The HIS T O'R Y of the PuRITANS. Chap. If. cc dmong our[elves; that all mountains may become plains before them, K. Charles r. " and us; ·that when all who now fee the plummet in our hands, may ~ " alfo behold the top il:one fet upon the head of the Lord's h oufe " among us, and may help us with lhouting to cry, grace, grace, " to it. " Thus much we have been commanded to inform you of, reverend cc brethren (and by you all faithful chrifiians under your charge) by the " honourable houfe of commons, in whofe name, and in our own, we ~ · bid you heartily farewel in the Lord." rour mofl qffeefionately devoted brethren in chrifl, William Twiife, prolocutor, Cornelius Barges, ~ ,n..rr; a 0 e 0 ors, J ohn White, · Henry Roborough,~ fl 'b cn es, Adoniram Byfield, John Maitland, 1 A. Johnfion, I Alex. Henderfon, ~ Commij}ioners if the Sam. Rutherford, : church if Scotland. Rob. Bailie, j Geo. Gillefpie. 1 The infcription was, 'I'o the reverend and learned paflors and elders if the cla.lfes and churches if the province if Zealand, our much honoured brethren. Letters of the fame import were fent to the feveral c.hurches of the Hi!l.Stuarts .... feven provinces ; to the churches of Geneva ; the proteftant cantons of p. 232. Switzerland ; the chu rches of H1Je, Hannaw, and A nbault; and to the protefian t congregation at Paris; all which were received with refpeCl:, and anfwered by the feveral claifes. But the churches of Bohemia, <J'ranjilva11ia, Poland, Siltjia, and A uftria, and other cities and principalities of Germany, were not wri tten to. The anfwer from the MS. penes french church at Paris was read in the aifembl y the beginning of March ; me. from Switzerland 'June 1 z . 1644. and from Geneva at the fame time ; fr om the cl aifes of Amfterdam and Gelderland 'June 29. and M r. Whitlock obferves, th2.t the Nether/and divines expreffed not only their VoL. 11. · K appro-
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