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A95962	Vindiciæ veritatis or an unanimous attestation to Gods blessed truth revealed in his vvord: together with a serious protestation against those church-desolating and soul-damning errors, heresies, and blasphemies, which of late have come in like a flood upon our county and kingdome : especially against a toleration of them. / Made in pursuance of the nationall Covenant, by the ministers of the Gospel within the West-Riding of the countie of York, as a caution to their flocks, and testimonie to the world of their zeal for, and love to, Christs truth and church. Readily and willingly subscribed, April 6. 1648.	Hill, Edward, 1589 or 90-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing V544; Thomason E444_5	8,030	12

express sacred and holy oath our Kingdom is bound to extirpate Oh how are we ashamed and blush to lift up our faces either to God or to any of the Reformed Charches when we consider how God is notoriously blasphemed by being made the Author of q Comfort for Beleevers pag 36 sin The doctrine of the sacred r An account to the Parliament by the Ministers of Oxford pag 36 7 Trinity of persons in Unity of Essence horridly reproached by those hell-fetcht ſ Vaal Best in his manuscript presented by the Ministers at York to the Lord Fairfax expressions of a three-headed Cerberus Monstrum Biforme Triforme a two-shap't and three-form'd Monster yea stigmatiz'd for Antichristian and the brand of the great Whore The sacred Diety of the eternal Son of God t Account by Oxford Ministers page 30 destroyed and the whole work of our Redemption accomplished by his Manifestation in the flesh clearly overthrown in making Christ who is truly and really God-man in one person by the merit and satisfaction of whose death and obedience imputed to us we are saved to be a meer u Sparkles of Glory page 203 205. 217 figure or example only in which God discovers to us grace and love and in making the w Account by Oxford Mansters page 32 ct 34. ct page 30. ct 41 Sparkles of Glory page 254 255 Saints to be Christ The Divine Authority of the Scriptures openly oppugned in being denyed to be the x Pilgrimage of Saints page 4 Word of God and any y Sparkles page 245 binding rule to the Creature The eternal Decree of God concerning Election and reprobation decryed as not fit to be z Paul ●obsons book entitaled Christ the 〈…〉 not the Cause of the Law page 7 9 preached The standing a Sparkles pag 30 31 232 245 246 Ordinances of Jesus Christ prayer Sacraments Lords day Sabbath Law Gospel Ministry all raz'd to the very foundation yea the Church of Christ on earth and all b Sparkles pag 50 51 ● by Oxford Ministers p 13 14 ct o Sparkle page 116 117 distinction of Church-Officers utterly taken away denyed and destroyed All which Errors and Heresies with many moe particularized in a Catalogue by our Reverend Brethren the Ministers of London in their Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ and multitudes of others every way as horrid too long to enumerate tend to the great dishonor of God the insufferable reproach of the Gospel the dangerous undermining of Magistracy and the unspeakable ruin of thousands of souls yea and of all Religion and will speedily and mortally like a Gangrene if not timely prevented eat out all faith piety and peace both in Church and State And yet which most of all saddens our spirits we do not find any effectual means used by Authority to restrain and suppress them but on the contrary the orthodox party in the Kingdom is discarded and discountenanced and notorious Sectaries and Seducers highly respected and preferred among us Having therefore seriously weighed the miserable effects of the prevalency of the Spirit of Errors and Infatuation which hath possessed so many in this Kingdom a woful experiment whereof we have lately had in our own County in some acted by the spirit of delusion to cast off all piety and natural affection in the wilful murder of their own c Samuel Hutchenson who dyed in York Castle about a work before the Assize held there March 20. 1647. His sister and her husband both condemned for that fact the one executed and the other reprieved Mother pretending to kill the evil spirit in her We do here before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judg the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom for the discharge of our Calling and Consciences declare to the whole world our dislike utter detestation and abhorrency from our very souls not only of all Popery Superstition Prophaneness but of all those Errors Heresies and Blasphemies formerly mentioned though d 2 Cor. 11 13 14 15 guilded with never so specious pretences of new light all spirit highest and most glorious discoveries and of whatsoever else is contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness e 1 Tim. 6 3 And further we do in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ warn and charge our several flocks and Congregations as they tender the honor of God and his Gospel and the salvation of their own souls that they take heed lest they be f 2 Pet. 2 2 et 3 17 led away with the Error of the wicked or follow the pernicious ways of them that bring in damnable Heresies and for this cause we how g Ephes 3 44 our knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would h Heb. 13 9 Ephel 4 14 establish their and our hearts with grace that we may not be carried about with divers and strange doctrines but may stand i 1 Cor 16 13 fast in the faith and be k 2 Thes 2 17 established in every good word and work 5. Upon the due Consideration of the many lamentable confusions and mischiefs the poor Church of God groans under amongst us for want of Government Ephes 1 22 Heb 3 2 to 6 and the due Administration of Church-censures And being fully assured that Jesus Christ the King and head of his Church faithful in that his house above Moses hath in the Scriptures laid down a sufficient rule for the governing of his Church now under the Gospel 1 Cor 12 28 2 Cor 2 6 Mat 18 17 1 Tim ● 17 1 Thes 5.12 we testifie that we are verily perswaded in our Judgments and Consciences that the Government of the Church truly and indeed Presbyterial by * Mat 18 15 ad 21 Acts 14 23 Titus 1 5 Acts 11 30 Chap. 21 18 1 Tim 4 14 Acts 15 6 Presbyteries and Synods in a way of subordination practised by the best Reformed Churches is that particular Government which is most agreeable to the Word of God and will mightily conduce to the removing of all Errors Heresies Corruptions and Scandals in Life and Doctrine from amongst us And further we thankfully acknowledg what the Parliament hath done by their several Ordinances in reference to the settlement of this Presbyterial Government in the Church patiently waiting for the full establishment of it in all the parts thereof In the mean time though we cannot find so compleat a rule in any or all those Ordinances of Parliament for Church-Government which have at this distance come to our hand as we are perswaded in our judgments Isaiah 9 6 Mat. 16 19 2 Cor 10 8 a Note that by vertue of an Order from the Committee for the 60000 l. per mensom according to a late Ordinance of Parliament the west-riding of York shire was by the assistance of the Ministers divided into ten Classical Presbyteries April 6 1648. But it

seems there is yet no return made of them because they have not divided the whole County is held forth in the Word And though we beleeve that Jesus Christ the spirituall Monarch of his Church upon whose shoulder alone the whole frame of all Ecclesiastical Government and power is laid hath immediatly from himself invested the sole power of dispencing all Church-censures and in particular that of suspension from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in his own Church-Officers who from him alone receive their Office and Authority Yet in regard the necessities of putting Church-Government into actual execution are so great and pressing we are resolved if God permit to a act in our places for the exercising thereof upon the present Ordinances so far as we apprehend them consonant to the Word of God and the wil and appointment of Jesus Christ hoping and praying that God will reveal to all in Authority the whole truth concerning Church-Government that their Consciences being fully satisfied therein what is wanting may be added what is unwarrantable may be altered and that in Gods good time the Model of Church-Discipline may be perfected and the whole Government fully setled duly exercised and conscientiously embraced throughout all the Kingdom to the Glory of God and recovery of this languishing Church out of all her dangerous Maladies and distempers In pursuance whereof we shall through the Grace of God endeavour that our whole carriage may be such as becomes those who are ready to be responsible for whatsoever we shall do not only to the supream Authority of this Kingdom but also and chiefly to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ the great sheephard of the sheep at his glorious coming and appearing how we have taken heed to our Ministry which we have received in the Lord in every thing to fulfil it Col 4.17 6. When we call to mind the many dangerous plottings and practises of the Ministers of Satan to bring in a full and formal toleration and being convinced by woful experience that the present connivance at Errors Heresies Sects and Schisms which swarm in the Kingdom amounts to no less We tremble to think what such indulgence will produce how quickly would a toleration prove an inlet to Atheism the bane of our peace the ruin of Reformation the destruction of Religion the grand provocative of Gods wrath against this Land to make us an hissing and astonishment to all Nations And therefore we do from our hearts abhor and protest against the toleration so much cry'd up in these days as contrary to the Scripture Gal 1 8 9 5 12 Rev. 2 2 20 v and that which will undoubtedly un-Church un-Parliament and un-people us if God prevent not And as we cannot approve or allow of Independency or Erastianism so we are resolved by the Grace of God never to consent to the toleration of Arrianism Antitrinitarianism Antinomianism Antiscripturism Arminianism Anabaptism Enthusiasm Familism Libertinism Socinianism Scepticism or any other Heresies Sects or erronious opinions whatsoever but to withstand the same by all lawful ways and means within our places and callings though to the loss of our Liberties Estates lives and whatsoever else may be dear unto us all which we count not too dear to loose for Gods Glory Truth and Gospel 7. Finally it cannot be unknown to the Reformed Churches abroad that all the three Kingdoms stand ingaged by vertue of a solemn Covenant sworn with hands lift up to the most high God sincerely really constantly through the Grace of God to endeavour in our several places the Reformation of religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and example of the best Reformed Churches Which Covenant the Parliament did not only commend unto us by their example but command by their Authority to be taken by us and our people Yet as if all our other provocations were not sufficient to fill up the measure of our sins and bring wrath upon the Kingdom to the uttermost Many takers of this Covenant do now trample upon it horrible 1 A Pamphlet intituled The peoples and soldiers Observations on the Scotch Message November 5 1647 page 6 et 8 reproaches are cast upon it sundry endeavours used to evade and elude the true sense and meaning thereof Yea so far have some proceeded in their enmity against it as to labour by all means the extirpation of the Covenant name and thing from amongst us rather then of Heresie and Schism to which they are engaged by it that so England may become the grave not only of all Gods Truths Ordinances Mercies Victories Deliverances but also of their own Declarations Protestations Oaths and Engagements Wherefore Nehem 9 38 Ezek 17 15 16 18 19 being sufficiently convinced of the lawfulness of entring the Covenant and of the sinfulness of violating it we prefess our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sins and the sins of this Kingdom especially that we have not endeavoured a real Reformation both personal and publike as we have covenanted And to conclude that we may not involve our selves in the guilt of wilful perjury We further profess and declare before God his elect Angels and the whole world that as at the first we did strike Covenant as in the presence of the Almighty God without any equivocation mental reservation or subordination to any politick interest in point of Church Reformation according to the common plain genuine grammatical sense of it so we are still bound to perform the same to the utmost of our power whilst we live without admitting any other sense to be put upon it or permitting our selves to be dis-engaged and absolved from it by any power or persons here on earth whatsoever Thus have we endeavoured to discharge our consciences in owning and asserting the Truth Cause Government and Covenant of our God in warning our people of those dangerous Sects Heresies Blasphemies that are so rife amongst us in protesting against the impious and boundless toleration of them for which if we be maligned reproached persecuted we trust by the grace of our good God that none of these things shall move us Acts 20.24 neither shall we count our lives dear to our selves so that we may finish our course with joy and the Ministry which we have received of the Lord Jesus to testifie the Gospel of the Grace of God Subscribed by us April 6. 1648. Edward Hill Minister of the Gospel at Creston Elka Wales Minister of the Gospel at Pudsey Rob. Todd Minister of the Gospel at Leeds Hu. Everard Minister of the Gospel at Worsbrough Rich. Calvert Minister of the Gospel at Selby Edward Richardson Minister of the Gospel at Rippon Joshua Witton Minister of the Gospel at Thornhil Will. Clarkson Minister of the Gospel at Addle Tho. Binkbeck Minister of the Gospel at Ackworth Jos Ferret Minister of the Gospel at Pontefract Dan. Clark Minster of the Gospel at Kirkburton Christopher Richardson Minister of the Gospel at Kirk-Heaton Alexander Robertson Minister of the Gospel at Sherburn David Barnes Minister of the Gospel at Brotherton Hen. Moorehouse Minister at Castleford Hen. Horncastle Minister of the Gospel Nath. Rathband Minister de York Ste. Charman Minister of the Gospel at Himsworth Tho. Calvert Minister of York Theod. Hering Minister of York Tho. Hawkesworth Minister at Hunslet Joseph Bowde Minister of the Gospel at Leeds Ric. Foster Minister at Holbeck Tho. Chapman Minister at Denton J. Fisher Minister de Sheffield Immanuel Knutton Minister of Ecclesefield Samuel Kendal Minister of Edlington Christopher Amgil Minister of Treeton Luke Clayton Minister of Rotheram Thomas Clark Minister at Rotheram Tho. Bosvile Minister of Braythwel John Bridges Minister at Sheffield John Cart Minister at Hawsworth John Spofford Minister of the Gospel at Silkston Nathanael Cradock Minister at Wakefield John Noble Pastor of Kirkesmeaton Timothy Denison Minister at Normanton William Hawdon Minister at Brodsworth John Johnson Minister at Methley William Meek Minister of the Gospel Hugh Jennings Minister of the Gospel at Water-Friston FINIS