The humble address of the Presbyterians, presented to the King by Mr. Hurst, Mr. Chester, Mr. Slater, Mr. Cox, Mr. Roswell, Mr. Turner, Mr. Franklin, Mr. Deal, and Mr. Reynolds with His Majesties gracious answer. Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703. 1687 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-11 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A25210 Wing A2912 ESTC R8059 11639216 ocm 11639216 47960 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Presbyterian Church -- England -- History -- Sources. 2003-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-08 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2003-08 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion The Humble ADDRESS OF THE Presbyterians , Presented to the KING BY Mr. HVRST , Mr. CHESTER , Mr. SLATER , Mr. COX , Mr. ROSWELL , Mr. TVRNER , Mr. FRANKLIN , Mr. DEAL , and Mr. REYNOLDS . With His Majesties GRACIOUS ANSWER . Printed for I W. in the Year 16●● . The Humble Address of the Presbyterians , Presented to the KING . May it please Your most Sacred Maj●sty , TO believe the Thankfulness of our Hearts , beyond any Expressions of our Lips or Pens , for Your most Gracious Declaration for Liberty for us , in the Worship of God , which we trust we shall ever value above our Property , as that without which we could enjoy nothing which we could call our own , without the greatest uneasiness imaginable : But Your Majesty having in the same Declaration also secured that unto us , both by Your Royal Word and Act : What could Your Majesty have done more for us ? Or what is left for us further to ask of the King ? And forasmuch as it hath pleased Your most Excellent Majesty , to give this safe Port to Your poor Subjects , so long tossed with Tempests , and justly to believe , that Loyalty is not intailed to a Party , as we hope we shall ever justifie the Credit , which Your Majesties Charity in that point hath given us ; So we shall not cease to bow our Knees to the God whom we serve , and by whom Kings Reign , beseech●ng him to recompense this Royal Favour to Your Majesty , with length of days , uninterrupted Health , Felicity in Your Royal Relations , Success in Your Great Councils and Affairs , and finally , with the most Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God , heartily crying , as with one Voice , Let the King live for ever . Subscribed on the Behalf of our selves , and the rest of our Persuasion . THE Kings Answer . Gentlemen , I Have already found two good Effects of my Declaration ; the Easing and , Pleasing My Subjects You spake of , and My restoring to God the Empire over Conscience : It has been my Iudgment a long time , that none Has or ought to Have any power over the Conscience but God. I understand there are some Iealousies among my Subjects , That I have done this in a Design : But you look like Gentlemen of too great Ingenuity to entertain any such Suspition . Gentlemen , I protest before God , and I desire you to tell all manner of People of all Persuasions , as you have opportunity to Converse with them , that I have no other Design than that I have spoke of . And Gentlemen , I hope to live to see the Day when you shall as well have Magna Charta for the Liberty of Conscience , as you have had for your Properties . And now Gentlemen , do You so Preach to Your Hearers as they may be good Christians , and then I do not question but they will be good Subjects . FINIS .