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A11627	The course of conformitie as it hath proceeded, is concluded, should be refused.	Scott, William, ca. 1566-1642.; Calderwood, David, 1575-1650, attributed name.; Melville, James, 1556-1614, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 21874; ESTC S120840	184,517	202

the Iesuits of late haue shaken a Minerva out of their braines for maintaining multitudes of monsters I referre to your selfe and vvill giue but two instances of our purpose one of heresie under the Gospell another of idolatry under the Law Archip. That vvere sufficient vvhat heresie meane you Epaph Never was there an heretick that defended a more pestilent opinion with more plausible pretexts Pretexts for Arrianisme and subtil evasions then Arrius and his sectaries for vvhen they were desired to acknowledge Christ to be the son of God as he is called in the Creed they accepted of that word because the Apostle sayth We are all the sonns of God When they vvere assayed vvith the word onely begotten they received it meaning of that dignitie singular glory in him aboue all the creatures beside And to this end alledged the known place Prov. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thirdly there was added Before the world was made This they exponed of the creation of Christ and all the Angels before the vvorld vvas made The fourth addition God of God they escaped by acknowledging all the Angells also to bee Gods of God And the fift light of light they esteemed to be common to all the godly Ye are the light of the world once darknes but now light When sixtly they excluded adoption by adding True God of the true God that they admitted also because the true uncreated God cannot be the author nor maker of false Gods When seventhly for stopping of this starting hole it was added Begotten not made they escaped by the place of Deuteronomie Thou hast forsaken the God who begat thee Never could this monster of heresie be catched by cōfessiō of faith til at last the kirk was led by the spirit to the vvord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vvhich in end proved to be the Shibboleth As the other three words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vvere used by other three councels against the other three kinds of heresies concerning the person of Christ God-man Archip. I perceiue that Heretickes and Polititians vvere not shepheards of Colliers of old more then the learned seducers in out dayes that it is hard to frame a confession of faith vvhich they vvill refuse to subscribe and yet for any contrarie errour or practise can soone find some evasion and that no heresie nor errour ever wanted the owne probabilitie and pretext Come now to the second instance Epaph. It is the Idolatry of Ieroboam which might haue been defended or excused by the kirk and state of that time as well as the Idolatry of this age by the authoritie and Clergie now Archip. Idolatry aboue all other sinnes is the service of the Divells Idolatry is that to the all seeing iealous God vvhich adulterie is to a loving and iealous husband committed in his owne sight Idolls are things of naught dung excrements sorrowes abhominations vanities lies Idolaters of all sinners haue the threatning and execution of the greatest iudgements in this life diseases of all kindes Levit. 26. vvithout respect of persons 2. Chron. 21.18.19 famine for many yeares 1. King 17. the sword Levit. 26.26 the desolation of Cities and scattering of the inhabitants among other nations All vvhich came to passe in particular upon Israell In the vvorld to come they shall not inherite the Kingdome of God And all that are of their fellowship shall be confounded Es 44 11. Ieroboam could tell this full well he heard himselfe rebuked by the Prophet he felt his arme miraculously first dryed up and then cured againe he saw vvith his eyes the Altar rent he lost in one battell fiue hundreth thousand chosen men 2 Chron. 13 17 and the children of Iudah prevailed because they relyed upon the Lord God of their fathers ver 18 his sonne Abijah was taken from him and Gods hand was still against that house till it vvas sweeped out from the ground I am sure he could haue no excuse for his sinn Epaph. Idolatry hath this evill beside other evils and aboue the evill of other sinnes that no man confesseth himselfe to be an idolater or his vvorship to be idolatry but ostinately defends disputes preacheth writeth persecuteth for it closeth his heart against whatsoever can be said from the word of the Lord against it and sets his ●it on edge to devise pretences and find out shifts to excuse it Archip. What could Ieroboams Priests or Polititians say for him and his worship Epaph. The truth is Pretexts 〈◊〉 Ieroboams idolatry that his desire to confirme the Kingdome to himselfe feare of the alienation of the peoples hearts in case they were suffered to resort to Ierusalem want of faith to beleeue the promise of God and to seek counsell of him prevailed so far with him and with the estates of the Kingdome that they resolved to set up a worship of their own not like that of Iudab And vvhen the Priests and Levits according to their duety resisted the novation as liking better of their better warranted old profession both they and some of all the Tribes of Israel following the voyce of God in their mouthes were hardly intreated vvhereupon there arose a great schisme The men of Iudah and some of Israel objected that they had forsaken God but the most part of Israel judged them to be renters of the unity of the Kirk rebells against the King who was advanced by the Lord beside all expectation vvas their lawfull Prince peaceably disposed contenting himselfe with his own Kingdome providing for the good estate of his own people and using all meanes that they follow not other gods and esteemed them to be superstitious Precisians in standing out against so gracious a King commanding nothing against any article of faith against any fundamentall point of salvation detesting the Gods of the Nations and all kinde of idolatry The matters he urged were but circumstantiall rituall and variable and such as the best Kings having the Lords approbation had changed before They could say that the worship vvas the same in substance that they served the same God who brought them out of Egypt with the sacrifices and observation of all the statutes kept by all the fathers since the beginning of the world That their Bullockes which Precisians called idols were similitudes representing the onely sacrifice of the Messiah in whom they looked for salvation Were there not Cherubines in the Tabernacle and Temple and twelu Oxen or Buls of brasse appointed by the wisest King The Lord forbiddeth such images onely as haue divine worship done unto thē like the Calfe in the wildernes turning the glory of God into the similitude of a bullock that eateth grasse But they could say that they worshipped not these Calues more then the images of the Cherubines Are we so grosse when we say Behold our Gods as to think that they brought us out of Egypt We speake figuratiuely as the Arke vvas called the King of Glorie and the holy Lord God

preparatiue in the hearts of the commonlie who m●●s●●e religion more by the externall maske of ceremonies then by substan●iall poynts of doctrine to the receiving againe of whole Poperie a terrible renting of this kirke inducing Atheisme in place of Religion the people no● knowing what to beleeue and seeing the observation of Yuile obtained which before discharged by Act of Parliament in all pulpits of Scotland was sufficiently declared to bee the invention and tradition of man to bee will worship superstition entertaining the people in an errour anent the the birth of Christ leading them to all sort of excesse and profanation and Geni●ulation the first of the 15 ceremonies of the Masse teste B●llarmino a gesture invented and ordained onely by Antichrist more than 1300 yeares after Christ a● the principall externall worship of their ●●●den god now inforced in the 〈◊〉 of the Lords supper under pretence of indifferencie more reverence and humilitie As though we were not forbidden praecepto negativo to presume to giue or recei●e the communion more reverently then Christ and his Disciples did or that we were not commanded praecepto affirmativo to imitate Christ in all his religious actions neither miraculous nor admirable nor having a particular reason restricting them to that time 〈◊〉 though we were not warranted praecepto comparativo rather to imitate Christ with a table gesture in that holy banquet then Antichrist with a gesture of adoration inductiue to Idolatry or as though a man were able to give a reason why the surplice the crosse and the elevation of the bread may not as well be received being of more antiquit●● and if the Minister having a surplice with crossing elevat the ●read and the people how their knee what want we of a Masse Vo● semelde erratum est in praeceps devenitur Fourthly because if the high commission bee imboldened by ratification of this Parliament to depriue Ministers that will stand out against these ceremonies being the greatest number of the best qualified most painfull and fruitfull of their calling within the land what a lamentable desolation shall it draw upon this Church what a wound shall it be to every godly heart to see their faithfull Pastors deprived warded and ●●n s●●●l forgiving the communion as Christ gave it and refusing to gi●●●● f●●r the forme of antichrist Is this a time to obtrude Antich●●sti●●●●remonies in the kirk when the bloo●y sword of Antichrist is 〈◊〉 in the bloud of so many thousand protestants in France and Germanie Lastly 〈◊〉 it was never seen that this Parliament confirmed the acts of ●●y assembly which they know was called in question not onely by a great number of the speciall of the ministerie but also by the greatest part of the most zealous prof●●●●our of the whole bo●y of the kingdome as is m●nif●st by the practise of Edinburgh seeking the Lords supper in thous●●● without the citie An admonition to the well affected Nobilitie Barone and burgesses Commissioners in this present Parliament Admonitions to the same effect DOE not your Honours now at last perceiue how mightily the Mysterie of iniquitie the spirit of Antichrist the power of darknesse and delusion prev●iles amongst us in the judgement of God presuppose not in the intention of man which we presume not to search but leaue to the Lord the searcher of hearts If Papists goe free who used to be fined if professors be counted Puritanes and religion disgraced if patrons of Poperie be set at libertie and the faithfull committed if Seminarie Priests goe abroad and true Pastors be confined and imprisoned if sea ports be patent to forraine Papists and banished Ministers lye vnrecalled if sundry statesmen be small friends to true profession and not unfriends to Papistry if time servers and men pleasers usurpe commission for Christ● kirk being her greatest enemies if Papists do incroach and professors grow ●old If it be discharged that search be made for mass-priests or that these foxes being discovered should be apprehended as your honours may try whose intelligence is better is not there the sound of the sound of the f●●t of Popery at the doores whereunto the Lord hath long threatned to c●●t us The discipline of Christs kirk is already welneere destroyed and turned Antichristian by the usurpation and tyranny of our Prelats The worship of God is next and now among your hands which if ye suffer to be polluted by the Romish leaven of their unhallowed rites as sundry of the ministery unwisely haue done we may iustly feare the corruption of doctrine and so all is gone Consider then that the touchstone to try your loue to the truth is at this time the act concerning these cursed ceremonies counted indifferent by many but in effect pernicious the bringing back again wherof by the confession of all even of the vrgers is at least unnecessary and untimous and so in religion abhominable and impious But if we will say the truth it is 1. a returning with the dogg to the vomit 2. to Papists and professours scandalous 3. contrary to the word as is largely proven by sundry and so presumptuous 4. in regard of the present use whersoever they are received proving superstitious 5. by reason of the oath of God which hereby is despised bl●sphemous 6. in regard of the consequences damnable and divelish and for the manner of their establishing by violence and craftines to all them who haue eyes odious Which as your honours in Gods mercie haue marked so haue you done well that being privily tried yee have not dissembled your dislike both of the cause and the cro●ked convoy of it For well might ye know when supplicants were sent to prison and truth was misconstrued and counted treason when Ministers were discharged off the tow●● for feare of requesting your Honours to stand for the Lord little good was to be looked after so godlesse a beginning It rests now that ye be constant and setled in the loue of the truth By threatnings by allurements by hopes by feares touching your selues and your faithful pastors and other endlesse wayes of darknesse they studie to draw away and divert you either to make you vote against Christ or to be Newtrall● and Nonliqu●ts or to slide away and denie your presence by one meanes or other to draw you under the curse of Meroz for not helping the Lord against the mightie But the busier they are the lesse freedome in this Parliament the lesse worth in their causes the greater is your triall who stand to give testimonie to Christ your faith the more pretious and your reward the more glorious For God hath sayd Hee that overcommeth shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my sonne Rev. 21.8 But the fearfull that is such who for feare of man dare not giue testimony to the truth of God and the unbeleeving c shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstome which is the second