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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40374	Scotland's present duty, or, A call to the nobility, gentry, ministry and commonalty of this land to be duely affected with, and vigorously to act for, our common concern in Caledonia, as a mean to enlarge Christ's kingdom, to benefit our selves, and do good to all Protestant churches.	Philo-Caledon.; Foyer, Archibald.; Ridpath, George, d. 1726.; Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing F2048; ESTC R13808	23,400	30

Persons objected against ever come over to the Government with us since we will not go to God with them It may be some will tell us The Jews would not sing a Song of Zion when desired by the Babylonians but they required it to sport at He●e Men are at least morally Serious and Sincere and smart under the Common Calamity The Jews would not incorporat with the Samaritans but these Objectors were willing enough to have dealings with these same Samaritans and some did Trafsique and bestir themselves not a little to engage these to ●oyn in the Company 's Stock with whom they have since refused to humble themselves upon the account of the Company s and Nations loss 4. Some pretend the King and Court would have been offended had the Commission appointed a Fast and therefore it was delaved I answer 1. It seems these who so pretend would have prudently de●ayed to pray at Darius's Command since it was but for a while and positive Duties bind not ad semper 2. They are highly injurious to His Majesty who make so undutiful and false a Suggestion For 1. The King required our Prayers for himself when engaged in foreign War 2. He hath testi●ied Regret for our Loss and to say we may not express our Grief before God ●or what the King Declares himself sory without offending His Majesty is to talk at a very insolent rate 3. Wherein hath the King shewed any dis-like against us By the West-India Proclamations say they But 1. How know they that these Proclamations were emitted by His Majesty's positive Command 2. Do these Proclamations discharge us to carry on the Design of Caledonia by no means Since then all agree that without reflecting on these Proclamations we may continue our Trade May we not also pray to God for its Help 3. Would Darius have been ofsended at any for crying to God for Daniel when he was drawn by his Courtiers to sign that severe Decree against him since he himself was much greived for it all Night Then sure our King will not be Angry with us for seeking to God since we have the greatest reason to believe that the King bears us fatherly Afsection and that these Proclamations were not the effect of his Inclination 5. Some will tell us there is a Ferment in the Nation and we must not Fast till that be allayed But doth not the present Necessity and our Brethrens distress call for it as a present and necessary Duty Hath it not been sadly and shamefully delayed Doth not this delay encrease the Ferment which is not like to be removed without Fasting and Prayer And if all shall be lost wh●t Peace can we have in these Delays and refusals And how must it amaze our Brethren abroad and discourage others from ever engaging in the like Services that we would not Compassionat their dolorou Condition If it be found that a Foreign Interest and Man-pleasing and Pensions prevail against this Duty more than all other Objections To this indeed I cannot answer essectually for Silver and Gold have I none unless we could be perswaded to take the Lord's Word for an esfectual Answer only deal couragiously and the Lord shall be with the Good 3. I add by way of Advice in the third place be harmonious i● your actings for Caledonia if some draw one way and some another the whole Design will pull into pieces Act deliberatly and with real● ove to your Countrey and then the means to accomplish your End will not be hard to find out But if under shaddow of the Publick Men pu●sue privat and base ends all must fall into ruine 4. Let every one of us mind the Duties of our Station and not stand accusing this or that Mistake Error or Miscarriage in others as the Cause of this Distress lest all be found to have had a hand in drawing it on Let Ministers mind their special Work of praying and wrestling for Caledonia and sending it Gospel Supplies and let Nobility and Gentry do what is proper sor them in their Civil Stations and not standing Idle blaming one another 5. Let all Care be taken to amend former Errors and pa●ticularly to transport ●or the future good Men so far as is possible with Ministers to take Care of their Manners and of their Souls and let these be Active and Prudent Men of Authority as well as serious and Godly Pastors Next to our obtaining t●e favour of God This is the most likely way to be blessed of the Lord and come into respect instead of being turned into an Astonishment and Reproach throw the World Now by Good Men I do not mean of such or such a Denomination amongst us For tho I am as much in my Judgment for a Nationally Covenanted work of Reformation as any yet truely I love a Good Man who differs from me in Speculations before him who is Impious be his Principles what they will Yea the better a Man's Principles be if the Man be Bad he is the worse Man And sure if due pains were taken with a single eye to the prosperity of the Colony good Men might be had We all know what services Angus s Regiment did at Dunkel and none denyed them to be at that time the best Regiment in Britain perhaps in the World for Religion and Sobriety I know they were not all Saints but had we such a Company to go to Caledonia I should not question but God would be with them A praying People are very likely to be a successsul People 7. I come in the last place to press all to be concerned and to act vigorously for Caledonia in Prayer and by all other lawful Methods You are not to expect Rheto●ical Flourishes from such a blu●t Pen as mine I will not say Ornari ●es ipsa negat contenta doceri for not only is the Subject capable of Embellishment but the Unconcernedness of many requires Excitement by the most moving Discourses that they may have a just view of and be suitably affected with this excellent Design But this must be the work of others whose Accomplishments and Zeal are equal It is enough for me who can attain no more plainly to point out a few of these Things that may invigorat and stir up the Nation to a due Sense of their present Duty And 1. To get our Coasts enlarged by Praver as Jabesh did is to attain to Honour in a more eminent degree than hitherto Let Saracens and Turks the Monarchies of old or the Spaniards of late and other modern Ravages of the Earth enlarge their Conquests by Blood and Treachery by Pillaging and Devastation their Names shall be Infamous for ever but for us to get a Rehoboth by Prayer and fervent Supplica●ion to Heaven will be an Evidence of the Favour Good-will and Kindness of the Possessor of Heaven and Earth to us Let us then be stirred up to plead fervently for a Blessing to this great Work from Heaven's King 2. Go on