name of Memoriall or Oblation for no other end but that the memoriall and sacrifice of praise mentioned in it may bee understood according to the Popish meaning Bellar. de Missa lib. 2. cap. 21. Not of the spirituall sacrifice but of the oblation of the body of the Lord It seemeth to bee no great matter that without warrand of the book of England the Presbyter going from the north end of the Table shall stand during the time of consecration at such a pairt of the table where hee may with the more ease and decencie use both hands yet being tried it importeth much as that he must stand with his hinder pairts to the people representing saith Durand that which the Lord said of Moses Thou shalt see my hinder pairts Hee must have the use of both his hands not for any thing he hath to doe about the bread and wine for that may bee done at the North end of the Table and bee better seen of the people but as we are taught by the Rationalists that he may by stretching foorth his armes to represent the extension of Christ on the Crosse and that hee may the more conveniently lift up the bread and wine above his head to be seen and adored of the people who in the Rubrick of the generall Confession a little before are directed to kneel humbly on their knees that the Priests elevation so magnified in the Masse and the peoples adoration may goe together That in this posture speaking with a low voyce and muttering for sometimes hee is commanded to speake with a lowd voyce and distinctly hee bee not heard by the people which is no lesse a mocking of God and his people then if the words were spoken in an unknowne language As there is no word of all this in the English Service so doth the book in King Ed. time give to every Presbyter his liberty of gesture which yet gave such offence to Bucer the censurer of the book and even in Cassanders own judgement a man of great moderation in matters of this kinde that he calleth them Nunquam satis execrandos Missa gestus and would have them to be abhorred because they confirme to the simple and superstitious ter impiam exitialem Missae fiduciam The corporall presence of Christs body in the Sacrament is also to be found here for the words of the mass-Masse-book serving to this purpose which are sharply censured by Bucer in King Ed. Leiturgie are not to be found in the book of England are taken in here Almighty God is incalled that of his Almighty goodnesse he may vouchsafe so to blesse and sanctifie with his Word and Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that they may bee unto us the body and bloud of Christ The change here is made a work of Gods omnipotencie the words of the Masse ut fiant nobis are translated in King Edwards booke That they may be unto us which are againe turned into Latine by Alesius Vt fiant nobis On the other pairt the expressions of the booke of England at the delivery of the Elements of feeding on Christ by faith and of eating and drinking in remembrance that Christ died for thee are utterly deleated Many evidences there bee in this pairt of the Communion of the bodily presence of Christ very agreeable to the doctrines taught by his Secretaries which this paper cannot containe They teach us that Christ is received in the Sacrament Corporaliter both objectivè and subjectivè Corpus Christi est objectum quod recipitur corpus nostrum subjectum quo recipitur The booke of England abolisheth all that may import the oblation of any unbloody Sacrifice but here we have besides the Preparatorie oblation of the Elements which is neither to be found in the book of England now nor in King Edwards booke of old the oblation of the body and bloud of Christ which Bellarmine calleth Sacrificium Laudis quia Deus per illud magnopere laudatur This also agreeth well with their late doctrine We are ready when it shall be judged convenient and we shall be desired to discover much more matters of this kind as grounds laid for missasicca or the halfe Messe The private Messe without the people Of communicating in one kind Of the Consumption by the Priest and Consummation of the Sacrifice Of receiving the Sacrament in the mouth and not in the hand c. Our Supplications were many against these Books but Canterbury procured them to be answered with terrible Proclamations Wee were constrained to use the remedy of Protestation but for our Protestations and other lawfull meanes which we used for our deliverance Canterbury procured us to be declared Rebels Traitors in all the Parish Kirks of England when we were seeking to possesse our Religion in Peace against these Devices and Novations Canterbury kindleth warre against us In all these it is known that he was although not the sole yet the Principall Agent and Adviser When by the Pacification at Berwick both Kingdomes looked for Peace and Quietnesse he spared not openly in the hearing of many often before the King and privately at the Counsell-table and the privy Iointo to speak of us as Rebels and Traitors and to speake against the Pacification as dishonourable and meet to be broken Neither did his malignancie and bitternesse ever suffer him to rest till a new warre was entred upon and all things prepared for our destruction By him was it that our Covenant approven by Nationall Assemblies subscribed by his M. Commissioner and by the Lords of his M. Counsell and by them commanded to be subscribed by all the Subjects of the Kingdome as a Testimony of our duty to God and the King by him was it still called Ungodly Damnable Treasonable by him were Oaths invented and pressed upon divers of our poore Countrey-men upon the pain of imprisonment and many miseries which were unwarrantable by Law and contrary their Nationall Oath When our Commissioners did appeare to render the reasons of our demands he spared not in the presence of the king and Committee to raile against our Nationall Assembly as not daring to appeare before the World and Kirkes abroad where himselfe and his Actions were able to endure tryall and against our just and necessary defence as the most malicious and Treasonable Contempt of Monarchicall Government that any by-gone age had heard of His hand also was at the Warrant for the restraint and imprisonment of our Commissioners sent from the Parliament warranted by the King and seeking the peace of the Kingdomes When we had by our Declarations Remonstrances Representations manifested the truth of our intentions and lawfulnesse of our Actions to all the good Subjects of the Kingdome of England when the late Parliament could not be moved to assist or enter in warre against us maintaining our Religion and Liberties Canterbury did not onely advise the breaking up of that high and honourable Court to the great griefe
and hazard of the Kingdome but which is without example did sit stil in the Convocation and make Canons and constitutions against us and our just and necessary defence ordaining under al highest paines that hereafter the Clergy shall preach 4. times in the yeare such doctrine as is cōtrary not only to our proceedings but to the doctrine proceedings of other reform'd Kirks to the judgement of all sound Divines Politiques and tending to the utter slavery and ruining of all Estates and Kingdomes to the dishonour of Kings Monarchs And as if this had not been sufficient he procured six Subsidies to be lifted of the Clergy under paine of Deprivation to all that should refuse And which is yet worse and above which Malice it selfe cannot ascend by his meanes a Praier is framed printed and sent through all the Paroches of England to bee said in all Churches in time of Divine Service next after the prayer for the Queene and Roiall Progeny against our Nation by name of trayterous Subjects having cast off all obedience to our anointed Soveraigne and comming in a rebellious manner to invade England that shame may cover our faces as Enemies to God and the King Whosoever shall impartially examine what hath proceeded from himselfe in these two books of Canons and Common Praier what Doctrine hath beene published and printed these yeares by past in England by his Disciples and Emissaries what grosse Popery in the most materiall points we have found and are ready to shew in the posthume writings of the Prelate of Edinburgh and Dumblane his owne creatures his neerest familiars and most willing instruments to advance his counsells and projects fall perceive that his intentions were deepe and large against all the reformed Kirks and reformation of Religion which in his Majesties dominions wes panting and by this time had rendered up the Ghost if God had not in a wonderfull way of mercy prevented us And that if the Pope himselfe had beene in his place he could not have beene more Popish nor could he more zealously have negotiated for Rome against the reformed Kirks to reduce them to the Heresies in Doctrine the Superstitions and Idolatry in worship and the Tyranny in Government which are in that See and for which the Reformed Kirks did separate from it and come furth of Babell From him certainely hath issued all this deluge which almost hath overturned all We are therefore confident that your Lordships will by your meanes deale effectually with the Parliament that this great firebrand be presently removed from his Majesties presence and that he may be put to tryall and put to his deserved censure according to the Lawes of the Kingdome which sall be good service to God honour to the King and Parliament terror to the wicked and comfort to all good men and to us in speciall who by his meanes principally have beene put to so many and grievous afflictions wherein we had perished if God had not beene with us We do indeed confesse that the Prelates of England have beene of very different humours some of them of a more hot and others of them men of a more moderate temper some of them more and some of them lesse inclinable to Popery yet what knowne truth and constant experience hath made undeniable we must at this opportunity professe that from the first time of Reformation of the Kirk of Scotland not only after the comming of King Iames of happy memory into England but before the Prelates of England have beene by all meanes uncessantly working the overthrow of our discipline and governement And it hath come to passe of late that the Prelates of England having prevailed and brought us to subjection in the point of Governement and finding their long waited for opportunity and a rare congruity of many spirits and powers ready to cooperate for their ends have made a strong assault upon the whole externall worship and doctrine of our Kirk By which their doing they did not aime to make us conforme to England but to make Scotland first whose weaknesse in resisting they had before experienced in the Novations of Governement and of some points of Worship and thereafter England conforme to Rome even in these matters wherein England had seperated from Rome ever since the time of Reformation An evill therefore which hath issued not so much from the person all disposition of the Prelates themselves as from the innate quality and nature of their office and Prelaticall Hierarchy which did bring furth the Pope in ancient times and never ceaseth till it bring furth Popish doctrine and worship where it is once rooted and the principles thereof fomented and constantly followed And from that antipathy and inconsistency of the two formes of Ecclesiasticall governement which they conceived and not without cause that one Iland united also under one head and Monarch wes not able to beare the one being the same in all the parts and powers which it wes in the times of Popery and now is in the Roman Church The other being the forme of Governement received maintained and practised by all the reformed Kirks wherein by their owne testimonies and confessions the Kirk of Scotland had amongst them no small eminency This also wee represent to your Lordships most serious consideration that not only the firebrands may be removed but that the fire may be provided against that there be no more combustion after this FINIS THE CHARGE OF THE SCOTTISH Commissioners against the Lieutenant of IRELAND IN our Declarations we have joyned with Canterbury the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whose malice hath set all his wits and power on work to devise and doe mischiefe against our Kirke and Countrey No other cause of his malice can we conceive but first his pride and supercilious disdaine of the Kirk of Scotland which in his opinion declared by his speeches hath not in it almost anything of a Kirk although the Reformed Kirks and many other Divines of England have given ample testimony to the Reformation of the Kirk of Scotland Secondly our open opposition against the dangerous innovation of Religion intended and very farre promoved in all his Majesties dominions of which hee hath shewed himselfe in his owne way no lesse zealous then Canterbury himselfe as may appeare by his advancing of his Chaplain D. Bramble not onely to the Bishoprick of Derry but also to be Vicar generall of Ireland a man prompted for exalting of Canterburian Popery and Arminianisme that thus himselfe might have the power of both swords against all that should maintaine the Reformation by his bringing of D. Chappell a man of the same spirit to the Vniversity of Dublin for poysoning the Fountaines and corrupting the Seminaries of the Kirk And thirdly when the Primate of Ireland did presse a new ratification of the Articles of that Kirke in Parliament for barring such novations in Religion hee boldly menaced him with the burning by the hand of the Hang-man of that
in divers places witnesse their dislike of Papists A Minister sal be deposed if if hee bee found negligent to convert Papists Chap. 18. 15. The adoration of the Bread is a superstition to be coÌ„demned Cap. 6. 6. They call the absolute necessity of Baptisme an errour of Popery Chap. 6.2 But in Canterburies edition the name of Papists and Popery is not so much as mentioned 5. Our Prelates have not the boldnesse to trouble us in their Canons with Altars Fonts Chancels reading of a long Leiturgie before Sermon c. But Canterbury is punctuall and peremptory in all these 6. Although the words of the tenth Canon Chap. 3. be faire yet the wicked intentions of Canterbury and Ross may bee seen in the point of justification of a sinner before God by comparing the Canon as it came from our Prelats and as it wes returned from Canterbury and printed our Prelates say thus It is manifest that the superstition of former ages hath turned into a great prophanenesse and that people are growne cold for the most part in doing any good thinking there is no place to good workes because they are excluded from justification Therefore shall all Ministers as their text giveth occasion urge the necessity of good workes as they would be saved and remember that they are via regni the way to the kingdome of heaven though not causa regnandi howbeit they be not the cause of salvation Here Ross giveth his judgement That hee would have this Canon simply commanding good workes to be preached and no mention made what place they have or have not in justification Upon this motion so agreeable to Canterburies mind the Canon is set down as it standeth without the distinction of via regni or causa regnaÌ„â—â— or any word sounding that way urging onely the necessity of good works 7. By comparing Can. 9. chap. 18. as it was sent in writing from our Prelates and as it is printed at Canterburies command may be also manifest that hee went about to establish auricular confession and Popish absolution 8. Our Prelates were not acquainted with Canons for inflicting of arbitrary penalties But in Canterburies book wheresoever there is no penalty expressely set down it is provided that it shall be arbitrary as the Ordinary shal think fittest By these and many other the like it is apparant what tyrannicall power he went about to establish in the hands of our Prelats over the worship the souls and goods of men over-turning from the foundation the whole order of our Kirk what seedes of Popery hee did sow in our Kirk and how large an entry hee did make for the grossest novations afterward which hath beene a maine cause of all their combustion The third and great Novation wes the booke of Common Prayer administration of the Sacraments and other parts of divine Service brought in without warrant from our Kirk to be universally received as the only forme of divine Service under all highest paines both civill and Ecclesiasticall which is found by our nationall assembly beside the Popish frame and formes in divine worship to containe many Popish errors and ceremonies and the seeds of manifold and grosse superstitions and idolatries and to be repugnant to the Doctrine Discipline and order of our reformation to the confession of faith constitutions of generall assemblies and Acts of Parliament establishing the true Religion that this also wes Canterburies worke Wee make manifest By the memoirs and instructions sent unto him from our Prelates wherein they gave a speciall account of the diligence they had used to doe all which herein they were enjoyned by the approbation of the Service Booke sent to them and of all the marginall corrections wherein it varieth from the English booke shewing their desire to have some few things changed in it which notwithstanding wes not granted This we find written by Saint Androis owne hand and subscribed by him and nine other of our Prelates By Canterburies owne letters witnesses of his joy when the book wes ready for the presse of his prayers that God would speed the worke of his hope to see that service set up in Scotland of his diligence to send for the Printer and directing him to prepare a black letter and to send it to his servants at Edinburgh for printing this booke Of his approbation of the proofes sent from the presse Of his feare of delay in bringing the worke speedily to an end for the great good not of that Church but of the Church Of his encouraging Rosse who wes entrusted with the presse to go on in this peece of Service without feare of enemies All which may be seene in the Autographs and by letters sent from the Prelate of London to Rosse wherein as he rejoyceth at the sight of the Scottish Canons which although they should make some noise at the beginning yet they would be more for the good of the Kirk then the Canons of Edinburgh for the good of the Kingdome So concerning the Leiturgy he sheweth that Rosse had sent to him to have an explanation from Canterbury of some passage of the Service Booke and that the presse behoved to stand till the explanation come to Edinburgh which therefore he had in haste obtained from his Grace and sent the dispatch away by Canterburies owne convaiance But the booke it selfe as it standeth interlined margined and patcht up is much more then all that is expressed in his letters and the changes and supplements themselves taken from the Masse book other Romish Ritualls by which he maketh it to vary from the book of England are more pregnant testimonies of his Popish spirit and wicked intentions which he would have put in execution upon us then can bee denied The large declaration professeth that all the variation of our booke from the book of England that ever the King understood wes in such things as the Scottish humour would better comply with then with that which stood in the English service These Popish innovations therefore have beene surreptitiously inserted by him without the Kings knowledge and against his purpose Our Scottish Prelates do petition that something may be abated of the English ceremonies as the crosse in baptisme the ring in marriage and some other things But Canterbury will not only have these kept but a great many more and worse superadded which wes nothing else but the adding of fewell to the fire To expresse and discover all would require a whole booke we sall onely touch some few in the matter of the Communion This booke inverteth the ordour of the Communion in the booke of England as may be seen by the numbers setting downe the orders of this new Communion 1. 5. 2. 6.7.3.4.8.9 10. 15. Of the divers secret reasons of this change we mention one onely In joyning the spirituall praise and thanksgiving which is in the booke of England pertinently after the communion with the prayer of consecration before the communion and that under the
should be the successe he might escape tryall and censure and his bloody designes might be put in execution against his Majesties subjects of both Kingdomes When the Kings Majesty was againe enclined to hearken to our petitions and to compose our differences in a peaceable way and the Peeres of England conveened at Yorke had as before in their great wisedome and faithfulnesse given unto his Majesties Counsels of peace yet this firebrand still smoaketh and in that honourable Assembly taketh vpon him to breath out threatnings against us as Traytors and enemies to Monarchicall government That we be sent home againe in our blood and he will whip us out of England And as these were his Speeches in the time of the treaty appointed by his Maiesty at Rippon that if it had beene possible it might have beene broken up So when a Cessation of Armes was happily agreed vpon there yet he ceaseth not but still his practises were for warre His under Officers can tell who it was that gave them Commission to draw neere in Armes beyond the Teese in the time of the treaty at Rippon The Governour of Barwicke and Carlile can shew from whom they had their warrants for their acts of Hostility after the Cessation was concluded It may be tryed how it commeth to passe that the Ports of Ireland are yet closed our Countrey-men for the Oath still kept in prison Traffique interrupted and no other face of affaires then if no cessation had been agreed upon We therefore desire that your Lordships will represent to the Parliament that this great Incendiarie upon these and the like offences not against particular persons but against Kingdomes and Nations may be put to a tryall and from their knowne and renowned justice may have his deserved punishment 16 Decemb. 1640. THE SCOTTISH Commissioners Demand concerning their sixt ARTICLE COncerning our Sixt demand although it hath often come to passe that these who have beene joyned by the bonds of Religion and Nature have suffered themselves to be divided about the things of this World And although our Adversaries who no lesse labor the division of the two Kingdomes then we doe all seeke Peace and follow after it as our common Happinesse doe presume that this will be the Partition wall to divide us and to make us lose all our labours taken about the former Demand Wherein by the helpe of God by his Majesties Princely goodnesse and Iustice and your Lordships noble and equall dealing We have so fully accorded to keep us from providing for a firme and weell grounded Peace by the wisdome and justice of the Parliament of England which is our greatest desire expressed in our last Demand We are still Confident that as we shall concerning this Article represent nothing but what is true Iust and Honourable to both Kingdomes So will your Lordships hearken to us and will not suffer your selves by any slanders or suggestions to be drawne out of that straight and safe way wherein yee have walked since the beginning IT is now Wee suppose knowne to all England especially to both the Honourable Houses of Parliament And by the occasion of this Treatie more particularly to your Lordships That our distresses in our Religion and Liberties were of late more pressing then We were able to beare That our Complaints and Supplications for redresse were answered at last with the terrours of an Army That after a Pacification greater Preparations were made for warre whereby many Acts of Hostilitie were done against us both by Sea and Land The Kingdome wanted administration of Iustice and Wee constrained to take Armes for our defence That we were brought to this extreame and intollerable necessity either to maintaine divers Armies upon our borders against Invasion from England or Ireland still to be deprived of the benefit of all the Courts of Iustice and not onely to maintaine so many thousands as were spoiled of their ships and goods but to want all Commerce by Sea to the vndoing of Merchants of Saylors and many others who lived by Fishing and whose callings are vpholden from hand to mouth by Sea trade Any one of which evils is able in a short time to bring the most potent Kingdome to Confusion Ruine and Desolation how much more all the three at one time combined to bring the Kingdome of Scotland to be no more a Kingdome Yet all these behoved Wee either to endure and vnder no other hope then of the perfect slavery of our selves and our posterity in our Soules lives and Meanes Or to resolve to come into England not to make Invasion nor with any purpose to fight except we were forced God is our Iudge our actions are our witnesses and England doth now acknowledge the truth against all suspitions to the contrary and against the impudent lyes of our Enemies But for our reliefe defence preservation which we could find by no other meanes when we had essayed all meanes and had at large expressed our pungent and pressing necessities to the Kingdome and Parliament of England Since therefore the war on our part wch is no other but our comming into England with a guard is defensive and all men doe acknowledge that in common equity the defendant should not be suffered to perish in his just and necessary defence but that the pursuer whether by way of Legall Processe in the time of Peace or by way of violence and unjust invasion in the time of warre ought to beare the charges of the defendant We trust that your Lordships will thinke that it is not against reason for us to demand some reparation of this kind and that the Parliament of England by whose Wisdome and Iustice wee have expected the redresse of our wrongs will take such course as both may in reason give us satisfaction may in the notable demōstration of their Iustice serve most for their owne honour Our earnestnesse in following this our Demand doth not so farre wrong our sight and make us so undiscerning as not to make a difference betweene the Kingdome and Parliament of England which did neither decerne nor set forward a Warre against us And that Prevalent faction of Prelats and Papists who have moved every stone against us and used all sorts of meanes not onely their counsells Subsidies and forces but their Kirk Canons and prayers for our utter Ruine which maketh them obnoxious to our just accusations and guilty of all the losses and wrongs which this time past wee have sustained Yet this wee desire your Lordships to consider That the Estates of the Kingdome of Scotland being assembled did endeavour by their Declarations Informations and Remonstrances and by the proceedings of their Commissioners to make knowne unto the Counsell Kingdome and Parliament of England and to forewarne them of the mischiefe intended against both Kingdomes in their Religion and Liberties by the Prelates and Papists to the end that our Invasion from England might have beene prevented if by the Prevalencie of the