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A50598	A memorial for His Highness the Prince of Orange in relation to the affairs of Scotland together with the address of the Presbyterian-party in that kingdom to his Highness : and some observations on that address / by two persons of quality.	Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, 1630-1714.; Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Presbyterian address from Scotland to the Prince of Orange.	1689 (1689)	Wing M169; ESTC R18197	18,250	45

persuade the Nation that they onely must give Measures and that none can live peaceably there without complying with all their Inclinations 6. That their numbers are not near so great as ours appears convincingly from this that twenty seven Parliaments have run unanimously against them under four Kings and that they have still been easily overcome in all their Rebellions and though now they appear numerous here yet that proceeds from their being all here upon design to make themselves appear considerable that they may be thought necessary and to the end that some of them may recover what was justly taken from them and may get Employments by procuring the Possessors to be incapacitated Whereas others trusting to the Laws the Interest of the Monarchy and Your Highness's just sense of things thought no such appearance necessary till the Convention These Presbyterians have also instigated some Tumults to fright honest Men who will not rise in Arms without Authority yet if there be not Forces sent down under well-principled Officers they will be forced again to beg leave to raise new Forces in self-defence without which we can neither live at home nor go to serve Your Highness in the Convention 7. Many of them pretending that their Presbytery is Iure divino and that they are bound to it by Oaths tho declared Treason do own that they can submit to no Laws inconsistent with Presbytery whereas we are ready to comply with whatever Your Highness and a Parliament shall find convenient for the Monarchy and the good of the Kingdom being grieved at those Animosities in which they delight And to demonstrate our Innocence and our readiness to accommodate all matters justly we desire to be heard before Your Highness or any You shall name 8. We do in the next place offer to Your Highness's Consideration whether in this Age wherein Episcopacy is acknowledged to have been the best Bulwark against Popery the English who so justly love and reverence Episcopacy will unite with Scotland if subjected to Presbytery especially since the Presbyterians who generally own the Covenant are sworn to extirpate Episcopacy having violently and effectually concurred in the last Age to throw it out of both Nations Which Oath will certainly bind them to overthrow Episcopacy in England more industriously when England by the Union becomes a part of their native Countrey We design not by this to load all of that persuasion amongst whom we confess many are so moderate as to deserve that for their sake we should encline heartily to such an Indulgence as may satisfie sober Dissenters nor would we have troubled your Highness with this Account if we had not been assured that there was an Address prepared craving a total extinction of Episcopacy as contrary to the divine right of Presbytery which if it be acknowledg'd they can be subject to no Law and the Covenant though illegal and irreligious must be the Rule Which if yielded no sober Man can live in security and though some things may now be reformed in that Address by advice from London yet the first draught shews their inclination And even the extinction of Episcopacy which will certainly be craved they being sworn to it in their Covenant obliges us to offer this in defence of our Laws and to prevent the inconveniences and insolencies which would ensue on so great an Alteration Lastly We humbly entreat Your Highness to consider that in the Church as it is now established by Law under Episcopacy amongst us we have no Ceremonies at all no not so much as any form of Prayer no Musick but singing in the Churches the Doctrine and Discipline is the same both in the Church and Conventicle and in a word not one Ace of difference between the two but that in the present Church instead of their Moderators whom themselves have sometimes confess'd may be Constant we have Bishops whom the King is pleased to make Lords allowing the Presbyters a free Vote in their Elections and even the Bishops govern only by Presbyteries and Synods as the World shall have a more particular and full account of hereafter And now after this we leave Your Highness and the World to judge what just ground they have for their separation from our Churches Communion or if the difference betwixt us and the Presbyterians for such they all own themselves be indeed such as may justifie their constant clamour present noise and tumults their uncharitable Censures and cruel Persecutions of their reformed Brethren whether the difference betwixt us be truly such as may warrant their dividing the Church disturbing the State and weakning the Reformation which Your Highness hath so generously and piously ingaged to protect and which we shall always heartily pray God to prosper You in THe Reader is desired to observe first that the Figures placed in the Address lead to the Annotations on that part of it which are marked with the same Figures Secondly that the publick Resolutioners and Remonstrators were two conten●ding Parties among the Scots Presbyterians who as they found favour from the Usurper or had Power and Interest with the Rabble mutually excommunicated and persecuted one another These were called Publick Resolutioners who adhered to the publick Resolves of the State in favours of the King and they called Remonstrators who dissented from these Proceedings of the Publick by their open Remonstrances against them The PRESBYTERIAN ADDRESS FROM SCOTLAND TO THE Prince of Orange May it please your Royal Highness WHen we 1 begin to think how the Lord hath blessed your illustrious Progenitors in being the happy Instruments of so much good to his Church and in standing in the Gap and appearing for the People of God his Truth and Interest in Times of the greatest Extremity when matters seemed desperate in the Eyes of all who could look no higher than the Hand of second Causes and how the Lord crowned their resolute Endeavours with the Success of planting 2 a beautiful Church in the United Provinces and delivering the People of God there from the fury of the Spanish Persecutions And that your Royal Highness hath succeeded these Worthies of the Lord as in their Estates and Dignities so in their Zeal for the Gospel of Christ sympathy withi his 3 suffering People and magnaninous Resolution in appearing in such an astonishing way for the 4 Kingdom of our Lord Iesus and for his faithful Servants while lying in the Mouth of the Lyon while Refuge failed and we looked on the Right and Left Hands 5 and no Man was found till the Lord raised up your Highness and put it in your Heart to lay down Life and all things of a 6 corporal Interest at the stake while ye did act for his Glory and lamentably oppressed Servants Ah we have not Hearts to prize that wonderful Mercy the greatness of past and present Sufferings the inexpressible hazard the irremediless as to the hand of Man condition we seemed to be in do heighten the Mercy beyond our