The spreit of wisdom heall your hart to the glorie of God and to the
comforte of his afflicted mind.
On[e] caus[e] of my present writing is ryght honorable humblie to
requyr you to Deliuer this other lettre enclosed to the quenes grace
quilk conteaneht in few and sempill wordes my confession what I think
of her authoritie, how far it is Just, and what may make it odious in
goddis presence.
I hear there is a confutation sett furht in prent against _the first
blast_. God graunt that the writar haue no more sought the fauours of
the world, no less the glory of God and the stable commoditie of his
country then did him who interprised in that _blast_ to vt[t]er his
Conscience. When I shall haue tym[e] (which now Is Dear and straitt
vnto me) to peruse that work I will communicat[e] my Judgement with you
concernying the sam[e]. The tym[e] Is now sir that all that eyther
thrust Christ Jesus to r[e]ing in this yle, the liberties of the sam
[e] to be keapt, to the inhabitantes therof, and theire hartis to be
joyned together in love vnfeaned ought rather to study how the sam[e]
may be brought to pass then vainly to trauall for the maintenance of
that wharof allready we have seen the daunger, and felt the smart.
_State Papers, Scotland, Vol_. Art. 57. in Public Record office,
London.