A96239:17
A letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the commissioners of the…
A letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the commissioners of the Church of Scotland, written, and sent by order of the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, to the Belgic, French, Helvetian, and other reformed churches. Translated into English, and now published with the several inscriptions to those churches. By order of the said House.A letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the commissioners of the Church of Scotland, written, and sent by order of the honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, to the Belgick, French, Helvetian, and other reformed churches. Translated into English, and now published with the severall inscriptions to those churches. By order of the said House.
London: printed by Richard Cotes for Ralph Smith, 1644
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Letter: A Letter from the Assembly of Divines in England, and the Commissioners of the Church o…
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Yea so far they had advanced in their presumption, as to impose upon the whole Kingdom of Scotland a new Popish book of Service, Rites, and Ceremonies; and a book of Canons: To which when the piety and zeal of that Nation would not submit, they prevailed (alas) with his Majesty to proclaim them Rebels and Traitors, & to raise a formidable army against them; to which all the Papists, & popishly affected did professedly contribute their best assistance. And certainly had not the Lord by his blessing upon the Scottish Army, by the manifestation and acknowledgement of the wrongs done them, by the calling of this Parliament, and their godly care to clear the Innocency of their Brethren, and by the Treaty of Peace concluded betwixt the two Kingdoms, prevented it, the two Nations long since through the treachery and rage of these brutish men, had been imbruing their hands in each others blood.
Yea so farre they had advanced in their presumption, as to impose upon the whole Kingdome of Scotland a new Popish book of Service, Rites, and Ceremonies; and a book of Canons: To which when the piety and zeale of that Nation would not submit, they prevailed (alas) with his Majesty to proclaime them Rebels and Traytors, & to raise a formidable army against them; to which all the Papists, & popishly affected did professedly contribute their best assistance. And certainely had not the Lord by his blessing upon the Scotish Army, by the manifestation and acknowledgement of the wrongs done them, by the calling of this Parliament, and their godly care to cleare the Innocency of their Brethren, and by the Treaty of Peace concluded betwixt the two Kingdomes, prevented it, the two Nations long since through the treachery and rage of these brutish men, had beene embrewing their hands in each others bloud.
But though, through the goodness of God and his blessing upon the public Counsels and proceedings of both Nations of England and Scotland, they were more closely and mutually conjoined; and the Lord had raised up such a spirit throughout this whole Kingdom to mourn after the Lord, to lament our backslidings, and to desire a perfect Reformation; and had so inclined ⟨p. 5⟩