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A50913	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	A vindication of the government in Scotland during the reign of King Charles II against mis-representations made in several scandalous pamphlets to which is added the method of proceeding against criminals, as also some of the phanatical covenants, as they were printed and published by themselves in that reign / by Sir George Mackenzie ...	1691		.xml	application/xml	22863	342	24	We then seeing the innumerable Sins and Snares that are in giving obedience to their Acts , on the other hand , seeing if we shall acknowledge their Authority , and refuse Obedience to their sinful Commands , the endless Miseries that will follow , and siding with God ( who we hope will accept and help us to a liberation from their Tyranny ) against his stated and declared Enemies ; do reject that King , and those associate with him , from being our Rulers , because standing in the way of our Right , free and peaceably serving of God , propagating his Kingdom and Reformation , and overthrowing Satans Kingdom , according to our Covenant ; And declares them henceforth to be no lawful Rulers , as they have declared us to be no lawful Subjects , upon a ground far less warrantable , as Men unbyassed may see ; and that after this , we neither owe , nor shall yield any willing Obedience to them , but shall rather suffer the outmost of their Cruelties and Injustice , until God shall plead our Cause , and that upon these Accounts ; because they have altered and destroyed the Lord's established Religion , overturned the fundamental and establish'd Laws of the Kingdom ▪ taken altogether away Christ's Church and Government , and changed the Civil Government of this Land ( which was by King and free Parliament ) into Tyranny , where none are associate to be partakers of the Government , but only those who will be found by Justice to be Guilty of Criminals , and all others excluded , even those who by the Laws of the Land by Birth had a right to , and a share in that Government , and that only , because not of the same Guiltiness and mischievous Purposes with themselves : And also , all free elections of Commissioners for Parliaments , and Officers for Government , are made void by their making those the Qualifications of admission to these Places , which by the Word of God , and the Laws of this Land , were the cause of their exclusion before , so that none can look upon us , or judge us bound in Allegeance to them . And seeing ▪ that the Ministers of the Church of Scotland , ( at least the greatest part of them before ) not only were defective in Preaching and Testifying against the Acts of these Rulers , for overthrowing Religion and Reformation , abjuring our Covenant made with God , establishing a Government in the Church , which that King calls his own Government , ( and so not God's , ) contrair to our Covenant ; Against inacting of that Blasphemous ( so Calvin calls that Supremacy of Henry the Eighth , upon which this Prerogative is founded , and from which it is derived , and is no less , if not more jnjurious to Christ , and inslaving to his Church , ) and Sacrilegious Prerogative given to a King over the Church of God , and against the other Acts and Incroachments of His Church , and hindred others also who were willing ▪ and would have testified against them , and censured some that did it , ( for which , together with the other Causes in their Trust and Administration , we may say , God hath left them to do worse things ; ) but also hath voted in that Meeting , ( which they are pleased to call an Assembly of Ministers , but how justly , let Men judge , ) an Acceptation of that Liberty , founded upon , and given by vertue of that blasphemously arrogated and usurped Power ; and hath appeared before their Courts to accept of that Liberty , and to be enacted and authorized there as Ministers , and so hath willingly ( for this is an elicit Act of the Will , and not an Act of Force and Constraint ) translated the Power of sending out , ordering , censuring , ( for as they accept of their Liberty ▪ from them , so they submit to their Censures and Restraints , at least all of them who were yet tried with it , and others of them appeared and acknowledged before their Courts , that they would not have done these things that they were charged with , if they had thought it would have offended them , )	cache/A50913.xml	txt/A50913.txt
