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.