your Majestie as you tender Truth
and Peace, you would be pleased to suffer your self to be possessed with
right thoughts of the League and Covenant, and of the proceedings of your
Majesties loyall Subjects in relation thereunto, and give your Royall
assent for injoyning of it in all your Dominions. If your Majestie had
been pleased to hearken to our Counsell heranent some years ago, the blood
of many thousands, which now lyes upon your Majesties Throne, might have
been spared, Popery, Prelacy, Idolatry, Superstition, Profanesse, Heresie,
Error, Sects, and Schismes which are now grown to so great a height in
_England_, might have been extirpate, and your Majestie sitting in Peace
in your own House, Reigning over your Subjects with much mutuall
contentment and confidence. And if your Majestie shall yet search out and
repent of all your secret and open Sins, And after so many dear-bought
experiences of the danger of evill Counsell, be now so wise as to avoid
it, and to hearken to us speaking unto you in the Name of the Lord, We are
confident by this means your Majestie may yet be restored, and a sure and
firme peace procured. We take it as a great mercy, and as a door of hope,
that God still inclines the hearts of all his Servants to pray for your
Majestie; And we would not have your Majestie to look upon it as a light
thing, that you have been preserved alive, when many thousands have by
your means and procurement fallen on your right hand and on your left
hand. God forbid that your Majestie should any longer dispise the word of
exhortation, the riches of his goodnesse, forbearance and long suffering,
not knowing that the goodnesse of God leads you unto Repentance; For if
your Majestie do so, As we are afraid, all Counsels and Endeavours for
your Majesties re-establishment shall be in vain and without successe,
because of the Wrath of the Lord of Hosts, who brings down the mighty from
his Throne, and scatters the proud in the imaginations of their hearts; So
we shall mourn in secret for it, and for all the miseries that are like to
come upon your Throne and your Dominions, and comfort our selves, in this,
that we have delivered our own souls. But we desire to hope better things,
and that your Majestie will humble your self under the mighty hand of God,
and be inclined to hearken to the faithfull advise of his Servants, be
willing to secure Religion, and imploy your Royall Power for advancing the
Kingdom of the Son of God,