_The Assemblies Supplication to the_ KINGS MAJESTIE.
Most Gracious Souveraigne.
Wee Your Majesties most humble and loyall Subjects, the Commissioners from
all the parts of this your Majesties ancient & native Kingdome, and
members of the Nationall Assembly, conveened at _Edinburgh_ by your
Majesties speciall indiction, and honoured with the presence of Your
Majesties high Commissioner, have been waiting for a day of rejoycing, and
of solemne thanksgiving to be rendred to God by this whole Kirk and
Kingdome, for giving us a King so just and religious, that it is not only
lawfull for us to be Christians under Your Majesties government, which
sometime hath been the greatest praise of great Princes, but also that it
hath pleased Your gracious Maj. to make known that it is Your Royall will
and pleasure, that all matters Ecclesiasticall be determined in free
Nationall Assemblies, and matters civill in Parliaments; which is a most
noble and ample expression of Your Majesties justice, and we trust shall
be a powerful mean of our common happinesse under your Majesties most
blessed Reign. In the mean while we do most humbly, upon the knees of our
hearts, blesse your Majesty for that happinesse already begun in the late
Assembly at _Edinburgh_; in the proceedings whereof, next under God, we
have laboured to approve our selves unto Your Majesties Vice-gerent, as if
Your Majesties eyes had been upon us, which was the desire of our souls,
and would have beene the matter of our full rejoycing, and doe still
continue Your Majesties most humble supplicants for Your Majesties civill
sanction and ratification of the constitutions of the Assembly in
Parliament; That your Majesties Princely power, and the Ecclesiasticall
Authority joyning in one, the mutuall embracements of religion and
justice, of truth and peace may be seen in this Land, which shall be to us
as a resurrection from the dead, and shall make us, being not only so
farre recovered, but also revived, to fill Heaven and Earth with our
praises, and to pray that King CHARLES may be more and more blessed, and
His throne established before the Lord for ever.
_The Assembly appoints the next Generall Assembly, to sit at_ Aberdene
_the last Tuesday of_ July _next,_ 1640. _years. And warneth all
Presbyteries, Universities and Burrows, to send their Commissioners, for
keeping the same. And thereafter the Assembly was concluded by giving of
thanks by the Moderator, and singing of a Psalme, according to the
custome._