Now, when God hath opened the eyes of the Scots so farr
as to consider; that they have an Ishbosheth among them,
Heir of a Family of the very same Complexion and Condition,
against whom destruction hath been written in broad
Characters by the Speciall hand of Providence; That no party
whatsoever that joynes with it doth prosper; That by
bringing him in, they have undone themselves, their Armies
defeated, themselves cheated, and their Countrey reduced
even to utmost extremity. And farther, when they
consider, how they suffer all these miseries for one that mortally
hates them, and detests both their Kirk and Covenant
(for, now they begin to feel the wretched effects of his hypocriticall
Penitence and fallacious compliance.) when they
observe and remember what an attempt he made to run away
to the Royalists in the north of Scotland; how he rejoyced
at the defeat at Dunbarr, and took occasion thereby to over-top
all his Tutors both of Kirk and State: the principall
where of he hath outed from Command, and either discontented
or debarred them from his Councels, to make
room for Cavaliers and Malignants of all sorts and sizes, who
now are the only Courtiers. If they please likewise to consider;
that from such Beginnings as these, nothing but
Revenge will follow in the end; Revenge for his Father,
Revenge for his darling, Montrose, that Acted by his Speciall
Commissions: (And truly, it must needs be justice on
Gods part, if he permit him to revenge that deed upon the
Scotish Ring-leaders, because they were so blindly and basely
impartiall, as to bequeath the Servant to a death of highest
Infamy on the Gallows, and yet at the same time take
his Master that set him on work into their Bosomes.) I say,
once again, if it please God to open the Scots eies and hearts
to consider all these things, and to see that they have an
Achan and an Ishbosheth among them, they cannot be ignorant
which way to make use and Application of the former
Text, for the saving of their Nation.