tation, both of the great and growing
dangers to your Royall person and Throne, and of these duties, which the
Lord of Lords and King of Kings, call for from you, as you would look to
finde favour in his eyes, and to be delivered out of your deepe
distresses.

Our hearts are filled with fears and troubles, in your Majesties behalf,
when we look upon the sad calamities which have been already produced by
such wayes and courses, as we perceive your Majestie is entred, and in
danger to be further led away into, by the prevalency of evill Councell
upon your tender age: Particalarly, Your refusing to give satisfaction to
the just and necessary desires of the people of God, for advancing the
work of Reformation of Religion, and establishing and securing the same in
your Majesties Dominions, which is nothing else, but to oppose the
Kingdome of the Sonne of God, by whom Kings doe raigne, and to refuse that
he should raigne over you and your Kingdomes in his pure Ordinances of
Church government and Worship; Your cleaving unto these men as your
trustiest Counsellors, who, as they never had the glory of God, nor good
of his people before their eyes, so now in all their wayes and Counsels,
are seeking nothing but their owne interests, to the hazard of the utter
subversion of your Throne, the ruine of your Royall Family, and the
desolation of your Kingdomes; Your owning the practises, and intertaining
the Person of that flagicious man, and most justly excommunicate Rebell,
_James Graham_, who has exercised such horrid cruelty upon your best
Subjects in this Kingdom, which cannot but bring upon your Throne, the
guiltinesse of all the innocent blood shed by him and his Complices; and
above all, that, which we cannot think upon without trembling of heart and
horrour of spirit, Your setling of late such a Peace with the Irish
Papists the Murderers of so many thousands of your Protestant Subjects,
whereby not only they are owned as your good Loyall Subjects, but also
there is granted unto them (contrary to the Standing Lawes of your Royall
Progenitors, contrary to the commandment of the most high God, and to the
high contempt and dishonor of his Majestie, and evident danger of the
Protestant Religion) a full liberty of their abominable Idolatry; which
cannot be otherwise judged, but a giving of your Royal power and strength
unto the beast, and an accession to all that blood of your good Subjects,
wherewith those Sonnes of Babell have made