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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75567	The Declaration and apology of the Protestant people that is, of the noblemen, barrons, gentlemen, burgesses, and commons of all sorts, now in armes within the kingdom of Scotland.	Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, 1629-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing A3677; ESTC R230114	9,451	8

The Declaration And APOLOGY of the PROTESTANT PEOPLE That is Of the Noblemen Barrons Gentlemen Burgesses and Commons of all sorts Now in Armes within the Kingdom of Scotland PSAL LXVIII V. 1. 2. Let God arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him as smoke is driven away so drive them away as wax melteth before the fire so let the wicked perish at the presence of God Reprinted more exactly then formerly conform to the True Copye The Declaration and Apology of the Protestant People That is of the Noblemen Barrons Gentlemen Burgesses And Commons of all sorts now in Armes within the Kingdom of Scotland with the concurrence of their true and faithful Pastors and of several Gentlemen of the English Nation joyned with them in the same cause For defence and releif of their Lives Rights Liberties and recovery and reestablishment of the true Protestant Religion in behalfe of them selves and all that shall Joyn with and adhere to them They must be altogether strangers or very litle concerned in the Christian world who after all that the Nations and Churches about have Seen of the Lords mighty hand and streatched-out arm in the late wars betuixt King Charles the First and his People and Parliaments of Scotland England Irland Against the then Conspyreings of Popery and Tyranny to the ruine of true Religion and Liberty The wonderful advancement of the Gospel and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus within these Kingdomes that therupon ensued With the general refreshment joy and security of all the Protestant Churches abroad that thence redounded And the no less rooted and firm Loyalty of the same people who notwithstanding of their long bloody and fatal contendings with the father Did Yet upon reasonable fair and just treaties concluded with all the assurance that either Religion honour or gratitude could promise call back and restore Charles the 2d his sone to his thron and empire Are not fully convinced and satisfied that considering the perpetual contradictings and counteractings of all these sacred and solemn engadgments that imediatly and ever since have been practised the whole reign of the aforsaid Charles the 2d through the sinistrous and subtile influences of a wicked and popish party now manifestly discovered was a constant uniform course of perjury apoftacy and violence Begun with open rebellion against God The rescinding not only of particular lawes but by an un-paralled most un-politick and pernicious device of whole unexceptionable parliaments for the space of tuenty seven yeares preceeding notwithstanding both our Religion and liberties were therein expresly legally and well provided for and the cruel shedding of the best Protestant blood in the most unjust execution of the Late Marquis of Argyll and many other worthies contrar to all Law and reason Carried on by the smiting and casting out of more faithfull and pious Pastors and scattering and dissipating more true flockes and followers of Christ than was done in most of the ten primitive persecutions and the diludgeing of these Lands with all villanous debauchries and abominable licentiousness to the very profligating of conscience morality and common honesty from among men And thence forward accomplished by a most un-relenting persecution and appression of the generality of Gods people in their consciences Persons Estates with vexations and rigours almost incredible and that for no other reason but because they could not actively comply with these notorious Perfidies and the manifold profanations and mischeifs where with they are attended But this hellish mystery of Antichristian iniquity and arbitrary Tyranny imposing upon many at home too willing through their love of ease to be abused and deluding the Protestant churches abroad in that woefull and visible indifferency that every where reigns by the vain pretext of the mere notion of our courts empty and simulat protestant profession having of a long time under the late King made most remarkable advances in the following particulars and many more that might be enumerated all too evidently seen and heavily felt to need any explicite proof or demonstration As 1. not only in the abovementioned open and avowed revolting from God by breach of Sworn treaties Covenants and coronation oaths and slighting and despiscing spontaneous promises and proclamations the overturning the very foundations of Parliaments and ranversing at one blow our best and most legal establishments The ungrate as well as unjust putting to death of most innocent and faithful men upon absurd pretences convelled by the Laws and customs of nations and in the time of Gods greatest indulgence towards the authors The desolating of the Churches and changing of the ordinances of God for setting up the frivolous and superstitious inventions of men the countenancing and encouraging of all vice and profanity and the violent and griveous persecuting of all conscience and conscientious men But nixt and more particularly in the conniving at Papists their meetings and Idolatrous masses while in the mean time all Protestant Nonconformists are persecuted with endless severities The raising of standing forces the very bane of all civil and Lawful Government and that without any other measure save what the indigence of Court Luxury and profusion did necessarly put unto it The declaring and appointing all Iudges and Officers to enjoy their places only during pleasure on purpose to make them more souple and complyant to all their masters designes The abusing of the great trust of calling and dissolving Parliaments the most high and necessary courts of the Kingdomes by iniquous Packing unseasonable proroguing pernicious discharging and insolent baffling them at pleasure The exalting of the Kings supremacy under the colour of his pretended right and power about the external Government and Policy of the Church to an express and absolut power of enacting statuting in all Church meetings and matters as he in his wisdom shall think fitt a ready prepared tool to bring us back not only to Popery but to Paganism The strange perversion of the high trust of the Militia committed to his Majesty expressy for the protection of good subjects and the assistance of all our protestant friends abroad only to the invading and oppressing by lawless hosts of the worst of high landers and low landers in times of profound peace the best parts of the Kingdom purposly to ruin them because too Protestant by free quarter and other illegal exactions ' and the making warr most causlesly and obstinatly against the States of the united Neitherlands our best nighbours and the strongest bulwarck of the Protestant interest The forcing of poor people by the extream rigours of exorbitart finings imprisonings beatings stigmatizins spoilings banishments and other violences for the simple cause of Nonconformity to take armes in their own defence as at Pentland and Bothwel bridge and then demeaning and executing them what in fields what on scaffolds as the most desperat of traitours and at the same time involving whole countryes upon the most slender