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 103
tymes, wee are verie willing that they shall be censured
according to the same rule. To the 3d queree upon that
article we answer, that our meaning is only of the things
used to be done and practised, or approven and authorized
by uncontroverted Generali Assembhes.
Ffor answering of the first queree upon the 5 th article,
we conceave it necessarie to see a perfect copie of all the
names of the persons contained in that Commission, and
therefore desire that our brethren that are able to furnish
us therewith would give us a just extract of the roll of
those Commissioners. The 2d, Our intention therein is
that persons justly censured by them should submitt to
their censures.
The queree upon the 6th article we answer, that wee
doe not well understand what our Brethren doe mean by
all necessary satisfaction, and thairfore do desire them to
explaine it; and in the meanewhile say that all satis¬
faction in the matter of confession and repentance and
as utherwayes is provided in the Acts of uncontraverted
Assemblies, being given to the Synod in the interim,
whilst Generali Assembhes cannot be had, we are not
much to contend about the point of receiving such by
the Generali Assemblie itself.
To what is moved upon the 7th article, it is not
our meaning that it shall be less arbitrary for men to
judge persons godly, powerfull, and spirituall in their
Ministerie, or not godlie and coldrife, literall or naturall
in their Ministery, only by the dictat of their owne mynd,
but that they should walke therein according to a knowne
and certaine rule which, next unto the word of God, we
conceave to be that which is already condescended upon
by the uncontraverted Generali Assembhes, such as the
Acts of the Assembhes, 96, 38 and 46.
Having now answered our Brethren’s querees so farr
as is necessary for clearing of our meaning, wee do expect
and desire that without further delayes by any new
querees, they will declare unto us what they cannot agree
unto, and what they may and will in justice and con¬
science yield for obtaining the so much desireable union