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A Defence of the Reformation-Principles of the Church of Scotland
A Defence of the ReformationPrinciples of the Church of Scotland Author:William Wilson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3 C - *3 Effay on feparation, confideripg the difficulties that attend .it, undertaking of this kind, efpecially at this juncture, not only from tlie critical humour of the age, but a... more »lfo from the different view:, acd divided kntiments, that are to be found even an;oog fuch who fear the Lord, in this day .of perplexity in our valley of vifion; being allb confcious to rayfelf of ray own iniufficitncy for managing a work ot this nature; yet I was ltd by the hand of providence to. it ia the following manner. Upon the fir ft reading of the reverend Mr. C 'sEflay, publifhed a little before ihedown-iitting of the laft aflerably, textit{anno 1738. it appeared plain, to me, that as he had miftaken the ftate of the qneftion betwixt the feceding miniftersand the prefect judicatories, fo he hud let their whole cafe in a very odious light, both to the prejudice of truth,and of that caufe which the fecedingminiftersefpouie, and which I hope and am perfuadcd is no other but what b efpoufed by the church of Scotland in her laudable acts and conftitutipns, agreeable to the word ot God, our CunfeilioQ pf Faith, Form of Church government, Book? of Difcipline, and Dir.ftory for Worihip, and which we are bound and o,- bliged to efpoufe and cleave u.nt«, by the national covenant of Scotland, and the folemn league and covenant of the thiea nations. This engaged me to publiih a letter 1 had writ 4 reverend brother on the fubjecl of fecefljon from the prefent judicator ies, to which I fubjoioed a poflfcript, cpntaining fom ? remarks upon the Eflay on leparation; this 1 di:d, with a de- Hgn to ckar the true, (late of the prefent qneftipn, and to pre? Vent the impreflions that might be na^ade, to the prejudice of truth, upon the micdsof inadvertent readers, by a textit{book filled with the names of great men, and at the fa...« less