AS we cannot but with deepest Thankfulness remember the eminent care of this High and Honorable Court, in sending opportune and timely Succor to us, [Page 4] when we were even ready to be made a prey to all the Miseries that Humane Cruelty could devise to inflict: So (having lately seen the Votes of both Houses of Parlia­ment, whereby they manifest their Resolutions to make no more Ad­dresses nor Applications to the King) VVe cannot but in all hu­mility Declare to this Honorable Assembly, and to all the VVorld, That we are fully satisfied in our Iudgements and Consciences, of the Necessity and Iustice of such a course; the King having utterly and finally refused, to give His As­sent to those Propositions, which (as we humbly apprehend) are ab­solutely Necessary for the Esta­blishment [Page 5] of true Religion and Peace in this distracted and almost destroyed Kingdom; Hoping that your Honors will now go on effe­ctually and vigorously to prosecute the Settlement of Religion among us in Truth, according to the word of God (which is the dearest thing to us;) and next to that, the King­dom in Peace, according to the Rights and Immunities thereof. And we do all unanimously pro­fess, That as we have not hereto­fore been the most backward in the Kingdom, to adhere to the Parlia­ment (according to our Duties) in its lowest condition, and to oppose the Enemies of our Religion and Peace, with the extremest hazard [Page 6] of our Lives and Fortunes; So we shall not account the small remain­der of our Estates and Blood dear, for the promoting of those blessed ends, & the asserting of that Cause, which we by Solemn Vow have undertaken, and believe, no Dan­ger in the world may cause us to desert.