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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

anger of God the stopping of the influence of so many blessings from Heaven and the grieving of the hearts of all the godly frustrate our expectation make our hopes ashamed and hazard the losse of the hearts of all Your good Subjects which next unto the truth and unity of religion and the safety of Your Kingdomes are willing to hazzard their lives and spend their bloud for Your Majesties Honour and Happinesse We are not ignorant that the worke is great the difficulties and impediments many and that there be both Mountaines and Lions in the way the strongest le● till it be taken out of the way is the Mountaine of Prelacy and no wonder if Your Majesty consider how many Papists and Popishly affected have for a long time found Peace and ease under the shadow thereof how many of the Prelaticall Faction have thereby their life and being how many prophane and wordly men doe feare the yoake of Christ and are unwilling to submit themselves to the obedience of the Gospell and how many there be whose eyes are dazled with the externall pompe and glory of the Kirke whose mindes are miscarried with a conceipt of the governing of the Kirke by the rules of humane policy and whose hearts are affrighted with the apprehensions of the dangerous consequences which may ensue upon alterations But when Your Majesty in Your Princely and Religious Wisedome shall remember from the Records of former times how against the gates of Hell the force and fraude of worldly and wicked men and all Panicke feares of danger the Christian Religion was first planted and the Christian Kirke thereafter reformed and from the condition of the present times how many from the experience of the tyranny of Prelates are afraid to discover themselves lest they be revenged upon them hereafter whereas Prelacy being removed they would openly professe what they are and joyne with others in the way of Reformation All obstacles and difficulties shall be but matter of the manifestation of the power of God the principall worker and the meanes of the greater glory to Your Majesty the prime instrument The intermixture of the Government of Prelates with the civill state mentioned in Your Majesties Answer to our former Petition being taken away and the right government by Assemblies which is to bee seene in all the reformed Kirkes and wherein the agreement will be easie being settled the Kirke and Religion will be more pure and free of mixture and the civil Government more sound and firme that government of the kirk must suit best with the civill state and be most usefull for Kings and Kingdoms which is best warranted by God by whom Kings doe raigne and Kindomes are established Nor can a reformation be expected in the common and ordinary way expessed also in Your Majesties Answer the wisest and most religious Princes have found it impossible and implying a repugnancy since the Persons to be reformed and the reformers must be divers and the way of reformation must be different from the corrupt way by which defection of workemen and corruption in Doctrine worship and government have entred into the Kirke Suffer us therefore dread Soveraigne to renew our Petitions for this unity of religion and uniformity of Kirke government and for a meeting of some Divines of both Kingdomes who may prepare matters for Your Majesties view and for the examination and approbation of more full assemblies The Nationall assembly of this Kirke from which we have our Commission did promise in their thnkesgiving for the many favours expressed in Your Majesties Letter their best endeavour to keepe the people under their charge in unity and peace and in Loyalty and obedience to Your Majesty and Your Lawes which we confesse is a duty well beseeming the Preachers of the Gospell But we cannot conceale how much both Pastors and People are grieved and disquieted with the late reports of the successe boldnesse and strength of Popish forces in Ireland and England and how much danger from the power of so malicious and bloudy Enemies is apprehended to the Religion and Peace of this Kirke and Kingdome conceived by them to be the spring whence have issued all their calamities and miseries Which we humbly remonstrate to Your Majesty as a necessity requiring a generall Assembly and do earnestly supplicate for the presence and assistance of Your Majesties Commissioner at the day to be appointed that by universall consent of the whole Kirke the best course may be taken for the preservation of Religion and for the averting of the great wrath which they conceive to be imminent to this Kingdom If it shall please the Lord in whose hand is the heart of the King as the rivers of waters to turne it whither soever he will to incline Your Majesties heart to this through reformation no more to tolerate the Masse or any part of romish superstition or tyranny and to command that all good meanes be used for the conversion of Your Princely Consort the Queenes Majesty which is also the humble desire of this whole Kirke and Kingdom Your Joynt comforts shall be mult●plyed above the dayes of Your affliction to Your incredible joy Your glory shall shine in brightnesse above all Your royall Progenitors to the admiration of the world and the terror of Your Enemies and Your Kingdomes so farre abound in righteousnesse Peace and Prosperity above all that hath beene in former Generations that they shall say it is good for us that wee have beene afflicted His Majesties Answer to a late Petition presented unto Him by the hands of Alexander Henderson from the Commissioners of the generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland WEE received lately a Petition from you by the hands of Mr. Alexander Henderson To the which We intended to have given an answer as soone as Wee had transacted the businesse with the other Commissioners addressed to us from the Conservators of the Treaty of that our Kingdom But finding the same to be published in Print and to be dispersed throughout Our Kingdom to the great danger of Scandalling of Our well-affected Subjects who may interpret the bitternesse and sharpenesse of some Expressions not to be so agreeable to that regard and Reverence which is due to our Person and the matter it selfe to be reproachfull to the honour and constitution of this Kingdom We have beene compelled the more strictly to examine as well the Authority of the Petitioners as the matter of the Petition it selfe and to publish Our opinion of both that Our Subjects of both Kingdomes may see how equally just and sensible We are of the Lawes and Honour of both Our Kingdomes And first upon perusall of the Petition We required to see the Commission by which the messenger who brought this Petition or the persons who sent him are qualified to intermedle in Affaires so forraigne to their Jurisdiction and of so great concernment to this Our Kingdom of England Vpon Examination whereof and in defence of

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