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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable, our right worthy and grave Senatours, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Lord MAYOR, ALDERMEN, and COMMONALTY of the City of <HI>LONDON,</HI> in Common Council a&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e mo&s;t humble PETITION and ADDRESSE of divers Young men, on the behalf of them&s;elves and the APPRENTICES in and about this honourable City.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Mo&s;t humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>_IT hath plea&s;ed the good and only wi&s;e GOD for our and the Nations crying &s;ins, to manife&s;t His di&s;plea&s;ure for many years together again&s;t the&s;e once flouri&s;hing, now &s;adly divided, di&s;tracted, and almo&s;t ruined Nations: and yet, ble&s;&s;ed be GOD, this Honourable City hitherto hath been no proportionable &s;harer in the Calamities which our Brethren in other parts of the&s;e (now mi&s;erable) Nations have &s;uffered; which are now aggravated by our Divi&s;ions, and &s;uch a general decay of Trading, as doth exceed the wor&s;t of former times; All which we look upon, as a mo&s;t &s;ad pre&s;age of &s;ome heavie and di&s;mal Judgment very near at hand, if not our &s;udden ruine: together with the de&s;truction and utter di&s;&s;olution both of Church and State, which will inevitably en&s;ue as a ju&s;t reward upon our multiplied provocations, under the mo&s;t &s;ignal manife&s;tations of GOD'S mo&s;t gracious pre&s;ence, and the mo&s;t engaging mercies that ever People did enjoy (unle&s;&s;e it plea&s;e our mo&s;t gracious GOD, who&s;e Name hath been exceedingly di&s;honoured by the Violation of &s;acred and &s;olemn Oaths) among&s;t us to work our deliverance out of this contexture of dangerous mi&s;chiefs, into which we have already wound our <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">s: or which, as the inundations of mighty waters, may &s;uddenly break-in upon us: and being &s;adly &s;en&s;ible of the calamities, under which the three Na|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters"> groan for want of a well-ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed Government: We being Members in the &s;ame Political Body cannot but &s;ympathize with the re&s;t of Brethren: And fora&s;much as your endeavours may contribute very much there to, and the well or ill management of your Talents, in the di&s;charge of Tru&s;ts, may now make the&s;e Nations happy, or el&s;e leave them irrecoverably mi&s;erable: We hold our &s;elves obliged in con&s;cience to GOD and our <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ntry, both by the Laws of GOD and the Land, in the behalf of our &s;elves and all good and peaceable People in the Land, and the many thou&s;ands <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> know not their right hand from their left; and in the behalf of the Children unborn, who in time to come may have cau&s;e to ble&s;&s;e or cur&s;e the day of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">r birth for your &s;akes, do make <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> this humble Addre&s;&s;e to you, as the only means under GOD now left us to redre&s;&s;e the&s;e growing mi&s;chiefs, which make and the three Nations, in the&s;e times of our great trouble, cry unto you (as tho&s;e of <HI>Macedonia</HI> did in the Apo&s;tles Vi&s;ion) <HI>Come and help us.</HI> And, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> be&s;eech you, our mo&s;t grave and worthy <HI>Senatours,</HI> as you tender the welfare of the&s;e bleeding Nations, to &s;tand in the wide gap of our Breaches, with <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">r prayers, improving your Coun&s;els, and every Talent (which God hath repo&s;ed in you) for the Honour of GOD, and the Peace of His Church by a <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Reformation;</HI> and we que&s;tion not but our mo&s;t gracious GOD will then break through the thick clouds of the&s;e black and dark providences, and re|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> unto us <HI>our Judges as at the fir&s;t, and our Coun&s;ellours as at the beginning,</HI> with the abundance of the ble&s;&s;ings of Peace, that <HI>Judgement may run <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n our &s;treets, and Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e as a mighty &s;tream.</HI> And we humbly de&s;ire the two great Pillars of the Land, <HI>Magi&s;tracy</HI> and <HI>Mini&s;tery,</HI> may be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">rted and encouraged: In order unto which, we humbly pre&s;ent to your grave and &s;erious con&s;iderations, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;t, The Priviledges of the Go&s;pel which we do enjoy at this day in the faithfull preaching and di&s;pen&s;ing of GODS holy Word and Sacraments, together <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he Labours of &s;o many of His faithfull Servants in the Mini&s;try, and the liberty of the&s;e &s;acred Ordinances, being the be&s;t and choice&s;t of our National <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">gs; in re&s;pect of which, we may well &s;ay (with holy <HI>David</HI>) <HI>God hath not dealt &s;o with any Nation</HI>: which with thankfulne&s;s we de&s;ire to acknow|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> as a great mercy to this Land: And &s;hould the LORD remove His Candle&s;tick out of his place (as we have ju&s;t cau&s;e to fear He will, unle&s;&s;e we do <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">pent Then may we indeed complain with Phineas his wife, <HI>The glory is departed from our I&s;rael,</HI> and a dark and di&s;mal night of black and gloomy <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">gnorance, Errour and Prophanene&s;&s;e will invelope our valley of vi&s;ion. And to the end that this choice Ble&s;&s;ing (which we account more precious than <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ur lives) may be conveyed to Po&s;terity, We mo&s;t humbly de&s;ire the Mini&s;tery may be countenanced and encouraged, the Univer&s;ities upheld and main|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ained, which have nur&s;ed many famous Preachers for Piety and Learning in this and former Ages, and your Authority u&s;ed for the terrour of evil-doers, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ut the prai&s;e of them that do well.</P>
<P>Secondly, We e&s;teem and a&s;&s;ert as our undoubted birth-right, the Freedom and Priviledges of our Parliaments, as being the great Charter of the People <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">f <HI>England,</HI> which we account equally dear with our Lives, in the enjoyment of which we yet hope under GOD to &s;ee a happie and la&s;ting Settlement <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">oth in Church and State: Therefore we mo&s;t humbly de&s;ire that a new Election may be made, or el&s;e that tho&s;e worthy Gentlemen, cho&s;en to &s;erve <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s Members in the late free Parliament, may be re&s;tored to their Priviledges, and &s;it without di&s;turbance or force from the Army. That they may con&s;ider <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">is evil time, what <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> ought to do, which (with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to your Grave Judgments) we humbly conceive to be the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t probable means under GOD to e&s;tabli&s;h the true Prote&s;tant Religion, reform the Laws, &s;ecure our Liberties, and pre&s;erve our Lives and outward <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ernments, to promote Learning, and encourage Virtue; whereby Peace with our neighbour Nations may be renewed and e&s;tabli&s;hed, the Army &s;a|fed, their Arrears paid, and Trading re&s;tored. In all which, mo&s;t grave and worthy Senatours, your own concernments (a&s;well as ours) are &s;o deeply <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">ged, that we per&s;wade our &s;elves you will be in&s;trumental to further our De&s;ires, by all peaceable and lawfull means; And we hope it will put an end to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Divi&s;ions, which (if GOD in mercy prevent not) may &s;oon break out into another Civil War, and render us as a prey to a forreign enemy: For, <HI>a King|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> divided again&s;t it &s;elf cannot &s;tand.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Now we leave it unto you, our mo&s;t grave and worthy Senatours, duly to con&s;ider if you part with the&s;e our great National Ble&s;&s;ings, whether you will not di&s;cover a palpable breach of Tru&s;t, and leave your Names for a reproach to the Generations following, who will in the Ages to come ri&s;e up and call you ble&s;&s;ed, if you be carefull to pre&s;erve them now, and convey them to Po&s;terity: And now We be&s;eech the LORD to &s;trengthen both your hearts and hands, and give you wi&s;dom from on high to direct you in all your Con&s;ultations, as may be mo&s;t for the Honour of GOD, the Peace of His Church throughout the World, and the Settlement, Safety and Happine&s;&s;e of the&s;e poor Nations; And by His A&s;si&s;tance we re&s;olve to &s;tand by you, and with you to the utmost hazard of our lives, and all that is dear unto us, to promote the &s;ame.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Monday, 5. <HI>December,</HI> 1659.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THis day the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council being a&s;&s;embled, the fore-recited PETITION was pre&s;ented by &s;everal Young men and Apprentices, in the behalf of them&s;elves and &s;everal thou&s;ands which have &s;ub&s;cribed the &s;ame; the which being received, was ordered to be read, and thereupon a Committee cho&s;en to con&s;ider thereof, and to give theirs &s;peedy Report unto the next Court concerning the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>At the &s;ame Court it was likewi&s;e Ordered, That the Lord General <HI>Fleetwood</HI> &s;hould be de&s;ired to draw off the Souldiers unto their &s;everal Quarters; it being then al&s;o Ordered, That every <HI>Common Council man</HI> in his &s;everal Precinct, &s;hould give notice to the Hou&s;e-keepers within the &s;ame, that they &s;hould keep their Servants and Apprentices at home, thereby to pre&s;erve the Peace of the City.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Re-printed by <HI>Chri&s;topher Higgins,</HI> in <HI>Harts Clo&s;e,</HI> over again&s;t the Trone-Church, 1659.</P>
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