BELOVED BRETHREN AND SISTERS:
     Through the kind and indulgent providence of God, we have been permitted to meet in our Associate capacity, for which our praise is due: What we have done, as also the state of the Churches, you will see in your Minutes; and, as it has been our former practice to address you by Circular, so we would at this time, call your attention to a few remarks on your High Vocation or Calling. The contemplation of this subject is calculated; at once, to impress the mind with a sense of our awful condition as sinners, and of God's Everlasting Love manifested towards us in the Gift of his Son, his suffering and death to save lost sinners, through and in consequence of which, this Call is made; the author of which is God himself: consequently it must be a Holy, a Heavenly Calling, a Call from Death to Life, from darkness to light, from a love of sin to the love of holiness, from our state of ignorance to a knowledge of God, and ultimately, of the Lord Jesus the only Saviour, on whom by faith we are enabled to look with joy, and in him to hope and rely for life and salvation; and being thus created in him.unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them, how careful should we be, dear brethren, to maintain good works; seeing that they are profitable unto men, and that it is only in this way that we can demonstrate our faith to be genuine and our hearts to be cincere [sic], and thus glorify God in our bodies and in our spirits which are his. And now Brethren, as a motive to stimulate us to holy obedience, let us consider first, the ineffable Glory of Him that hath Called us, his love and grace manifested in the Call, and the glorious inheritance unto which we are Called, that awaits us when time shall be no more, secured by the promise and oath of the Great Head of the Church and Saviour of the body. And now Brethren, the way in which we should walk is before us; Jesus is that way, let us walk in him, his commands are lovely, let us obey them; his ordinances are humble and glorious, let us submit unto them and remember that, as he that has called us is holy, so we should be in all manner of conversation, and that it should be ours to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God. Remember that in so doing, God's name is glorified, and we receive and enjoy the benefit. And may the Lord dispose us all to follow peace with all men, and after the things which make for peace, is our prayer for Jesus' sake. - Amen.

LEWIS CORRIN. Moderator

Attest,

THO'S WORNALL, Clerk..
=========== [From Minutes of the Licking Association of Particular Baptists, 1828, p. 4. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]

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