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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37365	A declaration of the army of England upon their march into Scotland as also a letter of His Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland : together with a vindication of the aforesaid declaration from the uncharitable constructions, odious imputations, and scandalous aspersions of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, in their reply thereto : and an answer of the under-officers and souldiers of the army, to a paper directed to them from the people of Scotland.	England and Wales. Army.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1650 (1650)	Wing D636; ESTC R31359	33,504	46

some of the Ministers of Scotland Preaching and crying up a War against England under pretence of the Covevant did thereby lay the foundation to Duke Hamiltons getting the command of that Army who over-numbring them in Parliament power and friends and by the advantage of Malignants thrust all that you could call the good party out of Power and Authority himselfe getting the command of that Army into England and leaving his brother and other Kinred in power in Scotland Thus upon the same ground and pretence to carry on the Kingly Interest have you been twice deceived and now he is brought in among you who hath turned every stone and tried all Friends and Allyes in Foreign parts endeavoured commotions at home by his wicked and Malignant Instruments commissioned Rupert the French and all that Pyraticall Generation who do spoyl take plunder and destroy our Ships and Trade at Sea and all to the end he might destroy the people of God and the peace of the Three Nations And now being by his Mother and the Popish Interests abroad councelled thereto hath made a compliance with you as his last refuge who even whilst he was treating with you had his heart set upon Montrosse and his Accomplices writing Letters and sending particular Orders to him and upon his Popish Army in Ireland to whom he had given Commissions and whom he still owned as his faithfull Subjects notwithstanding all the Innocent Blood by them shed and would never be induced to comply or close with the Covenant and Presbytery till utterly disappointed of all those his Malignant and Popish hopes and confidences Is there not now just cause for all good men with you to fear that one so bred so engaged and interested and meerly in such a way coming in to you doth but warch his opportunity to speak nothing of the weight of th● Blood of Saints under the Altar erying still for Vengeance upon him and that Family till by his influence upon your Army which you know how composed he may gain his ends upon you and how likewise the generality of the people of Scotland are affected is not unworthy of your most serious consideration nor of a friendly intimation from us But that which most awakens us is That notwithstanding all this and all the wrongs done to England from Scotland they refuse to do us right so that what wrongs soever we have or shall sustain must be without remedy and we also without security for the future as is sufficiently expostulated in the Parliament of Englands Declaration aforementioned and the seeds laid of a perpetuall War by taking our grand Enemy into your Bosoms and your engagement to Him in the late Treaty with Him to restore Him to the possession of England and Ireland and therefore we call Heaven and Earth to witnesse Whether or no we have not cause to defend our selves by hindring the present power of Scotland from taking their time and advantage to impose thus upon us And whether they have now any just reason to wonder at the approach of an Army to their borders and the taking some of their Ships by ours yea whether our coming into Scotland with an Army upon so clear a ground be any other then a just and necessary defence of our selves for preservation of those rights and Liberties which divine Providence hath throu●h the expence of so much blood and treasure given us and those amongst you have engaged they will if they can wrest from us unlesse it must be taken for granted That the Parliament of England ought to sit still and be silent whilst their ruine is contrived their Friends and Brethren destroyed by Sea and Land whom in Conscience and Duty both before God and Man they ought to preserve And now we come to speak to all those who are within the compasse of the Title of this Declaration that we undertake this businesse in the feare of God with bowels full love yea full of pity to the Inhabitants of the Country and if it shall please God to make Scotland sensible of the wrongs done to us and to give to the Common-wealth of England a satisfying security against future injuries we shall rejoyce But if that may not be obtained we shall desire such as fear God not to joyn or have to do with those who are the Authors and Actors of so much evill and mischief against their Neighbours And we dare say to the praise of God That that which moves us to this great undertaking is not any reliance upon the arm of flesh or being lifted up with the remembrance of former successes or the desire of accomplishing any designs of our own that we have forelaid but the full assurance we have that our cause is just and righteous in the sight of God looking at all precedent changes and the successes that have produced them not as the work of the policy or strength of man but as the eminent actings of the Providence and Power of God to bring forth his good will and pleasure concerning the things which he hath determined in the world And we are confident that as he hath hitherto gloriously appeared so he will still bearing witnesse to the righteousnesse of this Cause in great mercy and pity of the infirmities and failings of us his poor Creatures And we do most humbly implore his divine Majesty to give a mercifull testimony whether the actings of divers men amongst you have not proceeded from worldly interests together with the rancor and bitternesse of their sp●rits who we fear through envy at Instruments have refused to acknowledge his hand and goodnesse in the accomplishment of these great changes and whether ours have not come from the simplicity of our and other his poor servants hearts who we trust have desired though in the midst of manifold weaknesses to follow him in integrity through difficult paths having nothing but danger and ruine appearing to the flesh and little to encourage us saving those signall manifestations of his presence in those high acts of his Providence and the feare of his Name lest he going before we should not follow And this we can further adde That nothing is so predominant within us next to our duty to God nor to betray a cause to which he so much witnessed as the love we have towards those that fear God there who may possibly suffer through their own mistakes or our disability to distingish in a common calamity of which Christian love we hope we gave some proof and testimony when we were last in Scotland with this Army and were by God made instrumentall to break the power of those that then oppressed the Godly party there and were then ready at their desire to do every thing on their behalfe which might put them into the seat of Authority and Power whose consciences knows this is true and for which this late Act of Engagement to their new King against England is no good requitall nor their heaping upon us