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A35430 Some questions resolved concerning Episcopal and Presbyterian government in Scotland Cunningham, Alexander.; Cunningham, Gabriel. 1690 (1690) Wing C7592; ESTC R11553 19,224 36

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Conscience And thereafter describing their Church Politie and Discipline calls it that Parity which can never stand with the Order of the Church nor the Peace of a Commonweal and well Ruled Monarchy Now when these are the Characters which the British Solomon gives Presbyterians and Presbytery and with a Protestation before God that he lies not Who can with any shadow of Reason or grain of Charity think that he either was so Unwise or Irreligious as by Act of Parliament to Establish Presbytery in the Church out of his own free choice and not out of some kind of Compulsion Nay when that Government and its Admirers have these Characters from him can any thinking man read over the Act of Restitution of Bishops An. 1606 and not believe that according to its Preamble the former Act An. 1592 impairing that first Estate of his Kingdom was purely owing to his young years and the unsetled Condition of Affairs How he was forced to it we may learn from his own Book wherein he says that God Almighty was pleased that the Blessed Reformation of Scotland should begin with Unordinate and Popular Tumults of men clogg'd with their own Passion and particular Respects that some fiery spirited Ministers got such a guiding of the People at that time of Confusion as finding the gust of Government sweet they began to fancy a Democracy to themselves that having been over well baited upon the wrack first of his Royal Grandmother and next of his own Mother and usurping the liberty of time in his own long Minority there never rose any Faction among Statesmen but they that were of that Factious part were careful to perswade and allure the Church-Men to espouse that quarrel as their own Wherefore in the year 1592 the pernicious Feuds between the Earls of Huntley and Murray and those Contests between the Assembly Men of the Clergy and the Lords of the Session Together with repeated Treasonable Plots carried on against his Royal Person by Bothwel and his Associates of the greatest Power and best Quality forced that young King to settle Presbytery in the Church that thereby he might bring off Presbyterians from joyning with the Acts of their Kirk to unsettle his Throne 3. Charles the First of ever Blessed Memory he pleads that in Charity he may be thought desirous to preserve the English Church Government by Bishops in its right Constitution as a Matter of Religion wherein both his Iudgment was justly satisfied that it hath of all others the fullest Scripture Grounds and also the constant practice of all Christian Churches And after he had written this Confession with Ink and then Sealed it with his Royal Blood who can imagine that his once giving some way to Presbytery in Scotland was his voluntary Act especially when his Majesties Commissioner the Earl of Traquair according to instructions gave in his Declaration to the contrary But here there is no need to declare the unhappy State of Affairs that forced him to it Since there are Volumes written concerning that Religious Rebellion which produced the most horrid Murder of the best King that ever was in these Kingdoms 4. Wherefore the Impartial Resolution to the question proposed is in short this that K. Iames the 6th and K. Charles I. setled Presbytery in the Kingdom of Scotland being constrained thereunto by troublesome and tumultuous times QUESTION III. Whether the Principles of Scottish Presbytery grant any Toleration to Dissenters 1. SINCE the solemn League and Covenant is the Canon and the Acts of the general Assembly the Comment of the Principles of Scotch Presbytery this Question in reference to their Toleration of Dissenters plainly resolves in this Whether Covenanters and Assembly-men according to their Principles are for Liberty of Conscience or against it 2. In the first Article of the Solemn League they swear That they shall sincerely really and constantly endeavour the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Discipline and Government against their common Enemies 3. To preserve this part of the Reformation they swear again in the second Article against Popish Prelacy that is the Church Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancelors and Commissiaries Dean and Chapters Arch-Deacons and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy Superstition and Heresie 4. What is meant by their Sincere Real and constant endeavour against their common Enemies King or Parliament for preserving that Reformation in Church-Government by extirpating such an Episcopacy is manifest in the last Article in which they swear to assist and def●nd all those that enter into the League and Covenant in the maintaining and persuing thereof and that they shall not suffer themselves directly or indirectly by whatsoever Combination Perswasion or Terror to be divided from their Blessed Union and Conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give themselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in the Cause which so much concerneth the Glory of God 5. But if after all these parts of the first second fourth and sixth Articles of the Covenant compared together any Seruple yet remains whether those Men who make Conscience of the Oath they have taken against any Indifferency or Neutrality in this Cause against Episcopacy which in Charity I believe they think the Cause of Christ can allow any Toleration to Dissenters let us in the next place consider some Acts of their General Assemblies which are the Infallible Interpreters of this Rule of their Faith about Ecclesiastical Polity Now although the Episcopal Clergy in the times before the year 1639 when they saw that destruction of the Church Government neither themselves appear'd in Tumults nor in Sermons or Books exhorted others to Tumultuate for to preserve it yet the Presbyterians were so far from taking pains to gain them unto a Conformity or in case they conform'd from letting them continue in their Cures as the Presbyterians were dealt with after the year 1662 that on the contrary they pass these following Acts. 6. The General Assembly ordaineth the subscription of the Covevant to all the Members of that Kirk and Kingdom 7. And whereas the former Act Aug. 1630. hadnot been obeyed it was again ordain'd by another Assembly That all Ministers make intimation of the said Act in their Kirks and thereafter proceed with the Censures of the Kirk against such as shall refuse to subscribe the Covenant and that exact account be taken of every Ministers diligence herein by their Presbyteries and Synods as they will answer to the General Assembly 8. Neither was this last Act inflicting Ecclesiastical Censures only to fall heavy upon those who were hinderers of their blessed Reformation whom they called Anticovenanters but in the Assembly it 's appointed that all Ministers take special notice when any secret disaffecters of the Covenant shall come within their Parishes that so soon as they shall know the same they may without delay cause warn them to appear