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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11627	The course of conformitie as it hath proceeded, is concluded, should be refused.	Scott, William, ca. 1566-1642.; Calderwood, David, 1575-1650, attributed name.; Melville, James, 1556-1614, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 21874; ESTC S120840	184,517	202

pulpit both under the paine of deprivation Archipp The Actes of this Assemblie added unto the former are like the aâ—e added to the decretum of vvhich the old proverbe vvent Ex quo decreto alae supervenerunt id est decreta in decretalia abâ—erunt omnia perpetuo in pejus ruisse But I see not how in all these proceedings they haue received any thing of that vvhich they call the office of a Bishop except the Benefice and povver aboue single Presbyters Epaph. Three of the number vvent to England at their owne hand vvithout knowledge either of the Kirk Fift step Consecration or of their owne Glascow Assemblie and there received Consecration the first step of their Hierarchie vvhich after their returne they communicate to their associates And last of all for setting them upon the top of the mast vvhere they are yet fast a sleep and for conclusion of this Perthian plot of questions articles and vvhole building rising therupon Sixt step their Confirmation in Parliament the Parliament holden at Edinburgh Iune 28 1617 enacted tvvo severall Statutes one anent the Election of Archbishops and Bishops another anent the restitution of Chapters Archipp I haue often heard of the Protestators and protestation at that time As ye gaue me great satisfaction by that graue and vvell backed protestation vvhich marred the musicke of their first note at Perth so I desire to know what was done against the sixt note and highest step at Edinburgh Epaph. Perhaps yee haue seen maister Maxwells magisteriall maxims against the 53 Protestant preachers of Scotland The truth is the ministers present at that time to vvatch for the weale of the Kirk being conveened vvith the Ministers of the town of Edinburgh out of the consideration of present and imminent evils resolved upon this modest and generall forme of Protestation Most gracious and dread Soveraigne Most Honourable Lords and remanent Commissioners of this present Parliament Protestation given in â—o the Parliament 1617. We the Ministers of Christ his Evangell being here conveened from all parts of this your Majesties Kingdom doe in all submission and reverence intreat your Majestie and Honours patient and favourable hearing of this our reasonable and humble suppliâ—ation And first it will please your Highnes and Honourable Estates presently conveened be informed that we are heere a number of the Ministers out of all the parts of this Kingdome that the Bâ—shops haue protested since our comming to a great many of us that nothing should be agreed upon nor consented to by theÌ„ in this present Parliament in matters concerning the holy Kirk the discipline and order therof without our speciall knowledge and advise affirming also that neither they nor we haue power of consent in any innovation or smallest change of the order of our Kirk established without speciall advice and determination of the generall Assemblie representing the bodie of the Kirk of the Kingdome had therunto Wherupon we resting in securitie haue received now a suddaine report to our great astonishment of an Article to passe in conclusion to receiue the force of a law in this present ParliameÌ„t deceruing declaring that your Maj. with advice of the Archbishops Bishops and such a competent number of the Ministerie as your Maj. out of your wisedome shall thinke expedient shall in all time comming haue full power to advise and conclude in all matters decent for the externall policie of the Kirk not repugnant to the word of God and that such conclusions shall haue the strength and power of Ecclesiastical lawes Wherin it will please your Maj. and Honourable Estates to heare our just greeues consider our reasonable desire and not to put us your Maj. humble loving subjects to that poore and simple point of protestation which if remedie be not provided we must be forced to use for the freedom of our Kirk and discharge of our conscience Wee then first plead reformation and puritie in our Kirk in doctrine in ministration of the Sacraments in discipline and all convenient order with the best reformed kirks in Europe which may stand and haue been acknowledged rather as a pattern to be followed of others then that we should seeke our reformation from any that never attained to that perfection which in the mercie of God this long time bygone under your High we haue enjoyed and are able by reason to maintain the same Next we plead the libertie of our kirk which by the Lawes of your Majesties Kingdome and diverse Acts of Parliament given forth in favour of the same is established with power of publick meetings general Assemblies and allowance to make such Canons and Constitutions as may serue for the comely order and decencie of the same all which by this conclusion to be taken must be utterly overthrown Thirdly we plead for the peace and tranquilitie of our Kirk that being neerest the Divine and Apostolicke Institution hath lived without schism or rentings in it selfe and by introduction of any noveltie not orderly nor as appertaines may be miserablie rent and our peace broken Fourthly we haue been at divers times sufficiently secured from all suspicions of innovation as by your Maj. letter the list Winter sent down to this Countrie to take away all feare of any alteration which might arise upon your Maj lovingly intended journey which letter by your Maj. speciall will and direction of the specials of your Highnes councell is elswhere intimated in our Pulpits As also by that Proclamation given out the 26 day of September 1605 when rumors of an intended conformitie with the kirk of England was spread abroad Wherin your Maj. sufficiently avoided all such suspicion And the hearts of all honest men setled themselues in a confidence that no such thing should be attempted These and many other reasons haue moved us in all reverence by this our humble Supplication to intreat your Highnes Honourable Estates not to suffer the forenamed Article nor any other prejudicall to our liberties formerly granted to passe at this time to the griefe prejudice of this poore Kirk wherby the universall joy of thousands of this land who rejoysed at your Maj happy arriving here shal be turned to mourning Wherin as we are earnest supplicants to God to inclyne your Maj. hart this way as the most expedient for the honour of God and the weal of the subjects so if we shall be frustrated of this our reasonable desire Then doe we in all humilitie with that dutifull acknowledgment of our loyaltie to your Maj. as becomes protest for our selues al our brethren that shal adhear to our protestation that as we are free of the same so must we be forced rather to incur the censure of your Maj. law theÌ„ to admit or obtemper an impositioÌ„ that shall not fall froÌ„ the kirk orderly convened having power of the same Archipp The Ministers could say no lesse for defence of the liberties of the Kirk granted in former

arising upon diversitie of affection and opinion diversitie of affection vvas cured or rather covered by a slender reconciliation made among so many as were present and recommended to goe forward among the absents at home in their owne presbyteries with many protestations against the breakers of that new made unitie Diversitie of opinion vvas put into the hands of a cannie commission composed of Bishops there professing the title and dignitie and of certaine ministers of differing iudgment vpon no better vvarrant then the election of that convention to convene with his Maiesty then in England or with such of the counsell as his highnes should appoynt at such time and places as they shall be required by his Maiesty and to treat reason and to consult upon all matters standing presently in controversie among the brethren anent the discipline of the kirk and whatsoever they agree upon to report to the next generall assembly Archip. Why should that offer haue been refused Epaph. Consider first that the one partie of that commission was present and in case to do what seemed good in their own eye the other absent and for the most part discouraged by sinistrous reports to deale in controversies of that kind no particular ground of the discipline of the kirk was there named to stand in difference al was under allowed customes and constitutions of the kirk If any particular diversly taken had stood in doubt to be searched and determined by brotherly reasoning to what purpose should his Highnes or his Counsellors bee fashed with such affaires or by vvhat loue and discretion should modest simple ministers be tempted in such matters to utter their minds before the splendor of awful authoritie all vvhich were rather seen then latent in pediments of that pretended vnion yet the meeting of the commissioners was appointed and keeped at Falkland the 4 of May 1609. Archip. Who was present then and what vvas done Epaph. The Earles of Dumbar and Wigtoun ConfereÌ„ce at Falkland and the Lords of Scone and Fentunbarnes did convene as his Ma. commissioners vvith 5 new Bishops 2 vniversitie men and 3 ministers for the one part 9 ministers the tenth being absent for the other After reading of the commission of the general assembly his Ma. missiue and M. Patrick Simson his excuse his highnes commissioners urged a conference of 5 of either side two of his Highnes coâ—missioners being present vvhich break of coÌ„mission was rather taken by the one party then granted by the other for making way to reasoning the ministers demanded 1 what were the points of discipline under different opinions 2 for the clearing of the qualitie of difference that they would determine what could be sayd in proper sence to be in controversie and what extra controversiam 3. of those brethren alledged vnder diversitie of opinions who vvere on the one side and vvho on the other 4. by what authoritie could that conference make the generall commission speciall or call in question one poynt of discipline established by the kirk and ratified by law and practise Much time and talk being spent about these demands and some boastings to dash the ministers being breathed out but no cleare answer returned two questions were confusedly cast in 1 Whether the moderators of assemblies should bee constant or circular as they tearmed it 2 Whether should the caveats be keeped or not To the first the assembly as Linlith how had already answered namely that order taken for an Interim shall stand to the next generall assembly To the second that the caveats were acts of the generall assembly such as they must stand unrepealed for a good use viz. for restraining the corruptions of voters in parliament in name of the kirk and in that respect no more to be called in question then any other act concerning that vote But after divers assayes to draw the ministers in some breach of the established order which they declined with all their might the whole commissioners considering the generality of their commission and being moved with other necessary respects continued their conference to the first tuesday of August that same 1609 yeare to be keeped at Striveling willing every one of the sayd brethren to advise and consider gravely of the sayd questions and to be ready to propone their mindes by word or writ as they shall think fittest c. Archip. Yee haue put my mind to rest concerning that conference at Falkland I pray you shew me what was done at Striveling for I never heard of that meeting Epa. The purpose chiefly intended in that assembly conference to establish the Bishop in his evil grouÌ„ded moderation being in the mean time obtained the diversitie of opinions still remained and that diet permitetd to expire upon hope that the rest of the course in hand would go more easily in a Linlithgow-like assembly Archip. What assembly mean ye for their sagacitie seemeth now to be hot upon the sent Epaph. Third step to Prelacie High Commission I meane the assembly of Glasgow But I must tell you first that now having great rents and being called Lords and Bishops albeit not in respect of office but benefice being Lords of Parliament Lords of Councell Patrons of kirks plotters of Ministers stipends c. They were armed at that time in Febru 1610 with the transcendent power of high Commission which being added unto their former wealth and worldly dignities maketh the third step of their preferment Ecce duo gladij spiritualis â—omâ— judicat omnia ipse vero Ã nemine judicatur Archip. That is a great and terrible one for they may now hold intrants at the dore depriue them who are entred or plague them with the hungry persecution confine vvard imprisone So that now I thinke they may mount as they please vvithout opposition especially when the timorous know that never failing truth Cui plus licet quam par est plus vult quam licet Epaph. Hence was it Fourth step of Prelacie Their power Ecclesiasticall that vvith all diligence the Assembly of Glascow vvas prepared the same yeare 1610 to be holden Iune 8 for lifting them towards the top of the Ladder that they might be no longer tyranni fine titulo In that more costly then profitable Assembly moderated by the Bishop and made up of Cathnes Orknay other wares of that sort the Assembly at Aberdeen is declared nul the Bishops made Moderatours in every Diocesan Assembly and either they or their deputies moderatour of the weekly meetings of the exercise Ordination and deprivation of Ministers visitation of Kirkes excommunication and absolution of persons presentations and all pinned to their sleeues And finally this easie conquest is made sure with this threefold cord 1 Everie Minister at his entrie shall svvear obedience to his ordinarie 2 No Minister neither in preaching nor exercise shall speak against the Actes of this Assembly 3 That the question of paritie or imparitie of Pastors be not touched in

Parliaments and for declaration of their present and purposed constancie Epaph. Albeit a protestation be a forme of defence forbidden to no person neither by the law of God of nature or of man neverthelesse a heavy accusation hard pursuit is intended against the Ministers of that protestation and some of theÌ„ for their stedfast standing to the liberty of the Kirk put to high extremitie But as sundry of the subscrivers of the first protestation at Perth through ambitioÌ„ sought after the Prelacy against which they then protesteâ— So a number of the first subscrivers of the second Protestation at Edinburgh vvere charged to compeiâ—e at Santandroes a few daies after and through feare vvere moved at that time to repent themselues of their faithfull service done to the Kirk and since haue practised and preached against their protestation to their owne shame the offence of their people the sorrow of their deerest friends advantage of the enemie and no small hurt to the Kirk and cause of Religion Archipp I perceiue that yee haue ever been protesting and they ever proceeding till that the unitie authoritie and order of the Kirk are quite destroyed and the externall vvorship of God left naked vvithout a guard readie to be a pray to every enemie Epaph. The bitter fruits of the former alteration caries secret seeds of the following defection Bitter fruits of the three former degrees of defection the one side partly by terrours and allurements crosses and commodities banishment and benefices is in number diminished and partly by paines feares and expenses vvearied and vveakned Nec ultra pars sanior ea tempestate repugnare ausa â—am quoquo modo rebus finem imponere cupiens Nam quillibet audere atque agere facile eraâ— maximorum amicitia subnixis The other vvhat by revolters and vvhat by Intrants daily increased and by svveet successe and frequent favours encouraged and made vvanton Before that mysterie of Hierarchie was unvailed distraction among the Ministers vvas judged to be the causes of the increase of superstition and Papistrie the fyne pretence of so many Assemblies but both the one and the other are as negligently passed as mightily increased since What the Kirk of Christ hath lossed as much hath Antichrist gained he needs not to feare the fead of Discipline and Kirk Assemblies nor the ancient unitie of vigilant Pastors for by the Circaean cup of this mightie mutation the face of matters and fashions of men are so metamorphosed that perhaps you shall find that he vvho loved you best and hated the adversaries and corrupters of Religion most is changed quite from himselfe and scarsly can ye know your old friend now walking in his new cut our old one heart is now either heart and heart or else no heart at all We vvere vvont to close up our great controversies vvith heartie harmonie now in common matters we hirsp like harp and harrovv For libertie is slaverie for mutuall honour pride and contempt the spirituall service of the Gospell is left for the affaires of this life for Kirk Assemblies are Episcopall Courts for friends comfortlesse and against enemies awlesse If there yee seek reason yee shall haue vvill and if you say Brother my Lord smiles and yet fretts at you as a Disciple of the old discipline and a despiser of the new domination for reasoning and graue deliberation in weightiest matters you shall haue a dash of artificiall voting like Alexanders sword upon Gordius knot yea in a point of Religion if they cannot perswade you they vvill surely usurpe over your conscience Papistrie blasphemie breaâ—h of the Saboath contempt of the Gospell mocking add puritanizing of faithfull Ministers and reformed professors are rather passed as a merriment or praysed by a smile then repressed and punished as crying transgressions he that refraines makes himselfe a prey and he that will not follow the droue like the beasts of the field is the proud mans earth vvherupon he trampes and must haue readie shoulders for a load of injuries and if he be not servile in imitation like waxe to perswasions and witty to vvrong himselfe he must learn to bear contentment and extremities in one minde Thus Christ tryeth his own Kirk Antichrist hath escaped vvith his crueltie and treacherie and hath gotten as many yeares of peace to prepare his last onset by subtiltie as the Kirk hath of troubles to make her preparations against his battels He is shamelesse and insolent in his strength as he apprehends that he is not affrayed to exsult with the cryes of victorie before the battell And notwithstanding of his incurable crueltie some of the Pastors and professors of Reliligion by banishments imprisonements confinings fear of pursute reproaches calumnies and all sort of contempt are so extenuate that the pitie of their case is no lesse pearcing then their faithfull labours in the Ministerie haue been profitable Others so drunken vvith the deceiueable favours of the time that their care to bee great eateth up their paines to doe good And if there be a third sort free of fear and folly and zealous in Religion their hearts are pulled down to behold the miseries of poor men vvho faine vvould doe vvell but are wickedly abused and the pride of idle men vvho pay the debt of their calling by their nodd of Conformity to be admired as the Prophets of Ierusalem and the pillars of the Kirk Archipp Your just complaints of the former alteration albeit there were no vvorse to follow doe cry that it is more then time that the strong men set up and sitting on high Vt os Iehovae should set themselues to seek the Lord and say to their brethren Come neere we pray you to us Let us seek the God of our fathers and the ancient way of our peace We haue fallen out but let there â—ee no more strife between you and us We are brethren and debters to God and his people that we should earnestly contend for the maintenance of the faith once given to the Saints Wherefore were we borne to see the destruction of our people and the destruction of our holy Citie and thus to fit still till it be delivered into the hands of strangers to bee devored by the sword of sworn enemies that as her glorie had been great so might her dishonour and her excellencie be turned into sorrow Let us be zealous of the Law and giue our liues for the covenant of our fathers for by it we shall obtaine glorie Epaph. Yet the verie teares of Gods people for the common miseries of the Kirk will feed the furie of such incendiares as make their own particulars their highest projects The wicked will still doe wickedly As the Bishops of Rome after their advancement were not satisfied vvith the two uncouth Tragedies of Bellum sacrum and Bellum Pontificium wherewith they filled the would with bloud and troad all secular powers under their feet but must also vvhich is vvorse depraue Gods worship and in place

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