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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, The Humble ADDRESS OF THE <HI>CITTIZENS</HI> and <HI>INHABITANTS</HI> That are of the <HI>Presbyterian Per&s;wa&s;ion</HI> in the City of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and <HI>Cannongate.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your most Sacred Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE cannot find &s;uitable Expre&s;&s;ions to evidence our mo&s;t humble and grateful Acknowledgments for Your Maje&s;ties late Gracious Declaration, by which we are happily delivered of many &s;ad and grievous Burthens we have long groaned under; and (all Re&s;traints, to our great Joy, being taken off) are allow'd the free and peaceable publick Exerci&s;e of our Religion, a Mercy which is dear|er to us than our Lives and Fortunes.</P>
<P>Could we open our Hearts, Your Maje&s;ty would un|doubtedly &s;ee what deep Sen&s;e and true Zeal for Your Ser|vice, &s;o &s;urprizing and &s;ignal a Favour hath imprinted on our Spirits; for which, we reckon our &s;elves highly obli|ged (throwing our &s;elves at Your Maje&s;ties Feet) to re|turn Your mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty our mo&s;t humble, duti|ful and hearty Thanks: And we de&s;ire humbly to a&s;&s;ure Your Maje&s;ty, That as the Principles of the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion, which according to our Confe&s;&s;ion of Faith we pro|fe&s;s obligeth us all the days of our Lives to that intire Loy|alty and Duty to Your Maje&s;ties Per&s;on and Government, that no difference of Religion can di&s;&s;olve; &s;o we hope, and through Gods A&s;&s;i&s;tance, &s;hall &s;till endeavour to demean our&s;elves is our Practice, in &s;uch manner, as &s;hall evidence to the World the Truth and Sincerity of our Loyalty and
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Gratitude, and make it appear, that there is no incon&s;i&s;t ency betwixt true Loyalty and Presbyterian Principles.</P>
<P>Great SIR! We humbly offer our Dutiful and Faithful A&s;&s;urances, that as we have not been hitherto wanting in that great Duty, which our Con&s;ciences bind upon us to pray for Your Maje&s;ty; &s;o this late refre&s;hing and unex|pected Favour will much more engage us in great Sincerity, to continue &s;till to offer up our de&s;ires to the God of Heaven, by whom Kings Reign and Princes decree Ju&s;tice, to Ble&s;s Your Royal Maje&s;ties Per&s;on and Government; and after a happy and comfortable Reign on Earth, to Crown You with an incorruptible Crown of Glory in Heaven, which is mo&s;t ar|dently prayed for, by,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Dread Soveraign,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Majesties mo&s;t humble, mo&s;t Loyal, mo&s;t Dutiful, and mo&s;t Obedient Subjects. Sub&s;cribed in our own Names, and by order of the Citizens and Inhabitants of the Presbyterian Per&s;wa&s;ion within Your City of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and <HI>Connongate.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. N.</HI> and Re-printed at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sa|cred <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> City and Colledge: 1687.</P>
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