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A25511 The Answer of the officers at Whitehall to the letter from the officers of the Parliaments army in Scotland from Linlithgow, Oct. 22 with a return of the general and offcers [sic] in Scotland, thereunto. 1659 (1659) Wing A3298; ESTC R9750 5,164 10

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THE ANSWER OF THE OFFICERS at WHITEHALL TO THE LETTER FROM THE Officers of the Parliaments Army in Scotland from Linlithgow Oct. 22. WITH A RETURN OF THE GENERAL and OFFCERS in Scotland thereunto EDINBVRGH Printed by Christopher Higgins in Harts Close over against the Trone-Church 1659. The Answer of the Officers at Whitehall to the Letter from the Officers of the Parliaments Army in Scotland from Linlithgow Octob. 22. Dear Brethren and Fellow Souldiers WE most heartily wish Grace and Truth to be multiplyed unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord And also we desire the God and Father of all Grace to add to your Faith Vertue and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Godlinesse and to Godlinesse brotherly-Brotherly-kindness and to Brotherly-kindness Charity Dear Brethren We cannot but be deeply affected and afflicted in our own spirits to consider of your dissatisfaction with us upon mistaken grounds You have known us these many years to be your faithful Brethren that durst do dothing that is sinful And we may affirm with plainness honesty and simplicity of heart we have done nothing in the late Revolution but that which the Providence of the most wise God prepared to our hands and led us out unto without so much as one half hours time to design or resolve to take that course we were necessitated unto Since which most of such persons that were not clear in the present and sudden Action have made their acknowledgement of their full satisfaction and we are mutually reconciled and they are received and rendered by us as affectionate Brethren And from a more full Narrative of the providential Grounds and gradual Steps that led us to that work yet with aking hearts and as an Answer to your Queries signed in your Name by William Clark Secretary bearing date the 22 Instant We refer you to a Book Intituled The Armies Plea And also The Armies Declaration relation thereunto being had we hope will give you satifaction Loving Brethren What have we done that you are offended We are not conscious that any thing is acted by us upon the Publick Theater but that which we judge is acceptable to God And what we have done hath proceeded from uprightness of heart and for the glory of God the good of his Interest Cause and People in these Nations Nothing less than these worthy ends could have caused us to adventure our All that is dear to us for your and their sakes And after such a hazard our Brethren to look shy upon us yea such with whom we have lived conversed together prayed fought jeoparded our lives together And witnesses together of the glory of the most high God in the high places of the field Yea we that are of one Society of one Family and Houshold that none hitherto through the grace of God could disunite us now to be at a distance with us is the greatest wound to us which is unexpressable If it had been from our Enemies we could have born it Oh but they are the wounds of the house of our Friends And all this arising without dealing brotherly with us and without so much as sending to know the providential Grounds that led us to these Undertakings And likewise your and our unhappiness hath been possibly by misinformations received by those who have corresponded with the principal occasioners of this Breach However we are censured by you we shall we hope carry Christianly and Brotherly towards you and exercise our selves in the Doctrine of our Saviour If any be overtaken in a fault restore such a one in the spirit of meekness knowing also we are subject to like temptations And we ought to pity and pray for one another and forgive one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven us We hope the fear of God will guide you so that you may do nothing to grieve Him and his little Flock and rejoyce the common Enemy abroad and at home nor give them advantages to make a prey of these poor Nations What can you propound to your selves If you are for good things So are we If for a Free-State and Commonwealth So are we If against a single Person So are we If for Reformation So are we If for Godliness and the Nations to be exalted in Righteousness So are we Why do we differ in the form and way to it Oh dear friends if you should precipitately engage into a War and should conquer your Brethren Would not the consequence be a Conquest over your selves and all the good People of the Land And if they are gone certainly if you retain your old Principles you would not desire to live long after them Precious Brethren We commend unto you that place of Scripture Josh 1.14 15. We shall with our bended knees implore the God of Heaven and King of Saints to guide you and perswade you as holy Noah said in another case Gen. 9.27 God shall perswade Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem. Finally Brethren Farewell Be of good comfort Let us be of one minde live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you and us We remain Your most affectionate Brethren and Fellow-Souldiers Dear Friends We hope to hear in your Answer to this that all our dear Friends now in Bonds are at Liberty and that the Lord hath satisfied your heart to acquiesce in his present Dispensations so as we may not expose each other to further Inconveniency A RETURN of the General and Officers in Scotland to the ANSWER of the Officers at Whitehall Dear Brethren and Fellow-Soldiers in the Lord IN the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ We return you our most hearty wishes and prayers That Grace and Truth Peace also might be multiplied unto you And that to your Faith and your Vertue and your Knowledg and your Temperance and your Godliness and your Brotherly kindness and your Charity might be added Patience and Meekness and Humility and Self-denial Great are the thoughts of our hearts for the divsions in Reuben and we are as you express it deeply affected and afflicted in our own Spirits when we consider what cause we have to be dissatisfied with you our dear Brethren you with whom we have lived and conversed together with whom we have prayed and sought and jeoparded our lives together with whom we have taken sweet Counsel and walked together in the House of God as friends But we cannot conceal from you that our affection and affliction of Spirit is much increased by the Letter you sent us by Captain Deane and by the Books you referred us to in that Letter We had before some small indeed our only hopes that there might be some mistake between us but alas we cannot but now think since we find you have no more to say for your selvs that our fears were but too true and the causes of our dissatisfaction at your present actings but too just We shall deal