Sacheverell's sentence expired on 23 March 1713. The reaction in London was muted compared to the celebrations in the provincial towns such as Worcester, Norwich, Wells and Frome where the steeples were decked with flags, windows were decorated with streamers along with bonfires and people singing in the streets. On 29 March Sacheverell preached at St Saviour's for the first time since his ban expired and the enormous crowd who came to see him was described as "inconceivable to those who did not see it, and inexpressible to those who did". He took as his text Luke 23:34, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" and titled it "The Christian Triumph: or The Duty of Praying for our Enemies". Despite the provocative title, as White Kennett wrote, "there was little mischief in it" and it sold only half the 30,000 copies printed. Jonathan Swift called it a "long dull sermon". On 13 April 1713 it was announced he was to be instituted to the valuable rectory of St Andrew's, Holborn. On 29 May 1713 he was appointed to preach the sermon for the anniversary of the Restoration at the House of Commons, titled "False Notions of Liberty in Religion and Government destructive of both". He attacked his Whig persecutors as "traitorous, heady and high-minded men" and upheld the doctrine of non-resistance. In December 1713 he preached at St Paul's to the Corporation for the Sons of the Clergy but his procession was hissed by the crowd at the Royal Exchange.