THE SCOTS DECLARATION, Against the Toleration of Sects and Sectaries, and the Liberty of Conscience.  
Together With their Protestation, to live and die for the maintenance of the Covenant, the performance of the late Treaty, the preservation of his Majesty and Posterity.  
Also his Majesties own speech at large, Concerning the settling of Religion, and the just Liberties of that Kingdom, and his not doubting of their real affections for the maintenance of that royal power which he now enjoys after 108 descents.  
LONDON, Printed for R. B. and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard, 1647.   

The SCOTS Declaration against Toleration of Sects and Sectaries, and the liberty of Conscience.  
TO the end the world may take notice with what sorrow we resent the opposition of a great party in England, that labour for Liberty and Toleration. And with what holy Confidence and Resolution wee have gone on in the work of God, for the advancement of the true Reformed Religion according to the best Reformed Churches, and what our endeavours are( which by the grace of God wee will continue) to vindicate the purity of Religion in the true Worship of God, and( in relation thereunto) to maintain his Majesties just Rights and Prerogatives, we have thought fit to publish this ensuing Declaration.  
When the Government of Episcopacy was again introduced into the Kingdom of Scotland, and much of the Glory of the kirk thereby eclipsed, so sickerly by the Government of the Prelates, the pure current of the Gospel was much stopped, which used before to flow most plentifully in the greatest part of this Kingdom from the mouths of many Reverend and Learned Divines, who then were silenced by the authority of the Bishops, and none suffered to teach the Word of God but such as onely were of the ceremonious, haughty, and superstitious faction, the Nobility, the Gentry, and the best of the Clergy and commonalty, having all convened together, and setting before their eyes the great tyrannies, and insupportable burdens under which the Kirk and Kingdom did lie oppressed, by reason of the extortions and new found taxes, which the Bishops had brought in with them; they did all bind themselves in a solemn League and Covenant, in the presence of Almighty God, jointly and particularly to settle the Truth of the Gospel in the Kirk of Scotland, according to the purest and best reformed Churches in Christendom, as also to extirpate all Bishops, Arch-Bishops, Deans, Arch-Deacons, and all others depending on that Hierarchy.  
The worship of God in the first place being established, we Covenanted in the next, with our lives and fortunes, to maintain His Majesty and his Heirs with their just rights and prerogatives in any cause or causes whatsoever. This is the Covenant we have made, the Oath which we have taken, from which we declare that there is nothing in the world that shall make us to remove in the least particular.  
It is well known with what success it pleased Almighty God to crown our endeavours, after we had unanimously entred into this Covenant, for not long after, having entred into the Kingdom of England, for the justifying of our Cause, the Papists and Bishops( who called the war Bellum Episcopale) having incensed His Majesty to proclaim us Traytors, & to march down in his own person in the head of a puissant Army against us: It pleased the Lord of Hosts to grant us the victory, and to carry the day on our sides with a high hand, not long after the Town of Newcastle was by the providence and appointment of the Almighty delivered into our hands, And the Parliament in England beginning( to the calling and the convening of which we were no small helps, how soever our actions be now represented) it pleased God that the Incendiaries betwixt the two Kingdoms, and the Callioes of those times, were brought to condign punishment, and we enjoyed our consciences according to the precept of the Word: episcopacy was abolished, and all signs of superstition was rooted from amongst us, His Majesty was graciously pleased to honor the Kingdom with his presence, and several of the Nobility and Gentry with titles of honor.  
In the mean season the unhappy Wars beginning in the Kingdom of England, we were invited, we may say, importuned, by several Letters to their assistance, and at the same time( according to the manner and example of the Kingdom of Scotland, the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England did settle upon the reformation and government of the kirk of England, whereby Gods worship and service should be more purely performed then formerly it had been in that Kingdom, and the Discipline more piously administered: And the Parliament not long after joined in the same league and Covenant with us, solemnly protesting the reformation of Religion, with the extirpation of Popery, prelacy, and all belonging to that Hierarchy, as also the establishment of His Majesty, in his just rights and prerogatives: And truly we well hoped that after the Romish faction had been rooted out, wee should have no new Heresies crept in to obstruct the establishing of the Church in her full glory, and the settling of His Majesty and his posterity in their just rights and prerogatives, but that the purity of Religion should be preserved according to the Covenant that was taken, and the unity and amity of both Nations, by that so much increased, that in the whole Kingdom there should no where be found any room for schism or separation to enter in. And to this purpose we cannot but with much delight look back upon the mutual obligations and the interests of both Kingdoms, before the Parliament of England had joined in the same league and Covenant with us, and we conceive it not unfit in this place to repeat a part of the Declaration of the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England, about the middle of June, 1642.  
We do with much content and thankfulness observe the good affection and faithfulness of our Brethren of Scotland, to preserve the peace betwixt the two Nations. And wee shall never cease to answer this great love and care of theirs with the like earnestness and diligent endeavours to promote the honour, wealth and prosperity of that Nation, and to preserve that Union so strongly fortified by public and mutual interest and affection on both sides. And wee desire that our Commissioners may give notice to the Scots Commissioners, how hearty and joyfully we do embrace the kindness of that Kingdom, manifested in their Petition, and do order this Declaration forthwith to be printed, that so it may be published to the whole kingdom of Scotland also, hoping that this constant and inviolable amity betwixt us will not onely conduce to the safety and honour of both Kingdoms, but prove very useful for the advantage of the Protestant Religion in other Countries.  
And indeed wee so highly weighed the advancement of Religion in the mutual League of the two Kingdoms, that for the confirmation thereof, wee thought not our lives or dearest blood to be a price great enough, but entred the kingdom of England to assist the Parliament, who were at that time opposed by a powerful Army in the North, and another in the West. It was no easy charge unto this Kingdom to raise an Army consisting of 20000 foot, and 5000 horse, and not long after to recruit with 5000 foot, & a 1000 horse, and to set it forth with a trai● of Artillery, which did cost this State 150000 pound, which was 50000 pound more then we received from the kingdom of England, for the advance of our Army; howsoever with great forwardness we passed all dangers, nor valued the depth of the snow, nor the difficulties of the Winters march, to purchase benefits to the Kingdom of England, and at the battle at Marston Moor in the Summer following, wee had almost 2000 men slain in the field, besides many more that were sorely wounded. After this to relieve the City of London, and the southern parts with fuel, wee thought not much to make a Winter Leaguer, and to sit down before Newcastle, which place although it was gotten by storm, yet to show that our mindes were neither on rapine nor blood, there was no man put to the sword but those onely that made resistance on the walls, nor any incivility used by the Souldiers in any way of plunder which is more then was ever known in storming in the world before. After this we marched 200 miles further and lay before Hereford, and afterwards before Newarke, and for three yeares and about one moneths service we received but 300000 pound in pay, which we leave to judicious men to consider how short a sum it is for any Army consisting of 30000 men for above three yeares service.  
Now forasmuch that malicious incendiaries since our departure from the kingdom do look one our actions with indirect eyes, and do strive to brand us with reproaches, and forasmuch we are informed that there is a party in England who endeavour to supplant the propagation of the Gospel in the purity of the Religion which wee profess by holding forth new Lights unto the people, and by pleading for a Toleration, and the Liberty of Conscience, the Nurse of all Heresies and schisms, and by a dispensation to infringe the power and sacramental obligator of the Covenant We do declare and protest against all such practices and designs as unconsonant to the truth of Religion, and opening a door to licentiousness and profaneness, which to the uttermost of our power we will constantly endeavour to oppose. And as we have all entred into one holy League and Covenant so to the last man in the Kingdom we will hand in hand, and heart with heart, go on in the preservation of it, and to vindicate Religion, His Majesty, and ourselves. And howsoever the Parliament of England shall determine in points of Toleration, and liberty of conscience, in which wee believe they will be well advised, yet we are unanimously resolved not to make the least start, from what we have professed, but to live and die for the glory of God in the entire preservation of the Truth, for the lasting peace of the kingdom, and for the Honour of his Majesty and his posterity.  

His Majesties Speech to the Parliament of Scotland, Aug. 19 1641, for the settling of Religion there, and for the just liberties of that Kingdom.  
My Lords, and Gentlemen,  
THere hath nothing been so displeasing to me as those unlucky differences, which have happened between me and my people, and nothing that I have more desired, then to see this day wherein I hope not onely to settle these unhappy mistakings, but rightly to know and to be known of my native Country. I need not tell you( for I think it is well known to most) what difficult ties I have passed through, and over come, to be here at this present: yet this will I say, if love to my native Country had not been a chief motive to this journey, other respects might easily have found a shift to do that by a Commission which I am come to perform myself, and( this considered) I cannot doubt such real testimonies of your affections for the maintenance of that royal power which I enjoy after 108 descents, and which you have so often professed to maintain, and to which your own national Oath doth oblige you, that I shall not think any pains ill bestowed. Now the end of my coming is shortly this, to perfect whatsoever I have promised, and withall to quiet the distractions which have and may fall out amongst you; And this I mind not superficially but fully and cheerfully to perform: For I assure you that I can do nothing with more cheerfulness then to give my people a general satisfaction; wherefore not offering to endeer myself unto you in words( which indeed is not my way) I desire in the first place to settle that which concerns the Religion and just liberties of this my native Country before I proceed to any other Act.   
FINIS.