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woman_n	adam_n	deceive_v	transgression_n	2,011	5	10.9498	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69685	The Case of the Earl of Argyle, or, An Exact and full account of his trial, escape, and sentence wherein are insert the act of Parliament injoining the test, the confession of faith, the old act of the king's oath to be given at his coronation : with several other old acts, made for establishing the Protestant religion : as also several explications made of the test by the conformed clergy : with the secret councils explanation thereof : together with several papers of objections against the test, all framed and emitted by conformists : with the Bishop of Edinburgh's Vindication of the test, in answer thereunto : as likewise a relation of several matters of fact for better clearing of the said case : whereunto is added an appendix in answer to a late pamphlet called A vindication of His Majestie's government and judicatories in Scotland, especially with relation to the Earl of Argyle's process, in so far as concerns the Earl's trial.	Stewart, James, Sir, 1635-1713.; Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691. Vindication of His Majesties government, and judicatories in Scotland.	1683 (1683)	Wing C1066; ESTC R15874	208,604	158

of new in this present Parliament statutes and ordains the said Act to be as a perpetual Law to all our Soveraigne Lords leiges in all times coming Of the quhilk the tenour followes The quhilk day for same●●le as there has been divers and sundrie Acts of Parliament made in King James the I. II. III. IV. and V's times Kings of Scotland for the time and also in our soveraigne Ladies time not agreeing with Gods holy Word and by them divers persons take occasion to maintaine Idolatrie and Superstition within the Kirk of God and rep●esse such persons as were professors of the said Word wherethrow divers innocents did suffer And for escheving such inconveniences in time coming the three Estates of Parliament has annulled and declared all such Acts made in tymes bypast not agreeing with God His Word and now contrary to the Confession of Faith according to the said Word published in this Parliament to be of none availe force nor effect And decerns the said Acts and every ane of them to have no effect nor strength in time to come But the same to be abolished and extinguished for ever in so far as any of the foresaid Acts are repugnant and contrary to the Confession of Faith and Word of God foresaid ratified and approved by the Estates in this present Parliament And therefore decerns and ordains the Contraveeners of the famine Act in any time hereafter to be punished according to the Lawes Of the Quhilk Confession of the Faith the ●●nour follows THE Confession of the Faith and Doctrine Believed and professed by the Protestants of Scotland exhibited to the Estates of the same in Parliament and by their publick Vots authorized as a Doctrine grounded upon the infallible Word of God As the same Confession stands recorded Ja. 6. p. 1. c 4. Anno 1567. I. Of God WE confesse and acknowledge ane onely God to whom onely we must cleave whom onely we must serve whom only we must worship and in whom onely we must put our trust who is Eternal Infinit Unmeasurable Incomprehensible Omnipotent Invisible ane in substance and yet distinct in three Persons the Father the Sonne and the holie Ghost By whom we confesse and believe all things in heaven and earth aswel Visible as Invisible to have been created to be retained in their being and to be ruled and guided by his inscrutable Providence to sik end as his Eternal Wisdome Goodness and Justice has appointed them to the manifestation of his own glorie II. Of the Creation of Man WE confess and acknowledge this our God to have created man to wit our first father Adam in his own Image and similitude to whom he gave Wisedome Lordship Iustice Free will and clear knowledge of himself so that in the hail nature of man there could be noted no imperfection Fra quhilk honour and perfection Man and Woman did both fall the Woman being deceived be the Serpent and Man obeying the voyce of the Woman both conspiring against the Soveraign Majestie of God who in expresse words had before threatned death if they presumed to eat of the forbidden Tree III. Of Original Sinne. BE quhilk transgression commonlie called Original Sinne was the image of God utterlie defaced in Man and he and his posteritie of nature became enemies to God slaves to Sathan and servants unto sin in samiekle that death everlasting has had and shall have power and dominion over all that have not been are not or shall not be regenerated from above quhilk regeneration is wrought by the power of the holie Ghost working in the hearts of the elect of God ane assured faith in the promise of God revealed to us in his word be quilk Faith we apprehend Christ Jesus with the graces and benefits promised in him IV. Of the Revelation of the Promise FOR this we constantlie believe that God after the fearful and horrible defection of man fra his obedience did seek Adam again call upon him rebuke his sin convict him of the same and in the end made unto him ane most joyful promise to wit that the seed of the woman should break down the serpents head that is he should destroy the works of the Devil quhilk promise as it was repeated and made mair cleare from time to time so was it embraced with joy and maist constantly received of all the faithful from Adam to Noah from Noah to Abraham from Abraham to David and so forth to the incarnation of Christ Jesus all we mean the faithful fathers under the law did see the joyful day of Christ Jesus and did rejoyce V. Of The continuance increase and preservation of the Kirk WE maist constantly believe that God preserved instructed multiplyed honoured decored and from death called to life his Ki●k in all ages fra Adam till the coming of Christ Jesus in the flesh For Abraham he called from his fathers countrey him he instructed his seedhe multiplyed the same he marvelously preserved and mair marvelously delivered from the bondage and tyranny of Pharaoh to them he gave his Laws constitutions and ceremonies them he possessed in the Land of Canaan to them after Iudges and after Saul he gave David to be King to whom he made promise that of the fruit of his Ioynes should ane sit for ever upon his regnall seat To this same people from time to time he sent Prophets to reduce them to the right way of their God from the quhilk oftentimes they declined by Idolatry and albeit that for their stubborn contempt of justice he was compelled to give them into the hands of their enemies as before was threatned by the mouth of Moses in sameikle that the hally City was destroyed the temple burnt with fire and the haile land left desolate the space of lxx years yet of mercy did he reduce them again to Jerusalem where the City and Temple were reedified and they against all temptations and assaults of Sathan did abide till the Messias came according to the promise VI. Of the Incarnation of Christ Jesus WHEN the fulness of time came God sent his Son his eternal wisdome the substance of his own glory into this World who took the nature of man-head of the substance of woman to wit of a virgin and that by operation of the Holy Ghost and so was born the just seed of ●avid the Angel of th● great counsell of God the very Messias promised whom we confess and acknowledge Emmanuel very God and very man two perfect natures united and joyned in one person By quhilk our Confession we condemn the damnable and pestilent herefies of Arrius Marchion Eutiches Nest●rius and sik others as either did deny the eternity of his God-head or the verity of his human nature or confounded them or yet divided them VII Why it behoved the Mediator to be very God and very man WE acknowledge and confess that this maist wonderous conjunction betwixt the God-head and the man-head in Christ Jesus did proceed from the