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<DATE>2014-04-29</DATE>
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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140320.apex.</ITEM>
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<P> MAy it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty, to accept my thanks, for your gracious Act in re&s;toring the <HI>Charter,</HI> &s;urely your Maje&s;ty was as an Angel to divert Judgment from your Ancient City, the Lord make your Maje&s;ty a Wi&s;e Phy&s;ician to heal the Wounds of this Nation, and I doubt not but that your Maje&s;ty has the Nature of an Indulgent Father, who values the Lives and Intere&s;t of his Children before the Gain of the World. Therefore I humbly be&s;eech your Ma|je&s;ty to make Peace, for <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is the Peace maker,</HI> for why &s;hould War obtain that which Peace may do, for it is very de&s;tructive, and the Winner may prove a Loo&s;er, and it was the Councel of our ble&s;&s;ed Savi|our who Exhorted his Di&s;ciples to agree with their Adver&s;aries whil&s;t they were in the Way. And there|fore I intreat Your Maje&s;ty, to &s;atisfie the <HI>Dutch</HI> if po&s;&s;ible, for I find all men in general are willing to fight for your Maje&s;ty; but your Maje&s;ty cannot blame us if we are not willing to fight for <HI>Rome</HI> be|cau&s;e they own &s;uch Doctrin as Chri&s;t and his Di&s;ci|ples never taught, to Judge all to be Heretical and Damn'd but their &s;elves, And yet at the &s;ame time own them&s;elves Catholick Chri&s;tians, which is a clear Contradiction, therefore there is a nece&s;&s;ity they &s;hould renounce &s;uch Errours as the&s;e are, to give &s;ome a&s;&s;u|rance that whil&s;t we fight your Maje&s;ties Battel, we may not promote theirs; then I dare to Promi&s;e your Maje&s;ty Victory, for we &s;hall have the Spirits of Engli&s;h Men to fight your Battel, but <HI>Rome</HI> darkens your Glory, and the fear of <HI>Popery</HI> has been the &s;ole Cau&s;e, of all our Differences; I do not condemn all <HI>Roman Catholicks;</HI> for I really think that there is Brave and Worthy Men among&s;t them that will be precious in Gods &s;ight, but yet I think they do not wi&s;ely to &s;tand in oppo&s;ition again&s;t Chri&s;ts Intentions, for he never intended to Exalt the <HI>Virgin Mary,</HI> and the <HI>Pope,</HI> but to make God All in All; that we through him and for his &s;ake might obtain the hopes of Salvation. Oh! that it would plea&s;e God that our Differences were at an end that we might have an happy Unity, which is the Prayer of your humble Subject, Ser|vant and Souls well wi&s;her.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Elinor James.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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