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A37366 A declaration of the army of England vpon their march into Scotland signed in the name and by the appointment of his excellency the Lord General Cromwell and his councell of officers, Jo. Rushworth, secretary. England and Wales. Army. 1650 (1650) Wing D637; ESTC R29702 7,520 20

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A DECLARATION OF THE ARMY OF ENGLAND Vpon their March into Scotland Signed in th● N●me and by the Appointment of his Excellency the Lord Generall CROMWELL and his Councell of Officers Jo. Rushworth Secretary Newcastle Printed by S. B. 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 doe from the bottome of our Hearts wish like Mercy and Truth Light and Liberty with our selves from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ Although 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 Religion 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 separation of you from the rest as who through the cunning practises 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 wonderfull 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 ingaged therein and so with them to become partakers of their miseries We have therefore thought sit 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 doe most humbly appeale and who should we come to a day of engagement will be a sore witnes 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 with drawne from partaking in the sinne 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 beleeve 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 requring more lines then we intend in the whole Yet we briefly say That we were engaged in a warre 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 deceitfull heart of man and is the preserver of mankinde ●specially of his people in his secret judgement denied him a heart to ascent thereto By which refusals he made it appeare that nothing lesse would sati●fie 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 bloud 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 solemne appeales to God That the Sonne 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 party desiring to be true to God and to the people that intrusted 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 Lords an estate not representing the people nor trusted with their Liberties Yet at that time very forward to give up the Peoples Rights and obstruct what might save them and alwaies apt enough to joyne with Kingly Interest against the Peoples Liberties whereof we wish you have not like sad experience and did for the good of the people resolve the Government into a Common-wealth And having done all this that they are not accomptable to any other Nation is sufficient to say to you except it be to excite you to rejoyce in this wonderfull work of God and to be thankfull to him for so much deliverance as you have thereby and leave the rest to the State of England to whom it doth only and properly belong who have manifested their regular proceedings therein according to the true and equitable intent of the constitution of England and the Representors of the people in Parliament in their severall and respective Declarations if they be looked into to which we referre you Besides it is worthy consideration with how many providences this Series of action hath been blest which would require a Volume 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 said That hath been Protested against and revoked since we aske doth that make up the breach so as to challeng England still upon Agreements and Articles you know as to right it doth not except you suppose that England made their bargaine so that Scotland might breake 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 longer obliged If the Couenant be alleaged against us this may be said by us with honesty and clearenesse Religion having therein the first place civill Liberties the next the Kings Interest and consitution of Parliament the last and these with subordination one to another The Covenant tyed us to preserve Religion and Liberty as the ends of it even when these were inconsistent with the preservation of the Kings Interest and the frame of Parliament because when the means and the end cannot both be enjoyed