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The GROUNDS and REASONS, or what those principles are, on which two of our anniversary folemnities are founded:

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That on the 30th of January, being the day of the martyrdom of King Charles the First, appointed to be kept as a day of fafting;

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That on the 5th of November, being the day of our deliverance from Popery and flavery, by the happy arrival of his late Majefty King William the Third, appointed to be kept as a day of publick thanksgiving.

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Concerning the GROUNDS and REASONS,

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What those principles are, on which two of our anniversary folemnities are founded:

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That on the 30th of January, being the day of the martyrdom of King Charles the First, appointed to be kept as a day of fasting; and that on the 5th of November, being the day of our deliverance from Popery and flavery, by the happy arrival of his late Majefty King William the Third, appointed to be kept as a day of thanksgiving.

To which is added,

The Sufficiency of Reafon in Matters of Religion, farther confidered.

Wherein is fhewn,

That reason, when carefully used and followed, is to every man, who is anfwerable to God for his actions, under any or all the most disadvantageous circumftances he can poffibly fall into, whether he refides in China, or at the Cape of Good-Hope, a fufficient guide in matters of religion; that is, it is fufficient to guide him to God's favour, and the happiness of another world.

By THOMAS CHUB B.

LONDON:

Printed for T. Cox, at the Lamb under the Royal-Exchange. 1732. [Price is.

2773 .C56.

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The grounds and reasons, or what thofe principles are, upon which two of our anniverfary folemnities are founded, viz. that on Jan. 30. and that on Nov. 5.

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Y way of introduction to the following reflections, I fhall tranfcribe a paragraph or two of the Reverend Dr. Croxall's Sermon, preached on the 30th of January, 1729, before the honourable houfe of Commons.

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"Among the feveral anniversaries, by our wife legiflators appointed to be ob"ferved, and for the celebration of which, proper offices of divine fervice have been compiled by the pastors of our church, "there are two of more fpecial note; "which, because of the different events B "that