By his Highnes Councill in Scotland, for the government thereof. Although the said council have with some trouble observed, that diverse ministers of this nation, continue to pray in publick for the pretended King ... Scotland. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05138 of text R183825 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B05138 Wing S1010 ESTC R183825 ocm 52529182

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 eng Church and state -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo By his Highnes Councill in Scotland, for the government thereof. : Although the said council have with some trouble observed, that diverse ministers o Scotland. Privy Council. 1655 3 447 7 0 0 0 0 0 156.6 F The rate of 156.6 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
BY HIS HIGHNES COUNCILL IN SCOTLAND , For the GOVERNMENT . thereof .

ALthough the said Council have with some trouble observed , That diverse Ministers of this Nation , continue to pray in publick for the pretended King , notwithstanding the dangerous tendencies and repeated Prohibitions thereof ; Yet in regard the Principle , which , through mercy , they desire to walk by , Obliges them to great patience and tendernesse towards those which professe Christianity : And , that all men may see this Rule is not onely their Profession , but , by the Lords assistance , shall be their practice ; As also , that it is His Highnesse pleasure , and their intention , that no fair way be left unessayed , if God shall see it good , to Unite Hearts aswell as Countreyes , and to gai●… ●hose who are to be wrought upon , who shall evidence a desire of living peaceably and submissively : They do therefore seriously and earnestly intreat all such Ministers thorowly to weigh and consider , what these late signall Dispensations of Providence do require at their hands , whereby ( if possibly ) ●uch as , by having pray'd , as before-said , have occasion'd suspition in , and offence unto those in A●●hority , may be won from repeating the like in the future : And , that what yeelding shall be given ●herein , may appear to spring from conviction , and not from any other or inferiour motive ; The said Councill do hereby take off , and make null , all former Penalties and Restraints denounced against ●uch as pray'd for the pretended King , and will patiently expect till the Fifth of November next , what ●ood effects this tendernesse will produce ; Wherein as they shall heartily rejoyce , if the Lord make the Event answer the desired Expectation ; So , if it doth not , they believe they shall be accompted blamelesse , if afterwards they pursue those wayes which God shall put into their hearts for preserving the quiet of this Nation ; Or , which shall appear to them conducing unto that End.

Given at Edinburgh the 27. of September , 1655. Signed in the Name , and by Order of the Councill . BROGHILL , President .
Thursday the 27. September , 1655. At His Highness Councill in EDINBURGH ,

ORdered , That the above Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published .

EMANUEL DOWNING , Cl. of the Councill .

EDINBURGH , Printed by Christopher Higgins , in Harts-Close , over against the Trone-Church , 1655.