If we are the last of your L'^ ships Diocese who come to congratulate your L^ ships promotion to the See of London, yet we are as sincere in our Joy on that occasion as those much happier people who enjoy your L^ships nearer influence, for it is with very good reason we hope, that we of this Province are not destined very long to be the only part of the Xtian world that is insensible of the great sway which your L'' ships wisdom holds in all the affairs of Church and State in Great Erittain and its Dominions, and it is from Your L^ships high station in both we draw this happy conclusion in our own favour, that when your L^ship is informed (as we think it our bounden duty you should be) of the true state of the Church in this place, that then we who have been brought up in her faith, & continue steadfast in her Communion, shall receive such encourageoient and protection from your L^'sliip as may enable us to preserve peace and union amongst ourselves, and to maintain our blessed Religion in that state here which our open enemies repine at, and to whose prejudice those who are secretly abetted by them are takeing large steps.

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trespass on your time if any other than the cause of Goil and the Church required it, but that hath given us courage to lay the follovving Representation before your L<^s]iip, whicli in most dutyfull manner we humbly recommend to that charitable care which your L'^ship is accustomed to extend to all those over whom Gcd Almighty hath appointed you.