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A11670	The intentions of the armie of the kingdome of Scotland, declared to their brethren of England: by the commissioners of the late Parliament, and by the generall, noblemen, barrons, and other officers of the armie	Scotland. Army.; Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646, attributed name.; Scotland. Parliament.	1640 (1640)	STC 21921; ESTC S120784	10,414	16

we shall content our selves with our own poverty or enrich our selves in England that Question is impious and absurd Neither is the Question whether we shall defend our selves at home or invade our neighbours and dearest Brethren this also were unchristian and unreasonable But this is the Question whether it be wisdome and piety to keep our selves within the borders till our throats be cut and our Religion Laws and Countrey destroyed Or shall we bestirre our selves and seek our safeguard peace and liberty in England whether we shall doe or dye whether we shall goe and live or abide and perish Or more largely to expresse all Whether we who are not a few private persons but a whole Kingdome shall lye under the burthen of so many accusations as scarcely in the worst times have been charged against Christians receive the Service Book and the whole body of Popery imbrace the prelates and their abjured Hierarchy renounce our solemn Oath and Covenant so many times sworn by us loose all our labour and paines in this Cause and forget our former slavery and wonted desires of redemption at the dearest rate tickle the minds 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 desert and dishonour the Sonne of God whose Cause we have undertaken whose banner we have displayed and whose truth and power hath been this time past more comfortable to us then all 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 and shall we fold our hands and wayte for the perfect slavery of 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 impossible Or shall we seek our relief in following the Calling of God for our necessity can be interpreted no lesse and entring by the doore which His providence hath opened unto us when all wayes are stopped beside Our enemies at first did throude themselves so farre under the Kings Authority that they behooved to stand or fall together and that to Censure them was Treason against the King Now we have shewen that a Kings Crown 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 to thinke that to come into England against them is to come against England and to pursue them although Legally is to invade the Kingdome were they live as if the cutting away of an Excressence or the curing of an Imposthume were the killing of the body Let them secure themselves under the shelter of their own phantasies but we are not so undisserning as like mad men to run furiously upon such as we first meet with and come in our way for although it cannot be denyed but the wrongs done to us as the breaking of the late peace crying us down as Rebells and Traytors the takeing of our Ships and Goods the Imprisoning of our Commissioners the Acts of Hostility done by the English in our Castles had they been done by the State or Kingdome of England there might have been just causes of a Nationall quarrelling yet seeing the Kingdome of England conveend in Parliament have refused to contribute any supply against us have shewen themselves to be prest with grievances like unto ours and have earnestly pleaded for redresse and remedy and a Declararation made that his Majesty out 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 wherof the Parliament was broken up and dissolved Neither do we quarrell with the Kingdome for the injuries which we sustaine but our quarrell is onely with particular men the enemies of both Nations nor can they quarrell with us for taking order with the prevalent Faction of Papists and Prelats the Authors of so many woes to both Nations Let all who love Leligion and their liberty joyne against the common enemies and let them be accursed that shall not seek the preservation of their neighbour Nation both in Religion and Laws as their own as knowing that the ruine of one will prove the ruine of both And knowing well as having from their own Councels discovered it that the ruine of both was intended and that it was ever their plot and purpose that if they could not ingage our dearest Brethren and neighbour Nation in a Warre for our destruction then to give us some ill assured peace which might bind our hands and hold us quiet untill the yoake of bondage were more heavily and unremoveably layd upon our Brethren of England by the help of such an Army as was pretended to be gathered against us rooting out the Godly people and active spirits of that Nation and all those who as good Patriots stand well affected to Religion and their just liberties and might be suspected would dare stirre for the defence and maintenance of either and thereafter easily find ground to break againe with us when they were once assured that we were like to stand alone And all the benefit of our peace should be to be last destroyed And as we attest the God of heaven that those and no other are our Intentions so upon the same greatest attestation doe we declare that for atchieving those ends we shall neither spare our paints fortunes nor lives which we know cannot be more profitably and honourably spent That we shall not take from our Friends and Brethren from a thread even to a shooe latchet but for our own moneys and the just payment That we come amongst them as their Friends and Brethren very sensible of their by past suffrings and present dangers both in Religion and Liberties and most willing to doe them all the good we can like as we certainly expect that they from the like sence of our hard condition and intollerable distresse which hath forced us to come from our own Countrey will joyne and concurre with us in the most just and Noble wayes for obtayning their and our most just desires And when our own money and meanes are spent we shall crave nothing but upon sufficient surety of payment how soon possibly it can be made what is necessary for the etertaynment of our Army which we 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 foresight will provide the way to furnish necessaries and to receive the surety This course being kept by both sides will neither harme our Brethren for they shall be satisfied to the last farthing nor our selves who look for a recompense from the rich providence of God for whose sake we have hazarded the losse of all things The escapes of some Souldiers if any shall happen we trust shall not be imputed to us who shall labour by all meanes to prevent them more carefully and punish them more severely then if done to our selves and in our own Countrey Our professed Enemies the Papists Prelats with their adherents and the receivers of their goods and geir we conceive will be more provident then to refuse us necessary sustentation when they remember what Councell was given by them for Declaring all our possessions to be forfeited and to be disposed of to them as well deserving Subjects Wee shall demand nothing of the Kings Majesty but the settling and secureing 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 coming before him with their humble desires and supplications Our abode in England shall be no longer time then in their Parliament our just grievances and complaints may be heard and Redressed sufficient Assurance given for the legall tryall and punishment of the Authors of their and our evills and for Reforming and injoying their and our Religion and Liberties in peace against the machynations of Romish contrivance acted by their degenerate Countrey-men Our returning thereafter shall be with expedition in a peaceable and orderly way farre from all molestation and we trust the effect shall be against Papists the extirpation of Popery against Prelats the Reformation of the Church against Atheists the flourishing of the Gospell and against Traytours and Firebrands a perfect and dureable 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 God goe before us who will not follow or refuse to put their necks to the worke of the Lord FINIS

THE INTENTIONS OF THE ARMIE OF THE KINGDOME OF SCOTLAND DECLARED TO THEIR BRETHEREN OF ENGLAND BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE LATE Parliament and by the Generall Noblemen Barrons and other Officers of the Armie Printed in the Yeare of God 1640. THE INTENTIONS OF THE ARMIE OF THE KINGDOME OF SCOTLAND THE best indeavours and greatest works wherin the good 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 cavelling censure which maketh place for it selfe to enter where it findeth none and to be condemned of the ignorant but most of all of the malicious who cannot be pleased even when God is best pleased and when men seek to approve themselves to every ones Conscience but in their hearts wish rather that the Temple should not be built Religion never reformed and they themselves Issachar like couch between the two burthens 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 Aegyptian servitude The redemption of the Church 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 good worke wherin the Lord hath honoured us to be actors and the experience which we have found of continuall opposition since the beginning may teach us if we be not as the Horse and Mule 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 maintain 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 mind nothing but Invasion and that no lesse hath been intended by us from the beginning then under the retext of seeking our Religion and Liberties to enrich our selves with their possessions and goods But our peaceable cariage many years past before the time of those late troubles our Informations Declarations and Remonstrances published to the world wherin we have Cursed all Nationall Invasion and our willingnesse when we were in Armes to lay them down upon the small hopes of injoying our Religion and Liberties and our forbearing now by way of reprisall to satisfie our selves upon the Ships and goods of our deare Brethren of England for those Ships and goods of ours that have been taken by the Kings Ships which possibly we might have been able to doe had not Justice forbidden us to take from them whom we are assured neither wish us harme nor have done us wrong will be conceived by the wise and well affected to be more plain 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 we have been highly injured by some Papists and Prelats and their adherents there who have been and are still seeking no lesse then that we should no more be a Church or Nation and therfore themselves cannot thinke but we must accompt of them as Gods enemies and ours Yet above all the favours we 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 endeared them unto us more then before which shall never be forgotten by us and we hope shall be thankfully remembred by our Children and Childrens Children after us to all generations that when upon misinformation the Councell of England had concluded to raise 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 worke and Publick Declarations by Authority were made and the Parliament called for this very end when we had been traduced and Proclaimed as Traytors and Rebells at every Parish Church 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 no promises nor hopes no finenesse nor cunningly devised suggestion could move them to decerne a warre or grant any Subsidie for a warre against us but rather by their speeches complaints and grievances parrallel to ours did justifie the Cause so much as in them was 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 move hand or foot against that Nation so comfortably to us represented in that honourable meeting In this our thank full acknowledgement we desire that the City of London may have their own large share as they well deserve by the noble profession they have given of their constant affection to Religion and the peace of both Kingdomes notwithstanding the continuall assaults of the misleaders of the King against them alwayes rendering them seditious in his eares And if this which doth so convince us shall not be thought sufficient to satisfie all the good people of England We now before God and the World make offer in generall and we make offer to so many of them as shall 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 and dread and from whom we hope for a blessing upon our expedition that we intend no enmity 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 and Prelats but if any such thing shall come from godly men or good Patriots who love the truth of Religion or the Kings honour and their own liberty both the rule of charity which entertaineth no suspicion where there is no evill deserving and the soule of wisdome 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 truth of Religion and for the just liberty of the Subject and all the devises and doings of the enemy are for the oppressing of both that our Religion may be turned into Superstition and Atheisme and our liberty into base servitude and bondage To bring this to passe they have