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A41771	The nonconformists vindication, or, A testimony given against the indulged assembly of separatists wherein the false calumnies and aspersions cast upon the suffering Presbyterians, are answered and confuted : also, the heads and causes of separation are opened and explained, together with an illustration of the Erastian state of the present church.	Grant, Patrick, 17th/18th cent.	1700 (1700)	Wing G1522; ESTC R12655	52,064	65

you and your King or any Successor hereafter whatsoever may enter in Covenant with God by renewing the National Covenant the Solemn League and Covenant That it may be manifest to the World that you deliverance is not Bastard and Evil Begotten but can run through the Channal of a Covenant of Reformation And indeed we shall not carp much at the deference of it if there shall be any possibility for the time to come to accomplish this work Experiment 4. Fourthly We desire if it may stand with the being of your Church That the sins of the Throne may be confessed and particularlie acknowledged and Faithfully reproved in Doctrine censured by Discipline and punished with the Ecclesiastical Sword in case of obstinacy Particularly these forementioned sins Namelie 1 The manifest Perjurie in Breach of the Coronation Oath in countinancing Tolerating of Poperie and Prelacie throughout the Kingdoms 2. The black Articles contained in the late Confederacie where Liberty of Conscience was proposed as the end and the Persons confederat with were Idola●rous Papists which is contrair to Scripture and the Testimonies of our Ancestors to join with such in War 3. The impowerishing of the Land by Cesses and Impositions in time of Peace Now we think the consideration of these Propositions cannot in Conscience be denyed seing they are agreeable to Scripture and consonant to the judgment of all sound Divines That sins of all sorts of Persons both High and Lo Kings as well as the meanest Subjects are Faithfullie to be reproved and Censured by Discipline or else the Church cannot be obedient and Loyal to Christ Jesus who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and has given command unto his Messengers to teach all things whatsoever he hath commanded them as in Matth. 28. 20. and Jer. 1. 7. For thou shall go to all that I will send thee and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak And doth not this command reach the sins of Kings as well as other Men the word being sent unto them I hope the Learned Assembly will acknowledge that p●r●iality is to be avoided being reproved of God as in Mal. 2. 9. And therefore let none stumble at the Faithful reproving and censuring of these ●ins mentioned seing that it is a duty Commanded of God and commened by the Example of the Holy Prop●ers who Faithfullie reproved Kings without partialitie then let the Assem●lie if they be what they profess imi●ate the P●actise of the Holie Prophets by laying aside par●ialitie and the slavi●h fear of Men That it may be manifest to the World that your Church is built upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Ch●ist being the chief corner stone Ephes 2. 20 If otherwise ●ou shall refuse this dut●e and wilful●●e out of carnal prudence l●y aside Z●al courage and Fidelitie then sha●l 〈◊〉 be guiltie of Erastianism by declaring your selves to be the Servan●s and slaves of en But some will object and say if the sins of the Throne may be so marked reproved and censured Then it would 〈◊〉 that Pre●by●●●●an Government cannot agree with Monarchie I Answer the lawful 〈…〉 and exercise of Kingly Government can well agree with Presbyterie But not the abuse and unlawful exercise thereof and that because it brings the Lords Wrath and Judgment both on the Throne Church in case of silence and connivance thereat Therefore we desire that you would consider impartially and without prejudice the Accusations Grounds and Objections led against you that so it may appear how hateful and abhoring a sinful Union is Oh! what sin is more reproved and forbidden than Union in iniquity as in Eph. 5 11. Have no sellowship with the unfruitful Works of Darkness but rather reprove them and in 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16. What fellowship hath Righteousness with Vnrighteousness and what Communion hath Light with Darkness and what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that believeth with an unbeliever or what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols and verse 17. Wherefore come out from among them and be separat saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receave you Moreover hath not the Lord declared the Imposibility of Union with sinners by the Mouth of his Prophets as in Amos 3. 3. Can two walk together except they be agreed Oh can Union be in sin and defection or would you be in a happy condition if you obtained it Alas no more than Israel was in their defection Exod. 32. When with on consent they did say These be thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt And doth not an universal sinning bring universal Judgments on a Land and People Therefore consider this and lay to Heart your defection and be awakned with the Judgments of God upon the Land by the Plague of Famine that has been these Years bygone and now present and seek out your sins and the causes of the Lords Wrath why he thus contends with the Land according to the Example of the Godly in former times as in 2 Sam. 21. And there was a Famine in the Days of David three Years Year after Year and David enquired of the Lord and the Lord answered and said It is for Saul and for his Bloody House because he slew the Gibionites So that you see the causes of the Famine was Breach of Covenant and Bloodsheding which certainly is the causes of this Famine And did David enquire after the causes while there was three Years Famine then let the Assembly and all of us enquire after the causes Now while there hath been six years Famine And I think the causes thereof will be found to be the same that it was in the days of David viz. Breach of Covenat and Bloodshed which the Assembly are deeplie guiltie of by their past and present practise as I have plainlie held out in the forementioned Grounds and Accusations led against you Therefore examine your selves and consider what you have done and are doing by your going on in Breach of Covenant Perjurie and by your trampling on the Blood of the Saints and Martyres in condemning and burieing their Testimonies and maliciously and falsly accusing the Faithful of Separation because they will not go on with you in your Soul Murdering courses to the ruine of the Land and their own Souls But in the next place we desire you to consider what it is you have to justisie before God and the World in defence of your continued Defection in going on in your Erastian courses Have you this to say that you are in Judgment sound Presbyterians and professes sound Principles Whereas in practise you deny it by subjecting to the fear awe and unlawful commands of the Tolerating Magistrat Like 〈◊〉 these spoken of Isa 29 12. This People draw near to me with their mouth and with their lips d● honour me but have removed their heart far from me and their fear towards me are taught by the Precepts of men Or like to these 2 Kings 17. 33. Who feared the Lord and served their own Gods Or what more have you to boast of by your Learning and external form of piety or yet by Elabourat painful Preaching when in practise you are despisers of the Building like to these Jewish Doctors ' who could Learnedly hold out the signs tokens and marks of the Messias Yet when they did see him to whom their own signs did agree they would have none of him Oh then shall it so be with you will you still go on in a wilful malicious despite against the cause of Christ and the followers thereof I say beware lest your wilful hearted of Truth arising from envie bring some in the end to fall into the sin unpardonable as did these Jewish Doctors 2. We desise you to consider who it is you have to deall with in your contending I say it is God not man that you have to deall with therefore take head what was spoken to Paul Acts 9. 4 5. It is hard for you to kick against the Pricks I say Truth maintainer is Omnipotent and cannot sin and therefore will see to the cause of the Afflicted and right of the Poor Psal 140. 12. And will teach his Truths Doctrinallie by his Judgments on Backsliders i● walking contrair unto them while they walk contrair unto him as in Lev. 16 17. And will get himself honour upon your Idols by overthrowing them and by destroying the bramble under which Backsliders are sheltering as in Judges 9. 9. And seing the Lord will be glorious in his judgments then do not build that which he will destroy neither insult confidentlie over the desolations of his House and People thinking now the Witnesses are dead and buried and now you have go ten the Victorie consider that place of Scripture 1 Sam 2. ●6 The Lord Kill●th and he makes alive he bringeth down to the Grave and he bringeth up Therefore we exhort you in the sight of God to lay aside these weapons of War by which you cover and defends your sins and defections viz. These four painted complexions namelie Personal sins sins of infirmitie deadness want of Courage and Zeal and lay to heart your sins by confessing and forsaking of them seing the Lord is willing and readie to receave you and is not the suffering remanent readie to imbrace Union and Communion with you upon Repentantance and Confession But if you shall refuse this and continue obstinat in defending of your sin and will not hear then let us spread out your case before the Lord seeking his assistance to mourn over them that our Hearts may be affected with grief and our Souls made to weep in secret places for your pride and our eyes made to weep sore and run down Tears for all the Abominaations done in the Land So let all thine Enemies Perish O LORD but let them tha● love him be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might Judges 5 31. FINIS

to the Year 79. where he did appear in War against the Interest of Christ So that you see that it was a Contradiction to them to say that they would defend the Interest of Christ and the Interest of his Enemies they being opposit the one to the other Alas this was the cursed Achan in the Camp ' for which Israel could not stand before the Eumie as in Josh 7. So that from this you see that the Separation was materialie begun before Bothwell But not formallie brought forth in all it's Circumstances until the Act of Indemnity afterward was proclaimed which Proclamation the indulged did willinglie accept at which time they separated from the Faithful From which time we are willing to examine our Actions ever since the Year 79. and that because in your National Fast in the ●ear 1690 ye accuse us of dangerous principles and undiscreat Zeal Therefore we are willing to cast our courses into Scanning by examining the Matter As 1. First If we have done any thing that we are not bound and engaged both from the Word of God and our Covenants to do then we shall take with our Guilt Now I shall give a Narration and Account of our Proceedings in that sad Day of the Church calamitie under the indulgencie in the Year 1680 It 's said Job 17 8 9 Vpright Men shall be astoni●hed at this and the Innooent shall stir up himself against the Hypocrite The Righteous shall hold on his way and he that hath clean Hands shall be stronger and stronger That is shall add Strength Now this was the Case of the Faithful who were keeping clean Hands they did bestir themselves against Hypocritical Backsliders by shewing their love to the Crown and Interest of Christ and to the Land in cleaving to our Covenant● and Lands Engagments Judging that altho others had imbraced the Tyrrants interest and had corporat themselves under his Banner Yet they were engaged to perfect the thing begun viz. To cast off that Tyrrant and declare a War against him and all these of his practise And this they did in as legal a way as the present Circumstances could permit For the Faithful who were adhearing to the Laws and Liberties of the Church and Nation did call a Representative and did invest themselves with Authority by vertue of which they did emit a Declaration at Sanquhar which is as follows The DECLARATION and TESTIMONY of the true PRESBYTERIANS ANTIPRELATICK ANTIER ASTIAN Persecuted Party in SCOTLAND Published at Sauquhar June 22 1680. IT is not amongst the smallest of the Lords Mercies to this poor Land that there hath alwayes been some who have given their Testimony against everie course of Defection we were guiltie of which is a token for good That he doth not intend to cast us of all together but that he will leave Remnant in whom he will be gracious if they throw his Grace keep themselves clean and walk in his ways and methods as they have been walked in and owned by Predecessors of trulie worthy Memory in their carrying on of our noble work of Reformation in the several steps thereof both from Popery and Prelacie And likewise from Erastian Supremacy so much usurped by him who it is true so far as we know is descended from the Race of our Kings Yet he has so far deboared from what he ought to have been by his Perjurie and his usurping in Church Matters and Tyrrany in Matters Civil as is known by the whole Land That we have just reason to account it amongst the Lords great contraversies against us that we had not disowned him and the Men of his Practises whether inferior Magistrats or any other as Enemies to our Lord Jesus his Crown and true Protestant and Presbyterian Interest in these Lands our Lords Espoused Bride and Church Therefore tho' we be for Government and Governours such as the Word of God and our Covenants allows yet we for our selves and all that will adhere unto us The Representatives of the true Presbyterian Church and Covenanted Nation of Scotland considering the great hazard of lying under sin any longer Do by thi● presents diso●n Charles Stuart who has been Reigning or rather we say Tyr●anizing on the Throne of Britain as having any Right Title or Interest ●o or in the said Crown of Scotland or Government as forefaulted several years since by his Perjurie and Breach of Covenant with God and his Church and U●urpation of his Crown and Royal Prerogatives and many other Breaches in Matters Ecclesiastick and by his Tyrannie and breaches in the very Leges regn●ndi in matters civell For which reasons we declare that several years since he should have been denuded of being King Ruler or Magistrat or haveing any power or to be obeyed as ●●ch as also we under the banner of our Lord Jesus Christ the Captain of Salvation do declare a war with such a Tyrant and usurper and all the men of these practises as enimies to our Lord Jesus Christ and his cause and and Covenant and against all such as have any way strenthened him in his usurpation and Tyrannie civell and Ecclesiacstick yea and against all such as shall any way strengthen side with or acnowledge any other in the like usurpation and Tyrannie far more against such as would betray or deliver up our free Reformed Church into the boundage of Antichrist the Pope of Rome by this we homologat our Testimony at Rutherglen the Tuentie nynth of May 1679. and all the Fai●hfull Testimones of these that have gone before us As also we do disclaim that Declaration published at Hamiltoun the 13 day of June 1679 chiefly because it takes in the Kings intrest which we are several years since loused from As also because of the foresaids reasons and others that we may after this if the Lord will publish as also we disown and resent the reception of the Duke of York a professed Papist as repugnant to our principales and vows to the most High God and as that which is the great tho alas the just reproach of our Church we also by this protest against his succeeding to the Crown as against what ever hath been done or any are essaying to do in this Land given to the Lord in prejudice to our work of Reformation And to conclude we hope after this none will blame us or offend at our rewarding of these that are against us as they have done to us as the Lord gives the opportunity This is not to exclude any who hath declined if they be willing to give satisfaction according to the degree of offence Now the lawfulness of this Proceeding being denyed by some upon the Matter and the authority thereof questioned by others It was acknowledged to be a dutie indispensi●le in the year 1681 to ratifie and approve all that was done at Sanquhar Considering the Parliament that then was where the Duke of York sat Commissioner and likewise to testifie against the unlawfulness of that Parliament

no Testimonie given against the sin proportionable to the offence for at best your Testimonie hath been but like to that of Eli to his Sons 1 Sam. 2 24 25. Which Testimonie will never be approven of God for Faithfulness as in Chap. 3. 13. Because his Sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not So that now you see we charge you with Erastianism upon sufficient grounds although the Indulgence and present Toleration had never committed but when all is considered then how great is the ground of Accusation against your Erastian practise But furder you say what are the instances brought to prove so grievous an Accusation Ans For proof of your Erastian Constitution I shall first lay out to your your consideration the being of your Church as it is founded on the Oath of Allegiance to an unlawful King who walketh contrair to our Covenants Coronation Oath and Fundamental Laws And therefore doth distinguish from a Lawful King and Faithful Subject to the Crown and Kingdom of Christ who should be a nourishing Father to the Church and Terror to Evil doers But according to the forementioned Ground and Objections there is a contrair walking So that obedience and subjection to him is not Subordination to the Lord as to a Magistrat that exerciseth his power Circa Sacrat And therefore no Minister nor Subject can swear to him without being guilty of changing their head Christ Jesus And also of making a Sacrafice of the Rights and Liberties of the Church by Burieing our Covenanted Engagments and giving up the Fundamental Laws unto the Will and Lust of Man So that your present state and Liberty is not any thing else but a sinful Toleration purchassed by price of Conscience founded on a mutual Tolerating of one another which makes a joint Conspiracie against Christ and his cause by making I say a Sacrafice of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church by your partiality and silence at the sins of the Throne 1 I say in Government the Intrinsical power of the Tolerating Magistrat doth appear in that the Will Awe and fear of the Magistrat Rings Rules and Principalie is followed in your Assembly by that Negative Voice of your King in that you dare not Act or do any thing though lawful and necessar until the Tolerating Magistrat think fit to Tolerat I mean in things external and easie which doth not strick against the sins of the Throne Yea how oft hath the Assembly meet together and goten little or nothing done and all for want of the will of the Magistrat to preceed and draw them But Secondly The intrinsical power of the present Magistrat appears in Doctrine in your Infidelity in Burieing the sins of the Throne As 1. In Tolerating Prelacy and Popery throughout the Kingdoms 2. The black Articles contained in the late War by joining with the Popish party contrair to the Writing of Mr. Gilhespie which was owned and approven by the Church in the dayes of our Ancestors 3. The wasting and Impoverishing of the Land in time of Peace by Cesses and Impositions spending these Exactions in pride and Lust bestowing a great part of them on corrupt Members of Parliament in order to make them ●ervicable Instruments for carrieing on those sinful actings 4. The change that 's in Doctrine Prayer and Practise by the command of the Magistrat as to the desisting and leaving of the Warr with the King of F●ance in the Year 98 and 99. Now let it be yealded that the War was lawful on the matter Which cannot be denyed he being an oppressing Tyrant and stated Enemy to God and Godliness And therefore the necessar causes and circumstances of War being found in him which is Aggression on the Lives and Liberties of the Subjects which was compleated on them though ●ot perfected on us From which Aggression the absolute necessity and Indispensability of Militating did flow Now this being then the causes of War was good and valide on the matter the end being the Glory of God and saftie of the Subjects and Kingdom Then why should it not have been proceeded in a right manner by seeking the Lords power and Presence and by refusing sinful Association Either with Protestants who were not willing to come up to the height of our Reformation Or yet with Papists or Malignants who were Enemies to it Also in a good Action there should be perseverance therein Seing there is more diligence required in the end of an Action than in its beginning There being no change in the Enemy he being the same now if not worse than in the time of War For still he Persecuteth the Protestants therefore peace should not have been made with the Enemy although there might be sad loss according to the Example of Israel in the matter of Benjamin who after they had fallen twice enquired of the Lord the causes thereof by Weeping and Fasting and searching out their fin So ought you to have done But both matter and maner are abussed and layed aside by the Command Fear and Awe of the Magistrat So that he whose overthrow in prayer you sought and Tyrrannie you confessed must now be passed over with silence and connivance allthough he be the same now that he was then And all this is done by the command of the Tolerating Magistrat whose Servants ye are tossed with the wind of their powre like to these spoken of in Psal 1. 4 much of this obedience is to be seen in your fast days and thanks giving days which manifasts the Intrinscicall power that the Magistrat hath in makeing you obey contrair to the word But thirdly the Intrinscicall power of the Tolerating Magistrat appears in the neglect of Discipline in that you dare not do any thing in the Assembly in order to the censuring Confessing and setting of days of Humiliation a part for the sins of the Throne Such as manifest Perjurie in the Breach of the Coronation Oath the joining in War with the Popish party the sad Oppressions in the Land by Cesses and Impositions the Tolerating of Poperie and Prelacie throughout the Kingdoms Now in a well constitute Church all these Sins ought to be confessed and in case of obstinacy to be Censured and Punished with the Sword of Ecclesiastical Discipline to ●he height even to Excommunication Seing that the Assembly acknowledgeth that there should not be partialitie in Ministers and therefore without respect of Persons they are to reprove Kings as well as other Men they being Subjects to Christ and receaved into the Church by the Vows of Baptism But all this is laid aside through fear and awe of the Magistrat by your obedience to the Supremacy they ruling intrinsically in you as to matter of practise as is to be seen in your Assemblies how that your King has the Negative Voice which declares that the Supremacie is yet infit in this Land although not screwed up to that height in all its formalities that it was in the Year 61. 62.