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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE HUMBLE PETITION, OF The peacefull, obedient, religious, and hone&s;t Prote&s;tants of this Kingdome, pre&s;ented unto the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, by Doctor <HI>Hynton,</HI> in their behalfe the 7. day of <HI>January,</HI> 1641.</HEAD>
<P>_THat you will be plea&s;ed to reflect upon the divine Service of God, accor|ding to the ancient lawes of this kingdome, that thereby the poore Prote&s;tants between the two extremities of zeale may not &s;uffer a di&s;tur|bance of their religion.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to pre&s;erve Gods annointed his immediate Vicegerent our true and lawful Soveraigne Lord the King, in his per&s;on in all his Regall Dignities and lawfull immunities without any impeachment of his Regality in who&s;e honour the reputation of the Kingdom depends.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to ratifie and confirme all things both concerning His Maje&s;ty and the &s;tate of this Kingdome as they were in tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed daies of Queene <HI>Eli|zabeth</HI> and King <HI>Iames,</HI> that we may thereby live in the&s;e latter and turbulent times; with as much peace to our con&s;ciences, with as much dignity to our Nation, in as true love and obe|dience to our lawfull Soveraigne, and with as much liberty and liberality of our fortunes as our forefathers heretofore have done.</P>
<P>That you will not &s;uffer Learning to be defaced nor di&s;countenanced by the ignorant, but rather that you will be plea&s;ed to advance it to its Dignity, it being the maine &s;upporter of lawfull obedience, of order, civility, and regularity in all States.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to qualifie the exorbitancies of the Separati&s;ts and unworthy per&s;ons, that thereby the City of <HI>London</HI> and the Suburbs may be disburdened from their con|tinuall cares and feares, be&s;ides their lo&s;&s;e of time, healths, and fortunes, which the Traine|bands, and the double and treble Watches and Wards continually doe &s;u&s;taine.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed, as the State hath by election both made you members of this Honourable Hou&s;e, and adopted you our Fathers to governe our fortunes, to e&s;tabli&s;h our Lawes, and to regulate our actions: &s;o we now be&s;eech you to &s;atisfie our con&s;ciences, to pre&s;erve our reputations, and to admit of a liberall and free debate in Parliament, concerning all the&s;e particulars, without interruption that thereby the glory of God may be exalted, the dignity of our King and Kingdome pre&s;erved, the immunities of the Hou&s;e according to the ancient cu&s;tome of <HI>England</HI> continued, all precipitated tumults appea&s;ed, all di&s;cords among&s;t us peacefully united, the valiant and renouned acts of our predece&s;&s;ors revived, our tottering for|tunes e&s;tabli&s;hed, our King and Kingdome united; that &s;o our minds and con&s;ciences may be fully &s;atisfied. &amp;c.</P>
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