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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46804	Certain conscientious queries from Mr. Will. Jenkin being the grounds of his late petition and submission to the present power : whereunto is annexed his petition still very much desired : with the copy of a letter formerly sent to him and Mr. Love with other ministers therein nominated, supplicating their non-ingaging or withstanding Gods stupendious and amazing acts of late and present providences, which if harken'd to in time might have prevented their late sufferings, and better kept up their esteem : also the Parliaments most gracious and indulgent pardon to them all, notwithstanding their acts of treason against the peace of the common-wealth.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing J635; ESTC R3998	5,499	15

Battles 2. In this Nations Universal forsaking of the first-born of the Royal Line when he came into the Land to claim the Crown and when it was in the power of many Thousands in the Land to have Assisted him and its accepting this present Government manifested by a general contribution of Men Money and Armes in Defence thereof and this followed with the total overthrow of Charles Stuart and all his Armies whether I say by these providences God hath not plainly removed the Government of this Nation from Charles Stuart and bestowed it upon others as ever he removed and bestowed any Government by any Providence in any Age. And if we cannot say that these Providences shews God approving of all the means and ways used in and for the alteration of the Government Yet who can deny that they manifest his pleasure to have this alteration of the Government to be if at least any Providence can discover such a pleasure Thirdly Therefore whether a refusal to yield Obedience and Subjection to this Present Government under pretence of upholding a more righteous title be not as contrary to the Law of England by which the party in possession of the Crown is to be adhered unto against the best pretender who is out of the possession for a refusal to acquiesce in the wise and righteous pleasure of God an opposition of a Government set up by the Soveraign Lord of the whole world a flat breach of the fifth Commandment and of that Injunction Rom. 13.8 To conclude such a resisting even of God himself as none can have Peace in continuing in much less in acting for least of all in suffering for These Queries are propounded by one who hath no design but to avoid sin and to know his duty Ezek. 21. 25. And thou Prince of Israel poluted and wicked whose day is come when iniquity shall have an end 26. Thus saith the Lord God I will take away the Diadem and take off the Crown this shall be no more the same I will exalt the humble and will abase him that is high 27. I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more until * Jesus Christ He come whose right it is To the Supream Authority the Parliament of the Common-wealth OF ENGLAND The Humble Petition of William Jenkin Prisoner Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner is unfainedly sorrowful for all his late miscarriages whether testified against him or acknowledged by him and for the great and sinful unsuitableness of them to his calling and condition That upon earnest seeking of God and diligent inquiring into his will your Petitioner is convinced that the alteration of civil Governments are ordered by and founded upon the wise and righteous providences of God who removeth Kings and setteth up Kings ruleth in the Kingdoms of men and giveth them to whomsoever he will That the providences of this God have in the judgment of your Petitioner as evidently appeared in the removing of others from and the investing your honors with the Government of this Nation as ever they appeared in the taking away or bestowing of any Government in any History of any age of the world That he apprehends that a refusal to be subject to this present Authority under the pretence of upholding the title of any one upon the Earth is a refusal to acquiess in the wise and righteous pleasure of God such an opposing of the Government set up by the Soveraign Lord of Heaven and Earth as none can have peace either in acting or suffering for and that your Petitioner looks upon it as his duty to yeeld to this Authority all active and cheerful obedience in the Lord even for Conscience sake to promise he being required truth fidelity to it to hold forth the grounds of his so doing to any as God shall call him thereunto That though an Imprisonment accompanied with the loss of his estate and to be followed without your gracious prevention on with a speedy Arraignment before an high eminent Judicatory are far from being pleasing to Flesh and Blood and though the enjoyment of your grace and favor be a blessing most deserving to be reckoned among the best of temporals yet that neither the feeling fearing of the former nor the expectation of the latter could have induced your petitioner against the light of his own judgment and the prepondering part of his own Conscience to have made or presented this acknowledgment he sadly forecasting that a whole skin is but a contemptible recompence for a wounded conscience That nevertheless he trusteth he shall be excusable in tendring thus far even his outward condition as to represent to your honors that he is in most apparent danger of his irreparable loss of his health the sweetest of outward blessings unless by your gracious grant he may speedily injoy a more free and open ayre then this his close confinement will allow him And this Christian favor which even for Christs sake your poor Petitioner most humbly beggs Your Honors are as able to enlarge even to a pardoning of his offences and a perfect releasing of him from his imprisonment as he is submissively forward in desiring them though confessedly far from deserving them He nevertheless promising that your compassionate affording hereof shall be a strong and standing engagement upon him daily beseeching the heart-making and heart-changing God that all those who either through former accustomedness or present inadvertancy do not clearly discern the minds of God concerning the Alteration of this Government may be observing your prime and pious industry to advance throughout this Common-wealth the power of godliness a Scripture Reformation and the Truth as it is in Jesus be won to a yeelding to your Honors conscionable obedience and not only in word but in heart and life may be true and faithful to the present Government WILL. JENKIN Resolved upon the Question by the Parliament That Master William Jenkin be pardoned both for Life and estate for and in respect of the treasons crimes whereof he is accused that Master Atturney general be authorized and required to prepare a Pardon in common form for that purpose to be passed under the great seal of England and that the Lords commissioners for the great seal be authorized and required to pass the same under the Great seal accordingly Resolved upon the question by the Parliament That Master William Jenkin be forthwith discharged of his imprisonment and Bail and his estate be discharged of and from sequestration and the commissioners for compounding and other officers are to take notice hereof and observe the same accordingly Upon several humble petitions of Master Thomas Case Mr. Ralph Robinson and Mr. Thomas Watson Ministers the Parliament did grant unto each of them the like pardon for life and estate and discharged them from imprisonment and the sequestration of their estates Upon the humble petition of Mr. Arthur Jackson Minister the Parliament granted him a pardon for his life and estate Upon M. Attur Generals report of the humble and penitent demeanor of Dr. Roger Drake at his Tryal at the High Court of Justice confessing the Treasons laid to his charge and his humble petition the Parliament did pardon him for life and estate and ordered his release out of prison and his estate discharged from sequestration The Parliament upon report by Mr. Atturn General of the like deportment of Lieut. Col. Jackson Lieu. Col. Joseph Vaughan and Cap. Hugh Massey The Parliament likewise ordered for each of them a Pardon for life and estate and discharged them from imprisonment and their estates from Sequestration FINIS Mr. Jenkins Sermon Preacht before the Parliament at St. Margarets Westminster on Wednesday the 24th of September 1656. being the day of the publick Fast. Printed by A. M. for John Dallam and are to be sold at his Shop in Shoe-makers-Row in Black-Fryars near Carter-lane 1656. In which Sermon page the 33d you have these words Worthy Patriots you that are Rulers in this Parliament it s often said we live in times wherein we may be as good as we please wherein we enjoy in purity and plenty the ordinances of Jesus Christ praised be God for this even that God that hath delivered us from the imposition of prelatical Innovation Altar genuflections and cringings with crossings and all that popish trash and trumpery and truly I speak no more than what I have often thought and said the removal of those insupportable burdens countervails for the blood and treasure shed and spent in those late distractions Page 3. Excusing their unsubmissiveness by aspersing the Government Nor did I yet ever hear of any godly men that desired were it possible to purchase their friends and Money again at so dear a rate as with the return of theirs to have those soul-burdning-antichristian yokes reimposed upon us and if any such there be I am sure that design is no part of their godliness and I profess my self in that to be none of the number