The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…

We may yet add one distinction more, which is this,¹ determination is either to declare such a thing lawful to Church-men in some Ecclesiastic matter, as suppose (as was sometimes in the primitive persecutions) upon some Query from some Ministers, it should be enacted, that in such and such cases Ministers might fly, sell the Church-goods, or use such and such shifts and means for their escape and deliverance, as others, it may be, would think unlawful. Or it is, when the practising of the supposed case belongs to Magistrates, or men in civil stations; as suppose, upon some Queries from Magistrates or others, enquiring if it were lawful to admit Jews to dwell in such and such places merely for civil traffic; or if they might eat and drink with an Ambassador of the Cham of Tartaria; or help Chinas against the Tartars; or such cases, which possibly, beside the occasion of the Query, might never occur: now supposing the case to be decided affirmatively by a Church-judicatory, and a rent to have followed thereupon, and to continue after the case is not probably practical, because of the former decision, and so in the rest of the former suppositions, it is to be enquired, If? and, How union may be win at in them respectively?

We may yet add one distinction more, which is this,¹ determination is either to declare such a thing lawful to Church-men in some Ecclesiastick matter, as suppose (as was sometimes in the primitive persecutions) upon some Querie from some Ministers, it should be enacted, that in such and such cases Ministers might flie, sell the Church-goods, or use such and such shifts and means for their escape and deliverance, as others, it may be, would think unlawfull. Or it is, when the practising of the supposed case belongs to Magistrates, or men in civil stations; as suppose, upon some Queries from Magistrates or others, enquiring if it were lawfull to admit Iews to dwell in such and such places meerly for civil traffick; or if they might eat and drink with an Ambassador of the Cham of Tartaria; or help Chinas against the Tartars; or such cases, which possibly, beside the occasion of the Querie, might never occur: now supposing the case to be decided affirmatively by a Church-judicatory, and a rent to have followed thereupon, and to continue after the case is not probably practicall, because of the former decision, and so in the rest of the former suppositions, it is to be enquired, If? and, How union may be win at in them respectively?