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A82032 A declaration against a crosse petition: wherein some secret lets of the intended reformation are discovered. The danger of division prevented. And the unity of this iland in religion urged. By the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly. Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission. 1643 (1643) Wing D518; Thomason E89_15; ESTC R21173 10,126 16

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approbation of the contents thereof and so acknowledge their willingnesse to take Arms against the Parliament of England upon the grounds contained in that Letter when His Majesty shall require them so to do And for their own part they declare that they think themselves obliged in every cause which may concern His Majesties honour to concurre with their friends and followers in quiet manner or in Arms as they shall be required of His Majestie his Councell or any having his authoritie Which if understood and applyed aright no loyall Subject can denie but it is meant and expressed in their Petition as in opposition to our Petition So in contemplation of the Differences betwixt His Majestie and the Parliament of England unto which their words relate For they professe to represent such particulars as they are confident will much conduce to the removing of all the mistakes betwixt His Majestie and the Parliament of which particulars that is the first That according to His Majesties trust expressed in His Letter December 5. the Subjects of this Kingdom declare themselves willing and ready to take Arms in every cause which may concerne His Majesties honour being required by His Majestie or any having His Authoritie And is not this to make void the Treaty ratified by the publick Faith of this Kingdom and Act of Parliament discharging all taking up of Arms against the Kingdom or Subjects of England upon any pretence whatsoever without consent of Parliament declaring the breach of Peace and that after three moneths warning Which treaty the Estates of Parliament did sweare to observe inviolably in the same very oath in which they did swear allegeance to the Kings Majestie thereby declaring that the observation of the conclusions of the treaty may well consist with our duty and allegeance to our Soveraigne whereas the Petition doth indirectly put some aspersion of Laesmajestie upon the Parliament for confirming and swearing to observe the Articles of the Treatie which in the opinion of the Petitioners are consistent with our oath of allegeance If they say that their Petition did onely insinuate that we may not take Arms to assist the Parliament against the King they put upon it a sense which it cannot be ar both because they knew that the supplication of the Noblemen Barons others assisted by us did not directly nor indirectly contain any such thing And because His Majesties trust expressed in that Letter which they desire His Majestie may not have occasion from us to repent is not onely a negative trust that we will not take arms against him but a positive trust and confidence that we will be readie to assist him And finally because the clause of the Supplication of the Generall Assembly which they mention as containing our obligation to our Soveraigne and that in reference to the present distractions in England is positive and not negative Lastly the Petitioners for their own private ends doe very much wrest and mis-apply our Nationall Covenant about which the whole Nation and all the Members of the Kirk of Scotland have as great ieason as by the mind of man can be conceived to be most tender and cautelous and which every one amongst us according to his place and calling is obliged to vindicate from every violation and namely from sinister glosses and false interpretations which may be the fountaine and cause the Covenant being one principall rule of our actions and undertakings of many scruples transgressions and disturbances Wee acknowledge before God and professe before the World that by our Covenant we are bound to the utmost of our power with our meanes and lives to stand to the defence of our dread Soveraigne the Kings Majestie his Person and Authoritie in the defence and preservation of the true Religion Lawes and Liberties of this Kirk and Kingdome likewise in every cause which may concerne his Majesties honour according to the Lawes of this Kingdome and the duty of good Subjects to concurre with our friends and followers in quiet manner and in arms as we shall be required of His Majestie his Councell or any having his authoritie We know that he who wilfully transgresseth one Article of the Covenant it being copulative is by interpretation guiltie of all And therefore under the greatest paines expressed in the Covenant we resolve for our selves all the dayes of our lives and doe exhort all others to that duty which they have sworne and subscribed to performe to the Kings Majestie But we desire to know of the Petitioners who are so ready at this time to make their own conclusions out of the Covenant which was never intended by it nor thought upon at the first or last time at the swearing and subscribing thereof how it commeth to passe that they never took the Covenant in their mouth but in this one Article Are they not bound by their Covenant and the same clause of the supplication cited by them to their mutuall concurrence and assistance for the cause of Religion and to stand with their means and lives to the defence thereof in the doctrine and discipline of the Kirk of Scotland and to live godly soberly and righteously in this present world True Conscience of duty and sincerity in keeping the Covenant will make the obedience universall Secondly seeing the Petitioners would onely have unitie in Religion and uniformitie in Kirk-Government advanced by Christian wishes and faire meanes and yet insinuateth their offer by armes to decide the municipall debates of England anent Civill matters while the Civill and Ecclesiastick Judicatories and the rest of this Kirk and Kingdome are desiring an Assembly and a Parliament to consider their interest and duty and to contribute their best endeavours in what is above the power of their Commissioners to further this unitie of Religion and remove these distractions in England we aske whether they presume that they alone keepe the Covenant and would render unto Christ which is Christs and unto Caesar which is Caesars and that all others are Covenant-breakers Thirdly doe they not know that the Covenant was subscribed in the years 1581. and 1591. before King James was King of England and that in the particular Heads and Articles it is qualified by expresse limitations and restrictions to this Kirk and Kingdome to the Religion Lawes and Liberties of Scotland therefore can no more be extended to municipall debates and to the Lawes and Liberties of England unto which we are strangers then the Kingdome of England can judge of our Lawes and determine our differences the two Kingdomes being still independent and not subordinate one to another but parallell which is more at large expressed in the beginning of the treaty of Peace Nor is the sending of our Forces into Ireland a necessary duty of our Covenant but a voluntary testimony of our high respects to our King and of our brotherly kindnesse to the Kingdome of England as was expressed by the Estates in the last Parliament Fourthly doe not the