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A92525 The ansvver of the Commissioners of the kingdome of Scotland, to both Houses of Parliament, upon the new propositions of peace, and the foure bills to be sent to his Majestie. Scotland. Parliament. 1647 (1647) Wing S1180; Thomason E421_2; ESTC R203503 26,529 32

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reasons for the equity and expediencie of our desires But without a Treaty or giving reasons for asserting the lawfulness and expediency of the Propositions to be presented they may be esteemed Impositions 4. The King may have some just desires to move for the Crown and for himself As that he may have his Revenues and that he may be restored to his Royal Government which may be done with greater honor and satisfaction to him by a personal Treaty then otherwise 5. A personal Treaty with the King is the best way to beget a mutual confidence between Him and his Parliament It is the best way to cleer his doubts and to remove all difficulties and it is the absolute best way for giving and receiving mutual satisfaction 6. We cannot expect that his Majesty wil grant in terminis whatsoever Propositions shal be sent unto him nor can every thing in the Propositions be of that importance as that the not granting of it ought to hinder a Peace Neither wil the Houses of Parliament give ful power to their Commissioners to make alterations in the Propositions as they shal see cause upon debate Wherefore a personal Treaty with his Majesty at London is the most probable and expeditious way to remove or reconcile all differences There is one common obiection wherewith many are possessed and prejudiced against a personal Treaty with the King and his coming to London That his presence may breed division and continue our troubles And that when his Majesty desired to come hither from Oxford with freedome and safety it was thought unfit and denyed by the Houses and the Commissioners from Scotland But that argument now hath no force at all For the case of affairs the Kings condition and ours which were given for Reasons in that Answer to his Majesty are quite altered from what they were then Then the King had Armies in the fields he had Garrisons and strong holds to return to Now he hath none of these And his Maiesty offers a ful security against all hostility or danger can be expected from him by granting to the Houses the power of the Militia by Sea and Land during his Raign as is expressed in his Maiesties late Message from Caresbrook Castle And for a further answer we desire the Houses to remember that Reply to his Maiesties Message of the 11 of September 1642. Where after mention of their chief grievances they say All this notwithstanding as we never gave your Majestie any just cause of withdrawing your self from your great Councell So it hath ever bin and shal be far from as to give any impediment to your return Or to neglect any proper means of curing the distempers of the Kingdom and closing the dangerous breaches betwixt your Majesty and your Parliament according to the great trust which lyeth upon us And if your Majesty shal now be pleased to come back to your Parliament without your Forces We shal be ready to secure your Royal Person Crown and Dignity with our lives and fortunes Your presence in this great Councel being the only means of any Treaty betwixt your Majesty and them with hope of success And if they were esteemed Enemies to the Parliament and the Peace of the Kingdoms who advised the King to withdraw from his Parliament What estimation wil the world have of them who after such a Declaration wil not suffer him to return to his Parliament when he offers to cast himself into their Arms If so kind an offer shal be refused and the King driven to despair it is to be feared these Kingdoms shal be involved into greater difficulties then ever And therefore we do hold that the admitting the King to come to London with Honor Freedom and Safety and granting of a personal Treaty with his Maiesty upon such Propositions as shal be agreed upon by advice and consent of both Kingdoms is the most probable and only best means with hope of success for setling a wel-grounded Peace Having spoken of the readi●●t means to obtain a just and lasting peace We shal next fall upon the Consideration of the Propositions which are to be the Foundation of our peace And the most compendious and succ●●●t way to a good agreement and unanimous Resolution upon them is in the first place to consider and remove our differences which are chiefly 〈◊〉 Religion the Interest of the Crown and in the Union and Joynt Conce●●ment of the Kingdoms We shall begin with that of Religion which for the incomparable Excellence thereof although it be amongst the last of these new Propositions deserves the preference It is the primum quarite the unum necessarium We ought to build the House of God before our own The Law of piety and true policy doth require that Religion which rendreth to God his due have the precedency And therefore upon debate before we went to the Treaty at Vxbridg it was agreed betwixt the houses and us that the Propositions of Religion should be in the first place and first Treated and Agreed upon before any Agreement upon any other Proposition And his Maiesty in his late Message from Caresbrook Castle begins at Religion as the best and chiefest Foundation for Peace Wherefore if this changing of the former Order and Method of the Propositions be only their Error to whom the reviewing of the Propositions was committed And if the Houses have not faln away from their first Zeal We desire that it may be rectified and the former Method keeped And so we come to the matter of the Propositions The material differences and alterations concerning Religion may be branched into the Errour of Omission and Deficiency and into that of Commission and Excess That which is left out is no less then the Solemn League and Covenant And shal the Covenant which is as Solemn a vow as Creatures on Earth could make to God in Heaven and the greatest tye betwixt men on Earth to which the most high and dreadful Name of the Lord God Almighty was interposed be offered up in a Sacrifice and buryed in the ashes of Oblivion Shal our Covenant for the Preservation and Reformation of Religion for the honor and happyness of the King and the peace and safety of the three Kingdoms and for the maintenance and defence of the Laws and true publick Liberties of these Kingdoms which was declared by both Kingdoms to be a fit and most Excellent means to acquire the favour of God towards both and likewise to Unite them and by uniting to strengthen them against the common Enemies of the true Reformed Religion and the Peace and Prosperity of these Kingdoms and which in all former Propositions was desired to be established be now d●le●ed as unworthy to take room amongst these new Propositions Shal the Covenant which both Houses did recommend to the Assembly of Divines to make a Declaration to all sorts of persons to take it as that which they judged not only Lawful but exceeding expedient and necessary for