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

1. This seems to be a proper Expedient for the promoting and maintaining an Union among Christians of distant Places, in extraordinary Prayer for such a Mercy. It appears, from what was before observed, that there ought to be extraordinary Prayers among Christians for this Mercy; and that it is fit, that God's People should agree and unite in it. Tho' there be no Reason to suppose that Prayers will be more prevalent, merely from that Circumstance, that different Persons pray exactly at the same Time; yet there will be more Reason to hope, that Prayers for such Mercy will be prevalent, when God's People are very much in Prayer for it, and when many of them are united in it. And therefore if agreeing on certain Times for united and extraordinary Prayer, be a likely Means to promote an Union of many in extraordinary Prayer, then there is more Reason to hope, that there will be prevalent Prayer for such a Mercy, for certain Times for extraordinary Prayer being agreed on. But that agreeing on certain Times for united extraordinary Prayer, is a likely and proper Means to promote and maintain such Prayer, I think will be easily evident to any one that considers the Matter. If there should be only a loose Agreement or Consent to it as a Duty, or a Thing fit and proper, ⟨p. 91⟩that Christians should be much in Prayer for the Revival of Religion, and much more in it than they used to be, without agreeing on particul•• Ti•es, how liable would such a lax Agreement be to be soon forgotten, and that extraordinary Prayerfulness, which is fixed to no certain Times, to be totally neglected? To be sure, distant Parts of the Church of Christ could have no Confidence in one another, that this would not be the Case. If these Ministers in Scotland, instead of the Proposal they have made, or any other Ministers or Christians in any Part of the christian World, had sent abroad only a general Proposal, that God's People should, for Time to come, be much more in Prayer for the Advancement of Christ's Kingdom, than had been common among Christians heretofore; and they should hear their Proposal was generally allowed to be good; and that Ministers and People, in one Place and another, that had occasion to speak their Minds upon it, owned that it was a very proper Thing, that Christians should pray more for this Mercy than they generally used to do;

1. This seems to be a proper Expedient for the promoting and maintaining an Union among Christians of distant Places, in extraordinary Prayer for such a Mercy. It appears, from what was before observed, that there ought to be extraordinary Prayers among Christians for this Mercy; and that it is fit, that God's People should agree and unite in it. Tho' there be no Reason to suppose that Prayers will be more prevalent, meerly from that Circumstance, that different Persons pray exactly at the same Time; yet there will be more Reason to hope, that Prayers for such Mercy will be prevalent, when God's People are very much in Prayer for it, and when many of them are united in it. And therefore if agreeing on certain Times for united and extraordinary Prayer, be a likely Means to promote an Union of many in extraordinary Prayer, then there is more Reason to hope, that there will be prevalent Prayer for such a Mercy, for certain Times for extraordinary Prayer being agreed on. But that agreeing on certain Times for united extraordinary Prayer, is a likely and proper Means to promote and maintain such Prayer, I think will be easily evident to any one that considers the Matter. If there should be only a loose Agreement or Consent to it as a Duty, or a Thing fit and proper,