open up
themselves in this your way; But you have found it is God that girdeth you
with strength and maketh your way perfect and plain before you, who hath
delivered, and doth deliver, and will yet deliver. We need not put you in
minde that as there lyeth at this time a strict eye on all, so in a
special manner both you and we are ingaged to interpose our selves between
God and these Kingdomes; between the two Nations, between the King and the
People, for averting of deserved wrath, for continuing and increasing of a
well grounded Union, for procuring as far as in us lyeth a right settling
of Religion and Church-Government; That when we shall sleep with our
fathers the Posterity here and abroad may be reaping the fruits of our
labours.

We are fully assured of your constant and sedulous promoving of this
blessed Work, and of the Lords assisting and carrying you on therein: And
are confident that your late experience and present sense of the great
danger and fearfull confusion flowing from the rife and grouth of Sects
and Sectaries not suppressed, hath stirred up in your hearts most fervent
desires, and careful endeavours for remedying the same, wherein we exhort
you to continue and abound; knowing that your labours shall not be in vain
in the Lord, to whose rich grace we commend you, and the work in your
hands.

_Edinburgh 18 Juny 1646._

Subscribed in name of the General Assembly by the Moderator.

_Recommendation to Presbyteries and Provincial Assemblies._

1. The Assembly recommends to the several Presbyteries and Provincial
Assemblies, to consider the interests of particular congregations, in the
calling, and admission of Ministers, with all these questions that usually
fall out upon that occasion; And to report their opinions to the next
Assembly, with some fit Overtures for preventing all contests in that
matter.

2. The Assembly recommends to Presbyteries and Provincial Assemblies to
consider all the matters referred by preceding Assemblies to the
consideration of Presbyteries, And to report their opinions therein to the
next Assembly.

_Act for a publike Fast before the next Assembly._

The Assembly having considered an Act of the Assembly 1644. _Sess. Ult._
enjoyning a publike Fast to be keeped in all the Kirks of the City where
the General Assembly holds upon the first day of the meeting of the
Assembly; And finding some inconveniencies therein, Therefore at this time
until the matter be