THE
Queries
and
Protestation
OF
THE
Scots
Episcopal
Clergy
AGAINST
THE
AUTHORITY
OF
THE
Presbyterian
General
Assemblies
and
Committees
,
given
in
to
the
Committee
of
the
General
Assembly
at
Aberdeen
,
June
29th
,
1694.
Together
with
the
Committee's
Answer
and
Proceedings
;
with
REFLECTIONS
upon
the
QUERIES
,
&c.
By
a
Layman
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
.
1
Cor
.
11.16
.
{αβγδ}
.
London
,
Printed
in
the
Year
1694.
The
PREFACE
.
THE
Cause
of
publishing
the
following
Queries
and
Reflections
upon
them
,
is
to
obviate
Misrepresentations
,
and
set
things
in
their
true
Light
,
it
having
been
the
constant
Practice
of
the
Scots
Prelatists
and
their
Friends
here
,
not
only
to
put
false
Glosses
upon
things
,
but
really
to
publish
Untruths
,
as
Matter
of
Fact
,
ever
since
the
Revolution
,
by
which
they
impose
upon
those
who
are
Strangers
to
Scots
Affairs
.
The
Truth
of
this
cannot
be
denied
by
any
who
consider
the
Pamphlets
which
they
have
published
from
time
to
time
against
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
as
by
Law
establish'd
,
both
in
relation
to
particular
Ministers
and
Members
,
and
the
Acts
and
Proceedings
of
her
General
Assemblies
and
Committees
:
Nor
is
it
unknown
how
some
Persons
of
no
mean
Character
did
industriously
misrepresent
the
Act
for
settling
the
Quiet
and
Peace
of
the
Church
,
which
was
enacted
in
the
last
Session
of
Parliament
at
Edinburgh
,
June
12
,
1693.
before
it
appear'd
in
print
,
on
purpose
to
render
their
Proceedings
odious
to
the
Church
of
England
;
and
the
Opposition
made
to
the
sitting
of
the
last
General
Assembly
,
who
authorized
the
Committee
here
treated
of
,
as
also
the
Tricks
which
were
endeavoured
to
be
put
upon
them
when
they
were
call'd
,
are
still
fresh
in
the
Memory
of
every
one
concern'd
:
So
that
these
things
,
together
with
the
Weight
of
the
following
Queries
,
not
in
themselves
,
but
as
being
concerted
by
a
General
Meeting
of
the
Episcopal
Clergy
in
the
North
of
Scotland
,
for
themselves
and
their
Adherents
,
will
justify
the
publishing
of
them
to
the
World
;
and
that
there
may
be
a
true
Relation
of
the
Matter
of
Fact
on
both
sides
,
here
is
also
an
Account
of
the
Committee's
Answer
and
Proceedings
.
As
to
what
concerns
the
Reflections
,
though
the
judicious
and
prudent
Answer
of
the
Committee
,
and
the
pertinent
Protestation
of
Mr.
Dunlop
,
are
sufficient
to
satisfy
those
who
are
acquainted
with
our
Affairs
,
and
the
legal
and
orderly
Procedure
of
the
Judicatories
of
our
Church
,
yet
something
further
was
thought
necessary
to
inform
People
here
,
amongst
whom
the
Queries
and
Protestation
of
the
Episcopal
Party
have
made
a
Noise
,
whereas
there
was
no
notice
taken
of
the
Committee's
Answer
,
nor
the
other
Protestation
;
those
who
transmitted
the
Account
of
the
one
from
Edinburgh
,
to
those
who
did
send
it
in
the
Publick
News
and
otherwise
,
through
this
Kingdom
,
having
either
suppress'd
it
out
of
Ignorance
or
Design
.
The
Necessity
of
these
Reflections
,
such
as
they
are
,
will
further
appear
to
those
who
consider
the
Humour
and
Carriage
of
the
Faction's
Adherents
in
this
place
,
being
such
as
lay
hold
of
every
Opportunity
to
calumniate
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
and
by
Consequence
improve
those
Queries
,
&c.
as
a
special
Occasion
of
begging
and
running
about
with
their
malicious
Tattle
amongst
the
Church-of-England-Clergy
,
and
others
to
whom
they
know
such
things
to
be
acceptable
:
and
therefore
the
Author
of
the
following
Reflections
,
out
of
pure
Zeal
for
the
Government
of
his
Country
,
as
at
present
establish'd
both
in
Church
and
State
,
thought
it
incumbent
on
him
to
throw
in
his
Mite
;
but
does
solemnly
protest
that
he
has
neither
Commission
,
Concurrence
,
nor
Connivance
from
the
Committee
,
nor
any
of
their
Number
,
nor
indeed
from
any
Minister
or
Ministers
in
Scotland
,
for
what
he
has
done
herein
,
which
he
thinks
fit
to
declare
,
to
obviate
the
Misrepresentations
of
the
opposite
Party
;
and
that
no
Mismanagement
of
his
,
though
he
be
conscious
of
no
other
but
Weakness
,
may
be
imputed
to
his
own
Party
,
whose
Pardon
he
hopes
that
he
may
also
obtain
,
though
his
meddling
in
their
Affairs
may
seem
officious
,
seeing
he
hath
so
ingenuously
declared
his
Motive
,
and
that
he
supporses
his
Reflections
may
keep
the
Adversaries
in
play
for
a
while
,
till
the
Committee
,
or
some
deputed
by
them
,
shall
be
at
leisure
to
take
their
Queries
into
Consideration
,
if
they
think
that
they
deserve
so
much
of
their
time
.
What
's
to
be
said
further
at
present
is
,
that
all
moderate
Church-of
England-men
,
into
whose
Hands
this
may
fall
,
would
do
well
to
take
notice
,
that
those
who
pretend
to
be
of
their
Party
in
Scotland
,
don't
contend
now
for
the
Order
of
Bishops
,
it
being
apparent
that
they
do
,
neither
in
the
Formula
which
they
offered
to
sign
in
1690
,
nor
in
the
present
Queries
,
make
any
mention
of
the
Abolition
of
that
Order
,
as
a
Cause
of
their
declining
Conformity
to
the
Church
of
Scotland
:
Nor
is
their
Renunciation
of
Episcopacy
or
Passive
Obedience
required
,
though
we
were
obliged
to
renounce
Presbytery
,
and
the
Lawfulness
of
defensive
Arms
,
or
else
we
could
not
conform
to
their
Church-Establishment
;
for
not
only
the
Abjuration
of
the
solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
but
a
Conformity
to
the
Church
,
as
owning
the
King's
Supremacy
,
and
the
Government
of
the
Church
by
Bishops
,
were
expresly
requir'd
by
Acts
of
Parliament
,
Sess.
2.
Act
3
,
and
5.
Parl
.
1.
Car
.
2.
Sess.
3.
Act
2.
whereas
in
effect
there
's
nothing
required
of
them
by
the
Act
for
Settling
the
Peace
of
the
Church
,
June
,
1693.
but
what
they
did
seemingly
concede
by
the
Formula
above-mentioned
:
And
though
they
pretend
to
raise
new
Scruples
now
,
as
in
their
Queries
,
&c.
it
will
appear
by
the
following
Reflections
,
that
they
themselves
did
practise
those
things
which
they
condemn
in
others
.
And
whereas
it
may
possibly
be
alledged
,
that
they
forbear
making
mention
of
the
Abolition
of
Episcopacy
,
or
requiring
its
Restitution
as
a
Term
of
their
Conformity
,
out
of
Deference
to
the
Government
,
that
cannot
be
the
Reason
;
for
those
things
which
they
impugn
have
also
the
Sanction
of
the
Civil
Government
.
But
to
conclude
,
those
of
the
Church
of
England
are
likewise
desired
to
consider
,
whether
they
themselves
would
not
be
shy
of
admitting
such
as
refuse
either
to
own
the
Government
or
Doctrine
of
their
Church
;
and
therefore
whether
it
be
not
very
reasonable
in
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
to
be
wary
how
they
admit
those
Men
into
her
Judicatories
,
who
not
only
refuse
Submission
to
her
Government
and
Doctrine
,
but
by
their
Influence
,
those
who
adher'd
to
her
were
in
the
late
Reigns
exposed
to
Impoverishment
,
Banishment
,
Fining
,
Confining
,
Imprisonment
,
Torture
,
and
Death
it self
;
it
being
no
less
than
a
Capital
Crime
,
by
their
Laws
,
for
any
Presbyterian
Minister
to
preach
,
Act
8.
Parl
.
1.
Jac
.
7.
and
no
Man
could
farm
either
House
or
Land
without
agreeing
to
a
Clause
in
his
Lease
,
obliging
him
and
his
Family
to
Conformity
under
exorbitant
Penalties
:
And
Landlords
and
Masters
were
to
put
away
their
Tenants
and
Servants
without
warning
,
if
they
went
to
Meetings
,
Act.
24.
Parl
.
1.
Jac
.
7.
and
the
Act
in
1681
,
when
the
D.
of
York
was
Commissioner
.
Now
if
these
Laws
and
others
which
the
present
Parliament
have
declared
to
be
impious
,
together
with
the
Acts
of
Council
which
were
yet
more
bloody
and
barbarous
,
as
impowering
the
Souldiers
to
examine
and
kill
any
Man
they
met
,
if
they
did
not
give
satisfying
Answers
to
their
Questions
,
be
duly
considered
,
it
's
referred
to
the
Judgment
of
any
discreet
Man
,
whether
it
would
be
prudent
for
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
to
take
the
Party
who
solicited
those
Laws
into
the
Assemblies
of
their
Church
,
without
conforming
to
the
Terms
required
by
the
Act
of
Parliament
,
June
12
,
1693.
viz.
that
they
should
take
the
Oath
of
Allegiance
and
Assurance
,
sign
the
Confession
of
Faith
as
their
own
,
and
promise
to
submit
to
,
concur
with
,
and
never
to
endeavour
the
Subversion
of
the
present
Church-Government
;
which
cannot
appear
to
be
harsh
Terms
to
any
Man
who
will
seriously
consider
the
Formula
that
the
Party
did
offer
to
sign
in
1690.
which
,
because
it
is
often
referred
unto
in
the
following
Reflections
,
and
that
it
plainly
demonstrates
the
Unstedfastness
and
Shuffling
of
the
Party
,
if
compared
with
their
present
Queries
,
it
's
thought
sit
here
to
exhibit
.
I
A.
B.
do
sincerely
declare
and
promise
,
that
I
will
submit
to
the
Presbyterian
Government
of
the
Church
,
as
it
is
now
establish'd
in
this
Kingdom
by
their
Majesties
K.
William
and
Q.
Mary
,
by
Presbyteries
,
Provincial
Synods
,
and
General
Assemblies
;
and
that
I
will
,
as
becomes
a
Minister
of
the
Gospel
,
heartily
concur
with
the
said
Government
for
suppressing
of
Sin
and
Wickedness
,
promoting
Piety
,
and
purging
of
the
Church
of
all
erroneous
and
scandalous
Men
.
And
I
do
further
promise
,
that
I
will
subscribe
the
Confession
of
Faith
,
and
larger
and
shorter
Catechism
,
now
confirm'd
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
as
containing
the
Doctrine
of
the
Protestant
Religion
profess'd
in
this
Kingdom
.
Now
let
the
Querists
answer
,
whether
here
be
not
a
plain
Offer
to
submit
to
the
Presbyterian
Government
,
without
any
mention
of
the
Objections
insisted
upon
in
their
present
Queries
?
whether
they
do
not
own
here
that
there
were
scandalous
and
erroneous
Ministers
amongst
them
,
which
now
they
are
so
loth
to
confess
?
whether
they
did
not
here
acknowledg
the
Authority
of
the
Presbyterians
to
purge
out
those
Ministers
,
whereas
now
they
protest
against
their
having
any
such
Power
?
whether
they
did
not
prevaricate
with
the
Civil
Government
in
offering
those
Terms
,
and
yet
refuse
to
conform
according
to
the
Act
of
June
12
,
1693
?
and
whether
their
offering
to
sign
the
Confession
of
Faith
as
the
Doctrine
of
the
Protestant
Religion
professed
in
the
Kingdom
,
while
they
refused
to
sign
the
same
as
the
Confession
of
their
own
Faith
,
was
not
a
silly
and
gross
piece
of
Dissimulation
?
Names
of
the
DELEGATS
commissionat
by
the
General
Meeting
at
Aberdeen
upon
the
5th
Day
of
June
1694.
for
presenting
the
Queries
,
&c.
to
the
Committee
at
Aberdeen
,
are
as
follows
:
-
MR.
John
Forbes
Parson
of
Kincairden
.
-
Mr.
Thomas
Robertson
Parson
of
Clatt
.
-
Mr.
Alexander
Lunan
Parson
of
Davi●t
.
-
Mr.
Patrick
Harvy
Parson
of
Forgon
.
-
Mr.
Alexander
Gellie
Parson
of
Fordyce
.
-
Mr.
Alexander
Barclay
Minister
at
Peterhead
.
-
Mr.
Alexander
Clark
Minister
at
Methlick
.
-
Mr.
Alexander
Mill
Minister
at
Udnie
.
Together
with
all
the
Ministers
of
the
Presbytery
of
Aberdeen
,
&c.
Of
which
Number
of
Delegats
,
these
were
present
;
and
did
give
in
the
said
Queries
to
the
Committee
foresaid
,
upon
the
29th
Day
of
June
in
the
Year
foresaid
,
viz.
-
Mr.
Thomas
Robertson
Parson
of
Clatt
.
-
Mr.
Alexander
Lunan
Parson
of
Daviot
.
-
Mr.
Alexander
Clark
Minister
at
Methlick
.
-
Mr.
Alexander
Mill
Minister
at
Udnie
.
And
these
of
the
Presbytery
of
Aberdeen
,
viz.
-
Mr.
James
Gordon
Parson
of
Banchory-davinick
.
-
Mr.
George
White
Minister
at
Maryculter
.
-
Mr.
John
Duntop
Minister
at
Skeen
.
-
Mr.
George
Smith
Minister
at
Kinellar
.
-
Mr.
Gilbert
Ramsey
Minister
at
Dyee
.
-
Mr.
George
Seton
Minister
at
Uppermachan
.
-
Mr.
Richard
Metland
Minister
at
Nigg
.
-
Mr.
Thomas
Crevey
Minister
at
Newhills
.
Sic
Subscribitur
,
M.
Chrevey
Clericus
.
At
the
King's
College-Kirk
of
Aberdeen
,
the
5th
of
June
1694.
THe
which
Day
being
met
the
Ministers
of
the
Diocess
of
Aberdeen
,
together
with
Delegats
from
the
Diocesses
of
Murray
,
Ross
,
Caithnes
and
Orknay
,
and
from
the
Shyres
of
Mairns
and
Angus
;
for
consulting
anent
the
necessarie
Affairs
of
the
Church
in
this
Juncture
:
And
understanding
that
the
Committee
of
the
late
Presbiterian
Assemblie
for
the
North
,
is
to
sit
at
Aberdeen
once
in
this
Month
;
Did
therfore
nominate
and
chuse
the
Brethren
after-mentioned
,
viz.
Mr.
John
Forbes
Parson
of
Kincairden
,
Mr.
Thomas
Robertson
Parson
of
Clatt
,
Mr.
Alexander
Lunan
Parson
of
Daviot
,
Mr.
Alexander
Gellie
Parson
of
Fordyce
,
Mr.
Patrick
Harvie
Minister
of
Forgon
,
Mr.
Alexander
Barclay
Minister
at
Peterhead
,
Mr.
Alexander
Clark
Minister
at
Methlick
,
Mr.
Alexander
Mill
Minister
at
Udnie
:
Together
with
all
the
Brethren
of
the
Presbitrie
of
Aberdeen
;
together
also
with
any
others
of
other
Presbitries
or
Diocesses
who
may
be
upon
the
Place
for
the
time
,
or
any
three
or
one
of
them
as
their
Commissioners
and
Representatives
,
With
full
Power
,
Warrand
,
and
Commission
to
them
to
compear
before
the
said
Committee
when
ever
it
shall
happen
any
of
their
Number
to
be
cited
before
them
:
And
in
their
Name
to
present
to
them
some
Queries
or
Proposals
concerted
by
them
at
their
said
Meeting
,
relating
to
the
Ecclesiastick
Authority
and
Jurisdiction
of
the
said
Committee
,
and
to
demand
Answers
and
Resolutions
thereunto
,
and
all
other
things
to
act
and
do
relative
to
the
Churches
intrest
,
pro
re
nata
.
And
to
establish
and
constitut
Procurators
one
or
more
in
their
Name
,
To
compear
in
their
Absence
,
and
to
act
before
the
said
Committee
as
fullie
and
freelie
as
if
all
and
every
one
of
them
were
personallie
present
themselves
.
And
appoynted
one
Extract
of
this
Act
to
be
given
to
the
forsaids
Commissioners
,
under
the
Clerk
of
the
Meetings
Hand
,
for
their
Warrand
and
Commission
.
Extracted
furth
of
the
Records
of
the
Meeting
above
specifyed
.
Sic
Subscribitur
,
M.
Chrevey
Clericus
.
Reflections
on
the
Meeting
of
the
Episcopal
Clergy
at
Aberdeen
.
THE
Gentlemen
who
composed
this
Meeting
,
having
entertained
the
Committee
of
the
General
Assembly
with
Queries
,
will
not
I
hope
take
it
amiss
to
have
a
little
of
the
same
Entertainment
themselves
,
and
may
certainly
give
a
very
agreeable
Diversion
to
the
Publick
,
if
they
will
be
pleased
to
answer
the
following
Queries
,
viz.
By
what
Authority
they
met
?
for
by
the
Authority
of
their
present
Majesties
they
could
not
meet
;
and
if
by
the
Authority
of
the
late
King
,
whether
or
not
their
Meeting
was
not
Rebellion
?
If
neither
by
the
Authority
of
the
late
King
,
nor
their
present
Majesties
,
how
they
came
to
act
contrary
to
their
former
Principles
,
viz.
that
all
Convocations
of
the
Lieges
,
without
the
King's
Authority
,
is
Rebellion
?
If
they
be
Frastians
in
their
Principle
,
according
as
their
Party
did
swear
,
and
profess
themselves
to
be
by
the
late
Oath
of
Supremacy
,
and
the
14
Act
of
Parl
.
2.
Car
.
2.
how
came
they
to
contradict
this
Principle
by
calling
an
Assembly
of
the
Church
without
the
Magistrates
Concurrence
?
If
K.
William
and
Q.
Mary
be
Ch.
2d's
lawful
Successors
,
to
whom
by
virtue
of
the
Supremacy
and
the
Inherent
Right
of
the
Crown
,
the
Ordering
of
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
&c.
doth
properly
belong
,
how
comes
it
to
pass
that
they
meet
in
Opposition
to
the
Committee
of
the
Assembly
which
has
their
Majesties
Authority
to
visit
and
purge
the
Church
,
&c.
and
not
only
meet
in
Opposition
to
them
,
but
decline
the
Authority
of
them
and
their
Constituents
?
If
K.
William
and
Q.
Mary
be
not
K.
Ch.
2d's
lawful
Successors
,
how
can
the
Querists
appeal
to
them
as
the
only
Supreme
Judges
in
these
Dominions
?
And
seeing
they
appeal
to
them
as
the
only
supreme
Judges
,
why
they
don't
acquiesce
in
their
Judgment
,
which
they
have
solemnly
given
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
viz.
in
lodging
the
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
of
the
National
Church
,
by
Act.
5.
Sess.
2.
of
this
present
Parliament
,
on
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
outed
since
1661
,
and
such
as
they
have
received
or
shall
receive
;
and
impowering
them
to
appoint
Visitors
to
purge
the
Church
,
suspend
and
deprive
?
&c.
And
seeing
the
Committee
which
the
Querists
oppose
have
such
a
Power
,
whether
they
might
not
in
Law
deprive
the
said
Querists
for
their
Contumacy
?
And
seeing
they
have
not
depriv'd
them
,
whether
they
have
not
behav'd
themselves
with
more
Moderation
towards
the
Querists
,
than
their
Party
did
toward
the
Presbyterians
?
And
whether
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
were
not
beheaded
,
hang'd
,
&c.
in
the
late
Reigns
,
for
less
Opposition
to
the
Government
?
The
Querists
would
oblige
the
Publick
further
to
answer
,
whether
or
not
their
Meeting
in
this
Manner
,
without
the
late
King
James's
Authority
,
if
they
still
own
his
Title
,
be
not
a
direct
Breach
of
their
Oath
of
Allegiance
,
wherein
they
were
sworn
to
maintain
his
Jurisdiction
over
all
Persons
,
and
in
all
Causes
,
against
all
Persons
whatsoever
?
And
if
they
own
their
present
Majesties
Authority
,
how
they
can
acquit
themselves
of
that
Oath
to
King
James
,
seeing
they
did
also
take
the
Declaration
,
that
it
was
not
lawful
to
resist
his
Majesty
,
or
any
commissionated
by
him
,
on
any
Pretence
whatsoever
?
And
if
they
own
that
to
have
been
a
false
Principle
,
why
they
did
not
declare
so
to
the
World
,
exhibit
their
Reasons
,
and
avow
their
Repentance
for
swearing
such
a
rash
Oath
?
And
further
their
Answer
is
desired
,
whether
their
assembling
about
Church-matters
,
in
this
manner
,
without
the
Consent
of
the
Civil
Magistrate
,
be
not
an
express
owning
of
the
inherent
and
intrinsick
Right
of
the
Church
;
for
maintaining
of
which
their
Party
did
persecute
the
Presbyterians
to
Death
in
the
late
Reigns
?
whether
such
a
Meeting
of
such
Persons
who
have
not
given
those
Proofs
of
their
Loyalty
to
their
Majesties
that
the
Law
requires
,
especially
when
call'd
on
purpose
to
oppose
a
Committee
cloth'd
with
their
Majesty's
Authority
,
be
agreeable
to
the
Principles
of
Passive
Obedience
,
and
not
actual
Resistance
?
and
how
that
can
be
called
the
Assembly
of
a
Church
,
which
consists
only
of
pretended
Pastors
,
without
Delegats
from
the
People
?
Some
Proposals
from
the
Ministers
of
the
Diocess
of
Aberdeen
,
for
themselves
,
and
in
Name
of
the
whole
Episcopal
Clergy
within
this
Kingdom
,
who
concur
with
them
to
the
Committee
of
the
late
Presbyterian
Assembly
,
now
sitting
at
Aberdeen
,
upon
the
29th
of
June
,
1694.
Query
I.
WHereas
,
according
to
the
Principles
of
Presbyterian
Government
,
there
ought
be
no
higher
Degree
of
Pastors
in
the
Church
than
Presbyters
,
and
all
Presbyters
are
equal
in
Power
and
Authority
,
we
desire
to
know
by
what
Divine
and
Ecclesiastick
Right
these
fifty
or
sixty
surviving
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
not
being
in
actual
Charge
within
this
Kingdom
,
did
take
upon
them
the
Exercise
of
the
whole
Ecclesiastick
Power
of
this
National
Church
,
and
have
exerced
a
more
full
and
absolute
Authority
and
Jurisdiction
over
their
Brethren
,
nine
hundred
or
a
thousand
Ministers
,
who
were
in
Office
when
Episcopacy
was
abolished
,
than
ever
the
Bishops
pretended
to
,
who
never
claimed
a
Power
to
make
Acts
concerning
the
Church
,
without
Consent
of
its
Ministers
.
Reflections
upon
the
First
Query
.
THE
Design
of
this
Query
is
,
to
charge
the
Committee
of
the
Assembly
with
acting
contrary
to
Presbyterian
Principles
,
and
exercising
a
more
absolute
Authority
over
their
Brethren
,
the
Episcopal
Ministers
,
than
ever
the
Bishops
pretended
to
.
The
Arguments
on
which
they
would
found
the
first
Part
of
the
Charge
are
,
because
the
Commission
owns
no
higher
Pastors
in
the
Church
than
Presbyters
,
and
that
all
those
are
equal
in
Power
;
and
yet
fifty
or
sixty
surviving
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
not
being
in
actual
Charge
within
this
Kingdom
,
did
take
upon
them
the
Exercise
of
the
whole
Ecclesiastick
Power
.
As
to
the
first
Part
of
the
Argument
,
it
seems
altogether
frivolous
,
and
cannot
infer
the
least
Contrariety
to
Presbyterian
Principles
,
that
because
they
own
no
higher
Pastors
in
the
Church
than
Presbyters
,
therefore
Presbyters
should
take
upon
them
the
Exercise
of
the
whole
Ecclesiastick
Power
:
for
it
's
natural
to
conclude
,
that
seeing
they
own
none
higher
,
therefore
they
must
needs
think
that
the
Ecclesiastick
Power
devolves
on
them
.
Nor
is
the
second
Argument
any
thing
more
concludent
to
prove
the
Committee's
contradicting
their
own
Principles
,
than
as
if
one
should
argue
thus
,
because
all
the
Members
of
the
House
of
Commons
are
of
equal
Power
,
therefore
the
Commons
,
or
a
Committee
of
their
own
Number
,
have
no
Power
over
a
faulty
Member
or
Members
:
or
because
the
Members
of
the
Assembly
which
met
at
Jerusalem
,
had
not
in
their
single
Capacities
any
Power
over
one
another
,
as
Apostle
over
Apostle
,
or
Elder
over
Elder
,
therefore
when
gathered
together
as
an
Assembly
,
they
had
no
Power
,
neither
of
themselves
,
nor
by
a
Committee
,
to
censure
a
faulty
Member
or
Members
.
Then
as
to
the
third
and
strongest
Part
of
the
Argument
,
that
fifty
or
sixty
of
the
surviving
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
not
being
in
actual
Charge
within
this
Kingdom
,
did
take
upon
them
the
Charge
of
the
whole
Ecclesiastick
Power
:
It
may
be
answered
,
1st
.
That
the
Case
is
falsly
and
maliciously
stated
;
for
those
fifty
or
sixty
surviving
Ministers
did
not
take
upon
themselves
that
Charge
de
novo
,
at
the
Abolition
of
Prelacy
,
but
were
only
restored
to
the
free
Exercise
of
that
Charge
,
which
by
the
Iniquity
of
the
late
Times
,
and
the
Prelatical
Persecution
,
they
were
unjustly
deprived
of
,
but
had
continued
in
the
Possession
and
Practice
of
it
,
as
Providence
afforded
them
Opportunity
,
in
private
.
2dly
.
That
they
did
not
take
the
Charge
aforesaid
upon
themselves
,
but
the
free
Exercise
of
the
same
was
restored
to
them
by
the
Parliament
,
in
conjunction
with
such
others
as
they
should
think
fit
to
take
in
.
3dly
.
That
the
Episcopalians
,
by
denying
them
to
have
been
in
actual
Charge
at
the
Revolution
,
would
have
done
well
to
have
explain'd
their
Meaning
:
If
by
not
being
in
actual
Charge
they
intend
their
not
being
setled
in
Parish-Churches
,
it
may
be
granted
without
any
Damage
to
their
Cause
:
For
by
the
Practice
of
the
Prelatists
themselves
,
a
Man
may
be
in
officio
,
though
not
in
beneficio
;
and
if
he
be
in
officio
,
he
may
certainly
perform
what
belongs
to
his
Office
.
And
by
their
own
Concession
(
Q.
2.
)
the
Power
of
Discipline
and
Government
is
inseparable
from
the
Power
of
Preaching
;
so
that
until
it
be
proved
that
they
were
justly
deprived
of
the
Power
of
Preaching
,
they
must
still
allow
them
to
have
been
in
actual
Charge
.
And
by
Consequence
this
Part
of
their
Argument
falls
to
the
Ground
.
Then
as
to
that
Part
of
it
,
that
fifty
or
sixty
Presbyterian
Ministers
should
exercise
the
whole
Ecclesiastick
Power
of
the
National
Church
;
besides
what
may
be
said
to
justify
them
from
Theological
Topicks
,
they
have
a
very
strong
Argument
from
Politicks
,
by
which
the
Prelatists
ought
to
be
satisfied
,
according
to
their
own
Concession
in
their
Protestation
,
as
shall
be
evinc'd
anon
.
For
fifty
or
sixty
Presbyterian
Ministers
may
very
well
take
upon
them
the
Exercise
of
the
whole
Ecclesiastick
Power
of
a
Nation
,
when
the
Representatives
of
that
Nation
,
in
Parliament
assembled
,
will
own
no
other
to
have
any
Right
thereunto
:
and
for
this
Reason
,
as
appears
still
by
the
Vote
of
the
Convention
,
that
the
Bishops
and
their
Clergy
were
the
great
and
insupportable
Grievance
of
the
Nation
.
And
for
this
Cause
,
together
with
the
Consideration
of
the
illegal
Method
us'd
in
turning
out
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
in
1660
,
and
1661.
of
which
there
were
only
those
fifty
or
sixty
alive
at
the
Revolution
,
their
Majesties
,
by
Advice
of
their
Parliament
,
after
the
settling
of
the
Church-Government
had
hung
above
a
Year
in
Suspence
,
did
settle
the
same
upon
those
fifty
or
sixty
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
and
such
as
they
should
admit
;
so
that
according
to
the
Appeal
which
the
Prelatists
have
made
in
their
Protestation
to
King
William
and
Queen
Mary
,
as
Supreme
Judges
under
God
in
these
Dominions
,
they
ought
to
rest
satisfied
in
their
Determination
by
the
Touch
of
the
Scepter
in
Parliament
,
which
is
the
only
authoritative
way
by
which
they
can
determine
Cases
of
that
Consequence
;
though
by
this
Appeal
it
would
seem
that
our
Prelatists
are
of
another
Mind
.
It
's
in
vain
for
them
to
think
of
evading
,
by
supposing
that
their
Majesties
were
surpriz'd
into
that
Assent
,
for
they
were
sufficiently
satisfied
how
Matters
stood
;
and
all
the
Arguments
that
could
be
urg'd
for
the
Episcopal
Party
,
were
represented
and
set
off
to
the
best
Advantage
,
by
the
Viscount
of
T
—
,
and
others
of
their
Champions
,
and
back'd
by
the
Interest
of
the
high-flown
Church-men
here
;
so
that
if
their
Majesties
had
not
been
fully
convinc'd
of
the
Truth
of
what
was
represented
to
them
by
their
Grand
Council
,
the
Parliament
,
as
to
what
Form
of
Church-Government
was
best
for
Scotland
,
it
's
not
reasonable
to
think
that
ever
they
would
have
given
their
Royal
Assent
to
that
Act.
So
that
if
these
Gentlemen
had
either
any
due
Regard
to
the
Dignity
of
Scots
Parliaments
,
the
impugning
of
whose
Acts
is
no
less
than
Treason
;
or
if
they
had
any
real
Deference
to
the
Judgment
of
their
Majesties
,
to
whom
they
appeal
,
they
would
never
be
so
bold
,
to
say
no
worse
,
to
appeal
to
them
in
a
Matter
which
they
have
already
determined
in
the
most
solemn
and
legal
manner
that
can
be
,
and
much
less
to
protest
against
the
General
Assembly
of
the
Church
or
their
Committee
,
as
exercising
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
,
tho
not
altogether
by
,
yet
with
their
Majesties
Authority
.
And
if
the
Party
had
but
the
least
Remnant
of
Modesty
,
they
would
be
asham'd
to
aver
that
the
Presbyterians
exercise
a
more
full
and
absolute
Authority
and
Jurisdiction
over
their
Brethren
,
nine
hundred
or
a
thousand
Ministers
,
who
were
in
Office
when
Episcopacy
was
abolish'd
,
than
ever
the
Bishops
pretended
to
,
who
never
claim'd
a
Power
to
make
Acts
concerning
the
Church
,
without
Consent
of
its
Ministers
.
It
being
very
well
known
,
that
though
the
Bishops
,
to
please
the
People
,
kept
up
a
Form
of
Presbyteries
and
Synods
,
by
whose
Advice
they
pretended
to
make
Acts
;
yet
those
Presbyteries
and
Synods
were
never
allowed
that
Freedom
and
Liberty
which
they
themselves
desired
,
but
were
directly
lorded
over
by
the
Bishops
;
of
which
the
Scuffle
which
happened
betwixt
them
and
their
Ciergy
,
about
a
Convocation
in
1674.
or
thereabouts
,
as
I
take
it
,
was
a
convincing
Instance
,
for
the
poor
Curates
were
forc'd
at
last
to
submit
.
Whereas
it
is
evident
that
the
Presbyterians
do
neither
claim
nor
exercise
any
such
absolute
Jurisdiction
over
their
Episcopal
Brethren
,
the
Assembly
in
1690
having
expresly
declared
that
they
would
depose
no
Incumbents
simply
for
their
Judgment
concerning
Church-Government
,
nor
yet
urge
Recordination
upon
them
.
Nor
can
they
give
any
Instances
that
they
have
acted
contrary
to
this
Declaration
,
all
of
those
that
have
hitherto
been
turn'd
out
being
found
really
scandalous
,
or
refusing
to
own
their
present
Majesties
;
whereas
the
Presbyterians
turn'd
out
in
1660
,
and
1661
,
could
neither
be
accus'd
as
scandalous
in
their
Conversation
,
Heterodox
in
their
Doctrine
,
or
of
refusing
to
own
King
Charles
II
.
and
yet
the
Prelatical
Council
turn'd
them
out
meerly
because
they
would
not
submit
to
the
Bishops
,
by
whose
Influence
afterwards
it
was
enacted
,
Parl
.
1.
Sess.
2.
Act.
2.
Car
.
2.
that
all
Petitions
,
Writing
,
Printing
,
Praying
,
Remonstrating
or
Preaching
,
shewing
any
Dislike
of
the
Government
of
the
Church
by
Bishops
,
was
seditious
.
So
that
the
World
may
judg
of
the
Truth
of
those
Mens
Assertion
,
who
say
,
that
the
Presbyterians
do
exercise
a
more
full
and
absolute
Authority
and
Jurisdiction
over
them
,
than
ever
the
Bishops
pretended
to
,
who
not
only
solicited
the
above-mentioned
Act
,
but
concurred
with
their
Authority
to
establish
it
into
a
Law
.
And
seeing
our
Adversaries
do
own
that
the
Bishops
never
made
any
Acts
without
the
Consent
of
their
Clergy
,
we
would
pray
them
to
answer
then
,
whether
this
does
not
plainly
give
the
Lie
to
all
their
Pretensions
of
Moderation
towards
the
Presbyterians
in
the
late
Reigns
,
which
they
magnified
so
much
in
some
of
their
Pamphlets
since
the
Revolution
.
They
may
,
perhaps
,
object
,
that
the
Bishops
did
not
do
this
in
their
Ecclesiastical
Capacity
,
but
as
Members
of
Parliament
.
To
which
it
may
easily
be
replied
,
that
they
sit
in
Parliament
as
Bishops
,
which
is
their
Ecclesiastical
Capacity
;
but
whether
they
did
it
in
that
Capacity
or
not
,
it
's
all
one
upon
the
matter
;
for
,
according
to
these
Gentlemens
Allegation
,
they
did
not
concur
to
make
such
Acts
relating
to
the
Church
,
without
Consent
of
their
Clergy
:
and
if
they
did
it
without
their
Concurrence
,
then
they
lorded
it
over
them
and
the
Presbyterians
both
:
so
that
they
have
brought
themselves
into
a
Dilemma
,
let
them
get
out
of
it
which
way
they
can
.
It
may
be
further
answered
,
as
to
their
charging
the
Presbyterians
with
exercising
a
more
absolute
Jurisdiction
over
the
Episcopal
Ministers
than
the
Bishops
did
,
that
without
any
Breach
of
Charity
,
if
we
consider
the
Practice
and
Designs
of
the
Scots
Bishops
,
it
was
neither
their
Interest
nor
Inclination
to
enquire
into
the
Doctrine
and
Conversation
of
their
Clergy
;
for
Looseness
of
Practice
and
Errors
in
Doctrine
,
such
as
Arminianism
,
&c.
were
the
Path-road
to
Popery
and
Slavery
:
for
the
advancing
of
which
the
Generality
of
our
Scots
Bishops
did
concur
with
the
Court
,
as
most
,
if
not
all
of
them
who
were
in
Office
at
the
Revolution
,
do
adhere
to
the
late
King
still
,
and
the
Northern
Parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
where
these
refractory
Clergy-men
do
now
reside
:
as
they
are
most
opposite
to
this
Government
both
in
Church
and
State
,
so
they
did
comply
with
the
Courses
of
the
late
Reigns
most
of
any
.
And
whereas
they
pretend
that
the
Bishops
did
not
make
any
Acts
concerning
the
Church
,
without
the
Consent
of
its
Ministers
;
we
answer
,
that
if
they
demanded
any
Consent
,
it
was
only
from
those
who
own'd
their
Jurisdiction
,
and
not
from
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
:
and
they
cannot
deny
but
the
Presbyterian
Assemblies
act
with
the
Advice
and
Consent
of
all
that
own
their
Jurisdiction
.
So
that
the
Episcopal
Party
condemn
their
own
Practice
by
condemning
us
.
All
the
Difference
that
can
be
alledged
is
,
that
those
Episcopal
Ministers
who
complain
thus
,
are
still
in
their
Churches
,
whereas
the
Presbyterians
were
thrown
out
;
which
is
meerly
the
Fruits
of
the
Government's
Mildness
,
and
does
not
one
whit
alter
the
Case
,
except
they
will
alledg
,
which
they
never
did
hitherto
,
that
none
can
be
Ministers
but
such
as
are
fix'd
in
particular
Congregations
:
And
in
truth
this
is
but
a
very
sorry
Requital
to
the
Presbyterians
for
their
Moderation
in
suffering
them
to
continue
in
the
Churches
,
whence
they
could
have
as
easily
ejected
them
as
they
did
vote
them
the
great
and
insupportable
Grievance
of
the
Nation
;
that
nothing
will
satisfy
them
,
except
they
be
admitted
into
the
Judicatories
of
the
Church
,
to
embroil
Affairs
and
overtun
it
afresh
:
And
because
they
seem
to
lay
such
mighty
Weight
upon
their
being
in
Office
when
Episcopacy
was
abolish'd
;
they
may
remember
that
the
Presbyterians
were
also
in
Office
,
in
their
sense
,
when
Episcopacy
was
set
up
,
without
the
Consent
of
the
Ministers
then
in
Office
.
Then
as
to
that
part
of
the
Query
,
by
what
Divine
or
Ecclesiastical
Right
those
fifty
or
sixty
Ministers
took
upon
them
the
Charge
above-mentioned
:
It
hath
been
answered
already
,
that
they
never
lost
that
Right
,
tho
they
were
obstructed
in
the
Exercise
of
it
by
Force
;
and
as
in
general
Defections
,
when
the
number
of
the
Faithful
is
always
the
least
,
yet
the
Right
is
preserved
in
those
few
that
continue
faithful
;
so
the
case
was
here
,
the
smallness
of
their
Number
is
no
Argument
against
the
Justice
of
their
Cause
:
For
the
Scriptures
acquaint
us
,
that
the
Witnesses
for
the
Truth
were
reduced
to
two
,
(
that
is
,
a
small
,
tho
sufficient
Number
in
Law
to
confirm
the
Truth
)
while
the
whole
World
wondered
after
the
Beast
;
and
we
have
often
heard
of
unus
Athanasius
contra
totum
Orbem
.
The
Waldenses
were
but
few
in
Number
compared
with
the
Multitude
of
Idolaters
,
and
yet
the
Succession
of
Church
was
preserved
in
them
.
The
Arians
of
old
,
and
the
Papists
of
late
did
brag
of
their
Multitude
,
but
that
was
never
allowed
by
the
Orthodox
as
a
concluding
Argument
.
Chrysostom
ad
Pop
.
Antioch
.
hom
.
26.
says
,
Quid
mihi
cum
multitudine
malo
unum
pretiosum
Lapidem
quam
obolos
multos
.
Et
hom
.
40.
Elias
unus
erat
,
sed
totus
Mundus
non
dignus
erat
qui
rependeretur
ei
.
Greg
.
Nazian
.
Orat
.
25.
contra
Arianos
.
Ubi
sunt
,
inquit
,
qui
Ecclesiam
multitudine
definiunt
,
&
parvum
Gregem
despicantur
?
This
Comparison
it
's
probable
will
be
rejected
as
odious
,
and
savouring
too
much
of
a
censorious
Spirit
:
but
whoever
will
be
at
the
Pains
to
consider
,
that
the
Divine
Institution
of
the
Order
of
Presbyters
is
agreed
on
among
all
Christians
in
general
,
while
that
of
any
Superiour
Order
is
granted
by
the
most
Learned
of
the
Episcopal
Party
themselves
to
be
meerly
of
Human
Right
;
and
then
if
we
take
a
view
of
the
solemn
Obligations
which
the
Kingdom
of
Scotland
lay
under
to
have
preserved
the
Protestant
Doctrine
,
and
Presbyterian
Government
in
that
Church
,
the
undue
Methods
taken
to
reintroduce
Prelacy
there
,
by
the
most
notorious
Perjury
that
ever
was
heard
of
under
Heaven
;
the
Deluge
of
Profanity
which
accompanied
that
Change
;
the
Laws
for
establishing
it
,
which
this
present
Parliament
have
voted
to
be
impious
,
and
the
unhallowed
Means
and
Instruments
made
use
of
to
support
and
maintain
the
Scots
Episcopacy
:
then
if
we
consider
the
slackning
of
the
Reins
of
all
publick
Discipline
,
together
with
the
manifest
decay
of
the
Power
of
Godliness
,
and
the
Hatred
which
was
evidenced
against
it
by
most
of
the
Scots
Bishops
and
their
Clergy
;
when
at
the
same
time
they
concurred
with
their
utmost
Power
to
bring
the
Nations
under
a
Popish
Government
,
to
the
manifest
hazard
of
our
Civil
and
Religious
Liberties
:
and
if
to
this
we
add
the
visible
Inclination
which
that
Party
have
still
to
the
late
King
James
,
tho
in
League
with
the
French
King
,
and
never
to
be
restored
but
by
the
sworn
Enemy
of
our
Religion
;
the
Doctrine
of
which
they
do
apparently
disown
by
refusing
to
sign
the
Confession
of
Faith
:
I
say
,
that
if
all
those
things
be
considered
,
it
will
appear
with
undeniable
Evidence
,
that
our
Scots
Prelatists
were
and
are
engaged
in
a
dreadful
Defection
,
and
join'd
in
Issue
and
Interest
with
Babylon
,
tho
God
by
his
Word
and
Providence
did
call
aloud
for
his
People
to
come
out
of
her
.
Which
Reflection
being
founded
upon
undeniable
Matter
of
Fact
,
can
offend
no
unprejudic'd
Person
,
who
will
allow
themselves
time
to
consider
of
it
;
and
therefore
the
Case
being
thus
,
and
the
Parliament
of
Scotland
which
was
called
by
his
present
Majesty
King
William
,
whom
God
hath
in
a
wonderful
manner
rais'd
up
to
support
and
maintain
the
Protestant
Interest
,
which
was
ready
to
sink
,
having
,
as
already
hinted
,
voted
the
Scots
Bishops
and
their
Clergy
,
to
be
the
great
and
insupportable
Grievance
of
the
Nation
,
let
no
Man
tax
me
with
being
uncharitable
,
if
I
say
that
the
Prelatical
Party
,
having
divested
themselves
of
all
pretences
to
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
by
their
Defection
,
it
must
necessarily
remain
in
those
Presbyterian
Ministers
who
continued
faithful
:
and
that
this
was
the
sense
of
the
Body
of
Protestants
in
the
Nation
,
appear'd
by
the
unanimous
Vote
of
their
Representatives
,
who
rejected
the
Bishops
and
their
Clergy
as
an
unsupportable
Grievance
;
and
by
Law
did
establish
the
Exercise
of
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
in
those
few
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
and
such
as
they
should
admit
:
so
that
here
's
all
that
can
be
requisite
to
prove
their
Divine
and
Ecclesiastick
Right
to
the
Jurisdiction
of
the
National
Church
.
They
had
their
Mission
and
Ordination
as
Ministers
by
the
Hands
of
the
Presbytery
,
which
,
in
foro
Ecclesiae
,
does
regularly
constitute
them
Ambassadors
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
the
Nation
by
their
Representatives
have
submitted
themselves
to
their
Jurisdidiction
,
as
such
:
So
that
there
is
nothing
wanting
to
clear
their
Right
,
either
by
Laws
Divine
or
Human
.
Query
II
.
Since
according
to
their
own
Principles
,
the
Power
of
preaching
the
Gospel
,
and
administring
the
Sacraments
,
and
the
Power
of
Discipline
and
Government
are
inseparable
in
the
Office
of
a
Pastor
;
Quaeritur
,
If
that
Constitution
of
Church-Government
be
lawful
,
which
excludes
the
greatest
part
of
the
Pastors
of
the
Church
from
having
any
share
in
the
Government
thereof
?
Reflections
on
the
Second
Query
.
THE
Design
of
this
Query
is
,
first
,
to
fix
upon
the
Presbyterians
an
Inconsistency
with
their
own
Principles
,
in
excluding
the
greatest
part
of
the
Ministers
of
that
Church
from
any
share
in
the
Government
,
tho
they
own
that
the
Power
of
Preaching
,
and
the
Power
of
Discipline
are
inseparable
.
And
in
the
next
place
,
to
prove
that
the
present
Constitution
of
the
Church-Government
is
unlawful
upon
that
Account
.
As
to
the
first
:
They
may
remember
that
it
was
the
Practice
of
their
own
Church
as
well
as
of
ours
,
to
admit
Probationers
to
preach
without
allowing
them
the
Power
of
Discipline
;
whence
it
appears
that
this
Reflection
upon
us
is
not
duly
cautioned
,
nor
can
it
infer
any
Inconsistency
with
our
Principles
.
But
what
if
we
should
answer
their
Question
with
another
;
Whether
do
they
think
that
the
Apostle
,
tho
he
was
glad
that
Christ
was
preached
out
of
Envy
,
would
have
admitted
those
envious
Preachers
into
the
Judicatories
of
the
Church
,
to
debate
upon
those
Matters
whereof
they
themselves
were
accused
?
But
this
Reflection
of
theirs
will
appear
still
more
unreasonable
,
if
we
consider
;
1.
That
tho
the
Presbyterians
thought
it
fit
to
connive
at
their
preaching
,
yet
they
never
gave
them
any
formal
Allowance
to
preach
;
so
that
their
denying
them
any
share
in
the
Discipline
,
seeing
they
never
had
their
Allowance
to
preach
,
cannot
infer
any
Contradiction
in
the
Presbyterians
to
the
Principle
above-mentioned
.
3.
That
it
were
highly
imprudent
,
to
say
no
worse
,
for
the
Assembly
to
admit
those
Men
into
a
share
of
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
whom
the
Representatives
of
the
Nation
,
who
are
the
Body
of
that
Church
,
did
vote
to
be
the
insupportable
Grievance
of
the
Nation
,
which
is
a
flagrant
Scandal
,
whence
the
Party
have
never
purged
themselves
;
and
it
will
be
allowed
by
the
Prelatists
that
Ministers
under
a
Scandal
,
may
be
suspended
ab
Officio
:
so
that
they
have
no
reason
to
complain
when
they
are
only
debar'd
from
part
of
that
which
they
pretend
to
be
their
Office
,
whereas
they
might
have
justly
been
excluded
from
the
whole
.
4.
That
for
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
to
admit
those
Men
into
a
share
of
the
Church-Government
,
who
during
this
time
that
they
have
been
allowed
to
preach
since
the
Revolution
,
which
is
more
than
enough
for
Probation
,
have
given
no
Evidences
of
their
Amendment
,
nor
Inclination
to
comply
with
the
Terms
of
Conformity
enjoin'd
by
the
Act
of
Parliament
:
I
say
,
for
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
to
admit
those
Men
,
were
to
betray
the
Trust
which
God
and
the
Government
have
reposed
in
them
,
and
to
break
down
the
Hedges
and
let
in
the
Foxes
to
spoil
the
Vines
:
And
if
they
should
do
so
,
how
could
they
justify
themselves
,
or
answer
the
Reproaches
which
the
Civil
Government
might
upbraid
them
with
;
that
when
they
had
lodged
the
Government
of
the
Church
upon
themselves
,
they
let
in
their
own
Enemies
and
those
of
the
State
,
to
overturn
it
?
From
all
which
it
will
appear
,
that
it
can
reflect
nothing
of
Unlawfulness
upon
the
Constitution
of
the
Church-Government
,
that
the
Presbyterians
exclude
those
from
any
share
in
it
,
who
,
tho
they
look
upon
themselves
as
the
Major
Part
of
the
Pastors
,
are
accused
by
the
People
in
Parliament
as
the
insupportable
Grievance
of
the
Nation
,
who
therefore
deprived
them
of
any
share
of
the
Church-Government
,
and
left
it
to
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
to
take
such
of
them
in
as
they
should
think
fit
upon
Probation
,
which
gave
the
said
Presbyterian
Ministers
a
Civil
Right
:
and
as
to
the
Divine
Ecclesiastic●
Right
,
it
was
touched
before
.
Query
III
.
SEeing
no
Assembly
of
Church-Officers
can
justly
claim
any
Authority
or
Jurisdiction
over
a
Church
,
wherein
that
Church
is
not
duly
represented
;
and
a
Church
cannot
be
represented
in
an
Assembly
in
which
their
Delegats
are
not
allowed
to
sit
:
And
that
by
the
Constitution
of
this
Church
,
a
General
Assembly
doth
consist
of
Commissioners
from
all
the
Presbytries
within
the
Kingdom
.
Quaeritur
,
How
the
late
Presbyterian
Assemblies
can
be
owned
for
lawful
General
Assemblies
of
this
Church
,
since
they
consisted
intirely
of
the
Presbyterian
Party
;
and
the
Presbytries
of
this
Diocess
,
and
several
others
within
this
Kingdom
had
no
Commissioners
present
at
these
Assemblies
,
nor
had
they
a
Call
to
send
any
?
Reflections
on
the
Third
Query
.
THE
Design
of
this
Query
is
,
to
impugn
the
Authority
of
the
General
Assemblies
,
because
they
alledg
that
the
Church
was
not
duly
represented
in
them
,
as
consisting
wholly
of
the
Presbyterian
Party
,
and
wanting
Delegates
from
the
Diocess
of
Aberdeen
,
and
several
others
.
These
Gentlemen
are
not
aware
that
the
Objection
may
be
retorted
upon
themselves
with
more
advantage
,
and
therefore
they
would
do
well
to
consider
how
they
can
justify
the
Authority
of
any
of
their
Synods
under
the
Bishops
,
to
which
none
were
admitted
but
those
of
their
own
Party
;
and
in
which
the
Body
of
the
Church
was
never
represented
,
there
being
no
Elders
to
represent
the
People
:
so
that
they
had
not
the
Concurrence
of
the
Nation
as
we
have
in
our
Assemblies
,
where
the
People
are
not
tyranniz'd
over
,
but
chearfully
concur
with
what
is
done
,
according
to
that
Pattern
in
the
15th
of
the
Acts.
And
as
to
the
wanting
of
Delegates
from
some
Diocesses
which
are
either
refractory
,
or
uncapable
of
sending
,
upon
the
account
above-mentioned
,
it
will
no
more
prejudg
the
Right
of
the
rest
,
than
the
Obstinacy
of
some
Rebellious
Counties
can
invalidate
the
Acts
of
Parliament
of
a
whole
Kingdom
,
to
which
they
send
no
Members
;
for
in
all
such
cases
the
Right
remains
in
the
Majority
of
the
sound
Part
:
So
that
this
Objection
,
however
weighty
it
may
have
been
esteem'd
by
our
Adversaries
,
has
nothing
of
Solidity
in
it
.
And
whereas
they
might
insist
upon
their
not
having
a
Call
to
send
any
Delegates
to
the
Assembly
;
it
hath
been
answered
already
,
that
they
were
rendred
uncapable
of
it
by
the
general
Accusation
of
the
Kingdom
by
their
Representatives
;
and
it
was
never
known
in
the
World
,
that
the
Accused
Party
should
be
suffered
to
be
Judges
in
their
own
Cause
.
But
supposing
that
the
Assembly
should
have
called
upon
them
to
send
in
their
Delegates
,
their
Practice
makes
it
plain
that
they
would
have
declin'd
,
their
Authority
,
and
embroil'd
the
poor
Remainders
of
the
Church
which
had
escaped
the
Tyranny
of
the
last
Reigns
,
into
vain
and
endless
Janglings
and
Debates
.
Nor
was
it
reasonable
to
think
,
that
a
Party
who
had
solicited
and
promoted
the
Execution
of
those
impious
Laws
against
the
Presbyterians
,
would
ever
concur
to
the
Establishment
of
their
Discipline
,
which
they
had
laboured
to
destroy
with
so
much
Violence
:
so
that
either
for
the
Parliament
,
or
the
General
Assembly
to
have
called
on
the
Episcopal
Party
to
send
Delegates
to
sit
in
their
Ecclesiastical
Judicatories
for
establishing
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
had
been
just
the
same
,
as
if
they
should
have
sent
for
all
the
known
Jacobites
in
the
Nation
to
have
sat
in
Parliament
for
setling
the
Crown
on
King
William
and
Queen
Mary
.
But
our
Querists
may
please
to
take
notice
further
,
That
tho
they
assume
to
themselves
and
their
Party
,
the
specious
Name
of
Pastors
of
the
Church
,
the
People
to
whom
they
pretended
that
Relation
,
did
by
their
Representatives
disown
it
,
and
accused
them
as
an
insupportable
Grievance
,
and
restored
those
to
the
Possession
of
the
Jurisdiction
who
had
the
best
Right
,
and
upon
whose
Charges
the
Querists
Party
were
Intruders
,
having
neither
sought
nor
obtain'd
the
Consent
of
the
People
,
or
any
Ecclesiastical
Judicatory
;
but
entred
upon
the
Churches
of
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
who
were
turn'd
out
without
either
Accusation
,
Citation
,
Conviction
,
Sentence
,
or
a
Hearing
allowed
them
.
Query
IV
.
SInce
by
the
Principles
already
mentioned
,
all
Pastors
have
an
equal
Right
to
share
in
the
Government
of
that
Church
whereof
they
are
Members
and
Office-bearers
:
And
since
the
whole
Body
of
the
Pastors
of
this
Church
,
who
were
in
Office
at
the
time
of
the
Abolishment
of
Episcopacy
,
cannot
be
charged
with
Ignorance
,
gross
Error
,
Immorality
of
Life
,
or
supine
Negligence
in
their
Office
;
We
cannot
understand
how
the
Constitution
of
the
present
Church-Government
,
and
late
Assemblies
,
can
be
justified
by
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
but
upon
this
Supposition
,
that
the
whole
Body
of
Pastors
foresaid
,
are
either
no
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
or
such
corrupt
ones
upon
the
account
of
their
Principles
and
Practice
,
in
relation
to
Church-Government
,
as
that
they
are
not
worthy
to
be
trusted
with
the
Exercise
of
that
Power
which
belongs
to
the
Pastoral
Office
:
which
we
cannot
own
without
either
renouncing
our
Ministrie
,
and
declaring
all
the
Acts
of
our
Ministerial
Function
null
and
void
.
Reflections
on
the
Fourth
Query
.
THE
Design
of
this
Query
,
is
to
vindicate
the
Body
of
the
Episcopal
Clergy
from
Ignorance
,
Gross
Error
,
Immorality
or
Negligence
in
their
Office
;
and
to
fix
upon
the
Presbyterians
that
they
cannot
deny
them
a
Share
in
the
Church-Government
,
except
they
either
look
upon
them
as
no
Ministers
,
or
such
corrupt
ones
upon
the
account
of
their
Principles
and
Practices
,
in
Relation
to
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
as
that
they
are
not
worthy
to
be
trusted
with
the
Exercise
of
it
:
Which
(
say
they
)
they
cannot
own
without
renouncing
their
Ministry
,
and
declaring
all
their
Ministerial
Acts
void
and
null
.
As
to
their
Vindication
,
it
comes
unseasonably
;
for
they
ought
to
have
put
it
into
the
Convention
of
States
and
Parliament
when
they
voted
the
Bishops
and
their
Clergy
the
great
and
insupportable
Grievance
of
the
Nation
:
which
seeing
they
did
not
do
then
,
there
was
all
the
reason
of
the
World
to
take
it
pro
confesso
;
and
seeing
they
are
charged
so
heavily
by
the
Representatives
of
the
Nation
,
it
were
a
piece
of
very
great
Injustice
to
suppose
that
August
Assembly
to
be
Liars
or
Calumniators
,
and
not
able
to
make
good
their
Charge
:
and
therefore
until
such
time
as
they
be
purg'd
by
as
good
Authority
as
they
are
accus'd
,
they
cannot
charge
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
as
being
uncharitable
for
thinking
them
unworthy
of
any
Share
in
the
Church-Government
;
especially
seeing
they
were
so
far
from
disproving
the
Charge
,
that
they
made
it
good
to
the
View
of
the
World
:
all
their
Bishops
adhering
to
the
late
King
,
several
of
the
Clergy
joining
in
Arms
against
their
present
Majesties
,
above
Two
hundred
of
them
being
actually
depriv'd
by
the
Civil
Government
for
refusing
to
own
their
Majesties
.
And
the
present
Querists
,
by
their
Queries
and
Protestation
,
do
manifestly
strike
at
the
Root
of
the
Government
both
in
Church
and
State
;
as
shall
be
made
to
appear
more
fully
afterwards
.
And
whereas
they
alledg
,
that
they
cannot
be
charged
with
gross
Error
:
It
seems
they
have
forgot
that
such
of
them
as
made
Application
to
the
Assembly
,
refused
to
sign
the
Confession
of
Faith
,
as
containing
sound
Doctrine
against
Arminianism
,
Socinianism
and
Popery
;
by
which
they
did
virtually
charge
themselves
with
gross
Errors
;
and
their
silly
Proposal
of
offering
to
sign
that
Confession
,
as
containing
the
Doctrine
of
the
Protestant
Religion
professed
in
the
Kingdom
of
Scotland
,
but
not
as
their
own
Doctrine
,
fixes
the
Suspicion
of
Error
upon
them
with
more
force
still
:
upon
which
account
,
their
Majesties
did
with
Advice
and
Consent
of
the
Estates
of
Parliament
,
June
12th
1693
,
enact
,
That
no
Minister
or
Preacher
be
admitted
or
continued
unless
he
sign
the
said
Confession
as
that
of
his
own
Faith
,
and
the
Doctrine
that
he
will
constantly
adhere
to
.
So
that
it
can
scarcely
be
determin'd
whether
it
be
more
impudent
or
ridiculous
in
those
Querists
,
to
blame
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
for
not
admitting
them
to
the
Exercise
of
the
Church-Government
contrary
to
the
Laws
,
when
it
is
not
in
their
Power
to
do
it
:
and
it
may
justly
be
admir'd
,
with
what
Confidence
those
Men
can
desire
to
be
admitted
to
the
Exercise
of
the
Government
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
when
they
refused
to
sign
the
Confession
of
Faith
which
they
own
to
contain
the
Doctrine
of
the
Protestant
Religion
professed
in
Scotland
,
as
the
Confession
of
their
own
Faith
;
especially
when
it
's
known
that
their
Brethren
of
the
Church
of
England
admit
no
Ministers
into
their
Church
without
testifying
their
Assent
and
Consent
to
the
39
Articles
,
&c.
Then
as
to
Immoralities
which
they
pretend
they
cannot
be
charg'd
with
:
They
would
do
well
to
remember
,
that
not
only
many
of
their
Number
were
guilty
,
and
accordingly
accus'd
of
gross
Immoralities
,
such
as
are
hateful
to
be
named
,
but
their
Bishops
,
who
according
to
them
,
were
the
most
essential
Part
of
their
Church
,
were
generally
Men
of
ill
Morals
,
and
Arch-bishop
Paterson
in
particular
is
accus'd
as
such
by
Mr.
Gordon
one
of
the
Querists
,
in
his
Book
called
the
Reformed
Bishop
:
And
is
it
not
very
well
known
,
that
the
two
late
Heads
of
their
Church
,
from
whence
they
deriv'd
all
their
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
,
were
grosly
immoral
,
and
their
Church
never
so
honest
as
to
reprove
them
for
it
,
in
order
to
reform
them
,
or
prevent
the
Corruption
of
Manners
amongst
the
People
who
were
deprav'd
by
their
bad
Example
,
which
makes
their
whole
Body
chargeable
with
the
general
Prophanity
that
abounds
to
this
very
day
in
the
Nation
?
And
they
may
be
pleas'd
to
remember
further
,
that
besides
those
Sorts
of
Immoralities
which
are
generally
own'd
to
be
such
,
they
are
chargeable
with
those
of
another
nature
;
as
the
Breach
of
that
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
which
many
of
them
did
personally
sign
,
and
were
thereby
obliged
to
resist
Popery
and
Prelacy
,
and
maintain
the
Privileges
of
Parliament
;
and
yet
they
avowedly
broke
through
all
those
Ties
by
submitting
to
,
and
pleading
for
Prelacy
,
and
preaching
up
the
King's
Prerogative
over
the
Parliament
and
all
Laws
:
so
that
by
their
Concurrence
,
the
late
King
,
when
D.
of
York
,
though
a
Papist
,
sat
in
their
Parliaments
as
Commissioner
,
without
qualifying
himself
according
to
Law
;
and
being
by
their
Interest
advanc'd
to
the
Throne
,
took
upon
him
,
by
his
Proclamations
,
to
cass
and
annul
what
Laws
he
pleas'd
.
Then
,
I
suppose
,
they
may
also
remember
their
taking
of
the
self-contradictory
Oath
,
called
the
Test
,
in
K.
Charles
the
Second's
time
,
which
the
honestest
of
their
Party
refused
:
And
all
of
them
took
the
Declaration
,
that
it
was
unlawful
to
resist
the
King
,
or
any
having
his
Commission
.
Notwithstanding
of
which
,
they
offer
to
join
with
this
Government
,
without
giving
the
World
any
account
of
their
Reasons
why
,
or
acknowledging
their
former
Error
.
Their
shuffling
with
the
Church
of
England
,
by
pretending
to
be
mighty
Zealots
for
her
Discipline
and
Ceremonies
,
and
yet
offering
in
their
Test
or
Declaration
to
submit
to
,
and
concur
with
the
Presbyterian
Government
as
at
present
establish'd
in
the
Kingdom
of
Scotland
,
is
also
known
.
And
now
they
shuffle
with
the
Presbyterians
again
,
and
pretend
they
are
not
satisfied
in
their
Consciences
with
their
Government
,
though
about
two
Years
ago
they
declared
by
their
Formula
,
that
they
could
submit
to
it
,
and
concur
with
it
.
Nor
can
they
deny
their
Prevarication
with
their
present
Majesties
,
pretending
that
they
would
take
the
Oaths
to
be
faithful
to
them
,
if
the
same
were
also
impos'd
upon
the
Presbyterians
;
and
they
refus'd
them
notwithstanding
of
the
Presbyterians
being
injoin'd
by
Law
to
take
them
.
So
that
if
the
Querists
had
given
themselves
leave
to
remember
those
things
,
they
might
quickly
have
been
satisfy'd
,
that
the
Presbyterians
had
ground
enough
to
charge
them
with
Immoralities
;
and
because
of
their
past
and
present
Levity
,
to
suspect
their
future
Fidelity
.
For
who
can
put
any
Confidence
in
a
Party
of
Men
,
that
have
hitherto
prov'd
so
unstedfast
and
false
to
all
Interests
that
ever
they
engaged
with
?
As
for
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
looking
upon
the
Episcopal
Clergy
to
be
either
no
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
or
such
corrupt
ones
upon
the
account
of
their
Principles
and
Practice
in
relation
to
Church-Government
,
as
they
are
not
worthy
to
be
trusted
with
the
Exercise
of
that
Power
which
belongs
to
the
Pastoral
Office
:
These
Gentlemen
may
remember
that
they
were
not
entrusted
with
the
full
Exercise
of
Discipline
by
their
own
Bishops
;
and
Mr.
Hickeringill
,
in
his
Ceremony-Monger
,
p.
124.
says
that
he
and
his
Brethren
of
the
Church
of
England
are
suffered
indeed
to
preach
or
to
feed
;
but
as
to
Church-Discipline
,
they
are
so
many
Ciphers
;
and
the
Bishops
take
from
their
Brethren
the
Presbyters
,
half
the
Work
of
a
Presbyter
.
So
that
the
Querists
reflect
upon
their
own
Bishops
,
and
their
Brethren
of
the
Church
of
England
,
as
much
,
if
not
more
,
than
upon
us
:
for
they
withhold
the
Exercise
of
Discipline
from
them
,
as
thinking
it
no
Part
of
their
Office
,
though
the
Scots
Bishops
to
please
the
People
did
allow
their
Clergy
some
more
share
;
but
the
Presbyterians
only
withhold
it
as
from
Persons
under
a
temporary
Incapacity
,
till
such
time
as
they
give
Proof
of
their
being
worthy
of
it
:
and
this
is
a
farther
Proof
of
what
was
formerly
asserted
,
that
even
the
Episcopal
Party
themselves
don't
think
the
Power
of
Preaching
and
Discipline
at
all
times
unseparable
;
and
yet
we
suppose
,
that
both
the
English
and
Scots
Bishops
look'd
upon
their
inferiour
Clergy
as
Ministers
,
notwithstanding
of
their
detaining
the
Power
of
Discipline
from
them
.
The
Querists
do
also
know
very
well
,
that
the
Presbyterians
don't
look
upon
a
Prelate
to
be
an
Officer
of
Divine
Institution
;
nor
having
the
Power
of
Ordination
either
singly
in
his
own
Person
,
or
so
as
that
Presbyters
cannot
do
it
without
him
.
And
Mr.
Hickeringill
,
Cerem
.
Monger
,
p.
108.
though
himself
an
actual
Minister
of
the
Church
of
England
,
calls
the
Prelatical
Ordination
a
Schismatizing
from
Scripture
,
and
all
the
Protestants
of
the
World
.
And
yet
though
the
Presbyterians
don't
think
this
Manner
of
Ordination
Scriptural
;
our
Querists
may
see
that
they
don't
impose
a
Re-ordination
upon
them
,
nor
declare
their
Ministerial
Acts
void
and
null
:
for
the
Assembly
held
in
1690
,
declared
,
as
I
said
before
,
that
they
would
not
depose
any
Man
for
his
Opinion
in
Church-Government
,
nor
urge
Re-ordination
upon
them
.
And
though
the
Presbyterians
are
also
of
Opinion
that
Episcopal
Collation
,
and
a
Patron's
Presentation
,
are
not
sufficient
to
entitle
any
Man
to
be
Pastor
of
a
particular
Parish
;
yet
they
are
far
from
treating
the
Episcopal
Clergy
as
no
Ministers
:
and
yet
the
Querists
would
enviously
insinuate
so
much
,
that
they
may
render
them
odious
to
the
Church
of
England
;
though
if
they
should
have
treated
them
as
no
Ministers
,
it
had
been
but
quid
pro
quo
,
and
upon
much
better
Grounds
than
the
Prelatical
Party
of
England
and
Scotland
both
do
treat
them
as
such
,
by
enjoining
Re-ordination
upon
all
Presbyters
that
have
not
been
Episcopally
ordain'd
,
though
at
the
same
time
they
accept
of
Romish
Priests
without
it
;
by
which
we
have
as
much
Reason
as
Mr.
Hickeringhill
,
to
say
,
that
they
schismatize
from
the
Scriptures
and
all
Protestants
of
the
World
.
And
this
does
also
make
it
evident
,
that
the
Presbyterians
have
good
Ground
to
charge
the
Querists
with
corrupt
Principles
as
to
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
seeing
their
Bishops
did
all
solicite
and
concur
with
the
Act
of
Parliament
in
1670.
Declaring
all
Ordination
of
Ministers
since
1661
,
which
hath
not
been
by
Bishops
,
null
and
invalid
,
and
that
they
are
no
Ministers
that
are
otherwise
ordained
.
And
the
whole
Episcopal
Clergy
must
,
according
to
the
Querists
former
Position
that
their
Bishops
made
no
Acts
relating
to
the
Church
without
the
Consent
of
their
Presbyters
,
have
given
their
Concurrence
with
the
Bishops
to
procure
this
Act
:
Therefore
seeing
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
have
but
too
good
Ground
to
think
that
the
Prelatists
look
upon
them
as
no
Ministers
,
they
had
no
reason
to
be
sudden
in
admitting
any
of
that
Party
into
a
share
of
the
Church-Government
.
But
as
a
farther
Ground
to
suspect
their
corrupt
Principles
on
that
Head
,
they
may
remember
,
that
when
their
Party
was
triumphant
,
they
procured
it
to
be
enacted
,
Parl
.
2.
Act.
1.
Car
.
2.
That
by
Virtue
of
the
Supremacy
the
ordering
of
the
Government
of
the
Church
doth
properly
belong
to
his
Majesty
and
Successors
,
as
an
inherent
Right
of
the
Crown
;
and
that
he
may
enact
and
emit
such
Constitutions
,
Acts
and
Orders
concerning
Church-Administrations
,
Persons
,
Meetings
and
Matters
,
as
he
in
his
Royal
Wisdom
shall
think
fit
.
Now
they
know
very
well
,
that
the
Presbyterians
look
upon
this
as
a
very
corrupt
Principle
;
and
accordingly
this
was
annull'd
by
the
Abolition
of
the
Supremacy
in
this
Reign
:
and
this
Act
being
procured
and
submitted
unto
by
all
the
Prelatists
,
they
are
justly
chargeable
with
it
as
their
Principle
,
though
their
present
Practice
is
diametrically
opposite
;
for
according
to
this
Principle
they
ought
to
submit
to
the
present
Constitution
of
the
Church-Government
,
if
they
believed
such
a
Power
to
be
inherent
in
the
Crown
,
and
due
to
all
King
Charles
the
Second's
Successors
:
For
that
the
present
Constitution
is
settled
by
their
Majesties
and
the
Parliament
,
cannot
be
denied
;
so
that
they
have
no
way
to
avoid
this
Contradiction
betwixt
that
Principle
and
their
present
Practice
,
but
either
to
say
,
that
they
have
chang'd
their
Principle
on
that
Head
,
which
apparently
they
have
not
;
for
in
their
Protestation
they
appeal
to
the
King
and
Queen
as
Supreme
Judg
under
God
in
these
Dominions
;
which
being
the
Words
of
the
abolish'd
Act
of
Supremacy
,
gives
us
reason
to
think
that
they
believe
that
Right
to
be
in
their
Majesties
still
:
or
else
,
notwithstanding
of
all
their
Pretences
,
they
must
think
that
their
Majesties
are
not
Charles
the
Second's
lawful
Successors
,
and
consequently
to
have
no
Right
to
that
Power
,
which
it
's
more
than
probable
is
the
real
,
though
not
the
pretended
Cause
.
And
if
they
do
still
hold
this
Principle
,
it
will
be
worth
their
while
to
consider
how
they
could
justify
that
trifling
Opposition
to
King
James's
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
which
they
valued
themselves
upon
in
some
of
their
Pamphlets
here
since
the
Revolution
:
or
,
if
they
own
their
general
and
stupid
Submission
at
that
time
,
how
came
they
to
behave
themselves
so
mildly
and
quietly
under
the
Regulations
made
then
in
Church-Affairs
by
a
Popish
Prince
,
when
they
are
so
very
nice
and
scrupulous
now
to
submit
to
Constitutions
enacted
by
a
Protestant
Soveraign
,
for
the
Security
of
the
Protestant
Religion
?
whereas
that
Declaration
of
King
James
gave
a
very
ample
Liberty
to
the
Papists
,
and
yet
they
made
no
Protestation
against
it
,
as
now
against
the
Committee
of
the
Assembly
,
and
the
Assembly
it self
,
which
act
with
their
present
Majesties
Authority
.
Then
having
made
it
appear
that
the
Presbyterians
don't
look
upon
them
as
no
Ministers
,
inasmuch
as
they
don't
urge
Re-ordination
upon
them
,
the
Querists
have
no
Reason
to
think
that
their
submitting
to
such
Terms
as
the
Law
requires
,
though
it
may
infer
that
they
can
comply
with
another
Form
of
Government
and
Discipline
than
what
they
formerly
own'd
,
that
therefore
it
declares
the
Acts
of
their
Ministerial
Function
null
and
void
:
Or
supposing
that
they
should
hereby
own
that
they
were
formerly
corrupt
in
Principle
and
Practice
as
to
Church-Government
,
it
does
not
therefore
follow
that
their
Ministerial
Acts
are
null
and
void
;
for
they
know
that
when
those
who
have
taken
Orders
in
the
Church
of
Rome
are
admitted
by
them
,
yet
they
don't
declare
all
their
former
Ministerial
Acts
null
and
void
,
though
they
acknowledg
their
former
corrupt
Principles
and
Practices
as
to
Church-Government
,
else
they
should
rebaptize
all
such
as
are
converted
from
Popery
,
which
they
do
not
.
Then
as
to
their
corrupt
Practices
in
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
,
the
Querists
must
needs
be
sensible
of
the
Remisness
of
their
whole
Party
,
as
to
the
putting
of
that
in
Exercise
;
whence
it
came
to
pass
that
Profanity
is
now
arrived
to
such
height
,
that
it
seems
not
remediable
by
any
thing
less
than
Omnipotence
.
And
though
the
Querists
will
not
own
it
,
yet
we
dare
appeal
to
their
own
Consciences
,
whether
they
do
not
know
it
to
be
true
,
that
the
Generality
of
all
those
of
their
Party
,
who
persecuted
us
with
so
much
Fury
,
were
openly
wicked
,
and
yet
caressed
by
the
governing
Part
of
their
Church
,
and
look'd
upon
as
its
best
Friends
.
And
now
that
there
has
been
occasion
to
touch
their
Persecution
,
the
Querists
may
please
to
consider
further
,
whether
the
Presbyterians
have
not
reason
to
be
shy
of
admitting
those
Men
into
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
who
by
their
Numbers
may
out-vote
them
,
or
their
Unstedfastness
betray
them
;
and
if
the
Throne
should
happen
to
be
fill'd
with
such
a
Prince
as
some
of
those
who
were
lately
upon
it
,
would
join
with
them
to
overturn
the
present
Government
of
the
Church
,
under
pretence
that
the
Majority
of
the
Pastors
and
People
were
for
Episcopacy
:
which
,
considering
the
Reason
of
State
,
given
by
the
late
Convention
for
abolishing
Prelacy
,
because
contrary
to
the
Inclinations
of
the
Generality
of
the
People
,
would
carry
the
same
Appearance
of
Reason
on
the
other
side
,
to
re-establish
it
;
and
in
that
case
the
Presbyterians
would
be
under
a
Necessity
either
of
defending
their
Constitution
by
the
Sword
,
or
submitting
to
such
a
horrid
and
inhumane
Persecution
as
were
those
in
the
late
Reigns
.
Query
V.
Quaeritur
,
Whether
the
annual
Office
of
Ruling
(
not
Preaching
)
Elders
,
chosen
out
among
the
People
,
and
joined
with
Ministers
in
Kirk-Sessions
,
Presbyteries
,
Provincial
and
General
Assemblies
,
and
their
Committees
,
to
assist
and
concur
with
them
in
the
Exercise
of
Discipline
and
Government
,
can
be
warrantably
affirmed
to
be
of
Divine
Institution
?
And
if
any
Footstep
of
such
an
Office
doth
appear
in
the
Practice
of
the
antient
Church
;
or
any
plain
convincing
Proof
of
its
Institution
can
be
produced
out
of
the
Scriptures
:
And
if
this
Office
be
not
of
Divine
Institution
,
whether
a
Judicatory
consisting
in
part
of
such
Officers
pretending
to
Divine
Institution
,
and
to
act
by
Warrant
and
Commission
from
Jesus
Christ
,
be
a
lawful
Judicatory
?
Reflections
on
the
Fifth
Query
.
THE
Design
of
this
Query
is
to
prove
Presbyterian
Government
unlawful
,
because
they
admit
of
Ruling
Elders
in
all
the
Judicatories
of
the
Church
,
there
being
no
Footstep
of
any
such
Officer
to
be
found
either
in
the
Scripture
or
Antiquity
,
as
they
would
insinuate
.
We
are
glad
to
find
this
Principle
granted
by
the
Querists
,
that
Judicatories
,
consisting
in
part
of
such
Officers
as
do
but
pretend
to
Divine
Institution
,
are
therefore
unlawful
Judicatories
.
Their
Brethren
the
Bishops
of
England
,
and
the
Courts
kept
under
them
,
will
scarcely
perhaps
give
them
Thanks
for
this
Hypothesis
,
because
Mr.
Hickeringhill
,
Cerem
.
Mong
.
p.
108.
calls
the
Apparitors
,
Samners
,
Registers
,
Proctors
,
Canonists
,
Lay-Vicars
,
Vicar
Generals
,
Commissaries
,
Officials
,
Surrogates
,
&c.
which
are
Officers
in
the
English
Ecclesiastical
Judicatories
,
by
some
other
Name
than
Officers
of
Divine
Institution
:
And
at
the
same
time
it
justifies
the
Nonconformity
of
the
Scots
Presbyterians
in
the
late
Reigns
,
who
could
never
see
it
proved
,
that
the
Scots
Prelats
were
Officers
of
Divine
Institution
,
though
their
Brains
were
almost
beat
out
,
because
their
Eye-sight
was
no
better
;
insomuch
that
a
small
matter
would
have
perswaded
them
that
there
was
something
more
than
a
Poetical
Fancy
in
the
following
Distich
,
composed
by
the
learned
and
ingenious
Andrew
Marvel
Esq
;
in
his
Loyal
Scot
,
Instead
of
all
the
Plagues
had
Bishops
come
,
Without
doubt
Pharaoh
bad
sent
Israel
home
.
which
it
's
suppos'd
the
Author
meant
of
Scots
Bishops
.
But
as
to
the
Ruling
Elders
,
if
the
Querists
had
given
themselves
the
Trouble
of
reading
Mr.
Guthry's
little
Tractate
,
what
the
London
Ministers
have
writ
concerning
them
in
the
Jus
Divinum
Regiminis
Ecclesiastici
,
or
what
Dr.
Owen
writ
lately
on
that
Head
,
they
would
have
found
such
Arguments
for
the
Divine
Institution
of
Ruling
Elders
,
as
were
never
yet
answered
:
and
seeing
they
have
been
in
print
,
some
of
them
for
many
Years
,
it
had
been
worth
our
Querists
while
to
have
confuted
them
before
they
came
to
put
this
Query
to
the
Committee
,
who
they
knew
had
neither
Time
nor
Authority
to
enter
into
such
Disputes
.
In
the
next
place
,
the
Querists
would
do
well
to
answer
these
following
Queries
,
viz.
Where
was
this
Objection
,
and
all
the
other
four
,
against
the
Lawfulness
of
the
present
Constitution
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
when
their
Party
did
offer
,
by
their
Formula
in
1690
,
to
submit
to
and
concur
with
the
Presbyterian
Government
as
it
is
at
present
establish'd
in
the
Church
of
Scotland
?
How
it
came
to
be
lawful
for
them
to
comply
then
and
not
now
?
and
whether
they
did
not
know
all
those
things
as
to
the
Government
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
then
,
that
they
object
against
it
now
?
and
if
they
did
,
as
no
doubt
they
must
,
why
did
they
not
put
in
such
a
Distinction
in
their
Formula
,
as
to
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
as
they
did
then
concerning
the
Doctrine
?
and
whether
or
not
they
have
not
some
more
hidden
Scruples
which
they
can
bring
out
by
Piece-meal
,
and
dally
with
the
Church
and
State
till
such
time
as
they
see
whether
the
late
King
,
with
the
Assistance
of
Lewis
XIV
.
can
re-establish
the
Scots
Prelacy
?
But
the
Divine
Institution
of
Ruling
Elders
being
confidently
impugn'd
by
the
Querists
,
it
's
thought
fit
,
lest
they
or
their
Party
should
triumph
too
much
,
to
hint
at
a
few
Arguments
to
prove
it
,
referring
those
who
have
a
mind
to
be
fully
satisfied
concerning
it
,
to
the
three
Books
before-mentioned
.
But
before
we
come
to
the
Arguments
,
it
may
be
necessary
to
describe
what
this
Ruling
Elder
is
,
because
that
Officer
is
not
so
well
known
in
this
Kingdom
as
in
Scotland
.
The
Ruling
Elder
then
is
one
chosen
from
amongst
the
People
of
more
than
ordinary
Gifts
and
Piety
,
to
assist
the
Pastor
in
examining
those
that
come
to
the
Lord's
Table
,
in
visiting
the
Sick
,
causing
the
Acts
of
Church-Judicatories
to
be
put
in
execution
,
admonishing
People
privately
of
their
Duty
;
and
if
they
prove
refractory
,
to
bring
the
Matter
before
the
Minister
and
the
rest
of
the
Elders
:
They
are
frequently
to
visit
Families
,
instruct
the
Ignorant
,
exhort
the
Negligent
,
admonish
the
Slothful
,
rebuke
those
who
walk
disorderly
,
comfort
the
Afflicted
,
establish
the
Wavering
,
incourage
those
that
do
well
;
and
,
in
short
,
to
see
Piety
and
Godliness
promoted
in
Families
:
And
for
the
more
convenient
Discharge
of
those
Duties
,
every
Elder
has
his
particular
quarter
of
the
Parish
assign'd
him
;
and
they
and
the
Minister
meet
once
a
Week
,
or
oftner
,
pro
re
nata
,
to
give
an
Account
of
their
Charge
.
Then
as
to
their
Office
in
higher
Judicatories
,
one
of
the
most
eminent
in
a
Parish
assists
in
the
Presbytery
and
Provincial
Synod
;
and
a
few
from
every
Presbytery
assist
in
the
General
Assembly
.
These
are
the
Officers
,
and
this
their
Office
,
which
our
Episcopal
Querists
think
sufficient
to
render
the
Presbyterian
Constitution
unlawful
,
which
is
no
very
promising
Evidence
of
their
Friendship
to
the
promoting
of
an
Universal
Piety
and
Reformation
.
But
to
come
to
the
Divine
Institution
of
these
Officers
:
The
first
Argument
is
from
Rom.
12.6
,
7
,
8.
Having
then
Gifts
—
Let
us
wait
on
our
ministring
,
be
that
teacheth
on
teaching
,
he
that
exhorteth
on
Exhortation
,
he
that
giveth
let
him
do
it
with
Simplicity
,
he
that
RULETH
with
Diligence
,
he
that
sheweth
Mercy
with
Chearfulness
.
Where
he
that
ruleth
is
distinguish'd
from
Doctor
,
Pastor
and
Deacon
,
and
all
of
them
are
called
the
Gifts
of
God
;
which
does
necessarily
infer
a
Divine
Institution
of
him
that
ruleth
,
as
well
as
of
him
that
teacheth
and
giveth
.
Nor
is
this
the
Sense
of
the
Scots
Presbyterians
alone
,
but
of
Pareus
,
Piscator
,
Calvin
and
Beza
,
upon
the
place
.
The
second
is
from
1
Cor
.
12.8
.
—
God
hath
set
some
in
the
Church
,
first
Apostles
,
secondly
Prophets
,
thirdly
Teachers
,
afterwards
Powers
,
then
Gifts
of
Healing
,
Helps
,
GOVERNMENTS
,
kinds
of
Tongues
.
Here
Governments
are
clearly
said
to
be
of
Divine
Institution
,
as
a
thing
peculiar
and
distinct
from
other
Church-Officers
,
who
had
also
a
Power
of
Government
,
as
Apostles
,
Prophets
,
Teachers
;
b●t
Government
was
not
all
that
belonged
to
their
Office
,
as
it
was
the
whole
of
the
Ruling
Elders
.
And
from
the
Nature
and
Necessity
of
Government
it
will
appear
that
the
Governments
here
mentioned
were
not
Temporary
and
Extraordinary
,
as
that
of
Apostles
,
Tongues
,
Gifts
of
Healing
,
&c.
The
third
Argument
is
from
1
Tim
.
5.17
.
Let
the
Elders
that
rule
well
,
be
counted
worthy
of
double
Honour
,
especially
they
that
labour
in
the
Word
and
Doctrine
:
Where
a
ruling
Elder
distinct
from
him
that
labours
in
the
Word
and
Doctrine
,
is
plainly
held
forth
.
It
's
true
that
there
are
Exceptions
against
the
Arguments
from
these
Texts
,
both
by
Episcopalians
and
Erastians
;
but
they
are
sufficiently
answered
by
the
London
Ministers
in
the
Jus
Divinum
Regiminis
,
and
Mr.
Gillespie
in
his
Aaron's
Rod
,
whither
those
that
desire
farther
Satisfaction
are
referred
;
it
being
inconsistent
with
the
designed
Brevity
to
insert
them
here
.
Then
as
to
that
part
of
the
Query
,
Whether
there
be
any
Footstep
of
these
Officers
in
Antiquity
?
If
the
Querists
please
to
read
Ambrose's
Comment
on
1
Tim
.
5.1
.
Tertullian
in
the
34th
Chaper
of
his
Apology
.
Basiliu●
Magnus
on
Isa
.
3.2
.
Jerome
on
that
same
place
,
Augustin's
Epistle
137.
Gregory
contrae
Celsum
,
lib
.
3.
Aug.
L.
3.
contra
Crescent
.
cap
.
56.
they
will
find
that
the
Christian
Church
had
them
in
the
Primitive
Times
.
And
Ambrose
,
as
cited
by
Calvin
,
on
1
Tim
.
5.17
.
complains
,
that
that
Custom
grew
obsolete
by
the
Sloth
,
or
rather
Pride
of
the
Teachers
or
Doctors
,
while
they
alone
would
seem
to
be
eminent
;
than
which
a
better
Reason
cannot
be
assigned
,
why
these
Officers
were
laid
aside
by
our
Scots
Prelates
,
tho
a
shadow
of
them
were
still
kept
up
in
particular
Parishes
to
please
the
People
:
which
shows
that
the
Querists
do
act
mala
fide
when
they
reckon
our
Government
unlawful
for
that
which
was
practised
in
their
own
.
Another
of
their
Cavils
against
these
Officers
is
,
that
they
are
Annual
.
But
the
Querists
would
have
found
no
room
for
this
Objection
,
if
they
had
considered
what
Mr.
Guthry
says
,
pag
.
33.
of
his
Treatise
of
Ruling
Elders
and
Deacons
,
viz.
That
Elders
once
lawfully
called
to
the
Office
,
and
having
Gifts
from
God
meet
to
exercise
the
same
,
unless
they
be
removed
therefrom
because
of
Miscarriage
,
are
still
Elders
:
Tho
haply
in
Congregations
,
where
many
qualified
Men
may
be
found
,
some
may
be
permitted
for
a
time
to
surcease
from
the
Exercise
of
the
Charge
,
and
others
be
put
in
their
room
,
as
was
among
the
Levites
under
the
Law
in
serving
the
Temple
by
Courses
.
And
to
this
we
may
add
,
that
the
Condition
of
most
Congregations
or
Parishes
being
such
,
that
they
cannot
allow
a
Maintenance
for
those
Elders
;
and
that
many
times
Providence
calls
upon
them
to
remove
from
one
Parish
to
another
,
it
's
but
highly
reasonable
that
all
those
who
are
qualified
in
a
Parish
should
bear
this
Office
by
turns
,
according
as
they
are
regularly
called
.
The
Epilogue
to
the
Queries
.
THese
are
some
of
the
most
weighty
Scruples
which
we
have
in
our
Consciences
anent
the
Ecclesiastical
Authority
of
the
Committee
deputed
from
the
late
Presbyterian
Assembly
,
and
these
we
propose
not
out
of
any
fear
of
being
tried
in
relation
to
our
Life
and
Doctrine
;
in
which
we
are
willing
to
submit
our selves
to
an
impartial
Trial
by
any
competent
Judicatory
Civil
or
Ecclesiastick
within
this
Kingdom
:
Nor
,
as
if
we
would
not
have
a
due
Regard
to
this
Committee
,
if
they
clothed
themselves
with
a
Delegation
from
the
Civil
Power
:
But
that
we
cannot
(
until
we
be
resolved
in
these
Scruples
)
without
betraying
the
Liberties
of
this
National
Church
,
acknowledg
any
Ecclesiastick
Power
or
Jurisdiction
in
this
Committee
,
or
their
Constituents
,
to
be
Judges
of
any
of
our
Number
.
And
therefore
,
We
hope
the
Members
of
this
Committee
will
either
desist
from
any
farther
Procedor
against
us
,
or
else
give
us
a
satisfactory
Answer
to
these
Proposals
,
which
we
have
good
ground
to
expect
from
them
;
since
it
is
both
just
and
reasonable
in
it self
,
and
well-becoming
the
Character
they
own
of
Gospel-Ministers
,
that
they
should
satisfy
the
Consciences
of
the
scrupulous
concerning
their
Authority
and
Jurisdiction
before
they
urge
them
to
submit
thereunto
:
And
that
in
regard
the
Assembly
in
their
Instructions
to
the
Commission
,
have
required
the
same
to
take
all
due
Pains
to
inform
,
convince
and
satisfy
such
as
think
that
they
have
receded
from
their
known
Principles
.
These
Queries
were
concerted
by
the
General
Meeting
at
Old
Aberdeen
.
Sic
subscribitur
,
M.
Chrevey
,
Clericus
.
Reflections
on
the
Epilogue
to
the
Queries
.
WHether
these
Scruples
be
weighty
or
not
,
and
whether
most
of
them
do
not
as
much
condemn
the
Practices
of
their
own
Church
as
that
of
the
Presbyterians
,
let
those
who
impartially
peruse
the
foregoing
Reflections
be
Judges
.
And
whether
the
Presbyterians
have
not
reason
to
think
that
Error
in
Doctrine
,
and
Scandal
in
Practice
have
not
a
considerable
Influence
in
their
declining
a
Trial
,
let
what
hath
been
charged
on
the
whole
Party
from
undeniable
Matter
of
Fact
determine
:
Or
,
whether
the
Committee
was
not
a
competent
Judicatory
,
both
as
to
Civil
and
Ecclesiastical
Right
,
when
the
General
Assembly
of
the
Church
,
from
whom
they
had
their
Authority
,
are
own'd
by
the
Representatives
of
all
the
Protestants
in
the
Nation
,
assembled
in
a
Parliamentary
way
,
to
have
the
only
Right
of
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
,
let
law
and
Divinity
decide
.
And
consequently
whether
it
be
just
and
reasonable
to
think
that
their
submitting
to
the
Committee
,
or
their
Constituents
,
would
have
been
a
betraying
of
the
Liberties
of
the
National
Church
,
when
the
General
Assembly
are
in
full
Parliament
nationally
clothed
with
a
National
Right
;
and
the
far
greatest
part
of
the
Nation
do
calmly
acquiesce
and
testify
their
Concurrence
,
by
sending
their
Delegates
,
the
ruling
Elders
,
from
the
several
Quarters
of
the
Nation
to
sit
in
the
Assembly
.
The
Querists
would
also
do
well
to
consider
with
what
Confidence
they
and
their
Constituents
can
take
upon
them
the
Name
of
the
National
Church
,
when
the
Bishops
from
whom
they
had
their
Pastoral
Authority
are
vomited
out
by
the
Convention
,
as
the
great
and
insupportable
Grievance
of
the
Nation
:
When
in
their
General
Meeting
,
as
they
call
it
,
at
old
Aberdeen
,
they
had
no
Delegates
to
represent
the
People
,
or
testify
their
Consent
;
and
when
the
greatest
part
of
the
People
,
in
most
parts
of
the
Nation
,
at
least
of
those
who
by
Gospel-Rules
are
capable
of
being
admitted
to
enjoy
all
Ordinances
in
the
Church
,
have
both
by
their
Representatives
in
Parliament
,
and
their
own
Practice
throughout
the
Kingdom
,
testified
their
general
dislike
of
the
Bishops
and
their
Clergy
.
And
let
them
answer
whether
this
arrogating
to
themselves
the
Government
of
the
Church
without
the
Churches
Consent
,
be
not
a
lording
it
over
God's
Heritage
;
of
which
Name
they
have
injuriously
bereft
the
People
,
and
appropriated
the
same
to
themselves
under
the
Greek
Title
of
Clergy
,
but
perhaps
not
without
a
special
Providence
,
that
their
Prelacy
might
be
clearly
evinc'd
to
be
that
prohibited
Lording
it
over
God's
Heritage
,
seeing
they
alone
,
si
Diis
placet
,
will
needs
be
call'd
so
;
and
that
their
Prelates
lorded
it
over
them
,
is
beyond
Contradiction
.
Their
pretended
Deference
to
the
Civil
Power
will
fall
properly
under
the
Reflections
upon
their
Protestation
.
But
here
it
's
fit
to
take
notice
of
the
Weakness
of
the
Reasons
from
which
they
pretended
to
hope
that
the
Committee
should
either
give
a
satisfactory
Answer
to
their
Queries
,
or
desist
from
proceeding
against
them
.
1.
Because
according
to
them
they
had
no
Ecclesiastical
Authority
,
tho
all
their
Objections
against
it
were
either
mistaken
Matters
of
Fact
,
or
such
as
did
more
strongly
militate
against
that
Ecclesiastical
Authority
which
they
themselves
did
practise
and
own
;
and
if
there
be
any
of
their
Objections
which
don't
fall
under
those
two
Heads
,
they
were
answered
in
Print
many
Years
ago
.
So
that
the
Committee
,
tho
they
had
both
had
Time
and
Commission
to
dispute
with
them
,
might
very
well
have
referred
them
thither
,
or
demanded
Replies
to
those
Answers
before
they
had
given
themselves
any
farther
Trouble
.
Whence
it
appears
,
that
the
Querists
had
rather
a
design
to
cavil
and
gain
time
,
than
any
desire
to
be
satisfied
in
their
Consciences
.
But
further
,
if
Cavils
and
Exceptions
to
Ecclesiastical
Judicatories
ought
to
suspend
their
Procedure
,
then
Hereticks
and
Schismaticks
should
never
want
an
invincible
Argument
.
2.
Because
they
own
the
Character
of
Gospel-Ministers
,
which
would
seem
to
imply
that
tho
they
own
it
,
yet
they
don't
deserve
it
;
and
this
cannot
be
understood
as
a
wresting
of
their
Sense
,
if
we
consider
their
former
Act
of
Parliament
,
declaring
all
those
who
were
not
Episcopally
ordained
,
to
be
no
Ministers
.
And
in
this
Case
let
any
Man
judg
whether
the
Committee
had
any
reason
to
stop
their
Procedure
against
them
.
But
further
,
the
Querists
would
do
well
to
consider
,
whether
it
be
any
way
contrary
to
the
Character
of
Gospel-Ministers
to
proceed
to
Censure
against
Delinquents
,
because
they
are
contentious
,
and
will
insist
either
upon
Falsities
,
or
Objections
answered
over
and
over
.
And
I
am
perswaded
that
to
any
unbiassed
Man
these
Queries
will
appear
to
proceed
more
from
Contention
than
Scruple
,
if
they
consider
that
the
weightiest
of
them
were
answered
long
ago
,
that
others
of
them
did
directly
condemn
their
own
Practice
,
and
that
the
Party
have
several
times
since
the
Revolution
,
offered
Submission
to
the
Government
of
the
Church
without
mentioning
any
of
them
:
and
therefore
,
seeing
there
is
very
great
Ground
to
think
that
these
Queries
had
their
Rise
from
Contention
,
the
Apostle's
Answer
is
plain
,
But
if
any
Man
be
contentions
,
we
have
no
such
Custom
,
neither
the
Churches
of
God
.
3.
Because
of
the
Assembly's
Instructions
,
for
which
peruse
the
Committee's
Answer
in
the
Negative
.
The
Committee's
Answer
to
the
Queries
.
THE
Committee
finding
that
the
Questions
proposed
do
strike
at
the
Root
of
Presbyterian
Government
,
and
the
present
Establishment
thereof
according
to
the
Laws
of
this
Kingdom
,
and
do
overturn
the
Authority
of
this
Committee
,
with
which
they
are
entrusted
by
the
Assembly
,
Do
judg
it
not
becoming
and
sutable
to
the
Trust
reposed
in
this
Judicatory
,
to
enter
in
Debate
with
any
particular
Persons
few
or
moe
about
the
Constitution
and
Power
of
the
present
established
Government
of
this
Church
.
And
,
Do
think
that
if
it
had
indeed
been
Satisfaction
to
their
own
Consciences
which
they
desired
,
they
both
might
have
long
before
this
time
,
and
yet
may
take
more
proper
and
obvious
Measures
for
that
end
.
Besides
that
,
the
Committee
have
other
urging
and
important
Work
committed
by
the
General
Assembly
to
them
,
which
cannot
allow
them
so
much
Time
for
Debates
and
Disputes
,
as
the
Matter
proposed
would
require
,
nor
have
they
any
Commission
for
that
Effect
.
Protestation
and
Appeal
given
in
at
Aberdeen
upon
the
29th
Day
of
June
1694
,
under
form
of
Instrument
,
to
the
Committee
of
the
late
Presbyterian
Assembly
,
by
the
Ministers
Delegat
for
that
end
from
the
Diocess
of
Aberdeen
,
for
themselves
,
and
in
the
Name
of
all
their
Adherents
.
WE
the
Ministers
of
the
Diocesses
of
Aberdeen
,
Murray
,
Rosse
,
Caithness
,
Orkney
,
and
of
the
Shyres
of
Angus
and
Mairns
,
Do
hereby
declare
that
we
cannot
own
the
Assemblies
of
our
Presbyterian
Brethren
since
the
last
Establishment
of
their
Government
,
to
have
been
the
full
and
lawful
Representatives
of
this
National
Church
;
and
consequentlie
no
Person
or
Persons
whatsomever
by
virtue
of
any
Delegation
from
them
,
can
justlie
claim
a
Power
to
be
the
Judges
of
our
Lives
and
Doctrine
,
according
to
what
we
have
expressed
in
the
Queries
given
in
to
this
Committee
,
the
Tenor
whereof
is
ut
supra
.
To
the
which
Queries
we
have
received
no
satisfactory
Answer
;
and
in
regard
that
they
have
manifestly
stated
themselves
as
Parties
against
these
of
our
Character
and
Perswasion
;
Therefore
for
maintaining
the
Liberties
of
this
National
Church
,
and
for
many
other
Reasons
moving
us
thereto
,
which
we
are
resolved
in
due
time
to
publish
to
the
World
,
we
find
our selves
obliged
unanimously
to
testify
against
the
pretended
Ecclesiastick
Authority
of
this
Committee
,
and
to
protest
against
all
their
Proceedings
,
Acts
and
Sentences
in
the
Quality
of
an
Ecclesiastick
Judicatorie
,
and
to
appeal
to
their
Majesties
K.
William
and
Q.
Mary
,
as
Supreme
Judges
under
God
within
these
Dominions
,
and
to
the
next
lawfullie
constitute
and
orderlie
called
General
Assemblie
of
this
National
Church
.
And
we
do
hereby
protest
against
any
Sentence
past
or
to
be
past
against
any
of
our
Number
that
are
cited
or
may
be
cited
before
this
Committee
,
and
do
appeal
to
their
Majesties
as
said
is
:
And
this
we
do
not
as
if
we
would
protect
any
that
are
trulie
guiltie
,
(
if
any
such
be
amongst
us
)
nor
as
if
we
would
not
give
all
due
Deference
to
this
Committee
,
in
submitting
to
them
,
if
they
clothed
themselves
only
with
a
Delegation
from
the
Civil
Power
:
But
that
we
cannot
(
until
we
be
resolved
in
the
abovewritten
Scruples
)
acknowledg
any
Ecclesiastical
Power
or
Jurisdiction
in
this
Committee
,
or
their
Constituents
,
to
be
Judges
of
any
of
our
Number
.
And
finally
,
we
protest
that
this
our
Protestation
and
Appeal
,
together
with
the
Queries
above-mentioned
,
as
they
were
given
in
before
entring
this
Protestation
,
be
inserted
verbatim
in
the
Records
of
this
Committee
,
ad
futuram
remanentiam
.
Sic
subscribitur
.
Reflections
on
the
Protestation
.
THis
Protestation
referring
to
the
Queries
above-mentioned
for
the
Reasons
of
it
,
it
follows
naturally
that
the
Reader
should
be
referred
to
the
Reflections
upon
those
Queries
,
where
he
will
find
their
Reasons
confidered
.
So
that
all
that
remains
now
to
be
done
is
,
to
consider
the
Deference
which
the
Querists
pretend
to
the
Civil
Government
,
and
any
other
Reason
which
may
perhaps
have
escap'd
them
in
their
Queries
.
Whatever
regard
they
may
pretend
to
the
Civil
Government
,
it
's
plain
that
they
do
manifestly
impugn
its
Authority
in
a
very
sawcy
and
undecent
manner
,
by
denying
the
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
of
the
General
Assemblies
since
the
Revolution
,
tho
the
same
be
established
in
them
by
the
King
and
Parliament
,
as
far
as
Human
Law
can
do
it
;
and
yet
the
Querists
have
not
so
much
as
one
honourable
Expression
of
Deference
to
the
Sanction
of
the
Civil
Government
confirming
their
Divine
and
Ecclesiastical
Right
,
which
is
so
much
the
more
remarkable
,
and
the
greater
Proof
of
Disrespect
to
the
Civil
Government
in
them
,
because
,
as
was
hinted
before
,
the
whole
Party
in
the
late
Reigns
did
,
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
lodg
such
a
Power
in
the
King's
own
Person
,
that
he
might
by
virtue
of
the
Supremacy
,
and
an
inherent
Right
of
the
Crown
,
order
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
enact
and
emit
such
Constitutions
,
Acts
and
Orders
concerning
Church-Administrations
,
Persons
,
Meetings
and
Matters
,
as
he
in
his
Royal
Wisdom
shall
think
sit
.
Now
if
the
Party
had
believed
that
the
Government
of
the
Church
was
of
Divine
Institution
,
they
durst
never
have
allowed
the
King
such
an
ample
Power
concerning
it
,
nor
have
submitted
to
it
:
And
if
they
do
believe
that
the
King
has
really
such
a
Power
as
is
here
expressed
,
how
comes
it
that
they
do
not
submit
to
the
Church-Government
,
as
it
is
now
establish'd
by
their
present
Majesties
and
the
Parliament
?
And
seeing
they
do
in
such
an
obstinate
manner
protest
against
the
Authority
of
the
General
Assemblies
,
who
,
besides
their
Ecclesiastical
and
Divine
Right
to
the
Jurisdiction
over
the
National
Church
,
have
all
the
Civil
Right
which
the
King
and
Parliament
can
give
,
it
must
necessarily
follow
,
that
either
they
think
King
William
and
Queen
Mary
have
not
so
good
a
Right
to
order
the
Government
of
the
Church
,
as
the
late
Kings
had
;
that
his
Right
is
diminish'd
by
the
Concurrence
of
the
Parliament
;
or
that
the
Assemblies
pretending
to
a
Divine
Right
,
together
with
the
Civil
Right
,
makes
it
unlawful
for
them
to
submit
.
The
two
former
they
will
not
own
,
tho
there
's
reason
to
think
the
main
Objection
lies
there
;
but
they
are
asham'd
,
or
at
least
shy
to
own
it
openly
,
because
that
would
render
them
unworthy
of
the
Government's
Protection
,
and
make
the
People
cry
out
,
Shame
upon
them
,
that
they
should
have
by
Act
of
Parliament
allowed
more
Power
to
Profane
and
Popish
Princes
in
Church-Matters
,
than
they
will
allow
to
Pious
and
Protestant
Princes
:
and
therefore
we
will
suppose
that
the
main
Scruple
is
,
because
the
Assembly
do
also
plead
a
Divine
Right
,
which
they
must
deny
,
either
because
they
want
Bishops
;
and
if
so
,
they
do
both
deny
a
Power
of
Jurisdiction
to
most
if
not
all
of
the
Reformed
Churches
in
Europe
;
for
none
of
them
have
such
Bishops
as
theirs
were
even
as
to
Matters
of
Jurisdiction
;
and
also
condemn
themselves
for
offering
to
submit
to
and
concur
with
that
Government
as
they
did
in
1690.
and
if
they
scruple
their
Authority
because
they
had
not
Delegates
from
all
the
Prelatical
Clergy
of
Scotland
,
it
has
been
answered
already
.
But
to
be
plain
with
them
,
if
their
former
Principle
of
the
King's
having
such
a
Power
by
virtue
of
the
Supremacy
,
and
as
an
inherent
of
the
Crown
,
be
true
,
then
they
ought
to
obey
their
present
Majesties
,
who
have
settled
Presbyterian-Government
in
Scotland
as
most
agreeable
to
the
Word
of
God
;
for
so
they
have
enacted
it
:
or
if
that
former
Principle
of
theirs
was
false
,
then
in
Conscience
they
ought
to
publish
to
the
World
that
they
declare
it
so
;
and
in
that
Case
they
must
allow
that
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
had
reason
to
be
shy
in
admitting
them
into
a
Share
of
the
Church-Government
,
because
of
their
corrupt
Principles
and
Practices
concerning
it
.
But
if
they
think
that
the
King
alone
has
that
Power
,
and
that
they
cannot
submit
to
the
present
Acts
concerning
the
Church
,
because
they
are
enacted
by
and
with
the
Advice
of
the
Parliament
,
then
it
shows
plainly
how
little
Deference
they
have
to
the
Government
who
would
set
the
two
constituent
Parts
in
opposition
to
one
another
:
for
that
the
Government
of
Scotland
is
by
King
and
Parliament
,
and
no
other
,
there
's
no
Man
able
to
deny
;
though
the
Prelatical
Party
did
their
utmost
Endeavour
to
overturn
it
in
the
two
late
Reigns
,
and
throw
us
into
the
bottomless
Gulph
of
an
Absolute
Monarchy
,
by
giving
the
King
such
Power
both
in
Civil
and
Ecclesiastical
Affairs
,
that
Parliaments
would
have
been
thereby
quite
destroy'd
.
The
Power
they
gave
the
Kings
in
Church-Affairs
,
we
have
just
now
heard
;
and
for
that
in
Civil-Affairs
,
we
refer
to
the
18th
Act
of
the
Parliament
held
by
the
D.
of
York
;
wherein
it
was
enacted
,
that
all
Jurisdiction
doth
so
reside
in
his
Majesty
,
that
he
may
by
himself
,
or
any
commissionated
by
him
,
take
Cognizance
,
and
give
Decision
of
any
Cases
or
Causes
he
pleases
.
Now
by
their
Appealing
to
their
Majesties
without
any
mention
of
the
Parliament
,
by
whose
Advice
and
Consent
the
Laws
against
the
Matter
of
their
Protestation
were
enacted
;
it
's
plain
that
they
design
,
by
a
seeming
Excess
of
Zeal
for
the
Prerogative
,
to
break
the
very
Fundamental
Constitution
of
our
Government
:
as
if
their
Majesties
,
according
to
the
former
Doctrine
and
Politicks
of
their
Party
,
could
of
themselves
revoke
those
Laws
,
or
totally
dispense
with
the
Execution
of
them
,
without
the
Authority
of
the
Parliament
.
And
yet
at
the
same
time
they
are
so
impudent
,
as
to
accuse
their
Majesties
of
having
call'd
an
irregular
and
ill-constituted
Assembly
,
and
to
protest
against
all
the
Acts
and
Proceedings
of
the
late
Assembly
,
and
their
Committee
,
which
acted
as
Ecclesiastical
Judicatories
by
their
Majesties
Authority
;
who
in
the
Act
of
Parliament
settling
Presbyterian
Government
,
have
expresly
authoriz'd
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
to
appoint
Visitors
,
and
purge
out
scandalous
and
insufficient
Ministers
,
and
to
suspend
and
deprive
such
as
are
contumacious
and
proven
guilty
:
By
which
the
Committee
might
legally
deprive
all
the
Querists
,
and
they
in
Conscience
should
be
obliged
to
submit
,
as
having
referr'd
the
Case
to
their
Majesties
as
supreme
Judges
under
God
,
seeing
they
have
g●●en
their
Judgment
thus
in
that
very
Act
,
as
also
,
That
Presbyterian
Government
is
most
agreeable
to
the
Word
of
God
,
most
conducive
to
the
Advancement
of
true
Piety
and
Godliness
,
and
establishing
the
Peace
of
the
Realm
.
And
by
another
Act
of
that
same
Parliament
,
have
abolish'd
the
Supremacy
,
and
left
the
Church
in
power
to
hold
her
own
Assemblies
as
Ecclesiastical
Judicatories
.
So
that
here
's
the
Judgment
of
their
Majesties
,
to
whom
our
Querists
have
appeal'd
,
fully
against
them
.
And
if
they
decline
the
Authority
of
the
Assembly
because
they
do
not
only
act
by
their
Majesties
Authority
,
but
claim
a
Privilege
of
acting
of
themselves
by
Divine
Right
,
then
they
plainly
declare
themselves
Erastians
,
and
not
only
condemn
us
,
but
the
Church
of
England
;
whose
Prolocutor
,
in
her
last
Convocation
,
did
argue
against
making
any
Alteration
in
her
Constitution
,
&c.
alledging
that
it
was
Apostolical
:
and
if
our
Querists
be
Erastians
in
their
Principles
,
they
do
still
contradict
their
Principles
by
their
Practice
,
in
not
submitting
to
that
Church-Constitution
which
is
settled
by
the
Magistrates
Authority
.
So
that
in
plain
terms
,
our
Antagonists
seem
wholly
to
be
influenc'd
by
Humour
and
Interest
,
and
have
nothing
of
Stedfastness
either
in
Principle
or
Practice
.
One
of
the
Reasons
given
by
the
Querists
for
their
Protestation
is
,
because
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
have
manifestly
stated
themselves
as
Parties
against
those
of
their
Character
and
Perswasion
,
which
is
a
manifest
Untruth
;
for
the
Assembly
in
1690
,
declared
,
as
hath
been
already
said
,
that
they
would
depose
no
Incumbents
simply
for
their
Judgment
concerning
Church-Government
,
nor
yet
urge
Re-ordination
upon
them
:
and
it
is
very
well
known
,
that
not
one
hath
been
hitherto
turn'd
out
by
any
Judicatory
Civil
or
Ecclesiastick
,
but
either
upon
the
account
of
their
Disaffection
to
the
Civil
Government
,
or
scandalous
Life
.
So
that
this
Pretence
is
a
meer
Subterfuge
,
and
maliciously
insisted
upon
to
render
the
Church
of
Scotland
odious
to
the
Church
of
England
,
that
so
those
of
that
Party
might
have
more
plausible
Pretexts
to
solicite
his
Majesty
against
the
Scots
Presbyterians
.
But
supposing
that
it
were
true
,
this
Objection
of
theirs
will
militate
as
much
against
themselves
as
against
us
,
and
more
;
for
we
could
on
much
better
Ground
except
against
their
sitting
as
Judges
upon
us
,
because
they
did
plainly
state
themselves
as
Parties
,
and
would
oblige
us
to
an
express
Renunciation
of
our
Principles
;
whereas
there
is
no
such
thing
requir'd
of
them
.
But
however
,
if
such
Objections
be
allowed
,
then
the
greatest
of
Hereticks
shall
escape
;
for
they
can
truly
say
,
that
the
Orthodox
do
manifestly
state
themselves
as
Parties
against
those
of
their
Character
and
Perswasion
,
and
yet
this
does
not
incapacitate
them
from
being
Judges
,
no
more
than
those
who
declare
themselves
for
K.
William
,
are
uncapable
of
judging
those
who
are
accus'd
of
treasonable
Designs
to
bring
in
the
late
K.
James
.
But
of
all
things
this
is
the
most
surprizing
,
that
the
Querists
should
have
the
Boldness
to
appeal
to
their
Majesties
against
themselves
;
for
it
's
plain
that
the
Assembly
,
whom
they
decline
as
Judges
,
are
constituted
such
by
their
Majesties
Authority
,
and
by
and
with
the
Advice
and
Consent
of
that
Parliament
which
settled
the
Crown
on
their
Majesties
Head
:
whence
it
's
apparent
,
that
they
strike
at
the
very
Foundation
of
the
Civil
Government
,
and
not
only
charge
their
Majesties
with
a
gross
Piece
of
Male-administration
in
calling
a
disorderly
and
ill-constituted
Assembly
to
tyrannize
over
the
Clergy
,
but
disown
the
Authority
of
King
and
Parliament
in
the
most
audacious
and
insolent
Manner
that
can
be
,
by
their
immodest
and
seditious
Protestation
,
which
in
the
late
Reigns
would
have
cost
them
their
Liberties
if
not
their
Lives
;
for
Mr.
James
Guthry
was
beheaded
because
he
disown'd
that
unlimited
Supremacy
in
Church-Affairs
,
which
the
Prelatists
did
afterwards
grant
to
their
Kings
:
and
the
Querists
do
here
in
plain
Terms
disown
the
Authority
of
both
King
and
Parliament
to
restore
those
Presbyterian
Ministers
to
their
Right
,
from
which
they
were
in
a
tyrannical
and
illegal
Manner
ejected
by
the
Council
,
and
the
Bishops
and
their
Clergy
obtruded
upon
the
Church
,
contrary
to
the
Inclinations
of
the
generality
of
the
People
,
as
has
been
asserted
by
Authority
of
the
present
Parliament
;
and
without
the
Peoples
Consent
,
Ministers
can
never
be
duly
possessed
of
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
.
Christ
makes
his
People
a
willing
People
in
the
Day
of
his
Power
,
and
does
not
impower
his
Ambassadors
to
exercise
a
Tyranny
over
them
against
their
Wills
:
so
that
if
any
be
refractory
,
and
refuse
to
submit
to
the
Censures
of
the
Church
,
they
are
to
be
esteem'd
as
Heathens
and
Publicans
;
and
if
the
Querists
and
their
Adherents
should
continue
obstinate
,
and
refuse
to
come
into
the
Bosom
of
the
Church
upon
such-easy
Terms
of
Conformity
as
are
now
enjoin'd
,
all
that
they
do
is
but
to
declare
themselves
no
Members
of
the
National
Church
,
seeing
they
refuse
to
embrace
either
her
Doctrine
or
Discipline
.
But
by
what
Laws
,
Divine
or
Humane
,
they
and
their
said
Adherents
,
who
do
not
make
up
the
tenth
Part
of
the
Nation
,
should
take
upon
them
the
Name
of
the
National
Church
,
they
would
do
well
to
inform
the
World
.
This
leads
me
to
another
of
the
Reasons
for
their
Protestation
,
viz.
That
they
may
maintain
the
Liberties
of
that
National
Church
.
This
is
truly
pleasant
,
that
they
should
pretend
to
be
the
only
Patriots
for
the
Privileges
of
the
National
Church
,
whom
the
Body
of
the
Church
in
that
Nation
have
voted
to
be
the
great
and
insupportable
Grievance
of
the
same
.
This
is
just
like
the
late
King's
Declarations
,
wherein
he
pretends
a
mighty
Zeal
for
the
Freedom
and
Liberties
of
the
Nations
which
have
by
their
Representatives
dethron'd
him
for
endeavouring
to
enslave
them
.
But
seeing
these
Gentlemen
will
not
allow
the
General
Assembly
to
be
the
true
Representative
of
the
National
Church
,
because
they
have
not
Delegats
from
the
Prelatical
Curats
and
their
Adherents
,
they
would
do
well
to
show
us
the
Deputations
which
they
have
from
the
Body
of
Protestants
in
the
Nation
to
represent
them
,
and
protest
so
strenuously
for
their
Liberties
.
And
seeing
the
Querists
pretend
so
highly
to
maintain
the
Liberties
of
the
National
Church
,
we
are
willing
that
the
World
should
judg
whether
they
or
the
Presbyterians
have
maintained
them
best
.
The
Presbyterians
ever
since
the
Reformation
have
pleaded
,
and
often
suffered
for
maintaining
the
Privilege
of
the
Church
to
hold
her
own
Courts
,
and
be
Judges
of
the
Doctrine
and
Discipline
of
the
Church
.
Whereas
the
Episcopalians
have
always
subjected
the
same
to
their
Princes
,
how
corrupt
soever
either
in
Practice
or
Principle
:
and
thus
K.
Ch.
2d
,
though
a
dissolute
vicious
Prince
,
was
impowered
to
emit
and
enact
such
Constitutions
and
Orders
concerning
Church-Administrations
,
Persons
,
Meetings
and
Matters
,
as
he
in
his
Wisdom
should
think
fit
,
without
so
much
as
taking
the
Advice
and
Consent
of
his
Parliament
;
and
K.
James
the
7th
,
though
a
professed
Papist
,
had
the
same
Power
:
So
that
the
National
Church
had
no
Privilege
neither
to
will
nor
to
do
in
any
thing
concerning
Church-Constitutions
,
Administrations
,
Persons
,
Meetings
,
or
Matters
;
for
the
Prelates
,
with
their
Clergy
and
Adherents
,
had
made
an
absolute
Surrender
of
them
by
that
Act
:
whereas
the
Presbyterians
,
as
Mr.
Guthry
above-mentioned
,
and
others
,
chose
rather
to
suffer
Death
,
and
to
undergo
a
savage
Persecution
,
than
either
consent
or
submit
to
such
a
manifest
betraying
of
the
Privileges
of
the
National
Church
:
and
that
the
Episcopalians
may
be
sensible
what
a
horrid
Piece
of
Treachery
this
Surrender
of
theirs
was
,
let
them
peruse
the
following
Declaration
of
their
Head
K.
James
VI
.
upon
the
Subjectmatter
;
which
he
wrote
with
his
own
Hand
,
and
signed
and
delivered
it
to
the
Commissioners
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
at
Linlithgow
,
December
7.
1585.
I
for
my
part
shall
never
,
neither
my
Posterity
ought
,
ever
cite
,
summon
or
apprehend
any
Pastor
or
Preacher
for
Matters
of
Doctrine
in
Religion
,
Salvation
,
Heresies
,
or
true
Interpretation
of
the
Scripture
:
But
according
to
my
first
Act
,
which
confirmeth
the
Liberty
of
Preaching
the
Word
,
Ministration
of
the
Sacraments
,
I
avouch
the
same
to
be
a
Matter
meer
Ecclesiastical
,
and
altogether
impertinent
to
my
Calling
.
Therefore
never
shall
I
,
nor
ever
ought
they
,
I
mean
my
Posterity
,
acclaim
any
Power
or
Jurisdiction
in
the
foresaids
.
—
And
after
:
Christ
saying
Dic
Ecclesiae
,
and
one
only
Man
stealing
that
Dint
in
a
quiet
Hole
,
the
Act
of
Parliament
reduceth
the
Sentence
for
Informality
and
Nullity
of
Process
;
not
as
Judges
whether
the
Excommunication
was
grounded
on
good
and
just
Causes
or
not
,
but
as
Witnesses
that
it
was
unformally
proceeded
against
the
Warrant
of
God's
Word
,
Example
of
all
Reformed
Kirks
,
and
your
own
particular
Custom
in
this
Country
.
—
And
after
:
I
acclaim
not
to
my self
to
be
Judg
of
Doctrine
in
Religion
,
Salvation
,
Heresies
,
or
true
Interpretation
of
Scripture
.
—
And
after
:
My
Intention
is
not
to
meddle
with
Excommunication
,
neither
acclaim
I
to
my self
,
or
my
Heirs
,
Power
in
any
thing
that
is
meer
Ecclesiastical
,
and
not
{αβγδ}
,
nor
with
any
thing
that
God's
Word
hath
simply
devolved
in
the
Hands
of
his
Kirk
.
And
to
conclude
,
I
confess
and
acknowledg
Christ
Jesus
to
be
Head
and
Law-giver
to
the
same
.
And
whatsoever
Persons
do
attribute
to
themselves
as
Head
of
the
Kirk
,
and
not
as
Members
,
to
suspend
or
alter
any
thing
that
the
Word
of
God
hath
only
remitted
to
them
,
that
Man
I
say
committeth
manifest
Idolatry
,
&c.
Now
we
see
that
this
Learned
Prince
disclaims
any
such
Power
to
belong
to
himself
or
his
Successors
,
as
our
Prelatists
conierr'd
upon
his
two
Grandsons
;
and
he
absolutely
declines
being
a
Judg
in
Doctrine
:
and
yet
our
Querists
appeal
to
their
present
Majesties
as
the
supreme
Judges
without
any
Exception
,
though
they
have
been
graciously
pleased
to
abolish
that
Act
of
Supremacy
which
did
constitute
them
such
;
and
as
there
's
all
the
Reason
of
the
World
to
believe
,
upon
the
very
same
Principle
that
K.
James
disclaimed
it
.
But
our
Prelatists
will
have
them
to
retain
it
whether
they
will
or
not
,
even
against
the
Touch
of
their
own
Scepter
;
not
out
of
any
Good
will
to
them
,
as
is
manifest
from
the
Carriage
of
the
Party
since
the
Revolution
,
but
meerly
to
insinuate
a
malicious
Reflection
upon
the
Presbyterians
,
as
if
they
did
not
allow
their
Majesties
their
full
Power
.
Whatever
Noise
the
Faction
may
make
as
if
they
propos'd
these
Queries
meerly
from
Scruples
of
Conscience
;
the
Presbyterians
are
not
so
ignorant
of
their
Intrigues
as
they
imagine
,
but
know
very
well
that
the
Hand
of
Joab
is
in
the
Affair
,
and
by
whom
,
and
what
Motives
they
are
influenc'd
and
manag'd
:
and
though
the
Point
be
too
tender
to
be
here
insisted
on
,
yet
they
may
please
to
take
notice
of
so
much
in
plain
Scots
,
that
they
have
been
disappointed
in
their
Design
of
Rabbling
,
and
now
they
betake
themselves
to
revile
the
Committee
and
their
Constituents
.
One
thing
more
I
cannot
pass
over
,
viz.
that
the
Querists
pretend
that
they
don't
decline
the
Committee's
Authority
with
any
Design
to
protect
such
as
are
truly
guilty
amongst
them
,
if
there
be
any
such
;
and
yet
Mr●
Chrevey
,
the
Clerk
,
or
principal
Man
of
their
General
Meeting
,
was
judicially
cited
before
the
Committee
,
and
did
accordingly
appear
,
and
made
several
Answers
in
his
Cause
before
them
;
which
he
ought
not
to
have
done
if
he
had
reckoned
them
an
unlawful
Judicatory
:
And
whether
it
does
not
look
very
suspicious
,
that
he
and
the
rest
of
the
Querists
were
afraid
of
being
found
truly
guilty
,
when
though
he
had
by
his
appearing
and
answering
,
own'd
the
Authority
of
the
Judicatory
;
that
yet
he
and
they
should
decline
it
,
and
protest
against
it
,
before
they
proceeded
to
Sentence
.
—
And
what
reason
they
have
to
decline
the
Authority
of
the
Committee
as
Parties
,
will
appear
further
from
the
Instructions
given
by
the
Assembly
to
the
Committee
in
1690
,
with
which
those
of
the
present
Committee
do
without
doubt
run
parallel
,
viz.
That
none
of
them
shall
be
removed
,
but
such
as
are
either
Insufficient
,
Scandalous
,
Erroneous
,
or
supinely
Negligent
;
and
that
those
of
them
be
admitted
to
Ministerial
Communion
,
who
upon
due
Trial
shall
be
found
Orthodox
,
Able
,
Godly
,
Peaceable
and
Loyal
;
and
that
such
who
shall
be
found
to
have
received
Wrong
in
any
inferiour
Judicatory
,
should
be
duly
redressed
.
—
That
they
be
very
cautious
of
receiving
Informations
against
the
late
Conformists
,
and
that
they
proceed
in
the
Matter
of
Censure
very
deliberately
;
so
as
none
may
have
just
Cause
to
complain
of
their
Rigidity
.
And
that
this
Committee
,
against
whom
they
cavil
,
have
behaved
themselves
according
to
these
Instructions
,
appears
from
their
receiving
into
Ministerial
Communion
at
Aberdeen
,
the
Persons
named
in
the
List
,
being
such
as
were
of
the
very
best
of
their
Party
,
and
of
good
Esteem
for
their
Learning
and
Piety
:
Whose
Compliance
does
fret
and
enrage
the
factious
Querists
and
others
;
who
let
them
pretend
what
they
will
,
endeavour
to
conceal
Corruption
both
in
Principle
and
Practice
,
under
the
Covert
of
their
Protestation
.
Protestation
of
Mr.
William
Dunlop
Principal
of
the
College
of
Glasgow
,
against
Mr.
James
Gordon
and
others
.
I
Mr.
William
Dunlop
Principal
of
the
College
of
Glasgow
,
and
one
of
the
Members
of
the
Committee
of
the
last
General
Assemblie
of
this
Church
,
Do
protest
and
declare
,
That
the
Paper
now
given
in
by
Mr.
James
Gordon
Incumbent
at
Banchory
,
Mr.
Thomas
Crevey
Incumbent
at
Newhills
,
and
others
their
Brethren
,
may
not
be
regarded
,
nor
any
way
retard
this
Committee's
Procedor
in
any
of
the
Affairs
committed
to
them
,
in
respect
that
this
Committee
are
clothed
with
their
Power
from
the
last
General
Assemblie
:
Which
Assemblie
was
lawfullie
indicted
and
held
,
and
was
a
free
and
lawful
General
Assemblie
,
conform
to
all
the
Laws
and
Rules
of
this
Church
and
Nation
,
whether
Civil
or
Ecclesiastick
;
and
against
either
the
indicting
or
holding
of
which
Assemblie
,
or
the
Power
and
Authoritie
thereof
,
none
of
these
Appellants
,
nor
any
others
of
their
pretended
Perswasion
,
did
make
any
publick
Protest
,
or
give
in
to
the
same
,
any
Reasons
against
their
Proceedings
,
or
against
the
saids
Assemblie's
clothing
this
Committee
with
the
Power
given
thereunto
.
And
in
respect
the
saids
Mr.
James
Gordon
,
and
others
here
present
,
do
pretend
to
come
as
commissionat
from
a
collective
Body
and
Meeting
of
Ministers
;
which
Body
of
Ministers
have
no
Power
and
Authority
by
any
of
the
Lawes
and
Rules
of
this
Church
and
Kingdom
to
be
such
,
nor
have
given
these
Proofs
of
their
Loyalty
to
their
Majesties
of
their
owning
and
submitting
to
the
Government
of
the
Church
now
by
Law
established
,
as
the
Law
doth
require
.
And
lykewayes
in
respect
that
these
Appellants
,
except
Mr.
Thomas
Crevey
,
doe
come
into
this
Judicatorie
without
being
lawfullie
called
thereunto
,
and
doe
by
their
Appeal
impugne
the
lawfull
Authoritie
of
the
same
:
And
as
to
Mr.
Crevey
,
in
respect
that
he
having
been
lawfullie
cited
to
appear
before
this
Judicatorie
,
to
answer
for
several
things
laid
to
his
Charge
,
hath
sisted
himself
judiciallie
before
this
Committee
,
and
made
several
Answers
in
causa
,
and
yet
ante
latam
sententiam
,
hath
given
in
this
pretended
Appeal
.
And
lykewayes
in
respect
that
all
these
pretended
Appellants
give
no
Reasons
for
their
Appeal
,
but
put
in
Queries
to
this
Committee
,
challenging
the
Authoritie
of
the
same
by
Law
established
:
In
respect
whereof
,
and
for
other
Reasons
which
I
shall
humblie
offer
to
this
Committee
when
thereunto
required
,
I
do
protest
that
the
Committee
may
proceed
to
discuss
the
Lybel
against
Mr.
Thomas
Crevey
,
and
perform
all
the
other
Trust
reposed
in
them
.
And
desiring
that
this
my
Declaration
and
Protestation
may
be
recorded
in
the
Registers
of
this
Committee
,
there
to
remain
.
Hereupon
I
take
Instruments
,
Sic
Subscribitur
,
Will
.
Dunlop
.
AT
Dundee
Mr.
John
Chrystison
Minister
at
Lyth
,
was
received
into
Ministerial
Commanion
,
and
Mr.
David
Ogilvy
at
Aberbrothock
was
received
as
Probationer
:
Mr.
Henry
Scrimsor
his
Relation
to
Dundee
was
declared
null
by
virtue
of
his
Demission
at
the
Session
5th
November
90
,
from
the
Pulpit
11th
November
;
and
by
a
Letter
to
the
Provost
.
Mr.
George
Graham
Incumbent
at
Inneraritie
was
deposed
for
Drunkenness
.
Nota
,
He
did
not
appear
before
the
Committee
,
although
he
was
in
Dundee
that
Day
;
against
which
he
was
pro
secundo
cited
,
but
on
that
same
Day
he
was
drunk
in
the
Town
,
which
particular
Act
was
proven
before
the
Committee
besyde
many
other
.
Affairs
at
Aberdeen
.
AFter
all
due
legall
and
usuall
Steps
of
Procedor
had
been
observed
;
Yesterday
being
the
8th
of
July
,
the
Elders
and
Deacons
of
the
new
Town
of
Aberdeen
were
publicklie
admitted
,
and
this
Day
constitut
themselves
into
a
Session
.
Yesterday
also
one
of
the
Charges
was
declared
vacant
,
and
Intimation
made
to
all
concerned
in
the
Calling
of
a
Minister
,
to
meet
together
on
Wednesday
next
.
Yesterday
lykewise
the
Church
of
the
old
Town
(
after
the
reading
of
Mr.
Francis
Ross
his
Sentence
)
was
declared
vacant
,
he
discharged
to
preach
any
more
there
;
and
Intimation
made
to
all
Persons
concerned
,
to
give
in
Lists
of
Persons
to
be
Elders
and
Deacons
.
A
List
of
Persons
received
into
Ministerial
Communion
at
Aberdeen
.
MR.
David
Lindsay
at
Drumaik
,
Mr.
George
Anderson
at
Tarves
,
Mr.
William
Chalmer
at
Gartley
,
Mr.
William
Frazer
at
Stairs
,
Mr.
William
Thomson
at
Auchindore
,
Mr.
William
Johnston
at
Kern
,
Mr.
William
Garioch
at
Kennethmont
:
Who
being
all
in
the
Synod
of
Aberdeen
,
are
to
be
erected
in
a
Presbytrie
on
Wednesday
next
.
Mr.
Patrick
Innes
at
Bamff
in
the
Synod
of
Murray
,
is
also
received
.
Mr.
John
Auchterlonie
at
Fordoun
hath
applyed
,
but
is
delayed
till
the
Committee
return
to
Dundee
,
because
he
is
in
the
Synod
of
Angus
.
A
List
of
those
whose
Pastoral
Relation
to
the
respective
Churches
following
,
was
declared
null
,
they
discharged
to
preach
any
more
in
them
,
because
they
had
no
Title
or
Right
,
but
what
a
Call
without
the
Interposition
of
the
Authority
of
any
Church-Judicatorie
gave
them
;
viz.
MR.
Alexander
Jamison
and
Mr.
Andrew
Dalgarnoe
Competitors
for
Tyrie
,
Mr.
Francis
Rosse
at
old
Aberdeen
,
Mr.
Robert
Forquhar
at
Ecclesgreig
,
Mr.
Andrew
Honyman
Probationer
at
Kinness
,
Mr.
Alexander
Thomson
at
Terntric
,
Mr.
John
Turin
at
Inch
,
Mr.
James
Whyte
at
Strichen
,
Mr.
James
Chein
at
Raithen
,
Mr.
John
Houston
at
Lonmay
.
Mr.
William
Mackay
is
transported
from
Dornoch
to
Cromdale
.
FINIS
.
The
Representation
of
the
Committee
of
the
Assembly
for
the
North
of
Scotland
,
to
the
Privy-Council
of
that
Kingdom
.
With
some
Queries
,
by
another
Hand
,
proposed
to
such
Church-of-England-Men
as
are
Advocates
for
the
Scots
Episcopalians
.
THE
publishing
of
the
following
Representation
,
&c.
so
suddenly
after
the
Reflections
upon
the
Scots
Episcopal
Queries
and
Protestation
,
may
perhaps
be
look'd
upon
by
some
as
an
Effect
of
intemperate
Heat
:
To
such
I
shall
only
say
,
That
the
unwearied
Endeavours
of
our
Adversaries
to
misrepresent
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
and
the
Interest
which
they
make
amongst
those
of
the
highest
Dignity
of
the
Church
of
England
,
to
solicite
their
Majesties
against
the
Scots
Presbyterians
,
and
lay
such
Misrepresentations
before
them
as
Matters
of
Truth
,
renders
it
highly
necessary
to
publish
the
following
Paper
,
that
the
World
may
have
a
farther
taste
of
the
disingenuous
Practices
of
the
Scots
Episcopalians
,
and
that
the
moderate
Church-of-England-Men
may
themselves
be
Judges
,
Whether
those
of
their
Communion
,
who
solicite
their
Majesties
against
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
do
not
therein
prefer
their
own
peevish
Humour
to
their
Majesties
Interest
?
To
the
Right
Honourable
the
Lord
High
Chancellor
,
and
remanent
Lords
of
their
Majesties
Privy-Council
of
Scotland
.
The
Committee
of
the
General
Assembly
for
the
North
,
Humbly
sheweth
,
THAT
whereas
the
last
General
Assembly
of
this
National
Church
,
did
grant
Commission
to
a
competent
Number
of
Ministers
and
Elders
for
visiting
the
North
,
impowering
them
to
purge
and
to
plant
Churches
on
the
other
side
the
River
Tay
;
and
to
do
and
determine
in
several
other
Matters
,
according
to
the
Tenour
of
their
Commission
,
which
was
drawn
up
and
adjusted
to
the
satisfaction
of
their
Majesties
Commissioner
present
in
the
Assembly
in
all
Points
.
Conform
whereunto
we
having
made
a
Progress
through
the
North
;
and
in
all
our
Actings
,
which
were
sincerely
designed
for
the
Advancement
of
the
Gospel
,
the
Quiet
of
the
Church
,
for
the
promoting
of
their
Majesties
Interest
,
and
the
Publick
Peace
kept
within
Bounds
prescribed
to
us
.
Yet
the
Refractoriness
of
several
Persons
justly
censured
by
us
,
with
some
other
Occurrents
,
wherein
we
conceived
the
Authority
of
their
Majesties
Laws
and
Government
,
as
well
as
that
of
the
Church
,
to
be
deeply
concerned
,
do
oblige
us
to
lay
before
your
Lordships
the
Particulars
following
.
First
;
That
notwithstanding
several
Ministers
have
,
after
gross
and
uncontroverted
Scandals
objected
and
proven
against
them
,
been
censured
with
Deposition
,
yet
they
presum'd
to
Preach
,
and
exercise
their
Ministerial
Function
,
in
contempt
of
all
Authority
,
both
Civil
and
Ecclesiastick
:
Such
as
Mr.
Geo
.
Graham
,
late
Incumbent
of
Innerarity
,
deposed
for
habitual
Drunkenness
,
aggravated
with
most
scandalous
Circumstances
.
Mr.
John
Lesly
at
Rothes
,
deposed
for
habitual
Swearing
,
and
horrid
Cursings
and
Imprecations
.
Mr.
James
Smith
at
Killimore-Wester
,
for
habitual
Drunkenness
;
and
Mr.
George
Seaton
at
Auchterlesse
,
for
habitual
Drunkenness
,
supine
Negligence
,
and
malicious
stirring
up
of
Variance
and
Strife
among
his
Parishioners
and
Neighbours
.
Secondly
;
That
though
upon
exact
trial
,
it
was
found
that
several
Ministers
and
Preachers
had
intruded
into
Churches
vacant
,
not
only
against
good
Order
,
but
to
the
hindrance
of
the
regular
planting
of
the
said
Churches
,
and
therefore
were
discharged
to
preach
any
more
there
until
orderly
admitted
,
yet
they
continued
to
preach
still
,
in
contempt
of
the
Sentences
past
against
them
;
such
as
Mr.
James
Gordon
Younger
,
at
Foverane
;
and
others
:
Which
Contempt
ought
so
much
the
more
to
be
noticed
by
your
Lordships
,
that
now
through
the
Care
of
this
Commission
,
who
have
taken
in
thirteen
Dissenting
Ministers
to
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
formerly
in
those
Bounds
,
Presbyteries
are
duly
established
within
convenient
Precincts
;
so
as
all
the
Churches
vacant
in
these
Parts
may
,
upon
an
easy
Application
,
be
regularly
provided
.
Thirdly
;
That
several
Ministers
deprived
by
your
Lordships
for
their
Disaffection
,
do
nevertheless
,
contrary
to
your
Lordships
Sentence
,
and
to
the
Act
of
Parliament
1690
,
whereby
they
are
ordained
first
to
qualify
themselves
in
the
Terms
of
the
said
Act
,
continue
to
preach
in
vacant
and
other
Churches
,
in
contempt
of
the
said
Act
:
Such
as
Mr.
John
Matters
,
late
Incumbent
at
Ceres
,
intruding
himself
upon
Elliot
.
Dr.
John
Nicholson
,
late
at
Errol
;
Mr.
Will
.
Ratray
,
late
at
Cargill
;
Mr.
David
Anderson
,
late
at
Perth
:
All
intruding
upon
Kilspindy
,
presuming
to
preach
there
,
and
at
other
Places
.
Fourthly
;
Notwithstanding
of
the
Abolition
of
Prelacy
,
and
the
settling
of
Presbyterian
Government
in
this
Church
,
yet
nevertheless
Persons
have
received
Orders
from
some
of
the
late
Bishops
,
and
thereupon
usurped
the
Ministerial
Function
,
and
intruded
into
Churches
:
Such
as
Mr.
John
Auchterlonie
in
Aberlenno
,
and
Mr.
Gideon
Guthry
Diaconat
,
in
April
last
.
Fifthly
;
That
notwithstanding
our
Commission
was
legally
given
and
authorised
by
the
General
Assembly
of
this
National
Church
,
established
by
Law
,
and
countenanced
by
their
Majesties
High
Commissiorer
;
yet
at
Aberdeen
twelve
Ministers
,
whereof
one
only
was
cited
before
us
,
took
the
boldness
to
give
in
a
Paper
,
under
the
Title
of
Queries
,
plainly
questioning
,
not
only
our
Authority
,
but
the
Authority
of
the
Law
whereby
the
Government
of
this
Church
is
settled
:
And
though
they
got
a
very
moderate
and
rational
Answer
,
yet
they
protested
against
us
,
and
appeal'd
from
the
Commission
,
and
that
in
the
Name
of
the
whole
Ministers
benorth
Tay
,
though
they
shewed
no
Warrant
from
them
.
And
further
,
they
appeal'd
to
their
Majesties
Protection
,
albeit
never
so
much
as
cited
as
said
is
,
and
that
they
themselves
have
not
so
much
as
taken
the
Oath
of
Allegiance
to
entitle
them
to
this
Protection
.
So
that
the
Contrivance
was
evidently
Factious
,
to
stir
up
and
animate
all
such
as
are
disaffected
against
the
Government
,
both
Civil
and
Ecclesiastick
.
And
thus
at
Innerness
,
fourteen
other
Ministers
did
officiously
give
in
a
Paper
of
Adherence
to
the
Aberdeen
Paper
,
and
made
their
Protest
and
Appeal
in
a
ruder
manner
.
Sixthly
;
That
when
the
Committee
did
summon
Witnesses
,
particularly
against
Mr.
Andrew
Abercromby
at
Tarlen
,
a
Person
infamous
through
all
that
Country
,
by
reason
of
his
scandalous
and
flagitious
Life
,
yet
the
Witnesses
were
kept
back
;
which
may
be
of
bad
Example
,
unless
your
Lordships
prescribe
some
compulsory
Method
in
time
coming
.
Seventhly
;
That
notwithstanding
that
Presbyterian
Government
is
settled
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
and
the
Exercise
thereof
lodged
in
the
Hands
of
the
Ministers
and
Elders
therein
set
down
,
yet
many
of
the
Episcopal
Clergy
in
the
North
,
do
usurp
Ecclesiastical
Authority
,
and
keep
their
own
Meetings
,
where
they
license
Preachers
,
order
Admission
of
Ministers
,
supply
Vacancies
,
and
do
other
Acts
of
Order
and
Discipline
,
contrary
to
the
Law
,
and
tending
to
the
establishment
of
a
Schism
in
the
Church
,
and
to
the
visible
Prejudice
of
their
Majesties
Interest
.
Eighthly
;
That
the
Havers
of
Keys
of
several
Vacant
Churches
,
did
refuse
to
make
them
forth-coming
to
the
Committee
;
which
was
both
against
Law
,
and
your
Lordships
frequent
Acts
and
Orders
:
And
thus
the
Keys
of
the
Kirks
of
Elliot
and
Kilspindie
were
refused
by
....
Havers
thereof
.
Ninthly
;
That
in
all
Churches
where
the
Worship
of
God
is
performed
,
there
ought
to
be
no
disorderly
Interruption
,
upon
any
Pretence
whatsoever
:
Yet
in
the
Church
of
Old
Aberdeen
,
several
insolent
Persons
have
presumed
to
interrupt
the
Worship
of
God
,
by
offering
at
their
own
Hand
another
Piece
of
Worship
most
unseasonably
,
to
the
manifest
profanation
of
the
Publick
Worship
,
and
great
disturbance
of
the
Congregation
,
who
gave
no
Compliance
to
the
said
Disorder
:
Which
being
manifestly
Factious
,
and
in
all
probability
fomented
by
Persons
disaffected
,
doth
not
only
occasion
great
Scandal
,
but
is
very
like
to
grow
to
higher
Degrees
of
Insolence
if
not
timely
restrained
.
And
seeing
that
the
happy
Success
that
we
have
had
,
thrô
the
Blessing
of
God
,
in
these
Parts
,
by
taking
in
and
gaining
a
good
Number
of
Ministers
,
and
disposing
others
to
follow
their
Example
,
and
by
recommending
our
Moderation
to
all
the
Well-affected
in
those
Parts
,
and
settling
several
Churches
and
Presbyteries
,
to
the
great
Benefit
of
the
Gospel
,
and
the
Advancement
of
their
Majesties
Interest
:
Which
doth
in
a
manner
wholly
depend
upon
your
Lordships
interposing
in
the
Premisses
,
and
giving
unto
the
Church
and
its
Authority
,
that
Countenance
and
Assistance
which
the
Law
ordains
,
and
your
Lordships
know
to
be
so
necessary
.
May
it
therefore
please
your
Lordships
to
take
the
Premisses
into
your
serious
Consideration
,
to
apply
such
due
Remedies
to
the
above-mentioned
Evils
as
the
Law
allows
,
and
your
Lordships
shall
find
most
proper
,
especially
since
we
can
confidently
aver
,
that
any
Opposition
or
Discountenance
we
met
with
in
those
Parts
,
was
only
from
Persons
notoriously
disaffected
to
their
Majesties
Government
,
and
principally
upon
that
Account
;
and
that
where-ever
Ministers
,
partakers
of
the
present
Church-Government
,
are
settled
in
the
North
,
or
have
access
to
preach
in
those
Bounds
,
there
's
a
sensible
growing
of
Affection
among
the
People
,
to
the
Civil
as
well
as
to
the
Ecclesiastical
Government
.
And
your
Lordships
Petitioners
shall
ever
pray
.
Some
Queries
propounded
to
such
Church-of-England-Men
as
are
Advocates
for
the
Scots
Episcopal
Clergy
.
1.
WHether
the
King
and
Parliament
of
Scotland
have
not
as
much
Power
to
settle
such
a
Government
in
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
as
is
most
sutable
to
the
Inclinations
of
the
People
,
as
the
King
and
Parliament
of
England
have
to
settle
such
an
one
in
the
Church
of
England
?
2.
And
if
so
,
How
it
comes
to
pass
that
they
offer
to
meddle
in
Affairs
belonging
to
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
and
solicite
to
have
a
Party
still
continued
,
not
only
in
Benefices
,
but
in
the
Exercise
of
Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction
,
who
refuse
to
qualify
themselves
according
to
Law
?
3.
Whether
they
would
not
highly
resent
it
,
if
the
Church
of
Scotland
should
solicite
for
such
things
in
favour
of
the
Dissenters
from
the
Church
of
England
?
4.
Seeing
the
Church
of
Scotland
does
no
such
thing
,
whether
Scots
Men
have
not
just
Cause
to
suspect
that
those
English
Men
who
are
so
bold
as
to
interpose
in
Affairs
that
are
already
determined
by
the
King
and
Parliament
of
Scotland
,
have
a
mind
to
revive
the
old
Pretensions
of
our
Crown's
being
held
in
Fee
of
theirs
,
and
that
our
Church
ought
to
be
subject
to
theirs
?
5.
Whether
or
not
,
seeing
that
Matter
hath
been
determined
long
ago
by
the
Point
of
the
Sword
,
Prescription
of
Time
,
and
the
Union
of
the
Crowns
,
the
Kingdom
of
Scotland
may
not
expect
as
much
Justice
from
the
King
and
Parliament
of
England
,
against
such
Incendiaries
,
if
they
should
make
Application
for
it
now
,
as
they
obtain'd
against
others
of
the
like
sort
,
both
in
Church
and
State
,
within
the
Memory
of
Man
?
6.
Whether
the
moderate
Church-of-England-Men
have
not
reason
to
suspect
that
Part
of
the
Plot
reaches
them
,
seeing
they
were
also
persecuted
under
the
Notion
of
Whigs
and
Trimmers
in
the
late
Reigns
,
when
the
Scots
Presbyterians
were
under
the
Hatches
,
especially
seeing
the
Scots
Episcopalians
are
generally
in
the
late
King's
Interest
〈…〉
some
of
their
greatest
Patro●
〈…〉
have
lately
writ
to
the
King
,
〈…〉
,
to
their
false
Representation
of
Affa●●●●
,
〈◇〉
those
who
endeavoured
to
have
such
Men
only
in
Places
of
Power
and
Trust
,
as
concurr'd
in
the
Murder
of
my
Lord
Russel
,
and
such
other
worthy
Church-of-England-Men
in
the
late
Reigns
?
7.
Whether
it
's
possible
that
they
can
be
so
far
impos'd
upon
,
as
to
think
that
the
Scots
Episcopalians
decline
Conformity
to
Presbyterian
Government
in
Point
of
Conscience
;
when
it
appears
by
Parl
.
2.
Act
1.
Car
.
II
.
that
it
was
the
Opinion
of
the
Party
then
,
that
the
ordering
of
the
Government
of
the
Church
did
properly
belong
to
his
Majesty
and
Successors
;
and
that
the
Representatives
of
the
Party
did
offer
to
submit
to
,
and
concur
with
Presbyterian
Government
,
by
their
Formula
in
1690
,
if
their
signing
of
the
Confession
of
Faith
could
have
been
dispens'd
with
?
8.
Whether
the
Scots
Episcopalians
be
not
guilty
of
very
gross
Dissimulation
,
in
pretending
a
Deference
to
the
Civil
Government
,
when
they
act
so
contemptuously
against
the
Acts
of
Parliament
and
Council
in
so
many
things
,
as
appears
by
the
Committee's
Representation
?
This
being
judged
sufficient
at
present
,
those
who
desire
a
farther
Account
of
the
Party
,
are
referred
to
the
Answer
to
the
Scots
Presbyterian
Eloquence
,
the
Continuation
of
it
,
the
Scots
Episcopal
Innocence
,
and
the
Reflections
on
their
Queries
and
Protestation
,
all
sold
by
the
Booksellers
of
London
and
Westminster
.
FINIS
.