The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three…The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three…

And now Right ••noralde and Reverend, These poor endeavours, such as they are, make hold to present themselves unto you: Streams do naturally run back into the Bosom from whence they issued. God hath pleased to •onour your Nation in making them the First-fruits, and Pattern of a Through[…]. to Us, and all the rest of the […]. This Covenant received its first ⟨image 3⟩life in Scotland, though it came to its first breathing in England. You sent it not with more affection, then it was entertained with gladness and joy, by our Worthy Parliament and Learned Assembly; and although with some small Additions, yet such, as did rather render it, more it self, then vary it.

And now Right ••noralde and Reverend, These poor endeavours, such as they are, make hold to present themselves unto you: Streams do naturally run back into the Bosom from whence they issued. God hath pleased to •onour your Nation in making them the First-fruits, and Pattern of a Through〈…〉. to Ʋs, and all the rest of the 〈…〉. This Covenant received its first ⟨image 3⟩life in Scotland, though it came to its first breathing in England. You sent it not with more affection, then it was entertained with gladnesse and joy, by our Worthy Parliament and Learned Assembly; and although with some small Additions, yet such, as did rather render it, more it self, then vary it.

I shall not need to beg your Patronage for my Self or Labours, in promoting this Service, The Oath of God is upon you; whereby we are contented to confess, what in your pathetical Letter to our Assembly, you were pleased upon other respects to acknowledge, That your Assistance, is become your Debt, To all that enter into this League and Covenant, in the maintaining and pursuance thereof: To the payment whereof, Your selves are already come through a painful and hazardous travel, to join your Learned Assistance, with our Faithful Assembly; to which, your presence adds both strength and Ornament: while Thousands of your Nation are preparing their Brotherly addresses, to pay the same Debt to the whole Kingdom, now almost in as great an exigence, as once the Gibeonites were, when their five Kings, with all their united forces were within few days march, to take a bloody and unnatural revenge, for their entering into Covenant with Joshua.