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ercy that fearful day, and the Mtfely of yourselves, your children, and the safety uf this anoiont r^al of our father*, that ye would do what in yovi I) brethren, to soften nnd comfort llie condition those poor Ruflbrcre, to be kind to tliem bs l ■Samaritan, to^nirefit theirremmmorelLiml tj^lhan thv elder broth(^-r did the prodigarfi ; enact the part of that churliah brother no k>n|^t to fupport the fiocfottcft which have their ^p^ liBUt ; to make their pitiful, yet hopelul cttft, wfcject of your prayers, and their |i«rsoiie Kiibject of your reverential re^rd. I do UK tut rsx leifticB. 1183 n-1 thiak tlifiy can b€ made the o8ic6*ljoarei4 in any PpChrijiUan goTernmefitr IwcauM Uiey do not ac- knowledge Jc«us Cbrifit the Head of all govern- iiicoL 1 do tkot wub you to toleraic or to codure their blasphemies agAinst the Uoly Oiw ol Urae) ; and tberorore 1 aeither osk that they »bould be ■ade the imhjccls of thut iibemhsinj^ system which would break dowiuhc fences of Magistracy, whicb, with ua, have b«en made outwardly holy aod faithfal, in order to admit U^itumi^ and Papi«t, aod Turk, andJew: but surely theym&Vi and they ought to hare the privi]et(es of ordinary citizens and good subjeets, while they arc obedient to the tftwaof the realm, and give the ordinary pledge* thercoC And for th^sir hlaM[dit*iiiie», wliile you shut your ear^ agaitiBt it, and wjII not suffer them at any rata to be utterwl of Unitarian, or Papiftt, or Jew^ or any other man whatever, fttill pity their cose; and the more u» at God pitiotli u&, nod IB reaolved to save them, while be dcstroycth the others, i do not apeak to you of old Abraham, our common father, or of those Prophets to whom the wonl of the Ixtrd came, or of Jesus, of that same seed-royal, or of the Apostles and founders of the Christian church : but 1 do speak to you an members of the Church of Scotland, which hath required of her miniAlerfe to pray every bab- bnth " (hat the Lord would c^ in his ancient people the Jcw%. ami build again ihewalU of Jcnt- aakm,*' And I ftpcak unto yvu z* Itelieverx in the word of God, which representeth this as one of the great grounds of his anger with the nationa, aa in the prophet Zechanah. where it is said, " Cry thou, saying. Thus ».^tli the Lord oi hoats, I am jeidouB fur Jerusalem, aiMi for Zion, with a im TiiK xtutis or TUt £Atr, [-Oil.: great jc^iiiiy. And I am very sore displeaficd with tlie liiTUtlurn LliaL arc at t-as«; for I waft hul a liulc displeased, and tlicy hi^lpcd forward tlii »filiction." A