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A58291 The recantation and hvmble svbmission of two ancient prelates of the kingdome of Scotland subscribed by their own hands and sent to the generall assemblie : as also the act of the said assemblie condemning episcopacy and other abuses which are contrary to the Word of God and the laws of this church and kingdome. Lindsay, Alexander, ca. 1561-1639.; Grahame, George.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. 1641 (1641) Wing R611; ESTC R17222 3,852 9

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First the pressing of this Church by Prelates with a Service Booke or Booke of Common Prayer without direction or warrant from the Church and containing besides the Popish frame thereof divers Popish errours and Ceremonies and the seeds of manifold grosse superstitions and Idolatrie with a Book of Canons without warrant er direction from the Generall Assembly establishing a Tyrannicall power over the Church in the person of Bishop and overthrowing the whole discipline and government of the Church by Assemblies with a Book of Consecration and Ordination without warrant of authoritie Civill or Ecclesiasticall appointing Offices in the house of God which are not warranted by the Word of God and repugnant to the Discipline and Acts of our Church with the Commission erected without the consent of the Church subverting the Jurisdiction and ordinarie Judicatories of this Church and giving to persons meerly Ecclesiasticall the power of both Swords to persons meerly Civill the power of the Keyes and Church Censures 2. A second cause was the Articles of Perth viz. Observation of Festivall dayes kneeling at the Communion Confirmation Administration of the Sacraments in private places which were brought in by a Civill Assembly and are contrary to the Confession of Faith 1590 as it was meant and subscribed in Ann. 1580. and divers times since to the order and Constitution of this Church 3. A third cause was the change of the Government of the Church from the Assemblies of the Church to the persons of Church-men usurping the priority and power over their brethren by the way and under the name of Episcopall government against the Confession Anno 1580. Against the order set down in the Book of Policy and against the intentions and Constitutions of this Church from the beginning 4. A fourth cause was the Civill places and power of Church men their sitting in Session Counsell and Exchequer Their Ridding sitting and voting in Parliament and their sitting in the Bench as Justices of Peace which according to the constitutions of the Church are incompatible with their spiritual function lifting up above their brethren and worldly pomp and do tend to the hinderance of the Ministry A fifth cause was The keeping and authorizing of corrupt Assemblies at Linlithgow 1606. 1608. at Glasgow 1610. at Aberdene 1616. at St. Andrews 1617. at Perth 1618. which are all null and unlawful as being called and constitute quite to ● order and constitutions of this Church received and practised ever since the Reformation of Religion And withall 〈…〉 ing to introduce Novations within this Church against the order and Religion established A sixt cause was The want of lawfull and free Generall Assemblies rightly constitute of Pastors Doctors and Elders yeerly or oftner pro re rata according to the liberty of the Church expressed in the Book of Policy and acknowledged in the Act of Parliament 1592. Which his Majesties Commissioner having heard patiently and examined particularly and all objections to the contrary being answered to the full The whole Assembly with expresse consent of his Majesties Commissioner in one heart and voice did declare that these such other proceedings from the neglect and breach of the N 〈…〉 all Covenant of this Church and Kingdom made in 〈…〉 have been indeed the true and maine cause of all our evil 〈◊〉 and distractions And therefore ordaines according to the Const●tutions of the Generall Assemblies of this Church and upon the grounds respective above specified that the foresaid Service Booke Book of Cannons and Ordination and High Commission be rejected still That the Articles of Perth be no more practised That Episcopall Government and the Civill places and power of Churchmen be holden still as unlawfull in this Church That the above named pretended Assemblies at Linlithgow 1606. 1608. at Glasgow 1610. at Aberdean 1616. at St. Andrews 1617. at Perth 1618. be hereafter accounted as nul and of none effect and that for preservation of Religion and proventing all such evils in time coming Generall Assemblies rightly constitute as the perfect and competent Judge of al matters Ecclesiasticall hereafter be kept yeerly and oftner as occasion and necessitie shall require The necessitie being first remonstrate to his Maiestie by humble Supplication as also of these occasionall Assemblies that Church Sessions Presbyteries and Sinodall Assemblies constitute and ordained according to the Book of Policies and Constitutions of this Church be also hereafter kept as occasion and necessity shall require FINIS
THE RECANTATION AND HVMBLE SVBmission of two ancient PRELATES of the Kingdome of SCOTLAND Subscribed by their own hands and sent to the Generall Assemblie As also THE ACT OF THE said Assemblie condemning EPISCOPACY and other abuse which are contrary to the WORD of GOD and the Laws of this Church and Kingdome Printed in the yeare 1641. THE BISHOP OF DVNKELL his Recantation BE it known to all men I Mr. Alexander Lindsay Minister at St. Madois forsomuch as I by my Missive Letter sent by me to the Generall Assembly of the Kirke of Scotland holden at Glasgow the 21. of Novemb. 1638. did freely submit my self and dimit and lay down at the feet of the said Assembly my pretended Office of Episcopacie as pretended Bishop of Dunkell and my Letter promised and subscribed with ample form of dimission there anent as the said Assembly should subscribe And now the said reverend Assembly hath found and declared the said Office of Episcopacie as it hath been used and termed within the said Kirke of Scotland to be abjured by the Confession of Faith of the said Kirke subscribed in the yeers 1580. 1581 and 1590. And therefore hath declared and decerned the said Office to be removed out of the said Kirke of Scotland As also seeing the Reverend Assembly hath decerned Me according to my said Letter to subscribe a more ample forme of Dimission of the said pretended Office in presence of Sir Iohn Moncreeffe Knight Baronett Mr. Robert Murray Minister at Methven Mr. Iohn Robertson Minister at Perth Mr. Alexander Petrye Minister at Kynde and Thomas Durham Burges of Perth Commissioners appointed by them for that effect Therefore and for performance of my said Letter and in obedience to the ordinance of the said Reverend Assembly Witt you me to have Dimitted quytclamed and simpliciter overgives the foresaid pretended Office of Episcopacie as pretended Bishop of Dunkell with the whole Title Style Name and Dignitie thereof Power of Ordination and Jurisdiction Voice in Parliament and usurpation of the same in time coming And faithfully promises and by these presents bindes and oblidges me never to exerce nor use the said pretended Office in the said Kirke of Scotland Nor no power of Ordination Jurisdiction Voice in Parliament neither any other Power Ecclesiasticall belonging usurped and acclamed to belong to the said pretended Office Like as according to the Act of the said Reverend Assembly I acknowledge the said Office of Episcopacy to be abjured in the f●●esaid Confession of Faith and therefore most justly ought to be removed out of the said Kirke of Scotland and these whole Premisses I heartily acknowledge As I will answer to God In testimony hereof I am content and consents that these Presents be insert and Registrate in the Generall Books of Assembly therein to remain Ad 〈◊〉 rei memoriam And to that effect constitutes my lawfull Procurators conjunctly and severally Promitter 〈◊〉 rato In witnesse whereof written by Robert Re 〈…〉 servant to Pattrick Rosse Nottar in Perth I have subscribed the same with my hand as said is At St. Madois the 24. of January 1639. Before these witnesses Students in Perth Mr. George Paterson Mr. Allexander Dundie George Boswall servant to SirIohn Moncreeffe THE BISHOP OF ORKNAY his Recantation TO all and sundry whom it effeeres To whose knowledge these Presents shall come especially to the Reverend and Honorable members of the future Assemblie to be holden at Edinburgh the 12. of August 1639. I Mr. George Grahame sometime pretended Bishop of Orknay being sorrie and grieved at my heart that I should ever for any worldly respect have embraced the order of Episcopacy the same having no warrant from the Word of God and being such an Order as hath had sensibly many fearfull and evill consequences in many parts of Christendome And particularly within the Chur●h of Scotland as by dolefull and deplorable experience this day is manifest to have Disclamed Like as I by the tenour hereof do altogether disclame and abjure all Episcopall power and jurisdiction with the whole corruptions thereof condemned by lawfull Assemblies within the Church of Scotland In regard the same is such an Order as is also abjured within the said Church by vertue of that Nationall Oath which was made in the yeer of God 1580. and 1581. Promising and swearing By the great Name of the Lord our God c. That I shall never while I live directly exerce any such power within the Church neither yet shall I ever approve or allow the same not so much as in any private or publike discourse But on the contrary shall-stand and adhere to all the Acts and Constitutions of the late Assemblie holden at Glasgow the 21. of Novemb. 1638. Last by past And shall concurre to the utter most of my power sincerely and faithfully as occasion shall offer in executing the said Acts and advancing the work of Reformation within this Land To the glorie of God the Peace of the Countrey and the comfort and contentment of all good Christians As God shall be my help In testimonie of which Premisses I have subscribed these Presents with my hand At Brecknesse in Stromnes the 12. of Februarie 1639. Before these witnesses Mr. Walter Stewart Minister at Sowthronaldsay Mr. Iames Cheene Minister at Kirkwall Mr. Robert Person Minister at Firth Mr. Patricke Grahame Sonne to the said Bishop Minister at Holme THE ACT OF THE Generall Assembly THe Kings Majestie having declared that it is his Royall will and pleasure that all Questions about Religion and matters Ecclesiasticall be determined by the Church having also by publike Proclamation Indicted this free Nationall Assembly for setling the present distractions of this Church and for establishing a perfect Peace against such divisions and discords as have been sore displeasing to his Majestie and grievous to all his good Subjects And now his Majesties Commissioner Iohn E. of Traquair instructed and authorized with a full Commission being present and sitting in this Assemblie now fully conveened and orderly constitute in all the members thereof according to the order of this Church having at large declared his Majesties zeal to the Reformed Religion and his Royall care and tender affection to this Church where his Majestie had both his Birth and Baptisme his great displeasure at the manifold distractions and divisions of this Church and Kingdome and his desire to have all our wounds perfectly cured with a faire and Fatherly hand And although in the way approved by this Church tryall hath been taken in former Assemblies before from the Church Registers to our full satisfaction Yet the Commissioner making a particular inquirie from the members of the Assembly now solemnly conveened concerning the reall and true causes of so many and great evils at this time past and so sore troubling the Peace of the Church and Kingdome It was represented to his Majesties Commissioner by this Assembly That besides many other the maine and most materiall causes were 1.