lliam Thomson far

 but the kingdom of Christ is _q. d. optimum maximum_, and to have it
now under your debate, as it is the greatest honour God doth bestow upon
an assembly, so it is the greatest danger: For according now as God
shall assist or direct you, you may, and will be the instruments of the
greatest good or evil on earth. Let us do all in, with, for and by
Christ. Remember the account we have to make to him, who subjects the
standing or falling of his crown in this island to our debate. I speak
_humaniter_, for _diviniter_ I know it is impossible, and albeit we
should all prove false and faint-hearted, he can, and will soon raise up
other instruments to assert, publish, and propagate his right to a
_forum consistorii_. He will have it thoroughly pled and judged betwixt
his kingdom and the kingdoms of the earth. And seeing he has begun to
conquer, he will prevail over all that stand in his way, whether pope,
king or parliament, that will claim any part of his headship, supreme
prerogative, and monarchy over his own church. Sir, some may think you
have had a design in abstaining so long from asserting the divine right
of church government, now to come in with it truly. Sir, I look upon
this check, as a good providence for your great sparing and abstaining
in that point, and must bear witness to many passages of God's good hand
in it, in not suffering us to make a stand of our desires concerning
religion, either in Scotland or here, albeit we have often set down
_mensura voti_ to ourselves; but he has as often moved us step after
step to trace back our defections, and make the last innovations a besom
to sweep out the former, and the king refused to be a mean to engage in
a covenant with himself and others, and so has drawn us, against our
wills, and beyond our desires, to perform our duty, and to give a
testimony to his truth, that much of God and div

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