The Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland

by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

2. August 1648.

Your very loving and affectionate Brethren to serve you,

DIRECT

To the Right Honourable, And Right Reverend the Assembly of Divines in England now assembled at Westminster.

The Ministers and Elders conveened in the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland.

Eodem die Postmeridiem, Sess. 25.

The Humble Supplication of the Generall Assembly, To the Right Honourable the Committee of Estates.

Whereas the High and Honourable Court of Parliament and your Lordships were pleased to injoyn the subscription of a Declaration and Band of the date June 10. 1648. And we having found after such examination and tryal, as is competent to the Servants of God in an Ecclesiastick way, that the same is a snare to the Consciences of the People of GOD in this Land to involve them in guiltinesse, and to draw them from their former principles and Vows in the solemn League and Covenant, as doth more fully appear in our Act concerning the same herewith presented unto your Lordships. Therefore from our zeal to the glory of GOD and tender care of the souls committed unto us; and for our exonoration, As we do seriously exhort that your Lordships would be sensible of the guilt that you have already brought upon your selves and others, by injoyning and urging that subscription, So we do earnestly and in the bowels of Jesus Christ intreat, That your Lordships would take such order and course as that it may be no further pressed upon the people of GOD throughout the Land.