An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God's people in…

Union is one of the most amiable Things, that pertain• to human Society; Yea, 'tis one of the most beautiful and happy T•ings on Earth, which indeed makes Earth most like Heaven. God has made of one Blood all Nations of Men, to dwell on all the Face of the Earth; hereby teaching us this moral Lesson, that it becomes Mankind all to be united as one Family. And this is agreeable to the Nature that God has given Men, disposing them to Society; and the Circumstances God has placed them in, so many Ways obliging and necessitating them to it. A civil Union, or an harmonious Agreement among Men in the Management of their secular Concerns, is amiable; but much more a pious Union, and sweet Agreement in the great Business for which Man was created, and had Powers given him beyond the Brutes; even the Business of Religion; the Life and Soul of which is Love. Union is spoken of in Scripture as the peculiar Beauty of the Church of Christ, Cant. vi.9. My Dove, my Undefiled is but one, she is the only one of her Mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her; the Daughter• saw her and blessed her, •ea the Queens and the Concubines, and they praised her. ⟨p. 80⟩Psal. cxxii.3. Jerusalem is builded as a City that is compact together. Eph. iv.3,—6. Endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace. There is one Body, and one Spirit; even as ye are called in one Hope of your Calling; one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Ver. 16. The whole Body fitly framed together and compacted, by that which every Joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the Measure of every Part, maketh increase of the Body, unto the edifying itself in Love.

Union is one of the most amiable Things, that pertain• to hum•n Society; Yea, 'tis one of the most beautiful and happy Tings on Earth, which indeed makes Earth most like Heaven. God has made of one Blood all Nations of Men, to dwell on all the Face of the Earth; hereby teaching us this moral Lesson, that it becomes Mankind all to be united as one Family. And this is agreable to the Nature that God has given Men, disposing them to Society; and the Circumstances God has placed them in, so many Ways obliging and necessitating them to it. A civil Union, or an harmonious Agreement among Men in the Management of their scular Concerns, is amiable; but much more a pious Union, and sweet Agreement in the great Business for which Man was created, and had Powers given him beyond the Brutes; even the Business of Religion; the Life and Soul of which is Love. Union is spoken of in Scripture as the peculiar Beauty of the Church of Christ,