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A29957	A short and true relation of some main passages of things (wherein the Scots are particularly concerned (from the very first beginning of these unhappy troubles to this day; Short and true relation of some passages of things	Buchanan, David, 1595?-1652?	1645 (1645)	Wing B5273; ESTC R521	70,601	122

wicked courses of the Enemies against the Cause we say we maintain I am sure at least we ought or by open and professed Apostasie we have joyned our hearts and affection with the Common Enemy who so actively by all means opposeth this Cause of God and persecuteth his people for it This is done both in Scotland and England not by a few but by many not by little and small ones but by the Chief and Leaders of the rest not by stopping things of humane infirmity and weaknesse but with study and an high hand Here we shall say a word or two of the carriage of those two Nations in the going on with the Work of the Lord for the setling of the Church and quiet of his People We shall begin at those of Scotland who some few yeers ago were lifted up with praises among men for their faithfull minding and following earnestly this great Work of God all by-ends laid aside for which God blessed them from Heaven and made them be called happy among men for they had their hearts desire in the businesse and their Enemies were subdued by them But now leaving off their former integrity and sincerity to the Cause of God and their Love unto him following the devices and desires of their own corrupt hearts in pride coveteousnesse and factions notwitstanding the earnest and pressing admonitions both in private and publike of the Prophets and Ministers of God they continue in their evil courses preposterously minding themselves and their worldly foolish interest of ambition and avarice more then God and the Cause of his Church and people For this God as it were by an essay to try them if they would laying aside their lewd by wayes mind him and his Service heartily and sincerly sends amongst them an hand-full of contemptible profane and wicked villains whom at first they despise and neglect but going on in their wonted wayes while the holy Name of God is profaned by those Sons of Belial a part of their Land is wasted the poor people spoiled and slain with all other barbarous usage and so these number and power of the Slaves of Iniquity growing they are plotting caballing and devising how to supplant another and increase their severall faction the seed of dissension being sowed amongst them by the Enemy to divide and so more easily compasse his ends upon them which they would not and could not see blinded with their corrupt passion Then God to admonish them anew suffers some of those whom they had employed against the Sons of Rebellion to betray their trust and omit divers good occasions in all appearance to make havock of these villains yea some to run over unto them in the hour of fight and so these Enemies of goodnesse to advance their pernicious designe do what they list Yet all this will not die with those hard-hearted and stubbling men still employing and busying their thoughts how to bear down one another yea some there were amongst them who were not sorry in their hearts of the progresse that those despisable villains made in the Countrey against the Service of the Common Cause conceiving it did help to the setting up of their faction But since the affronts and blows they received at divers times from those contemptible fellows did not move these ingrate Children God sends a Pestilence amongst them which rageth with such fury that hardly the like hath been heard of in that Land to try if at last they would leave their slacknes remissenes in pursuing the Service of the Cause of Gods Church and People their conniving and complying with his Enemies yea their helping those villains with means and advice in opposing the Cause of God and oppressing his People But they remain obdured like Children of disobedience in their perverse wayes So at length God in his wrath delivers them up to the hands of their wicked Enemies making them as far to be scorned and misprised for their not heartly minding him his Service as they had been before esteemed and extolled for their adhering to him and doing his Service faithfully Yea the Chief men of them who had been cried up for Valour and Wisdom are constrained to flie away and have their lives for a prey So God who from the beginning of all those unhappy disturbances till this last time had made Scotland a Mirrour of his Mercy in testimony of its faithfulnesse adhering unto him makes it an example of his Justice for its back sliding from him And thus Judgement begins at the House of God now let England look seriously to it for the same very sins which have been committed in Scotland and for which it now lieth under the heavy rod of a chastising and angry God are now raigning in England namely ambition and avarice with many more which have not been seen in Scotland example heresies errors and Sects of all sorts to the dishonour of God and to the withdrawing of the People from his Truth are connived at and countenanced by those who are in Authority Then there be some of power and credit who are so far from furthering the Reformation of the Church as they and we all are sworn to by the Covenant that they hinder the same not onely by secret undermining and by plots but by a continued open profession against it Next There be great oppressions vexations concussions and injustices done unto the People by divers in Authority the cry of all which is as loud if not louder unto Heaven then the cry of the sins of Scotland It may be that God as he hath not be gun so soon to shew his Mercy unto England as he did unto Scotland will not send his Judgement upon it so speedily yet doubtlesse without a serious Repentance and a true turning unto God Judgement will come and the longer it is a coming the heavier it will be It is not the good Cause of Church and State that will do Englands turn more then the Temple and the Law of old did save Judah from ruine nor the same good Cause hath kept Scotland from punishment the good Cause ill managed by negligence ambition avarice faction self-conceit and other vices of that kinde draweth vengeance upon those who have the managing of it and make the Cause to be in derision Never good Cause hath been worse managed by the ignorance of weak ones and the malice of other wicked At last God will maintain his Cause no thanks to thee without thee for he needs not thy help to do it but since he hath been pleased to make use of thee in the Service of this his Cause he expects faithfulnesse and zeal to it from thee free from worldly and humane interest Otherwayes vengeance is at thy door for God as he will not in his Worship and Cult have linsey-wolsey of mens inventions intermingled with his pure and sacred Ordinance so he will not in managing the Service of his Cause and of his People that men bring in

and the sillinesse of other men Divers of all ranks not excepting the higher amongst men seeing their wayes advantageous side and cog in with them for profit and employment They on the other side receive none in their Society but those of means and gifts poor people and simple are profane in their account They work hugely with rich mens wives widdows and daughters and stirring fellows in any kinde are good for them And to carry on their businesse more smoothly they plead for charity that there may be a charitable interpretation of their carriage and proceeding when God knows they are destitute of all charity first towards the Church in generall whose peace they disturbe in a high measure and towards particular men for they oppresse and afflict every honest man they can reach in hatred to faithfulnesse unto the good of the Church and State if all were well known and considered for those who strive so much for confusion in the Church aime all Anarchie in the State doubtlesse It is true there be divers simple well meaning men that are insnared in the opinion of those men of Church-government but good people who are not of the Cabale nor of the secret faction who I doubt upon fuller information will leave the error and follow the Truth So there be many honest and well meaning people who adhere and follow the Jesuites who are not acquainted with the mysteries of their iniquity Then with a great deal of deceit they cry out igainst the rigidnesse of Presbyteriall-government as aforesaid to make the people beleeve that it will tye them to such a strictnesse and rigidity or austerity that all Christian Liberty will be taken away from them Wherein they do lye most abominably against the practice of all the Reformed Churches where this Government hath place namely in Scotland and France where if there be any thing amisse of this kinde it is towards lenity rather then austerity Yet those fellows give out that they are more holy then other men and of a stricter life and will not admit to their Society any who will not bind himself to the strictnesse they professe externally but their carriage being neer looked to will be found as far distant from what they professe as the Capuchins hypocrisie is from true piety The businesse is no sooner ended concerning the Church-government maugre Independents but there arise other difficulties and rubs in the way to hinder the setling of Government Such obstacles are cast in by the Enemy to stop the building of the Temple First Some will not allow it to be of divine right notwithstanding it is demonstrated to have its ground in the Scripture so clearly that it cannot be denyed and practised by the Apostles and their successors Then There is a great stir concerning the power of the Presbytery to admit and keep off people from the Table of the Lord and to receive men unto the Communion of the Church or to seclude them from it Which power some will have to be onely in the Civill Magistrate Wherein there is a great mistake From the beginning of the World to the giving of the Law both functions of the spirituall Ministery concerning God and Religion and of the civill Ministery concerning the externall Society of men being in one man to wit in the Father and the eldest Son in the Fathers room things were not so clearly distinct But then at the giving of the Law God in his appointed time and in his wise dispensation ordained the functions of his spirituall Ministery of Church and of the civill Ministery of State to be in distinct persons so the power belonging severally to each Ministery was to be exercised distinctly by those who were set aside severally for the severall Ministeries And that the one Minister had power over the things concerning his Ministery as the other over his it is clear by Scripture Thus things did continue from Moses to Christ although now and then not without some alteration or change by reason of the revolutions of affaires in the State of Israel and of Judah In the Christian Church the distinct Ministeries being in distinct persons the power belonging to the severall Ministeries must be in distinct persons according to their Ministeries and although the civill Magistrate or Minister of State is not to exercise the spirituall Ministery nor what belongeth to it yet he is obliged to oversee the Minister of spirituall things to do his duty faithfully and diligently Of those much hath been said and written in former times and of late by men of the clearest judgement and of most understanding in things of this nature Besides the fear of men that the spirituall Scepter and rod of Christ should be prejudiciable to their wordly authority the frequent encroaching of the Ministers of the Church upon the civill Minister to wave what is done elsewhere and hath been in former times here in those Islands not onely of old but in those latter yeers Churches-Ministers ambition avarice having cast us in all those troubles doth furnish just occasion of wearinesse to the civill Magistrate to keep the Ministery power of Church men within the precinct of the Church but it must not be so as to make them like the trencher-Chaplain to say a short grace and no more As the Church Ministers are not to meddle with civill affaires so the civill Ministers ought not to meddle with things meerly spirituall such are the censures of the Church which is commonly called the power of the keyes Further as Prelats with their Emissaries have put Christ out of his Throne in a kinde making themselves Lords and Masters of his Flok and Heritage so on the other side those who take away the due power of the keyes from the Ministers of Christ in his Church doth him a great deal of wrong in his spirituall Kingdom Therefore let us look to it lest when we have pulled down one tyranny Antichristian out of the Church we do not leave it to confusion and Anarchie and so to be inslaved to the phancie and to the humour of weak men But of this let it suffice in this place Moreover as the Scots did constantly in all their own troubles ever from the beginning to this day lay hold upon all the occasions they could meet withall to try if it were possible by fair means to redeem the misled King from his evil wayes and to calm all things with the least noise or stir that could be so it hath been their constant course here both before and since their conjunction in action with the English in this Common Cause to try by fair means if the King could be prevailed with for his own good and that of the people and now at this time after so many advantages obtained of late upon the adverse party they have thought it fit to desire the Parliament to send to the King to try him yet again if at last he will condescend to what is