e Tenour of the Act of Parliament,
And for this effect, that your Lordships will hasten the sitting of the
Commission for Plantation of Kirks, with all convenient diligence, and
your Lordships Answer.

_27. July, 1649. Antemeridiem._ Sess. 27.

_A seasonable and necessary Warning and Declaration, concerning Present
and Imminent dangers, and concerning duties relating thereto, from the
Generall Assembly of this Kirk, unto all the Members thereof._

The Lord who chooses Jerusalem in a furnace of Affliction, hath been
pleased since the beginning of the work of Reformation in this Land, to
exercise his People with many trials; all that desired to keep a good
conscience, were not long agoe under many heavy and sad pressures from the
insolency and oppression of a prevailing party of dis-affected and
Malignant men, who under a pretext of bringing the King to a condition of
Honour, Freedom and Safety, did carry on an unlawfull Engagement against
the Kingdom of _England_: and if the Lord had not been mercifull unto his
people, they were like either to have been banished out of the Land, or to
have been kept in a perpetuall bondage in their consciences, persons and
estates: But he whose Messengers those men had mocked, and whose word they
had despised, did bring them down suddenly in a day, and restored liberty
and peace unto his people: A mercy and deliverance, which as it ought to
be remembred with thankfulnesse and praise, so may it engage our hearts
not to faint in troubles and straites that do yet abide us but to trust in
the name of the Lord, who both can and will deliver us still out of all
our afflictions.

Albeit, wee do now enjoy many rich and precious blessing wherin wee have
reason to be comforted, and to rejoyce; yet it were to shut our own eyes
if we should not see our selves involved in, and threatned with many and
great dangers at home and from abroad, it is matter of exceeding great
sorrow to think upon the ignorance and profanity, the impenitencie and
security that abounds still in the Land, notwithstanding all the gracious
dispensation of the Gospel, and means of grace in such purity and plenty,
that none of the Nations round about us can boast of the like, and of all
his sharp rods wherewith he hath afflicted us from year to year, and of
all the mercies and deliverances wherewith he hath visited us, and of our
late solemn confession of sinnes, and engagement unto duties, sealed with
the renewing