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<P>The Love and Faithfulnes of the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Nation The Excellency of the <HI>Covenant,</HI> The <HI>Vnion</HI> between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> cleared, by Collections, From the Declarations of <HI>Parliament,</HI> and, Speeches of &s;everall <HI>Independent</HI> Brethren. By &THgr;&egr;&ogr;&phgr;&igr;&lgr;&ogr;&sgr;.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Jerem: 34.8.</BIBL> The King <HI>Zedekiah</HI> made a <HI>Covenant</HI> with the people, <BIBL>v. 11.</BIBL> Re|pented: <BIBL>v. 17.</BIBL> Therefore thus &s;aith the <HI>Lord,</HI> <BIBL>v. 18.</BIBL> I will give tho&s;e men that have broke <HI>my Covenant,</HI> <BIBL>v. 20.</BIBL> into the hands of their Enemies.</Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>John 15.14.</HI></BIBL>Ye are my friends, if ye do what &s;oever I command you.</Q>
<Q>The way to keep all things in <HI>Union,</HI> is for every man to keep within his bounds; the &s;welling beyond tends to the breaking all in pieces. <BIBL>Mr. <HI>Bur: Irenicum p. 112.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q>Nihil pernicio&s;ius quam divi&s;io, nihil melius quam Vnio. <BIBL>Plato de Rep.</BIBL></Q>
<Q>Si pacem diligis, Belli ne feceris mentionem. <BIBL>Sen. de Moribus.</BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>F: Neile</HI> for <HI>Tho: &V;nderhill</HI> at the Signe of the Bible in Wood&s;treet. 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>The Preamble.</HEAD>
<P>_THe times we are fallen into are times of Fear, and there|fore had need be times of Prayer: It is the be&s;t u&s;e a Chri&s;tian can make of fears to turn them into Prayers: Never more profe&s;&s;ion and le&s;&s;e practi&s;e &s;ince the crea|tion of all things: Confu&s;ion and de&s;olation is at hand, yet who con&s;iders it? How are mens tongues and pens employed to work divi&s;ion, not between man and man, Brother and Bro|ther onely; but between Kingdom and Kingdom, and between &s;uch King|doms as are obliged by the &s;tronge&s;t bonds, this &s;tate of mortalitie is capable of: this is it that heightens our mi&s;ery, and without timely prevention will work our ruine: <HI>God will (certainly) avenge the quarrell of his Covenant.</HI> It is not many dayes &s;ince a Paper came abroad by a namele&s;&s;e Author, hinting at the Brotherly Re&s;pects of <HI>England</HI> to <HI>Scotland,</HI> with an addition of large Encemions of this Nation for their voluntary and free a&s;&s;i&s;tance, in the times of their progenitors, when they were in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e; &s;ince which there are two &s;everall Pamphlets, bending their &s;trength again&s;t the City Remon&s;trance; one of which <HI>Report</HI> &s;peaks Mr. <HI>John Goodwin</HI> the Author of, the Dialect (at lea&s;t) one of his Frater|nity: both of them concurring to di&s;parage our Brethrens proceedings, and all of them triumphing at the prize of a Brotherly Confe&s;&s;ion. I am igno|rant of the end, and fully a&s;&s;ured of the <HI>un&s;ea&s;onablene&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>need|le&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI> of &s;uch memorandums, which our <HI>Brethren</HI> &s;o frequently have made mention of in their Declarations and Remon&s;trances unto this Kingdom; more particularly in their Rea&s;ons for a&s;&s;i&s;ting <HI>England</HI> upon the reque&s;t of both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament</HI> in the yeer <HI>1643.</HI> &V;n|le&s;&s;e it be to endeavour a withdrawing of that Brotherly love and re&s;pect we owe unto them; At the be&s;t it reflects upon their pre&s;ent expedition into
<PB REF="2"><HI>England,</HI> as if it were but a bare requitall of former kindnes, and this not fully granted; although it be acknowledged by the Honorable Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI> and our <HI>Independent</HI> Brethren, as a bu&s;ines of &s;o great con|cernment, which &s;hould oblige <HI>England</HI> in thankefulne&s;&s;e unto them for ever; which doth certainly evidence &s;omething more to be in their under|taking in the behalf of <HI>England,</HI> then is talked of by undi&s;cerning Spi|rits, that watch for any thing that may in the lea&s;t manner reflect upon our <HI>Brethren</HI> (though of no concernment) to their di&s;honour, which they con|ceiving the&s;e Papers do lay bold upon them as a fit opportunity to &s;lander their reall and cordiall Endeavours for our peace and happine&s;&s;e; contrary to our <HI>Vow</HI> and <HI>Covenant,</HI> made with them before the Lord (<HI>Jeho|vah</HI>) who&s;e Name is holy; which is of &s;o lowe e&s;teeme in the words and thoughts of many, as if &s;uch obligations were of &s;o lowe an allay, that there were no nece&s;&s;ity of keeping and ob&s;erving them; contrary to the De|clarations of <HI>Parliament,</HI> and the profe&s;&s;ions of our <HI>Independant</HI> Bre|thren; &s;ome of them having been imployed as <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> to crave the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of our <HI>Brethren</HI> of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and to manage that weightie bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of entring into a &s;olemn <HI>League</HI> with them, which will more plainly be evidenced by taking a view, of the &s;ever all Declarations of the Honorable Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI> the Letters and Speeches of our <HI>In|dependant</HI> Brethren; an Extract of which, followeth.</P>
<CLOSER><DATE>June 16. 1646.</DATE></CLOSER>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Declar. &amp; Re&s;ol. of Parl.</NOTE>_THe Lords and Commons in <HI>Parliament,</HI> have with approbation and thanks, received from the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> a clear ma|nife&s;tation, of the re&s;pect, which the <HI>Lords</HI> of His Maje&s;ties &s;ecret Coun&s;ell for that <HI>Realm</HI> do bear to the welfare and peace of this Kingdom, In the expre&s;&s;ion of their affections, wherein they were plea&s;ed to &s;e|cond the de&s;ires of the Generall <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> of that Church for <HI>&V;|nity</HI> in <HI>Religion,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> and <HI>&V;niformity</HI> in Church-Government, in His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> three Kingdoms:&mdash;wherein as we have <HI>&s;atisfied</HI> our own rea&s;on, &s;o we hope we &s;hall <HI>&s;atisfie</HI> the loving and Chri&s;tian de|fires of our <HI>Brethren</HI> of <HI>Scotland;</HI>&mdash;And as we re&s;olve, according to the Nationall <HI>Covenant</HI> betwixt the two Kingdoms, to be care|full of the peace of <HI>Scotland</HI> as of our own, &s;o we doubt not but their <HI>Lord&s;hips</HI> and the Nation of <HI>Scotland</HI> will be carefull to ex|pre&s;&s;e their <HI>brotherly</HI> kindne&s;&s;e to us.&mdash;We acknowledge it an Act of love to us,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> and of wi&s;dom for the good of both Churches&mdash; that our <HI>Brethren</HI> of <HI>Scotland</HI> have be&s;towed their &s;erious thoughts, and earne&s;t de&s;ires for <HI>unity</HI> of <HI>Religion;</HI> that in all His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Dominions there might be one <HI>Confe&s;&s;ion</HI> of Faith, one <HI>Directory</HI> of <HI>wor&s;hip,</HI> one <HI>publick Catechi&s;me,</HI> and one <HI>form</HI> of <HI>Church-Government.</HI> And although it will hardly be obtained punctually and exactly,&mdash;yet both intending the &s;ame end, proceeding by the &s;ame rule of <HI>Gods Word,</HI> and guided by the &s;ame <HI>Spirit,</HI> we hope by <HI>Gods</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;tance to be &s;o directed, that we may ca&s;t out what&s;oever is offen&s;ive to <HI>God,</HI> or ju&s;tly di&s;plea&s;ing to any neigh|bour Church, and &s;o far agree with our <HI>Brethren</HI> of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and other reformed Churches, in all &s;ub&s;tantiall parts of <HI>Doctrine, Wor&s;hip,</HI> and <HI>Di&s;cipline,</HI> that both we and they may injoy tho&s;e advantages and conveniences which are mentioned by them, in this their An&s;wer, in the more &s;trict <HI>&V;nion</HI> of both Kingdoms, more &s;afe, ea&s;ie, and comfortable <HI>Government</HI> of His <HI>Maje&s;tie,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; The main cau&s;e which hitherto hath deprived us of the&s;e and other great advantages, which we might have by a more clo&s;e <HI>&V;nion</HI> with the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI>&mdash;is the Government by Bi|&s;hops,
<PB N="3" REF="3">&mdash;(<HI>which</HI>) makes us de&s;perate of that mo&s;t <HI>beneficiall</HI> and <HI>de|&s;irable</HI> Conjunction, with them, untill this great impediment be removed, &amp;c.&mdash;Upon which we do declare,&mdash;that <HI>this Government</HI>&mdash; is evil, and ju&s;tly offen&s;ive.&mdash;And according to our former Decla|ration of the 7th of <HI>February</HI> our purpo&s;e is to con&s;ult with godly and Learned <HI>Divines,</HI> that we may not onely remove this, but &s;ettle &s;uch a <HI>Government,</HI> as may be mo&s;t agreeable to <HI>Gods holy Word,</HI> mo&s;t apt to procure and con&s;erve the peace of the Church at home, and happy <HI>union</HI> with the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>Scotland,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash;This being the Re&s;olution of both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI> we do de&s;ire our <HI>Brethren</HI> of <HI>Scotland</HI> to concur with us in petitioning His <HI>Ma|je&s;ty,</HI> that his Royall Authority may be applied to the con&s;erva|tion of a firm <HI>unity</HI> between the two Kingdoms, and that they likewi&s;e will think good, to &s;end to the &s;ame <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> (of <HI>Divines which were to meet the fifth of Novemb.</HI>) &s;ome godly and learned <HI>Divines</HI> of that Church,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> whereby an <HI>&V;niformity</HI> in <HI>form</HI> of <HI>Church Government</HI> may be obtained, and thereby a more ea&s;ie pa&s;&s;age made to the &s;etling of one <HI>confe&s;&s;ion</HI> of faith, one <HI>Liturgie</HI> &mdash;of the publick wor&s;hip, and one <HI>Catechi&s;me</HI> in all three Kingdoms. <BIBL>A De|claration and Re&s;olution of Parliament, Sept. 23. 1642.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Declar. Parl. to Kingd. Scotl.</NOTE> We Lords and Commons, &amp;c.&mdash; Do hereby declare to our <HI>Bre|thren</HI> the E&s;tates and other Subjects of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that not onely according to our re&s;olution and promi&s;e &s;ignified in our former Declarations, we have nominated and appointed <HI>Jo: Earl</HI> of <HI>Rutland,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash;To be Committees and Commi&s;&s;ioners of both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament</HI>&mdash;for &s;etling all matters concerning <HI>Debts</HI> and <HI>Accounts,</HI> in which <HI>this Kingdom</HI> &s;tands ingaged to <HI>them;</HI> but more e&s;pecially to de&s;ire their <HI>pre&s;ent</HI> and <HI>&s;peedy</HI> aid and a&s;|&s;i&s;tance for &s;ecurity of <HI>Religion,</HI> and Liberty of both Kingdoms,&mdash;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> being an effectuall means for pre&s;erving the peace of both King|doms according to the late <HI>Act</HI> of <HI>Pacification,</HI> by which both States &s;tand obliged to help one an other;&mdash;We do earne&s;tly re|que&s;t our <HI>Brethren</HI> of <HI>Scotland,</HI> to ha&s;ten the aid de&s;ired, and to con&s;ider, that although in the&s;e &s;traits and perplexities of want and danger, they &s;hall not receive &s;uch plentifull entertainment as might at other times be expected;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> yet they cannot fail of great honour and advantage by this undertaking,&mdash;and they may re&s;t a&s;&s;ured that in all opportunities the two Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI>
<PB N="3" REF="4">and this <HI>Nation</HI> will be ready to expre&s;&s;e their thankfulne&s;&s;e, &amp;c. <BIBL>A Declaration to the Kingdom and E&s;tates of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Septemb. 13. 1643.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Declar. of Parl. to A&s;&s;embly of Scot|land.</NOTE> The Lords and Commons, &amp;c. acknowledging with humble thankfulne&s;&s;e to God&mdash;the Chri&s;tian <HI>zeal</HI> and <HI>love</HI> which the Ge|nerall A&s;&s;embly of the Churches of <HI>Scotland</HI> have manife&s;ted in their pious endeavours, for the pre&s;ervation of the true reform|ed Prote&s;tant Religion, from the &s;ubtle practices and attempts of the Popi&s;h and Prelaticall party, to the nece&s;&s;arie <HI>reformation</HI> of <HI>Church Di&s;cipline</HI> and <HI>Government</HI> of <HI>this</HI> Kingdom, and the more neer <HI>union</HI> of both Churches,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> do earne&s;tly de&s;ire that <HI>Reverend A&s;&s;embly</HI> to take notice that the two Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament</HI> fully concurring with them in tho&s;e pious intentions; &amp; for the better accompli&s;hment thereof, have called an <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> of <HI>Divines,</HI> &mdash; and likewi&s;e nominated and appointed <HI>Jo: Earl</HI> of <HI>Rutland,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash; Committees and Commi&s;&s;ioners of both Hou&s;es to the King|dom and States of <HI>Scotland.</HI> Who&mdash;have received directions to re&s;ort to the Generall A&s;&s;embly of the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and propound and con&s;ult with them, or any Commi&s;&s;ioners depu|ted by them, in all occa&s;ions which may further the &s;o much de&s;ired <HI>Reformation</HI> in Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall matters in <HI>this</HI> Church and Kingdom.&mdash;It is likewi&s;e de&s;ired, that that <HI>Reverend A&s;&s;embly</HI> will according to their former promi&s;e and Re&s;olution, &s;end to the <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> here, &s;uch number of Godly and Learned Divines, as in their wi&s;dom they think mo&s;t expedient for the furtherance of this work, which &s;o much concerns the Honour of God, the pro&s;perity and peace of the two Churches of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scot|land.</HI> <BIBL>A Declaration, &amp;c. to the Generall A&s;&s;embly of the Church of <HI>Scotland.</HI> Septemb. 13. 1643.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Mar|&s;hal</HI> and Mr <HI>Nyes</HI> Letter.</NOTE> We cannot but communicate unto you the good hand of God with us in the work&mdash;imployed in&mdash;we have had to do with the Convention of States, and <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> of <HI>Divines;</HI>&mdash;the <HI>grave&s;t</HI> and <HI>wi&s;e&s;t</HI> that we have &s;een, and who we think are more <HI>&s;en&s;ible</HI> of our <HI>Condition</HI> then we are our &s;elves.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> The leading men both of the <HI>Convention</HI> and <HI>A&s;&s;embly,</HI>&mdash;and the whole body of the Nation looking upon it as the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t.&mdash;We know multitudes are prejudiced again&s;t them, as if we might expect no help from them but for their own ends,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> but if you dare give any <HI>credit</HI> to
<PB N="4" REF="4">our <HI>faithfulne&s;&s;e,</HI> and mo&s;t diligent inqui&s;ition and ob&s;ervation, &mdash; let us prevail with you to beat down all &s;uch <HI>unworthy</HI> thoughts and <HI>jealou&s;ies</HI> of them, they are guided by <HI>God</HI> in this work, and we are per&s;waded will bring glory to <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and <HI>requitall</HI> of all our former love to them.&mdash;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> We &s;carce ever &s;aw &s;o much of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> for us as this day in the A&s;&s;emblies carrying of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. &mdash; Surely the arm of the <HI>Lord</HI> in this a&s;&s;i&s;tance extends it &s;elf to|wards you, In the Mount the <HI>Lord</HI> will be &s;een. <BIBL>A letter from Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hall</HI> and Mr. <HI>Ny</HI> appointed A&s;&s;i&s;tants to the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> of <HI>Scotland.</HI> Edinb: Aug. 18. 1643.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Nye</HI> his Speech.</NOTE> The Goodne&s;&s;e of <HI>God</HI> procuring &s;uccour and help to a &s;infull people, ought to be matter of fear and trembling, even to all that hear of it: <HI>Jer.</HI> 33.9. We are to exalt and acknowledge him this day who is fearfull in prai&s;es, &s;wear by that Name which is holy and reverent, enter into a <HI>Covenant</HI> and <HI>League</HI> that is never to be forgotten by us, nor our po&s;terity.&mdash;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> And &s;uch an <HI>Oath</HI> as for matter, per&s;ons, and other circum&s;tances, the like hath not been in any <HI>Age</HI> or <HI>Oath</HI> we read of in &s;acred or humane &s;tories, yet &s;ufficiently warranted in both.&mdash;Con&s;ort and Harmony a|mong&s;t men, e&s;pecially among&s;t Saints, is very plea&s;ing unto the <HI>Lord.</HI> It when but two or three agree and a&s;&s;ent unto any thing on earth, it &s;hall be confirmed in heaven: And for this becau&s;e they gather together in his <HI>Name,</HI> much more when two or three <HI>Kingdoms</HI> &s;hall meet and con&s;ent together in his <HI>Name,</HI> and for his <HI>Name,</HI> that <HI>God</HI> may be one, and his Name one among&s;t them. <HI>&V;nity</HI> among&s;t his Churches and children,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> mu&s;t needs&mdash;be very acceptable unto him:&mdash;We invocate the Name of the great God that his vows, yea, his cur&s;e may be upon us if we do not this; yea though we &s;uffer for &s;o doing,&mdash;that is,&mdash;to advance the king|dom of&mdash;Chri&s;t here upon earth, and make Jeru&s;alem once more the prai&s;e of the whole earth, notwith&s;tanding all the contra|dictions of men. What is this but the contents and matter of our <HI>Covenant?</HI> What do we vow?&mdash;Is it not the reformation of three Kingdoms, and a <HI>reformation</HI> univer&s;all doctrine, <HI>Di&s;cipline,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> and <HI>wor&s;hip</HI> in what&s;oever the Word &s;hall di&s;cover to us.&mdash;And if in the Churches of <HI>Scotland</HI> any more Light and beauty in matters of <HI>Order</HI> and <HI>Di&s;cipline,</HI> by which their <HI>A&s;&s;emblies</HI> are more order|ly: &mdash;we &s;hall humbly bow and ki&s;&s;e their lips that can &s;peak
<PB N="6" REF="5">right words unto us in this matter, and help us into the neare&s;t <HI>uniformity</HI> with the word and minde of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> in this great work of <HI>Reformation.</HI>&mdash;This <HI>Oath</HI> is &s;uch, and in the matter and con&s;e|quence of it, of &s;uch concernment, as I can truly &s;ay, it is wor|thy of us, yea of all the&s;e Kingdoms, yea of all the Kingdoms of the world.&mdash;And &s;urely it can be no other, but the re&s;ult and An|&s;wer of &s;uch prayers and tears of &s;uch &s;incerity and &s;ufferings, that three Kingdoms &s;hould be thus born, or rather new born in a day;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> we are now entring upon a work of the greate&s;t moment, and concernment to us, and to our po&s;terity after us, that ever was undertaken by any of us, or any of our forefathers, before us, &amp;c.&mdash;It is a duty of the fir&s;t Commandment, and therefore of the highe&s;t and noble&s;t order and rank of duties; therefore mu&s;t come forth attended with choice&s;t graces. Fear, Humility, and in the greate&s;t &s;implicity and plainne&s;&s;e of &s;pirit in re&s;pect of <HI>tho&s;e</HI> with whom we <HI>Covenant:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> we call God as a witne&s;&s;e betwixt us, who &s;earcheth the heart, <HI>With him wi&s;dom and &s;trength, the decei|ved, and deceiver is his.</HI> Job 12.19. He hath wi&s;dom to di&s;cover, and &s;trength to puni&s;h, if our hearts be not upright to our <HI>Brethren</HI> in this matter.&mdash;As it is the la&s;t oath you are likely to take in this kinde, &s;o it is our la&s;t refuge, <HI>tabula po&s;t naufragium:</HI> if this help us not, we are like to remain to our dying day an unhappy peo|ple, &amp;c.&mdash;And as for you, <HI>Reverend Brethren,</HI> that are Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel, there is yet an other obligation will lye upon you; let us look to our &s;elves, and make provi&s;ion to walk an&s;werable to this our <HI>Covenant,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> for the Go&s;pels &s;ake; it will reflect a great a&s;per&s;ion upon the truth of the Go&s;pel; if we &s;hould be <HI>fal&s;e</HI> or <HI>un|con&s;tant</HI> in any <HI>word</HI> or <HI>promi&s;e,</HI> though in a matter of le&s;&s;e con&s;e|quence, &amp;c. <BIBL>Mr <HI>Ny</HI> Speech at the taking of the <HI>Covenant</HI> by the <HI>Parliament</HI> and <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> of <HI>Divines,</HI> Septemb. 25. 1643.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. Soli|citor his Speech.</NOTE> I conceive there is no need to acquaint you with the benefits that will redound to this Kingdom, and the <HI>advantages</HI> we &s;hall have by a nearer <HI>a&s;&s;ociation</HI> with <HI>them,</HI> and by their <HI>coming</HI> in, to this purpo&s;e for <HI>our</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;tance.&mdash;This great <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> now in agitation by this means will be much &s;ecured; it will be a&s;&s;ured to us, that the Event and the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of it will be made a great deal the cer|tainer; &mdash;Thus we &s;tand in ca&s;e <HI>they</HI> are not called in, the lo&s;&s;e &s;o great, that is the lo&s;&s;e of all, the event is &s;o uncertain. Secondly,
<PB N="7" REF="5">it will be for <HI>our</HI> profit, it will ea&s;e the warre,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> it will make the charge, and the burthen of it to be le&s;&s;e;&mdash;without their coming, I am afraid there will not be that force on the one &s;ide, as to make the other &s;ide out of their <HI>e&s;tates</HI> to pay the&s;e <HI>debts,</HI> which their coming in, in all likelihood will make them do; which if the&s;e <HI>debts</HI> be paid out of their <HI>e&s;tates</HI> and <HI>land,</HI> I know no incon|venience will come to the Kingdom by it;&mdash;If <HI>they come not in,</HI> con|&s;idering the ingagements on both &s;ides, and con&s;idering the par|ties, who we mu&s;t compound with, I &s;ay, the cure is like to be very imperfect; their coming in, I hope,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> will make it perfect.&mdash;So that if there were nothing el&s;e in it, but that we were like to have the better <HI>peace,</HI> and on the better <HI>terms,</HI> and what ever it be, it is likely to be kept the better, to us and our po&s;teritie, that were much to our advantage.&mdash;We have it from <HI>our</HI> own <HI>Committee</HI> there, and from all hands, that it is impo&s;&s;ible (<HI>they &s;hould under|take for our a&s;&s;i&s;tance</HI>) without &s;ome &s;um of money; And if we con|&s;ider how they have been exhau&s;ted heretofore,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> I think we may ea&s;ily beleeve it,&mdash;their Army that is in Ireland having been 14 months without any pay at all, they are fain to &s;upply them with nece&s;&s;ities, which hath been <HI>four&s;core thou&s;and pounds,</HI> el&s;e that Army mu&s;t have &s;tarved. We know they had two yeers war, we promi&s;ed them a <HI>Brotherly</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and there is an <HI>Act</HI> for it, but it is known, by rea&s;on of the troubles we have here at home <HI>we have not payd them that;</HI> &s;o that con&s;idering the poverty of <HI>that</HI> Kingdom, it is certain, it is not a pretence of theirs (for not com|ing) but it is really &s;o. <BIBL><HI>Mr Solicitor</HI> his Speech at Guildhall, Fri|day, Octob. 6. 1643.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Bur:</HI> his Speech.</NOTE>There hath lately been the mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed <HI>&V;nion</HI> of two <HI>Nations,</HI> as ever was in the world,&mdash;let us now reach forth our hearts and hands unto our <HI>Brethren</HI> in <HI>Scotland,</HI> let us come up fully to this our Engagement, and rejoyce in it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> for certainly that <HI>Nation</HI> is a <HI>Nation</HI> that <HI>God</HI> doth <HI>love,</HI> a <HI>Nation</HI> that <HI>God</HI> doth <HI>honour,</HI> and by tho&s;e many expre&s;&s;ions of his love, &s;hewed that he doth intend to make them <HI>&s;peciall in&s;truments</HI> of the great things he hath to do, in this latter age of the world; It is a <HI>Nation</HI> that is <HI>united</HI> the mo&s;t <HI>firmly</HI> under heaven, we may truly cal it a<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A name that contains in it &s;elf al vertues, Commended for Brotherly love.</NOTE> <HI>Philadelphia.</HI>&mdash;Had we had the like <HI>union</HI> among&s;t us,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bright:</HI> on Revel.</NOTE> O what great things had we done long before this time. A <HI>Nation</HI> it is that hath engaged it &s;elf to <HI>God</HI> in a higher way, in a more extraordinary way,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> then
<PB N="8" REF="6">any <HI>Nation</HI> this day upon the face of the earth hath done;&mdash;A <HI>Nation</HI> that hath reformed their lives for &s;o &s;mall a time, more then ever any people that we know of in the world have done;&mdash; A <HI>Nation</HI> that <HI>God</HI> hath <HI>honoured</HI> by giving as glorious &s;ucce&s;&s;e unto, as ever he did unto any;&mdash;And although they be of them|&s;elves a poore people, and of little &s;trength,&mdash;yet they have kept the <HI>word</HI> of <HI>Gods</HI> patience, and <HI>God</HI> hath kept them in the hou&s;e of temptation; God therefore is with them. (How happy &s;hould we be, if we may have them in a near <HI>&V;nion</HI> with us?) A people that have carried them&s;elves,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> with as great <HI>wi&s;dom,</HI> and <HI>order</HI> in the mo&s;t difficult work that ever a people did undertake, in tho&s;e by and intricate paths that were before untroden.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> &mdash;Was there ever &s;uch an Example &s;ince the world began, of a people coming out of a <HI>poorer Countrey,</HI> into a <HI>fat</HI> and <HI>rich Countrey,</HI> and having tho&s;e <HI>opportunities</HI> that <HI>they</HI> had to <HI>enrich</HI> them&s;elves, to go away &s;o as <HI>they</HI> did?&mdash;A people&mdash;that began to ri&s;e for their <HI>Liberties,</HI> when the generality of this people here, were ready <HI>ba&s;ely</HI> to bow down their <HI>backs,</HI> and put their <HI>necks</HI> under the <HI>yoke:</HI> and had it not been that <HI>they</HI> had been willing to have endured the <HI>brunt we</HI> had all been <HI>&s;laves</HI> at this day.&mdash;They now de&s;ire 100000 l. what is this to 300000 l. in pay? to five Counties, to the plunder of a whole City? what <HI>rea&s;onable</HI> terms do they proffer to come among you? Do but give them 100000 l. advance, and they engage them&s;elves for three moneths and ten dayes, and in the Winter time to be in the Kingdom,&mdash;and willing to depart again with|out any more, when they have done their work. <BIBL>Mr <HI>Jer. Burroughs</HI> Speech in Guildhall, Friday Octob. 6. 1643.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>H: Vanes</HI> Speech.</NOTE>In obedience, to the Commands of both Hou&s;es, we that are lately come out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and have been <HI>eye</HI> witne&s;&s;es of the af|fection of that <HI>Nation</HI> to <HI>this</HI> Cau&s;e, and of the deep &s;ence they have, of the pre&s;ent &s;tate of affairs, here in <HI>this</HI> Kingdom, are wil|ling to make the &s;ame report,&mdash;to you of it as hath been done to the <HI>Parliament,</HI> that you may take a right mea&s;ure of tho&s;e things, and not be carried away with <HI>mi&s;-apprehen&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>mi&s;-informations</HI> from tho&s;e that di&s;affect the Cau&s;e, and would wil|lingly abu&s;e your thoughts, and belief herein.&mdash;For the <HI>affection</HI> of that <HI>Nation,</HI> we have had many experiences of it, and of their ready and chearfull complyance, with the de&s;ires of this King|dom, even when they were in their greate&s;t di&s;tre&s;&s;es and cala|mities:
<PB N="9" REF="6">&mdash;The affairs then of <HI>this Nation</HI> were in a much lower condition then now we find them to be, yet notwith&s;tanding tho&s;e many <HI>invitations,&mdash;promi&s;es,</HI>&mdash;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> and&mdash; <HI>&s;ecret</HI> practices among <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> to make them &s;et loo&s;e from the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of <HI>this</HI> Kingdom, yet &s;o &s;en&s;ible were they of the danger of <HI>Religion</HI> here, of the near relation they had to their <HI>Brethren</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> &mdash;that they were ready to break through all <HI>difficulties,</HI> and to expo&s;e them|&s;elves to all <HI>danger</HI> to take us by the hand, and to joyn cordially with us in the maintaining of this Cau&s;e.&mdash;<HI>And that they might evidence the truth of their intentions, they &s;peedily enter into</HI> COVENANT <HI>with us.</HI>) And this not onely in their <HI>own</HI> per&s;ons, but injoyned it throughout the whole Kingdom,&mdash;(and) in &s;uch a manner, as that the greate&s;t and powerfulle&s;t Enemies of it among them dur&s;t not &s;hew their heads to oppo&s;e it.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> &mdash;They are as &s;en&s;ible as your &s;elves of the great burthen and extremities that this Nation doth at this time groan under,&mdash;(though) their Nation hath not been without troubles,&mdash;great <HI>charges</HI> and <HI>burthens</HI> that have lain upon them, and <HI>particularly</HI> even for the advantage of <HI>this King|dom:</HI> &mdash;(Be&s;ides) they have made it apparent by &s;everall particu|lars,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> that before this Army&mdash;will be brought to the Rendevouze upon <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ground,&mdash;it will &s;tand them in very neer a 100000 l. which mu&s;t be at their <HI>own</HI> charge and expence, <HI>over and above</HI> what they de&s;ire from us: They likewi&s;e have let us know, that they de&s;ire not to pre&s;&s;e us beyond our &s;trength in matter of mo|neys, but onely &s;o much as may render the &s;ervice in them fea&s;|able, which <HI>we</HI> expect from them.&mdash;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> They are&mdash;&s;o willing in <HI>them|&s;elves</HI> to come to <HI>our</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;tance,&mdash;that if any thing lay in their power, either by the <HI>morgaging</HI> of their own private <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> or if there were money &s;ufficient in <HI>Scotland,</HI> that they could render them&s;elves ma&s;ter of, they would be willing to contribute any thing of <HI>their</HI> own for the nece&s;&s;ities of <HI>this</HI> Kingdom, &s;o much they are affected with this Cau&s;e. <BIBL>Sir <HI>Henry Vanes</HI> Speech at a Common Hall, London, Octob. 27 1643.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><P>The Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> is to pay in ready money to their <HI>Brethren</HI> of <HI>Scotland</HI>&mdash;the &s;um of 100000 l. &s;terling&mdash;by way of ad|vance beforehand,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> which is to be <HI>di&s;counted</HI> back again unto the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> by the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland</HI> upon the fir&s;t monthly allowance which &s;hall grow due to the Scotti&s;h Army, &amp;c.</P> <BIBL><HI>Article 6.</HI></BIBL>
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<P>No <HI>Ce&s;&s;ation,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> nor any <HI>Pacification</HI> or agreement for <HI>Peace</HI> what|&s;oever &s;hall be made by <HI>either</HI> Kingdom, or the <HI>Armies</HI> of <HI>either</HI> Kingdom, without the mutuall advice and con&s;ent of <HI>both</HI> King|doms, or <HI>their</HI> Committees in that behalf appointed.</P> <BIBL><HI>Article</HI> 8.</BIBL>
<BIBL>Articles of the Treaty agreed upon betwixt the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Parliament of England, and the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Convention of the E&s;tates of the Kingdom of Scotland, at Edin. Nov: 29. 1643.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q>It was far from <HI>our</HI> Intentions that the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Army &s;hould neither be <HI>provided</HI> for by us,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> nor yet &s;uffered to <HI>provide</HI> for <HI>their</HI> own &s;ub&s;i&s;tance, &amp;c. <BIBL>The Parliaments An&s;wer to the Scots Com|mi&s;&s;ioners Papers. Printed April 14. 1646.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deciar: of Parl.</NOTE>We do declare, that our true and reall Intentions are, and our endeavours &s;hal be to &s;ettle <HI>Religion</HI> in the purity thereof, accor|ding to the <HI>Covenant:</HI>&mdash;And to keep a good under&s;tanding be|tween the two Kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> according to the grounds expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;olemn <HI>League</HI> and <HI>Covenant,</HI> and <HI>Treaties:</HI> Which we de&s;ire may be inviolably ob&s;erved on both parts. <BIBL>A Declaration of Parliament, April 17. 1646.</BIBL></Q>
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<DIV1 TYPE="conclusion">
<P>If any man &s;hall except again&s;t this my endeavour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Conclu|&s;ion.</NOTE> I de&s;ire him to remember, the tenour of our <HI>Covenant</HI> binds me as well as o|thers to u&s;e all <HI>lawfull</HI> means, to accompli&s;h the end of our <HI>Cove|nant,</HI> and this I conceive derogates no whit from the rule; nay, it is belowe a <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> not to attempt a matter of <HI>publick</HI> con|cernment for <HI>fear</HI> of being mi&s;-judged. I &s;hall winde up all with tho&s;e two ob&s;ervable pa&s;&s;ages <HI>in Mr Burroughs Irenicum.</HI> One you &s;hall find in <HI>p.</HI> 11. <HI>Truth</HI> is the bond, that keeps to <HI>&V;nity,</HI> but <HI>Er|rour</HI> is wilde, you know not where to find it, nor your &s;elves if you give way to it. The other is in <HI>pa.</HI> 276. <HI>Peace</HI> it was the chief ma&s;ter-piece of <HI>Gods</HI> work, there is more of the glory of <HI>God</HI> in this, then in all that <HI>God</HI> hath done: This is and &s;hall be the <HI>ob|ject</HI> of the admiration of <HI>Angels</HI> and <HI>Saints,</HI> the matter of their prai&s;es to all eternity. This being &s;o, how neerly doth it concern tho&s;e that &s;hall be <HI>heirs</HI> of the &s;ame kingdom, <HI>partakers</HI> of the &s;ame glory, <HI>Saints in light,</HI> to make it their chief &s;tudy to keep the <HI>&V;nity</HI> of the <HI>Spirit</HI> in the bond of <HI>peace.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 4.3</NOTE> Ephe&s;. 4.3.</P>
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