nourable Houses of Parliament, to testifie our
hearty sympathie with you in the work of the Lord, We have nominate and
elected some Godly and learned of this Church to repair to your Assembly.
We doubt nothing of your hearty embracing them in the Lord, and their
diligent concurrance with you in advancing that great work.

Not onely the common danger we are under, but the conscience of our duty
to his suffering people, layeth bonds on us frequently to present you, and
that blessed Work of Reformation, in your hands, to the throne of Grace,
that the GOD of all Grace, who will call you into his eternal glory by
Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered and a while may make you
perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Edinburgh, August 19. 1643.

_Subscribed in name of the Assembly of the Church Scotland, by the Clerk,
of the Assembly._

_The Assemblies Answer to the Reverend their beloved Brethren, Ministers
in the Church of England._

_Reverend and beloved,_

We acknowledge with thankfulnesse to GOD, that this is one of the good
blessings bestowed upon our Kirk of late, and a pleasant fruit of our free
Assemblies, That a way is opened for keeping communion with our sister
Kirks abroad, and correspondence with you our dear Brethren, in whose joy
and sorrow we have so near interest, and whose cause and condition we
desire to lay to heart as our own.

All your former Letters were most acceptable, and full of refreshment unto
us, being taken as the earnest of a more full and constant fellowship,
longed after and hoped for: And this your last, although full of sadnesse
and sorrow, yet accounted of us all most worthy of our tenderst affection
and best respects, both for your cause who sent it, and for these worthy
witnesses which did attest it: Wherein as you have given unto us no small
evidence, not only of your love, but also of trust and friendly respect,
by choosing to poure out your grieved souls in our bosome; so we shall
with, and Godwilling endeavour, that you may really finde some measure of
brotherly compassion in our receiving thereof. For these your sad
expressions of deep sorrow, being as you have given us to conceive but a
part of your complaint, and a lamentation lesse then the causes doth
require, cannot but melt every heart, wherein there is any the least
warmnesse of the love of Christ and his Saints: And what Childe of the
Bridegrooms chamber, can hear the voice of so many friends of the
Bri