Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England…

But yet remembering the gracious and encouraging Promises of your Majesty, and observing your Majesties Clemency in what is here granted us, and your great Condescension in vouchsafing not only so graciously to hear us in these our humble addresses and Requests, but also to grant us the fight of our Declaration before it is ⟨p. 11⟩resolved on, with liberty of returning our Additional Desires, and hope that they shall not be rejected. We reassume our confidence, and comfortably expect, that what is not granted us in this Declaration that is reasonable and necessary to our Agreement, shall yet be granted upon fuller consideration of the Equity of our Requests.

But yet remembring the gracious and encouraging Promises of your Majestie, and observing your Majesties Clemencie in what is here granted us, and your great Condescention in vouchsafing not only so graciously to hear us in these our humble addresses and Requests, but also to grant us the fight of our Declaration before it is ⟨p. 11⟩resolved on, with libertie of returning our Additional Desires, and hope that they shall not be rejected. We reassume our confidence, and comfortably expect, that what is not granted us in this Declaration that is reasonable and necessary to our Agreement, shall yet be granted upon fuller consideration of the Equity of our Requests.

As our designs and desires are not for any worldly Advantages or Dignities to our selves, So have we not presumed to meddle with any Civil Interest of your Majesty, or any of your Officers, nor in matters of mere convenience, to cast our Reason into the balance against your Majesties Prudence, But merely to speak for the Laws, and Worship, and Servants of the Lord, and for the Peace of our Consciences, and for the safety of our own and our Brethren's Souls. It lifts us up with joy to think what happy Consequences will ensue, if your Majesty shall entertain these healing motions; How happily our differences will be reconciled, and the exasperated minds of men composed! How temptations to contention and uncharitableness will be removed! How comfortably your Majesty will reign in the dearest affections of your Subjects, and how firmly they will adhere to your Interest as their own! How cheerfully and zealously the united Parts and Interests of the Nation will conspire to serve You! What a strength and honour a Righteous Magistracy a Learned, Loyal, Holy Ministry, and a faithful, praying People will be to your Throne! and how it will be your glory to be King of the most Religious Nation in the World! that hath no considerable parties, but what are centred under Christ in You. What a comfort it will be to the Bishops and Pastors of the Church to be honoured and loved by all the most Religious of their Flocks, to see the success of their labours and the Beauty of the Church promoted by our Common Concord, and Brethren to assemble and dwell together in unity, serving one God, according to one Rule, with one heart and mouth.