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england_n	act_n	ireland_n	parliament_n	8,990	5	7.4458	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02201	The humble remonstrance of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly to the Honourable and high Court of Parliament now assembled. Together with the ansvver of the Estates of Parliament to the said remonstrance.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Ker, A.; Scotland. Parliament.	1647 (1647)	Wing C4229AB; ESTC R173934	7,182	21

light and the Author of every good gift and perfect donation But it is cheifly as you are cloathed with Authoritie and assembled in Parliament that we do now make addresse unto your Honours beseeching you by him who stands in the assemblie of gods That as your Progenitors and you have made many pious and laudable Acts for punishing of vice and advancing of vertue So ye will see carefully to the execution of the same And because vice is become common and strong that you will lay it seriouslie to heart and bestirre your selves in more then an ordinarie way in thinking upon and executing all the best expedients for stopping the sluces of iniquitie and impiety and advancing Righteousnesse and Religion We know no service better beseeming your place and more worthy of your paines that will be more acceptable unto God or more profitable for the Common-wealth next unto Reformation and the Rudie of Pictie and Godlinesse amongst out selves We conceive it most necessary for out good to hold fat the Union with our Brethren of England As the attaining and establishing of it was long studied by the lovers of Trueth and Peace as that subsidie that was like to contribute most for the lasting happinesse of both Kingdoms in regard of all their interests So hath the dissolving of this beene and is the great designe of all the Malignant wits both here and abroad Conceiving it the surest way to raise their hopes and ruine our happinesse by dividing us asunder and dashing us one against another which wee are sure that you abhorre and will study to avoid no lesse in your actions then we do in our desires And that as hithertills you have with much wisdome and faithfulnesse carefully shunned every thing that might produce suspitions or foster Jealousies and beene deficient in nothing that might strengthen the confidence of the English Nation in the perswasion of your affection and integritie to them-wards So you will still from the same wisdome and faithfulnesse hold fast the League and Covenant betwixt the Kingdomes as that which is most conduceable for the safetie and securitie of both And that you will by all faire and peaceable meanes travell with the Parliament of England for promoving of the work of Uuniformitie by establishing of the government of the Kirk and all the ordinances of the Son of God in England in their puritie and integritie that all the clouds of error which are there may be scattered and the beauty of the trueth shine brightly in both Lands And conceiving it to conduce much for that work and for the accomplishing our happinesse that His Majesty should joyn therein Therefore as we pour forth our prayers unto God for him on that behalfe So we hope that your Honours will not be deficient in continuing to deale with him to subscribe the League and Covenant that he and his Subjects being of one minde he may be happy in his Government and they in their obedience And though the Peace with the Rebels in the fruits and effects thereof hath neither answered your expectations nor put an end to the Kingdoms miseriers yet we shall only desire that all such as have been involved in the Rebellion may be keeped from places of publike trust whether Civill or Military And that you will take such course with them in moderating their power and regulating their carriage as that it may be known that you put a difference betwixt those that have served God and their Countrey and those that have opposed him in the publike Cause And that your peace may be peace indeed and not the foundation of a more lasting Warre If it were not tedious we could lay it before your Honours what a height of arrogancy and disdain of authority both Civil and Ecclesiastick appears in the carriage and expressions of most of these men that not in corners abroad but publikely in the chief Cities of the Kingdome and under your own eyes And it is yet more grievous that such should be familiarly conversed with and countenanced by these who professe themselves to be for the Lord and his Cause which evil is so increased that excommunicate persons themselves are not avoided It wounds us deeply to behold the sufferings and hear the cryes and complaints of our Brethren in the Province of Argyle and the places thereabouts who have their bloud shed as water spilt upon the ground their estates ruined their houses burnt with fire and the remnant that is left exposed unto the snares of Antichrist and all the miseries of nakednesse and famine We need not put your Lordships in minde what hath been their carriage constancy in the publike Work nor what is your obligation unto them by vertue of your Covenant Nor how dangerous the seating of such an Enemy there may be both unto our Religion and our Countrey But we beseech you by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit that ye will apply your selves seriously and bestirre your selves diligently for the help and relief of that poore people whose conditions pleads for it at your hands both as an Act of Justice and an Act of Mercy We do also lay before you the eminent dangers and low condition of our Brethren in Ireland who are neer to be swallowed up of their adversaries Perswading our selves that you will extend your utmost endeavours with the Parliament of England for their tymous assistance and relief And although we do acknowledge not onely the courage but also the moderation and piety of many worthies in our Armies who not only walk as good Souldiers but as Souldiers of Jesus Christ unto their own commendation and our hearts joy whose deservings we make no question will be both valued and rewarded by you according to their worth yet we cannot but regrate that many in our Armies walke loosly and disorderly ryotously spending what they violently spoile and making the lives of the Commons bitter unto them by their insolencies and oppressions which are carried with so high an hand that without the interposition of your authority help cannot be found And therefore we are confident that your care shall reach unto this also that the poore be no more oppressed nor the Gospel and our profession reproached by the debordings of such And we also trust that your Lordships will so dispose of common burdens that friends have no cause to complaine of unequall measure amongst themselves much lesse that Enemies are in a better condition then they and that they are overcharged when the other not only retain their spoils but live in superfluities And because the preservation of the Judicatories of the Kirk in their integrity and strength is of a great consequence unto the suppressing of iniquity and ungodlinesse and advancing righteousnesse and piety We desire that your Lordships will carefully see unto the keeping of their authority inviolable against all the insolencies of unreasonable men Our Religion and Liberty are blessings of excellent incomparable