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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79762	A solemne and seasonable warning to the noblemen, barons, gentlemen, burrows, ministers, and commons of Scotland: as also to the Scotish armies without and within that kingdom. From the Generall Assembly, 12 Feb. 1645. And the humble remonstrance of the aforesaid Assembly to the King, 13. Feb. 1645.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Remonstrance of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland to His Majestie. aut	1645 (1645)	Wing C4259H; Thomason E293_25; ESTC R200167	12,823	16

avenge the quarrell of his broken Covenant For besides the defection of many of this Nation under the Prelats from our first National Covenant a sin not forgotten by God if not repented by men as well as forsaken our latter Vows and Covenants have been also foully violated by not contributing our uttermost assistance to this Cause with our Estates and Lives by not endeavouring with all faithfulnesse the discovery triall and condigne punishment of Malignants and evil Instruments yea by complying too much with those who have not onely born Arms and given their personall presence and assistance but also drawn and led on others after them in the shedding of our Brethrens blood Therefore is our sin made our punishment and We are filled with the fruit of our own wayes These horns now push the sides of Judah and Jerusalem because Carpenters when they ought and might did not them off And yet to this day the course of Justice is obstructed The Lord himself will execute justice if men will not But above all let it be deeply and seriously thought of that our Covenant is broken by the neglect of a reall Reformation of our selves and others under our power let every one ask his own heart what lust is mortified in him or what change wrought in his life since more than before the Covenant Swearing Cursing Profanation of the Lords day Fornication and other uncleannesse Drunkennesse Injustice Lying Oppression Murmuring Repining and other sorts of Prophanenesse still abound too much both in the Countrey and in our Armies yea there is no Reformation of some Members of publike Judicatories which is a great dishonour to God and a foul scandall to the whole Nation Thirdly we have not glorified God according to the great things which he hath done for us nor made the right use of former mercies since he loved us a Nation not worthy to be beloved he hath made us precious and honourable but we have not walked worthy of his love We waxed fat and kicked forsaking God who made us and lightly esteeming the Rock of our salvation And this great unthankfulnes filled up our Cup. Fourthly Notwithstanding of so much guiltinesse we did sent forth our Armies and undertake great services presumptuously without repentance and making our peace with God like the Children of Israel who trusting the goodnesse of their cause minded no more but Which of us shall go up first It is now high time under the feeling of so great a burden both of sin and wrath to humble our uncircumcised hearts to put our mouths in the dust if so be there may be hope to wallow our selves in ashes to clothe our selves with our shame as with a garment to justifie Gods righteous judgements to acknowledge our iniquity to make our supplication to our Judge and to seek his face that he may pardon our sin and heal our Land The Lord roareth and shall not his children tremble The God of glory thundereth and the Highest uttereth his voice hailstones and coales of fire who will not fall down and fear before him The fire waxeth hot and burneth round about us and shall any sit still and be secure The storm bloweth hard and shall any sluggard be still asleep This is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy who will not take up a lamentation Let the Watch-men rouze up themselves and others and strive to get their own and their peoples hearts deeply affected and even melted before the Lord Let every one turn from his evil way and cry mightily to God and give him no rest till he repent of the evill and smell a favour of rest and say It is enough He hath not said to the seed of Jacob Seek ye me in vain We do not mourn as they that have no hope but we will bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him untill he plead our cause and execute judgement for us And what though our Candles be put out so that our Sun shine What though our honour be laid in the dust so that God work out his own honour yea our happinesse out of our shame In vain have we trusted to the arm of Flesh in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel No flesh must glory before him but he that glorieth must glory in the Lord. These duties of Humiliation Repentance Faith Amendment of life and Fervent Prayer though the principall yet are not all which are required at the hands of this Nation but men of all sorts and degrees must timely apply themselves to such other Resolutions and Actions as are most suteable and necessary at this time Which that all may the better understand and be excited and encouraged to act accordingly let it be well observed that the present state of the Controversie and Cause is no other but what hath been formerly professed before God and the World that is The Reformation and Preservation of Religion The Defence of the Honour and Happinesse of the King and of the authority of the Parliament together with The maintenance of our Laws Liberties Lives and Estates We are not changed from our former principles and intentions but these who did fall off from us to the contrary party have now made it manifest that these were not their ends when they seemed to joyn with us Therefore are they gone out from us because they were not of us And as our Cause is the same so the danger thereof is not lesse but greater than before and that from two sorts of Enemies First from open Enemies we mean those of the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant Faction who have displayed a Banner against the Lord and against his Christ in all the three Kingdoms being set on fire of Hell and by the speciall inspiration of Satan who is full of fury because he knows he hath but a short time to reign The Cockatrice before hatched is now broken forth into a Viper The danger was before feared now it is felt before imminent now incumbent before our division now our destruction is endeavoured before the Sword was fourbished and made ready now the Sword is made fat with Flesh and drunk with Bloud and yet it hungreth and thirsteth for more The Queen is most active abroad using all means for strengthening the Popish and suppressing the Protestant party insomuch that Malignants have insolently expressed their confidence that her journey to France shall prove a successefull Councell and that this Mand and particularly this Kingdom shall have a greater power to grapple with before the next Summer than any which yet we have encountred with The Irish Rebels have offered to the King to send over a greater number into both the Kingdoms The hostile intentions of the King of Denmark if God be not pleased still to divert and disable him do plainly enough appear from his own Letters sent not long since to the Estates of this Kingdom In the mean time the hellish crue under the conduct

of the excommunicate and aforefaulted Earle of Montrose and of Alaster Mac-Donald a Papist and an Outlaw doth exercise such barbarous unnaturall horrid and unheard-of cruelty as is above expression And if not repressed what better usage can others not yet touched expect from them being now hardened and animated by the successe which God hath for our humiliation and correction permitted unto them and if they shall now get leave to secure the High-Lands for themselves they will not only from thence infest the rest of this Countrey but endeavour a diversion of our Forces in England from the prosecution of the ends expressed in the Covenant of the three Kingdoms toward which ends as their service hath been already advantageous so their continuance is most necessary The second sort of Enemies from which our present dangers arise are secret Malignants and Dis-covenanters who may be known by these and the like Characters Their slighting or censulting of the publike Resolutions of this Kirk and State Their consulting and labouring to raise Jealousies and Divisions to retard or hinder the execution of what is ordered by the publike Judicatories Their standering of the Covenant of the three Kingdoms and Expedition into England as not necessary for the good of Religion or safety of this Kingdom or as tending to the diminution of the Kings just power and greatnesse Their confounding of the Kings Honour and Authority with the abuse and pretence thereof and with Commissions Warrants and Letters procured from the King by the Enemies of this Cause and Covenant as if we could not oppose the latter without encroacing upon the former Their whetting of their tongues to censure and slander those whom God hath honoured as his chief Instruments in this Work Their commending justifying or excusing the proceedings of James Grahame sometime Earle of Mon●rose and his Complices Their conversing or intercommuning by word or writ with him or other excommunicate Lords contrary to the nature of that Ordinance of Christ and to the old Acts of Generall Assemblies Their making merry and their inselent carriage and the News of any prosperous successe of the Popish and Malignant Armies in any of these Kingdoms Their drawing of Parties and Factions to the weakning of the common Union Their spreading of Informations That Uniformity in Religion and the Presbyteriall Government is not intended by the Parliament of England Their Endeavours Informations and Sollicitations tending to weaken the hearts and hands of others and to make them withhold their assistance from this Work Let this sort of bosome Enemies and disaffected Persons be well marked timely discovered and carefully avoided lest they infuse the poyson of their seducing Councels into the minds of others Wherein let Ministers be faithfull and Presbyteries vigilant and unpartiall as they will answer the contrary to God and to the Generall Assembly or their Commissioners The cause and the dangers thereof being thus evidenced unlesse men will blot out of their hearts the love of Religion and the Cause of God and cast off all care of their Countrey Laws Liberties and Estates yea all naturall affection to the preservation of themselves their Wives Children and Friends and whatsoever is dearest to them under the Sun all these being in the visible danger of a present ruine and destruction they must now or never appear actively each one stretching himself to yea beyond his power It is no time to dally nor go about the businesse by halfes nor by almost but altogether zealous Cursed be he that doth the Work of the Lord negligently or dealeth falsly in the Covenant of God If we have been so forward to assist our Neighbour Kingdoms shall we neglect to defend our own Or shall the Enemies of God be more active against his Cause than his People for it God forbid If the Work being so far carried on shall now miscarry and fail in our hands our own consciences shall condemne us and posterity shall curse us But if we stand stoutly and stedfastly to it the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in our hands and all Generations shall call us blessed Let Ministers stir up others by free and faithfull preaching and by admonishing every one of his duty as there shall be occasion And if it shall be the lot of any of them to fall under the power of the Enemy let them through the strength of Christ persevere in their integrity choosing affliction rather than sin glorifying God and not fearing what Flesh can do unto them Let our Armies beware of ungodlinesse and worldly lusts living godly soberly and righteously avoiding all scandalous carriage which may give occasion to others to think the worse of their Cause and Covenant and remembring that the eyes of God Angels and Men are upon them Finally renouncing all confidence in their own strength skill valour and number and trusting onely to the God of the Armies of Israel who hath fought and will fight for them Lat all sorts both of high and low degree in this Kingdom call to mind their Solemne Covenants and pay their vows to the most High and namely that Article of our first Covenant which obligeth us not to stay nor hinder any such Resolution as by common consent shall be found to conduce for the ends of the Covenant but by all lawfull means to further and promove the same Which lyeth as a bond upon peoples consciences readily to obey such orders and willingly to undergo such burdens as by the publike and common resolution of the Estates of Parliament are found necessary for the prosecution of the War considering that 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 which however for the present not joyous but grievous yet it shall be no grief of heart afterwards even unto the common sort that they have given some part of their necessary livelihood for assisting so good a Work It is far from our thoughts that the pinching of some should make others superfluously to abound It is rather to be expected of the richer sort that they will spare and defalk not onely the pride and superfluity both of apparell and diet but also a part of their lawfull allowance in these things to contribute the same as a free-will-offering beside what they are obliged to by Law or upblike Order after the example of godly Nehemiah who for the space of twelve yeers while the walls of Jerusalem were a building did not eat the bread of the Governour that he might ease by so much the Peoples Burthens and Bondage In our last Covenant there is another Article which without the oblivion or neglect of any of the rest we wish may be well remembred at this time namely That we shall assist and defend all that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever