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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84228	An examination of the Seasonable and necessarie warning concerning present dangers and duties, emitted from the commissioners of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, unto all the members of that Kirk. June 25 1650. Which was printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler, by a servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.	Servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Seasonable and necessary warning and declaration.	1650 (1650)	Wing E3729; Thomason E608_13; ESTC R201955	37,035	48

as Carolus or Jacobus Dei gratiâ and as effective of peace and justice Is there anie thing in it like your Covenant there is nothing in the declare's a judgment there is onely a promise of practice of what is in the power of the partie promising and hee that will not promise to bee true and faithfull to the power under which hee live's will not bee extremely persecuted if hee bee denied the benefit of that Autoritie which hee will not acknowledg But let us ask whether your Covenant was not a greater imposition was there nothing in that which came neer conscience Wee have not time to enlarge onely let us enquire as to Estates what the sweet and meek proceedings amongst us were upon that thing the Covenant worthie to bee had in everlasting detestation wherein the great Name of God who is goodness and sweetness and love must usher in an ugly persecution How manie were turn'd out of Fellowships in the Universitie of Cambridg and out of Livings in the Countrie for no other fault but refusing the Covenant men of great learning and unreprovable life were removed and men of signal duncerie and ignorance and som sufficiently debauched put in denie not this for your friends sakes least I give you a Catalogue both of them and who prefer'd them whom at present I will spare It was put on by your Commissioners when here and pressed by them on all occasions as earnestly as the mark of the Beast no man might have command here nor in Ireland might keep anie Office exercise anie Magistracie unless hee had subscribed that Covenant of a far other nature both in regard of its doubtfulness and its tendencie then this Engagement And certainly with such violence was this thing carried on that had not the good providence of God discovered to our good Patriots here the foul hypocrisie of the Scots Commissioners and their designs to the execution whereof they went furiously on under the veil of this stalking-hors the Covenant it had been imposed with as much Autoritie as the said mark of the Beast that no man should either buy or sell or live who had not taken the Covenant and 't is a mercie worth all it cost that their Invasion delivered us out of that snare And yet these hypocrites complain of offering the Engagement compare them and see the difference And once again remember Thou hypocrite to pull out the beam out of thine own eie c. And for a close of this Paragraph bee persuaded to remember daily before the Lord in your praiers that hee would deliver you from the fascinations of Interest that hee would give you single hearts and fill them with candor and free you from this gross hypocrisie and from those temptations that are suggested to you from the pride of your own spirits and impotent desires of Domination that hee would discover to you the extreme ignorance and darkness you lie under and that hee would give you hearts to love the truth and embrace it by whatsoever means it bee offered to your apprehension And if you will do this and do it with humilitie and resignation The Lord who is long suffering and verie ready to forgive full of goodness and mercie and love and that wait's that hee may bee gracious may pardon the Errors of your blinde zeal and all those things that you have don in ignorance and unbelief and deliver you from these temptations of darkness The Warning 3 This partie after that they have acted such things in England and also sore afflicted and oppressed our brethren in Ireland now conceiving that they cannot bee established and that they cannot eat the fruit of their own devices without contradiction as long as the Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland stand's in their waie threaten us with a War by drawing their Forces Northward and sending them in smal parties towards the Border that it may the less bee 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 bee feared that the Gangrene of their errors may take hold upon men of ignorant and unstable mindes who have not received the love of Truth so may wee if they prevail look for confusion and desolation and that the Pillars both of Religion and Government shall bee ruined and razed in this as well as in our neighbor-land It doth therefore in the first place concern all the Inhabitants of this Nation to draw near to God and to mourn for their own iniquities and for all the ignorance and prophanitie 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 sins for which formerly wee seemed to have been humbled doth doutless greiv the spirit of God and may if they bee 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 trie our waies and turn again to the Lord Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens that hee may spare and save his people that they bee not a prey to the enemie The Answer 3 What the things are that wee have acted in England wee hold out to all the world and with humilitie rejoice that God hath owned us in them and given success to our endeavors and made us the Instrument in his hand even as a threshing Instrument having teeth whereby hee hath cast down Tyrannie and established to us the just libertie of the Sons of Adam And hath shewed us so far his face and favor in it as wee are confident that hee will not onely not pull down what hee hath begun to build but given therein a specimen of that libertie which his goodness will bless the world withall as a fit state wherein that Justice and Righteousnes shall excuse it self which shall bee set up as a triumphal Arch through which the King of glorie and the King of peace shall enter into The administrations of the Kingdoms of the world which wee exspect shall becom the Lords and his Christs in the which hee shall reign while the earth shall bee full of the knowledg of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea while you object those things wee glorie in them and shall wear them as our Crown As for the affliction and oppression of their Brethren in Ireland wee know of no such oppression Wee have indeed endeavored to reduce that Island as having a just claim to it and to chastize the Irish Rebels whom wee think they will not call Brethren And wee have also made som of the Scottish Rebels to taste of the fruit of their doings in rebelling against this Common-wealth in whose pay some of them were at the instigation of their wofully ignorant and petulant Presbyterie at

vvould bee Presbyterians In the mean time entertaining you in their thoughts expressed in plain language among their confederates vvith a perfect hatred and scorn 'T is true the vvay they vvere excluded by vvas extraordinarie and the cure Emperical but yet necessarie those votes of darkness vvhen they setup all night to ruine themselvs and the Nation vvere a sufficient Diagnostick of so prevailing a corruption in the vvhole mass beyond the power of nature to reduce a right complexion and temper and a clear indication of the necessitie of a present and extrordinarie remedie vvithout vvhich both vvee and you too notwithstanding your ambition bred credulitie of the contrarie had long before this time been destroyed by that partie which is still the common Enemie what ever they make you believ to the contrarie and posteritie reduced to as bad a slaverie under the late Tyrant as that which is exercised by you over the poor blinde people who have given up themselvs to the impositions of your Consistorialor Classical mercies And now wee must ask you whether somthing more than this hath not been don in Scotland Whether was not that Parlament which decreed the Invasion of England by Hamilton a true Parlament if not give us som rule by which wee may distinguish one from another Whether that Parlament was not still in beeing after your Armie was destroyed in England Whether were not som forces raised against that Parlament and they driven from Edinburgh while they were yet a Parlament or Committee of Estates by the power of that Parlament and had a power of conveneing it again upon any Emergencies Whether when a part of the English Forces which had destroyed your Armie in England was marched into Scotland did you not by their countenance and assistance dissipate and disband the remaining part of your Parlaments Armie And did you not then while your other Parlament was in beeing call another Parlament and ordered the Elections by previous rules given by your Armie for the seclusion or exclusion from Elections for that ensuing Parlament all which as you thought fit to describe and characterize And was not your present Parlament thus elected Now let 's see how this action in Scotland agree's with or differ's from this in England In England here was an Armie raised by Autoritie of Parlament and Commissionated to destroie all the forces of the late Tyrant These understood of a sort of men adhering to that Tyrant and labouring though without Arms to re-inthrone him They prevent it they dissipate the Conspirators against whom becaus they found them not in Arms they proceeded not to blood they took away the corrupt part and left that which was found to serv the Common-wealth and this is their Crime and for this they are complained of and as much nois made about it as David made for his Absolom against whose rebellion the Generals own execution of him and without a Councell of War too had put his Master whom he served in safetie They who quarrell this Act of the Armie may do well to read Joabs answer to David perhaps it may satisfie them Indeed it 's true it fell out in this case as in all Emperical Cures that som were secluded and some have thereupon absented themselves as beeing unsatisfied of it which it were much to bee wished were in the service of the Commonwealth and that those to whom that work was committed had been better informed of particulars which was scarce possible for them to bee in that short time wherein 't was necessarie for the life of our liberties that somthing extraordinarie must bee done for cure And wee doubt not but they now see a necessitie of what was don though they approved not the doing and will again contribute their services faithsully to the Common-wealth In England the same Parlament continu's and act's though som Members be secluded In Scotland Forces are raised by private persons drive away their Committee of Estates in whom was the power of the Parlament as to most things disband the Armie of their Parlament do not onely seclude som Members but seclude their whole Parlament and set it by and call another by the power of that Armie by private hand raised and commanded and in that call seclude as was said à parte antè making whom they pleas uncapable of Election or of sitting in Parlament secluding what Lords they pleas also from sitting in their Hous And this Parlament thus called is that which hath treated with their King by their Commissioners and so humbly besought him to vouchsafe to put his yoak upon their necks This is the brief of both the Cases and now let any but themselvs judg But ô yee Commissioners of the Kirk why did you not tell the vvhose truth Were not an ingenuous confession better then a Conviction O that you could blush a little that vvee might have some hope of you Judg your selvs for once and do thus no more do not thus dance in a net and think to impose upon the ignorant those that are knovving vvill discover your nakedness and men shall see your shame Thou hypocrite first pluck out the beam out of thine own eye c. Wee shal break proportion in this Paragraph but however wee must have one word more to what follow 's about the Engagement about which they are grievously afflicted for that it is an oppression not onely upon the bodies and Estates but upon the consciences also of their brethren What is it trouble's them they would not have people promise to bee true and faithful to that power under whose protection through the mercie of God they live and enjoie or might do if it were not for these their fals Brethren and their seduced adherents as full and secure a peace and all the consequences of it as can bee enjoyed here below What trouble 's them in the present Government are not the same Laws still in force that were Is not Westminster-Hall still open and the Courts there both of Equitie and Law sitting in their times as formerly Is not Justice in all Cases both Civil and Criminal brought to the peoples doors as freely as in the best times part Are not manie grievances of the former Tyrannie heretofore complained of taken off and that great one which remain's viz. the necessarie Levies of Money is it not their own fault might not that also bee taken off if the people would see their true Interest and keep to it if they would cordially keep this quarrel'd Engagement in beeing true and faithful to the Power that protect's them and not bee fool'd by the Scots and the partizans of their King into a disobedience which will certainly ruine them not more by just punishment for it then by the natural productions of it if they could bee so unhapple as to bring their endeavors into act But what is it in this that lie's so heavie upon their consciences is not Custodes lihertatis Angliae as Canonical