revile and hate those who Execute our Laws upon the latter though their Principles are as incompatible with the Government and call the Church-Protestants Papists or say they are Popishly affected when you hear them like good Subjects rejoyce at the news of their Defeats or express their satisfaction that they Suffered as the nature of their Crimes deserved I say Their Principles are as incompatible with Who under the Mask and Vizard of Religion seek to Sâ—bvert all Monardâ—â—al and Civil Government King Ch 〈…〉 his lesser Declaration 1640. p. 3. Government and the common Security that every man ought to have in Human Societies and that they would be extirpated out of any Protestant Government of the World as the Jesuits were once out of France and many other Popish Countreys but Ours and Yours and yet when a Parcel of them a Year ago were sent on Ship-board into the Thames in order to be Transported according to Law you made as great a stir about it with the King and his Secretary for this Kingdom as if they had been the most Innocent and Orthodox-Protestants in the World Had they been Jesuited Papists we should all have rejoyced but had they been so many of either Churches Communion especially of those whom you invidiously call High-flown Church-men though in Charity I believe you would have been sorry for them yet I doubt if you would have taken half that pains to prevent their Transportation have given them half so much Money or upon their account have cryed out Tyranny half so much In like manner when the Highlanders about two years since were brought down under the Conduct of their Chiefs into those Shires where at least five parts in six are of this Jesuitical Sect What Tragical outcries did you make at London though if the Papists should have kept such frequent and numerous Field-Conventicles in the Popish Shires of England at a time when the Kings Standing Forces were not able to dissipate the tenth part of them you would have thought it both lawful expedient and laudable to have sent Thousands of People from Protestant Shires to Quarter among them for a little while till other expedients could have been found You know very well that the first Discoverer of the Horrid Popish Plot hath declared to all the World That Jesuits were sent into Scotland about the same time that they began to Field-Conventicle to encourage them to Rebel and disturb the Ministery of the Duke of Lauderdale and yet you are so confident as to contradict him in this particular reporting in favour of our Jesuited Presbyterians That there was no need for such a Force to over-rule them but that they were brought upon them purposely to provoke them to Rebel I must also remind you of the innumerable Lyes you dispersed I cannot believe you rais'd them of the Devastations Murders Robberies Rapes c. committed by the Highlanders among those Presbyterian Jesuits though there were as few and as small disorders committed by them as ever was by the like number not only of Soldiers but Men. For they are not Barbarians as you Styled them unless it be in the same sence that the Greeks and Romans called all other People Barbarous that spoke not their Languages and wore not the Pall and Gown No I assure you they are a very Civil Generous and Governable People who committed not half so many nor so great disorders in that expedition as the Soldiers who were levied about the same time in England did about the places where they lay Did any of them do such a Barbarous action not to mention others as that of Captain upon Sir Robert Viners Daughter if they did let it be published but if they did not then I beseech you be not accessory to such lying Stories again But the Loyal Highlanders were from the beginning Malls to the Covenant and Covenanters and this is the true ground why our Presbyterians in the first place and you by contagion from them in the second hate and defame them so much For the very same reason you are directed by them to Calumniate the great name of his Grace the Duke of Lauderdale The Church is supported upon and our Pestilent Sectarians crush'd under his Ministery and therefore you Conspire to represent him as a Tyrant Papist and what not Though some of the most Considerable among you know him to be a man of great Moderation and Piety and one who abominates Popery from his heart I think fit also to mind you of the Misrepresentations which you made of the Archbishops Murder endeavouring to lay it elsewhere than at the door of that Phanatical Party who brought his Grace as the Jesuits have done greater men to Ehuds Dagger and Gideons Sword I have made a True Narrative of it and of the Jesuitical Principles upon which it was Committed on purpose that you seeing of what manner of Faith and Spirit this direful Sect are may Befriend them no longer but shew your selves sincere Protestants in abhorring the worst part of Popery in them aswel as in Papists properly so called Furthermore I cannot but tell you that I am very much offended at the spiteful manner after which you have Treated the Church and her Clergy ever since the Discovery of the Popish-Plot I have seen the Narratives of your Essex and Leicester-shire Elections and have read the Books which your Rabbies have lately put out and comparing them with other Phanatical shall I call them or Popish Libels methinks I find little of the Ancient Puritan Spirit among you but that you have deviated ten times further from their Principles than the Divines in Celeusma are falsly represented to have deviated from the Doctrines of the Church Nay to deal plainly with you you seem to have much of the Covenanting Spirit among you and if you stop not in time I am afraid that as many Acts of Parliament must be made in your Countrey for the protection of the Clergy as have been made in ours What are you not ashamed to Assault the Church on one side while the Papists Storm her on the other A Church of all the Reformed most hated by the Papists and whose Clergy alone hath done much more against Popery than the Divines of all Reformed Communions in the World And yet you are not ashamed to misrepresent this very Clergy to the people for Papists or Papishly affected a Clergy whose Writings all Foreign Protestant Divines study English on purpose to understand and which at this day praised be God for it can produce more Great men than the Greek and Latin Churches put together in the most flourishing Century could ever shew at a time But this is not to act like Protestants but Papists or whatsoever else you will call those who endeavour to ruine the Fortress of the Protestant Cause And truly while some of your leading Dissenters openly avow that they are neither Presbyterians nor Independents c. Nor of any other known name do they
people wherein the Soul of Christ takes pleasure as this deceiver confidently boasts many that came in the 7 The Scripture speaks of those who followed Absolom as Rebels though many of them followed him in the simplicity of their hearts as many of the Western people followed their Preachers into the late Rebellion thought that they did God good Service in so doing being deceived by this Murderer of Souls and his Bretheren who make the people ignorant and then abuse their ignorance to the ruine of their Bodies Souls and Estates simplicity of their hearts like those that followed Absolom long ago I am as sure upon the other hand that there were a great Party there that had nothing before them but the reprocuring of the 8 So he Blasphemously calls the Covenant and Presbyterian Discipline Lords fallen work and the restoring of the breach which is void as the Sea and I am apt to think that such of these that were most Branded with mistakes will be found to be most single But for 9 He means Rebellion in his own Jesuitical sence Rebellion against his Majesties Person or just Government the Lord knows my Soul abhors the name and thing Loyal have I been and wille every Christian to be so I was ever of this judgment to give to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods 8ly Since I came to Prison I have been much Branded with many things which I must call aspersions whereof 10 Neither thou pretended Minister of the Gospel nor thy Brethren will ever be able to wash off the aspersion of Jesuitism a 6 Book of Spotsw Hist. particularly the story of Adam Blake For is it not Jesuitism to maintain that the Rebellion of Church-men is not treason because they are not subject to the Secular power Is it not Jesuitism to carry on Solemn Leagues and Covenants among the Subjects without and against the Princes consent b Buchan de jure regni Lysimachus Nicanors letter Is it not Jesuitism to Teach that Kings ought to be Excommunicated and that Subjects ought to withdraw their Obedience from them when they are Excommunicated nay as soon as they begin to abuse the power against the Church c Spotsw Hist. 6 book the Covenanters protestation July 1638. published at the Cross in Glascow Lysim. Nic. Naphtali Is it not Jesuitism to deny that Kings have power to Convocate and dissolve Ecclesiastical Synods and Councils And that no power on Earth is above that Manyheaded-Pope the general Assembly which hath power to make Laws without the King Is not Jesuitism to condemn the English Liturgy and to forbid the people under pain of publick Penitence or Damnation to read it or any books of Episcopal Divines nay not to have them in their houses nor to converse with Church-Ministers whom they scornfully call Curates and the Bishops Journey-men much less to hear them Preach Is it not Jesuitism to assert that Salvation is not to be had out of the narrow Communion of Presbyterian Churches and to invent and impose new Articles of Faith as That Episcopacy is an Antichristian constitution that it is Popery to observe the †The passion resurrection and ascention of our Lord and the discent of the Holy-Ghost Apostolical Festivals or to administer the Communion in private to sick persons and that Presbytery is the sole and unalterable Government of the Church Is it not Jesuitism to Write and Preach against the Scottish Act and English Oath of Supremacy and to d Knox in his Chron. pag. 78 and â—3 Lysim. Nic. absolve the people from their Oath of Allegiance under a pretence of the Kings being an enemy to Christ Is it not e Naphtali Buchanan de jure regni Jesuitism to Teach that there is a Reciprocal obligation betwixt Kings and their Subjects and that if he perform not his part they ought not to perform theirs Nay is it not Jesuitism to Teach that the f Buch. de jure regni Supream power is lodged originally in the people which they may take from the Prince when he is no longer worthy of it and that the g Buch. de jure regni Naphtalies probable capacity Primitive Christians did not take Arms against the persecuting Emperors for the same reason that Christians take not up Arms in the Ottoman Empire because they had not sufficient force Is it not Jesuitism to assert that a good intention will hallow a wicked action or which is all one to Rebel Murder and Rob to advance the cause of God Is it not Jesuitism to compare Protestant Princes to Heathen idolatrous and persecuting Tyrants And to distinguish betwixt their Private and Political Persons and so make the people believe they fight for the King when they fight against the anointed man Is it not Jesuitism to Teach that h Apology c. Printed 1677. Magistrates in Church-matters have only a Cumulative but not a Privative power and that all the Secular power on Earth cannot deprive or silence a Minister because every Minister is so by special mission from Christ and in his Ministerial capacity is subject to none but him Is it not Jesuitism to assert that the King hath not power to Ordain a publick Fast or Festival and that i Apology Sect. 3. passive obedience and Submission to the unrighteous Decrees and unjust Sentences and punishments of Rulers is as great a sin as active obedience to their unrighteous laws Is it not Jesuitism to assert that King Solomon deprived k Apology Abiathar the High-Priest not as a King but as a Prophet and that the Ministers ought not to Preach by permission from the Magistrate nor to have the exercise of their Function regulated by Secular Edicts and Laws Is it not Jesuitism nay the usurpation of the Inquisition it self l Spotsw Hist. lib. 6. An. 1596. to meddle with every thing even Edicts and Acts of Parliament under the colour and pretence of Scandal and use the holy Communion as a Seal to other Oaths Vows and Covenants besides that of our Baptismal Covenant with God Is is not Jesuitism to assert that a m Naphtali about Mr. Mitchels attempt Knox in his Chronicle applauds Norman Leslies kelling the Cardinal at St. Andrews and James Melvin calls it a godly fact and Leighton in his Sions Plea saith that Feltons killing the Duke of Buckingham was an heroical and laudable fact See also Mitchels Speeches in Ravillac Redivivus private person may kill a man in publick Authority by impulse and that such Acts are heroical like that of Phineas and have wrought great deliverances for the Church of God Is it not Jesuitism to represent Christian Protestant Kings as a judgment and not as a Blessing to the Church by telling the people n The information for defensive arms Sions Plea pag. 196. there were no Kings before Cains days that God gave the Jews their first
Episcopally Ordained is unlawful which Assertion supposeth that if it be lawful then they are justly punished and not Persecuted for not going to Church and either it must be granted to be lawful or else the Ministery of the Universal Church was unlawful for above 1500. years There remains then nothing but to assert That they are punished upon a positive account for serving of God or for Worshipping of him in a true Way That the way by which they publickly Worship God is a true way as to the substance of the Worship were their Presbyterian and Schismatical Ministery valid I would not deny but then because there are many true ways of publick Worship Subjects like the Children and Servants of a Family ought publickly to Worship God in that true way of Worship which the Supream Magistrate the Father of the Nation doth appoint I will put this case to the Covenanters There 's none of them dare deny but that the French and Helvetian Churches Worship God in a true way and that the reformed Church of Scotland likewise worshipped him in a true way when Mr. Knoxes Liturgy which is almost the same with that of the French Church was in Use. Now therefore I desire they would tell me That supposing the Presbyterian Government were legally Established in Scotland together with that unprescribed Formless way of Worship which they now use Whether a Separating Party refusing to come to Church because they would Worship God according to the French Liturgy or that of Mr. Knoxes would be guilty of Schism or no If they say yes as by their own Principles and in common reason they are bound to do then I desire to know Whether the Supream Power may not forbid their Separate Meetings and command them to come to Church under certain Pains and Penalties and might not most justly inflict them if they disobeyed They cannot say no by their own Principles and Practices as well as out of common reason and if they say yes then they acknowledge in another case that they are justly punished and not Persecuted for meeting to worship God in Conventicles against the penal Laws But furthermore It is not sufficient that the substance of publick Worship be true unless the Circumstances of it be also due It would for example be a very punishable exorbitancy for any Party of conforming People in England to meet illegally in Fields or Houses or at Midnight in Churches to Celebrate Divine Service by the Book of Common-Prayer although they pretended for their Vindication That it was against their Consciences to Pray or Communicate with Profane Persons who come to the Churches or to have their Christian liberty abridged by legal confinement to Time and Place This is the very case of the Field-Fanaticks who though they worship God in the same way as the Church-Congregations do as to the substance of the Worship Yet notwithstanding their pretence that they dare not own the Church-Ministery they are justly punished and not Persecuted for their Irregularities and Transgressions in the legal circumstances thereof But lastly Though the way in which they meet to Worship God were not only true but as excellent as they imagine it to be nay were they the only true Christians in the World and their Magistrates Idolaters or Atheists yet they have no reason to say they are Persecuted when they are punished on this account because the Laws which forbid them to meet in such a manner allow every Family with a certain number of Strangers to worship God in what manner they like best and were they of the Principles and Temper of the Primitive Christians they would be so far from complaining of Persecution that they would be thankful to God and the Powers for so much indulgence and strive by their peaceable behaviour to procure more But then If they be considered as a People of Treasonable Seditious and Schismatical Principles and Practices that have long lived in a State of Rebellion and twice actually Rebelled in the space of 13. years The punishments which they complain of will be so far from looking like Persecution that they must be acknowledged by all but themselves the just Demerits of their Crimes They complain indeed of Covenanters great Peâ—secuters and Tyrants Persecution whereas they themselves have been and are the greatest Persecuters in the World It is notoriously known with what violence they formerly Persecuted the Bishops and all who durst adhere to them and the Church They Tyrannically Usurped Authority to depose and Excommunicate them all in 1638. because as the Act bears they had been Consecrated to the Episcopal Office condemned by the Confession of Faith and Acts of that Kirk as having no Warrant in the Word of God wlâ—ereas there is not one syllable against it either in the 1 Called in the Harmony Scoticana Confessio larger or 2 Called in the Harmony Generalis confessio and by the Covenanters The National Covenant shorter Confession of Faith They usurped authority over Mens Consciences in a most Tyrannical Popish manner not only by taking upon them to loose Mens Consciences from the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to the King and of Canonical obedience to the Bishops the last of which they declared to be unlawful in their Assembly Decemb. 5th 1638. but they imposed the Covenant on all men under the penalty of Banishment Forfeiture of Estates and Excommunication taking away from all those who refused it both Heaven and Earth as far as they could at one Blow Nay as much as they could they forced the Conscience of the late King of blessed Memory not suffering him to Serve God in his own Family according to his own way which was by the Common-Prayer The general Assembly in August 1640. made an Act against Expectants or young Students in Divinity who should refuse to subscribe the Covenant by which they declared them uncapable of Preaching Reading in a Church or Teaching School or Residing in any Colledge or University and if they continned obstinate to be Excommunicated and yet they now complain of the King Parliament and Council for obliging Expectants and Scholars at their Laureation to take the Oath of Allegiance which is their Duty to do They were not only content to declare Episcopacy to be Popish and Antichristian but in an Act of Assembly 1638. they declared That it was abjured in the National Covenant 1581. under these words The Popes wicked Hierarchy a Bull or contradiction in Adjecto which as they cite it from the Council of Trent includes the Orders of Bishops Priests and Deacons so that if Bishops were abjured by them who took the National Covenant under the Popes Hierarchy how came it to pass that they did not abjure Priests and Deacons too They made an Act of Assembly August 3d. 1648. for Censuring of Ministers who spoke not to the corruptions of the time i. e. for not Preaching and Praying against the Engagement for delivering the late
eos quos baptizaverat suos putabat esse non Christi in toto orbe decretum est ut unus de Presbyteris electus super poneretur caeteris ad quem omnis Ecclesiae cura pertinereâ— schismatum semina tollerentur Having now shewed that the Primitive Christians believed the Function of a Bishop to be distinct from that of a Presbyter and Superior to it and that the Bishops were the Successors of the Apostles and of Christs institution as they were I hope it is plain that this Antiepiscopal Deceiver dyed not in the Faith of the Primitive Christians as he hath the impudence here to profess From what I have here said of the Episcopal Office and Authority I may draw some Corollaries First that the Primitive Catholick Church acted in Conformity to its own Profession in declaring Aerius as an Antiepiscoparian an Heretick Secondly that Church-Government is not indifferent but that the †Episcopos esse in Ecclesiâ debere tanquam institutionem Apostolicam ac ordinationem proinde divinam contra Puritanos contraque Bellà rminum semper sensi qui negat Episcopos à deo immediatè suam jurisdictionem accepisse Sed nihil mirum à Puritanis eum stare quum Jesuitae nihil quà m Puritano-papistae â—int This was the Judgment of King James as is observed by Becanus de Prim. regn Angl. c. 7. Jacobi regis praefat Monar Episcopal is immediately of Apostolical and mediately of Christs institution and by consequence at least as unalterable as the Baptism of Infants and observation of the Lords-Day which the Presbyterians with good reason declare that the Magistrate ought not to change or take away Thirdly that it is Blasphemy to say that Episcopacy is an Antichristian usurpation over the Church Fourthly that to assert with the Covenanters that the Presbyterian-Government is of Divine institution is an Unscriptural Heretical and absurd Doctrine contrary to the Word of God and the practice and profession of the Holy Catholick Church And as this Jesuited Presbyterian died not in the Faith or Profession of the Primitive Christians so he died not in the Faith of the Reformed Churches First not of the Church of England which is Governed by Bishops like the Primitive Churches and after the warrant of their example hath Instituted Ceremonies and worships God by Liturgical Forms Nor secondly of the Reformed Church of France which submits to the regulation of the Edict of Nantes which is a pure and Secular Edict and which hath always worshipped God by a common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book and observes Holy-days as Christmas Easter and Whitsunday and which reverences Protestant Bishops after the example of Calvin and Beza their first Reformers and owns Ministers Ordained by them and are never without some such in their Church And whos 's †The Kings larger Declaration pag. 75. Pastors especially those of Charenton were offended at the Solemn League and Covenant as an indelible Scandal to the Protestant Cause as also the Professors Ministers and Consistory of Geneva and their neighbour Reformed Churches as was certified to King Charles the First by his Publick Ministers abroad Nor lastly died he in the Faith of the Reformed Church of Scotland which never professed Episcopacy to be an unlawful or Antichristian Constitution c. as may be seen in the Larger and Lesser Scoticane Confession in the Harmony but I suppose he means the Covenanted Reformed Church that Schismatical Military Church which was and is the Reproach of the Protestant or Reformed Name by the mighty 9 So he calls the incurable obstination of the Presbyterian Party in Schism against the Episcopal Church and Faction and Rebellion against the State Power Goodness and Wisdom of God I bear my witness and Testimony to the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of the Kirk of Scotland by 10 A great * Presbyteries Tryal pag. 50. Apostle of the Covenant said in the Pulpit that the Angels and Saints of heaven if they could leave the sight of God would be glad to come down and see the admirable order of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods Which Platform being no where to be found in the Scripture made many that had cryed up the Presbyterian Discipline for a Divine Institution tuâ—â— Independents Quakers and Atheists and condemn it as in truth it is for a meer human invention Which if Mr. Calvin had not hit upon and set up in that exigence in Geneva had never been known to the Western no more than to the Eastern parts of Christendom at least to great Britain where it hath been taught in both Kingdoms without any ground in the Scriptures or Antiquity for the sole indispensable government of the Church †King Charles his larger Declarat pag. 67. The National Covenant is that which in the Harmony is called Generalis Confessio it was first Subscribed by King James of blessed Memory and his Household 1580. and by Persons of all Ranks 1581. by an Ordinance of the Privy-Council and Act of General-Assembly It was Subscribed again by all sorts of Persons 1590. by a new Ordinance of Council at the desire of the General Assembly with a general Bond for maintaining the true Religion and the Kings Person and so far Authority permitting or commanding it all was well But then afterwards in †See the Declaration in w. on the first Speech and the Kings larger Declarat pag. 68 69 70. 1638. without the Kings Authority or Commission from his Council they imposed it again according to a new Interpretation of their own although no Authority can interpret any Oath Law or Rescript but that which made it or those whom they who made it have Constituted Interpreters and Judges thereof The new Interpretation was That this Confession was to be interpreted and understood against all the pretended Innovations as if every one of them had been expressed therein viz. The Five Articles of Perth the Service Book the Book of Canons the High-Commission and Episcopacy it self although these things were neither named nor hinted at in that Confession whereof the first Framers only abjured in it those Romish Corruptions which in their time had infected the Church Besides all this they altered the Bond which was annexed to the former Confession by adding these words without authority A mutual defence of one another against all Persons whatsoever by which what they meant the King by woful experience found The Copy of this Confession may be seen in the forecited larger Declaration of the King Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries Synods and General-Assemblies Also I bear my Witness and Testimony to our Covenants †National and Solemn-League betwixt the three Kingdoms which Sacred and Solemn Oath I believe cannot be dispensed with nor loosed by any person or Party upon earth but are fully binding these Nations and will be so ever hereafter Also I bear my Testimony to our publick Confessions of Sin and engagements to Duty and that either as to what concerns
and harder than a Flint or Adamant so that he should not fear them nor be dismayed at their Looks though they were a Rebellious House Lastly To the Prophet Jeremiah who told God That he was no more able to deliver Prophetical Messages than a Child upon which God assured him That he would put his words in is mouth and be with him and bid him not be afraid of their faces for he would make him a Defenced City an Iron Pillar and Brazen Walls against the whole Land both against King and Priests and Princes and People c. 1. 8 9 17 18. and c. 15. 19 20. which are the very words which this Decâ—iver Blasphemously here applies to the Covenanted Party as if the Spirit of Impudence Rebellion and Resisting the Magistrate which rests upon them were that Spirit of Supernatural Courage and Confidence which God was wont to give to those whom he sent and employed about Business of his own So in the New Testament when Christ sent out the Apostles after his Resurrection he solemnly made this Promise unto them All power saith he is given unto you both in Heaven and Earth go ye therefore and Teach all Nations Baptizing them c. and Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have Commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the World Accordingly we read in the Acts of the Apostles who were the Prophets of the New Testament with what invincible courage and resolution those poor men appeared before the Jewish and Heathen Tribunals and with what astonishing Presence both of body and mind they bore the name of Jesus before the Kings and Princes and People of the Earth I have been the more full in the explication of this notion because the Presbyterian Ministers have been so guilty of applying these Promises of Divine Presence and Assistance to themselves and of talking and acting at such an arrogant rate as if like the Prophets they had been sent and employed by God By this means they have brought a great Scandal on the Ministerial Office and made People loath the Pulpit and the Church How often do we find King James in the Sixth Book of Spotswood's History complaining of the Sawciness and Presumptuousness of the †As Welsh Bruce Blake Balguan Oud Davidson and the Ministers of Edinburgh See also Presbytery Displayed pag. 36. and 37. in the Story of James Gibson who called the King to his Face before his Privy-Council Persecutor and Jeroboam and that he and his Children should be rooted out and conclude the Royal race Ministers with what confidence and authority did they presume to impose their own Injunctions and Prohibitions upon him and denounce Judgments against him in Gods name as if they had been sent to him by Gods express Call like Nathan to King David Moses to Pharaoh and Elijah to Ahab c. and he had given them Foreheads of Adamant and Flint And as they treated him with a Counterfeit sort of Prophetical boldness liberty and zeal so their Successors who had and have a double Portion of that rude and insolent Spirit have treated his Son Charles the First and his Grandson Charles the Second and so they will treat all the Kings that shall sit on this British Throne as long as there can be found in the Bible any Prophetical Message Promise or Enterprize which they can with any colour apply to themselves Brasen Walls and as Iron Pillars and as strong Defenced Cities in the following of their Dutie in these sad and evil Times but it were to be Wished that there were not too many who strengthen the hands of Evil Doers and make themselves Transgressors by studying again to †To set up Episcopacy which before they had thrown down build that which formerly they did destroy But let such take heed to that 29 Zachar. 5. 1 2 3 4. The Prophet relates the Vision he had of the flying Roll which was twenty Cubits long and ten broad full of Curses on one side against Thieves and on the other against False-Swearers which this Deceiver affecting as the manner of this sort of Preachers is Prophetical Expressions and Confidence abusively applies to those who set up or contributed to set up Episcopacy which they had most sinfully abjured But if the Prophet saw a Roll full of Curses twenty Cubits in length and ten in breadth against the Thieves and False-Swearers in the Land the wicked Covenanters may justly expect as many Curses to fall upon their heads as a Roll ten times longer and broader can contain Their Rebellions Treasons Murders Assassinations Railings Slanderings Perjuries Blasphemies and Schisms will make it appear at the day of general Judgment that all the Curses in the Law are due unto them when as many of them as dye without Repentance shall be damned for those very Sins which they blasphemously call Graces and when Jesus Christ for all their LORD LORD have we not done and Suffered such things for thy Name and thy Interest shall say unto them I know ye not depart from me ye Hypocrites ye Blasphemers of my Name into everlasting Burnings prepared for the Devil and his cursed Angels flying roll in Zechary and let all the Lords Servants and Ministers take heed that they watch and be stedfast and quit themselves like men and be strong and that they set their Trumpets to their mouths and give a seasonable and faithful Warning to all Ranks concerning Sin and Duty especially against the Sins of the sinful Time It 's to be lamented and it 's sadly regrated by all of the 30 Behold the Pride the Spiritual Fast and Self-Conceit of the Presbyterian Sect who in all their Printed Books Sermons and Discourses commonly Style themselves The People of the Lord The Godly Party The Saints c. as if all others of Reformed Episcopal Churches and Communions were a wicked or at best but a meer formal sort of Christians who did not belong to God They agree in this Spiritual Arrogance not only with the Arrians Donatists and Novatians of old but with the Papists themselves who proudly and uncharitably call themselves Catholicks and exclude all others from that Title and from Salvation but themselves Lords People that there has been so much silence and fauting even amongst Ministers of how great concernment is it now in this sad juncture that Ministers consider well what it is that God calleth for at their hands not to be silent now especially when so many horrid and cruel things are acted when they are so much called But to return to the Lords People I dare boldly say That never any Reformed Bishop did yet equal nor any Pope exceed the Pride and Insolence of many of our Presbyterian Beckets as may be seen in Spotswood's History not to mention others which I have had occasion to cite Was ever any Answer more Insolent than that of Mr. Robert Bruce to King James Your Majesty shall either lose the
THE Spirit of POPERY Speaking out of the Mouths of Phanatical-Protestants OR THE LAST SPEECHES OF Mr. JOHN KID And Mr. JOHN KING Two Presbyterian Ministers Who were Executed for HIGH-TREASON and REBELLION At Edinburgh August the 14th 1679. With ANIMADVERSIONS and the History of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his Murder extracted out of the Registers of the Privy-Council c. By an Orthodox Protestant 1 Pet. 4. 15 16. But let none of you suffer as a Murderer or as a Thief Yet if any Man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but glorifie God on this behalf Matth. 23. 13. 16 17. 27. 31 32. Wo unto you Hypocrites who for a pretence make long Prayers Ye fools and blind ye blind Guides you are like unto beautified Sepulchres fair without but full of dead mens bones and uncleanness within Fill ye up the measure of your Fathers for you are the Sons of them who killed the Prophets Luke 11. 49 50 51. Some of them they shall Slay and Persecute that the blood of all which was shed from the blood to the blood may be required of this Generation Matth. 7. 15. Beware of False-Prophets which come to you in Sheeps Cloathing but inwardly are Ravening-Wolves Gen. 49. 6. O my Soul come not thou into their Secret nor unto their Assembly for in their anger they Slew a Man 2 Tim. 3. 2 3 4 5. Boasters Proud Blasphemers Unthankful Unholy False-Accusers Incontinent Fierce Traitors Heady High-minded having the outward appearance of Godliness but denying the Power thereof from such turn away Dehinc ut quiescant porro moneo desinant maledicere malefacta ne noscant sua LONDON Printed by H. Hills and are to be Sold by Walter Kittleby at the Bishops-head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1680. THE PREFACE Wherein the Author of the Animadversions addresseth himself to the English-Dissenters especially the Presbyterians and shews the Jesuitical Tricks that have been used in the former Edition of these Speeches IN Writing the Animadversions upon these two treasonable and blasphemous Speeches and the History of the Archbishops Murder as a further Commentary upon them I have had a double regard to the English and Scottish Reader and have consequently said some things in both of them with respect to the one which may seem superfluous to the other The consideration I had to the former obliged me to cite and exemplifie many Scottish Acts of Parliament Orders and Proclamations of the King by his Privy-Council which had been needless but that without them it was not possible for any but a Scotsman fully to understand the meaning of those passages in the Speeches to illustrate which they are produced And the consideration I had to the latter hath made me insist much on the invalidity of the Kirk-Ministery and the Divine Institution of Episcopacy in doing of which I have cited the Latin Fathers in the Original and the Greek in Latin because this Language in Scotland among the men is almost as common as their Mother-Tongue But besides those things upon which I have largely insisted for the sake of the one of which the other had not so much need I have purposely insisted on other useful things upon the common account of both Particularly I have been elaborat in explaining most of those Texs of Scripture which the two Malefactors misapplied to themselves or their own Party and in citing out of the Kirk-Writers their Papal Jesuitical Murderous Schismatical and Rebellious Principles in doing of which I protest I have not said the fourth-part of what I was able to produce I have also here and there exemplified their Principles with their Practices and all this I have done without any at least without any material reflections upon the English-Dissenters for whose sake especially I have undertaken this small but tedious work For the conforming part of both Churches generally know enough to make them detest the Principles and Practices of our Jesuitical Separatists and so will read things of this nature not so much for instruction as delight and for our Scottish-Nonconformists especially those of the Field-Separation it would be lost labour to write Books for them who lye under as strong a prejudice against the Church-Writers as the most bigoted Papists do and like them are also terrified and prohibited by their Jesuitical Preachers from reading of any thing that is written by an Orthodox Protestant Pen. Therefore the principal design which I had in Publishing all this was for your sakes O ye Nonconformists from our Sister Church of England who have more ingenuity and who I cannot but believe are ignorant of the nature of our Separatists and their Separation because upon all occasions you appear as much concerned for them as if you thought that their Cause and yours were the very same Did you not take them for a more rational and innocent Sect than they are you would I am confident be ashamed to Correspond with them who are the shame of the Presbyterian Name You would not if you rightly understood them Defend their Separation Apologize for their worst Actions By sundry Libellous Pamphlets and most false and Seditious Discourses sent from Scotland and dispersed purposely in this our Kingdom of England especially in our City of London that the cause of these Disorders is sought to be shifted off the Rebels in Scotland and most unjustly cast upon King Charles 1st his lesser Declarat 1640. pag. 2. disperse their Calumniating and lying Stories and with your Interests and Purses support their tottering Cause You would not defend their unrighteous dealings rail at those who bring them to Condign Punishment and call their Fineings Imprisonments and Executions Persecution although they are Condemned upon the very same Account and Suffer for the very same Principles and Practices for which you rejoyce to see the Papists but especially the Jesuits Dye by the Executioners hand If you will not believe me read this little Book nay read but the Speeches and the History and if you please let the rest alone and then if you do not find that I Charge them truely expose me in Print for a Calumniator or Post me up for a Knave But if you find that the Presbyterian Sect of which these two Malefactors and the Archbishops Murderers were profess a Papal Soveraignty over your Native Prince and most of all the Doctrines if not all for which the Jesuits are Secluded both Kingdoms by Capital Laws then I beseech you nay I conjure you as you would be thought true and impartial Protestants or men of common Ingenuity not to favour or approve in the Presbyterian what you abhor in the Popish Priests and People nor to call the Execution of wholsom and necessary Laws Tyranny and Persecution with respect to the one which you declare to be Laudable Justice on the other How have both you and the Conforming-Protestants applauded the Zeal and Justice of your Magistrates in Executing your Laws upon the former and yet you
will be mightily endangered if not destroyed by the latter not only the Baptizing of Infants the Observation of the Lords-day the Admission of Women to the Holy-Communion who were not as Cassand observes admitted to the Paschal Lamb which it succeeded nor can it be expresly proved out of the New Testament that ever they received it but the Order and Authority of Presbyters to Administer it nay the use of both the Holy Sacraments which the Vid. Apol. Relig Reform by Barclay Quakers say was a Temporary Institution and the Divine Authority of the Scriptures in general upon which the Christian Religion depends But I hear that one intends to do this in a particular Tract wherein he also designs to shew That scarce one particular of the Christian Religion except the Authority of the Scriptures in general hath been so little contested as Episcopacy and Episcopal Ordination wherein for above 1400. years the Hereticks agreed with the Catholick Church This being so it may easily be discerned to what cause we ought chiefly to ascribe that Deluge of Atheism and utter contempt of Religion which hath overflowed the Land You have been the main occasion of it the Atheists as well as the whole Brood of Sects are your though I confess Equivocal Offspring and to give them their due they have not been ingrateful but always serviceable to you and upon all occasions have joined with you in your main designs against the Bishops and the Church However it is the Churches unhappiness yet it is not Her dishonour that She and Her Clergy have you and them your Allies for their Common Enemies you joyn hand in hand against them and endeavour to cover their Faces with shame and fill their Souls with contempt But I desire you seriously to consider whether your ingratitude to God for such a Church and your contempt and forsaking of such a Clergy who have always been such faithful and invincible Champions against the Papists be not one of those crying Sins which have justly provoked God to threaten us with Popery and which may at length urge him to bring you under the King of Babylon both for your Punishment and Cure I believe you will be offended at me for what I have said of the necessity of Episcopal and invalidity of Presbyterian Orders but I have said no more of this Subject than Bishop Against Champney page 118. Fern who asserts that the latter are to be accounted void within the Church of England and every compleat and regularly formed Church Or Bishop Answer to the third Epist. of Pet. Moulin Andrews who asserted That the Reformed Church of France in wanting Episcopacy wanted something which was of Divine Right Or King In his first Paper to Mr. Henderson Charles the First who asserted That by the alteration of our Church-Government we should be deprived of a Lawful Priesthood c. Or in effect then Apocalypsis Apocalypscos page 130. Dr. More who on Rev. 13. 11. makes Episcopacy to be the Horns of the Lamb which were upon the Beasts or Antichrists Head Or last of all then In his Separation of Churches Mr. Dodwell who as I am assured from very good Judges hath unanswerably shewed the nullity of these by the necessity of having those in every visible Church I have not yet seen the Book but I am confident I am rightly informed about it because I find Mr. Baxter so angry both at it and the Author in his last Book I shall say no more than this That if this Doctrine be true then you who maliciously oppose the Divine Institution or who by virtue of Presbyterian Orders Sacrilegiously presume to Administer the Sacraments in opposition to our Episcopal Communions within the British Isles have a sad account to give without Repentance to the Head and Founder of the Catholick Church Edinburgh Jan. 5. 1679. 80. The Author having met with King Charles the Firsts Declaration concerning his Subjects of Scotland 1640. since he finished his Animadversions thought fit to add what follows out of the 56 57 and 58 Pages for the further illustration of what is said of the Letter of the Covenanting Lords to the French King in the 30th Page BUT to fill up the measure of their Treasons they have endeavoured to settle Intelligences in parts beyond the Seas and practised to let in Foraign Power into that Our Kingdom as We are able to make appear under the hands of some of the chiefest of them as if the fire which by their own Rebellions they have already kindled within the bowels of that State were not sufficient to consume it unless they added fuel to it from abroad And herein appears first their malignity to Us their Natural Soveraign in that they had rather prostitute themselves to Foraign Government and that such as is different in Religion than yield conformity to Ours But because the World shall see that We charge them not but upon very good and sure grounds We have thought fit to set down here their own Letter Of which We have given Our good Brother the French King accompt being confident he will not assist any Rebels against Us. The Letter follows with this endorsement Au Roy which in France is always understood from those Subjects only to their Natural Prince SIRE VOstré Majesté estant l'asyle sanctuaire des Princes Estats affligéz nous avous trouvé necessaire d'envoyer ce Gentilhome le Sieur de Colvil pour representer à V. M. la candeur naiveté tant de nos actions procedures que de nos intentions lesquelles nous desirons estre gravées escrites à tout â—univers avec un ray du Soleil aussy bien que V. M. Nous vous Supplions doncques treshumblement Sire de â—â—y adjouster foy creance a tout ce qu'il dira de nostre part touchant nous nos affaires estant tresasseurés Sire d'une assistance eigale a Vostre clemence accoustumee cydevant si souvent monstrée a ceste Nation laquelle ne cedera la gloire á autre quelconque d'estre eternellement Sire de V. M. Les treshumbles tresobeyssants tressaffectionnés Serviteurs Rothes Montrose Leslie Mar. Montgomery Loudoun Forrester Englished thus SIR YOur Majesty being the Refuge and Sanctuary of afflicted Princes and States we have found it necessary to send this Gentleman Mr. Colvil to represent unto Your Majesty the candor and ingenuity as well of our actions and proceedings as of our intentions which we desire to be engraved and written to the World with a beam of the Sun as well as your Majesty We therefore most humbly beseech You Sir to give faith and credit to him and to all that he shall say on our part touching us and our affairs being most assured Sir of an assistance equal to Your wonted clemency heretofore and so often shewed to this Nation which will not yield the glory to any other whatsoever to be eternally Sir Your Majesties most humble most obedient and
the Reformation of our Families or Persons or the Reformation of the whole Church in general As also to the Causes of 11 A Seditious and Blasphemous Book so called which was burnt in Scotland by the hand of the common Hangman See Poormans Cup pag. 19. Gods wrath the rejecting of which is to be feared to be one of the greatest causes of Gods wrath this day against the Land I do also bear Witness and Testimony to the Protestation given in against the Controverted Assemblies in the publick Resolvings for bringing in the 12 So he calls the Loyal and Episcopal Party Malignant Party into places of Power and Trust contrary to our solemn Engagements and Obligations to God Also I adhere to our 13 See Note 13. on the first Speech Confessions of Faith larger and shorter Catechisms I witness my Testimony against Popery which is so greatly increased yea so much Countenanced and professed openly The Scottish Oath of Allegiance by many and that without the least I For Testification of my faithful Obedience to my most Gracious Sovereign Charles King of Great Britain c. Affirm Testify and Declare by this my solemn Oath that I acknowledge my said Sovereign onely Supream Governor of this Kingdom over all Persons and in all Causes and that no Foreign Prince Power State or Person Civil or Ecclesiastick hath any Jurisdiction Power or Superiority over the same and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all Foreign Power Jurisdictions and Authorities and shall at my utmost power Defend Assist and Maintain his Majesties Jurisdiction foresaid against all †Contra omnes mortales deadly and shall never decline his Majesties Power and Jurisdiction as I shall answer to God punishment I bear witness also against the Antichristian Prelacy now Established by Law contrary to our Vows to Almighty God And against the Rescinding of our solemn Oaths and Engagements as a thing that calls for Divine Vengeance And against all Oaths and Bonds contrary to our Covenant and Engagements especially that Oath of 14 So the Presbyterian Jesuit calls the Scottish Oath of Allegiance This is the Form of it and let the Protestant World judge if it be an Oath That calls for the Vengeance of God Supremacy the 15 See Note w on the first Speech Declaration against our Covenant and that Bond called the 16 That is The Bond for keeping the Peace whereby the Taker obligeth himself only to live Peaceably and not to rise in Arms against the King This Bond was tendered to the Rebels taken in the Battel at Pentland-hills and refused by many of them who were Hanged and are since reckoned among the Martyrs of the Cause It was likewise tendered to the late Rebels who were taken after the Battel of Bothwel-Bridge but about 300. of them refused it and are since Transported but five more especially who were accomplices with the Murderers of the late Archbishop of St. Andrews and who would not confess that the Killing of him was a Sin or Murder when they were asked in both Terms by Authority if it were so were Sentenced to be Hanged in Chains at Magus the place where that Execrable Murder was committed Was it ever heard in any other Christian Nation That any men refused to dye by the hand of the Executioner rather than engage not to rise in Arms against their lawful Sovereign The Christians under the Turks would not dye Martyrs if they Suffered upon that Principle Lord Jesu pity the madness and delusion of this People Amen Amen Bond of Peace and that 17 This is the Form of it and let the World judge whether it deserveth the name of horrid or no horrid Bond so frequently imposed against the Meetings of his People in Fields and Houses intended for the down bearing of the Gospel and Interest of our Lord and The Form of the BOND Master with all other Bonds publick or private contrary to our I underscribing do faithfully bind and oblige me That I my Wife Bairns and Servants respectively sâ—â—ll no ways be present at any Conventicles and disorderly Meetings in time coming but shall live orderly in Obedience to the Law under the Penalties contained in the Acts of Parliament made there-anent As also I bind and â—blige me That my whole Tenants and Cotters respectively their Wives Bairns and Servants shall likewise refrain and abstain from the said Conventicles and other illegal Meetings not authorized by Law and that they shall live orderly in Obedience to the Law And further That I nor they shall Recept Supply or Commune with forfeited Persons intercommuned Ministers or Vagrant Preachers but shall do our utmost Endeavour to Apprehend their Persons And in case my said Tenants Cotters and their foresaids shall Contraveâ—â— I shall take or apprehend any Person or Persons guilty thereof and present them to the Judge Ordinar that they may be Fined or Imprisoned therefore as is provided in the Acts of Parliament made thereanent Otherwise I shall remove them and their Families from my ground and if I shall fail herein I shall be liable to such Penalties as the said Delinquents have incurred by the Laws consenting to the Registration hereof in the Books of his Majesties Privy-Council or Books of any other Judges Competent that Letters and Executorials may be direct hereupon in Form as Effeirs and Constitutes my Procurators Obligations and Covenants to God also against all such that Connive at or Complie with or Strengthen the hands of this Prelatical Malignant and Persecuting Party As also against all Errors Schisms and Heresies contrary to our Engagements to God especially against that Ruining and Soul-deluding Evil or rather This is the Tenor of that Bond which the Fanaticks railed so much against and lest the force of it should be Eluded the Privy-Council †Rav. Rediv. page 50 Enacted That every Heritor who should receive into his Lands or Service any Tenants or Servants of any other Heritor without a Certificate from him or the Minister of the Parish where they lived That they lived orderly as to the matter of Conventicles should be subject to such Fines as the Privy Council should think fit to inflict to punish them for their Crime and repair the damage that should accrue to the Heritor or Master whose Tenants or Servants they did receive While the Feuds were kept up in Scotland it was usual for the King to bind the Chief for the Peaceable behaviour of the whole Tribe or Clan and because the Heritors or Landlords of that Countrey have such a despotical power over their Tenants it hath been the immemorial practice of the King Privy-Council and Parliament upon occasion to bind Landlords of all qualities for the peaceable demeanour of their Tenants and to give them Power and Warrant to take Bonds from them or upon their refusal to remove them from their possessions if they were Rack-renters but if they had Leases to denounce
Converted Butcher and his Wife 34 35. Cardinal Beton his Murder and Melvils Speech to him 66. John Balfour the Assassin 36. Bestiality Seven or Eight Conventiclers put to death for that Crime 34. Bishops The Successors of the Apostles their Office distinct from that of a Priest and of Divine Institution 38 39 40. they had a new Ordination distinct from that of Presbyters 41. Mr. Robert Blaires Divinity 30. John Bridgeford his Adultery and Blasphemy 34. The Bond for the Peace 44. Rebels choose to be Hanged and Transported rather than take it 16. The Bond tendred in 1677. and 1678. what the Covenanters said of it 50 51. Mr. Blake his Pride and Blasphemy 53. Mr. Robert Bruce his saying to King James 50. what the King said of him 51. Buchanan 13. in Marg. his Doctrine of Kings 29. and of Ehuds Dagger or Heroical Murders 69. in Marg. Burning of London assigned as a Divine Judgment for burning the Covenant there by the hands of the Common-Hangman 8. C. Mr. Cameron 70. Mr. Calderwoods Altare Damascenum 24. 30. Mr. Andrew Cant 7. Mr. Alexander Cant 53. Solemn League and Covenant the great Scandal to Foreign Reformed Churches 42. The National Covenant 43. Churches Greek and Latin attributed as great a Supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters to the Christian Emperors as the English and Scottish do to the King 23. Church of Scotland hath no Liturgical Forms or Ceremonies 26. is in a state of Persecution 28. Covenanters They refuse to answer when examined by Authority 1 12. their blasphemies about the Covenant 7. 26 4â— and against the Act of Supremacy 9. 25. They reckon Wariston Guthry and Mitchel c. for Martyrs 10. their ignorance and wickedness 12. Their Jesuitical Doctrines 13 14. 66 67 68. They impose new Articles of Faith 13 14 25. They Preaâ—â— against the Five-Months Tax 16. 71. Their Pseudo-Martyrs dyed Drunk 18 19. They aggravate the common infirmities of Human nature and take no notice of their own presumptious Sins 21. They by their Principles must have separated from all Churches since Christs time till the Reformation 23. They call Episcopal Churches Erastian Churches and their Ministers Court-Parasites 24. They assert the use of the Lords-Prayer Creed and Ten Commandments to be Superstitious and Idolatrous 25. They condemn the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy 25. The true cause of their hatred to Montross and the late Lord Primate 25. in Marg. g. They are not Persecuted but justly Punished 25 26 27. They are great Persecutors and Tyrants 27. 28. They and their Predecessors Persecuted Queen Mary Stuart King James King Charles the First and the Second 28. Their Treasonable and Jesuitical Principles about Government 29 30 31. They mock at the Doctrine of Passive Obedience 32. They speak great things about the holiness of their own Party 33. Their wickednessess and debaucheries 12. 34 35. They Murder at Houses as well at Field-Conventicles 36. Their incivility and inhumanity 47. Their Sawciness and Impudence 49. Their Pride and Spiritual Fast Lying Slandering c. 51 52 53. Their agreements with Arrians Novatians Donatists and Papists 50. Their Assassinating and Massacring Principles 66 67 68. Cess granted by the last Convention The Field-Preachers Preach against it 16. 47 71. Jesuitical Letter Post finem Primitive Christians and Christian Churches the common Doctrines wherein they all agreed 33. All Protestants ought to confess them as the common notions of Christianity 16. Consistory of Geneva and Charenton Scandalized at the Covenant 42. Cup of cold Water a Book vid. Poor Mans Cup. D. Desertion The Doctrine of Desertion not grounded in Scripture 34. The Scottish Declaration against the Covenant 8. Mr. John Dickson his blasphemies 8. 12 45. Jannet Duglass 35. Mr. Robert Duglass his Papal Pride 50. Earl of Dundonalds Servant the cause of his Distraction 16. E. Episcopacy proved to be a Divine Institution 38. 39. c. Christian Emperors Their Supremacy and Power in Ecclesiastical Matters and over Ecclesiastical Persons 23. City of Edinburgh railed at by Naphtali 52. F. Field-Meetings proved by many instances to be Randevouzes of Rebellion against Mr. Kid 11. Lord Forrester his Tragical End 35. James Foyer the holy Beggar 34. The right notion of Free-Grace 4. 5. The fulfilling of the Scriptures the blasphemies of that Book 19 20. French-Church scandalized at the Covenant 42. a Letter forged by the Western Covenanters in the name of the French-Church 52. G. Gallows of two sorts invented by the late Rebels one for the common Enemies of Christ and the other for the Nobles 54. Geneva The Reformed Church there scandalized at the Covenant 42. General Assembly the Papal Tyranny thereof 51. Sir Edmondbury Godfreys Murder parallel'd 50. Goodman Knoxes Companion his Rebellious and Murderous Principles 30. 66. Causes of Gods wrath a Book so called 43. Mr. Alexander Gibson Clerk of the Privy Council his Certificat 12. Grayham the Apostat Bishop of Orkney 16. Mr. Patrick Gillispie his Papal Pride 50. H. Mr. Hamilton Captain of Mr. Welshes Guard afterwards General of the Covenanted Army his Debaucheries 35. Robert Hamilton of Barnes 35. Mr. William Houston 34. I. King James His opinion of Bishops 42. in Marg. he complains of the Sawciness of the Presbyterian Ministers 49. The Papal State which the Presbyterian kept with him 50. His Sarcasm against Mr. Robert Bruce 51. Incest Eight Fanaticks convicted of that Crime in one Parish 34. Indulgence The Field-Preachers absolutely against Indulgence 6. 14 47. Addit post finem they write and preach against the Indulged 16. The Information for Defensive Arms 14. 31. The Irish justified their Rebellion by the example of Scotland 30. Jus populi Vindicatum 68. K. Mr. John Karstaires 34. Mr. Kid pretends to miraculous assistance 2 3. The King no otherwise to be obeyed than according to the Covenant 31. Mr. John Kings Jesuitical way of answering 20. his blasphemous applications of Scripture 21 22 23. got his Wife with Child before Marriage 34. dyed not in the Faith of the Primitive Christians 37. nor of the reformed Churches 42. as he told the People he did King Charles the First his larger Declaration 42 43. Knoxes Hist 13 14. in Marg. 30. 66. Knoxes Liturgy 27. L. Duke of Lauderdale 11. 47 73. Andrew Lesly his Murder Adultery and Blasphemy 33. Leightons Sions plea 14. Archbishop Leighton censured for his Articles of Accomodation 15 16. Lex Rex The treasonable and blasphemous Doctrines of that Book 30. it commends Mariana the Jesuit 16. mocks at the Doctrine of Passive Obedience 31. A Letter in the name of the French Church forged by the Fanaticks 52. London The burning of London and the last great Plague assigned as a Judgment for burning the Covenant there 8. Lords-Prayer Called a Papistical Charm 25. Bishop Lindseys Narration of the Assembly at Perth 25. Covenanting-Lords They wrote a Letter to the French King which Montross penned 30. Lords discontented who went to London March 1678. prayed for at a Field-Fast 11 Chancellor