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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95962	Vindiciæ veritatis or an unanimous attestation to Gods blessed truth revealed in his vvord: together with a serious protestation against those church-desolating and soul-damning errors, heresies, and blasphemies, which of late have come in like a flood upon our county and kingdome : especially against a toleration of them. / Made in pursuance of the nationall Covenant, by the ministers of the Gospel within the West-Riding of the countie of York, as a caution to their flocks, and testimonie to the world of their zeal for, and love to, Christs truth and church. Readily and willingly subscribed, April 6. 1648.	Hill, Edward, 1589 or 90-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing V544; Thomason E444_5	8,030	12

express sacred and holy oath our Kingdom is bound to extirpate Oh how are we ashamed and blush to lift up our faces either to God or to any of the Reformed Charches when we consider how God is notoriously blasphemed by being made the Author of q Comfort for Beleevers pag 36 sin The doctrine of the sacred r An account to the Parliament by the Ministers of Oxford pag 36 7 Trinity of persons in Unity of Essence horridly reproached by those hell-fetcht ſ Vaal Best in his manuscript presented by the Ministers at York to the Lord Fairfax expressions of a three-headed Cerberus Monstrum Biforme Triforme a two-shap't and three-form'd Monster yea stigmatiz'd for Antichristian and the brand of the great Whore The sacred Diety of the eternal Son of God t Account by Oxford Ministers page 30 destroyed and the whole work of our Redemption accomplished by his Manifestation in the flesh clearly overthrown in making Christ who is truly and really God-man in one person by the merit and satisfaction of whose death and obedience imputed to us we are saved to be a meer u Sparkles of Glory page 203 205. 217 figure or example only in which God discovers to us grace and love and in making the w Account by Oxford Mansters page 32 ct 34. ct page 30. ct 41 Sparkles of Glory page 254 255 Saints to be Christ The Divine Authority of the Scriptures openly oppugned in being denyed to be the x Pilgrimage of Saints page 4 Word of God and any y Sparkles page 245 binding rule to the Creature The eternal Decree of God concerning Election and reprobation decryed as not fit to be z Paul ●obsons book entitaled Christ the 〈…〉 not the Cause of the Law page 7 9 preached The standing a Sparkles pag 30 31 232 245 246 Ordinances of Jesus Christ prayer Sacraments Lords day Sabbath Law Gospel Ministry all raz'd to the very foundation yea the Church of Christ on earth and all b Sparkles pag 50 51 ● by Oxford Ministers p 13 14 ct o Sparkle page 116 117 distinction of Church-Officers utterly taken away denyed and destroyed All which Errors and Heresies with many moe particularized in a Catalogue by our Reverend Brethren the Ministers of London in their Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ and multitudes of others every way as horrid too long to enumerate tend to the great dishonor of God the insufferable reproach of the Gospel the dangerous undermining of Magistracy and the unspeakable ruin of thousands of souls yea and of all Religion and will speedily and mortally like a Gangrene if not timely prevented eat out all faith piety and peace both in Church and State And yet which most of all saddens our spirits we do not find any effectual means used by Authority to restrain and suppress them but on the contrary the orthodox party in the Kingdom is discarded and discountenanced and notorious Sectaries and Seducers highly respected and preferred among us Having therefore seriously weighed the miserable effects of the prevalency of the Spirit of Errors and Infatuation which hath possessed so many in this Kingdom a woful experiment whereof we have lately had in our own County in some acted by the spirit of delusion to cast off all piety and natural affection in the wilful murder of their own c Samuel Hutchenson who dyed in York Castle about a work before the Assize held there March 20. 1647. His sister and her husband both condemned for that fact the one executed and the other reprieved Mother pretending to kill the evil spirit in her We do here before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judg the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom for the discharge of our Calling and Consciences declare to the whole world our dislike utter detestation and abhorrency from our very souls not only of all Popery Superstition Prophaneness but of all those Errors Heresies and Blasphemies formerly mentioned though d 2 Cor. 11 13 14 15 guilded with never so specious pretences of new light all spirit highest and most glorious discoveries and of whatsoever else is contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness e 1 Tim. 6 3 And further we do in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ warn and charge our several flocks and Congregations as they tender the honor of God and his Gospel and the salvation of their own souls that they take heed lest they be f 2 Pet. 2 2 et 3 17 led away with the Error of the wicked or follow the pernicious ways of them that bring in damnable Heresies and for this cause we how g Ephes 3 44 our knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would h Heb. 13 9 Ephel 4 14 establish their and our hearts with grace that we may not be carried about with divers and strange doctrines but may stand i 1 Cor 16 13 fast in the faith and be k 2 Thes 2 17 established in every good word and work 5. Upon the due Consideration of the many lamentable confusions and mischiefs the poor Church of God groans under amongst us for want of Government Ephes 1 22 Heb 3 2 to 6 and the due Administration of Church-censures And being fully assured that Jesus Christ the King and head of his Church faithful in that his house above Moses hath in the Scriptures laid down a sufficient rule for the governing of his Church now under the Gospel 1 Cor 12 28 2 Cor 2 6 Mat 18 17 1 Tim ● 17 1 Thes 5.12 we testifie that we are verily perswaded in our Judgments and Consciences that the Government of the Church truly and indeed Presbyterial by * Mat 18 15 ad 21 Acts 14 23 Titus 1 5 Acts 11 30 Chap. 21 18 1 Tim 4 14 Acts 15 6 Presbyteries and Synods in a way of subordination practised by the best Reformed Churches is that particular Government which is most agreeable to the Word of God and will mightily conduce to the removing of all Errors Heresies Corruptions and Scandals in Life and Doctrine from amongst us And further we thankfully acknowledg what the Parliament hath done by their several Ordinances in reference to the settlement of this Presbyterial Government in the Church patiently waiting for the full establishment of it in all the parts thereof In the mean time though we cannot find so compleat a rule in any or all those Ordinances of Parliament for Church-Government which have at this distance come to our hand as we are perswaded in our judgments Isaiah 9 6 Mat. 16 19 2 Cor 10 8 a Note that by vertue of an Order from the Committee for the 60000 l. per mensom according to a late Ordinance of Parliament the west-riding of York shire was by the assistance of the Ministers divided into ten Classical Presbyteries April 6 1648. But it