216 Mr. NEAL'sIF Vol. oft& ercife that Power which King James challenged, ` did in the right of his Crown belong to him, as ' appears manifeftly in a Letter of his directed to ' the Prelates of Scotland affembled at Perth: But becaufe they fpeak of my IVovations, if they ` mean that this Book of Canons was obtruded up- ' on their Church by me, or if it were found in a juft Synod, and upon fair proceedings to eftablijh ' a tyrannical Power in the Prelates, over the if/or- ' jhip ofGod, or the Confciences, Liberties, or Goods of the People, or for abcli,/hing any thing that was ` fett'ed by Laws ; they had reafon both to he troubled, and to Peek in a dutiful manner, firft ' rightly to inform his Majefty, and then to de'fire a Remedy from him. But if the Book of Canons did really none of there Things, as (for ought I yet know) it did not, and as I hope will ap- pear when they come to Particulars; then this ' will be no longer a Charge, but a Slander. And howfoever, ifany thing in thofe Canons were or- ' dered againft their Laws ; it was by our invinci- ble Ignorance, and their Bifhops Fault, that would not tell us wherein we went againft their Laws, if fo we did. And for my own part, I did ever advife them to make fure in the whole Buff- ' nefs, that they attempted nothing againfi Law, But if their late General Affembly, in which they fay thefe Things were found to be againft Law, ' did proceed unwarrantably or faRioiJly, (as the molt learned Men in that Kingdom avow they ' did) the` lefs heed will and muff in future times be given to their Proceedings.' See more, p. 93, 99, ioo. Neal, p. ?So. The third and great Innovation, with which they charged the 1lrcbbop, was the Book of Common-Prayer, &c. brought in without Warrant from their kirk, to be univerfally receiv'd, tinder the hzgbeig P; ills both civil and ecclefraflical. * 'Now
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