A declaration of the Commissioners for visitation of universities, and for placing and displacing of ministers in Scotland; against praying, or preaching for the pretended King of Scotland: with some reasons given by some of the ministers of Edinburgh, why they cannot in conscience omit to pray for him: together with an ansvver to the said reasons, wherein the unwarrantablenesse of that practice is proved from the word of God. And the equity and necessity of the present proceedings of the commissioners in order to the publick peace, is cleared and justified to the consciences of rationall and peaceable men. By a friend to the Commonwealth.
Scotland.Commissioners for Visitation of Universities and for Placing and Displacing of Ministers.
Friend of the Commonwealth.Answer to a paper, intituled, Some reasons why the ministers of Christ in Scotland ought not to be troubled for praying for the King.
Printed at Leith : [s.n.],
in the year 1653.
Caption title on page 4: Some reasons, why the ministers of Christ in Scotland, ought not to be troubled for praying for the king; and wherefore we cannot in conscience omit that duty.
Caption title on page 6: An answer to a paper, intituled, Some reasons why the ministers of Christ in Scotland ought not to be troubled for praying for the King, ... .
Identified as Wing D652 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 263, and as Wing S973 on reel 1294.
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