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A95018 A true coppie of the declaration published at Sanqhair upon the tenth day of August 1692 1693 (1693) Wing T2642; ESTC R229925 11,845 14

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striving to engadge us in a sinfull Confederacie with a Malignant Cause contrary to this our Testimony since the Late Revolutions Next we Declare our Rejecting of whatever is Contradictorie or contrary unto the written Word of God or not founded therupon either Expresly or by Direct near-or necessary Consequence More particularly we Testify our Detestation and Abhorrence of Popery Quakerisme Libertinisme Antinomianisme Socinianisme Anabaptisme Independency Prelacy and Erastianisme and all Extravagancies and Errors on the right or Left hand such as the Doting Delusions of these draun into a Consortship in and about the COTE-MOORE Together with all Kinds of Idolatry Superstition and Profannesse and whatsoever is found contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godlinesse and against every other thing contrary to the Testimony of this Church as they are particularly enumerated in Page 27. and 28. of our forsaid Vindication And in Like manner we Disoun as a step of Defection Declyning from and contradictory unto the Covenanted Reformation of the Kirk of Scotland and inconsistent with the Testimony of our Ancestours The Publishing of that Declaration called The Declaration of HIS HIGHNESSE WILLIAM PRINCE of ORANGE c. And espousing it as the state of the Church and Kingdom of Scotlands Quarrell while he then was and yet is surrounded in Counsell and Army with many of the old and Inveterate Enemies of Christs Cause and people both at home in these Lands and abroad except France and his Associates His unconcernednesse with the overturning the work of God in these Lands these many years till his oun Interest and the Call of the Prelats in England did prompt him to his Undertakings Their Being set up by the Suffrages of these men of blood here in Scotland notwithstanding of their being Immediately before Crouned and Anointed King and Queen in our Neighbouring Covenanted Land according to all the English Popish Ceremonies upon their engadging on their knees before the Altar c. To the utmost of their power to preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of that Realme and to the Churches committed to their Charge such Rites and Priviledges as do or shall appertain unto them or any of them As also if we consider his other Declaration of the Reasons inducing him to appear in Arms in the Kingdom of England Scotland and Ireland emitted at the same time Wherin he Labours to put shame and contempt upon most of all the contendings of this Church and to bury many of the most materiall points of her Testimony Thereby declaring his principles and what he resolved upon in his after practise And his thereby rending and overturning that desirable Uniformity in Religion attained unto with England which these Lands cannot break without manifest Perjury being sworn thereto by the first Article of the solemne League and Covenant At Least it is a walking in their Counsels who rent the same before him and an undenyable Corroborating and Ratifying the Statutes of Omri and the works of the house of Ahab that thereby these Covenanted Lands should be made a desolation and the Inhabitants thereof a hissing Upon these and other very weighty grounds and reasons which if the Lord will we may have the occasion to make knoun afterwards We Declare the Refusal of our Concurrence with the present Course now on foot It being no way Concerted according to the ancient Plea of the Scottish Covenanters for the Covenanted Reformation of Religion in Brittain and Jreland for the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of the House of God against Poperie Prelacie Malignancy Sectarianisme Erastianisme and whatever is contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godlinesse But in stead thereof a joyning and concurring with the Promotters of all these in their Popish Prelatick Malignant and Sectarian designes whereby Error Profanity and Wickednesse is Encouraged and Tolerated The Lord highly dishonoured His avowed and Declared Enemies brought in to places of greatest Power and Trust in stead of bringing the wheel of Justice over them Together with the addition of most of all those who have been the chief Ring-leaders Fomenters and Favourers of Indulgences Toleration and all other Defections of this Church This quarrel we say we refuse to espouse in Lieu of that other But to signifie our displeasure therewith refuses to concurr in any thing that we know will strengthen or encouradge the same such as taking the Oath of Aleigance Randivouzing at their command Paying any Subsidies Imposed for that end or doing any thing that may tend to the weakening the hands or saddening the hearts of our brethren in their Honest zealous and faithfull contending against the same For which Let all concerned see the Seasonable and Necessary warning of the Generall Assembly of this Kirk to all the members thereof July 27. 1649. Sess 27. Gen Assem July ult 1648. Sess 21. with the Humble Supplication of the Assembly to the Committee of Estates August 2. 1648. Sess 25. Act Gener. Assem Aug. 3. 1648. Sess 26. Act 4. Parl. 2. Char. And what our Land mourned for Art 9. Step. 5. of the Causes of Gods Wrath. With many places of Scripture Acts both of Assemblies and Parliaments which are so clear that if they were made judges and durst come above-board to examine the present Course It were no great difficulty to the meanest capacitie to see as great disparity between this and what our Fathers contended for as between Defection and Reformation But Lest we should be hereby suspected of mentaining the Principle of disouning all Government Therefore as for such Magistrates as being rightly and Lawfully Constitute over us shall employ their Power for setting the Mediator on His Throne and the Croun upon His head and in defence of his Croun-Rights and Royall Prerogatives shall act as the Ministers of God in a direct Line of Subordination to him in Defence of our Covenanted Reformation and the Subjects Liberties against Popery Prelacy Erastianisme Superstition Heresy Profannesse and whatever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godlinesse and thus become a Terror to evil Doers and encouragers of them that do well We Declare whensoever we can obtain and enjoy such Rulers we will Oun Embrace and Defend them to the utmost of our Power and prove encouraging subject and obedient to them in our places and Stations And here in pursuance of our former Testimony we resolve to stand wait Moreover we Testify and declare against the unparallelled unfaithfullnesse of the Ministers in Scotland as in what they have done before these Revolutions to the detriment of the Cause So especiallie-since in Contributing and Concurring they and their Accomplices in their stations and to their power with the bulk of these Old bloodie and perjured Enemies of Christ his Cause and people in their setting up HIS HIGHNESSE THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF ORANGE King and Queen over these Covenanted Lands while acting directly contrarie to the Covenants being without Covenant-Qualifications Viz. of