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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89699	No interest beyond the principall or, The court camisado. By reduction of government to its primitive end and integrity, Rom. 13.4. The ruler is the minister of God to thee for good. Also, nevves from Scotland : or, the reasons examined of the warre threatned. May. 1. 1648. Imprimatur, Gilb. Mabbott.		1648 (1648)	Wing N1176; Thomason E437_25; ESTC R202984	12,774	16

and line of communication at once If the Parliament of England and their Army were as mischievously disposed as they would render them and did beleeve breach of Covenant cause of quarrell they would never sit still and suffer such retrogradation as is daily and declaratively acted in Scotland from the Kingdoms to the Kings Cause and Party covenanted and fought against nor their Committee of danger to denounce warre as they do having a visible power on foote to spoile their councels before they can bring them to maturity and to fetch back what they carried hence and those English Malignants and Incendiaries that went hence which contrary to Covenant they refuse to deliver Brotherly love and charity covers a multitude of faults and does not cry every failer for a breach of Covenant on neither side no more than every discontent is a breach of wed-locke especially touching things of non-concernment and a Covenant so large comprehensive and subject in many things to various acceptations by its manner of penning David in the 44. Psalme shewes what God counts breach of Covenant when hee saith vers 17 18. We have not dealt falsly in thy Covenant our heart is not turned backe Now whether in this sense the Lord Louden or the Lord Fairfax the Scotch Papers and Practises or the Parliaments declarations and long sufferings have broken Covenant let God and the World judge As the Covenant warrants not breaking so nor fighting for breaking much lesse a supposed one and that in our own forme and interest God is witnesse as of the Covenant so of the breach and it properly belongs to him not man to punish save in their severall places vocations and interests those are the words of the Covenant whereby the Scotish judicature may and ought to question their owne Scotch Covenant-breakers but by no means to stretch their line over Tweed and to make themselves work in anothers Harvest to punish us and not themselves for things concerning us not them But it seems when the Covenant was first made in Scotl. it was then resolved it should be broke in England and that whatsoever was acted crosse to their designes especially of joynt interest should be the breach of it else they will never bring in such farre fetch'd unconcerning things into the account as they do When they have done justice in Scotland upon their apostalized Covenanters Malignants and Incendiaries we in England will thanke them for their prayors and friendly animadversions in what they can justly taske us or probably suspect us of what kind but not till then nor further then that For by the Covenant the supream judicatories of both Kingdoms respectively have only power to punish Another party are angry and threaten warre because wee will not receive the King upon their tearmes and let them exercise a legislative power so furiously driven on here in England for which they also urge the Covenant that Scotch Magna Charta which because they made it therefore they conceive they cannot breake it assuming a legislative power not onely in but over poore England by vertue of it for that they that are the makers must it seems be interpreters and thus the Covenant which was intended by us unto liberty was meant and is made use of by them unto our bondage and the King his very party and cause Covenanted for that was Covenanted and fought against Monstrum horrendum An ounce of Scotish confidence is more worth than a pound of English honesty Thus Traquier himself is become a Covenanter Such gamesters will never lose what game soever they play at that can play fast and loose and make any thing of every thing and from the words mutuall advice and consent mentioned in the eigth Article of the Treaty intitle themselves to a joynt interest and us to breach of Covenant and Treaty whereas those words imply only thus much that as the war was managed by a joynt ingagement against a common enemy to both Nations so that it should not be ended by a peace transacted or treated by one Nation alone without the privity and consent of the other that so neither of their interests might be damnified Not that both of them should be confounded The rare contradictions that their Papers and Practises hold forth sometimes the King must not come to London till he have given security and satisfaction then again be must come without either sometimes propositions and no personall treaty othertimes a personall treaty and no propositions which now are impositions sometimes the King must take the Covenant otherwhile if be come not to the length of our desires in so doing we must be content sometimes they tell the King upon his refusing the Propositions both Kingdomes will be constrained for their mutuall safety to agree and settle Religion and Peace without him and then upon turne of the tide they tell us we must wait till God change his heart For the safety of the Kingdome the Army must be Disbanded and the King invested in the Militia or it in him Sure Janus is Propitious to these ambidexers else they could never so bewitch wise men as well as fools with their Sorceries as they doe and with the Preshyterian Eele-hooke draw the City and Assembly after them and that not onely in England but in Scotland also where they say they have deluded the well-meaning Clergy who are consented to joyn with those Covenant-breakers in a warre against us provided it be for Covenant-breaking The little good that we have got by the great cvills that we have undergon God justly may and it may be will punish us for it but they for their dissembling shal not scape hypocrisie and falsehood is as hateful to God as to man I doubt not but the issue will prove it so according to their own prayer or forme of thanksgiving upon their deliverance from the French by the aid of the English in these words Suffer us never O Lord to fall to that Ingratitude and detestable unthankefullnes that we shall seek the destruction and death of those whom thou hast made Instruments to deliver us from the tyranny of mercilesse strangers Dissipate thou the councells of such as deceitfully travell to stirre the hearts of the inhabitants of either Realm against the other let their malitious practises be their owne confusion But that which I admire is that they should joyn and unite in Scotland to get England though with hazzard of their owne and that wee will not do the like to keepe it are wee so stout stomacked and our malice so implacable that we will rather lose a good land than shake hands and be friends amongst our selves I meane not the Malignant Cavaliers those excrements of English-men of whom I dare prophecy they shall never hurt any but themselves nor doe much more harme though they may often attempt it then break glasse windows and write libellous pamphlets but the mis-understanding City and Clergy who doe well to oppose errour so be that they themselves erre not fundamentally in doing so and cause the losse of all or hazzard it who have smal cause to think they that are for the King will be for Presbytery I am no Independent save as to the Scots but an English-man were all of us so true to English principles and interest as the Scots are to theirs they durst never set foot upon English ground in a war-like way See we not how it hath been their constant practise and indeavor to set England on fire that they might come in by the light of it and shall we by our differences pave them a way and open them a two leaved doore to enter in at and march into the bowels of our Kingdome by have we fought for the freedome of ourselves and posterity and saved it as a brand out of the fire to be cheated out of it at the last What made this Kingdome bee so often conquered from the Romans to the Normans but domesticke differences and shall it now be our fate to become conquerable by those we our selves have so often conquered through dis-union Beleeve not their overtures be they never so specious Thei 'le tell you thei 'le not joyne with Malignants and Cavaliers as the King and the Earle of Newcastle gave out they would not joyn with Papists whereas they do not only already receive thē joyn with them but themselves are such faced quit about to the King and his cause whereof they have given these good signes amongst others they have received Commission from him to make Malignant Knights and Lords that sit in their Parliament and to gratifie the King again have retorted Traquier and imployed him as a confiding man in Embassie to the King in the Isle of Wyght beleeving the King will give more credit to him that hath been true to his principles then to them that are false to theirs FINIS

grant it to his their apparent ruine Only blind Cupid is fit to stand a top of the wheel of Fortune none that have eyes in their heads would desire so slippery a place when they see they so much over top themselves that their hands cannot mannage what is under their feet but they must needs turn round to their own ruine But if seeing they see not and will venture their necks to have their wills yet there is no reason the people should build Babel to bring confusion upon themselves VVisdom is to pursue a right end by right means consequently not to expect good government from a corrupt will endowed with Arbitrary power What hath bin the ruin of Empire so much as Empire Kings have lived to repent their power and people much more And Secondly for his party in the Parliament Priviledge in their hands is as bad as prerogative in his they having no more right of power to abuse that then he this Whoever represents a County or Corporation is entrusted by a part of member of the Common-wealth for the good of the whole and is in the 〈◊〉 of an Embassador or Commissioner to negotiate in a joynt body with the States Generall for the State in generall For by the Laws of Embassie State agents though Plenipotentiaties are not to betray them they treat for their power is neither intended nor ought to be interpreted to the prejudice but profit of them that imploy them The Feffee for the Feffor Liberty and priviledge are allowed to Parliaments to transact the liberty property and safety of the people and he that goes retrograde to those what place or part of the Common-wealth soever he serve for by right of community ought to be rejected by the rest that serve for and are intrusted with the whole In a word words by tract of time degenerate like men Tirannus once was taken in the better part when Kings were better common-wealths-men and that they and their people were joynt purchasers trading abroad not at home for preeminence So was the word Interest whilst it was of publick cognizance and all Qu. Elizabeths dayes kept it self sober by drinking English Be●re till it was made drunk with F●●…tiniack and the King and his Courtiers by use upon use and interest upon interest had almost swallowed up all the peoples Principall And Reason it self run hazzard to have her eyes put out that Prapria que maribus which was wont to be the common name for all men it begun to be wholly ingrossed at Court entailed upon the crown begg'd for a Monopoly insomuch as there was almost no Reason left but Reason of State within the compasse of a cabinet councell all else was either bruitish or rebell on nor no state but that of the King his Royal consort the one Scatch the other French When publick Interest is impropriated ex officia to private personall purposes then ceaseth the name nature of a Governour by deviating from the primitive end institution of government ordain'd by God Nature consequently love loyalty obedience duty for what oblieges these not greatnes without goodnes for then the devil might challenge them at our hands who by Scripture is stiled principalities and powers yea the Prince of this world Authority whatever the kind or species of it be whilest it points right to the pole and retains the vertue of the Lord-stone where with it was first touched its safe to sale by it but if either through corruption or injury of time it make standing variations at wrong points then it must either be new touched or quite changed else contrary to intention when first sea-saile you le make a wrong voyage and fall amongst enemies instead of friends or a destructive and be cast amongst rock and sands instead of knowne Seas NEWES from SCOTLAND OR Their reasons examined of the WARRE threatned THe Scots would faine make war upon England but they are to seeke for a why and a wherefore and are ready to fall together by the eares amongst themselves what shall be the cause of the quarrell yet keep us in continuall alarme to the losse of Ireland for the world must have a blind But bee the reason never so politicke Religion must be the overture which the Scotch dangerous Committee not being wise enough to reconcile Traquire who of late was first in their exception and now in acceptation was called to councell to help at a dead lift being for michiavillian policy another Strafford One part of them say the Sectaries meaning the Army have broken the Covenant which they never tooke But if breach of Covenant be a cause of quarrell the Scots neede not goe so farre to fight they have Covenant breakers nearer hand at home is it possible that such pretenders to piety should see a moat in their brothers eye so far off and overlooke the beame that is in their own streyne at a gnat and swallow a camel threaten warre to England for they themselves know not what one while saying the Covenant is broken and another while that it is endangered and the whilst cocker up their owne Commissioners with an omne bene in their palpable Covenant-breaches and Apostacies But it seemes they must fall out with us to keep them friends amongst themselves though if they had eyes in their heads they might see Gods hand in creating such fewds at home to prevent the mischiefe they would bring abroad But wherein have the Army broken the Covenant why principally for not being Presbyterians for that in pretence with some and reality with others is made the chiefe if not the only hinge that the Covenant winds and turnes upon though the word Presbitery is not so much as once named in the Covenant a weak foundation then to build a warre upon but to strengthen it they say the Army have refused orders for their disbanding and forced orders for their standing though the Parliament of England never told them so but they forget what their Army did when it was sent to but to disband their supernumeraries which they flatly refused and forcibly kept them a foot spite of the Parliament and to the despite of the poor Country that groaned under so heavy a burden of so heavy a body and by the same force kept Carlile and Newcastle whether the Parliament would or no by what clause in the Covenant or Treaty is not knowne to this day and the King of England too in England till they thought good to part with him and that notwithstanding all authority reason or right to the contrary But the true reason why the Army whose greatest fault in their faithfulnesse is such an eye sore it is because by their meanes principally their strong party in England is much weakned those fine designes of a joynt interest legislative propriety and the Kings comming to London in freedome honour and safety and other such like have been shrewdly disappointed by demolishing their eleven pillars