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A25589 An Answer to the declaration of the pretended assembly at Dundee and to a printed paper intituled The protestation given in by the dissenting brethren to the General Assembly, July 21, 1652, reviewed and refuted &c., in which answer are set down ten steps of their defection who follow the way of publick resolutions : together with observations upon some of the acts of the p. assemblies at Dundee and Edinburgh and some papers concerning the endeavors of the protesters for union with their brethren who differ from them in judgement. 1653 (1653) Wing A3405; ESTC R34190 125,882 174

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number of the Commission of the Kirk few above a Quorum to make an answer to the Parliaments Quaere viz. What persons ought to be imployed in Arms for defence of the Kingdom and slighted sending of timeous advertisement to such as they knew would oppose their designe of bringing in the Malignant Party to be Guardians of the Cause and Kingdom which formerly they had endeavoured to destroy and with great haste and precipitation concluded an answer to that Quaere and laid a foundation for present conjunction with the Malignant Party contrary to the Word of God and to the Covenant and to our known principles clearly expressed in Acts and Declarations of this Kirk They did not rest here but in the sixth place they put forth exhortations and Watnings wherein they threatned all these who are unsatisfied with or do oppose the Publick Resolutions with punishments and censures to be inflicted by Judicatories Civill and Ecclesiastick respectively Yea they proceed further to apply against such the Characters of Malignants and to stir up the Civill Magistrate against them and Presbyteries to censure them and the Act which the Commission had made for referring the Malignants that had risen in Arms to the next Generall Assembly and in the mean while suspending them from the Sacrament was by themselves revoked and in their stead faithfull Ministers of unquestioned integrity who were unsatisfied in conscience with such Malignant proceedings were appointed to be cited to the Assembly Neither was all this enough but in the seventh place there must be yet a nearer and full conjunction with the Malignant Party they were already advanced to chief places of trust in the Army but the Acts of Classes made against James Grahame late Earl of Monirose his bloody Complices and Associats must be repealed and broken and the Malignant Party advanced to the chief places of trust in the Land Civill as well as Military and in effect to have the whole sway in Court Parliament and Army In this both Kirk and State did concurre It is true that the Commission of the Kirk did in that transaction require a Band of Lawborrows to be taken of the Malignants before their admission to sit in Parliament obliging them not to endeavour the repealing former Acts made for Religion and that they should not revenge themselves upon any for opposing or censuring them for their Malignant courses but all the former Bands given by them for keeping the peace were discharged and all the penaities of them and now all the certification and pain required in case they should fail was that they should be declared Malignants and lose their places a pretty fancie indeed to declare them Malignants And who should declare it The Act of Parliament saith It must be first found by the Parliament Committees of Estates or Kings Privy Councell that they have contraveened this Band and the far greatest part of them were known Malignants in all their wayes No sooner was the Malignant Party admitted to Parliament but forthwith all who would not concur for promoting the Publick Resolutions were declared Enemies their persons ordained to be imprisoned and their estates confiscated and in this they answered the expectation of the Commission of the Kirk published in their Warning March 1651. wherein they foretold that no doubt civil punishment would be inflicted by the Civil Magistrate The eight step was That the Commission of the Kirk a subordinate Judicatorie limited in their proceedings to the Acts of former Generall Assemblies did take upon them to prelimit the elections of the ensuing Generall Assembly by laying a foundation for debarring all such as had opposed their Resolutions which the Author of the Vindication so much cryed up in this Pamphlet grants to be contraversi juris and that they have not for their warrant the president and practice of any former Assembly and for constituting the Assembly of men that were of their judgment and had practised these Novations by them introduced which is a preparative of so dangerous consequence that being admitted we cannot expect hereafter right constituted Assemblies nor look that the purity and power of Religion shall be long continued among us but the subordinat Judicatory being permitted in the Intervall betwixt Assemblies to make rules for constituting the en●uing Generall Assembly we may ere long be led back to Prelacy and Popery The ninth step is That election of Commissioners being made generally in Presbyteries according to these prelimitations and they being met at St. Andrews did refuse the peaceable Overture made to them by these brethren who were unsatisfied with the Publick Resolutions did admit persons under scandall to sit as Judges after exception made publickly against them yea did admit them to be both Judges and Party and did according to the designed prelimitation exclude faithfull and godly men for their opposition to the Publick Resolutions all which and much more is fully cleared in the Review of the Vindication of that Assembly The tenth step is That the said pretended Assembly thus corruptly constituted did ratifie and approve all the Publick Resolutions censure godly and faithfull Ministers for their witnessing against these corruptions and enact against the generality of zealous Professors within the Land that all who did oppose or after conference did not acquiesce in their determinations should be proceeded against with the censures of the Kirk and the Commission of that Assembly met at Forfar 22 August did in their printed Warning denounce the heavy curse of God against all that did not concur in their Publick Resolutions and appoint the same to be read in all Congregations on the Lords day which if well considered I suppose may be a parallel to the tyranny and usurpation of the Prelats and in some respects above the same for they did not injoyn the practice of the five Articles of Perth under pain of censures and curses for diverse years after they were concluded in that pretended Assembly I shall now proceed in answering this Reviewer who hath collected the summe of the Observations made in their Assembly upon their reading of the Protestation and hath borrowed some things from the Author of the Vindication Beside these I finde nothing in him but frothy words and reproaches He saith he will passe the Representation and also wave the Propositions because satisfactorily answered by the Assembly wherein he is greatly mistaken for diverse of them are not answered at all and others of them only with equivocations for which let this one instance serve for the present to wit because we conceive their late proceedings relating to the Publick Resolutions have obstructed and shaken the Work of Reformation we desired that they would give assurance that they approve of the Acts of uncontraverted Assemblies concerning receiving of Penitents In their answer they leave out the word uncontraverted and so include their late Assemblies Acts which are the things we complain of As for the Representation he should have considered what himself saith