And now remembring without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, with all due acknowledgments of the precious effects of your prayers; We most humbly and earnestly desire, that the same breathings of the spirit in you may still continue, and (if possible) more frequently and fervently ascend to your God, and our God, not only for removall of outward pressures, and the visitation of the sword, that hath already learned to eat much of our flesh, but also for the special assistance and protection of the Father of lights, in this great Work unto which we are now called, and wherein we already finde many and potent adversaries: that seeing the plummet is now in the hands of our _Zerubbabels_, all mountaines may become plains, and they may bring forth _the capstone of the Lords House with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it_: and that how weak and contemptible builders soever we be, the Lord would enable us to build with them, that none may have cause to despise the day of our small beginnings, nor to stop our progresse in the work which he hath given us to do, And as for us, who cannot but take notice of the extraordinary employments unto which you are called in your great Assembly, now also sitting: God forbid that we should sin against the Lord, in ceasing to pray for you, that the Lord may enable you to be wise masterbuilders, preserve your peace alwayes by all means, and make you stedfast, unmoveable, alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord, to the praise of the glory of his grace, and to the further benefit and comfort of the whole Church of God, but more especially of this our afflicted Ark, now wafted into the midst of a sea of miseries, and tossed with tempests, untill our wise and gracious God, by the furtherance of your prayers and brotherly endeavours, shall cause it to rest upon the mountains of _Ararat_, which may take away our fears, as well as put an end to our present sufferings and give you to rejoyce with us, that now mourn for us. _Westminster, August 4. 1643._ _Subscribed by your most loving Brethren, highly prisyng the graces of God in you, and that are your Servants for Jesus sake, in the name of the whole Assembly._ _William Tuisse_, Prelocutor. _John White_, Assessor. _Cornelius Burges_, Scribe of the Assembly. _Henry Roborough_, Scribe of the Assembly. _Adonirum Byfield_, Scribe of the Assembly. _The Result of the Debates and Consultations of the Committees of the Convention of Estates and General Assembly, appointed to meet with the Commissioners of the Parliament of England._ _August_ 17. 1643.