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religion_n	church_n	great_a	part_n	5,180	5	4.2008	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71139	A true and exact copy of a treasonable and bloody-paper called the Fanaticks new-covenant which was taken from Mr. Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry the third day of June, anno Dom. 1680 one of their field-preachers, a declared rebel and traitor ; together with their execrable declaration published at the Cross of Sanquhair upon the twenty two day of the said month of June after a solemn procession and singing of Psalms by Cameron the notorious ring-leader of and preacher at their field-conventicles, accompanied with twenty of that wretched crew.	Cargill, Donald, 1619?-1681.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2431; ESTC R27018	8,841	12

into the Church We know that Men of Malignant and perverse Spirits that has not a higher God than a wicked King which suits only with their lustful licentiousness and it may be others with them that seemed to be of better Principles will raise an ignorant clamour upon this that it is a Fifth-Monarchy and we Fifth-Monarchy-men and will labour to amuse the People with strange terms and put odious names on good things to make them hateful as their way is but if this be their Fifth-Monarchy we both are and ought to be such and that according to His Word VI. It being the work of the Ministers of the Gospel to preach propagate and defend the Kingdom of God and to preserve the Doctrine Worship Discipline Government Liberties and Priviledges of the same from all corruptions and incroachments of Rulers and all others And seing that the Ministers of the Church of Scotland at least the greatest part of them before not only were defective in preaching and testifying against the Acts of these Rulers for overthrowing Religion and Reformation abjuring our Covenant made with God establishing a Government in the Church which that King calls His own Government and so not Gods contrair to our Covenant Against inacting of that blaspemous so Calvin calls that Supremacy of Henry the Eight upon which this Prerogative is founded and from which it is derived and is no less if not more injurious to Christ and inslaving to His Church and sacrilegious Prerogative given to a King over the Church of God and against the other Acts and Incroachments of His Church and hindered others also who were willing and would have testified against them and censured some that did it for which together with the other Causes in their trust and administration we may say God hath left them to do worse things but also hath voted in that Meeting which they are pleased to call an Assembly of Ministers but how justly let Men judge an acceptation of that Liberty founded upon and given by vertue of that blasphemously arrogated and usurped Power and hath appeared before their Courts to accept of that Liberty and to be enacted and authorized there as Ministers and so hath willingly for this is an elicit act of the Will and not an act of Force and Constraint translated the Power of sending out ordering censuring for as they accept of their Liberty from them so they submit to their Censures and Restaints at least all of them who were yet tried with it and others of them appeared and acknowledged before their Courts that they would not have done these things that they were charged with if they had thought it would have offended them Ministers departing from the Court of Christ and subjection to the Ministry to the Courts of Men and subjection to the Magistrate which had been impious and injurious to Christ and His Church though they had been righteous and lawful Rulers and by their changing of Courts according to Common Law hath changed their Masters and of the Ministers of Christ are become the Ministers of Men and bound to answer to them as oft as they will and as by the acceptation of this Liberty in such manner they have translated the Power so they have given up and utterly quit the Government and a succession of a Presbyterian Ministry for as these were not granted them of their Masters so they exercise their Ministry without them and so by this as the Ecclesiastick Government is swallowed up in the Civil if the rest had followed them the Ministry should have also been extinct with themselves and the whole Work of Reformation had been buried in Oblivion not so much as the remembrance of it kept up These together with the other of their Commissions in Preaching the lawfulness of paying that Tribute declared to be imposed for the bearing down of the true Worship of God which they falsly termed Seditions Conventicles and their advising these poor Prisoners to subscribe the Bond and consequently could not but so advise all others if put to it for the hazard that Men were in will not make a real change of the morality of that Action and beside the rest may be put to it upon the same hazard and so if the one should advise which consequently they must do and the other should subscribe this would altogether close that door which the Lord hath made use of in all the Churches of Europe for casting off the Yoke of the Whore and restoring the truth and purity of Religion and Reformation and freedom of the Churches and should have stopped all ingress for Men when once brought under Tyranny to recover their Liberty again These Ministers then not being followers of Christ who before Pontius Pilate gave a good Confession which was that he was a King and no King if he have not power to order his House and Subjects and they not following him nor his Ministers if not asserting and maintaining of this his kingly Power against all Incroachers and Usurpers of it and besides we being commanded If any Brother walk disorderly from such to withdraw and although in the capacity we now are in we neither have nor assumes to our selves Authority to give out definite and authoritative sentences of Deposition and Supension against these Ministers yet we declare which is proper for us to do that we neither can nor will hear Preaching nor receive Sacraments from these Ministers that hath accepted of and voted for that Liberty and declares all who have encouraged and strengthened their Hands by hearing and pleading for them all those who have traffiqued for an union with them without their renouncing and repenting of these things all those that do not testifie faithfully against them and after do not deport themselves suitably to their testimonies and all who joyn not in publick with their Brethren who are testifying against them we declare that we shall not hear them Preach nor receive Sacraments from them at least till they stand in Judgment before these Ministers and be judged by them who have followed the Lord and kept themselves free of these Defections And as our Hearts hath cleaved to these Ministers while they were on the Lords side and subjected our selves to them so we shall still cleave to those that abide following Him and shall be subject to them in the Lord. VII Then we do declare and acknowledge that a Gospel-Ministry is a standing Ordinance of God appointed by Christ to continue in the Church until the end of the World and that none of us shall take upon him the preaching of the Word or administring the Sacraments unless called and ordained thereto by the Ministers of the Gospel And as we declare that we are for a standing Gospel-Ministry rightly chosen and rightly ordained so we declare that we shall go about this Work in time to come with more Fasting and Praying and more careful Inspection into the conversation and holiness of these Men that shall