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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93371	A letter from Edinburgh, concerning the difference of the proceedings of the well-affected in Scotland from the proceedings of the Army in England.	J. S.	1648 (1648)	Wing S40A; Thomason E536_11; ESTC R203454	8,839	15

acting offensively without Law and against trust which is a ruinous disorder to the State The undertaking of our Nine men was the pursuit of an Engagement opposite to the Covenant and Treaties with England oppressive to all the faithful in the Land and destructive to the peace of the Kingdom and union betwixt the Kingdome but the undertaking of your Parliament was the pursuit of peace by a Personal Treaty with the King which by his condiscensions was in some things brought towards a hopeful issue What the difference is between these two judge ye and thereupon consider what resemblance there is between the opposition which our Nobles and Commissioners made unto the proceedings of our Quorum and the resistance which your Army doth make against the Votes of their Masters the Houses of Parliament tending to the settlement of Peace in the Kingdome As for the manner of our mens proceedings I have shewed you how patiently they endured oppression how they never disturbed the Parliaments counsels nor of the Committee of Estates nor offered violence to their persons but by regular addresses sought the redresses of grievances and by a Treaty did obtain the same Whether your Army hath suffered any oppression from the Parliament or have had any ill usage from them your know better then I that am a stranger but I never heard of any And what the way of their addresses are I need not to expresse you can judge and I will not conjecture what hereafter they may be The professed aim of the well-affected party here is the same which it was formerly To settle the Kingdome in the observance of the Covenant of the Treaties with England and of the known Lawes and constitutions of Government What the aime of your Army is and how constant they are to the Proposals which formerly they made and where they will rest I shall leave it to you to judge and to the event to shew The meanes which our men used to prosecute their aime were a friendly Treaty to lay down Arms on all sides To settle and maintain the just Authority of Government To right the wrong done to England and to call a free Parliament Now what resemblance the wayes of your men have with these judge ye And then tell me where the pretended example is and wherein the comparison can be made between that which we have done and that which your men are doing If it can be shewed in any circumstance or made imaginable to any rationall man I shall acknowledge my ignorance My admiration at a pretence so far out of purpose and so injuriously reproachfull to our Cause together with my zeale to vindicate the reputation of our smeerity by the Righteousnesse of our proceedings hath moved me to the thus large All the ground upon which we can challenge a right to be trusted and believed in that which we do or say that our meaning is upright and without deceit can be no other but the justifiablenesse of our carriage in our constant way that it is orderly in our Calling and answerable to a known Rule But if we keep no Rule or cast off all respect unto that Rule which we are bound to acknowledge and which we have obliged our selves to walk by and if our enterprizes are disproportionate to our Calling and to the principles of our profession in Christianity then we may justly be suspected to be deceivers and not mean truly whatever we pretend Therefore he that is nowhere to be found constant in his pretences nor in his Rules known can deserve no trust nor can he be rationally judged to be sincere because he will naturally shape his Rule according to his Pretences and not his Pretences according to that which is a true Rule He that walks by a Rule denies himself and comes to the light thereof that he may be judged But he that hath no Rule but pretends only now this and then that doth seek himself and is a deceiver who shunneth the light although he may pretend never so much New-light It is a sad thing to see men whom in charity we could not but judge conscionable after great professions and pretensions to the Spirit in the beginning to fall flat and end wholly in the flesh The Lord keep us from this temptation and let him that stands take heed lest he fall I can scarce break off from these troublesome thoughts but they are not so pleasing to me that I should delight to lengthen them Therefore I shall now rest and bid you Farewell who am Edinb 19 Decem. 1648. Your Friend to serve you J. S. FINIS

A LETTER FROM EDINBURGH Concerning The difference of the Proceedings of the Well-affected in SCOTLAND From the Proceedings of The ARMY in ENGLAND LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1648. A Letter from EDINBURGH Concerning the difference of the Proceedings of the Well-affected in Scotland from the Proceedings of the ARMY in England Dated the 19. of Decemb. 1648. SIR I Am much troubled and amazed at that which you relate concerning the late proceedings of your England ARMY but most of all at the pretences which are used to colour the same which are That they follow the example which hath been given them here in Scotland and that they act the Resolutions which our Marquesse of Arguile and your Lieutenant-Generall did conclude at their last meeting Which are things so far dissonant not only from truth but from all likelyhood that I dare confidently say nothing could have been devised either more falfly or with lesse appearance As for the Marquesse I dare pawn all that I am worth in this world that our Noble and faithful Marquesse who hath so freely and often hazarded himself and all that he hath for the true interest of Scotland in maintaining the National Covenant did never agree to any of those undertakings you mention your Army set upon which are most directly opposite to all the purposes and intents of our Covenant For in stead of the Reformation and settlement of Religion it is evident that your men intend to settle nothing but rather to unsettle all both in Church and State by an universal Toleration of all Religions In stead of maintaining the Priviledges of Parliament as the supreme Judicature of your Kingdome they break it in peeces and setling themselves as Judges over it over the King and over the whole Kingdom they effectively undertake to dissolve it Instead of defending the King and his Authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms they set themselves to destroy him and his Race and will have an elective King or none at all Thus the three first Articles of the Covenant are utterly made void In stead of bringing evil Instruments that hinder the Reformation of Religion and divide between the King and his people to condigne punishment their whole way is to overturn that which is setled in the Reformation of Religion and to make a Faction dividing the King from his people which is against the 4. and 5. Articles Nor can they by the principles which they follow be faithful to the 6. Article thereof which is to defend and assist the Covenanters but they rather will become the chief prosecutors of the same Now I am sure that neither my Lord of Argyle nor any of those that manage the publique affairs here at this time would ever give way to any designs from which such breaches of Covenant might ensue nay our zeal and sincerity for the Covenant and for the settlement of all things according to it will be found such That whatever the Kings concessions may be to you or us upon the ratification of a Peace nothing will be satisfactory except the whole matter of the Covenant be approved and the taking thereof be confirmed and enjoyned by Law not being left Arbitrary or to come in under an Act of Oblivion and except also Episcopacie be utterly extirpated root and branch for ever whereupon you seem not to stand much at this present These things are so unalterably determined in our Councels and such fundamental grounds amongst us that it is not possible that those Advices by which your men are acted can have had either their beginning or ever will have their approbation from us or from any that are faithfull to us such as we know the Marquesse of Argile to be As for the other pretence That this undertaking of your Army is done by our example in these our last troubles It is a most notorious falshood and a most injurious calumny against us For which cause I think my self bound to let you see the contrary and how far our actions differ from that which is related of your Army Be pleased therefore to take notice that in all our late proceedings the Party well-affected to the Covenant who were disaffected to the Engagement never made any violent or tumultuous opposition against the Councels of the Parliament but whiles matters were in deliberation the greatest part of the people of this Kingdom petitioned only against the designes of the major part of Parliament which did pursue an Engagement against England contrary to the Covenant and Treaties And when the thing was brought to a result the well-affected Members of Parliament dissented and protested according to the practise of this Kingdom against the engagement Nor did the well-affected here make ever any opposition to the Parliament it self whose Authority is sacred and supreme amongst us whiles they carried on maters which they had resolved Nor was there any opposition made to the councels of the Committee of Estates nor ever any wrong offered to them in their persons but all the opposition which was made was afterward made against a few persons of the Committee of Estates whose illegal proceedings and actual oppression being intolerable they were resisted not only in a way justifiable by the necessity of natural defence but even conformable to the Law of the Land Concerning the Persons which the Parliament nominated to be a Committee of Estates they were above an hundred but when the Parliament was ended Nine of those alone were packt to make a Quorum which could meet at all occasions and did over-rule the whole Kingdome most illegally and tyrannically First their illegal proceedings were such That contrary to all Law they took upon them to impede the execution of Acts of Parliament a power never given unto them nor that could be committed unto any for how can it be supposed that ever any Parliament would or lawfully could give to Deputies a power to alter or suspend the Lawes of the Kingdome and standing Acts of Parliament They caused divers Subjects to take the Oath ex Officio A thing wholly contrary to the Laws of this Kingdome They gave Order to denounce the Marquesse of Argile Rebel before any charge given in against him and other things of this nature were done by them to others whom they did processe for Treason upon a general accusation without setting downe the particulars and without producing any accusers which even the abetters of their owne Councellors were ashamed of Secondly Their actuall Oppressions were such that they caused Souldiers to quarter upon the well-affected with so much cruelty as that in the space of fourteen dayes they exacted in some places to the value of seven years rent by which meanes some families were dissolved and ruined yea they killed women that resisted their insolent and unruly carriages and offered violence to Ministers preaching in the Pulpit interrupting Divine-Worship All which was done without any hope of redresse when petitioned