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A82033	A declaration against a late dangerous and seditious band, under the name of An humble remonstrance, &c. wherein the plots and projects of the contrivers tending to the violating and subversion of our covenants; raising and fomenting of jealousies, within this, and between both kingdoms; prolonging of the unnaturall wars; and, impeding the intended uniformity in religion, are discovered, / by the Commission of the General Assembly.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1646 (1646)	Wing D519; Thomason E330_6; ESTC R200712	8,655	19

this Kingdome they of the defence of the Kings Majesties just Right and Property and that simply and absolutely without any such relation to Religion Liberties Laws The Covenant of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdome they of the lawfull proper Freedoms and Liberties of the Subjects 2. Among other Individuals of the Covenant this is one That neither directly nor indirectly shall we suffer our selves to be divided or withdrawn by whatsoever suggestion combination allurement or terrour from that blessed and loyall conjunction But they have directly divided and withdrawn themselves from that blessed and loyall conjunction wherein the Kirk and Kingdom continue constant by a cleer combination in writ under their hands 3. Another particular in the Covenant is That we shall not cast in any let or impediment that may stay or hinder any such resolution as by common consent shall be found to conduce for ●o good ends But they obliege themselves to hinder resolutions found by common consent of the Estates of Parliament to conduce for the ends mentioned in the Covenant such as the keeping on foot Armies at home and abroad and all means for their necessary maintenance The solemne League and Covenant unanimously approven by the Generall Assemblies of this Kirk ratified by the authoritie of the Parliament of this Kingdome and universally sworn and subscribed through the Kirks of this Kingdome is not so much as once remembred in this Remonstrance yea clearly enough to a perceiving beholder though warily and closely they exclude the same while they call the Nationall Covenant Approven as if the other were not approven and while they deny a desire of dissolving the link of fraternitie betwixt us and our Brethren of England insinuating their disavowing of a League and Covenant of fraternitie Otherwise they would not have shunned the mention of the League and Covenant when they had so fair an occasion offered of expressing their approbation thereof as a tye of our unitie with our Brethren in England So that the subscription of this Band brings with it a fearfull breach of the League and Covenant Unitie and Uniformitie in Religion and Kirk government so much pressed by our Commissioners as a speciall means for conserving the Peace betwixt the two Kingdomes upon the grounds and reasons contained in their Paper of the 10. of March 1641. and given in to the Treatie and Parliament of England so much promoved by the continued labours of the following Generall Assemblies and their Commissioners from time to time both at home and at London to the endeavouring whereof we are so strongly engaged by the League and Covenant of the Kingdome and which is so far advanced in the Directory for Worship agreed upon by the Assemblies and ratified by the Parliaments in both Kingdomes is utterly neglected and not so much as mentioned in this seditious Band. What is here offered by them to the view of the world if it be looked upon with the eye of any but such as have given themselves to a detestable indifferencie neutralitie in this cause wherein the Kirk and Kingdom are engaged shall be found fraughted with the Characters set down in the solemne and seasonable Warning of the Generall Assembly holden at Edinburgh 1645. whereby secret Malignants and dis-covenanters may be known such are Their slighting and censuring of the Publick Resolutions of this Kirk and State Art 3. and 4. Their labouring to raise jealousies and divisions to retard or hinder the execution of what is ordered by publick Judicatories Art 5. Their censuring and slandering these whom GOD hath honoured as his chief Instruments in this Work Art 2. and 3. Their drawing of Parties and Factions to the weakning of the Common Union in their conclusion Their endeavours Informations and Solicitations tending to weaken the hearts and hands of others and to make them with-hold their assistance from this Work which is the very scope of their 6. Article The Article of Inviting the Kings Majestie into this his Native Kingdom though it seem plausible a● the first hearing and for that cause first placed Yet let it be pondered by second thoughts which are the wisest in the scales of reason and the prejudice thereof shall clearly appear For 1. he who considereth that much innocent blood of his Majesties good Subjects hath been shed by his Majesties Commands and Commissions Irish Rebels have been brought over into both Kingdomes and endeavours to bring over more as also Forces from forreigne parts That his Majesty is in open hostility against the Parliament of England Forces on foot by his Majesties Commission against the Kingdome of Scotland under the leading of that accursed and forfaulted Traitour and the Warre in Ireland fomented and prolonged by his Majesty whereby the three Kingdomes are brought neer to utter ruine and destruction Shall perceive that untill satisfaction and securitie be first given to both Kingdoms his Majesties coming hither cannot be convenient nor called for Upon which ground the Parliament of England and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland in their Letter to his Majesty January 13. 1646. refuse the personall Treaty desired by his Majesty and declare That Propositions from both Kingdomes are to be sent to his Majesty which they conceive far otherwayes and upon surer ground then these Banders do to be the onely way for attaining a happy and wel-grounded Peace 2. Such an invitation for making Peace may not proceed from this Kingdome without the advice and consent of our neighbour Kingdom with which we are entred in League and Covenant far lesse from a few private persons banded in this Remonstrance unlesse we will directly break the 8. Article of the Treaty ratified in the 3. Parl. of King Charles Act 5. wherein it is agreed and concluded That no cessation nor pacification or agreement for Peace whatsomever shall be made by either Kingdome or the Armies of either Kingdomes without the mutuall advice and consent of both Kingdomes or their Committees in that behalf appointed who are to have full power for the same in case the Parliament or Convention of the Estates of Scotland or the Houses of Parliament of England shall not sit 3. This Invitation and incoming of the Kings Majesty while he is still in terms of Hostility against his Parliament of England is so far from setling a solid Peace as they confidently conceive that it will undoubtedly prolong these unnaturall Warres and draw upon this Land the heaviest weight and deepest dint of them These Judicatories the re-establishment whereof is desired by their third Article have neither been altogether silent For some of them have sit and kept their diets of meeting Neither yet have bin silenced by men as they do insinuate but have been necessarily interrupted through the Invasion of the barbarous Irishes and Insurrection of dis-natured Countrymen and through the spreading and raging of the fearful Plague of Pestilence and now by ordinance of Parliament they are to meet again at the ordinary

A DECLARATION Against A late dangerous and seditious BAND under the name of An humble Remonstrance c. Wherein The Plots and Projects of the Contrivers Tending to the Violating and subversion of our Covenants Raising and fomenting of Jealousies within this and between both Kingdoms Prolonging of the unnaturall Wars And Impeding the intended Uniformity in RELIGION Are discovered By the Commission of the Generall Assembly Printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1646. Edinb Penult Martii 1646. THe Commissioners of the Generall Assembly Do Ordain this Declaration to be forthwith Printed and published and sent to Presbyteries with all diligence Requiring each Presbytery immediatly after the receit thereof to take speedie course for the reading of it in every congregation within their bounds upon the Lords day after the Forenoon Sermon and before the Blessing And that they report account of their diligence herein with the first conveniencie A. Ker. Edinb Penult Martii 1646. A DECLARATION against a late dangerous and seditious Band under the name of An humble Remonstrance c. WHen we consider the usuall way of Gods wise dispensation toward his people in exercising them with one trouble after another and call to minde the inveterate malice of Satan and his instruments and their incessant practises to pervert the straight wayes of the Lord We do not think it strange while we are still wrestling with former difficulties and under hope of prevailing by the mighty help of Gods right hand that we are infested with new assaults from which he who hath delivered us from so great troubles and doth deliver us in him we trust that he will deliver us Yet perceiving by a Paper come to our hands carrying the Title of An humble Remonstrance c. the indeavours of some to deceive the simple and to insinuate wicked counsels and courses under the cover of specious pretences We judge our selves oblieged out of conscience of the trust committed unto us according to the constant and commendable practise of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly in the like exigences To unmask the face of disguised impiety to discover the mysterie of Iniquitie and to bring to light the hidden things of dishonesty that they who through ignorance or inadvertencie have been drawn away into the errour of the wicked may be reduced the simple preserved from seduction the weak strengthened the strong confirmed and the wicked if possible made ashamed of their wayes It is ordinary in the Title of Remonstrances to designe the persons to whom they are directed but this doth altogether abstain from all designation of that kind though the Remonstrants knew that there were Judicatories both Civil and Ecclesiasticall appointed by Parliament and Generall Assemblie to whose consideration belonged matters of such publike concernment for Kirk and State whereby they evidence their neglect and contempt of these and their warinesse to offend them who are in open Rebellion unto whom it is likely they labour to apply themselves since there is nothing in the whole Paper excluding them but by the contrary clear insinuations of their desire and designe to have them partakers of the publike Peace The flourish of the fair description they arrogate to themselves as being such who wish Religion to flourish c. is not sufficient to free them from the society of those who by their barbarous and bloody courses have bin subverting Religion the Kings lawful authority destroying the Subjects and their lawfull Liberties and fomenting the unhappy differences between the King and his people for James Grahame himself is a pretender to all these as well as they And we know that some who are prime Leaders in the businesse had not onely their hand at that Band which did make the first breach upon the Unity made by our Nationall Covenant and was condemned as unlawfull by the Generall Assembly holden at Edinburgh 1641. Sess 17. But also after the forfeiture and Excommunication of the before-named Traitour did in the yeer 1645 subscribe a Band of Union with him and others as his Majesties faithfull Subjects without mention of or relation to any of the Covenants whether Nationall or of the three Kingdomes wherein the power and Commission granted to the said James Grahame there designed James Marquesse of Montrose his Majesties Lieutenant-Generall is acknowledged and approven and the publike resolutions of Kirk and Kingdome are blasphemed as the horrid courses of a Rebellious faction raging within this Kingdome as most wicked and Traiterous unjust and unnaturall and as of a perverse faction of desperate Rebels in fury against the King Oblieging themselves to use all their best and most vigorous opposition against the Actors and Instruments thereof as of abominable and monstrous crimes and mutually to assist one another as they shall be desired or the occasion require Which are enough to render their by-wayes hatefull to the well-affected though they be strawed with the pretences of Pietie and publike good Because the Nationall Assembly hath found and declared that the Band forementioned and all Bands of that and the like nature may not lawfully be made And the Estates of Parliament Parl. 3. of King Charles Act 4. findes that persons guilty of taking up Armes against the Kingdome and Estates of the Countrey are punishable by forfeiture of Life lands goods or any other censure the Parliament shall please to inflict These Remonstrants lest people should be scarred from accession to their combination by the authority of Parliament and Generall Assembly have laboured to cover the nature of this Paper under the name of An humble Remonstrance which nevertheles is so transparent that every ordinary eye may see it in the end a Band oblieging them each to others and that by an Oath To hazard Lives and Fortunes against all deadly for performing all the contents whereby the Subscribers thereof become lyable to the censures and punishments which the Kirk and State may inflict upon them for unlawfull Banding and raising Arms against the Kingdom Although they mention the Nationall Covenant and declare their resolution of paying the debt they owe to the individuals which we conceive to be the particulars or severall Articles therein contained yet we cannot but affirme that their charity is too too common who beleeve at all their deceitfull profession since the whole strain of their Remonstrance is an evident Demonstration of their monstrous defection For 1. Their altering of the words of the Covenant argues their purpose to swerve from the true meaning of it The Covenant bindes to the defence of the Doctrine and Discipline of this Kirk they say they purpose to do what may most tend for the propagation of the Protestant Religion in purity a phrase used in the Kings Declarations wherein he professeth the maintenance of Episcopacie The Covenant speaks of the defence of the Kings Majesties person and authority in the defence and preservation of the true Religion Liberties and Lawes of

times if the like causes do not necessitate an unexpected vacation In the mean time it is to be remembred that Judicatories authorised by Parliament with such power as the condition of affairs the necessity of these present times required were not silent though some of these Remonstrants would not hearken to them Or else they had been more active against the publike Enemies which had made a fairer way for opening the Ordinary Judicatories than the strengthening of the bloodie hands of the Rebels unto the works of violence by contriving a Band. The danger of weakning the Kingdome and rendring it a prey to forraigners represented in the third Article is increased by this course which they have taken The Kingdome being thereby made the more unable not onely to resist forraigne Invasion but also to suppresse the Intestine Rebellion while it doth not onely want their assistance but findeth their resistance The best way of strengthening and securing the Kingdome is To joyne unanimously and actively in pursuit of the Rebels within the same whose garments have been dyed in the blood of the People of GOD To entertain a firm Peace and Union between the two Kingdomes for prosecuting the ends of our League and Covenant But above all To turn every man from his evill wayes and to return unto him that hath smitten us who can heale us and humble our Adversaries and turn his hand against our Enemies Our help is in the Name of the Lord who made the heaven and the earth With whom it is nothing to help with many or with them that have no power through him we shall do valiantly and he shall tread down our enemies Which are the precious words of GOD and not the specious phrases of men The fourth Article 1. Laboureth by reproachfull expressions To make odious unto the people the best wayes and means that the Estates of Parliament and Committees thereof could think upon for the necessary maintenance of Warre against the wicked Rebels Whereby they cast in a let and impediment to hinder publike Resolutions though some of these have of all others least cause to complaine and disclaime the necessity of maintaining an Army against James Grahame which will affoord him and his complices leave to gather strength For the Enemy cannot be suppressed without a competent number of Forces and Forces cannot be kept together without maintenance and maintenance cannot be had without such publike burdens 2. Mentioneth the exacting of great Fines and Intromissions with mens Fortunes and Rents whereby they evidence their favour to and indeavour to conciliat the favour and following of such as have been so dealt with by the Estates for being accessory lesse or more unto the unnaturall and bloody Rebellion And 3. Maketh a lie against the Estates as if they had received great sums of money from other Kingdoms or Common-wealths than England If these who have been most active in this Combination had been present in Parliament they would have been witnesses of the care taken by the Estates to give full satisfaction to every one who desired to be informed of the publike expences disbursments by appointing a particular Committee for examination of the publike Compts and thereafter causing keep the Book of Accounts in a publike Chamber with intimation of free accesse to all that pleased But they are willingly if not wilfully ignorant and bewray their disaffection by apprehending all probable appearance to raise and foment Jealousies between the Parliament and the Countrey and Souldiers which is the drift of the 5. Article The large laying forth of the distressed condition of this Kingdome insisted upon in the 6. Article aimes at the discouraging and weakning of the hearts and hands of the well-affected and tends to perswade the disbanding our Forces imployed against the Rebels which exposeth what is reserved from the fury of the Enemy to be preyed upon by them without opposition But if they as becomes Covenanters and Countreymen had considered that the most of those calamities have been caused by the cruelty of the Irish crew and the rest of that Traiterous Company and by the lukewarmnesse temporizing and double dealing of hollow-hearted men they would have resolved against all difficulties to cleave unto the Kingdom in the pursuit and suppressing of these children of Belial as a compendious way to the removall of distresses Shall they have Lives and Fortunes to hazard against all deadly for rescuing these Rebells from their deserved punishment And is there nothing left unto the Kingdome to hazard for its own defence and bringing Malignants unto their due censure according to our League and Covenant And if the condition of our affaires crave assistance from our Brethren in England we are confident they will be mindful of our mutuall ingagements though these Banders like bad husband-men labour to sow the seeds of Jealousies amongst us In the 7. they covertly calumniate the prime managers of affairs as men indisposed to Peace who have abundantly evidenced their earnest desire of Peace by Supplications Remonstrances Declarations Treaties for Peace Propositions of Peace And we further declare and professe in the sight of him who searcheth the heart That nothing is more in the desire of us all then that Reformed Religion may be enjoyed with a happy and well-grounded Peace through all his Majesties Dominions And from the beginning of these troubles we have been cloathed with and yet will not put off a resolution to use as we have been ever using all possible and lawfull means to procure the same And for this effect we beseech all men who love the Cause of God and their Countreys good to divest themselves of private quarrels and particular interests that with the greater unanimitie and hope of successe they may pursue the troublers of our Peace But we do ingenuously acknowledge That our souls abhor to enter into the secret and our glory to be joyned with the assembly of them who sue for such a Peace as comprehends the prime authors of all our troubles and would suffer these who have shed the blood of War in Peace to go in peace into the grave As in the entry so toward the end that the hook of the Band may the better take with well-meaning men they busk it with great variety of fair colours and like the harlot they deck the bed with coverings of tapistry carved works and fine linnen they perfume it with myrrhe and cynamon and with impudent face they speak of Peace-offerings and paying their Vows that with much fair speech they may cause the simple ones to yeeld and with the flatterings of their lips force them But he that hath understanding will discern that this their Profession is contrary to their intent formerly discovered will learn not to be credulous unto them who speak lies in hypocrisie and not suffer his heart to decline to their wayes and go astray in their paths which go down to the chambers of death The repetition of their intention