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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37365	A declaration of the army of England upon their march into Scotland as also a letter of His Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland : together with a vindication of the aforesaid declaration from the uncharitable constructions, odious imputations, and scandalous aspersions of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, in their reply thereto : and an answer of the under-officers and souldiers of the army, to a paper directed to them from the people of Scotland.	England and Wales. Army.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1650 (1650)	Wing D636; ESTC R31359	33,504	46

A DECLARATION OF THE ARMY OF ENGLAND Upon their March into SCOTLAND AS ALSO A Letter of his EXCELLENCY the Lord Generall CROMWELL To the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of SCOTLAND Together with a Vindication of the aforesaid Declaration from the uncharitable Constructions odious Imputations and scandalous Aspersions of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland in their Reply thereto And an Answer of the Vnder-Officers and Souldiers of the Army to a Paper directed to them from the people of SCOTLAND Printed at London and reprinted at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler 1650. A DECLARATION of the ARMY of England upon their march into Scotland To all that are Saints and Partakers of the Faith of GODS Elect in Scotland WE the Army of England do from the bottom of our Hearts wish l ke Mercy and Truth Light and Liberty with our selves from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ Alth●ugh we have no cause to doubt but that the Declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England bearing date the 26. of June 1650. and published to manifest to the World the Justice and Necessity of sending their Army into Scotland may satisfie all impartiall and uninterested men in all the Nations round about us the matters of Fact therein contained being true and the Conclusions made from thence and the Resolutions thereupon taken agreeable to the Principles of R●ligion Nature and Nations and therefore it may seem to some if not improper yet superfluous for us their Army to say any more Yet however out of our tendernesse towards you whom we look upon as our Brethren and our desire to make a distinction and separation of you from the rest as who through the cunning practices of some wicked and designing men byassed by particular Interests or for want of a true and right Information and Representation of the great and wonderful Transactions wrought amongst us and brought to passe by the meer finger of our GOD may possibly be scandalized at some late actions in England and thereby be involved in that common Cause so much from Heaven declared against by blasting all persons and parties that at any time in the least under what pretence or disguise soever engaged therein and so with them to become partakers of their Miseries We have therefore thought fit to speak to some particulars and that as in the presence of the Lord to whose Grace and in the dread of whose Name we do most humbly Appeal and who should we come to a day of Engagement will be a sore witnesse against us if we utter these things in hypocrisie and not out of bowels of love to perswade the Hearts and Consciences of those that are godly in Scotland that so they may be withdrawn from partaking in the sin and punishment of evill doers or that at least we might exonerate our selves before God and Man do Remonstrate as followeth And for as much as we believe many godly people in Scotland are not satisfied with the proceedings of this Nation concerning the death of the late King the rejection of his Issue the change of the Government and severall actions conversant thereabout Although it cannot be supposed that we shall in this Paper meet with all Objections that may be made these very particulars alone requiring more lines then we intend in the whole Yet we briefly say That we were engaged in a War with the said King for the Defence of our Religion and Liberties and how many times Propositions for a safe and well grounded Peace were offered to him and how often he refused to consent thereto you well know which according to humane accompt he might have closed with had not the righteous God who knoweth the deceitful heart of man and is the Preserver of Mankinde especially of his people in his secret judgement denyed him a heart to assent thereto By which Refusals he made it appear That nothing lesse would satisfie then to have it in his own power to destroy Religion and Liberties the subversion whereof he had so often attempted That He was a man guilty of more Innocent Blood in England Ireland and Scotland even of those he ought to have preserved as a Father his Children then any of his Predecessors or we think then any History mentioneth the guilt whereof he brought upon his Family by solemn Appeals to God That the Son did tread in the Fathers steps and pursue his Designes destructive to Religion and Liberty That a party in Parliament false to God and to their trust were willing and did endeavour to betray the Cause into the late Kings hands That a remaining number in Parliament desiring to be true to God and to the People that intru●●ed them out of Integrity of Heart and fearing that the high Displeasure of God would fall upon them if they had not done it did bring to Justice and cause to be executed the said King did reject the Person now with you did lay aside the House of Lord an Estate not representing the P●ople nor trusted with their Liberties yet at that time very forward to give up the Peoples Rights and obstruct what might save them and alwayes apt enough to joyn with Kingly Interest against the Peoples Liberties whereof we wish you have not the like sad experience and did for the good of the People resolve the Government into a Commonwealth And having done all this that they are not accountable to any other Nation ●s sufficient to say to you except it be to exci●e you to rejoyce in this wonderful work of God and to be thankful to him for so much Deliverance as you have thereby and leave the rest to the State of England to whom it doth onely and properly belong who have manifested their regular proceedings therein according to the true and equitable ●ntent of the constitution of England and the Representors of the People in Parliament in their several and respective Declarations if they be looked into to wh ch we refer you Besides it is worthy consideration with how many Providences this Series of Action hath been blest which would require a Volumn to recount If Treaties be urged against us It is easie to say by whom they were broken and how eminently even by the then full authority of the Parliament of Scotland and the Invasion by Duke Hamilton and yet that not the first breach neither And if it be sa●d That hath been procested against and revoked since We ask Doth that make up the breach so as to challenge England still upon Agreements and Articles you know as to Right it doth not except you suppose that England made their bargain so That Scotland might break and England remain bound whereas it is a known Law of Nations That in the breach of the League by the one party the other is no long●r obliged If the Covenant be alleaged against us this may be said by us with honesty and clearnesse Religion having therein the first place civil Liberties the next

in at the same door and if the Army have too much indulged those differences what hinders but that they may now see and we by some late proceedings amongst them know they do see the evil of it and are real in their desires after a Spiritual Unity though not altogether a Scottish Uniformity ●he Army declares likewise that all who are for a Presbyterial Government may have freedome to enjoy it onely not wi●h a Scottish Formality which is an absolute Independency on the Civil Power which how it consists with that in the precedent page where the Magistrate is required to lay out his Power for purging and setling of Ordinances as well as preserving of them let wise men judge as for their keeping Courts Jurisdictions though they be not very Canonical Expressions yet no doubt but that they may do that also over such as give up thēselves that way but if nothing will serve them but to be universal Bishops and challenge a general Supremacy over all the Churches of Christ from giving our consents to any such Usurpations we desire to be excused As for the displacing of any Presbyterially affected from Offices of Trust in England It ●s denyed that upon the Accompt of Presbytery any are displaced though it may be some have been upon the ground of Faction and Disturbance which cleaves too close to many of that Profession The twelfth Page is a bitter Pill wrapt up in a little Sugar and its best to swallow it at once They professe to take no delight to charge any with Blasphemies and Heresies who are not guilty of them What men do ordinar ly and upon sleight occasions they may be supposed to delight in but what more usual then for all the Scottish Papers to Brand the whole Army with the Name of Sectaries and maintainers of all Heresies whereas Charity and Justice must needs make some distinction and though they disclaim all uningenuous dealing in their charges of the Army yet what can be imagined further from Ingenuity then to put evil Constructions upon good Actions as they do in saying that the exemplary punishments they exercise upon a few are rather for stopping of mouthes then out of zeal to God The thirteenth speaks of a sedulous endeavor in the Armies Declaration to raise jealousies betwixt a good People their King and those who exercise his Authority This is too poor a Design for men of Noble and Couragious Spirits who scorn such a practice any further then it may really tend to the disintangling of honest and wel-minded men from those plausible and politick snares which great men use to lay for their Inferiors thereby to serve their ends upon them but it s believed much more pains of that kinde will not be taken Si populus vult decipi decipiatur Towards the end of the same Page there is a denyal of the Ministers of Scotland laying the Foundation of the Hamiltonian Invasion but doubtlesse they had a strong Influence into it daily exasperating the People against the Authority in England and the Army that supported it whereby the People were easily ind●ced to believe it was good service to destroy them And the Kirk●t self notwithstanding all its pretended Innocency did both principle and p ovoke hem to a War and did withdraw from that War upon those terms only that their advice would not be taken in stating the case and bounding the Admission of men to Imployment which the Civil Power thought to be their proper work The fourteenth hath a matter of Astonishment and what is the matter First That the Army should professe love and yet make War Is it not as possible to have peace in the heart and War in the hand as to have War in Intention and Peace in Expression which is too usual Scotland hath some Testimony of their Love and Bowels in 48 and is it so great a wonder they should continue untill 50 And there is no such contradictiō as is supposed betwixt their Compassion this Invasion as you call it but they Prevention when the end of it is the preservation of the Liberty of the people of God so much endangered by the present practices of Scotland and the carrying of it on is intended to be with all possible distinction of and favour to those that are godly and faithfull among them As for their carriage to England by which they aggravate this unkindenesse we well remember it but spare to speak of it unlesse it be lawfull to compare it to that of the Poet Mulier formosa superne turpiter atrum desinit in piscem For to let passe what formerly hath passed it is to be beleived that if they proceed in this present Design of bringing in their King upon us they will blot out not onely their own former Merit but undo the noble Archievements of all English Patriots and Parliaments in this and former Generations we know how easie it is to raise a Monarchicall Spirit but how hard to keep it within the Circle They likewise wonder at the Assertion of the Justice of the Cause and the Appeals upon it which is no more at most then that Confidence admires confidence And now having as they think sufficiently baited the first Declaration they will not suffer a little harmlesse Paper sent in by the Army to undeceive the people who were possessed that not Men but Monsters were coming in among them from whom nothing was to be expected but utter desolation to go unpunished and truly they doe chastise it with Scorpions And when they can finde little or nothing to say against the Matter they fall violently upon the persons The first and hottest charge is Covenant-breaking To that we may say That some supposed Breaches will be found a reall keeping of it as to the ends of it viz. Religion and Liberty and for the Unio● betwixt the N●tions which themselves have broken we offered to have it redintegrated by Treaty which the Scots refused And to deny conjunction with them under their King is no more breach of Union then their refusall to joyn with England in the way of a Common-wealth We have not found Kings such good Instruments of Union as is pretended The next charge is Their refusing to walk by the Word of God and being led by pretended Lights and P●ovidences This they disclaim and acknowledge the Word to be their counsellor Though they cannot so slightly look upon the Providences of God as the Scots do seeing the Works of God have a language as well as his Word which the Israelites are blamed for not understanding Psal 106. The third goes deep even to the heart and charges them That their Purposes and Intentions are not for the Honour of God and the Kingdom of Christ but for some concernments of their own and a goodly Argument is there added to prove it because they pretend Liberty and common Safety This is so impertinent and injurious that to slight it is the best Answer