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

The Way, in which those that first projected and came into this Agreement, thought best for the giving Notice of it and proposing it to others, was not by any Thing published from the Press; but by personal Conversation with such as they could conveniently have immediate Access to, and by private Correspondence with others at a Distance. At first it was intended, that some formal Paper, proposing the Matter, should be sent about for ⟨p. 19⟩proper Amendments and Improvements, and then Concurrence: But on more mature Deliberation, it was considered how this might give a Handle to Objections (which they thought it best, to the utmost, to avoid in the Infancy of the Affair) and how practicable it was, without any such Formality, to spread the Substance of the Proposal by private Letters, together with a Request to their Correspondents, mutually to communicate their Thoughts. Therefore this was fixed on, as the Method that was preferable at the Beginning. Accordingly, they proposed and endeavoured to promote the Affair in this Way; and with such Success, that great Numbers in Scotland and England fell in with the Proposal, and some in North-America. As to Scotland, it was complied with by Numbers in the four chief Towns, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee, and many Country Towns and Congregations in various Parts of the Land: One of the Ministers, that was primarily concerned in this Affair, in a Letter to one of his Correspondents, speaks of an explicit Declaration of the Concurrence of the praying Societies in Edinburgh, which they had made in a Letter. The Number of the praying Societies in that City is very considerable: Mr. Robe of Kilsyth (in a Letter to Mr. Prince of Boston, dated Nov. 3. 1743.) says, There were then above thirty Societies of young People there newly erected, some of whom consisted of upwards of thirty Members. —As to Glasgow, this Union was unanimously agreed to by about forty five praying Societies there; as an eminent Minister in that City informs, in a Letter.

The Way, in which those that first projected and came into this Agreement, thought best for the giving Notice of it and proposing it to others, was not by any Thing published from the Press; but by personal Conversation with such as they could conveniently have immediate Access to, and by private Correspondence with others at a Distance. At first it was intended, that some formal Paper, proposing the Matter, should be sent about for ⟨p. 19⟩