A LETTER From Several MINISTERS In and about EDINBURGH, TO THE Ministers of London, Concerning the Re-establishing of the Covenant.  Blessed are the Eunouchs that ohserve my Sabbaths, and keep my Covenant. 
Printed at Edinburgh for Christopher Higgens, and reprinted at London for Richard Hills, 1659.   

A LETTER FROM Several Ministers in and about Edinburgh, to the Ministers of London.  
Reverend and Dear Brethren,  
THe sudden and great Deliverance which it hath pleased our most gracious God to work for us, when we were even as a dry ground and barien wilderness; as it hath filled our hearts with admiration of his gracious Providence, so doth it also fill our mouths with praises: So that we may now say contentedly with blessed Simeon, Lord, now lettest thou thy servants depart in peace, for our eyes have seen thy righteousness, as well as our salvation.  
This will therefore something excuse the discomp●sedness and indeliberate contents of this Gratulatory Address, being no more then the ecstasy and Raptures of our thankful acknowledgements of this most Transcendent Mercy, our present grateful thoughts on these blessed Dispensations, which our most serious & intense thoughts cannot sufficiently commend to our highest and purest Devotion.  
That the despised Cause, & the afflicted Churches of Christ, our contemned, vilified Function and Persons, our most Solemn League and Covenant traduced and aspersed with hypocrisy and fraction, should not onely be vindicated and asserted from the violence of heresy and Schism, as well as from the insultings of Superstition and profaneness; but also openly and avowedly be countenanced, the Gospel held forth in its purity, the ministry encouraged and maintained, our Covenant justified and cleared, and by it the interest of the Reformed Churches abroad, promoted and advanced, is such a marvelous work in our eyes, that we may well say with the Prophet David, As the Heaven is high above the earth, so is his meecy toward them that fear him: The Lord hath done it, and with a strong and mighty hand hath he redeemed his people Israel.  
What a dismal dark cloud had overspread the three Nations? in what a Chaos and Confusion were we? The Anabaptists like locusts, were upon all our green things, even our hope, they had almost swallowed us up, the precious Ordinances of our Saviour accounted superfluous and unnecessary, to give way to Revelations and deceits of Satan; the fury of that boundless heresy reaching both our Temporal and Spiritual Estates, and prostituting us as the worst of men, to the derision and scorn of the world: But our soul, and the delight of our soul( Gods Sacred Ordinances) is escaped as a bide out of the Snare of the Fowlers; and so unexpected was this our Redemption, that when the Lord turned the Captivity of Sion, we were like men that dreamed.  
Indeed such a weight of humble thankfulness lies upon our spirits, which this merciful and indulgent favour, hath raised from a sinking and low condition, that we think we can no way better advance the duty of praise, then by a reflecting eye to consider of our distress, and in thinking of that, to look back and b●wail our sins and miscarriage, that have provoked the holiness and justice of our God to so great a displeasure against us: Certainly we have dealt perversely, and it will now become us to return and amend our errors, that the Lord may delight to perfect the glorious work he hath begun in the midst of us, that his Gospel may now at length run freely, and be glorified, and the mouths of these gainsayers may be stopped, and their designs frustrated, and that it may be unto them, as when an hungry man dreameth, and behold he eateth, but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: So let the multitude of the Nations be that fight against Sion.  
Our souls long after the full and thorough Reformation which we have so long contended for, that God would please to make and grant it as the reward of our patience, since he saw it not convenient to bestow it on our Arms, or to lay such a glorious Foundation in blood. To that purpose we do excite you as our dearest Brethren, to use your utmost endeavours at the Throne of Grace in behalf of our Governours, that God would give them that prudence, and wise conduct of affairs, That the Ages to come and present, may call them Blessed, the Restorers of our Breaches, and the Liberators of their country, and, Let the Lords Remembrancers never give him rest, until he make Jerusalem a praise upon the earth.  
For our own parts we trust we shall not be found wanting in this day, nor let slip such a precious prise, as the peace and prosperity of Sion, through any remissness of our duty either in public or private, no way doubting but that all the Lords people engaged with us in Covenant( remembering how fearfully God hath in justice punished the Breakers and Violaters of it) will unanimously endeavour the same; that by our Prayers and Repentance we may recover the Honour and tranquillity of these distressed Nations, which our iniquities hitherto have justly withheld from us, we commit you to Gods most holy Protection, and remain,  
Your Brethren and fellow labourers in the Gospel of Christ. Edinburgh, March 11, 1659.  
FINIS.