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To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, the humble and grateful acknowledgement of many ministers of the Gospel in ... London to His Royal Majesty for his gracious concessions in His Majesties late declaration concerning ecclesiastical affairs.
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1660
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TO THE Kings most Excellent MAIESTY The humble and grateful acknowledgement of many Ministers of the Gospel in and about the City of London to his Royal Majesty for his gracious Concessions in his Majesties late Declaration concerning Ecclesiastical Affaires Most Dread Soveraign WE your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjects Ministers of the Gospel in your City of London having perused your Majesties late Declaration concerning Ecclesiasticall Affaires And finding it to the joy of our hearts so full of Indulgence and Gracious condescention We cannot but judge our selves highly obliged in the first place to render our unfeigned thanks to our good God who hath so mercifully inclined your Majesties Royall heart to this Moderation and next our most humble and hearty acknowledgements unto your sacred Majesty that we may testifie to your Royal Self and all the World our just resentment of your Majesties great goodnesse and clemency therein expressed May it please your Majesty THe liberty of our consciences and the free exercise of our Ministry in the Work of our great Lord and Master for the conversion and salvation of souls ought to be and are more dear to us then all the profits and preferments of this world And therefore your Majesties tendernesse manifested in these so high concernments doth wonderfully affect us and raise up our hearts to an high pitch of gratitude We cannot but adore Divine Goodness for your Majesties stedfast adherence to the Protestant Religion notwithstanding all temptations and provocations to the contrary and your professed zeal for the advancement and propagation thereof Declaring that nothing can be proposed to manifest your zeal and affection for it to which you will not readily consent Your Majesty hath graciously declared That your Resolution is and shall be to promote the power of Godliness to encourage the Exercises of Religion both publick and private to take care that the Lords day be applyed to holy Exercises without unnecessary divertisements and that insufficient negligent and scandalous Ministers be not permitted in the Church Your Majesty hath granted that no Bishop shall Ordain or exercise any part of Jurisdiction which appertains to the censures of the Church without the advice and assistance of the Presbyters and neither do nor impose any thing but what is according to the known Laws of the land Excluded Chancellors Commissaries and Officials from Acts of Jurisdiction so happily restored the power of the Pastors in their several Congregations and granted a liberty to all the Ministers to assemble monthly for the exercise of the Pastoral perswasive power to the promoting of knowledge and godliness in their flocks Your Majesty hath graciously promised a Review and effectual Reformation of the Liturgy with Additional formes to be used at choice And in the mean time that none be punished or troubled for not using it Your Majesty hath graciously freed us from subscription required by the Canon and the Oath of Canonical obedience And granted us to receive Ordination Institution and Induction and to exercise our function and enjoy the profits of our livings without the same Your Majesty hath gratified the consciences of many who are grieved with the use of some Ceremonies by indulging to and dispensing with their omitting those Ceremonies viz. Kneeling at the Sacrament the Crosse in Baptism bowing at the Name of Jesus and wearing of the Surplice All this your Majesties indulgence and tender compassion which with delight we have taken the boldness thus largely to commemorate We receive with all humility and thankfulnesse and as the best expression thereof shall never cease to pray for your Majesties long and prosperous Raign and study how in our several stations we may be most instrumental in your Majesties service And that we may not be defective in Ingenuity We crave leave to professe that though all things in this frame of Government be not exactly suited to our judgement yet your Majesties Moderation hath so great an influence upon us that we shall to our utmost endeavour the healing of the breaches and promoting the peace and union of the Church There are some other things that have been propounded by our Reverend Brethren which upon our knees with all humble importunity we could beg of your Majestie especially that Reordination and the Surplice in Colledges may not be imposed and we cannot lay aside our hopes but that that God who hath thus far drawn out your Majesties bowels and mercy will further incline your Majesties heart to gratifie us in these our humble desires also That we be not further burthensome We humbly beg leave to thank your Majesty for the liberty and respect vouchsafed to our Reverend brethren in this weighty affair of accommodation The God of heaven blesse your Majesty and all the Royal family Your Majesties most Loyal Subjects Sa. Clarke Tho. Case Jo. Rawlinson Jo. Sheffield Tho. Gouge Gab. Sanger Will. Cooper Will. Whitaker Tho. Jacomb Tho. Lye Jo. Jackson Jo. Meriton Eli. Pledger Will. Bates Jo. Gibbon Mat. Poole with many others This Address was presented to his Majesty at Whitehall Nov. 16. by some of these Ministers to whom he was pleased to return a very gracious answer LONDON Printed by his Majesties approbation for Joh. Rothwel at the sign of the Fountain in Cheapside in Goldsmiths Row 1660.