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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79717	A declaration from the Commissioners of the Generall Assemblie of the Kingdome of Scotland, concerning the Kings Majesties royall person, and his due rights and priviledges. With their sense and resolution touching the lawfulnesse of Soveraignty, and the proceedings of a disloyall and perfidious party, who formerly pretended to fight for the King. This declaration from the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, was ordained to be forthwith printed and published, and to be read in all churches and chappels throughout the said Kingdome. Signed, A. Ker.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1648 (1648)	Wing C4212; Thomason E428_5; ESTC R204604	4,348	8

A DECLARATION FROM THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE Generall Assemblie OF THE KINGDOME OF SCOTLAND CONCERNING The Kings Majesties Royall Person and His due Rights and Priviledges With their sense and resolution touching the lawfulnesse of Soveraignty and the proceedings of a disloyall and perfidious Party who formerly pretended to light for the KING THis Declaration from the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland was ordained to be forthwith Printed and Published and to be read in all Churches and Chappels throughout the said Kingdome Signed A. KER Imprinted at Edenburgh by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And Re-printed at London MDCXLVIII A DECLARATION FROM The Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kingdom of Scotland WHereas it hath been our constant custome and continuall care from the sense of the trust committed unto us to give warning unto this Kirk and Kingdom of their condition and duty so it cannot bee but very seasonable and necessary at this time to declare and make known our judgment of the carriage of the People of the Land in the day of darknesse and houre of temptation that they who have stood may find matter of encouragement and praise and such as have fallen may recover themselvs and repent We were void of understanding if we should not observe and more then ungrate if we should not acknowledge the loving kindnesse of the Lord towards us in the midst of our confusions and fears Temptations were many and fierce because of the power and pride of an insolent enemy both to God and out dread Soveraign the King whose proceedings is matter of abomination unto us shall be a wonder unto the following Generation yet did the body of the Kingdom keep their integrity entertaining all thoughts of backsliding and complying with the Kings enemies with indignation and detest patiently suffering the bloud that hath been spilt firmly standing to the Cause of God in the midst of difficulties and straits neither fearing the threats nor regarding the promises of such as oppose the same These as they be for a name of praise and joy unto the most high the excellency of whose power is perfected in weaknesse so for a witnesse unto the truth and to the work of Reformation and for a shame and reproach vnto the haters of Sion whose subtilty violence is more then conquered by the faith and patience of the Saints Yet is it the matter of much sorrow and astonishment unto us that in the Land of uprightnesse so many should have done foolishly and notwithstanding of all that work and power which their eyes have seen and of their own vowes and Protestations fallen from their excellency and turned aside unto corrupt and crooked wayes with the workers of iniquity The bond of the Covenant is such as every religious heart cannot but remember the violation thereof with horrour and trembling yet hath the Oath of God been forgotten and despised by many It is the admirable way of the working of the wisdom of God to over rule all the purposes and actions of the sons of men unto his own ends He whose wayes towards us have all been mercy and truth meant a discovery of those whose indifferency or treachery would ere long have procured a sure and sensible ruine unto us and now hath he brought his purpose to passe This is a mercy which bring rightly managed may countervaile all our sufferings and p●●os and prove very wholesome unto the Land and advantagious unto the Cause of God It is not any strength of reason on the side of our adversaries that could have shaken so many their pretexts of the Kings service our Rebellion and such like as th●●● are poor and void of truth in themselves so do they easily vanish before every discerning and rationall man The service of Kings is not to cut down thousands of their faithfull and loyall Subjects whose multitude is their glory strength but to do those things which the Laws of the Kingdom prescribe and that are consonant unto the will of God and unto the wealth of the people whose safety is the Supream Law and maine study of every King ruling in righteousnesse and judgment Our soules are not privy unto and our actions plead us innocent from the guilt of disloyalty our witnesse is in heaven and our record is on high that it was never our purpose or intention to subvert lawfull Soveraignty nor to encroach upon the due rights and priviledges of the same and we trust that whilest we live nothing shal escape us to the contrary We are able to justifie our union with England as an undeniable testimony of our duty unto our Brethren in the times of their straits by the Prelaticall Party and of the preservation of Religion in its purity ane power in this and of its Reformation in the neighbour Lands and surest Bulwark of a stable and continuing peace betwixt the Kingdoms The League and Covenant with England as it was studied and set on foot in the days of our Fathers at Barwick in the yeer 1586. so was it from the begining of this glorious Work of Reformation endeavoured by our selves as stands upon record in the Articles of the large Treaty unto which some of those who have now fallen to oppose it were then neither strangers nor adversaries Both Covenants in regard of the principals whence they issue the heads which they contain and the ends which they pursue are one and the same And that the extent of the last unto our dear Brethren in England should procure enmity to the intentions and substance of the first seems to us to be a riddle which none can resolve but perfidious persons who have made shipwrack of a good conscience Who can but be amazed to heare the treacherous designes and bloudy practises of perjured men palliat under pretence of the prosecution of the ends of our Nationall Covenant as appeareth by divers who have lifted up their hands to Heaven swearing unto the high God in the publike Assembly of his people to build those things which they now destroy and to destroy those things which they have lately set up meaning the dissenting party of Scotland though the Kings Majesty of whose Authority they pretended to be zealous of had not then given his royall consent and approbation of our affairs It is our hearts desire and hope that all this course of providence thus abused by men void of understanding may be improved by our selves as a meanes of sound and serious humiliation that wee may search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord who will do good unto us because of the disloyall actions of his Majesties enemies Notwithstanding of all calumnies and reproaches the righteousnesse of our cause shall be accounted of us our glory and in regard of it We will not remove our integrity from us our righteousnesse we will still hold fast and not let it go and our heart shall not remove