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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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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?
5. The Vow and Protestation was not left arbitrary. For by the vote, July 30. 1641. it was resolved upon the question, ⟨p. 205⟩that whosoever would not take that Protestation, are declared to be unfit to bear any office in the Church or State, which was accordingly published. But the solemn League and Covenant must be at least more effectual then the Protestation, for the narrative, or preface of the Covenant, holdeth forth the necessity of the same, as a more effectual means to be used, after other means of Supplication, Remonstrance, and Protestation.
5. The Vow and Protestation was not left arbitrary. For by the vote, Iuly 30. 1641. it was resolved upon the question, ⟨p. 205⟩that whosoever would not take that Protestation, are declared to be unfit to bear any office in the Church or State, which was accordingly published. But the solemne League and Covenant must be at least more effectuall then the Protestation, for the narrative, or preface of the Covenant, holdeth forth the necessity of the same, as a more effectuall means to be used, after other means of Supplication, Remonstrance, and Protestation.