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A68707	A large declaration concerning the late tumults in Scotland, from their first originalls together with a particular deduction of the seditious practices of the prime leaders of the Covenanters: collected out of their owne foule acts and writings: by which it doth plainly appeare, that religion was onely pretended by those leaders, but nothing lesse intended by them. By the King.	Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1639 (1639)	STC 21906; ESTC S116832	348,621	446

A LARGE DECLARATION CONCERNING THE LATE TUMULTS IN SCOTLAND FROM Their first originalls TOGETHER WITH A PARTICULAR DEDUCTION Of the seditious Practices of the prime Leaders of the Covenanters COLLECTED OUT OF THEIR OWNE foule Acts and Writings By which it doth plainly appeare that Religion was onely pretended by those Leaders but nothing lesse intended by them By the King LONDON Printed by ROBERT YOUNG His Majesties Printer for Scotland Anno Dom. M.DC.XXXIX By the King THough by Our manie Proclamations and Declarations some whereof are printed and others were made by word of mouth by Our high Commissioner the Lord Marquesse of Hamiltoun during the time of his late imployment in Scotland it doth fully appear to all men whose mindes are not distasted with Justice and Government what Our religious care Princely clemencie and unparalleled patience have been for the setling of the late troubles in that Our ancient and native Kingdome of Scotland and for the composing of that State so much of late discomposed and disjointed by the seditious practices of divers impatient of all lawes and government Yet for the further and full satisfaction of all our true hearted and loyall subjects in all Our Kingdomes and for the manifestation of Our Justice and Pietie in Our late proceedings to all abroad especially to those who with Us adhere to the Religion Reformed We have thought good by way of an Historicall Deduction to set downe the true passages of all this businesse that the world may as it were under one view and aspect behold Our gracious and clement comportment towards Our subjects of that Kingdome and the depraved and froward deportment of many of them towards Us their liege Lord and Soveraigne Not doubting but that whosoever shall goe along by the threed of this Our unquestionable Narration will rest fully satisfied in these three points First That the first contrivers and since pursuers of their late wicked Covenant or pretended holy League a name which all good men did abhorre in them of France though following the patterne of all other seditions they did and doe pretend Religion yet nothing was or is lesse intended by them but that they having received from Us full satisfaction to all their desires expressed in any of their Petitions Remonstrances or Declarations yet their persisting in their tumultuous and rebellious courses doth demonstrate to the world their wearinesse of being governed by Us and Our Lawes by Our Councell and other officers put in authoritie by and under Us and an itching humour of having that Our Kingdome governed by a Table of their owne devising consisting of persons of their own chusing A plot of which they are very fond being an abortion of their owne braine but which indeed is such a monstrous birth as the like hath not yet beene born or bred in any Kingdome Jewish Christian or Pagan Secondly That Our promises expressed in Our severall Proclamations and Declarations to Our people were not as the wicked contrivers of that Covenant have ever gone about to make Our subjects beleeve onely verball but sincere and reall and such as Wee doe professe to the whole world in the word of a just and true Prince We doe resolve to make good to all Our subjects of that Our Kingdome As holding it beneath the greatnesse and goodnesse of a just King that the unjust actions of his subjects should occasion in their Soveraigne the least suspicion of breach of promises made by him to them especially when the performance of them shall conduce to the settling of Religion and Peace Thirdly That these men who give themselves out to be the onely Reformers of Religion have taken such a course to undermine and blow up the Religion Reformed by the scandall of Rebellion and Disobedience which so farre as in them lyeth they have gone about to cast upon it that if the Conclave of Rome the severall Colleges or Congregations perpetually sitting at Rome for contriving and effecting the meanes of reducing to the Roman obedience all those Kingdomes and Provinces which have justly departed from them nay and if with both these all the Jesuites and others the most specially combined and sworn enemies to our profession were all assembled in one place and had all their wits and devices concentrated into one conclusion and resolution they could hardly have fallen upon such a way as these pretended Reformers have fallen upon for turning all men out of the pathes of the Reformed Religion or have setled upon such courses which can bespeake no other event but the undoubted overthrow of it at least in that Kingdome unlesse God himselfe from heaven which We hope shall have all their Cobweb contextures in derision For by their particular proceedings truely set downe in this Our Narration it will plainely appeare that their Maximes are the same with the Jesuites their Preachers Sermons have been delivered in the very phrase and stile of Becanus Scippius and Eudaemon Johannes their poore Arguments which they have delivered in their seditious Pamphlets printed or written are taken almost verbatim out of Bellarmine and Suarez as appeareth to Us by Our Royall Father his Monitorie Preface to all Christian Kings and Princes and his Apologie for the Oath of Allegeance and in the Bookes writ by others in defence of them both in all which these arguments are fully answered And that the meanes which they have used to induce a credit of their conclusions with their Proselytes are purely and meerly Jesuiticall fables false reports false prophesies pretended inspirations and divinations of the weaker sexe as if now Herod and Pilate were once againe reconciled for the ruine of Christ and his true Religion and Worship Now if these three particulars by this historicall Relation shall undoubtedly appeare to the unprejudicate Readers whether Our Subjects or Forreiners then We shall little doubt to gaine from them their assent to these Our two just desires First That these proceedings of some of Our subjects whom though they would be accounted the purest Protestants yet by their wicked Protestations you will finde to be the most froward and perverse Protesters that ever did contest with their Soveraigne and his Lawes may not induce an undeserved scandall upon that Religion which We professe For since their conclusions are quite contrary to the Confessions of the severall reformed Churches in their particular Articles both of the Church and of the civill Magistrate as appeareth by the Helvetian French Belgick Polonian Argentine Palatine Genevian Our English and Irish nay and their owne Scotish positive Confession printed amongst the Acts of Parliament of that Our Kingdome and besides the Augustane and all other particular Protestant Confessions of the Lutherans And all the weapons wherewith they now fight against these Protestant conclusions are stollen or borrowed not onely out of the Romane for many of the Romanists fight with Us against them but out of the most rigid Jesuites Magazins why should they not in this quarrell be accounted

adjudged to be so in the case of the Ministers who held an Assembly at Aberdene after it was prorogued by Our royall Father who being cited to compeere before the Lords of the Councell to answer that high contempt and compeering declined the authoritie of Our royall Father and his Councell and appealed to a Generall Assembly and were therefore arraigned of high treason upon that Statute before the Lord chiefe Justice of that Kingdome and after pleading to it by their Advocates were found by a Jurie or Assize guilty of high treason and had received sentence accordingly if Our royall Father out of his singular clemencie and gracious respect to their calling had not reprived them before sentence and only inflicted upon them perpetuall banishment which they did undergoe The Act of Parliament upon which they were arraigned was this The eighth Parliament current holden at Edinburgh the 22. of May in the yeere of God 1584. by the right Excellent right High and Mightie Prince James the Sixt by the grace of God King of Scots and three Estates of this Realme An Act confirming the Kings Majesties royall power over all Estates and subjects within this Realme FOrasmuch as some persons being lately called before the Kings Majestie and his secret Councell to answer upon certaine points to have beene inquired of them concerning some treasonable seditious and contumelious speeches uttered by them in Pulpits Schooles and otherwaies to the disdaine and reproach of his Highnesse his Progenitors and present Councell contemptuously declined the judgement of his Highnesse and his said Councell in that behalfe to the evill example of others to doe the like if timely remedy be not provided Therefore our Soveraign Lord and his three Estates assembled in this present Parliament ratifieth and approveth and perpetually confirmeth the Royall power and authority over all Estates aswell spirituall as temporall within this Realme in the person of the Kings Majestie our Soveraign Lord his Heires and Successors And also statuteth and ordaineth that his Highnesse his Heires and Successors by themselves and their Councells are and in time to come shall be judges competent to all persons his Highnesse subjects of what estate degree function or condition soever they be of Spirituall or Temporall in all matters wherein they or any of them shall be apprehended summoned or charged to answer to such things as shall bee inquired of them by our said Soveraigne Lord and his Councell And that none of them which shall happen to be apprehended called or summoned to the effect aforesaid presume to take in hand to decline the judgement of his Highnesse his Heires and Successors or their Councell in the premises under the paine of treason Their sixth Protestation is nothing but a repetition of that which they have said so oft even unto tediousnesse In their seventh and last they bewray an unexempled boldnesse in avowing their confidence of Our approbation to the integritie of their hearts and peaceablenesse of their waies and actions all this time past when in their owne consciences they doe know that We doe hold and detest their waies and actions as most unpeaceable and seditious And now having taken a short survey of this their Protestation We doe appeale to any man who shall compare it with Our Declaration whether Our gracious Proclamation against which they protested did not rather deserve an humble and hearty acknowledgement of Our many graces and favours towards them with a joyfull and submissive acceptation of them then first to be traduced to the people before it was made for a Proclamation tending to the utter ruine and subversion of the Religion and Lawes of that Church and Kingdome and then afterward to bee encountred in publique with such an impudent insolent seditious and senslesse Protestation And lastly after all this to be railed at in their Pulpits and Our people made to beleeve that that part of it which required subscription to their owne confession of faith but lately sworne and subscribed unto by themselves was a device of the Devill and hatched in Hell as shall appeare by that which followed For the next day being Sunday all the Pulpits of Edinburgh nay and many places where there were no Pulpits for they heard Sermons in many Halls and other profane and common places did ring with bitter invectives and declamations against this Our gracious Declaration especially against that part of it which they conceived would be most satisfactorie to Our people and prove a speciall Antidote for expelling that poyson which they had made them swallow concerning Our declining from the Reformed Religion and inclining to Poperie viz. the subscription to their own confession of faith now commanded by Us For they branded it so with most hideous and horrible names of the very depth and policie of Sathan that the common people who were well perswaded of the pietie of their Preachers could not chuse but imagine that there was some wickednesse in it which their Preachers could and did dive into though they did not One Preacher in his Sermon prayed God to scatter them in Israel and to divide them in Jacob who were the authors of this scattering and divisive counsell Another Preacher in his Pulpit told his people that the urging of this subscription was an Italian and a devillish device first to make them renounce God and perjure themselves and then afterward there was an intention to destroy their bodies and so that this subscription imported no lesse then the destruction both of their bodies and soules These and many more such false feares suggested first from two of the Preachers of Edinburgh and from them transmitted to their fellows throughout the Kingdome did worke so strongly with Our good but simple and seduced people as that they were wrought unto a perswasion that this subscription to their owne confession of faith commanded by Us for removing that false opinion which their Leaders had put into their heads of Our inclination to Poperie was of a farre deeper reach and of more dangerous consequence then if We had been inclined to Poperie indeed still adding That if they did subscribe it now by Our authoritie it could receive no acceptation at Gods hands God rejecting any service done to him by constraint it being very familiar with them at these times to terme obedience to authoritie constraint but when they subscribed it voluntarily or by the perswasion of their Leaders then it was acceptable to God and if they durst have used such a Popish word no question they would have added Meritorious And thus you see with what undutifulnesse Our gracious Declaration was entertained Yet it was not so received by all For first all the Lords of Our Councell amongst whom were some who never seemed to be satisfied before were so fully satisfied and so much overjoyed with this Our gracious Declaration that they did condemne and utterly detest this odious Protestation of the Covenanters whereupon Our Councels Letter of thankes and proffer of

doe professe and protest that as We like God himselfe whose Vicegerent We are have showne Our Selfe all this while slow to anger so now like him We shall shew Our selves ready to forgive upon the repentance of such of Our subjects as have been mis-led their deserting the Heads of their Rebellion and returning to Our obedience Thirdly that We intend to use no armes against that Our Kingdome but onely against some Rebells in it for their apprehension and bringing them to justice Fourthly that such even of those who shall be apprehended shall have their faire and legall tryalls according to the Lawes of that Our Kingdome without the denyall of the least favour which can be allowed them by the course of justice if they will offer and submit their persons to a legall tryall Fifthly that all Our subjects of that Kingdome who shall now adhere unto Us shall be protected and defended by Us in their persons and fortunes with the uttermost of Our power For We professe that We doe not hold it a nationall defection but a revolt of some Rebells who have mis-led a great many of the rest We having a great many subjects of all rankes in that Our Kingdome who for their constancie in their loyaltie and fidelitie towards Us shall justly expect both protection and reward from Us. Sixthly that whosoever shall goe about to make any of Our subjects beleeve that this is a nationall quarrell between these two ancient Kingdomes both now being under Our government shall be punished as a disturber of the peace of both and therefore We exhort and require all Our subjects of both Kingdomes who shall accompanie Us in this journey to live and converse peaceably and lovingly whereby as they shall doe Us most singular and acceptable service so they shall notably disappoint the Heads of that Rebellion who now labour no point so much as this to make Our subjects of that Kingdome beleeve that this journey of Ours bringeth along with it a nationall invasion and if Our subjects of both nations shall keep that friendly and loving correspondence in their attendance upon Us in this journey We doe not doubt but it will be a meanes to tye them in a stronger band of love for ever hereafter when Our Scotish subjects shall here see the alacritie and forwardnesse of the English and the English shall there perceive the alacritie and forwardnesse of the Scotish both of them meeting in this point and center viz. the defence of Our person and of Our Royall Crowne and Dignitie To conclude As We have found the aide and assistance of Our loving subjects here towards this journey so We doe heartily desire their prayers all the time of Our absence for a good successe unto it and that if it be possible We may returne with peace and without the effusion of any drop of Our subjects bloud And We doe require all Our good subjects of that Our Kingdome of Scotland especially the Ministers who should bee the messengers of peace to frame and settle Our subjects minds to the courses and waies of peace and to lead them on in the way of returning to Our obedience who doth resolve to maintaine them in the Religion now established amongst them that so We be not forced to draw Our sword of justice against any of them which in case of their obstinacie how unwillingly We shall doe We call the King of kings to witnesse But if nothing else will serve it must be and their bloud will rest upon their owne heads FINIS Imprinted by ROBERT YOUNG His Majesties Printer for Scotland Anno 1639. The High mighty Monarch Charles by the grace of God King of Great Brittaine France Ireland Defender of the Faith * Observe that the children as well as the rest considered this * And yet these blessed Reformers of Religion in England were the very same men who compiled the English Service Book which the Covenanters have printed and preached to be stuffed full of Idolatrie superstition and poperie * It is not so for the Councell never promised that the Bishops should be removed from the Table but onely that they would make Us acquainted with their Petition * Is it not rather an offence to God to thrust men out of their places before they be tried * And yet afterward in their last instructions they injoyned the severall Commissioners to bring Assessors with them who were to have no voyce in the Assemblie * The contrarie is most true * Our Commissioner never heard any argument to that purpose which could convince a child * Our Commissioner never accepted of it nor conceived it could give satisfaction to any * It doth most evidently tend to the dishonour of God * We desire the Reader to observe that they were affraid of being overthrown in a free generall Assembly and therefore they tooke a course by these private instructions to prevent all freedome in the Assembly and to make sure that none should be chosen a member of it but such of whom they were sure Intolerable presumption Most false * Which offices were in the Church of Christ long before Popery was known or heard of in the world * A pretty act that We must print nothing concerning Ecclesiasticall policie and government unlesse Johnston will give Us leave * A most traiterous act for the very terms and words of it containe high treason * This Blair is he who was expelled the Universitie of Glasgow by the Professors there many yeares since for teaching his Scholars in his Lectures upon Aristotle that Monarchicall government was unlawfull Now for this man to be made by them Professor of Divinitie in the prime Universitie of that Our kingdome whether We can or ought to endure it We leave to the Reader to judge 〈…〉 * There is no divine commandement in Scripture nor example of the Christian Church for ●●bscri●ing any confession without the consent of the supreame Magistrate if he be a Christian. Foure generall considerations of the Declaration * The Lords of Councell did take and were to take this oath as well as any other in the knowne sense of us who commanded it and therefore any Act of Councell for their explanation was unnecessary and it is unjustly affirmed that this Declaration or explanation was made by Our Commissioner for it was made by Vs but published by him at Our Commandement as is plainly expressed in the title of it * But when shall they bee proved to bee contrarie to the word of God * They themselves doe know that this Confession was not framed at first by the Church as the positive Confession was but by one Master Iohn Crage and commanded by the Authoritie of our Royall Father hee did advise with the Church concerning it but they received it from him not he from them * That the supreame Magistrate should as the Sonne of the Church onely receive the meaning of the Church and cause it to bee received by