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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> For a General Fast.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the twenty fourth day of</HI> Augu&s;t, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty nine years.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
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<HEAD>Pre&s;ent in Council,</HEAD>
<ITEM>E. <HI>Crafurd</HI> P.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M. <HI>Douglas.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>E. <HI>Southerland.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>E. <HI>Leven.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>E. <HI>Annandale.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>L. <HI>Ro&s;s.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>L. <HI>Carmichell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Hugh Campbel</HI> of <HI>Calder.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>James Montgomry</HI> of <HI>Skelmorly.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Arch. Murray</HI> of <HI>Blackbarrony.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Brodie</HI> of that I<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">k.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>John Hall</HI> L. Provo&s;t of <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>FOra&s;much as the great and long abounding of Sins of all &s;orts among&s;t all Ranks of Per&s;ons, with the continued Impeniten|cy under them, and not Reforming therefrom; The falling from <HI>their fir&s;t Love;</HI> and great Faintings and Failings of Mi|ni&s;ters, and others of all Ranks, in the <HI>hour of Temptation, in their Zeal for God and his Work;</HI> and that although there be much cau&s;e to Ble&s;s God for the Comfortable Unity and Harmony among&s;t the Mini&s;ters, and Body of Chri&s;tian Pro|fe&s;&s;ors in this Church; Yet that there are &s;uch Sad, and Continuing Divi&s;ions among&s;t &s;ome, is al&s;o matter of Lamentation be|fore God; The great Ingratitude for his begun Deliverance of this Nation from Popery and Slavery, and un&s;uitable Walking thereunto; The Contempt of the Go&s;pel, not Mourning for former, and pre&s;ent Iniquities, nor turning to the Lord by &s;uch Reformation and Holine&s;s, as &s;o great Work calls for; The many Sad and long continued Tokens of Gods Wrath, in the hid|ing of his Face, and more e&s;pecially in his Re&s;training the Power and Pre&s;ence of his Spirit, with the Preached Go&s;pel, in the Con|ver&s;ion of Souls, and Edifying the Converted; and the Lord's Threatning the Sword of a Cruel and Barbarous Enemy, in the pre&s;ent great Di&s;tre&s;s of <HI>Ireland,</HI> by the prevailing of an <HI>Anti-Chri&s;tian</HI> Party there; and Threatning the Sword of the &s;ame Enemy at home, and the great and imminent Danger of the Reformed <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> not only from an open Declared Party of Papi&s;ts, Enemies to the &s;ame, but from many other profe&s;&s;ed Prote&s;tants, who joyn I&s;&s;ue with them in the &s;ame De&s;ign, be|fides the Sad Sufferings, and Scatterings of Reformed Churches Abroad; Having Seriou&s;ly, and Religiou&s;ly moved the Presbyte|rian Mini&s;ters, Elders and Profe&s;&s;ors of the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Humbly to Addre&s;s them&s;elves to the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Pri|vy Council, for a General Fa&s;t and Day of Humiliation, to be kept throughout the whole Kingdom, The &s;aids Lords, Do out of a Pious and Religious Di&s;po&s;ition, approve of the &s;aid Motion, as Dutiful and Nece&s;&s;ary at the time; and therefore in His Maje&s;ties Name and Authority, Do Command a Solemn and Publick Fa&s;t, and Day of Humiliation, to be Religiou&s;ly and Sin|cerely Ob&s;erved throughout this Kingdom, both in Churches and Meeting-Hou&s;es, as they would avert Wrath, and procure and continue Ble&s;&s;ings to this Kingdom; and that all per&s;ons what&s;omever may &s;end up their Fervent Prayers and Supplicati|ons to Almighty God, that he would pour out upon all Ranks, a Spirit of Grace and Supplication, that they may Mourn for all their Iniquities, and more e&s;pecially, that God would pour forth upon King <HI>WILLIAM,</HI> and Queen <HI>MARY,</HI> and upon all in|ferior Magi&s;trats, and Coun&s;ellors, a Spirit of Wi&s;dom for Government, and Zeal for God, his Church, and Work in this Land, as the pre&s;ent ca&s;e of both do Call for, and that God may pre&s;erve Them for Carrying on that great Work, which he hath &s;o Gloriou&s;ly and Sea&s;onably begun by them; and that God would Countenance, and Ble&s;s with Succe&s;s, the Armies by Sea and Land, rai&s;ed for the Defence of the Prote&s;tant Religion; and more e&s;pecially, that God would pour forth a Spirit of Holine&s;s upon them, le&s;t their Sins, and ours may provock God again&s;t them in the Day of Battel; and that he would Ble&s;s all Means for the Settlement of Church and State: That God would Ble&s;s the Sea&s;on of the Year, and give Sea&s;onable Wea|ther for Cutting Down, and Gathering in the Fruits of the Earth, that the Stroke of Famine, which God hath frequently Threat|ned the Nation with, may be averted. And the &s;aids Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, Do, in Name and Authority fore|&s;aid, Command and Charge, That the &s;aid Solemn and Publick Fa&s;t, be Religiou&s;ly, and Devoutly Performed, both in Churches and Meeting-Hou&s;es, by all Ranks and Degrees of Per&s;ons within this Kingdom, on this &s;ide of the Water of <HI>Tay,</HI> upon <HI>Sun|day</HI> the fifteenth day of <HI>September</HI> next to come; and by all others be-north the &s;ame, upon <HI>Sunday</HI> thereafter, the twenty &s;econd day of the &s;aid Moneth of <HI>September:</HI> And to the End that this part of Divine Wor&s;hip, &s;o pious and nece&s;&s;ary, may be punctually kept upon the re&s;pective Dayes above-mentioned, They Ordain Sir <HI>William Lockhart</HI> Sollicitor, in the mo&s;t conve|nient and proper way, to Di&s;patch, and &s;end Copies hereof to the Sheriffs, their Deputs, and Clerks of the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, to be by them Publi&s;hed at the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs, upon Receipt thereof, and immediatly &s;ent to the &s;everal Mini&s;ters, both of Churches and Meeting-Hou&s;es, that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the Fa&s;t, and up|on the re&s;pective Dayes of the publick Fa&s;t, and Humiliation, the Mini&s;ters may Read, and Intimat this Proclamation from the Pulpit, in every Paroch-Church, and Meeting-Hou&s;e; and that they exhort all Per&s;ons to a Serious and Devout Performance of the &s;aids Prayers, Fa&s;ting and Humiliation, as they regard the Favour of Almighty God, and the Safety and Pre&s;ervation of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and expect a ble&s;&s;ed succe&s;s to the Carrying on of that Great and Glorious Work of this Nations being De|livered from Popery and Slavery, &s;o &s;ea&s;onably begun, and as they would avoid the Wrath and Indignation of God again&s;t this Kingdom, and procure, and continue manifold Ble&s;&s;ings to the &s;ame: Certifying all the&s;e who &s;hall contemn, or neglect &s;uch a religious and nece&s;&s;ary Duty, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and puni&s;hed as Contemners of his Maje&s;ties Authority, Ne|glecters of Religious &s;ervices, and as per&s;ons di&s;affected to the Prote&s;tant Religion, as well as to their Maje&s;ties Royal Per&s;ons and Government. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed by Macers, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, at the Mer|cat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places above-mentioned, that none may pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT, <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave King VVilliam and Queen Mary.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> by Order of Secret Council, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1689.</P>
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