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<OPENER><DATELINE>EDINBURGH, <DATE>June 19. 1690.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe General Meeting of the Mini&s;ters and Elders of this Church, finding that the Commi&s;&s;ioner His Grace, and the Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament, by their Act the 13 of <HI>June</HI> 1690. have Indicted a &s;olemn Fa&s;t to be kept on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e 24 of <HI>June</HI> in&s;tant, on this &s;ide the River <HI>Tay,</HI> and on the 1. of <HI>July</HI> thereafter, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">n the other &s;ide of the &s;aid River; and they being &s;en&s;ible how much it is their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">uty, and the duty of the re&s;t of the Mini&s;ters and People of this Church, religi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ly to ob&s;erve the &s;aid Fa&s;t on the fore&s;aids days re&s;pectively, and particularly, for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e Cau&s;es therein &s;pecified. Therefore we do recommend the &s;trict ob&s;ervance of it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">cordingly, and that it may be the more religiou&s;ly ob&s;erved, and through the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ercy of God, prove the more effectual for His Maje&s;ties pre&s;ervation and &s;ucce&s;&s; in is pre&s;ent undertaking, it is nece&s;&s;ary that Mini&s;ters excite them&s;elves and the peo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e to the exerci&s;e of Repentance for their own &s;ins, and the Lands; and particu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">rly for the great ignorance of God, Profanity and gro&s;s Abominations abounding <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ong all Ranks and Stations, the &s;lighting of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the Go&s;pel Ordinances <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">d Mini&s;try, profanation of the Lords Day, neglect of Family Wor&s;hip and Secret <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rayer, the neglect of the duties of Righteou&s;ne&s;s and Mercy, the great and gene|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">l defection from the Truth, and ways of God, over the belly of great Light, Mer|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">es and Judgments, and our mo&s;t &s;olemn engagements to God; Earthly-minded|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;s, Self-&s;eeking, Scandalous Divi&s;ions, and other the like evils; as al&s;o, for our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;en&s;iblene&s;s of, and ingratitude for, the manifold mercies be&s;towed on this Church <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Kingdom; and in &s;pecial, in giving us the light of the glorious Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in delivering us in former times, and now &s;ignally at this time, from Popery, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">relacy, and Slavery; that being humbled for our &s;ins, we may obtain Reconci|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ation with God, and Pardon through Faith in the Blood of Chri&s;t, and may have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ce&s;s with confidence to put up our Supplications to God, for our King and Queen, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">he Commi&s;&s;ioner his Grace, our Parliament, Council, and Forces by Sea and Land, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd for the Lord's carrying on the happily begun Re&s;tauration of this Church, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">r his &s;ending out of faithful Mini&s;ters, and ble&s;&s;ing of the Go&s;pel, and for his gra|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ous pre&s;ence in the Meetings of this Church; and for that end, that he would di&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">over and defeat the Plots and Attempts again&s;t His Maje&s;ty and His Government, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd would be plea&s;ed to &s;end &s;ea&s;onable Weather, for bringing forward the Fruits <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">f the Ground, and that a Spirit of Reformation and Repentance being poured out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">n all of us, Religion and Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Peace and Pro&s;perity under the &s;hining of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">is Countenance, may yet flouri&s;h in our Land.</P>
<BYLINE>Extracted by <HI>John Spalding Cls.</HI></BYLINE>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>June 19. 1690.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THEIR Maje&s;ties High-Commi&s;&s;ioner, and the Lords of Privy Coun&s;el, Con&s;idering, that through the neglect of Po&s;ts, or Others, the Proclama|tions of Parliament indicting a Solemn and Publick Fa&s;t, to be ob&s;erved in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ll the Churches and Meeting-Hou&s;es within the Kingdom, upon the days therein <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">entioned, may not be &s;ent timou&s;ly to the Mini&s;ters hands, and the Ob&s;ervation <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">f &s;o Religious a duty being the Univer&s;al Concern of this Kingdom. There|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ore they hereby Appoint, that in ca&s;e the day of the Fa&s;t have not been Ob&s;er|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ed upon the particular days mentioned in the &s;aid Proclamation, that the Mini&s;ters, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd all within their re&s;pective Congregations, &s;hall keep the famine, upon the <HI>Tu&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ay</HI> next thereafter.</P>
<BYLINE>Extracted by <HI>GILB. ELIOT Cls. Sti. Con.</HI></BYLINE>
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