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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32739	The declaration of Captain Alexander Charters brother of the house of Aimsfield / written and subscribed by himself in prison, and delivered, and read publickly at his execution at Edinburgh, the 21. of June, 1650 ...	Charters, Alexander, d. 1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing C3726; ESTC R2333	8,508	10

THE DECLARATION OF CAPTAIN ALEXANDER CHARTERS Brother of the House of AIMSFIELD VVritten and subscribed by himself in Prison and delivered and read publickly at his Execution at EDINBURGH the 21. of June 1650. Wherein Gods great mercy was seen in Reclaiming him from such a course wherein many perished PROV. 28. 13. He that covereth his sinne shall not prosper But he that confesseth and forsaketh shall finde mercy EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1650. FOR THE CHRISTIAN READER THis great and glorious work of Reformation both been promoving upon the wheeles of Gods Providence thirteen yeares The Lord who is omnipotent could h●v● done all as perfectly at once as in the duration and successio● of many ages yet is he rat●er plea●ed by graduall accesses to ●romo●e his own operat●ons to the period of their perfect accomplishment The Lord continued the great work of his first Creation six dayes when he might have done it as soon as he raised Lazarus out of the grace by the word of his mouth The Lord might have finished this great and g●orious work of Reformation at the ending of the twenty seventh of Ju●y 1637 But that his long contesting with the contumacy of obstinate men might make mu●h more for the manifestation of his power and glory by so many wonders changes and battels as also to shew his unconceavable love and free mercy in Jesus Christ towards his poor long-suffering covenanted people by their so many strange deliverances A●d then to shew forth the gl●ry of his Justice in the great variety of his Judgements upon so many obstinate opposers of this glorious w●rk who now by their obstin to res●sting the work of the Lord have gotten the name of Malignants Whose hearts at yet God ha●dens and makes fat and their ear●s heavy and shuts their eyes lest they should s●e and hear with their eares and understand with their heart● and so convert and be healed Sensuall eyes and eares with strength of naturall parts they lack not But illumination and a spirituall apprehension of the use of Gods great works and of the way of his dispensation in order to his own ends they perceive see nor know not That it may evide●t●y appear that all the wonders that can he wroug●t before their ey●s without the work of grace will nev●r availe for mans conversion such is the obstinacy of men that they will not consider the sinfulnesse of their sin in their ●aring so to oppose the w●rk of the Lord they conceive not how near their sin is unto that sin which is unto death 1 Joh. 5. 16 When as poor silly Curres they bark against heaven the Saints and the bright Sun of righteousnesse when Es●u-like mocking not only the po●r in heart but the King of Saints himselfe wh● when he calls and knocks str●tching out his armes dayly they will not hear and Phar●oh-like have their refuge to the arme of flesh n●t considering that the holy Covenant is as oyle among the liquors which wil ever be upmost they will not be cured they will not beleeve but still practise against the holy Covenant with gnashing of teeth and when they have laid their accompt by their laborious policy to bring ●bott ●he●r own ends they sha●l in end finde that they shall bring about nothing but Gods purpose● t● their own confusion and the lamentable ruine of their estates and houses How rare a thing is it to see amongst them a since●e convert in what a deplorable and Christl●sse way goe they to Scaffol●s without con●rition feare or trembling but also as it were to a Stage play scoffing and contemning the censures of the Church and Gods holy Ordinances brain-sick and giddie with too much drinking of strong waters at the very periods and when they are about to enter in the very gulf of endles Eternity But he who is love it selfe ●v●n the God of love had tho●ghts of l●v● and mercy towards this truly Noble and H●ly man Alexander Charters who did long follow the drove of the perish●ng multitude being long wrapt up in the guiltinesse of ●alignancy yet in him the greatnesse of Gods love and free mercy hath appeared that the Lord hath still loved him ev●n when he was burning and b●yling in his lusts wh●n his h●art and his hand were both lifted up against Christ and his Saints y●t hath the Virgins Sonne overlooked all and by this rare example of mercy picked out this bla●k Swan to make of a poor sinner a ●e●t Saint and of a persecutour a Preacher as may be seen by this under-writen Declaration written and subscribed with his own hand before Famous witness●s The Declaration of Capt. ALEXANDER CHARTERS GOod Christian people God in his wise providence hath thought fit to make me an example of publick justice a● this time that all those who have not fallen may be strengthned and confirmed in the way of truth and others who have bin and are going on in those wicked courses for the which now I am punished may be reclaimed which is that my soul doth desire and shall pray the Lord to open the eyes of their understanding that they may see the fearfull guiltinesse lies upon their souls and the wrath of God hanging above their heads for the same that so by sincere and speedy repentance they may turn unto the Lord that the riches of his free grace may be evidenced in their conversion that they may all be made partakers of that eternall life which I trust through the merits of my Redeemer to be made partaker of when this naturall life that I have now to lay down shall be taken from me And truly I cannot enough magnifie Gods free love unto me that he did not destroy me when I was in the height and heat of a sinfull course sighting against his cause but hath reserved me unto this time that the glory of his free love might be so much the more magnified and extolled Which cause he hath so truly owned to be his own by so many evident and undeniable arguments that I dare say the greatest enemy and opposer of the same if he speak in conscience and not wilfully blind fold his eyes will say as much For look back to the beginning of these troubles and you shall clearly perceive that what ever was plotted or contrived against the Lords people or his cause in this land turned directly to the shame of the contrivers and plotters and how the Lord hath rewarded the prime opposers both Church-men and great Polititians to a great many of you is very well knowne Secondly look upon the prime undertakers imployed against this work I am bound in all charity to beleeve that our late Soveraign from whom they did purchase commission is now with the Lord were men more regarding their own private interest then the glory of God or the Kings interest which they had so much in their mouthes as was seen by the consequence in joyning