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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81005	Several letters and passages between His Excellency, the Lord General Cromwel and the governor of Edinburgh Castle, and the ministers there, since His Excellencies entrance into Edinburgh. Published by authority.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1650 (1650)	Wing C7166; Thomason E613_6; ESTC R31337	7,514	15

SEVERAL LETTERS AND PASSAGES Between HIS EXCELLENCY The Lord General CROMWEL AND THE Governor of Edinburgh Castle AND The MINISTERS there Since His Excellencies Entrance into EDINBURGH Published by Authority London Printed by John Field for Francis Tyton at the Three Daggers near the Inner-Temple Gate September 25. 1650. For the Honorable The Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh SIR I Received Command from my Lord General to desire you to let the Ministers of Edinburgh now in the Castle with you know That they have free liberty granted them if they please to take the pains to preach in their several Churches and that my Lord hath given special Command both to Officers and Soldiers That they shall not in the least be molested Sir I am your most humble Servant EDW. WHALLEY Edinburgh the 9 of Septemb. 1650. From the Governor of Edinburgh Castle to Colonel Whalley with my Lord Generals ANSWER SIR I Have communicated the desire of your Letter to such of the Ministers of Edinburgh as are with me 3 who have desired me to return this for Answer That though they are ready to be spent in their Masters service and to refuse no suffering so they may fulfil their Ministery with joy Yet perceiving the persecution to be personal by the practice of your party upon the Ministers of Christ in England and Ireland and in the Kingdom of Scotland since your unjust Invasion thereof And finding nothing exprest in yours whereupon to build any security for their persons while they are there and for their return hither they are resolved to reserve themselves for better times and to wait upon Him who hath hidden his face for a while from the Sons of Jacob. This is all I have say but that I am Sir Your most humble Servant W. DUNDAS 9 Septem 1650. For the Honorable The Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh SIR THe kindeness offered to the Ministers with you was done with ingenuity thinking it might have met with the like but I am satisfied to tell those with you That if their Masters service as they call it were chiefly in their eye Imagination of Suffering would not have caused such a return much less the practice by our Party as they are pleased to say upon the Ministers of Christ in England have been an Argument of personal persecution The Ministers of England are supported and have liberty to preach the Gospel though not to Rail nor under pretence thereof to over-top the Civil Power or debase it as they please No man hath been troubled in England or Ireland for preaching the Gospel nor has any Minister been molested in Scotland since the coming of the Army hither The speaking Truth becomes the Ministers of Christ when Ministers pretend to a glorious Reformation and say the foundation thereof in getting to themselves worldly Power and can make worldly mixtures to accomplish the same such as their late Agreement with their King and hopes by him to carry on their Design may know That the Sion promised and hoped for will not be built with such untempered morter As for the unjust Invasion they mention time was when an Army of Scotland came into England not called by the Supreme Authority we have said in our Papers with what hearts and upon what accompt we came and the Lord hath heard us though you would not upon as Solemn an Appeal as any experience can parallel And although they seem to comfort themselves with being the Sons of Jacob from whom they say God hath hid his face for a time yet it s no wonder when the Lord hath lifed up his hand so eminently against a Family as he hath done so often against this and men will not see his hand if the Lord hide his face from such putting them to shame both for it and their hatred at his people as it is this day When they purely trust to the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God which is powerful to bring down strong holds and every imagination that exalts it self which alone is able to square and fit the stones for the New Jerusalem Then and not before and by that means and no other shall Jerusalem which is to be the praise of the whole Earth the City of the Lord be built the Sion of the Holy One of Israel I have nothing to say to you but that I am Sir Your humble Servant O. CROMWEL Septemb. 9. 1650. A Letter from the Governor of Edinburgh Castle for the Right Honorable the Lord Cromwel Commander in Chief of the English Army My Lord YOurs I have communicate to these with me whom it concerned who desire me to return this Answer That their ingenuity in prosecuting the ends of the Covenant according to their vocation and place and adhering to their first Principles is well known and one of their greatest regrets is that they have not met with the like when Ministers of the Gospel have been imprisoned deprived of their Benefices sequestrate forced to flee from their dwellings and bitterly threatned for their faithful declaring the will of GOD against the godless and wicked proceedings of men That it cannot be accounted an imaginary fear of suffering in such as are resolved to follow the like freedom and faithfulness in discharge of their Masters Message that it savors not of ingenuity to promise liberty of preaching the Gospel and to limit the Preachers thereof that they must not speak against the ●●ns and enormities of Civil Powers since their Commission carryeth them to speak the Word of the Lord unto and to reprove the fins of persons of all ranks from the highest to the lowest That to impose the name of Railing upon such faithful Freedom was the old practice of Malignants against the Ministers of the Gospel who laid open to people the wickedness of their ways that they should not be ensnared thereby That their consciences bear them record and all their hearers do know that they meddle not with Civil Affairs further then to hold forth the rule of the Word by which the straightness and crookedness of mens actions are made evident But they are sorry that they have just cause to regret that men of meer Civil place and employment should usurp the calling and employment of the Ministery to the scandal of the Reformed Kirks and particularly in Scotland contrary to the Government and Discipline therein established to the maintenance whereof you are bound by the Solemn League and Covenant Thus far they have thought fit to vindicate their return to the offer in Colonel Whalleys latter offer The other part of yours which concerns the Publique as well as them they conceive that all hath been answered sufficiently in the publique Papers of the State and Kirk onely to that of the success upon your solemn Appeal they say again what was said to it before That they have not so learned Christ as to hang the equity of their Cause upon events but desire to have their hearts