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kingdom_n	heart_n	know_v	lord_n	1,789	5	3.5443	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62752	To the Kings most excellent Majesty. The due account, and humble petition of the ministers of the Gospel, lately commissioned for the review & alteration of the liturgy; Due account and humble petition of the ministers of the Gospel, lately commissioned for the review and alteration of the liturgy.	Commission for the Review and Alteration of the Book of Common Prayer.	1661 (1661)	Wing T1498A; ESTC R220130	4,260	10

who indeed discovereth any thing commanded to be sin though hee must not do it must manage his opinion with very great tenderness and care of the publick Peace and the honours of his Governours These are our Principles If we are otherwise represented to your Majesty we are mis-represented If we are accused of contradicting them we humbly crave that we may not be condemned till wee bee heard It is the desire of our Souls to contribute our parts and interests to the utmost for the promoting of holiness charity unity and obedience to Rulers in all lawful things But if wee should sin against God because we are commanded who shall answer for us or save us from his Justice And wee humbly crave that it may bee no just Gravamen of our dissent that thereby we suppose Superiours may erre seeing it is but supposing them to bee men not yet in Heaven and this may bee reputed to every one that differeth in Opinion from another And wee beseech Your Majesty to beleeve that as wee seek no greater matters in the World than daily Bread with liberty to Preach the Gospel and Worship God according to his Word and the practise of the Primitive Churches so wee hope it is not through P●●i●lanimity and over-much tendernesse of suffering that wee have pleaded so much for the avoiding of suffering to our selves or others May none of our sufferings hinder the prosperity of the Church and the good of Souls and wee have enough And wee suppose those that think the persons inconsiderable in Number and Quality for whom wee plead will not themselves beleeve that we have done this for popular applause this were not so much to seek the reward of Hypocrites as to play the game of Fools seeing the applause of inconsiderable men can bee but inconsiderable and wee know our selves that we are like thus to offend those that are not inconsiderable the Lord that searcheth hearts doth know that it is not so much the avoiding of suffering to our selves or any particular person that is the end of our endeavours though this were no Ambitious end as the peace and welfare of the Church and Kingdome under Your Majesties Government We know that supposing them who are for the Ceremonies to be as Pious and Charitable as the rest it cannot so much offend them that another may forbear them as it must offend another to be forced to use them and we know that conscientious men will not consent to the practising of things in their judgement unlawfull when those may yeild that count the matter indifferent And for the management of this Treaty it being agreed at our first meeting that nothing be reported as the words or sense of either part but what is delivered by them in writing We humbly crave that Your Majesty receive no more as ours and that what is charged on any particular person he may be answerable for himself and though the Reverend Bishops have not had time to consider our Additions to the Liturgy and of our Reply that yet it may be considered before a Determination be made And though we seem to have laboured in vain we shall yet lay this work of Reconciliation and Peace at Your Majesties feet beseeching you to prosper such a blessed Resolution till it attain successe We must needs beleeve that when Your Majesty took our Consent to a Liturgy to be a foundation that would infer our Concord You meant not that we should have no Concord but by consenting to this Liturgy without any considerable Alterations And when You comforted us with Your Resolutions to draw us together by yeilding on both sides in what we could You meant not that wee should be the boat to lay the banks that should not stir and when Your Majesty commanded us by Letters Pattents to meet about such Alterations as are needfull or expedient for giving satisfaction to tender Consciences and the restoring and continuing of Peace and Unity wee rest assured that it was not Your sense that those tender Consciences were to be forced to practise all which they judged unlawful and not so much as a Ceremony abated them or that our Treaty was only to convert either party to the Opinion of another and that all our hopes of Concord and Liberty consisted only in disputing the Bishops into Non-conformity or coming in every Ceremony to their minds Finally for Your Majesty under God is the protection whereto Your people flye and as the same necessity still remains which drew forth Your Gracious Declaration wee most Humbly and Earnestly beseech Your Majesty that the benefit of the said Declaration may be continued to Your people and in particular that none be punished or troubled for not using the Common-Prayer till it be effectually reformed and the Addition made as there exprest We crave Your Majesties Pardon for the tediousnesse of this Addresse and shall wait in hope that so great a Calamity of Your people as will follow the loss of so many able faithful Ministers as the rigorous Imposition would cast out shall never be recorded in the History of Your Reign but that these impediments of Concord being forborn Your Kingdome may flourish in Piety and Peace that this may be the signal honour of Your happy Reign and Your joy in the day of Your account which is the prayer of Your Majesties Faithful and Obedient Subjects