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lord_n	day_n	great_a	people_n	16,100	5	4.4671	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80185	Collonel Grey's portmanteau opened; his sealed, mis-directed, and returned letter discovered by a copie thereof, found among his other papers. Which is here printed and published with some queries and animadversions thereupon. To deliver, from the dangers of their caballs, such as are not acquainted with Scottish methods and mysteries.	Colomiès, Paul, 1638-1692.	1650 (1650)	Wing C5408; Thomason E607_17; ESTC R205886	19,277	31

accordingly put it in execution Then the War was begun and the Nations have ever since been in a state of Hostilitie And if the Parlament of the Common-wealth of England did not then immediately and so ever since continue and prosecute the same with fire and sword it hath not been for that in justice by the Law of Nations they might not have don it for they understood not that justice but that they might give them time to reflect upon their wrong how obnoxious they were to a just revenge cool themselves to a temper fit to receiv a message for reparation which if they had receiv'd with an acceptation becomming their guilt and instead of the Paper of defiance of the 26 of June returned an answer beecoming their guilt and weakness there might perhaps have been an amicable composure notwithstanding all their past wrongs But while even by their last answer they continue to provoke and will not accept of means of composure they plainly keep on foot the War they had begun and must impute it to themselvs that they have compell'd us into it And instead of quarrelling the new taking of their ships they ought to give us thanks wee began no sooner But that during all this time that the Nations have been in a state of Hostilitie Wee have rather waited to see if time would spend or alter the humor or that the paroxism would intermit that they might com to themselvs and endeavor to prevent what they had just caus to exspect as the merit of their perfidious Invasion and their injudicious and petulant Papers And let them not say wee now begin a War which they began two years since and have ever since continued For their letter to the Lord General vvee shall say nothing to that Because hee received it and vvill no doubt send them an ansvver becoming him and them Wee have no more upon this occasion to say to the State onely before vvee part a vvord or tvvo to the Kirk upon occasion of their hypocritical paper printed at Edinburg 21 of Iune 1650 conteining the causes of a Publick and solemn humiliation appointed by the general Commission of the General Assembie to bee keeped through all the Congregations of this Kirk upon the last of Iune instant And before wee com to examine the paper wee would ask one question or two about their Kirk o● Scotland First what it is though perhaps a National Church is not found in the Scriptures But if they would depart from that term and say the Churches in Scotland what they are A Church for the matter of it is usually said to bee a Companie of Believers hard to finde in Scotland in the usual acceptation unless you make their Priests the object and then there are as manie as Parishes Where the people are more captivated to their sacred sorrie dictates out of their publick Tub then anie wise men among the Papists are to the determinations of the infallible Chair And indeed by reason of the guilt and ignorance of those wretchedly beclouded souls and that superstition in which the cunning craftiness of their Priests hath involved them they are more afraid of the Anathema of their Kirk in what capacitie so ever congregated especially at the consequence of it the effects that follow upon the dreadful Horn then anie Papist is at the fulminations of the Lateran or the Executions of the secular Arm. And in the later the composition is easier whereas in offences against the former besides that there is no rule of Commutation for the shameful stule hee speed's well that redeem's his disobedience with half his gear And they never want the Magistrate at their beck who are willing enough to deserv a dispensation with their saults while they are severely officious to keep the vulgar in their obedience to the Kirk But in a word the Kirk of Scotland is Mes Robert Douglas Mes Robert Blaire Mes Samuel Rhetorfort Mes Patrick Gillespie and three or foure more let most of their principal Priests whose Dictates no mand are either examine or contradict without incurring the suspition of Heresie or Schism and the danger of beeing cut off from the Communion of those true beleevers those Muffti's watching with a special care to keep their Mussulmans pure from the infection of the Sectaries This Paper coming therefore from their Reverend Kirk that is from six or eight of their leading Priests let us hear what it saie's And onely trouble them with a few questions upon everie particular Causses of a Publick and Solemn Humiliation appointed by the Commission of the General Assemblie to bee keeped through all the Congregations of this Kirk upon the last daie of June instant EDINBURGH 21 June 1650. THE LORD's dispensations have often called this Land to Humiliation and Fasting somtimes by fear of snares somtimes by threatned violence But the grounds of this hold's forth an eminent degree of both these as a fruit of manie mis-spent and abused solemn occasions And although wee have no caus to faint or cast away our confidence in anie difficultie yet wee conceiv it becom's all the Lord's people throughout this Kingdom seriously to bee humbled for these causses following I. First the great danger the Land and work of Reformation are into by the sudden and unexspected approaching of the Sectarian Forces in our neighbor Kingdom of England Which as it is without all caus or provocation from us and inconsistent with the 〈◊〉 of God in the Solemn League and Coveuant and the Large Treatie betwixt the Nations So except the Lord prevent it it threaten's no less then the ruine of this Kingdom and obstructing of the work of God within the same II. The present distressed Estate of the people of God in England and Ireland now groaning under the Tyrannie of that partie which should the more affect us seeing if providence do not otherwaies dispose ere long wee our selvs may bee brought to the like or wors extremitie III. Beside the danger wee are in from that partie in England wee are not without the reach of hazard from the Malignant partie whose inveterate malice against the Work of GOD hold's them on to pursue the same designs hitherto by the blessing of God disappointed IV. notwithstanding all these imminent dangers the Land lie's in securitie ignorance profanitie and formalitie little conscience is made of the Oath of God in our Solemn Vows the guiltiness of short coming wherein and the breaches whereof before the Lord plead's against Rulers Ministers Souldiers and people of all sorts beside the great unthankfulness for mercies old and late and the great abounding of Sorcerie so common in manie parts of this Kingdom Wee are therefore to praie I. That God would keep us from the danger of that proud partie now in Arms drawing towards our border That wee may neither bee infected by their Errors nor harmed by their Violence and that hee would disappoint all their designs against this Land and