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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

this guilt nor yet be innocent from Perjurie seing that the King according to the Faith and Practise of the present professing Generation is a lawful King and nourishing Father to the Church and so by consequence is a Member of the Church and therefore Subject to the Laws thereof which I think the Assembly will not deny considering that his Mercies comes under their inspection as is to be seen by their praying for prosperity and a Blessing to his undertakings And why should not his sin and miserie llikewayes be marked and testified against or else we shall never reform our selves But some will object and say that the King has owned and countinanced Presbytrie in Scotland and declared Enmity against Prelacy Answer This he hath done by way of an Erastian Toleration and that from Self Interest as is to be seen Because they Tolerat his sin and becoâ—es obediâ—nt to his corrupt unlawful Commands by keeping of sinful Fast dayes and Thansgiving days and the like And that both contrair to Scripture and the principals of Presbytrie which the Prelatick party out of wilfulness will not do So that from this his Faithfulness doth not appear unless that his Zeal were universal against all the Prelatick party I say in other places as well as here For certainly it is to be followed with Zeal and hatred in the other Kingdoms as well as here it being evil in it self and according to that true Axiom quod Malum est per se non mutatur a Circumstantjis that 's to say That which is evil in it seâ—f cannot be changed from circumstances of place So I say unless that this Zeal be universal it can noways be sound and reall But it may be furder objected that there was good reforming Kings in Judah who did not take away the high places And why may nâ—t our King be owned as a Lawful Reforming King although Prelacy be not altogether abolished Answer The difference is very great As 1 The Reforming Kings of Judah were never Anointted or brought to the Throne by the Priests of the High places But your king was brought to the Throne of Britan principaly by the English Prelats the Lords spritwall as they were called 2 the priests of the high places were never in court or near to the Thâ—one with the Reforming king of Judah But the English Prelats are 3 the kings of Judah never bult the high places in the time of their Reformation but your king hes set up Prelats in England since his coming to the Throne I instance Mr Gilbert Burnet 4 we never read that the kings of Judab Sacrificed in the high places in the time of their Reformation But your king heares and communicats with the prelatick party in worship 5 the Reforming kings of Judah did never swear to defend the high places in the time of their Reformation by opposing and hindering these that would have destroyed them But your King has Defended the high places for the past and present time from these that would have destroyed them So that from this you see that your Kings practise doth nowayes quadrat with the practise of the Reforming Kings of Judah And that because in them it was a sin of deadness and infirmity But in him a willful deliberat contented sin as is to be seen by the laying aside the endeavour of the duty and much more the Perfection thereof in its sincerity Furder you say do we not think him our lawful King and is he not a blessed Instrument in Gods Hand to work so great Deliverance for you and us Answer This we have clearly denyed from the forementioned grounds and objections and we think any single eye that is not by assed and prejudged will assent to what we have said And if any be of that judgment which I am not viz That it might please the Lord for a time to continue Kingly Government in this Land and to raise up a King to rule in Righteousness for the good of his Church and People I say then it might be expected that he should be set upon the Throne with cleaner hands than Blood shedors Test-takers and Erasâ—â—an Indulged Proffessors who hath never yet acknowledged their sin Nor yet prepared themselves for Mercy And whatever you may think of this Revolution in calling it a Deliverance Yet far be it from us to think so as to let such Dreams or Delusions enter into our Heads or Hearts seing there is no promise from the word to believe so Now from what is said above I think it shall appear that the Oath of Allegiance cannot not be given to the present Person on the Throne nor yet to any Successor who shall walk in his steps For what is applicable to the one shall still be applicable to any other of the same practise Now I shall in the next place proceed to the Grievance given against you which is â—hat there is corruption in the Constitution as it is now established being under the bondage of an Erastian Yoak submitted to Which charge you deny as false And then interrogates if we know what Erastianism is It is likely you say few of us do Ans Some of us knows as much of Erastianism as can be said by some of the most famous Learned Divines in Europe And I think our Faithful Ancestors hath not leâ—t this contraversie in the dark as is to be seen by Learned Mr. Gilhespie in his Aarons Rod where he penteth out Erastianism so full as that the capacities of the Vulgar may understand Furder you say do we noâ— consider how sinful and highly uncharitable it is to Accuse Judge and Censure the Godly Ministers of this Church who formerly wrestled against Erastianism as so contradictorie to themselves and Treacherous to their Master as to betray his Interest and the Church Priviledges to an Erastian Yoak Ans This is no argument to prove that they are now Faithful because that they once were so Are not the best of Men subject to sin and fallings And can do nothing of our selves without the Lords Assistance and the help of his holy Spirit And hath not some of the Godlie Kings of Judah Built again that which formerly they Destroyed as Solomon Asa Joash and hath not many Professors in our days walked contrair to their Profession They who once were Remonstrators formerly against Erastianism were seen publiklie to appear in the Street of Edinburgh in the Parliament Closs to the derision oâ— many hundreds puting up an Address and Supplication to a Poâ—ish King for an Erastian Toleration and Lioertie as they called it Now this was the sin of a great many which sin hath been Benjamin like Espoussed by the whole Assembly First in their complying with the Benefite as they called it and then being passed over with silence connivance which should have been confessed Yea and in a well constitute Church should have been Censured and Punished with the Sword of Ecclesiastical Discipline But with you there is

they are Reformed And not join with us in so far as we are Reformed Resp Our joining is not to â—e understood a constituting of our selves with them But only an approving of their Doctrine in so far as it is agreeable to the Word oâ— God and the Constituâ—ions of the Reformed Church of Scotland Likewise we can approve of your Doctrine to be sound when considered in the abstract as it may be distinguished from you But Subjectiveâ—ie considered in you as to practise and application in this we differ as I shall afterward make it appear when I come to the impurity and unlawfulness of your worship Quest What is the difference betwixt these Chuâ—ches in Holland Geneva Garmany and the present Eâ—astian Church Res The Churches abroad are under an â—mâ—erfection in that they are not come to the hight of Reformation requiâ—ed of in the word of God such as the constitutions and Covenanted engagments of the Church of Scotland And therefore they are under the Lords wrath and fatherly anger being under an Eâ—astian Deadness and infirmity ever and while they Reform as in Rev 3 2. Sâ—rengthen the things which remain and are ready to die foâ— I have not found thy works perfect before God Now seing the Lord reqâ—ires perâ—ection in Reformation in it's sincere endeavour then ought we not to constitut our selves in assisting anie Church in war until they come to our Reformation either in practise or promise let us not be pleased where God is angrie But on the other hand the Lord dealâ—th as an angrie Judge towards a Church going on obstinatlie in defection And therefore they are diametrically opposite one to another as in Heb. 10 30. If any Man draw back my Soul shall have no pleasure in him So that when all this is considered then it will appear That the difference is very great betwixt an imperfection and a defection and that both in Practise and Doctrine Now we declare That we dare not join with you in your worship And that because it is contrair to our Faith and Conscience 1. First In respect of your mission by reason of the changing of your holding in taking your power and liberty as you call it 1 From the Bloody Magistrat Charles the Second in the Year 1679 by that sinful Act of Indemnity after Bothwel where ye left the Fields came eo the Houses And likewise did endeavour to observe the Limitations contained in that Act And also did acknowledge him to be your lawful King in Prayer before God altho' a Declared Tyrant and stated Enemy to the Work of Reformation For which Tyranny you ought at that time to have joined with the Suffering Party in casting him off rather than to have hearkened to that sinful Act The end of which was to break the Church This you did contrair to the advice of the wise Man Pro. 23 3 6 Eat not the Bread of him who hath an evil Eye neither be desirous of his dainties for they are deceitful meat 2 and now ye have taken your Constitution from the Corrupt Tolerating Magistrat who neither hath taken the Covenants Coronation Oath nor yet can take it as he is now Circumstantiated being cloathed with Prelacy And therefore your Assemblies and Ordinances are Bastard and Evil Begotten because they neither do nor yet can run in the Channal of a Covenant of Reformation So that in this the Foundation and Being of your Church is not consonant to the state of our Church in the dayes of our Ancestors And therefore from the consideration of this we dare not in Conscience acknowledge your power and mission 2. As to the effects I mean the power of Conversion which you ascribe unto your selves in converting in this we differ and that because it is condemned in Scripture ae in Jer. 23 22. But if they had stood in my Counsil and caused my People to hear my Words then should they have turned them from the Evil of their ways and from the Evil of their doings We acknowledge that you may begâ—t Children of your own kind to believe and practise with your selves in your Era stian Backsliding courses by puting on a naked external Profession of Presbytrie with natural and morall piety flowing from a natural Conscience making them fit stones for your Erastian Building But to make them fit Stones for the Lords Church by leting them see the Lands Sins and Deâ—ections and the Perjured actings of Covenant-breaking that you are guilty of both as to time past and now present this you will not do your selves And therefore will not suffer others like to these spoken of Mat. 23 13. Obj. But it is objected that this too hard a Sentence will we Condemn all How prove we that Conversion is not be ascribed to the present Church Ans Far be it from us to condemn anie but these whom the Holy Ghost condemneth and describeth for Wicked and Ungodlie Men See for proof of this Psal 1 and 2. And consider iâ— and then you will see who is the Christian Psal 1. 1. and who are Christs Church Psal 2 I say the Godly Man is said not to sit in the counfel of the Uâ—godly nor yet to stand in the way of Sinners which cannot be said of voâ— who has taken the Indulgence and Toleration under your late Kings and has given no Testimonie against them the which defect is a silent consenting and approving of the thing But on the other Hand in prayer besore God did acknowledge them to be your lawâ—ul Kâ—ngs which was a sitting in the Counsel of the Ungodly by approving that the Persons elected to the Throne were lawful and these who did elect them were the true and lawful Sons of the State in whom the power was which to affirm is false for both of them had devested themselves of that power that belonged to them as Men and Christians by stateing themselves Enemies to God and Godliness as was to be seen in their setting up of Prelacie and Supremacie and in sheding the Blood of the Godlie Now when all this is considered doth it not appear that you belong to the Categorie of ungodlie Men described here in this Psal But in the next place I say conversion is a leaving of Sin and turning to God Now to ascribe this to you were to affirm a contradiction that is That a Man may be Godlie and Ungodlie simul et semel that is to say Once and together in that he may serve two opposites viz. Christ and the Idol of Supremacy which to affirm is false For the Lord will not dwell under the Idols Roof as in Cor. 6 15. Moreover Psal 2 you see who are Christs Church I say they are these who owns Jesus Christ as King and Head of his Church and maintains his Laws Doctrine and Discipline whose opposite Wicked men are for they will not submit to Church Discipline nor incorporat themselves under Christs Banner as in vers 2. 2. But this indulged Church

and this power belongs only to the faithful of of the Land who are the true Sons of the Church and State Alas this fainting did arise from the weakness of their Love and Faith they thinking this was a work too hard for them who were so few to carrie on against so great a Generation of Malignants and Backsliders Likewise that it was mocked at by wicked Men and carnal Proffessors as a thing desperat that would bring forth much Blood and Confusion Whereas a dutie is still absolute and indispensible and therefore to be gone about in Faith trusting to the alsuffiency and faithfulness of God for throwbearing Faith being the same now that it was in the days of Noah And therefore we ought to obey the Command of God whatever the effects may be For surely that which is duty will bring forth good effects when waited for with patience And sure I am these Testimonies abovementioned has Foughten the Throne of Britain more than Three Hundred Thousand Armed Nobles could have done both as to the present and pastime and likewise will be for the time to come however insignificant the Actors may seem to be and the reason is because they are agreeable to Gods Word And therefore have the promise of the Lords presence and if God be with us who can be against us But this shall more appear in the following head which is That if any thing be done that an Indispensability or absolute necessity did not not call for then shall we acknowledge our selves transgressors and this I endeavour to prove by several Arguments as 1 from the nature of the ordinance Magistrats being servants to the common wealth and nourishing fathers to the Church so that they are made for the peoples good as in Rom 13. and not the people for their Tyrannicall Lust and use Ergo from the nature of the ordinance it is a dutie indispensiable to cast off Tyrannie 2dâ— Secondly from the holiness of GOD God is holy in the Heavâ—ns holy in the Earth holy in his Chuâ—ch hoâ—y in his civâ—l ordinances Ergo by consequence we are to have his Ordinances holy because we are commanded so Lev. 19. 2. ye shall be holy for I the Lord your God I am holy if we be not for keeping Gods Ordinances holy how can we pray that his will be done on Earth as in heaven 3. The Magistrat has the sword of justice put in his hand and is to Judge for God being Gods Minister and vicegerant And therefore no Tyrant as in the 2 sam 23. he that rules over men must be just in ruleing in the fear of the Lord. Ergo its an indspensible dutie to opose Tyrannie this being agreeable to Gods will and word 2. But Secondly the abselute necessity flows from the inevitable Judgments of God upon the neglect of this dutie of reforming and repareing this broken down hedge as in Ezek. 22. 30. I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the Land that I should not destroy it but I found none and verâ— 31. therefore have I powered out my indignation upon them I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath So that from this you see that where their is no testimony against sin the Judgment of God will come and this is aboundantly confirmed in that pertinent passage 1 Sam. 3 13. I have told him that I would Judge his house for ever for the in iquiy which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile he restrained them not Eli did give â—estiâ—ony against his sons Cap. 2. 24. 25. but it was not such as the Lord required or as the nature of his office did call for as a high preist he ought to have cast them out of their office and to have deposed them and cut them off from the Congregation of the Lord for their Sin 2. as a Judge he ought to have punished them with the sword of Justice according to the Law of God for their Adultery All this they deserved so that you see that the Testimony must always be proportionable to the oâ—tence otherwise we must partake of their Sin and consequently of their Judgment Now let the Judicious Reader consider this and then he will see that we have done nothing but what is just and right and agreâ—â—ble to Gods Will and Word in our casting off of him who had manifestly cast off God as you see by what is said above So that when all this is considered I think the lawfulness of the dutie is sufficiently proven from its essential Atributes which is indispensability and absolute necessity Now I shall in the next place speak to the third head which is that if the Mercies and Deliverance of the Church hereafter for the time to come shall run in any other Channel than what we have espoused then shall we acknowledge our selves transgressors 1. Now this I prove first from the Mercies of God in that they do not extend towards unbelievers such as the impenitent I mean Fatherly Mercies but only towards the Faithful who are keeping Covenant with God and adhearing to their Vows and Engagments Such the Lord has promised to be with as in 2 Chro. 15 2. The Lord is with you while ye be with him 2. Secondly To repair and build a civil state that 's defaced and ruined by reason of Tyrannie is a work of Gods Mercie and Love doth terminat only in Believers so that they are the Instruments in and by whom the Lord will build this work they being led by his Word Spirit and the promise belonging only to such as in Zach. 4 6 Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Now seing they are the instruments Then let none carp at the manner of this Dutie for we have done nothing but what is agreeable to Gods Word and Will as I have clearly held out But on the other hand let these who condemn this dutie consider that what we have done will not fall to the ground or be buried For certainly there is no Action but must either be Sin or Dutie I say there is no Action situat in individuo That 's to say considered subjectively as to its rise progress object and end but must be morally good or else morrally evil indifferences layes in certain degrees or circumstances then by consequence this Action must be either put among the Sins of the Fathers or else among the duties of the Faâ—hers for certainly one of the two must be And I think it is impossible to make this Action a Lands Sin considering the invincible grounds and reasons given above Now having held out the lawfulness of our rejecting and casting Tyrany off and that the Mercies and Deliverance of the Church cannot run in any other Channel I shall in the next place speak to the manner of Government and Governours that we contend for Which is found in that Covenant

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