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A79775	To the Kings most excellent Majestie. The humble remonstrance and renewed petition of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, from their meeting at Edinburgh, the second day of June. 1643.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1643 (1643)	Wing C4271dA; Thomason E249_27; ESTC R212545	10,494	15

never so universall as now Prelacie never so insolent nor the evils thereof so well knowne and so deeply felt nor was it ever voted out of the Parliament nor agreed in Parliament to be abolished in the Kirk nor stood meerly upon the Royall consent of the King till this time Arminianisme hath entered Papistry hath encreased Sectaries have multiplied sufferings have abounded Tender consciences disquieted with old and new ceremonies much more of late then before that all eyes may see how many things concur now to make a necessity of reformation It is the never dying honour of your Majesties late Progenitors above others that were before them that they did begin continue and preserve reformation and shall be your Majesties greatest and immortall glory to perfect it with Josiah leaving nothing to imped or obscure the glory of God An happinesse which the people of God in this Iland have long waited for which God calleth for at your hands and we trust hath reserved for our times as a speciall and incomparable honour to your Majestie above the best Princes and matter of joy to your people above all other in former ages As the continuall comfort and daily sense of the inestimable benefit of the Reformation of this Kirk in worship and government should stir up our hearts to the love of God whose hand principally did bring it about in a way full of marvels and full of mercies And thankfulnesse to your Majestie whom we look upon not as a naked assenter unto alterations but as a prime instrument of setling a blessed Reformation in this Kirk So doth the same comfort and sense excite in us a fear to lose that which we so much love in a way where in it hath run hazard before Our fears are not counterfeit to bring any designe of our own nor politick or created in us by the authoritie of any assertion of others to bring any designe of theirs to passe nor panick or maginarie to torment our selves without cause But are true and reall grounded upon reason which teacheth to beware of contagion in so neer a vicinitie and where there is so frequent commerce and conversing upon by-past experience of evils from English Prelacie ever since the beginning of Reformation and upon present and daily tasting of the fruits which partly of its own corupt nature and partly through the coruptions of men It hath brought forth fomented And though the Petitioners cannot judge nor should intermeddle with questions about your Maiesties and the Parliaments power yet may they well professe from that which every one may understand that the denying of the people their earnest desires may quench that fervour of affection which is due from a people to their Prince Whether the generality of the Nation desireth a change of Kirk government cannot be better known then by the desires and Propositions of the representative bodie of the Kingdome nor can it be better defined what government shall be established than in Synod of learned and godly Divines Our part is to wish the pattern in Scripture and the example of the best Reformed Kirks to be followed and to pray that God by his Spirit may lead them into all truth being confident that reformation having begun by your Majesties authority at the head and chiefest parts all sectaries and all the inferiour members may be quickly by a Synod brought to such order as may consist with truth and with the peace of the Kirk It was farre from our intentions by the generall expressions of our Petition against Papists To charge your Majesty with complyance and favour to their opinions We doe from our hearts blesse God for all that your Majesty hath done both here and in England against them and for so free and ample a testimony of your Majesties desires of the Queenes conversion Jealousies of that kinde and hopes in the hearts of such as are popishly affected of their prevailing power proceed from the power of Papists in Ireland the present posture of Papists armed about your Majesty in this dangerous time of combustion in England and that for so long a time through the connivence or complyance of the Ministers of estate lawes have not beene execute against them nor any meanes at all used for the Queenes conversion A necessary and essentiall duty from which no oath to the contrary can more give dispensation then any oath of old or late publike or private can bind your Majesty to maintaine Episcopacy or any corruption in the worship of God or government of the Kirk when God by his word giveth light and by his providence calleth for a Reformation All which had neede to be seriously and tymously considered And if the Papists be not speedily disarmed the danger is that both in their owne project and upon the hearing of your Majesties Declaration to disarme them when there shall be no more use of their service they band together and bend all their wits against a Pacification till by their gathering and growing to greater strength they be able to plead in equall termes for themselves for their share in the places and honours of the Kingdome at least for peace and tolleration as a reward of all their paines charges and hazards pretended to be for your Majesties honour and safety but really intended for themselves and their superstition We cannot conceive that loyalty can be without allegeance or that Papists refusing to take the oath of allegeance doe fight in loyalty and allegeance to your Majesty but for their owne ends nor can it be safe for Protestants to trust them upon the principles of their profession in any whether intestine or forraigne war In the time of the greatest forraigne invasion yeere 88. It was not thought safe to arme the Papists in defence of the Kingdome We did not take notice of Papists in the other army in our Petition to your Majesty but did in our Declaration to the Parliament that although they had professed in their Declarations that they had no knowne Papists in their Army yet if any were found to be we desired they might in like manner be disbanded Brownists Anabaptists and other sectaries which are the fruits of Prelacy one way as Papists are another are neither so easily knowne as Papists nor so much to be feared and although they be enemies to Religion and to the peace of the Kirk we know not whether they have beene so considerable that the law hath taken so farre notice of them as to disarme them We have so sincerely and from the inward of our spirits with our hearts and hands lifted up to the most high God the searcher of hearts sworne the care of the safety of your Majesties person and of your greatnesse and authority which we have also witnessed in our Declarations to the Houses of Parliament that our hearts within us were wounded when we did heare of the danger your Majesties person was in the 23 of October And as we doe with the Houses of Parliament as is expressed in their Declaration rejoyce and heartily praise God for your safety So doe we not cease to pray for your Majesties preservation in the midst of so many dangers and for a speedy deliverance by a happy peace which we trust shall bury that blacke and unnaturall day so unhappie and dangerous both to your Majestie and your people in eternall oblivion and therefore not to be paralelled by us with the unparalelled plot of the 5. of November never to be forgotten We have detained your Majestie longer then your great affaires of governing Kingdomes in the time of warre could well permit but not so long as the charge committed to us by the Generall Assemblie and the importance of our Petition which is of religious and publike concernment doth require The crime of bitternesse and want of reverence to your Majesty the challenge of usurpation the aspersion of so much and manifold mistaking we would beare the more patiently if we were to be considered as private and particular persons and not as Commissioners of publike trust And yet doe beare the more patiently because we take them and in this no man shall perswade us that we are mistaken to proceed from the pen of the writer and not from your Majesties justice and goodnesse unto which we are bold to appeale from his unjust censure and from such slanderous tongues and pens as by traducing the preaching and prayers of the ministery here of disloyalty or sedition doe much wrong us your Majestie much more and truth and peace most of all Your Majesty in your wisedome will consider what such Sycophants are seeking and in your justice will rather beleeve our publike testimony in things best knowne to our selves and to our ordinary hearers then any private information flowing from the malice of some or the weaknesse of others And now in your royall goodnesse will be graciously pleased to suffer us your Majesties most humble and faithfull Subjects to fall downe at your feet and with all earnestnesse to renew our Petition especially that of Unity in Religion and uniformity of Kirk Government in all your Majesties Dominions which we conceive to be principally intended by divine Providence in these unhappy distractions and troubles of your Majesties Kingdomes And to this effect for such an Ecclesiasticall Assemblie as hath beene formerly described and desired A meane so pious so just and so ordinary in such cases as malice it selfe can have no colour to object against your Majesty for using it And which shall speedily bring on a firme and grounded peace and with peace all other blessings spirituall and temporall upon your Majesty and your Kingdomes A. Ker. Cl. Commiss Gen. Ass

TO THE KINGS Most Excellent Majestie THE HVMBLE REMONSTRANCE AND RENEWED PETITION OF the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland from their meeting at Edinburgh the second day of June 1643. EDINBURGH Printed by ROBERT BRYSON 1643. To the Kings most excellent Majestie The humble Remonstrance and renewed Petition of the Commssioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirke of Scotland from their meeting at Edinburgh the second day of June 1643. AS the manifold and pressing necessitie of the dutie of our place and trust did constrain us in these distempered and dangerous times in most humble manner To direct our earnest suplication to your Majestie for such remedies as we conceive to be most fit for us to propone And being applyed by your Majesties own hand might both for cure and prevention prove most effectuall So are we enforced by the same necessitie growing daily to the greatest extremity In all humilitie and earnestnesse To renew not only our prayers to God but our Petitions to your Majestie For Sions sake can we not hold our peace and for Jerusalems sake we will not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof go forth as brightnesse and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth But because in your Majesties answer to our former Petition we meet with a multitude of prejudices and exceptions against us and our humble desires we will crave leave first to remove these out of the way Acknowledging the full expression of them by your Majestie to be no small favour and being confident after we have expressed our selves in the truth and integritie of our hearts both to give unto and to receive from your Majestes Justice and goodnesse the greater satisfaction And first although there be good reason for printing of Answers and Replies the Petition being before printed yet we acknowledge that your Majestie hath just cause to finde fault with that publishing of our Petition in print which is mentioned in the introduction to your Majesties answer And if it had been done by our commandment counsell or knowledge we had not onely given yaur Majestie just provocation and fallen in an errour contrary to the nature of a Petition and to the right disposition of Petitioners but also had used means contrary to our own ends in publishing a programe of our diffidence of obtaining our desires or in giving a publike testimonie that we were aiming at some other thing then what we professed to seek And therefore we are so far from excusing that form of doing that we judge our selves to be wronged thereby Another fault much more intollerable is objected against us The bitternesse and sharpnesse of some expressions which may be interpreted by your Majesties wel affected Subjects not to be so agreeable to that regard and reverence which is due to your Majesties person and the matter it self to be reprochfull to the honour and constitution of that your Majesties Kingdome Whether the matter of the Petition be reproachfull shall afterwards in the particulars appear But for the expresions we have examined the whole Petition and can finde no word of that kinde We rather did fear the censure of fauning and flattering words which your Majestie may remember were sometime put upon our supplications Our desire was to keep within the bounds of that liberty which beseemeth the Ministers of Christ and if any word have escaped us which we cannot see it was contrary to our intention for we know that we should neither speak evill of dignitie nor unreverently unto them The like report hath been made to your Majestie of our preaching and prayers but when the delators are tryed they will be found either malicious against us for reproving their faults Or having no other way of insinuation too officious to your Majestie or to others whom they desire to please or so blinded with self-love that they think Preachers should speak like Parasites or so undiscerning that when we professe our desire to the Reformation of Religion in England and Ireland we are fansied by them to preach or pray against the King and his Royall authority We fear God and honour the King And have learned not onely to put a difference betwixt God and the King but also against the old sophistication now revived betwixt the pictures of the Emperour and the images of the false gods craftily insert into them and know the way how to honour the King without such a mixture and confusion Slownesse to beleeve an evill report and the constructing of things doubtfull is one of your Majesties Royall praises of which the faithfull Ministers of this Kirk desire against slanders and suspitions to have the experience which will prove profitable for your Majesties honour and obedience and our peace and quietnesse As the North-wind driveth away rain So doth an angry countenance a back-biting tongue Righteous lips are the delight of Kings and they love him that speaketh right Concerning the interposing of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland and our intermedling by commission from them in the Kirk of England We humbly intreat your Majesty to consider of the reasons of this our doing 1. Although the Kirks of one Nation be distant in place from the Kirks of another Nation yet are they united in the heart and spirit and are generally but one body and Kirke and must as Sisters of one Mother keepe the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace whence ariseth the communion of all Gods graces and blessings amongst the Kirks that they may not only help comfort and refresh but advise admonish exhort warne and reprove one another so farre as need requireth and their Christian love and ability reacheth Yet avoiding both ambition and confusion there being a co-ordination between Kirks of diverse Nations but no subordination We have not presumed to passe the limits of this Christian communion having proceeded by way of charity and in a ministeriall or rather brotherly manner not by authority or magisterially by way of humble supplication to your Majesty Declaration to the House of Parliament and advice and exhortation to such of our brethren of the Ministery as were best known unto us very far from usurpation or jurisdiction 2. Our humble Petition to your Majesty and our Declaration to the Parliament were nothing else but a prosecution of the demand made by the Commissioners of this Kingdom and a pressing of the Answer given by your Majesty and the Parliament in the last Treaty which filled us with hope of what was then demanded since followed by diverse Declarations and now again desired 3. The experience of the sufferings of this Kirk from the doctrine forme of worship and government of the Kirk of England doth beget feares of the like hereafter which maketh our petition to be unto us a necessary meane of selfe-preservation 4. Our encouragements from your Majesties Letter to the generall Assembly and the Declaration of the House of Parliament desiring them to concurre in petitioning