SERMON AND CHARGE 
 
 DELIVERED 
 
 ON OCCASION OF THE DESIGNATION OF THE 
 
 FIRS1 MISSIONARIES 
 
 TO 
 
 The Iflands of the South Sea. 
 

 

 
 DELIVERED AT 
 
 SION -CHAPEL, LONDON: 
 
 July 28, 1 ;g0. 
 
 On Occafion of the Defignation of 
 
 THE FIRST MISSIONARIES 
 
 TO THE 
 
 IJlands of the South Sea. ■ 
 
 THE SERMON by HENRY HUNTER, D.D. 
 
 Mmifter of the Scots Church, London Wall, 
 
 THE CHARGE by EDW. WILLIAMS, D.D. 
 
 Minifter at Rotherham, Yorkfhire* 
 
 % TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, 
 
 A SHORT NARRATIVE 
 
 -OF THE ORDER. OF THE SOLEMNITY 
 OF THAT DAY. 
 
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NARRATIVE 
 
 op • , 
 
 THE SOLEMNITY. 
 
 T HE Directors of the Miffionary Society 
 having determined, that as many as 
 had devoted themfelves to the fervice of the 
 Heathen, ffiould receive a folemn defignation 
 to the Work, they agreed to appoint one 
 Minifter of each denomination for this bleffed 
 fervice, and to exhibit that fpirit of Union, 
 which it hath been their firft defire to culti- 
 vate, and hope to be the happy means of in- 
 creafing. 
 
 The Miffionaries are compofed of men al- 
 ready ordained, of others in the habit of ex- 
 pounding and praying in focial worfhip, and 
 the reft men of tried Chriftian fidelity ; all 
 filled with holy zeal to ferve the beft inte- 
 refts of the natives in the South- Sea Iflands, 
 
 a ' by 
 
VI 
 
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 by introducing the principles of ufeful know- 
 ledge, and true religion among them. 
 
 The Directors wifhed to fend them forth 
 
 with their Chriftian benediction, commend- 
 
 \ 
 
 ing them to the care and teaching of the 
 great head of the Church, to pour out upon 
 them the abundance of his grace, to qualify 
 them for the work to which they truft, God, 
 the Holy Ghoft, has been pleafed to call 
 them. 
 
 In confequence of the refolution taken, 
 Thurfday, the 28th of Auguft, was fixed 
 upon, and the following plan agreed to be 
 purfued by a Committee appointed for that 
 purpofe, and confirmed by the Directors. 
 
 The moft fpacious place of worfhip they 
 apprehended would fcarcely contain the num- 
 bers that would affemble on this occafion ; 
 therefore Zion Chapel was preferred, in order 
 to afford to as many as could be admitted, 
 
 the 
 
TIIE SOLEMNITY 
 
 Vii 
 
 the fatisfattion of witneffing a feene fo fin- 
 gular and blefifed. 
 
 The place was early crowded ; and after 
 feven or eight thoufand had filled the Chapel 
 to the doors, multitudes were reludtantly 
 obliged to depart difappointed, whilft others 
 crowded the windows without. 
 
 The fervice began with ail invocation to 
 the Holy Spirit : “ Come Holy Spirit, hea- 
 venly dove, &c.” and was fung with the 
 moft enlivened devotion. The Rev. Mr. Evre, 
 of Hackney, then read the prayers of the 
 Church with great folemnitv. Three verfes 
 of “ Salvation, O the joyful found, & c.” 
 followed. When the Rev. Mr. Brookfbank 
 prayed before the Sermon in a manner fo 
 heart-felt and affecling, as every hearer wit- 
 neffed. Dr. Hunter then, in his ufual ftrain 
 of eloquence, and, animated by the prefent 
 occaficn, delivered a moft impreffive Dif- 
 courfe on Luke x. i — 20. 
 
 a 2 
 
 “ O’er 
 
NARRATIVE Of 
 
 v lit 
 
 4 4 O'er the gloomy hills of darknefs, he. 
 was next fung, and every heart feemed to 
 feel the ’flame of vehement defire for the 
 completion of the great and precious pro- 
 mifes. 
 
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 M * . * 
 
 The twenty-nine Miflionaries * then land- 
 ing round the Communion Table, the 
 Rev. Dr. Haweis, in a fhort, but pathetic 
 and folemn prayer, addrefled to Jehovah- 
 Jefus, the great Head of his Church and 
 People, commended the Miflionaries and their 
 Work to his almighty care, wifdom, and 
 love : to dire<fl:, fupport, blefs, and give the 
 fiuccefs, w hich he alone can command. 
 
 The five Miniflers chofen by the Direftors 
 for this fervice {landing together, (the Rev, 
 Dr. Haweis, of Spa-Fields, the Rev. Mr. 
 Reynolds, of Camomile-Street, the Rev. Mr. 
 Love, of Artillery- Street, the Rev. Mr. 
 
 Waugh, of Wells-Street, Oxford-Road, and 
 
 . , . . _ 
 
 * Their names are contained in the fubjoined lift. 
 
 the 
 
THE SOLEMNITY. 
 
 ix 
 
 the Rev. Mr. Wilks, of the Tabernacle) 
 each of them took a Bible from the Com- 
 munion Table, where they had been pre- 
 vioufly placed, and five of the Miffiotiaries 
 approaching the communion rails, kneeled 
 down, when the Minifters, with the Bibles 
 in their hands, advanced, and each in fuccef- 
 fion addrefitd to the perfon kneeling before 
 him the following words : “ Go, our be- 
 “ loved Brother, live agreeably to this bleffed 
 “ Word, (putting the Bible* into his hands) 
 ft and publifh the Gofpel to the Heathen, 
 <c according to your calling, gifts, and abi- 
 
 9 
 
 “ lities.” To which the Miffionary replied 
 in words to this effect : “ I will, the 
 
 “ Lord being my helper.” Five others 
 then knelt down, and the fame ceremo- 
 nial was repeated, till the entire Million 
 received their defignation. The whole was a 
 fcene of fuch impreffive folemnity, as has 
 
 4 , K ' i i 
 
 * The Bibles were beautifully bound, and the gift of 
 Mr. Bailey, of Hackney, a Member of Mr. Eyre’s 
 congregation, with that Scripture written by him on the 
 Hank leaf. Math, xxviii. 19, 20. 
 
 hardly 
 
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 hardly ever been witneffed ; the Minifters 
 and the Miffionaries feemed alike fo deeply 
 affeCted with the awfulnefs of the Work be- 
 fore them, whilft the Congregation exprefled 
 the fenfations of their fouls in filence, tears, 
 and fecret prayer. 
 
 The hymn “ Lord make them faithful,’* 
 was fung with the mod fervent fpirit of 
 prayer by the whole congregation. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Williams, of Rotherham, 
 then, from the pulpit, addreffed the Mif- 
 {ionaries, {landing round the communion rails 
 before him, in a mod able and judicious 
 Charge, refpe&ing their tempers and con- 
 duct, from Gen. xvii. i. which was heard 
 with deep attention. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Walker, one of the fenior 
 Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, clofed 
 the Solemnity with a mofl fcriptural prayer, 
 and full of animated devotion, fuited to the 
 occafion, finilhing with the ufual benediction, 
 
 “ The 
 
THE SOLEMNITY. 
 
 XI 
 
 “ The peace of God, &c.” The Congrega- 
 tion then rofe, and united in fuch a fong of 
 praife as, perhaps, was never before heard, 
 “ Captain of thine enlifted hoft, &c.” 
 
 The whole departed from this folemn 
 fcene full of joy and hope ; thanking God 
 for what they had feen and heard, and crying 
 mightily to him, that he would accomplilh 
 the number of his eletft, and haften his king- 
 dom. 
 
 
 LIST 
 
 i 
 
LIST OF THE MISSIONARIES. 
 
 • . ) J ' l • ) Jf i f ' ' 1 
 
 Rev. Thomas Lewis 
 James Cover 
 John Eyre 
 John Jefferfon 
 Mr. David Bowel 1 
 John Buchanan 
 Henry Bicknell 
 Benjamin Broom hall 
 James Cooper 
 William Crook 
 John Cock 
 Samuel' Clode 
 John Allan. Gillhan* 
 
 William Henry 
 John Harris 
 Samuel Harper 
 Rowland Haftell 
 Peter Hodges 
 Seth Kelfo 
 Edward Main 
 Ifaac Nobbs 
 Nott 
 
 Francis Oaks 
 James Puckey 
 William Puckey 
 William Shelley 
 William Smith 
 James Wilkinfon 
 
 N. B. Mr. George Veefon was fince added to 
 the above Lift. — Mrs. Cover, with her ton, Mrs. 
 Haftell, with her two children, Mrs. Eyre, Mrs. 
 Henry, and Mrs. Hodges, accompany their hulk 
 bands. — But Mr. Hudden, with his Wife, was put 
 on fhoBC at Portfmouth, her refolution hiding her 
 while on board the veflel. 
 
■% 
 
 JESUS CHRIST’S INTRUCTIONS 
 
 ' * TO THU 
 
 SEVENTY DISCIPLES . 
 
 LUKE X. 1 tO 11. 16 tO 20. 
 
 After thefe things the Lord appointed other Jeventy 
 alfo, and fent them two and two before his face into 
 every city and place whither he himfelf would come. 
 Therefore /aid he unto them, The harvejl truly is 
 great, but the labourers are few : pray ye there- 
 fore the Lord of the harvejl, that he would fend 
 forth labourers into' his harvejl. Go your ways: 
 behold, I fend you forth as lambs among wolves. 
 Citrry neither purfe, nor f crip, nor Jhoes : and falate 
 no man by the way. And into whatfoever houfeye 
 enter, firjl fay. Peace be to this houfe. And if the 
 Jon of peace be there, your peace Jhall ref upon it: 
 if not, it fiall turn to you again. And in the fame 
 
 houfe remain , eating and drinking fuch things as 
 they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. 
 Go not from houfe to houfe. And into whatfoever 
 city ye enter, and they receive you, eat fuch things 
 as are fet before you ; And heal the fick that are 
 therein ; and fay unto them, The kingdom of God is 
 come nigh unto you. But into whatfoever city ye 
 enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out 
 into the f reefs of the fame, and fay. Even the very 
 dujl of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do 
 wipe off againf you: notwithfanding , be ye fare of 
 this, that the kingdom of Gcd is come nigh unto 
 you. He that heareth you , heareth me ; and he 
 
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 jEsis Christ’s instructions 
 
 that defpifeih you, defpifeth me ; and he that de- 
 fpifeth me, defpifeth him that Jent me. And the 
 Jeventy returned again with joy, faying, Lord, even 
 the devils are Juljeft unto us through thy name. 
 And he faid unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning 
 fill. from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power 
 , to tread mi fer gents and for pious, and over all the 
 power of the enemy ; and nothing Jhall by any means 
 hr rt you, Notivithjlanding in this rejoice not, that 
 the fpirits are fulject unto you ; but rather rejoice, 
 beta ufe your names are written in heaven. 
 
 *' X)ELOVED, he not ignorant of this one 
 “ that one day is with the Lord as a 
 
 thouland years, and a thoufand years as one day. 
 t: The Lord is not flack concerning his promile, as 
 fbmc men count flacknefs.*” In the prefence 
 of Jehovah the meafurements of time and lpace 
 ilirink into nothing. To his eye, not only the.in- 
 conclafive reafonings of men, but the fagacity and 
 penetration of u angels iland chargeable with folly.” 
 With cmphatical lblemnitv he pronounces concern- 
 ing himfelf : “ I am God, and there is none ellc; 
 ** l am God and there is none like me: declaring 
 *• the end from the beginning, and from ancient 
 4 * times the things that are not yet done, faying, 
 “ Mv counfel {hall ltand, and I will do all my plea- 
 *• fuiv'j'. The eighteenth century is haftening to 
 its expiration, fince the primitive miffionary in- 
 iirnctions, which I have now rehcarfed, were iti'ued 
 in perfon by the great King and Head of ihe 
 Chriiliyn Church. More than threefcore times has 
 the revolving globe, fince then, changed its inha- 
 bitants. Mighty empires have crumbled into ruin. 
 \ new world has emerged out of the vaft ocean. 
 Nations then obicure, unknown, have acquired ce- 
 lebrity and importance. Britain was, at that period, 
 si iiat the iflaudsof the Pacific Ocean are now ; it was 
 
 f If. xlvi. 9. 10. 
 
 * 2 Pet. iii. 8. g. 
 
 arifing 
 
TO THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. 
 
 15 
 
 arifing into light, prefenting an object of curiofity 
 to the Geographer, of cupidity to the Merchant, 
 of ambition to the Conqueror. And in the w il'dom 
 and goodnefs of God, the curiofity of the Geo- 
 grapher, the cupidity of the Merchant, the ambi- 
 tion of the Conqueror, became “ the preparation of 
 41 the Gofpel of Peace,” and “ the wrath of man 
 « praifed God.” And what may not the ifiands of 
 the South-Sea, through the wifdom and goodneli 
 of God, in a few years become ! 
 
 Empires have been formed, and have fallen ; the 
 name of Pontiff has itvallowed up that of Emperor; 
 new worlds have been difeovered ; the whole Globe 
 44 groncth and travaileth in pain together” at this 
 eventful hour; the beam of the balance quivers on 
 its axis; but amidfi all the Revolutions which have 
 fucceffively affected the Globe, fince Chriftianity 
 was firll planted in it, certain objects have never- 
 tbelefs unvaryingly preferred their character, and 
 exhibit to this day appearances exactly fimilar. 
 Human nature is the fame perverfe, degraded, de- 
 filed, wretched thing it was. The laws of the 
 molt high God maintain their priftine force and 
 authority. The word of the Lord is “ the fame 
 44 yefterday, and to day, and for ever;” and the 
 grace that is in Chrilt Jefus overflows in the fame 
 inexhaulted fulnefs. The commilfion of the Lord 
 Jefus to his difciples, to “ preach among the Gen 
 44 tiles the unfearchable riches” of their divine Mat- 
 ter, prefervesthe fame validity; and the execution 
 of it fhall, through the bl effing of Heaven, be 
 crowned with fimilar fuccefs. 
 
 The Angularity, and newnefs, of this day’s fer- 
 vice would have induced me to decline taking 
 any part in it. I have been frequently called upon, 
 in the courfe of my miniltry, to addrefs a Pallor 
 Jolemnly fet apart to the charge of a particular 
 department of the Church of Guilt; and frequently 
 to addrefs a Chriftian congregation in behalf ol the 
 
 Paftor 
 
l6 Jesus Christ’s instructions 
 
 Pallor fct over them in the Lord. But the people 
 this clay to be admonifhed, are innumerable, un- 
 known myriads of human beings, fcattered over the 
 yet unexplored regions of the Southern hemifphere. 
 How fhall a voice that can fcarcely fill this fmall 
 circle penetrate through the diameter of the folid 
 earth ? and could it be heard lo far, would not 
 the founds which it utters, and the meaning which 
 it conveys, be unintelligible jargon to men of 
 a ffrange fpcech ? Ah, what leas are to be 
 croffed, what promontories to be doubled, how 
 many moons mull wax and wane, how many dif- 
 ficulties and dangers mull be furmounted, before 
 an imprelTion can be made on untutored minds, 
 before a fingle ray of heavenly light can difpel the 
 awful gloom! Our addrefs here, therefores, mu ft be 
 dire&ed to the great Father of all, who has imme- 
 diate accefs to' the ear, to the he^rt, to the con- 
 fcience of each of his intelligent creatures; that 
 it may pleafe him, who has put it into the hearts 
 of his fervants in the Britilh iflands, to extend an 
 arm of mercy towards their brethren perilliing for 
 lack of knowledge, that it may pleafe him to dif- 
 pofe their hearts to receive with gladncfs the mef- 
 fiage of peace and falvation : may it pleafe him to 
 conduCb our little miflionary bark to the defired 
 haven ; let the “ valleys be exalted, and every 
 “ mountain and hill be made low, and the crooked 
 “ be made flraight, and the rough places plain ? 
 “ that the glory of the Lord may be revealed, and 
 “ all flcfh fee it together, as the mouth of the Lord 
 “ hath fpoken it*.” 
 
 But though wc can thus with confidence “ caft 
 this burthen upon the Lord,” a delicate and a 
 difficult part of the talk yet remains. I low various 
 are the views, characters and difpolitions of the per- 
 fons who haye fct this million afloat ! How va- 
 
 * If xl. 4. 5. 
 
 nous 
 
TO THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. 
 
 17 
 
 rbus the views, characters and difpofitions of the 
 pcrfons who compofe it ! What prudence is re- 
 quilite to fpeak a word fuitably, and in fcafon, to 
 each of thele! I fhould even at this late hour 
 fhrink from the office affigned me, were not the * 
 labour to be divided, and were I not furnilheci with 
 an example of conveying inftruCtion which all 
 mud refpeCt, and fupplied with topics of addrefs 
 from the ftores of perfect wifdom, even from Him 
 who made the heart of man, who knows what is in 
 it, and who has all power over it. While I endea- 
 vour, therefore, from the directions given to the 
 feventy by the Lord Jefus himfelf, to lugged ge- 
 neral inftruCtions to all my brethren in the miniftry, 
 though not to the exclimon of our friends of the 
 Million, I joyfully leave it to the Minifter who 
 fliall coinc after me, to addrefs a more particular 
 charge to them, l'uch as the folemnity of the day, 
 and their peculiar circumltances may require. 
 
 At the time when our bleffed Lord fent out the 
 Seventy, by two and two, he was preparing to 
 follow them in the laft circuit which he made 
 through Galilee, being within the laft fix months 
 of his abode upon earth. What He addrelfed to 
 them on that memorable occalion, may, with the 
 change of a few circumltances, ferve to admonilh, 
 warn and inltruCt us all, and efpeeially thole whom 
 we are fending out in his name, on a progrefs much 
 more extenlive, but precifely in the fame view. I 
 trult all will liften to them, therefore, with that 
 attention, deference and humility which are due, 
 not to the words of a mere man like themfelves, 
 but of Him who “ fpake as never man fpake.” 
 
 1. Chrilt fent out the feventy by pairs, feeming 
 to fay with Jofeph to his brethren, “ Sec that ye 
 “ iall not out by the way.” The little diftrict of 
 Galilee was thus parcelled out into thirty-five fub- 
 divilions, and thereby the labour and danger were 
 diminifhed by being equalized. Befides, each 
 Miflionary was thus provided with a known and 
 
 B tried 
 
] 8 jesus Christ's instructions 
 
 tried friend, embarked in the fame caufewith 
 lelf, whole con venation would relieve the tedioufnefs 
 of the way, mutual confidence would be infpircd 
 to thedifcharge of their important truft, and credit 
 would be fecured to a mcfiage delivered under the 
 concurring teftimony of two witneffes. If God fhall 
 be gracioufly plcafed to convey our Miffionaries 
 to the place of their deftination, they too muft be 
 under the neceflity of fcparating, and of prolecuting 
 the objedl of their mitfiou in little fub-divifions, 
 perhaps fingly. Lei's than half the number of the 
 fevcnty are to be fcattered over a field, compared 
 to which Galilee, Judea, are but a fpeck. But 
 wherever there arc two, there, we are confident, 
 will be found brothers and friends in the deareft 
 bonds, kindred flames of love to God, to each 
 other, and to the fouls of men. They will relieve 
 the languor of exile from their native land by an in- 
 terchange of kind affections; and as they “walk 
 by the way,” they will realize the prefence of an 
 unfeen, but well-known Redeemer, and “ their 
 “ hearts will burn within them,” as they hold 
 communion with him and with each other, and 
 while “ he openeth to them the Scriptures.” How 
 powerful will be their addrefs to the heathen, 
 when they are found to be living and fpeaking the 
 fame things, and “ loving each other with a pure 
 “ heart fervently !” 
 
 The arrangement made by our blefTed Lord 
 adminifters inllrudlion, reproof and encourage- 
 ment to us who arc to remain at home. Coupled 
 together in th'e work of the Chriftian minitlry, we 
 have not always, as we ought, drawn in the yoke 
 kindly together. By pulling in oppofite directions 
 we have wearied and watted each other; too often 
 turned to each other in anger, to tear, and bite, 
 and devour. The common enemy has triumphed 
 in this, the common caufc has futrered, and “ the 
 “ hearts’* of many of God’s people “ have beep 
 “ made fad.” We are, bleflcd be God, beginning 
 
TO THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. 1(? 
 
 to pet iomewhat more gracioufly aflbrted; the 
 (cowling eye of fufpicion is exchanged for the fmilc 
 of cordiality, and the enemy of the Gol'pel is ltrip- 
 pcd of one of his topics of reproach. To union in 
 miffionary views we. are indebted for this happy 
 and honourable change. May it become more and 
 more vifible every day in heart, converfation, and 
 life ! 
 
 2. Our blefled Lord fairly and faithfully warned 
 the feventy of the difficulty and danger of the 
 charge which they were undertaking. The labour 
 and difficulty he reprefents under the idea of an am- 
 ple harvelt to be reaped by the hands of a few la- 
 bourers. That man has conceived very abfurdly 
 of the Chriltian minillry who confiders it as a com- 
 fortable and commodious fituation, in which he 
 may live at his eafe, eat and drink, and rife up to 
 play. The harveft field is a lcenc of more than 
 ordinarv exertion, toil and fatigue, even when la- 
 bourers are abundant ; it calls for unremitting appli- 
 cation through the whole day, and frequently 
 through the night ; it demands emulous yet friendly 
 energy. In this hive every drone is a complicated 
 evil, he fets a molt pernicious example, he Hands 
 in the way of the bufy, and he devours the honey 
 which he had not alliltcd in lloring up. But the 
 induftrious labourer is encouraged by the confidera- 
 tion that the eye of the Lord of the harveft is upon 
 him, that his toil is not overlooked, will not be 
 driven to excefs, will not pafs unapproved, unre- 
 warded; that additional fellow-labourers will be 
 fupplied, at his requeft, as the exigencies ; of the 
 harveft may require. 
 
 The danger of the enterprize, is reprefented in 
 the charadter here given of human nature: “ be- 
 “ hold I fend you as lambs among wolves," “ Be- 
 “ ware of men." When the foldicrs of this world 
 beat up for recruits, they 7 decoy the unwary by a 
 flattering reprelentation of the fervice; they hold 
 
 B 2 out 
 
20 jesus Christ’s instructions 
 
 out ideas of profit, of advancement, of glory : they 
 keep carefully out of fight all that is difgufting and 
 painful in the profeffion, exhaufting marches, con- 
 tagious diforders, “ garments rolled in blood.’ 7 
 Not fo the Captain of our falvation. He faithfully 
 declares the word: of his fervice, from the beginning. 
 “If any man will come after me, let him deny 
 “ himfelf and follow me.*” “ Ye fhall be hated of 
 
 “ all men for my name’s fake, men fhall revile you, 
 “ and perfecute you, and fhall fay all manner of 
 “ evil againft you falfely for my fake-f~;” and in the 
 text, “ I fend you as lambs among wolves.” Mor- 
 tifying view of human nature! and alas, it is not 
 the exaggerated account of a difeontented, irritable 
 cynic, inflamed with hatred agafnft mankind, but 
 a true reprefentation of the cafe from one who knew 
 it well, and who bitterly deplored that depravity 
 which he was conflrained to expofe. Man a wolf 
 toman! to his brother, his benefadlor! Man a 
 vidlim to the fury of him whom he fought to fave ! 
 “Beware "of” — what? the roaring lion, the ra- 
 vening wolf, the “ bear bereaVed of her whelps, the 
 adder in the path, the fiery flying ferpent ?” no, 
 beware of men \ you are in greatell danger where 
 you are difpofed to deem yourfelves mod fecure; 
 reckon not on the ties of humanity, of confangui- 
 nity, ofjullice, of gratitude; the innocence of the 
 lamb, the harmlefsnefs ofthe dove are no defence. 
 
 No fmajl degree of fagaeity has been employed 
 in feledling the fpot and the people on which our 
 firft iinpreflion is to be attempted. A genial cli- 
 mate and gentle manners have greatly contributed 
 to determine the choice. But, O ye Miflionaries, 
 trull not to either. Remember the words of the 
 Lord Jcfus, “ Beware, of men.” Arc there no 
 dangers, think ye, but thol’c which arife from 
 boiltcrous elements, and ferocious fpirits ? are there 
 
 * Mat. xvi. 24. f Mat. v. tr. 
 
 no 
 
TO THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. 
 
 1 \ 
 
 nojdangers lurking under clement fkies, and fra- 
 grant bowers, and alluring •miles, and a courteous 
 demeanour. “ Beware of 11100.’'’ “ Watch and 
 
 pray that ye enter not into temptation.” 
 
 3. Our Lord cautions his Miffionaries againft an 
 over curious and minute regard to accommoda- 
 tion, preparatory to their entering on their million, 
 and while employed in executing the butinefs of it : 
 becaufe he would inculcate on them an unbounded 
 confidence in the care of Providence, and perfect , 
 contentment with fuch provifion as the hofpitality 
 of thofe whom they vilited might, ffom time to 
 time, fupply. They arc enjoined to dilregard 
 fome particulars which niott men would deem ef- 
 fentially neceffary to a journey: “ carry neither 
 “ purfe, nor ferip, nor fhocs.” An anxious foli- 
 citude about conveniences, much more about 
 fantaliical gratification and indulgence, betrays a 
 mind unfubdued to the authority, and unin- 
 fluenced by the example of the Lord Jefus, betrays 
 the fickly appetite of a fpoilt child, which mull be 
 tempted and pampered with delicacies, not the 
 manly lpirit of the intrepid youth who cares not 
 how hard he lies, and how coarfely he fares, pro- 
 vided he gets forward. He who expects between 
 the decks of a fmall vcflel, on a long voyage, all 
 the cafe and comfort of an enlarged, unreftrained 
 lituation, had much better continue on fihore. 
 He who dreams of ca&rying with him to Otaheite, 
 or of finding there, all the luxuries of London, has 
 not a particle of the miffionary fpirit within him, 
 let him remain where he is. He who affcdls pre- 
 eminence and diitindtion, he who is not pre-dif- 
 pofed to order and fubmifficn, he who is not dif- 
 poled to be, and to do, any thing, every thing 
 which may tend to promote the objedl cf his mil- 
 lion ; he who is not determined by grace to facri- 
 fice pundlili'Q, humour, intereft, even his reafon- 
 able claims, nay reputation, health, life, for the 
 
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22 jesus Christ’s instructions 
 
 caufe in which he is embarked, is not for our 
 purpofe, “ let him return and depart.” “ Na- 
 “ ture,” fays the proverb, “ is fatisfied with little,” 
 and grace with lcfs, and grace in a Mifftonary 
 fhould not be of the ordinary caft. To what a 
 height of it was the firit and great Apoftle of the 
 Gentiles exalted, when it enabled him to fay, cc I 
 “ have learned in whatever Hate I am, therewith 
 (e to be content. I know both how to be abafed, 
 “ and I know how to abound ; every where and 
 “ in all things I am inltructed, both to be full 
 “ and to be hungry, both to abound and to fuf- 
 “ fer need What a tbame then is it for a mo- 
 darn apoftle, for a difciple of the felf-denying Je- 
 fus to ramble “ from houfe to houfe,” in queft of 
 a fuller table or of a fofter bed, and peevifhly to 
 complain, if his temper is not ftudied, and his pa- 
 late gratified, in every particular? 
 
 4. Our Lord recommends to the difciples, un- 
 divided, undeviating attention to what was fpe- 
 cially committed to them. This is plainly implied 
 in the injunction, “ Salute no man by the way.” 
 And this is by no means an encouragement to 
 pradtife rudenefs and incivility, for the Gofpel in- 
 culcates not only the weightier matters, fueh as 
 “ are true, venerable, juft, pure but thofe alfo 
 which cc are lovely and of good report,” and ordains 
 that “ all things be done decently.” But the falu- 
 tations of the eaft were, and are, formal, tedious, ce- 
 remonious, and cuftom fandlioned them fo far as to 
 lufpimd and interrupt the moft ferious and neccf- 
 fary bufinefs. It became needful, therefore, on 
 urgent occafions, to difpenfe with the cuftomary 
 laws of decorum. To this purpofe was the in- 
 ftruelion given by the Prophet to hisfervant, when 
 the fon of the Shunnamite was to be raifed to life 
 again : “ Gird up thy loins, and take my flaff in 
 
 * Thil iv. ii, 12. 
 
 “ thine 
 
TO THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. 23 
 
 “ thine hand, and go thy way : if thou meet any 
 man falute him not; and if any falute thee, 
 anfwer him not again*.” The King’s bufinefs 
 requireth hafic. When a dark world is to be en- 
 lightened, when the dead in trefpalies and fins are 
 to be quickened into newnefs of life, let the fer- 
 vant of Jelus Chrill give his whole heart to it ; 
 “ let the dead bury their dead,” let the men of 
 the world attend to the ceremonial of the world, 
 but “ let his eyes look right on,” let not him 
 turn to the right hand nor to the left ; let him go 
 forward from Strength to ftrength, from company 
 to company. May no holtile lalutation impede 
 or defeat the progrefs of this Million, but wafted 
 of Providence, may it fpeedily reach the field of 
 action, and in due time rejoice our cars and our 
 hearts with the glad tidings of their advancing, in 
 the llrength of the Redeemer, from con quell to 
 conquelt. 
 
 5. Our Lord’s inltruftions to the Seventy re- 
 fpe6t their work, and the manner in which they 
 were to perform it. This con lilts of three articles: 
 They were to proclaim peace wherever they went, 
 they were to heal the fick, and to announce the 
 immediate approach of the kingdom of God. What 
 a copious return for the lodging and refrelhments 
 of a day ! And it is thus that the great God ac- 
 knowledges and remunerates the little fervices 
 which men render him in the perlon of his mini- 
 fters. “ Say, peace be to this houfe.” It was the 
 glory and the joy of angels to deliver a limilar 
 mefiage to a perilhing world, by announcing the 
 advent of the Saviour. “ Unto you is born this 
 “ day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is 
 “ Chrift the Lord, — and fuddenly there was with 
 “ the angel a rtiultitude of the heavenly holl, 
 t( praifing God and faying. Glory to God in the 
 
 * 2 Kings iv. 29. 
 
 (( big-heft, 
 
24 jesus Christ’s instructions 
 
 “ higheft, and onTarth peace, good will towards 
 <c ' men*.” This honour is the glorious Jehovah 
 pitting on you, men and brethren. I behold you 
 hovering in the air over Otaheite, with the olive 
 branch in your hand, and the habitation of peace 
 on your lips. Peace be to this illand, peace be 
 to old and young, “ peace, peace be to him that 
 w is afar otF, and to him that is near ” — “ Peace 
 u with God through JefusChrift our Lord.” You 
 are, not going to ftun the cars of thole unoffending 
 iflanders with the thunder of European artillery % 
 and to reduce their native domain to a defert, in 
 carder to enfure the fovcrcignty of it. Inafmuch 
 as it is more blefted to give than to receive, will 
 your bleflednefs be fuperior to that of all the dif- 
 covering navigators, and of all the ambitious con- 
 querors that have cxiftcd from the day that the 
 afpiring Julius landed on the Britifh brand, down 
 to the prefent hour. O may the fons of peace be 
 prepared to receive you, that “ your peace may 
 
 reft upon them,” and not “ turn fruitlefs unto 
 * e you again.” 
 
 “ Heal the ftek.” The Seventy were endowed 
 with miraculous powers of healing. They had 
 this fupcrnatural fcal affixed to their commiffion, 
 and thus an effectual door was opened for them to 
 the hearts of thofe to whom their meflage was ad- 
 drefted. We pretend not to fend you forth armed 
 with fuch powers as this. But you go not altoge- 
 ther unprovided. You carry with you no incon- 
 fiderablc portion o £ European lkill and experience; 
 you are furiiifhed with the medicines of all the 
 quarters of the globe; you may be called in pro- 
 vidence, to perform wonders of healing, which 
 I hall have, to thole fimple fons of ignorance, all 
 the appearance, and produce on ,thcm all the ef- 
 fects, of a real miracle. And who can tell what 
 
 * Luke ii. 1 1, 13, 14. 
 
 a return 
 
TO THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. 25 
 
 a return you may be enabled to make to your own 
 generous country, for the good which it intends, 
 and is attempting, in the yet unknown medicinal 
 plants, and drugs, and gums of thofe fortunate 
 iitends; blefhngs of Nature dill lying hid to us, 
 as the biddings of the Gofpel are, as yet, to them ? 
 
 “ Say unto them, the kingdom of God is come 
 nigh unto you.” This prepared the inhabitants 
 of Galilee for a perfonal vifit of the Saviour of the 
 world, thus was his approach announced in “ every 
 “ city and place, whither he himfelf would come;” 
 and thus are thefe our miffionary brethren to “ go 
 “ forth,” I trull, “ in the fpirit and power of Elias, 
 u in the fpirit and power of John Baptift ;” a “ voice 
 “ crying in yonder wilderncfs, Prepare ye the 
 te way of the Lord, make llraight in the defert a 
 “ high-way for our God;”* a finger pointing 
 out, a tongue proclaiming, “ Behold the Lamb of 
 “ God which taketh away the fin of the world’. ”*j* 
 “ Our brethren who vifited you at firfl, came in 
 “ the name, and by the command, of the King 
 “ of our native Ifland, but we come to you in 
 “ the name, and by command, of the King of 
 <x kings, the God of the whole earth. He already 
 a rules’ over you, and over all mankind, in the 
 “ kingdom of nature and of providence, and he 
 <c is now coming to you in his kingdom of grace 
 “ and love; he has fent us before his face to warn 
 “ you of his approach, and though you will not, 
 “ cannot fee him with the eye of the body, for 
 “ God is a fpirit, he will make you to feel his 
 <e power, and to rejoice in his goodnefs.” 
 
 6*. Chrifl encourages his difciples with this af- 
 furance, that he fhould confidcr the reception 
 which they met with, as given to himfelf; every 
 ihflance of negle<5l or iiifult which fhould be of- 
 fered to them as difrefpe&ful to him, and confe- 
 
 * Ifaiah xl. 3. f Ja, ii. 29. 
 
 C quently 
 
JESUS CHRIST S INSTRUCTIONS 
 
 26 
 
 qucntly to God; and every expreffion of kindnefs 
 and benevolence to them, as a perfonal favour. 
 “ He that heareth you heareth me ; and he that 
 “ defpifeth you defpifeth me; and he that defpifeth 
 “ me defpifeth him that fent me.” Such is the 
 tender in ter eft which the Redeemer condefcends 
 to take in the treatment of his fervants. When 
 “ Saul goes forth breathing out threatenings and 
 “ daughter againft the difciples of the Lord,” he 
 is arrefted with this challenge, not, why perfecuteft 
 thou thefe ? but, “ Saul, Saul, why perfecuteft thou 
 “ me?”* When the works of mercy performed 
 by the righteous are to be applauded and rewarded, 
 the acknowledgment runs in thefe terms, “ In as 
 much as ye have done it unto one of the leaft 
 “ of thefe my brethren, ye have done it unto mc.”-j- 
 Keep the intereft of your Mafter, my very dear 
 friends, fteadily in view, and you may fafely truft 
 him with the care of yours; to touch you is to 
 “ touch the apple of his eye.” But imagine not 
 yourfelves warranted from this, to refent and re- 
 venge every fuppofed affront offered to him in 
 your perfons. The arm of man is much too feeble 
 to wield the thunder, and his head too uninformed 
 to cliredt it. In “ the meeknefs and gentlenefs of 
 “ Chrift,” let your imitation be as exadt as poffi- 
 ble, “ Come unto him, and learn of him to be 
 “ lowly of heart.” But he will not truft the crea- 
 ture with his wrath. With an cmphatical folem- 
 nity he challenges this awful province as his own. 
 “ Vengeance is mine, I will repay, faith the 
 “ Lord. The difciples James and John were 
 difpofed to execute fignal judgment on a village 
 of the Samaritans, which refuted to receive their 
 Mafter: “ Lord,” faid they, “ wilt thou that we 
 command fire to come down from heaven, and 
 “ confume them, even as Elias did ? But he turn- 
 
 t Mat. xxv. 40 \ Rom. xii. 19. 
 
 • “ed. 
 
 * Adis ix. 4. 
 
TO THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. 27 
 
 « ed, and rebuked them, and faid, Ye know not 
 <c what manner of fpirit ye are of, for the Son of 
 X( Man is not come to deftroy mens lives, but to 
 “ lave them: and they went to another village. ”* 
 The only mark of difpleafure which the Seventy 
 were permitted to exprefs, in the cafe of being 
 treated inhofpitably, was to “ go out into the 
 “ ltrcetsof the city, and to wipe off the duft from 
 “ their feet” againft the inhabitants, with a decla- 
 ration that they had done their duty. Leave it to 
 a fanguinary Mahomet, to a bigotted Pontiff, to 
 propagate opinion by fire and the fword. “ The 
 “ weapons of our warfare arc not carnal, but 
 we arc confident they will be “ mighty through 
 “ God to the pulling down of ftrong holds, cafting 
 “ down imaginations, and every high thing that 
 “ exalteth itfelf againft the knowledge of God, and 
 “ bringing into captivity every thought to the 
 “ obedience of Chrift.”'}' 
 
 7. Our Lord inftnnfts his difciples to keep their 
 hearts with all diligence, from the emotions of felf- 
 gratulation and complacency in the hour of fuc- 
 cefs. To the full extent of his promife, and be- 
 yond it, his prefence and power had accompanied 
 them. This they joyfully acknowledged on their 
 return, “ faying, Lord, even the devils are fubject 
 “ unto us, through thy name.” That eye which 
 nothing can efcape, difeerned through this ex- 
 preflion of exultation a fhade of vain-glorying, 
 which, with a mildnefs peculiar to himfelf, he 
 deems it neceftary to reprefs. While he himfelf 
 “ rejoices' in fpirit” at the commencing downfal 
 of “ the Prince of the power of the air,” he admo- 
 niflies them ' of a purer fource of latisfacftion and 
 delight than even the lubjedtion of evil fpirits to 
 the miraculous powers conferred upon them. It 
 could not but be grateful to them to receive this 
 
 * Luke ix. 51 56. ‘f 2 Cor. x. 4, 5-. 
 
 C 2 aliurance 
 
28 
 
 jesus Christ’s instructions, Jkc. 
 
 afiurance • from the lips of their divine Mafter: 
 
 “ Behold, I give unto you power to tread on fer- 
 “ pents and fcorpions, and over all the power of 
 “ the enemy; and nothing fhall by any means 
 “ hurt you this fenced them about as with “ a 
 “ w 11 of fire,” againft all the allaults of earth and 
 hell, but even this was furpaffed by a ftill dearer, 
 and more deeply interefiing confederation : Not- 
 “ withtlanding, in this rejoice not that the fpirits 
 “ are fubjedt unto you; but rather rejoice, becaufe 
 “ your names arc written in Heaven.” Hereby 
 their great, their eternal all was effectually fecured. 
 Whatever might be the ilfue, whatever the effedt, 
 of tneir future miniltrations, they had the exalted 
 confolation of reflecting, that their “ life was hid 
 “ with thrift in God,” that “none couldpluck them 
 “ out of his hand.# 
 
 The gifts of prophecy, of working miracles, of 
 fpeaking with tongues, have been bellowed upon 
 bad men. The Lord Jelus, in another place, lup- 
 pofes more than the probability that a plea of this 
 nature wopld be let up unavailingly, in the great 
 day of accounts': “ Many will fay to me in that 
 <c day, Lord, Lord, haye we not prophelied in thy 
 “ name? and in thy name have call out devils? 
 “ and in thy name done many wonderful works? 
 “ And then will 1 profels unto them, I never knew 
 “ you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.*” 
 It will be higjily honourable for you, my beloved 
 brethren, to be made infirumenlal in catting down 
 the idols of, the heathen to the ground, in wrefting 
 a province from Satan’s empire; it will obtain for 
 you a name and a place among the benefadtors of 
 mankind ; but remember you have a full nearer 
 and dearer concern to purlue: “ Work out your 
 “ own falvation with fear and trembling,” that 
 you may have “ your own fouls for a prey in the 
 
 * Math. rii. 22, 23. 
 
 day 
 
TO THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES. IQ 
 
 u day of the Lord.” Look to the Apoftlc Paul, 
 and learn of him to fay : “ I keep under my body, 
 “ and bring it into fubjecftion : left that by any 
 means, when- 1 have preached to others, 1 my- 
 fC felf fhould be a caft-away.”* “ Not as though 
 “ I had already attained, either were already per- 
 “ feeft: but I follow after, if that T may apprehend 
 “ that for which alfo I am apprehended of Chrilt 
 “ Jefus. Brethren I count not myfelf to have ap- 
 “ prehended: but this one thing Ido, forgetting 
 “ thofe things which are behind, and reaching 
 “ forth unto thofe things which are before, I prefs 
 “ toward the mark, for the prize of the high cal- 
 ft ling of God in Chrift Jefus. 
 
 To conclude: Let every profefted Chriftian con- 
 lider himfelf as fpecially commiflioned to declare, 
 and to live, “ the truth as it is in Jefus,” in the 
 ears, and before the eyes of a carelefs and unbe- 
 lieving world. Let fuch as have put forth their 
 hand to this good work, more efpecially, remem- 
 ber that they are “ a city which is fet on a hill, 
 “ that cannot be hid.” Many eyes are upon you, 
 and not all of them in kindnefs and alFedion. 
 Take care that cc your good be not evil fpoken of ;” 
 that this “ miniftry be not blamed ;” that you 
 u give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to 
 
 “ the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.” 
 
 “ Now the God of Peace be with you all. Amen,” 
 
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 IT is hoped the feverity of 
 criticifm Will have no room for exeY'cife, when it is 
 nnderjiood that, owing to peculiar circumflances, 
 the following Difcourfe was written on one day, 
 delivered the next, and, on the third, fent to the 
 Prefs untranferibed-, which was unavoidable , 
 partly, becaufe the Author was obliged to lecn>e 
 town that day, and partly becaufe no time could 
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 the dear Mifjionaries and all who read it, and He 
 jhall have the glory. 
 
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 M Y dear brethren in the Lord, the magnitude 
 of the caufc in which you are now engaged, 
 and the foiemnities of this dav, have not been 
 often equalled ; whether we confider your num- 
 ber as Miifionaries, the liberal countenance of the 
 public, the place of your deftination, or the na- 
 ture of the caufe itfelf. So interefted is the re- 
 ligious public in your favour, that not only 
 thoufands of prayers have been and dill are of- 
 fered up for you, but alfo about twelve thou f and 
 pounds contributed with the fame view. The 
 place of your deftination, confidered in a religious 
 light, isfallownefs itfelf, fallow ground untouched ; 
 and if you have the noble ambition of the apoftle 
 Paul,* “ To preach the gofpel in diftant regions, 
 “ and not to boat! in another man’s line, of things 
 “ made ready to your hand,” you have, in pro- 
 fpedt, an opportunity of having that, ambition gra- 
 tified to the utmoft. 
 
 Of the caufe itfelf, who can calculate the con- 
 fequences? Who can tell, but millions in lucceed- 
 ing ages may be everlaftingly benefited by it? The 
 
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34 
 
 A CHARGE 
 
 influence of a parent on his pofterity may be 
 great; the influence of a magiitrate on the circle 
 of his jurifdidtion greater; the influence of a chief 
 governor on his extenflve dominions ftill greater; 
 but a rnmijler of God has an influence, good or 
 bad, on the minds of men, ftill greater than them 
 all, as he officially prepares, or negle&s to prepare 
 them for happinefs in a never-ending- fiate of ex- 
 iftence. 
 
 This applies to every minifler of religion; but 
 to a MiJJionary more than any other. His name 
 may be emphatically called “ legion,” for the 
 happinefs or mifery of many thoufands appears pe- 
 culiarly cormcdtcd with him. 
 
 When, a few days ago, application was made to 
 me to perform this office of addrefling you, many 
 difficulties arofe in my mind, but none greater 
 than the difficulty of entering fully into the real 
 fpirit of the occalion ; I reflected, that without a 
 heart-felt flmplicity of dependence upon God, 
 without a fteady regard for his glory, difregarding 
 the praifes or cenfurcsof men, without ardent love 
 to the Lord Jefus Chrift, and the fouls of men ; in 
 a word, without the true fpirit of a Miffionary, 
 there would be a manifeft impropriety in my com- 
 pliance. Confeious weaknefs therefore urged me 
 to decline the momentous talk, but deference to 
 the judgment of thofe whom I greatly rcfpc<5t, and 
 love in the truth, difpofed me to acquielccnce. 
 And now, O Lord God of truth and love, afliff 
 both fpeaker and hearers, for thy mercy, for thy 
 Son, for thy precious promife’ fake. 
 
 The Holy Scriptures abound with profitable 
 fubjc<ffs and fuitablc paflages as ihc ground of 
 fuch a difeourfe as this; many things, addrefled to 
 patriarchs, prophets, apoftles and cvangelilts, are 
 highly applicable to you on this ocenfion. Were 
 1 to add refs you merely as miniflers, no words 
 could be more applicable than our Lord’s con- 
 . . eluding 
 
TO THE MISSIONARIES. 
 
 35 
 
 eluding charge to his difcipleS*, “ Go ye therefore 
 “ and teach all nations, baptizing them in the 
 <e name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 
 “ Holy Ghoft; teaching them to obferve all things 
 .*•' whatfoever I have commanded you; and lo, I 
 “ am with you ahvay, even unto the end of the 
 “ world.” Whence might be noticed, the autho- 
 rity of Chrifl, as the ground of your Million, Go 
 ye therefore — your primary aim, and principal work, 
 to teach, difciple, or evangelically to frofelyte the 
 nations to whom you go — the bode of letting them 
 apart, baptizing them in the name of the Father, 
 and fo on — your conduft to the converted, teaching 
 them to obferve all things whatfoever I have com- 
 manded you — and, finally, the promifed prefence and 
 aid of our divine Lord, and lo, I am with you ahvay 
 even unto the e?id of the world. 
 
 But as you arc not all minifters in the firiiftefl 
 fenfe, nor the greateft part of you, that fubjcCh 
 would be too confined; I lhall therefore adopt, as 
 a motto to what I have further to lav, the words 
 you find in Gen.xvii. 1. the latter part. u lam 
 “ the Almighty God; walk before me and be 
 “ thou perfect.” — Or, I am GW (as in the margin 
 and the old tranflation) all-sufficient, walk be- 
 fore me, and be thou perfect, that is, upright , or 
 fincere. 
 
 Thefe words, my’ dear brelhren, were addreffed 
 to Abraham; to whom God had fpoken, fome 
 time before, on this wife : “ Get thee out of thy 
 “ country, and from thy kindred, and from thy 
 (f father’s houfe, unto a land that I will fhew thee. 
 “ And I will make of thee a great nation, and I 
 “ will blefs thee, and make thy name great ; and 
 
 thou flialt be a bleffing. And I will blefs them 
 u that blefs thee, and curfe him that eurfeth thee: 
 
 and in thee lhall all families of the earth be 
 
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 * Marth, xxviii. 19, 20. 
 
 D 2 “ blefled 
 
A CHARGE 
 
 36 ' - 
 
 “ bleffed. So Abraham departed as the Lord 
 “ had fpoken unto him*.” 
 
 Thus, you fee God’s call and Abraham’s com- 
 pliance ; and your call feems not much lei's dear, 
 though fignified in a different way. I feem to 
 view each Miff on ary as an Abraham — a pilgrim, 
 going forth in the name of the Lord, exerebing 
 fir pi faith in his promife: “ By faith Abraham,” 
 fays the Apoftle-j~, “ when he was called to go out 
 “ into a place which he fhould after receive for an 
 “ inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not 
 “ knowing whither he went” — not having a parti- 
 cular knowledge of the country to which he was 
 going. “ By faith he fojourned in the land of 
 tf< promife, as in a ft range country, dwelling in ta- 
 “ bernaclcs with Ifaac and Jacob, the heirs with 
 “ him of the fame promife. For he looked for a 
 <6 city which hath foundations, whofe builder and 
 u maker is God.” * 
 
 I feem alfo to view each MiffioUary as & father 
 of many faithful — and all of you collectively, the 
 fathers of many nations ! — And to each of you are 
 thefe words now addreffed, “ 1 am God all-fujfi- 
 “ cient, walk before me, and be thou upright." 
 
 Here you have, firft, a fummary direction by 
 which to proceed in all your future attempts ; “ be 
 “ thou upright , or fincere;” — and, fecondly, the 
 grand fource of your encouragements in the dis- 
 charge of your arduous work; (< lam God all-fuf- 
 i( ficient " — Permit me now to attempt an imita- 
 tion of this divine pattern, by 
 
 I. Offering to your eonlideration fueli direc- 
 tions and remarks as appear to me mod important 
 and ufeful to you as Chriftian Miffionaries. By 
 
 II. Propoiing to you fuch encouragements as 
 your arduous undertaking requires, and which our 
 all-fufficient God affords you. May lie afliil us 
 all! 
 
 f Chap. xji. 1 — 4. f Hdj. xi. 8--- 10. 
 
 « I. I am 
 
TO THE MISSIONARIES. 37 
 
 I. I am to offer fome directions and remarks. 
 As a fundamental general obfervation, I would 
 have you never to forget, that <e godlinefs re pro- 
 fitable for all things,” and that nothing can com- 
 penfate for the want of perfonal holinefs. I fo- 
 lemnly declare, I would prefer feeing one of yon, 
 both deaf and dumb, embark, if under the influ- 
 ence of religion, than the inoft eloquent man in 
 Europe, if not godly. Yet this godlinefs with its 
 life and power muft be fo cultivated and directed 
 as to promote tire caufe you have efpoufed. Suffer 
 therefore the word of exhortation : 
 
 1 . Maintain a cot Jl ant , holy jeahujy over your 
 ends and motives, in every flep of your Millions ry 
 walk. If thefe are indeed good, your only end 
 will not be your own refutation, whether of felf- 
 denial and mortification to the world, or your 
 Chriftian faith and courage, however great — nor 
 the glory of the Britijh name, its riches, commerce, 
 arts" and fciences, population and power — nor yet 
 the temporal happinefs of the heathen, though it 
 were great, and extended to millions yet unborn — 
 but an cgd far higher is full in your eye, a motive 
 much more powerful is operative in your foul, their 
 fpi ritual and evcrlalting happinefs. This you will 
 daily keep in view, and dread the thought of its 
 being eclipfed by any thing earthly, remembering 
 there is an end ftill more glorious than this, to 
 which your hearts fhould be if ill more firmly at- 
 tached — the glory of God our Saviour. 
 
 To promote the glory of the God of grace, our 
 world ftands, all the wheels of creation move ; to 
 this are directed all the rays of providential wifdom", 
 all the difpenfations of religion, all the communi- 
 cations of grace to the foul, with all the fucceeding 
 influences of the Holy Spirit and the means of 
 grace. 
 
 See then that it be not a mean, unworthy end 
 you propofe, or motive that actuates you, either 
 
 now 
 
38 
 
 A CHARGE 
 
 now or in future. The love of fame has been 
 called “ the univerfal paffion difprove the uni* 
 verfality of the maxim, to the content and joy of 
 your own heart, and the confiffion of gainfavers, 
 by your future conduct. What I now propofe to 
 you, God urged upon Abraham — “ Walk before 
 <c me, and be thou fincerc” in thy ends and mo- 
 tives. And this is what our Lord inculcates on 
 his difciples, “ The light pf the body is the eye, 
 “ if therefore thine eye be tingle, thy whole body 
 thall be full of light*.” Allow the expreffion, 
 infincerity in a Miffionary is “ death in the pot” — 
 a Miffionary without lincerity of ends and mo- 
 tives, is “ fait without favour.” 
 
 2. Next to the glory of God, Let the irjlruftion , 
 foirverfion , and everlajting happinefs of the heathen , 
 he Jleadily intended , even when you may not think it 
 expedient openly to avow the defign. This upright - 
 nefs your prefent folemn engagement requires. It 
 is almott incredible what wonders this principle— 
 tleadinefs of aim — has produced in every depart- 
 ment and concern of life ; and God has ever ho- 
 noured it in his fervants. Prodigies of mental 
 powers, and the greateft brilliancy of parts, have 
 failed of fuccefs, when this was wanting; they 
 promifed victory like Goliah, but ignominioufly 
 fell ; whereas fleadinefs of aim, like David, makes 
 no fhew and yet fucceeds. In all your traffic and 
 covenants, in all your intercourfe and public de- 
 portment, among the untaught natives of the 
 South-Sea Iflands, bethisyour unvaried, inflexible 
 aim — their falvation. Be this the aim of your 
 
 prayers and praifes, your joys and cares, your fuf- 
 ferings and enjoyments. Be this your meat and 
 drink, becaufe it is our heavenly Father’s will. 
 For this plead continually, as a hungry, naked 
 beggar for an alms ; even more than a proud and 
 
 * Matt. vj. 2Z. 
 
 greedy 
 
TO THE MISSIONARIES. 
 
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 greedy Sycophant for promotion. For this let your 
 common actions in life be employed; to this let 
 your eating and drinking, as well as fading be di- 
 rected; to this your deeping as well as your wake- 
 ful moments be confecrated; to this your educa- 
 tion of the heathen children, as well as your fet 
 converfation or difeourfes to their parents; to this 
 the education of your own children, and the con- 
 duct of your families; to this all your connections 
 and engagements with the natives. 
 
 Thus principled and employed, you will tread 
 in the fteps of our common Lord, who laid afide 
 his own cafe and honour; who, though he was 
 rich, for our fakes became poor, denied himfelf for 
 our advantage ; took upon him the form of a fer- 
 vant, and made himfelf of no reputation. In this, 
 therefore, be ye followers of Chrill as dear children. 
 But, as fincerity of principle, and fieadinefs of 
 aim, 'require an inftrument to work with, there- 
 fore 
 
 3. Cultivate a greater acquaintance with the purity 
 and fmplicity of the gofpel — God’s covenant. — By 
 this alfo prove the fincerity of your profeflion. 
 This is the word he has honoured above all his 
 name ; this is the wifdom and power of God, the 
 rod of his flrength, and the fword of his Spirit. 
 Evangelical truths are the weapons of your war- 
 fare, let them not be covered with unfightly ruft, 
 nor blunted by too much polifli — mind chiefly the 
 edge. Remember alfo, that the word is a two- 
 edged fword, the law and the gofpel — the one, to 
 fir ike conviction into the confcicnces of Tinners; 
 and the other, to cut off fin from the believer in 
 Jefus, as well as to lop off and confign to deftruc- 
 tion all apoltatcs*. 
 
 Divine revelation is a bright, pure, well-polifhed 
 mirror ; do not disfigure it with fcratchcs, made 
 
 X I y 
 
 * See Hcb, ij. 1—3. a r.d chap, iv, 1 1. rz. 
 
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 A CHARGE 
 
 with unholy and foolifh fancies, though they 
 fparkle in your eye like diamonds. The gofpel is 
 pure wholefome milk; do not adulterate it with 
 the water of your own fountain, corrupted reafon. 
 The gofpel is a net ; do not alter the methes, to be 
 either greater or finaller than the divine appoint- 
 ment. But keep in mind, my brethren, that a 
 growing acquaintance with the purity and fimpli- 
 city of the gofpel is the effedt of divine teaching; 
 feek therefore, with all humble importunity, the 
 u undlion from the Holy One,” that ye may 
 “ know all things.” 
 
 It is indeed poffible that, to induce a profejfwn of 
 Chrifiianity, fome human mixtures or additions 
 may be ufeful ; but God does not allow any of his 
 fervants to be wife above what is written ; he will 
 not have his bright and precious jewel, the gofpel, 
 daubed with gaudy paint. Many, like Saul, pre- 
 tend to offer a facrifice to the Lord, by human ad- 
 ditions, and God’s anfwer to his plea by Samuel, 
 is a fufficient reply to all intermeddlers*. “ Hath 
 “ the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and 
 “ facrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? 
 “ Behold, to obey is better than facrifice, and 
 “ to hearken than the fat of rams.” Take for yout 
 example and guide the great Apoftle of the Gen- 
 tiles : — te I determined not to know any thing 
 “ among you,” fays he to the Corinthians^, “ fave 
 *' £ Jefus Chrift, and him crucified.” And to the 
 Galatians];, “ God forbid that I lhould glory, fave 
 ,£ in the crofs of our Lord Jelus Chrift, by whom 
 ££ the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the 
 (( world.” 
 
 The Prophets and Apoftlcs do not fet themfelves 
 formally tq prove the being and perfe&ions of God, 
 as learned hypothefis would probably advife; but 
 the fpirit of prophefy is the testimony of Jefus, and 
 
 * i Sam. xv. za. -J- i Cor. ii. s. , Chap. vi. 14. 
 
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TO THE MISSIONARIES. 
 
 41 
 
 the glory of the New Teftament Miniflers is to 
 point Him out as “ the lamb of God, who takctli 
 “ away the fins of the world” — to exhibit him, 
 from the divine oracles, as God-man — Mediator — • 
 born, to die for our tins, — and dying, to rife and 
 reign for our juflification, and finally our glorifica- 
 tion. The repeated experience of others has abun- 
 dantly proved the preference due to this fnnplicity 
 of teaching, before any other method, though more 
 learned and laboured. 
 
 Thus furnilhed, permit me to recommend to 
 you 
 
 4. An alternate regard to private and focial reli- 
 gion. By neglecting perfonal holinefs you will de- 
 generate into men of the world; worldly maxims 
 will prevail, your zeal will be damped, your minds 
 become earthly, your religion a lifelefs image, and 
 your profeffion an unmeaning name; and, by ne- 
 glecting foeial religion, you will not bcMiltionaries 
 but Hermits, you might as well flay at home, live 
 in fome lonely Englifh cottage, retire into the 
 Highlands of Scotland, or Mountains of Wales. 
 Let therefore converfe with God in folitude be fub- 
 fervient to public utility. Enter therefore thy 
 clofet, or penetrate the woods of Otaheite, to con- 
 verfe with Jefus, to maintain fpirituality, and to 
 plead for your idolatrous neighbours; and then, 
 warmed with this holy lire, go and warm others by 
 focial intercourfe. Thus your heavenly Father s 
 will reward you openly, and heathens will in time 
 learn that none but the difeiples of Jefus can be 
 thus happy and thus ufeful. 
 
 Under this head, let me advife you, not only to 
 guard againfl falling out by the way, (which God 
 prevent !) and to love one another out of a pure heart 
 fervently, but even let the poor ignorant natives 
 take knowledge of you, that you do lb love one ano- 
 ther, and that with the love of benevolence you 
 are affectionately attached to them. Let them be 
 
 E eonllraincd 
 
42 A CHARGE 
 
 conftrained to fay, “ Behold how thefe new-comers 
 love one another!” How pleafant it is for brethren 
 to dwell together in unity ! Some of us of late have 
 feen delightful fpecimens of this union, we fee it 
 alfo this day. My brethren, we commiffion you 
 this morning, in the name of the Lord, to make a 
 fair report of the lovely fcenes which you have be- 
 held, to the teachable natives of Otaheite ! 
 
 Tell them what you have feen, in the belt man- 
 ner you are able, fo as to convey the fentimcnt into 
 their inmoft fouls. Allure them by your teftimony 
 and example, that the religion of Jefus leads to 
 blits. Say, have fellowfliip with us, for “truly 
 “ our fellowfliip is with the Father, and with his 
 fon Jefus Chrift;” the God we adore, the Saviour 
 we ferve. In this connexion I would add, 
 
 5 . Aim at exemplifying the religion of Jefus in all 
 its parts . There arc few human characters but 
 have many fpots, and all in our world have fome ; 
 it is therefore our wifdom to difcover and correct 
 them in ourfelves and others. But how is this to 
 be done ? By looking into the glafs of the word, 
 which will faithfully exhibit each one to himfelf. 
 One who endeavours to - walk before God uprightly , 
 aims more at removing imperfections firft, than 
 performing brilliant exploits. Study therefore your 
 defects with a view to pardon and amendment; 
 then you will be better able, when they afk you, 
 What meaneth your new religion ? to anfwer them. 
 Come and fee, follow us in every flep of our walk; 
 obferve us in all our private and public, perfonnl 
 and relative concerns. Behold us patient in tribu- 
 lations, mild and meek when provoked, honed; 
 when it is, in our power to impofe, doing to others 
 as we would be done by, wifhing well and doing 
 good to our very enemies, enduring all things for 
 the elect fake, that they maybefaved. 
 
 Though we are equal as brethren, yet, obferve 
 us, we know how to fubmit to our fuperiors, we 
 
 know 
 
TO THE MISSIONARIES. 
 
 43 
 
 know how to obferve clue fubordin^tion among 
 ourfelves. And as this exemplification of religion 
 in all its parts is the heft practical anfwcr to the 
 queftion, What is Chrifiianity ? fo it is the moll 
 likelv way to your fucccfs. He who thus aims, 
 and lludies, and llrives to honour God, will be 
 honoured by him, and fhall be honourably reward- 
 ed. “ Walk before me and be thou perfect,”' fays 
 God, “ and I will multiply thee exceedingly, and 
 “ thou fhalt be a father of many nations, and I will 
 “ make thee exceeding fruitful.” I now add, 
 
 (j. Be more attentive to duty than even to fuccefs. 
 Uprightncfs and fincerity will regard the will and 
 authority of God, leaving all events to him-— to his 
 adorable and fovercign difpofal. A man of real 
 faith, in its free exercile, will not object and mur- 
 mur, though God demand an Ifaac in facrifice. 
 But fhould we be unconcerned about luccefs? By 
 no means. But every thing in its due order. You 
 may defire fucccfs much, but lhould ftill more 
 carneftly defire to walk before God in uprightnefs, 
 according to the folemn promife you have now 
 made. And if you have but a little fuccefs, clo 
 not “ defpife the day of finall things.” 
 
 The human mind is bufy in anticipation; you 
 already pourtray to yourfelves what fort of a voyage 
 you are likely to have, — what reception at your ar- 
 rival, — what habitations, manners, and employ- 
 ments? Be not over anxious about thefe things, 
 but mind more prefent duty, let our text refound 
 in your ears, and daily recur to your thoughts, 
 “ Walk before me and be thou upright.” You 
 will fee, perhaps, forafeafon, but little, very little 
 fruit of your labour ; but “ who hath defpifed the 
 “ day of finall things ?” Think of the hufband- 
 inan, he calls into the ground the principal wheat, 
 and waits for the crop with patience. The gofpel 
 is. leaven, and it mull have time to operate; the 
 gofpel is a preferving fait, it rnufl have time to 
 . E 2 penetrate; 
 
44 
 
 A CHARGE 
 
 penetrate; the gofpel is a grain of muftard feed/ 
 and it muft have time to grow. 
 
 The way to fuccefs, even to furprifing fuccefs, 
 is often intricate. Viewing Jofeph in the pit, in 
 the prifon, who but the Omnifcient could have 
 thought of his future fuccefs ? Who that faw the 
 danger of Daniel, Shadrach, Mediae and Abed- 
 nego, or of Jonah, would have given a pebble for 
 their lives? — What wonders were wrought by 
 means of illiterate apoftles, evangelifts, and difei- 
 plcs, when God commanded fuccefs! View, on 
 the one hand, the Coloflean powers of this world, 
 on the other, the defpifed Nazarene, as a “ ftone 
 cut out without hands, breaking them to pieces.” 
 (Dan. ii. 34.) “ Thou fawelt till that a ftone was 
 “ cut out without hands, which fmote the image 
 “ upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and 
 “ brake them to pieces.” It is added, (ver. 35.) 
 {: and the ftone that fmote the image became a 
 “ great mountain, and filled the whole earth.” I 
 afk again, Who hath defpifed the day of [mall things ? 
 Who knows not, that the flately oak was once an 
 acorn, that the molt majcftic river begins its courfe 
 as a finall rill, that Rome, though time was when 
 it could boaft fuperiority to all other cities in the 
 world, was once a fmall village, nay, that Great 
 Britain itfclf was once a land of ftupid ignorance, 
 and vile idolatry. He, therefore, who commanded 
 the North to give up, and it was fo ; can alfo fay to 
 the South keep not back, and it fhall be fo. To 
 facilitate the performance of thefe duties enjoined, 
 let me advife you 
 
 7. To contemplate with qfjiduity and affeftion, the 
 char after of God, as dilplayed in his word, and in 
 his favourite fervants in all ages. To walk before 
 God, or with God, as Enoch did, muft imply a 
 contemplation of, and afFe( c tion for his true eha- 
 radter; but what I would now particularly recom- 
 mend to you, as greatly conducive to the end pro- 
 
 poled, 
 
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 pofed, is, to read and obferve attentively the fclf- 
 denying characters of thofe men . who, bearing 
 much of the divine image, have Hood forth publicly 
 to confefs him before men. 
 
 In the holy fc raptures you have a “ cloud of wit- 
 nefles,” whom you will not fail to contemplate and 
 to imitate; but above all be afliduous in looking 
 unto Jefus, the author and finifher of our faith, 
 who for the joy. that was fet before him, endured 
 the crofs, defpifing the thame. Read, with con- 
 tinual reviews and prayers, the lives of the Patriarchs 
 and Prophets, the aCts of the Apoftles, the hiftory 
 of the firft Chriflians by Eulebius, which if you 
 have not already I hope you will be provided with, 
 — the mod authentic holy lives and martyrologies — 
 the bed journals of Midionaric? — efpeciallv the life 
 and journal of Braincml, that highly favoured mail 
 of God, written by another who had drank deep of 
 the dime fpirit, Mr. Jonathan Edwards, of New 
 England. 
 
 Having thus endeavoured to give you mv bed 
 advice, directions and remarks, in addition to thofe 
 that have been recommended by my Rev. Brother, 
 relative to your character and conduCt as Mil- 
 donarics, I now proceed 
 
 II. To propofe to you fuch encouragements as 
 your arduous undertaking requires, and which our 
 all-fufficient God affords you. I am God all-fuff - 
 cient. Under this branch of our fubjeCt it would 
 be improper, on feveral accounts, to detain you 
 long; briefly then let me fugged to you the fol- 
 lowing particulars. 
 
 l . Under every trial, hardfhip, or perplexing 
 difficulty, know afluredly that, while in the way of 
 duty, you have a covenant intered in the all-fff- 
 ciency of God. In every flation there are difficulties, 
 in a Chriflian million many and peculiar ones, but 
 this one thought, if properly realized, mult ever 
 
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 prove an adequate remedy, “ I am God all-fuffi- 
 dient.” 
 
 How well adapted this confideration is to anfwer 
 the end propofed, is evident from the circumltances 
 that firft occaiioned its application to Abraham. 
 Promifes were made, but difficulties fo great ap- 
 peared in the way of their accomplifhment, that 
 this confideration, and this alone, was equal to the 
 difficulty. 
 
 Brethren, there are different forts of trials — 
 there are trials and lnares even from profperity : 
 Profperity! fay you, (ffiaking your heads, and 
 your hearts trembling with the expectation of the 
 reverfe) Who of ns can expect prqfpeniy ? But are 
 you not going to Otaheite? for the lake of return- 
 ing to which iiland of fenfual delights a ffiip’s 
 crew mutinied? Ah, remember the hifiory of the 
 antidiluvian church; ye u fons of God,” beware of 
 the “ daughters of men.” Do not miftake me, I 
 would not diffuade any from forming an honour- 
 able and godly connexion; but fee firft that it be 
 honourable and godly. Let not the Chriltiau 
 Miffionary — the Chriftian mechanic — be dazzled 
 with the prolpect of alliance with the nobleft fami- 
 lies of the land, with the prelumptuous hopes of 
 making them afterwards Chriftians. Are you 
 wil'er than Solomon ? I repeat the queftion, are 
 you wifer than Solomon ? — Oh cry to God all-fiiffi- 
 cient, for he alone can help you in fo great a 
 temptation, that the daughters of the land do not 
 bear away your hearts, until they are made the 
 daughters of God. Oh that none of you may be 
 led in triumph by them, until they are led in 
 triumph by divine grace! 
 
 Do not fay, this branch of the fubjeA is necd- 
 lels; fori verily believe, and therefore fpeak, that 
 fomc of your greateft trials in proccfs of time will 
 arife from this quarter, and in nothing will you 
 have greater need of having rccourfe to God all- 
 
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 47 
 
 mighty, God all-fujfic'tent , than in this cafe. Suffer 
 therefore the word of exhortation ; you feein to me, 
 my young friends, as fo many Jofephs — not that 
 you are huted by your brethren — not that you are 
 fold for Haves— not that you are going to a tyran- 
 nizing Egypt — but becaufe it is more than poffible 
 your purity, you chaHity may be tried. May the 
 God of Jofeph be with you, and help you to do as 
 he did! Why did Jofeph prevail and profper? God 
 was with him ! and he is all-fuffipicnt for you. 
 You are going to the land of Gofhen, be not dif- 
 couraged, God all-fufficient is even there, and 
 the way thither is by a long voyage; but think. 
 Who holds the ocean in the hollow of his hand? 
 Who walked on the fca ? If billows rife, if ftorms 
 break in upon you, caft out your anchor — caft the 
 anchor of your hope within the vail, to Jefus in the 
 higheft heavens, that you may be fure and ftcdfafl 
 in your minds. 
 
 2. The Lord Jefus Chrift, whofe you are by re- 
 demption and grace, and to whom you dedicate 
 yourlelves for this blcfied work, has all power and 
 authority in heaven, earth, and hell, for your 
 good; and he hath declared that he “ will be with 
 t { you alway.” — Ye arc going, as ye have heard, 
 as lambs among wolves, but the great fhepherd of 
 the iheep will be with you; view him holding in 
 his hand the recompenfe of reward, as he did once 
 to Mofes, and hear him fay, “ To him that over- 
 “ cometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna. 
 “ A fhort feafon hence and you fhall fee and re- 
 “ ceive a crown of life.” — Even now he fpeaks in 
 loud and firm accents; “ Be thou faithful unto 
 (i death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” 
 
 3. Take encouragement from the covenant, 
 office, and promifed influences of the Holy Spirit. 
 All Chriflians may indeed take encouragement 
 from this very important confi deration, but as none 
 have greater need, fo none have a greater right 
 
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 than you. What lifted up Chrift’s immediate 
 Miffionaries when call down? what fupported 
 them when weak? directed their feet when dark- 
 nefs and doubts covered their way ? Who, but the 
 Comforter? He fhall take of mine, faidJefus, and 
 flfall fhew it unto you; he fhall guide you into all 
 truth ; by him it fhall be given you in the hour of 
 need what to /peak, and what to do. 
 
 Let not mountains of difficulties affright you t 
 “ Not by might, nor by power, but by my fpirit, 
 tc faith the Lord of Hofts,” the fpiritual Temple is 
 to be eredtcd. O look then to the Spirit of Promifc ; • 
 He can make you equally wife and meek — wife as 
 ficrpents, but harmlefs as doves; and He can kindle 
 a fire on the altar of your heart, and keep it burn- 
 ing, which all the floods proceeding from the mouth 
 of the dragon fhall never never be able to extin- 
 guifh. 
 
 I add no more. May God add his bleffing to 
 ijvhat has been now find, and to all the fervices m 
 which we have been engaged, for Jcfus’ fake, 
 
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 fcounfels for the Regulation of the Perfonal Conduct 
 and Spirit of the Mijfionaries . 
 
 A LL counfels of this kind may be lummed up 
 in this — Live near to God, and walk in love 
 towards one another. A lenfe of the magnitude, 
 high importance, and difficulty of the prelent at- 
 tempt, fhould imprefs the mind of every Mif- 
 lionary with the abfolutc ncceffity of continual 
 nearnefs to God. A Miffionary, who docs not 
 earneftly feek and entertain the moft intimate 
 communion with the Molt High, is as a handful 
 of chaff before the whirlwind: he mull walk with 
 God; he mult fet the Lord always before him. 
 
 Should any Miffionary walk lightly under fo 
 great a trull, as though he were equal to the 
 work, fuch temerity and prefumption would pro- 
 voke the Lord to jealoufy ; but we hope it will 
 be far from our Miffionaries. Rather every one 
 of them will have the fentence of death in him- 
 felf, from a preffing lenfe of ignorance, depravity, 
 and infufficiency ; each one will feek to be lower 
 in the dull before God than another, that all may 
 “ trull not in themfelves but in God, who raifeth 
 “ the dead.” 
 
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52 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 
 
 The idea of the great expenditure of facred 
 money in this Million, though an inferior con- 
 fl deration, fhould imprefs the confciences of the 
 Miflionaries ; but when they confider the ex- 
 pectations, anxieties, and hopes of fo many Mi- 
 nifters of Chrifl, and of fuch multitudes of fe- 
 rious Chriftians ; when they think of the obferving 
 eye of adverfaries ; above all, when they furvey 
 the hundreds of millions of fouls lying in the dark- 
 nefs of heathenifm, who may ultimately be affe&ew 
 by the good or ill management, by the failure or 
 fuccefs of this Million, how ought every Millio- 
 nary to weep and make application, wreftling 
 with the Great Angel of the Covenant, that he 
 may be kept pure from the blood of all men, and 
 may gain the prize of turning many to rigfrteouf- 
 nefs. 
 
 Every Millionary Ihould fay from the bottom of 
 his heart, “ Who is fufficient for thefe things r ,v 
 And he will think that it is no time to ftruggle 
 for the little interell of perfonal pre-eminence, 
 when fuch things are at flake. 
 
 The immutable purpofe of the love of Jehovah, 
 founded not in human goodncfs, but in fovereign 
 mercy, mufl be the Miflionary’s ' ftrength. The 
 finilhed and infinitely meritorious work of Jefus 
 mult be ever before his eyes ; the voice of his 
 blood and of his fweet heavenly interceflion mufl 
 ever be founding in the Miflionary’s ears. The 
 triumphs of the day of Pentecoft, of the three firft 
 ages of Chriftianity, and of the glorious reforma- 
 tion mufl dwell in his memory. 
 
 “ Live together in love and union.” Ye are 
 •brethren, but being men, are compaflcd about with 
 infirmities. Bear and forbear : holding the unity 
 of the fpirit in the bond of peace. Satan’s chief 
 device will be to divide you. Form no parties, 
 nor cabals; fupprefs the firft movements of difpirte 
 and divifion ; ever remember the words- of the 
 
 Lord 
 
regulation of the MISSION. £3 
 
 Lord : He is the greatest in his kingdom, wl>o is 
 
 the jervant of all. 
 
 We requelt it lolemnly, we adjure you in the 
 Great Mailer’s name, “ Lore one another out of 
 4t a pure heart fervently putting on bowels of 
 merey, kindnefs, long-fufFering, forbearing imc 
 another, and forgiving one another, even though 
 any man had a real caufe of dil'pleafure again it his 
 brother, as God for ChrilVs fake hath forgiven you. 
 
 Your examples muft preach as powerfully as 
 your words. But if ever bitter envyings and ft rife 
 nrife, you will put an effectual bar to your own 
 ulefulnefs, and defeat the great purpofe of your 
 Million. Let all your zeal, therefore, be refervetl 
 for your work, and let no felfilh paffions mingle 
 with it, to corrupt the limplicity which is in 
 ChrifL 
 
 You will be very differently qualified ; and in 
 fome things there can be no competition between 
 -you. The talent one lacks, another poflefles in a 
 more abundant manner, and each is cquaily valu- 
 able and necellary for the work of God, and your 
 mutual comfort and advantage. Remember al- 
 ways St. Paul’s beautiful allegory of the human 
 body : Every part is alike needful, for its beauty, 
 fymmetry,and prefervation ; and juit fo every mem- 
 ber of your community thould have the laine care 
 one of another. 
 
 Should evil break in upon a brother, which may 
 the Lord preferve you from, be not baity or harfh 
 in your rebukes, nor too fevere in your cenfures ; 
 a broken bone muft be handled gently. You know 
 St. Paul's direction where grievous offence had 
 been given — “ Ye that are fpiritual, reltore fuch a 
 “ one in the fpirit of meeknefs.” 
 
 Watch over each other in love and fidelity ; 
 prevent, if pofiible, the evil ; kindly conceal from 
 your brethren lefier offences, after private admoni- 
 tion ; the greater, if unhappily fuch fhould arife, 
 
 mu it 
 
54 
 
 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 
 
 miuft be cenfured openly : not treating him Jfs 
 an enemy, but admonifhing him as a brother. 
 Exclufion from your fociety becomes neccflary, 
 when guilt produces no humiliation ; and obftinate 
 perfeverance in evil, compels the excifion of the 
 mortified limb, left the body be infected. 
 
 Avoid as much as poffible all occafions of temp- 
 tation. Let no man be permitted, without leave of 
 the community, to be abfent at night from the com- 
 mon dormitory. In every journey, walk, occupa- 
 tion, let two or more brethrefi always be together. 
 
 Should any native women feek inftru£tion in 
 private, let one of our women fitters be their 
 teachers. In public, all who pleafe, and arefilent, 
 may attend our worfhip and inftruction. 
 
 If a brother thinks he ought to marry, let fuch 
 a one take care that he be not guided by paflion 
 and fancy : Only in the Lord is the clear apoftolic 
 order : If therefore his defire be that he may' keep 
 himfelf more pure in the honourable eftate of wed- 
 lock, let him communicate his wifhes to his bre- 
 thren, nor prefume to form any fecret engage- 
 ments, but always a6t openly, with the approbation 
 of the Million. 
 
 Should any brother marry a native, they fhould 
 build a little houfe near their brethren, and come 
 under the fame regulations as our own married 
 brethren; their wives affociating with our believing 
 women, and on no account feparate, but live in 
 daily communion and worfhip under the fame roof. 
 
 Internal 
 
REGULATION OP THE MISSION. 
 
 55 
 
 II. 
 
 Internal Order , Adminiflratton , and Inftruclion , 
 
 [The Obfervance of this Order commences with the 
 Voyage, and is to be continued on the Iflands, with 
 fuch Variations as Circumftances render necefiary.] 
 
 Y OU mutt be a little Church and Commu- 
 nity, and form fuch rules for your proceed- 
 ing on the fpot as may appear beft tinted to your 
 circumtlances : but every one is obliged to give 
 way to the conclulions of the majority, and chear- 
 fullv to acquiefce in all matters of prudential re- 
 gulation, and not to follow his own opinion or 
 will. 
 
 It is hoped that the fpiritof faith, love, and hu- 
 mility, will fo pervade the whole Million, that 
 every individual will be ready, for the general good, 
 to take the lowed place, and to become the fervant 
 of all. At the fame time, condition, difunion, and 
 want of fubor-dination, mull be avoided ; the Mif- 
 lionaries will endeavour, in humble dependance on 
 Divine Counfel, to form and maintain fuch an or- 
 der among themfelves as is luitable to their diffe- 
 rent gifts, offices, abilities, and employments ; fuch 
 an order as may exprefs folemn refpedl and obe- 
 dience to the inftitutions of the New Tcftament ; 
 fuch an order as may ltrike the minds of the hea- 
 then with ideas of its wifdom, fweetnefs, utility, 
 and dignity. 
 
 That an order to defireable, without the pecu- 
 liarities of any denomination, may be fecured ; 
 that the honour and purity of the ordinances of 
 God may be maintained, and that the effects of 
 human pride and felf-lufficiency may be prevented, 
 
 fixed 
 
5(5 
 
 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THB 
 
 fixed rules are neceffiary, and mull be unanirnoufly 
 adopted. 
 
 The Management of the whole and feparate 
 Millions fhould be conduced by a Committee of 
 five, elected by the whole body of the Milfionaries. 
 The determinations of this Committee fhould be 
 confidered as final. Of this Committee the Cap- 
 tain is of courfe one, and permanent Chairman 
 during the voyage. At the end of one month 
 while on board, and three months afterwards, one 
 of the Committee fhould go out by rotation, and 
 another be chofcn in his place by the whole body. 
 To this Committee, and which it will be bell to 
 elect on the firji day of the month, when that does 
 not fall on the Sabbath-day, mult belong the ar- 
 rangement of public religious fervices, the cog- 
 nizance of immoralities, errors, and diforders, and 
 the direction of all endeavours refpeCting the Hea- 
 then, In cafes of peculiar difficulty and danger, 
 all the Miffionaries may, if it appears to the Com- 
 mittee practicable and advifable, be fummoned to 
 hoid an extraordinary conference, and invited to 
 give their opinion and advice. 
 
 During the voyage, the Captain is to be con- 
 fidcred as having authority over all the Miffiona 7 
 ries, as to all external matters ; to him it belongs 
 to determine the convenient times for public fer- 
 vices in the veflel. 
 
 When fixed on fhore, and fettled as a commu- 
 nity, it is abfolutely necelTary that a Chairman be 
 elected by the Committee for fix months at the 
 leaf ; but we recommend that, in order to fuit the 
 ideas of the natives, aceuftomed to the continual 
 government of the fame Chiefs, it be for a longer 
 
 Prcfidcnt, for the time being, belongs al) 
 the external arrangement of bufinefs ; he is the or- 
 gan of the Society in all negociations with the 
 native Chiefs, but he can only aCt in concert with 
 
 the 
 
 period. 
 To t 
 
REGULATION OP THE MISSION. 5 7 
 
 the Council, in which he is always to have a deli- 
 berative voice. 
 
 The fame order mud be followed with the fm id- 
 ler communities, which may branch out from the 
 main body to the adjacent iflands, if the linall 
 number in fuch Millions admits of, or requires it. 
 
 The Lord's I),p thou Id be obferved with fitcred 
 regard and particular attention, and the whole of 
 it employed in excreifes of. devotion, or labours 
 of love. 
 
 We recommend folcmn fervice to be twice per- 
 formed, careful only not to exceed a limited time, 
 perhaps an hour and a half at fartheft ; the time 
 to be fixed as luits the climate and manners of 
 the people. 
 
 The beft informed, and longeft in the Miniftry, 
 will naturally prelide in your devotions. Thole 
 who are in the habits of lpcaking (hould, in their 
 turn, improve their gifts, and edify their brethren. 
 Every Mondav the Committee fhould fettle the 
 morning and evening devotional exereiles, and ap- 
 point who fhall read, give out the pfalms or hymns, 
 pray and preach, the next Lord’s-Day, dividing 
 the fcrvices among each other, as may be moll for 
 edification. 
 
 Every day the morning fhould open and the 
 evening clofe with a chapter, prayer, a pfalrn or 
 hymn ; a fhort expofition may be given the one 
 evening, and a fhort fermon the following event- 
 ing, all through the tveek. Every man’s gilts may 
 thus be tried and brought forward ; and let no 
 man delpife his brother, but encourage the feeble- 
 minded, and be patient towards all. 
 
 The Lord’s Prayer may be ufed or omitted, ac- 
 cording to the option of him who officiates at the 
 time ; approved verfions or paraphrafes of the 
 Pfalms of David, and hymns containing found 
 docinne, fhall be ufed from time to tune, fo as 
 
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58 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 
 
 to meet as much as polfible, the ideas and withes 
 of all the Milfionaries. The preachers fhall be 
 careful to digeft well thefubjedt which they handle 
 in public, and endeavour to introduce in their 
 difeourfes a proper mixture of dodlrinal, experi- 
 mental, and practical religion. No forms of prayer 
 fhall be enforced fratedly and invariably ; thofe, 
 however, who choofe to make ufe of a form or 
 part of a form of prayer, fhall be at liberty to 
 do fo. ' 
 
 As our worfhip on the Lord’s-Day, and alfo 
 morning and evening every day, fhould be open 
 to the natives, and they fhould be invited to at- 
 tend ; particular regard fhould be fhewn to fuch 
 as appeared ferious and attentive ; and as foon as 
 polfible little bodies of them fhould be formed, 
 for evening conferences with them. 
 
 Refpecting the moft probable means of fuccefs 
 with the natives, there can be but one opinion. 
 The lives of our brethren muft give weight to their 
 teaching : If they are truly exemplar}-, half the 
 work is done. 
 
 How they are to teach, whether in difeourfing 
 publicly, or in private conference, will hardly ad- 
 mit of a doubt : — The B ble, and the experience 
 of the moft fuccefsful Millions, allure us, that 
 the great dodtrine of the Atonement muft be the 
 chief corner ftone. The glory and the humiliation 
 of Jefus, and every thing relative to the delive- 
 rance from fin and- death by him muft make the 
 ground work. A limple recital of his love, the 
 defign of his incarnation, death, and refurrec- 
 tion ; thefe muft be the points, chiefly repeatedly- 
 dwelt upon. The obligations of love and duty 
 which we owe him, naturally conned! thcmfelves 
 with thefe views; together with proinifcs of his 
 grace, through the agency of his own fpirit, to 
 enable us to follow him in the regeneration. 
 
REGULATION’ OF THE MISSION. 
 
 59 
 
 The bleffcdnefs and comfort of fuch a life in 
 this world, and the ai'iurance of an attainment 
 thereby of a happy and glorious eternity in a bet- 
 ter, will afford a field of delightful inftru&ion. 
 
 AffcCl not fubtleties and deep points of contro- 
 verly, either among yourfelves or with the natives. 
 Wave as much as poflible what would lead to 
 queftions, rather than godly edifying. Attempt 
 not by arguments on the reafonablenefs, or evi- 
 dences of the Chriltian Religion, to difplay your 
 own whilom ; or, fuppofe you can anl'wer and 
 filence all their objections, adhere to the fimpli- 
 city which is in Chrift, trufting to the power of the 
 Holy Ghoft to take the things of Chrift, and fhew 
 them to their confidences with divine conviction 
 and effectual energy. It is the evil heart of un- 
 belief that muft be fnbdued ; an awakened con- 
 fidence feels the need of a great faerifice : an 
 unawakened mind will always refill the Holy Ghoft, 
 and muft be left to him, who only can remove the 
 darknefs, and quicken from a date of death to 
 newnefs of life. 
 
 It muft be by divine operation, and not by mo- 
 ral perluafion alone, that any real converfions will 
 ever be wrought among the Heathen, or indeed 
 among any others. 
 
 In all attempts to convince the natives of their 
 fins, we fhould particularly leleCt thofe inftances 
 of depravity which are molt frequently ftriking, 
 viz. the {hocking crime of fhedding human blood ; 
 the horrid murder of children ; the abominable 
 public proftitulions, and fuch other enonpities as 
 carry upon the face of them fomething revolting 
 even to humanity. Avoid attacking their eftablifh- 
 ed cuftoms of a more indifferent nature, fuch as 
 their drels, amufements. Sc c. however indecent 
 the one may appear, or in their confequences ap- 
 parently dangerous the other. If the confidence 
 becomes truly awakened, it will then grow tender, 
 
 G 2 and 
 
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 
 
 60 
 
 and thev will be ready to hear, as in matters of 
 lefs notoriety, and abtlain from the appearances 
 of evil. 
 
 We cannot but obferve, however, that fome of 
 their moft horrid practices may afford occation to 
 the moft ufcful improvements. Their human fa- 
 crifices themfelves open the way, in a very affecting 
 and folemn manner, for introducing to view the 
 Great Sacrif.ce, which alone can take awav fn ; 
 and the oblations at their morais alto may be im- 
 proved, as leading to an acknowledgment of the 
 immortality of the foul, and the doctrines con- 
 nected with an eternal world. 
 
 The ordinance of the Lord’s Supper fhould be 
 adminiftered at leaft once eyery month ; the en- 
 quiries and applications it would give rite to, might 
 be made very profitable to the natives. 
 
 Infants fhould be admitted to baptifm where 
 either of the parents are profefted believers. If it 
 be judged expedient to baptize the children of any 
 of our countrymen, it fhould be done under the 
 folemn engagement, that they fhould be brought 
 to our tents as foon as they are capable of inftruc- 
 tion. 
 
 Marriages fhould be folemnizcd publicly by any 
 of our Minifiers, in the prefence of the Church, 
 and entered into a regifter ; and if any Heathen, 
 who has married one wife among the natives, pay 
 attention to our teaching, he fhould be exhorted 
 to enter into a folemn engagement to continue the 
 hulband of one wife. 
 
 Avoid unnecefiary difputes about modes and 
 forms; in uncftential matters, let every man think 
 for himfelf, and not exaggerate the importance 
 of things which do not aftcCt the fundamental 
 doCtrincs of Chriftianity. 
 
 Regulations 
 
REGULATION OP THE MISSION. 6l 
 
 III. 
 
 Regulations on the Voyage . 
 
 APT AIN WILSON being appointed to the 
 
 command of the (hip Dlpf, an obedience to 
 
 his injun&ions and regulations is neceflarily re- 
 quired on the part of the Millionaires. 
 
 The improvement of the Millionaires in ufeful 
 knowledge, and the prefer vation of their health, 
 arc the two great objects to be attended to during 
 the voyage ; the fiifl is intimately connected with 
 eftablilhing a dilcreet fyftem of ufeful employment, 
 adapted to the capacities and future defignution of 
 the Miflionaries. 
 
 I. The Miflionaries mav be divided into two 
 
 • J 
 
 clafles ; thole who arc already in a more advanced 
 Itate of mental improvement, and who are more 
 particularly defigned to be employed in the in- 
 flru6tion of others; and thofc who will berm- 
 ployed in the! exercife of their art' and knowledge 
 as mechanics. With refpedl to the firft it is re- 
 commended, 
 
 1. That fome part of every day fhall be em- 
 ployed in reading the Bible, and fueh other works 
 as are adapted to increafc their religious know- 
 ledge, and thereby their fitnefs for communicating 
 religious i nil ruction. 
 
 2. That fome part of every day fhall alfo be 
 employed in the accjuifition of general knowledge, 
 viz. natural hiftory and the mathematics, particu- 
 larly navigation. 
 
 3 . That they fhall occafionally be engaged in 
 the inftru&ion of the others in every branch of 
 ufeful knowledge. 
 
 4 . That one of them fhall be appointed Libra- 
 rian, w ho is to have the charge of the books, and 
 
 who 
 
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 
 
 t>2 
 
 who is to enter the name of the perfon who defires 
 v one from the Library. 
 
 5 . That one of them fhall be appointed to keep 
 a journal, in which fhall be recorded the daily 
 tranfadtions and general employments of the Mif- 
 fionaries, together with their obfervations, taken 
 from the thermometer and barometer every morn- 
 ing, noon, and night. 
 
 0 . That a portion of their time fhall be em- 
 ployed in learning the vocabulary of the Otaheitan 
 
 4 language, which they will be furnifhed with. 
 
 With refpedt to thole who are more particularly 
 to be employed in the mechanic arts, it is recom- 
 mended, 
 
 1. That they alfo fhould employ feme part of 
 every day in reading the Scriptures, and other re- 
 ligious writings, for the purpofe of increafing their 
 religious knowledge. 
 
 2. That they make themfelves ufeful on board 
 of fhip as occafions may arife, in the exercife of 
 their arts, as carpenters, fmiths, fail-makers, pain- 
 ters, &c. 
 
 3 . That they diligently attend to the inltrudfions 
 which may be afforded them by others for their 
 improvement in general knowledge. 
 
 II, With refpect to the health of the Miffiona- 
 rics, as a free circulation of air, and an attention 
 to cleanlinefs are the moft eflential means of pre- 
 ferving it, it is recommended, 
 
 1. That when the weather permits they fhall 
 bring their hammocks on deck, at fuch hour as 
 Captain Wilfon {hall hereafter appoint, and to 
 keep the fpa.ee betwixt the decks clean, by as fre- 
 quently wafhing the fame as fhall be thought ne- 
 cefiary. 
 
 2. That as it is cuftomary, for the fafety* of the 
 fhip, that the lights in it fhould be extinguifhed 
 £>y eight o’clock in the evening, and conle- 
 (juentiy the Miflioparics will retire early to refi, it 
 
 is 
 
REGULATION OP THE MISSION. 6 $ 
 
 is recommended, as a means of preferring their 
 health, that they thould rife at the break of day. 
 
 3. That as inactivity, or too much fedentary 
 employment, may be injurious to health, it is re- 
 commended that every Miffionary take daily exer* 
 cite upon the deck. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Concerning the Mode of Settlement in the 
 IJlands. 
 
 I N attempting to obtain an abiding fettlemcnt 
 in any ifland, it will be the duty of the Mif- 
 fionaries to exercile much dependance on the Lord 
 their God ; for the communication from on high 
 of that peculiar dilcernment and liigacity which 
 arc nectjlary in the firft opening of intercourfe 
 with an uncultivated and unknown people ; and 
 likewile for that influence upon the minds of the 
 nations, which will turn the hearts of the people 
 towards them, and bring them into favour and 
 tender love with them. In fubordination to this 
 dependance, every proper mean is to be ufed, with 
 a humble fear of provoking divine jealoufy, by re- 
 liance on the arm of flelb. 
 
 The Miflionaries may avail themfelves of the 
 good opinion which they And entertained by the 
 Heathen of thofe Europeans, particularly from 
 this ifland, who have formerly viflted them. They 
 will alio watch the firlt opportunities to iinprefs the 
 people of the iflands with the flmplicity and un- 
 feigned benevolence of their own hearts towards 
 them, in the flrlt initance, with refpett to tem- 
 poral objedts and concerns ; inflnuating to them, 
 without oftentation, the luperior improvements in 
 
 the 
 
64 INSTRUCTIONS FOR ,THE 
 
 the arts of life which they have had opportunity 
 to acquire, and expreffing a cordial readinefs to 
 impart to them every inflruedion and affidance of 
 that kind. At the fame time, it will be becoming 
 the character of Spiritual Miffionaries, to convince 
 the natives, as foon as it is practicable, that they 
 fct no great value on thefe things, or on any thing 
 whatever belonging merely to this world ; but that 
 the chief treafure they convey is entirely of a reli- 
 gious and heavenly nature. The favourable pro- 
 vidential influence on the minds of the natives, 
 above alluded to, will attend thofe, who, while 
 they ufe prudent precautions, keep clofe to their 
 fpiritual errand and work, as that which will bear 
 them through every difficulty. 
 
 The Miffionaries muft make the natives fen- 
 fible, that in fettling among them they have no un- 
 reafonable demands to make, no claims of ambi- 
 tion, arrogance, or avarice ; that they are difpofed 
 to acknowledge with the pureft integrity and re- 
 fpedt the dominion of the natives over their own 
 ifland, and all its productions, and thje fubordina- 
 tion previoufly eflabliihed, and that they defire no 
 further footing or property among them than is 
 neceflary, in order to their ferving them in their 
 mod valuable interefts. Every thing, therefore, 
 ihould be fixed between the natives and the Mif- 
 fionaries, by t ran factions formed in the cleared 
 and mod equitable manner, according to the ideas 
 of juflice which the natives entertain, and arc ac- 
 quainted with. The Miffionaries mud not feem, 
 nor indeed be, anxious to obtain an independanee 
 of the free good-will of the natives, but rather 
 fhow a willingnefs to place confidence in their 
 juflice and generofity. 
 
 The firft acd of the Captain, or whofoev^r may 
 be empowered to treat with the natives, will be 
 tiie procuring, by favour or purchafe, fuch a fpot 
 
 of 
 
REGULATION OP THE MISSION. 65 
 
 of ground as may be fufficicnt for provifion of 
 every fort, as well as for an abode. 
 
 On this fpot a confiderably large houfe fhould 
 be eredted, which may ferve for the place of public 
 worfhip, wheir the weather will not admit our af- 
 fembling beneath a wide-fprcading tree, or the 
 fair canopy of Heaven. Thisfpacious manfion fhould 
 be formed as much as convenient after the mode 
 and with the materials of the country, in building 
 which, it is hoped we fhall have the affiflance 
 of the natives. There fhould alfo be a large room 
 appropriated to a common hall for all meals, which 
 fhould be fixed and regular, and it will alfo ferve 
 for a fchool room for the natives, at appointed 
 hours. 
 
 All matters of houfbold economy may be regu- 
 lated by a fleward, appointed by the Committee 
 for this very purpofe, who is to take care, with 
 proper affiftants, from the produce of the land and 
 the ftores, to provide the family, according to a 
 bill of fare regulated by the fealons, and the abun- 
 dance or fcarcity, which mult regulate your con- 
 fumption. 
 
 At meals, the acknowledgment of God fhould 
 be folemn, animated and chearful : fometimes ac- 
 companied with a pfalm or hymn ; temperance, an 
 unfeigned readinefs in each to become the fervant 
 of all ; a mutual delight in each other’s temporal 
 comfort, and a difpofition to catch proper fealons 
 of converfation on fpiritual things, fhould diitin- 
 guifh the Chriltian from the Pagan board. 
 
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 66 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 
 
 V. 
 
 Mariner of Life in Society, Lomefic Economy, 
 and. Employment of Time. 
 
 H ERE'alfo will, wc hope, appear among the 
 Miffionaries the marks of that wifdom and 
 energy which proceed from the Ipirit of the living 
 God. The order, harmony, vigour, and fubordi- 
 nation, which will reign through every corner of 
 the mclofure, muft exhibit a ftriking lpedtacle to 
 the untutored mind. 
 
 How much of your time the neceffary attention 
 to your provifion and maintenance will require, 
 cannot, be known till you get there ; labour is ra- 
 ther to be courted than refufed, as nothing would 
 be more dangerous than a fpirit of idlenefs. 
 
 Hours for the culture of your ground muft be 
 allotted daily, when every hand muft be diligent 
 according to his ability. Probably it will be moft 
 for the general good that thefe hours for manual 
 labour fhould be employed by each in their fcveral 
 peculiar arts and vocations. The gardener and huf- 
 bandmen, and thofe who have no art or peculiar 
 occupation, thould be in the field, cultivating the 
 land ; the carpenter at his law-pit or Ihop ; the 
 fmith at his forge or vice ; and each ferving the 
 community in his own way ; fo that the appointed 
 hours of labour being thus fpent in the moft ufeful 
 manner for the whole, the reft of the day may be 
 appropriated for the more immediate purpofes of 
 the. million. 
 
 Your own improvement in ufeful knowledge 
 fhould occupy a part of every day ; the beft in- 
 formed may improve themfelves, and aftift and 
 bring' forward their brethren. Particular attention, 
 fhould be paid to acquire as fpcedily as poftible the 
 
 Otaheitau 
 
REGULATION OP THE MISSION. 67 
 
 Otaheitan language, to which the afiiftance of the 
 Englilhmen we may find there will greatly contri- 
 bute ; if but one or two of them cordially embrace 
 the Miifionaries, and appear traCtable, and dif- 
 pol'cd to hear the word of falvation. Thus, as foon 
 as pofiible, lhould we endeavour to have tranfia- 
 tions of prayers and hymns in the Otaheitan lan- 
 guage, and may probably find thefe blefied to the 
 natives, even before we can acquire a facility to 
 addrefs them in their own tongue ; many may be 
 pleated to ling with us, even before they undet- 
 liand the import of the words ; feleCt pafiages of 
 Scripture and hymns may be amonglt our firft ef- 
 fays of printing. We cannot but feel a facred 
 glow when we think that the firft chapter of St. 
 John’s Gofpel may be read in the Otaheitan lan- 
 guage before another year expires. 
 
 Some part of every day fiiould be fixed, as is moft 
 convenient, to inftruCt the natives, to which instruc- 
 tions they fhould be invited : our brethren each tak- 
 ing a clafs to teach the letters of our alphabet ; the 
 women fhould teach the women and girls apart, 
 and the brethren the men. We fcarce entertain 
 a doubt that many of the natives, from the higheft 
 to the lowed:, will be eager to learn how to read, 
 and mark thofe characters that to them muft ap- 
 pear fo wonderful. 
 
 During the time alfo that our feveral handi- 
 craftlmen are at work at their feveral trades, the 
 natives will crowd with curiofity around them : all 
 readinefs to inftruCt and inform them fhould be 
 fhewn ; every little office of kindnefs be freely 
 done for them, and native youths of ready ge- 
 nius, efpecially the relatives of the fuperior people, 
 whofe protection and favour will be of ufe to us, 
 taken and taught how to manage tools. 
 
 At fuch feafons there will be a favourable op- 
 portunity to addrefs the natives, who may be at- 
 
 II 2 traCted 
 
6 B instructions for the 
 
 trailed by their curiofity, and to mingle divine 
 fubjedts of indruction with lefions of information. 
 
 It is earnedly recommended that every perfon 
 in the Mifsion keep a particular diary of his own. 
 Befides this, one perfon fhould be appointed to 
 keep a general diary of the daily employments, and 
 of every material occurrence which happens, we 
 with no fpecious accounts to meet public curiofity, 
 but fimple narratives of fa£ts and oblervations. 
 
 This diary fhould contain remarks on the coun- 
 try, extent, divifion, foil, climate, produce, reli- 
 gious obfervances, government, focial manners, 
 common employments, &c. of the inlanders : each 
 from time to time fhould read thefe, and add any 
 farther obfervations they have made. Something 
 of this kind fhould be done every day, and the ma- 
 terials arranged once a week for transmitting home. 
 Thefe obfervations, formed into a body, would 
 exceedingly gratify the public, and probably greatly 
 advance the purpofe of the Mifsion, by exciting a 
 milsionary fpirit, and producing a considerable pe- 
 cuniary afsiftance towards the furtherance of the 
 work. 
 
 Whilft every brother poflefies the property he 
 choofes to carry with him, as an individual — as a 
 Chriflian Society they fhould have a community of 
 all the goods provided by the Society’s funds, of 
 the produce of their lands, and of their feveral la- 
 bours, all this fhould come into a common ftock 
 for the cc|ual ufe and benefit of the whole : This 
 is primitive, and, in the prefent date of things, 
 mod conducive to the great obje<5t. 
 
 Whild every office of kindnefs individually 
 fhould be fhown to the natives, no traffic, on any 
 account, fhould be carried on, but by the perfon 
 the President choofes to be the medium of com- 
 munication in every purchafe or exchange ; nor 
 fhould any brother prefume to infringe this regu- 
 lation, By this means you will be prevented from 
 
 exhauding 
 
REGULATION OP THE MISSION. G(J 
 
 exhaufting your ftorcs, which by all wife methods 
 you mult hufband to the belt advantage. 
 
 Great caution fhould be ufed as to af fuming a 
 fuperiority over any of the natives by making fer- 
 vants of them, even though they may feem willing 
 to lubmit to the yoke, excepting in fuch things as 
 fifhing, that cannot be well done without the af* 
 fiftance of their ferviccs. The great and powerful 
 among the natives fhould be taught by example to 
 reward and do good to the lowcft. 
 
 Till the {hip returns, do not feparate from each 
 other, but endeavour to perfedt yourlelves in the 
 language of the country. Let your excurfions al- 
 ways be in company two or three together, lent 
 by the brethren, limiting the time of abfence, and 
 returning according to order. 
 
 We recommend great diligence in providing 
 an abundant culture of native vegetables and roots, 
 as well as railing fuch new ones as may be carried 
 out, and will be found congenial with the climate. 
 A prolific foil will probably abundantly repay their 
 efforts, and plenty r will enable us to afsifl the more 
 indigent of the natives, and conciliate by adts of 
 kindnefs their regard ; remembering always that 
 the fouls of the mcaneft are as precious as the 
 fouls of the greateft, and fuch kindnefs to their 
 bodies will mark our friendfhip to them, and we 
 hope enable us by every means to gain fome. 
 
 Whatever European commodities may be left, 
 medicines, liquors, articles of drefs or food, fhould 
 be carefully preferred for exigencies, all ftrong 
 and fpirituous liquors fhould be wholly abftained 
 from, but as medicine and on fpecial occafions, 
 and the natives fhould never be fuffered to tafte 
 them. 
 
 The natives are difpofed to fteal our iron 
 and tools, and as the temptation to them is fo 
 great, we fhould be very careful, when ufing tools 
 in their company, to lay them near us and in 
 
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 fight, and never leave them with fuch temptations 
 before them. 
 
 The books belonging to the Million fhould be 
 under the care and refponfibility of a particular 
 perfon, who {hall take a note from thofe brethren 
 who may defire to borrow any of them, and none 
 be removed without fuch a note occupying a place. 
 
 Though we hope our conduCl will convince the 
 natives that they will get more by our inftructions 
 and affiftance than by any robbery they may com- 
 mit, and that the King and Chiefs will probably 
 pledge themfelves for our fecurity under that con- 
 viction, yet we advife that the houfe be never left 
 without fome perfon in it, as our attention w ill 
 difcQurage any temptation. 
 
 On fhore, probably, the fettlement itfielf fhould 
 be formed, with fome view of fituation, eafy of 
 defence, and difficult of accefs, and the houfes fo 
 fituated, as to be furrounded with a ditch and 
 pallifadocs, which, if no other purpofe was an- 
 fwered, would render all noCturnal depredations 
 from the natives more difficult ; make it lecure as 
 the fituation will admit, without appearing to ere<5t 
 a fortrefs, or to defend it by arms, which might 
 alarm the jealoufy, and alienate the affection of 
 the Chiefs. Our own peaceable and unafluming 
 behaviour will foon convince them, that they have 
 nothing to apprehend from us of danger, and every 
 thing to expeCt of kindnefs and affiftance. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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 Rev. George Burder, Coventry. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Greatheed, Woburn. 
 
 Rev. John Hey, Briftol. 
 
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