holy ordinances throughout all the Land, which is no
token of wrath, but of loving kindnesse towards you. No wonder that Satan
doth thus rage, as you relate, foreseeing his casting out: No wonder he
stirre up all the children of disobedience, and kindle their natural
malice against the children of God with the inspiration of hellish fury:
No wonder the spirit of Antichrist be mad, when the morsel half swallowed
down, is like to be pulled out of his throat, the fat morsel of the rich
Revenues of England: No wonder he be cruell against you the servants of
Christ, who are consuming him by the breath of the Lords mouth.

You do well to expect no mercy, if Papists and Prelats prevail over you,
neither desire we to deceive our selves with hopes to be free from what
the power and malice can do against us; for they will not do to us if they
get the upper-hand, as we have done, and must do, if God bring them low
again under us; as they were before; for we and they are led by the
contrary spirits of Christ, and Anti-Christ: We have laboured, and must
labour for their conversion, but they (except in so far as God shall
bridle them) will not rest without our destruction; for their fury against
our persons is much more fierie then our zeal is fervent against their
abominations: Let them follow the spirit of lying and murthering, we must
take us to our refuge, and joyne our selves with all that are sensible of
the danger of the reformed Religion in prayer and supplication. _The Lord
of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge._

Now for advice, what can we say to you who are upon your watch tower,
wherein is the spirit of wisedome and counsel; who lye thus as humble
Disciples under the Lords foot, who did never forsake them that sought
him. Go on in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, against all opposition,
without fear of whatsoever dangers, to purge the House of the Lord, to
repair the breaches thereof, to set up all his Ordinances in their full
beautie and perfection, to the uttermost of your power, according to the
pattern of the Word of GOD, and zeal of the best reformed Kirks; And let
these two Kingdomes be knit together as one man in maintaining and
promoving the truth of the Gospel, Let us enter in a perpetual Covenant
for our selves and our posterity, to endevour that all things may be done
in the House of GOD according to his own will, and let the Lord do with us
what seemeth good in his eyes. _Only wait upon the lo