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A05344	A speech, delivered at the visitation of Downe and Conner, held in Lisnegarvy the 26th. of September, 1638 Wherein, for the convincing of the non-conformists, there is a full confutation of the covenant lately sworne and subscribed by many in Scotland. Published by authority.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1639 (1639)	STC 15496; ESTC S108505	22,572	42

that to be a treasonable fact But the seditious ministers being assembled in Synod and taking themselves to be the Supreame Judicatory did pronounce that Treasonable fact to be most just and lawfull threatning with all the sentence of Excommunication against all who did not subscribe unto their judgement therein They did usually inveigh against the King in their Sermons and rayle at him io his face for to bring him in hatred with his owne Subjects And when some of them were convented before the Councell-boord for so doing they declined his Majesties authority alleadging that he was no Judge over them in Church-matters They used ordinarily to proclaime Fasts without the Kings privity especially when some factioners were about to attempt some great enterprize against the King And then the Ministers were taught all to sing one song crying out upon the abuses of the Court and State whereby they set the people a madding All this you may read more at large in the Kings declaration printed Anno 1585. I will now adde some other of their practises that come within the compasse of my own remembrance When the Earle of Bothwell was in the act of Rebellion against the King and had divers times attempted to take away his Majesties life there were great gatherings in Scotland for the relief of Geneva then straitly besieged by the Duke of Savoy The Ministers who were the Collectors gave a great part of it to maintain the Earle in his rebellion against the King Afterwards when the Gawries conspired against his Majesty and he miraculously rescued by the valour of his Servants his Majesty desired that there might be a publick thanksgiving in all Churches within the Realme for his deliverance But divers of the ministers the ringleaders of that faction did refuse and did plainly insinuate that they did neither beleeve the King nor his Nobles nor his Servants who were witnesses that ever there was such a conspiracy But that it was a plot of the King to murder the Gawries I shall not need to tell you of the 17th day of December There is none of you who hath not heard in what feare and danger of life the King was then by an insurrection which was raised by the seditious Sermons of some of these fiery preachers One thing I cannot omit how that they called a Nationall Assembly to be held in Aberdeen the King suspecting the event as he had good cause and having long before by Act of Parliament all Authority in causes Ecclesiasticall and particularly for calling of Assemblies declared to belong to his Royall Person He sent to inhibit them by open Proclamation but they would not desist whereupon being questioned they declined the Kings authority contrary to the Lawes of that Kingdome for which they were indited found guilty and condemned of Treason Yet that mercifull Prince did neither take life nor goods from them But only banished six of them And when some of these could not live abroad upon the acknowledgment of their offence he not only gave them leave for to returne but also provided livings for them And yet one of these who holds both his life and his living by the Kings mercy Dr. Sharp is at this day a principall Firebrand in this Rebellion And thus they used King JAMES which occasioned him in that golden Treatise intituled ΒΑΣΙΑΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ to protest that he had found more truth and honesty in the barbarous high-land-men and bloody borderers then ever he did in the men of that Faction Thus have I given you a brief taste both of their Doctrine and Practice concerning the opposing of Princes But here lest this should be thought a Nationall sinne and so Jerusalem upbraid her sister Samaria I will shew unto you that they of this faction in England had been as deep in this condemnation but that God be praised they had not so much power And besides that some there have suffered death for their seditious practises against authority in seeking to bring in their new Discipline as Hacket Coppinger and others You may judge of the intentions and desires of the rest by their writings One of them who wrote a Book intituled A Dialogue of white Devils which was a most fit Title for these mens Books for if ever there were white Devils or Devils transformed into Angels of light it is in their persons who under the pretence of Sanctity labour to bring in all manner of disorder into the Church and confusion into the Common wealth That Author sayes expresly that If Princes do hinder the bringing in of their Discipline they are Tyrants and being Tyrants they maybe deposed by their Subjects Another who calls himself Stephanus Junius Miles c. saith It is lawfall for the people by force of Arms to resist the Prince if he hinder the building of the Church A third railes at Queen Elisabeth for exercising that lawfull Authority in causes Ecclesiasticall which was united unto her Crown resembling her unto all the wicked Kings and others who took upon them unlawfully as unto Saul for his offering of sacrifice unto Ozias for his burning of incense Yea and to Nadab and Abihu for their offering of strange fire It is well known how that Martin in his first Book threatned fists And the Authour of the second Admonition sayes plainly that There is many a thousand that desire the same that he doth and that great troubles will come of it if it be not provided for Another of that crew directing his speech unto the Bishops saith that The Presbytery must prevail Demonst of disciplin in the Preface And if it come to passe by that means that will make your hearts to ake then blame your selves I could present unto you a great deal more of such stuffe but I will onely alledge one passage of Master Cartwright whom for his learning I honour far above all that ever were of that faction he saith that the Church is not in the Common wealth but the Common wealth in the Church and therefore as a wise man will not frame his house to his hangings but his hangings to his house So the Church is not to be fitted unto the Common wealth but the Common wealth unto the Church Whereupon it will evidently follow that as in his opinion there ought to be a parity in the Church so likewise a parity in the Common wealth so that it is more then manifest that the thing which they aime at is to have no King at all And therefore it is remarkable how that the Traitour Calderwood in his blasphemous Book called Altare Damascenum doth not onely rail against King James charging him with perjury persecution but also doth inveigh against all Kings whatsoever saying Naturâ insitum est onnibu● regibus in Christum odium It seemes this mad dog did not remember Gods promise made unto his Church That Kings should be her Nursing-fathers and Queens her Nursing-mothers And God who is never worse then his