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kingdom_n	majesty_n	parliament_n	treaty_n	2,462	5	9.6034	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79733	Good counsell come from Scotland: or, A solemn and seasonable vvarning to all estates and degrees of persons throughout the land for holding fast the League & Covenant with England, and avoyding every thing that may prove a snare and tentation to the breach thereof: by the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly. Edinb. 19. Decemb. 1646. The Commission of the General Assembly ordains this warning to be forthwith printed, and that thereafter it be sent to Presbyteries; requiring them, immediately after the receipt thereof, to cause every minister of their number read the same distinctly, and explain it to their people upon a Sabbath day in their severall kirks, and that they report accompt of their diligence with the first conveniencie: appointing in the mean time, that to morrow the same be read in all the kirks of this city. A. Ker.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Ker, A.	1646 (1646)	Wing C4227A; Thomason E370_9; ESTC R201288	5,000	10

tend to the ruine of both VVe are not now to presse the want of full satisfaction in the much desired work of Uniformity as the ground of a breach between the Nations Though we still conceive this Nation will never be wanting to prosecute that work to the untermost of their power in all lawfull wayes according to the League and Covenant These Kingdomes after many fervent Supplications faithful endevours of all the Lovers of Truth Peace have been happily united into a League and Covenant which to this day hath been kept inviolably notwithstanding of all the opposition of open Enemies and plotting of secret Vnderminers And we are confident that none but such as have hearts full of Atheisme and Treathery will attempt the violation thereof in whole or in part And that if any shall do the same They shall expose themselves to the Curse of Almighty God who will be avenged upon all that Swear falsly by his Name We know that men of perverse mindes wanting the feare of God and measuring all things by their own ends may conceive of it as alterable or at least that all the Clauses or Heads thereof are not so to be stuck upon but that some one or moe may be dispenced with upon civil advantages But we have not so learned Christ or his Word Both Nations have Covenanted with God and each of them with another in things most lawfull and necessary for the preservation and good of both without any limitation of time And therefore we and our posterity are obliged before God unto the observation thereof as long as the Sun and Moon shall endure The sense of these things ought to be so deeply engraven upon the hearts of all that are in trust That as they should from their souls abhor every thought of a breach with England So should they carefully and wisely study to avoid every thing that may prove a snare tentation unto the same Amongst other things If His shall have thoughts of comming to this Kingdom at this time he not having as yet subscribed the League and Covenant nor satisfied the lawfull desires of his loyall Subjects in both Nations We have just cause to fear that the consequences of it may be very dangerous both to his Majestie and these Kingdomes Which therefore we desire may be timely prevented For so long as his Majestie doth not approve in his heart and seal with his hand the League and Covenant we cannot but apprehend that according to his former Principles he will walk in opposition to the same and study to draw us unto the violation thereof and the dissolution of the union so happily begun between us and our Brethren To weaken the Confidence and trust and to entertain Jealousies and make divisions amongst our selves Neither is it possible But that our receiving Him in this present posture of affairs will confirme the suspicions of the English Nation of our under-hand dealing with him before his coming to our Army And make them not without cause to think That We purpose to dispose of him without their consent and to their prejudice Which is contrary to the Profession of these that were in trust at His Majesties first coming to the Scots Quarters and overthroweth all the Arguments that have been used by the Commissioners of our Parliament in their Papers concerning The disposing of His Majesties Person by the joynt advice and common consent of both Kingdoms given in to both Houses of Parliament in England Nor doe we see how we can vindicate such a practice from a direct breach of our engagements to them by Covenant and Treaty VVhich where not only to expose us into the hazard of a Bloody VVarre but to involve us in the guilt of Perjury And what greater disservice could be done to His Majestie and his Posterity then to give way to a course that might prove prejudiciall to their interest in the Crown and Kingdome of England Our carriage now for many years past in the midst of many tentations hath put us beyond all suspicion in the point of our Loyalty nor have wee the least thoughts of deserting the Kings Majesty in a just and good cause Being bound by our Covenant in our severall vocations to endeavour with our estates and Lives to preserve and defend His Person and Authority in the defence and preservation of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes And so farre as His Majestie shall be for these We really are and we trust the rest of his Kingdome will be for him Yet we cannot deny but openly avouch it That if His Majestie which the Lord forbid shall not satisfie the just desires of His People Both Nations stands mutually obliged by that inviolable Covenant to pursue the ends therein expressed which cannot be divided against all letts and impediments whatsoever It is therefore our most earnest and longing desire That as these who are in trust with the publike affairs of this Kingdom have heretofore with all earnestnesse care in all their addresses dealt with His Majesty with much strength of reason and vehemency of affection so they would still deal with him to grant his Royall consent to the desires of both Kingdoms for setling Religion according to the Covenant and for securing a perfect and durable Peace which we look upon as the only hopefull means of preserving himselfe His Crown and Posterity That His Majesty may return to His Houses of Parliament in England as a reconciled Prince to satisfied Subjects And that acclamations of joy may be heard in all His Majesties Dominions and no sound of Warre heard therein any more except against the bloody Irish Rebells under whose barbarous and cruell persecution our distressed Brethren both in this Kingdom and in Ireland are still groaning and crying out to us and to our Brethren in England Be at peace among your selves and come to help us A. Ker. Some Quaeries propounded by the Parliament of Scotland to the Ministers that are Commissioners from the Generall Assembly If the King shall come into this Kingdome and that the Kingdome of England shall exclude him from the Government there for his leaving them without granting the Propositions Whether or not is will be lawfull to this Kingdom to assist him for the recovery of the Government he not granting the Propositions concerning Religion and the Covenant and not giving a satisfactory Answer in the remnant Propositions The Ministers answer The Quarie presupposeth the Kings comming into this Kingdom which case for the Reasons expressed in our late Warning we humbly conceive should not be put in the Question and therefore desires your Lordships to go about all means for the present prevention of it as a matter of most dangerous consequence to Religion the Kirk and Kingdom and to the King himself and his Posterity But if the question be stated simply without supposing such a Case in these terms If the King be excluded from Government in England for not granting the Propositions concerning Religion and the Covenant and for not giving satisfactory answer to the remnant Propositions whether in that case it be Lawfull to this Kingdome to assist him for the recovery of the Government or if it be not lawful being put to it We cannot but answer in regard of the engagements of this Kingdome by Covenant and Treaty Negative If there be any other Votes said to come from Scotland the Reader may choose to believe them FINIS