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A56200	Sad and serious politicall considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Protestant brethren in Scotland, their late great overthrow, and the probable dangerous consequences thereof to both nations and the Prorestant [sic] religion which may serve as a satisfactory apology for such ministers and people, who out of conscience did not observe the publike thanksgiving against their covenant, for the great slaughter of those their brethren in covenant.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing P4058; ESTC R5356	63,285	75

Sad and serious Politicall CONSIDERATIONS Touching the invasive War against our Presbyterian Protestant Brethren in Scotland their late great Overthrow and the probable dangerous consequences thereof to both Nations and the Prorestant Religion Which may serve as a SATISFACTORY APOLOGY for such Ministers and People who out of Conscience did not observe the publike Thanksgiving against their Covenant for the great slaughter of those their Brethren in Covenant Printed in the Yeer 1650. Sad and Serious Politicall Considerations THE English Independents new invasive War against their Presbyterian Protestant Brethren of Scotland and late great rout and slaughter of their Army meeting with variety of censures and constructions according to the dive●sity of mens inclinations and interests some prudent Christians ingaged to no parties whose interest is onely the preservation propagation and safety of the reformed Protestant Religion against the common Enemies and Underminers thereof have these sad melancholy apprehensions thereof That it is a dolefull Prologue and tragicall Scene not onely to the approaching ruine and desolation of both Kingdoms for their manifold crying sins but likewise to the speedy subversion of the true Protestant Religion and extirpation of all zealous Professors thereof through our three Kingdoms and in forraigne parts upon these ensuing considerations 1. That the Kingdoms of England and Scotland make up the greatest Body of the Protestant Religion in Christendom being best able to defend themselves and succour other Reformed Churches when indangered and designed to ruine by Popish Enemies as the Lords and Commons declared long since in their Protestation to this Kingdom and the whole world 22. Octob. 1642. and in their Order of the seventh of October 1643. And therefore the ruine of the Protestant Party in these Kingdoms is the readiest way to indanger conquer ruine all other Reformed Churches in the world and extirpate the Protestant Religion in all other Countries as they there likewise Declare 2. That the Pope of Rome Jesuites Priests Papists and their Confederates upon this ground have for many years last past by open force and secret practices endeavo●red the extirpation of the Protestant Religion and most zealous Professors thereof throughout these Kingdoms and made it their chiefest designe to reduce them to their pristine obedience to the See of Rome which by the Popish Negotiations with Spain the Papisticall Match with France the Agency of the Popes Nuncio's the practices of Priests and Jesuites in England countenanced and protected against the force of Lawes and the confederacy of Popish Prelates Clergie-men and Courtiers with them in these Designes they had almost totally accomplished and brought to full perfection in all our Realms as the whole House of Commons in their Remonstrance of the state of the Kingdom 15. Decemb. 1641. and other subsequent Declarations and they and the Scottish Commissioners in their Impeachments against the Archbishop of Canterbury largely remonstrate 3. That the most zealous Protestants then branded with the name of Puritans and Presbyterians in England and Scotland were the principall and only obstacles to the finishing of this their neare compleated Work Whereupon the Jesuiticall Popish and Prelaticall prevailing F●ction resolved to root them out of this Kingdom by force or drive them out with fear and rid them all out of the way For the better effecting whereof they thought it necessary to reduce Scotland to such Popish Superstitions and Innovations as might make them apt to joyn with England in that great change which was intended Whereupon new Popish Canons and a Liturgy reformed much after the modell of the Papists Mis●alls were prest upon them and all the Arminian and Popish Doctrines broached maintained and new Popish Ceremonies practised in England were in deavoured to be planted and set up in Scotland 4. That this their dangerous ripened Designe finding no publike but onely private opposition in England by particular persons who were ●ined pillori'd stigmatized deprived of their ears close imprisoned banished and ruined by the Star-Chamber and High-Commission to the publike terror of all others thereupon the Scottish Puritans and Presbyters were the first visible Instruments raised by God to give a publique check to their successefull design beyond their or our expectations 5. That hereupon the Jesuiticall and Prelaticall Popish Party raised two severall Armies successively to suppresse and extirpate the Puritan and Presbyterian Party in Scotland as the only remo●a's to their design and were most active and forwards in their leavies and contributions against them indeavouring to ingage the Protestant Party in both Nations in a bloudy civill War●e to their mutuall ruine to which the Puritan and Religious party in England were most averse First privately murmuring and afterwards publiquely protesting against this Warre as dishonourable and dangerous to Religion and both Kingdomes in the Parliament in April 1640. purposely summoned to raise moneys to carry on that War which they refused to grant to so ill a purpose and did all they could to blast their malicious designs and warre against Scotland whereupon the Popish party caused that Parliament to be dissolved and did all they could by violent arbitrary courses and illegall Loanes and Taxes to raise Forces and moneys to maintain a warre against them imprisoning and prosecuting those who resisted or refused to assist them in this warre in the self-same manner as those in present power have done divers of their Christian Brethren for manifesting their dislike and backwardnesse to assist them in this ungodly invasive warre against their Protestant Brethren in Covenant against many publique Ingag●ments and not giving publique thanks to God for their late overthrow 6. That the Scotti●h Puritans and Presbyterians advance with their Army into England in the year 1640. of purpose to preserve the Religion and protect themselves and their English Brethren from slavery and ruine was the pri●cicipall and only means under God of preventing their own and our thraldome to no p●ry and Tyranny of frustrating all the Jesuites Papists and Prela●es designs of securing Religion Laws Liberties and conve●ing the last Parliament which through Gods blessing on their indeavours through the assistance of the Scottish Commissioners and countenance of their Army over-powered the Popish and Prelaticall Faction brake all their former Projects in pieces suppressed all their Popish Innovations Doctrinall and Ceremoniall reconciled the differences between both Nations setled a firm unity and amity between them by an Act of Oblivion and Pacification abolished the High-Commission Star-Chamber Extravagances of the Councell-Table the Bishops Courts and Votes in Parliament Ship-money Impositions and all other illegall Taxes quickned the Laws against Jesuites Priests and Popish Recusants passed a Law for Triennuall Parliaments and another against the untimely adjourning proroguing and dissolving of themselves at the Kings own pleasure and thereby put our Religion Laws Liberties and Properti●s in a farre better condition of security and the Popish and Prelaticall party into a farre

of the Commons House addicted to the Presbyterian Government suppressed the whole House of Lords disinherited the Kings Posterity of the Crown subverted the fundamentall Government of the Kingdome usurped all Regall and Parliamentall Authority to themselves and by colour thereof now trample all Laws Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament under feet remove all or most zealous Presbyterians though never so eminent Actors and sufferers for Religion and the publique weal out of all Offices and places of power and Trust throughout th● Nation discourage and discountenance all or most Pr●sbyterian Ministers especially the most pious banish some imprison others recall the Sequestrations and substract the A●gmentations and Tithes of all or most of them to starve and ruine them withdraw themselves from their Ministery suborn or tolerate their monethly Prognosticators and Diurnalists to revile and rail openly against them in print without the least controul and to prognosticate their and their Presbyterian Gouernments downfall to incense the people against them and it invent and prescribe new Oaths Ingagements Publications Observations of Thanksgivings and Humiliations and other snares and engines thereby to insnare either their Consciences or indanger their Estat●s Liberties Ministery Persons in their plundring Committees and new Arbitary Judicatories declare against the solemn League and Covenant as expired abolished yea and dangerous and unlawfull to be kept set up and inforce an Anti-Covenant Engagement to frustrate null and abjure it debar all from all publike Offices Pref●rments Augmentations degrees of Learning the practise of the Law and the very benefit of the Laws of England for which we have so long contested with the Kings Party who will not out of conscience or Loyalty subscribe it oppose and traduce the Presbyterian Government as Papall Antichristian and Tyrannicall exempt all S●ctaries whatsoever from all Penall Laws in not repairing to any publike Ordinances or Churches Authorize them freely to meet when and where they please in private Conventicles where running Priests and Jesuites may and wil easily seduce them without the least danger or disturbance and because their brethren of Scotland stick close to their Presbyterian Government and Covenant and have closed with their King at last according to their Covenant and Allegiance and will not disinherit him as they have done they thereupon have recalled Cromwell out of Ireland from prosecuting the Irish Papists and Royalists made him their Generall instead of the Lord F●irfax and sent him in to Scotland without any real provocation on their part to invade them with an Army where he entred without the least resistance seized some of their Towns and Garrisons provoked them oft times to fight when they declined fighting and at last gave them battle in their own Countrey routed their whole Army and though he lost not forty men in the fight● yet he and his Forces out of their Christian charity cut down near 4000. of them in the pursuit maimed and wounded above 5000. more whereof many are since dead and more like to die took 10000. of them prisoners 5000. whereof are sent Captives into England since which he hath taken Edenborough and Leith prosecutes his Victory with all vigour sends up all the Scots Colours to Westminster where they are publiquely hung up in the Hall for triumph And for this great slaughter and overthrow of our Presbyterian Brethren a solemn publike day of Thanksgiving hath been prescribed to be strictly observed throughout the Nation and celebrated in many places accordingly to involve the whole Nation in a double guilt of their bloud First by their Contributions to pay the Army sent against them next by publike Thanksgiving to God for their destruction and that in those very Churches and places where we not long since lifted up our hands and subscribed our Names when we took the forementioned Leaga● and Covenant in the presence of God himself Angells and men sincerely really and constantly to preserve their Religion in Doctrine Worship Discipline Government and with our Estates and lives mutually to preserve the Right and Priviledges of their Kingdome and Parliam●nt and to bring all to condigne punishment as Malignants Incendiaries and evill Instruments who should indeavour the dividing of one of the Kingdomes from another and each one of us according to our place and Interest to indeavour that both Kingdomes may remain conjoyned in a firm peace and Union to all posterity and that we shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terrour to be divided or withdrawn from this blessed Union which so much concerns the glory of God and good of the Kingdomes but shall all the daies of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all lets and impediments whatsoever c. which how well and really we have performed let that Almighty God the searcher of all hearts● in whose presence and Name we made and subscribed this Covenant judge and our own consciences as we shall answer the contrary at that great day if we seriously repent not of it now whilest we have time and space of repentance given us 13. That upon the due consideration of all these Premises we shall not conclude as some rigid Presbyterians do perchance not without good grounds That this invasive Warre with our Brethren of Scotland is an apparent violation of every clause and branch of the solemn Brotherly League and Covenant and a very strange Act of Ingratitude and Injustice in invading their Kingdom because they will have a King according to their Ancient Constitution Government Laws Covenant and in indeavouring to deprive their King of the Kingdome of Scotland because they have injuriously and per●idiously dispossessed him of his two Kingdoms of Engl●nd and Ireland against their National League and Covenant and other oaths for fear his possession of that his Hereditary Kingdom should be a means to regain the other two which is as unconscionable and unreasonable as if a great Statesman or Commander should wrongfully deprive his Neighbour of all his Lands and goods in a third Parish or County because he hath forcibly dispossessed him of all his Lands and Goods in two other Parishes or Counties that so he might never be able to recover them by suit of Law having no means left to maintain his suit against him but rather infer from thence First that this War with Scotland is not only exe●eding scandalous dishonourable and disadvantagious to all the Professors of the reformed Protestant Religion in both Kingdoms and throughout the Christian world to behold Protestant Brethren in Covenant thus invading slaughtering and destroying each other upon such slender unchristian carnall grounds but ungodly too Secondly That this invasive war and great slaughter of the most zealous Scottish Presbyters is a matter of greatest joy triumph and advantage to the Jesuiticall Popish and Prelaticall party and tending much to the present promotion and future accomplishment of