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<P>A Letter from Mr. <HI>Robert Iohn&s;ton,</HI> one of the Elders at <HI>Edenborough,</HI> directed to Ma&s;ter <HI>VVilliam Agard</HI> in Cambridge, with a Peti|tion of the Engli&s;h there inclo&s;ed, to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Ma&s;ter <HI>Agards</HI> Letter to his friend in London, coneteyning matters of great moment, tending to the pacification of the mi&s;erable di&s;tractions of the&s;e Pre&s;ent times.</P>
<Q>Keepe the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.</Q>
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<P>Printed at London for <HI>T. B.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A Letter</HI> From Mr. <HI>Robert Iohn&s;ton,</HI> one of the Elders at Edenborough, directed to Mr. <HI>William Agard</HI> in Cambridge; with a Pe|tition of the Engli&s;h there inclo&s;ed, to the mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty of the KING.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Ioy to heare that my good Cou&s;en your wife is already the happy Mo|ther of two Sonnes, for whom as for my &s;elfe I pray daily; de&s;ining to have an opportune meeting, that we may rejoyce together in the Lord.</P>
<P>I doubt not of your diligence in do|ing your God &s;ervice. You are one of tho&s;e Watch-men upon Ieru&s;alems Walles; Never hold your peace, keepe not &s;ilence, give him no re&s;t, untill hee &s;hall e&s;tabli&s;h and make his Sion a prai&s;e in the earth.</P>
<P>There is great cau&s;e now, for (with great regreet) I
<PB N="2" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 55 -->feele a fearefull &s;hake given to the halfe happy Act of Pa|cification: Papi&s;ts and Prelates joyne with men (acted by the &s;pirit of Sathan) to &s;eperate the King from His Parliament in England; and his loyall Subjects (here and there as in Ireland) to the ruine of all: would to God they were all gone that &s;o trouble us. Wee have hope here (and I pray for the like with you) that their wicked rod &s;hall not long re&s;t upon your Lot.</P>
<P>Let it plea&s;e you to peru&s;e the inclo&s;ed Petition, it came to me by a good hand, tends to a right end, from a firme ground, through a midde&s;t an&s;werable your furtherance will doe much, but God onely can accompli&s;h the worke which I pray for, and am &s;till</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your loving Con&s;en. Robert Iohn&s;ton.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Edenborough <DATE>the 12. of Septemb. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the mo&s;t Excellent Maje|&s;ty of the King, and to the mo&s;t Ho|nourable the Lords and Peeres of this Realm. As al&s;o to the honourable the Lords and others, Knights Citizens, Barons and burge&s;&s;es in the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament now ASSEMBLED.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The mo&s;t humble Petition of the Churches of God in <HI>England,</HI> and of every lively member of the &s;ame, whereof the Lord Chri&s;t Ie&s;us is the Head.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth.</OPENER>
<P>_THat <HI>I am,</HI> is the God of Vnity and Order, But his enemy <HI>(S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">than)</HI> is the author of divi&s;ion &amp; di&s;order; as appeares by the fir&s;t <HI>Adams</HI> fall, &amp; the &s;econd <HI>Adams</HI> reparation, when to prevent the malice of <HI>Abaddon,</HI> God united his Diety to humani|ty in the per&s;on of his deare &s;on, and him &s;ent to &s;eeke and &s;ave, al poor lo&s;t &s;inners beleevers: That in the hypo&s;taticall union, there are 3. di&s;tinct Offices, of Prophet, Prie&s;t, and King, of all which (in his humanity) the Lord Ie&s;us had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, yet alleadged that his Kingdome (as then) was not of this world, remayning now and ever &s;ince at the right hand of his mo&s;t holy Father in glory, untill his ene|mies &s;hall be made his foot&s;tool. That in 1642 years from the incarnation, the Almighty hath already vindicated the Prophetique and Prie&s;ts Offices to his Son, again&s;t all Turkes, Iewes, Papi&s;ts; infidels: The Regall Office onely remains undetermined: And the axe is now laid to the root, he that will not take the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t for his K. mu&s;t be brought out and &s;lain.</P>
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That your Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty (the fountaine of pi|ety and ju&s;tice, and the life of the Law unto us your mo&s;t humble Petitioners &amp; obedient Subjects) have &s;et to your &s;eale and in acknowledgment of Gods truth, have &s;ub&s;cri|bed, <HI>Chri&s;to au&s;pice Regno. Po&s;ui Deum adiutorem meum,</HI> and the like.</P>
<P>That your Lord&s;hips and Honours have likewi&s;e come into the &s;ame Government, contending again&s;t tho&s;e Laws and Cu&s;tomes, oppo&s;ite to the Law e&s;tabli&s;ht by the Lord Je&s;us, and which <HI>Elutherius</HI> pre&s;cribed to <HI>Lucius</HI> fir&s;t Chri|&s;tian King of this Nation, and to both the Doctrine and Di&s;cipline &s;etled by the Apo&s;tles. when at Antioch the Di&s;ciples were fir&s;t called Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P>That the recovery of that name Chri&s;tian will expell the by names, <HI>Papi&s;ts, Prote&s;tants; Lutherans, Browni&s;ts, Se|ctaries, Roundheads, Prickeare,</HI> and what not, di&s;gracefully put upon the Chri&s;tian Subjects of this Kingdome; Quiet the pre&s;ent di&s;tractions and di&s;tempers, cleare all fears and jealou&s;ies, &s;ettle the true Religion, and fundamental Laws of England, Your Maje&s;ties Prerogative, the Parliaments priviledge, and the Subjects propriety and peace, will &s;o be all at one, to your generall contentment, and the &s;aving of All in all.</P>
<P><HI>May it therefore plea&s;e Your mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty and your Parliment to agree &s;peedily upon that one thing nece&s;&s;a|ry, and prevent the malicious intendments of the Common adver&s;ary.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For which your petitioners are daily &s;uppliant at the Al|mighties throne, and your laborious &s;ervants.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A Letter From one Ma&s;ter <HI>Agard</HI> to his friend in London.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_J</HI> Have read his Maje&s;ties Declarations at large, printed at Cambridge, as al&s;o his Maje&s;ties vindication, written as I have heard &s;ay by a Parliament man, but without his name there|unto printed and publi&s;hed. I have al&s;o &s;eene the pa&s;&s;ages (publi&s;ht) betweene the Scots and the Eng|li&s;h an&s;wering one another, and agreeing together to a far better end (as I hope) than <HI>Samp&s;ons</HI> Foxes with their fire-brands, for they burnt up onely the &s;tanding Corne of the Phili&s;tims, who did then Lord it over I&s;rael; the&s;e I hope will eradicate all tho&s;e Fox-like incendiaries, Papi&s;ts and Prelates, that have wrought their ends upon the con|tinent of Europe hitherto, and now are at worke in Eng|land and Ireland. Ble&s;&s;ed be God, the North Country Scot|land, &amp; the parts of England bordering thereupon, are &s;om in calmer condition for the pre&s;ent, Pray God continue it, and let the eternall Maje&s;ty be plea&s;ed to tell his Ma|je&s;ty (our mo&s;t Gracious Soveraigne) that the Prote&s;tant Religion in England is not yet &s;ufficiently reformed, and
<PB N="6" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 57 -->that his Maje&s;ty may not &s;tand &s;till as the Sun (albeit <HI>Io|&s;huah</HI> &s;hould command it) much le&s;&s;e goe backe as in <HI>He|zechiahs</HI> time; but he mu&s;t goe forward as a Gyant, fight the good fight, and fini&s;h his cour&s;e in keeping faith, that he may not &s;tagger, but &s;tand fa&s;t to his temporall Crown in this life, and &s;o obtaine an eternall Crowne of glory: to which my prayer made in the name and mediation of the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, let the Almighty God, and all his faithfull &s;ervants &s;ay, A men.</P>
<P>I have &s;ent you here with a Copy of Petition which came from England to Edenborough, and is thence againe returned unto me in a Letter from my Cou&s;en <HI>John&s;ton,</HI> the originalls are here inclo&s;ed, you may con&s;ider how u&s;efull they may prove, and u&s;e them as you plea&s;e. Pray let me heare from you as you can with the fir&s;t opportuni|ty, I will repay it thankfully, and re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours to be commanded. <HI>William Agard.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From my hou&s;e in Lond. <DATE>24. Sept. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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