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A20714	Forbes, John, 1593-1648.	Duplyes of the ministers & professors of Aberdene to second answeres of some reverend brethren, concerning the late covenant.	1638		.xml	application/xml	40244	1398	59	As concerning your question , where-vnto yee so earnestlie requyre our Answere , to wit , whether wee would haue receaved the Bookes of Service and Canons , or vsed such meanes , as yee haue vsed for avoyding them ? yee shall know , that if we had beene of your judgement , concerning those Bookes , wee would neyther haue receaved them , nor yet vsed anie meanes vnlawfull for opposing of them , ( such wee thinke your Covenant and Conventions , prohibited by Authoritie to bee , vntill wee bee better informed ) but would haue vsed humble supplication to his Majestie , for removing those evills : and if we had found no remeede thereby , would haue resolved , according to the practise of Ancient Christians , eyther to flee his Majesties dominions , or else patientlie to suffer what-so-ever punishment it should haue pleased him to inflict . Thirdlie , yee say , that wee haue perceaved the insufficiencie of our Argument , because wee objected this to our selues : that seeing wee thinke Pearth Articles , and Episcopacie , not to bee abjured in the Olde Covenant , wee may Subscrybe the New Covenant , in the which that Olde Covenant is renewed .	cache/A20714.xml	txt/A20714.txt
