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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION, <HI>For a Solemn and Religious Fast, to be keept in the whole Paroch Churches of the Kingdom of</HI> Scotland.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greet|ing: Fora&s;much, as Almighty God, who &s;ince His wonderful Re&s;toring of Us to Our Royal Rights and Government, and Deliverance of this Our Ancient Kingdom from the Tyrannical U&s;urpation, under which, the late Fatal Rebellion en&s;laved it, hath been mercifully plea&s;ed to pre&s;erve its Peace, and ble&s;s it with Plenty; Doth now, by his Warnings and Judgements, Incumbent and Impendent, manife&s;tly di&s;cover his anger and di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t the grievous &s;ins thereof, committed by the abu&s;e of both; in per|mitting many, who have departed from the Communion of this National Church, to give them&s;elves over to imbrace and believe &s;ad, Bla&s;phemous, San|guinary and Trea&s;onable Delu&s;ions, to the great Scandal and Reproach of the Prote&s;tant Name and Religion; And inflicting a long Scorching and threatning Drought, whereby the Fruits of the Ground, the nece&s;&s;ary Provi&s;ion for the L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">e or Man and Bea&s;t, are in danger to be burnt up and con|&s;umed; The Lord, for the luxurious abu&s;e of our Plenty, having &s;o long in his Righteous Judgements, bound up the Clouds, <HI>making the Heavens Bra&s;s, and the Earth Iron,</HI> thereby threatning Us <HI>with pale Famine:</HI> And now having called a Parliament, to A&s;&s;emble at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> on the twenty eight of <HI>July</HI> next, for Con&s;ulting and E&s;tabli&s;hing the Civil and Religious Intere&s;ts of this Kingdom, and for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing, by Good and Whol|&s;ome Laws, &s;uch wicked Principles and Di&s;orders, which tend to the Subver&s;ion of both. Therefore We, out of Our Religious Di&s;po&s;ition, have thought fit, with advice of Our Privy Council, by this Our Proclama|tion, to Indict a General and Publick Day of Fa&s;t and Humiliation; that all Our Loving Subjects may be mov|ed heartily, to turn &s;peedily to God by a true Repentance, and to &s;end up their Fervent Prayers and Supplica|tions, for Wi&s;e and Pious Direction unto, and a Ble&s;&s;ing upon the en&s;uing Parliament; for healing the Breaches, and pardoning the &s;ins of the Kingdom; e&s;pecially, the contempt and di&s;obedience of the Holy Go&s;pel, the great prevalency of Athei&s;m, Error, Schi&s;m, Profanene&s;s and Irreligion; together, with the unthankful abu&s;e of Peace, with which God hath &s;o long time Ble&s;&s;ed Our Government; that by &s;erious Mourning for, and &s;incere turning from them, the Lord may Graciou&s;ly Pardon them, and open the Clouds, for pre&s;erving the Fruits of the Ground, for the Comfort of Man and Bea&s;t. Our Will is herefore, and We &s;traitly Command and Charge, that the &s;aid Fa&s;t be Religiou&s;ly and &s;olemnly kept throughout this Kingdom, by all Subjects and People within the &s;ame: Requiring hereby the Arch-Bi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops to be careful, that this Fa&s;t be due|ly ob&s;erved in their re&s;pective Dioce&s;&s;es; as follows, <HI>viz.</HI> the Arch-Bi&s;hops of <HI>St. Andrews</HI> and <HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI> the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Edinburgh, Dunkel, Dumblain</HI> and <HI>Brechin,</HI> to cau&s;e it to be intimated in the &s;everal Paroch Churches within their Dioce&s;&s;es, upon <HI>Sunday</HI> the twenty &s;ixt day of <HI>June</HI> in&s;tant, to be ob&s;erved on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> thereafter, the twen|ty ninth day of the &s;aid Moneth; and the remnant Bi&s;hops, who&s;e Dioce&s;&s;es are more remote, to cau&s;e it be In|timat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">on <HI>Sunday</HI> the third day of <HI>July</HI> next, and ob&s;erved on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> thereafter, the &s;ixt day of the &s;aid Moneth; which Intimation is to be made by the Mini&s;ters Reading this Our Royal Proclamation from the Pul|pit, and in Exhorting a Serious and Devout Performance of the Duties and Devotions becoming Fa&s;ting and Hu|miliation; as they tender the Favour of Almighty God, the Safety and Honour of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and E&s;tabli&s;hed Government, and as they would avoid the Wrath and Indignation of God again&s;t this Kingdom: Certifying all &s;uch as &s;hall contemn &s;uch a Religious and nece&s;&s;ary Duty, they &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t as Contemners of Our Authority, as well as neglecters of &s;o Religious a Duty.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the &s;ixteenth day of</HI> June, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty one, and of Our Reign, the thretty and third year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE> <HI>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij.</HI>
<SIGNED><HI>WIL. PATERSON,</HI> Cl. Sti. Concilij.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to his mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1681.</P>
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