delightfully converfe with; Never be ashamed of them: Flee not thefe, but the Vain and the Vile: Know no other Distinction among Christians than the Virtuous and the Vicious Behave accordingly; fhew on all Accounts a christian Temper; have your Converfation by the Grace of God: then fhall you at last have that welcome, that tranfporting Sentence, Come ye Bleffed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you, from the Foundation of the World; when all others (whatever they have valued themselves upon, or placed Religion in) fhall hear that dreadful Sentence, Depart, ye Curfed, into everlasting Fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels.

F1NIS.

AND

FAIR WARNING

To all that live upon the Sea-Coast of England and Wales,

PARTICULARLY

To thofe in the Neighbourhood of Weymouth and Portland;

Addreffed to them in a

SER

MON

Preached the 22d of December, 1754, in the Churches of Fleet and Chickerill, on Occafion of feveral Shipwrecks at that Time upon the Coaft of England.

To which are added,

Some Extracts from the feveral Acts of Parliament relating to Ships that are stranded on the Coaft, and the Penalties to be inflicted on all those that plunder the Merchants Goods.

By THOMAS FRANCKLYN, Rector of Langton-Herring, and Vicar of Fleet in the County of Dorfet.

LONDON:

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PREFACE.

Men, Brethren, and Countrymen,

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Y Heart's Defire, and my earneft and continual Prayer to God for you all, is, that you may all

profper in this World, and be faved, thro' Chrift, in that which is to come,

In Confequence whereof, I cannot but ufe my best Endeavours, as a Paftor, and as a Friend, to promote your present and future Intereft, by advising you to purfue fuch Ways as

lead to Peace and Happiness, as well as to the Food that is convenient for you, warning you against the great Sin and Danger of making too much Hafte to be rich, of fhutting your Ears against the Voice of God and Nature, of being deaf to the Complaints of fuffering Fellow-Creatures, intent only on Plunder, and fo barbarous and inhuman, as to take Advantage of the Diftreffes of thofe unhappy Sufferers, whofe Perfons and Effects you should rather protect than violate.

This is the Defign of the following Dicourse, penn'd under the Influence of a warm Refentment of the Calamities which many poor. Souls