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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45672	Nahash redivivus in a letter from the Parliament of Scotland, directed to the Honorable William Lenthal, Speaker of the House of Commons examined and answered by John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1649 (1649)	Wing H894; ESTC R9915	17,406	24

Worship and Government but this of theirs is the best Reformed They should say The best that they know and then we will desire them to give leave to us to be free that are not perhaps so fully perswaded of it To beg the thing in Question is no good Logick and may we not think it possible they may miss it in their Theologie too For that of the Kings life the Parliament of England hath published to all the world the Causes of their so proceeding with the late King of England If he be a Tyrant oppress his people against the Laws which he tramples under foot and puts his will in the place levy War and seek to make a Conquest of the people and God gives the people a victory against him he falls into their hands they propound him terms for their future safety he refuseth what they judg necessary they thereupon bring him to judgment and condemn and execute him as a Tyrant What hath Scotland to do with this Because the King of Scotland will tyrannize England therefore England must not secure it self because Scotland will not give it leave How long hath this dependence been They cannot but remember it was wont to lie on the other side why was there so much care had else in penning the Preface to the large Treaty the breaking whereof by their invasion hath put things as they were As to the change of the Fundamental Government as they are pleased to call it who made them so well able to judg what Fundamental Government is with us that they can so magisterially pronounce of it But what hath their Kirk to do with it Are they set up over Nations to pluck up and to plant Where is the jus divinum for it And how far doth their jurisdiction extend It may be it is as boundless as the Sea We are sure the Sea bounds it not for they practise at that rate in Ireland as they pronounce here and perhaps if it should get a little more strength it would shew its impudence further But it doth well for its time it hath not been long a growing it made a good stop last yeer to put it self out of pupilage and Commenced Independent it was more then the old one could ever do in the height of her pride and Ruff. Their protest herein hath given sufficient testimony to all that observe that they are not much troubled with blushing that they are very forward to meddle with that they have nothing to do with and are heterogenial to that sort of people who are of that Kingdom which is said not to be of this world they love so much to be espousing all secular Interests and mixing and immerging themselves in them and there is the less hope they will mend for the future because they still at present do so constantly adhere But it is not impossible they may change their mindes there is one way to effect it Paragraph 4. And since it is apparent there hath been of late in England a backsliding and departure from the grounds and principles wherein the two Kingdoms were engaged the Parliament of this Kingdom doth propound That the late proceedings there against Covenant and Treaties may be disclaimed and disavowed as the prosecution of the late unlawful Engagement against England and their former Professions may return to the same Vpon which grounds they are content to authorise Commissioners on behalf of this Kingdom to Treat with Commissioners from both Houses of the Parliament of England sitting in freedom concerning all matters of just complaint which either Nation may have against the other and for redress and reparation thereof and to do every thing that may further conduce for continuing the happy Peace and Vnion betwixt the Kingdoms which can never be setled upon so sure a foundation as the former Treaties and the Solemn League and Covenant From which as no alteration or revolution of Affairs can absolve either Kingdom so we trust in God that no success whether good or bad shall be able to divert us But as it hath been our care in time past it shall be still our real endevor for the future to keep our selves free of all compliance with or inclining to the Popish Prelatical and Malignant party upon the one hand or to those that are enemies to the Fundamental Government by King and Parliament and countenance and maintain Error Heresie and Schism upon the other I have no other thing in command from the Parliament of this Kingdom but to take notice that there is no Answer returned to their Letter of the fifth of March last and so rests MAny things may be apparent to you which are not true nor will appear so to those who have their souls exercised to discern good and evil or who lie not under the pre-occupations of prejudice It is not to us apparent that stand nearer that there is any such back-sliding and departure from the grounds and principles wherein the two Nations were engaged of which if they would convince they should do well to enumerate what those grounds and principles were that upon agreement in matter of fact we might descend to the consideration of whether they be principles and then whether or no they be deserted before they accuse of Apostacy and deserting of Principles If we consider what it was that stirred up either or both the Nations to engage in the war that hath been made against the late King it will appear it was the sense of the present tyranny and oppression and a just fear of greater That which was propounded by them in that Engagement can be no other but the good of the Nations in their just Liberty which being the ultimate end propounded must needs be the first principle of motion and onely that can deserve the name of a principle and every thing else is a superstructure and can onely stand in the relation and Category of a means to that end and every means is to be made use of onely so far as it is conducible to the end and to be departed from when it deviates and to be left behinde and others taken up when the former fall short In the beginning it was hoped it was wished That the King might have seen and owned and mended his Errors and that the good of the people might have consisted with the continuance of the King and there wanted not many addresses for it and long expectations of it nor overtures of such dangerous condescention as we have cause forever to bless God whose watchful providence kept us in hiding from his eyes the means of our ruine which were by our idolatry of Kingship put into his hands and at last discovering to us how incommensurable that means was to our just end and that there was an incompossibility of a coexistence of Kingship and the Nations happiness and the saedifragous invasion of England by the Nation of Scotland was not the worst Colyriam for clearing our eyes in