An Answer to the declaration of the pretended assembly at Dundee and to a printed paper intituled The protestation given in by the dissenting brethren to the General Assembly, July 21, 1652, reviewed and refuted &c., in which answer are set down ten steps of their defection who follow the way of publick resolutions : together with observations upon some of the acts of the p. assemblies at Dundee and Edinburgh and some papers concerning the endeavors of the protesters for union with their brethren who differ from them in judgement.

PROTESTATION Defended.

THe Acts made in their Assembly at Dundee and at Edinburgh against faithful Ministers, Elders and Expectants, (from which some of best esteem dissented) do evidence, That Publick Determi∣nations are carried to wrong ends; which made a worthy Brother, (a Member of the late Assembly at Edinburgh) gravely to tell them when these Acts and Overtures passed, That the words of the Pro∣phet Micah against the Prophets in his dayes, might be applied to them, chap. 3. ver. 5. They bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace. He saith, That the Assemblies Determinations speak the same lan∣guage; their late Assembly at Edinburgh speaks the same language with that of Dundee, but neither of them speak the language of former Assemblies since our Reformation, as the Papers sent to them from the Keeper of the Registers of the Assembly (which they refu∣sed to reade) do fully shew. Their language is the same with that of the Parliament and Committee of Estates 1648. pleading for the Unlawful Engagement: It doth also well agree with the Kings Declarations, and the Oxfordian Doctors Arguments from the light of Nature and practise of Nations, for employing Papists to de∣fend his Person and the Protestant Religion, as their Arguments are for bringing in Malignants to defend the work of Reformation, and the Protesters language is the same with the Declaration and An∣swer of the Commission of the Kirk and General Assembly 1648. and the Reply made in the year 1642. whereby it doth appear whose word is yea and nay, 2 Cor. 1.17, 19. and who walks in the same steps, and in the same spirit, 2 Cor. 12.18. and who build a∣gain what they destroyed, and make themselves transgressors; and who condemn themselves in that which they allow. Rom. 14.23.