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A92565	The last declarations of the Committee of Estates now assembled in Scotland, concerning their proceedings in opposition to the late unlawfull engagement against England. Together with the articles agreed upon by the commissioners appointed by the noblemen, gentlemen, and burgesses who protested against the late engagement. And the answer thereunto.	Scotland. Convention of Estates.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Scotland. Parliament.	1648 (1648)	Wing S1248; Thomason E468_8; ESTC R203717	15,102	24

Kingdom and to all the World that no sinister end or worldly design for self-interest hath stirred us up to this course we do declare First of all that we have both matter of deep humiliation before God and thanksgiving to him when we consider his gracious dispensation towards us in preserving a remnant from following the evil courses of the time and that he was pleased so soon after a great defection and backsliding in the Land to put us into a condition to resist the force and fury of our Enemies whom neither Christian duty in so dear a Sunshine of the Gospel nor natural affection to their native Country could restrain from horrid impieties and intolerable oppressions And we do freely acknowledg that it had bin just with the Lord to suffer us to lie still under that yoke of bondage which we had wreathed upon our necks with our own hands by compliance with Malignants and Malignant courses not trusting the Lord with his own work and resting on his strength but following the rules of carnal policy when ever we were brought into straights It is the desire of our Souls that for the future we may amend and it shall be our constant study with Gods assistance to avoid the rocks on which we were ready to split that we may neither upon the one hand put confidence in the arm of flesh and other wordly advantages when things are prosperous nor upon the other comply with the Enemies of the cause when we are low but in all estates and conditions to put our trust in God Almighty the Lord of Host who also is only wise to give Counsel Secondly That whatsoever Power God hath already or shall hereafter put into our hands we shall improve it for setling and propagating Religion and promoting the work of Reformation according to the Covenant and in particular to have the Liberties of the Kirk ratified which have bin many ways incroached upon and violated as is particularly instanced in the Declaration of the General Assembly Thirdly To vindicate and establish the liberty and property of the Subjects who have bin most grievously oppressed in their Consciences Persons and Estates Fourthly That we shall indeavor the Kings Majesties Restitution to the exercise of his Royal Power as soon as he shall give security for setling Religion in the manner expressed in the desires of the late Commission of the Kirk and shall give satisfaction in such other things as shall be found necessary for the peace and safety of the Kingdoms Fiftly That the late unlawful Engagement against our Neighbour Nation of England with whom we are joyned in League and Covenant may be disclaimed and disavowed by the Supream Authority of this Kingdom it being most destructive to Religion and to the Peace and Happiness of these Kingdoms Sixthly To strengthen and confirm the Peace and Union between the Kingdoms which the Malignant Party hath so much endeavored to break and dissolve Seventhly That we shall endeavor to purge out of all the Judicatories in the Land Malignancy and Prophaness and use all other good means that Justice may be equally and impartially administred to all the Subjects in the Kingdom and that a more effectual course may be taken throughout the whole Kingdom then heretofore for punishing and suppressing all Prophaness Malignancy and Impiety Eightly All means having bin used with great industry to get Malignants chosen to be Commissioners to the last Parliament and to prepossess mens minds when they came to the Parliament from which as a Fountain have issued all our troubles and distractions That we will faithfully indeavor to have a free Parliament consisting of such persons as have not bin accessary to and furtherers of the late Engagement for which end we do again hereby require that in the Election of Commissioners from Burroughs and Shires to the Parliament the rules and directions set down in our Acts of the 22. September last and the fourth of this instant month of October may be punctually observed throughout the Kingdom And we call the searcher of hearts to record that these are our real and true intentions and that we do not nor shall by the Grace of God pursue any private ends or interests of our own And we trust the Lord our God who knoweth the sincerity of our resolutions who hath also had mercy upon us and hath begun to do so graciously for us will assist us herein until his work shall be accomplished And now last of all since it is agreed upon in the Treaty that all questions and differences about Religion be referred to the determination of the General Assembly or their Commissioners and that all Civil questions and differences be referred to the determination of a Parliament which is to sit down before the 10. of January next We do exhort and require all and every one of the Subjects within this Kingdom to live peaceable and quietly and to wait patiently for the determination aforesaid but in case any shall not rest satisfied with or shall re●●le from the said agreement and shall continue or rise in Arms or levy any Forces without Warrant from the Committee of Estates as it is now constituted consisting of persons not accessory to the late Engagement We do declare that they shall be esteemed Enemies to Religion the King and Kingdom and punished as wilful disturbers of the Peace of the Kingdom M. Thomas Henderson A short Declaration to the whole Kirk and Kingdom concerning present Dangers and Duties Edinb 9. September 1648. Ante meridiem ALbeit the sad and dangerous condition wherein this Kirk and Kingdom is now cast by the publick Resolutions and practised of these who have ingaged in War against the Kingdom of England do proclaim unto all the lowers of Religion and the Country what is needful to be done in this day of distress Yet for the better information of the Lords people we conceive it necessary shortly for the present sent to declare what we hold incombent in duty to all these who would not betray the cause of God and render themselves slaves to the tyranny and lust of ungodly and Malignant men hoping in a short time to make known our thoughts of these particulars more fully When the dis-affected and prevailing party in the Parliament of this Kingdom did manifest head-strong resolutions to make War upon England under a pretext of suppressing Sectaries But in effect to dissolve the Union betwixt the Kingdoms and to restore the King to the exercise of his Arbitrary Government and make way for promoving of the Designs of the Malignant party in both Nations just and necessary desires relating unto the grounds of an ingagement and unto the securing of Religion were presented unto their Lordships by the Commission of the former General Assembly But these desires were altogether slighted and an ingagement resolved upon such grounds as are contrary to the Word of God and do infer the breach of all the Articles of the Solemn League

The last DECLARATIONS OF THE Committee of Estates Now Assembled In SCOTLAND Concerning Their Proceedings in opposition to the late unlawfull ENGAGEMENT against ENGLAND Together with The ARTICLES agreed upon by the Commissioners appointed by the Noblemen Gentlemen and Burgesses who Protested against the late ENGAGEMENT And the ANSWER thereunto Edinburgh Printed by EVAN TYLER And Re-Printed at LONDON for Robert Bostock at the Signe of the Kings Head in Paul's Church-yard 18 Octob. 1648. A DECLARATION of the Committee of Estates concerning their Proceedings in opposition to the late unlawfull Engagement against England THe manifold dangers to Religion to the Kings Majesty to our Laws and Liberties and to the Peace of these Kingdoms are so manifest that they cannot be hid from any who will not wilfully shut their eys against a cleer light and the remedies which we have taken in this extremity wil we doubt not be judged by all men of common equity and understanding to have been most necessary for preserving Religion from ruine and our selves from slavery and oppression Yet to prevent m sinformation and misconstructions we have thought fit to publish a short narration of the Causes of our late undertaking to rise in arms of our proceedings by way of Treaty with those that joyned in arms for the late Engagement against England and of our resolutions for setling Religion and the Peace of this distracted Kingdom and strengthening the Union betwixt the Kingdoms which are the best foundations of Honour and Happinesse to the King whose Throne we desire may be established in Righteousnesse When wee look back upon some proceedings in our neighbour Nation though there wee see that the work of Reformation hath been much obstructed and many things have been done of which we cannot approve and wherewith God was highly displeased yet we finde the Fountain and Spring of all our troubles mainly to arise at home from the craft and malice of our Natives and Country-men For notwithstanding the Right Honorable Houses of the Parliament of England had offered by their Commissioners to remove all differences which had arisen betwixt them and us and to do what-ever was just and Honourable for the satisfaction of this Kingdom And further had declared their readinesse to joyn with this Kingdom in the Propositions agreed on by both Kingdoms presented to the King at Hampton Court for the making such further proceedings thereupon as should be thought fit for the speedy settlement of the Peace of both Kingdoms and preservation of the Union according to the Covenant and Treaties And further to give satisfaction in all things which should be judged necessary for the Peace of both Kingdoms not intrenching upon the particular Interest of the Kingdom and Priviledges of the Parliament of England yet many of this Nation having entered into a sinfull Association and wicked Combination did joyn together in Arms under the command of the Duke of Hamiltoun for pursuance of an unlawfull Engagement against our neighbour Nation of England contrary to the ends of the solemn League and Covenant the manifold admonitions and exhortations of all the faithfull Ministers of the Gospel the warnings and Declarations of Commissioners of the Generall Assembly 1647. As likewise against the unanimous proceedings of the late Generall Assembly in this yeer 1648 against the Judgement and Protestations of many Members of Parliament who have been most constant in the Cause and to preserve the Union betwixt the Kingdoms and generally against the minds and judgements of all the well-affected in the Kingdom And further brought over from Ireland some Regiments of the Scots Army to joyn with them in this Engagement contrary to the Treaty betwixt the Kingdoms of the 7 of July 1642. And having joyned in an unlawfull Association with the Malignants of England did imploy some of them to surprize and take the Garisons of Berwick and Carlile and yet professed openly before the World they were ignorant who had done it contrary to the large Treaty betwixt the Kingdoms and the Treaty of the 29 of November 1643. And when by miserable and cruell oppression of the people of God in this Kingdom they had gathered together a numerous Army they took possession of the Garisons of Berwick and Carlile and in an hostile manner entered into our Neighbour Nation where the Lord of Hosts poured forth his Wrath and Indignation upon them for their lyes and hypocrisie as was before threatned by many of the faithfull servants of God in this Kingdom While these men were invading England the Earl of Lanerick and others engaged in the same Designe stayed at home to oppresse this Kingdom and under a pretence of raising a Guard for the Prince did begin a new Levie of Forces whereby they might be able to send supply to their Army in England if need were but principally to bear down the godly and wel-affected in this Kingdom and force upon them unlawfull Bands and Oathes which they devised to be engines and snares to compell men to make Shipwrack of their Consciences by joyning with all their wicked ways or in case they refused to take those accursed Oaths and subscribe their Bands that then they might not onely be uncapable of all publick Trust but be esteemed and used as Enemies to Religion King and Kingdom and so every way to oppresse all honest men in their Persons Estates and Consciences as nothing was to be expected from their Government to these who desired to fear the Lord and adhere to their first Principles but slavery and ruine for they having adjourned the Parliament till March 1650 had assumed to themselves an Arbitrary Power that in the mean time they might rule at their pleasure and make such alterations in the Kingdom as they thought fit Upon news of the defeat of their Army they did give out Commissions to prime Incendiaries and encouraged such as were eminent and active in Rebellion under the conduct of James Graham late Earl of Montrose to rise in Arms and sent directions to the Forces under the command of George Monro which had invaded England but were not present at the Fight and other Officers and Souldiers who escaped from it to return to this Kingdom that so by their conjunction with the Forces lately raised they might have a new Army on foot to prosecute their former designe and to tyrannize over this Kingdom as is evident from their Letters of the 28 of August sent to the Earl of Marshall Vicount of Dudhope Clerk Register and George Monro ten days after the defeat of their Army in England wherein speaking of the Engagement they declare their resolution to recruit their Regiments and to hazard their Lives and Fortunes and all that was dearest unto them for carrying on against all opposition whatsoever that pious and loyall Service and that they and many others of this Kingdom did intend not to live and out-live it By all which and many other their like proceedings expressed in the Declarations of the