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A82540	The answer of the Parliament of England, to a paper, entituled, a declaration by the Kings Majesty, to his subjects of the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland. Printed at Edinburgh, 1650. Whereunto is annexed, copies of four letters to the King of Scotland, which were found in the Lord Loudouns cabinet. Die Veneris, 20 Septem. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this answer and letters be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1598-1663.	1650 (1650)	Wing E1227; Thomason E613_2; ESTC R206510	21,416	40

Guilt stands incapable of the meanest Priviledge amongst us Doth he think himself qualified to Exercise the Greatest Shall the Malefactor be presumed to have Power to give Pardon to his Judge Or do the Scots or their King imagine under pretence of an Act of Oblivion to seduce England to receive their Laws from Scotland The Obstructers of real Reformation we are as much against as he or they can pretend to be as by our Acts and Actions appears Amongst which we reckon it not the least That that Grand Enemy to Reformation the Father of the now Declarer after his long and Bloody progress made in Destruction and Devastation of the Innocent people in the Three Nations the Guilt whereof upon him being a Truth so apparant as both Himself and Son and our now Enemies of Scotland have been forced to acknowledge hath been by Our Authority Tryed Adjudged and Executed for his notorious Treasons Tyrannies and Murthers whereof whatever the Interpretation be given by the Son of that Murtherer or other his Partizans Old or New Malignants late Apostates or detestable Neutrals who stile the Act of Justice Murther with like Truth and Reason as those who call Good Evil and Evil Good Light Darkness and Darkness Light We for our parts bless God for that opportunity put into our hands of offering that Sacrifice to Divine Justice towards vindication and cleansing of our Land from that Blood wherewith by that Murtherer and his party it was so miserably defiled And as we have been obliged in a faithful and conscientious discharge of that Power and Trust committed to us by God and the People of this Nation to Avenge that Innocent Blood upon the Head of that Tyrant and some others the chief Authots and Actors under him in shedding thereof So for the seduced Multitude and those who in simplicity have been misguided by them to act to their own and Countreys ruine We have in the view of all expressed our tenderness and forbearance towards them And being invested with the Authority of the Nation whose Representative we are in that behalf as to such mis-led persons The Parliament of England thinks fit further to declare That as they have already long since had it in their thoughts and for that purpose have under consideration An Act of general Pardon in the progress whereof they have been interrupted by the renewed Endeavors of Charls Stuart and his Adherents to disturb the Peace of this Common-wealth and hinder its Settlement they will with all convenient speed apply themselves to the passing of such an Act And in the mean time do expect from all persons living under the Protection of this Commonwealth That they make not themselves any way Ayders or Abettors of the said Charls Stuart in his Pretences to the Government of this Nation under what fair and specious shews soever upon the penalties in the Laws in that behalf provided §. 5. THe Committee of Estates of the Kingdom and General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland having declared so fully in what concerns the Sectaries and the present Designs Resolutions and Actings of their Army against the Kingdom of Scotland And the same Committee and Assembly having sufficiently laid open publique Dangers and Duties both upon the right hand and upon the left It is not needful for his Majesty to adde any thing thereunto except That in those things he doth commend and approve them and that he Resolves to live and dye with them and his Loyal Subjects in prosecution of the Ends of the Covenant ANSWER THe Parliament of England and also their Army having so fully declared the Justice Necessity and Ends of undertaking the present Expedition into Scotland and having also put it in a way how those Declarations from the Committee of Estates and Commission of the Kirk in Answer thereunto shall have their invalidity detected as some of them already in part have been It will be needless to say any thing further on this subject in this place §. 6. ANd whereas that prevailing party in England after all their strange Usurpations and insolent Actings in that Land Do not onely keep his Majesty from the Government of that Kingdom by force of Arms but also have now Invaded the Kingdom of Scotland who have deserved better things at their hands and against whom they have no just quarrel His Majesty doth therefore desire and expect That all his good Subjects in England who are and resolve to be faithful to God and to their King according to the Covenant will lay hold upon such an opportunity and use their utmost endeavors to promove the Covenant and all the ends thereof and to recover and re-establish the Ancient Government of the Kingdom of England under which for many Generations it did flourish in peace and plenty at home and in Reputation abroad and Priviledges of the Parliament and Native and Just Liberty of the People His Majesty desires to assure himself That there doth remain in these so much confidence of their Duty to Religion their King and Countrey and so many sparkles of the ancient English Valor which shined so eminently in their Noble Ancestors as will put them on to bestir themselves for the breaking the Yoke of those mens Oppressions from off their Necks Shall men of Conscience and Honor set Religion Liberties and Government at so low a Rate as not rather to undergo any hazard before they be thus deprived of them Will not all generous men count any Death more tolerable then to live in servitude all their days And will not Posterity blame those who dare attempt nothing for themselves and for their Children in so good a Cause in such an Exigent Whereas if they gather themselves and take courage putting on a Resolution answerable to so Noble and just an Enterprise they shall honor God and gain themselves the Reputation of Pious men worthy Patriots and Loyal Subjects and be called The Repairers of the Breach by the present and succeeding Generations and they may certainly promise to themselves a Blessing from God upon so just and honorable undertaking for the Lord and for his Cause for their own Liberties their Native King and Countrey and the unvaluable good and happiness of the Posterity Whatever hath formerly been his Majesties guiltiness before God and the bad success that these have had who owned his Affairs whilest he stood in Opposition to the Work of God yet the state of the question being now altered and his Majesty having obtained Mercy to be on Gods side and to prefer Gods Interest before his own He hopes That the Lord will be gracious and countenance his own Cause in the hands of weak and sinful Instruments against all Enemies whatsoever This is all that can be said by his Majesty at present to those in England and Ireland at such a distance and as they shall acquit themselves at this time in the active discharge of their necessary Duties so shall they be accepted before God indeared

THE ANSWER OF THE Parliament of England TO A PAPER Entituled A Declaration by the Kings Majesty To His Subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland Printed at Edinburgh 1650. Whereunto is annexed COPIES of Four LETTERS To the King of SCOTLAND Which were found in the Lord Loudouns Cabinet Die Veneris 20 Septem 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That this Answer and Letters be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. IT is well known unto the World what maner of Contest the Parliament of England hath had these years last passed in their own Defence to preserve themselves from the almost Establish'd Tyranny which through a long tract of Time had been obtruding it self as well over the Consciences as the Laws and Civil Liberties of the People in England Ireland and Scotland Designing and Practising the Extremity of all Evils upon these Nations rather then to suffer it self to be stopped in its course or disappointed of its end Else what signified the first Troubles raised in Scotland by the late King and that failing then the cherishing upholding and continuing to the last the Horrid and Bloody Rebellion in Ireland by the same hand and after all the bringing of an Unnatural War into the Bowels of this Nation managed and improved to the utmost by him and the Popish Prelatical and Prophane Party adhering to him therein Which Evils have been writ out in such deep Characters of Blood been attended with such Consumption of Treasure and almost Devastation of several Countries in the three Nations that they will not suddenly be worn out of the Peoples Sense much less of their Memory Yet even during these first Troubles the Designers were not ashamed to appear bare-faced in their open and avowed Principles of Opposition and Hatred against the Cause of God the Work of Reformation Priviledges of Parliament and Peoples Liberties having for that purpose incorporated themselves in Interest with all the known and implacable Enemies of the same as The Popish Party abroad and Prelatical and Malignant Party at home But now when by the unspeakable Blessing of God unto this Nation Tyranny hath received its Mortal Wound not onely by being Beaten out of the Field in all that have fought for it but by the Remarkable Justice that hath been done upon the Prime Instrument in the late Kings Execution and in consequence thereof the Government of this Nation Restored to a Commonwealth and Fee-State and the Supreme Authority Establish'd in this and Successive Parliaments or Representatives of the People without King or House of Lords as the best Means and strongest Bulwark under the Divine Protection to preserve the Peoples Liberties against the like Attempts and Invasions for time to come and so deprived of all Hopes of its ever taking Root again in this Commonwealth and being like also if this Commonwealth continue to lose ground in Scotland and other Nations where the People are made meer Slaves and Vassals to the Will of their Prince and his Lordly Instruments in Church and State It hath seemed good to Charls Stuart the Declared King of Scotland and to the prevailing Party in State and Kirk there to dress up this old and Malignant Cause in a more plausible and Religious Garb then that with which it was put forth before and to take it out of or rather for a time suspend its Exercise in the hands of the Popish Prelatical and Malignant Party who begin also to see they can keep it up no longer but it will certainly breathe out its last Gasp if it be not shifted and by some Change of Instruments recover a Reputation amongst good men And therefore a room and place is made by common Consent amongst them to receive and hide the Interest of Tyranny and of Opposition to all Christian as well as Civil Liberty within the verges of the Solemn League and Covenant The Signing of which Covenant and the emitting of a Declaration by the eldest Son of the late King expressing in words a superficial Repentance for what there is no probability for him at the present to put in practice and promising in effect for the future to Tyrannize and Enslave men chiefly by the Advice of the Kirk and as shall tend to uphold their Power and Clergy-Interest in the first place before his own An Homage which the Pope indeed hath claimed from Earthly Princes as that which is due to him as he pretends himself Gods Vicar on Earth This is now accounted full Satisfaction as to what is to be done on his part and whereupon they would make the World believe the state of the Cause is altered even to that degree as that their New King is now no longer upon his Old Principles but is come over to those upon which they have fought against his Father for these Twelve years past The Deceit and Evil of all which will appear when we shall come to take in pieces the said Declaration and thereby Unmask as we have promised the gross Hypocrisie of the Contrivers thereof and the Wicked Design that is couched and contained therein under pretence of The Name and Cause of God The Work of Reformation The Power and Freedoms of Parliaments in England according to their Ancient Form except onely a perpetual subjecting and subordinating of their Laws Councels and Advices to the Clergy who have a promise That their Councels shall be heard before any other whatsoever and other plausible Inducements to possess himself of the Crown of England And having obtained that Power with the Destruction of all the Faithful and truly godly Party that have declared themselves for this present Government He may then be more absolute in Tyranny then ever Prince in England was and derive the same in Succession to his Posterity upon the score of Conquest acquired to him by the help of the Scots whose good-will to England for the Cause of God as they would have us believe hath been and still is such as to hold it fit to impose upon us the Yoke of their Usurpations both in Church and State and have not scrupled to attempt the attaining of the same either by Subtilty of by Force By both which Means they never thought themselves in so fair a way unto their End as now they have cast themselves into by their late Agreement with their New King and this Declaration they have made him put forth which we shall Answer in the distinct Paragraphs of it in order as they lie §. 1. HIs Majesty taking in consideration that merciful Dispensation of Divine Providence by which he hath been recovered out of the snare of Evil Councel and having attained so full perswasion and confidence of the Loyalty of his People in Scotland with whom he hath too long stood at a distance and of the Righteousness of their Cause as to joyn in one Covenant with them and to cast

himself and his Interests wholly upon God and in all matters Civil to follow the Advice of his Parliament and such as shall be intrusted by them and in all matters Ecclesiastick the Advice of the General Assembly and their Commissioners and being sensible of his duty to God and desirous to approve himself to the consciences of all his good Subjects and to stop the mouthes of his and their Enemies and Traducers doth in reference to his former Deportments and as to his Resolutions for the future Declare as follows ANSVVER THe Dispensations of Divine Providence are indeed merciful by which Princes or Governors are at any time really recovered out of the snare of evil Counsel yet when this is done by the violence of an absolute Necessity 't is seldom real or lasting and then the Mercy in it is but little to the People who will taste the bitter fruit of such dissimulations when it is too late It seems that the King of Scotland can now profess to the world he hath been in the snare of evil Counsel whilest he entertained any doubts or diffidence of the loyalty of his People of Scotland and stood at a distance from them and their Cause and was unconvinced of the righteousness of it and did not joyn in one Covenant with them nor cast himself and his Interests wholly upon God and in all matters Civil follow the advice of his Parliament and in all matters Ecclesiastick the General Assembly or the Commissioners thereof We do not deny but his former Counsels as well as himself have suffered a great change through the merciful Dispensation of Divine Providence to this Commonwealth prospering so wonderfully our Armies in Ireland as to exclude him and his Interest in a great measure from thence and preserving this Nation in Peace within it self to prevent any footing to be given to him here whereby he was reduced to the course he hath now taken to say what the Parliament and Kirk of Scotland shall put into his mouth and tell him is fit for him and his Affairs to declare or else to lose all And if Scotland do esteem it so great a mercy to have him reduced to this pure necessity of casting himself into their Arms We know to whom under God they owe the Obligation a Blessing which we confess we do not envy them and which were we secured never to be partaker of with them or by their means we should not hinder them from the free and full enjoyment of Having by fad experience found what it is to have a King though never so well beset in appearance with good men about him or to trust to his Repentances and Promises Oaths or Declarations how fair soever in shew and how strong soever laid down in words As to the Evil of the Counsel out of which its said He is recovered by this change We say That if the future Resolutions mentioned in this Declaration be the evidences whereby we are to judge of the goodness of the new Counsel we cannot but take notice That they do onely vary the means but not the end which still is evil to wit The enslaving the three Nations and do change the Instruments but not the Cause as is before and shall further be made evident and therefore we must be excused if we judge that their yong King is yet in as great a snare of evil Counsel as ever and thereupon endeavor what in us lies to keep this Nation from falling under the bad effects thereof §. 2. THough his Majesty as a dutiful Son be obliged to honor the memory of his Royal Father and have in estimation the person of his Mother yet doth he desire to be deeply humbled and afflicted in Spirit before God because of his Fathers hearkning to and following evil Counsels and his opposition to the work of Reformation and to the Solemn League and Covenant by which so much of the blood of the Lords People hath been shed in these Kingdoms and for the Idolatry of his Mother the Toleration whereof in the Kings House as it was matter of great stumbling to all the Protestant Churches so could it not but be an high provocation against him who is a jealous God visiting the sins of the Fathers upon the Children And albeit his Majesty might extenuate his former Carriages and Actions in following of the advice and walking in the way of those who are opposite to the Covenant and to the work of God and might excuse his delaying to give satisfaction to the just and necessary Desires of the Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland from his education and age and evil Counsel and Company and from the strange insolent proceedings of Sectaries against his Royal Father and in reference to Religion and the ancient Government of the Kingdom of England to which he hath the undoubted Right of Succession yet knowing that he hath to do with God he doth ingeniously acknowledge all his own sins and all the sins of his Father House craving pardon and hoping for mercy and reconciliation through the blood of Jesus Christ And as he doth value the constant Addresses that were made by his People to the Throne of Grace on his behalf when he stood in opposition to the Work of God as a singular Testimony of long-suffering patience and mercy upon the Lords part and loyalty upon theirs so doth he hope and shall take it as one of the greatest tokens of their love and affection to him and to his Government That they will continue in Prayer and Supplication to God for him That the Lord who spared and preserved him to this day notwithstanding of all his own guiltiness may be at peace with him and give him to fear the Lord his God and to serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing minde all the days of his life ANSVVER THe first Testimony of the good of the New Counsels into whose hands the Scots King hath cast himself is The Repentance towards God which they advise him to make in reference to his own Sins and Sins of his Fathers House A matter in it self truly praise-worthy and the consequence whereof in the words wherein it is express'd doth in no small measure reach to the Acknowledgement of the just Hand of God upon his Father and Mother in the Banishing of the one and taking away the life of the other by the hand of Justice putting it into the hearts of those here that remained faithful to their Trust in Parliament to cause his Blood to be poured forth by whose personal Actings Authority and Commissions so much of the Blood of the Lords People hath been shed in the Three Nations as this Declaration it self acknowledges and for which therefore we have reason to bless God and admire his Providence That out of the mouth of the Son there hath in the sight of the whole World been brought forth such a Justification of the Sentence passed and Executed upon the Father But as to

the manner of Declaring this his Repentance that is to say with the Qualifications therein allowed of whereby under the pretence of a dutiful Son He may still retain in Memory his Fathers Actions of Tyranny for his Patern and through the high Estimation of his Mother have his Ears still open to her Councels as often as she can convey them to him And as sensible as he must be of his own and his Fathers Enmity and Opposition against the Lords People in the Three Nations yet he must still be encouraged to persist in the same against those that are truly the Lords People under the pretence of Sectaries These are such Inconsistencies and Haltings in so serious a Work that as it is justly to be feared that God will not be well pleased therewith so neither will it have its expected effect amongst men who with ease may see through the deceit and lameness of it and will with greater abhorrency be aware of them and their Designs that strive to cover themselves with Webs that will not prove Garments but whose Nakedness doth still appear §. 3. ANd his Majesty having upon full perswasion of the Justice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles thereof now Sworn and Subscribed the National Covenant of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland Doth Declare That he hath not Sworn and Subscribed these Covenants and entred into the Oath of God with his People upon any sinister Intention and crooked Design for attaining his own Ends but so far as Humane Weakness will permit in the truth and sincerity of his heart And that he is firmly Resolved in the Lords strength to adhere thereto and to prosecute to the utmost of his power all the Ends thereof in his Station and Calling really constantly and sincerely all the days of his life In order to which he doth in the first place Profess and Declare That he will have no Enemies but the Enemies of the Covenant and that he will have no Friends but the Friends of the Covenant And therefore as he doth now detest and abhor all Popery Superstition and Idolatry together with Prelacy and all Errors Heresie Schism and Prophaneness and resolves not to tolerate much less allow any of these in any part of his Majesties Dominions but to oppose himself thereto and to endeavor the Externation thereof to the utmost of his power so doth he as a Christian Exhort and as a King Require That all such of his Subjects who have stood in Opposition to the Solemn League and Covenant and Work of Reformation upon a pretence of Kingly Interest or any other pretext whatsoever to lay down their Enmity against the Cause and People of God and to cease to prefer the Interest of Man to the Interest of God which hath been one of those things which hath occasioned many Troubles and Calamities in these Kingdoms and being insisted into will be so far from Establishing of the Kings Throne that it will prove an Idol of Jealousie to provoke unto wrath him who is King of kings and Lord of lords The King shall always esteem them best Servants and most Loyal Subjects who serve him and seek his Greatness in a right line of subordination unto God Giving unto God the things that are Gods and unto Cesar the things that are Cesars And Resolveth not to love or countenance any who have so little Conscience and Piety as to follow his Interests with a prejudice to the Gospel and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ which he looks not upon as a duty but as flattery and driving of Self-Designs under a pretence of maintaining Royal Authority and Greatness Secondly His Majesty being convinced in Conscience of the exceeding great Sinfulness and Unlawfulness of that Treaty and Peace made with the Bloody Irish Rebels who treacherously shed the Blood of so many of his faithful and Loyal Subjects in Ireland and of allowing unto them the Liberty of the Popish Religion for the which he doth from his heart desire to be deeply humbled before the Lord And likewise considering how many Breaches have been upon their part Doth Declare the same to be void and that his Majesty is absolved therefrom being truly sorry that he should have sought unto so unlawful Help for Restoring of him to his Throne and resolving for the time to come rather to choose Affliction then Sin Thirdly As his Majesty did in the late Treaty with his people in this Kingdom agree to recal and annul all Commissions against any of his Subjects who did adhere to the Covenant and Monarchical Government in any of his Kingdoms So doth he now Declare That by Commissionating of some persons by Sea against the people of England he did not intend Damage or Injury to his opprest and harmless Subjects in that Kingdom who follow their Trade of Merchandize in their lawful Callings but onely the opposing and suppressing of those who had Usurped the Government and not onely bar him from his just Right but also Exercise an Arbitrary Power over his people in those things which concern their Persons Consciences and Estates And as since his coming into Scotland he hath given no Commissions against any of his Subjects in England or Ireland so he doth hereby Assure and Declare That he will give none to their prejudice or damage and whatever shall be the Wrongs of these Usurpers That he will be so far from avenging these upon any who are free thereof by interrupting or stopping the liberty of Trade and Merchandize or otherwise That he will seek their good and to the utmost imploy his Royal Power That they may be protected and defended against the unjust Violence of all men whatsoever And albeit his Majesty desires to construct well of the Intentions of those in reference to his Majesty who have been active in Councel or Arms against the Covenant yet being convinced that it doth conduce for the Honor of God the good of his Cause and his own Honor and Happiness and for the Peace and Safety of these Kingdoms That such be not employed in places of Power and Trust He doth Declare That he will not employ nor give Commissions to any such until they have not onely taken or renewed the Covenant but also have given sufficient Evidences of their Integrity Carriage and Affection to the Work of Reformation and shall be declared capable of Trust by the Parliament of either Kingdom respective And His Majesty upon the same grounds doth hereby recal all Commissions given to any such persons conceiving all such persons will so much tender a good Understanding betwixt him and his Subjects and the setling and preserving a firm Peace in these Kingdoms That they will not grudge nor repine at his Majesties Resolutions and Proceedings herein much less upon discontent act any thing in a divided way unto the raising of New Troubles especially since upon their pious and good deportment