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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94277	The Scotch souldiers speech concerning the Kings coronation-oath.	Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 1612-1650, attributed name.	1647 (1647)	Wing S963; Thomason E387_2; ESTC R201491	10,572	18

both in Church ●nd State which he is sworne and hath so often deeply protested and declared to maintaine Good God! what shall we say to this whether shall we cause our shame to slye to whom shall we appeale for excuses shall we ascend up into heaven for them Loe there we shall find all the Saints and Angels of God who continually behold the face of their heavenly Father detesting those new doctrines of forcing the Kings conscience contrary to his Oath as such whereof all the Patriarches and Prophets and Martyrs of God were formerly ignorant Shall we appeale unto men behold Ireland conquered our owne Country up in Armes the greatest part of the Nobility and Gentry and all the heads of the Universities together with the learned part of the Clergie of England detesting our actions with as much abomination as ever the Egyptians hated the profession of Shepherds and if we had put the case at the election of the Parliament members if the King will not contrary to his Oath taken at his Coronation consent to the pulling down of Episcopacy and alteration of the Church Government whether or no it be the Subjects minds by force of Armes to compell him thereunto contrary to his Oath and conscience all people would have been ready to stone us as not thinking it possible that such horrid impieties should enter into the hearts or thoughts of the great Councell of the kingdome and certainly if we had ingenuously confessed the truth at first without the cloake of a thorough Reformation or of fetching evill Councellers from the King we should never have raised so great a power and if we look beyond the Seas we are accounted the shame of Christians and the scorn of Christianity yea even all Protestant Churches when they are really informed against what principles we have proceeded will hate and detest our actions shall we ransacke the sacred Scriptures I have shewed you before against what divine precepts we have proceeded but behold there indeed the pure fountaines of living water blundred and abused for the justification of our cause when one shall tell us that we may fight against our King because it is written Thou shalt binde their Kings in chaines and their Nobles with linckes of Iron Another blaspheming the King with horrid slanders shall conclude that Tophet was prepared of old yea for the King it was prepared And a third as though he would fore-prophecye of the Kings destruction saith though Jeconiah were the signet upon my right hand yet will I plucke him from thence Are not these horrid things such as would make a dumbe man speake and a wise man dumbe with horrour and amazement If fellow Souldiers you intend to be ruled by the Scripture let me put you a Scripture-case in Sauls seeking to make havocke of the Gibeonites contrary to the Oath given them you may observe how this Oath was obtained by fraud and a lye that it was expresly against the Covenant of Promise given to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and afterwards to Moses Aaron and the people that it was given rashly without asking counsell of God and to a people by Nation heathens by Religion Idolaters and by condition vassals to be drawers of water and hewers of wood that what Saul did was at the least 300 yeares after the Oath given in which time that Oath may seeme to some to be antiquated and that he did it in zeale to the people of Israel But what the successe the bloud of the men shed by reason of this perjury cryed aloud to heaven for vengeance Gods eares were opened to their cries he punisheth the whole Land with Famine and would not be paci●ied but with the hanging up of almost all Sauls Posterity are not these things written for our instruction and what judgements thinke we shall attend us if we force the King to violate that Oath which his Majestie tooke by the Lawes of the Kingdome for the preservation of Gods and the Churches Rights shall we then looke within us and there make boasts of the Spirit but if Gods Word be the tryall of the Spirit that Spirit which is repugnant to the Word of God cannot be the Spirit of God Gods Spirit comes to us in Truth not in Perjury in meeknesse in the forme of a Dove not of an Eagle or with Vultures tallons to steale flesh from the Altar and we know this to be the difference between the spirit of Truth and the spirit of Errour that Truth desireth nothing but the armes of righteousnesse the armes of Prayer and teares and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to fight for the profession hereof against their lawfull Kings the Doctrines of setting Kingdome against Kingdome and Nation against Nation by forreigne Wars and of setting the Father against the Son and the Son against the Father by civill dissentions are the Doctrines of those false Christs who shall deceive many and are reserved for the worst of times to be maintained by the worst of men who by their boasting of the Spirit fill the Church with Heresies and Schismes the Kingdome with Rebellion and the world with confusion shall we plead the Votes and Orders of the Parliament of England or the Nationall Covenant what were this but under pretence of pulling downe Popery to set up Idolatry and to lay aside all the Lawes of God for the Covenant and for the Votes and Orders of the Houses but if the Covenant be to maintaine Religion and the Kings honour we shall then truly performe the Covenant in both when we detest those Doctrines and actions that dishonour God and the King by accursed Perjury and that were a Covenant with hell that should covenant to force the King to forsweare himselfe But tell me I pray you is it the Votes and Orders of the Houses and the Covenant or the Commandements of God that shall justifie or condemne us the last day shall we plead the Lawes of England but I pray you what Lawes can be of force to mate themselves against the Lawes of God and what Lawes of the Kingdome were ever produced to justifie the raising of a Militia and the calling in of Forraine ayde and joyning in Covenants thereby to force the Kings violation of his Coronation Oath Againe if we beleeve them that are professed in those Lawes they lay this as a maxime that no Law Statute or Custome which is either against the Law of God or Principles of Nature can be of any validity or force but are voyd and null in Law they say further that therefore this Oath was by the Fundamentall Lawes and constitutions of the Kingdome presented to his Majesty of purpose to bind his conscience to preserve the Ecclesiasticall Rights for the comfort and encouragement of true Piety and Learning that as the Lawes and Statutes of Articuli Cleri and other recordes should bind the hands of the subjects so this Oath should binde the conscience of the King from

THE SCOTCH SOULDIERS SPEECH CONCERNING THE KINGS Coronation-Oath Printed in the Yeare 1647. THE Scotch Souldiers Speech concerning the Kings Coronation Oath GEntlemen fellow Souldiers though as a Scotchman I may be plaine and a Souldier blunt yet I hope as a Christian I shall be honest and as a Subject loyall in the expression of that duty which by the Laws of God of nature of the Kingdome of gratitude and of humanity is due to one who is by Soveraigne Majesty our King by birth our Countryman by education a Protestant by profession and actions a most pious Prince and by his gratious compliance with us confident in our loyalty the confluence of which obligements hath made all the powers of heaven and earth to stand as it were in amaze being big with expectations to see how well or ill we deport our selves in this businesse of such high concernment Who knowes but that the divine providence hath sent his Majesty to us that we might be made the happy instruments of a well grounded peace and of restoring Religion to its purity the Church to its Rights the King to his Prerogative and Lawes to their chanell the Nobility and Gentry to their honours and estates and the people to their Liberties if we resolve upon these things we may crown our Nation with honour but if unworthy thoughts possesse our soules we may justly feare that although salvation may come some other way yet we and our party shall perish It is true that we have an hard game to play but having the chiefe triumph trump in our owne hands besides so many honours we shall prove but ill Gamesters if we be not gainers by the deale and give Religion and Justice their due besides the saving of our owne stakes but for the effecting hereof it behooveth us to looke with our owne eyes and not through those spectacles or prospectives through which others present matters unto us we have hitherto been made beleeve that the end and design of all this war was to fetch the King from his evill Councellour to his Parliament of England his Majesty very often yea even beneath the dignity of so great a Prince desired to comply with them but they instead of accepting his Majesty voted him a prisoner his Majesty having honoured us with his Royall presence there are now no evill Councellours about his there are no Armies to animate his non-compliance what is now the rock of offence beleeve it all the circumstances of this War considered we may justly feare that we have been made but a stale to the designes of those seditious Schismaticks who are now the obstacles of the Kingdomes peace and that they like the Ape made use of the Cats foot to plucke those Chesnuts out of the fire which themselves had designed for their owne palat It behooves us now duly to examine the businesse and we are bound according to the trust reposed in us by his Majesty to vindicate his Majesties Rights and to see her restored to all his legall Prerogatives but shall I tell you the true causes of this present difference and that which we may upon good grounds suspect to be the true occasion of this most horrid and unnaturall War His Majesty at his Coronation in England tooke an Oath in these words I will maintaine and preserve to you the Bishops and to the Churches committed to your charges all Canonicall privileges and I will be your protector and defender to my power by the assistance of God as every good King in his Kingdome in right ought to defend the Bishops and Churches under their government then laying his hand on the booke on the Communion Table He saith these things I have before promised I shall performe and keep so helpe me God and the contents of this booke Here is an Oath able to strike terrour and amazement into the hearts of all the due circumstances there of being considered as well as feare and reverence in his Majesty about the performance of the same it is taken by Gods Anoynted in Gods House at Gods Table upon Gods Booke tendred by Gods Ministers to defend Gods Rights in the presence of Gods people and that with the imprecation of Gods curses and forfeiture of Gods blessings so that if ever any Oath could properly by way of eminency be called the Oath of God this is it His Majesty therefore out of his Princely piety conceiving himselfe bound in duty to God in honour to the Church in Justice to His Subjects and in obedience to Christian principles to maintaine his Oath refuseth to consent to the root and branch bills against the Episcopacy but some whom I will not name forgetfull of his Majesties honour and conscience and resolving to execute their owne designes in altring the government of the Church have raised a Militia and called us into their ayd thereby to force a compliance from his Majesty and the Royall Party with them And now what soule is not astonished what heart doth not bleed whose eares do not tingle to heare that we unhappy we should under the pretence of holy Covenants be made the instruments of such horrid impieties What could the devill and all the fiends of hell have thought on more impious then perjury what more obnoxious to the Church of God then Sacrilege what more rebellious then by force of Armes to compell the King to both what more blasphemous to God and scandalous to Christianity then to do all these things under the name pretence of Religion what was God the God of truth when he gave us the Precept of performing all our Vows and is he now become the God of Perjurie did God detest the withholding of Tythes and Offerings as robbery done to himselfe and is he now become a Patron of Sacrilege did he enjoyn subjection to Superiours as to his owne Ordinances and that upon paine of damnation and is he now become a Generall to Rebels whereby to force the King against his Oath and conscience Heare ô heavens and hearken ô earth if ever any such thing were committed that a great Councell of a Kingdome of Christians of Protestants of Subjects of those that were sworn to defend the Kings rights should countenance tumults connive at assaults upon his Majesty examine the circumstances of his birth to prove Bastardy in him that thereby they might remove him and his Royall Posterity from the Crown raise a Militia against him vote him that he was seduced by evill Counsell that he sought the destruction of the Parliament to bring in Popery and to rule by an arbitrary way vote his Royall Consort to be guilty of high Treason for her loyalty murder his Nobility destroy his Gentry oppresse his Subjects wincke at the blasphemous hew-and-cries of Britannicus and vote his Majesty to prison because out of a pious and princely resolution he is fully bent to maintaine his Oath rather to part from his life and Crowne then from that Religion and Government