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 the reſt of your brethren thruſt them out your communion in a moſt violent way a manner, as the like parallel was never known the church of Scotland, that one part of pr feſt Presbyterian miniſters thruſt out the other part for nothing that could be laid to the charge, but that they were faithful to the lord and mailer’s cauſe, and teſtifying against the great wrongs that hath been done to our great King of Zion and head of his church. Bleſſed be GOD the father, who hath laid the government upon his shoulders, and will reign king Zion in ſpight of all the malice of men at powers of hell to the end of the world, though be may be provoked, for the great back-ſliding and defection of the day, the abounding of ror, vice and prophanity, and the abounding ſin and abominable wickedneſs, not to be named amongſt chriſtians in a profeſſing land, ſuch horrid curſing and ſwearing, profaning the ho name of GOD in a moſt fearful manner, drunkenneſs and all manner of uncleanneſs, lying and ſtealing, unjuſtice betwixt man and man, ſwearing, unlawful oaths and acts, that the church and land hath gone into of late, prophanation of the Lord’s day, abuſe of the ordinances of the goſpel, neglect of family and secret prayer, ſelf-examination, mortification ſin, crucifying the fleſh with the affections and lusſts, breach of ſolemn vows and. engagement both national and perſonal, for which our land become guilty of the higheſt of perjury; for the above mentioned and like ſins awful judgment are threatned, Lev. xxvi. 16, 17, 25. D xxviii. 23,24,25. Pf- Ixxviii. 9. 10. Iſa. xxr 5, 4, Jer. xi. 9, 10. Hoſ, viii, i.Rev, ii.j. Now