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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS LETTER, DIRECTED TO THE PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH, And by them to be Communicated to the re&s;t of the PRESBYTERIES of this KIRK.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Received the Third of <HI>September,</HI> 1660.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>_TRu&s;ty and well beloved, We greet you well:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>By the Letter you &s;ent to Us, with this bearer, Mr. <HI>James Sharp,</HI> and by the account he gave of the State of Our Church there, We have received full Information of your &s;en&s;e of our Sufferings, and of your con&s;tant Affection and Loyalty to Our Per&s;on and Authority. And therefore We will detain him here no longer, (of who&s;e good &s;er|vices We are very &s;en&s;ible) nor will We delay to let you know by him Our gracious acceptance of your Addre&s;s, and how well We are &s;atis&s;fied with your carriages, and with the generality of the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> in this time of trial, whil&s;t &s;ome, under &s;pecious pretences, &s;werved from that Duty and Allegiance they owe to Us. And becau&s;e &s;uch, who, by the countenance of U&s;urpers, have di&s;turbed the Peace of that Our Church, may al&s;o labour to create Jealou&s;ies in the mindes of well meaning people; We have thought fit by This, to a&s;&s;ure you, that, by the grace of God, VVe do re&s;olve to di&s;countenance Profanity, and all Contem|ners and Oppo&s;ers of the Ordinances of the GOSPEL. VVe do al&s;o re&s;olve to Protect and Pre&s;erve the Govern|ment of the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> as it is &s;etled by Law, without violation; and to countenance, in the due ex|erci&s;e of their Functions, all &s;uch Mini&s;ters who &s;hall behave them&s;elves dutifully and peaceably, as becomes men of their Calling. VVe will al&s;o take care, that the Authority and Acts of the General A&s;&s;embly at St. <HI>Andrews</HI> and <HI>Dundee,</HI> in the year, 1651. be owned and &s;tand in force, untill VVe &s;hall call another General A&s;&s;embly (which We purpo&s;e to do a&s;&s;oon as Our Affairs will permit) And VVe do intend to &s;end for Mr. <HI>Robert Dow|gla&s;&s;e,</HI> and &s;ome other Mini&s;ters, that We may &s;peak with them in what may further concern the Affairs of that Church. And as We are very well &s;atisfied with your re&s;olution not to meddle without your Sphere; So We do expect, that Church-judicatories in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and Mini&s;ters there, will keep within the compa&s;s of their Stati|on, meddling only with matters Eccle&s;ia&s;tick, and promoting Our Authority and lntere&s;t with Our Subjects a|gain&s;t all Oppo&s;ers; And that they will take &s;pecial notice of all &s;uch, who, by preaching, or private Conventi|cles, or any other way, tran&s;gre&s;s the limits of their Calling, by endeavoring to corrupt the people, or &s;ow &s;eeds of di&s;affection to Us, or Our Government. This you &s;hall make known to the &s;everal Presbyteries within that Our Kingdom: And as We do give a&s;&s;urance of Our favor and encouragement to you, and to all hone&s;t de&s;er|ving Mini&s;ters there; So We earne&s;tly recommend it to you all, that you be earne&s;t in your Prayers, publick and private, to Almighty God who is Our Rock and Our Deliverer, both for Us and for Our Government, That We may have fre&s;h and con&s;tant &s;upplies of his Grace, and the right improvement of all his Mercies and Deliverances, To the honour of his great Name, and the peace, &s;afety and benefit of all Our Kingdoms: And &s;o We bid you heartily farewell.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at our Court at</HI> Whitehall, <DATE><HI>the</HI> 10. <HI>of</HI> August, 1660. <HI>and of Our Reign the Twelfth year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By His Maje&s;ties Command. LA&V;DERDAIL.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Reprinted for <HI>George Calvert,</HI> at the &s;ign of the Half-Moon, near the little North door in St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-Yard, 1660.</P>
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