To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange, &c.
May it please your Royal Highness,
THE great and good God, who ••th foretold us in the Scriptures, that a great and wonderful Deliverance shall be wrought for his Church in the latter days, when the Mountain of Zion shall be exalted in the top of the Mountains, seemeth to have designed to m••• use of His Highness the Prince of Orange, and Your Royal Highness, as Instruments in that glorious Deliverance: Having already done such marvellous things in England by His Highness, in order to that great Work; insomuch, that the Eyes of all the Protestant Churches, and People of God, are this day towards His Highness, and Your Royal Highness, as Instruments in God's Hand for the further carrying on of the Deliverance of his Church, from the cruel Sufferings and Oppressions it is under in most parts of World. For which reason I have taken the boldness to become Your. Royal Highnesses humble Remembrancer, on the behalf of the People, and Church of God in New England: Who about Seventy years since forsook their own Native Country, and went into that howling Wilderness, that they might enjoy the Liberty of their Consciences in the Worship of God. They are a People indeed not much taken notice of, yet a People by and for whom God hath done great things, and by whose assistance the English Colonies and Plantations in America, and the West-India Islands may be much profited; and in case of War with France, many of the French Colonies, in those parts, may be reduced to the Obedience and Interest of the English Nation. They have erected a University amongst them, that hath produced very many able Divines,⟨p. 14⟩who have been very Instrumental in the Conversion of many, of the Indians, to the Christian Faith, having for the furtherance of that good Work, Translated the Bible into the Indian Tongue
Their Confession of Faith and Church-Discipline, I have made bold to present to Your Royal Highness, that you may see they are Orthodox. This People had a Patent granted them by King James, to choose their own Governors, and to make their own Laws, (not repugnant to the Laws of England) wh••• Patent was Ratified to them by King Charles the First and Second, and so continued until the late ill Mode of Quo Warranto's came up, and that they had one sent to them about their Patent.
To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange, &c.
May it please your Royal Highness,
THE great and good God, who ••th foretold us in the Scriptures, that a great and wonderful Deliverance shall be wrought for his Church in the latter days, when the Mountain of Zion shall be exalted in the top of the Mountains, seemeth to have designed to m••• use of His Highness the Prince of Orange, and Your Royal Highness, as Instruments in that glorious Deliverance: Having already done such marvellous things in England by His Highness, in order to that great Work; insomuch, that the Eyes of all the Protestant Churches, and People of God, are this day towards His Highness, and Your Royal Highness, as Instruments in God's Hand for the further carrying on of the Deliverance of his Church, from the cruel Sufferings and Oppressions it is under in most parts of World. For which reason I have taken the boldness to become Your. Royal Highnesses humble Remembrancer, on the behalf of the People, and Church of God in New England: Who about Seventy years since forsook their own Native Country, and went into that howling Wilderness, that they might enjoy the Liberty of their Consciences in the Worship of God. They are a People indeed not much taken notice of, yet a People by and for whom God hath done great things, and by whose assistance the English Colonies and Plantations in America, and the West-India Islands may be much profited; and in case of War with France, many of the French Colonies, in those parts, may be reduced to the Obedience and Interest of the English Nation. They have erected a Ʋniversity amongst them, that hath produced very many able Divines,⟨p. 14⟩who have been very Instrumental in the Conversion of many, of the Indians, to the Christian Faith, having for the furtherance of that good Work, Translated the Bible into the Indian Tongue
Their Confession of Faith and Church-Discipline, I have made bold to present to Your Royal Highness, that you may see they are Orthodox. This People had a Patent granted them by King James, to choose their own Governors, and to make their own Laws, (not repugnant to the Laws of England) wh••• Patent was Ratified to them by King Charles the First and Second, and so continued until the late ill Mode of Quo Warranto's came up, and that they had one sent to them about their Patent.
