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A33119 The remonstrance of the Commissioners of the General Assembly to the Convention of Estates at Edinburgh, June, 1643 Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Ker, A. 1643 (1643) Wing C4253; ESTC R35585 5,658 12

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THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY To the CONVENTION of ESTATES At Edinburgh June 1643. EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie ANNO 1643. At Edinburgh the 27. of June 1643. THe Estates of this Kingdome presently conveened having read and considered the Remonstrance given in to them by the Commissioners from the Generall Assembly As they do returne heartie thanks to the Commissioners of the Assembly for their timous advertisement in matters of so great importance So to the effect the same may be the better made known to all the members of this Convention and they thereby more enabled to give their resolutions therein Ordains the same to be forthwith printed and that thir presents be Warrant for that effect Arch. Primerose Cler. Conven To the right Honourable the Noblemen the Commissioners of Shires and Burrowes assembled in the Convention of Estates at Edinburgh June 22. 1643. years The humble remonstrance and desires of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly ACcording to the trust committed unto us by the Generall Assembly in this time of so many difficulties and so great danger to Religion and Peace which have exercised us this time past and doe still more and more presse us above measure We have given warning to the whole Ministrie how to acquit themselves against all sorts of Enemies to Religion and Peace We have also by petition made our humble addresse to the Kings most excellent Majestie for remedying the present evils and preventing the like in time coming Wherein we have had the happinesse to be countenanced and assisted by the Lords of His Majesties honourable privie Councell and the Commissioners for conserving the Peace But to our great grief have not found the successe answerable to Our Endeavours and Expectation which is also resented in a late Declaration by the Lords of His Majesties privie Councell and the Commissioners for conserving the Peace and is now universally known to this whole kirk and kingdome And therefore having the opportunitie of this Honourable Convention representing the whole body of the Kingdome wherein we humbly acknowledge the wise timous and mercifull providence of God we finde our selves bound both as the faithfull Ministers of Christ and watchmen unto the house of Israel and as Commissioners of the Assembly set after a speciall manner upon the watch-tower at this time to give warning from God of the present dangers and with all earnestnesse in the name of God to intreat your Lordships for a speedy remedie We need not make any Remonstrance to your Lordships of Romish Heresies Superstition Usurpation and Tyranny nor of the inestimable benefit of the Reformation of Religion which next unto the first planting of Christian Religion it self is the greatest mercy that ever God bestowed upon the world and is no lesse then a resurrection from the dead nor of the many violent and fraudulent wayes which Antichrist hath used in acquiring preserving and propagating his Kingdome and thereby hath declared himself to be Antichrist indeed The Kirks and Kingdomes of Britain France Germany and other places from the first time of Reformation to this day bear testimony of his fraud and violence We only represent what great and marvellous things the Lord hath done for this Kirk and Kingdome of old and of late such as he hath not been pleased to do this day to any Nation under Heaven which hath been many times matter of humble and thankfull acknowledgement to our selves of admiration to other reformed Kirks and of astonishment to the enemies of God who neverthelesse in the invincible malice and hardnesse of their Hearts have ever been since the first beginning of Reformation according to their own Principles by all their craft and might opposing and fighting against the work of God And although by the wisedome power and good providence of God they have been many times disappointed of their ends and their devices turned upon their own heads yet as enemies of all righteousnesse and full of all subtilty and mischief do they never cease to pervert and resist the right wayes of the Lord which hath been formerly and is at this day the cause of many and great dangers to our Religion and to the peace and happinesse both of King and Countrey When we look upon the records of former times As we perceive the Kirk of God in this Kingdome in most of her nationall Assemblies to have entred in a deep consideration of the dangers of the true Religion of the causes whence they did arise and of the best and most effectuall remedies whereby they might be removed So do we finde the principall dangers discovered by the generall Assemblies to be the same which at this time threaten our Religion and Peace One of them was from forrain invasion by Papists in Armes or preparing forces to come against this Iland Another was of intestine conspiracies and secret plots of Papists and their assistants within the Kingdome And the third was the ordinary resort of Papists to Court their familiar admittance to the Kings and Queens Majesties Presence and their preferment to places and imployments of Trust with the slighting and neglecting of such as were known to be zealous of the Truth and Cause of God against Popery and Corruption In all which they did wisely observe a threefold conjunction First That the safety of Religion and of the Kings person crown and posterity were inseparably joyned That the danger of the one was also the danger of the other That they did stand and fall together and had the same common friends and enemies which was acknowledged and professed by his Majestie that then was with resolution to assist by his power and royall Authority the endevours of the Kirk for preserving of Religion and his Estate against all forrain and intestine practices of Papists and Apostats Secondly The conjunction of the safety of the two kingdomes of Scotland and England because in one Iland although under divers Princes and that the danger from popish forces and conspiracies was common to both which was the ground of the generall band of this Kingdome the year 1588. and of the common band and union betwixt the two Kingdomes in the year 1585. in their joynt defence of Religion against the common Enemie Thirdly the conjunction betwixt the Kirks of Britain and all other Kirks professing the true protestant Religion with them which was the reason of the desire of a generall League and Christian Confederacie of all Princes and States sincerely professing the Evangel to be opponed to the ungodly conspiracies of the enemies of Gods Truth Concerning these three sorts of dangers we may truely say with the Preacher That which hath beene is now And that not so much by vicissitude and change as by continuance and succession of the same kindes of dangers to the true Religion which remaineth alwayes the same it being built upon the rock and therefore unalterable by the course of time Yet