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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31762	The charge of the Scottish Commissioners against Canterburie and the Lieutenant of Ireland together with their demand concerning the sixt article of the treaty : whereunto is added the Parliaments resolution about the proportion of the Scottish charges and the Scottish Commissioners thankfull acceptance thereof.	Scotland. Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1641 (1641)	Wing C2061; ESTC R11362	19,842	56

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