excite your utmost diligence and zeal, to give
all possible strength and energy to the pacific
measures calculated for your relief: But we
think ourselves bound in duty to observe to
you, that the schemes agitated against these
colonies have been so conducted, as to ren-
der it prudent, that you should extend your
views to the most unhappy events, and be in
all respects prepared for every contingency.
Above all things we earnestly intreat you,
with devotion of spirit, penitence of heart,
and amendment of life, to humble yourselves,
and implore the favour of almighty God:
and we fervently beseech his divine goodness,
to take you into his gracious protection.