of the Ordinances of God committed unto our trust.
We have therefore thought it our duty and concernment to
remonstrate to your Highness the rejoycing of our hearts in
your peaceable succession, and to declare our selves to be humble
Supplicants at the throne of Grace for your Higness, that
now the days of your illustrious Father are fulfilled, and God
in you hath set up his seed after him, he may so establish your
Government, that you may build an house for his Name, and
your house may be established in Righteousness. In order to
which we most humbly beseech your Highness that your eyes
may be upon those who are faithfull in the Land ,that the work
of reformation in the Church may prosper and be perfected by
your Highness,that the mountain of the Lords house [unr]may be
established upon that top of the Mountains. In which if any prayers
or ministerial endeavors of ours may strengthen your Highness
hands, we humbly declare that they shall be most faithfully
employed for you. And we shall never cease to pray that the
Lord would give you a quick understanding in his fear, to judge
this people, and to discern between good and evil (for who can
judg this people that is so great) and that the Lord would
multiply the days of your Highness life, that you may see your
Childrens Children and peace upon Israel.
From Demmim, Decemb. 29.
Just now Letters are brought to Warnemunde to our Governor
in which the Receiver of the Customs informeth,
that at the closing of the Letter there was a Scute come
from Funen, in which were Letters of the Kings, and three
Officers of the Waldeckish Regiments, who relate, that his
Majesty of Sweden was yet in Fuenen; but intended, a fight
shortly. At the going away of the Scute, there, was going
also the ship Engel, with seven Scutes, in which was Colonel
Stegman with five hundred soldiers bound to wards Pomerania.
Colonel Ashenberg, with all his men and baggage
is safely arrived there. The like is said also of Col. Knoest,
he having been fetcht off from Norburg by the Swedish
ships.