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A92720	Scotlands alarme. Or, Some considerations tending to demonstrate the necessitie of our speedie marching to the assistance of our brethren in England, notwithstanding all difficulties and necessities, reall or pretended. Together, with a letter dated at Edinburgh, Novemb. the 29. 1643. Wherein is given full satisfaction to all men who desire to know the reasons why the Scots Army is not yet advanced into England.		1643 (1643)	Wing S2015; Thomason E77_5; ESTC R21030	9,618	16

SCOTLANDS ALARME OR Some considerations tending to demonstrate the necessitie of our speedie marching to the assistance of our Brethren in England notwithstanding all difficulties and necessities reall or pretended ESTHER 4. verse 13 14 16. Verse 13. Think not with thy self that thou shalt escape in the Kings house more then all the Iews 15. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time thou shall there inlargement and deliverance arise to the Iews from another place but thou and thy fathers house shall be destroyed and who knoweth whether thou art come to the Kingdom for such a time as this Verse 16. If I perish I perish Chap. 8. vers 6. For how can I endure to see the evill that shall come unto Gods people or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kinred TOGETHER With a Letter dated at Edinburgh Novemb. the 29. 1643. Wherin is given full satisfaction to all men who desire to know the reasons why the Scots Army is not yet advanced into England Printed first at Edinburgh and Re-printed at London for Robert Bostock Anno Domini 1643. SCOTLANDS ALARME OR Some considerations tending to demonstrate the necessitie of our speedie marching to the assistance of our Brethren in England notwithstanding all difficulties and necessities reall or pretended FOrasmuch as all works of honour and importance are usually attended with manifold difficulties which the spirits of men unlesse quickned many times suffer to grow up into discouragements And whereas more especially those under-takings in which the honour of GOD and the aduancement of the Kingdom of JESUS CHRIST is concerned besides those naturall impediments that arise from the weight of the Service are commonly obstructed with many artificiall lets which the subtilty and malice of the Devill and ill-affected Instruments readily make and many times the corruptions of the well-affected too easily entertain It seems not unnecessarie to offer to this Nation now by solemne and sacred Covenant engaged with the Kingdom of England for the mutuall preservation of Religion and Liberty some considerations proving and pressing the necessitie of the speedie marching of our intended Army to the relief of our Brethren notwithstanding the expectation of money not fully answered and the discouragements of this Winter season That we of this Nation are to affoord assistance to England in thi Cause wherein they are engaged against the Popish and Prelaticall Faction that so the intended corruption and subversion of the Protestant Religion may be prevented and the just Liberties of both Nations secured it is hoped may be taken for granted it being the plain language of our Covenant Some it may be there are and God be thanked there are no more who either really think or carry themselves as if they thought it utterly unlawfull to engage in this Cause because we are so unhappie as to see his Majesty intangled in the counsels and practises of them whom we are resolved to oppose and think that free-born Protestant Subjects in any case of difference betwixt them and their Prince have nothing left but the miserable refuge of passive obedience which they will have accounted due to his personall commands as well as legall But God forbid we should so part with our Religion and Libertie the Inheritance of our Fathers A great deal of honour and observance is due to Princes but let us finde out some cheaper sacrifice for these Deities than the honour and truth of him who is exalted farre above all gods and the welfare and happinesse of whole Kingdoms with which whatsoever mortall man is weighed in the ballance will be found too light But in the mean time these States and Kingdoms are verie much beholding to the patrons of this Doctrine who thereby make the condition of the Subjects of great Brittain no whit better than that of the vassals to the great Turk who can desire or expect no more than a passive obedience to his will and pleasure Others there be who pretend think to that Religion Liberty may be secured by those wayes and counsels which have obtained his Majesties Countenance and Concurrence But whether a designe whose ingredients are Spanish Counsels Romish Buls Popish Contributions and an Irish Cessation be like to tend to the good of the true Religion let any man judge who hath not renounced his understanding But this present undertaking is not intended to convince them who oppose or decline this Service if there are any who either upon these grounds or worse are disposed to an opposition or neutrality in this great Cause And after so much blood shed so many Petitions and Declarations made such a Covenant as ours duely weighed doubt of the lawfullnesse and necessity of joyning with our Brethren in this mutuall defence Such are to be left to the just censures of the Church and deserved penalties of the State which certainly are the most fit and will be the most effectuall meanes for their Conviction That which is now endeavored is to quicken the hearts and strengthen the hands of them who have Sworn and Subscribed this Solemne Covenant that they may with the more speed and cheerfulnesse set their shoulders to the work in hand For so it is many times Probitas laudatur alget that a good Cause is at the same time praised and starved And those that seem very much affected with the generall representation of a businesse when it descends to action and especially their own particular engagement have a strange damp seazing upon them and can hardly perswade themselves to act according to what they have apprehended If therefore there be any who either doubt of the absolute or present necessity of contributing their utmost assistance to this Cause of CHRIST so infinitely valuable let the love they owe to GOD and his Gospel which is endangered to their Brethren who are so miserably spoiled both in England and Ireland to themselves and their own Native Country which is now within the noise of the Thunder for the sharp Letters and terrible Proclamations from Oxford have already reached us and will shortly unlesse GOD give us grace to prevent it by timely endeavours be under the storm Let these threefold bands of love not easily broken by any Christian Spirit prevail with them to lay to heart these ensuing considerations First let it be duely considered what may be the ill consequents of disapointing the expectation of the wel-affected party in England who having done their utmost to answer our desires have set their hearts and hopes upon our assistance as the most probable means under GOD for the repressing the fury of the adversary and rescuing them from those calamities that presse them even at their doors Iob. 6. To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend but we shall instead of that adde affliction to their affliction if by deferring their hope we make their hearts to faint and give too much advantage to their and our adversaries to

Spirit Though this Work of Babylons ruine shall not be done without power or might for double must be rendred to her and happie shall they be that reward her as shee hath served us giving her blood to drinke for shee is worthy yet not by that power or might in an ordinary way but by the Spirit of GOD the disposer of all affairs especially those that concerne the Church of GOD strangely ordering things that so little of men or meanes but much of GOD may be seen so that when he hath made the Mountains become plains before his Zerobabels the head-stone may be brought fotth with shouting crying not Armies Councels Commanders but Grace grace unto it But this is a strange Dialect to States men Souldiers It may be so but GOD will probably make it familiar in time Let this discourse be taken as it was intended not to take men off the using preparations but from trusting them and standing so precisely upon all accomplishments when GOD hath given so good encouragement to hope that he will make up our unwilling and unavoidable necessities But in the midst of our businesse let it be seriously laid to heart how much blood is spilt how many Townes and Countries spoiled how miserably our friends are distressed and distracted while we are preparing onely for their reliefe We have professed to looke upon their condition as our own and well we may for it is truly though not presently and immediately our own let us so carry our selves as if they enemies Forces were as neer Edenburgh as they are London But this must not be interpreted quarreling but quickning And now let us descend from this general consideration of difficulties and take a particular view of the present difficulties that interrupt and retard our so much expected and desired aid And first whereas it may bee there are some that quake and shiver at the thought of a Winters march and looke upon it as an unreasonable motion that our Army should then take the field when other Armies betake themselves to Garison Let none take exception if we pray GOD to keepe Winter out of our hearts and we shall make a reasonable good shift for our bodies the worst weather in the world is that which our Saviour tells of When iniquity abounds and the love of many waxes cold Christ never complained it was too hot when he sweat drops of blood GOD hath given us bodies able to endure much let not our mindes refuse it necessity makes all seasons alike and that is our case or I am sure the case of our friends which we should make ours or GOD will make it ours But if the consideration of the condition of our friends who endure a hard winter for want of coals from New-castle do not move us let us looke at the carriage of our enemies sure we shall be ashamed to decline that for the Service of Christ which they so readily endure for Antichrist Did not the Kings Armie march from Oxford to Brainford in November the M. of New-castle with his Popish Army from Northumberland to York in Decem. Did not the Cavaliers take in Cicester in Glocestershire in the depth of Winter Feb. 2. 1642. Vt iugulent homines surgunt de nocte latrones Vt teipsum serves non expergisceris Shall villains to destroy get up by night And we not stir to save till day be light For shame let not this be thought an impediment much lesse made an excuse by any GOD will either send such weather as we may endure or make us able to endure such as he sends If we complain the winter is too cold it is much to bee doubted we may have reason hereafter to complain that the Spring is too hot when our work shal be made ten times more difficult by the increase of the enemies strength from Ireland and other places and the provision of Armes and Ammunition now so much wanting among them which these dark winter nights notwithstanding the guards at Sea will befriend them with Let us not favour our enemies while we think to favour our selves and suffer them to make use of those provisions for horse and man which are now in the Countrey though Winter be more cold the Summer is like to be more hungry Delayes especially in Military affairs are seldome or never without many dangers Ours will have sin and danger too if they be not timely looked unto But the last and greatest difficultie is the matter of money how can it be thought that we should satisfie the expectation of our friends and neighbours when they fall so much short of satisfying ours in that which is the sinew and strength of warre This is a strong objection but necessity is a stronger answer we must be sure at some time or other for we are made Traitors and Rebels by Proclamation already and promised protection but upon a slender condition that is so long as wee behave our selves so as evill Councellours may give a good report of our deservings we shall be compelled to raise an Armie in defence of this Cause and our selves and though the termes are not so good as some expected they are better then wee are like to finde if our brethren in England bee utterly spoiled and wee left to shift for our selves Let us therefore perswade our selves to doe that now which otherwise we shal be in time constrained to that is part with what we have for the vindication of our Religion and Liberty As it was just and reasonable that for the better accomplishment of the intended worke we should make as good provision as might be and to that end desire a considerable summe of money the better to prevent future inconveniencies So it is no lesse just and reasonable that our friends having as we are credibly informed done their utmost for this present toward the satisfaction of our propositions in that point we should bee willing and ready to doe our utmost to supply their unwilling wants the cause being as certainly though not so immediately ours as theirs It may be more money might have been had if Malignants Neuters and lukewarme-professors could have found in their hearts to have parted with it but as some have done below so doubtlesse some have done beyond their ability Shall honest men be destroyed because worldlings will not part with their Mammon For that is the case if we helpe not the good Protestants of England because money is short they must be lost and undone because after this vast expence upon the Cause of GOD they are no richer And if this be an impediment certainly it will be an everlasting impediment the longer we stay the lesse assistance must bee expected from our friends which bee daily more and more exhausted and that middle sort of men which have the riches of the Kingdome will rather with their money buy an unlawfull peace than maintain a lawfull warre Considering therefore that GOD hath so in his providence