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A58624 The humble petition of the Commissioners of the General Assembly to the Kings Majesty their declaration sent to the Parliament of England : their letter to some brethren of the ministry there, and their commission to their brother Master Alexander Henderson, January 1643. Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission. 1643 (1643) Wing S1244; ESTC R15448 8,078 17

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THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE GENERALL ASSEMBLY TO THE KINGS MAJESTY Their Declaration sent to the Parliament of ENGLAND Their Letter to some Brethren of the Ministery there And their Commission to their Brother Master Alexander Henderson January 1643. EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie 1643. To the Kings most excellent Majesty The humble Petition of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland from their meeting at Edinburgh January 4. 1643. OUr silence and ceasing to present before Your Majesty our humble thoughts and desires at this time of common danger to Religion to Your Majesties sacred Person Your Crown and Posteritie and to all Your Majesties Dominions were impiety against God unthankfulnes and disloyalty against Your Majesty an indirect approbation and hard●● ing of the adversaries of Truth and Peace in their wicked wayes and a cruelty against our Brethren lying in such depths of affliction and anguish of spirit any one of which crimes were in us above all others most inexcusable and would prove us most unworthie of the trust committed unto us The flame of this common combustion hath almost devoured Ireland is now wasting the Kingdome of England we cannot tell how soon it shal enter upon our selves set this Your Majesties most ancient and native Kingdome on fire If in this wofull case and lamentable condition of Your Majesties Dominions all others should be silent it becometh us to speak and if our tongues and pens should cease our consciences within us would cry out and the stones in the streets would answer us Our great grief and apprehension of danger is not a little encreased partly by the insolencie and presumption of Papists and others dis-affected to the Reformation of Religion who although for their number and power they be not considerable amongst us yet through the successe of the Popish party in Ireland and the hopes they conceive of the prevailing power of Popish Armies and the Prelaticall Faction in England they have of late taken spirits and begun to speak big words against the Reformation of Religion and the Work of God in this Land and partly and more principally that a chief praise of the Protestant Religion and thereby our not vain but just gloriation is by the publick Declaration of the Earle of Newcastle Generall of Your Majesties Forces in the Northern parts and nearest unto us transferred unto Papists who although they be sworn enemies unto Kings and be as infamous for their Treasons and Conspiracies against Princes and Rulers as for their known Idolatrie and spirituall Tyrannie yet are they openly declared to be not good Subjects or better Sub●●cts but far better Subjects then Protestants which is a new and foul disparagement of the reformed Religion a notable injurie to Your Majesty in Your Honour a sensible reflection upon the whole Body of this Kingdome which is impatient that any Subjects but abhorreth and extremely disdaineth that Papists who refuse to take the Oath of Allegeance should be compared with them in allegeance and fidelitie and which as a strange doctrine from the mouth or pen of professed Protestants wil suffer an hard construction from all the Reformed Kirks We therefore Your Majesties most humble and loving Subjects upon these and the like considerations do humbly intreat That Your Majesty may be pleased in Your Princely wisedome First to consider That the intentions of Papists directed by the principles of their Profession are no other then they have been from the beginning even to build their Babel and to set up their execrable Idolatry and Antichristian Tyrannie in all Your Majesties Dominions to change the Face of Your two Kingdomes of Scotland and England into the similitude of miserable Ireland which is more bitter to the people of God Your Majesties good Subjects to think upon than death And whatsoever their present pretences be for the defence of Your Majesties Person and Authoritie yet in the end by their arms and power with a displayed banner to bring that to passe against Your Royall Person and Posterity which the fifth of November never to be forgotten was not able by their subtile and under-mining treason to produce Or which will be their greatest mercy to reduce Your Majesty and Your Kingdomes to the base and unnaturall slavery of their Monarch the Pope And next that Your Majesty upon this undeniable evidence may timously and speedily apply Your Royall Authority for dis-banding their Forces suppressing their Power and disappointing their bloudy and mercilesse projects And for this end we are with greater earnestnes than before constrained to fall down again before Your Majesty and in all humility to renew the Supplication of the late Generall Assembly and our own former Petition in their name for unity of Religion and for uniformity of Church-government in all Your Majesties Dominions And to this effect for a meeting of sound Divines to be held in England unto which according to the desire of Your Majesties Parliament some Commissioners may be sent from this Kirk that in all points to be proponed and debated there may be the greater consent and harmonie We take the boldnes to be the more instant in this our humble desire because it concerneth the Lord Jesus Christ so much in his glory your Majesty in your honor the Kirk of England which we ought to tender as our own bowels whose reformation is more dear to us than our lives in her happinesse and the Kirk of Scotland in her purity and peace Former experience and daily sense teaching us that without the Reformation of the Kirk of England there is no hope nor possibilitie of the continuance of Reformation here The Lord of Heaven and Earth whose Vicegerent Your Majesty is calleth for this great Work of Reformation at Your hands and the present commotions and troubles of Your Majesties Dominions are either preparations in the mercy of God for this blessed Reformation and unity in Religion which is the desire prayer and expectation of all Your Majesties good Subjects in this Kingdome Or which they tremble to think upon and earnestly deprecate are in the justice of God for the abuse of the Gospel the tolerating of Idolatry and Superstition against so clear a light and not acknowledging the day of visitation The beginnings of such a dolefull desolation as no policie or power of man shal be able to prevent and as shall make Your Majesties Kingdomes within a short time as miserable as now they may be happy by a Reformation of Religion God forbid that while the Houses of Parliament do professe their desire of the Reformation of Religion in a peaceable and Parliamentarie way and passe their Bills for that end in the particulars That Your Majesty the Nurse-father of the Kirk of Christ to whose care the custody and vindication of Religion doth principally belong should to the provoking of the anger of God the stopping of the influence of