A Copy of a remonstrance lately delivered in to the assembly

After this, when upon occasion of something brought in by one Brother, and entertained, we took hold of that example, and one of us, with consent of the rest, brought in seven Propositions, which contained matter of difference betwixt us, professing, That if this Reverend Assembly would debate them, or any one of them, we would bring in more, until we had brought in all the Frame, and the Assembly themselves should pick and choose what they would debate, and what not. But these Propositions were rejected with a refusal to debate any one of them.

After this, when upon occasion of something brought in by one Brother, and intertained, we took hold of that example, and one of us, with consent of the rest, brought in seven Propositions, which contained matter of difference betwixt us, professing, That if this Reverend Assembly would debate them, or any one of them, we would bring in more, untill we had brought in all the Frame, and the Assembly themselves should pick and chuse what they would debate, and what not. But these Propositions were rejected with a refusall to debate any one of them.

And after all this, though the main parts of the Presbyterial government, had been then voted by the Assembly, and sent up to the Honourable Houses (as, namely, that about Ordination, and the Presbyterial government over many Congregations, as also concerning the Subordination of National, Provincial and Classical Assemblies) and there was not much remaining about Church-government, to be concluded in this Assembly: yet this Reverend Assembly requiring, (by occasion of a book published, that reflected on these proceedings, that we had no hand in, nor knowledge of) a whole Frame of Government, with the grounds and reasons thereof, to be brought in by us, and voted us hereto to be a Committee, we yielded our selves to be a Committee, to bring in part by part, in like manner as the Presbyterial Government was brought into the Assembly, and disputed: but that was not accepted. And then it being said, that there was something in Church-government, remaining undiscussed, and unresolved; and it being further alleged that the Assembly •ad not sent up all that which they had concluded, but meant to present an entire Frame and Body to the Honourable