"He made us, and we not ourselves." (Ps.c. 3.) –but not that ye should presume to fashion and shape a new portraitor or a kirk and a new form of divine service which God in His Word has not allowed, because that were to extend your authority farther than the calling ye have of God which does permit. As namely, if ye should (As God forbid!) authorize the authority of bishops and the preeminence above their brethren, ye should bring unto the kirk of God the ordinance of man, and that thing which experience of preceding ages has testified to being the ground great idleness, palpable ignorance, insufferable pride, pitiless tyranny, and shameless ambition in the kirk of God; and finally to have been the ground of that antichristian hierarchy, which mounted upon the steps of pre-eminence of bishops until that man of sin came forth, as the ripe fruits of man's wisdom, whom God shall consume with the brightness of his coming, and the breath of his mouth. Let the sword of God pierce that belly which has brought forth such a monster, and let the staff of God crush that egg which hath hatched such a cockatrice; and let not only that Roman antichrist be thrown down from the high bench of his usurped authority, but also let all the steps whereby he mounted up unto that unlawful pre-eminence be cut down and utterly abolished in this land.
Exceprt from "A Protestation offered To the Parliament at Perth the First of July 1606" Modernized spelling and English but in essence from the version given in Row's Coronis.
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"He made us, and we not ourselves." (Ps.c. 3.) –but not that ye should presume to fashion and shape a new portraitor or a kirk and a new form of divine service which God in His Word has not allowed, because that were to extend your authority farther than the calling ye have of God which does permit. As namely, if ye should (As God forbid!) authorize the authority of bishops and the preeminence above their brethren, ye should bring unto the kirk of God the ordinance of man, and that thing which experience of preceding ages has testified to being the ground great idleness, palpable ignorance, insufferable pride, pitiless tyranny, and shameless ambition in the kirk of God; and finally to have been the ground of that antichristian hierarchy, which mounted upon the steps of pre-eminence of bishops until that man of sin came forth, as the ripe fruits of man's wisdom, whom God shall consume with the brightness of his coming, and the breath of his mouth. Let the sword of God pierce that belly which has brought forth such a monster, and let the staff of God crush that egg which hath hatched such a cockatrice; and let not only that Roman antichrist be thrown down from the high bench of his usurped authority, but also let all the steps whereby he mounted up unto that unlawful pre-eminence be cut down and utterly abolished in this land.
Exceprt from "A Protestation offered To the Parliament at Perth the First of July 1606" Modernized spelling and English but in essence from the version given in Row's Coronis.
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The earnest desires of our heart is to be faithful, and in case we could [have] been both silent and faithful at this time, when the undermined state of Christ's Kirk craves a duty at our hands, we should have locked up our hearts with patience, and our mouths with taciturnity, rather than to have impeached any with our admonition. But that which Christ commanded, necessity urgeth, and duty wringeth out of us to be faithful office-bearers of the Kirk of God, no man can justly blame us to do it, providing we hold ourselves within the bounds of that Christian moderation which followeth God without injury done to any man, especially these which God has lapped up within the skirts of his own honourable styles—calling them gods upon earth.

Now, therefore, my Lords, convened in this present parliament under the high and most excellent majesty of our dread Sovereign, to your honours is our exhortation that ye would endeavour with all singleness of heart, love, and zeal, to advance the building of the house of God, reserving always unto the Lord's hands that glory which he will not communicate either with man or angels, to wit, to preserve from his holy mountain a lively pattern, according to which his own tabernacle should be formed, remembering always that there is non absolute and unbounded

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The earnest desires of our heart is to be faithful, and in case we could [have] been both silent and faithful at this time, when the undermined state of Christ's Kirk craves a duty at our hands, we should have locked up our hearts with patience, and our mouths with taciturnity, rather than to have impeached any with our admonition. But that which Christ commanded, necessity urgeth, and duty wringeth out of us to be faithful office-bearers of the Kirk of God, no man can justly blame us to do it, providing we hold ourselves within the bounds of that Christian moderation which followeth God without injury done to any man, especially these which God has lapped up within the skirts of his own honourable styles—calling them gods upon earth.

Now, therefore, my Lords, convened in this present parliament under the high and most excellent majesty of our dread Sovereign, to your honours is our exhortation that ye would endeavour with all singleness of heart, love, and zeal, to advance the building of the house of God, reserving always unto the Lord's hands that glory which he will not communicate either with man or angels, to wit, to preserve from his holy mountain a lively pattern, according to which his own tabernacle should be formed, remembering always that there is non absolute and unbounded

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Right Reverend Brethren in Christ,—Seeing my inability permits me not to be present at this General Assembly, I could o less nor write to you, my dear brother, of novelties to be brought into the church service, whereby we can gather nothing except a new schism renting the bowels of our kirk, and that before the preceding schism well quenched. In like manner, our holy fathers who begat us in Christ, and left to us, as it were, in hereditary investment, a pure form of worshipping God agreeable to his written word,–if we fall from it by accepting rites and ceremonies in the kirk not commanded by God, we do great injury to the honest frame and revererend memorial of our godly predecessors.

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From a copy of Mr Patrick Simson's Letter to Mr W Scot and Mr John Carmichael.

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Right Reverend Brethren in Christ,—Seeing my inability permits me not to be present at this General Assembly, I could o less nor write to you, my dear brother, of novelties to be brought into the church service, whereby we can gather nothing except a new schism renting the bowels of our kirk, and that before the preceding schism well quenched. In like manner, our holy fathers who begat us in Christ, and left to us, as it were, in hereditary investment, a pure form of worshipping God agreeable to his written word,–if we fall from it by accepting rites and ceremonies in the kirk not commanded by God, we do great injury to the honest frame and revererend memorial of our godly predecessors.

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From a copy of Mr Patrick Simson's Letter to Mr W Scot and Mr John Carmichael.

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