nour and happinesse of our Soveraign, and the peace and
welfare of these Kingdoms, whereby your Lordships will oblige this Kirk
more and more to pray for a blessing on your persons and travels, and to
rest.

_Yours in the Lord_
_The Commissioners of the General Assembly._

S. Andrews _5. Aug. 1642._

_A Letter from some Ministers of_ England.

_Reverend and wel-beloved in our Lord and Saviour._

We received with much joy and satisfaction the Answer which your General
Assembly vouchsafed us to our Letters of the last yeer. Some of us in the
name of our Brethren, thought it then fit by Mr. _Alexander Henderson_ (a
Brother so justly approved by you, and honoured by us) to return our
deserved thanks. And we now further think it equall upon this occasion, to
make a more publike acknowledgement of such a publike favour. You were
then pleased to give us fair grounds, to expect that brotherly advice and
endeavours, which the common cause of Christ, and the mutual interest of
the united Nations, command us now again to ask, if not to chalenge. We
doubt not but your experience, together with your intelligence, abundantly
informes you of our condition, what various administrations of providence
we have passed through and we still lye betwixt hopes and feares, a fit
temper for working; the God of all grace enable us to improve it. As our
hopes are not such as may make us fear, so neither doe our Feares prevail,
to the casting away our confidence. Your own late condition, together with
this Declaration of ours present, may acquaint you with the certain,
though subtil, authors & fomentors of these our confused conflicts: which
we conceive to be the Hierarchical faction, who have no way to peace &
safety, but through the trouble & danger of others. Our prayers and
endeavours, according to our measure, have been and shall be for the
supplanting and rooting up whatsoever we finde so prejudicial to the
establishment of the Kingdome of Christ, and the peace of our Soveraigne.
And that this Declaration of ourselves may not leave you unsatisfied, we
think it necessary further to expresse, That the desire of the most godly
and considerable part amongst us, is, That the Presbyterian Government,
which hath just and evident Foundation both in the Word of God, and
religious reason, may be established amongst us, and that (according to
your intimation) we may agree in one confession of Faith, one directorie
of Worship, one publike Cate