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

And now, upon the whole, I desire every serious Christian, that may read this Discourse, calmly and deliberately to consider whether he can excuse himself from complying with what has been proposed to us and requested of us, by those Ministers of Christ in Scotland, that are the Authors of the late Memorial. God has stirred up a Part of his Church, in a distant Part of the World, to be in an extraordinary Manner seeking and crying to him, that he would appear to favour Zion, as he has promised. And they are applying themselves to us, to join with them; and make that very Proposal to us, that is spoken of in my Text, and in like Manner and Circumstances. The Members of one Church, in one Country, are coming to others, in other distant Countries, saying, Let us go speedily and constantly to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Hosts. Will it not become us readily to say, I will go also? What these Servants of Christ ask of us, is not Silver or Gold, or any of our outward Substance, or that we would put our selves to any Cost, or do any Thing that ⟨p. 182⟩will be likely to expose us to any remarkable Trouble, Difficulty or Suffering in our outward Interest; but only that we would help together with them, by our Prayers to God, for the greatest Mercy in the World; and that a Mercy which as much concerns us as them; for the Glory of their Lord and ours, for the great Advancement of our common Interest and Happiness, and the Happiness of our Fellow-Creatures through all Nations; a Mercy, which, at this Day especially, there is great Need of; a Mercy, which we in this Land do stand in particular Need of; a Mercy, which the Word of God requires us to make the Subject-Matter of our Prayers, above all other Mercies, and gives us more Encouragement to pray earnestly and unitedly to him for, than any other Mercy; and a Mercy, which the Providence of God towards the World of Mankind, at this Day, does loudly call the People of God to pray for. I think, we cannot reasonably doubt but that these Ministers have acted a Part becoming Disciples of the great Messiah, and Ministers of his Kingdom, and have done the Will of God, and according to his Word, in setting forward such an Affair at this Day, and in proposing it to us.