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

FIRST REGISTER : LETTER
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intituled An Act and Overture of the General Assemblie
for Peace and Union of the Kirk, and their carriage ever
since. And yet still the judicatories, standing for the
authority of these foresaid General Assemblies, out of their
earnest desire of union and peace in the Kirk are willing
and resolved to perform the offer made in the foirsaid Act
viz.:—That all censures that have been inflicted upon any
for declyning and protesting against those Assemblies,
shall be taken off them ; and that no censure shall be
henceforth inflicted upon any who have been accessorie
unto the said declinatouris and protestations for that cause,
providing they will judicially passe from those declinatouris
and protestations, and give assurance that they shall
not disturbe nor trouble the Kirk about the matters of
our differences, since the Assemblie 1650, which that they
should do is most just and necessarie, their practices and
principles in those matters being of most dangerous con¬
sequence both to Church and State and destructive to
all authority and government.
8. That private suggestions against godlie and faithfull
Ministers and others, tending to bring them in disgust and
reproach, and to begett jealousies and indignation against
them, be not harkened to, nor the authors and whisperers
thereof be countenanced or encouraged ; but that Ministers
and other professors be esteemed off, not by secret infor¬
mations and suggestions of any bussie bodies, but by right
looking at and considering their actings, deportment, and
carriage in their stations, callings, and whole conversation.
A Letter to Mr Jo: Liviston
Reverend Dear Brother,—Wee have heard with great
greef and astonishment that some few of the Presbytrie of
Chirneside with yourself and others of other Presbytries,
are upon a course of triall and admission of a man to a
Kirk within the Presbytire of Dunce, which is already
planted, with the consent of the farre greatest part of the
Parish, by the whole Presbytery unanimously. To us it
seemes verrie strange and unjust that men of other Pres-