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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37365	A declaration of the army of England upon their march into Scotland as also a letter of His Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland : together with a vindication of the aforesaid declaration from the uncharitable constructions, odious imputations, and scandalous aspersions of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, in their reply thereto : and an answer of the under-officers and souldiers of the army, to a paper directed to them from the people of Scotland.	England and Wales. Army.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1650 (1650)	Wing D636; ESTC R31359	33,504	46

the reproach of a Sectarian Army a Christian dealing all which we doe with comfort commend to God and can notwithstanding all this say By the Grace of God we can forgive and forget those things and can and doe desire of God that the precious in Scotland may be separated from the vile which is the end of this our Paper And to the truth of this let the God of Heaven in his great mercy pardoning our weaknesses judge of us when we come to meet our Enemies in the field if through the perversenesse of any in Authority with you God shall please to order the decision of this Controversie by the Sword which we from our hearts bes●ech the Lord to avert and to give you the like Christian and Brotherly affection towards us which we by Gods grace bear towards you Signed in the name and by the appointment of his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell and his Councell of Officers JOH RUSHWORTH Secretary To the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland Or in case of their not Sitting To the Commissioners of the Kirk of Scotland SIRS YOur Answer to the Declaration of the Army we have seen Some godly Ministers with us did compose a R●ply which I thought fit to fend you That you or we in these great transactions answer the will and mind of GOD it is only from his grace and mercy to us and therefore having said as in our Papers we commit the issue thereof to him who disposeth all things assuring you that we have light and comfort increasing upon us day by day and are perswaded before it be long the Lord will manif●st his good pleasure so that all shal see him and his people shall say This is the Lords work and it is marvellous in our eyes This is the day that the Lord hath made we will be glad and rejoyce therein Onely give me leave to say in a word you take upon you to judge us in the things of our God though you know us not though in the things we have said unto you in that which is intituled the Armies Declaration we have spoken our hearts as in the sight of the Lord who hath tryed us and by your hard and subtil words you have begotten prejudice in those who do too much in matters of conscience wherein every soul is to answer for it self to God depend upon you so that some have already followed you to the breathing out of their souls others continue still in the way wherein they are led by you we fear to their own ruine no marvel if you deal thus with us when indeed you can find in your hearts to conceal the Papers we have sent you from your own people who might see and understand the bowels of our affections to them especially such among them as fear the Lord. Send as many of your Papers as you please amongst ours they have free passage I fear them not what is of God ●n them would it might be embraced and received One of them lately sent directed to the under-Officers and Souldiers in the English Army hath begotten from them an answer which they desired me to send you not a crafty politique one but a plain simple spirituall one such as it is God knoweth and God also wil in due time make manifest and do we multiply these things as men or do we them for the Lord Christ and his peoples sakes Indeed we are not through the grace of God afraid of your numbers nor confident in our selves We could I pray God you do not think we boast meet your Army or what you have to bring against us We have given humbly we speak it before our God in whom all our hope is some proof that thoughts of that kind prevail not upon us The Lord hath not hid his face from us since our approach so near unto you your own guilt is too much for you to bear bring not upon your selves the bloud of Innocent men deceived with pretences of King and Covenant from whose eyes you hide a better knowledge I am perswaded that divers of you who lead the People have laboured to build your selves in these things wherein you have censured others and established your selves upon the Word of God Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of God all that you say I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken Precept may be upon Precept Line may be upon Line and yet the Word of the Lord may be to some a word of Judgement that they may fall backward and be broken and be snared and be taken There may be a spiritual fulnesse which the world may call drunkennesse as in the second of the Acts there may be as wel a carnal confidence upon mis-understood mis-applyed Precepts which may be called Spiritual Drunkennesse there may be a Covenant made with Death and Hell I wil not say yours was so but judge if such things have a politique aim to avoid the overflowing scourge or to accomplish worldly interests and if therein we have confederated with wicked and carnal men and have respect or otherwise drawn in to associate with us whether this be a Covenant of God spiritual bethink your selves we hope we do I pray you read the 28. of Esaiah frō the 5. to the 15. do not scorn to know that it is the Spi●it that quickens giveth life the Lord give you and us understanding to do that which i● wel-pleasing in his sight committing you to the Grace of God I rest Your humble Servant Muscleborough 3. Aug. 1650. O. CROMWELL A Vindication of the Declaration of the Army of ENGLAND upon their March into SCOTLAND from the uncharitable Constructions odious Imputations and scandalous Aspersions of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland in their Reply thereunto THe Declaration of the Army concerning their Expedition into Scotland having received an Answer from the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of that Nation suitable to that spirit which of late hath wrought effectually in those Assemblies for the prosecution of an Interest by them espoused evidently destructive to the power and purity of the Gospel Liberty and Safety of both Nations being filled with calumnious Reproaches and Insinuations false and mistaken Narrations suited to a subtile carrying on of a corrupt and desperate Design without manifestation of any great respect had unto truth sincerity and simplicity of Spirit although not without many fears of ineffectualnesse as to the change of their mindes from their mistakes and confidences yet we could not but judge it a duty to remark the strange workings of fleshly Wisdom which it is filled with from one end to another committing the issue to the searcher of hearts who judgeth righteously In the entrance of their Reply having prefaced it with a supposed Duty as such things as this wil easily appear to be to persons so engaged they reflect upon the title of the

unlesse we should thus retort it The purpose of the Scots is not for publique Liberty and common Safety but something that concerns themselves and therefore the great wheel of their Design is A Pretence of Religion and Reformation The next is like unto it charging them with A seeming holinesse and a reall treading under foot the Truth and Ordinances of God giving us full assurance That Conscience and a Christian spirit were very little consulted withall in this Reply in comparison of that cursed Maxim C●lumniare fortiter aliquid adhaerebit which seems to be the sole Rule walked by by them All the particulars of this parting charge being the issues of Envie Uncharitablenesse and Evill speaking Neither is the fifth of any better temper then those before about their conjunction with all sorts of persons for the pursuit of common Safety and Liberty and therefore bearing with different Judgements and Opinions in the things of God which being charged on them by those who have actually closed with him and admitted him to the Exercise of Regall Power amongst them by whom are imployed all sorts of profligate wretches blood-guilty Rebels Popish Idolators with whom the Assembly of the Kirk is now in actuall conjunction for the pursuit of one Design is not of any great weight unto us and as we could easily discharge them of this Imputation so far as to take off all just offence yet we cannot but declare That we think it much better to exercise-mutuall forbearance in some lesser Differences whilest the foundation is held and kept entire then to have amongst us an outward Uniformity as the issue of an Ecclesiasticall Tyranny which we wish the Assembly to free their Kirk and Nation in Further The Army hath neither usurped on or trodden under foot the Ancient Government of England which in the sixt place is charged on them but in their places have assisted to remove all Usurpations upon the Liberty of the People of England restoring it into the hands of the Peoples Trustees to whom of Right it doth belong actually leaving it instated in the hands of that Parliament wherein it was at the beginning of these troubles And as to the moulding of Scotland to the same frame mentioned in the last place the truth is That saving the earnest desire of our Souls that all who belong to Christ ●n that Nation may enjoy the Liberties and Priviledges purchased for them by Christ with our own Security from designed Evils We should be very indifferent into what mould or fashion that Nation be framed Thus having laid open the manifold Mistakes Falsities unjust Charges politick Insinuations unchristian Censurings and the like not onely Ungospel-like carriages but also uncivill Railings of this Paper of the Generall Assembly We shall close with our hearty Suppli●●t●ons That the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ would in his due time cast down all the earthly combinations of all sorts of men that set up themselves and their own corrupted Interest in the room of that Scepter of Righteousnesse which he hath given into the hands of his Son With this foregoing we have also seen an Answer of the Generall Assembly to the Declaration of the Parliament of England which also in due time the Lord assisting shall receive a full Reply That an Ecclesiasticall Assembly conveened for the Reiglement of the House of God should account it their duty as such to put forth Manifesto's and make Reply's to States and Armies in things of Civil Concernment relating to the publique Affairs of Nations would seem strange unto us were we not in some measure acquainted with the Constitution actings and assumed Power of the Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland which make them justly to be recko●ed to have a place among the Powers of this world and therefore called to this Imployment But that such a Frame and Structure of Ecclesiasticall Authority as is at present in Scotland erected such Administrations of Censures with corporall Penalties and an absolute subserviency of the Secular Power of their Nation for their pursuit and setting on that such a worldly Jurisdiction over the men of the world as is there exercised amongst them is the genuine issue of Reformation according to the Word of God we are not as yet able to apprehend rather it seems to savour of the old Babylonish Leaven which in due time the Lord will remove And we professe sincerely That although our hearts have been often pained within us for the many Errors and Misperswasions about the things of God with Blasphemies and Reproaches of his Name that have broken forth amongst us which we hope through his goodnesse are already in a great measure abated yet we cannot apprehend any such danger from them to the true Interest of the Lord Christ and the Gospel as from such Politicall Combinations to persecute and destroy all breaking forth of Light Truth that suit not their present apprehension Is it not from the misguiding of such an Interest that their Kings taking the Covenant is cryed up as such an acceptable Service and Worship of God when their own hearts know full well That he submitted unto it as a hard Imposition in a Civill Treaty for the change of his condition from Banishment unto a Crown which whither it may be looked on as the performance of a Duty in a Gospel-way We doubt not but the Assembly will one day be able to d●scern To the People of SCOTLAND Especially to those amongst them that know and fear the Lord from whom yesterday we received a Paper Intituled From the People of Scotland To the under-Officers and Souldiers of the English Army We the under-Officers and Souldiers of the English Army do send greeting AT the beginning of the late great and wonderful workings of God in these two Nations of England and Scotland we the under-Officers and Souldiers of the English Army now in Scotland were most of us if not all men of privat Callings and not at all interested in matters of Publique and State affairs but yet very many of us in whom the Lord had begun to reveal himself in the face of Jesus Christ were sensible of the Antichristian Tyranny that was exercised by the late King and his Prelates over the Consciences Bodies Estates of the true spiritual Church of Jesus Christ namely those that were born again and united to him by his Spirit who were then by that Antichristian Crue termed Puritans Sectaries Schismaticks c. and for not conforming to all the Canons Ordinances of their National Church were frequently imprisoned banished otherwise grievously molested at the pleasure of those that then ruled amongst us Under these sad sufferings of the People of God our souls mourned and understanding by the manifold gracious promises in the Word of God that a time of Deliverance was to be expected to the Church of Christ Destruction and ruine to Babylon our hearts together with all the truly godly in England were

exceedingly stirred up to pray to the Lord even day and night that he would arise to destroy Antichrist save his People Whilst this spirit of prayer was poured forth upon Gods People in England Attempts were made upon Scotland to bring them to a conformity in Religious worship by endeavoring to impose upon them a Popish Service-Book which was through the great goodnes of God by his People in Scotland rejected which made the wrath of the late King and his Prelates wax so hot against them that Scotland 〈…〉 ●erve it self but by coming into England 〈…〉 the godly in England did not then count an Inva●●on to destroy E●gland no more than they do this our prese●t march for the ruine of Scotland but rejoyced to see some appearing against that Antichristian power that had persecuted the Saints and were assured that the Lord was come forth to answer the many prayers and tears that were then poured fort● fo● that purpose And therefore so far as we had a●y oportunity further●d the designs of that Army some of us hazarding ou lives by spreading their Book intituled The Scots Intentions and pleading for the lawfulnesse of their proceedings Let us remember how the Lord was pleased graciously to ●nswer the prayers of his P●op●● at that time in their de●●●●rance from the Army aised by the 〈◊〉 King his Prelates for the destruction of all the People of G d in England and Scotland in so much that soon after Scotland sits in peace enjoyi●● their former Liberties without being imposed upon by the Antichristian Prelacie in England England obtains a Parliament to whom they have oportunity to complain of their grievances and through the great goodnes of God so constituted that grievances are heard and Overtures made by them to the late King for their redresse which was so irksome to his oppressing tyrannical and bloody spirit that he again betakes himself to overthrow the Pa liament by force and to that end entertains the Officers of the Army that had gone forth against our Brethren of Scotland and withdrawing himself from his Parliament an appearance of a Civil War begins which being made known to us the Inferiour Officers and Souldiers of this Army then in our private callings we found our hearts extraordinarily stirred up by the Lord to assist the Parliament against the King being abundantly satisfied in our Judgements and consciences that we were called forth by the Lord to be instrumental to bring about that which was our cont●nual prayer to God viz. the destruction of Antichrist and the deliverance of his Church and People And upon this simple account we engaged not knowing the deep Policies of worldly Statesmen and have ever since hazarded our lives in the hie places of the field where we have seen the wonders of the Lord against all the opposers of this Work of of Jesus Christ whom we have all along seen going with us and making our way plain before us And having these things singly ●n our eye namely the destruction of Antichrist the advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ the deliverance and 〈…〉 Church in the establishment of his Ordinanc●● among●● the● in purity according to his Word the just Civil Liberties of English men We did many of us rejoyce at the Covenant because we found in it a strain to these ends Although some being more enlightened did apprehend it to be so mixt with worldly interest that they justly feared that the interest of Jesus Christ would be onely pretended to and the interest of this World yea of Antichrist himself carryed on under a vizard as we have since had abundant experience of which hath made us we confesse not to Idolize the Covenant as we fear too many do though we trust it will appear before God Angels and Men that we shall ever pursue its true and lawful ends according to the plain and candide meaning thereof though we do not upon every occasion urge the Covenant as we see every party though as far different as Light and Darknes is apt to do the Lord having by his Word and by his Spirit convinced us of our duty therein though there had been no such Covenant at all entered into But when we saw that under the pretence of the Covenant A Corrupt party in Parl●ament by their worldly policy after the War was ended in England and the late Kings Party subdued with the losse of thousands of the lives of Saints whose death is precious in the sight of the Lord did endeavour to set up the King upon his own tearms and with him to establish a National Church-Government not in all things agreeabl● to the word of God but destructive to the just Liberties of the true spiritual Church of Christ which he hath by his own most precious Blood purchased for them and is now come forth to bestow upon them which did sufficiently demonstrate it self by the de lings of the then Master-builders with the Churches of Jesu● Chris● in and about London that were then threatned to be dissolv●d and Laws making for preventing the Communion of Saints with one another except onely in that one publique Form then about to be established to the great astonishment of many of us that had lifted up o●t hands to God and sworn to endeavour a Reformation accord●ng to the Word of God and therefore after much waiting upon G●d by prayer and examining our own hearts about the ends and s● cerity thereof we were abundantly satisfied that it was not onely lawfull but our duty to keep our Arms in our hands till the ends before-mentioned 〈…〉 to that purpose the Army whereof we 〈…〉 and did march up to London to propose to th● 〈…〉 establishment that might be more forthe carrying on of th● 〈◊〉 of Religion and Liberty and though therein we were not at that time successefull yet most wonderfully and graciously preserved by the Lord extraordinarily convinced after much seeking the face of God that our fayling was in endeavouring to set up the King upon any terms he being a man of so much blood that the Lord would have no peace with him nor any that should go about to establish him Whereupon after his own hardned heart had hindred him from yeelding to any overtures that were made to him by the Parliament through whom all the Armies Proposals were to be tend ered And a second War more dangerous then the former contrived by him his son now with you together with those in Scotland that hated us of the Army of England under the name of Sectaries being by the unspeakeable goodnesse and mighty power of God waded through and a second testimony given from heaven to justify the proceedings of his poor servants against that bloody Antichristian brood though with the losse of many precious Saints we were then powerfully convinced that the Lords purpose was to deal with the late King as a man of blood and being perswaded in our Consciences that he and