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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54505	A religious scrutiny concerning unequall marriage to be represented to the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland : together with a postscript to the Commissioners of the Kirk : whereunto is subjoyned an appendix humbly tendred to the Parliament of England in reference to the late transactions of state, and now lastly is added a faithfull and conscientious account for subscribing the engagement / by Thomas Paget ...	Paget, Thomas, d. 1660.	1650 (1650)	Wing P169B; ESTC R31749	30,942	56

A RELIGIOUS SCRUTINY CONCERNING Unequall Marriage To be represented To the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of SCOTLAND Together with a POSTSCRIPT to the Commissioners of the KIRK Whereunto is subjoyned AN APPENDIX Humbly tendred to the Parliament of ENGLAND In reference to the late Transactions of State And now lastly is added A Faithfull and Conscientious Account FOR Subscribing the Engagement By Thomas Paget Minister of the VVord in SHREWSBURY Jer. 6. 16. Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the wayes and see and ask for the old paths which is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your souls John 8. 31 32. Then said jesus to those Disciples which believed on him If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed and ye shall know the truth and the truth shalt make you free London Printed by John Macock and are to be sold in Popes-head Alley 1650. To the Reader THis last addition mentioned in the title of these following discourses should have come forth eight moneths since but many occasions intervening and among them the Author observing that many learned discourses were about that time published by others on the same argument he thought the world would have lesse need of his but finding since that time besides the perswasion of such as had viewed it to whose judgement he owed much many notable things come to passe in the event of affairs in a manner then foretold to those of that faction pretended to be the old Presbyterian to whom the advertisement agreeing with the scope of the book was particularly directed and many dangerous conjunctions since discovered which were then foreseen when they seemed to be most conceal'd repented him not that it was defer'd till now having more hope that after so many means of conviction they might be now found the willinger to open their ears to that evidence of truth which is laid before them inducing them with the same solidity and clearnesse of Reason to submit to the Engagement as he had done before in exhorting them to a peaceable compliance with the present Government though then for some private Reasons under the assumed name of THEOPHILUS PHILOPATRIUS And thus much was thought good to be prefixt to the former advertisement which now follows By the same friend to pure Religion and his Native Countrey An Advertisement by way of Preface to the Neophyte Presbyterian Ministers of England and Ireland THe reverend Author of these several Discourses following though a stranger to me appears throughout the whole Treatise to be of that judgment in Church-Discipline which is called Presbyterian but far different from some opinions which so many of those who in these days assume that name have under that pretext lately broached among us with such disturbance of the Peace and Civil Magistracy of the Land His yeers likewise intimated in a passage of his Book with other Arguments give us to believe him more then ordinarily versed both in the writings of the good old Non-Conformists of this Nation and the acquaintance and familiarity of many grave and worthy Ministers whose faith and constancy endured the tryals of long persecutions and exiles under the raign of the two last Kings Whereby the world may know besides what hath been lately shewn in several other Treatises and chiefly from Histories of the Scotish Reformation penned by the most eminent of the Presbyterians and principal managers of those Affairs that these subscribers in London of the Representation Vindication c. against the tryal of the late King c. and their copartners in subscriptions on the same accompt in Lancashire Essex or any other County of England with the Presbytery of Belfast in Ireland as many of them at least whose countenance of names have not been made use of without their knowledg are not as they profess to be the followers of those sincere and pious men of this or other Reformed Protestant Countreys whose doctrine and holy life in the midst of all kinde of sufferings unto which they were then exposed hath yet left a Religious memory of a sweet smelling savor behinde them Which Contratenor of these mens appears not onely in those assumed Vindications with their other slightings of the present Authority and defaming the higher powers placed over them in the manage of their trust and these Representations attended in odium tertii by an unnatural coition in so palpable steps with the tumultuous spirits of their old and by themselves declared inveterate enemies of that part of their old and once owned friends which is now become unto them a principal abomination by reason of those their late avowed and pursued principles most inconsistent with their interest and of the rude multitude of whose crying one day Hosannah and by and by Crucifie they need not more experience They all this while not foreseeing how naturally these courses do tend to settle on their own heads by their own hands those very evils whereof they are most afraid But also that they may be sure to keep distance from their most faithful and inwardly approved friends their countermining is yet more evident a new opportunity to shew themselves arising in their tenacious adhering to set days of Humiliation in opposition to occasional wherein the opinion and practice of the Reformed Churches and especially of the Church of Scotland with whom they most plead to have uniformity is cleerly no less against them of the which such of them as have either been conversant in their Writings about their Discipline against the Prelatical or have had the opportunity of any free discourse with their Commissioners in the Assembly at Westminster or elsewhere cannot possibly have any colour to plead ignorance Into both of which so opposite aspects that they did not upon their own principles chuse to fall but were indeed by emergence of occurrences surprizing them driven is very apparent by that ready Testimony which the most forward of them at first were observed to give besides former expressions that way looking to the very Remonstrance of the Army in what concerned even the calling of the King to account and afterwards so perfectly falling out with it by reason of the maner of doing viz. The suspension of some Members of Parliament c. The which maner notwithstanding made voyd does sweep along with it whereof they cannot be ignorant the Alpha and Omega of their friends transactions for the re-establishent and preservation of Presbytery c. in Scotland against the Prelatical inundations they having in the beginning of these conflicts no Parliament till their sword fencing their other addresses begot both it and their assembly and that Parliament in a few successions degenerating these again with their own sword assisted with the followers of their copy in this Land having altogether overturned that line and cut out a new Parliament in affect of another Constitution of Members and 〈◊〉 passed sentence of Non-Communion in an Admonition upon the acquiescers