This petition is presented to King, Council and Magistrates on the 21st Pentember in the Sixth Year of the Sixth Age by Mr a Robert Rainsbrough on behalf of some 400 hundred godly men and women who hath signed it.
This humble petition of Our Lord's Faithful in and about the City of Varrock, the towns of Lumbridge, Draynor and Edgeville sheweth,
That whereas the sinful government of archbishops, aristocrats and other affronts to Our Lord's command, with their synods and ministrations have proved to be a prejudicial and malicious threat to both Church and Country, they that hold divine and human jurisdiction over the laity, unlawfully claiming their authority from Our Lord Saradomin, which is derogatory to Our Lord and his Faithful. This government is found by lamentable experience to be the main cause occasion of foul evil, pressures and grievances of a very woeful nature unto Our Lord's Faithful in their own consciences, devotion and liberties which were bestowed upon the laity by Our Lord.
We therefore pray, demand and beseech this dishonourable assembly to, with the premises considered, dissolve and all their most illegitimate statutes and ordinances made void, in order to usher in a godly administration righteously placed amongst us by the will and grace of Our Lord. We shall daily pray for the King to repent and cause no further offence to Our Lord and His Church.
A particular of the manifold evils caused, practiced and occasioned by wicked magistrates and clergymen:
1. The great conformity and likeness both continued and increased of our Church to the hideous Church of Entrana, in vestures, ceremonies, and administrations.
2. The great increase of idle, lewd and dissolute, ignorant and erroneous men in the ministry, which swarm like locusts over the whole kingdom, conduct superstitious ceremonies and preach to the laity with faint-heartedness, neglect and insincerity.
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