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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41417	The Good news of Englands approving the covenant sent from Scotland and some reasons for assisting the Parliament of England against the papists and prelaticall army.		1643 (1643)	Wing G1073; ESTC R32438	5,259	12

herein as we would be done to what course would we crave of them in case the Popish and malignant Faction did prevail by murders and rapines as in the dayes of Queen Regent did ruine our Kirks and Kingdome certainly no answer would be satisfactory but timely help Seventhly If we suffer the Parliament of England to be cut off we have lost our peace with England because after our disappointment through breach of the Declaration at Dunce we resolved to seek not a present but a durable peace for our selves and our posterity and the surest mean we could pitch on was to settle our demands by advice of the Parliament of England as the best caution and warrant of our peace and particularly that Parliament hath undertaken upon publick faith to pursue and apprehend any of their subjects that should break the peace by invading this Kingdome therefore Religion and sense teaches us to see to the preservation of that amity which did obtain and yet doth maintaine our Religion and Liberties against the designes of our common enemies in England Papists and Prelates seeing we may remember that these persons who now bide in the Parlialment were the main impediments of Subsidies for tevying warre against us and the prime procurers of ●hat Brotherly assistance and so are probably the instruments that will most secure our peace from any disturbance from that Kingdome but if they be destroyed and the Popish and Prelaticall Faction the workers of our woe do over-rule the Parliament and force it by armes we may expect warre both from King and Parliament which they will over power and may upon three moneths warning denounce war against us whereunto they will not want pretences and we have reason to feare that seeing they know their dis-appointment to have come from this Kingdome yea they do construct all resisting of the King by arms to be rebellion and foule treason yea some of the Malignants at home are reported to have vented that the King was not tied to keep what he had granted to us because by calling and keeping of the Convention we have first broken to him Eighthly If we should desert them at this time yet as Mordecai said to Esther deliverance shall arise to them from elsewhere but we and our Fathers house may look for destruction and who knoweth but we are restored to our Religion and Liberties to a free Convention at this time and made a mirrour of Gods mercie to all Nations and Kirks that we may help our Brethren of England powring out their teares and bloud for a Reformation such an occasion to expresse love to Christ and zeal for his Cause was never offered to any Nation therefore as the two Tribes of Reuben and Gad with the half of Manasseh did not sit down and take their ease but went over Jordan armed before their Brethren to possesse them in the Land of Promise so should we go before our Brethren and help them to the liberty of the Gospel and casting out of the Canaanites Ninthly that this is the onely means for the procuring of an happy agreement betwixt the King and the Parliament by putting up of the sword and saving Christian bloud from being shed suppressing of Papists and establishing Religion in his Dominions for humble Supplications and Remonstrances reached out with naked hands will not prevail with our adversaries who have invironed our King and closed his ears to the cry of his Subjects But it will be objected seeing our Religion and Liberties are established according to our own desires by Act of Assembly and Parliament with his Majesties consent and seeing his Majesties Declaration to the whole Kingdome and Letter to every Nobleman and Burrough do give assurance for preservation of the same without altering we have no interest nor hazard however businesse go in England but should keep our selves in peace and quiet 1. Answer in all the proceedings of this businesse we have from time to time declared that neither verball promises nor fair Declarations for maintaining Religion and Liberty could secure us because we have so often found facta verbis contraria and that by the power and means of our adversaries As for example the treaty at Dunce when we for his Majesties honour confided to verball gracious expressions of his Majesties for conditions of the Treaty yet afterwards they were denied and burnt by the hands of the hangman and all reversed that then was condescended on for our Religion and Liberty and an Army levied against us it was the counsell of Monsieur de Osel to the Queen Regent at Saint Andrews for reversing our first Reformation to grant our Predecessors in fair promises and Declarations all that they craved and when thereby they should be divided to interpret these by her self and to take order with the heads of the opponers and this policie was used by the King of France for subverting of the Protestant Religion for he fed the one half of them with fair promises of Freedomes and Priviledges untill he had cut off the other half as witnesseth Monsieur de Thow 71 pag. 463. 2. As we have found by former experience that the establishment of our first Reformation by an Act of Assemby and Parliament could not secure us from the violent pressing of Innovations against both and in the new Remonstrance 1640. pag. 16. we have fully exprest that no Assembly or Parliament no rotten Cable nor slipping Anchor of Articles whereunto we had fastened our hopes can be any Road or Harbour of safety for us so long as our enemies sit at the Helme and govern the Kings Councell and Courses and who makes the Kings Majestie by extra-judiciall Declarations to enerve and evacuate all that is done in Assembly and Parliament and to interpret Laws contrary to the advice of Judicators of Kirk and State as of late our mediation betwixt his Majestie and his Parliament was rejected contrary to the advise and judgement of Commissioners of the peace and the Councell and hard answer to the Commissioners of the Kirk was contrary to an Article of the Treaty and the Act of the Generall Assembly and his stopping of our Commissioners to go to London contrary to his own safe conduct 3. If the Parliament of England that now is be destroyed who shall undertake for our safety as the Kings Declarations of his owne Intentions cannot exceed his Person nor secure us at the hands of his Successours so we may perceive in the late discovery of the plots of the Scots English and Irish Papists that these Declarations can be no sufficient security against the surprising of Papists and Malignants if they be permitted to carry arms within any of the Kingdoms But we are a poor people not able for such an undertaking For answer the representative body of the Kingdom now conveened can best satisfie this objection Secondly when God calls his people and makes them willing he gives them also strength that through him they do valiantly Thirdly God hath helped us in all enterprises for his Cause and he wil yet provide in the Mount it shall be seen we were but poor the last time we went to the field in his errand and yet he provided for us beyond expectation his hand is not shortned that he cannot save if the Lord call us he will be with us and if he be with us we shall not want we hope the wise Convention of States will see to the conditions that the Kingdome receive as little detriment as may be onely let us not think it strange if the best works meet with the greatest difficulties Thirdly it is objected they will not imbrace a Presbyteriall government in the Kirk and so no hope of uniformity Answer they have already put out Espiscopall government root and branch neither will they nor do the Protestant Kirks know of any other but Presbyteriall Secondly their zealous Predecessors having in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth adventured upon many and heavie sufferings for setting up a Presbyteriall government were born down with the streams of the times and the power of Prelacie and if any zealous man amongst them have their scruples against Presbyteriall government we trust the Lord will reveal the truth unto them Thirdly they have in many Declarations exprest their resolutions and desires for uniformity FINIS Imprimatur Ja. Cranford