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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74728	Plaine Scottish, or Newes from Scotland. Part thereof being the copy of a letter sent form Edenburgh: and the substance of the rest being by word of mouth imparted to a friend in London, by some of no small estimation in that Kingdome.		1643 (1643)	Thomason E247_5; ESTC R206807	6,166	6

Princes then Petitions To day it is protested that you take up Arms to bring Delinquents to Judiciall tryall and to condigne punishment to morrow it is determined otherwise they shall be pardoned To day it is ordered that the ships be sequestred for the service of the Kingdome the Forts and strong holds secured and maintained for the security of the Kingdome from evill insurrections and forreigne invasions that they be intrusted in the hands of such as the Kingdom may conside in to morrow it is disputeable whether for peace sake and upon condition of disbanding all may not be left to the disposition of the King These former Votes either were the reason of the Kingdome or not if the Reason then the cause still remaining the ebuity of the reason continues in force and so the same care is yet to be had that was formerly if not why djd you at all take Arms how can it be justified before God and man upon whose heads shall all that innocent blood lie that hath hitherto beene shed Hinc illae Lachrymae Wee are astonished that so wise a Parliament should be deluded by the Sophistry of a Jesuited faction about the Court and in the Kingdom whose Counsels have beene deepe to contrive the ruine of Parliament and Kingdome and hath swept away the honour of many of their Members who were in the head at the first session thereof Gold but in the feete are clay Let Englands Parliament beware of Neutrality for there is no halting before God the Land hath already smarted for compliance with men of Antichristian spirits if now they heare not the rod the next stroke wil reach unto the soule our earnest prayer is that they may wisely distinguish betweene Christs and Antichrists in this their day may understand the things of their peace for the quarrel is whether Jesus shal be King or no. O that England may never seek the death of crowned King Jesus may never cōply with dying Antichrist against whom in speciall is all Christs quarrel in this last age of the World Our soules desire is that your Parliament abate nothing of their profest zeale and resolved integrity least they utterly lose the heart of God the prayers of his people and to procure to themselves a curse a blot of ignominy throughout all Kingdomes whose eyes are fixed upon them as shall never be wiped out from generation to generation Oh that the God of Wisdome would lead you into all wisdome for it is not in man to direct his way if he ratifies a peace who can procure trouble Remove the cause the effect wil cease supplant the root and the fruits wil vvither and die lop the branches onely and your distractions vvil sprout forth again with great increase to the utter undoing of future Generations if Gods mercie prevent it not by withering Blessed is he that hath a seeing eye a hearing eare an understanding heart to attend to Counsel ere repentance comes in too late Oh let not selfe ends security distrust of divine Providence and power prove all your hopes abortive and lose you the Crowne the recompence of so many moneths and yeares travell both from God man Oh let not feare nor favour ingagements or prejudice forest all your Judgements or divert your intentions frō the rule of Gods Word or that Protestation so solemnly sworne before God and the whole World least your iniquities pursue you and your hypocrisie and Apostacie doe finde you out You have begun well and who doe let you that you should not finish the work in the purest Reformation he that hath an eare let him heare Heare me in this your day that God may heare you in his Even in the great Judgement day FINIS

never be forgotten Is it not a Court principle to wait a fit oportunity of revenge sed Manum de tabula your body is more corrupt and diseased than ours and if those Reliques left in our Stare are so active now in wickednesse how much more operative and stirring wil the humors be in yours when all power in their hands Wee had thought our Lenity unto Delinquents here would have beene monitory unto you there who have beene eye witnesses of our distractions and divisions the effects whereof are now seene in Englands and Irelands extremities But Oh popopuli ad servitudinem praeparati as said Tyberius This we say for we pray for your Parliament that if Moabs wiles doe not destroy them Balaams curse shall never hurt him If they keepe close to God he wil preserve them from both but if they disert him and forsake their first love love to his truth and love to Justice he wil forsake them And then vvoe unto them the Lord grant that you never tast the bitter fruits of a back-sliding Parliament and of the Treasons and Treacheries of any of the members thereof who for their own ends care not to betray God his truth and people to make a sale of their deare Country friends and whatsoever is precious with which onely they are made Feoffes in trust Oh that your eyes may never see it nor my eares may never heare it We heare it for a secret yet as certain News and it came from some persons about the King that His Majesty hath vow'd and sworn to pawne His Crowne for the Prelates Miter that he wil beare out the Catholicks in this their unnaturall Rebellion upon which they are so bold as to say That if the King deserts them and disbands his Forces ere he accomplish his ends propounded to them in raising this Army he is never to be trusted by God or man We heare the Queene is landed and hath brought over besides great store of Armes much money the benevolence of the Catholickes beyond Sea for the maintenance of this War yet our secret intelligence is that shee hath Instructions and we heare also from whom to mediate for a peace and wee know for what ends and with what reservations but wee wish your Parliament the wisdom of God of Angels and of men in this houre of temptation We heare also that your Lords that went to the King and those Cōmons has went alōg with thē have sucked in much of the corruptiōs of the court at Oxford which since hath produced bad effects in the Parl. House to the great ●iscouragmēt of the best affected Citizens of London upon whose shoulders a great part of the burden of this war hath laid we look upon it as a sad omen fear that things have been onely carryed as politickly not so piously as was pretended hitherto the report is that the feare of a Reformation surprizeth the spirits of your licentious Nobles who had rather lose the power ●…nd purity of the Gospell then their Court Minions their pride their State ●…nd their book of Common Prayer Wee desire and hope better things but ●…here is a whispering as if their affection to some about the King related and ●ngaged to them hath made them so cold not to speak so broad as others do in this cause all along and therefore so little hath bin done by them or by those imployed for them and yet much must not be expected from these Lords any longer now they see the termes upon which the truth must bee purchased but were you of their counsell I would tell them one of Solomons Proverbs that he that layeth up deceit with him and covereth his hatred therewith ●…his wickednesse shall be discovered to the whole World or one of Gamaliels politicks that if this work be of man it shall come to nought but if it be of God they cannot overthrow it least they be found fighters against God Faelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum There is a History of the Sweathens who when their Nobles in compliance with their Soveraigne went about to betray their liberties the people whom God and nature hath invested with all power primitive it being onely in the hands of others derivative as men intrusted therewith by them and go accountable to them they unwilling to be inthralled and brought into servitude rose up for the vindication of their just priviledges and apprehended their Nobles and put them to death as Traytors to their State God in justce will suffer dishonour to staine the glory of such who have no regard unto his honour We heare that you do much wonder that we in all this time have afforded you no assistance both States being imbarqued in one the same cause you shal see what we wil do shortly but when you consider what jealousies there were of us in your State before who durst not trust us with the spoil of our Enemies the Papists which was all the satisfaction was desired in consideration of our vast expences occasioned by them or had prevented all those miseries that have now invaded you besides the losse of much bloud which hath been spilt and moneyes spènt but secundae cogitationes are ever the best you thought we came to inrich our selves and to impoverish you and had we not obtained our ends we had never departed in peace how much more shal we bee suspected now the same principles of jealousie stil remaining in you●… and your meanes of resistance being lesse powerful through your own divisions if these surmises were removed in your parts generally and prejudice by that meanes were tooke off our Spirits you should sinde us not comtemplative but active to afford you all Fraternall assistance but you will say these jealousies were never fostered in the hearts of the best affected but of the Malignants of the Kingdome I wish it had been so but beloved you shall finde this no obstacle in your spirits doe you remain fixed in your Resolutions and you shall see a speedy issue of our determinations upon the returne of our Commissioners But judge with your selves if this had beene reasonable nay if it would not have beene prejudiciall to you much more to us that an Armie should have beene raised by us to be so suddenly disbanded ere the end pretended had beene effected your inconstancie and uncertaintie amazeth us but let your premisses and principles onely be established thence you shall see answerable conclusions deducted according answerable to your expectatiōs to your desires Today it is resolved that you wil treat in no place but in Parliament to morrow you wil in any place appointed which wee judge not onely to be dishonourable but a breach but a losse of the trust priviledge of Parliament To day it is declared that you wil no more Petition His Majesty to morrow you wil whereas we hold Declarations to be more suteable to the Soveraignty of so supreme a Court whose power is coordinate with