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A19328	The ungirding of the Scottish armour: or, An ansvver to the informations for defensive armes against the Kings Majestie which were drawn up at Edenburgh, by the common help and industrie of the three tables of the rigid covenanters of the nobility, barons, ministry, and burgesses, and ordained to be read out of pulpit by each minister, and pressed upon the people, to draw them to take up armes, to resist the Lords anointed, throughout the vvhole kingdome of Scotland. By Iohn Corbet, minister of Bonyl, one of the collegiate churches of the provostrie of Dunbartan.	Nicanor, Lysimachus, 1603-1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 5753; ESTC S119005	43,296	68

them to such rebellion but only to serve God and their King And now many of them are exclaiming that they are deceived and must be perjured if they take armes against their King And how many are groaning under this and would gladly bee freed and yet dare not for your terrours and affrightments 2. They are many who have subscribed the Kings Covenant who will be loath to be in that Categorie with you For I hope they know that beside the sinne of Rebellion they will also incurre Perjurie if they runne with you in your evill way For they are obliged by their bond to take up defensive armes in defence of the King Religion and Lawes and that only when by Authoritie they are commanded so to do But your covenant obliges you to take up armes against his Majestie even though he forbid you if by common consent you think it should be done Your fifth difference is of the same nature too Betweene a people holding fast their alleagiance c. If you be such as you call your selves his Majestie hath no quarrell against you but herein yet you must be judges in your owne cause and the King must stand to your sentence Saul was righteous in his owne conceit and did obey the Commandement of God but the bleeting of the sheepe and the lowing of the oxen belied him Your daily practises beare witnesse whether you be such men as you call your selves 3 You say that ye have suspended your judgement and practise about things controverted till they be determined by a lawfull assembly Answer 1. You did not suspend your judgment and practise but by your covenant have abjured these things controverted as heads of poperie as the learned Doctors of Aberdeen most clearely have showen which yee were never hitherto able to answer and if this bee to suspend your judgement you are worse than the wife of Bodwell who first spake and then advised you have first sworne to the one part of the controversie and then take it to consultation 2. If we will grant you that ye have only suspended your judgements and practise c. consider how absurd you are herein first ye with an implicite faith sweare to believe and practice what shall bee determined in a lawfull assembly though ye know not whether it shall approve or condemne those things 2 You fall head-long in another point of Poperie in making the generall assemblie an infallible Iudge at whose determination ye sweare to stand in judgemen and practice for if yee did acknowledge that the assembly might erre it had beene great folly in you to sweare to stand to the determination of one who is not of infallible judgement 3. I demand of you who are the strict Non-conformists What if the assembly had determined contrary to your expectation and declare that those things controverted were not heads of Popery would ye have condescended to them and if the assemblie had not been made up of conjured persous but of free Ministers it had beene so concluded Your last two differences may be joyned in one you professe your selves to be zealous in religion and that the Kings Majestie is urging the swearing to the true religion of his Subjects c. Who then is to hurt our religion who is comming by armes to destroy it if his Majestie be for you who is against you You have the King a Patterne and Patron of Piety and why did you protest against the covenant because hee commanded it But all this tends to no other sense then to brand so worthy a King with perjurie and dissimulation You have therefore most wickedly stared the question especially since his Majestie by many published Proclamations hath often assured you that he is so far from thinking of any innovation of religion that he is resolved constantly to maintaine the same as it is established by law in this Kingdome of Scotland and hath beene so ready to give all full satisfaction that he hath in a manner granted all that was petitioned for of his Majestie reade his Majesties Proclamation and Declaration dated the 27. of Febr. where ye shall finde the state of the question rightly set downe and clearely see that he is so farre from intending the ruine and subversion of this his Kingdome that he takes God and the world to witnesse that he is at last forced to take armes and that for his owne right and our good to reclaime us from our daring and encreasing insolencies and for the re-establishing of his royall authority amongst us againe And therefore the question is now Whether he be our King or not Yea the question must be now not Whether you may take defensive armes against the King But Whether or no the Kings Majestie may take defensive armes against a disloyall and rebellious people for doe not you invade his loyall subjects besieging his cities by armies of men because they remaine obedient and loyall to their King have not you by force and fraud taken his Castles led captive his captaines and other subjects and laid hold upon all whom ye know loyall subjects to ward them and compell them to runne your crooked course you spare not the Lords owne Day in time of Gods service in the house dedicated to his worship to take his Majesties servants and keepe them in ward and dispone upon the Kings forts and castles as you thinke good putting in and putting out whom you please drinking and carouzing in his Castles quasi jam partâ victoriâ I you have triumphed leading the Kings Crowne captive with Tuck of Drumme in great solemnitie through the street of your Citie of Confusion and afterward have not onely appointed your office-men of warre for resisting of authoritie but also as I am credibly informed have erected a new government of 26. Governours of Nobles Barons and Burgesses yearely changeable for the government of the Kingdome As for his Supremacie then no wonder that it be gon for in your last pretended generall assembly you are not far from that which Optatus sayes of the Donatists Ille solito furore accensus dicit Quid imperatoricum ecclesia he being kindled with his wonted furie Contra Parm. lib. 3. sayes What hath the Emperour to doe with the Church In your protestations you give him no more a-doe but to be present among you that as an inferior officer he may attend you and see that no tumult or outward disorders be among you who are the supreme Iudges in causes Ecclesiasticall You will admit of no appellation from you to the King but have deprived them that thus appealed whilst even the Iewes in an Ecclesiasticall matter admitted Pauls lawfull appeale to a Pagan Emperour Acts 25.11 and whereas generall assemblies should ever carrie libertatem judicandi non necessitatem credendi as Augustine saies and the acts thereof are only Canons August contra Faust Directions and Rules without any power to be lawes till they be confirmed 〈◊〉 and allowed by the Supreme

rebellion into an humble submission to God and your King To my Brethren of the Presbyterio of DVNBARTAN Reverend Brethren I Have received your Summons the Tenor whereof is thus I Iames Thome Officer in that part constitute summon you M. Iohn Corbet Minister of Bonyl to compeer before the Presbyterie of Dunbartan the 16 day of April instant to heare and see your selfe further censured for your former absence from the Presbyterie and further contumacie and contempt to the Presbyterie and other points both of unsoundnesse of opinions and disobedience to the ordinance of the generall assemblie as is evident by your manifest adhering to and avowing of your declinator of the same in your last presumptuous and sedicious letter sent to the moderator and remanent Brethren of the said Presbyterie written and subscribed with your hand of the date the 1. of April with cortification if you continue in your contumacie and compeer not you shall be simpliciter deposed from the function of the Ministerie at a person altogether unworthy of the sanit But I pray you Brethren have me excused that I cannot compeer since I have received your summons out of due time and there is no passage between Scotland and Ireland because of the great stormes from your coasts which are so great Psal 55.6 8. that I wished the wings of a dove to stie away and be at rest and by Gods good helpe I have hastned my escape from the windie storme and tempest Psal 57.1 and come to Ireland where in the shadow of the Lords wings I shall make my refuge untill these calamittes be over-past Esa 33.17 20. and may see the King in his beautie and Ierusalem a quiet habitation For this is the day of the Lords vengeance Esay 34.8 and the yeare of recompences for the controversies of Zion In the meane time if this my Treatise can finde passage by any meanes and come to your hands it wil either justifie me or augment my fault the one if you be not prejudicated but the other if you be yet in your passions My Epistle which I desired you to put on record ad futuram rei memoriam as being able to make good what I have sayd doth contain these opinions following which you most unsoundly call unsound and my letter presumtuous and seditious My 1. unsound opinion is that I cal taking up of arms against the Lords Anointed a doctrin of unrighteousness My 2. unsound opinion is threefold that J said I take God to witnesse that I cannot subscribe your covenant except I would 1. sin against God 2. contemne Authority 3. and abjure my Christian Liberty For the 1. I cannot but sin against God if I keepe not the oath of God and obey the commandement of my King Eccles. 8.1 against whose Authoritie Commandement this covenant is subscribed 2 There must bee contempt of Authority and this is too milde a word let me call it by it's owne name Rebellion if I subscribe your covenant for these 5 Reasons 1 because all covenants are expresly discharged by Act of Parliament without his Majesties privie consent be obtained thereto 2 because this covenant is expresly forbid by his Majesties Proclamations 3 because this your covenant containeth many unlawfull things amongst which is that unlawfull Band against the Lords Anoynted 4 Though your covenant were good and lawfull yet except you prove that it 's absolutly necessary to be subscribed how dare any subscribe it being forbidden by authoritie without high contempt 5. Since I have subscribed the Kings Covenant I cannot subscribe yours without perjurie as is clear in this treatise And since you hindered your flocks to subscribe the Kings Covenant saying they would be perjured if they did it how can I subscribe both without perjurie The third point That by subscribing I must abjure my Christian libertie wherein I shall stand fast I pray you since your covenāt doth abjure things indifferent such as the Articles of Perth are c. as heads of Poperie Doe I not thus far abjure my Christian liberty if I subscrib My last unsound opinion is of your assemblie I was content shall still remain to passe from my protestation against your assemblie these 3 grounds being proved 1. That by acknowledging the authority of it I be not obliged to beleeve the lawfulnes of it's acts for it cals evill good and good evill 2. That it be proved by the laws of the kingdom that when the King dischargeth the assembly to sit it ought to refuse and sit still 3. That it be made good that when controversie is between the King and the assembly the assembly must be judge In my presumptuous and seditious letter I called these grounds absurd and altogether derogatory to Royall authority renting the Kings supremacy And I appeale the conscience of every one of you whether these my opinions be unsound and I for them judged unworthy of the Ministry which if you do your presbytery is the seat of violence Amos 6.3 to the which I will not come neare where when judgement should run downe as water and righteousnesse as a mighty streame Amos 5.24 you turn judgement into gall and the fruit of righteousnesse Amos 6.12 into Hemlock Howbeit all reformed Churches in Europe are condemning your course yet you say you are wise Ier. 8.8 and the Law of God is with you yet certainly except ye amend and change your opinions and waies Ier. 7.28 truth is perished and cut off from your mouths Ier. 23.14 5. This is the cause that from you the Prophets of Jerusalem wickednesse hath gone over all the land and the hand of evill doers is strengthened that none doth returne from his wickednesse Isa 33.15 but goe on with a revolting and rebellious heart it is good to walke righteously and speake uprightly which is a hard thing to doe with you when men must be over-rul'd with ignorant lay-Bishops to whose humor all must preach who remember not that one day in proper persons we must give account to God how we have taught our people to serve God and the King against whom too many of you incessantly stir up the people as against a Nero. I exhort you my brethren that when you are Evening and Morning in private with God in your prayers to remember and consider whether your course be good or evill which you continue in and if your conscience accuse you I pray God ye may be as earnest to ungird that armour as you have been in putting it on And may shake off Pusill animity having your faces strong against their faces Ezek 3.9 who are seditious and your foreheads strong against their foreheads not fearing them nor being dismaid at their looks though they be a rebellious house Thus at last becomming valiant for the truth Ier. 9.3 FINIS

sight of them my duty to God my King and Country suffered me not to sleepe till I had returned this short answer which I wish might come to your hands without suppression till time and leasure be granted more fully to answer this point As your armes you say are for defence so is my Pen let the learned turne their Pen against mine if they finde no satisfaction and let the sword be against the armies of the Aliens for my Pen here is not offensive but defensive let us first fight with our Pennes and if yours be conquerours then goe to swords I shall keepe this Method to set downe word by word all your instructions without missing a syllable and then return an answer not so much as it deserveth but as I thinke expedient to answer Covenanters instructions The times require that the points following be pressed upon the people both by the Preachers in publicke and understanding and well-affected Professors in private conferences 1. BEcause our chiefe adversaries who are enemies to the Gospell of Christ to the salvation of the peoples soules and to the peace of this Church and Kingdome have from the beginning advanced their ungodly and Antichristian course by lies and persecution by craft and cruelty which have beene their most subtill and strongest arguments And now when by excommunication they are given over to Satan who hath been a lier and murtherer from the beginning have put away all conscience countenance and naturall affections to their Country the people would bee dealt withall that their fraudulent lies and crafty devices be not beleeved nor their force and threatned violence be feared by the people of God remembring their Hellish Maxime Flectere si nequeo superos Acheront a movebo Anticovenanter Though much might bee said against this most unchristian and uncharitable divellish saying which I might justly retort especially in perswading the people to sweare to serve the King which service you now cause stand in resisting Yet with Michael the Archangell disputing with the Devill about the body of Moses I will bring no railing accusation Iude 9. but I say The Lord rebuke thee Covenanter 2. That Vnitie bee earnestly recommended as that which strengthens the cause and which being fast holden with veritie will make us invincible and on the contrary that Division is by all meanes to bee avoyded as that which from the beginning hath beene principally intended and many wayes sought for by our enemies and which once having place will bring us to a certaine ruine and make us of all people the most contemptible and miserable exposing our selves and our posteritie to the wrath of God for our perfidious dealing in his Covenant to the mercilesse crueltie of our enemies to be a hissing and reproach to all Nations about us and to be a griefe to all godly who have beene continually in their prayers and praises to God for us all this time Anticovenanter 1. You have great cause to urge unitie for if even Satans kingdome be divided it cannot stand 2. Let unitie with the head be urged and not of the members against the head to recommend unitie and not with the head is in effect to urge separation and division to scatter in Israel and divide in Iacob which thing you here doe unhappily presage male ominatis parcite verbis 3. No division hath beene intended but the right union hath beene sought for which is between the head and the rest of the body the King and his subjects which you now have so much withstood seeking only union of the members without the head which is to make one monster of many heads as is seene amongst us this day Est bydr a multorum capitum variabile vulgus Seditione potens And certainely there is such Antipathie in this your consederation that you cannot be well united you are like unto Nebuchadnezars image not all of one mettall gold silver brasse yron and clay of which simples none can compound a perfect body you of the young Nobility who will be the golden head you of the Gentrie who will be the brest of silver you Burgesses who will be the brazen thighes you silly Ministers who are placed in the foot by the order of your Covenant to be yron mixt with the Commons the clay whose dwelling is of the clay and habitation of the dust how can you have any durable union If you march forward your foot of clay must faile you and you must fall and breake your golden heads like Dagon before the Arke and nothing be left but a stump of antipathizing mettall Covenanter 3. That it be frequently remembred how the finger and power of God by many and admirable evidences hath beene manifest in this great worke of reformation and how the Lord either by blowing upon all the devises of our enemies or by turning them backe upon themselves hath turned all their wisedome into foolishnesse that we may have confidence for time to come beleeving and saying with the Prophet Jsa 26. Lord thou wilt ordaine peace for us Anticovenanter Careat successibus opto Quisquis ab eventu facta notanda putet It 's ever esteemed foolishnesse to argue of the goodnesse of any enterprize from the successe thereof Diagoras the Atheist was confirmed in his opinion that there was no God because he came with a faire gale of wind through the Sea without shipwracke Polycrates the Tyrant of Samos was renouned above all that ever I read in prophane History for his prosperity and good successe in all his businesse and when by his friends he was desired to seeke adversity in some thing because they thought it ominous never to taste of troubles he threw a most precious ring into the river the losse whereof grieved him much but the next morning his Cook found the ring in the belly of a fish which confirmed the Tyrant in his opinion of perpetuall prosperity but yet in the end he was taken by Orontes and hanged Men ought not to blesse themselves in any evill way and say in their hearts we shall never bee moved Reade the League of France and you shall see how they prosper'd in al their affaires The Lacqueies of the Duke of Guize had more credit with the people then his Majesties principall Servants so is it now with you your cup is not yet full behold the end The Kings Clemency hath made you insolent if hee at the beginning had showne himselfe like a blazing Star you had all evanished as smoak but his Majesty being a follower of God his Master hath thought by clemencie and indulgence to gaine you and now seeth that Iustice must succeed to clemency to bring you to subjection neither shall you escape by iniquity and the further ye proceed in an evill way the neerer is your ruine Covenanter 4. That the people bee not troubled when they heare of wars nor affraid of shadowes nor be deceived with promises nor moved with remonstrances were they never so specious but

they themselves denounce Warre against their owne sinnes as their greatest enemies and submit themselves obediently to follow their Leaders whom God at this time hath largely furnished with counsell and courage for the good of his Kirk and Kingdome Anticovenanter The people needeth not to bee troubled with warres Rom. 13.3 if they be loyall Subjects for his Majesty is not a terror to good workes but to the evill Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power doe that which is good and thou shalt have the praise of the same For he is the Minister of God to thee for good but if thou doe that which is evill bee afraid for hee beareth not the sword in vaine for he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill 2. It 's needlesse to perswade them not to be afraid of shadowes for shadowes flie away But what meane you by shadowes the Kings power his armie Well it may be that these shadowes become bodies Zebul perswaded Gaal who conspired against Abimelech that Abimelech's army was but the shadow of the mountaines and not men Iudg. 9.36 But when Gall saw them come downe by the middle of the land and another company come along by the plaine in Meonenim he found that a shadow to be feared when Zebul said where is now thy mouth wherewith thou saydst Who is Abimelech that we should serve him Is not this the people that thou hast despised Goe out I pray now and fight with him Howbeit you regard not this shadow yet let all these in his Dominions that feare God esteeme His Majesties power under God to be especially in these evill times a hiding place from the wind a covert from the tempest Esa 32.2 a shadow of a great rocke in a wearie Land 3. Whereas you desire men not to be deceived with promises c. You would doe well to make this cleare Will the King promise faire and then faile Will you like railing Rabshakeh disswade Israel to trust Hezekias and say 2 King 18.29 Let not the King deceive you hearken not unto him GOD give you better mindes I dare bee bold to promise in His Majesties name these words of the Prophet Esay Say to the righteous Esa 3.10 that it shall bee well with him for they shall eate the fruit of their doings Woe unto the wicked it shall be evill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given unto him 4. It 's well advised to urge the people to make war with sinne God further this worke but I pary you urge them to denounce warre against the reigning sinne amongst you against rebellion and resisting of superiour Powers Let the Leaders of Gods people lean them in the paths of righteousnesse bring not strange fire to Gods Altar warme not your pulpits with the strange doctrine of unrighteousnesse that you may at the day of account say Lord I have done as thou hast commanded and if wee have beene deceived thou hast deceived us and be not blind leaders of the blind till you both fall in the ditch Covenanter 5. That is be remembred what hath been our manifold defections in discipline Sacraments worship and doctrine through the want of lawfull Nationall assemblies and the usurpation of the Prelats these many yeeres by past and that a greater mercie could not be showne to this Land than a free and full Naetionall assemblie such as is that which was indicted by His Majestie and holden at Glasgow ridding this Kirke of the Prelates the Authors and Executioners of all our woes That they may bee earnest with God in their Prayers that as he hath beene pleased to set up our reformation againe with a stretched out hand hee may bee graciously pleased to uphold his own work and make the Kings Majesty a nursing Father to the Kirke in this Land Anticovenanter Let these things be remembred in Gods Name Tell them that the defections of Discipline is great in that the antient Apostolik Government is by a lawles Covenant abjured and by violence removed and another of a baser coin put in it's place Tell them of the profanation of the Sacraments and of their superstitious opinion who make some gesture essentiall to the Lords Supper and others idolatrous Let them be told too that the Lord is wronged in his worship by those who condemne set prayers in his Service Tell them likewise that the Doctrine is corrupted especially concerning the authority of the Supreme Magistrate But call not ye the Prelates the authors and executioners of your woes who are become so great enemies to them you ought also to be afraid to father your disorders upon God as a work of reformation thereby speciously making him the author and fautor of all your misdemeanours After a contemptus species est dicere falsum Vtque fidem facias divine numine abuti And finally it 's a most odiously spoken by you to pray that the King His Majestie may be a nursing father to his Church for in your sense you seeme to make him a stepfather an enemy yea a Tyrant to the Church as you declare your selves in the stating of the question and answering to the 13. Rom. for except he be a Tyrant you declare it 's unlawfull to resist him and if mercy clemency and all Royall vertues which are in him be Tyranny then His Majestie is the greatest Tyrant that ever was Covenanter 6 That the Ministers and Professors acquaint themselves with the acts of Assemblie especially that against Episcopacie with the protestation and answers to the Declaration made by the Commissioner and the Declinator of the Assemblie by the Bishops That from these they may be able promptly to answer the objections of the Adversaries That the last supplication be read in publike that the Commons may see how falsly we are traduced and how reasonable our desire is Anticovenanter It were more sit that you should studie to prudencie and to keepe these things close and to desire that these things should not be told in Gath not published in Askelon especially that monstrous Act concerning Episcopacie lest by publishing these your follies in print you make your selves Opprobrium Coeli ludibriumque soli And get your Assembly branded with that of the Councell of Trent Non fuit liberum Concilium Sibrand de Concil Excep 8. sed combinatio conjuratorum Covenanter 7 The stating of the Controversie at this time betweene the King and his Subjects must be cleared to the people thus that all men may know how unjustly we are invaded and how just and necessary our defence shall be The question is not whether we ought honour to the King for we a knowledge him to be Gods Deputie and Vicegerent or whether we ought to obey the King for God hath given him Power and Authority to Command or whether we ought to given unto Caesar that which is Caesars for that we desire to doe most cheerfully or whether we

bestow it upon any man to be their King for none can give that to another which they have not themselves 5. Ye say the people may be without the Magistrate Answer So have you made us this yeare and more in stead of a King we have had the Ephori of Sparta and the Roman Tribunes over-ruling us strange Lords rule over us to the great contempt of our own King Dominis parere superbis cogimur 2. The world was not without a King till Cain's time for Adam was King his Empire was paternall and therfore Monarchicall for albeit at first he did not actually exercise politicall Government before the people did multiply yet ex vijuris naturae by the force of the law of nature it was due to the first progenitor Adam to be governour of his posterity and thus habitually he was King from his first creation and therfore that assertion of the Monarchomachists is not alwaies true the King is not without a people as the people are without a King I see you think you may be well without our King what remaineth then but with the Bishops let Kings go too and lay a ground for Anabaptisme 6. You say the body of the Magistrate is mortall I pray you what kind of people are you Qui genus unde demo Are you only the off-spring of God I reade in Scripture that God saies to Kings Psal 82.6 7. I have said ye are gods but to which of you is this name given and if you will assume that to you take the rest of the Text with you but ye shall die like men It 's an old saying Rex nunquam maritur The King never dieth But one generation goeth and another commeth Let it content you that tho King and you are of one mettall Now in the end having thus many waies preferred your selves to the King you make this monstrous conclusion It 's adirect over-turning of all foundation of Policie to preferre subjection to the Prince to the preservation of the common-wealth Answ Here you separate that which God hath joyned together and make these two opposite which ever must go hand in hand together for Subjection to the Prince is the only way to preserve the Common-wealth where Subjection is not Gods ordinance is contemned the foundation of policie over-turned and the Common-wealth exposed to ruine as is cleare in the answer to your first Argument Covenanter From the Covenant betwixt God and the people 4. Argument for the people and the Magistrate are joyntly bound in Covenant with God for observing and preserving the Commandements of the first and second tables as may be seene in the bookes of Samuel Kings and Chronicles As the fault of the people will not excuse the Magistrates negligence so the fault of the King will not excuse the people if they resist not his violence pressing them against the Covenant of God this argument is strongly pressed by sound and religious politicians Anticovenanter You should declare how King and people are both jointly bound Will you have King and Subject of equall power about the observation and preservation of the Tables You are bound to keep the Commandements of God as well as your King but the King is bound to do more to wit to be carefull that all his Subjects keep them and to punish transgressours I have read the whole Scripture of God but I could never find this power given to Subjects It 's enough for them to keep the Tables themselves but they have no authority to command others much lesse doth it belong to them to resist the Magistrate If the King presse the people to the breach of the Law they must not obey since God his Superiour commands the contrary but yet they must not resist since God both their Superiours forbids You poorely beg here the question affirming that the people will sin if they resist not but you will never prove it You say it is strongly pressed by sound politicians but you presse it most weakly and unfoundly not nominating one sound Politician for you For no Wiseman will confound the Princes authority with the people and turne a Monarchie into a Democracie Covenanter From the subordination of Powers appointed by God 5. Argument The same law and order that appoints to obey the supreme Magistrate rather than his Deputie appoints us also to obey God rather than man and the same law and order that leadeth us to defend the supreme Magistrate against the invasion of his Deputie commandeth us also to defend Gods right and to preserve the peoples peace against the unjust invasion of the supreme Magistrate who can be thought no lesse subordinate to God then his Vicegerent is to him Anticovenanter This Argument is builded upon sand you dreame that whatsoever meanes may be used for preservation of the Prince against his Deputies the same may be used for the preservation of Gods right and the peoples peace But you erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God Both by Gods Law and mans law Subjects are bound to defend their Prince But Gods Law commands not to defend his right by armes the weapons of our warfare are spirituall and not carnall Patience Faith with other graces are our Armour we must be subject for conscience sake and not take Gods place to represse our Superiours If any inferiour judge wrong me I must not resist him but appeale to his Superiour and from him again to his Superiour even to the King the Supreme and if he will be unjust and wrong me I must not resist but commit my cause to God to whom vengeance belongeth It is a point of Atheisme and distrusting of Gods providence to think that God will not help against Tyrants and therfore men will be their owne judges and revenge themselves But the Lord hath said Psal 12.5 For the oppression of the poore and the sighing of the needy now I will arise and set him in safety c. Then take Salomons counsell Prov. 20.22 Say not thou I will recompense evill but wait on the Lord and he will save thee Suffer me then to attest you my deare Countrey-men What thinke you to doe O yee Covenanters for God and the King You undertake armes not for God who desires nothing but peace You publish Rebellion He commands Obedience You trouble the rest and quiet of a King he willeth us to endure hardnesse though at the hand of a Pagan You doe it for God whose name yee call upon and deny his Power You doe it for God who detesteth your actions and knowes your thoughts And you doe it for that God who will confound all those who breed confusion among his people You undertake warre for Religion against the Defender of Religion You raise armies for Religion and nothing hindereth it so much as warres You fight for holinesse and your weapons destroy the Church authorize blasphemie plant Atheisme impiety and despising of Devotion in all places You march under