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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75567	The Declaration and apology of the Protestant people that is, of the noblemen, barrons, gentlemen, burgesses, and commons of all sorts, now in armes within the kingdom of Scotland.	Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, 1629-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing A3677; ESTC R230114	9,451	8

separation division or backdrawing untill they be perfectly and finally obtained Upon which grounds and for which ends abovementioned we not only hereby most sincerely and firmly protest and declare as in the presence of God constantly and perpetually to assist and maintain one another to the uttermost against all deadly But do more-over freely and heartily resolve and engadge our selves to countenance and concurr with all our persecuted and oppressed bretheren and freinds in England and Irland who from the Like reasons and motives shall be induced and stirred up to the like undertaking for the same or the like Ends. Wherefore we most seriously and humbly beseech and obtest in the bowels of our lord I Christ all that love his truth and this our righteous cause nonne excepted though either formerly litle concerned for favourable to us these interests or even still in actual opposition against us and them their sincere repentance being at all times to God most acceptable and not to be better witnessed before men then by a contrarie and vigorous amendement to come and joyn with us for Gods Glory and Gospel our country lives rights and liberties and our posterities and all our hope Against an apostat Papist an usurping and persecuting Tyran by the most sacred article of his Religion our mortal enemy under the pain of his own Damnation and by the fundamental and express laws of the land I. 6. P. 1. c. 9. P. 20. c. 5. incapable of the meanest office within the Kingdom and in effect a declared enemy and rebell I. 6. P. 3. c. 47. And who even by the Act lately made by himself for pathing the way to his succession Ch. 2. p. 3. c. 2. can have no shaddow of pretence to the benefite thereof Unless he first instruct him self both to be the Lawfull and the immediat and nearest heir of the croun which without satisfieing the old Law Ia. 6. p. 1. c. 8. at the same time ratified Ch. 2. p. 3. c. 1. by swearing to embrace and maintain the true reformed Protestant Religion he can never possiblie be as was then distinctly understood and declared by the principal framers of that Act. And against his adherents and pertakers a perjured revolted and self condemned generation Upon whom the Lord who will not give his glory to another hath formerly got him self a name and renoun before all the Nations whom our sins only have exalted and whose hearts can never endure or their hands be strong when the Lord 〈…〉 who is on our side and hath a perpetual indignation against all the wicked in the earth shall arise and deal with them And this our most earnest call and request we confidently hope shall be the more readily hearkened unto and heartily and seriously complyed with that in the issue thorow the blessing of God it assuredly promises not only the restitution of truth prosperity and glory to these long misgoverned harassed and disgraced Nationes but the sure defence and protection of true Religion and liberty every where Brittains certain and great interest of late most shamefully abandoned and even the depression of Antichrist and the advancement and exaltation of the Kingdom of our Lord Iesus Christ in all the earth Let us therefore be of good courage and play the men for our people and for the cause of our God And the Lord do that which Seemeth him good THE DECLARATION of ARCHIBALD Earl of ARGYLE Lord Kintyre Cowall Campbel and Lorn Heritable Sheriff and Lieutenant of the Shires of Argile and Tarbett and Heritable Justice General of the said Shires and of the West Isles and others With his Order to his Vassals and others in the said Shires and under his Jurisdiction to Concurr for Defence of their Religion Lives and Liberties I shall not mention my Case published in Print in Latine and more largely in English nor mean I to repeat the Printed Declaration emitted by several Noblemen Gentlemen and others of both Nations now in Arms but because the Sufferings of me and my Family are therein mentioned I have thought it fit for me to declare for my self That as I go to Arms with those who have appointed me to Conduct them for no private nor personal end and only for those contained in the said Declaration which I have concerted with them and approve of so I do claim no interest but what I had before the pretended Forfeiture of my Family and have sufficient right to And that I do freely and as a Christian forgive all Personal Injuries against my Person or Family to all that shall not oppose but Join and Concur with us in our pre sent Undertaking for the ends mentioned in the said Declaration And hereby I oblidge me never to pursue them in Iudgement nor out of Iudgment And I do further declare That obtaining the peaceable and quiet Possessio● of what belonged to my Father and my self before our pretended Forfeitures I shall satisfie all Debts due by my Father and my self as any Heir or Debitor can be obliged And as my Faithfulness to his late Majesty and his Government hath sufficiently appeared to all unbiassed Persons void of Malice so I do with Grief acknowledge my former too much complying with and connyving at the methods that have been taken to bring us to the sad condition we are now in though God knows never concurring in the design I have now with Gods strength suffered patiently my unjust Sentence and Banishment three years and a half and have never offered to make any Uproar or defence by Ar●● to disturb the Peace upon my private Concern But the King being now Dead and the Duke of York having taken off his Mask and having abandoned and invaded our Religion and Liberties Resolving to enter into the Government and Exercise it contrary to Law I think it not only Just but my Duety to God and my Country to use my outmost endeavors to oppose and repress his Usurpation and Tyranny And there fore being assisted and furnished very nobly by several good Protestants and invited and accompanied by several of both Nations to lead them I resolve as God shall enable me to use their assistance of all kinds towards the ends exprest in the said Declaration And I do hereby earnestly invite and obteste all honest Protestants and particularly all my Friends and Blood Relations to concur with us in the said Declaration And as I have written several Letters so having no other way fully to intimate my mind otherwise I do hereby require all my Vassals any where and all within my several Jurisdictions with their Fencible Men within their Command to go to Arms and to join and concur with us according to the said Declaration as they will be answerable on their peril And that they obey the particular Orders they shall receive from me from time to time