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<NAME>John Latta</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the KINGS mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Humble Addre&s;&s;e of your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> mo&s;t Loyal Subjects of the <HI>Clergy</HI> in the County of <HI>KENT.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Gracious Soveraign,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_AS we cannot look, but with an holy amazement upon that Divine hand of Providence, which with mo&s;t admirable and indi&s;cernable progre&s;&s;es hath re&s;tored your Sacred Maje&s;ty to your undoubted Birthright, and into the arms and hearts of your loyal Subjects; &s;o we conceive it to be our duty, to expre&s;s unto the world our abundant thankfulne&s;s to that omnipotent God, and te&s;tifie our joy in that miraculous and happy Re&s;titution: It being evidently and eminently apparent, that not by might, nor by power, but by his Spirit hath the Lord brought you forth through variety of difficulties and oppo&s;itions, as our <HI>Zerubbabel,</HI> and hath <HI>made the Great Mountain a Plain</HI> before your Sacred <HI>feet;</HI> in whom we &s;ee concentred all tho&s;e Excellencies which we are confident will, through Gods mercy, make this Church and Nation under your Maje&s;ties Government and protection compleatly happy.</P>
<P>And as we never did formerly make the lea&s;t Addre&s;&s;es to tho&s;e prodigious U&s;urpers, which had involved this Church and Kingdom in divers Labyrinths of wo and mi&s;ery, and well-nigh bla&s;ted the mo&s;t-flouri&s;hing and <HI>Catholique Religion,</HI> &mdash; and the be&s;t con&s;tituted <HI>Monarchy</HI> upon Earth: So we mu&s;t needs be &s;en&s;ible of this ble&s;&s;ed alteration, under the warmth and &s;preading rayes of your Maje&s;ties benigne and mo&s;t au&s;picious con&s;tellation, whereby our &s;tifled hopes have recovered &s;uch &s;trength, as to revive us into an expectation, that your incomparable piety and wi&s;dom will re&s;tore and e&s;tabli&s;h the purity of <HI>Religion,</HI> together with that Primitive and Apo&s;tolique Government which is mo&s;t agreeable to the Word of God, whereby this glorious Church and Kingdom &s;hall be again the a&s;toni&s;hment of our adver&s;aries, and the rejoycing of all &s;incere and faithfull Chri&s;tians, both at home and abroad. Wherein as you will appear the true <HI>Defender of the Faith,</HI> &s;o it will remain as an indelible character, and eternal monument of your admirable wi&s;dom, and &s;ingular goodne&s;s.</P>
<P>And we cannot but with all demon&s;trations of joy, and expre&s;&s;ions of thankfulne&s;s to your Maje&s;ty, ble&s;s and prai&s;e the God of Heaven, who hath put it into your Royall heart to appear &s;o &s;ea&s;onably and zealou&s;ly in the Cau&s;e of God, again&s;t the Viciou&s;ne&s;s and Prophanene&s;s of this Age. And we daily pray, that God who hath &s;tirred up your Divine Soul, will al&s;o enable your Royal Hands to obviate, and give a perfect check to tho&s;e Debauches which are &s;o much a di&s;honour to God, a &s;candal to the Nation, and a reproach to the Go&s;pel which we profe&s;s.</P>
<CLOSER>And now, Dread Soveraign, in all humility we begg leave with our hearts and hands, unanimou&s;ly and cheerfully to te&s;tifie and &s;ub&s;cribe our Obedience and Loyalty: And though our hands be weak, yet we &s;hall lay forth our hearts in our prayers (which are the Churches be&s;t and only weapons) to the God of Heaven, That he (who in &s;uch a continued <HI>&s;eries</HI> of wonders, hath hitherto pre&s;erved your Maje&s;ty from the hands of your Enemies, and now re&s;tored you to your Regal Throne in Peace) will be plea&s;ed to ble&s;s you with length of dayes, and Crown you with his <HI>loving kindne&s;&s;e and tender mercies,</HI> and be <HI>a wall of fire round about you,</HI> to &s;care away all Foraign Invaders, and pre&s;erve you in &s;afety from Dome&s;tique Con&s;piracies, and &s;o fa&s;ten you as a nail in a &s;ure place, that your Throne being <HI>e&s;tabli&s;hed in righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;,</HI> your Crown may never be &s;haken, till you change it for that Immarce&s;&s;ible Crown of glory which is prepared in the highe&s;t Heavens for all tho&s;e <HI>that love the &s;econd coming of the Lord JESUS.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P>This <HI>Addre&s;&s;e</HI> was pre&s;ented and read to his Royal Maje&s;ty, on Tue&s;day the 24 of this in&s;tant <HI>July,</HI> by &s;everal MINISTERS of the &s;aid County, &s;ome of who&s;e Names are hereunto annexed.</P>
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<ITEM>John Lee <HI>of</HI> South-fleet.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Morris <HI>of</HI> A&s;h.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Ha&s;&s;elwood <HI>of</HI> Sutton <HI>at</HI> Hone.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Cunningham <HI>of</HI> North-fleet.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Samuel Grymes <HI>of</HI> Hadlow.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Stan&s;all <HI>of</HI> Longfield.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Bo&s;&s;e <HI>of</HI> Seavenoke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Stevens <HI>of</HI> Seale.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Francis Collins <HI>of</HI> Norkhols.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Samuel Sharp <HI>of</HI> Sundridge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Beadle <HI>of</HI> Eynsford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Walter Drury <HI>of</HI> Sandher&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Cottingham <HI>of</HI> Hal&s;ted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robers Mills <HI>of</HI> Chelsfield.</ITEM>
<ITEM>James Hickford <HI>of</HI> Igtham.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Clerke <HI>of</HI> Cheevening.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Codd <HI>of</HI> Leyburn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Brown <HI>of</HI> Farningham.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Lingue <HI>of</HI> Yalden.</ITEM>
<ITEM>I&s;aac Sander&s;on <HI>of</HI> Plum&s;tead.</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Eves <HI>of</HI> Hartley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>James Peate <HI>of</HI> Bidborough.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Ma&s;ter <HI>of</HI> King&s;down.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Stileman <HI>of</HI> Tunbridge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Li&s;ter <HI>of</HI> Melton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Plume <HI>of</HI> Greenwich.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Litler <HI>of</HI> Deptford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Depup <HI>of</HI> Crayford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Smoult <HI>of</HI> Depup.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Archbole <HI>of</HI> Trotte&s;cliffe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Beadle <HI>of</HI> Wilmington.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Stacey <HI>of</HI> Rydley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Lee <HI>of</HI> Leigh.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Jones <HI>of</HI> Nu&s;ted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Oliver North <HI>of</HI> Te&s;ton.</ITEM>
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