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A88579	A cleare and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love, since my tryall before, and condemnation by, the High Court of Iustice. Whereby it is manifested, that a close prison, a long sword, a High Court, and a bloody scaffold, have not in the least altered my judgment. Whereas also the cruelty of the sentence, the insufficiency of the proofs, and my own innocency, are demonstrated. As also my grounds and reasons of giving in a narrative, and the lawfulness of the matter and titles of my petitions (though to usurpers) manifested and maintained. Together with a declaration of my judgement concerning Cromwells unlawfull invasion of the kingdom of Scotland. Written by me Christopher Love, Master of Arts, minister of Lawrence Iury, London; penned by me the eighth of August, fourteen days before my death.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3148; Thomason E790_5; ESTC R202748	58,288	49

that encreaseth that which is not his c. We punish him with death who breakes open a house and robs but one Family but what a thousand deaths doth he deserve who breaks into a Kingdome and robbes many thousand Families even a whole Nation The Prophet Hab akkuk pronounceth A woe to him that builds a Town with blood and establisheth a City by iniquity Hab. 2. 12. What a woe then shall befall Cromwell that doth not build Townes with blood but destroys many Townes by blood but builds up none that doth not stablish a City but destroyes many Cities in ENGLAND and SCOTLAND by Iniquity 5. A fifth reason may be drawn from the Covenant and Treaties between the two Nations I begin with the Covenant so far as it concerns Scotland In the first Article we promise to endeavour the preservation of the reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government But Cromwells invading Scotland tends directly to the destruction of the reformed Religion in Scotland both in Doctrine by the many Heresies the Army spreads amongst them and in Worship by those who are above Ordinances and in Discipline and Government by those that are inveterate enemies to the Presbyteriall Government and are most of them for Independency or Anabaptisme Brownisme or Scepticisme c. In the third Article we promise to preserve the liberties of the Kingdoms But Cromwells invading Scotland brings England under guilt and Scotland under beggery and slavery In the fourth Article we promise That we shall endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or ev●ll Instruments by hindring the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from his people or one of the Kingdomes from another If these things be the brands that the Covenant puts upon Incendiaries Malignants or evill Instruments then is not Cromwell and his Faction the great Incendiaries Malignauts and evill Instruments who have hindred the Reformation of Religion nay blemished the very name and destroyed the very face of Religion and have they not divided the King from his people not only by interrupting his agreement with the Parliament and dividing him from them but by dividing his head from his body and have not they divided one of the Kingdoms from another and by this unjust invasion laid such seeds to dissentions and irreconcileable differences as are likely never to be healed yea so divided as never likely to be united together any more In the fifth Article it is said Where as the happinesse of a blessed peace between these Kingdomes denyed in former times to our pr●genitors is by the good provide●ce of God granted unto us and hath been lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments we shal each one of us indeavour that they may remaine conjoyned in a firme Peace and Union to all posterity Let the world judge whether Cromwell and his invaders have endeavoured that the Kingdoms may remain in a firme peace and union to all posterity he was so far from endeavouring to have this Union kept to all posterity that he dissolved this Union within seven years after he promised to preserve this Union for he took the Covenant in the yeare 1643. and entred Scotland in a bloody Hostile manner in the yeare 1650. Thus you see Cromwells invasion of Scotland is repugnant to the whole scope and tenour of the Covenant it is contrary to the Articles of the Treaty between both Kingdoms for this is one among the rest That one Nation shall not wage war with each other but give three moneths warning before hand but Cremwell did not not give three dayes warning to Scotland before he invaded their Land 6. I may draw the sixth reason from the judgement of the Parliament when free and full they were still averse to any breach with and war against their Brethren of Scotland as knowing it would endanger the Protestant Religion and godly party in both the Nations I well remember the King called a Parliament here in England in April 1640. on purpose to raise money to carry on the Warre against the Scots but the Parliament utterly refused to grant any money to so ill a purpose and did all they could to disswade the King from the Warre with Scotland publiquely protesting against the War as dishonourable and dangerous to Religion and both Kingdomes whereupon through the designes of the Prelates and Popish party that Parliament was dissolved within 10 dayes after it was called Although the dissolving that Parliament was a great grief of heart to all the godly in this Nation yet it was a rejoycing that the Parliament refused to engage in the War of Scotland After this there were publique Thanksgivings throughout all England enjoyned by King and Parliament for the Pacification between England and Scotland If the wisdome of the Parliament in the year 1640. judged it unlawfull to wage War against Scotland upon the sollicitations of the King and Bishops because they would obtrude Popish Ceremonies upon that Nation may not we judge it much more unlawfull to wage War with Scotland to bring Blasphemies Heresies and Slavery upon them and that after we have had a Brotherly assistance from them and have entered into Covenant with them There are l●●●e pretences to justifie the War with Scotland in the year 1650 by Cromwell than in the year 1640. when the King intended to wage war with them 7. A seventh Reason may be drawn from the intollerable mischiefs sad consequences and unexpressible calamities likely to befall the Protestant and Covenanting party in the 3. Kingdoms the mischiefs and sad consequences of Cromwells invading Scotland I shall reduce to 8. heads 1. The War with the Irish Rebels is by this means neglected and lengthened out had Cromwell staid in Ireland and had but one half of the Souldiers he hath now in Scotland in all likelyhood the Irish Wars had been ended long before now the Rebels destroyed and the English had had a quiet and peaceable possession of that Land But Cromwell through the counsell of the Pope King of Spaine and the Iesuites had rather fight with the Protestant covenanting party in Scotland than with the Rebels of Ireland 2. By this means most grievous and burdensome Taxes are continued and increased I shall mention one thing which to the vulgar may seem incredible viz. That the Iuncto at Westminster have by the Excise Customes Sequestrations and Taxes received more money in one year than all the Kings of England put them all together since the Conquest did raise upon their Subjects for such a space of time yet the Kings called Oppressors and these called Saints c. 3. A totall eradication of the Presbyteriall Government in both the Kingdoms Presbytery is the But at which the Prelates of old and the Sectaries of late have shot their invenomed Arrows 4. A great indangering of all the Protestant Churches and States in Europe The Kingdomes of England and Scotland make up the greatest