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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74751	Queries of highest consideration, proposed to the five Holland ministers and the Scotch Commissioners (so called) upon occasion of their late printed apologies for themselves and their churches. In all humble reverence presented to the view of the Right Honourable the Houses of the High Court of Parliament.	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1644 (1644)	Thomason E32_8; ESTC R212639	13,716	21

QVERIES OF HIGHEST CONSIDERATION Proposed to the five HOLLAND Ministers AND THE Scotch Commissioners SO CALLED Vpon occasion of their late Printed Apologies for themselves and their Churches In all Humble Reverence presented to the view of the Right Honourable the Houses of the High Court of Parlament LONDON Imprinted in the yeare MDCX. IV QVERIES OF HIGHEST CONSIDERATION Proposed to Mr. Tho. Goodwin Mr. Phillip Nye Mr. Wil. Bridges Mr. Jer. Burroughs Mr. Sidr Simpson AND To the Commissioners from the Generall Assembly so called of the Church Of SCOTLAND Vpon occasion of their late Printed Apologies for themselves and their Churches In all Humble Reverence presented to the view of the Right Honourable the Houses of the High Court of Parlament LONDON Imprinted in the yeare MDCXLIV TO THE Right Honourable Both Houses of the High Court Of PARLIAMENT Right Honourable IT is a wofull Priviledge attending all great States and Personages that they seldome heare any other Musick but what is known will please them Though our Musick sound not sweet but harsh yet please you first to know it is not fitted to your Eares but to your Hearts and the bleeding Heart of this aflicted Nation 'T is true we have been humbly bold to presume as Ester into Ahasuerus his presence against your Order For who can passe the many Locks and Bars of any the severall Licencers appointed by you with such a Message By such Circumscribing and immuring of your selves by such a Guard their Persons we honour and esteem it is rarely possible that any other Light but what their Hemispheare affoords shall ever shine on your Honours Souls though ne're so sweet so necessary and though it come from God from Heaven These Worthy and much esteemed Persons unto whom we Quaery we have heard to be Men of Conscience of Abilities and are in this worthy of double Honour that according to their Consciences they appear in the Front and present their Moulds and Patterns of Church Government from Holland from Scotland to our inquiring England Their mutuall just Exceptions which they have already or may further expresse against each others Tenents we leave to themselves though we might expresse them to our advantage We shall be humbly bold in the name of the Lord Jesus and the many thousand precious souls for whom he hath paid so deare a Ransome to present such Quaeries to your Honours view as respect their joint Agreement Pardon the I hrase like Ephraim and Manasseh though fighting each against other yet both against Christ Jesus the Lion of Iudahs Tribe we mean so farre as they appose the Truth and Purity of his last will and Testament Most Renowned Patriots You sit at Helme in as great a Storm as ere poor Englands Common-wealth was iost in Yet be you pleased to remember that excepting the affaires of Heaven of Religion of Soules of Eternity all your Consultations Conclusions Executions are not of the Quantity of the value of one poor drop of water or the little dust of the Ballance of Elaiah were a true Prophet Esa 40.15 Yet concerning Soules wee will not as most doe charge you with the loads of all the Soules in England Scotland Ireland Wee shall humbly affirme and by the help of Christ maintaine that the Bodies and Goods of the Subject is your charge Their Soules and yours are set on account to those that professe to be the Lights and Guides the Messengers and Embassadors sent from Heaven to them You will please to say We are constantly told and we believe it that Religion is our first Care and Reformation of that our greatest Taske Right Honourable your Wisdomes know the Fatall Miscariages of Englands Parliaments in this point what setting up pulling downe what Formings Reformings and againe Deformings to admiration Three Instances are dreadfull yet to expresse Seasonable First The last and best of Englands changes established Lord Bishops they and two more Priests and Deacons are by Law the established Ministers of Englands Church The former makes the latter so far as concerns a lawfull externall Calling The Lord Bishops themselvs are now Voted Antichristian Your Wisdomes then see what Callings by Law the other two sorts Priests and Deacons have all this while bin furnished with Secondly if hee that eates and drinkes the Body and blood of Christ unworthily eateth and drinketh his owne judgement and all English soules are bound by Law to cate that Body and Blood at sixteene who sees not since as t is confest scarce one of a thousand but is found ignorant Impenitent Unregenerate at those yeeres that the Body of the People are compelled by Law to eat and drink at sixteen their own judgment Thirdly for Non-conforming to these and other practises the English Masse-Booke c. what heavy Persecution have thousands felt and that by Law established We shall in all humble Reverence suggest our Feares that for the very Laws and Statutes of Englands Parliaments concerning Religion and happily for some not yet suspected the Lord Iesus hath drawne this Sword that 's daily drunke with English Blood It shall never be your Honour to this or future Ages to be confined to the Patterns of either French Dutch Scotch or New-English Churches We humbly conceive some higher Act concerning Religion attends and becomes your Consultations If he whose name is wonderfull Counsellor be consulted and obeyed according to his last Will and Testament as you may please in the Quaeries to view wee are confident you shall exceed the Acts and Patternes of all Neighbour Nations bighly exalt the name of the Son of God provide for the Peace of this distressed State engage the Soules of all that feare God to give Thankes and Supplicate for you further the Salvation of thousands and leave the sweet perfume of your Names precious to all succeeding Generations QUERIES PROPOUNDED To the five Holland Ministers and the Scotch Commissioners WORTHY SIRS IN serious Examination of your late Apologies we shall in all due respect and tendernesse humbly Querie Querie I First What Precept or Pattern hath the Lord Jesus left you in his last Will and Testament for your Synod What warrant from the Lord Iesus for the Assembly of Divines or Assembly of Divines by vertue of which you may expect his presence and assistance If you say as all Popish Synods and Councels doe the Pattern is plain Acts 15. Acts 15. examined We aske if two or three Brethren of one particular Congregation at Antioch sent to that first Mother Church at Jerusalem where the Apostles were who being immediatly inspir'd from God could say It seemeth good to the holy Spirit and Vs to lay upon you no greater burthen c. as also who had power to make Decrees for all the Churches Acts 16. We aske whether this be a Pattern A Nationall Assembly necessarily inforceth an Assembly of the whole world for a Nation or Kingdome and so consequently for more Nations and all the World if under one