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A51160	The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.	Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?; S. W.	1693 (1693)	Wing M2446; ESTC R4040	71,379	106

and promove their Success was to follow Providence Act. of Gen. Assem frequently And those who fought for the King fought against the Lord Jesus Christ Ibidem An. 45. 19. It is the Duty of the meanest Subject in his most private capacity nay they are indispensibly obliged to it to admonish and reprove the King when they observe any thing that they think contrary or disadvantageous to the Presbyterian Interest and Reformation Naph pag. 86. 20. The covenanted People of God adhering to the faithful Ministers of Christ that owned the Cause and Covenant and forsaking the Apostate Hirelings the many Conversions wrought upon them were infallible Marks that God did approve them in their Proceedings against wicked Rulers Cup of Cold Water 21. The Change made in the Church of Scotland at the King's Return from Presbytery to Episcopacy did naturally and in its just Consequence and Tendency overthrow the very Foundation of Religion and the change is no less than from the pure Worship of God to down right Idolatry Naph Pref. to the Reader pag. 4 and 5 Ibidem 84. 22. Whoever is a sincere Seeker of God and truly Regenerate will immediatly discern upon his seeking of God ipso facto the profanity and wickedness of all that adhere to the Episcopal Church Naph pag. 11. 23. It was the peculiar Lot of the Church of Scotland more eminently than any other Church upon Earth to contend against the Powers of this World for the Scepter and Kingdom of Jesus Christ by their Protestations Petitions Remonstrances Declinators and all other Methods to advance Presbyterian Interest Naph Pref. to the Reader pag. 16. 24. Papacy and Prelacy have one and the same Original and their adherents are the Synagogue of Antichrist Naph Pref. to the Reader pag. 20. and pag. 154 and pag. 184. and pag. 53. 25. The People of God in these Nations ought to rest assur'd that their Enemies shall be ruin'd and destroy'd for the Lord hath said that the false Prophets shall pass out of the Land and all that Countenance them shall be asham'd and ought we not to believe what God himself hath said Naph Pref. and pag. 153. 26. No Ecclesiastick is oblig'd to give the King or his Council an account of any Doctrine Preached by him immediately and Prima instantia he is oblig'd to the Presbyterian Classis and if the King meddle with him or call him to an account immediatly he invades the Scepter of Jesus Christ and if he arrogate unto himself the power of Convocating National or Provincial Synods he confounds the Government of Jesus Christ with the Civil and invades his Authority therefore it is not safe nor Scriptural Dialect to say the King is Supreme Governour over all Persons and in all Causes Naph frequently and page 38 and 40. The Royal Prerogative in cognoscing upon the Doctrine of Ministers is the Devil 's great design to endear the Powers on Earth to the Prelates Ibidem 27. The Presbytry can Counter Act the Acts and Statutes of the Supreme Court of Parliament and can forbid all the Subjects to obey those Laws if imposed without their Consent July 28. Anno 1648. Act and Declaration against the Act of Parliament 28. No Man can enter lawfully to the Ministry but by the Call of the People but when the People are Malignant then the Presbytery may give them a Minister Act. Gen. Assem August 4. 1649. 29. When the Presbytry appointed a Fast upon King James his appointing of a Feast they did nothing but what they were oblig'd in Conscience to do Lex Rex Pref. to the Reader 30. If the King will not Reform Religion the Assembly of godly Pastors and People ought to Reform it and they may swear a covenant without the King and if he refuse to build the Lords House they may relieve and defend one another when they are opprest and hinder'd in the Work and Cause of God Lex Rex Pref. to the Reader 31. Inferiour Judges are no less essentially Judges and God's Vice-Gerents on Earth than the King himself Lex Rex pag. 159. 32. The King is under the Law as to its Coercive limitation and ought to be resisted by force of Arms. Lex Rex pag. 231. Duglas Coron Ser. pag. 22. and elsewhere frequently 33. The King is not the final and supreme Interpreter of the Law Lex Rex pag. 252. 34. The King's Pretogative Royal and the Oath of Supremacy are directly contrary to the Word of God and the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom Naph pag. 86. 35. To allow that the present graceless Hirelings and Curates had so much as an external Call to the Ministry were as much as to make the God of Order the Author of Confusion Naph pag. 104 105. And the true Zeal of God would inspire us to eradicate those Plants that our Heavenly Father never planted Ibidem pag. 108. And to bid the Covenanted People of God come to the Church is the height of Oppression and Rigour Ibidem pag. 109. 36. A King that transgresses the Law is degenerate into a Tyrant and ought to be ranked amongst such as destroy the Peace and Advantages of Human Societies because they transgress the limits and bounds of their Constitution therefore are they hateful to God and men and to be looked upon as no better than Wolves Tigers and Lions and the death of such ought to be rewarded by the whole People and every one of them De Jure Regni pag. 36. 37. The Oaths given by Intrants to their Bishops at their Ordination do not oblige at all because they bind us to those Constitutions that were not allowed by the Presbytery Act. Gen. Assem Decemb. 5. 1638. 38. The call of a clear and necessary Providence is enough for Christs Witnesses to resist and stand up against earthly Powers and to this they are indispensably obliged when they are in a probable capacity to act successfully although the Motive of Self-defence were not conjoin'd and all such Combinations for Just and Necessary ends are warranted before God and men notwithstanding of any pretended Law to the contrary and to affirm that the first and last Covenanters were acted by a Spirit of Rebellion is a sin the next degree to the sin against the Holy Ghost Naph pag. 7 8. 12. 16. 39. The great Law of Self-Preservation in its immediate and most natural Effects teach us and indispensably oblige us to resist Kings and all Superiour Powers when they command things contrary to the Word of God nay when the great ends of Government are perverted then the Bond thereof is dissolved and the People thus liberated therefrom do relaps into their Primeve Liberty and may upon the very same Principles Combine and Associate for their better defence that they first enter'd upon unto Society Naph pag. 147 148. 150. 40. When the faithful of the Land are destitute of the best and surest means to overthrow the present Government and wicked Governours they are still oblig'd to

have made that never a person suffered in Scotland by Subornation or false Witnesses employed by the Government since the Restoration of the Royal Family Tho many of the Rebels have been brought off and assolzied by the scandalous and bare-faced Perjuries of their own Party for in the Tryals of those Rebels the Witnesses for the King being formerly engaged in the saids Rebellions made use of such strange and uncouth Fetches and Strains of Words that no Jury could fix any Verdict or Doom upon for being interrogated if they saw the person at the Barr in Arms with the Rebels as particularly in the case of one Sprewel an eminent Ringleader and Captain several of his own Kinsmen as well as Acquaintances and who had ridden under his Command they were brought with great difficulty to confess that they thought they had seen a Man there which seemed to be somewhat like the Prisoner at the Bar but for a World they could not swear that this Prisoner was the person they saw there Being ask'd if he had a Sword they answered they saw that person have something like the end of a Scabbard hanging from under his Cloak but whether there were a Blade there or not they could not tell and being question'd on oath all the while if that person had Pistols they confessed they had seen something like Hulster-Cases at his Saddle but whether there were Pistols in them or not they could not swear for a World And by such Presbyterian Canting Prejuries as these this Sprewet and many others were brought off Dear Sir I am afraid I have been too tedious in this Return but since it contains nothing but simple Truth it will be the wellcomer to you and therefore is subscribed by Your Humble and Faithful Servant W. P. ADVERTISEMENT THE Following Propositions are taken out of such Books as are most in Vogue amongst the Scotch Presbyterians They contain a short Account of their Moral Theology with regard to Obedience Subjection and Government I desire the impartial Reader to let me know wherein the Sentiments of the Kirk differ from the Doctrines propagated by the Jesuits You have many of them gathered together in one view not at all as an Answer to any of Mr. Ridpath 's Scriblings but as a sufficient Confutation of the impertinent Clamours against the Government of King Charles the Second For since they were taught by their Religion to rebel against their King and Parliament our Governors could not but secure the Peace of the Nation against such barbarous Practices as were indeed the natural Consequences of their Principles 1. A Man ought no more to suffer when the Sentence is unjust than he ought to do that which is unjust and sinful at the command of Authority Jus Pop. throughout 2. No Authority can command or can oblige until he himself that is commanded be convinced and persuaded that the thing is just reasonable and expedient Gillesp Ingl. pop Cerem 3. To oppose the persons invested with Authority is not to oppose the Ordinance of God for the Ordinance of God is Magistracy in abstracto that is it that we are commanded Rom. 13. not to resist but the person of the King ought to be resisted Lex Rex pag. 265. and when the Parliaments of both Kingdoms fought against the King's Person they fought for his Royal Interest and as he was a King and tho the person I of the King was absent and denied his consent as a Man yet they were as valid Parliaments as if he were personally present with them Lex Rex 270. 4. Patient Suffering fall under no Law of God Lex Rex pag. 314. Vide Napht. pag. 157. 5. The Presbytery hath the power of making peace and war neither ought the Parliament enter into war without them no more than Joshua did offer battel without Eleasar the High Priest Acts Gen. Ass 48. Agust 3. 6. Since Religion is the highest Interest of Mankind it is not only lawful but necessary for private Subjects to rise in Arms against the King to reform the Abuses crept into it and when the supreme Powers serve not the great Ends of Religion we are ipso facto loos'd from all Tyes of O bedience to them Naph pag. 154. Vide Jus Populi throughout 7. The Presbytery may excommunicate the King and when he is excommunicated none of his Subjects owe him Obedience neither may they converse with him Jesuits and Presbyterians 8. There is nothing to be allowed of in the Worship of God as to its Order and Circumstance that is not founded on the express Letter of the Scripture the unscriptural symbolical Ceremonies are the Badge of Antichrist All the Sectarians 9. It is a good Argument against any part of the Worship of God to have it abolish'd that it was or is still to be found in the Mass Book Bailies Parallel of the Liturgy 10. It is lawful and necessary to enter into Covenants and Leagues without the King and formally to protest against the King's most legal Methods to the contrary Prot. at the Cross Ed. 37. p. 38. 11. The King having now for many years usurped the power of Christ and most palpably tyrannized in Civil Matters he is to be deposed and brought to punishment and all the Covenanted People of the Lord are to fight against him and his Adherents under the Standard of Christ Jesus Sanchor Declar. 22. June 1680. and Cargill's Cov. broughtout 12. It is downright Idolatry and prejudicial to the Honour of Christ and the Interest of Reformation to appoint anniversary Days for Benefits bestowed on the King and Kingdom Apol. Narrat Naph p. 87. 13. The minor part of a Kingdom that is for God and his Cause against the King if they be in a probable capacity to bring their Design to pass ought by the Call of God to endeavour the Reformation of their Nation by Force of Arms. Naph and Jus Populi throughout 14. Tho our Saviour told his Disciples John 18. 36. That his Kingdom was not of this World and that they ought not to fight for him yet it obliges not the Christians now they may fight without and against the Consent of the supreme Magistrate Jus Pop. Proef. to the Reader and Naph pag. 159. 15. The greatest reproach that the People of God could be exposed to was to own the King's Proceedings without Satisfaction to the covenanted People of God in both Kingdoms Vide Act of the West-Kirk 16. None have right to the Creature but the People of God or Dominion is founded in Grace Enthus and Sect. 17. The Scots Covenant is the Magna Charta of all Religion and Righteousness and not only obliges those who personally swore it but the whole Nation to all succeeding Generations in all its Tendences and natural Consequences Naph pag. 83. and 185. 18. The Success that the Presbyterians had in the late Troubles against the King and his Adherents were undeniable Signs of God's Favour to that Party and to follow

use their utmost endeavours Naph pag. 155. 41. We ought not to believe that the Primitive Christians were so numerous as the first Apologists for Christianity did give out they were deceived in a Matter of Fact for the Sufferings of the Martyrs do not at all militate against the lawfulness of Defensive Arms. Lex Rex pag. 2. 71. 42. The very power to Extirpate the present Government is God's Call to do so Cargil's New Cov. Art 1. 43. We are no more bound by any tie of Allegiance to the present Governours than we are bound in Allegiance to the Devils Cargil's New Cov. Art 9. If the Scotch Presbyterians under the former Reigns had satisfied themselves with the Theory of Rebellion and if they had not actually practis'd according to the full extent and tendency of their Principles then their Writings and Seditious Sermons might have been tolerated with the greater Ease but since those active Gentlemen ventur'd upon the Natural Conclusions that their Principles yielded so that none of the Kings Loyal Subjects knew but that they were to be murder'd as soon as they stept out of Doors I hope modest Men will allow that severe Laws were very necessary when the Holy Scriptures were perverted to destroy the General Peace of Mankind and fiery Enthusiasts were made believe that they might make bold with the Life of any Man whom they took to oppose their own Dreams if they fancyed that their Neighbours were Canaanites and Moabites Most of them that bawl'd against the Government of Charles II. are such as never understood the Temper of our Religious Incendiaries or were themselves deeply ingaged in the Rebellion and therefore I have added to the former Papers the following Letter to undeceive such as are misinform'd and to let the World see that it was impossible for our Kings and Parliaments to forbear the making of such Laws as our Enemies complain of when the Holy Scriptures were wrested contrary to their True Meaning and made to truckle under the hellish designs of incorrigible Hypocrites The following Paper is a very Authentick one written by the famous Assassin Mr. James Mitchel who attempted the Life of the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews upon the Streets of Edinburgh and in doing so wounded the Bishop of Orkney This Sacrilegious Effort he endeavours to justifie from the Holy Scriptures The Presbyterians cannot take it ill that the Monuments of their Martyrs are preserv'd if they say that all Presbyterians have not such Principles I say so too but then they must remember that such were the Presbyterians against whom the Laws were made under the former Reigns and 't is difficult to know whether all of them have not the same Principles if once they are provok'd to anger and if they are consequential to the Doctrine of the first Puritans for Goodman saith expresly That If the Magistrates shall refuse to put Mass-mongers and false Preachers to death the people in seeing it perform'd do shew that zeal of God which was commended in Phineas destroying the Adulterers and in the Israelites against the Benjamites Let any sober Man consider what Improvemnnts the Principles of the following Letter are capable of and then let him tell me whether he can name any Crimes punished by any Magistrates in any Corner of the World more dangerous to human Society than the Doctrines that he may read with his own Eyes in this Letter I have copied it from that Collection of Mr. Mitchel's Papers which his own Consederates took great care to Print and preserve in the latter Editions of Naphtali THE COPY OF A LETTER FROM Edinburg Tolbooth February 1674. ME who may justly call my self less than the least of all Saints and the chiefest of all Sinners yet Christ Jesus calleth to be a Witness for his despised Truth and trampled on Interests and Cause by the wicked blasphemous and God contemning Generation and against all their perfidious wickedness Sir I say the Confidence I have in your real Friendship and Love to Christ's Truth People Interest and Cause hath encouraged me to write to you at this time hoping you will not misconstruct me nor take advantage of my Infirmity and weakness You have heard of my Inditement which I take up in these two particulars First As they term it Rebellion and Treason anent which I answered to My Lord Chancellor in Committee that it was no Rebellion but a Duty which every one was bound to have performed in joyning with that party and I in the Year 1656 Mr. R. L. being then Primar in the Colledge of Edinburg before our Laureation tendered to us the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant upon mature Deliberation I found nothing in them but a short compend of the Moral Law only binding us to our Duty towards God and towards Men in their several Stations and I finding that our banished King's Interest lay wholly included therein and both Coronation and Allegiance Oaths c. and they being the Substance of all Loyalty and my Lord it was well known that many were taking the Tender and forswearing Charles Stuart Parliament and House of Lords I then subscribed both the doing of which My Lord Chancellour would have stood at no less rate if as well known than this my present adhering and prosecuting the Ends thereof doth now and when I was questioned what then I called Rebellion I answered it is in Ezra vii Verse 26. And whosoever will not do the Law of God and of the King c. but being questioned before the Commissioner and the Council therea nent I answered as I said to my Lord Chancellour before in the Year 1656. Mr. R. L. being then Primar in the Colledge of Edinburg before our Laureation he tendered to us the National and Solemn League and Covenant He Stopt me Saying I 'll wad ye are come here to give a Testimony And then being demanded what I called Rebellion if it was not Rebellion to oppose his Majesties Forces in the Face To the which I answered viz. My Lord Chancellour if it please your Grace I humbly conceive they should have been with us according to the National and Solemn League and Covenant at which Answer I perceived him to storm But saith he I heard ye have been over Seas with whom did ye converse there Answer with my Merchant But saith he with whom in particular Answer with one John Mitchel a Cousin of mine own Saith he I have heard of him he is a Factor in Rotterdam to which I conceded But saith he did ye not converse with Mr. Livingston and such as he to which I answered I conversed with all all our banished Ministers To which he replyed banished Traitors ye will speak Treason at the Bar. Then he answered himself saying But they would call the shooting at the Bishop an Heroick Act. To which I answered that I never told them any such thing but where did you see James Wallace last Answer Towards the Borders of Germany