The earnest desires of our heart is to be faithful, and in case we could [have] been both silent and faithful at this time, when the undermined state of Christ's Kirk craves a duty at our hands, we should have locked up our hearts with patience, and our mouths with taciturnity, rather than to have impeached any with our admonition. But that which Christ commanded, necessity urgeth, and duty wringeth out of us to be faithful office-bearers of the Kirk of God, no man can justly blame us to do it, providing we hold ourselves within the bounds of that Christian moderation which followeth God without injury done to any man, especially these which God has lapped up within the skirts of his own honourable styles—calling them gods upon earth.

Now, therefore, my Lords, convened in this present parliament under the high and most excellent majesty of our dread Sovereign, to your honours is our exhortation that ye would endeavour with all singleness of heart, love, and zeal, to advance the building of the house of God, reserving always unto the Lord's hands that glory which he will not communicate either with man or angels, to wit, to preserve from his holy mountain a lively pattern, according to which his own tabernacle should be formed, remembering always that there is non absolute and unbounded

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The earnest desires of our heart is to be faithful, and in case we could [have] been both silent and faithful at this time, when the undermined state of Christ's Kirk craves a duty at our hands, we should have locked up our hearts with patience, and our mouths with taciturnity, rather than to have impeached any with our admonition. But that which Christ commanded, necessity urgeth, and duty wringeth out of us to be faithful office-bearers of the Kirk of God, no man can justly blame us to do it, providing we hold ourselves within the bounds of that Christian moderation which followeth God without injury done to any man, especially these which God has lapped up within the skirts of his own honourable styles—calling them gods upon earth.

Now, therefore, my Lords, convened in this present parliament under the high and most excellent majesty of our dread Sovereign, to your honours is our exhortation that ye would endeavour with all singleness of heart, love, and zeal, to advance the building of the house of God, reserving always unto the Lord's hands that glory which he will not communicate either with man or angels, to wit, to preserve from his holy mountain a lively pattern, according to which his own tabernacle should be formed, remembering always that there is non absolute and unbounded

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