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Rh did not come along with them: Yea, and it is nature's law, warranted by the word, That nations hould encourage, and tir up on another, to eek the true God. It is alo prophefied, that divers nations hould excite one another this way, Isa. iii. 8. Many people hall go, and ay, Come move, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the houe of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways.' Zech. viii. 2. 'And the inhabitants of one city hall go to another, aying, Let us go peedily to pray before the Lord, and to eek the Lord of hots: I will go alo. Yea, many people, and trong nations hall come to eek the Lord of hots in Jerualem ; and to pray before the Lord.' There is alo a clear prophecy to be accomplihed under the New Tetament, That Irael and Judah hall go together and eek the Lord! they hall ak the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, aying, Come, and let us join ourelves to the Lord, in a perpetual covenant, that hall not be forgotten,' Jer. 1. 4, 5. It is alo foretold, that different nations shall confederate with the Lord, and with one another, Isa. xix. 23, 24, 25. 'In that day there hall be an highway out of Egypt to Ayria, and the Ayrian hall come to Egypt, and the Egyptian into Ayria, and the Egyptians hall erve with the Ayrians. In that day, hall Irael be the third with Egypt, and with Ayria, even a bleing in the midt of the land: Whom the Lord of hots hall bles, aying, Bleed be Egypt my people, and Ayria the work of my hands, and Irael mine inheritance.'

The Church of Scotland had once as much of the preence of Chrit, as to the power and purity of Doctrine, Worhip, Dicipline, and Government, as many we read of, ince the Lord took his ancient people to be his covenanted Church. The Lord tirred up our nobles to attempt a reformation