Series 3 > Register of the consultations of the ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry > Volume 1

ANOTHER DECLARATION OR TESTIMON1E
OF THE PROTESTERS, March 1654
The adherence of the Ministers, Elders, and Pro-
fessours mett at Edinburgh in the month of March
1654 to their former Testimonies dated at Edin¬
burgh the 2nd of January 1652 and the 17th of
March 1653 respective.
The Lord who in the deeps of His wisdome and righteous
Judgment hath now for many dayes been poureing those
Nations from vessell to vessell, having since our last
meeting made considerable and unexpected alterations in
the publick establishments thereof in order to things both
civill and religious. Albeit we desire and have resolved
to be farr from intruding in things which do not belong
unto us, yet after seeking of the Lord’s face and weighing
our owne duetie in our severall stations and callings,
together with the strait obligation that lyes upon us by
the oath of God in the covenant with as much singleness
of heart as we could attain unto, wee have found it in¬
cumbent to us, for delyvering of our owne soules in sober-
nes of mynd, shortly to testify our sense thereof. As to
things civill, God the judge of all, knoweth that it is not
from any desire, much les from any designe, to promove
our selves, or any end of our owne, or to comply with that
malignant party now in armes, or for promoting any
interest or end of theirs, or any malignant interest or
designe whatsoever, or from any hopes we had conceaved
of better things from the lately dissolved powers, that we
speak thereof. Wee have, as to the civill powers and our
owne resolutions and deportment and cariage under the
same, layd open our hearts in the last part of the penult
section of our former testimony, which we desire to be
lookt upon and holden as here repeated for taking of any