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You have formerly been called upon to the like Duty, and have complied with it; and that not without Success. It is now thought highly seasonable to renew the Call. It is hoped that you will not be more backward, when it is so apparent that there is even greater Need. It is scarce imaginable how a professing People should stand in greater Need of Prayer, than we do at this Day. You were formerly bespoke from that very pertinent Text, Zech. viii.21. The Inhabitants of one City shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, or (as the marginal Reading, more) expressive of the original Reading, is,) continually, from Day to Day, to entreat the Face of the Lord. According to this excellent Pattern, we of this City, the Metropolis of our Land, think ourselves obliged to call upon our Brethren in Great Britain and Ireland, at a Time when our Hearts cannot but meditate Terror, and our Flesh tremble for Fear of God, and are afraid of his righteous Judgments: Those past being for the most Part forgotten; and the Signs of the Times foreboding Evil to come, being by the Generality little, if at all, regarded: We cannot therefore but renew our earnest Request, that all who make Conscience of praying for the Peace of Jerusalem, who wish well to Zion, who would have us and our Posterity a Nation of British Protestants, and not of Popish Bigots and French Slaves, would ⟨p. 179⟩give us (as far as real and not pretended Necessity will give leave) a Meeting at the Throne of Grace, at the Hour mentioned; there to wrestle with God, for the turning away his Anger from us, for our Deliverance from the Hands of his and our Enemies, for the turning the Counsels of all Ahitophels, at Home and Abroad, into Foolishness; for Mercy to the Queen and Kingdom; for a happy Peace, or successful War, so long as the Matter shall continue undetermined; for securing the Protestant Succession in the illustrious House of Hanover (by good and evil Wishes to which, the Friends and Enemies of our Religion and civil Rights, are so essentially distinguished,) and especially for the Influences of divine Grace upon the rising Generation, particularly the Seed of the Righteous, that the Off-spring of our Christian Heroes may never be the Plague of our Church and Country.

You have formerly been called upon to the like Duty, and have complied with it; and that not without Success. It is now thought highly seasonable to renew the Call. It is hoped that you will not be more backward, when it is so apparent that there is even greater Need. It is scarce imaginable how a professing People should stand in greater Need of Prayer, than we do at this Day. You were formerly bespoke from that very pertinent Text,