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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

exercise of their Ministry the property peculiarly of believers since Faith Piety and Charity binds us to an external Society without which they cannot be called sheep not in respect of their ordinary Pastors but in respect of their Faith in Jesus Christ To note that it is Faith and not the Ministry which makes the Society and by consequence renders their Assemblies Lawful and Necessary Yet mind I am a perfect Enemy to the 32 Sects of England and abhore the right of gifted Brethrening my Testificates plainly make appear to the Provost and Solicitor of Edinburgh who read them but especially my writting against them at London whereby for truth I became the object of their Malice Tho the External Society be common to good and bad Wheat and Tares mingled externally in the Body of the Church yet the right of External Society resides in the Faithful only His Mystical Body for which he dyed the Seed which he Sowed with his own hand against the Harvest Isa 7. Who has required this of thy hand to tread in my Courts And Ps 51. What hast thou adoc to read my Covenant and Laws The Tares have communion only by accident till the Harvest Austin Lib. 7. C. 5. Teaches plainly that the Power of the Keys Binding and Loosing is given to the Church of the truely Faithful in Opposition to the men of the World that are mixt with them They then having a right to be in a Religious Society over whom Christ is Supreme Law-giver Isa 35. Their Law binds the Elicite Acts of the Conscience of all indefinitely Hence Sun Moon Stars are said to bow to Joseph that is to the Church yet we safely maintain a Co-ordination of Powers and Sub-Ordination of Persons It s the Elegant saying of the Honourable Lord Brook of England if the Church swallow up the State inflowes Superstition and Idolatry If the State swallow up the Church inflows Atheism and Ignorance Hence Paul draws the inference of the Authority which the Lord hath given to us not for your destruction but for your edification which right the Church has at the bottom her formation and subsistence as secretly in a good and soveraign hand preserved In Parenthsi know this is no negative much more a positive separation as the noble Orthodox party against the Arians meeting as they could sometimes in their fields But rather a standing still Jer. 15.19 21. Till men return to their old principles 38 and 49. Amongst all our signs none more penetrating and pierceing then Desertion Penal Medicinal or Probatory The first when God judicially delivers up a man to hardness of heart as Pharoah The 2 3 a blessing for the future but a judgement for the time and some may say oh that they could water the steps of their backsliding with tears the fear of man brings a snare he that trusts in the Lord shall be delivered the sun of righteousness runing under a cloud that they cannot read their evidences for Heaven has been burdensome to some tho I knew others and the same persons in the like case might attain to have their thoughts break the Clouds there soul a chronicle of the love of Christ a psalm book of his praise Yet lustful Gallants may carouse at leisure their pouder hair may forget the dust were their skin as thick as the Whales the Bullet of Death will pierce them Of such was one Parker of England who mockt at aquaintance with God obtained his short Heaven and long Hell a sun of wealth and prosperity before a thunder bolt of Vengeance Nor are they better who wash Sarans face with a colour of Religion Naked truth that needs not the purple partociny even tho' of Constantine extorts me to speak that thereby I may be seen about those dozen of years wandering which God booketh down and will the Innocents and Sufferers tears bottle up It pleased the Lord after my licence and formal trial at London to order my lot in the company of Holy and faithful Mr. Welsh in the west of Scotland by whom I was invited to preach Mr. John Cuninghame and Mr. John Black and M. W L. being present Then the Church of God in Scotland like a Ship among the Jaws and Waves of Tribulation sore tost many of her Passengers drowning and her Skippers and Watch men rowing ashore to save to save their life I kept the fields and other places for some time after Bothwel in the 81 then being induced and invited by others inclined to that my self I went for Holland to print the Testimony of the Church of Scotland against Popery and Prelacy the Conveyance thereof in all the Centuries and in each period of time At Leith being perceived and my Brother in Law taken the Coppies cancelled and I escaped and went for London Where falling happily acquainted with a vertuos person the Earle of Anglesey I wrote a Reply in 4 to to the Cassandrian Doctrine emitted from one of the Frogs of Antichrist The book it self bears the Tittle Scotland pulling down the gates of Rome Christ against Antichrist the Lambs friends against the Dragons followers with some remarks historically upon the Comet Star and examination of the Popish Confessions and description of the Romish Morals ●o which my Name is affixed Which was prin●ed about that fatal conjuncture of time the death of the famous Lord Russel from thence returning to Scotland I privately resided at Whiteborn till one Armillan younger who received the Sacrament as Presbiterian as Test-man as Papist all in 11 years time Cowardly and Craftily apprehended and abused me cruelly 4 years before having plundered and pillaged the whole Country and my Chamber and Books amongst the rest for which he and others God in providence shall fetch to a Court of blood shed and oppression he not being satisfied with perjury and forgery of my hand writting which he pretend he had but debauched mens and womens consciences to 400 Oaths he and others in a day till at last he landed in Adultery with his servant and Murther of the same child the woman being presently executed at Air for the same did depone he escaping by the policy and power of Craigy Wallace I being carried prisoner to Glasgow Falkirk and other places in a pitiful manner I was staged before the Counsel for Lybels and Books and preaching in the Fields at the resentment of which I cannot cover the sentiment of my thoughts but with grief that the fear of Man did so prevail to hinder more full and faithful Testimony Yet w●… I keeped free that my heart and the Tem●tation never meet with Oaths Bonds 〈◊〉 This being over I return'd to the West an● publickly preacht and then went for London where that Book was printed Gods Garde● hedged and watred In reference to an Essay o● Antidote against distractions in Gods worship coming too speedily from London hom● again and embraceing an Invitation did preach upon the 33 of Isa The Lord is our King the Lord

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