EXTRACT from the General Advertiser of Friday February 7. 1745-6.

To the AUTHOR of the General Advertiser.

SIR,

THE following Copy of Verfes was fent to a Lady, with a loyal Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, on the 5th of November, by the Rev. Dr. Free. They are written with so much Zeal for the Government, and the Caufe of Liberty, that I hope they will afford fome Entertainment to your Readers.

WHILE for his Country's Weal your gallant Lord Mounts the fierce Steed, and draws his glitt'ring

Sword;

If, at a lonely Hour, your penfive Eye

Glance thoughtful round, and see this Treatife lie,
Deign to perufe what English Sages write
In the fame Cause that English Heroes fight.
-The Cause of LIBERTY!-as Ages fince
She bleft alike the Peafant and the Prince.

*This noble EARL, during the Rebellion, raised a Regiment for his MAJESTY'S Service.

Ere Tyrants rag'd, or Factions took her Name
To cover Fraud, or fanctify their Shame:
Ere Superftition crampt the human Mind
In Racks or Chains, and led our Reafon blind.

O glorious Times! O bleft Simplicity!
How Manners ftill and Principles agree!
When the great * Patriarch, with a Father's Hand,
To warlike Feats his willing Subjects train'd,
Their Cause was Liberty:-Their Kin distress'd,
They crush'd the growing Tyrant of the Eaft.
With Joy the Neighbour-Kings beheld his Fall ;
The Caufe of Freedom was the Cause of ALL.
One 'midft the reft, whose Fame must never cease,
(His Name was Righteousness, his Country's Peace)
The great Melchifedeck the Victor meets,

And with a facerdotal Bleffing greets.

See! the bright Paths in which the Ancients trod, The Kings were Priefts, for Priefts were Priefts of GOD. No Image-Servants; to no Stocks they bow'd,

Nor taught Delufions to th' adoring Crowd.

Free from thefe Frauds, lo! Abram's Soldiers dine,
The KING produc'd no venal Bread and Wine,
Nor faid the Mass—yet still his Bleffing giv❜n
Was deem'd the Bleffing of the God of Heav'n.
Content with this, the grateful Warriors part;
For Abram's Soldiers bore a gen'rous Heart.
Pleas'd with the Cause of GOD and Liberty,
For plunder'd Wealth they let their Comrades vie.

* Abram, fee his History, Gen. xiv. from Ver. 14. to the End.

Thus

Thus, where his Troops our Hero WILLIAM led, The brutal* Sons of lawless Rapine fled.

If aught our foreign Aids, perchance, purloin'd,
The English Soldier bore a better Mind:
Their Chief and they one glorious End purfu'd,
The Public Safety and the Public Good.

Oh, may our SOVEREIGN teach these rugged Climes
To prize the Wisdom of those happy Times,
When Subjects ne'er a righteous Prince withstood,
And Monarchs thought the Cause of FREEDOM good.
By WILLIAM's Arm may War and Faction cease;
And still a BRUNSWICK be our King of Peace.

And you, bright Nymph, as oft in Converse near
You entertain Augufta's Royal Ear,

If chance she ask, "Who in her Father's Cause,
"Lights of the Church, or Guardians of the Laws,
"Or plumed Chiefs, or Soldiers firm in Fight,
"Stood forth with Words or Arms to do him right?"
Oh, not for me--but for my Country tell,

There are on Ifis' † Banks, who think fo well,
Who know his Merits, feel, with grateful Hearts,

The Bleffings, that his gentle Reign imparts;

And wish the Streams, which from this FOUNTAIN + flow,

May propagate Affection as they go;

And in their peaceful Channels ever bring

HEALTH to the Land, and HONOUR to the King.

The Highlanders.

The Univerfity.

The River at Oxford.

SER

SERMON X.

LE V. xxiv. 20, 21, 22.

Breach for Breach, Epe for Epe, Cooth for Tooth: as he hath caused a Blemith in a Man, so fhall it be done to him again. And he that killeth a Bealt, he shall relloze it: and he that killeth a Man, he thall be put to Death. Be thall have one manner of Law, as well for the Stranger as foż one of pour own Country: Foz I am the Lozd pour God,

T may feem fomething like a Contradic tion, after fo many Ordinances as are prescribed in this Book to distinguish the

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Race of Ifrael, and render them a peculiar People, to hear this Declaration, Ye shall have one manner of Law, as well for the Stranger as for one of your own Country.

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