he Kirk of_
Scotland, _met at_ Edinburg August 12 _unto the Kings Most Excellent
Majeste._

Albeit your Majestie through the suggestions of evil men, may haply
entertain hard thoughts of us and our Proceedings, yet the Searcher of
hearts knowes, and our consciences bear record unto us, that we bear in
our spirits these humble and duitifull respects to your Majestie, that
loyall subjects owe to their native Soveraigne, and that it would be one
of our greatest contentments upon earth, to see your Majestie reigning for
the LORD, in Righteousnesse and Peace over these Nations: And therefore as
we do bow our knees daily before the Throne of Grace on your behalf, and
the behalf of your Posterity; So we finde our selves as heretofore,
obliged faithfully and freely to warn your Majestie of your danger and
dutie; Wishing, and hoping that the Lord will incline your Royall heart,
from the sence of the evil which hath befallen You, through the slighting
of former Warning, to be more attentive unto this. We are very sensible of
your Majesties suffering, and low condition, and do not in the least
measure approve but from our hearts abhorre any thing that hath been done
to your Majesties Person, contrary to the common resolutions of both
Kingdoms: Yet it shall be your Majesties wisdom, in this as in all that
hath befallen you these years past, to read the righteous hand of the
Lord, writing bitter things against you, as for all your Provocations, so
especially for resisting his Work, and authorising by your Commissions the
shedding of the blood of his People, for which it is high time to repent,
that there be no more wrath against you and your Realms.

The Commission of the preceding Assembly, whose proceedings are
unanimously approven by this Assembly, Having read your Majesties Letter
of the date at _Carisbrook_ Castle, _December 27._ And perused your
Concessions, did finde some of these Concessions destructive to the
Covenant, and all or them unsatisfactorie, and did therefore emit a
Declaration concerning the same, least your Majesties Subjects in this
Kingdom should have unawares imbarked themselves in an Engagement upon
grounds not consisting with the good of Religion, and the Solemn League
and Covenant. For preventing whereof, they did also present most just and
necessary desires unto the high and Honourable Court of Parliament of this
Kingdom; which, if they had been granted, might have through the Blessing
of God, either p