A96239:9
A letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the commissioners of the…
A letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the commissioners of the Church of Scotland, written, and sent by order of the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, to the Belgic, French, Helvetian, and other reformed churches. Translated into English, and now published with the several inscriptions to those churches. By order of the said House.A letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the commissioners of the Church of Scotland, written, and sent by order of the honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, to the Belgick, French, Helvetian, and other reformed churches. Translated into English, and now published with the severall inscriptions to those churches. By order of the said House.
London: printed by Richard Cotes for Ralph Smith, 1644
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Letter: A Letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the Commissioners of the Church o…
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A Letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the Commissioners of the Church of Scotland, to the Belgic, French, Helvetian, and other Reformed Churches.
A Letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the Commissioners of the Church of Scotland, to the Belgick, French, Helvetian, and other Reformed Churches.
Right Reverend and dearly beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ,
Right Reverend and dearely beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ,
WE the Assembly of Divines and others, called and convened by the Authority of both Houses of Parliament of England, with the Commissioners sent from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, do heartily salute you in the Lord. We doubt not but the sad reports of the miseries under which the Church and Kingdom of England do bleed, and wherewith we are all ready to be swallowed up, (the cup which the righteous Lord hath given us to drink) is long since come to your ears. And it is probable that the same instruments of Satan and Antichrist, have endeavoured by their emissaries to present us as black as may be among your selves; who by falsehood and lies endeavour every where to put fair glosses upon their own bloody designs, and to reproach our strugglings after a more thorough Reformation ⟨image 3⟩⟨p. 1⟩[…] ⟨p. 2⟩