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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50598	A memorial for His Highness the Prince of Orange in relation to the affairs of Scotland together with the address of the Presbyterian-party in that kingdom to his Highness : and some observations on that address / by two persons of quality.	Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, 1630-1714.; Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Presbyterian address from Scotland to the Prince of Orange.	1689 (1689)	Wing M169; ESTC R18197	18,250	45

apprehension so that when your Highness first appeared we were like them that 7 dream and our Hearts were filled with matter of Hope and Ioy yet how are we overwhelmed with fear considering our 8 provocations and sinning in the face of Iudgments and in a day of so much Wrath and Indignation the combination of so many potent Adversaries the Perils from Winds and raging Seas the hazard to your valiant Army but especially to your Highnesses Royal Person sent us to the Throne of Grace and oh how great had our guiltiness been if we had lain by to 9 wrestle for the protection of Heaven towards your Highness's Person Army and Navy And now that the Lord hath not despised the Prayer of the destitute and hath made his out-stretched Arm appear in the prudent Conduct and desirable Success of such an Heroick Vndertaking and that the Lord hath 10 melted the Hearts of some in making them joyn with your Highness's Forces hath bound up the Hands of 11 implacable Adversaries and hath stopt all ways of escaping is the doing of our God and it 's wonderful in our Eyes And God forbid that ever we forget such a Mercy or that we neglect to stir up the People under our Charges to magnifie his Name for so seasonable and so great a Mercy which upon several accounts may be compared with the delivering of God's People out of Egypt and out of Babylon and from Antichristian Darkness by the Reformation begun by Zuinglius and Luther if now we get Grace to improve it to the 12 Honor of his Name Great Sir as the Welfare and Happiness of the Kirk hath mainly influenced your Highness's great Vndertaking so we are confident that the sad Case of the Kirk of Scotland occasioned by the overturning of that 13 beautiful Government the Presbyterian Government of the Kirk established there and Mother Churches in France United Provinces c. will by your tender Care and Providence now find a sutable Remedy and that your Highness will commiserate the deplorable State of a Kirk once 14 famous for its Reformation Purity 15 Piety Order and Vnity 16 And oh how refreshing was it to Christs afflicted ones to find that your Highness was so nearly concerned and so deeply touched with our late Sufferings as to hold forth your Sympathy in your Highness's Gracious Declaration containing one just Epitome of our sad Tryals and unparallel'd on such account Sufferings which would require a Volume for rehearsing the several particulars and giving a full History of the merciless Perseiutions we were forced to lie under since the erection ef Prelacy yea the Severity ran to such an heighth that by the eighth Act of King James the Seventh his Parliament it was statute and ordained that all Preachers in Houses or Field Conventicles and all present at Field-Meetings should be punished by 17 Death and Confiscation of Goods And tho by the Light of Nature and Law of Nations it be the Oppresseds innocent Refuge to supplicate the Iudges or Ruler yet with our Rulers it was accounted a Crime of the highest Demerit And his Majesties Commissioner in his first Parliament after his Return from Exile sent to the several Provincial Synods then meeting at the set time to raise them which accordingly they did So soon as they did move as all of them were to do towards a supplication to the Parliament for ratifying the Government of the Kirk established by King and 18 solemn Acts of Parliament And what Tongue can express the Oppression we have met with since that day And tho it were not pertinent in this our humble Address to trouble your Royal Highness with an account of particulars yet we have given to 19 these now sent from us to your Highness such Information concerning those as during the short time of our staying together we could provide which they are ready to offer to your Highness when required neither could we take upon us to condescend upon any method for remedy of our Grievances but intirely relying upon your Highness's Zeal for the Glory of God and good of this Kirk do in all Humility beseech and in the Bowels of Christ Iesus intreat your Highness to procure the 20 Extirpation of Prelacy and Re-establishment of Presbyterian Government of this Kirk and of the restoring of the faithful Ministers of Christ to their respective Charges from which they were so unjustly thrust out It will not 21 we hope seem strange to your Highness's Goodness tho some of us being on the place about the time the King allowed to Ministers the free Exercise of their Ministry opened the Prison Doors and set the Captives at liberty recalled the Exile took off the Arrests and permitted these to return to their homes 22 who know not where to hide their Heads did by their Address thankfully acknowledge the Favour of a little Respite from so much Slavery and intolerable Sufferings all of them being ready solemnly to protest that it was far from their thoughts to homologate the Liberty granted to Papists or the Arbitrary Dispensing Power to speak nothing of that absolute Power without reservation claimed by his Majesty and 23 asserted by Parliament and Council But our confidence of your Highness's perswasion of our Integrity in that matter makes us forbear any farther Apology But oh as the Lord hath followed your pious Endeavours for the delivering of Britain and Ireland from the Persecution they were lying under while we could espie no Remedy with wonderful Success So he will be pleased to strengthen your Highness 24 for going on in his Work and will make you an happy Instrument for delivering of other Churches groaning under Popish Persecution Babylon the great must fall And that this may be the time and your Highness the Man of Gods Right Hand whom he hath made strong for being eminently instrumental in such a Glorious Work that he would more and more sanctifie and 25 humble you under his bountiful Dispensation and would guard and preserve your Person and multiply his choice Blessings spiritual and temporal on your precious Princess your Royal Consort shall be the continual Prayer of Serene Highness Your assiduous Orators at the Throne of Grace and most Faithful and Humble Servants Their Letter to the Prince which they ordered to be sent at the same time with the preceding Address SIR IF we might have met for moving in this great Concernment or had known how to transmit a Testimony of our Congratulation at your Highness's safe Arrival we had not been so far wanting in Duty as to have delayed to this time And if it had been supposed needful to have called a fuller Meeting we know few or none except such as are byassed by interest or 26 accession to our Persecution who would not have cordially concurred as in one Gratulation so in this our humble Supplication to your Royal Highness and for evidencing our zeal for your Highness's Happiness and Prosperity we have appointed a solemn Day of