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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96240	A letter from the Assembly of Divines in England and the commissioners of the Church of Scotland written, and sent by order of the honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, to the Belgicke, French, Helvetian, and other reformed churches / translated into English and now published with the severall inscriptions to those churches by order of the said House.; Literae a Conventu Theologorum in Anglia et Ecclesiae Scoticanae delegatis. English	Westminster Assembly; Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing W1443A; ESTC R42767	7,942	17

Service Rites and Ceremonies and a book of Canons To which when the pietie and zeale of that nation vvould not submit they prevailed alas with his Majestie to proclaime them Rebels and Traitors and to raise a formidable army against them to which all the Papists and popishly affected did professedly contribute their best assistance And certainly had not the Lord by his blessing upon the Scotish Army by the manifestation and acknowledgement of the wrongs done them by the calling of this Parliament and their godly care to cleare the innocency of their Brethren and by the Treatie of Peace concluded betwixt the two Kingdomes prevented it the two Nations long since through the treachery and rage of these brutish men had beene embrewing their hands in each others bloud But though through the goodnesse of God and his blessing upon the publicke Councels and proceedings of both Nations of England and Scotland they were more closely mutually conjoyned and the Lord had raised up such a spirit throughout this whole Kingdome to mourne after the Lord to lament our backslidings and to desire a perfect Reformation and had so inclined the hearts of the honourable Senators conveened in Parliament to repaire the House of the Lord among us that vve verily hoped our winter to bee past and the time of our refreshing and healing to bee come yet Alas we finde it to be cleane otherwise Our God who before was a moth and rottennesse is now turned unto a Lyon to us Wee know our sins have deserved all and if we all dye and perish yet the Lord is righteous to his hand we submit and to him alone we desire to look for healing Howbeit the instruments of these new miseries are the same Antichristian faction Who have beene so farre from being discouraged or giving over their former designe by their want of successe in Scotland or in beholding the fixed resolution of the Parliament here for Reformation that their rage and diligence therein is more increased since the beginning of the Parliament then at any time before And indeed have more prevailed both by stirring up a bloody Rebellion in Ireland wherein as the Papists themselves boast they have destroyed above a hundred thousand Protestants in one Province within a few moneths And in England by alienating the heart of his Majesty from his Parliament which had begun to call many of them to account for their former mischiefes And after an attempt to surprize some Members of both Houses in an hostile manner prevailing with his Majesty to with-draw himselfe from the Parliament and to raise an Army which at first pretended onely to bee made up of Protestants But the Papists knew their intents who both here and beyond the Seas had frequent prayers for the good successe of this great work intended in England for the advencing of the Catholick Cause and spared not in England to boast that they were not to appeare untill many Protestants were ingaged so farre that they might not start backe and then they were to own it which accordingly is come to passe For when once many seeming protestants were ingaged upon pretence of the Kings Prerogative and Priviledges of Parliament and Protestant Religion which protestants yet for the most part were the same who before the beginning of these stirres had been by the publick Judicatory of the Kingdome impeached of Treason Oppression and other high crimes and misdemeanors and other who knew themselves guilty thereof and other currupt parties of the Clergy and their adherents presently the papists who before were spared from all plunder and violence where ever the Kings Forces came though many Protestants who even held not for the Parliament were rifled were armed by Commission from the King and promise of repayment for their Arms if they were lost Many great Papists being put into places of Command in severall parts of the kingdome and the body of all the Papists joyning with all their might and professing and exercising their Religion even by publike Masses in divers parts of the Realme And thus asisted with ammunition Men and Money from other parts deluded by their faire glosses and and pretences they go up and down plunder and murder spoile all such as adhere to the Parliament and cause of Religion And although when the Parliament saw that these wicked instruments prevailed with the King to raise force to be protected frome the justice of the Laws which the Parliament went about to inflict upon them for their former Treasons and other high crimes and to accomplish their former designes they indeavoured to secure the Forts and Navy provide meanes for the defence of themselves and of Laws Liberties and Religion all which these men in devoured to destroy Yet such hath been their cunning by false glosses to hide their own intention and to seduce others Or rather such is the righteous judgement of our now angry God for our abuse of our long peace that wee have not yet been able by Supplications Petitions and Remonstrances to recover his Majesty out of their hands or to bring these men to deserved punishments but the sword rageth almost in every corner of this wofull land And to m●●e up our misery to the full they have now at last prevailed with his Majesty so farre to own the bloody Rebels in Ireland as not onely to call them his Roman-Catholick Subjects now in Armes c. but even to grant them a Cessation for a yeare when they were brought into great extremity and to hold what they have gotten liberty to strengthen themselves with Men Money Armes Ammunition from any place freedome to send or come to his Majesty and thereby bee not onely inabled to destroy the remnant of the protestants there but to come over hither as many of them are already to act the same but cheries upon us as they have hitherto exercised upon our miserable and distressed Brethren among themselves In these deplorable calamities are wee involved and in the midst of these troublesome times have the honorable Houses of Parliament called this Assembly to give them our best Counsell for the Reformation of the Church for the purging and preserving of Religion and require us to make Gods Word only our Rule and to indeavour the nearest conformity to the best Reformed Churches and uniformity in all the Churches of the three Kingdomes And in this work wee are now exercised though the enemy hath stirred up the heart of our deare and dread Soveraigne against us also Yet through the good hand of God upon us we have made some comfortable beginnings The work is his who commands us not to despise the day of small things Thus Reverend and Deare Brethren we have given you the face or rather the shadow for what words are able to expresse the face of our miserable condition in England Our civill Liberties in danger to be lost our goods spoiled our houses plundered our bloud powred out in every corner things though otherwise very precious