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A11659	The remonstrance of the nobility, barrones, burgesses, ministers and commons within the kingdome of Scotland Vindicating them and their proceedings from the crymes, wherewith they are charged by the late proclamation in England, Feb. 27. 1639.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646. aut	1639 (1639)	STC 21907; ESTC S116848	16,780	34

adversaries Between the King as King proceeding royally according to the laws of the Kingdome against rebels and the King as a man comming down from his throne at the foote where of the humble supplication of his subjects lyeth unanswered marching furiously against his loyall and weal-meaning people Between a King who is a stranger to Religion and tyed no further but according to his own pleasure to the professours of Religion living in his dominions and our Kiug professing with us the same religion and obliged by his Fathers deed his own oath to desend us his own subjects our lives religion liberties laws Again difference would be put between some private persons taking armes for resistance inferiour Magistrats Iudges Councellors nobles Peeres of the land Parliament men Barrons Burgesses and the whole bodie of the Kingdome except some few either Courteours stats-men Papists or popishly affected and their adherents standing to their own defence Between subjects rising or standing out against law and reason that they may bee freed from the yoke of their obedience and a people holding fast their alledgeance to their Soveraigne and in all humilitie supplicating for Religion and justice between a people labouring by armes to introduce novations in Religon contrarie to the laws and a people seeking nothing so much as against all innovations to have the same Religion ratified which hath been professed since the reformation and hath not only been solemnely sworn long since by the Kings Majestie and by the whole Kingdome both of old and of late but also commanded by the Kings Majestie to be sworn by his Counsellours and commanded by his Councell to bee subscribed by all the people as it was professed at first Between a people pleading for their own phantasies and foolaries or inventions and a people suspending their judgement and practise about things controverted till they should be determined by a nationall Assembly the only proper and competent judicatorie and after determination receiving and standing for the conclusions of the Assembly Whither in this case and matters so standing wee shall stand to our own defence we are taught by the light and law of nature by the word of God in the old and new testament by the Covenant betwixt the people and God by the end for which Magistrates are ordained of God by our standing in our order and line of subordination under God the great Superiour when our immediate Superiours go out of their line order by the testimonies of the best divines and sound politicians and Lawyers even such as pleadmost contra Monarchomachos by the mutuall contract betwixt the King and the people at the Coronation by acts of Parliament and by the example of our own predicessours And now for our brethren and neighbours in England whose eares we suppose have been filled with this Proclamation in their particular Kirks From that honour which we ow unto authoritie as the ordinance of God and from the naturall and loyall affection which we bear unto our King and dread Soveraigne borne and baptized amongst us we are unfainedly and from our hearts grieved that first his sacred eares should be so farre possessed and next his royall Name so farre abused by wicked men as to receive and give way to so many absurd and incredible false calumnies against a whole Nation his own native Countrey and Kingdome It is too manifest how extremly pernitious and damnageable are calumnies especially universall ones of this kinde and therefore to represse them ought not any law or ordinance be spared that may serve to the purpose From that love which is due from us unto them to whom in verie many respects and by many strong bands naturall civill and spirituall we are sibber and more nearly joyned then to any other Nation or people on earth wee are heartily sorie that their Kirks and hearing are taken up with such discourses and would wonder at their credulitie if they should be beleeved by them yet because speeches may be the seminaries of sedition even amongst brethren who are at greatest distance when they have once begun to divide and discord we must intreat if with so wise a Nation there be any need of intreatie that they will not upon any declaration which they have heard be suddenly stirred to attempts against us to our mutuall hurt or with a golden hook to catch so small commodities as may bee hoped for in such a warre and by so doing make both Nations a mocking to strangers and this Yland which hath been blessed with so long a peace to be a field of blood and a prey to our common enemies who now for many years have been looking upon us with an evil eye and are still waiting for an evil houre that when they hear of any of our preparations for defence or of any of our actions which to us are so necessarie that without them our defence is impossible and wherein there is no wrong done or intended against them they will judge charitably of us and of our doings in such an exigent and extremity as this is and that they will wisely and christianly supposing our case to be their own make use of that common rule of equity what soever ye would that others did to you do ye even so to them That hereafter reports and declarations made against us by our enemies be not suddenly beleeved since the authours from the conscience of their own deceitfull dealing publish them amongst the English only who cannot controle the untruth of them and keep them up from the knowledge of this kingdome where they cannot abide the common light and triall every one of the commons knowing their forgerie and falshood And when any of them happen to come to our hands the difficultie and danger is so great in carying our answers and the true information as matters now stand unto their knowledge And that they will at last both poure forth their prayers to GOD and their supplications to the King in our behalf and if need be use their power for our lawfull defence against merce-naries and wicked men the sons of Beliall Are we not their own brethren their own flesh and bone Are we not all under one roof in one and the same shipe and members of one body Their religious progenitours at the time of reformation vouchsafed us their help and assistance for establishing the reformed religion neither have we so evill deserved nor are they so far degenerated as that we have reason to feare that we shall be deserted by them at this time the cause being the same the case not much different and the persons only changed Our salvation is common Let us together earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the Saints that mercy peace and love may be multiplied unto us Considering also how far our late actions against the persons of our greatest enemies and the chief strengths of the kingdome as of the castle of Edinburgh c.

accustomed fatherly care of the good and preservation of this Kingdome would be pleased to resolve upon some such course as without force of armes or shewing of his Princely power the estate of this kingdome may be setled as may be seen at greater length in the letter it self We are challenged here also as usurpers of regall power First because we have taken upon us to command the print and forebidden and dismissed the printer whom his Majestie established This is the old complaint of the Popish Prelats against our reformers in the yeare 1559. and very untruly by their successours renewed against us for we have neither dismissed nor forbidden the printer who still hath his liberty and residence in Edinburgh Nor doth the act of the generall Assembly which we take to be here meant containe any thing that can be construed to be the usurpation of regall power or the smalest diminution of the priviledges royall about printing It only forbideth under the paine of Kirk censure to print any piece that concerneth the Kirk without warrand of the Kirk A power belonging to the Kirk in all kingdomes and ordinarly used in this Kirk not only in the times of Popery but since the reformation as is manifest by diverse acts of Assemblies censuring abuses of printing appointing some treatises to be printed and naming some to revise what was to be put to the presse Neither must we think that the nationall Kirk is shorter in her liberties of this sort then our Universities are who without restraint use their own liberty nor will any man think that schollers shall have the liberty to print their propositions yearly without controlement and liberty shall be denied to the generall Assembly to print their acts and constitutions Particulare professours use to publish their treatises with adjurations of printers because they have no further authority that they print them not in another edition nor in another character and shall not the Kirk make use of that authority which GOD hath granted her for her own peace and the good of Religion Secondly because we have conveened the subjects raised armies blocked up and besieged his Majesties castles c. So many of these heavy challenges as have any shew of truth are so fully and plainly answered in our last protestation Decemb. 18. that as the Prelats needed not to make the objection so need we to make no new answere In our last information intended for England besides that the true honest and loyall expressions of our hearts are taken to be false base and fawning passages we are particularly challenged of two scandalous and most notorious untruths First that the armies now raised are in the hands of Papists So indeed were we informed and therefore spake with this caution as we are informed and why shall not the captaines and leaders of the armie be sutable to the prime movers the cause and end of the work all which smell of Rome and of Popery The other untruth is that some of power in the Kirk of England have been the cause of taking armes for invasion of this kingdome and of medling with our religion This we offer to verifie both by write and by the deposition of prime stats-men and Councellours against some Kirk-men there namely against Canterburie himself that he did negotiate with Rome about the frame of our service book and Canons that with his own hand he altered and interlyned diverse passages thereof tending to conformity with Rome A plot so perilous that had not the Lord disappointed it First Scotland and then England by him and such as cooperate with him had become in their religion Romish His reprinted conference with M r. Fisher will not serve to vindicate his reputation And therefore we earnestly intreat all in England that affect the truth of religion and the Kings honour and all true Patriots that love the liberty of the kingdome to supplicate his Majestie for calling a Parliament there that this mysterie of iniquity which hath been in working this time past may be discovered and the prime agents therein according to their demerits may be tryed and punished and that this craft and treacherie in joyning both kingdomes in a bloody war that by weakning both Rome may be built in the midst of us and the Pope in end set over all may be seen and disappointed that GOD may have his own glory the King his honour and his subjects may be in safety from forraine tyraine over their bodies and soules Least the Prelats should passe any point true or false that may serve their turne This also is laide to our charge that the Kings lawes are in a manner oppressed by us in so much that the judges are so awed as they dare hardly proceed according to law The prime judges of the land remember that by them justice hath been refused us according to law not from their own disposition but for feare to offend against missives procured against us we must also now remember that having of late requyred letters of horning and caption against the excommunicate Prelats conforme to the act of Parliament whereof they use not to deny the common benefite to the meanest subject The Lords of Session resolved upon a letter to be sent to his Majestie March 2. wherein they bring his Majesties pleasure signified by his Majesties command and otherwise as the only cause of refusing these letters according to the act of Parliament and withall joyn their most ardent desires and humble wishes for such peace and quietnesse to the kingdome as it hath injoyed before Which evidenceth that not only the laws but the judges are for us and that from conscience of their duty to GOD the King and countrey and not from feare and aw from us To make all that hath been said the more credible it is alledged that some of us refuse both the oath of alledgeance and supremacie and publickly mantaine that we are not oblidged to take the same and that three Scotishmen taken in Wales are at this day imprisoned for denying these oathes We can say nothing of these taken in Walles neither there persons nor their purposes being known to us It seemeth that the inquisition is hote there But for our selves although there be a difference betwixt the oath of alledgeance and supremacie and we cannot take the oath of supremacie as it is extended and glossed by the flattering Prelats yet we heartily rander that to his Majestie which is due and useth to be given by reformed and sound divines to the civill Magistrate knowing that the Fifth command containing the duty of subjects to their Princes and rulers is the First commandment of the second table and that our confession of faith acknowledgeth his Majestie to be the Lordsvice-gerant on earth to whom the conservation and purgation of religion doth belong As this is the conception which our enemies have begotten in his Majesties minde against us so may we learne by this declaration what his Majesties