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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96224	A copy of the petition of the Divines of the Assembly, delivered to both Houses of Parliament, Iuly 19, 1643. Together, with the Houses answer to the said petition. This is entred according to order, Henery Walley.	Westminster Assembly; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing W1426; Thomason E63_19; ESTC R7445	1,945	8

A COPY OF THE PETITION OF THE DIVINES OF THE ASSEMBLY Delivered to both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT Iuly 19 1643. TOGETHER With the Houses ANSWER to the said PETITION This is Entred according to Order Henery Walley August 4th LONDON Printed by G. M. for Christopher Meredith at the Signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard M.DC.XLIII A Copy of the PETITION OF THE DIVINES of the Assembly Delivered to both Houses of PARLIAMENT Iuly 19 1943. To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of divers Ministers of Christ in the name of themselves and of sundry others Humbly sheweth THat your Petitioners upon serious consideration and deep sense of Gods heavy wrath lying on us and hanging over our heads and the whole Nation and manifested particularly by the two late sad and unexpected defeates of our Forces in the North and in the West doe apprehend it to be our duty as Watchmen for the good of the Church and Kingdome to present to your religious and prudent consideration these ensuing Requests in the Name of Iesus Christ Your Lord and ours First That you would be pleased to command a Publike and extraordinary day of Humiliation this weeke throughout the Cities of London Westminster the suburbs of both and places adjacent within the weekely Bills of Mortality that every one may bitterly bewaile his owne sinnes and cry mightily unto GOD for Christ his sake to remove his wrath and to heale the Land with professed and renewed resolutions of more full performance of the late Covenant for the amendment of our wayes Secondly That you would vouchsafe instantly to take it into your more serious consideration how you may most speedily set up CHRIST more gloriously in all his Ordinances within this Kingdome and reforme all things amisse throughout the Land wherein God is more specially and more immediatly dishonoured Among which we humbly lay before you these particulars 1. That the bruitish ignorance and palpable darknesse possessing the greatest part of the people in all places of the Kingdome whereby they are utterly unfit to waite upon God in any holy duty to the great dishonour of the Gospell and the everlasting endangering of their poore soules may be remedied by a speedy and strict charge to all Ministers constantly to Catechise all the youth and ignorant people they being commanded to be subject to it and all sorts to be present at it and information to be given of all persons who shall withstand or neglect it 2. That the grievous and hainous pollution of the Lords Supper by those that are grosly ignorant and notoriously prophane may be henceforth with all Christian care and due circumspection prevented 3. That the bold venting of corrupt Doctrines directly contrary to the sacred Law of God and religious humiliation for sin which open a wide doore to all Libertinisme and disobedience to God and man may be speedily suppressed every where and that in such manner as may give hope that the Church may be no more infected with them 4. That the Prophanation of any part of the Lords Day and the dayes of solemne Fasting by buying selling working sporting travelling or neglecting of Gods Ordinances may be remedied by appointing speciall Officers in every place for the due execution of all good Lawes and Ordinances against the same 5. That there may be a through and speedy proceeding against blind guides and scandalous Ministers by whose wickednesse people either lack or loath the Ordinances of the Lord and thousands of soules perish and the removeall of the Arke from among us is to the trembling of our hearts evidently threatned And that your Wisedomes would find out some way to admit into the Ministery such godly and hopefull men as have prepared themselves and are willing thereunto without which there will suddenly be such a scarcity of able and faithfull Ministers that it will be to little purpose to cast out such as are unable idle or scandalous 6. That the Lawes may be quickned against Swearing and Drunkennesse with which the Land is filled and defiled and under which it mourneth 7. That some severe course be taken against Fornication Adultery and Incest which doe greatly abound especially of late by reason of impunity 8. That all monuments of Idolatry and Superstition but more especially the whole body and practise of Popery may be totally abolished 9. That Iustice may be executed on all Delinquents according to your solemne and religious Vow and Protestation to that purpose 10. That all possible meanes may be used for the speedy reliefe and release of our miserable and extreamely distressed Bretheren who are prisoners in Oxford Yorke and elsewhere whose heavy sufferings cry loud in the eares of our God and it would lye very heavy upon the Kingdome should they miscarry suffering as they doe for the cause of God That so God who is now by the Sword avenging the quarrell of his Covenant beholding your integrity and zeale may turne from the fiercenesse of his wrath heare our prayers goe forth with our Armies perfect the worke of Reformation forgive our sins and settle Truth and Peace throughout the Kingdome And the Petitioners shall ever pray c. THis Petition being read in both Houses Answer was returned to the Divines that presented it to this effect That the Petition was very well approved that both Houses had agreed to have a Publike Fast in all the places mentioned in the Petition on the Friday then next following being Iuly ●1 which accordingly was very solemnely performed by both Houses of Parliament and the Assembly all together as well as by the Cities and that they would take the other particulars into speedy consideration FINIS