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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

most affectionate Servants Rothes Montrose Lesly Mar. Montgogomery Loudoun Forrester Texts of Scripture which the Presbyterian Preachers Blasphemously misapplied to the Solemn League and Covenant 2 Kings 11. 17. AND Jehojada made a Covenant between the Lord and the King and the People That they should be the Lords People between the King also and the People Isaiah 44. 5. One shall say I am the Lords another shall be called by the name of Jacob and another shall Subscribe with his hand unto the Lord. Josh. 24. 25. So Joshua made a Covenant with the People the same day and gave them an Ordinance and Law in Sichem Deut. 29. 25. Jerem. 22. 8 9. Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this Land and to this great City Then Men shall say Because they have forsaken the Covenans of the Lrod God of their Fathers which he made with them when he brought them out of the Land of Egypt 2 Chron. 34. 31 3a And the King stood in his place and made a Covenant before the Lord c. 1 Chron. 16. 15. Be ye mindful always of his Covenant Jerem. 11. 2 3. Speak unto the men of Judah and Inhabitants of Jerusalem and say unto them Thus s●ith the Lord the Lord God of Israel Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this Covenant With many more which occur in their Writings See Note w. on the first Speech ERRATA Page 37. line 29. for Twenty two read Twelve on the Title-page of the Narrative for 1669. read 1679 THE LAST SPEECH OF Mr. John Kid. With Annotations thereupon Right Worthy and Well-beloved Spectators COnsidering what bodily distempers I have been exercised under since I came out of the a Which was applied to him to make him Confess his Accomplices in the Rebellion and answer to such Questions as Authority asked him in order to the perfect discovery of it which before he was brought to the boot for that is the name of the Instrument of Torture he Jesuit-like refused to do Contrary to the manner of the Primitive Christians to whom the Rebellious Covenanters are blasphemously compared in the Apology for the persecuted Ministers and Professors of the Presbyterian reformed Religion Printed 1677. of whose behaviour at the criminal Tribunals Tertullian writing in his first Apolog. saith That it was their Custom freely to Confess when they were examined by Authority Christianus vero si denotatur gloriatur si accusatur non defendit interrogatus vel ultro confitetur But the † 2d Act of the 2d Session of the 2d Parl. of Charles the 2d began at Edinb July 28. 1670. Rebellious Covenanters quite contrary when they are required by his Majesties Authority to declare either simply or upon Oath what they know of Rebellious Field-meetings and the persons who were present at them and disorders done therein are wont to give either shifting Equivocating Answers or else not to answer at all contrary to their Allegiance as Subjects and in contempt of the lawfull Powers and of God who hath ordained them but exactly according to the Doctrine of the Jesuits in the Rhemish notes on the New-Testament Acts. 23. which say If thou be put to an Oath to accuse Catholicks for serving of God as they ought to do or to utter any innocent man to Gods enemies and his thou oughtest first to refuse such unlawfull Oaths but if thou hast not Constancy and Courage so to do know thou that such Oaths bind not at all in Conscience but may and must be broken under the pain of Damnation Torture being scarce two hours out of my Naked Bed in one day it cannot be expected that I can be in a Capacity for saying any thing to purpose in such a Juncture especially seeing I am not as yet free of it However I cannot but Reverence the good hand of God for good upon me and desire with all my soul to bless him for this my b As if this Rebellious Pseudo-Minister who helped to Preach eight or nine thousand Subjects into arms against their Lawful Sovereign Suffered for the same Cause as did the Blessed Apostles who rejoyced that they were counted Worthy to suffer for the name of Christ. Acts. 5. 41. present Lot It may be there are a great many here that judg my Lot very sad and deplorable I must confess death in it self is very terrible to flesh and blood but as it is an out-let to sin and an in-let to righteousness so it is the Christians great and unexpressible priviledg and give me leave to say this that there is something in a Christians condition that can never put sin without the reach of unsufferableness even Death Shame and the Cross being enclosed and if there be Peace betwixt God and the Soul there is nothing that can damp peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ which is a most supporting ingredient in the bitterest Cup and under the Sharpest and c There is nothing more common than for these Presbyterian Ministers falsely so call'd to delude the poor people by abusive Applications of and allusions to the passages of the Holy Scriptures after the manner of the Jesuits Thus he by this expression of the Fiery-Trial gives them occasion to consider the Fineings Imprisonments and execution of the Rebels as a Persecution which as Fire tries true from false Gold would distinguish Sincere from Hypocritical Christians i. e. those who would Suffer for Christs Soverainty and the Solemn League and Covenant from those who would desert both As if a Conspiracy against the Apostolical Government of the Church Universal for above 1500 years for so the Covenant deserves to be called could Justifie shall I say or Sanctifie an Insurrection of Subjects against their Sovereign which the defence of the Christian name cannot justifie by the Gospel and by consequence make the Legal Fineings Imprisonments and Transportations of incorrigible Rebells Persecution their executions by Axes and Haltars Martyrdom and themselves Martyrs for the holy Jesus the Prince of Peace who will not have even the very being of his Church and Gospel defended by the Subjects Sword ●●●yest Trial he can be expo●●● 〈◊〉 This is my mercy that I have some-what of this to lay claim to viz. d It cannot reasonably be denied but that God hath sometimes irradiated the Souls of Confessors and Martyrs at the time of their Sufferings and begot within their hearts such a secret sense of his favour as hath made them Sing in their torments and rejoyce at death but this is a very extraordinary and unpromised favour and given like the miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghost but to some of those who have truly suffered for the Cause of Christ. But for such a Malefactor as this who lived in a state of Rebellion against his Sovereign and whose whole imployment was to Preach his Subjects into Rebellion against him for the re-establishment of the Presbyterian Discipline of which the whole Church of God was utterly ignorant for almost 16 Ages I say for such a Rebel as this to pretend to such secret significations of Pardon from Gods Spirit at

Prosper But then when things fell not out according to the prediction of these false Prophets but quite contrary then they had another Scripture to quiet their Disciples viz. That the Righteous ought not to be afraid of evil tidings but that their hearts should be established trusting in the Lord and that they should not be afraid untill they had seen their desires upon their Enemies Psalm 112. 7 8. Therefore they ought to get their Spirits quiet in a recumbency on God and to trust his Testimony more than their own Hearts because there was then a most sensible outgate when there was least of Sense Fulfil of Script pag. 50. and most of Faith that when their Cause was lowest then God called them to throw themselves on the promise and that their most desperate venture of Life Estate and Credit upon the Promises of God hath usually had the richest Incom and that those who have been most Friends to Faith have had Faith most a Friend to them And then if through Faction of great men or secret favour of Fanaticks in Power any thing happened for their advantage then there was another comfortable Triumphant Text to be applyed to them to make them expect greater matters yet viz. Because I said unto thee I saw thee under the Fig-Tree believest thou Thou shalt see greater things than these Joh. 1. 50. Therefore is it good with Caleb to take part with the promise against the discouraging reports about the Anakims for believing doth always make way for sense so that it is good to trust in God in a day of streights seeing his returns have been not only according to Faith but have often exceeded their belief Then whatsoever happens for the Interest of the Cause is not only the reward of their Faith but the answer of their Prayers for the People of the Lord can testifie by experience that when they have oft with Hannah gon in before the Lord in the bitterness of their Spirit they have been made to return with a sensible and marvellous change in their case For God is near unto his People in what they call upon him according to his Word Those who have a desire to see more of their Blasphemous applications of Scripture may consult the foresaid Book out of which I have taken these See also Notes e. h. o. Fear not be not dismayed I am with thee I will strengthen thee I will uphold thee by the right hand of my righteousness Isa. 41. 10. I thank the Lord he never gave me leave so much as to have a thought much less to seek after any d Yet when he was charged by authority for having born Arms in the late Rebellion he denyed it Upon which one or more of those who apprehended him being called Swore that they took him with Swords and Pistols to which being asked if that was not to bear Arms he said that he meant he never bore Arms in an Hostile manner viz. in his hands Shift that might have been in the least sinful I did always and yet judge it better to e The Posterity of Abraham were made Gods Segoulah or peculiar People by vertue of that particular Contract which he was pleased to make with the Father of the Faithful and seal with the Sacrament of Circumcision and therefore if Moses when he came to years of Discretion had owned himself for the Son of Pharaohs Daughter and so had succeeded to Pharaohs Imperial Throne he had virtually abjured the Blood of Abraham and thereby renounced God his only Church and People and that holy Covenant to which were annexed so many Promises and Priviledges as singular Prerogatives of that People and particularly that of them as concerning the Flesh Messias himself should come In this therefore the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews commends the Faith of Moses that he chose rather in a time of Persecution to own his Brethren the only Church and People of God and the Covenant by which they were espoused to him than to enjoy the Temporal pleasures of a Crown to which he could not have succeeded without renouncing of Abrahams Blood But what is this to the case of this Deceiver who was hanged for rebelling against his natural Prince Yes it was a brave Text to induce the People to believe that he was a great Prophet and the Familiar Friend of God as Moses was and that the Covenanters are Gods People and the People of the Episcopal Churches but as Egyptians whom it is Lawful and Meritorious to Rob and Kill suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season Therefore I am come hither to Suffer and to lay down my Life I bless the Lord I dye not as a Fool though I acknowledge I have nothing to boast of in my self I acknowledge I am a Sinner and one of the chiefest that has gone under the name of a Professor of Religion yea amongst the unworthiest of those that have Preached the Gospel f See note on h. in the first Speech My Sins and Corruptions have been many I have defiled me in all things and even in the following and doing † By Duty here I suppose he means Prayer which the Presbyterian Writers Emphatically call by that name And as in other things so especially in this they use to perplex and enslave the consciences of men by representing the natural infirmities of human nature for great sins which either are not sins at all as those first motions of the appetite which the Schoolmen call motus primo primi or else but common irregularities of our corrupt nature which God will never lay to our charge unless we indulge and promote them Such as are extravagant thinkings which proce●● from the nimble and disultory nature of the imagination which will make Excursions when the mind is most serious and intent No man can be so intent upon a Mathematical demonstration but wandring thoughts will interpose whether he will or no and inspite of his uttermost attention so interrupt him that he will sometimes loose the connexion and be forced to begin his demonstration again Besides some things and accidents will make such deep impressions upon our phancies do what we can to resist them that our minds will rave upon them in our Studies and Prayers and in such cases God who knows whereof we are made better than we know our selves will be so far from imputing them unto us that if we manfully resist them he will pity our infirmities and accept of the will for the deed I make this remark because there is nothing more common than to find our modern Pharisees with their Mouths full of tragical lamentations and complaints of the common infirmities of human nature without taking notice of their own on their Parties presumptious sins Like this deplorable wretch who heretakes pains to confess that he wanted not infirmities in doing of Duty which no meer man ever yet wanted

King out of Prison and in Prosecuting this Act Mr. William Colvill was deposed though he was a most learned and worthy man for not reading the Causes of a Fast which they appointed which puts me in mind of what Queen Mary Stuart was used to say That she was as much afraid of a Fast of the Ministers as of an Army of Souldiers In another Act of Assembly July 20. 1649. they Ordained that all that had been accessory to the Engagement 1648. should be processed and made solemnly to renounce it as sinful and unlawful and in their Seasonable warning July 27. 1649. They call the Defeat of this noble and pious Design by Cromwell a great mercy to the People of God and say it ought to be perpetually remembred and that all men ought to bless God for it and page 10. they say That if the King or any for him shall Invade this Land in order to his Establishment it will be a necessary Duty to resist and oppose him and page 11. so long as the King refuses to hearken to the desires of the Kirk and State it is consonant to the Scripture Reason and the Laws of the Kingdom to refuse to admit him to the Exercise of his Government till he give satisfaction in these things and in their Letter to the King page 30. they say That his refusing to satisfie their desires was nothing else but an Opposing of the Kingdom of the Son of God and a Refusing to let him Reign over him and his Kingdoms and That his Entertaining of James Graham will bring on him and his Throne the guilt of all the Blood that be and his Accomplices had shed and page 31. they exhort him to lament for the iniquities of his Fathers House and especially for his opposition to Religion and the Cause of God the permitting and practising of Antichristian Prelacy in the Royal Family it self and the Shedding of so much Blood of the People of God In one of their Acts they inhibit the Lords Supper to be Administred to any Person but who should first subscribe the Covenant which they also forced young Students and fresh men in the Universities to take and if any of them who were insnared in it in their youth chance to be Clergy-men especially Bishops then the Covenanters have a just ground to conspire their Destruction for being Apostates from the Cause They here I include their Predecessors Persecuted Queen Mary King James threatning to Excommunicate him and his whole Council King Charles the First of blessed Memory and his Majesty who now Reigns and whom God preserve from Falling into their hands again knows by former and latter experiences what a Persecuting spirit they are of What cruelty did they use against all those who refused to sign the Covenant or who broke it upon being convinced what a bond of iniquity it was They were declared to be Rebels and denounced Enemies both to God and Man Their Persons were Seized their Goods Confiscate and in Novemb. 1643. when some of the most Eminent Nobility refused to Seal it Commissions were given to Soldiers to bring them in Prisoners and to kill them if they made Resistance What bloody Tribunals were Erected at St. Andrews Glascow and Edinburgh How many Noblemen and Gentlemen of good Quality were most Barbarously Murdered especially the Heroick Montross for obeying their Sovereign's Commission and how did the Covenanters rejoyce when the Scaffolds were reeking with their Blood One of their Ministers Preached then That the work of Reformation went Bonnily on Another in his Prayer Blasphemously said Lord send us more Scaffold-Work A Fanatical Lady in the West said That the Covenant could not be Advanced but by Blood And many Ministers were then Deposed for not Preaching for it and for speaking Civilly to Montross and Praying with him by name Mr. Robert Tran of Eglesholm and many others as their own Registers yet do shew And then for the Rump of the old Faction still remaining how do They Persecute the Church and her Clergy with their utmost Malice and Power There was an Act of Parliament expressly made for Securing the Persons Families and Goods of Ministers 1669. and another against Assaulting of Ministers 1670. And the Author of Naphtali pag. 134. Exhorts all People To acquit themselves like Men and pull the Bishops out of the Sanctuary that the Wrath of God may be averted in the Righteous Punishment of those wicked Men. Accordingly Mr. James Mitchel attempted to Murder the late Archbishop of St. Andrews and in his larger Speech in Ravillac Red. he saith They are all Blessed that shall take the Proud Prelates and dash their Brains against the Stones And what he attempted was at last Successfully Effected by † Viz. by John Balfour of Kinlock David Haxton of Rathillet George Balfour in Gilston James Russel in Kettle Robert Dingwall in Caddam Andrew Guillan in Balmerinoch Alexander Henderson and Andrew his Brother in Kilbrachmont George Fleming in Balbuthy 10. Field-Zelots of the same Principles whereof some had Ridden a long time in the Field-Preachers Guards And in the middle of last October Three Fanatick Ruffians knocked down one Mr. Malne a Church-Minister in the Streets of Glascow when the Justice-Eyre was Sitting there And I profess when I consider in what a Persecuted Condition the Bishops and Clergy of our Sister-Church are my heart bleeds for them and methinks I hear them now crying out with one Voice to his Sacred Majesty as the Disciples cry'd to our Saviour in the Storm Save us or else we Perish Persecuted not only in their Liberties Priviledges and Persons but also in their Lives therefore it was that I joyned with a s Or as some of their great Apologists and Patrons were pleased to represent them at London A Poor Innocent Peaceable fort of People who only desired to serve God according to their own Consciences and truly so they do when they rebell and Murder but how well they deserved this Character the World saw and his Majesty Felt as soon as they got into their great Evangelist Naphtalis probable capacity and had they won the first Battel we should have seen and felt more poor handful The Lord knows who is the searcher of hearts that neither my Design nor Practice was against his Majesties Person and just t No Not against his Majesties Person but against his Evil Counsellors as he would have spoken in the Covenanting Style and not against his Just Government but against his Supremacy and his Legislations against the Covenant which make his Government Unjust and himself a Tyrant an Idolater and an Enemy to Christ and then how the People ought to deal with him under that Notion and Character will be worth the while to see Buchanan in his Dialogue de jure Regni saith That it is as Lawful and Meritorious to kill Tyrants as Wolves and Bears and their Whelps and that those who do such noble Acts ought to be rewarded by all

page 45. in a Preachment to a Multitude of 7000. People spoke these words The King the Nobles and the Prelates are sure the Murderers of Christ and then sitting down in his Chair he said Oh People I will be silent speak oh People and tell me what good thing the King hath done since his home coming yea hath he not done all the mischief a Tyrant could do At another Conventicle not long after he spoke thus or to this purpose That God would yet assert the Cause of Pentland-hills in spite of the Curates and their Masters the Prelates and in spite of the Prelates and their Master the King and in spite of the King and his Master the Devil This Spirit of Railing Slandering and Reproaching hath always been the Gift and privilege of this People of the Lord from their first Original to this day For John Knox in his Appeal and Admonitions Printed 1644 calls Queen Mary Stuart a Wicked Mischievous Proud False Dissembling Unconstant Woman a breaker of Promises a Traitoress to the Crown of England and call her Reign a Monstriferous Empire of a wicked Woman an Usurped Government c and old Mr. John Welsh Grandfather to the Villain before mentioned in a Sermon said That King James was possest with the Devil and compared him to a Mad Man c. And Mr. Blake in a Sermon at St. Andrews 1596. as Spotswood cites him in his 6th Book page 423. said That all Kings were the Devils Bairns That the Kings heart was Treacherous and That the Devil was in the Court and Guiders of it That Queen Elizabeth was an Atheist That the Nobles and Lords were Miscreants Godless Degenerate Dissemblers and Enemies to the Church That the Privy-Council were Holliglasses Cormorants and men of no Religion For all which notwithstanding the Kirk would not let him be questioned because it was delivered in the Pulpit Accordingly we still find how that evil Spirit haunts the holy Sect at this day in Lying Slandering Reproaching and Back-biting all that love or defend the Church In particular I cannot but observe what monstrous and malicious Lies and Calumnies they and their Patriots have for some years almost daily raised against the Duke of Lauderdale for no other reason but because he stands as a Work of Defence between the Projectors against the Government and the King between Presbytery and Episcopacy Popery and the Church And therefore we need not wonder at that Speech of King James who was experimentally acquainted with the Presbyterian Spirit to Dr. Reinolds at Hampton Court who begged of his Majesty a Presbytery or a Constitution very like it Stay I pray you for one seven Years before you demand that of me and if you find me pursey and fat and my windpipes stuffed I will perhaps hearken to you for let that Government once be up I am sure I shall be kept in breath and then we shall all of us have work enough both our handfulls but Dr. Reinolds till you find I grow lazy let that alone Presbytery Displayed pag. 7. And so much for the Lords People and ought to be concerned to 31 As if they were Apostles and the Christian or Protestant Religion depended upon their Breath speak even upon the peril of Life It 's certainly a dreadful Sin in the sight of God I shall only desire that God may open the mouths of some of his faithful Servants that with all 32 Impudence See Note boldness they may speak out the mind of their Master that so the Work Interest Crown and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ may not be destroyed and that the 33 As if the Salvation of the People depended on the mouths of these Blasphemous Pseudo-Ministers Souls of poor People which are precious to God may not be without a Testimony Ruined I shall add but 2 or 3 words more First all that are profane I would exhort you seriously that ye would return to the Lord by sincere repentance if ye do iniquity shall not be your ruine if not know that the day of the 34 Viz. By the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon for as this People think themselves the People of God in as peculiar a sence as the Jews were so like them too they pretend to be Carnifices gentium which made them call their Standard Christs Banner and march with Gallows of the common Make for the common sort of the Enemies of God but for the Nobles that durst Oppose Christ and his People they had invented a new sort of Machine with Hooks and Spikes whereupon first they intended to Hang them up and then to set up their Quarters and Heads as Traitors and Rebels to Jesus Christ. Lords Vengeance is near and it hastneth on O know for your comfort that there is a door of mercy yet opened if ye be not despisers of the day of Salvation and ye that have been and yet are Reproachers and Persecutors of Godliness and such as live Godly take heed take heed sad will your day be when 35 In the Old-Testament Jewish sence to scatter his Enemies by the Sword of his People God ariseth to scatter his Enemies if ye repent not of all your ungodly deeds 2ly All those that are Gallios if their own private Interests prosper and go well they care the less for the Interest of Christ take heed be zealous and repent lest the Lord pass that Sentence I will spue you out of my mouth 3ly As for the truly Godly and such as are lamenting after the Lord and are mourning for all the abominations done in the City and in the Land and are taking pleasure 36 The Rubbish and Ruines of the Presbyterian-Government upon which they strive to build the whole old Fabrick again as the Jews endeavoured to Rebuild the Temple on its old Foundation in Zion till Earthquakes Fire and Lightnings made them desist from the cursed Work in the rubbish and stones of Zion be of good courage and cast not away your Confidence I dare not say any thing to future things but surely the Lord has a 37 An handful of Precious Zealous Militant Saints of whom every single man thinks he can chase Ten of Christs Enemies and Two put Ten thousand of them to Flight handful that is precious to him whom he will be gracious to This is a dark night how long it may last the Lord knows O let not all the sad disasters that his poor People are trusted with though very astonishing terrifie them Beware of Snares that abound cleave fast to your Covenanted reformed Religion do not shift the Cross of Christ if ye be called into it it 's better to Suffer than to Sin account the 38 Consider how blasphemously this Text is applied Reproaches of Christ greater Riches than the Treasures of the World In the last place let not my Death be grievous to any of you I hope it will be more profitable both for you and for