REPLY.
WE have shown your interpretation of the clause of forbearance, not to be right, and have refuted it, we think, by the very words of your Covenant; so that none
Generall demands concerning the late covenant propounded by the ministers and professors of divinitie in Aberdene, to some reverend brethren, who came thither to recommend the late covenant to them, and to those who are committed to their charge. Together with the answers of those reverend brethren to the said demands. As also the replyes of the foresaid ministers and professors to their answers.
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- Generall demands concerning the late covenant propounded by the ministers and professors of divinitie in Aberdene, to some reverend brethren, who came thither to recommend the late covenant to them, and to those who are committed to their charge. Together with the answers of those reverend brethren to the said demands. As also the replyes of the foresaid ministers and professors to their answers.
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"Generall demands concerning the late covenant propounded by the ministers and professors of divinitie in Aberdene, to some reverend brethren, who came thither to recommend the late covenant to them, and to those who are committed to their charge. Together with the answers of those reverend brethren to the said demands. As also the replyes of the foresaid ministers and professors to their answers." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69202.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2025.
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of these three scandals can be eschewed by us, if we sub∣scribe to your foresaid Covenant. 2. Suppose the other two might be eschewed by that interpretation of the clause of forbearance, yet the third cannot be eschewed, seeing at our admission we have sworn obedience to the articles of Pearth, and to our Ordinarie: Wherefore, ye must either prove the Articles of Pearth, and Episcopacie, to be unlaw∣full, or else, we cannot, without violation of our oath, made at our admission, forbear the practise of the foresaid Articles, against the will of our Ordinary, and other our lawfull Superiours.