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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

The ascending of James Duke of York a notorious apostat and bigot Papist to the throne notwithstanding his being thrice excluded by the Commons of England And that he neither hath given nor can give without an hypocritical and damning cheat repugnant to his Profession and contemptible to all ingenuous men the oath and security indispensably required of him before and at his entrie to the government I 6. P. 1. c. 8. The approaching of two Parliaments both called by him one in Scotland by his own vigilant Providence in procureing it to be enacted in the last Parliament held by him in that Kingdom That for the future not only all members of Parliament but also all their electors should take that contradictorie and irreligions oath commonly called the Test which no man owning conscience or careing for any religion can possibly approve long since prepared for all his pleasure And the other in England packt caballed and returned by all the arts and methods that either fraud or injustice could invent to render it plyable to his intentions and which no doubt he will cajoll with all the faire promises and Large offers of Laws that can he desired for securing both the Protestant Religion and their liberties Providing they will but give money which answers all things and will as assuredly frustrat and ranverse all these vain cautions The persueing with indefatigable malice even without the bounds of the Kingdoms and in all forreign parts all honest men escaped for their lives and that either by Publick addresses or privat violences so that they are necessarly reduced to that fatal dilemma either to do or dy The entering into entertaining more closs correspondences then at any time before with popish Princes and States Especially the King of France a most notorious enemie both of the true religion and liberty of mankind And lastly by all that may be already seen in the changes and alterations he hath lately made and that for here-after may be apprehended from a false and bloody Religion alwayes breathing forth and practising fire and fagot murders and massacres and a provock'd and inraged mind Possessing and reigning in the most determined of Princes unquestionably capable and ready to execut all these bloody cruelties Which things being all of them either palpable perversions or utterly inconsistent with the true and great ends of government rendering our common Wealth our Common calamitie and him who pretends to be its protector it s most hostile enemie and consequently importing no less then a totall dissolution of all the bonds of Subjection which the rulers have first so wickedly broke and cut assunder and the liberating and alloweng all distressed subjects whither those already overwhelmed by or who may justly for hereafter fear to be involved in these miseryes that undoubted right and power which both God and nature with comon reason and the constant custom of all Nations have given us for recovering defending and maintaining our lives and liberties and above all the inestimable blessing of our pure Religion to the effect that the same pure Religion with our just rights and liberties so valiantly asserted by our ancestors may be by us faithfully transmitted to our posterities We have been are obliged and constrained by extream necessity and for common safety the suprem laws To take up just and necessary arms in the name fear of the Great God and the confidence of his mercie and assistance for our own and our Countries releif from the aforsaid most griveous and intolerable Tyrannies and oppressions The defence and reestablishment of the true and pure Christian Religion commonly called Protestant in opposition to that Antichristian Roman Religion commonly called Papistical and the recovery and reestablishmene of all our just rights liberties and priviledges according as wee Stand indispensably obliged there to both before God men And that against the said James Duke of Yorck and all other his accomplices our most unnatural and wicked enemies and oppressours Desyring in the first place to be deeply humbled each of us before God for our manifold sins and provocations Especially our false heartedness and unsteedfastness in revoltings from our great and manifold engadgments to him that alone have brought upon us all these sad mischeifes earnestly and with our whole hearts supplicating that he would cease from his anger Cause his face to Shine upon us and save us for his own names sake And in the nixt place declaring lyke as we hereby expresly declare that our sincere and single ends and designes in this our undertakeing are First the restoring and setling of the foresaid true reformed Protestant Religion in its power and puritie and with such a just comprehension of pure Christian charitie as may thorow the good hand of our God upon us be truly satisfieing to all that fear him and love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity Renouncing and detesting as well imposings as errours in all matters of Conscience and trusting that after the many teaching experiences we have had we shall be for here after preserved from all unhappy missunderstandings But rather thorow the Spirit of truth love and peace graciously led into all the paths thereof 2ly The suppression and perpetual exclusion of antichristian Popery with all its idolatrous superstitions and falshoods as also its most bitter root and of spring prelacy with its new and wicked head the supremacie and all their abuses that so not only the Gospel and work of God may be revived in these lands but also all the Churches of Christ abroad thereby refreshed and strengthened And 3ly The restoring of all men to their just rights and liberties especally the recompensing of all sufferers whether unto blood or loss of liberty and goods the releif of such who are in present distress the removing of all oppression and establishing such righteous Laws and methods of Government as may be most for securing of liberty and property with the greatest ease and equalitie Which things as wee purpose and hope to accomplish only thorough the presence of our God with us and his blessing upon us So we are most willing and resolved that they be all setled and perfected by a free full just and Sonveraign representatife of all the present undertakers and such as shall Hereafter sincerly concurre and take part with us and that in such formes and wayes as God by his good providence can only most happily direct and conduct us unto declaring and protesting further that since such have been and are the manifest perfidy treachery and falshood of our adversaries not only in their treaties and Convenants but also in their pardons indemnities and indulgences as that they leave no ground or tolerable assurance of faith and trust to be given to them we will never enter into any termes of Capitulation treaties or conditions with them as to the great ends of this undertaking but on the contrary prosecut the same with all reality constancie and vigour without any