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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

smaller things which had relation to Civill Priviledges seemed chiefly if not wholly to be the state of the quarrell Afterwards you were carried on further and further in owning what was necessary for advancing the great business you were engaged into and dis-owning what you saw destructive to it as the Kings Negative Vote in Parliament and Generall Assemblies the uncertainty of the calling of Parliaments and establishing a Committee of Estates in the Intervales of Parliament c. But after all these were obtained by a wonderfull Series of Providence carrying you along and countenance you being freed from the service-Service-Book Episcopacy and the rest your Enemies being vanquished the powers of the Nation in appearance friendly to you and countenancing the busines the King the great opposer thereof made in a manner to approve you in all you had done by his ratifying all in Parliament so that you could desire nothing of him outwardly but you had it Ordinances in purity none to manage the business but such as were professed Friends to the work yet for all this were you not stil at a loss all you had gotten every day ready to be betrayed every farther degree of freedom opposed Dear Friend consider I conceive the stresse of the matter lyes here that which has bin your hurt hinderance all along hath been not so much open enemies as dissembling prophane men among you haters of godlines and the Godly and of any appearance of God in discovering of duties in order to the carrying on of the great Work or in abandoning what was discovered to be inconsistent or incongruous therwith engaged in the busines upon corrupt accompts ready alway to betray it into the hands of enemies and while avowing themselves and continuing professed Friends opposing and retarding good motions raising Factions against you and the true interest of the cause and by these great pretences and professions of being for the Covenant and Work of God becoming so numerous in Judicatories that they have carryed all before them I shall instance the year 1648. Did not that Parliament then become so highly Malignant that many if not all that were Godly in the Parliament though I do not say that all who went along with them in the Protestation did it upon a right accompt as has appeared since were forced to protest and leave the House and yet all the while none pretending more for the Cause of God and Covenant then they while they were carrying on their Malignant Designes and persecuting all the Godly in Scotland who did not go along with them And indeed can you say but all along though sometimes you have been more at one in carrying forward some outward thing there has been reall and visible distances and heart burnings betwixt you the Godly and such as were engaged in the businesse upon a wrong accompt they sometimes whispering that good motions coming from you did smell of Sectarisme and new light or by raising Factions against you to the dividing of Judicatories and so at best clogging you in the way and making the Work halt to the sadding of the Spirits of all honest men that were looking on So that I say the great contest of late and that which hath had a great influence upon all the late transactions these five or six years hath been by whose hands that so generally professed should be managed and who could justly and rightly claim an Interest in it as Friends or sutable instruments thereto and who were enemies I appeal to your own experience what was in this before the year 1648. how honest men were under-mined by a Faction that partly had engaged with them in the beginning and partly had crept in by professing themselves to go along with them in the Work by taking the Covenant which by the way I desire you to take notice whether it has not been to large a rule in so searching a busines did they not see themselves undermined a long time before it came to so direct a breach as afterwards it did and yet they professing themselves Friends to the Covenant and Work they could not be rid of them till themselves were shuffled to the door And though these that did then protest seemed to be unanimous in what they did in their ends moving them to it and their principles carrying them on in it all that did follow therupon yet I dare appeal to such of you as were then acquainted with busines if many of these that did protest were not in their judgements for an engagement at that same time and that their searing from it was their seeing it chiefly carried on by such as they judged to be enemies to their ruling of matters though professed friends to the Work the power of managing businesses being likely to be established in their hands This I can averre from some of the Protesters themselves that at a close Committee of the chief of the Protesters it was resolved to possesse Berwick and Carlile long e're it was surprised by Duke Hamilton and that party And though the way you were then necessitated to you owning your selves at first but as private men and the party in Scotland risen in Armes and standing for the Covenant and interest of the people of God was an extraordinary remedy you being expresly tied in the Covenant to maintain the Priviledges of Parliament yet under that notion and upon that accompt that you were the People of God and them that had onely the true interest to profess your selves Friends to the Cause Covenant and interest of the People of God and such as only could rightly challenge a priviledge to manage these and places of trust in the Kingdom and yet all this while you were nothing but private men there being a Committee of Estates appointed that you could not say but they were lawfully constituted they having established the foresaid Committee as the Authority of the Kingdom in the interval of the Parliament upon the foresaid accompt of their evil managing of business through their becoming enemies to the Work and people of God as you then thought you did rise in Arms against them and did not onely oppose their Authority but did break them so as to be no. Authority at all and moreover did constrain them to condescend that you should be a Committee of Estates Being thus a Committee you did set down Rules for calling a new Parliament you did contrary to the Fundamental Laws of Scotland whereby every Freeholder having a Forty shilling Land holden of the King hath the priviledge to vote in choosing Commissioners and to be chosen debar any from voting in Elections or being Elected that had voted in Parliament to the Engagement 1648. or in the Committee of Estates had taken the Oath for carrying on thereof or had subscribed the Bond for promoving the same or had taken the Oath in Committees of shires for the advancing of it or had given obedience in an active way to the