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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87698	By the Commissioners of the General Assembly of Scotland: a solemne and seasonable vvarning to all estates and degrees of persons throughout the land: for holding fast the League and Covenant with England, and avoiding every thing that may prove a snare and tentation to the breach thereof. Published according to order.; Good counsell come from Scotland	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Ker, A.	1647 (1647)	Wing K336A; Thomason E370_6; ESTC R201285	4,116	10

by their owne ends may conceive of it as alterable or at least that all the Clauses or Heads thereof are n●t so to be stuck upon but that some one or mo may be dispensed with upon civil advantages But we have not so learned Christ or his Word Both Nations have Covenanted with God and each of them with another in things most lawfull and necessary for the preservation and good of both without any limitation of time And therefore we and our posterity are obliged before God unto the observation thereof as long as the Sunne and Moon shall endure The sense of these things ought to be so deeply engraven upon the hearts of all that are in trust That as they should from their souls abhor every thought of a breach with England So should they carefully and wisely study to avoide every thing that may prove a snare and tentation unto the same Amongst other things If his Majesty shall have thoughts of comming to this Kingdome at this time he not having as yet subscribed the League and Covenant nor satisfied the lawfull desires of his loyall Subjects in both Nations Wee have just cause to feare that the consequences of it may be very dangerous both to his Majestie and these Kingdoms Which therefore we desire may be timely prevented For so long as his Majesty doth not approve in his heart and seal with his hand the League and Covenant we cannot but apprehend that according to his former Principles he wil walk in opposition to the same and study to draw us unto the violation thereof and the dissolution of the Union so happily begun between Us and our Brethren To weaken the Confidence and trust and to entertain Jealousies make divisions amongst our selves Neither is it possible But that our receiving Him in this present posture of affairs will confirme the suspicions of 〈◊〉 English Nation of our under-hand dealing with him before 〈◊〉 comming to our Army And make them not without cau● to think That We purpose to dispose of him without their consent and to their prejudice Which is contrary to the Profession of these that were in trust at his Majesties first comming to the Scots Quarters and overthroweth all the Arguments that have been used by the Commissioners of our Parliament in their Papers concerning The disposing of His Majesties Person by the joynt advice and common consent of both Kingdoms given in to both Houses of Parliament in England Nor doe we see how we can vindicate such a practice from a direct breach of our engagements to them by Covenant and Treaty Which were not only to expose us into the hazard of a Bloody War but to involve us in the guilt of Perjury And what greater disservice could be done to His Majesty and his Posterity then to give way to a course that might prove prejudiciall to their interest in the Crown and Kingdome of England Our carriage now for many yeers past in the midst of many tentations hath put us beyond all suspicion in the point of our Loyalty Nor have we the least thoughts of deserting the Kings Majesty in a just and good cause being bound by our Covenant in our severall vocations to endeavour with our estates and Lives to preserve and defend His Person and Authority in the defence and preservation of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes And so farre as His Majesty shall be for these We really are and we trust the rest of his Kingdoms will be for him Yet we cannot deny but openly avouch it That if His Majestie which the Lord forbid shall not satisfie the just desires of His People Both Nations stands mutually obliged b● that inviolable Covenant to pursue the ends therein expressed which cannot be divided against all lets and impediments whatsoever It is therefore our most earnest and longing desire That as these who are in trust with the publike affaires of this kingdom have heretofore with all earnestnes care in all their addresses dealt with His Majesty with much strength of reason and vehemency of affection so they would still deal with him to grant his Royall consent to the desires of both Kingdoms for setling Religion according to the Covenant and for securing a perfit and durable Peace which we looke upon as the only hopefull means of preserving himselfe His Crown and Posterity That His Majesty may return to His Houses of Parliament in England as a reconciled Prince to satisfied Subjects And that acclamations of joy may be heard in all His Majesties Dominions and no sound of Warre heard therein any more except against the bloody Irish Rebells under whose barbarous and cruell persecution our distressed Brethren both in this Kingdom and in Ireland are still groaning and crying out to us and to our Brethren in England Be at peace among your selves and come to helpe us A. Ker.

BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF SCOTLAND A Solemne and seasonable VVARNING to all Estates and Degrees of Persons throughout the Land For holding fast the League and Covenant with England and avoiding every thing that may prove a snare and tentation to the breach thereof Published according to Order First Printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And Re-printed at London by John Dever Robert Ibbitson for John Bellamy Janua 4. 1647. Edinb 19 Decemb. 1646. THe Commission of the Generall Assembly Ordaines this Warning to be forthwith Printed and that thereafter it be sent to Presbyteries Requiring them immediately after the receipt therof to cause every Minister of their number read the same distinctly and explain it to their people upon a Sabbath day in their severall Kirks And that they report accompt of their diligence with the first conveniency Appointing in the meane time that to morrow the same be read in all the Kirks of this City A. Ker. A Solemne and Seasonable VVarning to all estates and degrees of persons throughout the Land By the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly Edinburg 17 Decemb. 1646. THe conscience of our duty of the great trust reposed in us suffereth us not to be silent nor to connive at the present dangers which may justly be apprehended expected from the enemies of this Cause and Covenant Who although they cannot in this coniuncture of time appear in the same manner as formerly they have done yet having retained the same principles while they seem to lay aside their former practises do in a more covert and dangerous way still drive at their owne ends And as Sathan is neither sleeping nor idle though he appear not alwayes as a roaring Lion So these who are inspired and acted by him have their wheeles still moving though sometimes they make no great noise Wherefore that we may truely and faithfully contribute what is incombent to us for preventing or removing any occasions of new troubles or differences between the King and his people in both or either of those united kingdomes or between the Kingdomes themselves And least the Church of Christ and the true reformed Religion be againe tossed with another and perhaps a greater tempest in the depth after we seemed to be neer the harbour We have found it not onely competent to our place and calling but necessary for us according to former laudable presidents both old and late To emit this new Seasonable Warning to the people of God in this Land and to all Estates and Degrees of men therein Whom we exhort That first and above all things They apply their thoughts to make peace with God To take notice of the remaining and renewed tokens of divine displeasure against the Land To tremble at the remembrance of former and appearances of future judgements To lament after the Lord To lye low before the Throne of Grace To cry mightily to heaven for dispelling that cloud of sin which separateth between our God and us and for turning away that cloud of wrath which hangeth over our heads There is cause to be humbled and to repent as for all our iniquities So for the too little assistance which hath bin given to such as have born the heaviest burthen and suffered most in this Cause And for the too much compliance with and indulgence to many who have beene active in the late execrable Rebellion We know that none can reach the perfection of their duety neither will the Lord reckon with his People according to his Justice but spare them who walk in the integritie of their Spirits as a man spareth his own son So that they may rejoyce in his mercy notwithstanding of their short-comings wherein they doe not allow themselves But wilfull neglects are just grounds of a great controversie on the Lords part and of deep humiliation on ours And we conceive that the failings of many are such because the Word of the Lord is a burthen unto them And though they walk in the wayes of their own heart yet they say they shall have Peace We would have none that are thus guilty to account light of it and say Is it not a little one Every duty whereto we are oblieged in the Covenant is of great consequence and breaches even in smaller things prove inlets unto more grievous revoltings When we consider how many who were once open opposers or secret underminers being received to the Covenant yet remaines disaffected to the ends of the same We cannot but think that we walk in the midst of snares and that mysteries of iniquity work amongst us which may produce most sad and lamentable effects unto the prejudice of our Religion and Liberties Therefore Because God hath no greater quarrell against a Nation then that of a broken Covenant Let all who fear an Oath remember the vows of God which are upon them Watch and Pray and take good heed that they bee not cheated nor charmed into a violation of all or any of the Articles of that Sacred and Solemn League and Covenant And let these especially be observed and avoided who do or shall indevour a division and breach between the Kingdoms or the making of any factions or parties contrary to the Covenant under pretence of preserving the King and his Authority whilest they do not constantly and sincerely prosecute and presse our frequent desires of his subscribing the League and Covenant and giving satisfaction in all things to the just desires of both Kingdomes Which underhand dealing can prove nothing else but an abusing of His Majesty for mens own designes We wish that none suffer themselves to be deceived by any false glosses of the Covenant under which some may possibly urge the keeping of it so as to draw us into a certaine breach thereof and presse the defence of the Kings Authority and of Religion to engage us in those wayes that would tend to the ruine of both We are not now to presse the want of full satisfaction in the much desired work of Uniformity as the ground of a breach betweene the Nations Though we still conceive this Nation will never be wanting to prosecute that worke to the uttermost of their power in all lawfull wayes according to the League and Covenant These Kingdoms after many fervent Supplications and faithfull endeavours of all the Lovers of Truth and Peace have been happily united into a League and Covenant which to this day hath been kept inviolably notwithstanding of all the opposition of open Enemies and plotting of secret Underminers And we are confident that none but such as have hearts full of Atheisme and Treachery will attempt the violation thereof in whole or in part And that if any shall doe the same they shall expose themselves to the Curse of Almighty God who will be avenged upon all that Sweare falsly by his Name We know that men of perverse mindes wanting the feare of God and measuring all things