all that are unchast in thoughts words and behaviour and all that makes no Conscience of their way and whosoever loveth and maketh a lye shall tremble that day when they shall enter into Eternity when it shall be said as it was to Dives Thou in thy Lifetime hadst thy good things and Lazarus his bad things For except a Man be born again he can in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven We take up the Book of the Holy Scripture at the Lords command and for a Testimony of our Dissatisfaction at the abounding Corruptions both of Translators and the Press and likewise for a Testimony of our desires and intentions for a new Translation and Impression free of the foresaid and other abuses we to our power reform our own Books and sayes that the word of God needs no humane Art we hold that the Word of God is laid the Foundation of this new Building and shortly it shall become the head Corner stone of the Building over both Kirk and Stater Kirk-Men and States-Men so that Scripture towards the end of the Rev. of Iohn shall be fulfilled And I saw Heaven opened and behold a white Horse and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True and in Righteousness he doth Iudge and make War his Eyes were as a flame of Fire and on his Head were many Crowns and he had a new Name written that no Man knew but he himself and he was Cloathed with a Vesture dipt in Blood and his Name is called the word of God And first to shew that we take the Word of God in every point to be our Rule the sum and end of our so much reproached and mocked at Exercise Fasting and Prayer will be found in the Book of Psalms Be thou exalted O God above the Heavens and let thy glory be above all the Earth It is written in the Acts of the Apostles It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us but they usurping Supremacy says by the Authority of the General Assembly allows these Psalms to be sung in Congregations c. which we renounce And more we think the Psalm Book in Meeter and no other thing ought to be within the broads of the Bible but the simple Scriptures of Truth the Psalms may be had in a Book by themselves We are so reproached and calumniate that we are forced to make our defence and shew that we have mourned fasted and prayed many a day and many a night this last Winter many times in the open Fields in Frost and Snow while our Cloaths were frozen upon us and our Feet frozen in our Shooes as the Town of cursed Borronstonness can witness and all this to find out the causes of our Lords tarrying when those who are now calling us Devils were turning themselves upon their Ivory beds like a door upon the Hinges eating the fat and drinking the sweet at their own ease And when we were driven thence by Persecution we took our selves to the Fields holding still by our duty where many Women did offer themselves to the Work with whom our spirits was many a time burdened whom we could not put away as our blessed Lord dealt with Iudas whom he knew would betray him without manifest causes We stayed not with them but on solemn days such as Sabbaths and appointed times for publick meeting but when they took their rest betwixt hands we continnued still in Fields nights and days fasting and praying for two or three days together several times and it was always their fear we should propose some question to try them for Separation and that night before we was taken we warned them that the Soldiers would come and told them to use their freedom we saw them also a mile off an hour before they came and none of them would go away and after we were brought in hither after some several days Fasting and Prayer we being warned by the Holy Ghost followed Esther's advice and continued from eight a Clock of the morning the 24 day of the 5 Month till the 27 at four afternoon Fasting and Praying we sent them word likewise to Fast and Pray and when we sent them the answer of our Prayers in the writ they called us Devils Thence we fasted till the 28 day at night and thence till the 30 at night waiting still to see if they would recover but they waxed still worse and we were forced to write this to vindicate our carriage towards them Walter Ker. Iohn Gibb David Iamison Iohn Young This is Exactly Compared and Collationed with the Principal Copy by me WIL. PATERSON Cl. Sti. Concilii FINIS A Catalogue of some Books Printed for Io. Hindmarsh at the Golden-Ball over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill THE Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland farther Cleared and Defended against the Exceptions lately offer'd by Dr. Stillingfleet in his Vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph By Sir George Mackenzie His Majesty's Advocate for the Kingdom of Scotland The Moral History of Frugality with its opposite Vices Covetousness Niggardliness Prodigality and Luxury Written by the Honourable Sir George Mackenzie late Lord Advocate of Scotland A Memorial for His Highness the Prince of Orange in Relation to the Affairs of Scotland Together with the Address of the Presbyterian-Party in that Kingdom to His Highness And some Observations on that Address By two Persons of Quality An Account of the Present Persecution of the Church in Scotland in several Letters The Case of the Present Afflicted Clergy in Scotland truly represented To which is added for Probation the attestation of many unexceptionable Witnesses to every Particular and all the Publick Acts and Proclamations of the Convention and Parliament relating to the Clergy By a Lover of the Church and his Country An Historical Relation of the late Presbyterian General Assembly held at Edinburgh from October 16. to November 13. In the Year 1690. In a Letter from a Person in Edinburgh to his Friend in London Vid. Cargil and Sanchars Covenant at the end * That is this noise of Prisoners yet preserved alive So the Preacher applied his Doctrin The truly learned Advocate for the King †Illud tamen generaliter observandum quod Iurisdictio nunquam privative sed cumulative delegaâ—i potest non est quasi transitio juris de unâ— persona in aliam sed tantum mandata jurisdictio quod non obstante Delegatione adhuc remanet in delegante Considering the violent and cruel temper of their Enemies * Compare this with the Sanchar Declaration and Cargil's Covenant at the end of this Paper * That is the same Punishment which the Law provides against such a Criminal Art eod II. Art 3. ejusdem Art 10. Act 92. Ses. II. Iac. 6. * Vid. Cargils Covenant and Sanchar Declaration
extirpation of the Kingdom of Darkness and whatsoever is contrair to the Kingdom of Christ and especially Idolatry and Popery in all the Articles of it as we are bound in our National Covenant and Superstition Will-worship and Prelacy with its Hierarchy as we are bound in our Solemn League and Covenant And that we shall with the same sincerity endeavour God giving us Assistance the overthrow of that Power that hath established that Prelacy and Erastianism over the Church and exercises such a Lustful and Arbitrary Tyranny over the Subjects seeking again to introduce Idolatry and Superstition in these Lands contrair to our Covenants And in a word that we shall endeavour the extirpation of all the works of Darkness and the Relicts of Idolatry and Superstition which are both much enlarged and revived in our times and execute righteous Iudgments impartially according to the Word of God and degree of Wickedness upon the Committers of these things but especially Blasphemy Idolatry Atheism Sorcery Perjury Uncleanness Prophanation of the Lords day Oppression and Malignancy that being thus zealous for God he may delight to dwell among us IV. Seriously considering that the hand of our Kings has been against the Throne of the Lord and that now for a long time the Succession of our Kings and the most part of our Rulers with him hath been against the purity and power of Religion and Godliness and freedom of the Church of God and hath degenerate from the vertue and good Government of their Predecessors into Tyranny and hath of late so manifestly rejected God his Service and Reformation as a Slavery as they themselves call it in their publick Papers especially in these last Letters to the King and Duke of Lauderdale disclaiming their Covenant with God and Blasphemously inacting it to be burnt by the hand of a Hang-man governed contrary to all right Laws divine and humane excercised such Tyranny and Arbitrary Government opprest Men in their Consciences and Civil Rights used free Subjects Christian and reasonable Men with less discretion and justice than their Beasts and so not only frustrate the great end of Government which is that Men may live Godly Holily and Peaceably under them and might be maintained in their Rights and Liberties form injury and wrong but hath also walked contrary to it so that it can no more be called a Government but a lustful Rage excercised with as little right Reason and with more Cruelty than in Beasts and they themselves can be no more called Governours but publick Grassators and publick Iudgements which all Men ought as earnestly to labour to be free of as of Sword Famine or Pestilence raging amongst us and besides hath stopped instead of punishing the Course of Law and Iustice against Idolaters Blasphemers Atheists Murderers Incestuous and Adulterous and other Malefactors and instead of rewarding the Good hath made Butcheries and Murthers on the Lord's People sold them as Slaves Imprisoned For faulted Banished and Fined them upon no other account but for maintaining the Lords Right to rule Consciences against the Usurpations of Men for fulfilling their Vows and repelling unjust Violence which innocent Nature allows to all of all which and more particulars we can give we speak as before God innumerable and sure Instances Neither can it be thought that there is hope of their returning from these Courses having so often shewed their Natures and Enmities against God and all Righteousness and so often declared and renewed their Purposes and Promises of persevering in these Courses And suppose they should dissemble a Repentance of these Evils and profess to return to better Courses being put to Straits or for their own Ends for upon no other account can we reasonably expect it and though it might be thought that there might be Pardon for what is done which we cannot yet see to be without the violation of the Law of God and a great guiltiness on the Land from which guiltiness the Land can never be free but by executing of God's righteous Iudgements upon them for omitting of so greatly deserved and so necessarily requisite a Justice yet they cannot be believed after they have violated all Tyes that Humane Wisdom can devise to bind Men and beside there will be something of Folly found to think to bind a King that pretends to absoluteness And our Fathers or rather our selves at first judged it not warrantable to receive Him without consenting to and swearing of the Covenant And if so the renouncing and disclaming thereof we ought at present to judge to be a just and reasonable ground of rejecting Him upon these Grounds being assured of God's approbation and Mens whose Hearts are not utterly byassed and their Consciences altogether corrupted and knowing assuredly that the upholding of such is to uphold Men to bear down Christ's Kingdom and to uphold Satans and the depriving of Men of right Government and good Governours to the ruining of Religion and undoing of Humane Society We then seeing the innumerable Sins and Snares that are in giving obedience to their Acts on the other hand seeing if we shall acknowledge their Authority and refuse Obedience to their sinful Commands the endless Miseries that will follow and siding with God who we hope will accept and help us to a liberation from their Tyranny against his stated and declared Enemies do reject that King and those associate with him from being our Rulers because standing in the way of our Right free and peaceably serving of God propagating his Kingdom and Reformation and overthrowing Satans Kingdom according to our Covenant And declares them henceforth to be no lawful Rulers as they have declared us to be no lawful Subjects upon a ground far less warrantable as Men unbyassed may see and that after this we neither owe nor shall yield any willing Obedience to them but shall rather suffer the outmost of their Cruelties and Injustice until God shall plead our Cause and that upon these Accounts because they have altered and destroyed the Lord's established Religion overturned the fundamental and establish'd Laws of the Kingdom taken altogether away Christ's Church and Government and changed the Civil Government of this Land which was by King and free Parliament into Tyranny where none are associate to be partakers of the Government but only those who will be found by Justice to be Guilty of Criminals and all others excluded even those who by the Laws of the Land by Birth had a right to and a share in that Government and that only because not of the same Guiltiness and mischievous Purposes with themselves And also all free elections of Commissioners for Parliaments and Officers for Government are made void by their making those the Qualifications of admission to these Places which by the Word of God and the Laws of this Land were the cause of their exclusion before so that none can look upon us or judge us bound in Allegeance to them unless they say also we are bound in
Fortnights and even during that Fortnight most men pay'd for their Quarters nor was there any more Surety sought at least from Masters and Heretors than the ordinary Surety of Law-borrows by the very style whereof any private Man may force another by the Law to secure him against all Prejudices from his Men Tennents and Servants and others of his Command Out-hounding and Raâ—ihabition And that the King had great reason to be jealous of their breaking the Peace appears fully from the Reasons above Represented and when this Surety was thereupon approv'd by Parliament by which it was Enacted that Masters should be liable eithr to remove their Tennents from their Lands or to present them to Iustice It prov'd a most advantageous Remedy for settling the Nation to the great advantage both of Master and Servant this alternative securing the Master from many hardships and ingaging his Servants to obey him as he was obliged to obey the King and keep the Peace As to the Cumulative Iurisdiction so much complain'd of because it gives the King a power to name Sheriffs and other Inferiour Iudges who may have an equal share in the Administration with those who had the sole Heretable Iurisdiction formerly whereby it is pretended the Property of the Subjects was invaded It is answered that Heretable Iurisdictions are of themselves very little to be favour'd because the Heir must be a Iudge both in Matters of Life and Fortune though he want Probity or Knowledge in the Law and the Interested Superiours or over-Over-Lords had thereby the unfortunate poor Vassals absolutely at their Devotion and therefore by an old Law in K. Iames the 2 ds time there was an Act made discharging all Heretable Iurisdictions without consent of Parliament and Sir Iohn Nisbet upon these and many other good Reasons advised that all the other Heretable Iurisdiction because almost all granted since that time should be Repealed and yet though these Heretable Iudges refus'd to concur in putting the Laws against Field-Conventicles and Armed Insurrections in Execution or conniv'd at them whereby they grew very formidable the Council unwilling to take away these Iurisdictions totally chose rather to name others to sit with those Iudges or to supply their absence if they refused to come but there-after S. G. M. succeeding as Advocate to prevent all Debate advis'd the bringing this point to the Parliament to the end that that procedure of the King's Council might be either Vncontravertedly Legal if acquiesc'd in or let fall if refus'd and accordingly the Parliament having pass'd it into an Act it seems great Malice and Ignorance to call this Illegal and it being founded upon such just and solid Reasons it seem'd as strange why it should be thought severe and never Lawyer spoke against it except those who had Heretable Iurisdictions It were unreasonable that the King should complain of what he consented to in Parliament in favours of his Subjects and so it must be likewise concluded unreasonable that the Subject should complain of this point which they have granted to the King especially seeing it is more in favours of the Subjects than of Him it being a strong Bulwark against great Mens oppressing of their Vassals and Inferiours and therefore I cannot see why the Inferior sort should be so dull or unreasonabe as to complain of it But notwithstanding of this Clamour and abstracting even from this Act it is still maintain'd by the Advocate that all Lawyers and particularly our Learned Craig in his Book De Feudis assert that the Superiour has still an Accumulative Iurisdiction with his Vassal as to the point of Iudging for tho' he delegate a Jurisdiction for his Conveniency yet that is not exclusive that being a quality which still adheres as Craig says however Sir George Makenzee Advocate advis'd to stop all Clamours that the Heretable Iudge might still have the Casualties so that his Property could not be said to be invaded and lest this might be drawn to the Session as is ridiculously pretended the Act is only made Relative to Iurisdictions given by his Majesty to his good Subjects which can in no sense fall under the Cognizance of the Session i. e. the Iudges As to the Act made in Council allowing Souldiers to kill such as refused to own the King's Authority It is answer'd that there being many Proclamations issued out by the Dissenters declaring That the King had forfaulted his Right by breaking the Covenant and that therefore it was lawful to kill him and those who serv'd him Many accordingly being kill'd it was thought necessary by some upon the fresh news of Murdering some of the King's Horse-Guard at Swyn-Abbey in their Beds to terfy them out of this Extravagancy by allowing the Soldiers to use them as in a War in which if any call For whom are you and the others owning that they were for the Enemy it is lawful then to kill And thus they felt their Folly and the necessary effects of their Principle and yet still it was ordered That none should be kill'd except those who were found in Arms owning that Principle of Assassination and refusing to clear themselves of their having been in Accession to the declaring of War which they had then begun nor were these kill'd but when their deliberate refusal could be proved by two Witnesses But that it may plainly appear that no more was in all this intended by the Governours than to secure the Publick Peace by terrifying those Assassines who had so manifestly invaded it Secret Orders were given that this should not last above a fortnight and that none should be kill'd except those who were found in the publickly printed List of declar'd Rebels who may be kill'd by the Laws of all Nations and but very few even of those Rebels were kill'd tho' this has been made the Foundation of many dreadful Lies This mischief was intolerable in it self and we desire to know how it could have been otherways remedied for the Law must find Cures for all Mischiefs and these who occasion'd them should of all others be least allow'd to complain After the terrour of that procedure had much cooled the Zeal of Assassination for a time it took new fire and several Proclamations for disowning the King's Authority and Murthering his Servants were posted upon all Church Doors and Mercat-Crosses so that no man who served the King could know whether or not his Murtherer was at his elbow and they had reason to look upon every place as their Scaffold Whereupon the Advocate being desired to raise Processes against some who owned those Pernicious Principles he prevailed with the Council to ask the Opinion of all the Iudges upon this Quaery viz. Whether any of his Majesties Subjects being questioned by his Majesties Iudges or Commissioners if they own a late Proclamation in so far as it does declare War against his Sacred Majesty and asserts that it is lawful to kill all those who are employed by
presence of Almighty GOD the Searcher of all Hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at that great Day when the secrets of all Hearts shall be disclosed Most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end and to bless our desires and proceedings with such Success as may be deliverance and safety to his People and Encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the Yoke of Antichristian Tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association and Covenant To the glory of God the enlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the Peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms and Common-wealths West-kirk the 13. day of August 1650. THe Commission of the General Assembly considering that there may be just ground of stumbling from the Kings Majesties refusing to subscribe and emit the Declaration offered unto him by the Committee of Estates and Commissioners of the General Assembly concerning his former carriage and resolutions for the future in reference to the Cause of God and the Enemies and Friends thereof Doth therefore declare that this Kirk and Kingdom do not own nor espouse any Malignant party or quarrel or interest But that they fight meerly upon their former Grounds and Principles and in defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdom as they have done these twelve Years past And therefore as they do disclaim all the Sin and Guilt of the King and of his House so they will not own Him nor his Interest otherwise than with a Subordination to God and so far as he owns and prosecutes the Cause of God and disclaimes his and his Fathers opposition to the Work of God and to the Covenant and likewise all the Enemies thereof And that they will with convenient speed take in Consideration the Papers lately sent unto them from OLIVER CROMWEL and vindicate themselves from all the falsehoods contained therein especially in those things wherein the quarrel betwixt us and that party is mis-stated as if we owned the late Kings proceedings and were resolved to Prosecute and Maintain his present Majesties interest before and without acknowledgement of the Sins of his House and former ways and Satisfaction to Gods People in both Kingdoms A. Ker. 13. of August 1650. THe Committee of Estates having seen and considered a Declaration of the Commission of the General Assembly anent the stating of the quarrel whereon the Army is to fight do Approve the same and heartily Concur therein Tho Henderson A True and Exact Copy of a Treasonable and Bloody Paper called The Fanaticks New Covenant which was taken from Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry Iune 3. 1680. one of their Field-Preachers a declared Rebel and Traitor Together with their Execrable Declaration published at the Cross of Sanquhair upon the Two and twentieth day of the said Month of June after a solemn Procession and singing of Psalms by Cameron the notorious Ringleader of and Preacher at their Field-Conventicles accompanied with Twenty of that wretched Crew WE Under-Subscribers for our selves and all that join with us and adhere to us being put to it by God our Consciences and Men Do bind our Souls with a solemn and sacred Bond lest on the one hand we should be carried away with the stream of the Apostacy and defection of the Church in this time and on the other hand lest we should not being so engaged evanish in Vanity and be without a right Rule in good Designs We have judged it our duty again to Covenant with God and one another and to publish this DECLARATION to the World of our Purposes that Men may know our most inward thoughts the Rules that we walk by and the outmost ends that we have before our eyes for this intent that those who are lovers of God zealous of His reigning in Glory and desirous of Reformation and the propagation of His Kingdom may have occasion no more to be jealous of our Intentions and others may have no ground to load us with odious and foul Aspersions but that all knowing the truth of us if they shall strive against us and Truth with us shall do it without excuse and against conviction and that those who shall join with us may do it upon solid and undoubted grounds and both they and we may expect Grace from Him Faithfully to persevere and happily to be successful in so good Purposes It is true We are not ignorant of the great unmindfulness failing counteracting and mocking that has been in our former Vows and Covenants with God and of the great Iudgments that hath and are like to follow such impious and sinful dealing with God in such weighty Matters for which we both ought and desire to be Humbled before Him which cannot but make us with great trembling of Heart enter into new ones knowing both our own weakness and readiness to relapse and the great hazard and danger of such relapses Yet the desire of recovering and preserving a remnant and the conviction of this as the most convenient mean the zeal to Gods glory and Christs reigning which is the highest and most acceptable duty Man can perform to God hoping for His Mercies who is witness to the Integrity of our Hearts and rightness of our Intentions that he will instruct direct accept and prosper us we go forward declaring that nothing else but what we here express is our Design I. We Covenant and Swear that we take the only true and living God Father Son and Holy Ghost to be our God and betakes our selves to the Merits and Righteousness of His Son as the alone Righteousness that can justifie us before God and that we take His Scriptures and Word to be the Object of our Faith and rule of our Conversation in all things and that we shall give up our selves to Him to be renewed instructed and in all things ruled by His Spirit according to that Word and shall earnestly endeavour by His Grace to render to Him that Love Worship and Obedience that His Word requires and His Goodness engages us to II. That we shall to the outmost of our Power advance the Kingdom of Christ established throughout the Land if at any time hereafter God shall give us this opportunity Righteousness and the true reformed Religion in the truth of its Doctrine in the purity and power of its Worship and Ordinances and its Discipline and Government and free the Church of God from the Thraldom Tyranny Incroachment and corruption of Prelacy on the one hand and Erastianism on the other And we shall to our power relieve the Church and Subjects of this Kingdom we being called thereto by His giving of us Power Power being Gods Call to do good of that Oppression that hath been exercised upon their Consciences Civil Rights and Liberties that Men may serve Him Holily without fear and possess their civil Rights in quietness without disturbance III. That we shall endeavour to our outmost the
Privy Council WE undersubscribers now Prisoners for the truth in the Cannongate Tolbuith though most vile yet it pleased the Holy Ghost to work on our Spirits of a time past in clearing causes of wrath and shewing us duty from day to day that now in some time past we are and have been called Mad men and Devils and now there is none in the Kingdom in Prison or out of Prison that we can converse with as Christians And yesterday being the 26 day of the 5 th Moneth it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to take out of our Bibles the Psalms in meeter for several causes mentioned afterwards for the Book of the Revelation says if any Man should add unto these things God shall add unto him the Plagues which are written in this Book and we did Burn them in our Prison-house and sweep away the Ashes Likewise in the Holy Scriptures we renounce Chapters and Verses and Contents because it is only done by Humane Wisdom and the changing of the Books after the Holy Ghost had placed them we being pressed to this work by the Holy Ghost do renounce the Impression and Translation of both the Old and New Testaments and that for additions put unto them by Men and other causes as first putting in horrid Blasphemy making a Tyrant Patron of the Church when the Scriptures holds of none but of God and needs no Patronage from any King Prince or Rulers and the writing of that Blasphemous Sacrilegious as some call it the Epistle Dedicatory filled with such Language as Dread Sovereign Highness most High and Mighty most Sacred Majesty and likewise the horrid unparallell'd Blasphemy making a Triangle with these Hebrew Letters in it thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iehovah representing the Trinity and likewise putting in horrid Pictures in several places of the Holy Scripture and likewise drawing scores betwixt the Books of the Bible and other superfluous Traditions Likewise we renounce the Catechisms Larger and Shorter and Confession of Faith against which we have many causes one cause is in the 23 Chap. for the Scripture proofs that they cite proves the contrary of that they write We renounce the Acts of the General Assembly and all the Covenants and acknowledging of Sins and engagement to Duties and that which they call Preaching Books and all their works way form and manner of Worship Doctrine Discipline and Government and the studying on their Books the thing they call their Preaching for instead of going to God for his mind to the People they go to their Books and so makes their Books their God and their leader and so all following that way go to Hell together The cause of this is we find none of their works but they are like themselves Carnal and Corrupt according to that Scripture Hate the Garment spotted with the Flesh. We renounce the limiting of the Lord's Mind by Glasses and their ordination of Men only Learned and their saying that Learning is the essential of a Minister without grace Likewise we renounce their manner of renewing Covenants pressing Mens Consciences to take a Covenant and by so doing has filled the Kirk and State with Tyrants and incarnate Devils as we find this day they knew the Men to have no marks of grace but on the other hand to be prophane as them they call King and Rulers Captains and Comanders in State and Armies and all Kirk Officers whom we call Tyrants and Iudas's for by so doing they have corrupted both Kirk and State as this day Kirk Men and States Men whom we call Iudas's and Tyrants are studying in opposition to Holiness and the work of Reformation who entred in by these same Covenants are now pursuing our lives for a Christian walk And likewise we renounce the Covenant taken at Queensferry commonly called Cargil's Covenant and likewise Hamiltown Declaration yea and Sanquhare Declaration because they may and has owned these and are owning these who are Enemies to Holiness and were Enemies to us as some of them said we should suffer Kirk Censure for giving over the old Apostat Ministers to the Devil and some of them counted us their Enemies for the truths sake and sent us word they would protest against us and so we justifie our Lord in breaking them at Airds Moss we justifie the Lord likewise in taking away that they call Field-Preachings or mockings because they were nothing but Rebellion against the High Lord as we find now when our Lord is come to the Cross there is neither Minister nor People to bide by him of the many Thousands has flocked to the thing they call Preachings or mockings and therefore now all are found void of saving Grace and so we see that word is accomplished Strait and narrow is the way that leadeth unto Life and few there be that find it And that other word many shall strive and shall not be able We finding all former Actions to be such as Devils has and can creep in at as Declarations and Covenants and get the name of Saints Therefore this day it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to renounce and burn the former Covenants and Declarations because they are not strait enough according to Scripture and all their Works such like and therefore we will own none of their Works till it please the Lord to give us teaching from himself By this all may know and understand we overturn and formally burns all the former Works of the Clergy of Scotland and throughout all the whole World that are in opposition to Holiness dated the 6 th day of the Week being the 27. of the 5 th Month 1681. about Mid-day We renounce and decline all Authority throughout the World and all that are in Authority and all their Acts and Edicts from the Tyrant Charles Stuart to the lowest Tyrant and burns them the same day being the 6 th day of the week the 27 day of the 5 th Month 1681. at Cannongate Tolbuith Iron-house We renounce the names of Months as Ianuary February March April May Iune Iuly August September October November December Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Martimas Holydays for there is none holy but the Sabbath day Lambmas day Whitsunday Candlemas Beltan Cross stones and Images Fairs named by Saints and all the remnants of Popery Tool or Christmas old Wives Fables and By-words as Palmsunday Carlinesunday the 29 th of May being dedicat by this Generation to Prophanity Peacesunday Halloweven Hogmynae night Valentins even no Marrying in the Month they call May the innumerable Relicts of Popery Atheism and Sorcery and New years day and Hansell-Monday Dredgies and Likewakes Valenteins Fair Chappels and Chaplains likewise Sabbath days Feastings Blythmeats Banquetings Revelling Pipings Sportings Dancings Laughings Singing prophane and lustful Songs and Ballads Table-Lawings Monk-lands Frier-lands Blackfrier-lands Kirks and Kirkyards and Mencat Crosses Fount-stones Images Registers of Lands and Houses Register Bonds Discharges and all their Law-works Inhibitions