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A95018 A true coppie of the declaration published at Sanqhair upon the tenth day of August 1692 1693 (1693) Wing T2642; ESTC R229925 11,845 14

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A True Coppie of the DECLARATION Published at SANQHAIR Upon the tenth day of August 1692. Sic enim omninò statuo Non ideo interire in Ecclesia veritatem etiamsi ab uno Concilio opprimatur Sed mirabiliter à Domino servari ut iterum suo tempore emergat superet Calvin Printed in the Year M.DC.XCIII THE DECLARATION Of a Poor wasted misrepresented Remnant of the suffering Anti-Popish Anti-Prelatick Anti-Erastian Anti-Sectarian True Presbyterian Church of Christ IN SCOTLAND United together in a Generall Correspondence Published at SANQHAIR IT will no doubt be reputed by many a work both superfluous and Unseasonable at this time to publish any thing of this Nature Superfluous in regard that our Principles and practises are already abundantly manifest to the world particularly in our Informatory Vindication The Testimony against the Toleration and the Contendings and sufferings of many of our dear brethren in their adhering to the same And unseasonable by reason of our present Circumstances being this day as sheep scattered upon the mountains without a sheep-herd to gather or lead us No man taking care for our souls But in stead thereof all or most part waiting for our halting Looking for and Lying in wait to catch Advantage against the Cause through the least misbehaviour of any of those who oun it And would we doubt not be glad of any thing whereby they might get the least shaddow of ground to reproach Now when we are as signes and wonders and have for moe to Criticize upon our words and actions than to kyth any Sympathy with the scope and designe of what we intend by the same Upon these and the like considerations it may be a question whether at this time it be our duty to appear in this manner Seing much of the Beauty and Lustre of a Testimony yea and much of its weight depends upon its being both seasonably exhibited and by men of understanding that have knowledge of the times and what Israel ought to doe These and many other things relative to the same as they have in some measure been pondered by us so have not altogether wanted their oun weight to deterr us from any thing of this nature in such a Juncture But yet upon the other hand When we consider that ever since the Lords Outstretched Arm brought redemption to this Land from Anti-Christian Darkness and in ane eminent way made it his oun by bringing us under these Sacred and Inviolable Bonds of holy Covenants As Enemies to that Covenanted work of Reformation have not been neither at this day are wanting for their part in carrying on their Malignant Designes in Opposition to and for destruction of the Covenant and Cause of God and have been not a litle helped thereto by the faintings and Dastardly yeeldings of Unfaithfull and Declyning Ministers and Professors of the same So Likewise the Lord hath glorifyed his Name and hath so far Dignified this Church as to have the honour to the honour of his Name be it spoken of having still a Party in her who notwithstanding the Hellish Cruelty of open and avowed Enemies in their persecution on the one hand and the base and treacherous Dealings of backslyding Ministers and Professors in their Reproaches and Misrepresentations of that poor Party on the other hand Yet over all these Difficulties accounted it their glory to be faithfull for him in their places and stations And esteemed the least hoof of the attained unto Reformation preferrable to their Dearest Interests Laid hold upon all opportunities that were offered for giving a Testimony of their Love to himself and zeal for his Publick Glory although seldome or never thought seasonable by the wise and Learned Rabbies of the time Considering how they were helped to resist unto blood in striving to keep the word of his patience and contend for the faith once Delivered to the Saints How the Lord smiled upon their honest Designes and received them with good-will at their hands And Likwise considering what God-provocking soul-ensnaring and Land-Desolating Courses are now on foot in these Lands as if all we have done these years bypast were not sufficient to Draw doun the Lords deserved wrath upon us without putting on the Capestone on all our other defections by Joyning once more in Affinity with the people of these Abominations and carrying it on under the Name of Protestant Interest and New Reformation And then what strange Apprehensions the Land hath conceived of us upon the account of our non-concurrence with the same looking upon us as men misled drinking in and mentaining strange and pernicious principles Despisers of Government and Rejecters of the Gospell We say upon these and other weighty Considerations we Judge our selves some way obliged if we can do no more at least to kyth our desire to follow that Noble cloud of Witnesses and to go forth by their footsteps in contending for Truth by adding our mite of a Testimony to all the Truths that are this day Practicallie Controverted and against all defections either on right or Left hand whatsoever plausible pretences they may be covered with Although we judge our selves at this time Incapable of Publishing any thing that can either make Truth more clear than it is or yet escape the sneaking Censure of those whose station if they were faithfull in it Leads them to be far more forward in this work than we We therefore Declare to the world our hearty desire to embrace and adhere to the written Word of God contained in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as the only and compleat Rule of Faith and Manners And whatsoever is founded thereupon or aggreeable thereunto such as Our Confession of Faith Larger and shorter Catechisms Directory for Worship Our Covenants National and Solemne League The Acknowledgment of Sins and Engadgment to Duties Causes of Gods Wrath The Ordinary and Perpetuall Officers of the Church by Christs oun appointment as Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons and the Form of Church Government Commonlie called Presbyterial We Declare our Adherence to all the faithfull Contendings for Truth whether of old or of Late by Ministers or Professors against whatsoever sinfull Courses whether more refined or more grosse And particularly against the Publick Resolutions Cromuels Usurpation the Toleration of Heresies and Sects in his time Against the Sacrilegious Usurpations and Tyranny of Char. 2d The Unfaithfullness of Ministers and Professors in complying with him by accepting his Indulgences first or last And in a word to every thing aggreeable to the Matter of our Testimony as it is Declared pag. 25. and 26. of our Informatory Vindication printed Anno 1687. Likewise our adherence to he Testimony against the abominable Toleration granted by the Duke of York given in to the Ministers at Edinburgh by that faithfull Minister and now glorifyed Martyr Mr. James Renuick Janr 17. 1688. And to whatever faithfull contendings have been made or Testimonies given against the endeavours of any in their