Minister at Peebles which the state of the Church could then admit of viz. Designation and Appointment of the Patron with the Consent and Concurrence of the Heritors Elders and by far the greatest and most substantial part of the People and wanting only the formality of an Induction or Institution in regard there was no Legal Ecclesiastical Judicatory then in being to confer it on him continued in the free and peaceable Exercise of his Ministry until the sixteenth of February 1690 when some violent Interruption being offered unto him by a Company of Unruly People as he was coming to the Church on the Lord's Day in the Morning the Heritors Elders and People as aforesaid were so much concerned that by an express Obligation subscribed under their Hands they declare their Resolution to adhere to the said Mr. Knoks as their Minister And Commissioned some of their Number to pursue that high Riot before the Most Honourable Lords of their Majesties Privy Council Upon whose Complaint and Application the Lords of Council finding Mr. Knox to have good Right to serve the Cure at the Church of Peebles did justly punish the Author of the Tumult and oblige the Magistrates of Peebles to take such care of the Peace that there might be no Interruption offered to him for the Future and thereafter he enjoyed his Ministry comfortably and peaceably until the Presbytery having as would seem by all their posterior Acts resolved to Thrust him out and obtrude another on the Parish did by their Act of the 24th of July last at Kirkurd without ever examining his Right and Title or giving him any Citation Proceeding upon a false Supposition as if he had possest himself wrongously of the Church required him to forbear Preaching till he should be allowed by them The Extract of which Act being delivered to him by the present Provost of Peebles most unseasonably upon the Lord's Day thereafter just as he was going to the Pulpit he taking it as the Act plainly bears to be only a Temporary restraint till such time as he should apply himself to the Presbytery for their Allowance did patiently and pleasantly obey it taking his seat among the Auditors while the Provost fetcht a Minister from the Meeting-House to Preach in the Church who after Sermons by an Order as he said from the Presbytery surprized the Parish by declaring the Church to be vacant for the supply of which pretended Vacancy the said Presbytery sent Mr. Robert Eliot one of their own Number upon the 24th of August being the Lord's Day to Preach and hold a Meeting for the calling of one Mr. William Veatch Which Meeting being called after Sermons the Heritors either by themselves or their Proxies together with all the ordinary Elders of the Parish and the generality of the whole People Compeered and Protested against the calling of Mr. Veatch appealing from the Presbytery to the next Provincial or General Assembly that should happen to be promising to give in the double of their Protestation and Appeal with the Reasons thereof to the Presbytery the first Day of their Meeting whereupon they took Instruments The said Mr. Robert Elliot in a strange and unbecoming Heat and Transport insolently presuming to take Instruments against them in the Name of Jesus Christ and without any regard to their Protestation he with his Associates proceeded to Nominate so many pretended Commissioners to go the next day with Mr. William Russel who was sent by the Presbytery and in the Name of the Parish of Peebles to offer a pretended Call to the said Mr. Veatch among which Commissioners the notorious Villain Beatty who occasioned the former Tumult was one who for his horrid Prophanation of the Lord's Day and villanous Attempt thereupon against Mr. Knox had been lately and deservedly punished by the Privy Council to which Call albeit only signed by Cardronno who has but small Interest in the Parish and two or three mean Heritors who have but two Aikers of Ground a piece almost Mr. Veatch cordially imbracing came and presented it to the Presbytery of Peebles at and within the Chappel thereof upon the 〈◊〉 day of September following The which day and place the Heritors c. by themselves and their Proxies compeared and gave in their Protestation and Appeal in Writing with the most grave and weighty reasons thereof viz. That the Church could not be reputed vacant Mr. Knox who had beside Possession a good Right and Title thereto and to whom they were firmly resolved to adhere not being either Deposed or Deprived but only Inhibited for a time by the Act of the Presbytery and his Right not examined and discussed either by the Presbytery or any other competent Judicatory And suppose the Church had been vacant as it was not Yet the said pretended Call of Mr. Veatches was ipso facto void and null in regard of several essential Defects and Informalities of it such as the Call had not been made in a Regular way by a publick meeting of Heritors Elders and Town Council but by private subscriptions which the Magistrates of Peebles by menaces and promises had secretly collected from a multitude of Persons legally uncapable of any vote in the Election Some of them having no interest at all in the Parish That there were none of the Elders consenting thereunto and of a multitude of considerable Heritors in the Parish only two or three petty and obscure ones consented All which reasons are more fully exprest in the Appeal whereupon they took Instruments but the whole Presbytery except an Old Grave Man who dissented all along taking no notice thereof nor to vouchsafe in the least any Answer thereto accepted of and sustained the aforesaid pretended Call exhibited unto them in favours of Mr. Veatch Ordering an Edict to be serv'd for him the next Lord's Day which Edict being returned to the Presbytery upon the 17th of September and called at the Chappel door compeared again the Heritors Elders c. and Declared their Adherence to their former Protestation and Appeal with the whole Reasons thereof and subjoyning some more pregnant Reasons thereto viz. That the said Mr. Veatch was a person utterly unknown to them and that they ought not to be constrained with an implicite Faith to intrust the care of their Souls to a Man of whom they had no competent knowledge Yea that he was a Stranger to the Presbytery it self and that they had never been at the pains to hear him Preach that they might judge of his Qualifications for so eminent a place that the little Tryal the Parish had of him in two or three Sermons they were in their private Judgement of Discretion not well pleased with his way of Preaching for several Grave and Weighty Exceptions which they had ready to produce That for the prospect of a more lucrative place he had by indirect methods got himself loosed from other Calls that he might force himself in upon the Parish of Peebles And finally
same should not be granted to him as if every one of them had had a Decisive Voice and which is without Example in any Judicatory for any of the Judges to interrupt the Defenders speaking and to cry out their Opinion or rather Sentence before the Defender be removed and which openly discovers their Prejudice Design and Resolution of proceeding against the said Mr. Alexander altho' without just cause 6thly The Prejudice and design of the Synods proceeding against the said Mr. Alexander on the said lame weak and null probation is evident in so far as several Members of their Number did speak and deal with him to demit or that otherways they would depose him And there is nothing more certain than that they would never have Dealt with him to demit if the Probation against him had been good Their malice to the Regular Clergy being such as that they would rather Depose them for Immoralities and Errors in Doctrine to expose them than suffer them to Demit and get off without stain when they are guilty of the same But Mr. Alexander being Conscious of his own Innocency refused to Demit but rather to suffer their Extremity from which he hoped GOD in his good time would Vindicate him And therefore it being evident from the Grounds foresaid that the Synod has behaved themselves most partially and against all Law and Form The said Mr. Alexander does therefore Protest against the Synods further Proceeding in the said Matter and appeals from them and from any sentence they shall give therein to the next lawful General Assemblie And to their MAJESTIES Protection for Justice and Relief in the mean time And Protests That the said Libels and Witnesses Depositions taken thereupon may be preserved and not put out of the way That so the â—â—me and not Copies thereof may be produced to the next General Assembly Or to any their Majesties shall be pleased out of their Royal Authority to appoint to consider the same And that as the said Mr. Alexander will publish and disperse his Appeal and his Answers to the first Libel Which he only did see for his own Vindication from any sentence that shall follow hereupon So he expects and earnestly Desires that the said Synod may Print both the Libels against him and Depositions taken thereupon for vindication of their Justice if they can conceive they have done right But which Mr. Alexander hopes will rather vindicate his Innocency And further Mr. Alexander Craves and Protests That this his Appeal may be insert in the Books of the Synod Notwithstanding of the Appeals foresaid the Synod proceeded and Deposed the said Mr. Alexander from his Ministry and thereupon the Eldership of the Parish was invaded and some few severals of them scarce worth to be noticed as Residenters have usurped the power of electing Elders and have elected many moe than the number formerly used purposely as they think to make the greater Figure altho' but of the most inconsiderable of the Parish and of Design to Call Impose and Obtrude a Minister upon the Rest against their will contrary to the Laws of Charity Practices of Christian Churches and profession of Presbyterians Notwithstanding that the said Mr. Alexander Heriot his Appeal does in Law preserve his Right and keeps all in statu quo the time of the Appeal while it be discust Whereupon not only the said Mr. Alexander Heriott but likewise the Heritors and Parishioners of Dalkeith have given in a Petition to the Lords of their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council That they may be pleased to forbid the Calling of a Minister until the Appeal be discust And that in the mean time he may be restored to the Exercise of his Ministrie And that the Presbytery of Dalkeith And others who had the Libels given in against him and Depositions of the Witnesses may make the same known to him as Law appoints That he may know what is libelled or may seem to be proved to the effect he may the better clear himself of the same which is nothing but false lies and calumnies And whereof several of the Presbyterian Ministers who have seen the Libels and Depositions Affirm that there is nothing pretended to be proved But the dancing about the Bon-Fire which is not only clearly redargued to be false as said is there being no Bonfires either on the foresaid day nor for several months either before or after But likewise if the persons who have deponed it were known and re-examined it will be found they have deponed falsly And that they have been dealt with so to Depone And that this Falshood may not be discovered not only are the Depositions kept up contrary to express Law and Acts of Parliament But likewise no notice can be gotten who were the persons who have deponed it that they may be insisted against Whereas it is pretended That the Lords of their Majesties Privy Council are not Judges competent to the sentences of Ecclesiastick Courts and that as they cannot put in Ministers in Churches so they cannot meddle with sentences of Depositions It is answered That by the 1. Act 8 Parl. Ja. 6. It is Statute and Ordained That his Majestie and Council shall be Judges competent To all Persons Spiritual and Temporal in all matters And to pretend that the Council is not Judge competent to sentences of Ecclesiastick Courts is no other them to affirm That these Courts have an Arbitrary power and may do wrong at their pleasure without Remeed or Control For it is evident That Mr. Herriott is most unjustly pursued and Deposed And it is also evident that if it be not Redressed by the Council he will never be Restored by those Ministers who have dealt so unjustly with him And whereas it is alleaged That as the Council cannot put in Ministers so they cannot meddle with sentences of Deposition It is answered That the Council has not the power of Admission and Ordination of Ministers But if a Minister having a lawful Call the Presbyterie should refuse to admit and Ordain him albeit they have nothing to object against him upon Application to the Council or Session Letters will be directed to Charge the Presbyterie to Admit and Ordain him but multo magis in this case where a Minister is Deposed from his Ministrie as likewise from his Benefice which is his Livelyhood and Maintenance and yet most unjustly and without Ground or Reason The Council is most proper Judges for Restoring him against the foresaid Oppression Injurie and Unjust Sentence And for a further evidence of this unjust Sentence it is Humbly desired that the Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council will be pleased to take notice That in the first Libel there are many Articles which are not to be admitted in Law And it is said that there is none of them proved but the Dancing about the Bonfire And yet the Presbytery by their Sentence found the Libel Relevant and Proved which must be understood as to the
that the Presbytery had in many instances behaved themselves very partially in this whole Affair for all which Reasons more amply enlarged by them at that time and contained in their Instruments They did de novo Protest and Appeal against any further Procedure of the Presbytery upon the said Edict giving in a Copy of this their new Appeal with the Reasons of it and taking Instruments thereupon in contempt of which repeated Appeals with the most irrefragable Reasons thereof the Presbytery having determined before hand to institute Mr. Veatch and for that effect ingaged Mr. Robert Elliot to Preach at his Institution proceeded the very next day being the 18th of September actually to Institute him in most Illegal and Disorderly way contrary to an express Act of the General Assembly holden at Glasgow December 17. 1638. Whereby it is expresly provided That no person be obtruded into any Office in the Kirk contrary to the will of the Congregation At which pretended Institution there were none of the Heritors of any worth or esteem nor of the standing Eldership of the Parish and excepting the present Magistrates none of the substantial Parishioners Yea in proportion of the Body of the Parish few at all to Accept of or Imbrace him in so much that it 's informed Mr. Elliot publickly expressed his grief That there were so few honest Men in the Parish to receive their Pastor In Respect of all which and that the Heritors consenting to Mr. Veatch his Call are but very few and against severals of whom there are Competent and Relevant Exceptions viz. That some of them are not Heritors and others by promise of case of their Stipends and some by Threatnings if they did not consent And that the Heritors who have protested against the said Call are not only the most considerable Heritors and have the most considerable Interest in the Parish but are double the number of the other beside the whole Eldership It is therefore hoped That his Grace His Majestie 's High Commissioner to the Assembly the Right Reverend Moderator and the Reverend Brethren of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland now sitting May Examine and take into their Grave and Godly Consideration the whole Progress of this Affair together with the Parishes Protestations and Appeals which they Humbly Crave may be publickly Read hoping by their Pious Wisdom to have their Lawful Pastor restored unto them And in Order thereunto to be relieved of such an Illegal Intruder who upon many Accounts has rendered himself unfit to be continued in such a Charge particularly because being conscious to himself of the weakness and Insufficiency of his Call partly by his own Solicitations partly by other undirect Motions he did influence some few Heritors of Note to sign it after an Edict had been served thereupon Again to shake himself Loose from the Calls which were Referred to the Synod of Kelso he had prevailed with some of his Friends to Represent his Call to Peebles as the effect of an immediate and Extraordinary Providence which they did so flourish out in the several Circumstances that it might appear equivalent to a voicâ— from Heaven which he ought not to disobey Whereas it can be evinc'd by clear Evidences That it was a Draught and Design of Men carried on underhand for a considerable time And it is left to the Assembly to judge what a gross Hypocrisie and Abuse of the Sacred Name of Providence it is to pretend an immediate hand of God to the Cobweb-Plots and Contrivances of sinful Men Sure for as well as this Providence was painted forth to gain this point before the Synod there were some of that Meeting who could see thorow the vanity of that Pretence And in special one Grave and Wise Member could not let it pass without a tart Reflection on it Siklike upon the day of his Admission he was not afraid publickly to take God to witness that no prospect of a great Benefice had induced him to come to Peebles whereas it transcends the comprehensions of the most vast and extensive Charity to fancy what other motive could prevail with him to reject Calls of People that were Zealous and Unanimous for him and thrust himself in upon a Parish who desired him not and can expect no Spiritual Comfort from his Ministry And finally He has since that time imposed conditions of admitting Children to Baptism in that Parish which neither the Law of the Land nor the late General Meeting of this Church has warranted him to do whereupon several Persons were necessitate to take their Children to be Baptised by others and some have taken Instruments against him And not a few Infants have been in apparent Danger of Dying without Baptism to the great grief of their Parents Among whom were weak Twins belonging to one of the late Magistrates All which can clearly be proved against him together with several other Articles which they have to produce and can prove competent time being allowed unto them for the Citation of Witnesses but which they have hitherto forborn to make use of out of tenderness to his Character and will always forbear till they be constrained to take this last Remedy This is the exact Copy of the Information and Petition given in by Mr. Heriot Minister of Dalkeith in Print to the Privy Council at Edenburgh INFORMATION FOR Mr. ALEXANDER HERIOT Minister at DALKEITH In Relation to the Label against him before the Presbytery at Dalkeith and the Sentences thereon And Petitions to the Lords of Their MAJESTIES Privy Council The Appeal given in by the said Mr. Alexander Heriot to the Synod of Midlothian containing a short Information of the Progress of that Process to that time is as follows MOderator Being conscious of my Innocence and finding my self Wronged and Injured I here appeal from this Synod to the first General Assembly when it shall meet and in the mean time to their Majesties Protection for Justice and Relief And since the Law allows the Liedges a competent time to give in the Reasons of their appeals I here Protest within Twenty four hours to give in the Reasons of this my appeal to your Clerk And withall I protest that this be Recorded by him And upon all I take Instruments The Reasons of Appeal of Mr. Alexander Heriot Minister at Dalkeith from the Synod of Midlothian to the next Lawful General Assembly And to their MAJESTIES Protection for Justice and Relief in the mean time THERE being an Indictment given in to the Presbytery of Dalkeith against the said Mr. Alexander Heriot and the Libel bearing it to be given in in the Name of the Parochiners the said Mr. Alexander Heriot and Parochiners compeered and craved that his accusets might be named to him and that they might subscribe their Charge against him And that in regard that the said Heritors and Parochiners did not only Viva Voce but by a Writ under their Hands Disclaim and Disown it except Alexander Calderwood
whole Articles of the Libel complexlie than which there is nothing more false as will appear by the Libels and Depositions if they were produced And yet thereupon Mr. Heriott is first suspended by the Presbytery and referred by them to the General Assembly for further Censure as if great Immoralities in Life and Errors in Doctrine had been proved against him And the Synod to which the Assembly remitted him following the steps of the Presbytery deposed him Now when Presbytery and Synod have acted thus contrary to express Law and have done open and manifest Unjustice and whereof all that heard of it are convinced and sensible And having stated themselves Parties against him there can be no Remedy expected from the said Unjustice Injury and Oppression unless the Lords of Their Majesties Privy Council interpose their Authority If it be alleaged That the late Act of Parliament The Act of Supremacy in Church matters is Repealed It is answered That the Act of Parliament 1669 is Rescinded which extended the Supremacy to the Ordering and Disposal of the External Government and Policy of the Church and to the Enacting of Constitutions Acts and Orders in the Church But the foresaid Act of K. Ja. 6. his 8 Parliament is not Rescinded which is only as to the Judging of Ecclesiastick Persons in matters complained upon and which power is inherent in the Crown otherways there should be Regnum in Regno and Church Judicatories should have arbitrary Power without Redress or Control as said is In Regard whereof The Lords of Their MAJESTIES Privy Council are Judges Competent to this Injurie Vnjustice and Oppression And the Desire of the Petitions ought to be Granted ACT of the General Assembly anent a Solemn National Fast and Humiliation with the Causes thereof At Edinburgh November 12. 1690. Postmeridiem Sess 25. THE General Assembly Having taken into their most serious Consideration the late great and general Defection of this Church and Kingdom have thought fit to Appoint a Day of Solemn Humiliation and Fasting for Confession of Sins and making Supplication to our Gracious God to forgive and remove the guilt thereof In order whereunto they have Ordained the Confession of Sins and Causes of Fasting following to be duly Intimat and Published Recommending it most earnestly to all persons both Ministers and others That every one of us may not only search and try our own hearts and ways and stir up our selves to seek the Lord But also in our Stations and as we have access Deal with one another in all love and tenderness to prepare for so great and necessary a Duty that we may find mercy in God's sight and He may be graciously reconciled to our Land in our Lord Jesus and take delight to dwell among us Although our gracious God hath of late for his own Names sake wrought great and wonderful things for Britain and Ireland and for this Church and Nation in particular Yet the Inhabitants thereof have cause to remember their own evil ways and to loath themselves in their own sight for their Iniquities Alas We and our Fathers our Princes our Pastors and People of all Ranks have sinned and have been under great Transgression to this day For though our gracious God shewed early kindness to this Land in sending the Gospel amongst us and afterward in our Reformation from Popish Superstition and Idolatry and it had the Honour beyond many Nations of being after our first Reformation solemnly devoted unto God both Prince and People yet we have dealt treacherously with the Lord and been unstedfast in his Covenant and have not walked suitably to our Mercies received from him nor obligations to him Through the mercy of God this Church had attained to a great purity of Doctrine Worship and Government but this was not accompanied with suitable personal Reformation neither was our Fruit answerable to the pains taken on us by Word and Work We had much Gospel-preaching but too little Gospel-practice too many went on in open wickedness and some had but a form of Godliness denying the power thereof many also who had the Grace of God in truth fell from their first love and fell under sad languishings and decays and when for our sins the anger of the Lord had divided us and we were brought under the feet of strangers and many of our Brethren killed others taken Captive and sold as slaves yet we sinned still and after we were freed from the yoke of strangers instead of returning to the Lord and being led to Repentance by his goodness the Land made open Defection from the good ways of the Lord many behaved as if they had been delivered to work abomination the flood-gates of Impiety were opended and a deluge of wickedness did over-spread the Land Who can without grief and shame remember the shameful debauchery and drunkenness that then was And this accompanied with horrid and hellish cursing and swearing and followed with frequent Filthiness Adulteries and other Abominations and the Reprover was hated and he that departed from Iniquity made himself a reproach or prey And when by these and such like corrupt practices mens Consciences were debauched they proceeded to sacrifice the Interest of the Lord Jesus Christ and Priviledges of his Church to the lusts and will of men The Supremacy was advanced in such a way and to such an height as never any Christian Church acknowledged the Government of the Church was altered and Prelacy which hath been always grievous to this Nation introduced without the Churches consent and contrair to the standing Acts of our National Assemblies both which the present Parliament hath blessed be God lately found And yet nevertheless of the then standing Ministry of Scotland many did suddenly and readily comply with that alteration of the Government some out of Pride and Covetousness or Man-pleasing some through infirmity or weakness or fear of Man and want of Courage and Zeal for God many faithful Ministers were thereupon cast out and many Insufficient and Scandalous men thrust in on their Charges and many Families ruined because they would not own them as their Pastors And alas It is undenyable there hath been under the late Prelacie a great decay of Piety so that it was enough to make a man be nicknam'd a Phanatick if he did not run to the same excess of riot with others And should it not be lamented for it cannot be denyed there hath been in some a dreadful Atheistical Boldness against God some have disputed the Being of God and his Providence the Divine Authority of the Scriptures the Life to come and Immortality of the Soul yea and scoffed at these things There hath been also an horrid Prophanation of the Holy and Dreadful Name of God by Cursing and Swearing Ah! there hath been so much Swearing and Forswearing amongst us that no Nation under Heaven have been more guilty in this than we some by swearing rashly or ignorantly some falsly by breaking their Oaths and imposing
People who are in War or Danger by Infidel or Popish adversaries in Europe or America And in particular that the Lord would be Gracious to Ireland and sanctifie to his People there both their distress and deliverance and perfect what concerneth them that he would convert the Natives there to the Truth and reduce that Land to Peace and appoint Salvation for Walls and Bullwarks to Brittain For all these Causes and Reasons The General Assembly hath appointed the Second Thursday of January next to be Observed in all the Congregations of the Church and Nation as a day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation and Prayer Beseeching and Obtesting all both Pastors and People of all Ranks to be sincere and serious in Humilitation and Supplication and universal Reformation as they would wish to find mercy of the Lord and have deserved wrath averted and would obtain the Blessing of the Lord upon themselves and Posterity after them and that the Lord may delight in us and our Land may be as Married to him And Ordains all Ministers either in Kirks or Meeting houses to read this present Act publickly from the Pulpit a Sabbath or two before the said Day of Humiliation and that the several Presbyteries take care that it be carefully Observed in their respective bounds And where in regard of Vacancies the Day hereby appointed cannot be observed the Assembly appoints the said Humiliation to be kept some other Day with the first convenient opportunity And appoints the Commission for Visitation to apply to the Council for their Civil Sanction to the Observation thereof Extracted out of the Records of Assembly by JO. SPALLING Cls. Syn. National A PROCLAMATION Anent a Solemn National Fast and Humiliation WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of God King and Queen of Great Britain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Macers of our Privy Council or Messengers at Arms our Sheriffs in that part Conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as the General Assembly of this Church by their Act of the date the twelfth day of November instant hath appointed a Solemn National Fast and Humiliation to be Observed in all the Kirks and Meeting-Houses of this Our Antient Kingdom and appointed their Commission for Visitation to apply to the Lords of Our Privy Council for Our Civil Sanction to be interposed thereto And they having Applyed accordingly Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of our Privy Council Do hereby Command and Enjoyn That the said Solemn Fast and Humiliation be Religiously observed by all Persons throughout this Kingdom both in Kirks and Meeting-Houses at the Dyets and in the manner as by the above-mentioned Act of Assembly hereto prefixed is appointed And that the same be read by all the Ministers in manner therein mentioned And to the end that so Pious and necessary a Duty may be punctually performed and Our Pleasure in the Premisses fully known Our Will is herefore and We Charge you straitly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and the remanent Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom and in Our Name and Authority make Publication of the Premises that none may pretend ignorance And we do Ordain Our Solicitor to dispatch Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the several Shires and Stewarts of the Stewartries or their Deputs or Clerks to be by them Published at the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs upon receipt thereof and immediately sent to the several Ministers both in Kirks and Meeting-Houses to the effect they may read and intimat the same from their Pulpits and may seriously exhort all Persons to a sincere and devout observance thereof as they Regard the Favour and Blessings of the Almighty God the Safety and Preservation of both Church and State and would avoid the Wrath of God upon themselves and their Posterity and as they will be answerable at their peril And Ordains these Presents to be Printed with the said Act of Assembly and these Presents to be Published in manner foresaid Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the twenty first day of November And of Our Reign the second year 1690. Per actum Dominorum Sti. Concilii GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii God save King WILLIAM and Queen MARY Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties 1690. FINIS * Except the Contributions of the Sisters which were something to one who knew no other ways how to live * At thâ— end of this Leâ—ter vidâ— Informâ—tion givâ— in by Mâ— Heriot â—â— the Privâ— Council * This Exposition of the Fathers Words you may find in the 169 p. of his pretended Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Vnreasonableness of Separation †Coliness * Ten or Twelve of which are said in a Morning one after another * That is to turn all the Episcopal Clergy out of the Church Vide the first Paper ‖ Vid. second Paper Vide the last Paper