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A11659	The remonstrance of the nobility, barrones, burgesses, ministers and commons within the kingdome of Scotland Vindicating them and their proceedings from the crymes, wherewith they are charged by the late proclamation in England, Feb. 27. 1639.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646. aut	1639 (1639)	STC 21907; ESTC S116848	16,780	34

libels or licentious discourses false news running up and down and letters carrying the names of such authores as never saw them should seem nothing strange And whether the search of such things with too great diligence and the suppressing of them by too much severity or the neglect and despysing of them by authority be the best remedie against them let statesmen judge It is known when water is stopped one way it runneth asunder and breaketh out many wayes Thirdly Our publick contemning of all his Majesties just commands and our mutinous protesting against them It is our delight to obey his Majesties just commands and is farre from our hearts to contemne any of his Majesties commands although unjust or to protest mutinously against them But to protest in a faire way and as beseemeth duetifull subjects is a course customeable legall and ordinare and in some cases so necessare for preservation of right and preventing of evil that at sometimes it cannot be omitted and at no time can give just offence Fourthly The fourth evidence beareth three points which require particulare answere 1. That no Covenant or band of that nature is warrantable without civill authoritie This exception hath been so fully answered from warrands of divine humane authority both ecclesiasticall civill from the practise of the godly of old from the example of our Religious progenitors from the continued subscription used in this Kirk and from the nature of the oath it self which is nationall that we trust all men who are not strangers to what we have written are satisfied to the full except the Prelats their adherents who are endlesse in their cavillations and craftily labour to bring us back again to the beginning of the controversie that they may if it were possible undoe what hath been done by us 2. That we have rejected the Covenant commanded by authoritie because commanded by authoritie The reasons not of our rejecting but of our modest with-holding of our subscription commanded by authoritie are at length set down in our publick and printed Protestations September 22. and December 18. in our answer to the Declaration made by his Majesties Commissioner and in the acts of the late Assembly which properly owneth the publick judgement and interpretation of the confession of Faith In all which it is found that the confession commanded by authoritie according to the meaning put upon it is in matters of Religion not only contrarie to our subscription in February but also to the confession as it was meant and professed in the year 1580 and therefore could not be subscribed by us except we would by manifold perjurie have made our selves transgressours and have brought upon our selves a farre greater weight of the wrath of God then the first was which by our subscription we laboured to avert and prevent Thirdly That our Covenant is a conspiracie against the King pretended to bee with God for doing the works of the devill This is a blasphemie to which we are sure neither the Kings Majestie nor any fearing God can be accessory and which addeth much to our confidence that the Lord hath ratified in heaven the curse pronounced upon the Prelates that he will reprove the words which hee hath heard uttered by them and that their work shall not prosper And therefore comforting our selves in the Lord our God who hath been pleased by so many signes and undenyable evidences to countenance and confirme our Covenant we bring against them no railing accusation but say The Lord that hath chosen Ierusalem rebuke them and save the King Lastly Our hostile preparations to invade England Against which as much hath been said and sworne by us in our late informations as we trust hath given satisfaction to all good subjects there although they had been so uncharitable which we will never beleeve as hastily to have embraced such reports Our best actions which ought to give to that kingdome greatest contentment will never by them be wrested to that sense And although the Prelates in the mood of despaire to recover their losses except by our ruine traduce us to be desperate hypocrites yet the event will bear witnesse that we have spoken as men fearing the great name of our God with whom we have reneued our Covenant and who when his time commeth will be avenged whither upon our hypocrisie or their calumnie Yet our enemies seeking the way to make suspicion where no cause is have given out That many and some of the chiefest amongst us are men of unquiet spirits and broken fortunes c. But in this they have been evil advised For suspicions among thoughts are by wisemen compared with bates among birds which flee not at the no one-day but in the time of twilight It is known by all who are acquainted with this Countrey that almost the whole Kingdome standeth to the defence of this cause and that the chiefest of the Nobles Barrons and Burgesses are honoured in the places where they live for Religion wisedome power and wealth answerable to the condition of this Kingdome that the meanest of the commons who have joyned in this cause are content of their meane estates with the enjoying of the Gospel and no lesse known that our adversaries are not for number any considerable part of the Kingdome and that the chiefest setting aside some few states-men such as draw their breath from court are known Athiests or professed Papists drowned in debt denounced his Majesties Rebels for a long time past are under caption of their creditours and have already in their imaginations divided amongst them the lands of the supplicants which they hope to be possessed in by the power of England But we hope that by this shift they may well be worse but they shall be no better In the meane time against all these calumnies the Lord from heaven hath looked upon the integritie of our hearts and in his wisedome hath found the way to clear our innocencie For beside our supplication to the Councel Ian. 13. for this end and our late information to England Feb. 4. we have the publick testimonie of the councel of the Kingdome to make it known A letter sent to England from one George Sterlin in Edinburgh with the advise of Iohn Sterlin commissar of Wigtoun both in neer relation to the late pretended B. of Galloway did come to our hands bearing what the Prelates now say this was exhibited to the councel Feb. 22. 28. with our complaint supplication attestation of the great name of God and our own consciences and offer of our subscription or any other meane of purgation to the contrare whereupon the Lords of privie councel sent up our supplication to the Kings Majestie with their own wherein they humbly supplicate lest upon such informations his Majestie should be more easily moved to think upon harder courses than he had heretofore been pleased to keep with his Majesties ancient and native kingdome and subjects that his Majestie in his

THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE NOBILITY BARRONES BURGESSES MINISTERS AND COMMONS WITHIN THE KINGDOME OF SCOTLAND Vindicating them and their proceedings from the crymes wherewith they are charged by the late Proclamation in ENGLAND Feb. 27. 1639. EDINBURGH Imprinted by Iames Bryson Anno Domini 1639. ALthough the depthes of the Counsell of GOD and the secrets of the wayes of the most high cannot be sounded nor found out by us till they be discovered and unsecreted by himself yet so far as we can conceive and consider of the course of divine providence in our present affaires we begin to think that the LORD is about some great work in the earth For the cup which hath been propined to other reformed Kirks is at this time presented unto us We have used all meanes by our earnest intercessions by our true remonstrances and humble supplications to informe his Majestie and to deprecate his wrath but finde both his eares possessed by the false and spitefull misinformations of the late pretended Prelats and of such as hope to catch some great things in our troubled waters whereby his Majesties wrath waxeth hoter every day as is too sensible to us his Majesties humble and loyall subjects who were expecting a gracious answer to our last supplication and may be apparant to all men by the late Proclamation and Declaration in England Feb. 27. ordained to be read in every Kirk within that kingdome We are indeed confident and comforted in this that the gates of hell shall not prevaile against the cause mantained by us and that in the end glory shall be to GOD in the highest by the testimony which shall be given to the kingdome of his son IESUS CHRIST now in question that peace shall be on earth and good-will and loving kindnesse shall be to the people of GOD. But in the meane time it cannot but wound our hearts and grieve us sore that we are brought to this extremity that we must either perish under the burthen of so many foule aspersions or be constrained to appeare in termes of contradiction against such pieces and Proclamations as the malice of our adversaries prevailing with his Majesty doth lybell and send out continaually against us Although the foresaid Proclamation and Declaration chargeth us with nothing materiall which we have not from the sincerity of our hearts and the manifest truth and reasons of our proceedings aboundantly answered before in our printed Protestations information and answers unto the Declaration made by his Majesties Commissioner and unto the Bishops their Declinatour yet lest by our silence the cause of GOD and our innocency in defending thereof receive the smallest prejudice in the mindes of the well affected and that we may yet more convince the consciences if not close the mouthes of our self-condemned enemies we shall not wearie to make a summarie repetition and true application of what hath been formerly written at large The title beareth 1. that the Proclamation is intended to informe the loving subjects of England which is the desire of our hearts and for which we have laboured being confident that all his Majesties loving subjects of England after true and full information wil allow of our actions as proceeding from the love of CHRIST and of our King and countrey which to us are inseparably joyned and wherein we are so emulous that we are heartily grieved and think our selves heavily wronged that in love and loyaltie we should be reckoned second or inferiour to any subjects in the Christian world But what truth of information may be expected from our Prelats with their pages and parasites who can have no hope of rysing again but from our certaine ruine all the judicious subjects of England may easily discerne 2. The title beareth that by our seditious practises we are seeking to overthrow his Majesties regall power under the false pretences of religion None of all our actions is more challenged of sedition then our necessarie confession of Faith and nationall Covenant wherein we are so far from overturning regall authority that we declared before God men that we had no intention or desire to attempt any thing that might turne to the diminution of the Kings greatnesse and authority We could not so much as imagin that the refusing of the service book and the rejecting of Episcopall government which two over-turne the frame of Gods worship and the discipline of the Kirk as they were here established should ever have been interpreted to be the overthrowing of regall power The pillars of true regall power are religion and righteousnesse which by our oath we have endevored to establish and are confident if we can have them in peace shall be seen by all the world to be strong supporters of his Majesties throne Our practises are called seditious our carriages tumultuous our returnes froward and perverse our intentions traiterous our informations and declarations infamous lybels our protestations mutinous our covenant aband or rather a conspiracie against the Lords anoynted pretended to be with God that we may with the better countenance do the works of the divell such as are treasons and rebellions our preparations for defence hostile as if the King were our sworn enemy our aimes to be the invasion of the good subjects of England to make whole our broken fortunes our actions increasing and dareing insolencies our present case a brain-sick distemper our selves evil and traiterously affected persons factious and turbulent spirits c. To which we answer 1. It may be that the Lord will look on our affliction and that the Lord will requite good for this cursing Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evill against you for my sake 2. These railing accusations have proceeded from the unchristian hearts of our Prelats who are rageing waves of the sea foaming out their own shame and thereby give publick proof that by the sentence of excommunication from the Kirk they are indeed delivered unto Satan the spirit which now worketh mightily in them All their revilings against us shall not draw from us one word which may reflect upon the Kings Majestie They have learned an arte like unto that practised of old cunningly to insert the image of their Hierarchie into the Kings portract that no man can do reverence to the one but he must adorethe other no man speak or do against the one but he must speak and do against the other But we are not unacquainted with their craft and God hath taught us the way to honour the King and detest treason sedition and rebellion without honour done to them and without the perfidious acknowledging of their abjured tyrannie 3. By two things all men may perceive that the Prelats would have their anger to come to a mischief the one is that they use extreme bitternesse of words Yet in this they faile of their end that their words are rather common railings and flyting then sharp pointed and proper more

adversaries Between the King as King proceeding royally according to the laws of the Kingdome against rebels and the King as a man comming down from his throne at the foote where of the humble supplication of his subjects lyeth unanswered marching furiously against his loyall and weal-meaning people Between a King who is a stranger to Religion and tyed no further but according to his own pleasure to the professours of Religion living in his dominions and our Kiug professing with us the same religion and obliged by his Fathers deed his own oath to desend us his own subjects our lives religion liberties laws Again difference would be put between some private persons taking armes for resistance inferiour Magistrats Iudges Councellors nobles Peeres of the land Parliament men Barrons Burgesses and the whole bodie of the Kingdome except some few either Courteours stats-men Papists or popishly affected and their adherents standing to their own defence Between subjects rising or standing out against law and reason that they may bee freed from the yoke of their obedience and a people holding fast their alledgeance to their Soveraigne and in all humilitie supplicating for Religion and justice between a people labouring by armes to introduce novations in Religon contrarie to the laws and a people seeking nothing so much as against all innovations to have the same Religion ratified which hath been professed since the reformation and hath not only been solemnely sworn long since by the Kings Majestie and by the whole Kingdome both of old and of late but also commanded by the Kings Majestie to be sworn by his Counsellours and commanded by his Councell to bee subscribed by all the people as it was professed at first Between a people pleading for their own phantasies and foolaries or inventions and a people suspending their judgement and practise about things controverted till they should be determined by a nationall Assembly the only proper and competent judicatorie and after determination receiving and standing for the conclusions of the Assembly Whither in this case and matters so standing wee shall stand to our own defence we are taught by the light and law of nature by the word of God in the old and new testament by the Covenant betwixt the people and God by the end for which Magistrates are ordained of God by our standing in our order and line of subordination under God the great Superiour when our immediate Superiours go out of their line order by the testimonies of the best divines and sound politicians and Lawyers even such as pleadmost contra Monarchomachos by the mutuall contract betwixt the King and the people at the Coronation by acts of Parliament and by the example of our own predicessours And now for our brethren and neighbours in England whose eares we suppose have been filled with this Proclamation in their particular Kirks From that honour which we ow unto authoritie as the ordinance of God and from the naturall and loyall affection which we bear unto our King and dread Soveraigne borne and baptized amongst us we are unfainedly and from our hearts grieved that first his sacred eares should be so farre possessed and next his royall Name so farre abused by wicked men as to receive and give way to so many absurd and incredible false calumnies against a whole Nation his own native Countrey and Kingdome It is too manifest how extremly pernitious and damnageable are calumnies especially universall ones of this kinde and therefore to represse them ought not any law or ordinance be spared that may serve to the purpose From that love which is due from us unto them to whom in verie many respects and by many strong bands naturall civill and spirituall we are sibber and more nearly joyned then to any other Nation or people on earth wee are heartily sorie that their Kirks and hearing are taken up with such discourses and would wonder at their credulitie if they should be beleeved by them yet because speeches may be the seminaries of sedition even amongst brethren who are at greatest distance when they have once begun to divide and discord we must intreat if with so wise a Nation there be any need of intreatie that they will not upon any declaration which they have heard be suddenly stirred to attempts against us to our mutuall hurt or with a golden hook to catch so small commodities as may bee hoped for in such a warre and by so doing make both Nations a mocking to strangers and this Yland which hath been blessed with so long a peace to be a field of blood and a prey to our common enemies who now for many years have been looking upon us with an evil eye and are still waiting for an evil houre that when they hear of any of our preparations for defence or of any of our actions which to us are so necessarie that without them our defence is impossible and wherein there is no wrong done or intended against them they will judge charitably of us and of our doings in such an exigent and extremity as this is and that they will wisely and christianly supposing our case to be their own make use of that common rule of equity what soever ye would that others did to you do ye even so to them That hereafter reports and declarations made against us by our enemies be not suddenly beleeved since the authours from the conscience of their own deceitfull dealing publish them amongst the English only who cannot controle the untruth of them and keep them up from the knowledge of this kingdome where they cannot abide the common light and triall every one of the commons knowing their forgerie and falshood And when any of them happen to come to our hands the difficultie and danger is so great in carying our answers and the true information as matters now stand unto their knowledge And that they will at last both poure forth their prayers to GOD and their supplications to the King in our behalf and if need be use their power for our lawfull defence against merce-naries and wicked men the sons of Beliall Are we not their own brethren their own flesh and bone Are we not all under one roof in one and the same shipe and members of one body Their religious progenitours at the time of reformation vouchsafed us their help and assistance for establishing the reformed religion neither have we so evill deserved nor are they so far degenerated as that we have reason to feare that we shall be deserted by them at this time the cause being the same the case not much different and the persons only changed Our salvation is common Let us together earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the Saints that mercy peace and love may be multiplied unto us Considering also how far our late actions against the persons of our greatest enemies and the chief strengths of the kingdome as of the castle of Edinburgh c.