Provincial Assembly: Therefore discharges Presbyteries to
make any such nomination hereafter; And ordain Provincials in their first
meeting, to elect their Moderator, and to make their own List for that
effect without any such praelimitation.

_Act for keeping of the Fast by the Congregations in the Towne where the
Assembly holds._

The Assembly judge it most necessar and comely, seeing the first day of
the meeting of Generall Assemblies, is by the laudable practice of this
Kirk a day of Fasting and Humiliation, for craving the Lords blessing to
that Meeting; That not onely the Members of the Assembly, but that all the
Congregations also of the Town where the Assembly holds bee so exercised:
And that publick Worship bee in all the Kirks thereof that day for that
effect.

Meeting announcement.

_The Generall Assembly appoints the meeting of the next Assembly, to be
upon the last Thursday of May, in the Yeer 1645. at_ Edinburgh.

Letter.

_Right Honourable, Reverend, and beloved in the Lord,_

As we are not without the knowledge, so are we not without the feeling of
the distresses of our Native Countrey, and of the troubles of our dear
Brethren, specially that the hand of the Lord is stretched out against
you, not only by Invasion from without of the basest of the children of
men, but also by the unnatural treachery of some within; who have dealt
perfidiously in the Covenant and Cause of God: _They hisse and gnash the
teeth; they say, Wee have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that
wee looked for: Wee have found, wee have seen it; the Lord hath caused
thine Enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine
Adversaries:_ Yet (saith the Lord, who is thy Maker and thy Husband, _the
Lord of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer the holy One of Israel) for a
__ small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather
thee. In a little wrath I hide my face from thee, for a moment; but with
everlasting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee: For this is as the waters
of Noah, the Covenant of my peace shall not be removed, saith the Lord
that hath mercy on thee._ When the foundation of the House of the Lord was
laid, the Priests and Levites sung together in praising and giving thanks
to the Lord; _Because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever,_ And we
hope at this time upon the coming of our reverend Brethren, and the sight
of that which they bring with them, the nois