To the Honourable the Commons House of Parliament the humble petition of the ministers of the City of London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94472 of text R210314 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[13]). 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 A94472 Wing T1432 Thomason 669.f.10[13] ESTC R210314 99869123 99869123 162554 2240955408

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94472) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162554) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[13]) To the Honourable the Commons House of Parliament the humble petition of the ministers of the City of London. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1644] Imprint from Wing. At end of document: "This Petition was by the Ministers of the City of London, presented to the Honourable House of Commons, Septemb. 18, 1644. And received with great acceptation." Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Church and state -- Great Britain -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A94472 R210314 (Thomason 669.f.10[13]). civilwar no To the Honourable the Commons House of Parliament: the humble petition of the ministers of the City of London. anon. 1644 1 407 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE Honourable the COMMONS House Of PARLIAMENT : The humble Petition of the Ministers of the City of London . Humbly sheweth ;

THat your Petitioners with joyfulnesse have entertained , and with all thankfulnesse doe acknowledge the frequent and affectionate expressions of your pious resolutions for the firme setling of this Churches peace , especially in your first Remonstrance ; wherein you are pleased to declare , That it is farre from your thoughts , purpose or desire , to let loose the golden reines of Discipline and Governement in the Church ; to leave private persons or particular Congregations to take up what forme of service they please ; As likewise in the late Nationall COVENANT , wherein both Houses of Parliament and the three Kingdomes stand solemnly engaged to the MOST HIGH GOD , for a full Reformation and uniformity in Doctrine , Worship , Discipline and Governement , and in Convening an Assembly of godly and Learned Divines for that end .

Yet notwithstanding , sore are the pressures under which we groane ; Give us leave therefore we beseech you ( in pursuance of our Nationall COVENANT ) to sigh out our sorrowes at the feet of this HONOURABLE SENATE .

Through many erroneous opinions , ruinating Schismes and damnable heresies ( unhappily fomented in City and Countrey ) the Orthodox Ministry is neglected ; the people seduced ; Congregations torne asunder ; families distracted ; rights and duties of relations , Nationall , Civill and Spirituall , scandalously violated ; the power of godlinesse decayed ; Parliamentary Authority undermined ; fearfull confusion introduced ; imminent destruction threatned , and in part inflicted upon us lately in the West ;

May it therefore please your Wisedomes ( as a soveraigne remedy for the removall ( as we humbly conceive ) of our present miseries and prevention of their farther progresse ) to expedite a Directory for publike Worship , and to accelerate the establishment of a pure Discipline and Governement ( according to the Word of GOD and the example of the best Reformed Churches ) and to take away all obstructions that may impede and retard our humble desires .

And your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c.

This Petition was by the Ministers of the City of London , presented to the Honourable House of COMMONS , Septemb. 18 , 1644. And received with great acceptation .