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A84012	The English banner of truth displayed: or, The state of this present engagement against Scotland. Wherein is soberly discuss'd the lawfulness and necessity of the engagement. The high aggravations of it, as to the Scots. The groundlesness of those of the Presbyteries coniunction with the Scots and malignants, either from religion, their former state-principles, or the demeanour of those those [sic] in authority towards them. Also, a brief series of transactions, whereby it appears that those of the Presbytery have continually endeavoured the disturbing of the peace of the nation, ... and are the ground of this third war now with the Scots and malignants. Together with some occasional assertions; that the laying aside of some members of Parliament, the proceedings against the late King, the changings of the government, is sutable unto the end of all our engagements ... / By a friend to the Commonwealth of England.	Friend to the Commonwealth of England.	1650 (1650)	Wing E3081; Thomason E608_12; ESTC R201940	14,208	16

The English Banner of Truth displayed OR The State of this present ENGAGEMENT Against SCOTLAND Wherein is to be discuss'd The Lawfulness and Necessity of the Engagement The high Aggravations of it as to the Scots The groundlesness of those of the Presbyteries con●unction with the Scots and Malignants Either from Religion their former State-principles or the demeanour of those those in Authority towards them ALSO A brief Series of Transactions whereby it appears that those of the Presbytery have continually endeavoured the disturbing of the Peace of the Nation and have been the occasion and encouragement of two Wars since the late King's party were first subdued and are the Ground of this Third War now with the Scots and Malignants Together with some Occasional Assertions That the laying aside of some Members of Parliament The proceedings against the late King The changing of the Government is sutable unto the end of all our Engagements and the supreme Law The Safety of the People and not contrary to the COVENANT Published for the undeceiving of Many and the encouragement of all honest men to assist this Engagement By a Friend to the Commonwealth of ENGLAND Si Populus vult decipi decipiatur London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1650. TO demo●strate the lawfulness and necessity of this presen Engagement against the Scots by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England would be but the holding of a Candle to the Sun were not the eyes of men very much blinded their Reason prosticuted to the dictates of Selfishness and Prejudice it being a thing hardly to be imagined that any English man should be so far cheated as to betray the Interest of his Country to the Scotish Nation 〈◊〉 that those whose Principles have led them to assist the Parliament against the late King and whose prayers and swords h●ve strenuously endeavoured his removal should after the apparent and acknow●edged hand of God subduing that Faction fall into it and endeavour the re-inforcing thereof upon the blood and ruine of Religion themselves and this Common-wealth But seeing it hath pleased God to permit such a spirit of delusion and madness to seize on men and that under the disguise of Religion and the misguiding of Discontent which may prove of dangerous concernment to themselves and this Nation I thought it my duty according to my little time and talent to unveil this Mystery which I lay before the World to serve those ends for which God hath appointed it In the management of which I shall onely endeavour with what brevity I can to manifest 1. The lawfulness and necessity of this present Engagement against the Scots 2. The groundless conjunction of those of the Presbytery of this Nation with the Scots and Malignants either from Religion State-principles or the demeanour of this Commonwealth towards them In the close whereof something may appear whereby every honest heart may have matter of encouragement effectually to assist this work and to expect the presence of the Lord to accompany them therein The Justness of this Engagement against the Scots will be evident when it 's considered First that the Cause is the very same with that which was formerly in England viz. against the tyranny of the King which after the solemn Appeals of both parties to God hath eminently been from heaven determined not onely once but a second and a third ●i●e and this not in England onely but in Scotland and I●eland upon which ground we may expect his wonted presence This will appear no Riddle if it be minded 1. That without giving any satisfaction for the innocent blood that hath been shed by him or his father in these Wars in these three Nations or bringing him as a Delinquent to condign punishment they have treated with Charles Stuart eldest son to the late King who hath actually levied Arms against the Parliament of England and ●ave taken and proclaimed him King not onely of Scotland but of England and Ireland 2. They have engaged to assist him with Forces and are in Arms against the Commonwealth of England whereby they highly own not onely the guilt of the former Wars but gird unto ●heir loins the blood that may be shed in this Quarrel wherein they protect him from the Justice of England and assist hi● with A●ms further to pursue his tyr●nuical principles 3. They have joyned with all the old enemies of England Papists and Malignants with the Rebels in Ireland whom they entertain in their Armies as Officers and Souldiers and are employed in the Plots and Contrivances in this Nation the more to facilitate the intended issue of their monstrous Conjunction Secondly it 's not onely the same Cause that was formerly managed by the late King and his party but hath in it as to them these Aggravations 1. In that the Quarrel they now take upon them was first designed and acted upon Themselves in the yeer 1639 by the late King whom we then so greatly tendered that we rather put the most probable hopes of our relief viz. our Parliament to a dissolution then to assist him against them 2. That when the Q●arrel was afterwards on foot in England they seemed to retain so much sense of the former cou tesie that they levied Forces and came in to our assistance declaring them to be not onely ours but their Common enemies and so for a time they pursued them which Quarrel they now espouse to themselves 3. After we had rolled thorow the blood of seven yeers War into a little Peace and were beg●nning to sit under our Vines in stead of rejoycing that we that took the War out of theirs into our own bowels were returned to rest they cruelly designed our Invasion and with a full consent of Parliament entred our borders with a great Army committing unspeakable mischiefs and villanies in the English Nation and all to set up the late King on the blood of the honest people of this Nation and the destruction of Religion and Liberty To which though some of the Leading men now amongst them seemed to dissent yet we very well know who first designed the Invasion and that the Invasion was was not the scruple but what hand should manage it whether Duke Hamilton or the Kirk 4. That when through the Providence of God this weapon turned into their own bowels so that the flames of war designed and blown upon us were like to consume them●elves upon the request of those men which before and now breath forth nothing but our destruction we came to their assistance not with Recompences but with love not with the wounds of enemies but the embraces of friends not with the powering forth of thei● blood but the laying of our own on the ground for their sakes and through the blessings of God ended that war and returned with such humble expressions of our thankfulness as is too long to be related 5. When our enemies were subdued on

Apostles that they ever took the Authorities of the world to enforce Religion nor called for fire from Heaven upon such as refused except those to whom Christ said You known not of what Spirit you are nor that they intermeddled in setting Nations on fire if they were not received Luk. 9.54.55 or that mixt themselves in these hum●ne affaires Therefore for the Presbyter in England to Design and Leavy war to plot and conspire to betray and give up their own Nation into the hands of strangers and men of desperate Spirits whose mercies are cruelties and which may end in the des●owring and ra●shment of Matrons and Virgins the ripping up of women with child the dashing of little ones against the Wals the blood and ruine of a Nation their own Nation and all that is dear in it because every thing is not enforced as Doctrine which they lay down because what they propose as the external part of a Kirk is not coercively enjoyned upon all men themselves not being Apostles or able to demonstrate the truth of their assertions from the Scriptures or Apostolical infall●bility hath no ground at all from Christ o● his Apostles but the very contrary is judged by the Scriptures It is evident that such minde their own L●sts and not the Lord Jesus to whom they pretend and therefore when they suffer it will be as evil doers not for the Gospel 2. Then for their State-principle I mean the cause of their first Engagement against the King Was it not because it was contrary to the Law of Nature the safety of the People that one man should be above the Law and dispose of the lives and estates of the Nation as he pleased and when the Parliament desired redress in many grievances to raise Arms against them and tear the very bowels of the Nations and put all upon the hazard rather then to be limited in his unsatiable Will And were not those Gentlemen some of the first the most zealous in Parliament Pulpits and Armies against him and his party and rejoyced that they had a life or estate to lose or engage against him Or could any thing be imagined to express their detestation of him and his party more then came from their Pulpits P●ns and Swords or are any to this day so severe against his party in Sequestrations c. And is not the Cause still the same the same cruel bloody tyrannical principles and parties to be opposed whom if God should permit to have the day would execute such horrid villanies murthers massacres that the Sun never saw and would not rest whilst the face of honesty were remaining in the Nation or indeed this any longer a People Are they converted nay are they not rather heightned in all malicious bloodiness imaginable and will let these men taste of the Cup as deep as others and herein be more miserable to see their friends destroyed before them Why then or upon what ground do the Presbyters after that God hath delivered that King and his party into our hands a first a second a third time in England Scotland and Ireland hath brandished his sword and given it a charge against them to their overthrow and made th●m the destruction of those that joyned to them as well as witnessed from heaven against them in the most signal manner that ever was in the world Why then do they now strike in with that Interest and joyn with those and forraign people to put their Country their Religion their Wives and Children their Lives and Liberties and all that is dear in the world after all our preservations into utter destructions Oh consider this and lay it to heart lest you become ●uilty of the blood of your friends your selves and that which hath been committed by this party lest you fall with transgressors and God tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you Hath any thing been done that is not according to our first Principle and that unavoidable Necessity enforced us Could it be safe after all to leave such a dangerous President on Record as a King unpunished that had endeavoured to bring his Will thorow the Blood of a Nation and the Liberties thereof and had appealed to God to determine the Quarrel by the sword Or were it just to do so to destroy the Servant and excuse the Master that gave the ●mmand and to leave the honest party unsecured after all their sufferings Did not you fight against him in the Feild and was not this as much as cutting off his head at White-Hall onely you mist your Execution but that tooke And when some of us being unsatisfied whether we should kill the King if we met him in a Charge and went to many of you to be resolved Viz. Mr. Calamy Mr Case Mr. Love Mr. Ash c. did not you tell us that we might lawfully kill him How comes now your Judgment to be altered Can the power of Godlinesse be safe amongst these men Can you love their company and joyn with their actions If you say 't was but a party of men did this and that it was not according to the Covenant Did not those that you looke upon betray their trusts and fall into compliance with him contrary to their duty and to the hazard of the Nation Must all be lost because some are unfaithfull And should not they doe justice whose hearts God hath kept upright and called to performe it because others neglected it and would not doe it Was there not a necessity in these things And for the Covenant were you to protect him otherwise then it consists with Religion and the safety of the People Was it not according to Religion that he that sheddeth mans bloud by man should his bloud be shed And could his comming in with a Negative voice and his opportunities thereby to obtaine in a short time all his ends be safe for the Liberties of the People especially there being no conviction upon him or any remorse for his former Actions And was it not a part of the Covenant to bring Delinquents to punishment Was not he one the Chiefe the Principall Or are Covenants of that nature any otherwise then Externall serving onely whilst the end viz. the safety and good of the People is cleare and perspicuous are they any longer binding then the Equitie of them remanies and the Powers that made them so understand it Besides are Constitutions to be perpetuall Hath not and doth not God make many changes in the world and as the good of the people is more brought to light should not Constitutions beare that in their foreheads The safety of the People ought to forme Constitutions and not old Constitutions to determine the safety of the people nor ought every defect to cause an alteration but where necessity enforceth especially where the former proves destructive are not the Laws changed upon this account To what end serves all the discoveries of good in the world if

their account being the sole encouragement of Scots and Malign●n●s The goodness of God having delivered us from these straits and made us instruments to save Scotland themselves and us when we had opportunity and were altring the Constitution of the Nation for the best advantage of Justice and Safety and the King called to account then they rail against the Alteration the Kings Execution and in stead of lying down before the presence of the Lord and blessing his Name for the good he had done in preserving them against their own wills they again encourage the Malignants and Scots vilifie and contemn the Government refuse to own or obey them every Pulpit excommunicating the State out of the Divinity of Truth the R●ght of Authority and the Hearts of the People and have proceeded to assist and joyn with that Nation of Scotland Charles Stuart son to the late King and all the Malignants and Rebels of Ireland who manage the same Cause of the King whom they pray for yet could there not be a Prayer for or Thanksgiving to God be had from them for what he hath wonderfully done by the Army in Ireland but to lay designes for an universal Rising amongst our selves and so upon their own account have laid the foundation of a third war which they call The Cause of the King and the Ki●k the First being God and the King the Second The King and Parliament The first was Bellum Episcopal● and in this the Bishops and the King fell together the second the King fell from and by the Parliament the third Bellum Presbyteriale and in this let them take heed lest the King and the Kirk fall together Thus they prefer their own unrighteous discontents before the Peace of this Nation valuing more the venting of their p●ssi●ns then the Lives Liberties and Territories of England which they had rather and therefore give life unto and assist the Scots and Malignants to the ruine of this Nation then that those whom God hath prospered and put in Authority should govern Little dost thou think ô England Few for●ain Nations are now plotting the ravishing of the wives of thy bosome and to destroy thee utterly and themselves be out of the Chair over mens Consciences and the State though their own blood may prove the second Scene of the Tragedy Before I pass this let me intreat thee O England to consider who hath put thee into Two wars already since thy First was ended and the Malignants and Scots are encouraged to this Third war likely to be more bloody then all that hath yet been through these men and that the blood that shall be shed is from them as the cause upon what grounds thou seest that thou mayst indeed perceive who makes thee miserable the interest of the Priest having all along set fire in this Nation the Bishops were first these follow to whom the Lord give repentance lest they finde it a hard thing to kick against the pricks But now what hath the carriage of the State been towards them Have they not notwithstanding all the●e high provocations contrary to the Law of God and Man Have they not I say permitted them and always will the liberty of their Conference as to Religion though they denied it to us and do still deny it Have they not the propriety of their Est●tes the security of the Laws and all other advantages onely they require them to be true and not consp●e against this Commonwealth which t●ey refuse Have they not been treated with all civilities and commended their way of Worship to the Nation And for all the despe●a●e D●visions in the Nation and three several Wars which have cost much blood and how much more wel now not Hath any man of them suffered the more I fear the State hath to answer for onely when their rage had proceeded so far as to lay the ground of this War and the closing with the Scots and Malignants and would not forbear their rebellious against the State some few of them have been suspended from their P●lp●s that they might be hindred from pouring more oil into the flame of this Nation ●he medling with State-affairs being that for which they are suspended such an implacable spirit having scized upon them that nothing but the ruine of this Power and overthrowing all that God hath done for us will satisfie them and this under the disguse of Religion when as it is their own Lusts that is the rife of these Wars and which will cost dear in the end I do even tremble to think how they will be able to appear before the Lord whose Name they put upon their unrighteous actions comm●t iniqu●ty rail and revile put Nations into blood and yet cry The Temple of the Lord. The righteous God of heaven and earth will one day make the●e things naked before the Sun and bring forth the righteousness of his People By all that hath been said will strongly appear not only this Justice and necessity of this Engagement against Scotland b●t that all those Presbyters that shall Engage against the P●rliament of England have no ground either from Religion their former Stat-Principle or the demeanour of those in Authority towards them to do so but the contrary And from all that hath been said there is g●e●t matter of encour●gement if the Lord so please to every faithful soul to proceed in this cause of God and his people without fearing any d●fficulties and qu●etly to expect his blessing on their endeavors and because ●our enemies may seem many let me reckon up a few which may be as a Mo●ntain full of Chariots of fire for your assistance let your enem●es have all the blood and mischief shedd in the late wars upon their shoulders their cause and gui●t cannot be separated 2. They are joyned to Idolaters and that accursed thing which God hath so much declared ag●inst and which hitherto hath ruin'd all that have joyned to it having snatcht away a King an● Monarchy in his displeasure in a s●gnall manner to which workings of Heaven they dare bid defiance and g●ve the lye to all that hath been said of God concerning it 3. We have given no just occasion to the Scots or P●esbyters but have protected them in the Enjoyment of their Consciences Est●tes and in other advantages so far as the Publique safety would adm●t whom if a Spirit of delusion did not possess they would see how imposs●ble it is that the spiri● of prophaneness should set up the power of godliness the Principles of Tyranny the freedom of the People the Interest of Scotland the English D●m●nion or themselves safe in the hands of such men as will m●ke no diff●rence So was Christ ●e counted a Blasph●me● and upon that crucified 4. That the Interest of J●sus Christ in the Spirit and Power of Religion is on this side and is indeed that which they maligne and therefore brand with the name of Sect●ris●e 5. That the time is now