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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59542	A true representation of the rise, progresse, and state of the present divisions of the Church of Scotland	Sharp, James, 1613-1679.	1657 (1657)	Wing S2969; ESTC R33874	35,787	51

another extremity did assert that it was sinful and unlawful for any honest and godly Subjects to go forth and joyn in an Army constitute according to the resolution albeit called and required thereunto by the Civil Magistrate in the case of necssary defence of the Nation and every particular interest in it And in several papers did positively maintain this assertion and by many arguments laboured to bear it in upon people The grosse absurdity of both which assertions may be clearly seen in these few particulars § 16 First If we look upon all Nations and States through out the world it may justly seem a strange Paradox and of dangerous consequence if once admitted amongst them That it is not lawful for the Civil Magistrate in the case of forraign invasion to raise an Army as is qualified in the Resolution for defence of the Nation and much more that it is not lawful for godly subjects to joyn with an Army so constituted Yea albeit that resolution was more limited and straight upon grounds and reasons of expediency yet we doubt not but that in the case of the invasion of a Nation by forraign force and when the whole Nation is in common hazard all Subjects and compatriots as well these that are Orthodox Christians as others though they were Idolaters Jews Turks or Heathens may be called sorth and that a conjunction of them in Armes for the defence of the Commonwealth and their own mutual preservation is lawful yea and a necessary duty to which the Magistrate ought to call them and wherein they ought to concur especially when their conjunction altogether is in rational prudence a mean necessary in ordinary providence for their preservation from the violence of the invading powers § 17 As this is the universal and constant principle and practice of all States and Kingdoms wherein there are such differences amongst Subjects as most part of Nations have some one or other of these mixtures and where there is most unity in Religion yet most of the Subjects are carnal and prophane and without which it were no great difficulty for an iavader to make a prey of any such Kingdomes as suppose the Turk should invade Germany so we sind Christians and godly men in all ages and times have never questioned the truth of it but by their practise have gone along with it To passe the example of the primitive Church where in Christians were so far from making question of this that a great part of the forces of the Roman Empire consisted of Christians as Tertullian doth affirm As also of Orthodox Christians in other Nations who being joyned in civil Society with others corrupt in Religion do make no scruple of joyning in Armes with them and who may justly resent the scandal cast upon Protestant Churches by the starting of such a debate We shall only mention the example of our own worthy Reformers who in the case of forraign invasion made no scruple to joyn in Armes with those who had been in bloody opposition to the people of God so soon as they were willing to come off from the contrary party and professe repentance for their former courses Witnesse their joyning with the Duke of Chattellarault and his followers who had been in opposition to the Congregation as they were then called Yea after some disaster received by the French at Lieth after that conjunction they did not look upon the receiving of him as a cause of that sad stroak as some would make the world believe from Mr. Knoxes Sermon at Sterlin For in the heads of that Sermon Printed in the History of the Church of Scotland Page 217. Edit Edinburgh 1644. in 4. there is no mention of any such thing but only of their carnal considence that possibly they had not sincerely repented their former opposition and that they who were late come in were made to feel in their own hearts how bitter a cup they had made others to drink before them nor doth he as our Brethrens Tenets now lead them presse them to purge out such as were lately admitted but doth only presse repentance upon all of them § 17 But we need not insist on this to instruct what was the judgement of our first Reformers in this matter seeing before that time they invited even the very Papists remaining yet Papists to conjunction in Armes with them against the Queen Regent and the French party as will appear from the Declaration recorded in the History of the Church of Scotland Page 179. c. Wherein as there are many things remarkable to our present purpose so their exhortatory close speaketh thus Page 182 183. If you tender true Religion i.e. if ye be Protestants ye know her Majesty beareth her self plain enemy thereunto If Religion be not perswasive unto you i.e. if ye be Papists yet cast not away the care ye have over your Commonwealth which ye see manifestly and violently ruined before your eyes If this will not move you remember your dear Wives Children and Posterity your ancient heritages c. Then Brethren let us joyn our Forces and both with wit and manhood resist their beginnings let no man withdraw himself and if any will be so unhappy and mischievous as we suppose none to be let us altogether repute hold and use him as he is indeed for an enemy to us and to himself and to his Commonwealth All which doth make it clear that they made no scruple of joyning with Papists being their Country men and compatriots and that even when the quarrel with the enemy was complexe both for the liberty of the Country and the interest of true Religion they were content and desirous that their Country men though disaffected to Religion should joyn with them upon the account of their common civil in terest as they also afterward expresse in another Declaration recorded in the same History Page 197. at the beginning § 18 Unto this judgement of our worthy Ancestors speaking so clearly to the point in controversie we shall only add the Testimony of a late learned Writer who in his Treatise Entuled Lex Rex Quest 37. pag. 379. speaking of their opinion who think if the King command Papists and Prelates to rise against the Parliament of England That we are obliged in conscience and by our oath and Covenant to help our native Prince against them He subjoins To which opinion with hands and feet I should accord if our Kings cause were just and lawful And a little after in the same page he adds I see no reason but the civil Law of a Kingdom doth oblige any Citizen to help an innocent man against a murthering Robber and that he may be judicially accused as a murtherer who faileth in his duty c. And afterward page 382. after this supposition and assertion If an Army of Turks and Pagans would come upon Britam one part of Britain would help another which includes more then the conjunction of fellow-subjects of one Kingdom He