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A25589 An Answer to the declaration of the pretended assembly at Dundee and to a printed paper intituled The protestation given in by the dissenting brethren to the General Assembly, July 21, 1652, reviewed and refuted &c., in which answer are set down ten steps of their defection who follow the way of publick resolutions : together with observations upon some of the acts of the p. assemblies at Dundee and Edinburgh and some papers concerning the endeavors of the protesters for union with their brethren who differ from them in judgement. 1653 (1653) Wing A3405; ESTC R34190 125,882 174

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of living waters and digged unto our selves broken cisterns that can hold no water We have walked in the way of Egypt to drink the waters of Sihor and in the wayes of Assyria to drink the waters of the river the enemies of the Lord have been intrusted and stayed upon their interests owned and promoted holiness and piety despised and troden under foot the godly persecuted and reproached the hearts of the wicked made glad and their hands strengthened the hearts of the righteous made sad and their hands weakened the Work of Reformation in purging of scandalous and prophane Officers and Members out of the House of God evill spoken of for what is past and a foundation laid to obstruct it for the time to come yea to persecute and cast out such who shall oppose and bear testimony against these things and yet after we have done all these things and have gadded about somuch to change our way have trimmed our way to seek love and also taught the wicked ones our wayes we wipe our mouth and say We are innocent And that notwithstanding all that is come upon us we have not forgotten the Lord nor dealt falsly in his Covenant and we cannot bear these who discover our iniquity and make known our sins unto us If there be any who desiring to keep their integrity and to adhere to their former principles bear testimony against the Lands back sliding and defection against our Princes and Prophets and People in their late transactions with the enemies of Reformation and haters of the people of God and of the power of godliness these are the burden of many and are for signes and wonders who are spoken against even these are they whom this Reviewer and Ref●ter calls deceivers and persecuters and miserable comforters who in the day of Sions calamity stand afar off from her and persecute her whom the Lord hath smitten and talk to the grief of these whom he hath wounded and who in her adversity gather themselves together in the place of cordials bringing corosives The Protesters against whom he throweth these reproaches acknowledge themselves to be men compassed about with many infirmities and that for their fins also wrath is upon the Land But if they have done this thing and if this iniquity be in their hands wherewith they are here charged let their honour be laid in the dust and their glory turned into shame I think they may and will in trembling and humble fear commit their Cause unto the righteous Judge of the World who will make every mans works manifest is it to stand a far off from Zion or not to comfort her or to deceive her or to persecute her not to be consenting to the whordoms and back-slidings of her children And to tell them that they have perverted their way and have forgotten the Lord their God and to say to her Prophets that they do not discover her iniquity to turn away her captivity and that they even they have caused the Lords people to erre some of them built a wall and many strive to uphold it and daub it with untempered morter I mean that some of them gave counsell concerning the imploying and entrusting the Malignant Party and that many adhere thereto and for strengthening these wretched foundations have corrupted and perverted the Nationall Assemblies of this Church in the free and lawfull constitution thereof that they have made sad the hearts of the righteous whom the Lord hath not made sad and strengthened the hands of the wicked that he should not return from his wicked way that they thrust with the side and shoulder and push the diseased with their horns to scatter them abroad that they decree unrighteous decrees and write grievous things against their brethren which they have prescribed Our bruise is sore and our wound is uncurable for the Lord hath wounded us with the wound of an Enemy with the chastisements of a cruell one for the multitude of our iniquities because our sins were encreased Therefore is it no time to cover our transgressions as Adam by hiding our iniquity in our bosome nor to daub with untempered morter nor slightly to heal the daughter of our people but to give glory to the God of Israel by taking shame to our selves and confessing wherein we have trespassed against him and it is the best service that can be done to Zion to shew her sons and her daughters in this day of her calamity why the Lord contends with her Such corrosives from friends are better then the cordialls of flatterers when the righteous smites it is a kindnesse and when he reproves it is an excellent oil which breaks not the head Surely this is the Lord and his Sai●ts yea the Interpreters one of a thousand their paved way of being comfortable to these whom GOD hath smitten to discover their work and the transgression wherein they have exceeded that they may open their ear to discipline and remember whence they are fallen and repent and do their first works lest if they obey not they perish by the sword and die without knowledge or he come against them quickly and remove their candlestick out of his place Levit. 26.40.41 Job 34.29 30 31 32 33. Job 36.8 9 10 11 12. Rev. 2.4 5. PROTESTATION Reviewed I Shal be loath to trace that too too ordinary by-path of judging any mans eternal estate by his temporal out-breakings or his heart and intentions by the outside of h s actions yet I hink I may safely say That that Assembly at St. Andrews and Dundee although despised of Men was owned of GOD and that he guided their Pens as all along in their Procedor so particularly in their Warning and Declaration and these word thereof what ever hath been the intention of these who have been instrumental in making of this rent from Publick Counsels and Actings yet the work it self and the spirit that hath been stirring in it hath been and yet is most effectual for carrying on of the design of the adversaries of our cause Which they prove by seven Steps of their Progress PROTESTATION Defended TO judge of any mans everlasting estate by his temporal out-breakings or his intentions by the outside of h s actions as it is to encroach upon things secret which belong unto God and to walk uncharitably towards men so it is not the path which the Proteste s have troden and it is but a groundles insinuation to suggest it of them they know and do acknowledge that many of the Lords Precious Ones before their effectual calling are amongst the worst of out-breakers and that some of them even after they are made partakers of the Grace of God fall into grievous sins yet do not these things bar them or cut them off from the mercy of God whose election is according to Grace and therefore the Protesters have not denied the Testimony of gracious men to not a few of these whose hand alas for it is deep in the