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A84228	An examination of the Seasonable and necessarie warning concerning present dangers and duties, emitted from the commissioners of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, unto all the members of that Kirk. June 25 1650. Which was printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler, by a servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.	Servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Seasonable and necessary warning and declaration.	1650 (1650)	Wing E3729; Thomason E608_13; ESTC R201955	37,035	48

AN EXAMINATION Of the Seasonable and Necessarie WARNING Concerning present DANGERS and DUTIES Emitted from the COMMISSIONERS Of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY Of the KIRK of Scotland unto all the MEMBERS of that KIRK June 25 1650. Which was Printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler By a Servant of the Common-wealth of England and a Lover of the ARMIE LONDON Printed by William Du-gard Anno 1650. 25 Junii 1650. Post meridiem A seasonable and necessarie Warning concerning present dangers and duties from the Commissioners of the General Assemblie unto all the Members of this Kirk 1 IF the eminencie of the danger and the necessitie of the dutie did not constrain us wee had rather chose to bee silent then to emit anie publick warning to the land within so few daies of the meeting of the General Assemblie but wee should not onely run the hazard of just blame from them but also bee conscious to guiltiness in our selvs if wee did not in a time of so great streight give warning to the Lords people both of their danger and of their dude 1 If you had well considered your danger before it was imminent and how necessarie it was for you to have prevented it by an ingenuous acknowledgment of your National guilt and just demerit by your perfidious and unprovoked Invasion of England against all the Treaties which were then in force but thereby dissolved and by a just satisfaction for the spoils and devastations your own Armie made where it came until it was destroyed and for the charge this Nation was at by occasion of it You might perhaps have now been silent and wee at quiet How just our War against you is and how clearly wee are necessitated to it the Parlament hath sufficiently evidenced in their Declaration And though wee cannot exspect you should acknowledg it it beeing not usual with you to speak truth to your own disadvantage yet the evidence is such as must needs convince you as wee are confident it will satisfie all others And if the conscientiousness you speak of bee a tenderness resulting from a cleer and pure light not tinctured with the dye and mixture of an Interest working a prejudice it might have put your reflections upon an other guilt and you might have thought your selvs worthie of blame that you had not given warning to your Parlament and People of somthing els to bee don besides your condemning men to the stool of hypocrisie that might have given the Common-wealth of England a better satisfaction and fuller reparation for and of the effects of your perfidie then that was like to do and might have proved a more effectual means to have prevented that danger which your own injustice and wickedness have involved you in 2 The insolent and strange actings of that prevailing partie of Sectaries in England these yeers past Warning in reference to Religion and Government are so well known and have been so often and fully laid open in the former Warnings Remonstrances and Declarations of this Kirk that wee need not now take up much time in representing the same Albeit the Reformation of the Church of England and the advancing of the work of uniformitie there in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government was the great dutie that the Lord called that Land unto and which all the people of God in these three Kingdoms did ingage themselvs in Covenant to endeavor to the utmost of their power yet doth that work so much desired and longed for by all the lovers of Sion in these Nations and all that concern's Religion lie in the dust altogether forgotten and despised by those men and in stead of the beautie and order that should bee in the hous of God a vast toleration of manie gross errors is allowed whereby so manie and so monstrous blasphemies and strange opinions in Religion have been broached and are vented in England as the like hath not been heard of almost in anie generation And though Monarchie and the power of Parlaments was the ancient and long continued Government of that Kingdom yet have those men usurped above the Parlament whose servants they were and by open violence driven away manie and imprisoned som of the Members thereof and have not onely taken away the Hous of Lords and destroyed the late King but also subverted Monarchie it self and turned the Foundations upside down and labor to wreath the yoke of their oppression upon the necks of our brethren in England not onely in regard of that which concern's their bodies and estates but also in regard of that which concern's their souls and consciences whereof that Ingagement that is now pressed in England is a present and publick testimonie being a sore bondage under which manie in that land now groan whose case and sufferings for the work of God wee desire not onely to remember daily before the Lord in our praiers and supplications but in everie thing to regard it as if it were our own being confident that such as love the truth and cleav to the Covenant in these Lands shall obtein mercie of God to bee faithfull in the midst of temptations and that the Lord will not suffer them to bee tempted above that they are able to bear but will give unto them the issue with the temptation 2 The wonderful and even miraculous goings forth of the most wise and merciful providence of our good God towards us in England Answer for these divers years past in this great work of delivering us from Tyrannie and setling us in a just Libertie notwithstanding all those strong fetters in which wee were imprisoned under it have been evidently written with the verie beams of the sun and exposed to the view of the world that there are scarce anie that have not acknowledged it is his work And for our parts wee desire to observ those glorious actings of his and with all humilitie to rejoyce in them God see 's not as man see 's and therefore act 's not as man act's nor rule 's the determinations of his wisdom nor the efficiencie of his power by anie of the conceptions or apprehensions of men That which you call The insolent and strange actings of the prevailing partie of Sectaries c might better perhaps bee called his work his strange work And though perhaps manie in this age whose particular concernments have been touched by this just hand of God the flowings of whose gall by their rebellious struglings under their chastizements hath disabled their Icterical eyes to see clearly his hand may as you do blaspheme that Providence and asscribe its glorious and harmonious working to the anomalous extravagancies of whom you pleas yet when the pangs of this birth shall bee over and the distempered humors com again to a just ballance even you as well as others shall see that it is his doing And after-ages will saie concerning these times What bath God wrought Wee cannot denie but you have been verie frequent in your Warnings and Remonstrances

as Carolus or Jacobus Dei gratiâ and as effective of peace and justice Is there anie thing in it like your Covenant there is nothing in the declare's a judgment there is onely a promise of practice of what is in the power of the partie promising and hee that will not promise to bee true and faithfull to the power under which hee live's will not bee extremely persecuted if hee bee denied the benefit of that Autoritie which hee will not acknowledg But let us ask whether your Covenant was not a greater imposition was there nothing in that which came neer conscience Wee have not time to enlarge onely let us enquire as to Estates what the sweet and meek proceedings amongst us were upon that thing the Covenant worthie to bee had in everlasting detestation wherein the great Name of God who is goodness and sweetness and love must usher in an ugly persecution How manie were turn'd out of Fellowships in the Universitie of Cambridg and out of Livings in the Countrie for no other fault but refusing the Covenant men of great learning and unreprovable life were removed and men of signal duncerie and ignorance and som sufficiently debauched put in denie not this for your friends sakes least I give you a Catalogue both of them and who prefer'd them whom at present I will spare It was put on by your Commissioners when here and pressed by them on all occasions as earnestly as the mark of the Beast no man might have command here nor in Ireland might keep anie Office exercise anie Magistracie unless hee had subscribed that Covenant of a far other nature both in regard of its doubtfulness and its tendencie then this Engagement And certainly with such violence was this thing carried on that had not the good providence of God discovered to our good Patriots here the foul hypocrisie of the Scots Commissioners and their designs to the execution whereof they went furiously on under the veil of this stalking-hors the Covenant it had been imposed with as much Autoritie as the said mark of the Beast that no man should either buy or sell or live who had not taken the Covenant and 't is a mercie worth all it cost that their Invasion delivered us out of that snare And yet these hypocrites complain of offering the Engagement compare them and see the difference And once again remember Thou hypocrite to pull out the beam out of thine own eie c. And for a close of this Paragraph bee persuaded to remember daily before the Lord in your praiers that hee would deliver you from the fascinations of Interest that hee would give you single hearts and fill them with candor and free you from this gross hypocrisie and from those temptations that are suggested to you from the pride of your own spirits and impotent desires of Domination that hee would discover to you the extreme ignorance and darkness you lie under and that hee would give you hearts to love the truth and embrace it by whatsoever means it bee offered to your apprehension And if you will do this and do it with humilitie and resignation The Lord who is long suffering and verie ready to forgive full of goodness and mercie and love and that wait's that hee may bee gracious may pardon the Errors of your blinde zeal and all those things that you have don in ignorance and unbelief and deliver you from these temptations of darkness The Warning 3 This partie after that they have acted such things in England and also sore afflicted and oppressed our brethren in Ireland now conceiving that they cannot bee established and that they cannot eat the fruit of their own devices without contradiction as long as the Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland stand's in their waie threaten us with a War by drawing their Forces Northward and sending them in smal parties towards the Border that it may the less bee discerned what they intend to do And if the Lord in his righteous and wise dispensation shall suffer them to invade this Land as it is to bee feared that the Gangrene of their errors may take hold upon men of ignorant and unstable mindes who have not received the love of Truth so may wee if they prevail look for confusion and desolation and that the Pillars both of Religion and Government shall bee ruined and razed in this as well as in our neighbor-land It doth therefore in the first place concern all the Inhabitants of this Nation to draw near to God and to mourn for their own iniquities and for all the ignorance and prophanitie and backsliding that is in the land and to studie to make peace with God in Jesus Christ The continuance and increase of many of those sins for which formerly wee seemed to have been humbled doth doutless greiv the spirit of God and may if they bee not speedily and sincerely repented of and forsaken provoke him to give us over to the lust of our adversaries Our King our Princes our Nobles our Pastors teachers and people have sinned Let us therefore search and trie our waies and turn again to the Lord Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens that hee may spare and save his people that they bee not a prey to the enemie The Answer 3 What the things are that wee have acted in England wee hold out to all the world and with humilitie rejoice that God hath owned us in them and given success to our endeavors and made us the Instrument in his hand even as a threshing Instrument having teeth whereby hee hath cast down Tyrannie and established to us the just libertie of the Sons of Adam And hath shewed us so far his face and favor in it as wee are confident that hee will not onely not pull down what hee hath begun to build but given therein a specimen of that libertie which his goodness will bless the world withall as a fit state wherein that Justice and Righteousnes shall excuse it self which shall bee set up as a triumphal Arch through which the King of glorie and the King of peace shall enter into The administrations of the Kingdoms of the world which wee exspect shall becom the Lords and his Christs in the which hee shall reign while the earth shall bee full of the knowledg of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea while you object those things wee glorie in them and shall wear them as our Crown As for the affliction and oppression of their Brethren in Ireland wee know of no such oppression Wee have indeed endeavored to reduce that Island as having a just claim to it and to chastize the Irish Rebels whom wee think they will not call Brethren And wee have also made som of the Scottish Rebels to taste of the fruit of their doings in rebelling against this Common-wealth in whose pay some of them were at the instigation of their wofully ignorant and petulant Presbyterie at

all the people of GOD throughout the Land would bee careful to discern of dangers and avoid snares from and compliances with both Sectaries and Malignants so would Ministers bee diligent and faithful in pressing of these duties and that in a solid and convincing way and labor to make it appear that they speak not against the one or the other from passion or interest but upon the grounds of divine reason and from the light autoritie of Gods Word that so they may make themselvs manifest to the consciences of their hearers stop the mouth of gain-sayers Finally all the inhabitants of the Land should beware of pride and carnal confidence and in an humble way should wait upon the LORD and tread the steps of holiness and righteousness and hee who hath don great things for us shall yet save us A. KER 10 You judg rightlie that there bee store of Malignants it may thank you and your Cabals The Answer that wee have so manie among us your joyning with them and espousing their Interest hath more strengthened their hands than anie proceedings of the Sectaries Hath not your receiving the head of Malignants for your King who hath been bred up in no other companie nor followed other counsels and whose heart is with them though hee came to you to serv turns upon you more hardened their hearts in their way and animated them in their proceedings than anie thing that the Sectaries have ever don toward them Wee com now to the particulars of your recommendation 1. And to this first wee have nothing to say but desire that you and wee also may without hypocrisie do the thing you advise unto 2. To the second if you mean by contending earnestly for the faith not anie use of outward carnal strife but an earnest strife of the soul in it self in the spirit with God for his gracious manifestation of the matter of our faith wee agree for so much onely wee must expunge your there last words conteining a limitation to your Land for you maie no more make your selvs a Catholick rule then Rome maie do 3. Wee desire you impartially to examine your hearts and see if there bee not in you a great deal of enmitie against the work and people of God which is ordinarily the work of an Antichristian pride whereby you are apt to think that you are and that there are no other the people of God but your selvs And this causeth your jealousie of and discontent and enmitie against anie other that laie claim to that priviledg if they bee not also of the same complexion with you with whom you will not convers least you should bee unprejudiced and so run in danger of a Kirk-censure by having a better opinion perhaps of a Sectarie and thereby have your zeal brought to a Christian temper and directed to move rationally according to its object Wee must tell you too that there are som of your faction in this Land Malignants jure divino who by their insinuations and secret infusions do foment faction and sow division and disobedience to the Government of this Common-wealth and while they will pretend a conscientiousness do more harm to the Peace of the Land then the worst of the old Malignants These wee shall mark and caus them to avoid or otherwise put them into a condition not much capable of doing us mischief 4. It had been much more your wisdom and your happiness if you had taken diligent heed to have had nothing to do with your King who is not like to bee much bound up by the desires of your Kirk though you recede nothing from them or will your Religion bee verie secure by it As for the peace of your Kingdom lookers on think you have by espousing his quarrel made it verie difficult to establish and settle Wee in England think you have more waies then one provoked God and you are like enough to bee plunged into a deep pit of a lasting miserie 5. Wee have onely here with sad and tender hearts to lament the woful blindness and unsavouriness that your formalitie and hypocrisie by the just judgment of God hath brought upon you That upon so serious an occasion as this is you should have no other rule to direct your actings and forbearings by but the condemnations of your Kirk and your Covenant Wee blush and mourn while wee read these passages Wee Sectaries are scandalized at it 't is not your waie to make us your Proselytes For wee believ and hold forth that the sacred Scriptures are the rule of all things to bee believed and to bee don Obtrude not your Covenant nor the Kirk upon us wee shall condemn them both if they either bee or do anie thing that is contrarie to that sacred rule Are these expressions becoming these times of light wee thought them times of darkness when the Scriptures were forgotten and the sentences the decrees the decretals and extravagants were made the rule of a Christian faith and practice How come's your Church to have gotten such credit that it should bee emulous with Rome for infallibilitie Accustom your selvs therefore to Canonical language and talk not of Gods interest while you measure it not by God's Word though by the waie wee must tell you that word Interest sounded with God is hardly concord in our ears 6. You lost your advantage and defence when you became Invaders you should have needed no defence against us if you had not begun to invade and proceed in such waies as declare you still enemies If you had been righteous it had been well for your selvs and us too and when you are brought to a condition to bee so unrighteous no more and that wee have such an assurance of it as you cannot break wee shall not desire longer to pursue you and if this tenderness of not moving till God goe's before you had possessed your Parlament in 1648 wee are confident you had never invaded England 7. By this it seem's you are not sure of your King your selvs doubt whether hee bee real or not and free from malignant principles What meant you to bee troubled with him upon these uncertain terms here was somthing at the bottom wil finde you out at last You were in the beginning of you paper verie tender of joining with Malignants or having anie in your Armie why not so as well as have an Armie for a Malignant for it seem's your selvs dare not undertake hee is not one 8 Wee wholy like your Counsel to your Ministers and wish you would take the same Cours the next Papers you Emit then perhaps wee might receiv som information or conviction for wee profess our selvs readie to receiv it when from those grounds and principles and wee would have you define or describe a Seclarie and tell us wherein is the poyson of their opinions and practice for the name hath no harm in it And wee begin to take it up and wear it verie contentedly it seem's to us also that manie of those men you so call are of the best among us God hath honor'd them to do great service to this Nation for that caus wee both love and honor them and think wee have greater reason to do so becaus you hate them for wee know you pursue an interest quite contrarie to ours 9. In this you are short you should have added hypocrisie to your pride and carnal confidence And truly if they would leav off their swearing uncleanness and drunkenness among you which is so verie general it would do well And if in a deep and true humilitie they would retire into themselvs and search their hearts and turn from all their evil waies and walk in the waies of righteousness and holiness a thing much spoken of and arrogated by manie that neither have it nor understand what 't is and meet the Lord in the waie of his judgments and endeavor to agree with their adversarie while hee is in the way yee may vet bee safe which would bee verie desirable so wee may bee satisfied and safe also FINIS