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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11659	The remonstrance of the nobility, barrones, burgesses, ministers and commons within the kingdome of Scotland Vindicating them and their proceedings from the crymes, wherewith they are charged by the late proclamation in England, Feb. 27. 1639.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646. aut	1639 (1639)	STC 21907; ESTC S116848	16,780	34

intentions are against this Kirk and kingdome and what birth may be looked for if divine providence by changing the heart of our King or by some other way known to himself make not an abortion or chock it in time For first through the incurable superstition and inveterate malice of the Prelats against the reformed religion declaration is made that by introducing the service book there was not the least thought of innovation of religion but meerly to have a conformity with the worship of God which is observed in both the other kingdomes though evil minded men have wrested somethings in it to a sinistrous sense Thus the service book is still no innovation of religion but by our sinistrous sense is made to seem so conformitie with the worship of GOD in other kingdomes is urged upon us as if we were tabularasa and had not a forme of worship established by the acts of the Kirk and laws of the kingdome meerly to have conformity is averred although the manifold litures and interlynings of the service book used in both the other kingdomes testifie the contrare by the hands of our own Prelates and of Canterburie himself Hence wee must pay for abusing the book and the book it self must in the own time be received Secondly through the pride and greed of our Prelates Episcopall government must be retained as it is established by acts of Parliament as known to the whole world to be most Christian in it self most peaceable for the civill estate most consonant to Monarchicall government and without which the Parliament will not stand compleat of three estates Although the truth is there be no act of Assembly nor of Parliament for that office in this kingdome that it is known to reformed Christendome rather to be antichristian in it self most prejudiciall to the peace of the civill estate and hath in all nations proven the most pernicious enemy to Monarchs and true Monarchicall government And that the Parliament hath been may be and is in the nature thereof compleat and perfect without this excrescence Hence Bishops we must have jure divino to serve the will of the Prince in the worship of GOD and these as lordly as ever before Thirdly No Covenant must be indured to which the Kings Majestie shall not consent and our Covenant only pretended to be with God that we may with better countenance do the works of the devill such as are treasons and rebellions Hence our Covenant can be no more endured then treason and rebellion and the Covenanters either renounce God so solemnly attested by them or punished as rebels and traitours Fourthly the question is conceived to bee no more about the service book and Episcopall government But whether the Kings Majestie shall bee our King or not And is determined that we have stricken at the very root of Kingly government vilified the regall power in his Majesties person and assumed it to our selves Fifthly it is declared that his Majestie is forced to take armes to establish and set his Kingly authority right here to make the best of us see that he will indure no such Covenant as we have made Hence resolution is taken and declared that for establishing the service book and episcopall government for abolishing of our Covenant and for being avenged on us as rebels and traitours his Majestie cometh in a hostile war with all the power that can be raised in England by all other meanes and by this Proclamation which is ordained to be reade in time of divine service in every Kirk within the kingdome for that effect Our part in this case is to resolve whither we will with sin and shame lie under the pressing weight of so many foule aspersions as rarely in the worst times have been laide upon Christians receive the service book as the only forme of divine worship which is declared by the Assembly to be a masse of errours superstition idolatry and antichristian tyrannie welcome home againe our Prelats and their abjured government condemne our reformers and the glorious work of reformation renounce our Covenant and be so many times perjured as we have sworne and subscribed the same losse all our labours and paines bestowed for so large a time in so good a cause open with our own hands a wide doore and by our example shew a brode way for the entring of Popery of all changes in religion hereafter lay a stumbling block in the Kings way to the kingdome of heaven and hinder the Queens conversion give offence to all the reformed Kirks who have been praying for us harden the hearts and strengthen the hands of all the enemies of the truth at home and abroad make our selves an odious spectacle to men and angels forget our bygone slavery and our wishes for redemption deny our own experience of the mercy truth and power of GOD so many times and so many wayes to our unspeakable comfort manifested this time by-past losse the posterity and the children that shall come after us who shall mourne in misery for our misdeeds make the faces of so many to blush and be ashamed because of us leave nothing but laments to our friends and jubilees of joy to our enemies interrupt the march of the LORD of hosts upon the earth and wrest his dis-played banner out of his hands pull the crown from the head of CHRIST our judge our lawgiver and our King grieve and resist the holy Ghost pull down the golden-candlestick and put out the light and bring all the plagues that are written in the book of GOD upon us so that all nations shall say wherefore hath the Lord done this unto this land What meaneth the heate of this his great anger Then men shall say because they have forsaken the Covenant of the Lord therefore are these evils come upon them A word of defection could no sooner come from our mouthes but the horrour of hell should enter in our souls Or rather on the contrary use the power which GOD hath put in our hands not for invading England or doing the smalest harme to any of the people of GOD who trouble not our peace cursed be the breasts that harbour such intentions and the hands that execute them but meerly for our own defence and safety against armed violence and unjust invasion And therefore where it is demanded in the Proclamation what we will defend we answere not our disobedience but our religion liberties and lives And where it is asked against whom we will defend Least our intentions or actions should be mistaken by such as are not acquainted with our case or misconstrued as contrary to the doctrine of sound divines or to the laudable practises of Christians of old or of late we desire that distinction may be made and difference put between the King resident in the Kingdome and by opening his ears to both parties rightly informed and the King farre from us in another kingdome hearing the one partie and mis-informed by our