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A92497 The act of classis for purging the iudicatories and other places of publick trust.; Laws, etc. Scotland.; Scotland. Convention of Estates. 1649 (1649) Wing S1116A; ESTC R183916 7,658 9

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The ACT of CLASSIS for purging the IUDICATORIES and other places of publick Trust AT Edinburgh the twenty third day of Ianuary 1649. years The Estates of Parliament presently conveened in this second Session of the second Trienniall Parliament By vertue of an Act of the Committee or Estates who had power and authority from the last Parliament for conveening the Parliament Considering That forsameikle as the late Committee of Estates did in the indiction of the Parliament by their Act of the 27. of October last declare and warn as after follows To wit That whereas the corruption of Judicatories of this Kingdom and Officers of Estate and others persons in publick trust have been the cause and fountain from whence our former evil hath proceeded And whereas by our Solemn Acknowledgment agreed upon by Church and State We are bound to God by our Engagement to England we are bound to them and by the forecited and publict Declaration we are obliged before the World to indeavour the purgation and reformation of our Judicatories and places of publick trust And forasmuch as the foresaids Persons and all who are in publick trust are liable to the judgement and censure of Parliament for their procedure in their severall places and Offices Likeas by the Agreement at Edinburgh and Striviling all such as have been imployed in publick place and trust and have been accessory to the late unlawfull Engagement should forbear the exercise of their places in the mean time and all Questions are referred to the Determination of the Parliament And whereas by the said Treaty all these who have been accessory to the said Engagement are challengeable for their said accession at the least in so far as concerns their places and publick trust and the debarring of them from any of these Therefore the Committee of Estates doth hereby warne and cite all and every one of these who exercised any office place or publick trust or who were Members or Clerks of any publick Iudicatories of whatsoever degree quality or condition soever in Burgh or Land within this Kingdom and hath been accessory to the late Engagement or are guilty of the faults mentioned in the Printed Acts of the twenty two of September and fourth of October To compeir before the Estates of Parliament at Edinburgh the 4. day of Ianuary next to come in a peaceable way accompanied onely with their own domestick Servants to hear and see the Parliament take such course as they in their Iustice and Wisdom for the good of the Kingdom shall think fit for purging of the Judicatories and for declaring their places vacand and filling them with such as are able and qualified persons fittest for the service and may give most contentment and as have continued constant in the Covenant and Cause in the time of tryall And for debarring them who are put out from any other publick places or trust during such time and in such manner as the Estates of Parliament shall think fit With certification to every one of the persons concerned as is abovesaid and warned by this publick Proclamation which the Committee of Estates declares That they finde it a sufficient intimation in this noture case of so great and publick a back-sliding to all persons concerned therein for the effect foresaid to be esteemed by them equivalent to a personall citation or at their dwelling house upon particular summonds against every one of them to compeir before the Estates of Parliament as is before said and compeir not That then the Estates will proceed both to determine the generall question and the particular concerning their places and trust and take what farther course they shall think fitting for the good of the Kingdom And forsameikle as the Estates of Parliament being now conveened have ratified the foresaid Act in all the heads thereof and by open Proclamation intimate the fame Likeas they have made their solemn Acknowledgement of the publick sins and beraches of the Covenant and their Solemn Ingagement to all the duties contained therein namely these which do in a more speciall way relate to the dangers of these times And in relation thereto have renewed their Solemn League and Covenant before God And by their Act of the 16. of Ianuary instant have disclaimed and condemned the late unlawfull Engagement as contrary to GODS Word and a manifest breach of Covenant and Treaties as destructive to the Cause and Covenant to Religion the King and these Kingdoms And is the cause of all the oppressions and miseries that hath followed or may follow thereupon And therefore and for many other reasons Have annulled and repealed all Acts made by the late Parliament and Committee of Estates in prosecution thereof and have ratified and approven the Protestation in Parliament and opposition made thereof by this Kingdom against the Authors and Abettors thereafter and the late Treaty made at Stirling debarring all accessory to that unlawful Engagement from the exercise of their places or publick trust untill the meeting determination of this present Parliament unto whom all Civill questions are referred And likewise hath confirmed the assurance given by the Committee unto the Kingdom of England that we should not admit any of these authors or abettors of the late Engagement to any publick place or trust without the consent of that Kingdom against which their Engagement was as is more fully exprest in their Answer of the 6. of October last And whereas the Estates of Parliament are not only satisfied of the truth lawfulness and necessity of the foresaid grounds but also are convinced in their consciences from the Word of God from the large Treaty between the Kingdoms and from their Oath of Parliament from their solemn League and Covenant especially from the 2.4 and 5. Articles thereof and from sad and dear-bought experience That the Malignant dealing of some and the profane loose walking of others who have been Members of Iudicatories and imployed in places of power and publick trust hath been a chief cause of all the evils both of sin and punishment under which the Land now groans And that the Lord requires in his Word that those who judge and bear charge among his people should not only be able men but such as fear God hate covetousness and deal truly And that it is of speciall importance for the remedie of all our evils and for securing and advancing of Religion Righteousness for keeping a right understanding between the Kingdoms and for prosecuting all the ends of the solemn League Covenant and for removing the judgement of God and preventing or disappointing all the designs and opposition of enemies of all sorts and for procuting the blessing of God upon the whole Land That men not only of known ability but also of approven integrity and constant affection to the Cause and good and Christian conversation be intrusted in all Iudicatories and places of power and trust according to the seventh desire of the Commissioners of the