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england_n	honourable_a	lord_n	privy_a	3,111	5	10.0848	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19328	The ungirding of the Scottish armour: or, An ansvver to the informations for defensive armes against the Kings Majestie which were drawn up at Edenburgh, by the common help and industrie of the three tables of the rigid covenanters of the nobility, barons, ministry, and burgesses, and ordained to be read out of pulpit by each minister, and pressed upon the people, to draw them to take up armes, to resist the Lords anointed, throughout the vvhole kingdome of Scotland. By Iohn Corbet, minister of Bonyl, one of the collegiate churches of the provostrie of Dunbartan.	Nicanor, Lysimachus, 1603-1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 5753; ESTC S119005	43,296	68

THE VNGIRDING OF THE Scottish Armour OR AN ANSVVER TO THE Informations for Defensive Armes against the Kings Majestie which were drawn up at Edenburgh by the common help and industrie of the three Tables of the rigid Covenanters of the Nobility Barons Ministry and Burgesses and ordained to be read out of Pulpit by each Minister and pressed upon the people to draw them to take up armes to resist the Lords Anointed throughout the whole Kingdome of SCOTLAND By Iohn Corbet Minister of Bonyl one of the Collegiate Churches of the Provostrie of Dunbartan Prov. 24.21 My Son feare God and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both Mat. 26.52 Put up thy sword into his place for he that takes the sword shall perish with the sword DVBLIN Printed by the Society of Stationers 1639. Perlegi hunc librum cui Titulus est The ungirding of the Scottish Armour in quo nihil reperio quo minus cum utilitate publica imprimatur ED. PARRY Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Archiepiscopi Dublin Sacellanus Maii sexto 1639. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS Lord Viscount VVENTVVORTH Baron of Wentworth Woodhouse Lord Newmarsh and Oversley Lord President of the Councell established in the North part of England Lord Lieutenant of York-shire One of His Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell in England and Lord Deputie Generall of Jreland Right Honourable SInce the Flood of our Scottish Disorders and Vproares have overflowed the banks of divine and humane Authority I have beene with Jeremie Ier. 9.1 crying out in the bitternesse of my soule O that my head were waters and my eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the miseries of my Countrey people Whereof a fiery-zealous Faction have from day to day waxed so insolent that of equity they may challenge as their owne that description which Jeremie affords in the next words Ier. 9.2 vers 2. They proceed from evill to evill and are an assembly of treacherous men For His Majesties Clemencie hath been to them Prov. 16.15 Prov. 19 12. as a cloud of the latter raine and as the dew on the grasse which should have produced many returnes of thankfulnesse But behold he hath watered evill ground which bringeth forth briars and thornes the more abundantly Mich. 7.4 3. The best of them is as a briar the most upright is as a thorn hedge they do evill with both hands earnestly hunting every man his brother with a net They are gone in the way of Cain and run greedily after the errour of Balaam and stand in the gainsaying of Core Amongst many passages to prove this these their informations of warre are a most evident demonstration which caused me continue Jeremies Elegie and sorrowfull Song Oh that I had in the wildernesse a lodging of a way-faring man that I might leave my people and go from them In the meane time having purchased a copie of these informations which with their Covenant now at last with force and violence was to be thrust and pressed upon me I returned this my Answer whereof I was to make use with my Brethren at our next meeting which was the seventh day after I had seen the copie that they might see that as hitherto I could find no reason to Covenant w th them so now much lesse when it ends in open Rebellion But being advertised of the cruell plot and snares laid for me I was forced to flie from the virulent and violent fury of the Covenant as from a Beare robbed of her whelps and to seek friends to vertue among strangers leaving my wife great with child melting in sorrow with foure young children to take a proofe of their humanity When I came to this kingdome of Ireland I was so ashamed that such treacherous doctrine should have been brought forth by my Countrey-men to the great scandall of the Gospell and deepe wounding of our protestant Religion and rejoycing of the adversaries that I was purposing to smother these their informations But ere I was maturely thus resolved I found the matter already spread abroad and with my eyes have seene other copies This did cut my resolution in the blade so that I suffered these informations with my answer to them to enjoy the light And that for diverse reasons 1. Because some men not knowing the Mystery of the Covenant nor that old saying of Luther In nomine Domini incipit omne malum have thought it impossible that such rebellious doctrine could be hatched by the Covenanters and that it seemeth to be an invention of others to make them the more odious This I refute by publishing the same Secondly that this doctrine whereunto I one of the least of the Tribe of Levi there have answered may not be imputed to that Church and Nation but to some factious spirits there who have this houre and power of darknesse For since the most part of them were compelled to subscribe their covenant shall any man think that they will allow this doctrine of Rebellion I know the contrary and dare presume to affirme that the best of that Kingdome for worth and number especially of the Ministry shall assent to that truth which I here maintaine though now they be carried away with this inundation and the lay-ruling-Bishops their Govenours keep them under Yea my charity is so enlarged that I trust that the chiefe Contrivers of these informations shall acknowledge their errour for they have been transported with passions whilst they were upon this worke by their great swelling words fully stuffed with calumnies whereof I hope they will repent in their cold bloud when they forbeare to be as the raging waves of the sea foming out their own shame Iude 13. Esa 32.2 Then the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge So that I hope the number shall be few as the grape-gleanings after the vintage who defend this mad doctrine Acts 28.19 And I with Paul shall have nothing to accuse my Nation of But if any after ripe deliberation shall adhere to this rebellious doctrine and when they should cry Nulla salus bello pacem te petimus omnes shall change it into Tota salus bello facem te petimus omnes I shall be so farre from contradicting those who have called them all mad men that I shall take up Pauls wish I would to God that they were both altogether Acts 26.29 and almost even as Paul his bonds not being excepted which bonds I wish not as a punishment but as a remedy for their brain-sick malady having withall their Campsticks taken from them Pro. 26.18 as being most dangerous in the hands of mad men especially for themselves And as for these Cynick and Lucinian railers rather than preachers such as that wiseman who made sport in the Pulpit of Edenburgh by riding Balaams asse and that other mad-cap who wounded the beast