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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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