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<P>A PLOT DISCOVERED, In which, divers Cavaliers of <HI>Scotland,</HI> &s;hould have &s;urpri&s;ed <HI>Barwick.</HI> ALSO How the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Arguile,</HI> the Earle of <HI>Crawford Lin&s;ey,</HI> Earl of <HI>Lanerick,</HI> and Major <HI>Innis,</HI> met in the field upon a chal|lenge to fight, and the proceedings of the <HI>Parliament</HI> therein.</P>
<P>WITH Five PROPOSITIONS concern|ing the <HI>King,</HI> the Amity of the kingdomes, Reformation in Religion, and the keeping of the COVENANT.</P>
<P><HI>Agreed on by the Generall A&s;&s;embly of the Kirk, and pre&s;ented to the Parliament of</HI> Scotland, March 1. 1647. And publi&s;hed for the Members of that Church and Kingdome, and Brethren of the Mini&s;tery.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>H. Becke,</HI> and are to be &s;old in the <HI>Old Bayley.</HI> 1648.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>UPon Munday la&s;t, the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ar|guile,</HI> and Earl of <HI>Crayford</HI> and <HI>Lind&s;ey</HI> fell out, and challenging each other to a com|bate, <HI>Leeth Lincke,</HI> was the place appointed, the Earle of <HI>Lanerick</HI> was &s;econd to <HI>Crayford,</HI> and Major <HI>Innis</HI> to <HI>Arguile,</HI> it &s;hould &s;eem that <HI>Innis</HI> was ignorant of it, untill that both the Noblemen &s;tript them&s;elves to their &s;hirts, then Major <HI>Innis</HI> told them, that he did not know their intentions, and that he was ready to hazard his life for <HI>Arguile,</HI> but again&s;t the Earl of <HI>Crayford</HI> he would in no wi&s;e ingage, and kept them in &s;ome di&s;|cour&s;e to that effect, until &s;uch time that &s;ome others came to them, and hindred their pur|po&s;e: notice being given thereof to the Par|liament, the whole hou&s;e ro&s;e, and divers of them went to them, to pacifie them, but are not as yet reconciled.</P>
<P>Intimation being given that this Town &s;hould be &s;eized on ye&s;terday by the Scots and Cavaliers: (a Hor&s;ecour&s;e being intended upon our bounds,) The Mayor and Aldermen &s;ummoned a generall meeting, of all the Burgers, where it was Ordered that the Hor&s;ecour&s;e &s;hould be di&s;mi&s;&s;ed by Proclamation, which was accordingly done, and a &s;trong guard of
<PB N="2" REF="3">Towne&s;men continually to bee kept during the&s;e doubtfull times. I have &s;ent your honour here inclo|&s;ed the Copy of five Propo&s;itions from the Generall A&s;&s;embly of the Kirk of <HI>Scotland,</HI> delivered by them to the Parliament, with their Declaration: My Lord, I mu&s;t conclude, being in heart.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your loving Friend,</HI> George Stuart.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Berwick</HI> <DATE>15 <HI>March.</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Five Propo&s;itions from the Generall A&s;&s;embly of the Kirk of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and to all Members of that Church and Kingdom, and to the Brethren of the Mini&s;tery.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t of all, we exhort all and every one to make more con&s;cience of indevouring are all Reforma|tion of them&s;elves and their Families, and of the places in which they live, then ever yet they have don; to be more &s;erious in &s;earching their hearts, con&s;ider|ing their wayes, and purging them&s;elves from all fil|thine&s;&s;e of the fle&s;h &amp; &s;pirit, to perfect holine&s;&s;e in the fear of God; to oppo&s;e wickednes &amp; profanenes, pro|mote the power &amp; practice of godlines, &amp; to be deep|ly humbled before the Lord, for neglecting the&s;e things &s;o much and &s;o long; withall imploying &amp; improving Chri&s;ts all-&s;ufficiency, &amp; &s;triving to exerci&s;e faith in him, for the grace of mortification &amp; &s;anctification, as well as for remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins and peace with God; that being implanted &amp; rooted in him, we may grow up as trees of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified; for without amendment of life,
<PB N="3" REF="3">and bringing forth of better fruit, the fierce wrath of the Lord cannot turn away from us.</P>
<P N="2">2. As men de&s;ire they may not be led into tempta|tion, but may be guided in &s;afe and right paths, in the mid&s;t of &s;o great difficulties, Let them avoid the com|pany and coun&s;ell of the ungodly, whereby even good men have been oft times mo&s;t dangerou&s;ly in&s;nared; Let all that fear God, choo&s;e the Te&s;timonies of the Lord for their Coun&s;ellors, be much in prayer and &s;earching the minde of God in his Word, without leaning to their own under&s;tanding, or con&s;ulting with fle&s;h and blood in ca&s;es of Con&s;cience.</P>
<P N="3">3. &s;eeing it is no act of wi&s;dom but of folly, &s;o to &s;hunne one danger as to runne upon another as bad or wor&s;e; let us therefore avoid enemies and beware of dangers on al hands: We cannot &s;ee but the Cau&s;e of God, true Religion, the Covenant, Presbyteriall Go|vernment, this Church and Kingdom, and what&s;oe|ver is deare&s;t unto us will be in as great danger, if the Prelaticall party prevail, as now they are in, by the power and prevalency of Sectaries in <HI>England,</HI> who have made the Covenant and begun reformation to be laid a&s;ide, and hindred the promoting thereof. So that there is a nece&s;&s;ity to be apprehen&s;ive of dangers, and attentive to remedies on both &s;ides, and to beware of compliance with, and connivance at Sectaries upon the one hand, and Malignants on the other.</P>
<P N="4">4. when we &s;peak of Malignants, we de&s;ire that the di&s;tinction may be remembred, which was made in the &s;olemn Warning to the Kingdome from the A&s;|&s;embly in <HI>Feb.</HI> 1647. <HI>viz.</HI> That the cau&s;e is in very great danger from two &s;orts of Malignant Enemies: 1. From &s;uch as have openly di&s;played a Banner, or
<PB N="4" REF="4">joyned in Armes and profe&s;&s;e Ho&s;tility again&s;t the cau&s;e, and &s;uch as adhere thereunto: 2. From &s;ecret Malignants, Di&s;-covenanters, and bo&s;ome Enemies. This &s;econd &s;ort may be &s;till knowne &s;ome Charact|ers, given both at that time and before that time, As by their &s;landering or cen&s;uring the Covenant of the three Kingdomes and expedition into <HI>England,</HI> in the year 1643. as not nece&s;&s;ary for the good of Religion, or &s;afety of this kingdome, or as tending to the di|minution of the Kings ju&s;t power and greatne&s;&s;e, by their confounding of the Kings power and ju&s;t Au|thority, with the pretence and abu&s;e therof by Com|mi&s;&s;ions, Warrants, or Letters procured from His Ma|je&s;ty by the Enemies of this Cau&s;e and Covenant. As if none were faithfull and loyall to the King, who op|po&s;e &s;uch men and their wayes; By their Spleen, Ma|lice, and Calumnies again&s;t &s;uch as God hath made eminently in&s;trumentall in this cau&s;e, and who re|&s;olve to be con&s;tant to the end in their fir&s;t Princi|ples, as if &s;uch men were the Kings Enemies who are mo&s;t zealous for the good &amp; &s;afety of Religion; by their co~mending, ju&s;tifying, or excu&s;ing other known Malignants, &amp; by their conver&s;ing or intercommuning with excommunicate Delinquents. Vnto which Cha|racters time and experience give us occa&s;ion to adde &s;ome others, as namely, their unwillingnes and declin|ing to reckon Malignants among the Enemies of this cau&s;e from whom danger is to be apprehended; their di&s;joyning and dividing the duty of indeavouring the Kings Maje&s;ties pre&s;ervation and re&s;titution, from the duty of pre&s;erving, defending, &s;etling and &s;ecuring re|ligion; As if we might and ought to pur&s;ue the former without the latter while both are in danger; their ma|ligning
<PB N="5" REF="4">of, and uttering malicious words again&s;t faith|full and Zealous Mini&s;ters, and again&s;t this meeting and Judicatory, appointed by the General A&s;&s;embly. La&s;tly, their crying up or downe of parties or per&s;ons and even of the Sectaries them&s;elves according as they have more or le&s;&s;e hopes of advantage from them to their owne de&s;ignes. For its no long &s;ince &s;uch men made light account of any dangers, which were ap|prehended from the prevalent faction of the Sectaries in <HI>England;</HI> There being then &s;ome hopes of a com|pliance and combination between them &amp; the <HI>Malig|nants:</HI> Which is an infallible demon&s;tration that &s;uch mens pretended zeale again&s;t tho&s;e Sectaries now, is not from the right principle. Wherefore let all &s;uch dangerous per&s;ons as have here been deciphered and de&s;cribed, be carefully ob&s;erved and avoyded, as men would keep them&s;elves pure, and free of &s;nares: And let Presbyteries be diligent to di&s;cover, try, and cen&s;ure any of this kind in their bounds, that they may be able herein to give a good account of their dilli|gence; As al&s;o, that they be carefull to di&s;cover, try, and cen&s;ure any trafficking Sectaries, and all &s;uch as favour their opinions and wayes.</P>
<P>Fifthly, Though we e&s;teem that prevalent faction of Se|ctaries with their abetters and adherents, pre&s;umptuous and malicious Enemies to Religion, King, and Govern|ment: Yet we hold it is our duty to labour to remove and prevent all occa&s;ions of jealou&s;ies and &s;u&s;pitions betwixt the Kingdomes; and to doe or &s;ay nothing that may breed mi&s;-under&s;tandings, break off corre&s;pondence, weaken the confidence or infringe the Union &amp; peace betwixt the two Kingdomes, &s;o happily e&s;tabli&s;hed in his Maje&s;ties pre&s;ence, and with his Royall con&s;ent in both Parliaments: A cau|tion as nece&s;&s;ary now, as when it was given above five years agoe in a Warning from the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Generall
<PB N="6" REF="5">A&s;&s;embly, met in this &s;ame place, <HI>January</HI> the fourth, 1643 And generally we de&s;ire that all the Articles and clau&s;es of the Solemn. League and Covenant may be kept in&s;epara|bly and inviolably linked together, and that there may be great tenderne&s;&s;e and care to avoide every thing which may bee interpreted as a contradicting and abandoning of the former principles, Proceedings, Petitions, Prote&s;tations, Remon&s;trances, and Declarations of this Kirk and Kingdom in the pur&s;uance of this cau&s;e; and more e&s;pecially to take good heed that <HI>Scotlands</HI> de&s;ires, doe not mount higher for the King, and fall lower in the poynt of Religion, then they were at our fir&s;t undertaking, and ingagement in this cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Finally, wee doe mo&s;t &s;eriou&s;ly obte&s;t all the people of God in this nation, and e&s;pecially the E&s;tates of Parliament by their love to the cau&s;e of God, by their &s;olemne Vowes and Covenants, by their fir&s;t principles and profe&s;&s;ions, by their former zeal and &s;incerity, by the many ble&s;&s;ings of God, and great works done for us when our zeal and inte|grity was greate&s;t in this cau&s;e, and by all the cur&s;es and judgements of God which his word denounceth again&s;t backe-&s;liders and Covenant-breakers, that they may al the dayes of their lives continue firme, &s;tedfa&s;t and faithfull in their Covenant with God, and one with another, and make good their former profe&s;&s;ions in a time of tentation and difficulty, without wavering or falling off to the right-hand, or to the left, and as many as walke according to this rule, peace be on them and mercy, and upon the I&s;rael of God.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A. KER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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