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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94647	To the right honorable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament the humble petition of [blank] Humbly sheweth,...		1645 (1645)	Wing T1673; Thomason 669.f.10[37]; ESTC R210408	3,318	1

To the right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament the Humble Petition of Humbly sheweth THat we account true Religion the life and crowne of all our Liberties and Priviledges a pure and perfect Reformation in all Christs Ordinances the lustre and beauty of Religion and those persons or Nations much honoured of their God whom he pleaseth to employ in the promoting and accomplishing of such a Reformation Such Honour was in part cast upon our pious Predecessors in the dayes of King Edward the Sixth and Queene Elizabeth of happy Memory when after the dark mid-night of Popery the day of Reformation in Doctrine and Worship began sweetly to dawn upon this Kingdom But Divine providence hath devolved a double honour upon this Age and therein principally upon you Noble Senators whom God hath wonderfully raised up more perfectly to repaire his House in all the beauties of Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government having mightily stirred up your Spirits heartily to resolve it solemnly to Covenant it and really to exhibit some first fruits of it in the Directory for publike Worship which we accept with all thankfulnesse Notwithstanding we are not able longer to conceale from your Honours how extreamely our Spirits are perplexed and amazed that the great businesse of Church-Government and Discipline whereupon the whol stresse of the present Reformation will leane and whereby all Christs precious Ordinances and in particular the Lords Supper should bee preserved from all contempt and profanation should to this very day remaine unestablished by your civill sanction For we verily believe that England was never blest with such a Parliament as you are That English Parliament never had such a learned pious and faithfull Synod to hold forth sincerely the minde of Christ and the Modell of Church Government agreeable to his will as you have That no Parliament ever had such and so many forcible engagements upon them from God and unto God as are upon you And that this City of London did never so flourish with such a conscionable and painefull Ministry ready to put the Government and Discipline of Christ into execution for a patterne and encouragement to all the Kingdom as we have at this day whence then should it be that the children being come so neare to the birth there is yet no strength to bring forth Beare with us a little in this fervour of our Spirits it is for our Religion Reformation and the House of our God and we cannot hold our peace what way soever we cast our eye we cannot but see most sad fruits of the not setling of Church-Government to this day Hence many abominable errors and damnable Heresies are broached amongst us without controule And the precious truthes which Iesus Christ sealed with his blood are trampled under foot Hence the pure and holy Ordinances of Christ especially that of the Lords Supper are either wofully profaned by persons grosly ignorant and scandalous Or uncomfortably omitted in many places now for a long time together which should be often dispenced Hence multitudes of unstable soules have fallen off especially within these two or three yeares last past into many strange Sects maintaining most horrid and blasphemous opinions Incorporating themselves into separate Assemblies setting up illiterate persons to bee their Pastors And mannaging their meetings with great boldnesse and insolency in contempt of all Authority to the disturbance of the City every one doing what is right in his own eyes and there is no course to reclaime them Hence unnaturall flames of division especially about Church-Government are occasioned in the same Kingdome betwixt people and people in the same Citty betwixt Minister and Minister in the same Congregation betwixt Pastor and Flock yea in the same Family betwixt Master and Servant betwixt Parents and Children betwixt Husbands and Wives differences in opinions breeding alienation of affection and both breaking out into many bitter and reproachfull contentions Hence Orthodox Ministers are despised and discouraged in their Ministry Hopefull Plants disheartned and deterred from the Ministry Publike Assemblies are forsaken The pretended Preachers of new Gospels cried up Universall tolleration of all opinions and Religions pleaded for The Sabbaths and monthly dayes of Humiliation though backed by your Authority wilfully contemned And a wide sluce opened unto all profanesse and licenciousnesse Finally hence it comes to passe that the hearts of the truly Godly who have so long groaned after Reformation are overwhelmed with griefe and faintings through Hope deferred Our friends in forraign Countreys especially our deare Brethren of Scotland are astonished at our delayes Our enemies at home scorne and insult over us as given up to a spirit of giddinesse looking at this City as a stage of Schism Faction and Heresie Our distempers grow more incurable and Reformation every day more difficult and improbable And though our God hath rewarded our beginings of Reformation with his beginings of deliverance yet hath he also of late manifested divers sad and remarkable tokens of his displeasure from heaven against England and Scotland both by sword and pestilence because as we justly feare we make no more haste to compleat the Reformation in all the desireable perfections of it according to our Covenant wherein led both by your precept and example we have religiously lifted up our hands to the most high God When we consider these things we could poure out our very soules in us For God is our record and your Honours also in part can beare us witnesse what we have done and suffered in this concerning Cause of God and Religion And how we have spared neither our prayers nor teares nor outward estates nor limbs nor blood nor our dearest lives for the publike but especially for the promoting of a speedy and perfect Reformation in all matters of Religion Without which we value no worldly comforts With which we hope we shall feare no earthly crosses and till this be effected we cannot expect that God will fully blesse either you or us with compleat deliverance Wherefore we most ardently and humbly importune this Renowned Parliament our chiefe hope and help under God in this case 1. That as you tender the happinesse of this now miserable Church The true prosperity of this distracted City and Kingdom The timely comfort of all your reall friends The seasonable cure of all our deep distempers before they grow remedilesse The hastening of the Kingdoms enlargement from all its pressing distresses and its enjoyment of all contrary blessings from the Lord The exaltation of the name of God whose glory is now profaned to the dust And your faithfull performing of Covenant with the most high God touching Reformation you would make all possible haste forthwith to establish by your civill Sanction that Government and Discipline amongst us which Christ hath left to his Church A Modell whereof the Reverend Assembly of Divines according to the wisedom given unto them have framed and as we understand already presented to your Honours which being established we shall better be enabled with greater hope and patience to wait till the Confession of Faith and publike Cathechism can be finished which must necessarily take up a farre longer time then can possibly be spared from the setling of Government without many unavoydable and desperate mischiefs And we beseech you to remember how the Lord hath hastened of late to load you and us in a short space with his many benefits as the Victory at Nazeby the quick recovery of Leicester the reliefe of Taunton the surrender of many strong holds into your hands as Bridgewater Scarborough Pomfret Canon-froom Sherburne and Bristoll And what more reall expression of gratitude for such high favours can you render unto the Lord then to hasten the repaire of his House that so hastens the building up of yours as you were effectually pressed at the Publike Thanksgiving after Nazeby field which Sermon was by Order of both Houses of Parliament commanded to be printed which gives us good hope that our seconding of that now which was then preached in our eares and took deep impression on our spirits will be an acceptable service unto your Honours 2. That whensoever Church-government shall be setled by your authoritie amongst us it may be established with such a compleat measure of power and authoritie upon the Presbyteries which shall be erected in England as may fully enable them to maintaine all Christs sacred Ordinances especially the holy Supper of the Lord in their highest splendour and puritie held forth in the Word against all contempt pollution and profanation whatsoever by grosse ignorance or scandall that so the Lord may be fully for you when you shall be fully for him The glorie of this may surpasse the glorie of all former reformations All occasion of schisme and separation by reason of impuritie or imperfection of Ecclesiasticall administrations may be removed All stumbling blocks to tender consciences may be so taken out of the way that all the Brethren though now of different opinions may sweetly joyne together in the worship of their God with one heart and one soule All our precious Ministers may be encouraged to hold on in their stations without being enforced to desert them And all gracious spirits at home together with all our godly friends abroad may heartily crie Grace Grace And your Petitioners beholding the Lord Christ triumphing thus gloriously in the utmost puritie of all his Ordinances shall never repent of what they have already done or endured nor repine at what they may hereafter possibly do or endure in reference to this so glorious a work But shall constantly triumph in the praises of our God both for crowning our Church with such spirituall glorie and for lifting up your hearts in these sacred things to do so worthily