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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95441	Two letters of great concernment, with their answers. The one, from the Scotish Commissioners at London, to the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. Together with the answer of the aforesaid Generall Assembly to the said Commissioners. The other, from the synod of Divines in England, to the Generall Assembly of Scotland. Together with the answer also of the aforesaid Generall Assembly in Scotland, to the said synod.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)	1645 (1645)	Wing T3468; Thomason E294_4; ESTC R27032	9,329	16

be earnest suiters not onely for the continuance of these excellent helpers Mr Alex. Henderson and Mr Sam. Rutherfurd yet remaining with us but also for the speedy return hither of our Reverend Brethren that are now going hence for the perfecting of that Work which yet remains And this sute we trust you will the rather grant because of the great and joint concernment of both Churches and Kingdoms in these matters Now the spirit of wisdom and of all grace rest upon you in all your great consultations as at all times so especially now when you shall be gathered together in the Name of the Lord Jesus for the further building up and polishing of his Church and cause the fruit of all your labour to be to the praise and glory of God and the comfort and rejoycing of the hearts of all the Israel of God He reward all our dear Brethren of that Sister Church and Nation manifold into their bosome all the labours love and sufferings which they have afforded and still do cheerfully continue for our sakes and the Gospels in this distracted and bleeding Kingdom suppresse all commotions and bloody practices of the common Enemy in both yea in all the three Kingdoms set up the Throne of Jesus Christ and make all the Kingdoms to be the Lords and our Jerusalem to be a praise upon Earth that all that love her and mourn for her may rejoyce for joy with her and may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolation Westminster Jan. 6. 1644. Subscribed by Your most loving Brethren and fellow-labourers in the Work of the LORD in the name of this whole Assembly WILLIAM TWISE Prolocutor CORNELIUS BURGES Assessor JOHN WHITE Assessor HENRY ROBROUGH Scriba ADONIRAM BYFIELD Scriba DIRECT To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland these present The Generall Assemblies Answer to the Right Reverend the Assembly of Divines in the Kirk of ENGLAND Right Reverend and well-beloved in the Lord JESVS AMidst the manifold troubles in which this Kingdom hath been involved and under which it still laboureth we greatly rejoyced when it was testified unto us by our reverend Brethren and under your hands in your Letter and these Papers by them presented to us from you what progresse you had made in the much desired Work of Uniformity and acknowledge that the same hath comforted us concerning our work and toile of our hands and seemeth to us as an olive branch to prognosticate the abating of the waters which overflow the face of the Earth When we consider that you have walked in pathes unusuall which have not been haunted by Travellers there as the publike way though pointed out as the good old way by the Reformed Kirks we do not wonder that you have carefully adverted in every step to set foot upon sure ground When we behold that strong and high tree of Episcopacy so deeply rooted by continuance of time not lopped of the Branches and the stumpe of the root left in the Earth with a band of iron and brasse but pluckt up by the roots We do confesse that the Carpenters though prepared have a hard task requiring time to hew it down and root it up And when we call to mind how much the Service-Book hath been cryed up as the onely way of Gods Worship how many thereby have had their wealth and how difficill it is to forgo the accustomed way We admire the power and wisdom of the good God who hath prospered you in your way and led you this length through so many straits and over so many difficulties in so troublous a time We do for our part not onely admit and allow but most heartily and gladly embrace the Directory of Worship as a common Rule for the Kirks of God in the three Kingdoms now more straitly and firmly united by the Solemne League and Covenant And we do all in one voice blesse the Lord who hath put it in the hearts first of the Reverend Learned and Pious Assembly of Divines and then of the Honourable Houses of Parliament To agree upon such a Directory as doth remove what is none of Christs and preserve the purity of all his Ordinances together with Uniformity and Peace in the Kirk Onely we have thought necessary to declare and make known That the Clause in the Directory for the administration of the Lords Supper which appointeth the Table to be so placed that the Communicants may orderly sit about it or at it is not to be interpreted as if in the judgement of this Kirk it were indifferent for any of the Communicants not to come to and receive at the Table or as if we did approve the distributing of the Elements by the Ministers to each Communicant and not by the Communicants among themselves In which particulars we still conceive and beleeve the order and practice of our own Kirk To be most agreeable and sutable to the Word of God the example of our Lord Jesus Christ and the nature of that Heavenly Feast and Table Neverthelesse in other particulars we have resolved and do agree to do as ye have defired us in your Letter That is not to be tenacious of old Customs though lawfull in themselves and not condemned in this Directory but to lay them aside for the nearer Uniformity with the Kirk of England now nearer and dearer to us than ever before A Blessing so much esteemed and so earnestly longed for among us that rather than it false on our part we do most willingly part with such practice and customs of own as may be parted with safely and without the violation of any of Christs Ordinances or trespassing against Scripturall Rules or our Solemne Covenants We do in like manner agree to and approve the Propositions touching Kirk-Government and Ordination and have given power to our Commissioners who are to meet in Edinburgh to agree to and conclude in our Name an Uniformity therein betwixt the Kirks in both Kingdoms so soon as the same shall be without any substantiall alteration Ratified by an Ordinance of the Honourable Houses of Parliament of England according to our Act of Approbation sent to our Commissioners with you As for the returning of our Commissioners though the councell and assistance of our Reverend Brethren might be of good use to us in these difficult times and their particular stations and imployments importune the stay of these who are come unto us and the returne of these who stay with you yet preferring the publike good and looking upon the profit may redound unto all by their continuing with you we have satisfied your desire and renewed their Commission Praying God they may as we are confident they shall prove answerable to our trust and to your expectation Concerning one Confession of Faith and Forme of Catechisme we apprehend no great difficulty And to that which remains to be perfected in the matter of Kirk-Government we do beleeve and both you and