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B08770	To the King's most excellent Maiesty. The humble petition of the commissionerrs of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, met at Edenborough Ianuary, 4. 1642. And now lately presented to His Majesty, at Oxford. With His Maiesties gratious answer thereunto March 16. 1642.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1642 (1642)	Wing C4271BA; ESTC R222782	10,501	18

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTY THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE COMMISSIONERRS of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland met at Edenborough Ianuary 4. 1642. And now lately presented to His Majesty At OXFORD WITH HIS MAIESTIES Gratious Answer thereunto March 16. 1642. Printed by His MAjESTIES Command at OXFORD March 20. By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1642. TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE The humble Petition of the Commissioners of the generall Assembly of the Kirk of SCOTLAND met at Edenborough Ian. 4. 1643. OVr silence and ceasing to present before your Majesty our humble thoughts and desires at this time of common danger to Religion to your Maiesties sacred person your Crowne and Posterity and to all your Majesties Dominions were impiety against God unthankefulnesse and disloyalty against your Majesty and indirect approbation and hardning of the Adversaries of tru●h and peace in their wicked wayes and 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 unexcusable and would prove us most unworthy of the trust committed unto us The flame of this common combustion hath almost devoured Ireland is now wasting the Kingdom of England and we cannot tell how soone it shall enter upon our selves set this your Majesties most ancient native Kingdom on fire If in this wofull case lamentable condition of your Majesties Dominions al others should be silent it behoveth us to speake and if our Tongues and Penns should cease our Consciences within us would cry out and the stones in the streets would answer us Our great griefe and apprehension of danger is not a little increased partly by the insolency and presumption of Papists and others disaffected 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 spirit 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 chiefe praise of the Prot●…ant Religion and thereby our not vaine but just gloriation is by the publique Declaration of the Earle of Newcastle Generall of Your Majesties Forces for the Northerne 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 knowne Idolatry and spirituall Tyranny yet are they openly declared to be not onely good Subjects or better Subjects but farre better Subjects then Protestants which is a new and foule disparagement of the reformed Religion a notable injury to your Majesty in your honor a sensible reflection upon the whole body of this Kingdome which is impatient that any subjects should be more loyal then they but abhorreth extreamly disdaineth that Papists who refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance should be compared with them in allegiance fidelity which being a strange Doctrine from the mouth or pen of professed Protestants wil suffer a hard construction from al thereformed Kirks Wee therefore Your Majesties most humble and loving Subjects upon these and the like considerations doe 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 beene from the beginning even to build their Babell and to set up their execrable Idolatry and Antichristian Tyranny in all Your Majesties Dominions to change the face of your two Kingdoms of Scotland and England into the similitude of miserable Ireland which is more bitter to the People of God your Majesties good Subjects to thinke upon then death and whatsoever their present pretences be for the desence of Your Majesties Person and Authority yet in the end by their Armes 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 subtill and undermining 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 disbanding their Forces suppressing their power and disappointing their bloody and mercilesse projects And for this end we are with greater earnestnesse then before constrained to fall downe againe before your Majesty and in all humility to renew the supplication of the late generall Assembly and our owne former Petition in their name for unity of Religion and for uniformity of Church government in all your Majesties Kingdomes to this effect for a meeting of some Divines to be holden in England unto which according to the desire of your Majesties Parliament some Commissioners may be sent from this Kirke that in all points to be proponed and debated there may be the greater consent and harmony Wee take the boldnesse to be the more instant in this our humble desire because it concerneth the Lord Jesus Christ so much in his glory your Majestie in your Honour the Kirke of England which wee ought to tender as our owne bowells and whose reformation is more deare unto us then our lives in her happinesse and the Kirke 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 or possibility of the continuance of reformation here The Lord of Heaven and Earth whose Vice-gerent Your Majesty is calleth for this great worke of Reformation at Your hands and the present commotions and troubles of your Majesties Dominions are either preparation in the mercy of God for this blessed reformation and Unity of Religion which is the desire prayer and expectation of all Your Majesties good Subjects in this Kingdom or which they tremble to think upon and earnestly deprecate are in the Justice of God for the abuse of the Gospell the tolerating of Idolatry and superstition against so cleare a light and not acknowledging the day of visitation the beginning of such a dolefull desolation as no policy or power of man shall be able to prevent and as shall make Your Majesties Kingdomes within a short time as miserable as they may be happy by a reformation of Religion God forbid that whilst the Houses of Parliament doe professe their desire of the reformation of religion in a peaceable and Parliamentary 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 shall to the provoking of the