Excerpt from A Brief Statement and Declaration of the Genuine Principles of Seceders: Respecting Civil Government; The Duty of Subjects; And National Reformation; And a Vindication of Their Conduct in Reference to Some Late Plans and Societies for Political Reform; And the Public Dissentions of the Time; Proposed and Read in a Meeting of T The Afiociate Body while they have endeavoured to; draw their principles from the fame divine fource, fo they have freely exprefl'ed their approbation of what 18 contained 1n thefe confeflions on this fubiec'r, 111 the fenfe, and With the limitations, exprefl}. D m the Dec! Aration, and defence of their principles, on ilie head of civil go7' vernment, fubjoined to the anfwers of the Aflociate Prefbytery to Mr. Nairn. Having thus declared their agreement with other Chriliian and Eroteitant in this part of their profeflion - thcy ha1e never roughtw out any new and unbeaten tracts. They cannot e rem; puted followers of upftart theorilts, rioi the. Nupils of infidel philofophers thou h they net er funnoled, that the principles of true phifimphy and religion were at variance on this fubjedt; nor did the ey ever bjudge rt i111 proper for men who are Chriltians to avail thennelves of any light or aids that philofophy can furhiih, or the] let fons which exocriencfe mayt tcrch, in mitters that fail properly within their province. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.