BY HIS HIGHNES council IN SCOTLAND, For the GOVERNMENT. thereof.  
ALthough the said Council have with some trouble observed, That divers Ministers of this Nation, continue to pray in public for the pretended King, notwithstanding the dangerous tendencies and repeated Prohibitions thereof; Yet in regard the Principle, which, through mercy, they desire to walk by, Obliges them to great patience and tenderness towards those which profess Christianity: And, that all men may see this Rule is not onely their Profession, but, by the Lords assistance, shall be their practise; As also, that it is His Highnesse pleasure, and their intention, that no fair way be left unessayed, if God shall see it good, to Unite Hearts as well as Countreyes, and to gai●… ●hose who are to be wrought upon, who shall evidence a desire of living peaceably and submissively: They do therefore seriously and earnestly entreat all such Ministers thoroughly to weigh and consider, what these late signal Dispensations of Providence do require at their hands, whereby( if possibly) ●uch as, by having prayed, as before-said, have occasioned suspicion in, and offence unto those in authority, may be won from repeating the like in the future: And, that what yielding shall be given ●herein, may appear to spring from conviction, and not from any other or inferior motive; The said council do hereby take off, and make null, all former Penalties and Restraints denounced against ●uch as prayed for the pretended King, and will patiently expect till the Fifth of November next, what ●ood effects this tenderness will produce; Wherein as they shall hearty rejoice, if the Lord make the Event answer the desired Expectation; So, if it doth not, they believe they shall be accounted blameless, if afterwards they pursue those ways which God shall put into their hearts for preserving the quiet of this Nation; Or, which shall appear to them conducing unto that End.  
Given at Edinburgh the 27. of September, 1655. Signed in the Name, and by Order of the council. BROGHILL, President.   

Thursday the 27. September, 1655. At His Highness council in EDINBURGH,  
ORdered, That the above Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published.  
EMANUEL DOWNING, Cl. of the council.   

EDINBURGH, Printed by Christopher Higgins, in Harts-Close, over against the Trone-Church, 1655.