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A58484	Remarkeable passages, first a prayer for the Parliament as also the Arch-bishop of Canterburies letter to the Arch-bishop of York and the Lord keeper to put in practice the Kings desires : with a petition to His Majestie, by divers noblemen and gentlemen estated in Ireland and now residing in London : also a new declaration from both Houses of Parliament.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing R922; ESTC R13940	4,686	8

of the exhibite and so wishing but withall in his Majesties name requiring your Lordship to have a speciall and extraordinary c●●e of the premisses I leave you to the Almmighty From Croyden Sept. 4. 1622. Your Lordships very loving Brother G. Cant. The Lord Arch-Bishops Letter to the Lord Keeper BY this you see his Majesties Princely care that none should preach Christ crucified obedience to the Higher Powers and honest and Christian conversation of life but in a Religious forme and not that every young man shall take upon himselfe an exorbitant liberty to teach what hee listeth to the offence of his Majesty and the disturbance and disquiet of the Church and Common-wealth I can give your Lordship no better directions for the pursuance hereof then are prescribed to you in his Majesties Letter and the Schedule herewith sent unto you whereof I pray your Lordship to be very carefull since it is the Princely pleasure of his Highnesse to require an accompt both of you and mee for the same And so not doubting but by your Register or otherwise you will cause these instructions to bee communicated to your Clergy I leave you to the Almighty and remaine Your loving Brother CANT. To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie The humble Petition of divers Noblemen and Gentlemen Estated in Ireland now at London Humbly sheweth THat most of Your Petitioners and many thousands of Your Maiesties most faithfull Subjects and late Inhabitants of Your Kingdom of Ireland being robed and spoyled of all their substance and thereby many of them reduced to a most miserable condition who formerly faithfully served Your Majestie are now enforced to flee into this Kingdom by occasion of the unexampled bloudy and unhuman cruelties of the Rebels of that Kingdom who through the instigation of Papist Priests Friers and Iesuits and other malignant persons have risen in Armes in that Kingdom against Your Majesties Crowne and Dignity and destroyed or banished almost all your Majesties loyall and dutifull Subjects the Protestants there for no other cause but for that they doe not worship God after their Idolatrous and superstitious manner which is manyfest by their publike Declarations Speeches Oathes and Confederacies albeit some few other fond pretences are added to glosse their most barbarous actions That these four moneths past the expectation of powerfull Supplies Treasure and Ammenition from England and Scotland hath supported the drooping and languishing Spirits of your Peti●ioners and others the Protestants interessed in that Kingdom who finding but small succours hitherto sent thither notwithstanding the severall orders of both Houses of Parliament do now with unspeakable grief of heart apprehend nothing but despaire of ever being restored to their habitations if your Majesty be not graciously pleased to give life and power to the painfull endeavours of both Houses of parliament the prosecution of that War necessarily requiring a great summe of money to be presently raised And in all humility The Petitioners conceive the act lately passed by Your Majesties Royall Grace and Goodnesse upon the propositions made by those who shall adventure their moneys to bee the onely way left for raising present Money for that work And they finde that the removall of your sacred Majesty to places so remote and distant from the Parliament doth much discourage the Adventurers in advancing Moneys for effectuall proceeding in the work and consequently will be a meanes unavoidably to retard the long expected supplies contrary to Your Majesties Royall intentions often expressed and will much encourage the Rebels and their adherents in that Kingdom and may in the opinion of some as they fain gain a belief of those false reports which divers of the Rebels have taken the boldnesse to raise even very lately since the publishing of your Majesties Proclamation for suppressing the Rebels that they are your Majesties Souldiers and that the supplies that arrived here were but the Parliaments supplies And your further Petitioners humbly shew That if strong Forces be not presently raised and transported thither the season of the yeare now serving the Brittish and Protestants in that Kingdom cannot long subsist but will bee extirpated and Papists and the idolatrous Masse thereby established which is already publikely used in most of the Churches of that Kingdom May it therefore please Your most sacred Majesty to reflect upon the desprate and miserable condition of that poor Kingdom and waying the Premisses and other the consequences of delaying the effectuall setting forward of the War against the Rebels in Ireland of Your Princely goodnesse and wisedome to vouchsafe Your Maiesties presexce unto Your Parliament for the incouragement of the Adventurers and all other your Maiesties good Subiects in this pious work for the discouragement of the Rebels and for expediting such further Acts Commissions and Warrants to issue as shall be requisite for the preservation of the remnant of Your good Subiects the Protestants yet left in Ireland or driven for the present thereout And Your Suppliants will pray c. A NEW DECLARATION FROM BOTH Houses of PARLIAMENT THe Lords and Commons in Parliament do declare That it is against the Lawes and Liberties of the Kindom that any of the Subjects thereof should be commanded by the King to attend him at his pleasure but such as are bound thereto by speciall Service and that whosoever upon pretence of his Maiesties command shall take Armes and gather together with others in a warlike manner to the terror of the Kings people shall bee esteemed disturbers of the publick peace and to do that which may introduce a president of very dangerous consequence for the future and produce most mischievous effects for the present considering the great distempers of the Kingdom and what pernicious Councellors and Incendiaries are now about the King and how desperate and ill affected divers persons attending upon his Majesty have shewed themselves to the Parliament and to his other good Subiects threatning and reproaching them publikely even in His Maiesties presence and for preventing and avoiding such great mischiefes as may thereupon ensue It is Ordered and Ordained by both Houses of Parliament That if the Trained-band or any other his Majesties Subjects shall upon pretence of any such command be drawn together and put into a posture of war the Sheriffe of that County where there shall be such raising or drawing together of armed men Doe forthwith raise the power of the County to suppresse them and to keep his Majesties peace according to the Law And that the Lord Lieutenants Iustices of the Peace and all other his Majesties Subjects bee aiding and assisting to the severall and respective Sheriffs in performance hereof as they will answer the contrary at their perill Hen. Elisyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. FINIS

REMARKEABLE PASSAGES FIRST A prayer for the Parliament AS ALSO THE ARCH-BISHOP OF Canterburies Letter to the Arch-Bishop of Yorke and the Lord Keeper to put in Practice the Kings desires WITH A PETITION TO His Majestie by divers Noblemen and Gentlemen estated in Ireland and now residing in London ALSO A NEW DECLARATION FROM Both Houses of Parliament Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament that this be forthwith Printed Hen. Elsyng Cler. Par. D. Com Printed for W. G. 1642. Iuly 15. A PRAIER For the High Court of Parliament to bee read in such place of these Prayers after the Letany as the Minister shall think fit MOst gracious God We humbly beseech thee as for this Kingdom in generall so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most Religious and Gracious King at this time assembled That thou wouldest be pleased to blesse and direct all their Consultations to the preservation of thy glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of our Soveraign and his Kingdoms Lord look upon the humility and devotion with which they are come in●o thy courts and they are come into thy house in assured confidence upon the Merits Mercies of Christ our blessed Saviour that thou wilt not deny them the Grace and Favour which they beg of thee Therefore O Lord blesse them with all that wisdom which thou knowest necessary to speed and bring great designes into action and to make the maturity of his Maiesties and their Counsels the happinesse and blessing of this Common-wealth These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the name and mediation of Iesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen The Arch-Bishop of Canterburies Letter to the Arch-Bishop of Yorke MY very good Lord I doubt not but before this time you have received from me the Directions of his most excellent Majesty concerning preaching and preachers which are so graciously set downe that no godly or discreet man can otherwise then acknowledge that they do much tend to edification if he do not take them up upon report but do punctually consider the tenour of the words as they lie and do not give an ill construction to that which may receive a faire interpretation Notwithstanding because some few Churchmen and many of the people have finisterly conceived as wee here find that those instructions do tend to the restraint of the exercise of preaching and do in some sort abate the number of Sermons and so consequently by degrees do make a breach to ignorance and superstition His Majesty in his Princely wisedom hath thought fit that I should advertise your Lordship of the grave and weighty reasons which induced his Highnesse to prescribe that which is done You are therefore to know that his Majesty being much troubled and grieved at the heart to hear every day of so many defections from our Religion both to Popery and Anabaptisme or other points of separation in some parts of this Kingdome and considering with much admiration what might be the cause thereof especially in the Raign of such a King who doth so constantly professe himselfe an open adversary ●othe Superstition of the one and madnesse of the other his P●incely wisedom could fall upon no one greater probability then the lightnesse affectednesse and unprofitablenesse of that kinde of preaching which hath been of late years to much taken up in Court University City and Countrey The usuall scope of very many Preachers is noted to be soaring up in points of Divinity too deepe for the Capacity of the people or a mustring up of much reading or a displaying of their owne wit or an ignorant medling with civill matters as well in the private of severall Parishes and Corporations as in the publike of the Kingdom or a venting of their owne distast or a smoothing up of those idle fansies which in this blessed time of so long a peace do boile in the braines of an unadvised people or lastly a rude or undecent rayling not against the Doctrines which when the Text shall occasion the same is not onely approved but much commended by His Royall Majesty but against the persons of Papists and Puritans Now the people bred up with this kind of teaching and never instructed in the Catechisme and fundamentall grounds of Religion are for all this Airy nourishment no better then abraiae tabulae new table-bookes ready to be filled up either with the Manuals and Catechismes of the Popish Priests or the papers and pamphlets of Anabaptists Brownists and Puritans His Majesty therefore calling to mind the saying of Tertullian Id verum quod primum and remembring with what doctrine the Church of England in her first and most happy Reformation did drive out the one and k●ep out the other from poisoning and i●festing the people of this Kingdome doth find that the whole scope of this Doctrine is contained in the articles of Religion the two bookes of Homilies the lesser and the greater Catechisme which his Majesty doth recommend again in these directions as the Theatres and proper Subjects of all sound and edifying preaching And so far are these directions from abating that his Majesty doth expect at our hands that it should increase the number of Sermons by renuing upon every Sunday in the afternoon in all Parish Churches throughout the Kingdom that Primitive and most profitable Exposition of the Catechisme wherewith the people yea very Children may be timely seasoned and instructed in all the heads of Christian Religion the which kind of teaching to our amendment be it spoken is more diligently observed in all the reformed Churches of Europe then of late it hath been here in England I find his Majesty much moved with this neglect and resolved if wee that are his Bishops do not see a Reformation hereof which I trust we shall to recommend it to care of the Civill Magistrate So far is his Highnesse from giving the least discouragement to sollid preaching or discreet or religious Preachers To all this I am to adde that it is his Majesties Princely pleasure that both the former directions and those reasons of the same be fairly written in every Registers office to the end that every Preacher of what denomination soever may if he bee so pleased take out Coppies of either of them with his owne hand Gratis paying nothing in the name of see and expedition But if he do use the paines of the Register or his Clarkes then to pay some moderate fee to be pronounced in open Court by the Chancellours and Commissaries of the place taking the direction and approbation of my Lords the Bishops Lastly that from hence forward a course may be taken that every Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer do make exhibite of these his Majesties directions and the reasons for the same at the ensuing visitation of the Bishops and Arch-Deacons paying to the Register by way of see but two pence at the time