y miseries and straits, and are like to banish the Ministers of
the Gospell, and to overturn these faire beginnings of the work of God,
which were unto many a branch of hope, that the Lord meant to make
_Ireland_ a pleasant land.

But which is more grievous unto us then all these, our King
notwithstanding of the Lords hand against his Fathers opposition to the
work of God, and of the many sad and dolefull consequences followed
thereupon, in reference to Religion and his Sebjects, and to his person,
and Government, doth hearken unto the councels of these who were Authors
of these miseries to his Royall Father and his Kingdoms: By which it hath
come to passe, that his Majesty hath hitherto refused to grant the just
and necessary desires of this Kirk and Kingdom, which were tendred unto
him from the Commissioners of both for securing of Religion, the Liberties
of the Subject, his Majesties Government, and the Peace of the Kingdome;
And it is much to be feared that those wicked Counsellours may so farre
prevaile upon him in his tender yeers, as to engage him in a warre, for
overturning (if it be possible) of the work of God, and bearing down all
those in the three Kingdoms that adhere thereto: Which if he shall doe,
cannot but bring great wrath from the Lord upon himselfe and his Throne,
and must be the cause of many new, and great miseries, and calamities to
these Lands.

It concerns a Nation thus sinfull and loaden with iniquity and involved in
so many difficulties and dangers, by timous repentance and unfained
humiliation to draw near to God, and to wrastle with him in Prayer and
Supplication, that our sin may be pardoned, and our iniquity done away,
and that he would establish the Land in the love of the truth and inable
every one in their station to do their duty boldly and without fear, and
in humble dependance upon the Lord, in whom alone is the salvation of his
people; Every man ought with all faithfulnesse and diligence, to make use
of all these means that are approven and allowed of God, for preserving
and carrying on of his work, and for securing and guarding the Land
against all enemies whatsomever, both upon the right hand and upon the
left.

The Spirit of errour and delusion in our Neighbour Land, in the policy of
Satan hath vailed it self in many, under the mask of holinesse and is in
the righteous and wise dispensation of God, armed with power, and attended
with successe: Therefore all the Inhabitants of t