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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84228	An examination of the Seasonable and necessarie warning concerning present dangers and duties, emitted from the commissioners of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, unto all the members of that Kirk. June 25 1650. Which was printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler, by a servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.	Servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Seasonable and necessary warning and declaration.	1650 (1650)	Wing E3729; Thomason E608_13; ESTC R201955	37,035	48

the partie which now prevail's in that land The Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland were then so compassionate of their bretbrens condition that they were willing to join in a League and Covenant with them which both Kingdoms even manie of those who are now in the Armie did solemnly swear and subscribe In prosecution of the ends thereof this Kingdom did send into England a considerable Armie by whose assistance the power of the Malignant Partie was broken and brought low and the Parlament and Armie of England put into such a condition that they needed no more fear the strength of their enemies This League and Covenant which was the foundation of England's and the Armies deliverance and safetie the Armie hath now forgotten and trodden under foot and walk in all their proceedings no less contrarie thereto then darkness is unto light Neither doth it satisfie them to do so in their own Land but they threaten us also with war for no other reason but because wee cleav to our dutie in these things to which England stand's no less obliged unto by Covenant before the Lord then wee do Wee may confidently assert and profess before the world that the Lord's people in this Land are not conscious to themselvs of anie wrong don to that prevailing partie in England The engagement in the year I648 was no less abhorred and testified against by the Kirk of Scotland and by these that are how in place and power in the State and by all the godly in the land then it was by that partie themselvs Which did so far convince the Hous of Commons that in their Letter to the General Assemblie of this Kirk in the same year they profess that they are assured that these impious and unwarrantable actions cannot bee don with the approbation and assent of the religious and well-affected people of the Kingdom of Scotland and that they do understand that there are verie few amongst these who were in the engagement against them that first engaged with them in the Covenant and Caus but such as are professed enemies to them however they were then content to proceed thereunto that they might the better deceiv the people of England And that therefore they are unwilling to impute such evils to this Nation in general It is known how manie fervent praiers and supplications were poured out in this Land before the Lord against that engagement and wee think wee may without boasting say that those praiers had as much influence upon the defeat thereof as all the power of that Armie And since that time that engagement hath been publickly disavowed disclaimed and repealed by the Parlament of this Kingdom Neither hath that partie anie thing to challenge us concerning Malignants both Kirk and State having constantly followed and beeing still about their duties against them without conniving at or complying with them in their courses It is true that this Kingdom and Kirk have protested and testified against the proceedings of Sectaries in reference to Religion and Government Which wee could not but do unless wee had forgotten our dutie and the Christian mutual ties that lie upon us not onely as sister-Churches but as covenanted Churches and so make our selvs partakers of their sins and expose our selvs to the hazard of their plagues Wee in this Land beeing therefore conscious to our selvs of nothing but dutie If they shall invade us for following the same shall not God look upon it and avenge it 8 If wee shall answer this Paragraph at large Answer wee shall draw out this Paper to such a length as maie swell it beyond the price of som and the leisure of others wee shall therefore let it here keep proportion and in another tract which is begun give the world a full and true representation and character of all their candor and fair dealing in all the transactions and affairs that have been between the Nations since these last troubles which shall proceed as fast as leisure will serv and give but som touches the while The Sectaries do verie well consider and remember too that England was verie low brought under the foot of the popish and prelatical partie which were the Armies which that late King used to subdue us whose quarrel you espoused notwithstanding the Covenant and pleaded his caus and whom you would have brought in again upon such terms as had not providence prevented the effect of your endeavors you had ruined your selvs and us too And wee remember also that though you were as much concerned as wee in the danger and priviledged onely with one stop of a greater remotion yet wee were inforc'd verie much to solicite you by the parties you mention whom God hath since made verie instrumental for the good of this Land before wee could prevail with the Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland notwithstanding our great need and their own evident danger either to compassionate us or bee careful of themselvs until they had brought us into the snare of a Covenant of which the designing Church knew they should bee afterward able to make som other good uses besides the Reformation of Religion and however our dangers were imminent yet they would not com in to our assistance till wee had furnished them with 50000 l. a sum of no small difficultie for us to rais at that time when our quarters were so streight and our occasions so multiplied but yet when they had a minde to invade us under Hamilton they could do it without anie Levie-monie advanced What assistance they gave and how much they contributed to the bringing us to that condition wherein wee needed not to fear the strength of our enemies wee shall more fully set out in that other mentioned Tract Onely now they proved a broken reed from whom wee had but a weak support but it ran into our hands and pierced us sufficiently as all places where they came can bear sensible witness and which the world shall shortly know Briefly they took our money and helped us little being specially careful to keep out of the waie of danger they did like right mercinaries pursue their own interest which was verie opposite to ours wee desired to end the war and they to lengthen it that they might lengthen their emploiment hoping they should never bee necessitated again to return to their own poor Countrie Yet this advantage wee had that while they took our paie for a great while they did not take our Enemies part and our monie produced with them as good effect as the worship of that Numen at Calecut doth there you know who and what The League and Covenant you say was the foundation of England's and the Armies deliverance Wee that know better denie it and say 't was a foundation upon which was endeavored to bee built our ruine if God had not mercifully prevented the bringing forth and hatching of that Cockatrice egg which your Cabals and conspiracies had laid among us wee shall not now

change their form of administration in Government and exclude all others who have intrinsecally a power in nature to choos and establish such a Government as they judg most conducing to the end of its ordination the good of the people and to change it in whose or in part when it shall degenerate and not serv the end of its institution or when another shall bee discovered that will do it better They have don so in part and wee have don so as to Monarchie in the whole Wee are not bound to take from them the measure of our change and wee are confident wee shall not follow their example in their returning to their vomit And it seem's they were not so satisfied of their King that they durst trust him without a Treatie and a previous Agreement limiting his power but with us hee must bee absolute a Duke of Venice will serv them but here hee must bee a grand Signior a Sophie or a Mogull But wee know the meaning good offices profuse gifts and an accountles privie purs are fine things not to bee had by Scots in England and they may set their hearts at rest for having the like anie more Wee know Kings too vvell to bee troubled vvith them any more Wee knovv Princes are not such either conscientious or tame things as to bee bound by Treaties or to value any of their mis-called concessions longer than they serv their ovvn profit which they alwaies contra-distinguish from that of the people Wee vvould also ask these Commissioners of the Kirk vvhether they have not an inspection into all their Kings actions Whether hee bee a sheep without their fold and without their care If hee go astray must not hee bee brought home with a wholsome censure Whether any of his most publick actions will not com under your consideration as they are his dutie to God as a Christian Magistrate of which you onely will bee the Judges And upon that ground controle direct and censure him And certainly from this your paper wee have reason to suppose these will bee your actings for why should you bee more modest at home then you are abroad for with us you take upon you to determine of all things as if you had learned from Pius Quintus to mis-applie to your selvs that Text of Jeremiah I have set thee up over Nations to pluck up and to plant But to return to such a Monarchie as you will allow will not serv your young Monarchs turn and that you will finde if ever hee get quiet footing amongst you You complain of taking away the Hous of Lords and hope by that to engage all those to take your parts wee conceiv most of the Lords in England except som few that are mannaged by by your conspiring fellows the Presbyterian Ministers are more generous then to accept of a restitution by your means their remembrance of the Impudence Avarice and Ambition of the Court-harpies and Hors-leeches of your Nation make them abhor the thought of any more of your companie who are never welcom but where you are not known But you have som reason to bee tender for them as beeing Martyrs for your own caus for though that Hous was found by manie experiences to bee dangerous to the just liberties of the people and verie often to obstruct necessarie and profitable things yet 't is like they might have stood longer had they not been found to bee in your Cabal for the Invasion of England and in order to it had cast out an Ordinance that was sent up by the Commons for putting things in a posture of defence they liked it better the people should be unarmed that you might destroy them with the more eas and safetie And when your Armie had invaded us according to the Covenant no doubt did they not deny to pass anie Votes either against you or those among our selvs that as Traytors did or should adhere unto you Was it not time to take away this Enemie of the Common-wealth out of its power to do hurt when it was so dangerously disposed to make use of it to that end 'T is true there were a verie few of their number that protested against the perfidiousness malice of the rest but they were able to effect nothing and the best remedie against like evils for the future was judged to bee its taking away Wee must hereupon ask you one question about this Whether had you not once Lords of the Articles among you who had a previous negative upon all things that were to bee consulted in your Parlament without whose approbation nothing could bee brought into debate These you judged a prejudice to your just liberties and you removed them Did wee trouble our selvs to ask why you did it You thought them dangerous to your libertie and safetie and the Commons of England judged the Lords hous so and so removed them Why not wee as well as you May wee do nothing but in the verie same kinde and degree that you act before us How came wee into this pupillage to your prescriptions But why do the Scots talk so much of Hous of Lords in England when they know they have no such thing in Scotland They indeed meet in the Bodies as they call them that is the Noble-men by themselvs the Commissioners of Shires by themselvs and the Commissioners of Burghs by themselvs in these they propone and debate things as well originally as by reference which are determined by the major part of all collectlivè and conjunctly in their Hous of Parlament where the Lords have no distinct conjunct negative but are involved in and concluded by the number of Votes of the whole Therefore if the Lords have any advantage 't is by their reason in debate to convince not by their suffrage which is no more then any Commissioner of a Burgh Yet these men will bee Proctors for an Hous of Lords here It may bee imputed to their gratitude if you pleas though it bee a thing they seldom use several of that House were verie much their servants The next fault is they have driven away manie and imprisoned som of the Members of Parlament Here indeed is the thing that grieve's you your partie is cast out by whom you were wont to act all your fine things amongst us and you have no more hopes to effect any thing in Parlament as formerly But let me tell you a Mysterie you have no such reason to plead the caus of som of them who were not perfectly your Proselytes but were at close guard with you they intended to make use of your Faction for oppression of the faithful and good Patriots under the name of Independents which if they could have effected they would have cared as much for your Religion when they had serv'd their turns on 't as you do your selvs when you have made such uses of it Wee who know the men know well their Religion though to serv themselvs of you they