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A43681	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.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1874; ESTC R6348	165,592	93

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 4● 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 Prea●● 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

ye will all give me now your Charity being within a little space to stand before my Judge and I pray the Lord That he may forgive them that did so misrepresent me but I thank the Lord whatever men have said of me concerning this that on the contrary I have been often dissuading from such Ways and Practices and of this my Conscience bears me Witness but here I would not have you mistake me as if I did approve of Ways and Practices contrary to the Word of God and that of our Covenanted and Reformed Religion and as I ever abhorred Division and Faction in the Church as that which tends to its utter ruine if the Lord prevent it not so I would in the Bowels of my Lord and Master if such a feckless one as I may presume to exhort and perswade both Ministers Nor in the Faith or Profession of the Apostles who both Taught and Practised the contradictions to the fore-mentioned Doctrines and whereof some for † See Rom. 16. 7. Eph. 4. 11. Gal. 1. 19. Rev. 2. 2. 2 Cor. 8. 23. Phil. 2. 25. there were more Apostles than Barnabas and Paul and the Twenty two especially so called were Bishops fixed to particular Diocesses as St. a Euseb. lib. 3. c. 23. John at Ephesus St. b Hierom. de Script Eccles. in Tit. c. 1. Mark at Alexandria c Euseb. lib. 3. c. 4. Titu● in Cr●te James called the d Compare Matth. 13. 55. 27. 56. Marc. 15. 47. with John 19. 25. Lords Brother Son of Cleopas at e See the Authors quoted in Spalat l. 2. c. 2. 16. Hegesip apud Euseb. l. 2. c. 23. Hierom de Script Eccles. Gal. 2. 18 19. Acts 12. 17. Gal. 2. 12. Acts 21. 18. Acts 15. All which places shew That James was resident in Jerusalem and had some singular Ecclesiastical Authority and Presidency there Jerusalem not to mention f Euseb l. 3. c. 4. Hierom de Script Eccles. Timothy the first Bishop of Ephesus and the Angels of the Seven Churches in the Revelations whom universal Tradition hath delivered for Bishops of the Seven Asiatick Churches and Professors if there be any Fellowship of the Spirit any Consolation in Christ if any comfort in Love if any Bowels of Mercy that ye be like-minded having the same Love being of one accord of one mind in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself Phil. 2. 1. 3. Harmoniousness and Oneness in the things of God can never enough be sought after and Harmony and Unitedness in things that tend to the 3 He means the Presbyterian Government which according to them is Christs Interest Dignity Crown Kingdom Scepter Government and Royal Prerogative by which he Reigns as King in Sion Prejudice of Christs Interest can never enough be avoided and fled from And as I am willing to lay down my Tabernacle so also I Dye in the 4 Not in the Faith of the holy Scriptures which command every Soul to be Subject to the higher Powers and which neither teach directly nor indirectly That the Episcopal Government is an Antichristian or the Presbyterian by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods a Divine Institution or that the Magistrate hath no privative Power over Ecclesiastical Persons or in causes Ecclesiastical or that Passive Obedience to an unjust Sentence is as great a Sin as Active Obedience to an unrighteous Command c. Faith of the Holy Scriptures and in the 5 Not in the Faith of the holy Scriptures which command every Soul to be Subject to the higher Powers and which neither teach directly nor indirectly That the Episcopal Government is an Antichristian or the Presbyterian by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods a Divine Institution or that the Magistrate hath no privative Power over Ecclesiastical Persons or in causes Ecclesiastical or that Passive Obedience to an unjust Sentence is as great a Sin as Active Obedience to an unrighteous Command c. Nor in the Faith of the Primitive Christians who looked upon the Bishops as the Successors of the Apostles who derived upon them the same Ecclesiastical Authority which they received from Christ. Every one that is but tolerably versed in the Writings of the Primitive Christians must needs confess that this was the belief of the Primitive Catholick Church but to confute the shameful assertion of this ignorant Pseudo-Minister let us descend to particular Primitive The Office of a Bishop proved to be distinct from that of a Priest and of Divine Institution Writers and see what They say upon this Subject Ignatius in his Epistles insists wholly upon the avoiding of Heresie and Schism and the Avoiding of Schism is every where inculcated by him to consist in this That without the Bishop nothing be done and all with the advice of the Presbyters Heretofore some Paraphrastical Copies of this Fathers Epistles have gone abroad in the World in which could not be found the many places which the Fathers quoted out of them at least in the same words but since the Edition of the Medicaean Greek Copy by Is. Vossius and the two old Latin Copies by Bishop Usher which differ from the former Copies and agree with one another and wherein are found all the places quoted out of them by the Fathers and in the same Expressions wherein they are quoted no tolerable reason hath been given why they should not pass for pure and genuine neither by Blundell nor Salmasius who probably had written their Books against Episcopacy before they had seen these latter Copies nor our own † See their two Answers at the Isle of Wight and the Appendix to the Jus Divinum Minist Anglican Prop. 3. pag. 108. men who still cry down these Epistles without mentioning these latter Copies or distinguishing between them and the former This Father who was Bishop of Antioch Anno Dom. 69. and contemporary with St. John in his Epist. ad Magnes saith thus Vos decet non concuti aetate Episcopi sed Secundum virtutem dei patris omnem reverentiam ei tribuere Ad Smyrnens omnes Episcopum Sequimi●i ut Jesus Christus patrem Presbyterium ut Apostolos diaconos autem revereamini ut dei mandatum Nullus sine Episcopo aliquid operetur eorum quae convenit in Ecclesiam illa firma gratiarum actio Eucharistia reputetur quae sub ipso est vel quam utique concesserit Ubi utique apparet Episcopus illic multitudo sit quemadmodum utique ubi est Jesus Christus illic Catholica Ecclesia non licitum est sine Episcopo neque Baptìzare neque Agapen facere sed quod utique ille probaverit hoc est deo beneplacitum ut stabile sit firmum omne quod agitur Honorans Episcopum à deo honoratus qui occultum ab Episcopo aliquid operatur diabolo praestat obsequium Ad Ephes. Concurrite sententia dei etenim Jesus Christus incomparibile nostrum vivere patris sententia ut ipsi

portae inferorum non vincent eam tibi dabo claves c. inde per temporum successionum vices Episcoporum ordinatio Ecclesiae ratio decurrit ut Ecclesia super Episcopos constituatur omnes actus Ecclesiae per eosdem praepositos gubernetur cum hoc itaque divina lege fundatum sit miror Epist. 68. he calls the Ordination of a Bishop sub populi assistentis conscientiâ traditionem divinam Apostolicam observationem and instanceth in Act. 1. 15. and Epist. 65. upon occasion of a Deacon reproaching Rogatianus his Bishop Pro solitâ tuâ humanitate fecisti ut malles de eo nobis conqueri quum pro Episcopatus vigore Cathedrae autoritate haberes potestatem quâ posses de illo statim vindicari Meminisse autem diaconi debent quoniam Apostolos id est Episcopos propositos dominus elegit diaconos autem post ascensum domini in coelos Apostoli sibi constituerunt Episcopatus sui Ecclesiae ministros And Epist. 42. to Cornelius Bishop of Rome Hoc enim vel maximè frater laboramus laborare debemus ut unitatem à domino per Apostolos nobis successoribus traditam quantum possumus obtinere curemus Epist. 69. Christi qui dicit ad Apostolos ac per hoc ad omnes praepositos qui Apostolis vicarià ordinatione succedunt qui audit vos me audit Faith of the Apostles and 6 Not in the Faith of the holy Scriptures which command every Soul to be Subject to the higher Powers and which neither teach directly nor indirectly That the Episcopal Government is an Antichristian or the Presbyterian by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods a Divine Institution or that the Magistrate hath no privative Power over Ecclesiastical Persons or in causes Ecclesiastical or that Passive Obedience to an unjust Sentence is as great a Sin as Active Obedience to an unrighteous Command c. Primitive Christians and 7 Not in the Faith of the holy Scriptures which command every Soul to be Subject to the higher Powers and which neither teach directly nor indirectly That the Episcopal Government is an Antichristian or the Presbyterian by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods a Divine Institution or that the Magistrate hath no privative Power over Ecclesiastical Persons or in causes Ecclesiastical or that Passive Obedience to an unjust Sentence is as great a Sin as Active Obedience to an unrighteous Command c. Protestant Reformed Churches and particularly of the 8 Not in the Faith of the holy Scriptures which command every Soul to be Subject to the higher Powers and which neither teach directly nor indirectly That the Episcopal Government is an Antichristian or the Presbyterian by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods a Divine Institution or that the Magistrate hath no privative Power over Ecclesiastical Persons or in causes Ecclesiastical or that Passive Obedience to an unjust Sentence is as great a Sin as Active Obedience to an unrighteous Command c. Church of Scotland whereof I am a poor Member that has been so wonderfully Carried on against so much Opposition Athanasius who flourished Anno Dom. 326. writing to Dracontius Elected to a Bishoprick and refusing it saith Quod si nullam omnino mer●edem Episcopi functioni destinatam credis servatoremque ●ui eam ita instituit contemnis Damasus who flourished Anno Dom. 367. Epist. 4. de chorepiscopis Nullus ex Septuaginta discipulis quorum speciem isti gerunt nil de hoc quod Apostolis eorumque successeribus Episcopis specialiter debebatur legitur assumpsisse Epiphanius who flourished Anno Dom. 360. Haeres 75. writes thus Docet divinus Apostoli sermo quis sit Episcopus quis Presbyter cum dicit ad Timotheum qui erat Episcopus Presbyterum ne objurges Ambrosd de dignit sacerdot writes thus Claves illas regni coelorum in beato Petro cuncti suscepimus sacerdotes i. e. Episcopi for in the following Chapters he asserts That the Bishops in St. Peter received the Keys from Christ and the Presbyters from them Augustin ad Quod vult deum de haeresibus among other Heretical Opinions of Tom. 6. Aerius reckons this for one Quod docebat Presbyterum ab Episcopo nullâ differentiâ debere discerni De verbis dom Serm. 24. Dicit ergo qui vos Spernit meSpernit Si solis Apostolis dixit qui vos spernit me spernit Spernite nos si autem sermo ejus pervenit Tom. 10. ad nos vocavit nos in eorum loco constituit nos videte ne spernatis nos ne ad illum perveniat injuria quam nobis feceritis Ad Crescon Grammat l. 1. Attende etiam quod quemadmodum ad Titum cum explicaret Paulus qualis esse Episcopus debeat there he asserts Titus to have been a Bishop Non ergo solos qui ex circumcisione sunt sed eos maximè tales esse ait oportere tamen in doctrinâ sanâ redargui refellique ab Episcopo vaniloquos mentis seductores indubitatâ praeceptione firmavit There he saith That St. Paul commanded all Bishops in Titus to exhort and convince Gainsayers And in the next words he saith He looked upon that Precept as given to himself Unde hoc etiam mihi jussum esse cognosco hoc pro viribus ago Enarrat in Psalm 44. in our Translation the 45. 16. v. Pro patribus tuis nati sunt tibi filii Quid est pro patribus tuis nati sunt tibi filii patres missi sunt Apostoli pro Apostolis filii nati sunt tibi Constituti sunt Episcopi Hodie enim Episcopi qui sunt per totum mundum unde nati sunt ipsa Ecclesia patres illos appellat ipsa illos genuit ipsa illos constituit in sede patrum Apostolórum non ergo te putes desertam quia no vides Petrum quia non vides Paulum quia non vides illos per quos nata es de prole tua tibi crevit paternitas Contra literas Petil. lib. 2. c. 51. Cathedra tibi quid fecit Ecclesiae Romanae in quâ Petrus sedet in quâ hodie Anastasius sedet vel Ecclesiae Hierosolymitanae in quâ Jacobus sedit in quâ hodie Johannes sedet quare appellas Cathedram Pestilentiae Cathedram Apostolicam Chrysostome in his Homily on Ignatius saith he was Successor to St. Peter in the See of Antioch ordained by the Apostles ut tanto principatu dignus and in his Homilie● on Timoth. and Titus he expresses his opinion of Bishops as of an Apostolical Institution Perhaps it may seem superfluous to shew further how effrontedly this Antiepiscoparian speaks in saying He died in the Faith of the Primitive Christians but because the Presbyterians have the confidence to represent Hierom as a Patron of their Cause I will take a little more pains to shew how they have abused the World by this pretence in demonstrating that this Father held the

Ecclesiastical within the Kingdom of Scotland was asserted by the first Act of the Second Parliament began at Edinburgh Octob. 19. 1669. The Kirk-Ministers have ever since rail'd against this Act above all the rest saying that Jesus Christ is quite exauctorat and unkinged by it that it hath overthrown his Prerogative Royal and made the King Supreme in the house of Christ. That the Three Estates have thereby Blasphemously declared that they have no King but Caesar that it is most expresly contrary to the 2d Psalm and that by subjecting all Ecclesiastical matters to the Imperial Scepter they have given a sinful mortal power to King it over the house of God Insomuch that Iesus Christ hath neither name nor thing of Kingly power left him by this Cursed Act by which all power Ecclesiastick is declared to be the intrinsick and inherent Prerogative of the Crown In particular the Author of the Poor Mans Cup c. saith that he admires the Patience of God that the Nation wherein such a wickedness was decreed hath not before this Perished from under heaven and saith that the Question is put by the Governours to the followers of Christ in the fields with greater contempt than Pilate put it What is Iesus than your King And then he crys Oh noble Cause Oh who would not rejoyce to enter the List of contradiction with these his enemies and have once an opportunity to say Yes he is a King and will be a King when you are gone and will prove himself higher than the Kings of the Earth by rescinding your Supremacy that Idol of his jealousie and indignation and object of his revenge Nay he saith that it is a pure perfect and unparallel'd contradiction to the Doxology of the Lords Prayer and that never any thing was so like it in Sence and Sound as what is Recorded by the Holy Ghost of the King of Babylon Isa. 14. 13 14. I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North I will ascend above the heighths of the Clouds I will be like the most High Supremacy and every thing Original upon and derivate from it 3ly I can but make mention of that honorable and noble practise that this Land was priviledged with viz. that after both defections the Lord put it in the heart of Christs Church and State to renew those Covenants again with the National and Solemn League and Covenants together with an acknowledgment of sin and an engagement to Duty and that in the close of that year which performance was attended with so much of the z So he Blasphemously calls a National Fascination to Rebellion and Schism Lords power and presence that it was like a Resurrection from the Dead to all that were Witnesses thereof both Speakers and Hearers that many were forced to Cry out The joy of the Lord is our strength God of a truth is here 4ly I dare not but add this in the case wherein I now stand viz. I dare not but add my Concurrence with and Adherence to all these publick Testimonies Protestations and Declarations that have been owned evinced and remitted by all the Presbyterian Ministers and Professors that appeared against the publick resolutions for taking in the Malignant Party into Judicatories and Armies as also I joyn my Cordial adherence to and with them that protested against the 2 general Assemblies at Saint Andrews who endeavored to approve what the Commission had done in the year 1650. and 1651. in reference to the intrusting of the Malignant Party which as was said by these protesting worthies laid the foundation of all that has come or may come upon us I hope this will not offend any 5ly I am bound in Conscience in the next place to testifie my dislike and abhorrence of that horrid cruel barbarous unheard of and unparalleld Deportment and practice of that 1 This is the 15th Act of the First Parliament begun at Edinburgh Ian. 1. 1661. whereby all the pretended Parliaments from 1640. to the end of 1648. and by consequence the Established Presbyterian Government were all rescinded and Annulled and they also rail as much against it as against the Act of Supremacy and burnt them like two Idols both together Act Recissory wherewith as at one Lash by an Act of that Precipitate Parliament they endeavored to Rescind Annul and Repel all those great and glorious things that the 2 So he Blaspemously calls a strong hand of Rebellion strong hand of the Lord had done in Scotland for more than 20 years bygone over the belly of so much opposition and standing contradiction of proclaimed and avowed Adversaries upon all hands yea I proclaim my abhorrence of all the Confusion 3 He means the Blood first of those who were Executed soon after his Majesties Restauration as of Wariston Guthrie c 2ly of those who were Executed for the Rebellion at Pentland-Hills 1666 who in Naphtali and Ius populi vindicatum are called Worthies precious Saints and Martyrs c. and lastly the Blood of Mitchel who suffered for attempting the Murder of the late Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews since effected by them whom the Author of the Poor Mans Cup hath Canonized for a Saint and Martyr in this Parallel with Samson which I shall set down in his own words pag. 35. First Samson was a Rackel and Rough handed Saint ready to Pelt the Philistines on all occasions yet Secondly the Holy Ghost for all the faults that followed him hath Recorded his name and Enrolled him in the number even while the names of many others are left out of those Eminent Worthies Heb. 11. And so he hath made the name of Mr. Mitchell Savory 〈◊〉 ●s he took many Testimonies from him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his appearances to the Cause so he owned him in the end and honoured him to die Witnessing a good Confession which will be on Record to Posterity Thirdly as Samson did more mischief to the enemies of the people of God at his death than in all his life for when they sent for him to make themselves merry at a sight of his misery the Lord helped him to spoil their Sport So I judge it is beyond question with every Sober man that Mr. Mitchells death hath done more hurt to its Contrivers and furious drivers than ever his life could have done even though he had shot again and hit that unhallowed Mark c. Blood murder Fineing Confineing Imprisonments Stigmatizing with other unexpressible Cruelties that has issued 〈◊〉 that Cursed Generation there ●9 years by gone and moreover I leave my Testimony against all other Confusions Imprisonments and Blood that is or may be intended against these in the Land who design to 4 He means from Idolatrous revolting from God into the Episcopal Church which is not the house of Christ as they Sacrilegiously teach keep their garments clean whether in

Christians forsaking or falling off from Christ or the Christian Religion is Metaphorically called a Scandal a Stone of Stumbling and a Rock of Offence and any man even our blessed Redeemer who spoke did or suffered any thing that accidentally deterred others from believing in Christ or that gave him occasion to desert him or his Doctrine is said to have offended or Scandalized them or given them offence in which sense 1 Cor. 1. 23. Christ is said to be a Scandal or Stumbling-block to the Jews and Luk. 7. 23. saith our Saviour Blessed is he that shall not be offended in me i. e. who shall not take occasion to disert or deny me at the time of my Sufferings see also Matth. 17. 27. 18. 6. 26. 31. 33. Therefore this Basphemer here applyes to himself the very words of the Apostle speaking of Christ crucified nay the very words of Christ himself to induce the poor People to believe that the very cause of the Covenanters is the very cause of Christianity and so deter them upon the Execution of the Rebels from quitting the cursed Rebellious cause Stone of Stumbling or a Rock of Offence and blessed is he that shall not be offended in Christ and his poor Followers and Members because of being Condemned by the World as evildoers As for those things for which Sentence hath passed against me I bless the Lord my p Is not this in effect to assert with the Jesuits That a good intention or meaning doth hallow a bad Action heart doth not Condemn me Rebellious I have not been neither do I judge it to be Rebellion for me to have indeavoured in my capacity what possible I could for the born-down and q He means by Episcopacy and Supremacy with respect to the former of which the Interest of Christ was universally ruined from the time of the Apostles till the French-Reformation and with respect to the latter from the time of Constantine the first Christian Emperour till the time when the Popes under the pretended Vicarship of Christ the King of Sion Subjected the Empire unto the Church And therefore good Christian People is not this a blessed cause which must have obliged Christians to separate from the Catholick Church in the purest times the age of the Apostles for they were Bishops and the age next unto them and to have rebelled under a pretence of Religion and defending the Interest of Christ against the first Christian Emperors to whom the Greek and Latin Churches attributed as much Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Matters and over Ecclesiastical Persons as the English and Scottish do to the King They a 1 Con. Nicen. by Constant. 1 Con. Constantinop by Theodos. Sen. Con. Eph. by Theodos. Junior Con. Chalced by Marcion convocated general Councils fat in them among the Patriarchs Bishops and Presbyters made b Syn. Oecumen Octava Where are the Speeches and Subscriptions of Basilius the Emporor and Leo. Or●tions upon Ecclesiastical matters to them and by their c Syn. Oecumen Octava Where are the Speeches and Subscriptions of Basilius the Emporor and Leo. Subscriptions consented to and confirmed what was determined therein And Councils wherein they did not sit used always to beseech them to d Epist. Concil Constantinop 1. ad Theodosium ratify their Decrees 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They had power to e Can. 12. and 16. Concil Chalced. Balsam in 16. can Concil Carthag erect new Bishopricks to abolish old ones to f As Theodosius in the Election of Nectarius dispense with the Ecclesiastical Canons and to order many things in Church-Matters which were not defined therein as is plain out of the Code and Novelles and the Capitularia of the ancient French Kings They were Priviledged to come to the g 69. Can. Concil Sexti in Trullo Altar when all other Laies were forbidden and the Clergy to shew how sacred their Persons were and that the concerns of the Church ought to be their chief care h Grot. de imperio summar potest c. 2. 7. called them Priests and Bishops which in these days would pass for Episcopal tantivies as the traiterous Author of the Appeal thinks he wittily speaks There consent was requisite to the Election of Bishops nay they often nominated the Persons to be Elected and had power to i Novil 3. c. 1. Sancimus igitur The reason which the Emperor Justinian gave for that Law was the excessive number of the Clergy which was disproportionate to the Places and Revenue of the Church The Law and the Preface to it deserves to be considered by the Right Reverend and worthy Fathers of our Church forbid the Bishops to Ordain which by the leave of the Romish and Kirk-Writers I take to be a Privative power Lastly They had a power to suspend † Novil 123. c. 1. Sancimus igitur quoties Episcopum opus fuerit ordinari sed etiam illum qui praeter hoc persumpserit ordinare segregari uno anno a sacro ministerio Bishops and Presbyters and also to k Cod. l. 1 Tit. 1. 6. Anathematizamus Nestorium 2. Eutychetem 3. Apollinarium Anathematize Hereticks which signified a power of pronouncing them rightly and duly Anathematized and of doing many other things with respect to the Church-matters and Church-men and because the two Sister-Churches and their Clergy assert as much power to be due to the King in such Causes as the Kings of Judah and the Christian Emperors had therefore the Kirk-Preachers call them l The Author of the Apology Episcopal-Erastian Churches and their Ministers and Bishops Court-Parasites and when they argue from the example of the best Judaean Kings and the most Pious Christian Emperors m Calder-Woods altare Dam●scenum Naturâ insitum est omnibus regibus odium in Christum The same is to be found in Rutherfords Lex Rex They can tell them by Authority that in all Kings there is a natural enmity against Christ nay they tell the People that the Bishops and their Clergy have ruined the Interest of Christ and that if they will have Christ for their King they must rise up to destroy the Idol of Supremacy and Antichristian Prelacy which supports it and therefore this miserable Wretch being conscious to himself of so good a Cause saith His heart did not condemn him of Rebellion for having endeavoured in his poor capacity to uphold the born-down and ruined Interest of Christ. I once had the diversion to hear a Kirk-Disciple rail at the Rescinding Act and Act of Supremacy which gave me occasion to shew what great power the Greek and Latin Churches granted to be due to the Christian Emperors in Church-matters to which he answered me That it was always natural to Clergy-men to flatter Kings and Emperors and great men just as I have read in one of the Letters which Mr. sent to all the Bishops of Scotland That Pride was always a natural sin to the Clergy which he spoke upon the