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A61148	The history of the Church of Scotland, beginning in the year of our Lord 203 and continued to the end of the reign of King James the VI of ever blessed memory wherein are described the progress of Christianity, the persecutions and interruptions of it, the foundation of churches, the erecting of bishopricks, the building and endowing monasteries, and other religious places, the succession of bishops in their sees, the reformation of religion, and the frequent disturbances of that nation by wars, conspiracies, tumults, schisms : together with great variety of other matters, both ecclesiasticall and politicall / written by John Spotswood ...	Spottiswood, John, 1565-1639.; Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing S5022; ESTC R17108	916,071	584

Commissioners chosen to present these Petitions were the Archbishop of Glasgow the Earl of VVigton the Lord Kilsith Mr. VVilliam Couper Minister at Perth and Iames Nisbit Burgess of Edinburgh together with the Petitions they received a Letter from the Assembly conceived in these terms HAving convened in this Generall Assembly by your Majesties favourable licence and permission and shadowed under your Majesties wings with the presence of your Majesties Commissioners we did set our selves principally to consider the cause of the late growth of Papists among us and found by an universall complaint the chief cause to be this that where the Church in these parts was accustomed to be nourished by your Majesties fatherly affection as the most kinde parent of piety and Religion we have been left in the hands of unkinde stepfathers who esteeming us an uncouth birth to them have intreated us hardly and cherished our adversaries by all means they could as your Majesties highness will perceive more clearly by the overtures for remedy which in all humble submission we present to your Majesty by these honourable Commissioners and brethren humbly intreating your Majesty to take compassion upon us your Majesties loving children in this land that we may be taken out of the hands of these who are more ready to deliver the heads of the Kings sons to Jehu if the time were answerable to their wishes then to nourish and bring them up to perfection There is no cause Sir why the Apostates who have lately grown up in this land should be feared whatever they be in estate or number for with them are the golden Calves which God will destroy with them is Dagon whose second fall shall be worse then the first but with your Majesty is the Lord your God to fight for you and under your standard are the best of the Nobility the greatest number of Barons and all your Majesties Burgesses unspotted in Religion and resolute all of them for Gods honour and your Majesties preservation to spend their goods and lives and whatever is due to them VVe also your Majesties humble servants the Bishops and Ministers of the Gospel in this land now reconciled to others with a most hearty affection by your Majesties only means and the carefull labours of your Majesties trusty Counsellor and our very good Lord the Earl of Dunbar are for out parts most ready to all service in our callings to stirre up your Majesties subjects by the word that God hath put in our mouths to the performing of that obedience which God and nature doth oblige them unto and by Gods grace shall go before them in all good e●sample These things we leave to be delivered by our Commissioners whom we beseech your Majesty to hear graciously and after some favourable consideration of our case and present suits to give such answer as in your Highness wisdome shall be thought fittest And now with our humble thanks to your Majesty for the liberty granted to meet in this Assembly and our most hearty prayers to God Almighty for your Highness long life and prosperous reign we rest This letter was subscribed by the Earls of Crawford Glencarne and Kinghorne the Lords Lindesay Baclugh Salton London Torphichen Blantire Scone Halirudhouse and a great number of the Clergy and Barons The Chancellor hearing of the Assemblies proceedings and supposing himself to be specially aimed at in all that business wherein he was not mistaken moved the Secretary to take journey to Court for obviating these courses so farre as he might But he at his coming did meet with a business that concerned himself more nearly for about the same time Cardinall Bellarmin● had published an Answer to the Kings Apology and therein charged him with inconstancy objecting a Letter that he had sent to Clement the eighth whilst he lived in Scotland in which he had recommended to his Holiness the Bishop of Vaison for obtaining the dignity of a Cardinall that so he might be the more able to advance his affairs in the Court of Rome The Treatise coming to the Kings hands and he falling upon that passage did presently conceive that he had been abused by his Secretary which he remembred had moved on a time for such a letter and thereupon began to think that among the letters sent to the Dukes of Savoy and Florence at the time another might have been shuffled in to the Pope and his hand surreptitiously got thereunto The King lay then at Royston and the Secretary coming thither he inquired if any such letter had been sent to the Pope at any time The Secretary apprehending no danger and thinking that his policy in procuring the Popes favour to the King should not be ill interpreted confessed that such a letter he had written by his Majesties own knowledge But perceiving the King to wax angry he fell on his knees and intreated mercy seeing that which he had done was out of a good minde and desire to purchase the Popes favour which might at the time have advanced his title to England The King then putting him in minde of the challenge made by the late Queen in the year 1599 for writing the same letter and how being at that time questioned thereupon he had not onely denyed his own knowledge thereof but likewise moved Sir Edward Drummond who carried the letter to the Pope to come into Scotland and abjure the same he answered That he did not think the matter would be brought again in hearing and that fearing his Majesties offence he had denyed the letter and had moved his Cousin Sir Edward to do the like but now that he saw that which he had done in the politick course turned to the Kings reproach with many tears he besought his Majesty to pardon his fault and not to undo him who was own creature and willing to suffer what he thought meet for repairing the offence The King replying that the fault was greater then he apprehended and that it could not be so easily passed enjoyned him to go to London and keep his chamber till he returned thither After some eight days the King returned to White Hall where the Secretary was brought before the Councell and charged with the fault which the Lords did aggravate in such manner as they made the same to be the ground of all the conspiracies devised against the King since his coming into England especially of the Powder Treason For the Papists said they finding themselves disappointed of the hopes which that letter did give them had taken the desperate course which they followed to the endangering of his Majesties person posterity and whole estates The Secretary having heard their discourses kneeled to the ground and fetching a deep sigh spake to this effect Curas leves loquuntur ingentes stupent My Lords I cannot speak nor finde words to express the grief I have conceived for the offence committed by me against my gracious Soveraign for on the one side when I call to minde

forward to God which I for my part doe hope and firmly believe that you all will endevour according to the wisdome and prudence which Almighty God hath given unto you And thus as your Lordship hath ever been desirous that I should give you the best assistance I could with his Majesty for the reducing or restraining this Nobleman so you see I have done it with the best discretion I could which I doubt not but all our brethren with you will take as proceeding from my desire to serve God and his Majesty and the whole Church of Scotland I send you herewith the form which I used in absolving the Lord Marquiss in the presence of the Lord Primate of Ireland the Lord Bishop of London and divers others And so beseeching the blessing of God upon you all that in your Assembly with unity of spirit you may proceed to the honour of Christ and to the beating down of Antichrist and Popery I leave you to the Almighty From my house at Croyden Iuly 23. 1616. This letter being shewed to the Clergy and others that were offended with the absolution of the Marquiss gave them content yet was it resolved that the Marquiss who then was returned from Court should present a supplication to the generall Assembly which was to meet at Aberdene the 13 of August acknowledging his offence not despising the admonitions of the Church and promising to continue in the profession of the truth and make his children to be educated in the same and that upon his supplication he should be new absolved according to the form used in the Church of Scotland This was very solemnly performed the first day of the Assembly the earl of Montrose being then Commissioner for his Majesty In the Assembly it was ordained That for as much as his Majesty had by Proclamation recalled such as were gone forth of the Countrey to be educated in the Colledges of Jesuits or other Popish Universities within the space of a year upon pain to be declared uncapable of succession either to goods or lands a triall and exact search should be made of all those that were sent or gone into forain parts within these last ten years and that every Minister should send a particular note unto his Ordinary of those within his Parish that were gone to follow their studies in places abroad with their age profession and families whereunto they appertained to the end they may be known and the dangers prevented wherewith their corrupt education did threaten the Church It was likewise enacted That no man should be permitted to practise or profess any Physick unless he had first satisfied the Bishop of the Dioces touching his religion That a Liturgie or book of Common prayer should be formed for the use of the Church That the Acts of the generall Assemblies should be collected and put in form to serve for Canons to the Church in their Ministration of discipline That children should be carefully catechised and confirmed by the Bishops or in their absence by such as were employed in the visitation of Churches That Grammar Schooles should be established in all Parishes where the same might be conveniently done And that a Register should be kept of baptismes marriages and burialls by the Minister of every Parish These Acts being put in form were ordained to be presented to his Majesty by the Archbishop of Glasgow and Bishop of Rosse who were sent from the Assembly to intreat his Majesties confirmation of the thing concluded By the answer returned with them his Majesties good liking of all that had proceeded in the Assembly was understood only against the Act of confirming young children by Bishops he excepted saying it was a meer hotch potch and not so cleer as was requisite and therefore directed the same to be reformed and among the Canons of the Church the Articles following to be inserted First That for the more reverend receiving of the holy Communion the same should be celebrated to the people thereafter kneeling and not sitting as had been the custome since the reformation of Religion 2 If any good Christian visited with sickness which was taken to be deadly should desire to receive the Communion at home in his house the same should not be denied to him lawfull warning being given to the Minister the night before and three or four of good Religion and conversation being present to communicate with the sick person who must provide for a convenient place and all things necessary for the reverent administration of the blessed Sacrament 3 That the Sacrament of Baptisme should not be longer deferred then the next Sunday after the child is born unless some great and reasonable cause declared and approved by the Minister doe require the same And that in the case of necessity tried and known to the Minister it should be lawfull to administrate Baptisme in private houses the same being alwaies ministred after the form it would have been in the congregation and publick declaration thereof made the next Sunday in the Church to the end the child might be known to have been received into the flock of Christs fold 4 Seeing the inestimable benefits received from God by our Lord Iesus Christ his birth passion resurrection ascension and sending down of the Holy Ghost have been commendably remembred at certain particular dayes and times by the whole Church of the World every Minister from thenceforth should keep a commemoration of the said benefits upon these days and make choice of severall and pertinent texts of Scripture and frame their doctrines and exhortations thereto rebuking all superstitious observation and licentious profaning of the said times 5 The Act of confirmation of Children his Majesty desired to be reformed in this manner Seeing the confirmation of Children is for the good education of youth most necessary being reduced to the Primitive integrity It is thought good that the Minister in every Parish shall catechise all young children of eight years of age and see that they have knowledge and be able to rehearse the Lords prayer the Belief and ten Commandments with answers to the questions of the small Catechisme used in the Church and that the Bishops in their visitations shall cause the Children be presented before them and bless them with prayer for the encrease of Grace and continuance of God his heavenly gifts with them The difficulty of admitting these Articles being represented in an humble letter to his Majesty by the Archbishop of S. Andrews and a reason given why the same could not be inserted with the Canons as having at no time been mentioned to the Church nor proponed in any of their meetings he was pleased to forbear the pressing of the same for that time thinking at his coming into Scotland which he intended the next Summer to satisfie such as were scrupulous and to obtain the Churches consent Shortly after a letter was sent to the Councel To assure them of the

that they deferre not the Baptisme of Infants any longer then the next Lords day after the child be born unless upon a great and reasonable cause declared to the Minister and by him approved the same be continued As also they shall warn them that without great cause they procure not their children to be baptized at home in their houses but when great need shall compell them to baptize in private houses in which case the Minister shall not refuse to do it upon the knowledge of the great need and being timely required thereto then Baptisme shall be administred after the same form as it should have been in the congregation and the Minister shall the next Lords day after any such private baptisme declare in the Church that the infant was so baptized and therefore ought to be received as one of the true flock of Christs fold 4 For as much as one of the speciall means for staying the increase of Popery and setling of true Religion in the hearts of people is that a speciall care be taken of young children their education and how they are catechized which in time of the Primitive Church most carefully was attended as being most profitable to cause young children in their tender years drink in the knowledge of God and his Religion but is now altogether neglected in respect of the great abuse and errors which crept into the Popish Church by making thereof a Sacrament of Confirmation therefore that all superstitions built thereupon may be rescinded and that the matter it self being most necessary for the Education of youth may be reduced to the Primitive integrity it is thought good that the Minister in every parish should catechise all young children of eight years of age and see that they have the knowledge and be able to make rehearsall of the Lords Prayer Belief ten Commandements with answers to the Questions of the small Catechisme used in our Church that every Bishop in his visitation shall censure the Minister who shall be found remisse therein the said Bishops shall cause the said children to be presented before them bless them with prayer for the increas of their knowledge the continuance of Gods heavenly graces with every one of them 5 As we abhor the superstitious observation of Festivall days by the Papists and detest all licentious and profane abuses thereof by the common sort of prof●ssors so we think that the inestimable benefits received from God by our Lord Iesus Christ his birth passion resurrection ascension and sending downe of the holy Ghost was commendably and godly remembred at certain particular days and times by the whole Church of the world and may also be now therefore the Assembly admitteth that every Minister shall upon these days have the commemoration of the foresaid inestimable benefits and make choice of severall and pertinent texts of Scripture and frame their doctrine and exhortation thereto and rebuke all superstitious observation and licentious profanation thereof These Articles concluded order was given to intimate the same in all the parish Churches and the Ministers enjoyned to inform their people of the lawfulness thereof and exhort them to obedience But this being neglected of the greater part was not the least cause of the distractions that ensued especially in the Church of Edinburgh where the people being still fostered in an opinion that their Ministers would not go from their former practise when they saw them give obedience withdrew themselves in great numbers and ran to seek the Communion from other Ministers they knew to be refractary His Majesty always upon advertisement that the Articles were concluded caused publish the same at the Mercat Cross of the principall burghs commanding the subjects to obey and conform themselves under the pain of his Highness displeasure At the same time the King being informed that the Earl of Argile who the summer preceding had obtained licence upon a pretext of some infirmity to go unto the Spadan Wells was revolted from the Religion and that he entertained some secret practise with old Mackrannald for disturbing the Countrey did recall his licence and ordained him to be cited upon threescore days to appear before the Councell He not appearing at the time appointed was denounced Rebell and process of forfeiture intended against him whether he was perverted by his English Lady who was Popish or that to gain the favour of Spain he did change his religion is doubtfull but thereby he lost his Majesties favour who could never endure an apostate Papist and undid his own reputation Some ten years after he made means for his peace and was permitted to return unto England In the moneth of November a Comet or blazing starre of more then ordinary bigness shined many nights together It was held to portend great calamities and was interpreted by divers to have foreshewed the troubles that shortly after arose in Germany But as every one is ready to make his own construction of such things some with us did take it to foretell the death of our noble Queen Anne who deceased some moneths after to the great regrate of all honest subjects a courteous and humane Princess and one in whom there was much goodness It was in this year that the Synod in Dordrecht in Holland was gathered for repressing the Arminians and thither did the troublers of our Church thinking to procure their approbation direct a relation of the Government of the Scotish Church But the Synod declining all questions of discipline held themselves to the points of doctrine controverted and having condemned the five articles wherein the Arminians dissented from the reformed Churches the acts of Perth Assembly being also five in number it was given out among the vulgar sort that they had condemned the Synod of Perth and for a time was the people entertained by some Ministers in those conceits The relation was confuted a little after and the falshood thereof discovered yet they ceased not by their Libells and Pamphlets to injure the most worthy men and among others the Bishop of Galloway whom they vexed so with their Papers as he taking the business more to heart then was needful fell in a sickness whereof he deceased in the beginning of the same year An excellent and ready Preacher he was and a singular good man but one that affected too much the applause of the popular The good opinion of the people is to be desired if it may be had lawfully but when it cannot be obtained as who is he that can please all men and at all times the testimony of a well informed conscience should suffice Mala opinio bene parta delectat said Seneca An ill opinion well purchased that is for sustaining a good cause or keeping a straight course should work us joy and delight not grieve us at all Upon the death of Mr. William Cowper Mr. Andrew Lambe was translated to Galloway to whom succeeded in

of the Church not onely Townes may be assigned for the chiefest workemen to remaine in but also Provinces that by their faithfull labours Churches may be erected and order established where none is at the present For Readers To the Church that cannot presently be furnished with Ministers men must be appointed that can distinctly read the Common-Prayers and Scriptures for the exercise both of themselves of the Church untill they grow untill a greater perfection Because he who is now a Reader may in process of time attain to a further degree and be admitted to the holy Ministery Some we know that of long time have professed Christ Iesus whose honest conversation deserveth praise of all good men and whose knowledge might greatly help the simple and ignorant people notthelesse the same persons content themselves with reading These must be animated and encouraged to take upon them the function of the Ministery But if in no measure they be qualified for preaching they must abstain from administration of the Sacraments till they attain unto further knowledge and such as take upon then the office of Preachers who shall not be found qualified therefore by the Superintendent are by him to be placed Readers The fift head concerning the provision of Ministers and distribution of the rents and Possessions justly pertaining to the Church SCripture and Reason do both teach that the labourer is worthy of his hire and that the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth forth the corne ought not to be musled Therefore of necessity it is that honest provision be made for Ministers which we require to be such that they neither have occasion of solicitude nor yet of insolency and wantonnesse And this provision must be made not only for their own sustentation during their lives but also for their wives and children after them for it is against godliness reason and equity that the widow and children of him who did faithfully serve the Church of God in his life and for that cause was not careful in providing for his family should after his death be left comfortlesse It is difficil to appoint the several stipends of every Minister because the charges of necessity of all will not be alike for some will be resident in one place some will be compelled to travel and change their dwelling especially if they have charge of divers Churches Some will be burthened with wife and children and one with moe then another some perchance will live a single life and if equal stipends should be appointed to all these who are in charge so unequal one would suffer penury and another have superfluity Therefore we judge that every Minister should have sufficient wherewith to keep an house and be sustained honestly in all things necessary forth of the rents of the Church which he serveth conform to his quality and the necessity of time wherein it is thought that every Minister shall have forty bols meal and twenty bolls malt with money to buy other provision to his house and serve his other necessities the modification whereof is to be referred to the judgement of the Church which shall be made every year at the choosing of the Elders and Deacons providing alwayes that there be advanced to every Minister provision for a quarter of a year before-hand of all things To the Superintendents who travel from place to place for establishing of the Church a further consideration must be given therefore we think that to each of them should be appointed six Chalders beer nine Chalders meal and three Chalders oats for provand to his horse with 500. Marks of money which may be augmented and diminished at the discretion of the Prince and Councel of the Realm The children of the Ministers must be freemen of the Cities next adjacent where their Fathers laboured faithfully they must also have the priviledges of Schooles and Bursaries in Colledges freely granted unto them if they be found apt for learning or failing thereof they must be put to some handicraft and virtuous industry whereby they may be profitable instruments in the commonwealth Their daughters likewise would be vertuously brought up and honestly educated when they come to maturity of years at the discretion of the Church And this we require not so much for our selves or any that pertaineth to us as for the increase of vertue and learning and for the profit of the posterity to come For it is not to be supposed that a man will dedicate his children to serve in a calling where no wordly commodity is expected and naturally men are provoked to follow vertue where they see honour and profit attending the same as by the contrary many despise vertue when they see vertuous and godly men live unrespected and we should be sorty to know any to be discouraged from following the studies of learning whereby they may be made able to profit the Church of Christ. Of the stipend of the Readers we have spoken nothing because if they can do nothing but read they cannot be esteemed true Ministers and regard must be had of their labours but so as they may be spurred forward to vertue therefore to a Reader that is lately entered we think forty Marks more or lesse as the Parishioners can agree sufficient providing that he teach the children of the Parish which he must do besides the reading of the Common Prayer and the books of Old and New Testament If from reading he proceed to exhort and explaine the Scriptures then ought his stipend to be augmented till he come to the degree of a Minister But if after two years service he be found unable to edify the Church by preaching he must be removed from that office and discharged of all stipend that another may be put in place who to the Church may be more profitable No childe nor person within the age of one and twenty years may be admitted to the office of a Reader but such must be chosen and admitted by the Superintendent as for their gravity and discretion may grace the function that they are called unto These Readers who have some gift of exhortation and have long continued in the course of godlinesse we think may have 100. Marks or more at the discretion of the Church appointed for them yet a difference must alwayes be kept betwixt them and the Ministers that labour in word and ministration of the Sacraments Rests two sorts of people who must be provided for of that which is called the Patrimony of the Church to wit the poor and the Teachers of the youth The poor must be provided for in every Parish for it is a shameful thing that they should be so universally contemned and despised Not that we are Patrons to stubborne and idle beggers who running from place to place make a craft of begging for those we think must be compelled to work or then punished by the Civil Magistrate But the poor widows the fatherlesse the impotent maimed persons the aged and every one

the family should use Common-Prayers at morning and night Of the exercise of Prophesying or Interpretation of the Scriptures It was a custome in the Church of Corinth at some times when they did assemble and meet together to read a place of Scripture whereupon one first gave his judgement for the instruction and consolation of the Auditors after whom another did either confirm what the former had said or adde that which he had omitted or correct and explain more properly the place or text Liberty was also given to a third man to speak if the whole truth had not been revealed by the former and above the number of three it seemeth none were allowed to speak as we reade in the 1 Cor. 14. 29. where we have these words Let the Prophets speak two or three and let the other judge And if any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace for ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learn and all may have comfort And the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets This exercise we think to be most necessary for the Church this day in Scotland because thereby the Church may have triall of the knowledge gifts and utterance of every man within their own body The simple and those who have somewhat profited shall be incouraged to proceed in their studies and the whole Church shall be edified every man that list to hear and learn being permitted to declare his mind and knowledge for the comfort of the rest But lest this exercise that is so profitable might turn into debate or strife these rules must be observed 1. All curious and unprofitable questions must be avoyded 2. All interpretations that are against the Analogy of faith and against charity or that seem to contain an open contradiction to other manifest places of Scripture are to be rejected 3. The interpreter may not take to himself the liberty of a Preacher although he be appointed and received a Minister but he must keep him to his text and not break out by digression into Common places 4. He may use no invectives in the exercise unlesse it be in confuting of heresies 5. He must be short in his admonitions and exhortations and spend the time allowed him in opening the mind of the holy Ghost in that place shewing the dependence of the Text and observing such notes as may edifie the auditor 6. Neither he that interpreteth or any of the Assembly ought to move any question in open audience which he doth not presently resolve without disputing with another but every man must shew his own judgement and utter it to the edification of the Church 7. If any be noted of curiosity or bringing in of strange doctrines he must be admonished by the Ministers and Elders after the interpretation is ended 8. The whole Ministers with those that are of the assembly ought to convene and judge how the persons have interpreted the text and how they have handled and intreated the matter during which time the person should be removed till every man hath given his censure After which the persons being called in they should be gently admonished of their escapes if any they have made and then should all questions and doubts be resolved amongst them without any contention The exercise would be kept in every town where Schools and repaire of learned men are upon a certain day of the week which together with the books of Scripture that they shall think most profitable to be intreated we referre to the judgement of the Ministers and Elders of the particular Church where they convene The Ministers to Landwart and Readers so as they have gift of interpretation lying within six miles of the Town must assist and be present at the exercise that either they may learn themselves or others may learn by them Moreover whosoever are esteemed to have any gifts that may edify the Church must be charged by the Ministers and Elders to joyn themselves with that company of interpreters to the end the Church may know whether they be able to serve in the vocation of the Ministery or not And if any be found disobedient and unwilling to communicate their gifts with their brethren the censures of the Church should be used against such providing that the consent and authority of the civil Magistrate be interrponed thereto for no man should be permitted to live as it pleaseth him within the Church but constrained to bestow their labours where it is thought they may serve to the edification of others Of Marriage Marriage ought not to be contracted amongst persons that lack judgement to choose Therefore we think that children and infants cannot be lawfully married in their lesse age that is if the man be within 13. years of age and the woman within 12. at least If any have been married within those years and kept their bodies pure and unconjoyned with others we think not that such can be compelled to adhere as man and wife by reason of any former promise but if after the years of judgement they have embraced one another by virtue of the last consent having ratified the promise made by others for them in their youth the same should be held as married persons Publick inhibitions should be made that no persons under the power and obedience of Fathers Tutors and Curators either men or women contract marriage privately and without the knowledge of those to whom they live subject under the power of the Church censure for if any son or daughter be moved towards a match they are obliged to ask the counsel and assistance of their parents for performing the same And though the Father notwithstanding their desires have no other cause then the common sort of men have to wit lack of money or because they are not perhaps of such a linage and birth as they require yet must not the parties make any Covenant till the Ministery or civil Magistrate be acquainted therewith and interpone their request for the Parents consent which if they cannot obtain finding no just cause why their marriage ought not to proceed in that case they sustaining the place of the Parent may consent to the parties and admit them to marry for the work of God ought not to be hindered by the corrupt affections of worldly men We call that the work of God when two hearts without filthinesse before committed are so joyned that they are content to live together in the holy band of matrimony If any commit fornication with the woman whom he requireth in marriage then both of them do lose the foresaid benefit as well of the Church as of the Magistrate for neither of them ought to be intercessors for filthy fornicators The Father or nearest friend whose daughter being a virgin is deflowred may by the law of God compell the man who hath done the injury to marry his daughter yet if the Father by reason of the offence will not