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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83946	Englands alarm from the north, vvherein the affaires of Scotland are represented, with the ominous aspect they have to England, to awaken all interests to consider of the nearest conjunction among themselves against the common enemie, who appears in a new disguize, yet as destructive as ever to our lawes, liberties, and priviledges.		1648 (1648)	Wing E2938; Thomason E434_24; ESTC R205279	15,178	23

the cause of the Covenant but have ever opposed Reformation to the utmost of their power and that you may ghuesse by the leaders which way the conduct is like to be you may take their names with their short characters too well known of them The first and great one who steeres most invisibly this Affayre is Duke Hamilton one who loves the Crowne better then the King and yet its thought he acts out of a different and peculiar end the Lord Traquaire a man formerly excommunicated both out of Church and State but now the great Favourite of this Faction the Lord Lanericke a younger Brother to the Duke who can no more live without the Beams of Majesty then the plant without the Sun who was so deare to the King as he made him his Secretary at Newcastle to supply the place of the Lord Digby who can no way exceed him in policy and malignancy the Lord Calender who hath been a Black-bander as secretly disaffected to the Covenant as any of the rest only ingaged by his Leiutenant-Generall-Ship and some particular discontents to Montrosse It s well known how often he hath been at Court within these few monthes I might adde many more But that you may know ex●pede Herculem Can any wise man imagine that these men should now begin to ingage on the interest of the Covenant which they never owned before with any affection and which is so diametrically opposite to their own private ingagements But how ever the Covenant must bear the name or again can we imagine that those who shall stand for the King joyn with the common enemy to set Him in His Throne who refuseth to take the Covenant or give any satisfaction to what is contained in it but only concerning his own Person will ever maintain the Covenant it selfe But let it be granted that there was a reall violation of the Covenant in some particulars and an ingagement should be for that cause as the principle yet it cannot be conceived that the taking in of the common enemy to the quarrell as Assistants will ever manage such an intention with any probable successe but it will rather endanger the whole cause by putting weapons into their hands who aime at the ruine both of the cause and Covenant Ye we know by sad experience many a good end hath been soon left or at least mistaken in the multitude and hurry of Affaires and those we have put much confidence in have found it very easy to dispense with their principles to further their particular and private occasions We began well in England and did set out so fairly as honest and plain dealing men thought every thing would be carried on uniformly in effecting one common end But Proteus never made so many faces and appearances as there hath been changes and alterations in our Affaires Let us now therefore be wise to know the meaning of pretences and principles and not to be terrified from looking after our own good with the name Covenant though spoken by the Scots themselves with never so much zeal and protestations remembring how you have been formerly deceived into a miserable warre by the Name King and Common-Prayer Book Religion is a blessed and happy mercy without which no Nations are secure but when it comes in the hands of Politicians to be made father to their designes you must only look upon it as in their glasse and you are in danger to have it represented in another forme then its own The Historian said of old Specie pietatis in ambitionem delabuntur and its true now men make Religion but the footstoole of some particular advancement they make designes for their own advantage and then intitle Gods name to it that it may be the lesse suspected and ingage mens consciences in it the more freely But that they may not want a sufficient vizard for their own ends they tell us of the increasing of Sectaries and Schismaticks which is both dangerous to the Covenant and State and the Parliament intends to tolerate them against whom they cannot but ingage by the Solemne league and Covenant this is yet a fairer pretence and seemes to be practicall either to good or ruine but if it be well weighed we may see a great fallacie whereby we may be easily deceived The truth is they have given us names and will make it a ground of quarrell with us for being call'd by them the most of these they call Sectaries are honest men who ventured their lives in this Cause and have been and are still faithfull to the State and if there be any difference its in some lesser points of judgement which yet they manage very modestly and peaceably and the wisest men can hardly determine the things themselves Thus strange formidable names are given to honest men that they may be thought to be some strange and desperate creatures not fit to live in this world But I hope English men will know how to call every faithfull man by his right name shortly I would faine know whether there be any Sect or Schisme now or hath ever been known to be like the Sect of the Malignants which yet the Scots do not only tolerate but intend to make use of to suppresse the Sects and Schismes in England Will any man be so mad to hazard his bloud and estate to punish the secred erronious speculations of another mans judgement or will the suppression of them take them in the worst sence countervaile the cost and charges and the hazards that must be run to effect it or can the Scots promise when these are supprest we shall have no more Sects nay can they free us from worse in the Church and State the truth is when they have supprest them they must thinke of dividing among themselves for interests make Sects men will create interests as fast as they see exigencies When the Scots have got the art to beat all mens braines to one noddle and all mens principles and ends to one interest we may happily have some hopes of being free of Sects in the meane while though an eye must be over them and those supprest which are absolutely destructive to the State yet a wary indulgence must be afforded to some lest we make more Sects by persecution of them then before We never had so many Sects untill this warre nor never such names to divide them before the Scots were pleased to baptize them so and we may feare on just grounds a multiplication of other kind of Sects if ever a new war should be promoted for though the ingagement be one at first yet the ends are different in the prosecution By this time I doubt not but you may see into the bottome of that pretence as of the rest English men looke about you a warre is threatned against you great talks there are at Edenburgh of the Parliament of England of the breach of Covenant of vindicating the honour of the King you