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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

is our Lawgiver where I asserted the headship of Jesus Christ Then again was I apprehended at the order of Buchan and some others and guarded 10 weeks and 4 days in the Dungeon of Air where the Arm of the Lord rescued me and two other old men from my Enemies who had blood in their Teeth and abominations in their mouth 9 Zec. I brake out the Sentinalls sleeping Now this is the third time of my imprisonment as was reported by the Right Honorable Earle Crawford's order the provost of Edinburgh and the Solicitor coming into the Prison did question me upon several heads and afterwards did take away my testimonials to peruse and did return the same by a Macer not only my Licence and Ordination but Testificates of my former Deport●…nt the Testimony privately and pub●…kly I maintain I openly yet Reverendly ●…ed out I was against Popery Prelacy Li●…y of Conscience and that thorow Grace I ●…olved to dye by the Acts of the Assembly ●…nd 49. as consonant to the Analogy of ●…th and holy Bible I cannot omitt what 〈◊〉 betwixt Me and the Reverend Mr. J. W. 〈◊〉 at Glasgow then at Ecclesom who at the ●…inning of the Popish Toleration was swal●…wed up by this Jonahs Whale Boggle not ●…es he since ye ventered your neck with Mr. J. R. ●…erly I plainly prohibit him to own it or 〈◊〉 Addresse as Diametrically against our ●…sciples when Julian summoned hell to 〈◊〉 him the Devil gave him the engine of ●…ration There remaineth one Objection unremov●…tho a threed bare Argument thus it is as 〈◊〉 had conversed with one Dunbar one of the ●…ans in order to my deliverance a horrid 〈◊〉 wicked lye even such as they branded 〈◊〉 Worthies formerly For I take GOD 〈◊〉 witness I never spoke with one of them 〈◊〉 I knew him either name or surname 〈◊〉 or figure save him who was my Anta●…ist against whom I wrote the examina●… of the Popish Catechism neither did debate 〈◊〉 him or converse an hour in all and that in a publick Coffee-house so let the 〈◊〉 of hell smoke out of their mouths and ha●…lies the Devils babes hot coals of Juni●… are prepared for false Tongues sin is 〈◊〉 Souls sickness Confession the souls vo●… which the 8 Levites in the 9. of Nehemiah 〈◊〉 Precept by Pattern acknowledge be●… they lay one Stone in Gods house the 〈◊〉 of Defection having blown out the eye 〈◊〉 the World Darkness sayeth Jeremiah 〈◊〉 the Earth gross darkness the People After s●… dayes deliberation scrutiny and due exaa●…nation of my Principles Papers Persist●… and Adherence to the Acts of Assem●… The Right Honourable the Earle of C●…ford personally with a Macer came to 〈◊〉 Prison door and ordered my Liberat●… having every day entered the List 〈◊〉 Episcopal Clergy and Gentry and Tolera●… Truth with its Energie did sufficiently ●…dicate me Hence Ministers are to cont●… for the Faith once delivered to the Saints 〈◊〉 by suffering were it to seal with their Bl●… what they speak with their mouth in 〈◊〉 Chair of Truth for the same indivi●… Truths the former Lords Days at K●… Kirk and Drumshorlin moor preceeding 〈◊〉 Imprisonment I plainly Preached w●…fully and freely I did aver before My 〈◊〉 Provost From Jer. 50 Come joyn your selves the Lord in a perpetual Covenant I could not pass from the Reformation and Protestation relating thereto for the Lawdable Laws of my Masters house tho I should have gone the gate of Mr. Rennick These were the individual words to My Lord Provost and Solicitor For Illustration and Confirmation whereof take a Transient view of the Assemblies Acts. Acts of the General Assemblie Sess 23. Dec. 17. Anent the Entry and Conversation of Ministers its expedient that the Acts of Assembly holden at Edinburgh March 4. 1595. Be ratified and put in Execution in every Presbyterie And to that end get a Coppie under the Clerks hand whereof the Tenure followeth Sess 7. March 26. of the Assembly at Edinburgh 1596. Concerning the Defections of the Ministerie the same being at length read out and considered in order to see the Kirk and Ministrie purged to the effect the Work may have better success they think it necessary that this Assembly be humbled for want of such care as became in such points and that some Zealous and Godly Brethren in Doctrine lay them out for their Humiliation and they make Solemn promise bifore the Majestie of GOD to make new Covenant with him for a more careful and Reverend discharge of their Ministerie And that speedily the Corruptions and Enormities of the Ministerie be Remedied to Avert the impendant Judgments in order thereto Sess 8. August 17. Containing the Causes and Remedie of the bygone Evil of the Kirk The Kings Will and Pleasure is That all Questions about Religion and matters Ecclesiastical be determined by the Assembly of this Kirk And Moreover that no Persons blaked with Publick Defection have power to Vote in the Lords House till they condemn Doctrinally these Defections c. Hence are condemned the sordid and sullen Apprehensions of many whereby their vile Aspersions are wept off c. As suffering honest men intended the unchurching of the Ministerie and easting off of the same when nothing is designed nor desired save reducing of the Church to the Rules of her Husbands house Hosea 2. v. 1.3 The Church of Scotland was unite 45 years by by means of Discipline FINIS