THE TRUE COPY OF THE LETTER, Which was sent from divers MINISTERS, BY Mr Martial, and Mr Nye, TO THE general ASSEMBLY OF SCOTLAND.  
LONDON, Printed for Samuel Gellibrand. Septemb. 8. 1643.   

Reverend and Beloved,  
THE experience we have had of your forwardness in receiving, and faithfulness in weighing our former addresses, hath given us abundant encouragement, to take hold upon this present opportunity of breathing out something of our sorrows, which your Love, and our necessity command us to represent to your consideration and compassion. Much we know, we may commit to the wisdom and fidelity of our Brethren, these Messengers, to impart unto you, concerning our miserable Condition, and unto them shall leave the most. Your own national, 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 ourselves, should we not thus a li●tle ease our burdened Hearts by pouring them out into your bosoms, and seem ●●gratefull to you, of whose readiness 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 preservation only, but an Augmentation also, to happiness 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 rottenness (and yet had of late begun to send us Health and Cure) is now turned into a. lion 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 staff of his indignation; under whose cruelties we bleed, and if present mercy step not in, we die▪ Righteous art thou, O Lord, and just are all thy Judgements! But, O the more than barbarous carriages of our Enemies; where ever God give any of his hidden ones up into their Hands! We need not express 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 than 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 pour out our Blood as Dust before their fury, The Will of the Lord be done. Might our Blood be a Sacrifice to ransom 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 bloods; immortal, and will not die with us; Armed against us, not as men, but as Christians, but as Protestants, but as men desiring to reform ourselves, and to draw ourselves and others yet near 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 sense of this extreme danger, threatening us, and you, and all the Churches, than we can express, we have made this address 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 aid of your reinforced tears and Prayers, that the Blessings of Truth and Peace which our Prayers alone have not obtained, yours, conjoined, may. And give us, Reverend and much Honoured in our Lord, your advices, What remains for us further to do, for the making of our own, and the kingdom's Peace with GOD? We have lain in the Dust before him; we have poured out our Hearts in Humiliations to him; we have in sincerity endeavoured to reform ourselves; and no less sincerely desired, studied, laboured the public Reformation; nevertheless, The Lord hath not yet turned himself from the fierceness of his anger. And be pleased to advise us further, what may be the happiest course, for the uniting of the Protestant party more firmly? 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 vur 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 church's happiness, through CHRIST JESUS.  
FINIS.