security of this Nation indeed is great, it is our part to blow the
Trumpet to give warning to the People, and to rouze them from that fearful
condition which threatneth so much desertion. And to this end we have
injoyned a solemne Fast, the causes whereof being more particularly
considered by our Commissioners here, will no question be sent unto you,
that if the Lord please, you may joyne with us there in that Action.

We have set down an order to be kept hereafter, for sending Ministers unto
the Armie, which the Clerk will send herewith unto you. Now the Lord our
GOD, in whose Name his people go forth against his Enemies, help and
assist them, and cover their heads in the Day of Battel, and be their
Refuge; and blesse your travels and endeavours, for the good of their
souls and his own glory.

_Edinburgh_, 3. June 1644.

_Subscribed in name of the Generall Assembly by the Moderator._

4. _June_ 1644. Sess 7.

_The Letter from the Commissioners at_ London _to the General Assembly._

_Right Honourable, Reverend and beloved in the LORD,_

It was the earnest desire of our hearts to have come unto you at this
time, and to have brought with us the desireable fruits of our weighty
imployments and labours, to our common rejoycing in the mids of so many
troubles both here and there: but our Lord in his wisedome hath not judged
it fitting, that this should be the time of our joyful harvest, and of
bringing our sheaves, to be matter of sacrifice to himself, and of
shouting to us. Both Nations as yet do but go forth weeping and bearing
their precious seed; yet are we confident through JESUS CHRIST, that as it
is a seed time, if the Labourers (although other men before us have
laboured and we are entred into their labours) prove faithful unto the
end, the harvest shall come in due time, and in great plenty.

The common Directory for publick Worship in the Kirks of the three
Kingdomes is so begun (which we did make known to the Commissioners of the
General Assembly) that we could not think upon any particular Directory
for our own Kirk, and yet is not so far perfected, that wee could present
any part thereof unto your view: for although wee have exhibited unto the
Grand Committee (which is composed of some of the Members of both Houses,
and of the Assembly, with our selves) the materials of the publick prayers
of the Kirk, the method of Preaching, and the order of administration of
both Sacraments, and have the C