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A45672	Nahash redivivus in a letter from the Parliament of Scotland, directed to the Honorable William Lenthal, Speaker of the House of Commons examined and answered by John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1649 (1649)	Wing H894; ESTC R9915	17,406	24

turnes nor carry on their Interest but the Invasion was generally liked and promoted by their boutefeu Priests till they saw they were out-witted by the Fox Hamilton and when they saw the enemies of their Kirk-Government in power in the Army then indeed the Engagement was unlawful because it might have proved Prelaticall but had it been Orthodox it had been lawful enough They may take notice that it is not their Protestation that will build again the houses they fired store with plenty the Countyes they wasted restore to honor violated Chastity or recover the lives lost in resisting their Covenanting Invasion and therefore notwithstanding their Protestation the breach was National and so must the satisfaction be and the Common-wealth of England will expect a better then that which universally expiates all things there the wawling humiliations in the Stool of hypocrisie But besides they say that they continued in Arms till the Garrisons of Barwick and Carlisle were delivered and therefore they did more then protest It is true indeed they did but that they were able to do so let them thank that Honorable Lieut. General who like a good disciple of the best Master had learned to forgive his Enemies and to render them good for their evil who had a wretched Countrey justly forfeited by their wicked invasion wholly at his mercy as were also all that dissembling crew that then cried little less then Hosanna to him and who have since appeared again what they then were and what his Honor was then told they then were and what he would after finde them viz. Scots though the excess of his own candor and the melting flowings of his Christian spirit would neither suffer him to believe what he could not chuse but know nor act as became their provocations but let that pass perhaps the coals of fire he then heaped upon their heads may be a more lasting torment to them then the execution of his Sword They say the Lieut. General represented the wrongs and injuries committed against England in that Engagement He did not then revenge them or take reparation he might have done the one as well as the other or as well as he gave that subsistence they have Those forces who had beaten their numerous Army in England might without great difficulty have gathered their gleanings of men and consumed all the heapes of their Harvest the time of year was proper to have distroyed it had his horse stayed there to have eaten their Oates their men must have starved for want of food For what they granted or repealed which they boast in this Paragraph they may thank him who gave them a capacity to do it and which they will finde they will not be able to maintain without some help more merciful to their necessities then any that will be solicited for them by either Montross or Forth or Cochram or that shall be brought them by their so hastily embraced Charls the Second the fates of whose house they have seemed with great affection to espouse and think with their bladders to Buoy up his sinking ship For the Garrisons of Barwick and Carlisle we shall not thank them for delivery of them they would have cost them more to keep then the pay of the souldiers in those towns there were English forces among them which they were desirous might depart lest their longer stay there might further discover their weakness and poverty and increase it and besides perhaps they might have sowne among them some Tares of Error Heresie and Schism which have troubled the Presbytery to weede out of the Kirk a thing which they fear more then all the prophaness in the Nation for that they have a Cathobian the blessed stool but for this other the Doctors are not yet agreed upon a Recipe And for their compliance with the Lieut. Generals demands that none who had been in that Engagement should have any employment in any publick place or trust it adds nothing to their merit an obligation upon them by that demand in establishing thereby their subsistence they had not been without that act of his the compliance wherewith they would have now so fain believed was an effect of their own ingenuity and gratitude dispositions perhaps which they are no more able to bring into act then their whole wretched Countrey is to give just satisfaction to the wrong which this Nation hath within these ten years suffered by them Paragraph 3. If the Bonds of Religion Loyalty to the King and mutual Amity and Friendship betwixt the Kingdoms be impartially considered according to the Solemn League and Covenant and the Professions and Declarations of both Kingdoms The Estates of Parliament think that they have just cause to complain of the late proceeddings in England in reference to Religion the taking away of the Kings life and the changing the Fundamental Government of that Kingdom against which this Kirk and Kingdom and their Commissioners have protested and given testimony whereunto they do still adhere IF the principles of the Common-Freedom and Justice the Rules and Laws of Nations and of mutual Amity and Friendship with one another be considered the Common wealth of England may think they have just cause to complain of the Scots not onely for invading this Nation with an Army but usurping with a ridiculous impudence a power paramount to the Supream Power of England assembled in Parliament upon all occasions taking upon them not onely to direct what they are to do with the King and in the Government but they will needs make a Religion and impose that too What State-Religion is which for political respects is almost every where imposed upon the people this is not a place to examine But it would deserve their weightiest consideration whether some thing be not done herein by way of usurpation of the incommunicable Throne And while men cry out of prophaneness and justly too perhaps it never more abounded commit the most horrible that ever was in compelling Religion to dress it self in Forms to serve their secular Interests but hindering all they can the progress of it in Purity and Power to the promoting of it in that way which needs not their help Have we not the Scriptures in England and in English too and are not they the rule of all things that are to be believed and all things to be done May not we expect the Divine Discoveries and Assistance to such as humbly and duly seek to know the Will and Minde of God as well as they of Scotland May we not keep a Smith in Israel Do we offer to impose ought upon them Did not they think it an intolerable burthen when their late Tyrant by the Councel of his Priests would obtrude upon them a Rule of Worship and State of Government Ecclesiastical And is it so sweet to do what they thought too hard to suffer as it put them to the hazard of all to avoid it But perhaps they will say That was a corrupt Form of

Nahash Redivivus IN A LETTER FROM The PARLIAMENT of SCOTLAND Directed to the Honorable William Lenthal Speaker of the House of COMMONS Examined and Answered by John Harrison of the Inner-Temple Esquire 1 Sam. 11.2 And Nahash the Amonite said unto them On this condition will I make a Covenant with you that I may thrust out all your right eyes Vers 11. Saul put the hoast in three companies and they came into the midst of the hoast in the morning watch and slew the Amonites til the heat of the day and it came to pass that they which remained were scattered so that two of them were not left together Si pars una faedus violaverit poterit altera a foedere discedere nam capita foederis singula conditionis vim habent H. Grot. in lib. 2. de jure belli pacis Cap. 15. N. 15. Si vel tantillum ex dictis pars alterutra transgrederetur rupta fore pacta Eodem in loco ex Thucydide LONDON Printed for Thomas Brewster and are to be sold at the three Bibles in Creed-Lane neer the West-End of Pauls 1649. Nahash Redivivus In a Letter from the PARLIAMENT of SCOTLAND Directed to the Honorable William Lenthal Esquire Speaker of the House of COMMONS ALthough it may perhaps seeme strange to those who having taken the boldness to believe themselves men and in that belief to make use of their own Reason and by the exercise thereof have formed to themselves right apprehensions of things and men and have seen through those masks and pretences of Religion Covenant and Reformation by which our ill Neighbours on the other side of Tweede have endeavoured to vail and muffle themselves while they pursued their own Interest That either precious time should be spent or good paper so ill employed as take notice of their late Letter from their Parliament misdirected and therefore perhaps ought not to have had publick reception much less an answer Yet for that there are many good souls amongst us ful of integritie and piety and whose zeal to the Common wealth of England is as warm and their affections as real as any others according as they apprehend who yet come not beyond that infant rate of Illumination and Reformation of Presbytery and therefore while they are under that Scottish Mist and Calidonian darkness are in great danger of seducement and of being imposed upon by those who march behinde that Stalking horse to shoot their Game dead and of being made by them to serve turns perfectly opposite to their own good intentions and promote Interests destructive to the Common-wealth of England and the good of the people in it to which ininconveniency their candor and innocency alone would never have subjected them if they would but have acted as men and have taken the pains to prove and examine all things and not have suffered themselves to be led blindfold by those Blind-guides amongst us especially a few wretched ones here in London the Antisignani of the Appollyonists who wear a black garment to deceive by whom they are made believe that the blessed Reformation in Scotland and the happy Government there is purely Evangelical and according to the minde of Christ and that all is Gospel that comes from thence to which belief experience hath shewed us that we have many honest men though sufficiently weak as firmly glewed as any poor wretched and perhaps well-meaning Papist is to believe that all is Canonicall which the Roman Consistory shall resolve that Vrim and Thummim are the linings of the Popes Pall and that Oracular verity is as clearly and frequently spoken now from his Chair as it was of old from between the Cherubims For the sake therefore of poor honest Presbyterians whose weakness apprentizing their judgments to their Teachers and they for Interest causing them to depend upon a forraign State makes them as dangerous to this Common-wealth besides their intentions as those are intentionally who are acted from Rome I shall for their sakes and caution to them crave leave of those that need it not a little to examine this Scots Letter and upon that occasion to offer some light to those who are benighted in a fog of that land of darkness And although I very well understand what the power of prejudice is and of what difficulty to remove and that it is not an easie matter to dispel those suffusions or couch those Cataracts that have been growing upon our Eyes from our birth yet for that the intellectual Organ pardon the abuse of the Expression hath a right formation and is intrinsecally adequate to the receptions of light if what is adventitious and extrinsecal be removed I shall not wholly despair that so many as love truth will see it if it be rightly proposed though perhaps not so at first as to distinguish men and trees but when they shall perceive light to come in they will undoubtedly say Surely the light is a good thing and finde that it offends onely those who have weak or sore eyes I also know how hard it is to perswade any of their own imperfections and especially in matter of knowledg most men beleeving that themselves or some other whom their laziness hath propounded to follow as an infallible guide have attained the aym of knowledg and that though many are below them who ought to come up to their measure yet that nothing is really beyond them which they should move toward and that what ever goes besides their rule is Error and Schism and what ever pretend beyond their view is fancy and Enthusiasm Most being like her in Seneca who would not believe the blindness of her eyes but accused her house of darkness To evidence therefore that there is a suffusion remaining upon the discerning faculty of most men it would be necessary to shew that it is originally upon all and how it grows That so we may the more willingly submit to the cure of it To this end we might consider that man liveth the several lives or passeth through the several States of Vegetation Sense and Reason Of the first we shall say nothing from thence this disease grows not but when he comes out of infancy though that also be on this side Vegetation into Childhood and begins to receive in the objects of Sense specially those of Hearing and Seeing the other will not in this subject concern us he begins to form to himself certain Idola or Images of things as they are brought to him by those Senses which wanting a Judgment to examine he layes them up as they offer themselves in the Store-house of his Memory and by often either Acts of Memory or of new Reception of the same object by the same Sense it becomes familiar to him conformed to his Sense to him then the highest Judg of Truth and is seldom after reduced to examination that being a thing which few believe to be necessary and of which number fewer are willing to undergo the