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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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so many blessings from Heaven 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 People which next unto the truth and unity of Religion and the safety of Your Kingdomes are willing to hazard their lives and spend their bloud for Your Majesties honour end happinesse We are not ignorant that the Work is great the difficulties and impediments be many and that there be both Mountains and Lyons in the way The strongest lett till it be taken out of the way is the Mountain of Prelacie And no wonder if Your Majestic 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 profane worldly men do fear the yoke of Christ and are unwilling to submit themselves to the obedience of the Gospel And how many there be whose eyes are dazelled with the externall pomp and glory of the Kirk whose mindes are mis-carried with a conceit of the governing the Kirk by the rules of humane Policy whose hearts are affrighted with the apprehension of the dangerous consequences which may ensue upon alterations But when Your Majestie in Your Princely and religious wisedome shall remember from the Records of former times how against the gates of hell the force fraud of worldly and wicked men and all Panick fears of danger the Christian Religion was first planted and the Christian Kirks thereafter reformed 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 Prelacie being removed they would openly professe what they are joyn 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 means of the greater glory to Your Majestie 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 be seen in all the Reformed Kirks and wherein the agreement will be easie being settled The Kirk and Religion will be more pure and free of mixture and the Civill Government more sound and firme That Government of the Kirk must sute best with the Civill State and be most usefull for Kings and Kingdomes which is best warranted by GOD by whom Kings do raigne and Kingdomes are established Nor can a Reformation be expected in the Common and ordinary way expressed also in Your Majesties Answer The wisest and most Religious Princes have found it impossible and implying a repugnancie since the persons to be reformed and the Reformers must be diverse and the way of Reformation must be different from the corrupt way by which defections of Kirk-men and corruptions in doctrine worship Government have entred into the Kirk Suffer us therefore Dread Soveraigne to renew our Petitions for this unity of Religion and uniformity of Kirk-government and for a meeting of sound 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 Kirk from which we have our Commission did promise in their thanksgiving for the many favours expressed in Your Majesties Letter their best endeavours to keep the people under their charge in unity and peace and in loyalty and obedience to Your Majestie and Your Laws which we confesse is a duty well beseeming the preachers of the Gospel But we cannot conceale how much both Pastors and People are grieved and disquieted with the late reports of the successe boldnes and strength of Popish forces in Ireland and England and how much danger from the power of so malicious bloudy Enemies is apprehended to the Religion peace of this Kirk 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 General Assembly 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 Kirk 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 Kingdome If it shall please the Lord in whose hand is the heart of the King as the rivers of waters to turn it whithersoever he will to incline Your Majesties heart to this through Reformation no more to tolerate the Masse or any part of Romish superstition or Tyrannie and to command that all good means be used for the conversion of Your Princely consort the Queens Majesty which is also the humble desire of this whole Kirk and Kingdome Your joynt comforts shall be multiplied 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 terrour of Your Enemies And Your Kingdomes so far abound in Righteousnesse Peace and Prosperity above all that hath been in former Generations that they shall say It is good for us that we have been afflicted A. Ker Cler. Commiss Gen. Ass TO THE HONOURABLE HOUSES of the Parliament of ENGLAND The Declaration of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of SCOTLAND from their meeting at Edinburgh Jan. 4. 1643. THe weighty charge and trust put upon us by the Generall Assembly of this Kirk hath given us the boldnesse in this time of so great danger to Religion to His Majesties Person Crown and Posteritie to all His Majesties Dominions through the insolencie and prevailing power of Papists and the Prelaticall partie to represent unto His Majestie by supplication our humble thoughts and desires for a speedy remedy By disbanding all Papists out of His Army by calling an Assemblie of godly and sound Divines unto which some of the Commissioners may be sent from the Kirk of Scotland that by the blessing of GOD upon their labours the so much desired unity in Religion and Kirk-government may be brought about and settled in both Kingdomes and by the faithful using of all good means for the Conversion of the Queens Majestie to the profession and practice of the true reformed Religion which we conceive a principall part of the remedie This Kirk and Kingdome hath the sympathie and fears but the Houses of Parliament and the Kingdome of England have the sufferings and sense of these evils We are in the danger they in the distresse The miseries are imminent to us but incumbent upon them And therefore the Commissioners of the Assembly do only represent their Brotherly and Christian fellow-feeling of the present condition of