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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52060	The true copy of the letter which was sent from divers ministers by Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Nye to the Generall Assembly of Scotland	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing M796; ESTC R984	1,975	9

THE TRUE COPY OF THE LETTER Which was sent from divers MINISTERS BY Mr Marshall and Mr Nye TO THE GENERALL ASSEMBLY OF SCOTLAND LONDON Printed for Samuel Gellibrand Septemb. 8. 1643. Reverend and Beloved THE experience we have had of your forwardnesse in receiving and faithfulnesse in weighing our former addresses hath given us aboundant encouragement to take hold upon this present opportunitie of breathing out something of our sorrows which your Love and our Necessitie command us to represent to your consideration and compassion Much we know we may commit to the Wisedome and Fidelitie of our Brethren these Messengers to impart unto you concerning our miserable Condition and unto them shall leave the most Your own Nationall but specially Christian Interest will not permit you to hide your Eyes from the bleeding Condi●ion of your poor distressed Brethren in England should neither Messengers nor Letters be sent unto you But Messengers coming we should at once neglect our selves should we not thus a li●tle ease our burthened Hearts by powring them out into your Bosomes and seem ●●gratefull to you of whose readinesse to suffer with us and do for us we have had so great and ample Testimonies Surely if ever a poor Nation were upon the edge of a most desperate precipice If ever a poor Church were ready to be swallowed up by Satan and his Instruments we are that Na●ion we are that Church And in both respects by so much the more miserable by how much we expected not a Preseruation onely but an Augmentation also to Happynesse in the one and Glory in the other We looked for peace but no good came and for 〈…〉 of healing and behold trouble Our God who in his former Judgements was as Mo●●h and Rottennesse and yet had of late begun to send us Health and Cure is now turned into a. Lyon to us and threatens to rend the very Caule of our Hearts From above he hath sent a Fire into our Bones and it prevails against us From our own Bowels he hath called forth and strengthe●ed an Adversary against us a Genera●ion of Brutish Hellish men the Rod of his anger and the Staffe of his indignation under whose cruelties we bleed and if present mercy step not in we dye Righteous art thou O Lord and just are all thy Judgements But O the more then barbarous carriages of our Enemies where ever God give any of his hidden ones up into their Hands We need not expresse it unto You who know the inveterate and deadly malice of the Antichristian faction against the Members of our LORD JESUS And it is well we need not for in truth we cannot Your own thoughts may tell you better then any words of ours what the mercy of Papists is towards the Ministers and Servants of our Lord JESUS CHRIST But the Lord knows we are not troubled so much with 〈…〉 Miseries and Dangers but that which breaks our Hearts is The danger we behold the Protestant Religion and all the Reformed Churches in at this time through that too great and formidable strength the Popish Faction is now arrived at If our God will lay our Bodies as the Ground and as the Street under their Feet and powre out our Blood as Dust before their fury The Will of the Lord be done Might our Blood be a Sacrifice to ransome the rest of the Saints or Churches of Christ from Antichristian fury we would offer it up upon this Service gladly But we know their rage is insatiable and will not be quenched with our blouds Immortall and will not die with us Armed against us not as men but as Christians but as Protestants but as men desiring to Reforme our Selves and to draw our Selves and others yet neer unto GOD And if GOD give us up to be devoured by this rage it will take the more strength and courage at least to Attempt the like against all the Protestant and Reformed Churches In a deeper sence of this extreme danger threatning us and you and all the Churches then we can expresse we have made this addresse unto you In the Bowels of our Lord JESUS CHRIST humbly imploring your most fervent Prayers to the God that hears Prayers who should we Judge Providences seems to be angry with our Prayers Though we trust he doth but seem so And though he kill us yet will we trust in him Oh give us the Brotherly ayde of your re-inforced Teares and Prayers that the Blessings of Truth and Peace which our Prayers alone have not obtained yours conjoyned may And give us Reverend and much Honoured in our Lord your Advises What remaines for us further to do for the making of our own and the Kingdoms Peace with GOD We have lyen in the Dust before him we have powred out our Hearts in Humiliations to him we have in sinceritie endeavoured to reforme our Selves and no lesse sincerely desired studyed laboured the publike Reformation neverthelesse The Lord hath not yet turned himself from the fiercenesse of his anger And be pleased to advise us further what may be the happyest course for the uniting of the Protestant partie more firmely That we may all serve God with one consent and stand up against Antichrist as one man That our God who now hides himself from our People may Return unto us delight in us scatter and subdue his and uur enemies and cause his Face to shine upon us The Lord prosper you and preserve us so that the great work of these latter Ages may be finished to his honour and our own and the Churches happynesse through CHRIST JESUS FINIS