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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: explanatory of their reasons for giving this timely and important
aid to the English Parliament. The English Parliament, they said,
had been already friendly to them, and might be so again; whereas
the King, although he had so lately established religion among
them according to their desires, had given them no ground to
confide in his royal declaration, seeing they had found his
promises and actions inconsistent with each other. "Our
conscience," they concluded, "and God, who is greater than our
conscience, beareth us record, that we aim altogether at the
glory of God, peace of both nations, and honour of the King, in
suppressing and punishing in a legal way, those who are the
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