The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

Here we shall observe, in these our Countries, in these last years, such Riddles of State and Church, as have hardly been heard of: A Protestant Prince makes one Protestant Nation fight against another, for the Protestant Religion, which have been thought to be of one and the same Doctrine, for the main: One Church thunders Curses against another: Then, a Prince misled, with the aid of Papists and Atheists, spoiling and destroying the professors of the Truth, because they profess it, for the good and advancement of the Protestant Religion: Next, in a very short time, a Prince to have all his subjects declared Rebels: First, he is made declare the Scots; Then, he is constrained to declare the Irish: An Army gotten together in the Kings name, declares all those that did oppose them, Rebels: The Parliament declares all those who in the Kings name oppose them, Rebels and Traitors: Farther, under the Kings Authority, the named Rebels in England by the King, maintain a War against the declared Rebels in Ireland. But the late carriage of things at Court, and by the Court-Instruments at home and abroad, hath solved the Riddle, namely, The Patent for the Rebellion in Ireland, The detaining of help ordained for the repressing of it, The Kings offer to go into Ireland, The Cessation, and bringing over of the Irish, and, The last-discovered Plot in Scotland, all other things laid aside, tell us clearly, howsoever the Proclamations and Protestations going in the Kings name be soft and smooth as the voice of Jacob, yet the hands are rough as of Esau, destroying, and seeking to destroy the true Religion, grounded in Gods Word, with the professors thereof, as also the lawful Liberty of the Country, and bring all unto slavery. Let Ireland and England say, if this be not true; and Scotland likewise, according to its genius, speak truth.

Here we shall observe, in these our Countreys, in these last yeers, such Riddles of State and Church, as have hardly been heard of: A Protestant Prince makes one Protestant Nation fight against another, for the Protestant Religion, which have been thought to be of one and the same Doctrine, for the main: One Church thunders Curses against another: Then, a Prince misled, with the ayd of Papists and Atheists, spoyling and destroying the professors of the Truth, because they professe it, for the good and advancement of the Protestant Religion: Next, in a very short time, a Prince to have all his subjects declared Rebells: First, he is made declare the Scots; Then, he is constrained to declare the Irish: An Army gotten together in the Kings name, declares all those that did oppose them, Rebells: The Parliament declares all those who in the Kings name oppose them, Rebells and Traytors: Farther, under the Kings Authority, the named Rebells in England by the King, maintain a War against the declared Rebells in Ireland. But the late carriage of things at Court, and by the Court-Instruments at home and abroad, hath solved the Riddle, namely, The Patent for the Rebellion in Ireland, The detaining of help ordained for the repressing of it, The Kings offer to go into Ireland, The Cessation, and bringing over of the Irish, and, The last-discovered Plot in Scotland, all other things laid aside, tell us cleerly, howsoever the Proclamations and Protestations going in the Kings name be soft and smooth as the voyce of Jacob, yet the hands are rough as of Esau, destroying, and seeking to destroy the true Religion, grounded in Gods Word, with the professors thereof, as also the lawfull Liberty of the Countrey, and bring all unto slavery. Let Ireland and England say, if this be not true; and Scotland likewise, according to its genius, speak truth.