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A82540	The answer of the Parliament of England, to a paper, entituled, a declaration by the Kings Majesty, to his subjects of the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland. Printed at Edinburgh, 1650. Whereunto is annexed, copies of four letters to the King of Scotland, which were found in the Lord Loudouns cabinet. Die Veneris, 20 Septem. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this answer and letters be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1598-1663.	1650 (1650)	Wing E1227; Thomason E613_2; ESTC R206510	21,416	40

diligently done for the House of the God of Heaven and whatever heretofore hath been the suggestions of some to him to render his Majesty jealous of his Parliament and of the Servants of God Yet is he hath declared that in Scotland he will hearken to their Counsel and follow their Advice in those things that concern that Kingdom and Kirk So doth he also declare his firm Resolution to manage the Government of the Kingdom of England by the Advice of his Parliament consisting of an House of Lords and of an House of Commons there and in those things that concern Religion to prefer the Counsels of the Ministers of the Gospel to all other Counsels whatsoever And that all the world may see how much he tenders the safety of his People and how precious their blood is in his sight and how desirous he is to recover his Crown and Government in England by peaceable means as he doth esteem the service of those who first engaged in the Covenant and have since that time faithfully followed the ends thereof to be Duty to God and Loyalty to him so is he willing in regard of others who have been involved in these late Commotions in England against Religion and Government to pass an Act of Oblivion excepting onely some few in that Nation who have been chief obstructers of the work of Reformation and chief Authors of the change of the Government and of the Murther of his Royal Father Provided That these who are to have the benefit of this Act lay down Arms and return unto the obedience of their lawful Soveraign ANSVVER THe Treaty that was touched upon in the former Paragraph made between the kingdom of Scotland and their King in reference to England and Ireland is here at large and in the particulars of it set down it will be needless to repeat them In the whole Frame of which we dare boldly affirm There are those Grounds laid of inslaving this Nation to the Scots and especially to the power of their Clergy That no Parliament that hath ever yet sate in England have had the least drop of true English blood in them but would disdain and abhor to be thus imposed upon by the Scotish Nation And are these the hopes that are given to this Nation of having two Houses of Parliament sitting in Freedom when what they must desire and what they must have must be prepared and agreed for them by a Forraign Nation Will the Parliament be more the Parliament of England when two Houses shall be brought upon the Stage again with a King at the Head of them by the power of a Scotish Army enforcing this upon the Nation then when the Parliament is in actual possession of such Power and Freedom as through the blessing of God upon their endeavors they are able by Law to exclude both King and House of Lords the known opposers of the Peoples Freedom out of their National Counsels and by the force God hath enabled them with to preserve the common Peace and Safety of the whole under the Government of a Commonwealth and Free-State It is too late now to think that the People have no better discernment of their own true Interest then to be ●atched with any satisfaction that can be offered and given by a King if he himself with his power must come in at the end of it Nor will the great promises of what he will do in the Cause of God and Work of Reformation under that pretence to let in upon us the return again of Tyranny much work upon the pious and judicious among us who want not the full and free enjoyments of their consciences in this kinde in a voluntary way under this Government without being beholding to the Concessions of a King nay we may truly say That since the change of Government in this Nation there have been more Laws made and means used for the propagating the Gospel and the power of godliness and encouraging the true Professors thereof and more done for the extirpation of Prophaneness and open Wickedness then hath been during the whole time of the Reigns of Kings over this Nation And as to the King of Scotland's declaring his firm Resolution to manage the Government of England by the Advice of his Parliament consisting of a House of Lords and of a House of Commons and in those things that concern Religion to prefer the Counsel of the Ministers of the Gospel before all Counsels whatsoever We trust it shall never be in his nor in the Kingdom of Scotlands power to impose either himself or his Creatures the House of Lords upon the Supreme Authority and National Counsel of the Free-born People of England who if they once become corrupted in that which is the Fountain of their Liberties their own Representatives in Parliament assembled which with thus much cost hazard are set up in some measure already in their Primitive and Original Purity and are going on every day more and more to the compleating thereof must expect nothing but the flowings forth of Tyranny and Mischief upon them in and by their very Laws and that which should be the chief and onely remedy against all their evils would by this means become the greatest cause and author of them Nor would this at all be mended or helped by the Clause which is put in That in those things which concern Religion he will prefer the Counsels of the Ministers of the Gospel before all Counsels whatsoever and so by undenyable consequence before the Parliament it self for we have learned by experience That there is hardly any Debate had in Parliament but the subject-matter of it in some sense or other may be brought under the concernment of Religion and by that means all the Laws must be or not be as the Clergy will approve or not approve of them A practice so inconsistent with the Fundamental Priviledges and Freedom of Parliament and the Peoples good that it hath always been exploded and resisted by all Assertors of English Freedom and whenever any visible Attempts have been made to promote such a Design as too often have been since the sitting of this Parliament the Parliaments have highly Resented it and frequently adjudged it High Treason looking at it as that which Introduces a Forraign Jurisdiction and makes way for the setting up again a Popish Supremacy changed in Name onely Touching the Act of Oblivion offered It is no doubt the effect of a great desire the King of Scots hath to receive that which he pretends unto in the Government of England An Acknowledgement of his Power to dispense such Favors But in the mean time we must observe who it is that makes this Offer A Traytor to the Parliament and People of England and who by his past Actings against them hath rendred himself obnoxious to their severest Censures from which we hold him no way Absolved by Assumption or Declaration of a Scotish Kingship He who by Law and his

the manner of Declaring this his Repentance that is to say with the Qualifications therein allowed of whereby under the pretence of a dutiful Son He may still retain in Memory his Fathers Actions of Tyranny for his Patern and through the high Estimation of his Mother have his Ears still open to her Councels as often as she can convey them to him And as sensible as he must be of his own and his Fathers Enmity and Opposition against the Lords People in the Three Nations yet he must still be encouraged to persist in the same against those that are truly the Lords People under the pretence of Sectaries These are such Inconsistencies and Haltings in so serious a Work that as it is justly to be feared that God will not be well pleased therewith so neither will it have its expected effect amongst men who with ease may see through the deceit and lameness of it and will with greater abhorrency be aware of them and their Designs that strive to cover themselves with Webs that will not prove Garments but whose Nakedness doth still appear §. 3. ANd his Majesty having upon full perswasion of the Justice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles thereof now Sworn and Subscribed the National Covenant of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland Doth Declare That he hath not Sworn and Subscribed these Covenants and entred into the Oath of God with his People upon any sinister Intention and crooked Design for attaining his own Ends but so far as Humane Weakness will permit in the truth and sincerity of his heart And that he is firmly Resolved in the Lords strength to adhere thereto and to prosecute to the utmost of his power all the Ends thereof in his Station and Calling really constantly and sincerely all the days of his life In order to which he doth in the first place Profess and Declare That he will have no Enemies but the Enemies of the Covenant and that he will have no Friends but the Friends of the Covenant And therefore as he doth now detest and abhor all Popery Superstition and Idolatry together with Prelacy and all Errors Heresie Schism and Prophaneness and resolves not to tolerate much less allow any of these in any part of his Majesties Dominions but to oppose himself thereto and to endeavor the Externation thereof to the utmost of his power so doth he as a Christian Exhort and as a King Require That all such of his Subjects who have stood in Opposition to the Solemn League and Covenant and Work of Reformation upon a pretence of Kingly Interest or any other pretext whatsoever to lay down their Enmity against the Cause and People of God and to cease to prefer the Interest of Man to the Interest of God which hath been one of those things which hath occasioned many Troubles and Calamities in these Kingdoms and being insisted into will be so far from Establishing of the Kings Throne that it will prove an Idol of Jealousie to provoke unto wrath him who is King of kings and Lord of lords The King shall always esteem them best Servants and most Loyal Subjects who serve him and seek his Greatness in a right line of subordination unto God Giving unto God the things that are Gods and unto Cesar the things that are Cesars And Resolveth not to love or countenance any who have so little Conscience and Piety as to follow his Interests with a prejudice to the Gospel and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ which he looks not upon as a duty but as flattery and driving of Self-Designs under a pretence of maintaining Royal Authority and Greatness Secondly His Majesty being convinced in Conscience of the exceeding great Sinfulness and Unlawfulness of that Treaty and Peace made with the Bloody Irish Rebels who treacherously shed the Blood of so many of his faithful and Loyal Subjects in Ireland and of allowing unto them the Liberty of the Popish Religion for the which he doth from his heart desire to be deeply humbled before the Lord And likewise considering how many Breaches have been upon their part Doth Declare the same to be void and that his Majesty is absolved therefrom being truly sorry that he should have sought unto so unlawful Help for Restoring of him to his Throne and resolving for the time to come rather to choose Affliction then Sin Thirdly As his Majesty did in the late Treaty with his people in this Kingdom agree to recal and annul all Commissions against any of his Subjects who did adhere to the Covenant and Monarchical Government in any of his Kingdoms So doth he now Declare That by Commissionating of some persons by Sea against the people of England he did not intend Damage or Injury to his opprest and harmless Subjects in that Kingdom who follow their Trade of Merchandize in their lawful Callings but onely the opposing and suppressing of those who had Usurped the Government and not onely bar him from his just Right but also Exercise an Arbitrary Power over his people in those things which concern their Persons Consciences and Estates And as since his coming into Scotland he hath given no Commissions against any of his Subjects in England or Ireland so he doth hereby Assure and Declare That he will give none to their prejudice or damage and whatever shall be the Wrongs of these Usurpers That he will be so far from avenging these upon any who are free thereof by interrupting or stopping the liberty of Trade and Merchandize or otherwise That he will seek their good and to the utmost imploy his Royal Power That they may be protected and defended against the unjust Violence of all men whatsoever And albeit his Majesty desires to construct well of the Intentions of those in reference to his Majesty who have been active in Councel or Arms against the Covenant yet being convinced that it doth conduce for the Honor of God the good of his Cause and his own Honor and Happiness and for the Peace and Safety of these Kingdoms That such be not employed in places of Power and Trust He doth Declare That he will not employ nor give Commissions to any such until they have not onely taken or renewed the Covenant but also have given sufficient Evidences of their Integrity Carriage and Affection to the Work of Reformation and shall be declared capable of Trust by the Parliament of either Kingdom respective And His Majesty upon the same grounds doth hereby recal all Commissions given to any such persons conceiving all such persons will so much tender a good Understanding betwixt him and his Subjects and the setling and preserving a firm Peace in these Kingdoms That they will not grudge nor repine at his Majesties Resolutions and Proceedings herein much less upon discontent act any thing in a divided way unto the raising of New Troubles especially since upon their pious and good deportment

THE ANSWER OF THE Parliament of England TO A PAPER Entituled A Declaration by the Kings Majesty To His Subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland Printed at Edinburgh 1650. Whereunto is annexed COPIES of Four LETTERS To the King of SCOTLAND Which were found in the Lord Loudouns Cabinet Die Veneris 20 Septem 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That this Answer and Letters be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. IT is well known unto the World what maner of Contest the Parliament of England hath had these years last passed in their own Defence to preserve themselves from the almost Establish'd Tyranny which through a long tract of Time had been obtruding it self as well over the Consciences as the Laws and Civil Liberties of the People in England Ireland and Scotland Designing and Practising the Extremity of all Evils upon these Nations rather then to suffer it self to be stopped in its course or disappointed of its end Else what signified the first Troubles raised in Scotland by the late King and that failing then the cherishing upholding and continuing to the last the Horrid and Bloody Rebellion in Ireland by the same hand and after all the bringing of an Unnatural War into the Bowels of this Nation managed and improved to the utmost by him and the Popish Prelatical and Prophane Party adhering to him therein Which Evils have been writ out in such deep Characters of Blood been attended with such Consumption of Treasure and almost Devastation of several Countries in the three Nations that they will not suddenly be worn out of the Peoples Sense much less of their Memory Yet even during these first Troubles the Designers were not ashamed to appear bare-faced in their open and avowed Principles of Opposition and Hatred against the Cause of God the Work of Reformation Priviledges of Parliament and Peoples Liberties having for that purpose incorporated themselves in Interest with all the known and implacable Enemies of the same as The Popish Party abroad and Prelatical and Malignant Party at home But now when by the unspeakable Blessing of God unto this Nation Tyranny hath received its Mortal Wound not onely by being Beaten out of the Field in all that have fought for it but by the Remarkable Justice that hath been done upon the Prime Instrument in the late Kings Execution and in consequence thereof the Government of this Nation Restored to a Commonwealth and Fee-State and the Supreme Authority Establish'd in this and Successive Parliaments or Representatives of the People without King or House of Lords as the best Means and strongest Bulwark under the Divine Protection to preserve the Peoples Liberties against the like Attempts and Invasions for time to come and so deprived of all Hopes of its ever taking Root again in this Commonwealth and being like also if this Commonwealth continue to lose ground in Scotland and other Nations where the People are made meer Slaves and Vassals to the Will of their Prince and his Lordly Instruments in Church and State It hath seemed good to Charls Stuart the Declared King of Scotland and to the prevailing Party in State and Kirk there to dress up this old and Malignant Cause in a more plausible and Religious Garb then that with which it was put forth before and to take it out of or rather for a time suspend its Exercise in the hands of the Popish Prelatical and Malignant Party who begin also to see they can keep it up no longer but it will certainly breathe out its last Gasp if it be not shifted and by some Change of Instruments recover a Reputation amongst good men And therefore a room and place is made by common Consent amongst them to receive and hide the Interest of Tyranny and of Opposition to all Christian as well as Civil Liberty within the verges of the Solemn League and Covenant The Signing of which Covenant and the emitting of a Declaration by the eldest Son of the late King expressing in words a superficial Repentance for what there is no probability for him at the present to put in practice and promising in effect for the future to Tyrannize and Enslave men chiefly by the Advice of the Kirk and as shall tend to uphold their Power and Clergy-Interest in the first place before his own An Homage which the Pope indeed hath claimed from Earthly Princes as that which is due to him as he pretends himself Gods Vicar on Earth This is now accounted full Satisfaction as to what is to be done on his part and whereupon they would make the World believe the state of the Cause is altered even to that degree as that their New King is now no longer upon his Old Principles but is come over to those upon which they have fought against his Father for these Twelve years past The Deceit and Evil of all which will appear when we shall come to take in pieces the said Declaration and thereby Unmask as we have promised the gross Hypocrisie of the Contrivers thereof and the Wicked Design that is couched and contained therein under pretence of The Name and Cause of God The Work of Reformation The Power and Freedoms of Parliaments in England according to their Ancient Form except onely a perpetual subjecting and subordinating of their Laws Councels and Advices to the Clergy who have a promise That their Councels shall be heard before any other whatsoever and other plausible Inducements to possess himself of the Crown of England And having obtained that Power with the Destruction of all the Faithful and truly godly Party that have declared themselves for this present Government He may then be more absolute in Tyranny then ever Prince in England was and derive the same in Succession to his Posterity upon the score of Conquest acquired to him by the help of the Scots whose good-will to England for the Cause of God as they would have us believe hath been and still is such as to hold it fit to impose upon us the Yoke of their Usurpations both in Church and State and have not scrupled to attempt the attaining of the same either by Subtilty of by Force By both which Means they never thought themselves in so fair a way unto their End as now they have cast themselves into by their late Agreement with their New King and this Declaration they have made him put forth which we shall Answer in the distinct Paragraphs of it in order as they lie §. 1. HIs Majesty taking in consideration that merciful Dispensation of Divine Providence by which he hath been recovered out of the snare of Evil Councel and having attained so full perswasion and confidence of the Loyalty of his People in Scotland with whom he hath too long stood at a distance and of the Righteousness of their Cause as to joyn in one Covenant with them and to cast