Volume 2

Annals of Glasgow, comprising an account of the public buildings, charities, and the rise and progress of the city / By James Cleland.

  • Cleland, James, 1770-1840.
Date:
1816
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annals of Glasgow, comprising an account of the public buildings, charities, and the rise and progress of the city / By James Cleland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    authority of the Assembly, that matter came now to be dis- cussed. On documents being read, the Lords Montgomerie, Fleming, Elcho, Boyd, and young Durie, protested, in name of the complainers, that the Bishops had acknowledged their than a meeting of a peaceable and orderly Assembly to that effect. Secondly, we acknowledge and professe, as becometh good Christians and faithfull subjects, that His Majesty hath authority, by his prerogative royal, to call Assemblies, as is acknowledged by the Assembly at Glasgow, 1610, and Parliament, 1612; and that it is not lawfuil to conveene without his Royall consent and appi’obation, except we will put ourselves in danger to be called in question for sedition. “ Yet, neverthelesse, in sundry respects we cannot but esteeme this meeting at Glasgow most unlawfull and disorderly, and their proceedings voyd and null in law, for the causes and reasons following: First—Because the Table called the Assembly before His Majesty. Second—Because there were more Laicks than Clergie before the Assembly. Third—The Clergie conveened to this Assembly, although having Cures, were never acknowledged by the Bishops, nor recognised by the King. Fotirth—The Assembly must be void, because they deposed their Moderators, who were lawfully appointed by their Bishops to govern them. j'ifth—Because they appointed a Lay Ruling Elder, who was generally the principal man in the parish, and overawed the Clergie. Sixth—Because the Clergie, in seditious and railing Sermons, have wounded the King’s honour and sovereign authority, averring that all authority sovereign is originally in the collective body, by pressing the people to subscribe a Covenant not sanctioned by Authority. Seventh—It is not reasonable that Laymen should have a decisive voice in a Church Court. Eighth—Because the Judges precondemned Episcopal Government. Ninth—Because the Assembly were botli Judges and Parties. Tenth and Eleventh—Because they published an infamous and most scumlous Libel against the Bishops and Archbishops, which they caused to be read on October 28th, in all the Kirks in Edinburgh, notwithstanding my Lord Commissioner’s commands to the contrary. The Apostle says not to rebuke an Elder, but to entreat him as a father. Twelfth, Lastly—It is absurd and contrary to reason and the practice of the Church, that Archbishops and Bishops should be judged by Presbyterians, and more absurd, that they should be judged by a mixed meeting of Presby- ters and Laicks, conveening without lawful authority of the Church. “We Protest, that we imbrace and hold that the Religion presently professed in the Church of Scotland, according to the confession thereof, received by the