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A11669	The intentions of the army of the kingdome of Scotland, declared to their brethren of England, by the commissioners of the late parliament, and by the generall, noblemen, barons, and others, officers of the army	Scotland. Army.; Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646, attributed name.; Scotland. Parliament.	1640 (1640)	STC 21919; ESTC S100070	9,878	19

Lawes and Countrey be destroyed Or shall wee bestirre our selves and seeke our Safeguard Peace and Liberty in England whether we shall doe or dye whether we sha●l goe and live or abide and perish Or more largely to expresse all whether we who are not a few privat persons but a whole Kingdome shall lye under the burden of so many accusations as scarcely in the worst times have beene intended against Christians Receive the Service booke and the whole body of Popery Embrace the Prelats and their abjured Hierarchy Renounce our solemne Oath and Covenant so many times sworne by us lose all our labours and paines in this Cause and forget our former slavery and wonted desires of redemption at the dearest rate Tickle the mindes of our enemies with joy and strengthen their hands with violence and fill the hearts of our friends with sorrow and their faces with shame because of us Deserte and dishonour the Sonne of God whose Cause we have under-taken whose Banner wee have displayed and whose Trueth and Power hath been this time past more comfortable unto us then all that the peace and prosperity of the world could have rendered and draw upon our selves all the Judgements which GOD hath executed upon Apostates since the beginning Or shall we fold our hands and waite for the perfect slavery or our selves and our posterity in our Soules Bodies and Estates and which is all one foolishly to stand to our defence where we know it is impossible Or shall wee seeke our reliefe in following the calling of GOD for our necessity can bee interpreted to be no lesse and entering by the doore which his providence hath opened unto us when all wayes are stopped beside Our enemies at first did shroud themselves so farre with the Kings authority that they behooved to stand and fall together and that to censure them was treason against the King But we have showne that the Kings Crowne is not tyed to a Prelats Mitre and that the one may be cast unto the ground and the other have a greater lustre and glory then before Now they take themselves to another starting hole and would have men thinke that to come in to England and to pursue them although legally is to invade the Kingdome where they live As if the cutting away of an excrescence or the curing of an Impostume were the killing of the Body Let them secure themselves under the shelter of their own phantasies But we are not so undiscerning as like mad men to run furiously upon such as they first meet with and come in their way For although it cannot bee denyed but the wrongs done unto us as the breaking of the late Peace Crying us down as rebels and traytours The taking of our ships and goods The imprisoning of our Commissioners The acts of hostility done by the English in our Castles Had they beene done by the State or Kingdome of England they might have beene just causes of a Nationall quarrelling Yet since the Kingdome of England conveened in Parliament have refused to contribute any supply against us have shown themselves to be pressed with grievances like unto ours have earnestly pleaded for redresse and remedy and a Declaration made that his Majesty our of Parliament will redresse them which might be a cure for the grievances of particular Subjects but Nationall grievances require the hand of the Parliament for their cure for preventing whereof the Parliament was broken up and dissolved Neither doe we quarrell with the Kingdome for the Injuries which we sustain nor can they quarrell with us for taking order with that prevalent Faction of Papists Prelats the Authors of so many woes to both Nations let all who love Religion their liberty joyn against the common enemies and let them be accursed who shall not seek the preservation of their Neighbour Nation both in Religion and Lawes as their own as knowing that the ruine of one will prove the ruine of both And as we attest the God of Heaven and Earth that those and no other are our Intentions so upon the same greatest attestation doe we declare That for atchieving those ends we shal neither spare our pains fortunes nor lyves which we know cannot be more profitably honorably spent That we shal not take from our Friends Brethren from a threed even to a shooe latchet but for our own moneyes and the just payment that wee come amongst them as their Friends and Brethren very sensible of their by-past sufferings present dangers both in Religion and Liberties and most willing to doe them all the good we can Like as wee certainly expect that they from the like sense of our hard condition and intollerable distresses which hath forced us to come from our own Countrey will joyne and concurre with us in the most just and noble wayes for obtaining our just desires And when our own moneyes and meanes are spent we shall crave nothing but upon sufficient surety of repayment how soon possibly it can be made what is necessary for the entertainment of our Army which wee are assured so many as love Religion and the peace of both Kingdomes will willingly offer as that which they know we cannot want and in their wise fore-sight will provide the way to furnish necessaries and to receive the surety This course being keeped by both sides will neither harme our Brethren for they shall bee satisfied to the least farthing nor our selves who look for a recompence from the rich providence of God for whose sake we have hazarded the losse of all things The escapes of some Souldiours if any shall happen we trust shall not be imputed unto us who shall labor by all means to prevent them more carefully to punish thē more severely then if done to our selves in our own Country Our professed enemies the Papists Prelats with their adherents the receipters of their goods geir we cōceive wil be more provident then to refuse us necessary sustentation when they remember what counsell was given by them for declaring all our Possessions to be forfeited to be disposed of to them as well deserving Subjects We shall demand nothing of the Kings Majesty but the settling and securing of the true Religion and Liberties of this Kingdome according to the Constitutions and Acts of the late Assemblies and Parliament and what a just Prince oweth by the Lawes of God and the Countrey to his grieved Subjects comming before him with their humble desires and supplications Our abode in England shal be for no longer time then in their Parliament our just grievances and complaints shall be heard and redressed sufficient assurance given for the legall tryall and punishment of the Authors of our evills and for enjoying of our Religion and Liberties in peace against the invasion of their Countreymen Our returning thereafter shall be with expedition in a peaceable and orderly way farre from all molestation and wee trust the effect shall be against Papists the extirpation of Popery against Prelates the Reformation of the Kirk against Atheists the flourishing of the Gospel and against Traytours and fire-brands a perfect and durable Union and Love between the two Kingdomes which he grant who knoweth our intentions and desires and is able to bring them to passe And if any more be required God will reveale it and goe before both Nations and if he goe before us who will not follow or refuse to put their necks to the Work of the Lord FINIS

THE INTENTIONS OF THE ARMY OF THE KINGDOME OF SCOTLAND DECLARED TO THEIR BRETHREN OF ENGLAND By the Commissioners of the late Parliament and by the GENERALL Noblemen Barons and others Officers of the ARMY RB Printed at Edinburgh by ROBERT BRYSON and are to be solde at his Shop at the signe of Ionah 1640. The Intentions of the ARMY of the Kingdome of SCOTLAND Declared to their Brethren of ENGLAND By the Commissioners of the late Parliament and by the GENERALL Noblemen Barons and others Officers of the ARMY THE best endeavours and greatest workes wherein the hand and providence of God have been most evident and sensible and the hearts and intentions of men called to be the instruments most pious and sincere though they found approbation with the wiser sort and such as are given to observation yet they have ever been subject to be misconstrued by blind suspition to be reproved by cavilling censure which maketh place for it self to enter where it findeth none and to be condemned of the ignorant and of such as are at ease but most of all of the malicious who can not be pleased even when God is best pleased and when men seek to approve themselves to eevery ones conscience But in their hearts wish rather that the Temple should not be built Religion never reformed and they themselves coutch betwixt the two burdens then that they should be in their worldly projects or possessions opposed or troubled The deliverance of the people of God of old from the Egyptian servitude The redemption of the Kirk by the Son of God and the planting of Christian Religion by his servants and the vindication of Religion from Romish superstition and tyranny which are the greatest and most wonderfull works of GOD have been most bitterly calumniated and spitefully spurned against by the wicked The nature and quality of this great Work wherein the Lord hath honoured us to be Agents and the experience which we have found of continuall opposition since the beginning may teach us if we be not as the horse and muse which have no understanding that we are to expect the gainsaying of sinners and that nothing can be hatched in hell by Satan or prompted by his Supposts on Earth which will not be produced to make us and the cause of God which we maintaine odious to all men but most of all to our Neighbours and dearest Brethren When we shall now enter into England it will be layed to our charge that we minde nothing but invasion and that no lesse hath been intended by us from the beginning then under the pretext of seeking our Religion and Liberties to enrich our selves with their possessions and goods But our peaceable carriage many yeares past before the time of those late troubles our Informations Declarations and Remonstrances published to the world wherein we have cursed all Nationall invasion and our willingnesse when we were in Armes to lay them downe upon the smallest assurances of enjoying our Religion and Liberties will be conceived by the wise and well affected to bee more plaine and sure evidences of our meaning then all that malice can devise or calumnie can expresse against us Neither have any new emergents altered but rather confirmed our former resolutions for although both before and since the late pacification wee have beene highly injuried by some Papists and Prelats and their adherents there who have beene and are still seeking no lesse then that wee should no more bee a Kirk or a Nation and therefore themselves can not thinke but we must accompt of them as Gods enemies and ours yet above all the favours wee have received from the good people and Body of the Kingdome of England One there is which hath highly honoured them before the world and endeered them unto us more then before which shall never be forgotten by us and wee hope shall be thankfully remembred by our Children and Childrens Children after us to all generations That when upon mis-information the Councell of England had concluded to use force against us when the Parliament of Ireland had offered their Persons and Estates for supply against us when all plots and policies were set on work and publick Declarations by authority were made and the Parliament called for this very end when we had been traduced and proclaimed as traytours and rebels at every Paroch Kirk yet so wise so grave so just was that High Court of Parliament to their everlasting honour be it remembred that no threatnings nor feares nor promises nor hopes could moove them to decerne a Warre or grant any Subsidie for a Warre against us but rather by their speeches complaints and grievances paralell to ours did justifie the Cause which we defend This rich and recent favour doth so binde our hearts that were our power never so great we should judge our selves the unworthiest of all men and could look for no lesse then vengeance from the righteous GOD if we should moove hand or foot against that Nation so comfortably to us represented in that honourable meeting In this our than full acknowledgment wee desire that the City of London may have their owne large share as they well deserve by the noble proofes they have given of their constant affection to Religion and the peace of both Kingdomes notwithstanding the continuall assaults of the mis-leaders of King and Court living amongst them and alwayes sounding the trumpet of Sedition in their eares And if this which doth so convince us shall not be thought sufficient to satisfie all the good people of England VVee now before GOD and the world make offer in generall and will make offer to so many of them as will require it in particular of the strongest and most inviolable bond of our solemne Oath and religious attestation of the great Name of GOD who is our feare our dread from whom we hope for a blessing upon our Expedition that we intend no enimitie or rapine and shall take no mans goods nor ingage our selves in blood by fighting unlesse we be forced unto it which we may look for from the Papists Prelats and others of that faction but that any such thing shall come from godly men or good patriots who love the trueth of Religion or the Kings honour and their owne Libertie both the rule of charity which entertaineth no suspition where there is no evill-deserving and the rule of wisedome which teacheth that both Nations must now stand or fall together doe forbid us to apprehend All the designe of both Kingdomes is for the trueth of Religion and for the just Liberty of the Subject and all the devices and doings of the enemy are for oppressing of both that our Religion may bee turned into Superstition and Atheisme and our Libertie into base servitude and bondage To bring this to passe they have certainly conceived that the blocking up of this Kingdome by Sea and Land would proove a powerfull and infallible meane for either within a very