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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59425	The case of the present afflicted clergy in Scotland truly represented to which is added for probation the attestation of many unexceptionable witnesses to every particular, and all the publick acts and proclamations of the convention and Parliament relating to the clergy / by a lover of the church and his country.	Sage, John, 1652-1711.	1690 (1690)	Wing S285; ESTC R25113	80,027	132

William and Mary King and Queen of England France and Ireland to be King and Queen of Scotland They have thought fit by publick Proclamation to certifie the Leidges that none presume to own or acknowledge the late King Iames the Seventh for their King nor obey accept or assist any Commissions or Orders that may be Emitted by him or any way to Correspond with him and that none presume upon their highest Peril by Word Writing in Sermons or any other manner of Way to Impugn or Disown the Royal Authority of William and Mary King and Queen of Scotland But that all the Leidges render their Dutiful Obedience to their Majesties And that none presume to Misconstrue the Proceeding of the Estates or to Create Jealousies or Misapprehensions of the Actings of the Government but that all the Ministers of the Gospel within the Kingdom publickly Pray for King William and Queen Mary as King and Queen of this Realm And the Estates do Require the Ministers within the City of Edinburgh under the pain of being Deprived and losing their Benefices to Read this Proclamation publickly from their Pulpits upon Sunday next being the 14th instant at the end of their Forenoons Sermon And the Ministers on this side of the River of Tay to Read the same upon Sunday thereafter the 21st Instant And those Be-north Tay upon the 28th Instant under the pain foresaid Discharging hereby the Proclamation of the Council Dated the 16th of September 1686. to be read hereafter in Churches And the Estates do Prohibit and Discharge any Injury to be offered by any Person whatsoever to any Ministers of the Gospel either in Churches or Meeting-houses who are presently in the Possession and Exercise of their Ministry therein they behaving themselves as becomes under the present Government And Ordains this Proclamation to be published at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh with all ordinary Sol●mnities that none may pretend Ignorance Extracted forth of the Records of the Meeting of the Estates by me Ro. M ckenzie God save King William and Queen Mary The Reader is desired to take notice because omitted in the Narrative that tho the Presbyterian Preachers whom it is certain the Convention thought Gospel-Ministers were obliged as much at least as any others to read this Proclamation and had it for that purpose sent them yet they were never called in question for their neglect of it tho that was sufficient to turn out the Orthodox Clergy which to play the Pedant for once amounts to this in Latin Dat veniam Corvis vexat censura columbas In Scotch Show me the Man and I 'll show you the Law The truth is the Governours knew that many of the Meeting-house Preachers could not be induced to do any thing in favour of any King until he had first declared for Presbytery and renewed the Holy Covenant and this is the true reason why no Oath of Allegiance is yet put to any of the Clergy in Scotland either of the one Perswasion or the other This Proclamation was not published till Saturday April 1● 1689. and sent to the Ministers at Edinburgh late that night and to some of them not till Sunday Morning and yet upon that short Advertisement all were to satisfie their Scruples of Conscience against next Morning about Translating their Allegiance which they had Sworn to one King to another who had not then declared that he would accept the Crown upon such Conditions as it was offered with otherways they were to be deprived This is pressing of Conscience with a witness and 't is plain from the latter part of this Proclamation that Men might offer what Injury they pleased to Ministers of the Gospel who were not then in exercise and possession of their Ministry that is indeed to all the Orthodox Ministers in the West who had been some months before drawn from their Possessions by the Rabble To the King 's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Presbyterian Ministers in His Majesties Kingdom of Scotland May it please your Majesty WE Your Majesties most Loyal Subjects the Ministers of the Presbyterian Perswasion in your Ancient Kingdom of Scotland from the deep Sense we have of Your Majesties gracious and surprizing Favour in not only putting a stop to our Long Sad Sufferings for Non-conformity but granting us the Liberty of the publick and peaceable Exercise of our Ministerial Function without any H●zard as we bless the great God who hath put this in Your Royal Heart do withal find our selves bound in Duty to offer our most humble and hearty Thanks to Your Sacred Maj●sty the Favour bestowed being to us and all the People of our Perswasion valuable above all our Earthly Comforts Especially since we have Ground from Your Majesty to believe That our Loyalty is not to be questioned upon the account of our being Presbyterians who as we have amidst all former Temptations endeavoured so are firmly resolved still to preserve an entire Loyalty in our Doctrine and Practice consonant to our known Principles which according to the Holy Scriptures are contained in the Confession of Faith generally owned by Presbyterians in all Your Majesties Dominions And by the help of God so to demean our selves as Your Majesty may find cause rather to enlarge than to diminish Your Favours towards us Throughly perswading our selves from Your Majesties Justice and Goodness That if we shall at any time be otherwise represented Your Majesty will not give Credit to such Information until You take due Cognition thereof And humbly b●seeching that those who promote any Disloyal Principles and Practices as we do disown them may be look'd upon as none of ours whatsoever Name th●y may assume to themselves May it please Your most Excellent Majesty graciously to accept this our humble Address as proceeding from the Plainness and Sincerity of Loyal and Thankful Hearts much engaged by this Your Royal Favour to continue our fervent Prayers to the King of Kings for Divine Illumination and Conduct with all other Blessings Spiritual and Temporal ever to attend Your Royal Person and Government which is the greatest Duty can be re●dred to Your Majesty by Your Majesties most humble most faithful and most obedient Subjects Subscribed in our own Names and in the Name of the rest of the Brethren of our Perswasion at their desire At Edinburgh the Twenty first day of Iuly in the Year One thousand six hundred eighty seven To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of those of the Presbyterian Perswasion in the City of Edinburgh and Canongate May it please Your most Sacred Majesty WE cannot find suitable Expressions to evidence our most humble and grateful Acknowledgments for your Majesties late Gracious Declaration by which we are happily delivered of many sad and grievous Burdens we have long groaned under And all Restrainsts to our great Joy being taken off are allowed the free and peaceable publick Exercise of our Religion a Mercy which is dearer to us than our Lives