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B03692	The conduct and conveyance of our Fathers amd martyrs testimony in the Church of Scotland justified and continued. The paralel [sic] testimony in 38 and 49 reciprocal, with the present testimony against Popery, prelacy, liberty of conscience, stated and delineated, from the Bible, reason, and testimony of history. / By W.H., minister of the gospel, and prisoner at Edinburgh, January 9th, 1690.	Houschone, William.	1690 (1690)	Wing H2943; ESTC R178268	6,717	16

is our Lawgiver where I asserted the headship of Jesus Christ Then again was I apprehended at the order of Buchan and some others and guarded 10 weeks and 4 days in the Dungeon of Air where the Arm of the Lord rescued me and two other old men from my Enemies who had blood in their Teeth and abominations in their mouth 9 Zec. I brake out the Sentinalls sleeping Now this is the third time of my imprisonment as was reported by the Right Honorable Earle Crawford's order the provost of Edinburgh and the Solicitor coming into the Prison did question me upon several heads and afterwards did take away my testimonials to peruse and did return the same by a Macer not only my Licence and Ordination but Testificates of my former Deport●…nt the Testimony privately and pub●…kly I maintain I openly yet Reverendly ●…ed out I was against Popery Prelacy Li●…y of Conscience and that thorow Grace I ●…olved to dye by the Acts of the Assembly ●…nd 49. as consonant to the Analogy of ●…th and holy Bible I cannot omitt what 〈◊〉 betwixt Me and the Reverend Mr. J. W. 〈◊〉 at Glasgow then at Ecclesom who at the ●…inning of the Popish Toleration was swal●…wed up by this Jonahs Whale Boggle not ●…es he since ye ventered your neck with Mr. J. R. ●…erly I plainly prohibit him to own it or 〈◊〉 Addresse as Diametrically against our ●…sciples when Julian summoned hell to 〈◊〉 him the Devil gave him the engine of ●…ration There remaineth one Objection unremov●…tho a threed bare Argument thus it is as 〈◊〉 had conversed with one Dunbar one of the ●…ans in order to my deliverance a horrid 〈◊〉 wicked lye even such as they branded 〈◊〉 Worthies formerly For I take GOD 〈◊〉 witness I never spoke with one of them 〈◊〉 I knew him either name or surname 〈◊〉 or figure save him who was my Anta●…ist against whom I wrote the examina●… of the Popish Catechism neither did debate 〈◊〉 him or converse an hour in all and that in a publick Coffee-house so let the 〈◊〉 of hell smoke out of their mouths and ha●…lies the Devils babes hot coals of Juni●… are prepared for false Tongues sin is 〈◊〉 Souls sickness Confession the souls vo●… which the 8 Levites in the 9. of Nehemiah 〈◊〉 Precept by Pattern acknowledge be●… they lay one Stone in Gods house the 〈◊〉 of Defection having blown out the eye 〈◊〉 the World Darkness sayeth Jeremiah 〈◊〉 the Earth gross darkness the People After s●… dayes deliberation scrutiny and due exaa●…nation of my Principles Papers Persist●… and Adherence to the Acts of Assem●… The Right Honourable the Earle of C●…ford personally with a Macer came to 〈◊〉 Prison door and ordered my Liberat●… having every day entered the List 〈◊〉 Episcopal Clergy and Gentry and Tolera●… Truth with its Energie did sufficiently ●…dicate me Hence Ministers are to cont●… for the Faith once delivered to the Saints 〈◊〉 by suffering were it to seal with their Bl●… what they speak with their mouth in 〈◊〉 Chair of Truth for the same indivi●… Truths the former Lords Days at K●… Kirk and Drumshorlin moor preceeding 〈◊〉 Imprisonment I plainly Preached w●…fully and freely I did aver before My 〈◊〉 Provost From Jer. 50 Come joyn your selves the Lord in a perpetual Covenant I could not pass from the Reformation and Protestation relating thereto for the Lawdable Laws of my Masters house tho I should have gone the gate of Mr. Rennick These were the individual words to My Lord Provost and Solicitor For Illustration and Confirmation whereof take a Transient view of the Assemblies Acts. Acts of the General Assemblie Sess 23. Dec. 17. Anent the Entry and Conversation of Ministers its expedient that the Acts of Assembly holden at Edinburgh March 4. 1595. Be ratified and put in Execution in every Presbyterie And to that end get a Coppie under the Clerks hand whereof the Tenure followeth Sess 7. March 26. of the Assembly at Edinburgh 1596. Concerning the Defections of the Ministerie the same being at length read out and considered in order to see the Kirk and Ministrie purged to the effect the Work may have better success they think it necessary that this Assembly be humbled for want of such care as became in such points and that some Zealous and Godly Brethren in Doctrine lay them out for their Humiliation and they make Solemn promise bifore the Majestie of GOD to make new Covenant with him for a more careful and Reverend discharge of their Ministerie And that speedily the Corruptions and Enormities of the Ministerie be Remedied to Avert the impendant Judgments in order thereto Sess 8. August 17. Containing the Causes and Remedie of the bygone Evil of the Kirk The Kings Will and Pleasure is That all Questions about Religion and matters Ecclesiastical be determined by the Assembly of this Kirk And Moreover that no Persons blaked with Publick Defection have power to Vote in the Lords House till they condemn Doctrinally these Defections c. Hence are condemned the sordid and sullen Apprehensions of many whereby their vile Aspersions are wept off c. As suffering honest men intended the unchurching of the Ministerie and easting off of the same when nothing is designed nor desired save reducing of the Church to the Rules of her Husbands house Hosea 2. v. 1.3 The Church of Scotland was unite 45 years by by means of Discipline FINIS

THE CONDUCT and CONVEYANCE OF OUR Fathers and Martyrs Testimony In The CHURCH OF SCOTLAND Justified and Continued The Paralel Testimony in 38 and 49 Reciprocal with the present Testimony against Popery Prelacy Liberty of Conscience Stated and Delineated from the Bible Reason and Testimony of History Job 17.9 The righteous shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger Cypr. Ep. ad Carth. Fratribus in plebe consistentibus Examinabuntur singula presentibus vobis judicantibus By W. H. Minister of the Gospel and prisoner at Edinburgh January 9th 1690. Printed in the Year 1690. THE clamant case of Confession in keeping the word of Gods patience in order to transmitting of a testimony among the Primitive Christians was Magnanimously maintained against Paganism by Culdees by the Tabrits of Bohemia by the Lollards of England so named the Protestants Evidenc● clearly delineat notwithstanding all the World did dip their pens in poyson and sharpened their tongues in Gall Calumni●… audacter semper aliquod haerebit glour with their eyes and gore with their tongues hate nick-name rail which word of GODS Patience gifts yea graces without supply of grace even the power of GOD Adam in in the estate of innocency when he had wisdom at his will and reason at command●… could not maintain yet Scotland once stiled the life guard of Heaven whose strength did ly in their tongues before the Crown rights of Heaven were betrayed into the hands of Tyranny and lawless Liberty even the Declarative and Mediatory glory of Christ was not only among the first of the Conquest o● Christs Kingdom but even also then when 32 parts of the world 27 were Pagan 5 degenerate to worship wood and stone one embraced che Oligarchical Tiranny of Prelacy the remnant of Bohemia and Scotland and Joshua Gianevel in Piedmont and many others witness Birkbers Protestant Evidence tho GOD did scum the remnant concerted and marvously grapled for the pure and powerful testimony of our Lord for the Kirk and Kernel thereof Hence some neatly tho critically yet candidly allude to Scotizei In the Revelation that is shall darken the seat of the beast viz. Scotsmen it being a Covenanted Nation to the Lord 2 Chron. 15. and Jer. 50.6 7. tells us the fruites thereof what ever the irregularities of an Oath may be yet are not the circumstances conversant about the Act of swearing but the intrinsecal matter of the Oath which do annihilat the obligation thereof witness the Confession of the learned Dr. Sanderson tho an enemy who ever read with Granosalis plainly perceive the vainity of this Distinction the Relaxation of the matter and strength of an Oath he terms it materiam and vim juramenti Yet Arnisaeus Doct Pol Leydeker c. And all agree my will contract according to what my knowledge reacheth and in so far am I bound to espouse mutually persons lives goods of the Covenanted party much more when there is a positive law of GOD against Idolatry Prelacy liberty of Conscience which we have illustrate in the Dimentions of the Primitive Bishops commenserat according to their pastoral relation Ignatius stiling them Fraternity Consociations and Presbytery Printed at London in the 84 from the Historical Relations of Holingshead Pamelius Albaspineus Sylvanneus History Tho much more may be read in the books of Gods Judgements on perjured persons In that Roll of Ezekiel called Opisto grapha 9. ch having the foreside all our sins the backside all our Judgements And in the 17 of Ezekiel As I live saith the Lord it s my oath ye have broken my Covenant ye have despised Zedekiah Whom God roasted in the fire for breach of Covenant shifted the Watchmen because Jeremiah preached one thing Ezekiel the clean contrary Jeremiah told him he should be carried down to Babylon Ezekiel he should never see Babylon Yet God reconciled them both to his ruine his eyes were pickt out of his head he never saw Babylon The same end fell to Almerick King of Jerusalem Vladistaus breach of Covenant with the Turks Harold the last King of the Danes that ever reigned in England for his breach of Covenant with William Duke of Normandy Thus have we Absolutely consisidered now Relatively the case Paul to the Romans 13.11 Tells us It s high time to awake for our Salvation is nearer then when we believed As knowing the time to awake from sleep tho signes Diagnostick of former and Prognostick of future times easily ventilat all Objections in a transient view of the same Moral Signs are palpable in a long delay of common equity betwixt man and man Evangelical a spirit of Gospel love and frame suitable to a Deliverance where that Porter of prejudice that stands sentinal at the hearts of men against truth is removed 1 John 3.14 Forenscical or the Court of Justice Isaiah 16. v. 12.13 Political signes hitherto these 28 years appeared when pynts of Protestants and Saints blood have been shed for which we may rationally fear Tunns of others the Effusion of blood the Lord prevent Yet shall we trust to Micah 5.5 Ecclesiastical signs are plain the Church waxing not weaning fair as the Moon clear as the Sun terrible as an Army with Banners Ministers having fire in their Tongues to kindle Zeal in Peoples breasts the Kirk the Kernel Military signs are a praying Army when Moses hands knockt off from Prayer Amaleck prevailed certainly when Aemilius a Pagan would not give over sacrificeing till a sign of Victory much more we Martyrological 1851 Martyrs have sealed this with their Blood Caelestial by Perpendicular and presaging Comets portending ing chiefly the computation of seven Seals seven Trumpets seven Vials pouring out on Babylon Yet may all dread the cup of God's wrath go round and drops falling upon us the Lord avert a besom of destruction Nor do we want Accademical signs few Metaphisical heads much more Theological hearts Arminianisime planted many years agoe not yet eradicated hence is Scotland's glory stain'd by illiterate and raw prophane and polluted Nurseries Neither do we trust to Immediate Mission or Revelation yet Prognostick Symptomes are patent penitential 3 Jonah 8 Man and Beast cry'd to the Lord the Heathen deputed a day for mourning to eat the bread of mourners and drink a cup of their own tears Testimonial where the Testimony is not flung at our heels but Valiantly propugned Critical a glorious Manifestation of the Mediatory Kingdom of Christ before the day of Dooms-day whether it shall be by a formal sworn Covenant or more Glorious Discovery I shall not determine Zech. 14. No Cannanite in the House of the Lord that is none mak'n slaves of the souls of men Architectural that is not only a regular Disposition of the Members of a Work but a Symmetrical proportion to that glorious work of Reformation in our Fathers dayes Homogenical and Organical The right our Fathers had to hold a Christian Society among themselves by publick Societies and the