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A93345	England and Scotland united, disjoyned. Or, A gentle corosive, and healing plaister, applied to two dying kingdoms: with some balsamum for wounded Ireland; humbly presented to both kingdoms, and communicated to all good subjects, that wish peace and good to the kingdoms, or to either of them. Wherein is represented, the grievances of the people, and their several murmurings. By Ethog Grimes Gent.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1648 (1648)	Wing S4034; Thomason E447_30	26,358	32

destroy your selves because the enemy could not do it consider the saying of that wise able Soldier Sir Jacob Ashley when Routed and taken near Stowe speaking to Colonel Morgan and to gallant Major Hawksworth and others Gentlemen said be you may now put up your sword for the War is done we are able to do no more by the power of an Army except you fall out among your selves this was a fair warming he was more our friend in speaking it then we to our selves in contending Know that this is the Jesuits Maxime First divide then conquer History tells us Rome by this means hath gained more Kingdoms then by the sword and this is the design at this day Now let England and Scotland say as Joab said to Abishai If the Assyrians be too strong for me then thou shalt help me but if ●…am 10. 11. the children of Ammon be too strong for thee I will come and help thee thus you have Covenanted and wo to you if you do it not Whether one or the other whilst united none can hurt you once disjoyned you are both destroyed There is yet one cause more and that is God he is the cause of all causes Let the instrument be what or who it will by which a man a family a people or Kingdom is afflicted or destroyed God is the effecient cause men nor devils can do nothing without God they are but Gods executioners of wrath and judgement for sin but the rod in Gods hand Assyria is but the rod of Gods anger Isa 10. 5. Sickness pain imprisonment loss of goods war pestilence famine and all afflictions whatsover are from God to some for chastisement by which they learn righteousness to others as judgements to punish and to destroy Is there any evil saith God Am. 3. 9 in the city and I have not done it that is evil of punishment not evil of sin God forms the light and creates darkness makes peace Isa 45. 7. Is 42 24 and creates war Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers did not the Lord he against whom we have sinned when God will punish a sinful people by the ill Government of Kings and Princes He leads away Counsellors spoiled and makes Judges Iob 12. 17 fools when Israel will be hypocrites to draw near unto God with their mouthes and remove their hearts far from him God will make the wisdom of the wise to perish and the understanding Isa 29. 14. of the prudent shall be hid When God will punish a King for oppression that King shall hearken to evil Councel and refuse the good Counsel of grave and wise men so did Rehoboam and los● ten tribes the text saith The thing was done of the Lord When 1 King 12. 18 4. God will bring the sword upon wicked Counsellors and upon a Nation together he can make void all the Counsels of Judah and Jerusalem When Israel devised mischief and gave wicked Counsel Ier. 19. 7. God turns that wickedness to effect his own purpose and by it brings a sword upon themselves and the people The Princes Ezek. 11. ver 2. 8. of Zoan became fools and the Princes of Noph were deceived that they erred in every work the text saith It was God that mingled Isa 19. 13 14. Iob. 34. 29. a perverse spirit among them When God giveth quietness saith holy Job who can make trouble and when he hideth his face who can behold him whether it be done against a nation or against a man onely When the sins of an impenitent people provoke God to bring destroying judgements upon that nation he withdraws his common restraining grace from men and leaves them to their own lusts he will punish sin with sin wicked men shall act according to their own several lusts and grow more wicked oppressing killing and reviling one another till they be like Judea and Jerusalem Vid. Josep bel Jud. lib. 6. lib. 7 destroyed one by another and at last made a spoil and a prey to the enemy When a lying spirit is put into the mouth of a Ministery as in Ahabs 400. prophets expect speedy ruine and desolations or if men and Armies will go against the word of God pronounced by the mouth of Gods messengers they are not likely to prosper but like Ahab miscarry in their confidence but to all that are godly and of upright hearts I say with the Prophet Fear Isa 45. 4. not be strong behold your God will come with vengeance even God with a recompence he will come and save you This is the time of Gods indignation he will punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth shall also disclose her bloods and shall no more cover her slain it will be but for a moment the time is appointed by God and the indignation shall be overpast Believe in the Lord 2 Chro. 20. 20. your God so shall you be established believe his Prophets so shall you prosper God now in special maner calls his people to humiliation to repentance and reformation of sin when Gods hand was upon whole Israel in the days of David he enquired the cause he knew it was for sin for God onely punisheth for sin and the Lord revealed to him that it was for Saul and his bloody house because 2 Sam. 21. 1. he slew some of the Gibeonites contrary to Covenant it was many generations before Sauls time that Joshua and the Princes of Israel had made a covenant with the Gibeonites Saul swore not to it and Joshua was forbid to make any league with them yea the Gibeonites engaged Joshua and the Princes by craft and further the people of Israel sware not unto it but after three days when their craft was discovered murmured because of the Oath not withstanding all this Joshua durst not make null that Covenant And why Least faith he wrath be upon us because See Ioshua chap. 9. 8 of the oath not so much as put one of them to death who had by craft deceived them We know when our Enemies were strong and we very weak the Kingdom of England invited the Kingdom of Scotland to our assistance they as wilingly came but desired a perfect union of both Kingdoms and to that end a Solemn League and Covenant was entred into by both and joyfully received not onely sworn unto by our Nobles Knights and Gentlemen but generally by all the people or by sinful negligence omitted the command is warrantable by Scripture Whosoever would not Covenant to seek the 2 Chro. 15. 13. Lord should be put to death whether small or great In our Covenant we swear Reformation Ecclesiastical and Personal defence of Religion against the common Enemy Reformation in Religion in Doctrine Worship Discipline c. according to Gods word and the best Reformed Churches And we have sworn every one for himself to endeavor the nearest conjunction that can be in the three

into particular mens hands whose service and attendance ought to be imployed to publique benefit which if executed by private men reasonable sallery being allowed them who have lost their whole livelihoods by the Enemy for their fidelity to the Parliament would in overplus much benefit the Commonweal have paid poor windows mained Soldiers and much Arrears c. but as the Prophet saith in another case This is a people robbed and spoiled they Isa 42. 22. are all of them snared in holes and they are hid in Prison-houses they are for a prey and none delivereth for a spoil and none saith Restore Besides the people are brought into jealousie of a ruling over-awing Army as it were forcing a Toleration and Liberty to all Sectaries and their just Liberty is infringed c. The Righteous Amos 2. 6. Isa 13. 14 are sold for silver and the poor for a pair of shooes therefore the Lord entreth into Judgement with the Ancients of the people and with the Princes for they have eaten up the vineyard and the spoil of the poor is in their houses These are your allegations all which I cannot excuse for God and men know many things are not as they ought to be nor as they might have been but for what is now under Parliament pressures some necessity may be pleaded and what was by the Kings evil Councellors was Wil and their voluntary act to enslave that would have been for ever this is but momentary 'T is true the Army in all things are not justifiable they are but men and have erred as men in Judgement and practice but have been and are happy instruments under God to save us from destruction faithful and victorious deserving Honor and Recompence let the people forget and the Army repent God will forgive and redress all grievances The causes and cures I shall give you in the proper place First give me leave to tell you a Story In the time of Romulus King of the Romans he made a hundred Councellors of the best and honestest Noblemen these when together were called Senatus to whom there were afterward a greater number added and called Senators these were Patrons Helpers Defendors and Councelors to the People counted then a shame to them to take any Bribe or Reward of the people this caused great love and unity among them the one were Protectors the other were obedient But Romulus growing great and successful began to be Tyrant-like the Senators did nothing but were called a Councel for fashion not for any Advice or Counsel for when assembled they onely heard the Kings pleasure and commandment and so departed This put them upon a desire to have a free State and not to be subject only to the rule of a King shortly after Romulus making Oration to the people at a place without the City the Sun was suddenly darkened and there was terrible Thunder flashings of Lightenings and mighty Winds which seperated the people every way one from another the Senators remaining together in which time Romulus vanisht away Plut. life Romulus was no more seen alive or dead when the Storm was past and the day cleared the people asked for the King the Noblemen wisht them not to enquire after the King but to honor and reverence him for he was taken up into heaven some of the people liked it well others not satisfied accused the Senators of making away the King after much ado and discontent one of the Noblemen of good esteem among the people whom they held for an honest man Arguments and by Oaths affirmed the King was taken up by the gods into Heaven to dwell with them having built that famous City and that Romulus should henceforth be their god so he appeased all the people The people afterwards not contented without a King caused another tumult about choosing a King they being of divers Opinions the Senators also were in suspition one of another but all agreed of a necessity to choose a King and to prevent greater confusion the Senators concluded that every one of them should by turns carry the State of a King six hours in a day and six hours at night the next day another and so in order suspition still grew in the people who said This was a device to get all Government into a few mens hands At length to appease all the people agreed to choose Numa Pompilius a Sabine a man of vertue and wisdom free from tovetousness and vice addicted to divine study and the exercise of Justice Messengers were sent to Numa to entreat him to accept of the Kingdom he answered the change of a mans life was ever dangerous and for him that wanted nothing it was folly to leave a certainty for an uncertainty casting many dangers and perils in being a King with other Allegations of his own unfitness c. The Messengers besought him by many Arguments to accept of it and not give any cause of new trouble among the people seeing all had so freely chosen him to be their King After long perswation Numa accepted of it came to Rome the Senate and people flockt to meet him the women blessed him and sang to his praises Sacrifice was done for him in the Temples of their gods and with great joy he was brought to the Market-place where his Election was Proclaimed and he chosen by the voyce of all the people Having received the Royal Seat he dismissed the guard of Soldiers that was to guard his person saying Plut. in life of Pompil He would not mistrust those that trusted him neither would he be King over people that should mistrust him Then he began to work upon the affections of the people to draw them from violent warlike desires to quiet life civility and meekness in maners and to the service of the gods by which peace was established at home and with all Nations all Numa's days Let men make their own Application onely observe this That Differences and Commotions have been in all Ages and under all Governments whether Monarchical Aristocracy Democracy c. all have been subject to Tyrannical Oppression Injustice and Commotions by Kings by Senates and by the People But certain no Kingdom nor Commonweal in the world had ever any better Government for the constitution of well regulated Laws then England by King Lords and Commons That there are miscarriages in this Government is neglect of Execution arising either from greedy Oppression and Ambition in the superior or from Pride and Disobedience in the inferior both which are the defects of this Age. Now I shall truly shew you the causes of all these Distempers as they are at this day We use to say the disease once known the cure is easie if men will the first cause is the Devil he suggests evil surmises suspitions and jealousies leads men into errors and propounds false ends in designs by this we are divided and confounded the Scriptures term him to be an Adversary a Tempter and a

lost all means used to weaken us at home and the Protestants in other Countreys all done to give way to Popery Nor can our Brethren of Scotland forget how a new old Mass Liturgy was forced upon them such as was contrived at Rome prepared by the arch Enemy Canterbury which they refusing were threatned by an Army a Parliament in England was called to raise money to engage in a War with Scotland the Parliament refused to contribute in that War and was presently dismissed yet an Army was raised and Scotland in their defence brought their Army into England how much they were engaged to England for their brotherly love and good affections the people generally refusing to contribute any thing to hurt them they cannot but remember nor can they forget what humble supplicants and petitioners the Lords and Gentlemen of all Counties of England were in their behalf which I hope shall never be repaid by any ill from that Kingdom I would reminde them of these things Let me again put England in minde of the Plots and Designs of the Hierarchy to corrupt our Religion by Superstition and prophaneness you had Canons Articles and Lyturgies given you as gilded pills to purge out sound Doctrine And to plant prophaneness a Book was commanded to be read in all Churches to give liberty to prophane the holy Sabbath forbidding afternoon Sermons and there was injunctions penal to keep holy Popish Saints days all Church-service was adulterated In a word Religion was choaked with the lawn of Heirarchy the mouthes of godly Ministers stopped their persons persecuted imprisoned banished Bishop Wren will not deny it as it was with Jeremiah and Baruch in the days of Jehoiakim and with Micaiah in the time of Ahab so was it unto them because they spake the word of God to the people and said Go not up to Ramath-Gilead Good men were also cauterized pillory'd and stigmatized for like causes and who knows but the Protestants in England should intentionally have acted the first scene in that Bloody Tragedy that Ireland hath done it was not that the common Enemy had greater love or more pity to us but Gods mercy to us And shall we now destroy one another Consider how we cryed out in those times for a Parliament a Parliament a Parliament saying Nothing but a Parliament could deliver us and keep our posterities from bondage God gave us a Parliament and made our Parliament a blessing to us till we idolized them and now because we finde they are not Gods but men and men of infirmities you cry out against Parliaments and calumniate them ready to stone them O ungrateful people because God tryeth you as he did the Israelites in the wilderness to humble you and will not suffer the Parliament to establish your peace so soon as you desire you will like the Jews murmure and sin against God notwithstrnding God hath done very great and miraculous things for you Why do you lust and look back to Popery and say as the Idolatrous Israelites It had been better for us Exod. 14. 12. to serve the Egyptians then to dye in the wilderness you would eat the sweet but you will not endure to taste of the sowre you would have your sore healed but will not endure the plaister you say many Members in Parliament are self-seekers not minding the common good I pray who sent them thither If you were fools in your choyce your backs must bear the fools reward will you therefore destroy Parliaments and make your posterity-Slaves wil nothing satisfie you now but a King a King upon any terms Truly I wish and pray that we may have a King and a blessing with him But why do ye cry out as ye do A King upon any terms Is this less then madness in you you have forgot the bondage of Egypt and think onely upon the flesh-pots onions and garlick c. O silly men why do ye break your Covenant with God and men Take heed ye be not like Israel in sin lest ye be like Israel in punishment they murmured and were disobedient to God but therefore they were destroyed by the sword of the destroyer Num. 14. 37. by the Pestilence by Serpents Korah and his company were swallowed up by the earth consider that the Apostle tells you and me even all us at this day that All those things 1 Cor. 10. 11. hapned for our ensamples and are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come Now we know that the many thousands that came out of Egypt dyed all in the wilderness except Joshua and Caleb and their little ones that were born in Num. 14. 34. 35. the desert Let not us flatter our selves to think though we do the same things that we shal escape but let us be admonished do our duties in all obedience that it may be wel with us in the later end I blame none simply for desiring a King nor for petitioning for a Treaty with the King for I wish honor to his person and bliss to his soul and so shall ever pray But I cannot Idolize any King Kings are but men and all men have failings what hath been may be again the burnt childe dreads the fire and men once deceived trust not again without assurance Though Kings cannot erre their Councels have erred and for ought we know will erre again first let the Kingdom have its rights which Nature and Law hath given to free Subjects then make the King as great as he can be that his Honor and just Greatness may be ever splendant in Justice and Clemency God forbid that because through evil Counsel he hath erred and infringed the Subjects Liberty that therefore we his Subjects should utterly cast him off or take from him or his posterity any of his or their Rights I hope none will say that because his Majesties Councel put on by Romes Hierarchy hath caused a War that we will have no more a Peace We know our War was to defend Priviledges of Parliament our Liberties and Religion all which are involved in Parliaments not to destroy the King nor his posterity But it highly concerns us to take heed what peace is made and how for there is a destructive peace as there is a depopulating war And herein we have made our respective Members in free Parliament our Judge and so long as a free Parliament and of free Election we are not to judge their actions but are bound to maintain their Freedom and Priviledge for therein stands our Peace and welfare to our posterities you know what Jehu said to Joram when he asked if it were peace What peace 2 King 9. 22. so long as the Whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many There is no peace saith the Lord unto the wicked Will Isa 48. 22. God give peace to a wicked Nation when blood and oppression and horrible hypocrisie cryeth for vengeance and for desolation

Murtherer c. he is subtile in tempting therefore called the Old serpent the Red dragon he is a fawning Fox and a devouring Lyon his Government is onely in this world therefore called The god of this world and he ruleth onely over such men 2 Cor. 4. 4. Eph. 2. 2. 1 Iohn 3. 8. Ioh. 1. 44 Ps 52. 3. as are in darkness therefore called The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience and they that willingly commit sin are said to be of the Devil therefore wicked men that are his children like him love evil more then good and delight in lyes more then to speack truth he hath also many baits to ensnare men sometime he propoundeth Honor sometime Riches sometime Praise and Pleasure c. his mouth was full of this when he came to tempt Christ All this will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me or if we will but worship God in his way yea he brings this Scripture too It is written saith he thus and thus When men give way to any temptation of the Devil they forsake the truth and not receiving the truth in the love of it is the 2 Thess 2. 10 11. cause why God sendeth strong delusions to believe lyes and are given over to their own lusts then God saith of a man or a nation as of Israel Lo-ammi Ye are not my people and I will not be your God Hos 1. 9 The second cause of our distempers is our corrupt nature which is prone to rceeive all evil from Satan as the earth the seed cast into it or the tinder at fire every spark the Devil casts in the seed corrupt Nature brings forth increase he strikes the flint and corrupt Nature makes it a flame corrupt Nature is prone to delight in new things Satan always puts fair and specious shews upon every error he casts them by the mould of truth but ever addes or adminisheth and that he brings under the notion of new truths for Satan can be and doubtless is at this day transformed 2 Cor. 11. 14. Mat. 24. 24. into an Angel of light and so works upon mens fancies That if it were possible he should deceive the very Elect. The third cause is evil men Papists Jesuits Jews Libertines prophane Worldlings and all other seduced Schismatical Seducers that hate all Reformation because they love not the truth these are Satans instruments children of darkness hate the children of light they hold counsels against them make conspiracies use diabolical divinations pretend prophesies revelations and miracle some to broach false tenents seeming to be zealous for Christ but are his enemies others to raise discontents disobedience in the people against the powers ordained by God they invent lyes scandal and foment jealousie to make factions divisions both in Church and State have influence into great Councels Societies Families yea into our Victorious Army where by division they have staggered more then any power of the sword could ever have done these are interwoven with us in disguised shapes they are Presbyterians in the extreams and Independents to all loosness of liberty and slighting of duty tell you that you are in Christ if you be as they and cannot sin nor ought to pray for pardon that Christ dyed for all equally for Judas as for Peter that Revelations and the motions of the Spirit not Scripture are your Rule to walk by denying the Morallity of the Law question whether the soul be mortal or immortal that men have free-wil to repent and to be saved that the Christian Sacraments are no way necessary and that rebaptizing is lawful and necessary that the Lords day is no more to be observed then any other day that our godly Ministers are not Ministers of Christ but their calling Antichristian with a hundred more gross errors destructive to the foundation of true Religion all which they have spirits abroad to infuse into men as they finde their natural lusts inclined by which they have brought confusion not onely in Counsels Societies Cities and our Victorious Army but in all families so as we erre and erre exceedingly both in judgement and practice Take it for certain there are many hundred Jesuits at this day among us and have overspread the whole Kingdom of England I will not believe Scotland is free they are in all places like the frogs of Egypt even in the Saints conventicles as some call them and it may be in our common pulpits sometimes these are they that speak evil of Authority and cast reproaches upon the Ministery to bring Law and Gospel into contempt and to set up new lights and new Government in the world they spread the failings of Parliament abroad to the ears of all countreys and belye them grosly make every mole●il a mountain seem to divine their intentions and belye the very truth set the kingdom in hurliburly put whole counties to petition in unseemly maner to command Requests and to request things not to be granted without ruine and thereby think to work ruine by the denial all to hinder setlement reformation and peace and to bring in Popery in the crowd among the rest of their old heresies newly revived these like Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses withstand and resist 2 Tim. 3. 8. the truth being armed with all the power and policy of hell and Rome but their great Master-piece hath been to break the union between England and Scotland as it was Romes endeavors for many years to hold them from conjunction and was no small disheartning to them when they became conjoyned What our brethren will do I know not I will not prejudge a Kingdom they have been true and I hope will be ever but Barwick and Carlisle ought not to be held in Garison our Covenant is with God as well as one with another and the Kirk to their everlasting praise uphold it If it were but a mans covenant yet if it be confirmed no Gal. 3. 15 Lev 26. 25. man disanulleth but God is a just God and will avenge the quarrel of his Covenant on him that transgresseth I would say to England and Scotland as Abraham said to Lot Let there be no Gen. 13. 8. strife between you for you are Brethren so are your Armies too● if you jar to blood you will commit two great evils you will both fight for your enemies that will destroy you both and you or one of you will incur Gods judgements upon your posterities I pray remember what the Lord himself saith I will give the men Ier. 34. 18 19. that have transgressed my Covenant and have not performed the words of the Covenant which they made before me when they cut the calf in twain c. I will even give them into the hands of their enemies and into the hands of them that seek their life and they shall be meat for the fowls and for beasts c. Will you