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

II.² To induce those already engaged to adhere, and others to accede to this Concert; it seems of Importance to observe, that Declarations of Concurrence, the communicating and spreading of which are so evidently useful, are to be understood in such a Latitude, as to keep at the greatest Distance from entangling Men's Minds: Not as binding Men to set apart any stated Days from secular Affairs, or even to fix on any Part of such and such precise Days, whether it be convenient or not; nor as absolute Promises in any Respect: But as friendly, harmonious Resolutions, with Liberty to alter Circumstances as shall be found expedient. On account of all which Latitude, and that ⟨p. 22⟩the circumstantial Part extends only to a few Years, it is apprehended, the Concert cannot be liable to the Objections against periodical religious Times of human Appointment.

1. 2Declarations of Concurrence, to be understood in a due Latitude

III. It is also humbly offered to the Consideration of Ministers, and others furnished with Gifts for the most public Instructions,³ Whether it might not be of great Use, by the Blessing of God, if short and nervous scriptural Persuasives and Directions to the Duty in View, were composed and published (either by particular Authors, or several joining together; which last Way might some Times have peculiar Advantages) and that from Time to Time, without too great Intervals; the better to keep alive on Men's Minds a just Sense of the Obligations to a Duty so imp•••ant in itself, and in which many may be in Danger to faint and turn remiss, without such repeated Incitements: And whether it would not also be of great Use, if Ministers would be pleased to preach frequently on the Importance and Necessity of Prayer for the Coming of our Lord's Kingdom; particularly near the quarterly Days, or on these Days themselves, where there is public Worship at that Time.