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A17583	Perth assembly Containing 1 The proceedings thereof. 2 The proofe of the nullitie thereof. 2 [sic] Reasons presented thereto against the receiving the fiue new articles imposed. 4 The oppositenesse of it to the proceedings and oath of the whole state of the land. An. 1581. 5 Proofes of the unlawfulnesse of the said fiue articles, viz. 1. Kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper. 2. Holy daies. 3. Bishopping. 4. Private baptisme. 5. Private Communion.	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1619 (1619)	STC 4360; ESTC S107472	90,652	110

Sermon Thursday 27. Aug. the third day of the Assembly WIlliam B. of Galloway made a Sermon his Text Rom· 14.19 His doctrine was far contrary to that which he taught before the estates of Parliament An. 1606 He set at naught the ancient order of our Church sometime highly commended by himselfe and extolled his new light He presumed to teach them a new kinde of Catechisme under whom he himselfe might be as yet catechised The second and last Session of this assembly began after dinner and ended this day The Kings Commissioners and the Bishops masters of this Assemblie determined to end all this after noone and hauing the assise enclosed for that effect assured them that out of that house they should not go untill his Majestie were satisfied of his desire The pretended Moderator earnestly aggreadged the nncessity of yeelding and instantly urged present voting without furder delay strongly enforcing that his Maiestie behoved to bee satisfied and assureing them that his Highnesse would accept of no other answer but yeelding To effectuate his purpose hee blew out many threatnings in most peremptory maner Hee insulted uppon the ministers assembled as if they had been hirelinges saying I know you all well ynough There is neuer a one of you will suffer so much as the losse of your stipends for the matter Think not but when the act is made I will get obedience of you There is none of you that voteth in the contrary mindeth to suffer Some men said hee pretend conscience and feare more to offend the people then the King but all that will not doe the turne Albeit he had formerly affirmed in the case of requiring consent that although the act were made his Majestie would be mercyfull in vrgeing obedience thereto And they knew him to be more fauourable to his brethren then any Bishop of England Hee tooke it also vpon his conscience though it was not trew that there was neither lass nor ladde rich nor poore in Scotland some few precise persons excepted who were not onlie content but also wished that order of kneeling to be receiued whereof he had profe and experience in his own citie of S. Andrewes and in this Town since he came hither Hee made mention of a pamphlet casten in the pulpit at Edinburgh wherein it should haue been affirmed that the Bishops were bringing in Papistry and that good professors will fight in defence of their own religion By way of answer thereto he confessed that the ceremonies make not the separation betwixt us and the Romane Church but their Idolatry the which if the Romanists would forsake they would meet them mid-way and ioyne with them And as if the Ministers had known any such professors disposed to fight for the religion or had been of purpose to ioyne with them he disswades them to leane to such words for he had seen the like of that before time at the 17. day of December Hee wished if such a thing should happen it would please his Maiesty to make him a Captaine never any of these braggers would come to the field After these blasts and terrours the Ministers with modest importunity insisted that the matters depending might be better cleared by further reasoning and advisement so much the rather because these matters had not been reasoned in full Assembly for the information of all that had interest After much dealing and many earnest speeches and desires to be heard some fashion of liberty was granted to a few but with such checkes and limitations to the partie that preased to propone and reason that quickly they were cut off and sourely rebuked rather borne downe with authority then satisfied with reason His Maiesties chiefe Commissioner pretended Moderator straitly enioyned them either to propone a new reason or else to hold their peace when as the argument either had not been proponed in conference or if proponed not answered or if answered not suffered to be replied unto And suppose all this had been done in the conference yet all was new to the full Assembly and ought to haue been repeated and fully discussed for information of all voters Yea many Ministers had not so much a● accesse to heare or propone one argument they had no seates provided for them as the other party had Gentlemen thronged in before them The defenders of the Articles were permitted to discourse as long as they pleased to gybe mocke and cavill so light account made they of the matters in hand or the fearfull schisme ensuing upon such disorders that their behaviour was offensiue to the beholders The best arguments and answers were taken from the authority of the Kings sword Hee will ranverse all except we yeeld or the authority of his word as when it was alledged out of Zanchius upon the fourth commandement that things indifferent abused to Idolatry should be altogether removed The pretended Moderator opponed the iudgement of the King of Great Britaine to the iudgement of Zanchius or any of the learned In a word the pretended Moderator professed plainly that neither their reasons nor their number should carry away the matter These Articles must be concluded and should be concluded although there were none but the eleven Bishops with the authority of his Maiesties Commissioners they shall impose them After some few reasons proponed and answered as is said it was confessed that if his Maiesty could haue been pleased or put off they would haue reasoned against these Articles and the introducing of them in this Church Doctor Lyndesay being posed in conscience confessed that they had neither reason nor Scripture nor Antiquity for them yet to avert rhe Kings wrath of this Church yeelding was best Kneeling was chiefly agitate Some velitation there was made against Holy dayes Nothing spoken of the three other Articles boasting and posting confounded all The ministers not being permitted to reason and pursue their arguments verbally with such liberty as of reason should haue been granted and fearing prejudice in voting gaue in some difficulties in writing to be considered and removed before the articles should passe in voting like as they were ready if place had been granted to present in writing particular reasons against every one of the said articles as was plainly professed But for cutting them short of that intention the presenter of the said difficulties in a bosting manner was commanded to subscribe the same and rebuked as not haveing commission They suspected a protestation against the proceedings of this Assembly for preventing whereof they had declamed before against the protestation subscribed at the last parliament as treasonable and seditious But when it was perceaved that he sought a penne for subscribing of the same the Moderator receaved them Two of them was read but no wayes respectted the rest were suppressed The ministers notwithstanding of the preceding terrours most humbly and earnestly requested his Majesties Commissioners that the concluding of the articles might be continued which their reasons in writing were sent to

Lutquharne Glen-vrquhart younger Clunie-Gordoun Boningtoun-woode Weymis Balvaird Bilcolmie Balcarras Balmanno Bombie Blackbarronie Lagg Burgesses for Edinburgh David Akinheid George Fowlis For Perth Iames Aedie Constant Malice For Dundie M r. Alexander Wedderburne younger Robert Clay-hils for Aberdine M r. Iohn Mortimer For Sterling Christopher Alexander for S. Androes Iohn Knox Thomas Lentroun for the Vniversity of S. Androes Doctor Bruce Bishops all except Argyle and the Iles. Ministers Commissioners from presbyteries According to the ordinance and laudable custome of this Church anent the sanctification of her meetings by fasting and prayer intimation was made vpon the Sabboth preceding in the Church of Perth of a fast to be observed the first day of the assemblie but the fast was little regarded sauing that two sermons were made The first was made in the morning by Patrik Bishop of Aberdine His text Ezra 7.23 he observed and enlarged this ground that nothing should be done or determined in the Church by any superiour power whatsoeuer but that which is according to the commandement of the almightie King The other sermon was made at the tenth houre by Iohn Archbishop of Saint Andrews in the lytle Church His text 1. Cor. 11.16 was very pertinent but he ranne quicklie from it He discoursed the space of two houres first in defence of ceremonies in generall Next of the fiue articles in particular His best arguments for proofe or improbation was some testimonies cited out of Calvin Martyr Beza but perverted The said Arch Bishop in his discourse made ample protestation that he vnderstood not of the intended novations before they came of his Majestie Item that his Majesty would haue had these fiue Articles registred as Canons in the booke of the generall Assemblie without either reasoning or voting but by his meanes his Majestie was put of till the consent of the Church should be obtayned This his protestation he confirmed with a dreadfull execration that the curse of God might light on him and his if he had not spoken truely Immediately after the said discourse was holden the first Session of this assemblie in maner following There was set in the litle Church a long table and at the head thereof a short crosse table At the crosse table were set chaires for his Maiesties Commissioners and the Moderator At the syde of the long table were set forms for Noblemen Barons Burgesses Bishops and Doctors The Ministers were left to stand behind them as if their place and parte had been onely to behold The Arch-bishop placed himself at the head of the table in the Moderators chaire beside his Majesties Commissioners After prayer he notified to the assemblie that Maister Thomas Nicolson ordinary Clark had dimitted his office in favour of Maister Iames Sandelands Aduocate He commended the said Maister Iames as a man qualified for that office and readie to further the brethren in their particular affaires And so without formall voting or lyte he tooke him sworne and admitted him Clerk The Brethren were ordained to giue in their commissions to him after the rising of this session After that Doctor Young Deane of Winchester by birth a Scotishman presented his Majesties letter directed to the Lords of the privie Counsell and the Bishops This letter was twise read in open audience Terrours were mixed with allurements to mooue the assemblie After the reading of his Majesties letter the Archbishop had a speach wherein he protested that neither he nor the Church of England had craued these nouations nor geuen counsel thereanent and that it was against his will that euer they were motioned Yet now he is perswaded that his Majestie would be more glad of the consent of this assemblie therevnto then of all the gold of India assureing them on the other parte in case of their refusall the whole estate and order of our Church will be overthrown Some Ministers will be banished other some will bee deprived of their stipend and office and all will be brought under the wrath of authority He advised them rather to consent in time then afterward to beg favour by offering conformity and finde none He alledged a letter written to him by a banished minister M. Iohn Sharp requesting liberty to serue God in his own countrey and offering to submit himselfe in all things But the letter was neither read nor seen O sayd he I know when some of you are banished and others deprived yee will blame us and call us persecuters but we will lay all the burden upon the King And if you call him a persecuter all the world wil stand up against you After his owne speach he required Doctor Young to speak if so be hee had intention or commission to that effect The Doctor after his preface of insinuation layd out the proceedings of the last assembly holden at S. Androes the taunt and reproches breathed out at Court against the same his Maiesties high displeasure kindled by occasion thereof like a flame of fire ready to consume all except it were quenched in this present assembly by condiscending to the fiue articles Hee taxed the state of our Church whereof he was ignorant It pleased his wisdom to bring in the Puritan and the Papist like Herod and Pilat conspiring Si non contra Christum Deminum tamen contra Christum Domini In end with words framed for the purpose and uttered in a mourning maner hee went about to catch consent to the fiue articles The ministers defenders of the established order perceiuing the drift of these discourses and all other meanes to be prepared and disposed for dashing of simple men modestly required foure things 1. That none be admitted to vote but such as are authorized with lawfull commission The Archbishop answered hi● Maiesty had written to noble men and Barons willing them to be present at this assembly if any man had any exception against them they should be heard It was replyed that they were not to except against their honorable persons or presence but earnestly to ●rave that the order of the Church might be observed whereby it is provided that without commission none haue place to vote in generall assemblies 2. That the liberty of the Church be not broken in the election of the Moderator and that a lawfull lite be made to that effect It was answered by the Archbishop that this Assembly is convocate within the bounds of his diocesse he would understand who will take his province over his head So he intruded him selfe in the Moderators office without election 3. That the articles proponed in short and generall summes might be put in forme and amply extended as his Majesty would haue them inacted that they may be the better aduised and considered The pretended Moderator answered let alone these toyes trouble us not with needlesse questions we shall speak of these things in the priuy conference 4. That some of either opinion may be set apart to collect and put in order the reasons of either side for the