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A25356 The Scotch Counsellor. Communicating his advice to all that stand well-affected in England to King and Parliament. With a reprehension of all those who refuse to helpe the Lord against the mighty. Also shewing what shall be the event of these troubles. Written by reason of an eminent person in this kingdome diserting the cause, and flying: and now published for the common good. Imprimatur. Ia: Cranford. Anderson, George, 17th cent. 1643 (1643) Wing A3090; ESTC R17632 4,703 9

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THE Scotch Counsellor Communicating his advice to all that stand well-affected in ENGLAND to King and Parliament With a reprehension of all those who refuse to helpe the Lord against the mighty ALSO SHEWING WHAT SHALL BE THE EVENT OF THESE TROUBLRS Written by reason of an eminent person in this Kingdome diserting the Cause and flying and now published for the common good Imprimatur Ia Cranford LONDON Printed by R. Austine and A. Coe 1643. The Scotch Counsellor communicating his advice to his brethren in ENGLAND Beloved in the Lord THE great comfort and content that we have received each from other these many yeares by the intercourse of letters having been of late detarded did beget in me a kind of jealousie that either your love unto me was grown cold or your zeal unto the cause of God much abated or else I suppose you could not so long have kept pen from paper But I having now at last through my importunity exhausted as it were a letter from you I find as much alteration in you as my former jealousie deemed which hath filled me with great discontent especially when I find you minded to dissert the cause of God and flye for your own safety And that for these reasons 1. In regard of the Distractions amongst you 2. To preserve your Estate 3. In regard of inability to help 4. Feare of the enemies great power 5. Vnlikelihood of Reformation Surely these reasons arise from your own conceit being suggested by the spirit of Error the invalidity whereof I shall labour to shew you by the evidence of the truth of Gods word But before I come to your reasons I shall speak something concerning your flying This counsell arising from your selfe may cause the Lord so to forsake and flie from you that you may eate of the fruit of your own way and be filled with your own devices Pro. 1. 31. For there is a way that seemeth right unto men but the issues thereof are death Pro. 14. 12. You thinke to flye for safety from the Church of God now in distresse and so strip your selfe naked of Gods protection and lay your self open to all dangers But if you will flie Fly unto the Lord for with him alone thero is safety Prov. 18. 10. and put no confidence in the world nor in any worldly thing no not in Princes Psalm 118. 9. It is a signe you never had love to nor found comfort in the Church your mother when you sever your selfe from the rest of her children your brethren and sisters leaving them to undergoe what danger you feare and not purposing if misery come upon them to yeeld them any help or comfort at all O doe not so but remember what a bitter curse was pronounced against the inhabitants of Merez because they came not forth willingly to help the Lord against the mighty What a curse then think you would have belonged unto them if they had fled from their help as you resolve to doe Recant then I beseech you this your wicked error give no such evill example unto others For if you may flie another also may and so two ten an hundred a thousand yea all as well as you and so leave the Lords Vineyard to be destroyed by the wild Boares of the Forrest without hope of recovery The Idolatrous Papists herein out-strip you in their blind zeal for Antichrist They are so farre from flying that they joyn themselves in association holding and flocking together like so many swarms of Locusts out of the bottomlesse pit not onely in our own countrey but come also from forraigne Nations and joyn hand in hand with them to work wickednesse endeavouring by all possible meanes againe to establish their abominable idolatry in this Kingdome O let in never be heard in England nor published in our gates in Scotland that this cursed brood of Antichrist should be more zealous for the Pope and the Divell then the children of God should be for Christ and his Church And so I come from your flying to your first Reason which is The great Distractions amongst you Alas This should be no reason to make you faint in your way to Sion It is an ordinary thing to see distractions both in Kingdomes Churches Families yea in all Societies the envious Man is alwayes so ready to sow the Tares of dissention among the people of God though never so much bent to peace knowing that a Kingdome once divided is halfe overcome and cannot long stand in safety What great distraction and amazement was there in the Kingdome of Iudah in the dayes of good King Hezekiah with the threatning of Senacharib and the reviling of Rabshakeh yet we read not that either he or any of his good subjects fled to any but the Lord who gave him victory over his enemies and stablished his Kingdom in peace wherein he rejoyced 2 King 20. 19. The Churches of God were not free from trouble and distractions even in the Apostles times as you may read in the Acts chap. 15. yet it discouraged not the Apostles from executing their offices and afterwards God gave peace unto the Churches Great distraction was in the family of good Iacob when he supposed Ioseph had been torn in peaces with wild beasts and when his Sonne Benjamin was left behind in Egypt and also when Simeon and Levi had massacred the Shechemites Gen. 24. None of Gods people are free from troubles and distractions For man is born to trouble as the sparks flye upward Iob. 5. 7. Let not troubles then dishearten you but walk before the Lord and be upright and he shall let you see your desire upon your enemies Another reason you alledge which is this The preservation of your estate Here you shew your selfe to be of the mind of Demas to love the present world more than the children of God 2 Tim. 4. 10. Oh farre be this from you How is it that I heare such a thing of you If I had not had it under your hand and seale I should not have given credit thereunto Marke how the holy Ghost teacheth you a way to preserve your estate Prov. 3. 9 10. Honour the Lord with thy riches and with the first fruits of thine increase So shall thy barnes bee filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst forth with new wine Our Saviour Christ also saith that whosoever shall give but a cup of cold water to a Prophet shall not lose his reward Matth. 10. 41 42. And he that casteth his bread upon the waters that is upon the afflicted after many dayes he shall finde it Eccles 11. 1. Me thinkes these pretious promises and many more which I could here set downe should excite you not onely to be liberall in parting with your substance to the reliefe of the poor Church of God now in great distresse but even to give your life for the same as our Saviour Christ hath done before you Ephes. 2. 25 26 27 29. Doe but consider how