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A80185	Collonel Grey's portmanteau opened; his sealed, mis-directed, and returned letter discovered by a copie thereof, found among his other papers. Which is here printed and published with some queries and animadversions thereupon. To deliver, from the dangers of their caballs, such as are not acquainted with Scottish methods and mysteries.	Colomiès, Paul, 1638-1692.	1650 (1650)	Wing C5408; Thomason E607_17; ESTC R205886	19,277	31

accordingly put it in execution Then the War was begun and the Nations have ever since been in a state of Hostilitie And if the Parlament of the Common-wealth of England did not then immediately and so ever since continue and prosecute the same with fire and sword it hath not been for that in justice by the Law of Nations they might not have don it for they understood not that justice but that they might give them time to reflect upon their wrong how obnoxious they were to a just revenge cool themselves to a temper fit to receiv a message for reparation which if they had receiv'd with an acceptation becomming their guilt and instead of the Paper of defiance of the 26 of June returned an answer beecoming their guilt and weakness there might perhaps have been an amicable composure notwithstanding all their past wrongs But while even by their last answer they continue to provoke and will not accept of means of composure they plainly keep on foot the War they had begun and must impute it to themselvs that they have compell'd us into it And instead of quarrelling the new taking of their ships they ought to give us thanks wee began no sooner But that during all this time that the Nations have been in a state of Hostilitie Wee have rather waited to see if time would spend or alter the humor or that the paroxism would intermit that they might com to themselvs and endeavor to prevent what they had just caus to exspect as the merit of their perfidious Invasion and their injudicious and petulant Papers And let them not say wee now begin a War which they began two years since and have ever since continued For their letter to the Lord General vvee shall say nothing to that Because hee received it and vvill no doubt send them an ansvver becoming him and them Wee have no more upon this occasion to say to the State onely before vvee part a vvord or tvvo to the Kirk upon occasion of their hypocritical paper printed at Edinburg 21 of Iune 1650 conteining the causes of a Publick and solemn humiliation appointed by the general Commission of the General Assembie to bee keeped through all the Congregations of this Kirk upon the last of Iune instant And before wee com to examine the paper wee would ask one question or two about their Kirk o● Scotland First what it is though perhaps a National Church is not found in the Scriptures But if they would depart from that term and say the Churches in Scotland what they are A Church for the matter of it is usually said to bee a Companie of Believers hard to finde in Scotland in the usual acceptation unless you make their Priests the object and then there are as manie as Parishes Where the people are more captivated to their sacred sorrie dictates out of their publick Tub then anie wise men among the Papists are to the determinations of the infallible Chair And indeed by reason of the guilt and ignorance of those wretchedly beclouded souls and that superstition in which the cunning craftiness of their Priests hath involved them they are more afraid of the Anathema of their Kirk in what capacitie so ever congregated especially at the consequence of it the effects that follow upon the dreadful Horn then anie Papist is at the fulminations of the Lateran or the Executions of the secular Arm. And in the later the composition is easier whereas in offences against the former besides that there is no rule of Commutation for the shameful stule hee speed's well that redeem's his disobedience with half his gear And they never want the Magistrate at their beck who are willing enough to deserv a dispensation with their saults while they are severely officious to keep the vulgar in their obedience to the Kirk But in a word the Kirk of Scotland is Mes Robert Douglas Mes Robert Blaire Mes Samuel Rhetorfort Mes Patrick Gillespie and three or foure more let most of their principal Priests whose Dictates no mand are either examine or contradict without incurring the suspition of Heresie or Schism and the danger of beeing cut off from the Communion of those true beleevers those Muffti's watching with a special care to keep their Mussulmans pure from the infection of the Sectaries This Paper coming therefore from their Reverend Kirk that is from six or eight of their leading Priests let us hear what it saie's And onely trouble them with a few questions upon everie particular Causses of a Publick and Solemn Humiliation appointed by the Commission of the General Assemblie to bee keeped through all the Congregations of this Kirk upon the last daie of June instant EDINBURGH 21 June 1650. THE LORD's dispensations have often called this Land to Humiliation and Fasting somtimes by fear of snares somtimes by threatned violence But the grounds of this hold's forth an eminent degree of both these as a fruit of manie mis-spent and abused solemn occasions And although wee have no caus to faint or cast away our confidence in anie difficultie yet wee conceiv it becom's all the Lord's people throughout this Kingdom seriously to bee humbled for these causses following I. First the great danger the Land and work of Reformation are into by the sudden and unexspected approaching of the Sectarian Forces in our neighbor Kingdom of England Which as it is without all caus or provocation from us and inconsistent with the 〈◊〉 of God in the Solemn League and Coveuant and the Large Treatie betwixt the Nations So except the Lord prevent it it threaten's no less then the ruine of this Kingdom and obstructing of the work of God within the same II. The present distressed Estate of the people of God in England and Ireland now groaning under the Tyrannie of that partie which should the more affect us seeing if providence do not otherwaies dispose ere long wee our selvs may bee brought to the like or wors extremitie III. Beside the danger wee are in from that partie in England wee are not without the reach of hazard from the Malignant partie whose inveterate malice against the Work of GOD hold's them on to pursue the same designs hitherto by the blessing of God disappointed IV. notwithstanding all these imminent dangers the Land lie's in securitie ignorance profanitie and formalitie little conscience is made of the Oath of God in our Solemn Vows the guiltiness of short coming wherein and the breaches whereof before the Lord plead's against Rulers Ministers Souldiers and people of all sorts beside the great unthankfulness for mercies old and late and the great abounding of Sorcerie so common in manie parts of this Kingdom Wee are therefore to praie I. That God would keep us from the danger of that proud partie now in Arms drawing towards our border That wee may neither bee infected by their Errors nor harmed by their Violence and that hee would disappoint all their designs against this Land and

the Reformation of your Manners 'T were pittie that should bee hindred there is need enough it should proceed Swearing and Cursing is your natural dialect and you have no better imbellishment of your Language or Schemes of elegant speaking than the frequent intertexture of Oaths and Execrations What uncleanness and drunkenness is practis'd may bee in som measure observed by a survey of the Crouds which perpetually fill their Stool of Repentance What Reformation there is in the matter of Lying so frequent with them heretofore as gave beeing to that Proverb As false as a Scot may bee seen in this Paper in this verie Paragraph wherein though it bee the warning for a solemn address to God they dare say the approachof our Armie is without all provocation What name is there for this stupiditie of forgetfulness or impudence have you used your selvs to these formalities of Lying that you have made it impossible to you to speak Truth for the inconsistencie of it with the Oath of God in the Solemn League and Covenant and the Large Treatie Wee must tell you as often as you affirm it there are none such in beeing You have perfidiously on your parts and yet verie happilie for us dissolved them all And wee hope it will bee long enough ere you get us again involved 2 Caus Wee should ask what that people of God in England and Ireland is that are in such distress groaning under Tyrannie and who those Tyrants Are they those in Ireland with whom your Nation there have held so good correspondencie How come's Ormond and Inchiquine and the Popish Bishop of Clogher to bee Saints in the Scottish Calender Besides with what face can you talk of Tyranni is the like Civil Tyrannie practised among anie Popish or Reformed except onely in France that is practised among you where the poor Countrie-men whom their Lords honor with the name of Vassals have so m ch allowed them as may keep them alive to do further service And 't were a work of Christian mercie to manumit those poor creatures and let them taste a little of the freedom that belong's to men But for their Ecclesiastical Tyrannie it want's an example els-where and 't is to bee hoped will never bee taken up for a pattern by anie others nor last long where it is beeing so extravagantly abominable 3 Caus 'T is well you now see your danger Pray look how you came into it Perditio tua ex te ô Scotia Thou mightst have been safe and wouldst not pride and desire of Domination in thy Priests have undon thee They have chosen to put the whole Land into the power of the Malignants they fear rather that the peoples eies should bee enlightened with that truth which would divest them of their Un-evangelical power and jurisdiction And you should have don well to have put that uglie pride of yours into the Catalogue of the Causes of your Humilation 4 Caus Everie one that know's your Land will grant there is ignorance and prophaneness and formalitie enough in Scotland and Conscience little enough either of your Oath of God or anie thing els though that same thing of your Own your Covenant bee more in your mouths then anie els By your unthankfulness perhaps you mean to men also if you knew what that same thing of gratitude were you might perhaps think where you had been deficient in it As for the Sorcerie you might do well to re-examine whether you had good grounds for all your terrible burnings And whether there bee not a Sorcerie among you that is not yet taken notice of Remember that Balaam was frequent in Sacrifices when hee endeavored to curs Som say Ignorance and malice make a man fit to bee a Witch And that the vehement intention and going forth of the soul from malice with fixation is the formal act of Witchcraft as it remain's in the Witch Something looking suspiciously toward such a thing as this may somtimes perhaps bee found in a Circle of three or four foot Diameter but wee hope with as little success as Balaam had But your Catalogue seem's to com short I 'le help your memories with one more for your next for this is past and that is that you will remember to bee humbled and ashamed that your Catholicon the Stool should not have been able to charm that drunken Devil among you that possessed such numbers at Edenburgh at the first news of the arrival of your King You have sure a rare way of Thanksgiving in Scotland Or did not you of the Kirk think to interest your selvs in it till you knew whether hee would serv your turn or not and so lest it to them that had no other form for it in the Cavalerish Directorie but that of healths It is like to prove a happie business whose Auspicia are sacred with these Lyean Mysteries To your directions to pray wee shall say little they beeing generally but in pursuance of the said Causes yet shall ask you if it be not possible there may bee as much pride expressed in the first line of this first direction as is to bee found in all that partie in Arms that is now coming against you Is this your manner to instruct your people to com solemnlie to seek God with spirits thus seasoned You have often made a great nois calling out that there might bee but one Directorie for Worship in both Nations and would you have us take up this is this the divine thing that must bee obtruded upon all Did their sweetness and love and their rendring good for your evil when they were last with you and delivered you from your enemies and gave your Civil Power that beeing it now hath deserv that language What was the pride you found in them then or why is this bitterness against them that hath ever since possest you Is it because you must needs hate them that over deserv of you or becaus they set you that unprofitable pattern as you account it which you mean not to follow of a Christian and generous self-denial Leav out this unsavory expression next time Remember Balaam's sacrifices his dis-appointment and his end Wee shall trouble this Paper no further but advise you when you emit another to direct the people to acknowledg that gross hypocrisie that hath ever followed your Nation beyond others That you are the most abominable hypocrites in the world which all men els know though you will not That you are the blinde Leaders of the blinde and that they that are led by you are in danger to bee destroyed And remember that you are alwaies under the eies of the infinite all-seeing Spirit whose truth and wisdom is engaged to discover and punish your fourberie and imposture in the view of the world FINIS