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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11655	The protestation of the noblemen, barrons, gentlemen, borrowes, ministers, and commons; subscribers of the confession of faith and covenant, lately renewed within the kingdome of Scotland, made at the Mercate Crosse of Edinburgh the 22. of September immediatly after the reading of the proclamation, dated September 9. 1638	Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646.; Warriston, Archibald Johnston, Lord, 1611-1663. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 21904; ESTC S100065	13,633	28

but the LORD may bee calling His people now who have proceeded so farre in professing His Trueth at this time to such Trials and Confessions as His faithfull Witnesses have given of old that in this point also our doing may bee a document both to the succeeding ages and to other Kirks to whom for the present wee are made a spectacle 12. If any bee so forgetfull of his oath which God forbid as to subscribe this Confession as it is now urged he doeth according to the proclamation acquiesce in this declaration of his Majesties will and doeth accept of such a pardon as hath need to bee ratified in parliament And thus doeth turn our glorie unto shame by confessing our guiltinesse where God from Heaven hath made us guiltlesse and by the fire of His Spirit from Heaven hath accepted of our service And doeth depart from the commandement of God the practise of the Godly in former times and the worthie and laudable example of our worthie and religious progenitours in obedience whereof and conforme to which Wee made profession to subscribe for there is no particular Act required of us to whom the pardon is presented in this proclamation but this new Subscription allanerlie 13 The generall band now urged to be subscribed as it containeth many clauses not so fitting the present time as that wherein it was subscribed so is it deficient in a point at this time most necessarie Of the reformation of our lives that we shall answerablie to our profession be examples to others of all Godlinesse sobernesse and righteousnesse and of every duetie wee ow to GOD and man without which we can not now subscribe this Confession least we loose the bands to wickednesse seeme to repent of our former resolutions and promises and chose to have our portion with hypocrites professing and sweareing that we know GOD but in our workes denying him being abominable disobedient and unto every good worke reprobate 14. Since the narrative of the generall hand is now changed and some lines expressing at length the Papists and their adherents to be the partie from whom the danger to religion and the Kings Majestie was threatned are left out and no designation made of the partie from whom the danger is now threatred We are made either to thinke that our subscription at this time is unnecessarie or to suspect that we who have supplicated and entered in Covenant are understood to be the partie especially since the Lords of Counsell have in the act September 22. ratifiing the Proclamation found themselves bound to use their best endeavours that all his Majesties good Subjects may rest satisfied with his Majesties declaration since also we have beene although undeservedly challenged of disorders distractions and dangers to religion and his Majesties authoritie and since in the forsaid act and in the missive directed to his Majestie the Lords of Councell offer their lives and fortunes to his Majestie in repressing all such as shall hereafter prease to disturbe the peace of this Kirk and Kingdome which being expressed in a generalitie is by many applyed to us and interpreted of our adhereing to our Covenant We should therefore by our subscription of the Covenant as it is now conceaved both do directly against our owne mindes in condemning our selves wherein we are innocent and should consent to our owne hurt to the suppressing of the cause which we maintaine and to the repressing mutually one of us of another directly contrare to our former solemne oath and subscription 15. The Subscribing of this Confession by the Lords of his Majesties privie Counsell who by their place and high employment are publicke Peace-makers and by others who have not subscribed the late Confession will make the breach wider and the lamentable division of this Kirk more desperate then ever before some haveing sworne to labour by all lawfull meanes to recover the former libertie and puritie of religion and others maintaining that for puritie which is already established some believing and professing that the evils supplicated against are abjured in that Confession of Faith and others maintaining the Confession of Faith and these corruptions although for the present discharged by authority not to be inconsistent and beside this many divisions and subdivisions will ensue to the dulefull renting of the Kirk and Kingdome makeing way for the wrath and many iudgements of God often threatned by his faithfull servants which all the Godly ought to labour by all means to prevent 16. Wee represent also to the honourable Lords of privie counsell to bee considered That the Doctrine Discipline and Vse of Sacraments are sworn and the contrare abjured according to the Word of God and the meaning of the Kirk of Scotland in the books of Discipline and Acts of Assemblies And that in the Oath there is no place left to the generality of any mans conception of the true Faith and Religion nor to any private interpretation or mentall reservation For these and the like considerations In our own name and in name of all who will adhere to the late Covenant subscribed by us and sealed from Heaven We from our duetie to God our King our native countrey our selves and the posteritie least our silence import a satisfaction of our desires and a stopping of our mouth from necessarie supplication for things yet to bee obteined from His Majesties just and gracious disposition are constrained to declare and protest First That the cause and occasion of the distractions of the kirk and commonwealth are no wayes to be imputed unto us or our needlesse fears but to the innovations and corruptions of Religion which against the acts and order of this kirk and the lawes of the kingdome have beene pressed upon us the people of GOD and his Majesties loyall Subjects who although under great thraldome were living in peace and quietnesse labouring in all godlinesse and honestie to do our duety to God and man Secondly We protest that all questions and doubtes that arise concerning the freedome of the Assemblie whether in the constitution and members thereof or in the matters to bee treated or in the manner and order of proceeding be remitted to the determination of the assemblie it selfe as the only proper and competent iudge And that it shall be lawfull for us being authorized with lawfull commissions as at other times when the urgent necessitie of the Kirk shall require so in this exigence to assemble our selves at the diet appointed notwithstanding any impediment or prorogation to the contrare And being assembled against all qualifications and predeterminations or presupposals to propone treat reason vote and conclude according to the Word of God Confession of Faith and acts of lawfull Assemblies in all Ecclesiasticall matters perteining to the assemblie and tending to the advancement of the Kingdome of Christ and good of Religion Thirdly since Archbishops and Bishops have no warrand for their office in this Kirk since it is contrare both to reason and to