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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58617	The declaration of the kingdome of Scotland, concerning the present expedition into England according to the commission and order of the Convention of Estates, from their meeting at Edinburgh, August 1643.	Scotland. Convention of Estates.	1643 (1643)	Wing S1219; ESTC R235648	6,543	16

experience ever since the time of our first Reformation especially after the two Kingdomes have been united under one Head and Monarch from the Principles of our own Declarations in the time of our late troubles and dangers from the vindictive disposition of the enemies of this Kirk and Kingdome which they conceive to be the fountain whence have issued all these evils and from the grounds of common reason That we cannot long like Goshen enjoy our light if darknesse shall cover the face of other reformed Kirks that Juda cannot long continue in liberty if Israel be led away in captivity and that the condition of the one Kirk and Kingdome whether in Religion or Peace must be common to both If England shall subdùe the enemies of Religion without that assistance which they call for from us at this time what help can we expect from them in the houre of our tentation which we have deserved and the Lord may bring upon us when he will God forbid that we should give them cause to laugh at our calamity and mock when our fear cometh and if they shall be given over into the hand of the Enemy which God in his mercy avert will not the enemy strengthened with increase of power be the more insolent and unresistable and will not the power of England turned into the hands of Malignants turne also enemy against this Kirk and Kingdome and upon such pretences as be already invented and yet they will alledge according to the late Treaty of Peace within three moneths space denounce a Nationall Warre against us And concerning the third the question is not whether we should presume to be Arbitrators in the matters now debated by fire and sword betwixt his Majesty and the Houses of Parliament which may seeme to be forraigne and extrinsecall to this Nation and wherein we may be conceived to have no interest but whether our mediation and intercession being rejected by the one side upon hope of victory or suppose by both sides upon confidence of their own strength and severall successes it be not our duty it being in our power to stop or prevent the effusion of Christian bloud Or whether we ought not to endeavour to rescue our Native King his Crown and Posterity out of the midst of so many dangers and to preserve his People and Kingdome from ruine and destruction If every private man be bound in duty to interpose himself as a reconciler and sequestrator betwixt his neighbours armed to their mutuall destruction If the son ought to hazard his own life for the preseration of his father brother at variance the one against another Shal a Kingdome sit still and suffer their King and neighbouring Kingdome to perish in an unnaturall warre In the time of animositie and appetite of revenge such an interposing may be an irritation But afterwards when the eyes of the minde no more bloud-run with passion do discerne things aright it shall be no grief nor offence of heart but matter of thanksgiving to God and to the Instruments which have kept from shedding of bloud and from revenge The Covenant is now solemnely taken in England and is countenanced there already from Heaven with marvellous successe The Propositions and Articles of the Treatie are with wonderfull unanimitie concluded in both Houses of Parliament Cessation of Armes is agreed upon with the Irish Rebels and they notwithstanding all the barbarous and unparalleld crueltie exercised by them upon the Protestants and people of God in that Kingdome honoured with the title of his Majesties Subjects It is therefore now high time for all true-hearted Scottish men and good Patriots abroad especially such as upon fair and plausible pretences have been formerly mistaken or seduced to take arms against this Cause of God and Religion timely to remember their Nationall Covenant and seriously to bethink themselves of the duty which by so manifold Obligations they owe to their Religion and Native Countrey in this time of so great distresse and danger to both lest despising or neglecting this our warning and intimation they either perish by wilfull persisting in their own wayes against God their Countrey and Covenant or come too late and there be no place left for repentance It is also most necessary for all good people of all ranks and degrees within the Kingdome to deny themselves and their own ease or what earthly thing is dearest unto them to lift up their eyes and behold the Work of God unto which they are called and with heart and hand to joyn in this so religious so just and so necessary Expedition and which upon the truth of God our own late comfortable and never to be forgotten experience and the prayers of the people of God we may be assured will in end against all difficulties and oposition be crowned with such successe as may be honour to God confusion to his presumptuous and incorrigible enemies propagation to the true Religion and comfort to all the unfeigned lovers of truth and peace which against all calumnie and contradiction hath been is and shall be the summe of our desires FINIS