The Letter from the Assembly of Divines in the Kingdome of England.

_To the right reverend the Generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland._

_Right reverend and dearly beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ,_

We the Assembly of Divines and others, called and now sitting by authority
of both Houses of Parliament, to be consulted by them in matters of
Religion; have received from the honourable Houses of Commons, a speciall
order (dated the 3. of this instant August) recommending it to us to write
a Letter to the Generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland, taking notice
of the pious and good expeditions to this Church and State, certified in
the late Answer of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk
of Scotland, from their meeting at Edinburgh the 17. of July 1643. And
further to desire them to possesse the people of that Kingdome with our
condition, and to encourage them to our assistance in this cause of
Religion. And having with that order received and read the said Answer
directed to the honourable Houses of the Parliament of England, we cannot
sufficiently expresse the great content and comfort, unto which it hath
raised us in the midst of the sad and calamitous condition under which we
lie.

It is no small refreshing to our mourning spirits to finde, that yet our
God hath not left us wholly comfortlesse, nor cast us so far out of his
sight, as having made us sick with smiting that should be verified of us,
_Lover and friend hast thou put far from us_, and that no man should turn
aside to ask how we do: but that we finde so many of the Churches of
Christ, and above them all, our dearest Brethren of Scotland, so far to
take to heart our extremities, as to sit in the dust with us, and so to
look upon our adversities, as being themselves also in the body.

And as we cannot render thanks sufficient unto our God for remembring such
mercie in the midst of so much wrath; so we embrace with all chearfulnesse
this opportunitie of thankfull acknowledgement of the great debt which
your love doth continually lay upon, not us alone, but upon this whole
Kingdome, in the free and full expressions of your care, piety and zeal,
and of like affections of that whole Nation, to assist and concurre with
the Parliament here, by all good and lawfull means, for sending of
Religion in godly unity and uniformitie throughout all his Majesties
Dominions, against all the designes, power and malice of bloudie Papists,
and the