Series 3 > Register of the consultations of the ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry > Volume 1

LETTER FROM THE PROTESTERS TO L.
GENERAL CROMWELL, January 1652
Right Honourable,—The Lord having now for a long
time past spoken against us and this whole nation by
severall things in righteousness, many of our number did
at two severall meetings in this place search into and
condescend upon some causes for which, as they conceaved,
so great wrath hath gone forth from the Most High,
against this Church and Kingdome, in following of which
dueties their conscience doe bear them record that they
have desired to deal impartially without respect of persons,
themselves or others, as in the sight of Him who is the
searcher of hearts ; and, as we desire to be deeply humbled
before the Lord for these things, and intend in His strength
the remedy thereof to the utmost of our power in our
stations and capacities, so doe we resolve, if the Lord sail
yet reveale unto us any thing further of the grounds why
He contends with us, not to hyd our sin, nor detaine any
part of the pretious trueth of God in unrighteousness.
Former experience have taught us, that he who hydis his
sin, shall not prosper; and we trust for the future to find
it trew that he who confesses and forsakes it, shall find
mercie. A more frequent number of us being now come
together by the good hand of God upon us, to consider
what we ought to do, and how to carry ourselves in ordour
to their proceedings, by whom He hath been pleased in
the way of His judgements to accomplish so much of His
good pleasures upon us, we found it incumbent to us to
make knowen, with that sobriety, plainnes, and sinceritie
that becometh Christeans, somewhat of our thoughts and
desires concerning what we have already sett and seen,
and what we may further fear, of injurie unto our religion
and libertie, these precious and comprehensive interests
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