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<HEAD>A Declaration of the <HI>Engli&s;h Army</HI> now in <HI>Scotland.</HI> TO The People of <HI>Scotland,</HI> e&s;pecially tho&s;e among them, that know and fear the LORD;</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>We the Officers and Souldiers of the Engli&s;h Army do &s;end Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>AT the beginning of the great and wonderful workings of God in the<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e two Nations of <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">gland</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> We the Under Officers and Souldiers of the Engli&s;h Army now in <HI>Scotland,</HI> were mo&s;t of us, if not all, men of private Callings, and not at all intere&s;ted in Matters of Publique and State Affairs&punc; but yet very many of us, in whom the Lord had be|gun to reveal him&s;elf in the Face of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, were &s;en&s;ible of the Antichri&s;tian Tyranny that was exerci&s;ed by the lare King, and His Prelates, over the Con&s;ciences, Bodies and E&s;tates of the True Spiritual Church of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; namely, tho&s;e that were born again, and united to him by his Spirit; who were then by that Antichri&s;tian crew, termed Puritants, Sectaries, Schi&s;maticks, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And for not conforming to all the Canons and Ordinances of their Nation Church, were frequently impri&s;oned, bani&s;hed and otherwi&s;e grievou&s;ly mole&s;ted at the plea&s;ure of tho&s;e that then ruled among&s;t us. Under the&s;e &s;ad &s;ufferings of the people of God, our &s;ouls mourned: and under&s;tanding by the manifold gracious promi&s;es in the Word of God, that a time of deliverance was to be expected to the Church of Chri&s;t, and de&s;truction and ruine to <HI>Babylon;</HI> Our hearts, together with all truly godly in <HI>England,</HI> were exceedingly &s;tirred up to pray to the Lord, even day &amp; night, that he would ari&s;e to de&s;troy Antichri&s;t, and to &s;ave his People: While&s;t this Spirit of Prayer was poured forth upon Gods people in <HI>England,</HI> attempts are made upon <HI>Scotland,</HI> to bring them to a conformity in religious wor&s;hip, by endeavouring to impo&s;e upoe
<PB N="2" REF="2">them a Popi&s;h Service-Book, which was through the great goodne&s;s of God, by his people in <HI>Scotland,</HI> re&s;erted; which made the wrath of the late King and His Prelates, wax &s;o hot again&s;t them, &s;o as <HI>Scotland</HI> had no other way to pre&s;erve it &s;elf, but by coming into <HI>England</HI> with an Army; which the godly in <HI>England</HI> did not then count an Inva&s;ion to de&s;troy <HI>England,</HI> no more then they do this our pre&s;ent march for the ruine of <HI>Scotland</HI> but rejoyced to &s;ee &s;ome appearing again&s;t that Antichri&s;tian power that had per&s;ecu|ted the Saints, and were a&s;&s;ured, That the Lord was come forth to an&s;wer the many Prayers and Tears that were then poured and pouring forth for that purpo&s;e; and therefore &s;o far as we have any opportunity farthered the de&s;igns of that Army, &s;ome of us haz|zarding our lives by &s;preading their Book, intituled, <HI>The</HI> Scots <HI>In|tentions, and pleading for the ju&s;tne&s;s of their Proceedings.</HI></P>
<P>Let us remember how the Lord was plea&s;ed graciou&s;ly to an&s;wer the prayers of his people at that time, in their Deliverance from the Army rai&s;ed by the late King, and his Prelates, for the de|&s;truction of all the people of God in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland;</HI> in|&s;omuch, That &s;oon after <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;its in Peace, enjoying their for|mer Liberties, without being impo&s;ed upon by the Antichri&s;tian Prelacy in <HI>England;</HI> and <HI>England</HI> obtains a Parliament, to whom they have opportunity to complain of their grievances, and through the great goodne&s;s of God &s;o con&s;tituted, that grievances are heard, and overtures made to the late King for their redre&s;s: which was &s;o irk&s;ome to His Oppre&s;&s;ing, Tyrannical and Bloudy &s;pirit, that he again betook him&s;elf to overthrow the Parliament by force, and to that end entertains the Officers of the Army that had gone forth again&s;t our Brethren of <HI>Scotland;</HI> and withdrawing him&s;elf from his Parliament, an appearance of a Civil War begins; which being made known to us, the inferior Officers and Souldiers of this Army (then in our Private Callings) we found our hearts extraor|dinarily &s;tirred up by the Lord, to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Parliament again&s;t the King; being abundantly &s;atisfied in our judgements and con&s;ciences, that we were called forth by the Lord, to be in&s;trumental to bring about that, which was our continual prayer to God <HI>(viz.)</HI> The de&s;truction of Antichri&s;t, and the Deliverance of his Church and people. And upon this &s;imple accompt we engaged, not knowing the deep policies of worldly State&s;men, and have ever &s;ince hazard|ed our lives in the high places of the field (where we have &s;een the wonders of the Lord) again&s;t all the oppo&s;ers of this work
<PB N="3" REF="2">of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, whom we have all along &s;een going with us, and making our way plain before us. And having the&s;e things &s;ingly in our eye, namely, the de&s;truction of Antichri&s;t, the advancement of the Kingdom of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the Deliverance and Reformation of his Church, in the E&s;tabli&s;hment of his Ordinances among&s;t them in purity according to his Word, &amp; the ju&s;t civi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Liberties of Engli&s;h|men: We did many of us rejoyce at the Covenant, becau&s;e we found in it a &s;train towards the&s;e ends, although &s;ome being more enlightened, did apprehend it to be &s;o mixt with worldly intere&s;t, that they ju&s;tly feared the intere&s;t of Je&s;us Chri&s;t would be only pretended to, and the Intere&s;ts of this world, yea, of Antichri&s;t him&s;elf carried under a vizard, as we have &s;ince had abundant ex|perience of; which hath made us (we confe&s;&s;e) not to idolize the Covenant (as we fear too many do) though we tru&s;t it will appear before God, Angels and Men, that we &s;hall ever pur&s;ue its true and Lawful ends, according to the plain and candid meaning there|of; though we do not upon every occa&s;ion urge the Covenant, (as we &s;ee every party, though as far d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">fferent as light and darkne&s;s apt to do,) the Lord having by his Word, and by his Spirit convinced us of our duty therein, though there had been no &s;uch Covenant at all entred into.</P>
<P>But when we &s;aw that under pretence of the Covenant, a corrupt party in Parliament, by their worldly policy, after the war was end|ed in <HI>England,</HI> and the lare Kings party &s;ubdued, with the lo&s;&s;e of Thou&s;ands of the lives of Saints (who&s;e death is precious in the &s;ight of the Lord) did endeavour to &s;et up the King upon his own terms, and with him to e&s;tabli&s;h a National Church-Government, not in all things agreeable to the Word of God, but it de&s;tructive to the ju&s;t Liberties of the True Spiritual Church of Chri&s;t, which he hath by his own mo&s;t precious bloud purcha&s;ed for them, and is now come forth to be&s;tow upon them: which did &s;uffi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">iently de|mon&s;trate it &s;elf by the dealings of the then Ma&s;ter-builders with the Churches of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in, and about <HI>London,</HI> that were then threatened to be di&s;&s;olved, and Laws made to pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">v<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nt the Com|munion of Saints with one another, except only in that one Pub|lique Form then about to be e&s;tabli&s;hed, to the a&s;toni&s;hment of many of us that had lifted up our hands to God, and &s;worn to en|deavour a Reformation according to the Word of God; and there|fore after much waiting upon God by prayer, and examining our own hearts, about the ends and &s;incerity thereof, we were a|bundantly
<PB N="4" REF="3">&s;atisfied, that it was not only lawful, but our duty to keep our Arms in our hands, till the ends beforementioned &s;hould be accompli&s;hed; and to that purpo&s;e, the Army, whereof we are a part, did refu&s;e to disband, did march up to <HI>London</HI> to propo&s;e to the Parliament a way of E&s;tabli&s;hment that might be more for the carrying on of the ends of Religion and Liberty, though therein we were not at that time &s;ucce&s;sful, yet mo&s;t wonderfully and gra|ciou&s;ly pre&s;erved by the Lord, and extraordinarily convinced, after much &s;eeking the Face of God, that our failing was in endeavouring to &s;et up the King upon any terms, he being a man of &s;o much bloud, that the Lord would have no peace with him, nor any that &s;hould go about to e&s;tabli&s;h him: Whereupon after his own hard heart had hindred him from yielding to any overtures that were made to him by the Parliament, through whom all the Armies Propo&s;als were to be tendered, and a &s;econd War more dangerous than the former contri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ed by him, and his Son now with you, toget<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er with tho&s;e in <HI>Scotland</HI> th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t hated us of the Army of <HI>England</HI> under the name of S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ct<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ies, being by the u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">kable goodne&s;s and mighty power of God waded through, and a &s;econd te&s;timony given from Heaven, to ju&s;tifie the proceeding of his poor &s;ervants again&s;t that bloudy Antichri&s;tian brood though with the lo&s;s of many precious Saints; we were then powerfully convinced, that the Lords pur|po&s;e was to deal with the late King as a man of bloud: And be|ing per&s;waded in our con&s;ciences, That he and his Monarchy was one of the ten horns of the Bea&s;t &s;poken of, <HI>Rev.</HI> 17.12, 13, 14, 15. And being witne&s;&s;es to &s;o much of the innocent bloud of the Saints that he had &s;hed in &s;upporting the Bea&s;t; and con&s;idering the loud cries of the &s;ouls of the Saints under the Altar, we were ex|traordinarily carried forth to de&s;ire Ju&s;tice upon the King, that man of bloud: And to that purpo&s;e petitioned our Superiour Officers, and the Parliament, to bring him to Ju&s;tice: which accordingly, by an high hand of Providence was brought to pa&s;s; which Act we are confident the Lord will own, in pre&s;erving the Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> again&s;t all Kingdoms and Nations, that &s;hall adventure to meddle with them upon that account: When God executes his judgements upon Malefactors, let none go about to re&s;i&s;t: When he brings forth tho&s;e his enemies that will not &s;uffer Je&s;us Chri&s;t to be King in the mid&s;t of his Saints, and breaks them in pieces like a Potters ve&s;&s;el; let not <HI>Scotland,</HI> nor any other Nation &s;ay, What do&s;t thou? We fear they have been too bu&s;ie already: the Lord that
<PB N="5" REF="3">&s;ees the &s;ecrets of all hearts, knows the compliance of <HI>Scotland</HI> with the late Kings I&s;&s;ue now with you, was in order to di&s;turb the Peace of <HI>England,</HI> for being Gods Executioners upon a bloody Ty|rant, and a &s;upporter of the Throne of the Bea&s;t: But ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, the crafty are taken in their own &s;nare: <HI>England</HI> &s;its in peace, while&s;t <HI>Scotland</HI> receives into their chief City, their new King, at the very hour wherein an Army had marched 300 miles, is facing them at the very gates. We wi&s;h our Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> e&s;peci|ally tho&s;e that truly fear the Lord, would con&s;ider the&s;e things, and not flight the providences of God &s;o much as they do: When <HI>Scotland</HI> cho&s;e new gods, and would have a King out of a Family that God bad rejected, then was war in the gates: And though we do not think providences alone, a &s;ufficient rule for Gods People to walk by, yet we do know that the Lord &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ks to his people by his Providence as well as by his Word; and he is angry with his people that do not take notice thereof, and promi&s;eth ble&s;&s;ing to tho&s;e that do, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 107. and the latter end.</P>
<P>And here give us leave (not in a boa&s;ting &s;pirit, but in meekne&s;s and fear) to tell you, That we are per&s;waded we are poor unwor|thy in&s;truments in Gods hand to break hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Enemies, and pre&s;erve his people. You have acknow<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">edged us in your own Papers to be a Rod of Iron to da&s;h in piec<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> the M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lignan<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">: but withal &s;ay, VVe mu&s;t now be broken in pi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> becau&s;e we now &s;et our &s;elves again&s;t the Lot of Gods inhe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">nce . Le<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> us here &s;peak for our &s;elves; yea, the Lord &s;peak for us, w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> k<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ows our hear<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">, a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d all our wayes: we value the Churches of J<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;t, who <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">re the Lot of Gods inheri|tance, ten thou&s;and tim<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> ab<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ve our own li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">; yea we do ble&s;s the Lord, we are not only a Rod of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ron, to d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h the common enemies in pieces, but al&s;o a hedge (though very unwor<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hy) about Chri&s;ts Vineyard; and if we know ou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> own h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">arts, where ever the Lor of Gods inheritance &s;hall appear to be found in <HI>Scotland,</HI> we &s;hall think it our duty to the utmo&s;t hazard of our lives, to pre&s;erve the &s;ame: But if there be any that have taken coun&s;el together again&s;t the Lord, and again&s;t his anoynted, whom the Lord hath decreed to &s;et upon his holy hill of <HI>Sion;</HI> we are per&s;waded the Lord hath brought us hither as in&s;truments, through which he will &s;peak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his &s;ore di&s;plea&s;ure, VVe de&s;ire it may be known to you our Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that we are not Souldiers of Fortune, we are not meerly th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ervants of men, we have not onely proclaimed Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the King of Saints, to be our King
<PB N="6" REF="4">by Profe&s;&s;ion; but de&s;ire to &s;ubmit to him upon his own terms, and to admit him to the exerci&s;e of his Royal Authority in our hearts, and to follow him whither&s;oever he goeth, he having of his own good will entred into a Covenant of Grace with his poor Saints; and be a&s;&s;ured, it is he that leadeth us into <HI>Scotland,</HI> as he hath done in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI> And therefore we do in the &s;pirit of bro|therly love, and of the fear of the Lord, be&s;eech you to look about you; for our Lord Je&s;us is coming among&s;t you as a refiners fire, and as Fullers &s;ope: and ble&s;&s;ed are tho&s;e in whom the lea&s;t dram of &s;in|cerity &s;hall be found.</P>
<P>We have a Paper directed to us from the people of <HI>Scotland,</HI> it having been publikely made known to us at the head of our Regi|ments; wherein we are fir&s;t de&s;ired to con&s;ider the lawfulne&s;s of our marching into <HI>Scotland.</HI> We ble&s;s God, we did that before we came; and are abundantly &s;atisfied, that we are brought hither by the Lord: nay, many of us lying under temptations of fle&s;h and bloud, and going about to frame excu&s;es to take us from this march, found, that to have &s;taid behinde, had been to have turned our backs upon Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and to have deprived our &s;elves of much &s;weet commu|nion with God, that now through his goodne&s;s we do enjoy.</P>
<P>We have al&s;o con&s;idered the Arguments, by which you go about to weaken the grounds of the Parliaments, and our Superiour Offi|cers, leading us into <HI>Scotland;</HI> and mu&s;t needs give you this return: That we are &s;till abundantly e&s;tabli&s;hed in this belief, that what the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> hath done in &s;ending us into <HI>Scotland,</HI> hath been of ab&s;olute Nece&s;&s;ity to pre&s;erve them&s;elves from being de|&s;troyed in their Religion and Liberties, which they have been at &s;o much co&s;t both of Bloud and Trea&s;ure, to purcha&s;e and pre&s;erve: and therefore by the way we mu&s;t needs tell you, that we cannot endure to hear them called <HI>A pretended Parliament;</HI> which we de|&s;ire you to take notice of, that if you write to us again, you would &s;peak more reverently of the Authority of our Nation, or el&s;e we &s;hall ea&s;ily think you will upon every occa&s;ion be ready to invade <HI>England,</HI> that you may &s;et up an Authority, which you may call lawful.</P>
<P>And let us, as in the pre&s;ence of the Lord, further a&s;&s;ure you, That we have already examined our con&s;ciences, as before the Lord, and have a clear a&s;&s;urance in our hearts, That he will countenance us in this action, and that we do not break any Covenant which we have &s;worn before God, Angels and Men; but could be contented
<PB N="7" REF="4">&s;hould we not thereby Idolize the <HI>Covenant,</HI> to march to any En|gagement with you, if called thereunto by the Lord, with the <HI>Co|venant</HI> on the tops of our Pikes; and let the Lord judge who hath ob&s;erved the Ends of the <HI>Covenant</HI> be&s;t, you or we? Yet we do acknowledge, VVe have not been the exact Performers, though not the wilful breakers thereof: Our con&s;ciences al&s;o bear us record, VVe do above any thing in the world, de&s;ire the Union of the two Nations; and it is our prayer daily, That tho&s;e that fear the Lord in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> may become one in the hand of the Lord, and joyn together in the advancement of the Kingdome of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and throwing down, and trampling upon the Seat of the Bea&s;t. VVhy &s;hould not <HI>Scotland</HI> as well as <HI>England,</HI> rejoyce to &s;ee the Horns of the Bea&s;t cut off, that we may joyn together, to hate the VVhore, and to <HI>burn her fle&s;h with fire?</HI> The Lord is our witne&s;&s;e (whom we fear) we come not to oppre&s;&s;e you, or &s;hed your blood; we have cryed to the Lord, again and again, to prevent it: we have &s;ent you our Declarations of Love to the People of God in <HI>Scotland,</HI> which &s;ome among&s;t you, though they pretended to An|&s;wer, yet do mo&s;t injuriou&s;ly and unchri&s;tianly keep from their &s;ight, nay, mo&s;t fal&s;ly mi&s;-repre&s;enting us as a people come with intentions to de&s;troy the poor inhabitants, and that we are left of our God to be de&s;troyed: but we have made our prayer to the Lord, and made known before him their &s;ayings, who hath told the people of <HI>Scotland,</HI> That God hath for&s;aken us; and therefore bid them per|&s;ecute and take us, for now the Sectaries day is come, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But the Lord is &s;till with us, he is our Refuge, and a pre&s;ent help in trouble, ready to be found: we do believe, the cry of the oppre&s;&s;ed in <HI>Scot|land</HI> will be heard, and wo be to tho&s;e that are the Cau&s;e thereof. Our Quarrel is &s;till again&s;t Malignants, the Root whereof is now, through the evil Policy of &s;ome States-men, become the Head of <HI>Scotland.</HI> We dare not quarrel with tho&s;e who&s;e hearts are upright with Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and faithful and loving to <HI>England,</HI> but with tho&s;e who are mo&s;t treacherous and fal&s;e to both; and therefore we dare not any of us, though tempted thereto by your papers, be &s;o carnally wi&s;e, as to de&s;ert the Cau&s;e and Work of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in which we have hitherto been &s;o long and &s;o miraculou&s;ly carried on. Do you think we are men &s;o weakly principled, as to be per&s;waded without the lea&s;t &s;trength of Argument to de&s;ert the Intere&s;t of our own Na|tion, and expo&s;e thou&s;ands of the precious Saints of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to be trampled upon as the dirt in the &s;treets, when the Lord is about
<PB N="8" REF="5">to put on their beautiful garments, and to make them a prai&s;e in the earth? Or can we (think you) betray our &s;uperiour Officers, in whom we &s;ee &s;o much of the &s;weet Spirit of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, into your hands, who&s;e mouths are opened wide to devour them? we pray you not to wait for &s;uch a thing. The Lord hath brought us hither by his Providence, and upon him we &s;hall with confidence depend, till we &s;ee a glorious i&s;&s;ue, which we humbly and heartily de&s;ire may be without the effu&s;ion of any more blood; and (if it be the will of God) both &s;peedy and comfortable to you and us, that we may re|turn with joy into <HI>England,</HI> and leave <HI>Scotland</HI> rejoycing that an Engli&s;h Army hath been among&s;t them: which po&s;&s;ibly may be the &s;ooner effected, were you and we &s;uffered to confer, and open our hearts one to another: We do believe much of the bitterne&s;s of &s;pi|rit would be allayed in our Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> did they know how exceedingly we are &s;landered by the pens and tongues of many of your Kirk-men, concerning our Religion and faith towards God, which though we may not vainly boa&s;t of, yet according to the A|po&s;tles direction, we are ready to give an an&s;wer to the meane&s;t Chri&s;tian in <HI>Scotland, that &s;hall ask a Rea&s;on of the Faith and Hope that is in us, with meekne&s;s and fear.</HI> And indeed, we account our be&s;t way of contending with tho&s;e &s;landers, is to pray the Lord to make our hearts &s;ound in his &s;tatutes, that we be not a&s;hamed, that &s;o we <HI>&s;an|ctifying the Lord God in our hearts, and having a good con&s;cience, they that &s;peak evil of us as of evil doers, may be a&s;hamed while&s;t they fal&s;ly accu&s;e our good conver&s;ation in Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>And thus have we in the naked plainne&s;s of our &s;ouls opened our hearts unto you our dear Brethren that fear the Lord in <HI>Scotland,</HI> where ever you be found, whether in the highe&s;t Councils or the poore&s;t Cottages, who though you now be &s;cattered, the Lord will in his due time bring you together, and bind you up as his Jewels, and make you one with tho&s;e that fear the Lord among&s;t us: which the God and Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and in him our God and Father al&s;o, bring to pa&s;s in his due time; and in the mean time make both you and us wi&s;e to under&s;tand the things that con|cern the exalting of Chri&s;ts Kigdom: That in all our undertakings we may be &s;ub&s;ervient to the Affairs of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and above all things take heed how we &s;tir up any of the powers or &s;trength of this world to de&s;troy one another. <HI>The Grace of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the Prince of Peace, be with you.</HI> AMEN.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the Leaguer at <HI>Mu&s;cleborough,</HI> <DATE>Augu&s;t. 1. 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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