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210 THE REGISTER OF CONSULTATIONS
moved that an union be made between them and some
of us whom they are pleased to favour with the estimation
of honesty and godlinesse, laying by others, it would be
declared that we are most willing that all such persons
in the ministry as can be challenged for scandall or in¬
sufficiency be impartially tryed, and censured in an orderly
way by the judicatures of the Kirk, or committees of
unquestionably judicious and godly men to be nominated
by the said respective judicatures; but that we neither
can in conscience nor will ever harken to such a motion
as that, whereby a great part of the ministers of this Kirk
(whereof many are able and pious men whatever our
Brethren think of them) shall be condemned as insufficient,
scandalous, and corrupt without hearing, without any
tryall or processe, and not only a more woefull rent made
in this Church, but also the verie constitution and frame
of this nationall Church overturned and razed and all
cast downe into a confusion. Mr D. Dickson.
Mr R. Douglas.
Mr Ja: Wood.
Letter to the Lord Broghill, President of the Councill,
August 23, 1656
May it please your Lordship,
Our brother being now to follow your Lordship up, we
could not in duety dismisse him without some expression
both of that sense we have of your Lordship’s goodnesse
for the time bypast, and of our confidence for farther
experience thereof in time coming. Verily we are your
Lordship’s debtors ; and this we desire to acknowledge,
not so much upon the account of the courteous reception
and respects wherewith you have been pleased to favour
our persons at all times (altho’ our obligations that way
are not small), as for the begunne lightning of our eyes
and reviving which our God hath by your Lordship’s
wisdome, moderation, and justice granted to us in the
matters and interests of the Church of Christ in this land,
which were ready to have been brought into sad distresse
moved that an union be made between them and some
of us whom they are pleased to favour with the estimation
of honesty and godlinesse, laying by others, it would be
declared that we are most willing that all such persons
in the ministry as can be challenged for scandall or in¬
sufficiency be impartially tryed, and censured in an orderly
way by the judicatures of the Kirk, or committees of
unquestionably judicious and godly men to be nominated
by the said respective judicatures; but that we neither
can in conscience nor will ever harken to such a motion
as that, whereby a great part of the ministers of this Kirk
(whereof many are able and pious men whatever our
Brethren think of them) shall be condemned as insufficient,
scandalous, and corrupt without hearing, without any
tryall or processe, and not only a more woefull rent made
in this Church, but also the verie constitution and frame
of this nationall Church overturned and razed and all
cast downe into a confusion. Mr D. Dickson.
Mr R. Douglas.
Mr Ja: Wood.
Letter to the Lord Broghill, President of the Councill,
August 23, 1656
May it please your Lordship,
Our brother being now to follow your Lordship up, we
could not in duety dismisse him without some expression
both of that sense we have of your Lordship’s goodnesse
for the time bypast, and of our confidence for farther
experience thereof in time coming. Verily we are your
Lordship’s debtors ; and this we desire to acknowledge,
not so much upon the account of the courteous reception
and respects wherewith you have been pleased to favour
our persons at all times (altho’ our obligations that way
are not small), as for the begunne lightning of our eyes
and reviving which our God hath by your Lordship’s
wisdome, moderation, and justice granted to us in the
matters and interests of the Church of Christ in this land,
which were ready to have been brought into sad distresse
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