peculiar Happi

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nefs of thofe Perfons, on whom Your Favours are plac'd, that they receive them from an Hand, eminent for its great and lasting Services to our Church and Conftitution. For there are, I think, no Enemies whatfoever, either of her Do&trine, Discipline, or Worfhip, (either within doors, or without) but what Your Lordship hath, in the Course of Your Episcopal Government, withstood,and baffled. You were one of those Seven Prelates (worthy of honourable remembrance) who gave the most effectu

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al Check to the Attempts of Popery in a late Reign, and preferv'd the pure Profeffion of Christianity among us by the fame Suffering Methods by which it was at firft propagated. It can never be forgotten, with what a true Chriftian Spirit (fuch as animated the chief Paftors of the Church, in those Days, when Epifcopacy was a certain Step to Martyrdom) You ftood forth, and offer'd Your felf willingly to witness a good Confeffion; how Solicitous You were, left the TowerGates fhould have been shut

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upon those Excellent Perere 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 Advantages of it to themfelves, under a new Turn of Affairs.

When That happen'd, New Occafions alfo of ferving the Church, offer'd themselves to Your Lordship, which You as readily embrac'd. The Fatherly Vigilance, and Exemplary Firmness you then show'd