We may assure ' ourselves that a steady and firm opposition to the 1 late acts of Parliament, will cause our sovereign to 1 examine into the state of the case with great atten- ' tion ; and when he finds he has been led into un- ' warrantable acts by diabolical counsellors, he will ' dismiss them from their offices, by which they have ' wickedly devised to throw the nation all into con- ' fusion, and thereby to dethrone the King.

" Therefore my fellow mortals, let me beseech you, ' as you value your liberty, and the liberty of your ' posterity, take the advice of the ever to be admired ' and revered Congress, stick close to the non-con- ' sumption agreement, and lay aside those unneces- ' sary diversions, which but too often end in the de- 1 struction of both soul and body. If it should seem ' grievous for the present, we have this for our con- ' solation, that as good men as you and I, have been ' afflicted : The devil was permitted to afiiict Job ' worse than wicked Ministers, or Counsellors of ' state can you and me ; and let us take patern by ' his stability, when his friends came and clamoured ' against him, as bad as our Farmer doth in this day, ' against the best men we have among us ; and when ' his wife advised him to curse God and die, what was ' ihe effect? why nothing at all, for it was full conso- ' lation for him to say, I know that my redeemer liv- ' eth; and in another place, all the days of my ap- ' pointed time will I wait, till my change come.