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Excerpt from A Sermon Preached Before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on the 30th Day of January, 1726: Being the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles I But, fecondly, That we may\make a farther Im provement of this heavy judgment, though there is no Indempnity, no Oblivion to be indulged to there bellion, yet I am not for curfing even the A&ors in it, however heinous their Crime be; fince Chrillianity ra ther teacheth us to Forgive and to pray for them. St. '70ba, when touching upon Abel's Murder, ulhers it in with a Preface concerning Love: Tbir is tbemefi fage tbat ye batue beara' from zbe begz'aaiag, tbat ye love one aaotber 96. Let us then turn the Indignation upon our felves, and bear tbe Red, ana' bz'w tbat batb appointed it; confidering that God often punilhes fuch crying Sins with epidemical and publick Judgments he puts them upon a whole N ation's Score, and makes the innocent Sheep to {hate with the wicked Goats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.