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A64458 The Testimony of some persecuted Presbyterian ministers of the Gospel unto the covenanted reformation of the Church of Scotland and to the present expediency of continuing to preach the Gospel in the fields and against the present antichristian toleration in its nature and design &c. / given in to the ministers at Edenburgh by Mr. James Renwick upon the 17 Janwarii, 1688. Renwick, James, 1662-1688. 1688 (1688) Wing T818; ESTC R213976 42,898 37

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THE TESTIMONY OF Some persecuted Presbyterian Ministers of the Gospel unto the Covenanted Reformation OF THE CHURCH of SCOTLAND And to the present expediencie of continuing to preach the Gospel in the Fields and against the present Antichristian Toleration in its nature and design c. Given in to the Ministers at Edenburgh by Mr. JAMES RENWICK upon the 17. Janwarii 1688. Hos 2.1.2.3 Say ye unto your Brethren Ammi and to your Sisters Ruhamah Plead with your Mother plead for she is not my Wife neither am I her Husband Let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight and her adulteries from between her breasts Left I stirp her naked c. Isa 58.1.2 Cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a Trumpet and shew my People their transgression and the House of Jacob their sins Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways as a Nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God c. Lamen 2.14 Thy Prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee and they have not Discovered thine iniquitie to turn away thy captivity but have seen for thee false burthens and causes of banishment Jer. 6.14 They have healed also the hurt of the Daughter of my People slightly saying peace peace when ther is no peace Printed in the Year 1688. TO THE READER Christian and Candid Reader SUch is the iniquity and unhappiness of these times wherein Judgment is turned away backward and Justice standeth afar off Truth is falen in the streets and equity can not enter yea Truth faileth and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey whereat the Lord is displeased when he sees there is no man and Wonders there is no Intercessor That now when the Case of Confession is very clear and clamant to aim at these indispensible and ever heretofore indisputable duties of pleading for Truth seeking the Truth being valiant for it standing in the Gap to turn away wrath pleading with our Mother to put away her whoredomes allways called for in such a Case is flouted at with disdain and exploded with indignation as a ridiculous impertinency And so declaredly are these duties declined and so industriously are these declentions daubed that the common dialect used and known among the Confessors of Christ is inverted the very name and notion of these things professedly perverted under the interchanged designation of their opposite extreames When now Tyranny passes under the name of Authority and arbitrary absolutness under the notion of Magistratical prerogative Complyance with mischiefs framed into Laws by a Thron of inquity goes for Loyaltie Acceptance of a Popish Religion-undermining Reformation-overturning Liberty-perverting Law-subverting Truth-enslaving Toleration improving a Liberty to preach the Gospel sinfull and shameful silence and unfaithfulness passing over the indignites done unto Christ His Cause and Covenants broken burnt and buried and encroachments made upon His Kingly prerogatives and Kingdoms Liberties without a witness is counted warry and witty prudence stupid indifferency in the Lords matters preferring their oun things to His posponing His precious Interest to present ease and selling Truth to purchase an unhallowed peace from and with Christs Enemies is called and encouraged as moderation On the other hand To stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free that is taken for licenciousness To maintain Religion with human Liberty that is Rebellion To stand at a distance from and withstand these Land-defiling and destroying sins that is faction To abstract and abstain from all accession to saying a Confederacy to all to whom the People say a Confederacy for fear of the Lord lest the benefice of His sanctuary be forfeited that is schisme and sinfull seperation To give every thing it s owne name in plainness and Gospel simplicity that 's reproachful railery and pitiful silliness faithfulness that 's folly zeal that 's wildness Tenderness of Conscience that 's superstitious and preposterous scrupulosity a Testimony can no sooner be named then it is suspected of Giddiness hot headedness and presently huffed and puffed at cast away and laid by as an Ignorant impertinent insignificant ridicule Under such distempers and prejudices it must needs be very difficult discouraging to offer a Testimony for the precious Truths of Christ especially for the hunted hiden ones incessantly chased continually pursued indefatigably persecuted by the rage of enemies contempt of friends and reproach of all 's and Labournig under such disadvantages that the sense of their oune incapacity to exhibit it with any suitablness to the matter and moment of it the want of the concurrence of those that are better accomplished for it little hope of the countenance of these that do not concurr of acceptance with those that do not give their countenance or of access to communicat it to those that do not accept it without exposing themselves to manifest Hazard or of getting their help to publish it to whom they dar not freely communicat it can not but demur dauntand discourage them from any such essay The fellowing Testimony was attended with those disadvantages which contrary to the intention of the Authors did both retard the publishing of it in the manner first resolved and precipitate the printing of it in the present exigence For it was first intended to have been given in to some solemn Meeting of Presbyterian Ministers who preach under the present Toleration that by them it might be communicated to whom they pleased and Joyntly Cognosced upon and thoughts of it returned But such meetings being hid from us and hardly access to persons in our Circumstances the principle Author a faithfull Minister and now Glorified Matyr of Christ Mr. James Renwick now above the reach of rage and reproach and Crowned with victory over sin and sorrow pride of men strife of tongues with which for his masters sake he had a continual conflict untill he overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of his Testimony not loving his life unto the death by which also he sealed this present Testimony with the consent of others concurring thought it expedient to slip no time but take the first the fittest opportunity of spreading it among them in such away as might be least offencive And accordingly hastening towards the time of his appoynted dissolution a litle before his being taken he delivered it upon the 17. day of Januarii as it were his dying Testimony into the hands of a Reverend learned Minister whom he supposed to be the Moderator of the meeting at Edinburgh who not knowing him for if he had it s like his knoun Loyaltie and respect to the Councils sentence of Intercommuning would have made him more reserved as he shewed himself afterward when one of the Informatorie Vindications was offered to him which he superciliously refused at that time recieved it very courteously and promised to consider communicate it to his Brethren Which for some time was expected in