A PETITION TO THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF THE COMMONS IN ENGLAND NOW ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT. Whereunto are added CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS, SHOWING The necessity of a CORRESPONDENCY in Spiritual matters betwixt all Protestant Churches. By John Dury.  
LONDON, Printed for William-Hope, at the sign of the Unicorn in Cornhill, near the Royal-exchange. Anno Domini, 1642.   

TO THE Honourable the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the House of COMMONS in Parliament,  
The humble Petition of John Dury, Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in the work of Peace Ecclesiastical amongst Protestants.  
SEeing the motion of furthering Ecclesiastical Reconcilement amongst Protestants hath been hitherto very favourably entertained by foreign States and Churches, which your Petitioner hath dealt withal; so that Acts and Declarations have been made, and given to your Petitioner, wherein they manifest their resolutions to advance the Work, and maintain Correspondency with others to that effect; which hath been done not only by those that are abroad in Germany, and elsewhere, but also here at home in the last general Assembly of the Church of Scotland, where it hath been enacted, that from henceforth they should lay this matter to heart, and contribute their assistance thereunto: and to this end they have appointed certain Divines to correspond with your Petitioner towards the promoting of his endeavours of Peace. And seeing moreover your Petitioner doth with all thankfulness unto Almighty God cheerfully observe, by the clause inserted into the public Remonstrance of the State of this Kingdom, that there is a most laudable purpose intended, and a good inclination expressed towards the furthering of the good of all Protestants, for the preservation of true Religion, and the Union of their Churches with ours in the same cause, against the common Enemies, which by our divisions are encouraged to intent, and enabled to work out our destruction; which they will certainly bring to pass, if the Fatherly Providence of our good GOD, whose counsels are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out, doth not prevent their malice, by our loving concurrence in the ways of Brotherly Union, for the maintaining of his glorious Gospel. And seeing lastly, it is a public request in the late Petition of the Reverend Ministers, that a day of Fasting and Prayers, for the welfare and prosperity of this Church and State may be set apart every month, so long as your Honourable Assembly shall continue, wherein I hearty concur with them:  
Therefore your Petitioner doth humbly request, that in the Order, which hopefully will be made for the observation of that day of Fasting and Praying, this purpose of Ecclesiastical Reconcilement of Protestants by the Union of their spirits in the Truth of GOD, and against the Adversaries of Christ's Gospel, may be expressly mentioned to be recommended unto GOD, by the prayers of that public meeting. And also, that some Divines may be thought upon, and nominated unto your Petitioner, to whom he should make his address to begin a spiritual correspondency, which in this purpose is necessary, for the preparing and ripening of such proposals, as by the Grace of GOD will be able to bring the wished for Union of Protestants in due time to some perfection.  
And your Petitioner, as in duty bound, shall daily pray for his Majesty's long life, his peaceable and happy reign over us, and for the prosperous success of all your counsels and undertake towards the blessed and flourishing estate of this Church and Kingdom.