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

98 THE REGISTER OF CONSULTATIONS
the constitution of these Assemblies, that they were con¬
stitute of those who had hand in and were active for the
publik resolutions, whom they in their protestations
judged scandalous and would have removed from the
Assemblie upon that account.
4. Concerning the third article, 1, We desire to know
what shall be the nature and forme of that evidence and
assurance which is desired to be given for adherence to
these things mentioned in the article, if it shall be by a
new engagement or Covenant to be solemnlie taken or
subscrived by all, and if so, what is the ground and
necessity of it. 2, That they would specific which are
these articles of our former Covenants that we are to
ingage for adherence unto, and which articles are to be
left out. 3, What is meant by the literall and genuine
sense of those articles of the Covenants of the Confession
of sinnes and engagement to dueties, and of these Acts
of Assemblies ; at least if our brethren conceive that
there are any particulars in anie of those heads mentioned,
of which there are apprehended to be, or feared may be
different senses taken up by diverse persones, that they
would condiscend upon the particular places and signifie
what they judge to be the genuine and literall sense
thereof, to the end we may be cleer what we are desired
to engage for adherence unto by this clause, seeing, when
different senses are taken up of one and the same thing,
everie one is readie to alledge that which himself takes up,
to be the literall and genuine.
5. Concerning the fourth article, 1, Upon the begining
thereof we renew the same desire which was exprest in
the first place upon the preceeding article. 2, What is
meant by requiring censures for the same causes as were
formerly ? and whether all causes for which censures were
formerly inflicted be now in being, and if there be apparent
occasion of acting all of them now ? Further, there being
now other causes that were not formerly, and these more
dangerous than some of those former as to this present time,
whether that clause be to be understood restrictively and
exclusively ? 3, What is meant by the same manner as