A REMONSTRANCE FOR PEACE, BETWEEN The Kings most excellent Majesty, and his two Houses of Parliament, assembled at Westminster; and the proceedings of his gracious Majesty, and the Commissioners, touching the Treaty; As also, five Propositions to the Kingdom of England, concerning the power of her dread sovereign the King, and the Representative Body of this Nation: With the Oath and Covenant of the King to his people, concerning PEACE, JVSTICE, MERCY, and truth.  
EXtracted out of the original Copy, for the joy and tranquillity of all his Majesties loving Subjects within the Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales.  
Whereunto is annexed, the Declaration of the Scots; the raising of an Army of 40000. men, and the Resolution of Lieut. Gen. cronwell, and mayor Gen. Lambert, touching the said Army.  
 English coat of arms, circa 1648 
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THE DECLARATION OF THE COMMITTEE of ESTATES OF THE KINGDOM of SCOTLAND, FOR The raising of 40000. Horse and Foot, and the Resolution of Lieutenant Gen. cronwell, and colonel general Lambert to fight them, if any attempt be made against England.  
Right honoured,  
THe Committee of Estates convened at edinburgh, have declared their Resolutions to raise an Army of 40000. Horse and Foot, to be divided into 80. Regiments, for defence and preservation of their own Kingdom,( as they pretend) But itis believed, that upon Lieut. Gen. Cromwells approach near the Borders, the Clergy and the marquis of Argyle will prevail with the Kingdom of Scotland, for a happy compliance, and deliver the treacherous and perfidious Revolters to justice.  
The Earl of leaven denies to join in the Hamiltonian engagement, and Lieut. Gen. David Lesly, leaves no ways unattempted, to promote the work of the Church.  
Monro lies with his Army near the Borders, but in great straights, the English Musgraves begins to tremble, and all those who have happened active, for the propagating of the said work, are like to be brought to justice, the Lieut. Gen. useth his u●most en●evours to interpose a●d retard their marching towards edinburgh, and to that end endeavours to get between M●nro, and the said City, Monroe declines fighting, but our men sometimes forceth them to it.  
Col. Gen. Lambert had lately blocked up Carlisle, but upon a Letter from the Lieutenant Gen, he drew off, and is now marching towards the Borders of Scotland. A conjunction may be had between both Armies, when the 2. Generalls pleaseth, the Souldiers are unanimous and resolved to fight the new levied forces of Scotland, if any attempt be made against England.  
Durham the 14. of September. 1648.   

A Remonstranee ●etween the Kings most excellent Majesty, and his loyal and fai●hfull Subjects of England.  
COurt flat●e●ers ●ell the people of Acts of Grace, as our Saviour tells his Apostles of worldly Potentates, that whatsoever they do, be it right or wrong, all men must count them Gracious Lords, and Graces may be from them as good men, and they may merit well, as all worthy men do that serve their Kingdoms ▪ The P●rl. and people in all their Petitions aclowledge many Acts of Grace, and it becomes the peoples mouths very well to praise their Kings, but if no Prayers will move him to return to the place where he may continue his Gracious Acts, they will be so far from Graces, that we may say of them, as we do of works of Super-errogation, they come short of the Law, and so far from merit, that their demerit will undo us, for what shall we be the better for a Gracious King, if ungracious men may keep us from him, and make him war for them against his best Subjects, for if they be not the best that maintain the Parl.( I mean the highest politic power in the Kingdom) I know not who a●e Royalists may be rebel, as well as royal power Tyranny, and both may be resisted without fear of d●mnation, so a lawful politic power command it. Private persons may not resist an usurped power, and if God no where allow that which is royal, then his majesty may not claim it, but think himself more happy, that he holds such a Royal power as is mixed with the politic power of his Kingdom, for he hath the less to answer for, and may crave pardon of God for the errors of others which he hath trusted, and triumph in his Parl. for the discovery of them, and their ready help to give remedies to all wrongs, and ●ight to all that suffer them. We complain of exactions as extortions, where they cannot be. The Parl. would not call for a penny to enrich itself. Not a person but hath spent more of his estate to do others good; then many have done, they desire may have the profit. To answer the Petition of Right, all that can be said is this, that the King will never exact one penny more for himself, but his people; and now in time of Parl. by his Commission of Array, any thing is taken from his people without their consent, which in Parl. might lawfully be had: And in many papers the Parl. is accused of wrong, to use their right to require the least of others, and raise the most out of their own estates to save all mens.  
O ingratitude! and unspeakable shane, and no ways excusable but by reproaches of the best deserving men. Warres are begun to know who may make them, & they for whom they should be made, are partend to fight against themselves, for whether they fight against the King or the Parl. they war against themselves, Take truly what we have said, and see where justice resides. Divide the royal Power from the politic, and you fight for a Tyranny, which when the King understands he will have small c●use to thank them that have carried him from his Parl. To make War upon the politic power of any Kingdom is unjust, & he is no good subject that will not stand up to preserve it to the loss of all he hath, & his own life. To fight for the King is every mans duty, but take heed how you fight for royal power that destroys the policies of Kingdoms; and I dare say it had been better for them to die in Parl. that are departed, then to take up Arm●s and die in fight against it; and the King shall never discharge his Office, till he return to perform it where he left it.   

The Oath of a King to his people.  
THe Kings Oath hath relation to peace and concord, as the end, and all the rest as the means, as judgements, Iustice, Discretion, Mercy, Truth, laws, and Customs. Judgements universal, even righteousness, good discretion, tender mercy, approved Truth, just laws, received Customs. These the King must keep, and cause to be kept, granting and permitting to the People their electi●n in the two last, which is not of what they have chosen, but shall choose justly and reasonably: For as the King is bound to the things asked, so to what may be justly added at any time, and so pronounced, he is obliged by his Oath to observe. All the world may wonder at the way preachers have taken to set at odds the O●th of the King and his people. The Oath of supremacy is to Divines deceived, or deceiving, an inherent power in the person of the King, without, above, against all his Courts, the high Cou●t of Parliament not excepted: nay, least to be regarded, and all this by setting the royal power against the politic. Can they show in the Civill law, that Emperours took any such O●th, as to keep, protect, and confirm Laws and Customs chosen by their people? Or that they had Parli●ments of equal powers to bind all persons, even Kings themselves, to do nothing in a private capacity, but all in courts of justice. I shall marshall both Oaths together.  
The Kings Oath is to do Justice, by his Judges in ●ll cou●ts to all his people, in all causes, whether they concern questions of doubts in law, or complaints of injuries done to any. The people swear to the Kings Supremacy in all causes, over all persons, not over all Courts or collective bodies; for in them he is only supreme, as they handle all causes, not in his royal power to be over them, as he is over the persons of men, but in them, as they handle all mens causes.  
We do not say the King is over all causes supreme, for that indeed were as Divines say, that the Kings supremacy is a power inherent in his person to do any thing by his own authority, without the authority of any court which is contrary to royal and politic power, and wholly imperial & tyrannicall, condemned and protested against by the Almighty, 1 Sam. 8.9 ▪ and forced upon us by the damnable doctri●e of Malignant or mist●ken Divines, who are to be accu●sed by the King and his people to make them both perjured and to perish by a bloody war; for if royal power be over all causes ●s well as persons: Bid adue to all courts of justice, and the Parliament especially; for to speak properly, the Kings Supremacy is only in his high Court of Parliament, as may appear by these reasons. 1. All appeals are made unto it. 2. All repeals are made by it. 3. All Laws proceed from it. 4. Are Declared by it. 5. R●c●ived at the discretion thereof. 6. By this way alone we may appeal from Caesar to Caesar, and by Caesar against Caesar reverse any judgement, that is, from caesar in all inferior Courts we may appeal to caesar in his Parliament; and by caesar in one Parliament, reverse the judgement of caesar in another. And therefore return( Gracious King) to your Parliament for your Supremacy is not above it, but in it, & wrong you have none, thus to be limited in all Cases, & enlarged over all persons.  
There be m●ny that make all New laws, Acts of Grace, and the very being of a Parliament ●he free goodness of a King, and Continuance, his meritorious kindness. A body called at pleasure, and dissolvable at pleasure. A matter of no trust reposed in the royal power, but a prerogative transcendent, and remedy without right ch●le●ged by the people; be their exigence n●ver so great. We may wonder at two express Statutes to call every year a Parliament, and aftr if need required; and to be dismissed when all Petitions and grievances were heard and redressed, and yet no common right, By this Reason all the Courts of Justice might be shut up and judgement administered when & where the King pleaseth, which makes stil for royal powe, against that which is politic ▪  
By letters further from the Isle of wight it is advertised, That Monday Septemb. 18. The Treaty began, Religion was the first branch insisted on, and it is hoped,( and very probable) that a sudden period will be put to the present distractions of his Majesties subjects, within his Realms and Dominions.  
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