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B02201 The humble remonstrance of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly to the Honourable and high Court of Parliament now assembled. Together with the ansvver of the Estates of Parliament to the said remonstrance. Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Ker, A.; Scotland. Parliament. 1647 (1647) Wing C4229AB; ESTC R173934 7,182 21

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THE HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF The GENERALL ASSEMBLY To the Honourable and high Court of Parliament now assembled TOGETHER WITH The ANSVVER of the ESTATES of PARLIAMENT To the said REMONSTRANCE EDINBVRGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie 1647. Edinburgh 12 February 1647. THe Commissioners of the Generall Assembly Ordaines the Remonstrance presented to the Honourable Estates of Parliament Together with the Parliaments Answer thereunto To be forthwith Printed A. Ker. The humble Remonstrance of the Commission of the Generall Assembly Vnto the Honourable and high Court of Parliament Right Honourable IT is unto us the servants of Jesus Christ and your servants for his sake no small consolation That whilest this Land lies afflicted and almost fainting under a burden of many evils you are assembled for her help Promising unto our selves that as in your own hearts ye do bewaile its misery before God So you will gladly entertaine the representation thereof from all its lovers and from the sense of your interest and trust with spirits as large as your places endeavour to repaire our ruines and build up our breaches Therefore as many Synods and Presbyteries do now make their humble addresse unto your Lordships in their severall supplications concerning the interests of Religion and of the Kingdome So are we bold to poure forth our presons thoughts and desires into your bosome hoping that as they flow from no other fountain th●… the discharge of our consciences and a purpose no doe good So your Lordships will allow them that acceptation that beseems the justice and wisdome of so High and Honourable a Court and improve the same as farre as you see reason for the honour of God and safety both of Church and State If we had forgotten the sad effects of the Lords former indignation or were not sensible of the present tokens of his wrath we were more then stupide There was a time wherein the Lord made us flee before the Enemy and made us drunk with the wine of astonishment not finding either hearts to resolve or hands to execute and put in practice Neither was the Pestilence lesse violent in our cities then the sword in the fields Many thousands have fallen in our land by the arrows of the Almighty and fury of the most high and yet his wrath is not turned away but his hand stretched out still The flame of his indignation doth again burn hotly in some of our cities and a considerable part of our Country groanes languishes without help under all the cruelty of a barbarous Enemy who makes no other use of your offer of pardon then to despise your power and to waxe more insolent in acting of their mischievous designes which reach not only unto our Lives and Liberties but unto our Religion and Souls themselves how sore is the Lord displeased when he suffers Antichrist to enter in our borders and his emissaries to lead our brethren captive into Babylon and set up the Masse amongst them and what can we take this for but a sad prognostication of ensuing darknesse to those who have not walked worthy of the light and that the Lord threatens to depart from his Temple and is it not an eminent token of his anger that many who have made themselves drunk with the bloud and rich with the spoyles of thousands of our dear Brethren after that they were destinate unto death by your selves have yet escaped the hand of justice and are restored unto their Lives and Fortunes unto the strengthening of the Malignant party and discouraging the hearts and weakening the hands of all the well-affected in the land It is bitter as death to live with these that have slain the Lords people and to hear them boast of their cruelty and rejoyce in their iniquity every day insulting over the Cause of God and despising and studying to tread under-foot all the lovers of the same Neither can we look upon the insolencies and oppression of many in our Armies under which not a few in our Land groans But as upon the rod of the Lords furie turning the meanes of our health and preservation unto a cup of vineger and gall that sets the teeth on edge Those calamities and whatsomever miseries besides do afflict us can issue from no other fountain then from that deluge of profanitie that hath covered the face of the Land which accreses unto a great height of guiltinesse because we have sinned in the day of the Gospel and despised the Oath of God neither regarding our Covenant nor the operation of his hands in which he hath made himself glorious in the midst of us in many most eminent works both of Mercy and of Justice We acknowledge that the work of Reformation hath not beene without plentie of most gracious and comfortable fruits in many soules throughout the Land who are for a testimony unto the trueth and for a name of joy and praise unto the most High Yet we cannot but bemone the power of ungodlines that prevailes and breaks forth in many grosse sins unto the violation of our Covenant the reproach of our Cause and the great dishonour of the holy One of Israel our Saviour whose mercies towards us calls upon us to be holy in all manner of conversation and to bee fruitfull in every good work that we may adorne the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord and not make his enemies to blaspheme Therefore knowing all other cures to be vain without the studie of Reformation We doe from the unfained zeal of your prosperitie and peace in the bowels of the Lord Jesus Christ by whose blood we have beene redeemed in much tender and humble affection with tears exhort you by all your Oaths and Obligations unto God by all his mercies and deliverances towards you by all your zeal of his Honour and love to Religion and Countrey that you will in all your conversation study Sobrietie Righteousnesse and Holinesse and so to walk in the Gospel that it may be known that the Son of God raigns in your hearts when you not only hold forth his vertues in your selves but discountenance every profane person and cherish and embrace all those that bear the Image of God The example of your good conversation cannot but be of great force to all the Land and nothing will contribute more for repressing of sin or establishing of holinesse then the precedencie of great ones Ordering all things that concerns themselves and their followers and domesticks according to the Covenant as is the frame of mans spirits and tennor of their conversation in private such is their deportment and carriage in publike actions We do well know that nothing will be so effectuall for enabling your Honours in the integritie of your spirits with much affection and love one towards another without emulation or self-seeking faithfullie and zealouslie to act publike counsels and resolutions then for each of you to walk with God who is the Father of