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<P>SCOTLANDS ALARME <HI>OR,</HI> Some con&s;iderations tending to
demon|&s;trate the nece&s;sitie of our &s;peedie marching to the a&s;si&s;tance
of our Brethren in <HI>England,</HI> notwith|&s;tanding all difficulties and
nece&s;&s;ities, reall or pretended.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>ESTHER 4. ver&s;e 13, 14, 16. Ver&s;e 13.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Think not with thy &s;elf that thou &s;halt e&s;cape in the Kings
hou&s;e more then all the Iews. <HI>15.</HI> For if thou altogether holde&s;t
thy peace at this time, thou &s;hall there inlargement and deliverance ari&s;e
to the Iews from another place, but thou and thy fathers hou&s;e &s;hall be
de&s;troyed, and who knoweth whether thou art come to the Kingdom for &s;uch a
time as this.</P>
<BIBL><HI>Ver&s;e 16.</HI></BIBL>
<P>If I peri&s;h, I peri&s;h.</P>
<BIBL><HI>Chap. 8. ver&s;. 6.</HI></BIBL>
<P>For how can I endure to &s;ee the evill that &s;hall come unto
(Gods) people? or how can I endure to &s;ee the de&s;truction of my kinred?</P></Q>
<P>TOGETHER, With a Letter dated at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Novemb. the
29. 1643.</P>
<P>Wherin is given full &s;atisfaction to all men who de&s;ire to
know the rea&s;ons why the <HI>Scots</HI> Army is not yet advanced into
<HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Printed, fir&s;t at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and Re-printed at
<HI>London</HI> for <HI>Robert Bo&s;tock. Anno Domini.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="considerations">
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<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>SCOTLANDS ALARME: <HI>OR,</HI> Some con&s;iderations tending to
demon|&s;trate the nece&s;sitie of our &s;peedie marching to <HI>the
a&s;sistance of our Brethren in</HI> England, <HI>notwith|&s;tanding all
difficulties and nece&s;sities, reall or pretended.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as all works of honour and impor|tance are u&s;ually
attended with manifold diffi|culties, which the &s;pirits of men, unle&s;&s;e
quick|ned, many times &s;uffer to grow up into di&s;cou|ragements: And whereas
more e&s;pecially tho&s;e under-takings in which the honour of GOD, and the
aduancement of the Kingdom of JESUS CHRIST is con|cerned, be&s;ides tho&s;e
naturall impediments that ari&s;e from the weight of the Service, are commonly
ob&s;tructed with many arti|ficiall lets, which the &s;ubtilty and malice of
the Devill, and ill-af|fected In&s;truments readily make, and many times the
corruptions of the well-affected, too ea&s;ily entertain.</P>
<P>It &s;eems not unnece&s;&s;arie to offer to this Nation, now by
&s;o|lemne and &s;acred Covenant engaged with the Kingdom of <HI>Eng|land,</HI>
for the mutuall pre&s;ervation of Religion and Liberty, &s;ome con&s;iderations
proving and pre&s;sing the nece&s;sitie of the &s;peedie marching of our
intended Army, to the relief of our Brethren, notwith&s;tanding the expectation
of money not fully an&s;wered, and the di&s;couragements of this Winter
&s;ea&s;on.</P>
<P>That we of this Nation are to affoord a&s;si&s;tance to
<HI>England</HI> in thi Cau&s;e, wherein they are engaged again&s;t the
Popi&s;h and Prelaticall Faction, that &s;o the intended corruption and
&s;ubver|&s;ion of the Prote&s;tant Religion may be prevented, and the ju&s;t
<PB N="2" REF="3">Liberties of both Nations &s;ecured, it is hoped may be taken
for granted, it being the plain language of our Covenant.</P>
<P>Some it may be there are (and God be thanked there are no more)
who either really think, or carry them&s;elves as if they thought it utterly
unlawfull to engage in this Cau&s;e, becau&s;e we are &s;o unhappie as to &s;ee
his Maje&s;ty intangled in the coun&s;els and practi&s;es of them whom we are
re&s;olved to oppo&s;e, and think that free-born Prote&s;tant Subjects, in any
ca&s;e of difference betwixt them and their Prince, have nothing left but the
mi&s;erable refuge of pa&s;&s;ive obedience, which they will, have accounted
due to his per&s;onall commands, as well as legall. But God forbid we &s;hould
&s;o part with our Religion and Libertie, the Inheritance of our Fa|thers. A
great deal of honour and ob&s;ervance is due to Princes, but let us finde out
&s;ome cheaper &s;acrifice for the&s;e Deities, than the honour and truth of
him who is exalted farre above all gods, and the welfare and happine&s;&s;e of
whole Kingdoms, with which, what&s;oever mortall man is weighed in the
ballance, will be found too light. But in the mean time the&s;e States and
Kingdoms are ve|rie much beholding to the patrons of this Doctrine, who thereby
make the condition of the Subjects of great Brittain no whit bet|ter than that
of the va&s;&s;als to the great Turk, who can de&s;ire or ex|pect no more than
a pa&s;&s;ive obedience to his will and plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>Others there be, who pretend think to that Religion &amp; Liber|ty
may be &s;ecured by tho&s;e wayes and coun&s;els which have ob|tained his
Maje&s;ties Countenance and Concurrence. But whe|ther a de&s;igne who&s;e
ingredients are Spani&s;h Coun&s;els, Romi&s;h Buls, Popi&s;h Contributions,
and an Iri&s;h Ce&s;&s;ation, be like to tend to the good of the true Religion,
let any man judge who hath not renounced his under&s;tanding.</P>
<P>But this pre&s;ent undertaking is not intended to convince them
who oppo&s;e or decline this Service, if there are any who either upon the&s;e
grounds or wor&s;e are di&s;po&s;ed to an oppo&s;ition, or neutrality in this
great Cau&s;e, And after &s;o much blood &s;hed, &s;o many Petitions and
Declarations made, &s;uch a Covenant as ours duely weighed doubt of the
lawfullne&s;&s;e and nece&s;sity of joyning with our Brethren in this mutuall
defence. Such are to be left to the ju&s;t cen&s;ures of the <HI>Church,</HI>
and de&s;erved penalties of the <HI>State,</HI> which certainly are the mo&s;t
fit, and will be the mo&s;t effe|ctuall meanes for their Conviction.</P>
<P>That which is now endeavored, is to quicken the hearts, and
<PB N="3" REF="3">&s;trengthen the hands of them who have Sworn and
Sub&s;cribed this Solemne Covenant, that they may with the more &s;peed and
cheerfulne&s;&s;e &s;et their &s;houlders to the work in hand. For &s;o it is
many times,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Probitas laudatur &amp; alget.</NOTE> that a
good Cau&s;e is at the &s;ame time prai&s;ed and &s;tarved, And tho&s;e that
&s;eem very much affected with the gene|rall repre&s;entation of a
bu&s;ine&s;&s;e when it de&s;cends to action, and e&s;pecially their own
particular engagement, have a &s;trange damp &s;eazing upon them, and can
hardly per&s;wade them&s;elves to act according to what they have
apprehended.</P>
<P>If therefore there be any who either doubt of the ab&s;olute or
pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ity of contributing their utmo&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance to this
Cau&s;e of CHRIST &s;o infinitely valuable, let the love they owe to GOD, and
his Go&s;pel which is endangered, to their Brethren who are &s;o mi&s;erably
&s;poiled both in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> to them&s;elves and
their own Native Country, which is now within the noi&s;e of the Thunder (for
the &s;harp Letters and terrible Pro|clamations from <HI>Oxford</HI> have
already reached us) and will &s;hort|ly (unle&s;&s;e GOD give us grace to
prevent it by timely endea|vours) be under the &s;torm: Let the&s;e threefold
bands of love not ea&s;ily broken by any Chri&s;tian Spirit, prevail with them
to lay to heart the&s;e en&s;uing con&s;iderations.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, let it be duely con&s;idered what may be the ill
con&s;e|quents of di&s;apointing the expectation of the wel-affected party in
<HI>England,</HI> who having done their utmo&s;t to an&s;wer our de&s;ires,
have &s;et their hearts and hopes upon our a&s;&s;i&s;tance as the mo&s;t
probable means (under GOD) for the repre&s;&s;ing the fury of the adver&s;ary,
and re&s;cuing them from tho&s;e calamities that pre&s;&s;e them even at their
doors.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iob.</HI> 6.</NOTE>To him that is afflicted,
pity &s;hould be &s;hewed from his friend; but we &s;hall in&s;tead of that,
adde affli|ction to their affliction, if by deferring their hope, we make their
hearts to faint, and give too much advantage to their and our adver&s;aries to
in&s;ult over them, and &s;peake proudly in the day of their
di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>And &s;econdly, if after all the&s;e Overtures and Endea|vours,
our promi&s;ed and expected helpe &s;hould be deferred, the Malignants would be
very diligent to improve this di&s;appointment to an alienation of their
affection from us, and the interruption of that Union, &s;o happily made and
confirmed betwixt us by the late Covenant, and our FRIENDS would bee ready to
looke upon us as <PB N="4" REF="4">a people rather addicted to our own
advantages then affected with their dangers, or the dangers of Religion it
&s;elfe: which we have publickly acknowledged to bee much hazarded by the
at|tempts of Papi&s;ts and Malignants there.</P>
<P>But it will be &s;aid that other mens expectations are not to bee
the grounds or rules of our proceedings; It is an&s;wered nationall
expectations are not to be &s;lighted, but &s;ometimes may have the &s;trength
of &s;ome arguments, e&s;pecially when &s;o rai&s;ed as theirs have been, which
may be conceived to be by the&s;e two grounds: Fir&s;t, a repre&s;entation made
to our friends in <HI>England</HI> by their Commi&s;&s;ioners, of their hearty
entertainment here, and that ju&s;t &s;en&s;e and fellow-feeling of their
calamities, which was expre&s;|&s;ed by the Generall A&s;&s;embly and
Convention of E&s;tates, to which affections they will looke for actions
&s;utable. Secondly, we under&s;tand by divers Letters that our
Commi&s;&s;ioners there, &s;eeing their nece&s;&s;ities, and yet their
willingne&s;&s;e to doe to their power, and many of them beyond their power,
the better to comply with the Articles of the Treaty, have given very much
encouragement to them to expect our &s;peedy march, e&s;pecially upon the
&s;ending away a con&s;iderable part of the money requi|red. And we are bound
as much as in us lyeth, to make good the hopes they have given both for their
credit &amp; the honor of the Nation. For though our difficulties be many, yet
it is im|po&s;&s;ible that they &s;hould become &s;o manife&s;t and convincing
to them, as to acquit us from a pre&s;ent undertaking of this &s;ervice.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, by our pre&s;ent march wee &s;hall not onely
&s;atisfie the expectation of our friends, but be&s;ides the reall &s;ervice
wee &s;hall doe in our own per&s;ons in tho&s;e parts where wee come, Wee
&s;hall give reputation to their Forces el&s;where, di&s;appoint and
di|&s;tract the enemy, who have flattered them&s;elves with the
impo&s;|&s;ibility of our pre&s;ent a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and ordered their affairs
accord|dingly: And not only help to &s;ave the lives and e&s;tates, but the
&s;ouls of many, who through a &s;lavi&s;h feare are con&s;trained to lie in a
dete&s;table neutrality, and ready to &s;ay a confederacy to the Papi&s;ts, and
&s;o to &s;tretch out their hands to a &s;trange god.</P>
<P>As therefore all warlike undertakings, in regard of the mani|fold
advantages of di&s;patch, are called Expeditions; &s;o let us take care, that
through our backwardne&s;&s;e, this of ours lo&s;e not that name.</P>
<P>But the difficulties are &s;o many: in regard of our
nece&s;&s;ities not <PB N="5" REF="4">&s;upplyed with the full &s;um expected,
and the manifold inconve|niences of a Winter march, that it &s;eems
unrea&s;onable for any to expect we &s;hould undertake that which we can
&s;carce hope to go through. For &s;atisfaction to this great objection, let us
con&s;ider &s;omething of the nature of difficulties in generall, and &s;ome
things concerning our particular pre&s;ent difficulties.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, it is hoped no man will take offence at him that prayeth
GOD to remove the difficulties in our own hearts, which through &s;loath and
&s;elf-love, are &s;ometimes ready to &s;ay, There is a roar|ing Lyon in the
way, when it is onely a barking Dog: it may be, if this prayer were heard, the
greate&s;t difficulties were removed, though it cannot be denied, there are
many other.</P>
<P>Secondly, Difficultie is the con&s;tant companion of great and
honourable undertakings;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 26.39.</NOTE>the greater our
difficulties are, the greater honour &s;hall we gain to our &s;elves, the
greater love &s;hall we &s;hew to the Cau&s;e and Servants of CHRIST, who when
he came to deliver us, never di&s;puted the bitterne&s;&s;e of the Cup, but was
&s;atisfied that it was his Fathers will he &s;hould drink it:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 24.24.</NOTE>A man would not
be&s;tow a cheap courte&s;ie on his friend, much le&s;&s;e would he &s;erve GOD
with that which co&s;ts him nought; In a word, &s;o ardent are tho&s;e
affections that become this Cau&s;e, that they ought not nor will not fear the
encounter of the colde&s;t win|ter bla&s;ts that can be met with.</P>
<P>Thirdly, All difficulties that fall &s;hort of impo&s;&s;ibility,
though they di&s;-hearten flat and dull &s;pirits, yet they do but quicken
tho&s;e that are noble and active, and makes them double their di|ligent
endeavours. Nothing but an ab&s;olute impo&s;&s;ibilitie mu&s;t &s;top us in
our intended Cour&s;e, for we have obliged our &s;elves by Covenant,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Eccl.</HI> 5.4.</NOTE> <HI>Zealou&s;ly &amp;
con&s;tantly to continue in the pur&s;uance of this Cau&s;e again&s;t all
oppo&s;ition, and promote the &s;ame according to our power, again&s;t all Lets
and Impediments what&s;oever.</HI> Let this be throughly weighed. Vow and
pay.</P>
<P>Fourthly, The manifold experience we have had of difficulties may
ju&s;tly make us rather love them then fear them, let us reflect upon the
unexpected relief GOD hath given us in our &s;treights, for want of Money,
victuals, and Ammunition in our former ex|peditions, and be di&s;couraged if
wee can, it is true the thought of them &s;hould not make us neglect the meanes
and tempt GOD, but they may and mu&s;t, when wee have u&s;ed the means, make us
tru&s;t him. The great things GOD that done <PB N="6" REF="5">for us, have
&s;urely their u&s;e, and there is none better then in the &s;trength of them,
and to &s;et upon new, as <HI>David</HI> remembring the Lion and the Bear
adventured on the <HI>Phili&s;tin.</HI> The place wither we are to go, may
ju&s;tly be called by us <HI>Iehovah Iireh,</HI> as it was then &s;aid, <HI>in
the Mount of the Lord, it &s;hall be &s;een;</HI> &s;o may it by us in regard
of the extremities wee have pa&s;&s;ed, <HI>the more difficul|tie, the le&s;s
danger.</HI></P>
<P>And as it is very well worth our labour, to re-collect and
con|&s;ider the &s;everall pa&s;&s;ages of &s;peciall providence, which have
be|fallen us and others on this Cau&s;e of Pre&s;ervation, and Reforma|tion of
Religion, So may it not be ami&s;&s;e in the mean time to take notice of this
generall ob&s;ervation, That GOD delights to be very much &s;een in the
carrying it on, he honours men &s;o much as to employ them, and lets them
&s;hew their duty to him, and love to his Cau&s;e, but the Worke that is done
he doth it him&s;elfe, and in the mid&s;t of all the meanes that are u&s;ed, he
&s;eemes re&s;olved to bring his people out of Babylon, as once out of Egypt,
by tentati|ons, and &s;ignes and mighty wonders&punc; How &s;trangely hath he
reje|cted all humane confidences? Armies have been rai&s;ed with great
Preparations &amp;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zech.</HI> 4.6, 7.</NOTE>Expectations, how
&s;mall parts of them hath God made u&s;e of &amp; indeed no part til he hath
fir&s;t reduced them to great &s;traits &amp; extremities, and emptyed them of
their own confidence. It is a worke paralled to that mentioned by the Prophet,
which the Lord declared to be accompli&s;hed, not by power nor by might, but by
his Spirit. Though this Work of Babylons ruine &s;hall not be done without
power or might, for double mu&s;t be rendred to her, and happie &s;hall they be
that reward her as &s;hee hath &s;erved us, giving her blood to drinke, for
&s;hee is worthy; yet not by that power or might in an ordinary way, but by the
Spirit of GOD the di&s;po&s;er of all affairs (e&s;pecially tho&s;e that
concerne the Church of GOD) &s;trangely ordering things, that &s;o little of
men or meanes, but much of GOD may be &s;een, &s;o that when he hath made the
Mountains become plains, before his <HI>Zerobabels,</HI> the head-&s;tone may
be brought fotth with &s;houting, crying not Ar|mies, Councels, Commanders, but
<HI>Grace grace unto it.</HI></P>
<P>But this is a &s;trange Dialect to States men, &amp; Souldiers, It
may be &s;o, but GOD will probably make it familiar in time.</P>
<P>Let this di&s;cour&s;e be taken as it was intended, not to take
men off the u&s;ing preparations, but from tru&s;ting them, and &s;tanding &s;o
preci&s;ely upon all accompli&s;hments, when GOD hath given &s;o
<PB N="7" REF="5">good encouragement to hope that he will make up our unwilling
and unavoidable nece&s;sities. But in the mid&s;t of our bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, let
it be &s;eriou&s;ly laid to heart how much blood is &s;pilt, how many Townes
and Countries &s;poiled, how mi&s;erably our friends are di&s;tre&s;&s;ed and
di&s;tracted, while we are preparing onely for their reliefe. We have
profe&s;&s;ed to looke upon their condition as our own, and well we may, for it
is <HI>truly,</HI> though not pre&s;ently and <HI>immediately</HI> our own; let
us &s;o carry our &s;elves, as if they ene|mies Forces were as neer
<HI>Edenburgh</HI> as they are <HI>London.</HI> But this mu&s;t not be
interpreted quarreling, but quickning.</P>
<P>And now let us de&s;cend from this general con&s;ideration of
dif|ficulties, and take a particular view of the pre&s;ent difficulties that
interrupt and retard our &s;o much expected and de&s;ired aid.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t, whereas it may bee there are &s;ome that quake and
&s;hiver at the thought of a Winters march, and looke upon it as an
unrea&s;onable motion, that our Army &s;hould then take the field, when other
Armies betake them&s;elves to Gari&s;on.</P>
<P>Let none take exception, if we pray GOD to keepe Winter out of our
hearts, and we &s;hall make a rea&s;onable good &s;hift for our bodies, the
wor&s;t weather in the world, is that which our Saviour tells of; When
<HI>iniquity abounds, and the love of many waxes cold.</HI> Chri&s;t never
complained it was too hot, when he &s;weat drops of blood, GOD hath given us
bodies able to endure much, let not our mindes refu&s;e it; nece&s;sity makes
all &s;ea&s;ons alike, and that is our ca&s;e, or I am &s;ure the ca&s;e of our
friends, which we &s;hould make ours, or GOD will make it ours. But if the
con&s;ideration of the condition of our friends, who endure a hard winter for
want of coals from New-ca&s;tle do not move us, let us looke at the carriage of
our enemies, &s;ure we &s;hall be a&s;hamed to decline that for the Service of
Chri&s;t, which they &s;o readily endure for Anti|chri&s;t. Did not the Kings
Armie march from <HI>Oxford</HI> to <HI>Brainford</HI> in November, the M. of
New-ca&s;tle, with his Popi&s;h Army from <HI>Northumberland</HI> to
<HI>York</HI> in Decem. Did not the Cavaliers take in <HI>Cice&s;ter</HI> in
<HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire</HI> in the depth of Winter, Feb. 2. 1642.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>Vt iugulent homines &s;urgunt de nocte latrones,</L>
<L>Vt teip&s;um &s;erves non expergi&s;ceris?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Shall villains to de&s;troy get up by night,</L>
<L>And we not &s;tir to &s;ave till day be light?</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>For &s;hame let not this be thought an impediment, much le&s;&s;e
made an excu&s;e by any, GOD will either &s;end &s;uch weather as
<PB N="8" REF="6">we may endure, or make us able to endure &s;uch as he
&s;ends. If we complain the winter is too cold, it is much to bee doubted, we
may have rea&s;on hereafter to complain that the Spring is too hot, when our
work &s;hal be made ten times more difficult by the increa&s;e of the enemies
&s;trength from <HI>Ireland</HI> and other places, and the provi&s;ion of Armes
and Ammunition (now &s;o much wanting among them) which the&s;e dark winter
nights, not|with&s;tanding the guards at Sea, will befriend them with; Let us
not favour our enemies while we think to favour our &s;elves, and &s;uffer them
to make u&s;e of tho&s;e provi&s;ions for hor&s;e and man, which are now in the
Countrey; though Winter be more cold, the Summer is like to be more hungry.
Delayes e&s;pecially in Military affairs, are &s;eldome or never without many
dangers: Ours will have &s;in and danger too, if they be not timely looked
unto.</P>
<P>But the la&s;t and greate&s;t difficultie is, the matter of money;
how can it be thought that we &s;hould &s;atisfie the expectation of our
friends and neighbours, when they fall &s;o much &s;hort of &s;a|tisfying ours,
in that which is the &s;inew and &s;trength of warre.</P>
<P>This is a &s;trong objection, but nece&s;&s;ity is a &s;tronger
an&s;wer; we mu&s;t be &s;ure at &s;ome time or other (for we are made Traitors
and Rebels by Proclamation already, and promi&s;ed protection but upon a
&s;lender condition, that is, &s;o long as wee behave our &s;elves &s;o, as
evill Councellours may give a good report of our de&s;ervings) we &s;hall be
compelled to rai&s;e an Armie in de|fence of this Cau&s;e and our &s;elves, and
though the termes are not &s;o good as &s;ome expected, they are better then
wee are like to finde, if our brethren in <HI>England</HI> bee utterly
&s;poiled, and wee left to &s;hift for our &s;elves. Let us therefore
per&s;wade our &s;elves to doe that now, which otherwi&s;e we &s;hal be in time
con&s;trained to, that is, part with what we have, for the vindication of our
Religion and Liberty.</P>
<P>As it was ju&s;t and rea&s;onable, that for the better
accompli&s;h|ment of the intended worke, we &s;hould make as good provi&s;ion
as might be, and to that end de&s;ire a con&s;iderable &s;umme of mo|ney, the
better to prevent future inconveniencies. So it is no le&s;&s;e ju&s;t and
rea&s;onable, that our friends, having (as we are credibly informed) done their
utmo&s;t, for this pre&s;ent, toward the &s;ati&s;|faction of our
propo&s;itions in that point, we &s;hould bee willing and ready to doe our
utmo&s;t to &s;upply their unwilling wants, <PB N="9" REF="6">the cau&s;e being
as certainly, though not &s;o immediately ours, as theirs.</P>
<P>It may be more money might have been had, if Malignants, Neuters,
and lukewarme-profe&s;&s;ors could have found in their hearts to have parted
with it; but as &s;ome have done below, &s;o doubtle&s;&s;e &s;ome have done
beyond their ability. Shall hone&s;t men be de&s;troyed, becau&s;e worldlings
will not part with their Mammon: For that is the ca&s;e, if we helpe not the
good Pro|te&s;tants of <HI>England,</HI> becau&s;e money is &s;hort, they
mu&s;t be lo&s;t and undone, becau&s;e after this va&s;t expence upon the
Cau&s;e of GOD they are no richer?</P>
<P>And if this be an impediment, certainly it will be an
everla|&s;ting impediment; the longer we &s;tay, the le&s;&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance
mu&s;t bee expected from our friends, which bee daily more and more
ex|hau&s;ted, and that middle &s;ort of men, which have the riches of the
Kingdome, will rather with their money buy an unlawfull peace, than maintain a
lawfull warre.</P>
<P>Con&s;idering therefore, that GOD hath &s;o in his providence
ordered things, that our Brethren of <HI>England</HI> and wee, &s;hould be
happily united in a Solemne Covenant (a thing wee would, not long &s;ince, have
purcha&s;ed at a dear rate) and hath di&s;po&s;ed the hearts of the Parliament,
readily to condi&s;cends to the Arti|cles of the Treaty, without any materiall
alteration: Seeing that notwith&s;tanding the &s;poile of the Kings Armies,
having a great part of the Kingdom under contribution, and almo&s;t
de|&s;troying the trade of <HI>London:</HI> and notwith&s;tanding the charge of
their own Armies, which hath been exceeding great both in <HI>England</HI> and
<HI>Ireland,</HI> and yet is like to be, they have u&s;ed &s;o much care, and
&s;o faithfull endeavours for the fulfilling our de|mands; Let us every man
look upon his Covenant, wherein he hath engaged to his power, and then look to
his pur&s;e; his barns, his &s;hop and &s;tore-hou&s;es, and what&s;oever he
can call his, And la&s;t of all, look back into his own heart and con&s;cience,
and make an impartiall judgement of his ability, and do according|ly, left our
<HI>hands</HI> in contribution, not being an&s;werable to our <HI>Vow</HI> in
the Covenant, we be accounted deceivers, and meet with a cur&s;e in &s;tead of
a ble&s;&s;ing. What GOD hath denied us in mo|ney, he hath grant ed us in
victuall, whereof he hath vouch&s;afed us plenty, let us not &s;uffer his
Cau&s;e to &s;tarve in the mid&s;t of it. Let us con&s;ider that there is now
no place for concealments, wee <PB N="10" REF="7">have not to do with men, but
with GOD, with whom we have covenanted, he &s;earcheth our hearts, &s;ees our
actions and abili|ties. He takes notice what prophane <HI>E&s;aus</HI> there
are among us, that preferre pottage to their birth-right; What churli&s;h
<HI>Nabals,</HI> who &s;ay of the &s;ervants and Cau&s;e of GOD,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 25.5.</NOTE> as he once of
<HI>Da|vids, Shall I take my bread, and my fle&s;h, and give it to men whom I
know not whence they be?</HI> and he takes &s;o &s;trict notice, as to render
to them according to their wayes, and according to the fruit of their doings,
as you may &s;ee in that reckoning Chri&s;t makes at the 25 of <HI>Matth.</HI>
v. 41. I <HI>was hungry and ye fed me not, naked and ye clothed me not, Depart
ye cur&s;ed, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But I wil not &s;o much di&s;tru&s;t your faithfulne&s;&s;e and
forward|ne&s;&s;e in this great Cau&s;e of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, which pleads &s;o
&s;trong|ly for it &s;elf in every Chri&s;tian heart. If this labour be
&s;uperflu|ous, I am glad you wanted it not, if it be nece&s;&s;ary, I am glad
I &s;pared it not.</P>
<P>I &s;hut up all with the words of <HI>Ioab</HI> to
<HI>Abi&s;hai,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.12.</NOTE><HI>Be of good
cou|rage, and let us play the men for the people and cities of our God, and let
the Lord do what &s;eemeth to him good,</HI> Only adding that lively
encouragement of <HI>David</HI> to <HI>Solomon,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 12.6.</NOTE><HI>Ari&s;e
therefore, and be do|ing, and the Lord be with you.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="7" MS="y">
<HEAD>A LETTER From <HI>EDINB&V;RGH, NOVEMBER,</HI> 30. 1643.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Giving full &s;atisfaction to all men why the
<HI>SCOTISH</HI> Army is not yet Ad|vanced into <HI>ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My true and constant Friend,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>GIve me leave to u&s;e this compella|tion of you who lives in the
mid&s;t of &s;o many changes and changlings. Suffer me al&s;o to entreat you to
afford me a little of your patience (if it be not all &s;pent) till you have
peru&s;ed and pon|dered the&s;e few lines, expre&s;&s;ing the conditi|on of our
affaires here, and then pronounce your &s;entence.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Hatcher</HI> and his Company with the Treatie, and
the Money, came to <HI>Leith</HI> road <HI>November</HI> 21. &s;o long a time
it plea&s;ed God to keep him on Sea, and thereby to ex|croi&s;e our
patience.</P>
<PB REF="8">
<P>The publicke Orders to the Shyres con|cerning the generall
Randevous (which is ap|pointed to be upon the 29. of <HI>December</HI> at
<HI>Hatrlaw,</HI> a place foure miles from <HI>Berwicke</HI>) were exped upon
the fourth day after the arrivall of the Ship, which was <HI>Novemb.</HI>
25.</P>
<P>The neere&s;t Regements are appointed to march pre&s;ently towards
the borders, there to quarter and exerci&s;e them&s;elves, and to meet with the
Cavaleeres, if any of them &s;hall appeare till the day of Randevous.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider with your &s;elfe, what time you will allow for
&s;ending the Orders to the Shires, to call the Committees of the &s;everall
Shires, to bring together the Souldiers to their Colours, and to march as farre
as <HI>Bar|wicke,</HI> from which &s;ome of the Regiments are no le&s;&s;e then
a hundred miles di&s;tant; af|ter you have impartially con&s;idered the&s;e and
other &s;uch nece&s;&s;ary duties and di&s;tracti|ons, you will not condemne us
of delayes or &s;lackne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Ireland</HI> hath al&s;o bred us at this time, much trouble
and hinderance, for upon the very day of Ma&s;ter <HI>Hatcher</HI> his arivall,
Commi&s;&s;i|oners came from <HI>Ireland,</HI> expre&s;&s;ing the
un|&s;upporable <PB REF="8">&s;ufferings of our <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Army: One of
them &s;wore to my &s;elfe, that being pre&s;ent at a Parade, he did &s;ee a
whole Re|giment, whereof &s;carcely one hundred had either &s;tockings or
&s;hooes, but all bare-leg|ged and bare-footed in this &s;ea&s;on of the yeere;
and yet poore &s;oules, they are ready to take the Covenant, and to &s;pend
their lives again&s;t the Ce&s;&s;ation, if they had ne|ce&s;&s;aries for their
lives furni&s;hed unto them.</P>
<P>Our Councels were to&s;&s;ed betwixt two extremities, upon the one
hand to bring them away, was to give up that Kingdome into the hands of
Papi&s;ts and Rebels; to &s;uffer the poore Prote&s;tants there either to be
driven forth, and to come upon us for re|liefe, or their throats to be cut by
their bar|barity, which hath de&s;troyed &s;o many alrea|dy; and to make the
Rebels &s;trong and uni|ted for invading the&s;e two Kingdomes. Up|on the other
hand, to keepe them there, and to feed them with promi&s;es, and really to
&s;tarve them, as we have done for a long time were to fall in the like
barbarity.</P>
<P>In this perplexity, we have beene forced to di&s;patch from
<HI>Air</HI> 4000 bolls of meall, <PB REF="9">which we had provided for the
We&s;tern Re|giments, and are providing other nece&s;&s;aries to be &s;ent unto
the~ with diligence. This hath bin an unexpected &amp; untimeous, but a
nece&s;|&s;ary diver&s;ion of our councels from the great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. And
hath taken up a great part of our time, which the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI>
Comi&s;&s;ioners here doe know; and the wi&s;e there cannot but
ac|knowledge.</P>
<P>The act of publike faith is al&s;o concluded, and &s;ent up that
there be nothing wanting on our part: No &s;ooner did the Committee of the
convention of E&s;tates re&s;olve upon the day of generall a&s;&s;embly in
their meet|ing at <HI>Edenbrugh,</HI> have appointed a publike fa&s;t and
humiliation for a ble&s;&s;ing from Hea|ven upon our expedition, which is to be
&s;o|lemly kept in the Army, &amp; in all the Kirks of the Kingdome
<HI>Jan.</HI> 7. being the Lords day, and the wedne&s;day following according
to the warning &s;ent to all the Presbitaries and the particular cau&s;es
expre&s;&s;ed therein, which I have herewith &s;ent unto you.</P>
<P>Thus have we re&s;olved with our prayers and endeavours to joyne
in the cau&s;e of God and to wait for his ble&s;&s;ing for &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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