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…

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.

6. This same solemn League and Covenant was not in the beginning left arbitrary, for some members were suspended from the house, for not taking it. And in the Ordinance, 2 Feb. 1643. it is ordained and enjoined, that it be solemnly taken in all places throughout the Kingdom of England, and dominion of Wales. And withal, in the instructions and orders of Parliament, then sent into the Committees, it was appointed that the names of such as refuse it, should be returned to the Parliament, that they may take such further course with them, as they shall think fit. In the Ordinance of Parliament, for Ordination of Ministers, (both the first and the last Ordinance) the person to be ordained, is appointed and obliged to address himself to the Presbytery: and bring with him a testimony of his taking the Covenant of the three Kingdoms. Again, by the ordinance for election of Elders, dated the 19. of Aug: 1645. No member of any Congregation, may concur or have voice in the choosing of Elders, but such as have taken the National Covenant.