at the door of a right entrie unto faithful Shepherds is
opened; many corruptions, as Altars, Images, and other Monuments of
Idolarry and Superstition removed, defaced and abolished; the Service-book
in many places forsaken, and plaine and powerfull preaching set up; the
great Organs at _Pauls_ and _Peters_ taken down; That the Royal Chappell
is purged and reformed, Sacraments sincerely administrate, and according
to the paterne in the Mount, That your Colledges, the Seminaries of your
Kirk, are planted with able and sincere Professors? That the good hand of
GOD hath called and kept together so many pious, grave, and learned
Divines for so long a time, and disposed their hearts to search his Truth
by their frequent Humiliations, continuall Prayers, and learned and
peaceable debates? Should not all and each one of these stir up our souls
to blesse the Lord, and render both you and us confident, that he who hath
begun the good Work, will perfect it, and put the Copestone upon it; That
the beauty of a perfected Worke may shine to all Nations, and we may say
and shout, _Grace, Grace, unto it_; That the time may be when full liberty
and leasure shall be to all the Builders of the House of GOD, to give
themselves with both their hands to the building up and edifying the
People of GOD in these things that belong to life and Godlinesse, to the
making of them wise to salvation, and throughly furnished to every good
work, and when the Lord shall delight to dwell more familiarly, and to
work more powerfully in, and by his throughly purified Ordinances? That
you afflicted and tossed with tempests and not comforted, shall have your
stones laid with fair Colours, your foundation with Saphires, your
Children shall be taught of GOD, and shall have great peace, and no Weapon
framed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that riseth against you
in Judgement shall bee condemned; That the Lord will awake as in the
ancient dayes, as in the generation of old; That the Redeemed of the Lord
shall come unto Zion with singing, and sorrow and mourning shall flee
away.

And as we are confident that the Lord who heareth Prayer, and hath
promised to guide his Servants in all truth, will bring your labours to a
comfortable Conclusion: So do all the Reformed Kirks, and the Kirk of
Scotland above all others extreamly long for the taste of the fruits of
their pious labours and continual pains: And so much the more, that we
have suspended some materi