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A95018 A true coppie of the declaration published at Sanqhair upon the tenth day of August 1692 1693 (1693) Wing T2642; ESTC R229925 11,845 14

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nor Renewing them Neither discovering particularly the breaches thereof Yea many not once mentioning them in the Engadgments which they Require of parents when they present their Children to Baptisme or in their Licencing and Ordaining of persons to that Holy Function of the Ministery Oh! How Astonishing The like not to be heard among the Heathen That these Solemn Vows and Covenants should not only be Scorned derided and openly burnt and made a Capital Cryme to oun them by Open Avowed Adversaries But also cast by and buried by the Ministers of the Church of Scotland called Presbyterians A Covenant without the Swearing of which none was capable of the meanest Employment either in Church or State A Covenant to which Christs witnesses did alwayes Adhere and for which they did Suffer Contend That Covenant which the Representatives of Church State in the three Kingdoms Did Solemnly Swear and Subscribe for themselves and Posterity Of which the Obligation either to the Duty or Punishment continues Indispensible upon the Generation which for the Moral Equity of its Matter the Formality of its Manner the Importance of its Purpose the Holinesse of its Solemn Engadgment and the Glory of its Ends No power on Earth can disannull Disable or dispense That Covenant which was justly thought a fitt and excellent Mean not only to strengthen and fortifie the Kingdoms against the Common Enemy of the True Reformed Religion Publick peace and. prosperity But also to acquire the favour of Almighty God towards the three Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland as is exprest in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons for taking of the Covenant Dated February 20. 1643. Surely then the Authors and Chief Instruments of the breaches of that Covenant are to be looked upon as those that strengthen the hands of the Common Enemy and provoke the wrath of Almighty God against these Kingdoms And if by the Declaration of both Kingdoms Joyned in Arms Anno 1643. Such as would not take the Covenant are declared to be Publick Enemies to their Religion and Countrey and to be Censured punished as Publick Adversaries Malignants Who seeth not now a strange falling away from these first Principles Professions among those who either Magnify Cry up or at the least Connive at and Comply with such as have not taken the Covenant Yea are known Enemies to it Yet notwithstanding These same Enemies have been Complyed with and Connived at by many Ministers in their taking Oaths Imposed by them Repugnant we say to the Oath of our Covenants And others of them having gone on in sundry other steps of Defection and to no small Contradiction of Christs more faithfull Sufferers and Witnesses Most part having Addressed for and accepted of the late Anti-christian Toleration And to this day are treading the same paths that lead to Defection and to a detestable Indifferencie and Neutrality in the Lords Matters without any shaddow of their Cordial Abandoning such Wofull Courses But on the Contrary a wyping of the mouth and saying We have done no Evil A Fasting praying and Giving Thanks for successe and Prosperity to those who have devoured Jacob and laid his habitation desolate Under whose shaddow they Enjoy this unhallowed ease as if they were delivered to retain and mentain all these Abominations Can such a work be of God Can tender Zealous souls Concurr with it in Faith Or Can it stand Which hath its foundation laid upon the Ruines of TRUTH Such a Superstructure as building up ZION with blood and Jerusalem with Iniquitie Such measures being bounded by the decrees of Gods Enemies And such Workers who by the word of God decrees of our Church would be suspended if not deposed from their Office and brought in as delinquents to undergo Censure and not as Constituent Members of a Judicatorie In regard they have yeelded up the Liberties of the Church into the hands and will of her Enemies and in regard they carry on a Course of defection contrary to the Scriptures our Covenants and the Acts and Constitutions of this Church We say again upon these grounds We in our places stations Testify against all that they may Conclude or Determine in these their Ecclesiastick Courts by Acts Ratifications Declarations Sentences Censures or Commissions c. that shall be made or Given out by them And protests that the samen may be voyd and null and not Interpreted as binding to the Church of Scotland But let none think that what we have here said can be Interpreted to be a vilipending or Rejecting of the Free Lawfull and Rightly Constitute Courts of Christ For we do Acknowledge such to have been among the first and most effectuall Means Appointed of God for preserving the purity and Advancing the Power of Reformation in the Church The sweet fruits and blessed effects wherof this Church hath somtyme Enjoyed which we have been endeavouring after and are this day longing for We Detest and Abhorr that principle of Casting off the Ministrie wherewith we are maliciously Calumniated by those who Labour to fasten upon us the Odious Names of Schismaticks and Separatists Despisers of the Gospel and the like But as herein they bewray their enmity to the Cause we oun So till they bring their oun Principles and Practises and ours both and try them by the Law and the Testimony the measuring Line of the Sanctuary The Word of God and the Practise of this Church when the Lord kept house with her and rejoyced over her as a Brydgroom over the Bryde They can never prove us Schismaticks or Separatists from the Kirk of Scotland upon the Account of our Non-Union with the Backslyding Multitude therein And herein we may have a sure and well grounded hope that when the Lord shall decide the Controversy in the favours of Truth In that Day Union in Truth Duty and Separation sinfully considered will be otherwise applyed than now they are Besides we may say without boasting we suppose it may be gathered from what we have done for the faithfully preached Gospell and what Love and Respect we have ky●●ed towards faithfull Ministers whilst such what our Carriage to them would yet be if we had them Yea we are so far from having any stated Prejudice as some foolishly think at any of them for whatever their strayings have been either as Ministers or Christians That we Declare by these Presents whenever the Lord shall send us such as out of Love to God zeal for his Publick Concernments and Conscience of their Duty will kyth their Resentment of their former Backslydings and Defections by Condemning and forsaking the same and satisfy the offended Consciences of the Lords People by their Publick Declaring the mi●● of God Faithfully Freely and the Peoples Duty in order to the past and Present Courses of the time Keeping nothing back that may be profitable for our building up in Holinesse our manadging a Testimony for Christ against all the forementioned or the like