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truth_n	good_a	lord_n	spirit_n	3,992	5	4.8318	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35111	Severall letters and passages between His Excellency, the Lord Generall Cromwell, and William Dundas, governour of Edinburgh Castle, and the ministers therein, since His Excellencies entrance into Edinburgh whereunto are annexed some quaeries that were then sent to the said governour and ministers.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; Dundas, William, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing C7167; ESTC R18846	7,541	10

he doth abuse it judge It a man speak foolishly ye suffer him gladly because ye are wise if erroneously the truth more appeares by your conviction stop such a mans mouth with sound words that cannot be gain●aid if blasphemously or to the disturbance of the publique Peace let the Civill Magistrate punish them if truly rejoyce in the truth and if you will call our speakings together since we came into Scotland to provoke one another to love and to good works to faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and repentance from dead works to charity and love towards you to pray and mourn for you and for the bitter returns to and incredulity of our professions of love to you of the truth of which we have made our solemn and humble Appeals to the Lord our God which he hath heard and then witnesse to if these things be scandalous to the Kirk and against the Covenant because done by men of civill callings we rejoyce in them notwithstanding what you say For a Conclusion in answer to the witnesse of God upon our solemn Appeal you say you have not so learned Christ to hang the equity of your Cause upon events We could wish blindnesse bath not been upon your eyes to all those marvellous dispensations which God hath wrought lately in England But did not you solemnly Appeal and Pray did not we do so too and ought not you and we to think with fear and trembling of the Hand of the great God in these mighty and strange appearances of his but can steightly call it an Event Were not both yours and our expectations renewed from time to time whilest we waited upon God to see which way he would manifest himselfe upon our Appeals And shall we after all these our Prayers Fastings Tears expectations and solemn Appeals call these bare Events The Lord pitie you surely we fear because it hath been a mercifull and gracious deliverance to us I beseech yo● in the Bowels of Christ search after the minde of the Lord in it towards you and we shall help you by our prayers that you may finde it out for ye● if we know our hearts at all our Bowels do in Christ Jesus earn after the godly in Scotland We know there are stumbling-blocks which hinder you The Personall prejudices you have taken up against us and our wayes wherein we cannot but think some occasion has been given and for which we mourn the apprehension you have that we have hindered the glorious Reformation you think you were upon I am perswaded these and such like binde you up from an understanding and yeelding to the minde of God in this great day of his Power and Visitation and if I be rightly informed the late blow you received is attributed to prophane Councels and Conduct and mixtures in your Armie and such like The naturall man will not finde out the cause look up to the Lord that he may tell it you which that he would do shall be the fervent prayers of Your loving friend and servant O CROMWELL Edinburgh 12. Septem. 1670. For the Governour of Edinburgh Castle these TH●se Queries are sent not to reproach you but in the love of Christ laying the before you we being perswaded in the Lord that there is a Truth in them which we earnestly desi●e may not be laid aside unsought after by any prejudice either against the things themselves or the unworthenesse or weaknesse of the person that offers them If you turn at the Lords reproofs he will power out his Spirit upon you and you shall understand his words and they will guide you to a blessed Reformation indeed even to one according to the Word and such as the People of God wait for wherein you will find us and all Saints ready to rejoyce and serve you to the utmost in our places and Callings 1. Whether the Lords Controverse be not both against the Ministers in Scotland and England for wre●●…ing straining and improving the Covenant against the Godly and Saints in England of the same Faith with then in every Fundamentall even to bitter perfection and so making that which in the main intention was Spirituall to serve politicks and carnall ends even in that part especially which was Spirituall and did look to the glory of God and the comfort of his people 2. Whether the Lords Controversie may not be for your and the Ministers in England sullennesse at and darkning and not beholding the glory of Gods wonderfull dispensations in this Series of his Providences in England Ireland and Scotland both now and formerly through envie at Instruments and because the things did not work forth your Platforme and the great God did not come down to your mindes and thoughts 3 Whether you carrying on a Reformation so much by you spoken of have not probably been subject to some mistakes in your own judgments about some parts of the same laying so much stresse thereupon as hath been a temptation to you even to break the law of Love towards your Brethren and those Christ hath regenerated even to the reviling and persecuting of them or to stir up wicked men to do the same for your Forms sake or but some parts of it 4 Whether if your Reformation be so perfect and so spirituall be indeed the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus it will need such carnall policies such fleshly mixtures such unsincere actings as to pretend to cry downe all Malignants and yet receive and set up the Head of them and so act for the Kingdom of Christ in his Name and upon advantage there of and to publish so false a Paper so full of specious pretences to piety as the fruit and effect of his repentance to deceive the mindes of all the godly in England Ireland and Scotland you in your own consciences knowing with what regreat he did it and with what importunities and threats he was brought to do it and how much to this very day he is against it and whether this be not a high provocation of the Lord in so grossely dissembling with him and his People For the right Honourable the Commander in Chief of the English Army My Lord Your Papers I have communicated to these with me whom they concerned who have desired me to return this answer The Contents of these Papers do concern the publick differences betwixt you and those of the three Kingdomes who have faithfully adhered to the Solemn League and Covenant and are awed by the oath of God from accession to the guiltinesse of clear and evident breaches of Covenant and have been so often and fully answered in the publick Papers of this Kirk and Kingdom In the resolutions of the Assembly of Divines in England and in the published Writings of the soundest Divines there yea and of all the reformed Kirks That they conceive it needlesse though a matter of no great difficulty to give a particular answer especially since the late Generall Assembly have authorized their Commissioners to take into consideration matters of publick concernment to this Kirk unto whom if you please you may hereafter direct Papers of that kind In the mean time they rest fully perswaded in their minds that the event of a battel though ordered by a just and wise providence is no infallible proof of the equity or iniquity of a Cause seeing there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked to him that sweareth and to him that feareth an oath as it is clear in the cause of Israel against Benjamin about the men of Gibeah I am My Lord Your most humble servant W. Dundas 12. Septem. 1650. Finis