 Many of the ministers in the Presbytery knew Meek and his work, so it dismissed these objections, and even threatened the objectors.They declared some of the objections frivolous and unworthy of notice, others absurd and unintelligible; and all of them irrelevant, and that not a single habile (that is, competent) witness was offered for the proof of them.An appeal was lodged with the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr.