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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the Honorable the COMMONS of ENGLAND a&s;&s;embled in Parliament at VVe&s;tmin&s;ter.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of Mini&s;ters and other Inhabitants in and about <HI>London.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THAT in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t, in <HI>London-Hou&s;e</HI> a Lecture was hap|pily begun for the propagation of piety, and learning, in the di&s;covery of the orientall Languages (to this na|tion remaining but yet ob&s;cure) which hitherto hath been elaborately performed twice a week, &s;ince that time neer foure&s;core Lectures in Latine, and highly ap|proved by tho&s;e of greate&s;t parts and learning that frequent the &s;ame: And your Petitioners fearing lea&s;t a work of this nature, for the advan|cing &s;uch learning and Languages, &s;hould for want of maintenance and countenance from Authority fall to the ground. And fora&s;much as an e&s;timate hath been taken of the nece&s;&s;ary charge which is requi&s;ite for the maintenance of Profe&s;&s;ors, and Students, as al&s;o for the erection of a Pre&s;&s;e, for tho&s;e Languages for the more effectuall pro&s;ecution of the de&s;ired ends. And your Petitioners con&s;idering Your Honours many Declarations, and that Re&s;erve, which you have with &s;o much con&s;tan|cy &s;till kept to be a &s;upport to a preaching Mini&s;tery and learning, and being confident that a work of &s;o publick concernment for the advan|tage of this and future ages will not want your due incouragement, and a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P><HI>Therefore are your Petitioners bold to make this humble addre&s;&s;e to your Honours, That if to your wi&s;domes this kind of learning, on which the clearer knowledge of the &s;acred Scriptures, and our u&s;efulne&s;&s;e for the propagation of the Go&s;pel, to &s;uch as un|der&s;tand tho&s;e languages, and their u&s;efulne&s;&s;e to us &s;o much dependeth, and is therfore in the pre&s;ent age &s;o much e&s;teemed by other reformed Churches, &s;hall al&s;o be judged u&s;efull for this Kingdome. Your Petitioners hope that that which they have in readi|ne&s;&s;e to offer, will be &s;ufficient to lay a good foundation to &s;o ble&s;&s;ed a work, and in &s;uch a manner as is mo&s;t facile and &s;uitable to the nature of the thing. If Your Ho|nours &s;hall deem it worthy of your con&s;ideration, And &s;hall plea&s;e to appoint a Com|mittee to receive the &s;ame from us.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><HI>And your Petitioners &s;hall pray, &amp;c.</HI>
<SIGNED>Signed by about <HI>40</HI> Mini&s;ters, and <HI>60</HI> Citizens of quality.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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