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difficulties, and set our feet upon a rock, and ordered our goings. The
experience wee have had in our own persons, affoordeth us confidence and
hope concerning your affaires; and wee trust this hope shall not be
disappointed; it is our duety to hope upon experience, and it is the Lords
word and promise, that such an hope shall not be ashamed. It cannot choose
but beget confidence in you, when ye shall consider, that ye have seen
before your eyes your neighboring Ship of this Kirk and Kingdome, having
(as it were) loosed from your side, in the like or self-same storme,
notwithstanding all tossing of windes and waves, yet (_not by might, nor
by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts_) to have arrived safe
and sound to the Port and Harberie; yea, and to have dared to put out
again unto the storm, to contribute her weak endeavours for your help.

We acknowledge your impediments to be great and many, the sufferings of
your Brethren, the People of GOD, cannot choose but both damp your
spirits, and divide your thoughts: Your walking in an untroden and unknown
way, must put you (though never so willing to go on speedily, yet) to take
time and leisure to ask for the right way, and ye want nor the opposition
of some amongst your selves, to whom notwithstanding we trust the Lord
will reveale his truth in his own time. Never the lesse (much honoured and
dear Brethren) go on couragiously against the stream of all opposition;
every Mountain in the way of _Zerubbabel_, the Lord shall make plain; and
as many of you as are perfect, be thus minded, that forgetting the things
that are behinde, and looking to the things that are before, you presse
hard towards the mark, as having before you, not onely the prize of the
high calling and recompence of reward, but also at the end of this race,
these two precious Pearls and inestimable Jewels of Truth and Unity, and
all the Reformed Churches beholding and looking on, not onely as
witnesses, but also being ready to congratulate and embrace you.

We were greatly refreshed to hear by Letters from our Commissioners there
with you, and by a more particular relation from the Lord _Waristoun_ now
with us, of your praise-worthy proceedings, and of the great good things
the Lord hath wrought among you and for you: Shall it seem a small thing
in our eyes, that the Covenant (the foundation of the whole Work) is
taken? That that Antichristian Prelacy with all the traine thereof is
extirpate? Th