An Apologetical Relation of the Particular Sufferings of the Faithful Ministers and Professors ...

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8ETERAL QUESTIONS, USEFUL FOR THE TIME, ABE DISCUSSED ; \\

THE king's PBEROOATIVE OVER PARLIAMENTS AND PEOPLE SOBERLY INQUIRED INTO ;

THE LAWFULNESS OP DEFENSIVE WAR CLEARED ; I

THB SUPREME MAGISTRATE'S POWER IN CHURCH MATTERS EXAMINED ; MR. STILLINGFLEET's NOTION ,

CONCERNING THE DIVINE RIGHT OR FORMS OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT CONSIDERED ; , '

THE AUTHOR OF " THE SEASONABLE CASE " ANSWERED ; OTHER PARTICULARS, SUCH AS THE HEARING (t? ^flP CUHATSS,. • . . ^

APPEARING BEFORE THE HIGH COMMISSION fc6l?RY, ETO»i ." \S .' ', • '; - >^

A BRIEF ACCOUNT, FROM HISTORY, OF fHE '•-•>*"'- J ", J GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FROM THE BEGINNING, AND OF THE MANY TBOUBLES WHICH PRELATES HAVE CREATED TO HER,

FIRST AND LAST. '

i rOB SATISFACnON OF 8TBANOBBS. AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF PBESENT SUFFEREB8.

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Contents

Mehoib of thb Authob, ....... t:

Iktboddction. — The ground and end of this undertaking.

Section I

chnrcb proteateth, and atriTetb agaioat all thia what ehe okk- i < tyrannise orer and oppresa the f^thfn], labour to haTe cor. lii.^n

Section II

Ow the nae of the aerrlce-book was hindered In EdlDbnrgh. — Ministers and people from all parta of tbe kingdom petllioaed against it.— Tbe king &TODreth not Ihe petitioners.— Thej notvithsfand- Ing CODllane In petitioning against the serrice-book, High Commission, prelates. Ac.— Bene* the Dationai coTenant throagh the whole land. — Tbe king intendrth a war. — An Aseembly la In

at Gla«gow,NoT,21,andopenedQp.— ThlsAaaembljro ' - -■' - ■ ■'--' '

Aasentbliee, tbe book of common prajer, tbe book of cc tloo, tbe High Commission conrt, and the ceremonies, ■11 the prelates.— War is prepared against them.— The;

The parliament is coniocatfd bat qoiekl; adjonmed.- Impriaoned. — A new mi 1> raiaed by (he king, — Scotlai tion. — The pArliaineat meetech and ratifieth all vhich t ■gain ratified.~The parliament of England beginnet COTenant with Scotland, and the two nations Jointly pn

A party In England strengthen themaelTCs; alter Uie , _, .__ „_

Scotland bringeth borne tbe piinoe, aha sweareth tbe ooTeuanta, and ia OToreome by the EngUah la battle, and kept In bondigg tea yura, till tbe exiled king returned, 1660, netb lod an the book o consecration and ordiua-

»ficr.-Tbe assembly is opened ap.- th done. — Those acta are in the begu -alnrei ; tah e away the king"* life.-

The reasons why ministers could not obserre the prelates' meetings. — The author of The Steuonable due, dec., answered, .......... 56

Section IX

The reasons why ministers could not seek presentations from patrons, nor collations from prelates. — Tbe author of The SecuonabU Case answered, ....... 61

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X'-'WlV W-H/: SECTION X.

Thtf t#ue sense of (he.gii^h.ff •aUegiance wliich was tendered, 1681, &c., compared with the former ; how lt4f<f|&th fegt^)^ ^raiSt ciril supremacy in the king, cleared by the 11th act, pari. 1661, which, at loast^ \p Sfinck V^^i^tiestioned, from nine several grounds ; and cannot lawfully be acknowledged because \>f %eB are}^{^ jDpnsequences ceedfpfl(b«dttb9el&i^/^ s&te of Scotland vindicated and

Section XI

which shall necessarily follow thereupon. — The former procleared, .... 67

The lawfulness of Scotland's defensire war, first from the former practices of Scotland, other kingdoms. King James and King Charles, and confessions of adTersaries ; next, from a true clearing of the state of that war, in six particulars, which obriate all the objections of adrersaries ; and, lastly, from lawyers, adversaries, the law of nature, the law of nations, the law of God, and sound reason, ............ 80

Section XII

What is the meaning of the oath of all^^iance as to its ecclesiastical part ? — What way the king's supremacy over church persons, and in church causes, besan and was carried on in England. — How the same was advanced to a great height in Scotland. — ^What sense this Idng and the late parliament did put upon the oath of alliance, by their acts and actings. — How it were sinful to acknowledge, by taking the oath, that so much church power belongeth unto the civil magistrate, cleared by nineteen particulars, .......... 93

Section XIII

The groundlessness of Mr StUUngfleet's notion concerning the divine right of forms of church government, by making it appear how he overtumeth his own grounds, how he misstateth the question, the practice of the apostles ground a jna divimtm here. — Christ's institution, and the institution of the apostles, is for a particular species. — Christ's faithfhlness in his office speaketh much for this. — The hazard is great in leaving the species vndetermined.— The confession of the faith of several churches for a species. — How he missetk his pretended end and aim. — ^And how unseasonable his book is at this time, and useless, so long as the league and covenant standeth in force, though his notion were true in thesis, ........ 108

I The lawfulness and binding force of the solemn league and covenant, notwithstanding of all which the

author of The SeoionabU Case, &c., hath said against it, ..... 181