this Assembly._

_12. Feb. 1645. Post meridiem_ Sess. 18.

The Generall Assembly, after mature deliberation, having found it most
necessary that this whole Nation be timely Warned, and duly Informed of
their present Dangers, and the Remedies to be used, and Duties to be done
for preventing and removing thereof, Doth ordain this Warning to be forth
with Printed and Published, and sent to all the Presbyteries in this
Kingdom, as also to the Presbyteries that are with our Armies. And that
each Presbyterie immediately after the receipt hereof, take speedy course
for the Reading of it in every Congregation within their bounds, upon the
Lords day after the forenoons Sermon, and before the blessing: and that
they give account of their diligence herein to the Commissioners of the
Generall Assembly; Who have hereby Power and Warrand to try and censure
such as shall contemne or slight the said Warning, or shall refuse or
neglect to obey this Ordinance.

_A Solemne and Seasonable Warning To the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen,
Burrows, Ministers, and Commons of_ Scotland; _As also to our ARMIES
without and within this Kingdom._

The Cause of GOD in this Kingdom, both in the beginnings and Progresse of
it, hath been carried, through much craft and mighty opposition of
Enemies, and through other perplexities and dangers; GOD so disposing, for
the greater glory of his manifold and marvellous Wisedome and his
invincible Power, and for our greater tryall.

These dangers both from without and from within, together with the
remedies thereof, have been from time to time represented and held forth,
in the many publick Supplications of this Kirk and Kingdom to the King,
and in their many Declarations, Remonstrances, Letters, Acts, and other
publick Intimations: Particularly by a necessary Warning published by the
Commissioners of the Generall Assembly in January 1643; And by the
Remonstrance of the same Comissioners to the Convention of Estates in July
thereafter concerning the Dangers of Religion, and Remedies of these
Dangers: which Warning and Remonstrance at that time had, by the blessing
of GOD, very good and comfortable effects. And now the General Assembly
itself, being by a speciall Providence, and upon extraordinary occasions
called together, while GOD is writing bitter things against this Land in
great Letters, which he that runs may read: and knowing that we cannot be
answerable to GOD, nor our own consciences, nor