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

FIRST REGISTER: ANSWERS TO QUERIES 101
import and may be alledged as the publict definitive
judgement of this Kirk or of any of the judicatories thereof.
The 2d branch of the article doth not, as we conceive,
necessarily infer either their disclaming of these judica¬
tories (whatever may be our judgement as to the Con¬
stitution of the Assemblies at Dundee and Edinburgh
as no judicatories), or a razing and blotting out of the
Registers the things mentioned in that article, but some
what to be inserted in the Register of Presbytries, Synods,
and of an uncontraverted General Assemblie, that may
declare these Acts and declarations and the results thereof,
to be of no effect in so far as they doe import and may be
alledged as the publict definitive judgement of this Kirk
or of anie of the judicatories thereof. Our meaning as
to the 3d thing interrogated upon this article, is that the
knowne malignant enemies of the worke and people of
God (such as we conceive to have been imployed by the
publict resolutions) should not be intrusted or imployed
in the defence of the cause of God and of the countrey
at any tyme hereafter, to which we doe not desire our
brethren who differ from us to engage for any others
but for themselves.
In the 2d article whatever be our judgement and desire,
we have laboured to shun that our Brethren should either
declare that the two contraverted Assemblies, as to the
constitution, are vicious and unlawfull, or that we should
acknowledge them to be lawfull; and our meaning is,
1, That no unwarrantable prelimitations should be put
upon the election of Commissioners to the Generali
Assemblie, which we conceive to have been done in ordour
to the Constitution of these Assemblies. 2, That relevant
exceptions being tymeously propounded and offered to
be verified against any who are chosen Commissioners,
the same should be taken in consideration and discussed
before they be admitted to sitt as members of the Generali
Assembly ; and becaus our Brethren may conceave that
under this may be imported a resolution in us to debarre
all that are of their judgement about the publict resolu¬
tions, at least all such of them as had hand in carrying