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Title: The representation of the Committee of the Assembly for the north of Scotland, to the Privy-Council of that kingdom With some queries, by another hand, proposed to such Church-of-England-men as are advocates for the Scots Episcopalians.
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Print source: The representation of the Committee of the Assembly for the north of Scotland, to the Privy-Council of that kingdom With some queries, by another hand, proposed to such Church-of-England-men as are advocates for the Scots Episcopalians.
[London: s.n., 1694?]
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The PREFACE.
Names of the DELEGATS commissionat by the Gene∣ral Meeting at Aberdeen upon the 5th Day of June 1694. for presenting the Queries, &c. to the Committee at Aberdeen, are as follows:
At the King's College-Kirk of Aberdeen, the 5th of June 1694.
Reflections on the Meeting of the Episcopal Clergy at Aberdeen.
Some Proposals from the Ministers of the Diocess of Aberdeen, for themselves, and in Name of the whole Episcopal Clergy within this Kingdom, who concur with them to the Commit∣tee of the late Presbyterian Assembly, now sitting at Aberdeen, upon the 29th of June, 1694.
Query I. WHereas, according to the Principles of Presbyterian Govern∣ment, there ought be no higher Degree of Pastors in the Church than Presbyters, and all Presbyters are equal in Power and Authority, we desire to know by what Divine and Ecclesiastick Right these fifty or sixty sur∣viving Presbyterian Ministers, not being in actual Charge within this King∣dom, did take upon them the Exercise of the whole Ecclesiastick Power of this Page  4National Church, and have exerced a more full and absolute Authority and Ju∣risdiction over their Brethren, nine hundred or a thousand Ministers, who were in Office when Episcopacy was abolished, than ever the Bishops pretended to, who never claimed a Power to make Acts concerning the Church, without Consent of its Ministers.
Query II. Since according to their own Principles, the Power of preaching the Gospel, and administring the Sacraments, and the Power of Discipline and Government are inseparable in the Office of a Pastor; Quaeritur, If that Constitution of Church-Government be lawful, which excludes the greatest part of the Pastors of the Church from having any share in the Go∣vernment thereof?
Query III. SEeing no Assembly of Church-Officers can justly claim any Au∣thority or Jurisdiction over a Church, wherein that Church is not duly represented; and a Church cannot be represented in an Assembly in which their Delegats are not allowed to sit: And that by the Constitution of this Church, a General Assembly doth consist of Commissioners from all the Presbytries within the Kingdom. Quaeritur, How the late Presbyterian Assemblies can be owned for lawful General Assemblies of this Church, since they consisted intirely of the Presbyterian Party; and the Presbytries of this Diocess, and several others within this Kingdom had no Commissioners present at these Assemblies, nor had they a Call to send any?
Query IV. SInce by the Principles already mentioned, all Pastors have an equal Right to share in the Government of that Church where∣of they are Members and Office-bearers: And since the whole Body of the Pastors of this Church, who were in Office at the time of the Abolishment of Episcopacy, cannot be charged with Ignorance, gross Error, Immorality of Life, or supine Negligence in their Office; We cannot understand how the Constitution of the present Church-Government, and late Assemblies, can be justified by the Presbyterian Ministers but upon this Supposition, that the whole Body of Pastors foresaid, are either no Ministers of the Gospel, or such corrupt ones upon the account of their Principles and Practice, in rela∣tion to Church-Government, as that they are not worthy to be trusted with the Exercise of that Power which belongs to the Pastoral Office: which we cannot own without either renouncing our Ministrie, and declaring all the Acts of our Ministerial Function null and void.
Query V. Quaeritur, Whether the annual Office of Ruling (not Preaching) Elders, chosen out among the People, and joined with Mini∣sters in Kirk-Sessions, Presbyteries, Provincial and General Assemblies, and their Committees, to assist and concur with them in the Exercise of Discipline and Government, can be warrantably affirmed to be of Divine Institution? And if any Footstep of such an Office doth appear in the Practice of the antient Church; or any plain convincing Proof of its Institution can be produced out of the Scriptures: And if this Office be not of Divine Institution, whether a Judi∣catory consisting in part of such Officers pretending to Divine Institution, and to act by Warrant and Commission from Jesus Christ, be a lawful Judicatory?
The Epilogue to the Queries.
Reflections on the Epilogue to the Queries.
The Committee's Answer to the Queries.
Protestation and Appeal given in at Aberdeen upon the 29th Day of June 1694, under form of Instrument, to the Committee of the late Presbyterian Assembly, by the Ministers Delegat for that end from the Diocess of Aberdeen, for themselves, and in the Name of all their Adherents.
Reflections on the Protestation.
Protestation of Mr. William Dunlop Principal of the College of Glasgow, against Mr. James Gordon and others.
Affairs at Aberdeen.
A List of Persons received into Ministerial Communion at Aberdeen.
A List of those whose Pastoral Relation to the respective Churches following, was declared null, they discharged to preach any more in them, because they had no Title or Right, but what a Call without the Interposition of the Autho∣rity of any Church-Judicatorie gave them; viz.
The Representation of the Committee of the Assembly for the North of Scotland, to the Privy-Council of that Kingdom.
To the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor, and remanent Lords of their Majesties Privy-Council of Scotland. The Com∣mittee of the General Assembly for the North,
Some Queries propounded to such Church-of-England-Men as are Advocates for the Scots Episcopal Clergy.