1643 DUTCH REFORMED & SCOTTISH COVENANTERS. Commitment to Solidarity in Resisting Counter-Reformation.

Very scarce work. Not a solitary example in the auction records we can locate. In the present, addressed to the Divines of the Westminster Assembly, the Dutch Reformed church expresses their solidarity with the Scottish Covenanters and in ways that are subtle, but unmistakable, shows support for Scotland and Presbyterianism in the developing Civil War, over and against the Crown. Only a few months later, the Solemn League and Covenant would be signed.  A very rare document calling for a united front, including Holland, England, Ireland, Scotland, and the Reformed Churches of the Continent, to unite in attempts to codify Reformed / Presbyterian church states across Europe as a bulwark, against counter-reformation pressure from Italy and France.  A Letter from the Synod of Zeland, to the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland: Written by them in Latin, and now Faithfully Translated into English: Expressing, I. Their fellow-feeling of the present condition of the K