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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87990	A letter of addresse from the officers of the army in Scotland, directed to the Honourable, the Speaker of the Parliament of the commonwealth of England sitting at Westminster. Wednesday the 18th of May 1659. Ordered by the Parliament that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Tho. St Nicholas clerk of the Parliament.	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1659 (1659)	Wing L1564; Thomason E983_19; ESTC R3007	2,266	8

A LETTER OF ADDRESSE FROM THE OFFICERS of the ARMY IN SCOTLAND DIRECTED To the Honourable the Speaker of the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England sitting at Westminster Wednesday the 18th of May 1659. ORdered by the Parliament that this Letter be forthwith Printed and Published Tho. St Nicholas Clerk of the Parliament London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament And are to be sold at the seven Stars in Fleetstreet over against Dunstans Church 1659. For the Honorable the Speaker of the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England Sitting at Westminster Right Honorable THat a Nation may be born in a day is a Truth which this days experience witnesseth unto us against all the Dictates of humane Reason and that a glorious Cause whose Interest was laid low even in the Dust should be in one day restored to its life and lustre when almost all the Assertors of it had so manifestly declin'd it by a defection of many years cannot be imputed to less then the greatest and most powerfull manifestation of the Arm of God that ever this or former Generations saw or heard of In the sence of this the greatest of our Temporal Mercies we now come to Address to your Honors as those whose presence we have so long wanted that had you staid but a little longer it might have been left to be inquired what England was we mean what was become of that People by whom God for so many years fill'd the World with so much Admiration and Terror But though this great Work be as most justly it ought to be wonderfull in our eyes yet when we consider its Author who calls things that are not as if they were bringeth down to the Pit and raiseth up again we see that nothing is difficult to Faith and the promises of God are sure and stable even then when in the eye of man no less then impossible We cannot but acknowledge to our exceeding great sorrow and shame that our selves though we hope most of us through weakness and frailty not out of Design have very much contributed to those provocations which have caused God to depart from our Israel and we could heartily wish that even amongst those that help to make up your own number there had not been an helping hand to this sad and deplorable work But we see when Gods hour is come and the time of his Peoples deliverance even the set time at hand he cometh skipping over all the mountains of sin and unworthiness that we daily cast in his way We are not willing to detain your Honors too long upon this Subject and therefore beseeching the God of all our Mercies to heal the backslidings of his People and not to charge unto their account in this his day of their deliverance their miscarriages whilest they were wandring in dark and slippery places after the imaginations of their own hearts We with all humility and affection in the first place congratulate you in this your happy Restauration to the Government of these Nations which God was once pleased so to own in your hands as to make you both the Praise and Wonder of the Earth the Glory and Rejoycing of his People and the Terrour of your adversaries and we acknowledge it a singular condiscention in you in this day of so great difficulties to take upon you so heavy a burthen And seeing his late Highness hath been pleased to manifest so much self-denial and love to his Countrey in appearing for the Interest thereof against his own We humbly intreat That some speedy care may be taken for Him and His Family together with Her Highness Dowager That there may be such an honorable provision setled upon them and such other Dignities as are sutable to the former great Services of that Family to these Nations And in the next place we cannot but humbly beseech you now you have an opportunity then which a fitter your hearts did never pray for to finish the work of Reformation that hath been so long upon the wheel and met with so great obstuctions that you would not heal the wound of the Daughter of Gods people slightly but make so sure lasting provision for both their Christian and Civil Rights as that both this and future Generations may have cause to rise up and call you blessed and the blackest of Designs may never be able to cast dirt in your faces any more and as helpfull to these two great concernments Religion and Liberty we humby propose unto your mature Consideration these two desires First That you would be pleased to countenance Godliness and all the sincere professors thereof encourage an able and laborious Ministery and suffer no other yoak to be imposed upon the Consciences of Gods people then what may be agreeable to the word of God and that you would be a terrour to all impious prophane and licentious people whatsoever Secondly That you would so vindicate and assert the native Rights and Liberties of these Nations in and by the Government of a Free State that there may not be the voice of an oppressed one in our Land but that all may enjoy the blessed fruits of your Righteous and Peaceable Government And for the prevention of all possibility for Ambitious spirits ever to work their ends against you we humbly desire you to be very careful as well what persons you intrust with the management of the Armies and Navies of this Commowealth as of the measure of that Power and Authority you depart with to them or substitute in them Touching the Qualifications of the persons we desire they may be truly Godly and Consciencious Touching the measure of their Authority that it may be adequate to the nature and being of a Common-wealth And whilest you are thus pleading and asserting the interest of God and his People you may rest assured with greatest confidence that we shall appear in your defence and the vindication of your Authority against the opposition of all Arbitrary Powers whatsoever And to that blessed and All-powerful God who is able to spirit you for this Great Work you are and shall daily be recommended in the the Prayers of Your most Loyal and most obedient Servants George Monck Thomas Reade Ralph Cobbet Timothy Wilks Robert Reade John Cloberrey Abraham Holmes Henry Dorney Daniel Davison Richard Heath Mi. Richardson John Hubbelthorn Thomas Johnson P. Crisp Henry Brightman Philip Watson Thomas Dean Jeremiah Smith William Davis James Wright Joseph Wallington William Helling Ethelbert Morgan Robert Winter John Paddon Anthony Nowers FINIS