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<P>THE CONDUCT and CONVEYANCE OF OUR <HI>Fathers</HI> and <HI>Martyrs</HI> Te&s;timony. In The CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Ju&s;tified and Continued.</P>
<P>The Paralel Te&s;timony in 38 and 49 Reci|procal, with the pre&s;ent Te&s;timony again&s;t <HI>Popery, Prelacy, Liberty of Con&s;cience,</HI> Stated and Delineated, from the Bible, Rea&s;on, and Te&s;timony of Hi&s;tory.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Job 17.9.</HI></BIBL>
<P>The righteous &s;hall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands &s;hall wax &s;tronger and &s;tronger.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Cypr. Ep. ad Carth.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Fratribus in plebe con&s;i&s;tentibus Exa|minabuntur &s;ingula pre&s;entibus &amp; vobis judicantibus.</P></Q>
<P>By W. H. <HI>Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel, and pri&s;oner at</HI> Edinburgh, <HI>January</HI> 9th; 1690.</P>
<P>Printed in the Year 1690.</P>
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<P>THE clamant ca&s;e of Confe&s;&s;ion in keep|ing the word of Gods patience in order to tran&s;mitting of a te&s;timony, among the Primitive Chri&s;tians, was Magnanimou&s;ly maintained again&s;t <HI>Pagani&s;m</HI> by <HI>Culdees,</HI> by the <HI>Tabrits</HI> of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> by the <HI>Lollards</HI> of <HI>Eng|land</HI> (&s;o named) the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> Evidenc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> clearly delineat, notwith&s;tanding all the World did dip their pens in poy&s;on, and &s;harpened their tongues in Gall: <HI>Calumni<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> audacter, &amp; &s;emper aliquod haerebit;</HI> glour with their eyes, and gore with their tongues, hate nick-name rail, which word of GODS Patience, gifts, yea graces, without &s;upply of grace, even the power of GOD: <HI>Adam</HI> in in the e&s;tate of innocency when he had wi&s;+dom at his will, and rea&s;on at command<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> could not maintain, (yet <HI>Scotland</HI> once &s;tiled the life guard of Heaven, who&s;e &s;trength did ly in their tongues before the Crown rights of Heaven, were betrayed into the hands of Tyranny, and lawle&s;s Liberty, even the De+clarative and Mediatory glory of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI>) was not only among the fir&s;t of the Conque&s;t o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;ts Kingdom, but even, al&s;o then when
<PB REF="2">32 parts of the world, 27 were Pagan, 5 de|generate to wor&s;hip wood and &s;tone, one em|braced che Oligarchical Tiranny of Prelacy; the remnant of <HI>Bohemia</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Jo|&s;hua Gianevel</HI> in <HI>Piedmont,</HI> and many others, witne&s;s <HI>Birkbers Prote&s;tant Evidence,</HI> (tho GOD did &s;cum the remnant) concerted and mar|vou&s;ly grapled for the pure and powerful te|&s;timony of our Lord, for the Kirk and Kernel thereof. Hence &s;ome neatly, tho critically, yet candidly allude to <HI>Scotizei:</HI> In the <HI>Revela|tion,</HI> that is, <HI>&s;hall darken the &s;eat of the bea&s;t,</HI> viz. <HI>Scotsmen;</HI> it being a Covenanted Nation to the Lord, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 15. and <HI>Jer.</HI> 50.6, 7. tells us the fruites thereof, what ever the irregula|rities of an Oath may be, yet are not the cir|cum&s;tances conver&s;ant about the Act of &s;wear|ing, but the intrin&s;ecal matter of the Oath which do annihilat the obligation thereof: witne&s;s the Confe&s;&s;ion of the learned <HI>Dr. San|der&s;on,</HI> tho an enemy, who ever read with <HI>Gra|no&s;alis,</HI> plainly perceive the vainity of this Di&s;tinction, the Relaxation of the matter, and &s;trength of an Oath; he terms it, <HI>materi|am</HI> and <HI>vim juramenti:</HI> Yet <HI>Arni&s;aeus Doct: Pol: Leydeker, &amp;c.</HI> And all agree, my will, con|tract, according to what my knowledge reacheth, and in &s;o far am <HI>I</HI> bound to e&s;pou&s;e mutually per&s;ons, lives, goods of the Cove|nanted party, much more when there is a po|&s;itive
<PB REF="3">law of GOD, again&s;t Idolatry, Prelacy, liberty of Con&s;cience, which we have illu|&s;trate in the Dimentions of the Primitive Bi|&s;hops, commen&s;erat according to their pa&s;to|ral relation: <HI>Ignatius</HI> &s;tiling them, <HI>Fraternity,</HI> Con&s;ociations, and Presbytery, Printed at <HI>London</HI> in the 84 from the Hi&s;torical Rela|tions of <HI>Holing&s;head, Pamelius, Alba&s;pineus, Syl|vanneus</HI> Hi&s;tory; Tho much more may be read in the books of Gods Judgements on perjured per&s;ons. In that Roll of <HI>Ezekiel</HI> cal|led <HI>Opi&s;to grapha</HI> 9. <HI>ch.</HI> having the fore&s;ide, all our &s;ins the back&s;ide, all our Judgements. And in the 17 of <HI>Ezekiel, As I live &s;aith the Lord, its my oath, ye have broken my Covenant, ye have de&s;pi&s;ed. Zedekiah,</HI> Whom God roa&s;ted in the fire, for breach of Covenant, &s;hifted the Watchmen; becau&s;e <HI>Jeremiah</HI> preached one thing, <HI>Ezekiel</HI> the clean contrary; <HI>Jere|miah</HI> told him he &s;hould be carried down to <HI>Babylon, Ezekiel,</HI> he &s;hould never &s;ee <HI>Babylon:</HI> Yet God reconciled them both to his ruine, his eyes were pickt out of his head, he never &s;aw <HI>Babylon;</HI> The &s;ame end fell to <HI>Almerick</HI> King of <HI>Jeru&s;alem, &V;ladi&s;taus</HI> breach of Cove|nant with the <HI>Turks, Harold</HI> the la&s;t King of the <HI>Danes</HI> that ever reigned in <HI>England,</HI> for his breach of Covenant, with <HI>William</HI> Duke of <HI>Normandy.</HI> Thus have we Ab&s;olutely con&s;i|&s;idered; now Relatively the ca&s;e, <HI>Paul</HI> to the
<PB REF="3"><HI>Romans</HI> 13.11. Tells us, <HI>Its high time to awake for our Salvation, is nearer then when we believed;</HI> As knowing the time to awake from &s;leep, tho &s;ignes Diagno&s;tick of former, and Progno|&s;tick of future times, ea&s;ily ventilat, all Ob|jections in a tran&s;ient view of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Moral Signs, are palpable in a long delay of common equity betwixt man and man.</P>
<P>Evangelical, a &s;pirit of Go&s;pel love, and frame &s;uitable to a Deliverance, where that Porter of prejudice that &s;tands &s;entinal at the hearts of men, again&s;t truth is removed, 1 <HI>John</HI> 3.14.</P>
<P>Foren&s;cical, or the Court of Ju&s;tice, <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 16. <HI>v.</HI> 12.13.</P>
<P>Political &s;ignes hitherto the&s;e 28 years ap|peared, when pynts of <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> and Saints blood have been &s;hed; for which we may ra|tionally fear, Tunns of others, the Effu&s;ion of blood the Lord prevent: Yet &s;hall we tru&s;t to <HI>Micah</HI> 5.5. Eccle&s;ia&s;tical &s;igns are plain, the Church waxing, not weaning, fair as the Moon, clear as the Sun, terrible as an Army with Banners; Mini&s;ters having fire in their Tongues to kindle Zeal in Peoples brea&s;ts, the Kirk the Kernel. Military &s;igns are a praying Army, when <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> hands knockt off from Prayer, <HI>Amaleck</HI> prevailed; certainly when <HI>Aemilius</HI> a <HI>Pagan</HI> would not give over &s;acrifice|ing till a &s;ign of Victory, much more we,
<PB REF="4">Martyrological 1851 Martyrs, have &s;ealed this with their Blood. Caele&s;tial by Perpen|dicular and pre&s;aging Comets, portending ing chiefly the computation of &s;even Seals, &s;even Trumpets, &s;even Vials, pouring out on <HI>Babylon:</HI> Yet may all dread the cup of God's wrath go round, and drops falling u|pon us <HI>the Lord avert a be&s;om of de&s;truction.</HI> Nor do we want Accademical &s;igns, few Metaphi|&s;ical heads, much more Theological hearts; <HI>Arminiani&s;ime</HI> planted many years agoe, not yet eradicated; hence is <HI>Scotland</HI>'s glory &s;tain'd by illiterate and raw prophane, and polluted Nur&s;eries. Neither do we tru&s;t to Immediate Mi&s;&s;ion, or Revelation yet Progno&s;tick Symptomes, are patent penitential. 3 <HI>Jonah</HI> 8 <HI>Man and Bea&s;t cry'd to the Lord, the Heathen deputed a day for mourning, to eat the bread of mourners, and drink a cup of their own tears.</HI></P>
<P>Te&s;timonial where the Te&s;timony is not flung at our heels, but Valiantly propugned. Critical a glorious Manife&s;tation of the Me|diatory Kingdom of Chri&s;t before the day of Dooms-day, whether it &s;hall be by a for|mal &s;worn Covenant, or more Glorious Di&s;|covery, I &s;hall not determine. <HI>Zech.</HI> 14. <HI>No Cannanite in the Hou&s;e of the Lord,</HI> that is, none mak'n &s;laves of the &s;ouls of men, Architectu|ral, that is not only a regular Di&s;po&s;ition of the Members of a Work, but a Symmetri|cal
<PB REF="4">proportion to that glorious work of Refor|mation in our Fathers dayes; <HI>Homogenical</HI> and <HI>Organical,</HI> The right our Fathers had to hold a Chri&s;tian Society among them&s;elves, by publick Societies, and the exerci&s;e of their Mini&s;try the property peculiarly of believers; &s;ince Faith, Piety and Charity binds us to an external Society, without which they can|not be called &s;heep, not in re&s;pect of their ordinary Pa&s;tors, but in re&s;pect of their Faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t. To note, that it is Faith and not the Mini&s;try, which makes the Society, and by con&s;equence renders their A&s;&s;emblies Lawful and Nece&s;&s;ary: Yet (mind I am a perfect Enemy to the 32 Sects of <HI>England,</HI> and abhore the right of gifted Brethrening) my Te&s;tificates, plainly make appear to the <HI>Provo&s;t</HI> and <HI>Solicitor</HI> of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> who read them, but e&s;pecially my writting again&s;t them at <HI>London,</HI> whereby for truth, <HI>I</HI> became the object of their Malice. Tho the External Society, be common to good and bad, Wheat and Tares, mingled externally in the Body of the Church, yet the right of External Society re&s;ides in the Faithful only. His My&s;tical Body for which he dyed, the Seed which he Sowed with his own hand, again&s;t the Harve&s;t, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 7. <HI>Who has required this of thy hand, to tread in my Courts!</HI> And <HI>P&s;.</HI> 51. <HI>What ha&s;t thou adoc to read my Covenant,
<PB REF="5">and Laws.</HI> The Tares have communion, only by accident, till the Harve&s;t. <HI>Au&s;tin. Lib.</HI> 7. <HI>C.</HI> 5. Teaches plainly that the Power of the Keys Binding and Loo&s;ing, is given to the Church of the truely Faithful, in Oppo&s;ition to the men of the World, that are mixt with them. They then having a right to be in a Religious Society, over whom Chri&s;t is Supreme Law|giver, <HI>I&s;a</HI> 35. Their Law binds the Elicite Acts of the Con&s;cience, of all indefinitely: Hence Sun, Moon, Stars, are &s;aid to bow to Jo&s;eph, that is to the Church. (yet we &s;afe|ly maintain a Co-ordination of Powers and Sub-Ordination of Per&s;ons. Its the Elegant &s;aying of the Honourable Lord <HI>Brook</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> if the Church &s;wallow up the State inflowes Super&s;tition and Idolatry: If the State &s;wallow up the Church, inflows <HI>A|thei&s;m</HI> and Ignorance. Hence <HI>Paul</HI> draws the inference of the Authority, which the Lord hath given to us, not for your de&s;truction, but for your edification; which right the Church, has at the bottom, her formation and &s;ub&s;i&s;tence, as &s;ecretly in a good and &s;o|veraign hand pre&s;erved: <HI>In Parenth&s;i</HI> know this is no negative, much more a po&s;itive &s;e|paration, as the noble Orthodox party again&s;t the <HI>Arians</HI> meeting, as they could &s;ometimes in their fields. But rather a &s;tanding &s;till. Jer. 15.19, 21. <HI>Till men return to their old princi|ples.</HI>
<PB REF="5">38 and 49. Among&s;t all our &s;igns none more penetrating and pierceing, then De&s;ertion, Penal, Medicinal or Probatory. The fir&s;t, when God judicially delivers up a man to hardne&s;s of heart as <HI>Pharoah.</HI> The 2 &amp; 3, a ble&s;&s;ing for the future, but a judgement for the time; and &s;ome may &s;ay oh, that they could water the &s;teps of their back&s;liding with tears; the fear of man brings a &s;nare, he that tru&s;ts in the Lord &s;hall be delivered, the &s;un of righteou&s;ne&s;s runing under a cloud that they cannot read their evidences for Heaven, has been burden&s;ome to &s;ome, tho I knew o|thers and the &s;ame per&s;ons in the like ca&s;e, might attain to have their thoughts break the Clouds, there &s;oul a chronicle of the love of Chri&s;t, a p&s;alm book of his prai&s;e. Yet lu&s;tful Gallants may carou&s;e at lei&s;ure, their pouder hair may forget the du&s;t, were their skin as thick as the Whales, the Bullet of Death will pierce them. Of &s;uch was one <HI>Parker</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> who mockt at aquaintance with <HI>God,</HI> &amp; obtain|ed his &s;hort Heaven and long Hell, a &s;un of wealth and pro&s;perity, before a thunder bolt of Vengeance: Nor are they better, who wa&s;h Sarans face with a colour of Religion.</P>
<P>Naked truth, that needs not the purple partociny (even tho' of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> extorts me to &s;peak? that thereby I may be &s;een, about tho&s;e dozen of years wandering, which God
<PB REF="6">booketh down, and will the Innocents, and Sufferers tears bottle up. It plea&s;ed the Lord after my licence and formal trial at <HI>London,</HI> to order my lot in the company of Holy and faithful Mr. <HI>Wel&s;h</HI> in the we&s;t of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by whom I was invited to preach; Mr. <HI>John Cuninghame,</HI> and Mr. <HI>John Black,</HI> and M. <HI>W L.</HI> being pre&s;ent: Then the Church of God in <HI>Scotland</HI> like a Ship among the Jaws and Waves of Tribulation: &s;ore to&s;t, many of her Pa&s;&s;engers drowning, and her Skippers and Watch men, rowing a&s;hore to &s;ave to &s;ave their life. I kept the fields and other places for &s;ome time after: <HI>Bothwel</HI> in the 81 then being induced and invited by others, inclined to that my &s;elf, I went for <HI>Holland</HI> to print, the Te&s;timony of the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Popery</HI> and <HI>Prelacy;</HI> the Con|veyance thereof in all the Centuries, and in each period of time. At <HI>Leith</HI> being perceiv|ed, and my Brother in Law taken, the Cop|pies cancelled, and I e&s;caped and went for <HI>London:</HI> Where falling happily acquainted with a vertuos per&s;on, the Earle of <HI>Angle&s;ey I</HI> wrote a Reply in 4<HI>to.</HI> to the <HI>Ca&s;&s;andrian Do|ctrine</HI> emitted from one of the Frogs of <HI>Anti|chri&s;t:</HI> The book it &s;elf bears the Tittle, <HI>Scot|land pulling down the gates of</HI> Rome, <HI>Chri&s;t a|gain&s;t</HI> Antichri&s;t, <HI>the Lambs friends again&s;t the Dragons followers, with &s;ome remarks hi&s;torically
<PB REF="6">upon the Comet Star, and examination of the Popi&s;h Confe&s;&s;ions, and de&s;cription of the Romi&s;h Morals: <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">o which my Name is affixed.</HI> Which was prin|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ed about that fatal conjuncture of time, the death of the famous Lord <HI>Ru&s;sel:</HI> from thence returning to <HI>Scotland.</HI> I privately re|&s;ided at <HI>Whiteborn,</HI> till one <HI>Armillan</HI> younger, who received the Sacrament, as <HI>Presbiterian,</HI> as <HI>Te&s;t-man,</HI> as <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> all in 11 years time. Co|wardly and Craftily, apprehended and abu|&s;ed me cruelly; 4 years before having plun|dered and pillaged the whole Country, and my Chamber and Books among&s;t the re&s;t; for which he and others, God in providence &s;hall fetch to a Court of blood &s;hed and op|pre&s;&s;ion; he not being &s;atisfied with perjury and forgery of my hand writting; which he pretend he had, but debauched mens and womens con&s;ciences to 400 Oaths, he and o|thers, in a day; till at la&s;t he landed in A|dultery, with his &s;ervant, and Murther of the &s;ame child, the woman being pre&s;ently executed at <HI>Air</HI> for the &s;ame; did depone (he e&s;caping by the policy and power, of <HI>Craigy Wallace.</HI>) I being carried pri&s;oner to <HI>Gla&s;gow, Falkirk,</HI> and other places, in a pitiful manner. I was &s;taged before the Coun&s;el for Lybels and Books, and preaching in the Fields, at the re&s;entment of which, I cannot cover the &s;en|timent of my thoughts, but with grief, that
<PB REF="7">the fear of Man, did &s;o prevail to hinder more full and faithful Te&s;timony: Yet w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> I keeped free that my heart, and the Tem<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">|tation never meet with Oaths, Bonds, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> This being over, I return'd to the We&s;t, an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> publickly preacht; and then went for <HI>London</HI> where that Book was printed <HI>Gods Garde<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> hedged and watred.</HI> In reference to an E&s;&s;ay o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> Antidote again&s;t di&s;tractions, in Gods wor|&s;hip; coming too &s;peedily from <HI>London</HI> hom<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> again, and embraceing an Invitation did preach, upon the 33 of <HI>I&s;a. The Lord is our King, the Lord is our Lawgiver.</HI> where I a&s;&s;er|ted the head&s;hip of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Then again was I apprehended, at the or|der of <HI>Buchan,</HI> and &s;ome others, and guard|ed 10 weeks, and 4 days, in the Dungeon of <HI>Air;</HI> where the Arm of the Lord re&s;cued me, and two other old men, from my Ene|mies; who had blood in their Teeth, and abominations in their mouth, 9 <HI>Zec. I brake out, the Sentinalls &s;leeping.</HI> Now this is the third time of my impri&s;onment as was reported by the (Right Honorable Earle <HI>Crawford</HI>'s order) the provo&s;t of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and the Solicitor, coming into the Pri&s;on, did que|&s;tion me upon &s;everal heads, and after|wards did take away my te&s;timonials to peru&s;e, and did return the &s;ame by a Macer, not only my Licence and Ordinati|on
<PB REF="7">but Te&s;tificates of my former Deport|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">nt; the Te&s;timony privately and pub|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">kly <HI>I</HI> maintain, I openly yet Reverendly <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed out; I was again&s;t <HI>Popery, Prelacy, Li|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">y of Con&s;cience,</HI> and that thorow Grace, I <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">olved to dye by the Acts of the A&s;&s;embly <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd 49. as con&s;onant to the Analogy of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">th and holy Bible. <HI>I</HI> cannot omitt what <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> betwixt Me and the Reverend Mr. <HI>J. W.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> at <HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI> then at <HI>Eccle&s;om,</HI> who at the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">inning of the <HI>Popi&s;h Toleration,</HI> was &s;wal|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">wed up, by this <HI>Jonahs</HI> Whale: <HI>Boggle not,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">es he, <HI>&s;ince ye ventered your neck with Mr. J. R. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">erly,</HI> I plainly prohibit him to own it or <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Addre&s;&s;e, as Diametrically again&s;t our <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">sciples, when <HI>Julian</HI> &s;ummoned hell to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> him, the Devil gave him the engine of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">ration.</P>
<P>There remaineth one Objection unremov|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">tho a threed bare Argument: thus it is, as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> had conver&s;ed with one <HI>Dunbar,</HI> one of the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">ans</HI> in order to my deliverance, a horrid <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> wicked lye, even &s;uch as they branded <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Worthies formerly: For I take GOD <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> witne&s;s, I never &s;poke with one of them, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> I knew him either name or &s;urname, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> or figure, &s;ave him who was my Anta|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">i&s;t, again&s;t whom I wrote, the examina|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of the <HI>Popi&s;h Catechi&s;m,</HI> neither did debate <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> him, or conver&s;e an hour in all, and
<PB REF="8">that in a publick Coffee-hou&s;e; &s;o let the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> of hell &s;moke out of their mouths and ha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">|lies, the Devils babes, hot coals of Juni<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> are prepared for fal&s;e Tongues; &s;in is <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Souls &s;ickne&s;s, Confe&s;&s;ion the &s;ouls vo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> which the 8 <HI>Levites,</HI> in the 9. of <HI>Nehemiah,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Precept, by Pattern, acknowledge be<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> they lay one Stone in Gods hou&s;e, the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> of Defection, having blown out the eye <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> the World: <HI>Darkne&s;s</HI> &s;ayeth <HI>Jeremiah, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> the Earth, gro&s;s darkne&s;s the People.</HI> After &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> dayes deliberation, &s;crutiny and due exaa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">|nation of my Principles, Papers, Per&s;i&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and Adherence to the Acts of A&s;&s;em<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> The Right Honourable the <HI>Earle</HI> of <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">|ford,</HI> per&s;onally with a Macer, came to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Pri&s;on door and ordered my Liberat<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> having every day entered the Li&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Epi&s;copal</HI> Clergy and Gentry, and Tolera<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Truth, with its Energie did &s;ufficiently <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">|dicate me. Hence Mini&s;ters are to cont<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> for the <HI>Faith, once delivered to the Saints,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> by &s;uffering, were it to &s;eal with their Bl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> what they &s;peak with their mouth in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Chair of Truth, for the &s;ame indivi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Truths, the former Lords Days at K<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Kirk, and <HI>Drum&s;horlin moor,</HI> preceeding <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Impri&s;onment; <HI>I</HI> plainly Preached, w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">|fully and freely, <HI>I</HI> did aver before <HI>My <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Provo&s;t.</HI> From <HI>Jer.</HI> 50 <HI>Come joyn your &s;elves
<PB REF="8">the Lord in a perpetual Covenant:</HI> I could not pa&s;s from the Reformation, and Prote&s;tation relating thereto, for the Lawdable Laws of my Ma&s;ters hou&s;e, tho <HI>I</HI> &s;hould have gone the gate of Mr. <HI>Rennick:</HI> The&s;e were the in|dividual words to <HI>My Lord Provo&s;t</HI> and <HI>Solicitor;</HI> For Illu&s;tration and Confirmation whereof, take a Tran&s;ient view of the <HI>A&s;&s;emblies</HI> Acts.</P>
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<HEAD>Acts of the General A&s;&s;emblie <HI>Se&s;&s;. 23.</HI> Dec. <HI>17.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Anent the Entry and Conver&s;ation of Mini&s;ters, its expedient that the Acts of A&s;&s;embly holden at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> March <HI>4. 1595.</HI> Be ratified and put in Execution in every Presbyterie; And to that end, get a Coppie under the <HI>Clerks</HI> hand, whereof the Tenure followeth <HI>Se&s;&s;. 7.</HI> March <HI>26.</HI> of the A&s;&s;embly at <HI>Edinburgh, 1596.</HI> Concerning the Defections of the Mini&s;terie, the &s;ame being at length read out and con&s;idered, in order to &s;ee the Kirk and Mini&s;trie purged, to the effect, the Work may have better &s;uc|ce&s;s; they think it nece&s;&s;ary that this A&s;sembly be humbled for want of &s;uch care, as became in &s;uch points, and that &s;ome Zealous and Godly Brethren in Doctrine, lay them out for their Humiliation; and they make Solemn promi&s;e bifore the Maje&s;tie of GOD, to make new Covenant with him, for a more careful and Reverend di&s;charge of their Mini|&s;terie
<PB REF="9" MS="y">And that &s;peedily the Corruptions and Enor|mities of the Mini&s;terie be Remedied, to Avert the impendant Judgments in order thereto. <HI>Se&s;&s;. 8. Augu&s;t 17.</HI> Containing the Cau&s;es and Remedie of the bygone Evil of the Kirk. The Kings Will and Plea&s;ure is, That all Que&s;tions about Religion and matters Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, be determined by the A&s;&s;embly of this Kirk: And Moreover, that no Per&s;ons blaked with Publick Defection, have power to Vote in the Lords Hou&s;e, till they condemn Doctri|nally the&s;e Defections, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Hence are condemned the &s;ordid and &s;ullen Apprehen&s;ions of many, where|by their vile A&s;per&s;ions are wept off; <HI>&amp;c.</HI> As &s;uffer|ing hone&s;t men, intended the unchurching of the Mi|ni&s;terie, and ea&s;ting off of the &s;ame, when nothing is de&s;igned nor de&s;ired, &s;ave reducing of the Church to the Rules of her Husbands hou&s;e. <HI>Ho&s;ea 2.</HI> v. <HI>1.3.</HI></P>
<P>The Church of <HI>Scotland</HI> was unite <HI>45</HI> years, by by means of Di&s;cipline.</P>
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