An apology for, or vindication of the oppressed persecuted ministers & professors of the Presbyterian Reformed Religion, in the Church of Scotland emitted in the defence of them, and the cause for which they suffer: & that for the information of ignorant, the satisfaction and establishment of the doubtful, the conviction (if possible) of the malicious, the warning of our rulers, the strengthening & comforting of the said sufferers under their present pressurs & trials. Being their testimony to the covenanted work of reformation in this church, and against the present prevailing corruptions and course of defection therefrom. Prestat sero, quàm nunquam sapere.

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Attributed to Hugh Smith (fl. 1677) by NUC pre-1956 imprints, and to Alexander Jamieson by Wing. Identified as Wing (2nd ed.) S4050 (number cancelled) on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1820:5. Reproduction of the original at the Union Theological Seminary Library (reel 1012) and the Harvard University Library (reel 1820).