for these things and having _begun the good work will
perfect it_, and double the benefit by bestowing it in a more seasonable
time unto us.

We have not been a little refreshed with your Letters sent unto us and the
Commissioners of the preceeding Assembly, and with these from the Reverend
Synod of Divines, the answer whereof you will be pleased to present unto
them: by all which and more particularly by a full Relation from the Lord
_Waristoun_ a faithfull witnesse and a fellow labourer with you there, we
see and acknowledge that by the Lords blessing, the Progresse of the Work
is already more, than we can overtake in the course of our thankfulness;
that your labours are very great, your pains uncessant, your thoughts of
heart many, that ye endure the heat of the day; but being confident of
your patient continuance in wel-doing, and that your labours shall not be
in vaine in the Lord, wee have renewed your Commission, and returned the
Lord _Waristoun_ unto you, according to your desire, that ye may prosecute
that great Work which the Lord hath blessed so farre in your hands.

When the Ordination and entry of Ministers shall be conformable to the
Ordinance of God, there is to be expected a richer blessing shall be
powred out from above, both of furniture and assistance upon themselves,
and of successe upon their labours; for which end as our earnest desire
is, that the Directory for it may be established: so doe we exceedingly
long to see the common Directory for worship perfected, which may prove an
happy meane of that wished for Uniformity in the Kirks of the three
Kingdomes, shall (we trust) direct by all Rocks of offence and occasions
of stumbling, and shall remove all these corruptions wherewith the Lords
sacrifice and service hath been defiled.

That point concerning a change of the Paraphrase of the Psalmes in Meeter,
we have referred to the Commissioners here, whose power and Commission
granted by the preceding Assembly, we have renewed and continued. That
there be difficulties concerning Kirk-Government, wee think it not strange
for these reasons you lay our before us; yet because the minds of men are
still in suspense upon the successe of the determination of that Reverend
Assembly on the one hand, and upon the successe of the Warre on the other:
which doth not a little faint their hearts and feeble their hands, both
you and we must be instant with God and man for a finall determination of
all these debates