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<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, VVe 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, VVe 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;ervices 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;atisfied with your carriages, and with the generality of the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Scotland,</HI> in this time of triall, while&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 coun|tenance 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; VVe 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 Contemners 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 Government of the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> as it is &s;ettled by Law, without violation; and to countenance, in the due exerci&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 Generall 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 Generall A&s;&s;embly (which VVe 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 Dowgla&s;&s;e,</HI> and &s;ome other Mini&s;ters, that VVe may &s;peak with them in what may further concern the Affairs of that Church. And as VVe are very well &s;atisfied with your re&s;olution not to meddle without your Sphere; So VVe do expect, that Church-judica|tories in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and Mini&s;ters there, will keep within the compa&s;&s;e of their Station, meddling only with matters Eccle&s;ia&s;tick, and promoting Our Authority and Intere&s;t with Our Subjects again&s;t all Oppo&s;ers; And that they will take &s;peciall notice of all &s;uch, who, by preaching <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> private Conventicles, or any other way, tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the limits of their Calling, by endeavouring 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;everall Presbyteries within that Our Kingdom: And as We do give a&s;&s;urance of Our favour and encouragment <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">o you,
and to all hone&s;t de&s;erving Mini&s;ters there; So We earne&s;tly recommend it to you all, that you be earne&s; in your Prayers, publick and privat, 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 10. of</HI> Augu&s;t, 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><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by <HI>Chri&s;topher Higgins,</HI> in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> Clo&s;e, over again&s;t the Trone Church, <HI>1660.</HI></P>
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