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A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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3. When King Josiah made a solemn Covenant (the effect whereof was a through Reformation, the taking away of the ancient and long continued high places, the destroying of Baals Vessels, Altars, Priests, &c. 2 Kings 23. through out) he did not leave this Covenant arbitrary: But he caused all that were present in Jerusalem, and Benjamin to stand to it, 2 Chron. 34. 32. In all which he is set forth as a president to Christian Reformers, that they may know their duty in like cases.
3. When King Iosiah made a solemne Covenant (the effect whereof was a through Reformation, the taking away of the ancient and long continued high places, the destroying of Baals Vessels, Altars, Priests, &c. 2 Kings 23. through out) he did not leave this Covenant arbitrary: But he caused all that were present in Ierusalem, and Benjamine to stand to it, 2 Chron. 34. 32. In all which he is set forth as a president to Christian Reformers, that they may know their duety in like cases.
4. All who did take the solemn League and Covenant are thereby obliged in their several places and callings (and so the houses of Parliament in their place and calling) to endeavour the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, Heresy, Schism, Superstition, and Profaneness. How is this part of the oath of God fulfilled, if the Covenant it self, made for the extirpation of all these, be left arbitrary?
4. All who did take the solemne League and Covenant are thereby obleiged in their severall places and callings (and so the houses of Parliament in their place and calling) to endeavour the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, Heresie, Schisme, Superstition, and Prophannesse. How is this part of the oath of God fulfilled, if the Covenant it selfe, made for the extirpation of all these, be left arbitrary?