A petition to his Majesty. King, I was your messenger impostened in God's will concerning your return to this place so soon again: ... Ahivah. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A75979 of text R212535 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.25[68]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A75979 Wing A797 Thomason 669.f.25[68] ESTC R212535 99871144 99871144 163873 2240945129

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A75979) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163873) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f25[68]) A petition to his Majesty. King, I was your messenger impostened in God's will concerning your return to this place so soon again: ... Ahivah. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1660] Title from caption and first lines of text. Signed at end: Ahivah. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug 20. 1660". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Religious fanaticism -- England -- Early works to 1800. Lay preaching -- England -- Early works to 1800. Rest -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800. A75979 R212535 (Thomason 669.f.25[68]). civilwar no A petition to his Majesty. King, I was your messenger impostened in God's will concerning your return to this place so soon again: ... Ahivah. 1660 1 568 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Petition to his Majesty .

KING , I was your Messenger impostened in God's will concerning your return to this place so soon again : I was laid harbourless that same year that I saw the Vision of your return to England again . I do desire some liberty for my own practice of my own houshold Ordinances , as I was chosen Messenger of your return again , and saw it Justice that you should have this Land again , so you do not oppress the weak spirits of God's Majesty in his Saints , but let them have recourse in whatsoever passion God shall be pleased to raise himself in his Ministers ; So I my selfe shall stand a mother in God's house in these cases : I shall also intreat some liberty concerning my labour on your Jewish Sabbath . I dourterly defie all Jewish forms of Religion : or keeping any one day above another ; for in so doing you keep out the profession of Christ's , natures practice : So you may be left damned souls as the Jewish people was , which was alwaies requiring a Saviour , and yet at last themselves left Vagabonds , for want of the true Spirit to serve them with wisdom , and the supply of God's will in his Christ , which God had sent to be their Teacher and Saviour , both in his son and Apostles : so you will be left in the same passion , as your standing is now in these Nations , being divided in service , and all confusion , which will breed a speedy destruction , except you will adhere to let the Saints make themselves a body in Christ's passion : and you your self must stand Protector of these occasions : So your Country will be blessed with this presence , more then any parts of the Dominions of the world besides you ; So the Saints will have their Prerogative , and your souls will have salvation by their presence , and your blessings will abound more then other Nations , as you shall consent to these Propositions : So I rest , Christ's Minister in this present hour ,

Amen . Ahivah's Petition to his Majesty for the Saints Liberties . So I rest , Your Minister , if you please to accept of my office in Christ's name , AHIVAH .

I shall also intreat , that whensoever God shall be pleased to manifest any of his fore-speaking words , and they be brought forth to cry it in the open street , or any place of City or Country , that you will grant some Protection by Constables , or some other means , that they be not abused in such conditions , as I my self have been ; as being cast into Bedlam that same year for a mad body , when I had the sight of the return of your Majesty to this place again : And if my Father , God Almighty , had not made a way in my self to get me out of their hands , I had been destroied for a mad body : For these conditions of God's action are strange to your worlds understanding , in the time of God's action in us .

The World , and the Worlds Minister .