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A31788	The Kings Maiesties answer to a late petition presented unto him by the hands of Mr. Alexander Henderson, from the commissioners of the Generall Assemblie of the Kirk of Scotland with their humble remonstrance and renewed petition to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie, from their meeting at Edinburgh, June 2, 1643.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Ker, A.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1643 (1643)	Wing C2098; ESTC R35826	16,804	32

occasion to publish to the world Our practice and resolution in the true protestant Reformed Religion and wee are verily perswaded there is no one Subject in either of our Dominions who at all knowes Us and hath observed our Life but is in his soul satisfied of our Zeal and unremoveable Affection to that Religion and of our true dislike of and hearty oposition to popery And as wee willingly consented at our being in Scotland to all acts proposed to Us for the discountenancing and Reforming the Papists in that our Kingdome so by our Proclamations for the putting of all Lawes severally in execution against Recusants and by not refusing any one Bill presented to Us to that purpose in this Kingdome and by our perpetuall and publique professions of Readinesse with the advice of Our two Houses of Parliament prepared for Us in a deliberate and orderly way to finde some expedition to perfect so good a worke or conceived wee had not left it possible for any man to believe Us guilty of tolerating any part of the Romish Tyrannie or Superstition or to suspect that the Conversion of our dearest Consort was not so much our desire that the Accession of as many Crownes as God hath already bestowed upon us would be more welcome to us then that day A blessing which it is Our daily prayer to the almighty to bestow upon Us. But we might well have expected from the Petitioners who have in their solemne Nationall Covenant literally sworne so much Care and safety of Our Person and cannot but know in how much danger that hath bin and still is by the power and threats of Rebellious Armes that they would as well have remembred the 23 of October as the 5 of November and as well have taken notice of the Army raised and led against Us by the Earle of Essex which hath actually assaulted and endeavoured to murther Us which wee know to abound in Brownists Anabaptists and other sectaries and in which we have reason by the prisoners we have taken and the evidence they have given to believe there are many more Papists and many of those forraigners then in all our army as have advised Us to disband out of the army of the Earle of New castle which is raised for Our defence the Papists in that Armie who are knowne to be no such number as to endanger their obtaining any power of building their Babell and setting up their Idolatrie and whose loyaltie he hath reason to commend though he was never suspected for favouring their Religion not before that of Protestants but of such as rebell under that Title And whose assistance is as due to us by the law of God man to rescue Us from domestick Rebellion as to defend us from forraigne invasion which we think no man denyes to be lawfull for them to do But we do solemnly declare and protest That God shall no sooner free us from the desperate and rebellious armes taken up against Us but we shall endeavour to free our selves and King dome from any fear of danger from the other by disarming them according to the laws of this Land as we shall not faile to send our Commissioner to the Assembly at the time appointed for it by the laws of Scotland To conclude We desire and require the Petitioners as becomes good and pious Preachers of the Gospel to use their utmost endeavours to compose any distraction in opinions or misunderstandings which may by the faction of some turbulent persons bee raised in the minds of Our good Subjects of that Our Kingdome and to infuse into them a true sence of Charitie Obedience and Humilitie the great principles of Christian Religion That they may not suffer themselves to bee transported with things they do not understand or thinke themselves concerned in the Government of another Kingdome because it is not according to the customes of that in which they live But that they dispose themselves with modesty and devotion to the service of Almighty God with duty and affection to the obedience of us and our laws remembring the singular Grace Favour and Benignitie We have alwaies expressed to that Our Native Kingdome and with brother-therly and christian charitie one towards another And Wee doubt not but God in his mercy to Us and them will make us instruments of his blessings upon each others and both of us a great measure of happinesse and prosperitie to the whole nation FINIS To the Kings most excellent Majesty The bumble Remonstrance and renewed Petition of the Commissioners of the Generall Assemblie of the Kirke of SCOTLAND from their meeting at Edinburgh the 2. day of June 1643. AS the manifold and pressing necessitie of the duetie of our place and trust did constrain us in these distempered and dangerous times in most humble manner To direct our earnest supplication to your Majestie for such remedies as wee conceive to be most fit for us to propone And being applyed by your Majesties owne hand might both for cure and prevention prove most effectuall So are we enforced by the same necessitie growing daily to the greatest extremitie In all humilitie and earnestnesse To renew not only our prayers to God but our Petitions to your Majestie For Sions sake can we not hold our peace and for Jerusalems sake we will not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof go forth as brightnesse and the salvation thereof as alamp that burneth But because in your Majesties answere to our former Petition wee meet with a multitude of prejudices and exceptions against us and our humble desires wee will crave leave first to remove these out of the way Acknowledging the full expression of them by your Majestie to be no small favour and being confident after we have expressed our selves in the truth and integritie of our hearts both to give unto and to receive from your Majesties Justice and goodnesse the greater satisfaction And first although there bee good reason for printing of Answers and Replyes the Petition being before printed yet wee acknowledge that your Majestie hath just cause to finde fault with that publishing of our Petition in print which is mentioned in the introduction to your Majesties answer And if it had been done by our Commandement counsell or knowledge we had not only given your Majestie just provocation and fallen in an errour contrary to the nature of a Petition and to the right disposition of Petitioners but also had used means contrary to our own ends in publishing a programme of our diffidence of obtaining our desires or in giving a publick testimony that we were aiming at some other thing then what we professed to seek And therefore wee are so far from excusing that forme of doing that we judge our selves to be wronged thereby Another fault much more intollerable is objected against us The bitternesse and sharpnesse of some expressions which may bee interpreted by your Majesties well affected Subjects not to be so agreeable to that regard and