The same request with you I make unto the Lord, that we may as Christian brethren be united by a heavenly and unfeigned love, bending all our hearts and forces in furthering a work beyond our strength, with reverence and fear fastening our eyes always on him that only is able to direct and prosper all our ways.
"I acknowledge myself much bound to you for your kind love and care in sending Mr.Fuller among us, and I rejoice much that I am by him satisfied touching your judgments of the outward form of God's worship.[94:1] It is, as far as I can yet gather, no other than is warranted by the evidence of truth, and the same which I have professed and maintained ever since the Lord in mercy revealed himself to me, being very far different from the common report that hath been spread of you touching that particular.

But God's children must not look for less here below, and it is the great mercy of God that he strengthens them to go through with it.
"I shall not need at this time to be tedious unto you, for, God willing, I purpose to see your face shortly.

In the meantime I humbly take my leave of you, committing you to the Lord's blessed protection, and rest "Your assured loving friend and servant, "JOHN ENDICOTT." "The positive part of church reformation," which Higginson and his companions had come into the wilderness to practice, appeared in a new light when studied under the new conditions.

The question of separation from the general fellowship of English Christians, which had lain heavily on their consciences, was no longer a question; instead of it arose the question of separation from their beloved and honored fellow-Christians at Plymouth.

The Act of Uniformity and the tyrannous processes by which it was enforced no longer existed for them.