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A33100 Letter from the Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to the honourable council and inhabitants of the Scots colony of Caledonia in America dated at Glasgow, July 21, 1699. Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission. 1699 (1699) Wing C4231; ESTC R40834 14,482 20

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Service of your Faith and Joy and in communicating this Gospel to the Gentiles in the Regions beyond you 1 Thess 5.12.13 Do you therefore Esteem them very highly in Love for their Works sake entertain their Message encourage their Endeavours and strengthen their Hands We trust they shall through Grace make full Proof of their Ministry among you 2 Cor. 10.6 Heb. 13.17 1 Thess 2.19 Do you also fulfill your Obedience to them in the Lord as Men that Watch for your Souls and must give an Account That you may be their Hope and Joy their Glory and Crown of Rejoycing in the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his Coming and they may Labour amongst you and give up their Account of you in that Day with Joy and not with Grief for that is unprofitable for you We have fully Instructed them to set up a Christian Discipline and Order in your Church 1 Cor. 14 ●● for God is not the Author of Confusion but of Order and Peace in all the Churches of the Saints and in this they will stand in need of some of you to be joined with themselves as Elders and Office-Bearers in the Church Overseers of the Manners of the People and Assistants in the Exercise of Discipline and Government And we hope such of you as shall be orderly Called hereunto will reckon it your Duty to embrace the same and discharge that Office with Christian Meekness Prudence and Faithfulness And we are confident of the Zeal and Love of all of you in every thing wherein they may need your Assistance Nor will the Church of Scotland be wanting in what may be requisit from time to time towards the maintaining the Gospel among you and diffusing its Glorious Light and Influence upon the Neighbouring Gentiles that they to whom Christ was not heretofore spoken of Rom. 15.21 may see and they that have not heard may consider and understand And now Honoured Friends and Dear Country-men whilst you are far from us 2 Cor. 11.2 our Bowels earn towards you and we are Jealous over you with a godly Jealousie lest any among you forget the Obligations of their Birth Sacramental Entrance into and Education in a Christian Church their Vows in the day of their Distresses or Fears the marvelous loving Kindness of the Lord in your Preservation hitherto and Establishment and what Duty and Service these wonderful Providences you have met with and still are under do require lest there should be any Achan in your Camp to trouble your Israel and kindle the Displeasure of your God provoking Him to turn against you to do you Evil after he hath done you Good And we hope you will consider what we say as proceeding from the warmest Affections of your tender loving Mother the Church of Scotland Remember then in the first Place That God is the Soveraign Lord and absolute Proprietor of all the Earth it 's He who hath appointed a Place for you and carried you safely to it He it is even the Lord of Hosts who fights your Battles against those who would disturb your Settlement From Him you derive your Original Right and your Security acknowledge Him then as your Great Land-Lord with Sincere and Upright Souls All you enjoy is His all you expect is from Him Pay therefore unto Him due Homage for all Serve Him who is your God and the God of your Fathers and the God of this Nation to which you belong and cleave to Him with upright Hearts For the Lord is with you 2 Chron. 15.2 while ye be with Him and if ye seek Him He will be sound of you but if ye forsake Him He will forsake you You are not left like the blind Heathen to grope after Him as in the Dark Acts 17.27 He hath been and Is nigh unto you and your Eyes have been opened even all of you at least by Christian Education to behold him not only in his wondrous Works which all Men behold but in the most wonderful of all his Works in his Glorious Gospel By this you have been taught that God is a Spirit John 4.24 Deut. 12.4 31. and you must Worship him in Spirit and in Truth You shall not do so unto the Lord your God as the Heathen do unto their Gods who stupidly and blockishly Worship their blockish Idols 2 Kings 17.26.27 but you must remember the Manner of the God of the Land from whence you came and serve him after his own Manner revealed in his Gospel There you have been instructed that in all Places his Eye is upon you and he observes your Hearts and Ways in Caledonia no less than in Scotland Psal 139.9 The Wings of the Morning and the uttermost Parts of the Sea hide not from him All are his Territories and under his Dominion 'T is there you Learn that in every Nation and in every Place he that feareth God Acts. 10.35 1 Tim. 2.8 and worketh Righteousness that lifteth up holy Hands without Wrath or Doubting is accepted of him but that the Workers of Iniquity can no where escape his Notice nor get out of the Reach of his Justice but by Flying in to Christ and taking Refuge in that blessed Hope which the Gospel sets before them We beseech you to Ponder these Things with all due Seriousness Let them be ever present to your Minds with a Practical Influence and Operation upon your Spirits and your whole Deportment that you Reverence and Serve Trust and Adore Love and Obey that God whose you are and whose are all your Wayes To him you owe your present Settlement and your future Hopes See and enjoy his Bounty and Kindness in all Labour to know and discern upon Gospel-Evidence that he bestoweth outward Blessings upon you from his Love in Christ This will make your Caledonia to be a Land of Promise and a Pledge of that better Inheritance reserved in Heaven for you where all the Gold and Riches of the Earth the Things most Valued by Men heap'd together do make but a faint Metaphor for the Pavement of that most Glorious City And after all the Acquisitions of this World what is a Man Profited if he lose his own Soul Let such as are yet Strangers to Christ repent of all their Sins committed in Scotland or since their Arrival in their New Dwellings and consider with Astonishment with Gratitude with relenring Sorrow and Shame how many hundreds of Leagues they have been carried fafe through the Vast Abyss when there was but the thickness of a Plank between them and Death and consequently between them and Hell How near they have bordered upon the confines of Eternity and how dreadful it will be at last if the Waves and Billows of Divine Wrath shall go over their Souls for ever This is the Doom that every Sinner must undergo by himself if it be not taken off by his Surety and such as Fly not to the Gospel-Sanctuary and Refuge their