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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86192	The declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson, principall minister of the word of God at Edenbrough, and chiefe commissioner from the Kirk of Scotland to the Parliament and Synod of England: made upon his death-bed.	Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646.	1648 (1648)	Wing H1431; Thomason E443_1; ESTC R204706	7,437	16

Tertull. ad Scapul Colimus Imperatorem sic quomodo nobis licet ipsi expedit ut hominem a Deo secundum quicquid est a Deo consequtum solo Deo minorem hoc ipse volet Sic enim omnibus major est dum solo Deo minor est Idem Apologet. Circa Majestatem Imperatoris Infamamur Nunquam tamen Albiniani vel Nigriani vel Cassiani inveniri potuerunt Christiani Lactant. Lib. 5. Instit. ca. 8. Ideo mala omnia rebus humanis quotidie ingravescunt quia Deus hujus mundi Effector Gubernator derelictus est quia susceptae sunt multae Impiae Religiones quia nec coli quidem vela paucis Deo sinitur Malach. 3. Returne unto me and I will returne unto you saith the Lord of Hosts but you said wherein shall wee returne will a man robbe his Gods yet have yee robbed mee but yee say wherein have wee robbed thee In Tithes and offrings yee are cursed with a curse because ye robbed mee even this whole Nation THE DECLARATION OF Mr. ALEXANDER HENDERSON Principall Minister of the word of God at Edenbrough and chiefe Commissioner from the Kirk of Scotland to the Parliament and Synod of England Made upon his Death-bed HOSEA 10. For now they say we have no King because we feared not the Lord What should a King doe to us PSAL. 63. The King shall rejoyce in God and all that sweare by him shall rejoyce in him And the mouth of them that speake Lies shall be stopped PRINTED An. Dom. 1648. The Declaration of Master ALEXANDER HENDERSON VVHEREAS the greatest part of the distempered People of these miserable distracted Kingdoms have beene and are wofully abused and misled with malicious misinformations against his sacred Majesty especially in point of Religion and morall-Wisdome whereof I confes with great griefe of heart my selfe to have been amongst many moe of my coate none of the least who out of Imaginary feares and Jealousies were made reall Instruments to advance this un-naturall Warre wherein so much Innocent Protestant blood hath beene shed and so much downright Robbery committed without f●ate or shame of sinne to the scandall of the true Reformed Religion as cannot but draw downe heavy Judgements from Heaven upon these infatuated Nations and more particularly upon us who should have instructed them in the way of Truth Peace and Obedience I conceived it the duty of a good Christian especially one of my profession and in the condition that I lie expecting God Almighty ' s-call not only to acknowledge to the All-mercifull God with a humble sincere remorse of Conscience the greatnesse of this offence which being done in simplicity of Spirit I hope with the Apostle Paul to obteine Mercy because I did it through Ignorance But also for the better satisfaction of all others to publish this Declaration to the view of the World to the intent that all those especially of the Ministery who have beene deluded with mee may by God's Grace and my example though a weake and meane Instrument not only bee undeceived themselves but also stirred up to undeceive others with more alacritie and facilitie that the scandall may bee removed from our Religion and Profession and the good King restored to his just Rights and truly honoured and obeyed as God's-Annoynted and Vice-gerent upon earth and the poore distressed Subjects freed from those intollerable Burdens and Oppressions which they lye groaning under piercing Heaven with their teares and cries and a solid Peace setled both in Kirke and Commonwealth throughout all his Majesties Dominions to the glory of God and of our blessed Mediator and Saviour the Lord Christ I doe therefore Declare before God and the World that since I had the honour and happinesse to converse and conferre with his Majesty with all sort of freedome especially in matters of Religion whither in relation to the Kirke or State which like Hypocrates Twins are lynked together that I found him the most intelligent man that ever I spoke with as fair beyond my expression as expectation grounded upon the Information that was given mee before I knew him by such as I thought should have known him I professe that I was oft-times astonish'd with the solidity and quicknesse of his Reasons and Replies wondred how hee spending his time so much in sports and recreations could have attained to so great knowledge and must confesse ingenuously that I was convinced in Conscience and knew not how to give him any reasonable satisfaction yet the sweetnesse of his disposition is such that whatsoever I said was well taken I must say that I never met with any Disputant let be a King and in matters of so high concernment of that milde and calme temper which convinced mee the more and made mee thinke that such Wisdom and Moderation could not bee without an extraordinary measure of divine grace I had heard much of his carriage towards the Priests in Spaine and that King James told the Duke of Buckingham upon his going thither that he durst venture his Sonne Charles with all the Jesuites in the World hee knew him to bee so well grounded in the Protestant Religion but could never beleeve it before I observed all his actions more particularly those of devotion which I must truly say are more then ordinary I informed my selfe of others who had served him from his Infancy and they all assured me that there was nothing new or much inlarged in regard of his troubles either in his private or publique way of exercise twice a day constantly morning and evening for an houres space in private twice a day before dinner and supper in publique besides preachings upon Sundayes Tuesdayes and other extraordinary times and no businesse though never so weighty and urgent can make him forget or neglect this his tribute and duty to Almighty God O that those who sit now at the helm of these weather beaten Kingdomes had but one halfe of his true piety and wisdome I dare say that the poore oppressed Subject should not bee plunged into so deepe Gulfes of impiety and miserie without compassion or pittie I dare say if his advice h●d beene followed all the bloud that is shed and all the repain that is committed should have beene prevented If I should speake of his Justice magnanimity charity sobriety chastity patience humility and of all his both Christian and Morall vertues I should runne my selfe into a panegyricke and seeme to flatter him to such as doe not know him if the present condition that I lye in did not exeem me from any such suspition of worldly ends when I expect every houre to bee called from all transitory vanities to eternall felicitie and the discharging of my conscience before God and men did not oblige me to declare the truth simply and nakedly in satisfaction of that which I have done ignorantly though not altogether innocently If I should relate what I have received from good hands and partly