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A43666	Ravillac redivivus, being a narrative of the late tryal of Mr. James Mitchel, a conventicle-preacher, who was executed the 18th of January last, for an attempt which he made on the sacred person of the Archbishop of St. Andrews to which is annexed, an account of the tryal of that most wicked pharisee Major Thomas Weir, who was executed for adultery, incest and bestiality : in which are many observable passages, especially relating to the present affairs of church and state / in a letter from a Scottish to an English gentleman.	Mitchel, James, d. 1678, defendant.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Weir, Thomas, 1600?-1670, defendant.	1678 (1678)	Wing H1860; ESTC R10945	57,651	80

to the pains and to the profit which none of the mixed multitude of Murmurers were admitted to because of their unbelief Numb 21. 17. And O Father of Mercy while I am tossed upon the turbulent Seas of manifold troubles grant that thy presence may be with me and that thy Everlasting arms may be underneath me to support me for sure I am Moses thy Servant had good reason to be importunate in this suit Exod. 32. 2. compared with 14. and 15. v. Chap. 34. 9. Seeing no less could furnish him with fresh supplyes in the work he was about O let thy presence be with me and then my Soul shall dig and sing and sing and dig through times of trouble into Eternal Rest where I shall be admitted to behold the Rock Christ out of whom floweth the pure Fountain and River of Life and Happiness which I may drink and not be damnified through the assaults of Satan or the invasions of sin or of a wicked world any more now according to thy promise Mat. 10. 19. Out of thy Fatherly Mercy grant present help supply and direction in this time of trouble seeing it is not in man that walketh to direct his own steps Jer. 10. 23. and though it be a hard thing rightly to distinguish betwixt Sin and Duty yet thy Law thy Word and thy Truth which are quick and powerful dividing asunder of Soul and Spirit and is a director of the thoughts and thy Law giveth light Psal 119. 105. Psal 32. 8. For thy Testimonies O Lord are sure making wise the simple Psal 19. 7. For thou alone canst make all thy Dispensations prove profitable in order to the purging away of Sin even when they seem to be destructive Esa 27. 9. especially when thou intends them not for destruction but for tryal Deut. 8. 2 16. and for further Humiliation for thou O Lord hast led me for many years through a barren and wearisome Wilderness to the end that thou mayst work thy work of Mortification in me although if it had seemed good unto thee thou couldst have brought me into the Land of Promise and Rest a nearer way Exod. 13. 17. For thou by hardships many a time hides Pride from men and sealest up their instruction that thou may'st deliver his Soul from the Pit and that his life may see the light Job 33. 17. And although thou O Lord shouldst send me the back tract and tenor of my Life to seek my Souls comforts and incouragements from thence yet I have no cause to complain of hard dealing from thy hand seeing it is thy ordinary way with some of thy people Psal 42. 6. O God my Soul is cast down within me therefore will I remember thee from the Land of Jordan and from the Hill Hermon c. Yea the last time he brought me to the Banqueting-house and made love his Banner over me amongst the cold High-land Hills beside Kipper Nov. 1673. he remembred his former kindnesses towards me but withal he spoke it in mine Ear that there was a tempestuous storm to meet me in the Face which I behooved to go through with the strength of that Provision 1 Kings 19. 7. And now O my Soul seeing it is his ordinary way and method with thee to send a shower and a sunblink and again a sunblink and shower therefore keep thou silent to God and murmure not fret not be not disquieted be still and be content seeing all my Persecutors can do either by fraud or force can neither alter the Nature or kind of my sufferings on add so much as a degree thereto neither lengthen out the time of them for a moment Matthew 10. 29. Exodus 12. 41. All Pharoahs Power could not keep Israel one Night longer in Egypt therefore it is my duty to study with Paul Philippians 4. 11 12. Whatsoever State I am in therewith to be content and say Should the Earth be forsaken and the Rock be removed out of its place for me Job 18. 4. should God alter the course of his Providence for me in which there is such an efficacy as to carry all things to the proper and appointed end what an irresistable power and that I may be found in him not as having my own Righteousness which is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ the Righteousness which is of God by Faith Phil. 3. 9. 10. and to resign up unto God my will and affections to be disposed as he pleaseth and to say with fear humility and reverence O Father not my Will but thine be done and whether I live or dye I may be the Lords that through his Mercy and Grace I may attain to his approbation viz. Well done good and faithful Servant who hath hitherto sent his Angel and shut the Lyons Mouth that they have not hurt me Dan. 6. 22. and who hath so shut the eyes of my Persecutors with a Sodomitish blindness that hitherto they could not find out the way how to break in upon me and I hope he will in due time bring me out of the fiery Furnace and shall not through his Grace suffer the smell thereof to be found upon me and if not yet I never held it to be my duty to worship this rotten and stinking Idol of Jealousie which these Nations have set up who have killed both the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us Thes 1. 15. For thou O Lord hast not abhorred nor despised my afflictions when I was afflicted neither hast thou hid thy Face from me but when I cryed unto thee thou heardest me Ps 22. 24. Now O Lord God thou hast made the Heaven and the Earth by thy great Power and stretched out Arm Jer. 32. 17. Bring thou me at length to a happy arrival within the Gates of the New Jerusalem where no unclean thing can come that my praise may be of thee in the great Congregation And although as Job saith 10. 17. That thou O Lord hast delivered me to the ungodly and hast turned me over into the hands of the wicked yet by this I know that thou O Lord favourest me because mine Enemies do not triumph over me when I stand in Judgement thou O Lord didst not condemn and if it pleaseth thee thou will not leave me in their hands Ps 41. 11. Ps 37. 33. But canst bring up my Life from the Pit of Corruption Jonah 2. 6. And seeing I have not preferred nor sought after mine own things but thy Honour and Glory the Good Liberty and Safety of thy Church and People although I may be now mis-constructed by many yet at length I hope thou Lord will make my Light break forth as the Morning and my Righteousness as the Noon-day and that Shame and Darkness shall cover all who are Adversaries to my Righteous cause For thou Lord art the Shield of my help and the Sword of my excellency and my Enemies shall be found Lyars Amen yea and Amen James Mitchel

Mitchel's Principles fell upon him that bore them and broke them all in pieces and had not the Tumult been timely suppressed by some moderate Spirits abominable Barbarites had ensued for some maintain'd that if right were done Her Majesties Priests should have been slain according to Gods Law against Idolaters It would be endless to trace these Principles down from the time of the Original Presbyterians to these unhappy days you may see enough of them in the Parliament Sermons and innumerable other Pamphlets of the late times How often did the late Presbyterian Preachers Commend the House of Commons for their Zeal and ransack the old Testament for examples and precepts to perswade the giddy Vulgar that the Rebels fought the Lords Battels and that their cause was his How often did they compare the most active of them to Gideon Samson and Phineas and complement the worthies of the late long Parliament in England as Gregory the 15th Complimented the last King of France when he raised an Army for the extirpation of the Protestants in the Glorious name of the Lord of Hosts Did not that darling of the Faction Mr. Calamy in the bloody Speech which he made in 43. at the Guildhall of London to the Citizens to perswade them to contribute largely towards the bringing in of our Scottish Army justifie himself from the objection of his own tender Conscience that he being a Minister of the Gospel should stir them up to make War by taking an Apology from Numb 10. and Deut. 20. where God ordained that the Sons of Aaron the Priests should sound the Alarm with the Silver Trumpets and that the Priest should make a Speech to encourage the people going out to Battel to fight for the Lord of Hosts So that Naphthali Nehushtan and Mitchels Papers are but the last improvement of the Presbyterian Logick and Zeal which makes our Conventicle-Preachers ride about with Guards like petty Princes and their followers more like Soldiers than Christians come Armed by Thousands into the Field They are now arriv'd at the highest pitch of Enthusiasm and Bigotry and are as ready upon all occasions to do as much for the Spiritual Crown of Christ which they think inconsistent with the Mitre as the Men of the Fifth Monarchy principles are ready to do for the Temporal Kingdom of Jesus So that if God in his good Providence had not sent down the Duke of Lauderdale among us to prevent the storms that were ready to arise in all human probability this Kingdom had been involv'd in such a violent Rebellion as could not have been quell'd without extrinsecal force His Grace came hither without any prospect of trouble and the incredible numbers of Nobility and Gentry that throng'd to meet him several days Journey on English ground were enough to make him presume that all would be quiet and serene But he had not been many days among us when he was surpriz'd with the news of great insolencies and disorders caus'd by the Field-Conventicles in the West Now to make you understand what Wind blew up that secret flame and how those evil principles probably came to be put into fermentation I must lead you back to the year 1674. when some whose discontents far exceeded their causes under the old pretence of redressing grievances did design something else and thereby almost render'd the Parliament useless for the publick ends for which it was call'd The Duke of Lauderdale was then His Majesty's High Commissioner and there was not one real grievance of which he himself did not propose the removal nor any one pretended concerning which he was not willing to treat and if it were found to be really such to have it redress'd in an orderly fair and legal manner according to the fundamental constitutions of the house But this would not satisfie their discontents which enough demonstrates that something else was designed besides the removal of grievances whereupon his Grace returning to Court to give an account of affairs to his Royal Master such great confusions appeared among us as naturally follow palliated discontents Then did Welsh and other declared Traitors take the confidence to Preach openly in Fife and Tiveot-dale which before had been orderly places and there they were entertain'd and encourag'd to debauch the People from their Duty to the King and the Church And if these bold attempts and disorderly practises had not then been timely quell'd by his Grace's care and conduct it is easie to Divine to what eminent hazard our Peace and Government had been expos'd Whether our Fanaticks were then under-hand encourag'd to commit these insolencies by designing malcontents time the revealer of secrets may shew but it is beyond all peradventure that scandalous and unseasonable divisions caus'd by nothing but envy and discontent did then animate and embolden them to these turbulent practices and therefore it seems not improbable that the same discontented party envying the Duke his glorious reception and the just esteem he hath with his Prince and intending to frustrate his best counsels and endeavours for preserving this and by consequence the Kingdom of England in Peace have now conjured up the Fanatical Spirit again to act in more insolent irregularities than at any time heretofore But let the cause be what it will the Conventicles were never so numerous and frequent as they now began and sometime after continued to be in Fife Clidsdale Tiveot-dale Galloway Sterling shire and Carrict the last of which Shires had always been peaceable and orderly till now when they all conspir'd to invade the publick peace At these Field-Conventicles would meet sometimes 5. or 6. thousand sometimes eight or nine thousand at a time as many of which as were fit to bear Arms and could provide them never fail'd to come appointed into the Field For this reason our Laws and Proclamations stile these Field-meetings Rendezvouzes of Rebellion which is as modest a Name as they can deserve For most of the principle Preachers among them as Welsh and Arnott are either attainted or declared Traytors and were actors in the Rebellion of 66. and the Harangues for I will not call them Sermons which they make to the People tend to nothing but to make them rebel and possess them with hatred against the King and the Church In October last at Sanchil in Carrict Mr. Welsh attended with seven or eight seditious Preachers made a preachment to the principal division of a multitude upwards of 7000. people upon St. John 11. 34. 35. In this Preachment among much other Treasonable stuff he 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 O People and tell me what good 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 he was confident that God

would yet assert the cause of Pentland hills in spite of the Curates for so they call the Orthodox Ministers 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 But to proceed at these Field-Meetings they administred the Solemn League and Covenant to the People and made them swear never to hear the Orthodox Ministers more and in a most Popish manner gave them the Sacrament thereupon They also kept Classical Meetings where they ordain'd Ignorant and Factious striplings and by an unparallel'd Act of Schism took the Confidence to re-ordain one Mr. John Cuningham who was formerly ordain'd Presbyter by the late Lord Bishop of Galloway and likewise presum'd to receive the Hypocritical Confessions and Repentance of such as they had perswaded or suborn'd to confess the great sin of joyning in Worship with our Church They admitted ruling Elders in several Precincts and with incomparable Impudence proceeded to Institute and induct Preachers of their Tribe both into vacant and full Churches according to Mr. Mitchel's Judgement who asserts in his Apology that every Parish ought to choose its Preacher and that Patronage is but a Popish Rite They also confiding in their numbers proceeded in manifest contempt of Authority to erect Preaching-Houses particularly in Carrict and Galloway where Persons of no mean Quality and Interest harbour'd and caressed those great Apostles of the Cause Welsh and Arnott who ride about these dis-affected Shires in great State and Security with Guards consisting of forty fifty or greater numbers of Horse From these Insolencies they proceeded to invade the Houses and menace the Persons of some Orthodox Ministers whom Mr. Welsh declared either in a Conventicle or Presbytery somewhere in Carrict that it was a lawful to kill as for the Israelites to kill the Canaanites if they complained to the Men for so he called the Magistrates in Power These out-rages so frighted the Orthodox Clergy that many Ministers forsook their charges and some of our Bishops who lived in those distracted corners were forc'd for their security to repair to this Town Thus all things seemed to run into confusion and if excellent methods had not been used to prevent the sequel of such dangerous beginnings the faction by this time had grown into a formed party and disputed the Cause with an Army in the Field The first thing the Privy Council did was to issue out Proclamations for the execution of the Laws against these Conventicles and to use all means possible for seizing the Persons of Welsh and Arnott and other seditious Preachers but the former were rendred ineffectual the Heritable Sheriff and Bayliffs and other Officers of the seditious districts refusing to act and the latter could not be brought to effect because the Preachers are always so strongly guarded in publick and in private shelter themselves with such superstitious adorers of their holy persons as none of the proposed rewards can tempt to betray Disorders thus continuing the Council acquainted His Majesty with the dangers they threatned and humbly mov'd him to send speedy Orders that a considerable number of his Irish Troops should march to the maritime Borders next adjacent to Galloway and the Western Shires to be ready for Transportation if occasion requir'd His Majesty who was long since acquainted with the Spirit and Principles of our Remonstrator-Presbyterians in compliance with the wholesome advice of his Privy Council immediately ordered that a well-appointed Party of about 3000. Horse and Foot should be sent under the conduct of the Loyal and Valiant Viscount of Granard our Countrey-man to quarter upon the Maritime Borders and to march at the command of the Privy Council here This particular care of His Majesty and the approach of the Forces did very much surprize the Fanatical party who were made to believe by the malcontents that the Duke had no interest at Court nor was capable to procure any extrinsical assistance although they should rebel The Irish Forces being arriv'd upon the Coasts the Council were resolv'd to try what fair and gentle means would do and thereupon directed Letters to the Heritors whom you call Landlords of Aire and Ren●rew to know if they would undertake by their own power to reduce these disorders having the King's Authority for that effect The Heritors met in a full Assembly and after two days consultation return'd Answer by three Noble Lords whom the Council had sent to attend them that they could not undertake by their own Power to keep the Countrey free from Conventicles or any disorders that might ensue thereupon You must know that our Landlords have far more Authority over their Tenants than yours insomuch that in the most disaffected places there are no Conventicles where the Heritors and Superiors use their private Authority to keep the people constant to the Church All the World here knows that there is not a more Fanatical shire in this Kingdom than Murray and yet by the single Authority and Interest of that most Loyal and deserving person the Earl of Murray it is kept in as perfect Order and Obedience as if there were no Conventicles in the World But as for the aforesaid shires the Council expected no such answer from them because they of all others have had most indulgence as having Non-conformist Ministers legally setled in very many Churches among them which one would think if that party had any Reason Modesty or Conscience might have kept them from troubling the publick Peace Therefore the Council having received such an unreasonable answer from the Heritors of these more indulged shires concluded what returns they might expect from others and therefore began now to think it was high time to reduce them to their duty by force Whereupon knowing that the body of this Kingdom was Loyal they resolved rather to reduce the Fanaticks by our own intrinsical power than to call in His Majesties Irish Forces unless there should be absolute need Wherefore to the Kings standing Forces they added the Militia of the most Loyal County of Angus and admitted the Auxiliary Forces which several Loyal Lords that have Interest and Authority in the Highlands did proffer to raise out of their Vassals and Dependents for His Majesties special Service in this critical exigence of Affairs And by His Majesties special Approbation and Command they were all united into one Army under the Conduct of the most Valiant and Loyal Earl of Lin Lithgaw who towards the latter end of last Jan. marched into the Western shires And that all things might be transacted in a fair legal and orderly manner there is also sent along with the Army a Committee of the Privy Council consisting of Eleven Right Honourable persons who are invested with sufficient power Civil and Criminal to punish all sorts of Offenders and are now steddily pursuing those great ends for which they were sent thither There 's a strict Correspondence betwixt them and