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B04838 A short declaration of the kingdom of Scotland for information and satisfaction to their brethren of England concerning the present expedition into England. Scotland. Parliament.; Primrose, Archibald, Sir, 1616-1679. 1643 (1643) Wing P3473; ESTC R182112 3,508 2

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A SHORT DECLARATION OF THE KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND For Information and Satisfaction to their Brethren of ENGLAND concerning the present Expedition into ENGLAND ALthough we have reason to beleeve that the bloody and barbarous attempts of the Papists and their Faction both in England and Ireland and the manifold oppressions and miseries endured by those that stand well affected to the Protestant Religion and their Countreys Libertie have made way in the hearts of men for the ready entertainment of assistance from their Brethren whose earnest desire it is and whose utmost endeavour it shall be to preserve and restore both unto them Yet knowing how industrious the malice of the Devil and his Instruments are in raising Prejudices and fomenting Jealousies betwixt them whose hearts and mindes ought to be one because their happinesse is the same and particularly betwixt us and our Brethren of England that by dividing us from each other they might destroy us both And that this our second Expedition into England which we doubt not but God will blesse to the advantage of that Nation as he did our first to the happinesse of our own in stead of wonder and opposition may finde the cheerfull concurrence of all those who together with us desire The Preservation and Reformation of Religion The honour and happinesse of the King The Peace and Liberty of the Kingdoms We thought fit to premit this short but free and ingenuous Declaration of our Grounds and Intentions in this our present undertaking that so we may meet with none but such as we may either finde peaceable or leave inexcusable Whereas therefore the greatest questions that are like to arise in this businesse may be reduced to these three particulars viz. The justnesse of our Cause The lawfulnesse of our calling thereto And The faithfulnesse of our carriages therein We shall hereby endeavour to give satisfaction in them all and doubt not to do it unlesse there remain some whose inveterate malice hath produced in them a resolution to be unsatisfied As for the cause and ground of this undertaking we are not ignorant with how much earnestnesse the sonnes of slander and perdition whose custome is to traduce those proceedings which they know not how to disappoint do endeavour to possesse the hearts of our Brethren that we are coming to fish in the troubled waters of England to seek and take our own advantages in the midst of your necessities But suffer not your eares much lesse your hearts to be open to any such delusions whereof we trust your eyes shall shortly witnesse the falshood For as hereafter we doubt not to appeal to our carriages and your consciences besides your late experience of our Religious observance of our former Declarations of this kinde so in the mean time give us leave to appeal to the great searcher of hearts who knows That had not the love of Christ requiring Christians to bear one anothers burden and the Law of nature challenging our utmost care and endeavour for the prevention of our own danger and ruine which an ordinary understanding will easily see to be wrapped up in our neighbours And our dutie and desire of rescuing the King from the dangers wherein he is involved by the company and pernicious Counsell of those who are enemies to Religion his Majesties happinesse and Peace of his Dominions Called and compelled us to this Service we could with far more content and satisfaction to our selves have enjoyed with quietnesse our dry morsell then entred into your houses full of sacrifices with strife Which yet since we are required and necessitated to by that just Calling hereafter to be mentioned We professe before God and the World that our hearts and thoughts are clean and free from any other Intentions then those expressed in our solemne League and Covenant in which we are confederate with England viz. The Preservation and Reformation of Religion The Honour and Happinesse of the King and The Peace and Liberties of the Kingdoms All which we now apprehend to be deeply endangered by the Councels and Confederacies of Papists Prelats Malignants and their adherents so prevalent in England and Ireland And we shall no otherwise desire a blessing upon our endeavours then as they shall be directed to the conservation and establishment thereof And because it is not sufficient to be ingaged in a good Cause unlesse by a good calling we do hereby further declare That though the inseparable interests of both Nations in Religion and Liberties which having the same common Enemies must look to stand and fall together might have given us sufficient warrant to have endeavoured the prevention of our own ruine by preserving our Friends and Brethren from destruction yet that we might be the more fully and formally obliged to this Christian dutie and service and so the mouth of slander and malice be stopped God hath so ordered things in his wise and just Providence that the Parliament of England who beside their interest in the Preservation and Reformation of Religion and the defence of the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdom to which our help is required have a particular obligation upon this nation As we have formerly declared in our Intentions published before our last Expedition for refusing to countenance or maintain a War against us in the yeere 1640. have thought fit by their Commissioners enabled to that effect to desire a firme Union with us and this just and necessary assistance from us And whereas it is too obvious an Objection That the Kings command or consent being no ingredient our Calling is thereby rendred deficient We answer That though through the injury of mischievous Councels both his Person and personall Commands are withheld from us Yet his Honour his Happinesse his Posterity his great Councell and the welfare of his Kingdoms Call importunately to us for this timely interposing So that unlesse we can which God forbid blot out of our thoughts the sense of Pietie and Religion toward God of Honour and Duty toward our Soveraigne and of Gratitude toward the Parliament and Kingdom of England we can in no wise resist our present Call to this undertaking And lastly for what concerns the manner of the pursuance of this just Cause and lawfull Calling Although the many frustrate Petitions and Remonstrances from both Kingdoms presented to his Majestie have left us onely this way which yet is not intended against his Majesties Person nor any of his good Subjects but those Enemies of the King and Kingdoms with whom no other means can prevaile Yet we shall diligently endeavour so to order the affairs of our Armie that all Insolencies Rapines Plunderings and those other calamities that usually attend upon War may be prevented And herein as with no small content to our selves so with no lesse satisfaction to you are we able to refer you to the experience of our former Expedition when our own necessities drove us into England as now yours do call us to Conlider how little damage was occasioned by our means how little disorder was committed by us in any place where we came and we hereby promise the like care and diligence shall be renewed and if possible doubled to that effect And that we may not be looked on with the prejudice of Strangers which we hope the firm Union of this mutuall Covenant will wear out There is a Committee of your own Nation the most of which are Parliament men such to whom you have committed the trust and care of your Religion Lawes and Liberties joyned with us without whose concurrence nothing that concerns you is to be transacted And to free you of all unjust suspition which if your minds are not ready to conceive yet the malicious mouthes of our adversaries and yours are ready to suggest That notwithstanding this Declaration we have some sinister and secret ends which may prove prejudiciall to your Rights and happinesse Be it hereby made known unto you that we have freely ingaged our selves by an Article of the late Treatie betwixt the Nations to give the publike Faith of the Kingdom of Scotland unto the Kingdom of England That neither our entrance into nor continuance in that Kingdom shall be made use of to any other ends then are expressed in the Covenant and that Treatie subscribed by the Commissioners o● both Kingdoms which we are resolved to the honour of God and of this nation to keep inviolate And as our Friends and Brethren may look for actions conform to the expressions of this Declaration so must the Malignants and implacable opposers of the ends declared in our Covenant expect nothing but an impartiall and vigorous prosecution of the same in which if any evil befall them we are confident that the judgement of wise and indifferent men will reduce it to themselves as the wilfull authours thereof And finally we declare against all false and artificiall relations that we are so far from desiring harm or losse to any of our Brethren of England that our sincere and reall Intentions are not to adde fuell nor bring oyl but water to extinguish these lamentable combustions and fires which we have with so much dutie and love laboured to quench That our taking of Arms is not to make Wars if we be not necessitated but to obtain a better grounded and a more durable Peace for enjoying of our Religion and Liberties in all the three Kingdoms and that the wicked who are the unworthy authours of all our troubles being removed from our King a right understanding may be established betwixt his Majestie and his people And as we have solemnly sworn to protect and defend all who shall enter in and adhere to this Covenant So do we certainly expect that all our Brethren in England who are zealous for the true Protestant Religion loyall to the King and faithfull for their Countrey will joyn and concurre with us in the most noble and just wayes of procuring these just desires which being obtained we shall be most willing and ready to return to our native Countrey esteeming it our greatest happinesse that Truth with Peace may be established in all His Majesties Dominions Arch. Primerose Printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie 1643.