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A67049	A word of advertisement & advice to the godly in Scotland by a Scotch man, and a cordiall vvelwisher to the interests of the godly in Scotland, both in civils and spirituals.	Scotch man and a cordial wel-wisher to the interest of the godly in Scotland.	1651 (1651)	Wing W3553; ESTC R23487	15,778	24

deceiving of themselves and all honest men for the State seeing their way in preaching and declaring against them to tend much to the weakning of their Authority and Designs did study how to carry on their Designs with the fairest outside that might be I shall give one particular instance which is this their forcing of the King to subscribe passing all their former and late proceedings with him and with the State that Declaration wherein he declares all the freinds of the Covenant to be his freinds and the enemies thereof to be his What a strange way that was for them to draw up a Declaration of that nature and to compel him to subscribe it by a Declaration of abandoning his interest if he should refuse to do it I leave to the serious consideration of all godly Ministers and Professors and what hath been the sad consequencies of proceedings in this kinde and I hope it will not be understood as if I spoke against good men whom I honor or against the Ministry my desire being onely to take notice of those things whereby they have wronged themselves and the people of God My dear Friends It doth more then evidently appear that upon all the considerations spoken of you must either abandon your own Interest and all you have been fighting wrestling and praying for or else you must as the people of God and only upon that accompt owne what is your own Interest and the true Interest of that which is the Work indeed in following the Lamb in his quarrell against the Beast in crushing opposing dashing in pieces laying aside and treading upon every thing that stands in the way of his exalting in the midst of his People or would uphold false Christs in more or lesse the power of the Beast whether it be King or Kingness or Parliaments or Interests of Nations or Governments or be it what it will Oh if you were once joyned together upon this accompt how should you be made to revive and your reproach taken away let it not be a stumbling-block in your way that thus did the Sectaries so called in England I do not question but the Lord in his present dispensations is letting you see your sin and error in condemning your Brethren in England for that which materially at least was and is your Dutie what better was their condition there or in probability would have been then yours had not the Lord raised up their Spirits to the consideration of the continual hazard they were exposed to by suffering their Interest to be managed by a number of men who minded not the Interest of the People of God nor the true Interest of the Nation and were upon the closing of a Treatie wherein they were to give up the Interest of the Godly and what they had been fighting for to the will and power of him who was the greatest Delinquent in the three Kingdomes till I say the Lord raised up their Spirits to be instrumentall in laying aside those unsuitable dangerous Instruments and to persecute all that has follow'd upon 't wherein how they have been countenanced and carryed through is obvious And truly I am perswaded that ill the Lord shall be pleased to open your eyes as I hope he will to see it your dutie to take the like course and to see yours and their Interest to be one and your Enemies one though your differences in some things should continue till something of both these ye shall be haunted with sorrowes and distresses and disappointments and disasters one after another let me say this without offence I am far from justifying those in England in al the circumstances either of their way there or of their coming into Scotland and shall not say but that there has been not onely an offence taken by you but also an offence given especially in the way of their coming into Scotland though they have this to say for themselves First that a Treatie was denyed unlesse they would deny the capacitie they stood into and the resolved desperate carrying on the Treatie with the King notwithstanding all the discoveries of him and of his designes and our example eleven years ago who entered England with an Army for matters meerly concerning Scotland without any call from any Publique Judicatories and yet were owned by the Godly in England and that during the time of the Treatie an about and after the close of it Prince Rupert was at Sea robbing their Ships destroying their Trade by vertue of this Kings Commissions Ormond in Ireland in the Head of the Popish Army and severall Commissions issued forth to severals in England Dear Friends If you can look upon them as Brethren as I am sure they are at least the generalitie of the leading counselling Partie and such as are Godly that adhere to them It is your dutie to forgive and forget though they have done you an Injury They say you have wronged them and yet they professe themselves not only willing to forgive you but to follow you with all kindness and respect and to be usefull to you though it were by laying their Bones in the dust for you If there be Differences amongst you can there be no mids but to destroy one another this seemes to be a strange Paradox and device of Sathan that you think you cannot stand except they fall they do not think so they professe themselves not onely willing but desirous that your interest as the Godly in Scotland should stand though you should differ in judgement from them Can Christ's Kingdom be divided against it self truely it is nothing of Christ that would labour to divide his People in affections and will plead their destroying one of another Dear Friends remember their professions of love to you when they came into this Nation and what a bitter return was made to them in your name what a Christian reply from them what a meeting from you and how unwilling they were the Busines should be decided by blood and how blood-thirsty you were bear the expression none more earnest upon fighting then you notwithstanding all their continuing their professions of love and their moderate carrying of themselves in the Countrey and their returning in their way towards England how eager were even you the Godly in their pursuit how did you long for their ruine whose preservation I dare say as Instruments was and is yours and did conclude them all men ruined and broken whom the Lord would in an outward way own no more after the Lord had made you flee before them they being necessitated to fight being environ'd upon All hands yet notwithstanding all the advantage they had did they not follow you as much as ever and ra her more And the Lord having in a singular way separated you from that Crew ye were intangled vvith and ye beginning to see the errors of former vvays in some things at least and being in a Capacitie to owne your Interest and dis-satisfied in vvhat had formerly bin the state of the Quarrel and vvith the State and the Treatie at Breda and your Brethren in the English Army having renevved their Professions of love to you and their desire to confer vvith you and to have a cessation of Armes and to some of you having gone a great length in particulars to evidence the realitie of their Professions of Love and after the State and Kirk had in such a way declared against your Remonstrance and though in it you had taken away that which was positively and unquestionably the state of the Quarrell and had to my nderstanding put nothing in the room of it yet your desire to fight with them was so great notwithstanding of all these that before you should miss an opportunity ye would rather fall in upon their Quarters upon the Lords day morning And how strangely ye were broken and what were the particular remarkable passages they know best that were there onely it is generally remarked that at Musleburgh at Dunbar and at Hamilton the honest men got the saddest blows However they continue their professions of Love to you even to this day notwithstanding of all they have met with from you then and I dare say from knowledge that since Hamilton if it had pleased the Lord to have opened your eyes to have known what was truly your interest your duty it might have been in the power of the Godly of Scotland not onely to have preserved their own interest but the interest of the Nation and if it should yet please the Lord to open your eyes I am very confident it should not only tend to your good but to the good of the Land and to the rectifying and composing present differences and distances and perhaps the Lords designe is to make each of you usefull in convincing one another in the extreams that either of you it may be hath been inclining to if ye were once together as Brethren Conferring Exhorting Reproving and Watching over each other and Forbearing Forgiving and Loving each other and not as Enemies reproaching contemning smiting taking advantage raising and fomenting prejudices one against another Dear Friends I hope you will not be offended with my Freedom which is not to lay open your nakedness but to shew the kindness tendernss of these whom ye have looked upon as your Enemies that ye maybe perswaded to meet them with the like Sure I am it is the Designe of God to have his People one to cause them follow him together with one heart at least it is his promise it shall be so And that the Whore that sits upon the many waters shall be destroyed and that the Kingdoms of the world shall become the Kingdoms of his Son and I hope he will not loose you even to make you instrumentall in this great Work he is about for it is his time to build up Zion not to destroy her nor no part of her and if it were not for this I should have been laid by from medling into any business so weighty as this is I know it is such a way as the wayfaring man though a fool cannot erre therein FINIS

A WORD OF Advertisement Advice TO THE GODLY IN SCOTLAND By a Scotch Man and a Cordiall VVelwisher to the Interest of the Godly in Scotland both in CIVILS and SPIRITUALS Words in season are like apples of gold in pictures of silver Open rebuke is better then secret love Faithfull are the wounds of a Friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull Edinburgh Printed by Evan Tyler 1651. Dear Friends BEing desirous in this hour of Darkness and sad tryall and trouble to be usefull to you my dear Friends in the Lord being amazed and astonished to see you after twelve or fourteen years Remonstrating Petitioning and these backed with your sw rds in your hand against King Parliament and Committees and indeed the whole Authorities of the Land for your just freedome and Liberties in Spiritual and Civil things I say to see the result of such a business to be as it is this day Is that which should put all the People of God in this Land upon the tryall and enquiry after the causes of this I may say your being so strangely deserted of God And that I may as your Christian Friend be helpful to you in this I shall go back to the beginning of these great Transactions and shall go along with you in so much of the Progress of business to this day as I have either been a witness unto or can truly inform my self of at least so much of them as may make it appear what hath been your former practices and the principles and ends carrying you on in these and because the business is soweighty and you so much concern'd and I so unfit to meddle therewith I shall therefore beg of the Lord that where I may mistake matter of Fact or shall come short of the full representing thereof that ye who may be better acquainted with the whole of Affairs then my self may deal so ingenuously with your selves as to follow out your own knowledge and experiences in these And more to consider what I drive at than what I speak in particulars which I say is to be helpful to you in your search Dear Freind Ye may remember that in the beginning of this weighty business that which did engage you the people of God for to you onely I speak was your being oppressed in your consciences in spiritual things by the King and those employed by him and the connivance and concurrance of these that were the Representative of Church and State together with the Tyranny and Oppressions exercised over your Persons and Estates in several things to be freed of these the attaining establishing and increase of just Freedom in both these was that which chiefly did engage you in the Work There were many that did go on upon corrupt principles and ends whom the Lord made use of for the time and discovered many of them since and will more that they were not nor are suitable Instruments for carrying on of such a Work And though many of your selves did not distinctly and particularly conceive what was the interest of the business you were engaged for at first yet these who saw a far off knew much of it in the time And these who were the people of God indied found and held it forth as their duty to be carried on by the Providences of the Lord to many things in which they were matterially engaged that they did not at first clearly apprehend in particulars And so all along every new discovery of duty in the taking away of any thing that did appear to be inconsistant with the being or wel-being of that which ye had primarily engaged your selves unto or the establishing of any thing that might advance it did make manifest the rottenness of more or fewer mers principles in engaging therein by their falling off or becoming Enemies to it And how often have I heard it preached That this work would have none to follow it but such as were truly godly and that every corrupt man would fall off from it when the true interest of the work did not consist with his corrupt interest Dear Friends Be pleased to consider the rise of this great business Were not many of you panting after praying for it years before it came Were there not private persons in the beginning that did own it against the King and the Authorities of the Nation The state of the cause being as it was could any be friends to it but such as were truly godly Or could any first or last own it without a contradiction but such And hath not your experience all along made this evident unto you that both Persons and Interests which at first you thought might be sutable for the business and might consist with it have proved otherwise Have not they either left you or you them In the beginning it was thought by some that it was enough to be afraid of the Service-Book But how miserable had you stil bin if the Lord had suffered you to rest there or had inclined the Kings heart to grant it and how far short had it been of those farther degrees of just freedom the Lord hath since carried you out to the owning of and adventuring for let your consciences tell you And so all along adhering to this foundation to wit the freeing your selves from Oppressions in your Consciences Persons and Estates and the establishing and carrying on your just freedom in these not so much as Scots men as the people of God ye have been carried on in wayes ye have not knovvn nor foreseen looking alwayes upon it as your duty and practising it and for it abandoning or declaring against every person interest power or authority in less or more as they did prove inconsistant with the work or enemies to it or retarders thereof or insuitable instruments And I do appeal to your experience what ever thoughts you might have in the beginning if it be cosistant with that which is really and indeed the work of God either with its being or well being Not to be in the hands of sutable Instruments I mean such as are really Godly and mindes it upon that accompt And if so how much less can it be consistant with it to be managed by a number of men who are enemies to the Work haters of you and the power of godliness minding nothing but themselves and their own interest being underminers of the things they profess to maintain and cannot be otherways And indeed to my understanding that which hath bin the contest for some years by-gone hath much differed from or rather let me say exceeded what it was in the beginning at first the sum of your Petitioning was to be freed from the Service-Book and Book of Canons afterwards ye slew so high as to strike at the root Episcopacie and all that Roman Hierarchie and for a long time the supplicating against these the Coveranting against these the defending your selves against such as would continue these yokes upon you with some