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A92720	Scotlands alarme. Or, Some considerations tending to demonstrate the necessitie of our speedie marching to the assistance of our brethren in England, notwithstanding all difficulties and necessities, reall or pretended. Together, with a letter dated at Edinburgh, Novemb. the 29. 1643. Wherein is given full satisfaction to all men who desire to know the reasons why the Scots Army is not yet advanced into England.		1643 (1643)	Wing S2015; Thomason E77_5; ESTC R21030	9,618	16

SCOTLANDS ALARME OR Some considerations tending to demonstrate the necessitie of our speedie marching to the assistance of our Brethren in England notwithstanding all difficulties and necessities reall or pretended ESTHER 4. verse 13 14 16. Verse 13. Think not with thy self that thou shalt escape in the Kings house more then all the Iews 15. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time thou shall there inlargement and deliverance arise to the Iews from another place but thou and thy fathers house shall be destroyed and who knoweth whether thou art come to the Kingdom for such a time as this Verse 16. If I perish I perish Chap. 8. vers 6. For how can I endure to see the evill that shall come unto Gods people or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kinred TOGETHER With a Letter dated at Edinburgh Novemb. the 29. 1643. Wherin is given full satisfaction to all men who desire to know the reasons why the Scots Army is not yet advanced into England Printed first at Edinburgh and Re-printed at London for Robert Bostock Anno Domini 1643. SCOTLANDS ALARME OR Some considerations tending to demonstrate the necessitie of our speedie marching to the assistance of our Brethren in England notwithstanding all difficulties and necessities reall or pretended FOrasmuch as all works of honour and importance are usually attended with manifold difficulties which the spirits of men unlesse quickned many times suffer to grow up into discouragements And whereas more especially those under-takings in which the honour of GOD and the aduancement of the Kingdom of JESUS CHRIST is concerned besides those naturall impediments that arise from the weight of the Service are commonly obstructed with many artificiall lets which the subtilty and malice of the Devill and ill-affected Instruments readily make and many times the corruptions of the well-affected too easily entertain It seems not unnecessarie to offer to this Nation now by solemne and sacred Covenant engaged with the Kingdom of England for the mutuall preservation of Religion and Liberty some considerations proving and pressing the necessitie of the speedie marching of our intended Army to the relief of our Brethren notwithstanding the expectation of money not fully answered and the discouragements of this Winter season That we of this Nation are to affoord assistance to England in thi Cause wherein they are engaged against the Popish and Prelaticall Faction that so the intended corruption and subversion of the Protestant Religion may be prevented and the just Liberties of both Nations secured it is hoped may be taken for granted it being the plain language of our Covenant Some it may be there are and God be thanked there are no more who either really think or carry themselves as if they thought it utterly unlawfull to engage in this Cause because we are so unhappie as to see his Majesty intangled in the counsels and practises of them whom we are resolved to oppose and think that free-born Protestant Subjects in any case of difference betwixt them and their Prince have nothing left but the miserable refuge of passive obedience which they will have accounted due to his personall commands as well as legall But God forbid we should so part with our Religion and Libertie the Inheritance of our Fathers A great deal of honour and observance is due to Princes but let us finde out some cheaper sacrifice for these Deities than the honour and truth of him who is exalted farre above all gods and the welfare and happinesse of whole Kingdoms with which whatsoever mortall man is weighed in the ballance will be found too light But in the mean time these States and Kingdoms are verie much beholding to the patrons of this Doctrine who thereby make the condition of the Subjects of great Brittain no whit better than that of the vassals to the great Turk who can desire or expect no more than a passive obedience to his will and pleasure Others there be who pretend think to that Religion Liberty may be secured by those wayes and counsels which have obtained his Majesties Countenance and Concurrence But whether a designe whose ingredients are Spanish Counsels Romish Buls Popish Contributions and an Irish Cessation be like to tend to the good of the true Religion let any man judge who hath not renounced his understanding But this present undertaking is not intended to convince them who oppose or decline this Service if there are any who either upon these grounds or worse are disposed to an opposition or neutrality in this great Cause And after so much blood shed so many Petitions and Declarations made such a Covenant as ours duely weighed doubt of the lawfullnesse and necessity of joyning with our Brethren in this mutuall defence Such are to be left to the just censures of the Church and deserved penalties of the State which certainly are the most fit and will be the most effectuall meanes for their Conviction That which is now endeavored is to quicken the hearts and strengthen the hands of them who have Sworn and Subscribed this Solemne Covenant that they may with the more speed and cheerfulnesse set their shoulders to the work in hand For so it is many times Probitas laudatur alget that a good Cause is at the same time praised and starved And those that seem very much affected with the generall representation of a businesse when it descends to action and especially their own particular engagement have a strange damp seazing upon them and can hardly perswade themselves to act according to what they have apprehended If therefore there be any who either doubt of the absolute or present necessity of contributing their utmost assistance to this Cause of CHRIST so infinitely valuable let the love they owe to GOD and his Gospel which is endangered to their Brethren who are so miserably spoiled both in England and Ireland to themselves and their own Native Country which is now within the noise of the Thunder for the sharp Letters and terrible Proclamations from Oxford have already reached us and will shortly unlesse GOD give us grace to prevent it by timely endeavours be under the storm Let these threefold bands of love not easily broken by any Christian Spirit prevail with them to lay to heart these ensuing considerations First let it be duely considered what may be the ill consequents of disapointing the expectation of the wel-affected party in England who having done their utmost to answer our desires have set their hearts and hopes upon our assistance as the most probable means under GOD for the repressing the fury of the adversary and rescuing them from those calamities that presse them even at their doors Iob. 6. To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend but we shall instead of that adde affliction to their affliction if by deferring their hope we make their hearts to faint and give too much advantage to their and our adversaries to

ordered things that our Brethren of England and wee should be happily united in a Solemne Covenant a thing wee would not long since have purchased at a dear rate and hath disposed the hearts of the Parliament readily to condiscends to the Articles of the Treaty without any materiall alteration Seeing that notwithstanding the spoile of the Kings Armies having a great part of the Kingdom under contribution and almost destroying the trade of London and notwithstanding the charge of their own Armies which hath been exceeding great both in England and Ireland and yet is like to be they have used so much care and so faithfull endeavours for the fulfilling our demands Let us every man look upon his Covenant wherein he hath engaged to his power and then look to his purse his barns his shop and store-houses and whatsoever he can call his And last of all look back into his own heart and conscience and make an impartiall judgement of his ability and do accordingly left our hands in contribution not being answerable to our Vow in the Covenant we be accounted deceivers and meet with a curse in stead of a blessing What GOD hath denied us in money he hath grant ed us in victuall whereof he hath vouchsafed us plenty let us not suffer his Cause to starve in the midst of it Let us consider that there is now no place for concealments wee have not to do with men but with GOD with whom we have covenanted he searcheth our hearts sees our actions and abilities He takes notice what prophane Esaus there are among us that preferre pottage to their birth-right What churlish Nabals who say of the servants and Cause of GOD 1 Sam. 25.5 as he once of Davids Shall I take my bread and my flesh and give it to men whom I know not whence they be and he takes so strict notice as to render to them according to their wayes and according to the fruit of their doings as you may see in that reckoning Christ makes at the 25 of Matth. v. 41. I was hungry and ye fed me not naked and ye clothed me not Depart ye cursed c. But I wil not so much distrust your faithfulnesse and forwardnesse in this great Cause of Jesus Christ which pleads so strongly for it self in every Christian heart If this labour be superfluous I am glad you wanted it not if it be necessary I am glad I spared it not I shut up all with the words of Ioab to Abishai 2 Sam. 10.12 Be of good courage and let us play the men for the people and cities of our God and let the Lord do what seemeth to him good Only adding that lively encouragement of David to Solomon 1 Chron. 12.6 Arise therefore and be doing and the Lord be with you FINIS A LETTER From EDINBVRGH NOVEMBER 30. 1643. Giving full satisfaction to all men why the SCOTISH Army is not yet Advanced into ENGLAND My true and constant Friend GIve me leave to use this compellation of you who lives in the midst of so many changes and changlings Suffer me also to entreat you to afford me a little of your patience if it be not all spent till you have perused and pondered these few lines expressing the condition of our affaires here and then pronounce your sentence Master Hatcher and his Company with the Treatie and the Money came to Leith road November 21. so long a time it pleased God to keep him on Sea and thereby to excroise our patience The publicke Orders to the Shyres concerning the generall Randevous which is appointed to be upon the 29. of December at Hatrlaw a place foure miles from Berwicke were exped upon the fourth day after the arrivall of the Ship which was Novemb. 25. The neerest Regements are appointed to march presently towards the borders there to quarter and exercise themselves and to meet with the Cavaleeres if any of them shall appeare till the day of Randevous Consider with your selfe what time you will allow for sending the Orders to the Shires to call the Committees of the severall Shires to bring together the Souldiers to their Colours and to march as farre as Barwicke from which some of the Regiments are no lesse then a hundred miles distant after you have impartially considered these and other such necessary duties and distractions you will not condemne us of delayes or slacknesse Ireland hath also bred us at this time much trouble and hinderance for upon the very day of Master Hatcher his arivall Commissioners came from Ireland expressing the unsupporable sufferings of our Irish Army One of them swore to my selfe that being present at a Parade he did see a whole Regiment whereof scarcely one hundred had either stockings or shooes but all bare-legged and bare-footed in this season of the yeere and yet poore soules they are ready to take the Covenant and to spend their lives against the Cessation if they had necessaries for their lives furnished unto them Our Councels were tossed betwixt two extremities upon the one hand to bring them away was to give up that Kingdome into the hands of Papists and Rebels to suffer the poore Protestants there either to be driven forth and to come upon us for reliefe or their throats to be cut by their barbarity which hath destroyed so many already and to make the Rebels strong and united for invading these two Kingdomes Upon the other hand to keepe them there and to feed them with promises and really to starve them as we have done for a long time were to fall in the like barbarity In this perplexity we have beene forced to dispatch from Air 4000 bolls of meall which we had provided for the Western Regiments and are providing other necessaries to be sent unto thē with diligence This hath bin an unexpected untimeous but a necessary diversion of our councels from the great businesse And hath taken up a great part of our time which the English Comissioners here doe know and the wise there cannot but acknowledge The act of publike faith is also concluded and sent up that there be nothing wanting on our part No sooner did the Committee of the convention of Estates resolve upon the day of generall assembly in their meeting at Edenbrugh have appointed a publike fast and humiliation for a blessing from Heaven upon our expedition which is to be solemly kept in the Army in all the Kirks of the Kingdome Jan. 7. being the Lords day and the wednesday following according to the warning sent to all the Presbitaries and the particular causes expressed therein which I have herewith sent unto you Thus have we resolved with our prayers and endeavours to joyne in the cause of God and to wait for his blessing for successe FINIS