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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11746	A short relation of the state of the Kirk of Scotland since the reformation of religion, to the present time for information, and advertisement to our brethren in the Kirk of England, by an hearty well-wisher to both kingdomes.	Warriston, Archibald Johnston, Lord, 1611-1663.	1638 (1638)	STC 22039; ESTC S116925	12,349	22

were indifferent in matters of Religion would assist the Bishops used all their meanes to conveene the greatest numbers they could The Supplicants moved with the provision intended for the Castle and these frequent meetings of Papists neutrals resolved not to joyne with them at their meeting with the Commissioner because they would impudently ascribe the most part of these whom hee had required to themselves and these neutralls for these and some other important reasons the Supplicants resolved to send out some few of their number to make their excuse to my Lord Commissioner The Supplicants together the Towne of Edinburgh apart by their request procured his comming to Haly-rood-house as the most convenient place for their attendance Vpon the seventh of Iunij at his entrie hee was attended by a great number of the Supplicants on horse meeting him three myles from Haly-rood-house and all the way betwixt by many thousands on foot amongst the which were six or seven hundreth of the Ministerie In hope that the Commissioner would not offer to furnish the Castle with munition during the treatie the numbers appointed for watching were diminished even before his entrie The Supplicants renewed their former desires of a generall Assembly and Parliament to the Commissioner as the only meane to redresse the evills complained upon He acknowledged himselfe unable to grant either till first the Countrie were in a peaceable condition till they should first rescind and render their subscribed Covenants to his Majestie To the first it was answered the Cuntrie was not unpeaceable there was many humble supplications desiring remedie of these pressing grievances the Supplicants could not be moved to stay from meeting and supplicating till they should receive a gratious answere and the onely meane to content them was the granting of a free generall Assembly and a Parliament for the second they could not draw on themselves the guilt of perjurie before God gave the Commissioner sufficient reasons of their refusall which are extant in print The Commissioner excepted against that clause in the Covenant bearing mutuall defence as if the Supplicants had combyned themselves to maintaine each other in their owne private quarrells howbeeit the clause bee cleare eneugh of itself yet for his Majesties satisfaction they gave in a Supplication to the Commissioner wherein they declared their mutuall defence of each other was only in the defence of true Religion of the lawes and liberties of this Kirk and Kingdome and of his Majesties person and autoritie in preservation thereof where-with his Grace acquiesed The Commissioner professing that all his instructions did runne on the hope of having the Covenant surrendred and this failing hee could doe no more but returne and deale with his Majesty for obtaining a free generall Assembly and Parliament Withall did shew that before his parting hee behoved to publish his Majesties gratious declaration and so first made that proclamation of returning the Counsell and Session to Edinburgh to make a faire way for the other professing also that the other should bee full of goodnesse promising only a generall Assembly and parliament and discharging all novations introduced Where upon a protestation was provided only to give thanks to his Majestie and to protest that some short and convenient time might bee appointed for holding the Assemblye and Parliament But the Supplicants attending the publishing of this faire and smooth declaration when it was proclaimed upon the fourth of Iulij they found it so grievous as it necessitat the Supplicants to make that protestation which is extant in print As the Supplicants were grieved at the Proclamation so their griefe was augmented when they heard that the Lordes of Counsell had approved the Proclamation by a particular Act. For the Counsell had approved that proclamation as satisfactorie and so full of grace and goodnesse so that it might satisfie all men Whereas it gave saisfaction to none of the Supplicants desires and did condemne their lawfull meetings Therefore they prepared a supplication for the Commissioner which did bear their just exceptions at the Proclamation and farre more against the Counsells act of approbation But the Counsell considering better of their Act did teare it after it was subscribed and before it was put upon record The next day the Commissioner was supplicated and earnestly desired to make some act to cleare that the Counsells subscribing of the Kings Majesties declaration was no approbation thereof from them but only a warrant for the Clerke to cause proclaime it The Commissioner and most of the Counsellers declared the same solemnely by their oaths wherein the Supplicants acquiesced My Lord Commissioner promised to recomend their desires earnestly to his Majestie and returne at the fifth of August next or before the twelft at the furthest The Commissioner reported that it was written from England that these of this Nation were comming with armes towards them The Supplicants protested bef●re God it never entred in their mindes to doe them the least harme but that they carried toward them all due respect of Brethren if they should not bee first invaded by them which was as farre from their expectation as it was without their deservings But on the contrare whereas such of the Bishops as were chiefe authors of these evills apprehending danger from the Panick terrours of their guiltie consciences not from any just occasion offered by the Supplicants when they and their adherents had acted the part of Incendiaries at the Court of England betwixt the Kings Majestie and his Subjects did thereafter retire themselves out of Scotland as hopelesse to find a partie for them there these who have not subscribed the Confession excepting Counsellers not beeing a considerable part and the most part of them no favourers of Bishops And they bragged that his Majestie will make the people of England come in armes against Scotland which is neither to bee expected from so just a King against his own native subjects only supplicating for the preservation of true Religion and liberties of the Countrie established by lawes nor from so good and wise a people with whom the Kingdom of Scotland is not more neerely conjoyned by marches than all true Scotish hearts have beene these many yeares past It should be an high and fearefull dissimulation if any such spytefull intention were keeped up against brethren whose naturall freedome and ingenuitie cannot admit the least suspition of any such thoughts seing they live in one Iie under one King have intertained commerce with as litle contoversie or debate with as much affection and peace as ever was betwixt two Nations yea they are so far from intention to offer wrong to the English that they are resolved never to suffer England to be wronged by any other Nation so long as their lives and meanes shall laste and doe expect the like br●therly duetie from them least they bee found even to f●ght against God himself How can they have any purpose to wrong that Countrie wherein so many worthie Preachers and professours have given both by writing and suffering abundant testimonie to the cause they plead for in all the particulars thereof which now they maintaine My Lordes of the Clergie in Scotland as they have borrowed somethings from England to wit high Commission Canons and such other stuffe not warranted by law as in England thought to have repared that loane by establishing the new Service booke first heere that thereafter their confederats might thrust out that service so long continued in England for if it had not been for that end it shuld not have goten so much help and approbation from thence and perhaps from Rome But that current is stopped heere praised be God and we wish it might be also there If some English Bishops seeming to compassionate their Brethren heere have a desire to further the plot though it were upon Nationall Perills so may move the English Catholicks as persons furthest disappointed to undertake the recoverie of their cause by giving their whole assistance against Scotland which beeing once suppressed all may bee setled there and then undoubtedly in England The kingdom of Scotland with reservation of all due respect to the true English craveth they maye not onely have help from good Christians there in case of such invasion but also leave to root out these Cananits who are pricks in their sides And this much shortly to give satis-faction to the better sort that there bee no mistaking amongst brethren Cursed bee these that doe not wish and pray for peace if it can bee had without that great losse of the Gospell of peace in the purity and power thereof according to the word of God FINIS