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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03692	The conduct and conveyance of our Fathers amd martyrs testimony in the Church of Scotland justified and continued. The paralel [sic] testimony in 38 and 49 reciprocal, with the present testimony against Popery, prelacy, liberty of conscience, stated and delineated, from the Bible, reason, and testimony of history. / By W.H., minister of the gospel, and prisoner at Edinburgh, January 9th, 1690.	Houschone, William.	1690 (1690)	Wing H2943; ESTC R178268	6,717	16

exercise of their Ministry the property peculiarly of believers since Faith Piety and Charity binds us to an external Society without which they cannot be called sheep not in respect of their ordinary Pastors but in respect of their Faith in Jesus Christ To note that it is Faith and not the Ministry which makes the Society and by consequence renders their Assemblies Lawful and Necessary Yet mind I am a perfect Enemy to the 32 Sects of England and abhore the right of gifted Brethrening my Testificates plainly make appear to the Provost and Solicitor of Edinburgh who read them but especially my writting against them at London whereby for truth I 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 resides in the Faithful only His Mystical Body for which he dyed the Seed which he Sowed with his own hand against the Harvest Isa 7. Who has required this of thy hand to tread in my Courts And Ps 51. What hast thou adoc to read my Covenant and Laws The Tares have communion only by accident till the Harvest Austin Lib. 7. C. 5. Teaches plainly that the Power of the Keys Binding and Loosing is given to the Church of the truely Faithful in Opposition to the men of the World that are mixt with them They then having a right to be in a Religious Society over whom Christ is Supreme Law-giver Isa 35. Their Law binds the Elicite Acts of the Conscience of all indefinitely Hence Sun Moon Stars are said to bow to Joseph that is to the Church yet we safely maintain a Co-ordination of Powers and Sub-Ordination of Persons It s the Elegant saying of the Honourable Lord Brook of England if the Church swallow up the State inflowes Superstition and Idolatry If the State swallow up the Church inflows Atheism and Ignorance Hence Paul draws the inference of the Authority which the Lord hath given to us not for your destruction but for your edification which right the Church has at the bottom her formation and subsistence as secretly in a good and soveraign hand preserved In Parenthsi know this is no negative much more a positive separation as the noble Orthodox party against the Arians meeting as they could sometimes in their fields But rather a standing still Jer. 15.19 21. Till men return to their old principles 38 and 49. Amongst all our signs none more penetrating and pierceing then Desertion Penal Medicinal or Probatory The first when God judicially delivers up a man to hardness of heart as Pharoah The 2 3 a blessing for the future but a judgement for the time and some may say oh that they could water the steps of their backsliding with tears the fear of man brings a snare he that trusts in the Lord shall be delivered the sun of righteousness runing under a cloud that they cannot read their evidences for Heaven has been burdensome to some tho I knew others and the same persons in the like case might attain to have their thoughts break the Clouds there soul a chronicle of the love of Christ a psalm book of his praise Yet lustful Gallants may carouse at leisure their pouder hair may forget the dust were their skin as thick as the Whales the Bullet of Death will pierce them Of such was one Parker of England who mockt at aquaintance with God obtained his short Heaven and long Hell a sun of wealth and prosperity before a thunder bolt of Vengeance Nor are they better who wash Sarans face with a colour of Religion Naked truth that needs not the purple partociny even tho' of Constantine extorts me to speak that thereby I may be seen about those dozen of years wandering which God booketh down and will the Innocents and Sufferers tears bottle up It pleased the Lord after my licence and formal trial at London to order my lot in the company of Holy and faithful Mr. Welsh in the west of Scotland by whom I was invited to preach Mr. John Cuninghame and Mr. John Black and M. W L. being present Then the Church of God in Scotland like a Ship among the Jaws and Waves of Tribulation sore tost many of her Passengers drowning and her Skippers and Watch men rowing ashore to save to save their life I kept the fields and other places for some time after Bothwel in the 81 then being induced and invited by others inclined to that my self I went for Holland to print the Testimony of the Church of Scotland against Popery and Prelacy the Conveyance thereof in all the Centuries and in each period of time At Leith being perceived and my Brother in Law taken the Coppies cancelled and I escaped and went for London Where falling happily acquainted with a vertuos person the Earle of Anglesey I wrote a Reply in 4 to to the Cassandrian Doctrine emitted from one of the Frogs of Antichrist The book it self bears the Tittle Scotland pulling down the gates of Rome Christ against Antichrist the Lambs friends against the Dragons followers with some remarks historically upon the Comet Star and examination of the Popish Confessions and description of the Romish Morals ●o which my Name is affixed Which was prin●ed about that fatal conjuncture of time the death of the famous Lord Russel from thence returning to Scotland I privately resided at Whiteborn till one Armillan younger who received the Sacrament as Presbiterian as Test-man as Papist all in 11 years time Cowardly and Craftily apprehended and abused me cruelly 4 years before having plundered and pillaged the whole Country and my Chamber and Books amongst the rest for which he and others God in providence shall fetch to a Court of blood shed and oppression he not being satisfied with perjury and forgery of my hand writting which he pretend he had but debauched mens and womens consciences to 400 Oaths he and others in a day till at last he landed in Adultery with his servant and Murther of the same child the woman being presently executed at Air for the same did depone he escaping by the policy and power of Craigy Wallace I being carried prisoner to Glasgow Falkirk and other places in a pitiful manner I was staged before the Counsel for Lybels and Books and preaching in the Fields at the resentment of which I cannot cover the sentiment of my thoughts but with grief that the fear of Man did so prevail to hinder more full and faithful Testimony Yet w●… I keeped free that my heart and the Tem●tation never meet with Oaths Bonds 〈◊〉 This being over I return'd to the West an● publickly preacht and then went for London where that Book was printed Gods Garde● hedged and watred In reference to an Essay o● Antidote against distractions in Gods worship coming too speedily from London hom● again and embraceing an Invitation did preach upon the 33 of Isa The Lord is our King the Lord