rd had seen your faces, and
conversed with you. But now yet more comforted by your Letters which we
received, and which were read in the face of the Assembly, witnessing your
Christian love, and rejoycing with us in God for his great and wonderfull
Work in the Reformation of this Kirk, and in the beginning of a blessed
Reformation amongst your selves, and that you are so sensible of your
communion and fellowship with us, and to desire to know our minde and
judgement of that which some Brethren amongst you hold, concerning
Kirk-government.

We doe with our hearts acknowledge and wonder at the great and unspeakable
wisedome, mercie, and power of our God, in restoring unto us the truth and
puritie of Religion, after many Back-slidings and defection of some in
this Kirk, & desire not only to confesse the same before the world, and
all other Christian Kirks, but also doe pray for grace to walk worthy of
so wonderful a love: We have been helped by your prayers, in our weak
endeavours, & you have mourned with us, (we know) in the dayes of our
mourning; and therefore is it that you doe now rejoyce and praise God with
us. Neither are we out of hope, but the same God shall speedily perfect
that which he hath begun amongst you, that your joy may be full, which is
the desire of our soule, and for which we doe now pray, and in our
severall Congregations will be instant at the throne of grace, for this
and all other spirituall and temporall blessings upon the Kirk and
Kingdome of _England_, by name, expecting the like performance of mutuall
love from you and others equally minded with you, for your parts, till a
common consent may be obtained, even that you will recommend the Kirk of
_Scotland_ by name in your prayers to God. Thus shall we be as one people,
mourning and rejoycing, praying and praising together; which may be one
meane of the preservation of Unity, and of many other blessings to us
both.

We have learned by long experience, ever since the time of the
Reformation, and specially after the two Kingdomes have been (in the great
goodnesse of God to both) united under one Head and Monarch, but most of
all of late, which is not unknown to you, what danger and contagion in
matters of Kirk-government, of divine worship, and of doctrine, may come
from the one Kirk to the other, which beside all other reasons make us to
pray to God, and to desire you, and all that love the honour of Christ,
and the peace of these Kirks and Kingd