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A69685	The Case of the Earl of Argyle, or, An Exact and full account of his trial, escape, and sentence wherein are insert the act of Parliament injoining the test, the confession of faith, the old act of the king's oath to be given at his coronation : with several other old acts, made for establishing the Protestant religion : as also several explications made of the test by the conformed clergy : with the secret councils explanation thereof : together with several papers of objections against the test, all framed and emitted by conformists : with the Bishop of Edinburgh's Vindication of the test, in answer thereunto : as likewise a relation of several matters of fact for better clearing of the said case : whereunto is added an appendix in answer to a late pamphlet called A vindication of His Majestie's government and judicatories in Scotland, especially with relation to the Earl of Argyle's process, in so far as concerns the Earl's trial.	Stewart, James, Sir, 1635-1713.; Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691. Vindication of His Majesties government, and judicatories in Scotland.	1683 (1683)	Wing C1066; ESTC R15874	208,604	158

things we must fall down and unfeignedly confess that we are unprofitable Servants And therefore whosoever boasts themselves of the merits of their own works or put their trust in the works of Supererogation boast themselves in that which is naught and put their trust in damnable Idolatry XVI Of the Kirk AS we believe in one God Father Son and Holy Ghost so do we most constantly believe that from the beginning there has been and now is and to the end of the World shall be one Kirk that is to say one company and multitude of men chosen of God who rightly worship and embrace him by true Faith in Christ Jesus who is the only Head of the same Kirk which also is the Body and Spouse of Christ Jesus which Kirk is Catholick that is Universal because it contains the Elect of all ages of all Realms Nations and Tongues be they of the Jews or be they of the Gentiles who have Communion and Society with God the Father and with his Son Christ Jesus through the Sanctification of his Holy Spirit and therefore it is called the Communion not of prophane persons but of Saints who as Citizens of the Heavenly Jerusalem have the fruition of the most inestimable benefits to wit of one God one Lord Jesus one Faith and one Baptism Out of the which Kirk there is no other life nor eternal felicity And therefore we utterly abhor the blasphemy of them that affirm that men which live according to Equity and Justice shall be saved what Religion that ever they have professed For as without Christ Jesus there is no other Life nor Salvation so shall there none be participant thereof but such as the Father has given unto his Son Christ Jesus and they that in time come unto him avow his Doctrine and believe into him we comprehend the Children with the faithful Parents This Kirk is invisible known only to God who alone knows whom he has chosen and comprehends as well as said is the Elect that be departed commonly called the Kirk triumphant as those that yet live and fight against sin and Satan and shall live hereafter XVII Of The Immortality of the Soul THe Elect departed are in peace and rest from their labours not that they sleep and come to a certain oblivion as some Phantasticks do affirm but that they are delivered from all fear and torment and all temptation to which we and all God's Elect are subject in this life and therefere do bear the name of the Kirk-Militant As contrary wise the reprobate and unfaithful departed have anguish torment and pain that cannot be expressed So that neither are the one nor the other in such sleep that they feel not their happiness nor torment as the Parable of Christ Jesus in the 16. of Luke his words to the Thief and these words of the Souls crying under the Altar O Lord thou that art righteous and just How long shalt thou not revenge our blood upon these that dwell in the earth does declare XVIII Of the Notes by the which the true Kirk is discerned from the false and who shall be Iudge of the Doctrine BEcause that Sathan from the beginning has laboured to deck his pestilent Synagogue with the title of the Kirk of God and has inflammed the hearts of cruel murtherers to persecute trouble and molest the true Kirk and Members thereof as Cain did Ab●l Ishmael Isaac Esau Jacob and the whole Priesthood of the Jews Christ Jesus himself and his Apostles after him It is one thing most requisite that the true Kirk be discerned from the filthy Synagogues by clear and perfect Notes lest we being deceived receive and embrace to our own condemnation the one for the other The notes signs and assured tokens whereby the immaculate Spouse of Christ Jesus is known from the horrible Harlot the Kirk Malignant we affirm are neither Antiquity Title usurped Lineal descent Place appointed nor Multitude of men approving ane error Cain in Age and Title was preferred to Abel and Seth Jerusalem had prerogative above all places of the earth where also were the Priests lineally descended from Aaron And greater numbers followed the Scribes Pharisees and Priests than unfeignedly believed and approved Christ Jesus and his Doctrine And yet as we suppose no man of sound judgment will grant that any of the forenamed were the Kirk of God The notes therefore of the true Kirk of God we believe confess and avow to be first the true preaching of the Word of God in the which God has revealed himself unto us as the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles do declare Secondly the right Administration of the Sacraments of Christ Iesus which must be annexed unto the word and promise of God to seal and confirm the same in our hearts Lastly Ecclesiastical Discipline uprightly ministred as God's Word prescribes whereby Vice is repressed and Vertue nourished Wheresoever then these former notes are seen and of any time continue be the number never so few about two or three there without all doubt is the true Kirk of Christ who according unto his promise is in the midst of them Not that universal of which we have before spoken but particular such as was in Corintbus Galatia Ephesus and other places in which the Ministry was planted by Paul and were of himself named the Kirks of God and such Kirks we the Inhabitants of the Realm of Scotland Professors of Christ Jesus profess our selves to have in our Cities Towns and places reformed For the Doctrine taught in our Kirks is contained in the written Word of Godto wit in the Books of the Old New Testament in those Books we mean which of the Ancients have been reputed Canonical In the which we affirm that all things necessary to be believed for the salvation of Mankind is sufficiently expressed The interpretation whereof we confess neither appertains to private nor publick persons neither yet to any Kirk for any preheminence or prerogative personally and locally which one has above another but appertains to the Spirit of God by the which also the Scripture was written When controversie then happens for the right understanding of any place or sentence of Scripture or for the reformation of any abuse within the Kirk of God we ought not so much to look what men before us have said or done as unto that which the H. Ghost uniformly speaks within the body of the Scriptures and unto that which Christ Iesus himself did and commanded to be done For this is one thing universally granted that the Spirit of God which is the Spirit of Unity is in nothing contrarious unto himself If then the Interpretation Determination or Sentence of any Doctor Kirk or Council repugne to the plain word of God written in any other place of the Scripture it is a thing most certain that there is not the true understanding meaning of the Holy Ghost altho that Coun cils Realms and Nations have approved and

eternal and immutable decree of God from quhilk all our salvation springs and depends VIII Of Election FOR that same eternal God and Father who of meer grace elected us in Christ Jesus his son before the foundation of the World was laid appointed him to be our head our brother our pastor and great Bishop of our souls But because that the enmity betwixt the justice of God and our sins was sik that no flesh by it self could or might have attained unto God it behoved that the Son of God should descend unto us and take to himself a bodie of our bodie flesh of our flesh and bone of our bones and so become the Mediator betwixt God and man giving power to so many as believe in him to be the sons of God as himself does witness I passe up to my Father and to your Father to my God and to your God Be quhilk maist haly fraternity whatsoever we have tynt in Adam is restored unto us again And for this cause we are not afraid to call God our Father not sameikle because he has created us quhilk we have common with the reprobate as for that that he has given to us his only Son to be our brother and given unto us grace to acknowledge and imbrace him for our only Mediator as before is said it behoved farther the Messias and Redeemer to be very God and very man because he was to underly the punishment due for our transgressions and to prefent himself in the presence of his Fathers Iudgement as in our person to suffer for our transgression and inobedience by death to overcome him that was author of death But because the onely God-head could not fuffer death neither yet could the onely man-head overcome the samine he joyned both together in one person that the imbecillity of the ane should suffer and be subject to death quilk we had deserved And the infinite and invincible power of the other to wit of the goodhead should triumph and purchase to us life liberty and perpetual victory And so we confess and maist undoubtedly believe IX Of Christs Death Passion and Burial THAT our Lord Iesus offered himself a voluntary Sacrifice unto his Father for us that he suffered contradiction of sinners that he was wounded and plagued for our transgressions that he being the clean innocent Lamb of God was damned in the presence of ane earthly Iudg that we should be absolved before the tribunal seat of our God that he suffered not only the cruel death of the Cross quhilk was accursed by the sentence of God but also that he suffered for a season the wrath of his Father quhilk sinners had deserved But yet we avow that he remained the only well-beloved and blessed Son of his Father even in the midst of his anguish and torment quhilk he suffered in body and soul to make the full satisfaction for the sins of his people After the quhilk we confess and avow that there remains no other Sacrifice for sin quhilk if any affirm we nothing doubt to avow that they are blasphemous against Christs death and the everlasting purgation and satisfaction purchased to us by the same X. Of his Resurrection WE undoubtedly believe that in samiekle as it was impossible that the dolours of death should retain in bondage the Author of life that our LORD JESUS crucified dead and buried who descended into hell did rise again for our justification and destroying him who was the Author of death brought life again to us that were subject to death and to the bondage of the same We know that his Resurrection was confirmed by the testimony of his very enemies by the Resurrection of the dead whose Sepulchres did open and they did rise and appeared to many within the City Jerusalem It was also confirmed by the testimony of his Angels and by the senses and judgments of his Apostles and of others who had conversation and did eat and drink with him after his Resurrection XI Of his Ascension WE nothing doubt but the self-same body quhilk was born of the Virgin was crucifyed dead and buried and quhilk did rise again did ascend into the heavens for the accomplishment of all things where in our names and for our comfort he has received all power in heaven and earth where he sits at the right hand of the Father inaugurate ‑ in his Kingdom Advocate and onely Mediator for us Quhilk Glory Honour and Prerogative he alone among the brethren sall possess till that all his Enemies be made his fotostool as that we undoubtedly believe they sall be in the finall judgement To the execution whereof we certainly beleive that the same our Lord Iesus sall as visibly return as that he was seen to ascend And then we firmly believe that the time of refreshing and restitution of all things sall come in samiekle that they that fra the beginning have suffered violence injury and wrong for righteousness sake sall inherit that blessed immortality promised fra the beginning But contrariwise the stubborn inobedient cruell oppressours filthy persons idolaters and all such sorts of unfaithfull sall be cast into the dungeon of utter darkness where the worm sall not die neither yet their fire sall be extinguished The remembrance of quhilk day and of the judgement to be executed in the same is not onely to us a bridle whereby our carnal lusts are refrained but also such inesteemabe comfort that neither may the threatning of Worldly Princes neither yet the fear of temporal death and present danger move us to renounce and forsake that blessed society which we the members have with our Head and only Mediator Christ Iesus whom we confess and avow to be the Messias promised the only head of his Kirk our just Lawgiver our only high Priest Advocate and Mediator In which Honours and Offices if Manor Angel presume to intrude themselves we utterly detest and abhor them as blasphemous to our Soveraign and Supreme Governour Christ Iesus XII Of Faith in the Holy Ghost THis our Faith and the assurance of the same proceeds not from flesh and blood that is to say from no natural powers within us but is the inspiration of the Holy Ghost Whom we confess God equal with the Father and with the Son who sanctifies us and brings us in all verity by his own operation without whom we should remain for ever enemies to God and ignorant of his Son Christ Jesus For of nature we are so dead so blind and so perverse that neither can we feel when we are pricked see the light when it shines nor assent to the will of God when it is revealed unless the Spirit of the Lord Jesus quicken that which is dead remove the darkness from our minds and bow our stubborn hearts to the obedience of his blessed will And so as we confess that God the Father created us when we were not As his Son our Lord Iesus redeemed us when we were enemies to