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religion_n	church_n	england_n	reform_a	4,212	5	9.5265	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94484	To the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in high court of Parliament: the humble remonstrance and petition of the Lord Major, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in Common Councell assembled.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.	1646 (1646)	Wing T1447; Thomason E338_7; ESTC R200842	5,725	16

TO THE HONOVRABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT The Humble Remonstrance and Petition of the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common Councell Assembled May 26 LONDON Printed by Richard Gotes 1646. TO THE HONOVRABLE the HOVSE of COMMONS Assembled in High Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Remonstrance and Petition of the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common Councell assembled OUR duty in the first place doth lead us to begin all our Addresses as wee most heartily and humbly doe these with all due and humble acknowledgement of the great Labours and endeavours which this Honorable House hath these many yeers employed in Reformation both of the Church and Common-wealth and in preservation of both with the humble tender of our constant devotion to serve the Parliament according to our Covenant made before Almighty God In the next place wee doe most humbly crave pardon although woe doe presume to return again unto this Honourable House and humbly yet plainly lay open the sorrowe●●●d fears of our hearts even in this season when as God hath ●●●…sed your Armies with the greatest successes and that Man might perswade himself that the Warre is almost at an end Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdome pag. 19. For first when wee remember that this Honourable House hath long since declared it to bee farre from their purpose or desire to let loose the golden Reins of Discipline and Government in the Church or to leave private persons or particular Congregations to take up what form of Divine Service they please when wee look upon what both Houses have resolved against Brownisme and Anabaptisme properly so called when we meditate on our Protestation and Covenant The Parliaments Declaration upon his Majesties Declaration after the Battaile at Edghill p. 659. And lastly when wee peruse the Directory and other Ordinances for Presbyteriall Government and yet finde private and separate Congregations daily erected in divers parts of the City and elsewhere and commonly frequented and Anabaptism Brownism and almost all manner of Heresies Schismes and Blasphemies boldly vented and maintained by such as to the point of Church-Government professe themselves Independent wee cannot but bee astonished at the swarmes of Sectaries which discover themselves every where who if by their endeavours they should get into places of Profit and Trust in Martiall or Civill affaires it may tend much to the disturbance of the Publick Peace both of the Church and Common-wealth And wee cannot but bee throughly awakened when wee consider how the said Sectaries doe encourage themselves by their misconstruction of that expression in the late Declaration concerning tender Consciences to expect a Toleration contrary to the Nationall Covenant as wee humbly conceive which must needs bee a very great hinderance to that happy agreement of all the differences in matters of Discipline and Government of the Church endeavoured by the wisdome of both Houses of Parliament and which hath been so long prayed and hoped for by us And in pursuance of that noble Resolution of this Honourable House for the due observation of the Covenant and their expectation of the conformity of the People of England thereunto expressed in the late Declaration wee doe resolve by the grace of God not to receive impression of any forced construction thereof being already fully satisfyed in our Consciences from the very Letter of the Covenant of the true meaning and intention thereof and in this particular of Gods Worship and the Discipline and Government of the Church without any further exposition clearly convinced That Noblemen Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospell and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland are sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God to endeavour in their severall Places and Callings the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdomes of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches and are to endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdomes to the neerest conjunction and uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Form of Church-Government Directory for Worship and Catechising that wee and our posterity after us may as Brethren live in Faith and Love and the Lord may delight to dwell in the middest of us and in like manner without respect of persons to endeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Schisme Profanenesse and whatsoever shall bee found to bee contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godlinesse lest wee partake in other mens sins and thereby bee in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may bee one and his Name one in the three Kingdomes And therefore from the bottom of our hearts seriously professe before Almighty God that wee doe not conceive it in the power of any humane authority to discharge or absolve us from adhering thereunto and endeavouring in our severall Places and Callings to maintain and defend the same Wee also cannot but call to minde what Vowes wee have made to God in the same Covenant as well as our former Protestations to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliament and the Liberties of the Kingdomes and to preserve and defend the King a Majesties Person and Authority in the preservation and Defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes that the world may bear witnesse with ●our Consciences of our Loyalty and that wee have no though or intentions to diminish His Majesties just power and … nesse and doe humbly rest in the assistances wee ha●● … ved in the many former Declamations of both Houses … ning their intentions towards his Majesty his Royall Posterity and the Peace of this Kingdome And further wee humbly acknowledge the particular assurance this Honourable House hath again given the whole 〈◊〉 in their late Declaration to lay hold on the first opportunity of procuring a safe and well grounded Peace in the three Kingdomes which wee doubt not but this Honourable House will pursue with all speedy dispatch of Propositions to His Majesty now whilst God doth so mercifully and miraculously go along with your Armies in all the parts of the Kingdome Wee may not in the next place forget our Brethron of S●●●land how first they were invited to engage with this Kingdome in Gods Cause when yet they were at Peace at home in what Covenant this Nation is mutually linked with them at what time in relation both to the weak c●ndition of our Forces then and the season of the year they adven●●●●● upon an Enemy warmly lodged and well 〈◊〉 〈…〉 and what they have fince suff●●ed for 〈…〉 Kingdom how successefulle 〈…〉 God hath 〈…〉 F●●ces in suppressing the Common 〈…〉 Natures and what present hopes wee have of a well 〈…〉 continue in this mutuall Amity And then ca●● 〈…〉 the many j●●lousies which