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<P>A DECLARATION OF THE ARMY OF <HI>ENGLAND,</HI> Upon their March into SCOTLAND.</P>
<P><HI>SIgned in the Name, and by the Appointment of His Excellency the Lord General</HI> Crom|wel, <HI>and His Councel of Officers.</HI> JO: RUSHWORTH Secr.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Veneris,</HI> 19 <HI>Julii,</HI> 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>RE&s;olved by the Parliament, That this Declaration be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Edward Hu&s;band</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to the Parliament of <HI>England. July</HI> 19. 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the Army of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> upon their March into <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>To all that are Saints, and Partakers of the Faith of Gods Elect in</HI> Scotland.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WE the Army of <HI>England,</HI> do from the bottom of our Hearts wi&s;h like <HI>Mercy</HI> and <HI>Truth, Light</HI> and <HI>Liberty</HI> with our &s;elves, from God our Fa|ther, and our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Although we have no cau&s;e to doubt, but that the Declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> bearing date the 26 of <HI>June,</HI> 1650. and publi&s;hed, to manife&s;t to the World the Ju&s;tice and Nece&s;&s;ity of &s;ending their Army into <HI>Scotland,</HI> may &s;atisfie all im|partial and unintere&s;ted men in all the Nations round about us (the matters of Fact therein contained being true, and the Conclu&s;ions made from thence, and the Re&s;olutions thereupon taken, agreeable to the Princi|ples of Religion, Nature and Nations) and therefore it may &s;eem to &s;ome, if not improper, yet &s;uperfluous, for us their Army to &s;ay any more: Yet however, out
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of our tenderne&s;s towards you, whom we look upon as our Brethren, and our de&s;ire to make a di&s;tinction and &s;eparation of you from the re&s;t, as who through the cunning practi&s;es of &s;ome wicked and de&s;igning men, bya&s;&s;ed by particular Intere&s;ts, or for want of a true and right Information, and Repre&s;entation of the great and wonderful Tran&s;actions wrought among&s;t us, and brought to pa&s;s by the meer finger of our God, may po&s;&s;ibly be &s;candalized at &s;ome late actions in <HI>England,</HI> and thereby be involved in that common Cau&s;e, &s;o much from Heaven declared again&s;t, by bla&s;ting all per&s;ons and parties that at any time, in the lea&s;t, under what pretence or di&s;gui&s;e &s;oever en|gaged therein, and &s;o with them to become partakers of their Mi&s;eries.</P>
<P>We have therefore thought fit to &s;peak to &s;ome particulars, and that as in the pre&s;ence of the Lord (to who&s;e Grace, and in the dread of who&s;e Name we do mo&s;t humbly Appeal, and who (&s;hould we come to a day of Engagement) will be a &s;ore Witne&s;s again&s;t us, if we utter the&s;e things in hypocri&s;ie, and not out of bowels of love, to per&s;wade the Hearts and Con|&s;ciences of tho&s;e that are godly in <HI>Scotland</HI>) that &s;o they may be withdrawn from partaking in the &s;in and puni&s;hment of evil doers; or that, at lea&s;t, we might exonerate our &s;elves before God and Man, do Remon&s;trate as followeth:</P>
<P>And for as much as we believe many godly people in <HI>Scotland</HI> are not &s;atisfied with the proceedings of this Nation concerning the death of the late King, the rejection of his I&s;&s;ue, the change of the Government, and &s;everal actions conver&s;ant thereabout. Although
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it cannot be &s;uppo&s;ed that we &s;hall in this Paper meet with all Objections that may be made, (the&s;e very par|ticulars alone requiring more lines then we intend in the whole) Yet we briefly &s;ay, That we were ingaged in a War with the &s;aid King, for the Defence of our Religion and Liberties; and how many times Propo&s;i|tions for a &s;afe and well-grounded Peace were offered to him, and how often he refu&s;ed to con&s;ent thereto, you well know, which according to humane accompt he might have clo&s;ed with, had not the righteous God, who knoweth the deceitful heart of man, and is the pre&s;erver of Mankinde, (e&s;pecially of his people) in his &s;ecret judgement, denyed him a heart to a&s;cent there|to. By which Refu&s;als he made it appear, That no|thing le&s;s would &s;atisfie, then to have it in his own power to de&s;troy Religion and Liberties, the &s;ubver|&s;ion whereof he had &s;o often attempted: That He was a man guilty of more Innocent Blood in <HI>England, Ireland</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> even of tho&s;e he ought to have pre&s;erved, as a Father his Children, then any of his predece&s;&s;ors, or (we think) then any Hi&s;tory menti|oneth, the guilt whereof he brought upon his Family by &s;olemn Appeals to God: That the Son did tread in the Fathers &s;teps, and pur&s;ue his De&s;igns, de&s;tructive to Religion &amp; Liberty: That a party in Parliament, fal&s;e to God and to their tru&s;t, were willing, &amp; did endeavor to betray the Cau&s;e into the late Kings hands: That a remaining number in Parliament, de&s;iring to be true to God, and to the People that intru&s;ted them, (out of Integrity of Heart, and fearing that the high Di&s;plea|&s;ure of God would fall upon them if they had not done it) did bring to Ju&s;tice and cau&s;e to be executed,
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the &s;aid King; did reject the Per&s;on now with you, did lay a&s;ide the Hou&s;e of Lords, (an E&s;tate not re|pre&s;enting the People, nor tru&s;ted with their Liberties, yet at that time very forward to give up the Peoples Rights, and ob&s;truct what might &s;ave them, and al|ways apt enough to joyn with Kingly Intere&s;t again&s;t the Peoples Liberties, whereof we wi&s;h you have not like &s;ad experience) and did, for the good of the peo|ple, re&s;olve the Government into a Commonwealth. And having done all this, that they are not accountable to any other Nation, is &s;ufficient to &s;ay to you, except it be to excite you to rejoyce in this wonderful work of God, and to be thankful to him for &s;o much Deli|verance as you have thereby, and leave the re&s;t to the <HI>State of England,</HI> to whom it doth onely and properly belong, who have manife&s;ted their regular proceed|ings therein, according to the true and equitable intent of the con&s;titution of <HI>England,</HI> and the Repre&s;entors of the people in Parliament, in their &s;everal and re&s;pe|ctive Declarations, if they be looked into, to which we refer you. Be&s;ides, it is worthy con&s;ideration, with how many Providences this <HI>Series</HI> of Action hath bin ble&s;t, which would require a Volumn to recount.</P>
<P>If Treaties be urged again&s;t us, It is ea&s;ie to &s;ay by whom they were broken, and how eminently, even by the then full Authority of the Parliament of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the Inva&s;ion by Duke <HI>Hamilton,</HI> and yet that not the fir&s;t breach neither. And if it be &s;aid, That hath been prote&s;ted again&s;t, and revoked &s;ince; We ask, Doth that make up the breach, &s;o as to challenge <HI>Eng|land</HI> &s;till upon Agreements and Articles; you know, as to Right it doth not, except you &s;uppo&s;e that <HI>Eng|land</HI>
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made their bargain &s;o, That <HI>Scotland</HI> might break, and <HI>England</HI> remain bound; whereas it is a known Law of Nations, That in the breach of the League by the one party, the other is no longer obliged.</P>
<P>If the Covenant be alleaged again&s;t us, this may be &s;aid by us with hone&s;ty and clearne&s;s, Religion having therein the fir&s;t place, civil Liberties the next, the Kings Intere&s;t and con&s;titution of Parliament the la&s;t, and the&s;e with &s;ubordination one to another: The Covenant tyed us to pre&s;erve Religion and Liberty, as the ends of it, even when the&s;e were incon&s;i&s;tent with the pre&s;ervation of the Kings Intere&s;t, and the frame of Parliament; becau&s;e when the means and the end cannot both be enjoyed together, the end is to be preferred before the means. Now that there was a real incon&s;i&s;tency between the end and the means, and that the le&s;&s;er did fight again&s;t the greater, is your own judgement, who in a Book of yours, called, <HI>A nece&s;&s;ary and &s;ea&s;onable Te&s;timony again&s;t Toleration,</HI> &s;ay thus of the two Hou&s;es, pag. 12. <HI>And doubtle&s;s, the Lord is highly di&s;plea&s;ed with their Proceedings in the Treaty at</HI> Newport, <HI>in reference to Religion and Co|venant; concerning which, they accepted of &s;uch Con|ce&s;sions from His Maje&s;ty, as being acquie&s;ced in, were dangerous and de&s;tructive to both.</HI> Had we not then appeared again&s;t the&s;e Conce&s;&s;ions, and likewi&s;e again&s;t tho&s;e of both Hou&s;es who acquie&s;ced in them, had not Religion and Liberty both been de&s;troyed? which now by the ble&s;&s;ing of God are pre&s;erved. And if that action concerning the Parliament de&s;erve a Charge, yet lea&s;t of all from your &s;elves, who when you &s;aw the Parliament which &s;ent Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI>
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with an Army into <HI>England,</HI> proceed in ways de&s;tru|ctive to Religion and Liberty; you countenanced and acted with tho&s;e that ro&s;e up for publique Safety, though contrary to Acts of Parliament, and called a new one, excluding whom you thought fit; all which was done by vertue and authority from the Commit|tee of E&s;tates then &s;itting at <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> which indeed was no Committee (if you re&s;pect formalities) (the breach whereof you &s;o often charge upon us) being con&s;tituted of &s;uch per&s;ons, as by Act of the forego|ing Parliament, had not legal right to &s;it or act there|in; they not having taken the Oath (for faithful di&s;|charge of the Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them, in reference to the late Engagement again&s;t <HI>England</HI>) injoyned by that Parliament to be taken by every Member of the Committee at his fir&s;t &s;itting, or el&s;e to have no place or vote therein, as is fully &s;et down in the Commi&s;&s;ion for the con&s;tituting of that Committee of E&s;tates. We could more particularly &s;et forth how the Com|mittee of E&s;tates there &s;itting, according to the li|teral &s;ence of the aforementioned Commi&s;&s;ion, was broken and driven away, by that force rai&s;ed and acted by you as afore&s;aid: but we &s;pare, not &s;eeking to ju|&s;tifie our actions by yours, but to &s;hew, that you have done the &s;ame things for pre&s;ervation of Religion and Liberty, which you &s;o highly charge as evil upon us. And therefore, we further de&s;ire you &s;eriou&s;ly to con|&s;ider, That the incon&s;i&s;tency of our Religion and Li|berties, with the Kings Intere&s;t and former con&s;titu|tion of Parliament, did not ari&s;e from our jealou&s;ies or pretences, but from the hardne&s;s of the Kings heart, and the back&s;liding of the greater part of tho&s;e
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that were intru&s;ted in the Parliament, by their acqui|e&s;cing in tho&s;e Conce&s;&s;ions, and endeavoring imme|diately to bring in the King upon them. We therefore reckon it no breach, but a Religious keeping of the Covenant according to the equity thereof; when our Parliament for Religion and Liberties &s;ake, and the Intere&s;t of the People, did remove the King and King&s;hip: As al&s;o we a&s;&s;ert our &s;elves <HI>Keepers of the Covenant,</HI> when the competition hath been between the form and &s;ub&s;tance, if we have altered &s;ome forms of the Government in part, for the &s;ub&s;tance &s;ake.</P>
<P>As for the Presbyterial, or any other form of Church Government, they are not by the Covenant to be impo&s;ed by force; yet we do, and are ready to imbrace &s;o much as doth or &s;hall be made appear to us to be according to the Word of God. Are we to be dealt withal as Enemies, becau&s;e we come not to your way? Is all Religion wrapt up in that, or any one Form? Doth that name, or thing, give the difference between tho&s;e that are the Members of Chri&s;t, and tho&s;e that are not? We think not &s;o. We &s;ay, Faith working by love, is the true Character of a Chri&s;tian; and, God is our witne&s;s, in whom&s;oever we &s;ee any thing of Chri&s;t to be, there we reckon our duty to love, waiting for a more plentiful effu&s;ion of the Spirit of God to make all tho&s;e Chri&s;tians, who by the malice of the World are diver&s;ified, and by their own carnal mindedne&s;s do diver&s;ifie them&s;elves by &s;everal Names of Re|proach, to be of one heart and one minde, wor&s;hipping God with one con&s;ent. We are de&s;irous, That tho&s;e who are for the Presbyterial Government, &s;hould have all freedom to enjoy it; and are per&s;waded, That if it
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be &s;o much of God, as &s;ome affirm, if God be tru&s;ted with his own means, which is his Word powerfully and effectually preached, without a too bu&s;ie med|ling with, or engaging the Authorities of the World, it is able to accompli&s;h his good plea&s;ure upon the mindes of men, to produce and e&s;tabli&s;h his purpo&s;es in the World, concerning the Government of his Church. And as for the Bla&s;phemies and Here&s;ies wherewith &s;ome Stati&s;ts among&s;t you have labored to brand us; We can &s;ay, That we do own tho&s;e &s;ound Grounds and Principles of the Chri&s;tian Reli|gion, preached and held by the generality of godly Mini&s;ters and Chri&s;tians of the&s;e later times; abhor|ring from our hearts, and being ready to bear our witne&s;s again&s;t any dete&s;table Bla&s;phemies and He|re&s;ies lately broken out among&s;t us; we have already puni&s;hed &s;ome among&s;t us for Bla&s;phemy, and are fur|ther ready to do it; but how uningeniou&s;ly we have been dealt with by &s;ome among&s;t you, and of our own Countrymen, in heaping Calumnies upon our heads, to render us vile and odious to our Brethren, yea and the whole world, we leave to God to judge, who will, we tru&s;t, in due time make the&s;e things manife&s;t. But were Presbytery thus to be conte&s;ted for, and that in upholding it, all Religion did, and would flouri&s;h; yet, how improbable it is, That the cour&s;e taken by tho&s;e in Authority with you, will produce the things you de&s;ire (to &s;ay no more) let your own experiences a little minde you.</P>
<P>What pretenders were &s;ome Lords and other per|&s;ons in the North of <HI>Ireland,</HI> while&s;t they mingled the Presbyterian with the Kingly Intere&s;t; and the Mi|ni&s;ters
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by their preaching, &s;educed the people from their Obedience to <HI>England,</HI> under the &s;ame pretence: But no &s;ooner had tho&s;e per&s;ons got the power into their own hands, but they &s;hook off the Mini&s;ters, by threatnings, cau&s;ing &s;ome of them to quit the country, and in general, di&s;couraging the exerci&s;e of the Go|vernment there, declaring plainly by their actions, that it was but a device to draw on the Royal Intere&s;t; and tho&s;e very per&s;ons that did get power into their hands under tho&s;e pretences, immediately joyned wirh <HI>Owen Roe O Neal,</HI> and tho&s;e bloody Iri&s;h Rebels upon the Kingly Intere&s;t. It will not be unfit to minde you al&s;o, how the Nobility and &s;ome of the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> Preaching, and crying up a War again&s;t <HI>Eng|land,</HI> under pretence of the Covenant, did thereby lay the foundation to Duke <HI>Hamiltons</HI> getting the command of that Army, who over numbring them in Parliament, power and friends, and by the advantage of Malignants, thru&s;t all that you could call the good party, out of Power and Authority, him&s;elf getting the command of that Army into <HI>England,</HI> and leaving his Brother and other Kindred in power in <HI>Scotland:</HI> Thus upon the &s;ame ground and pretence, to carry on the Kingly Intere&s;t, have you been twice deceived; and now he is brought in among you, who hath turned every &s;tone, and tryed all Friends and Allyes in Foreign parts, endeavored commotions at home by his wicked and Malignant In&s;truments, commi&s;&s;ioned <HI>Rupert,</HI> the <HI>French,</HI> and all that Pyratical Generation, who do &s;poil, take, plunder and de&s;troy our Ships and Trade at Sea, and all to the end he might de&s;troy the people of God, and the peace of the Three Nations: And now
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being by his Mother, and the Popi&s;h Intere&s;ts abroad councelled thereto, hath made a compliance with you, as his la&s;t refuge, who, even while&s;t he was treating with you, had his heart &s;et upon <HI>Montro&s;s</HI> and his Ac|complices (writing Letters, and &s;ending particular Or|ders to him) and upon his Popi&s;h Army in <HI>Ireland,</HI> to whom he had given Commi&s;&s;ions, and whom he &s;till owned as his faithful Subjects, notwith&s;tanding all the Innocent Blood by them &s;hed; and would never be in|duced to comply, or clo&s;e with the Covenant and Pre&s;|bytery, till utterly di&s;appointed of all tho&s;e his Malig|nant and Popi&s;h hopes and confidences.</P>
<P>Is there not now ju&s;t cau&s;e for all good men, with you, to fear, that one &s;o bred, &s;o engaged and intere&s;ted, and meerly in &s;uch a way coming in to you, doth but watch his opportunity (to &s;peak nothing of the weight of the Blood of Saints under the Altar, crying &s;till for Ven|geance upon him and that Family) till by his influence upon your Army (which you know how compo&s;ed) he may gain his ends upon you; and how likewi&s;e the ge|nerality of the people of <HI>Scotland</HI> are affected, is not unworthy of your mo&s;t &s;erious con&s;ideration, nor of a friendly intimation from us.</P>
<P>But that which mo&s;t awakens us, is, That notwith|&s;tanding all this, and all the wrongs done to <HI>England</HI> from <HI>Scotland,</HI> they refu&s;e to do us right; &s;o that what wrongs &s;oever we have, or &s;hall &s;u&s;tain, mu&s;t be without remedy, and we al&s;o without &s;ecurity for the f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">re; as is &s;ufficiently expo&s;tulated in the Parliament of <HI>Englands</HI> Declaration aforementioned, and the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">aid of a perpetual War, by taking our grand <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> into your Bo&s;oms, and your Engagement to
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Him, in the late Treaty with Him, to re&s;tore Him to the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> and therefore we call Heaven and Earth to witne&s;s, Whether or no, we have not cau&s;e to defend our &s;elves by hindring the pre&s;ent power of <HI>Scotland,</HI> from taking their time and advantage to impo&s;e thus upon us: And whether they have now any ju&s;t rea&s;on to wonder at the approach of an Army to their borders, and the taking &s;ome of their Ships by ours; yea, whether our coming into <HI>Scotland</HI> with an Army, upon &s;o clear a ground, be any other, then a ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary defence of our &s;elves, for pre|&s;ervation of tho&s;e Rights and Liberties, which divine Providence hath through the expence of &s;o much blood and trea&s;ure given us, and tho&s;e among&s;t you have engaged, they will if they can wre&s;t from us, unle&s;s it mu&s;t be taken for granted, That the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> ought to &s;it &s;till and be &s;ilent, while&s;t their ruine is contrived, their Friends and Brethren de&s;troy|ed by Sea and Land, whom in Con&s;cience and Duty, both before God and Man, they ought to pre&s;erve.</P>
<P>And now we come to &s;peak to all tho&s;e who are within the compa&s;s of the Title of this Declaration, That we undertake this bu&s;ine&s;s in the fear of God, with bowels full of love, yea, full of pity to the Inha|bitants of the Country; and if it &s;hall plea&s;e God to make <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;en&s;ible of the wrongs done to us, and to give to the Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> a &s;atisfying &s;ecurity again&s;t future injuries, we &s;hall rejoyce. But if that may not be obtained, we &s;hall de&s;ire &s;uch as fear God, not to joyn or have to do with tho&s;e who are the Authors and Actors of &s;o much evil and mi&s;chief again&s;t their Neighbors. And we dare &s;ay, to the prai&s;e
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of God, That that which moves us to this great under|taking, is not any reliance upon the arm of fle&s;h, or be|ing lifted up with the remembrance of former &s;ucce&s;&s;es, or the de&s;ire of accompli&s;hing any de&s;ignes of our own that we have forelaid, but the full a&s;&s;urance we have that our cau&s;e is ju&s;t and righteous in the fight of God, looking at all precedent changes, and the &s;ucce&s;&s;es that have produced them, not as the work of the policy of &s;trength of man, but as the eminent actings of the Providence and Power of God, to bring forth his good will and plea&s;ure, concerning the things which he hath determined in the world. And we are confident, that as he hath hitherto gloriou&s;ly appeared, &s;o he will &s;till, bearing witne&s;s to the righteou&s;ne&s;s of this Cau&s;e, in great mercy and pity of the infirmities and failings of us his poor Creatures. And we do mo&s;t humbly implore his divine Maje&s;ty to give a merciful te&s;timony, whether the actings of divers men among&s;t you have not pro|ceeded from worldly intere&s;ts, together with the ran|cor and bitterne&s;s of their &s;pirits, who we fear through envy at In&s;truments, have refu&s;ed to acknowledge his hand and goodne&s;s in the accompli&s;hment of the&s;e great changes; and whether ours have not come from the &s;implicity of our and other his poor &s;ervants hearts, who we tru&s;t, have de&s;ired (though in the mid&s;t of manifold weakne&s;&s;es) to follow him in integrity, through difficult paths, having nothing but danger and ruine appearing to the fle&s;h, and little to encourage us, &s;aving tho&s;e &s;ignal manife&s;tations of his pre&s;ence in tho&s;e high acts of his Providence, and the fear of his Name, le&s;t he going before, we &s;hould not follow.</P>
<P>And this we can further adde, That nothing is &s;o pre|dominant within us (next to our duty to God, nor to
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betray a cau&s;e, to which he hath &s;o much witne&s;&s;ed) as the love we have towards tho&s;e that fear God there, who may po&s;&s;ibly &s;uffer through their own mi&s;takes, or our di&s;ability to di&s;tingui&s;h in a common calamity, of which Chri&s;tian love, we hope we gave &s;ome proof and te&s;timony, when we were la&s;t in <HI>Scotland</HI> with this Army; and were by God made in&s;trumental, to break the power of tho&s;e that then oppre&s;&s;ed the Godly Party there, and were then ready at their de&s;ire to do every thing on their behalf, which might put them into the &s;eat of Authority and Power, who&s;e con&s;ciences knows this is true, and for which, this late Act of Engage|ment to their new King again&s;t <HI>England,</HI> is no good re|quital, nor their heaping upon us the reproach of a Sectarian Army, a Chri&s;tian dealing; all which we do with comfort commend to God, and can notwith|&s;tanding all this, &s;ay, By the Grace of God, we can forgive and forget tho&s;e things, and can, and do de&s;ire of God, that the precious in <HI>Scotland,</HI> may be &s;eparated from the vile, which is the end of this our Paper. And to the truth of this, let the God of Heaven in his great mercy, pardoning our weakne&s;&s;es, judge of us, when we come to meet our Enemies in the field; if through the perver&s;ne&s;s of any in Authority with you, God &s;hall plea&s;e to order the deci&s;ion of this Controver&s;ie by the Sword, which we from our hearts, be&s;eech the Lord to avert, and to give you the like Chri&s;tian and Brother|ly affection towards us, which we by Gods grace bear towards you.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Signed in the name, and by the appointment of his Excellency the Lord General</HI> Cromwel, <HI>and his Councel of Officers.</HI> Joh. Ru&s;hworth, <HI>Secretary.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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