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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58912	A seasonable and necessary warning concerning present dangers and duties from the commissioners of the Generall Assembly, unto all the members of this kirk.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2216; ESTC R39524	8,308	15

words of our own former Confession and Ingagement unto duties to proclaim a judgment against the land till it were consusumed without remedy Wee are therefore bold in the Lords name to warne the Honourable Estates of Parliament and all whom it concerns in the land that they may be farre from such a thing and that they may take care in their respective places and Stations to purge Judicatories and Committees of all scandalous and disaffected men and speedily and effectually to goe about the removing and purging out from the Army all men of a scandalous conversation and of questionable integrity and affection in the cause of God and that they imploy none but such as are of a blamelesse conversation and of approven Integrity in the Lords work It shall be a shame for any in this land to be so faithlesse and unbeleeving as because of the scarcenesse of men to make use of others then such as are thus qualified The Lord hath not only spoken it in his word and verified it in his works in the dayes of old but hath let us see it with our own eyes that it is all one with him to save with few or with many and that a few whom God will countenance are more worth then many against whom he hath a controversie It needs not be matter of stumbling or terrour unto any that the army of Sectaries go masked under a vale of seeming holinesse and that their interprises and defignes have been so long and so often attended with successe These who know them well will acknowledge that many of them are loose and dissolute in their way and though some of them walk more circumspectlie yet how can they be accounted truely tender Godly who love to walk in the Immaginations of their own hearts and in the light of their own fire and in the sparkes that they have kindled corrupting the truth of God approving errors in themselves and tolerating them in others and who having power in their hands labour only to establish saftie for themseves altogether neglecting those thinges that concerne the Honour of God and the Kingdome of his Sonne Iesus Christ If any of them have any thing of the seed of God in them it cannot but be much blasted with the wind of their own vaine inventions and choaked and keept down with the cares of their corruptions These who shall compare their proceedings with the word of God and the Solemne League and Covenant or look to the effects that followes thereupon either to Religion or government or to the bodies or soules of men shall finde that notwithstanding of any pretext their way is much to be detested and abhorred Neither doth the Lord spare to execute judgement against seducers and corrupters of the truth because they seeme not to be subject to personall out-breakings in their lives Is it not the ground of the great threatnings against Antichrist that he makes many drunk with the cup of his abhominations which yet for most part are covered with a vail of externall devotions And can the many antichrists now in England eschew to partake of his plagues who in so great a measure partake of his sinnes The successe of that partie proves not the goodnes of their cause or that they shall prosper still The Lord who is wonderful in councel and excellent in working hath been pleased to put the rod of his anger and the staff of his indignation in their hand for executing of his wrath against malignants because of the enmity opposition of that generation unto the cause and people of God But if they shal invade this land and exalt themselves against the Lords inheritance and the people that are in Covenant with him For whose sake the Lord did clothe them with power for a time for taking vengeance upon his enemies Then shall they stumble and fall and be broken in pieces Though the host of Senachribe did prevaile against Samaria yet did they fall in Judah and he did return with shame and was slaine with the sword in his own land That partie hath as yet no cause to boast that God hath prospered them in armes against the Covenant or against a praying people stedfast in the Lords cause following his way and waiting upon him for help and successe All their encounter have hitherto bin against Malignants now the Lord having performed so much of his work against that generation who knowes but the Sectaries day may also be coming and that when the state of the question shall be changed God may turn his hand upon them bring upon them the judgments of abroken Covenant as he hath ever don to al that look that way We desire that not only others but the Sectaries themselves may consider that when England was very low and well nigh brought under the feet of the popish prelaticall and Malignant partie That this Nation was then much solicited for their assistance and reliefe and even by some of these who have since that time been verie active and instrumentall for the partie which now prevails in that land The Kirk and Kingdome of Scotland were then so compassionate of their brethrens condition that they were willing to joyn in a League and Covenant with them which both Kingdomes even many of those who are now in the Army did solemnly swear and subscribe In prosecution of the ends thereof this Kingdome did send into England a considerable army by whose assistance the power of the Malignant partie was broken and brought low and the Parliament army of England put in such a condition that they needed no more fear the strength of their enemies This league and Covenant which was the foundation of Englands and the Armies deliverance and saftie the armie hath now forgotten and trodden under foot and walk in all their proceedings no lesse contrary thereto then darknesse is unto light Neither doth it satisfie them to do so in their own land but they threaten us also with warre for no other reason but because we cleave to our dutie in these things to which England stands no lesse obliged unto by Covenant before the Lord then we doe We may confidently assert and professe before the world that the Lords people in this land are not conscious to themselves of any wrong done to that prevailing partie in England The engagment in the year 1648. was no lesse abhorred and testified against by the Kirk of Scotland and by these that are now in place and power in the State and by all the godlie in the land Then it was by that partie themselves Which did so farre convince the House of Commons That in their letter to the Generell Assemblie of this Kirk in the same yeare They professe that they are assured that these Impions and unwarrantable actions cannot be done with the approbation and assent of the Religious and well affected people of the Kingdom of Scotland and that they do understand that there are very few amongst these

A SEASONABLE and Necessary WARNING Concerning present DANGERS and DVTIES From the COMMISSIONERS Of the GENERALL ASSEMBLY Unto all the MEMBERS Of this KIRK EDINBURGH Printed by EVAN TYLER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1650. 25. Iunii 1650. Postmeridiem A seasonable and necessary VVarning concerning present dangers and duties from the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly unto all the Members of this Kirk IF the eminencie of the danger and the necessity of our duty did not constrain us we had rather chose to be silent then to emit any publick warning to the land within so few dayes of the meeting of the Generall Assembly but we should not only run the hazard of just blame from them but also be conscious to guiltinesse in our selves if we did not in a time of so great strait give warning to the Lords people both of their danger and of their dutie The Insolent and strange actings of that prevailing party of Sectaries in England these yeares past in reference to Religion and Government are so well knowne and have been so often and fully laid open in the former Warnings Remonstrances and Declarations of this Kirk that we need not now take up much time in representing the same Albeit the Reformation of the Church of England and the advancing of the work of Uniformity there in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government was the great dutie that the Lord called that Land unto and which all the people of God in these three Kingdoms did ingage themselves in Covenant to endeavour to the utmost of their power yet doth that work so much desired and longed for by all the lovers of Sion in these Nations and all that concerns Religion lye in the dust altogether forgotten and despised by those men and in stead of the beauty and order that should be in the house of God a vast toleration of many grosse errors is allowed whereby so many and so monstrous blasphemies and strange opinions in Religion have been broached and are vented in England as the like hath not been heard of almost in any generation And though Monarchy and the Power of Parliaments was the ancient and long continued Government of that Kingdom yet have those men usurped above the Parliament whose servants they were and by open violence driven away many and imprisoned some of the Members thereof and have not onely taken away the house of Lords and destroyed the late King but also subverted Monarchy it selfe and turned the Foundations upside down and labour to wreath the voke of their oppression upon the necks of our brethren in England not only in regard of that which concerns their bodies and estates but also in regard of that which concerns their soules and consciences whereof that Ingagement that is now pressed in England is a present and publick testimony being a sore bondage under which many in that land now groane whose case and sufferings for the work of God we desire not onely to remember dayly before the Lord in our prayers and supplications but in every thing to regard it as if it were our own being confident that such as love the truth cleave to the Covenant in these Lands shall obtain mercy of God to be faithfull in the midst of temptations and that the Lord will not suffer them to be tempted above that they are able to bear but will give unto them the issue with the tempation This party after that they have acted such things in England and also sore afflicted and oppressed our brethren in Ireland now conceiveing that they cannot be established and that they cannot eat the fruit of their own devices without contradiction as long as the Kirk and Kingdome of Scotland stands in their way threaten us with a warre by drawing their Forces Northward and sending them in small parties towards the Border that it may be the lesse discerned what they intend to do And if the Lord in his righteous and wise dispensation shall suffer them to invade this Land as it is to be seared that the Gangrene of their errours may take hold upon men of ignorant and unstable mindes who have not received the love of the truth So may we if they prevaile look for confusion and desolation and that the Pil ars both of Religion and Government shall be ruined and razed in this as well as in our neighbour land It doth therefore in the first place concern all the Inhabitants in this Nation to draw near to God and to mourn for their own iniquities and for all the ignorance and prophanity and backsliding that is in the land and to studie to make peace with God in Jesus Christ The continuance and increase of many of those sinnes for which formerly we seemed to have been humbled doth doubtlesse grieve the spirit of God and may if they be not speedily and sincerely repented of and forsaken provoke him to give us over to the lust of our adversaries Our King our Princes our Nobles our Pastors teachers and people have sinned Let us therefore search and try our wayes and turn again to the Lord Let us lift up our heats with our hands to God in the heavens that he may spare and save his people that they be not a prey to the enemie In the next place As the Parliament of this Kingdome have taken care for putting the land in a Posture of Defence so we hope that none shall be so negligent of their duty and so insensible of their danger as not to give chearfull obedience to the lawfull commands of their superiours in those things that concern the security of Religion and peace of the Kingdome and that are necessary for the defence of the cause and of their native country but that every man in his station and calling will willingly and cheerfully acquit himselfe in the diligent and faithfull performance of all the duties that relate unto those ends It is far from our meaning that any who are tainted with Malignancie and Disaffection to the work of God should be allowed or permitted to associate or joyn themselves together by parties in Armes much lesse do we mean that we should associate and joyn with them or that they should be imployed or made use of or countenanced or permitted to be in our Armies The Lord hath so far cleared his mind both by his word and works against these things that they are very blind who are not convinced herein and we have made so solemn publick confession of this sin that relates unto Malignants and so solemnly engaged our selves against the same that they among us who should again hazard upon it should seem to be desperately perverse It were not only to give great ground of encouragement to the Sectaries before whom Malignants have already so often fled and fallen but to discourage the hearts and weaken the hands of men of Integrity and godlinesse who could hardly expect a blessing in the fellowship of such nay it were from the