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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92296	Reasons vvhy the ministers, elders, and professors, who protested against the pretended assemblies at St, Andrews, Dundee, and Edinburgh, cannot agree to the overtures made unto them at the conference upon the 28 and 29 of July, 1652 together with the instructions given by them to such of the number as were sent to the said conference : and the letter directed to Mr. David Dickson, for communicating their papers.	Dickson, David, (1583?-1663)	1652 (1652)	Wing R590; ESTC R42552	4,590	11

a defection do expect repentance and reformation and the purging of his House of corrupt Officers and Members if we should make such a transaction as seems to promise present security to our selves but doth not contribute for preserving of the truth and attaining a solide peace and union in the Lord. V. We cannot see how the passing from these Propositions and the taking upon us such engagements for the time to come as are desired should not involve us in the condemning of our own judgments and in the acknowledgment of a sin and offence in making these Protestations and bearing testimony against the Publick Resolutions and import that what is done by you in taking off of consures and censurableness as you term it is an Act of meer favour and grace upon your part unto Deliquents upon their repentance And though we hope that we shal never be ashamed but esteem it our mercy and glory to acknowledge any thing whereby we have provoked the Lord or offended others yet being more and more convinced in our consciences that what we did in these things was a necessary duty we dare not purchase immunity and exemption from Censures at so dear a rate as to deny the same we shall rather choose still to be sufferers and to wait upon the issue that the Lord shal give then to provock the eyes of his glory grieve the spirits of his People and wound our own Consciences by so unsatisfying and so sinfull a transaction And conceiving that we shall not have the opportunity to speak unto you hereafter as being now about to dissolve our Meeting We do from the zeal that we owe to the honour of God and from the tender respect that we owe unto you as Brethren and for exonering our own Consciences most earnestly beseech and obtest you by your appearing before the Lord Jesus Christ to give your selves unto Prayer and searching of your own hearts and way in Order to Publick Resolutions and Actings untill each of you finde out wherein ye have turned aside from the straight way of the Lord and imployed your gifts and power not for Edification but for grieving the spirits of many of the Godly and strengthening of the hands of the wicked and to Repent thereof and to do no more so least wrath be increased from the Lord the godly of the Land more offended and our breach made wider and our wound more incurable If both you and we might obtain mercy of the Lord to know our trespasse and why he contends and to accept the punishment of our iniquity and humble our selves before him who knoweth but that he might yet have compassion upon us and pardon our sins and heal our Land July the 28. Antemerid 1652. Mr. Andrew Cant Mr. Samuel Rutherford Mr. James Guthry My Lord Waristoun Mr. Robert Trail Mr. John Nevay Mr. James Nasmith being nominated to meet and confer with some Brethren Members of the present pretended Assembly the Instructions following were given them and the Meeting doth require and expect that they will walk according thereto I. That they shall Declare to the Brethren with whom they are to meet That as they do adhere to the Protestations formerly and lately given in so they do protest that they do not meet nor confer with them nor receive any Papers from them as being in the capacity of Commissioners of a Generall Assembly but onely as sent from a meeting of Ministers and Elders wanting any such Authority II. That whatever be offered by the Brethren with whom they do confer they desire to get it in writing from them as the minde of the Meeting whereof they are Members That it being communicated to us Answer may be given thereunto by our whole Meeting III. That they do not engage in Conference with them at first about the matter of Censures It being neither the chief nor only ground of our grievance and because with us things of that nature and any thing of personall concernment ought to be of the smallest value while there are many things in question betwixt them and us of far higher Consequence to the Kingdom of Christ and his Interest as anent the causes of Gods controversy with the Land and the way of Remedy and cure of the former and late defection and the way of preventing the like in time comming The est ablishing and promoving the Work of Reformation and the purging of the Kirk and the like as are said before them in our Propositions given in to their Meeting And that they do int●mate to the Brethren foresaid that we cannot look upon an offer relating onely to the Censures upon some of our number as satisfaction to them or us and that besides what we have said for other Reasons to be communicated in due time to their Meeting And that therefore they shal offer to these Brethren and desire of them that if there be any Conference at all the subject matter of it may be upon the whole Propositions in the order as they stand IV. That in case of their refusing the latter part of the former Article they shall require and demand from the Brethren of the other Meeting That they would Declare whether we may expect that th●se from whom they were sent wil either by the said rethren or any other way give Answer and Satisfaction to us anent the Propositions and what is their sense and meaning of the Publick Resolutions and anent the Constitution Acts and Proceedings of the Meeting at Dundee and of this at Edinburgh and what they minds to do in reference to the same V. That in case there be not satisfaction on obtained in these so just and necessary things They do pro●esse their own and our dis-satisfaction with any thing that hath been offered by them to us or answered to our desires first or last And that they protest for themselves and us That as we have sought Peace and pursued it by all lawful and possible means though much in vain on their part So we are henceforth free from the guilt and blame of the sad prejudices and evi●l consequences whatsomever which may follow upon their present way and their former and future Actings of that nature so contrary and destructive to Edification and Peace FINIS