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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

behold a poor old miserable Creatures Death but I trow there be few among you who are weeping and mourning for the broken Covenant and having so spoken she threw her self in greater hast off the Ladder than a Person should have done who was no better prepar'd for another World I could tell you many more remarkable stories of our Fanatick Zealots that have been put to death for lying with Beasts and other unnatural crimes One not many years since was put to death at Sterling for committing uncleanness with five Individual among which there were four species of irrational Animals and immediately before his Execution the unclean Wretch protested against the Prelates and boasted of his constant zeal for the Covenant and so without declaring any detestations of his crimes or desiring the people to pray for him went off with all assurance into the other World I should not have related any of these stories with reflection on the Schismatical party but that nine parts in ten of the horrid sins such as Witchcraft Bestiality and Incest are found among them which hath occasion'd a Proverbial Sarcasm in our Language against them that the Whigs ga to Heaven a Gate of their own This is no Hyperbole but a plain Historical Truth which our Judges can testifie and which may be confirm'd by the Registers of our criminal Courts And then as for Adulteries and Fornications those common failings of these Pharisees there are more of them committed and more Bastards born within their Country the Western Holy-Land than in all our Nation besides This is evident from comparing the Parish-Registers and the Registers of the Presbyterys or Rural Deaneries of those Shires with the rest of the Parish and Presbytery Registers in every Diocess of the Church Not very long since in a Parish within the Presbytery of Paseley there were no fewer than 17. Whigs who did publick Penance for Fornications and Adulteries at one time The Parish is very disaffected so that on that Lords-day wherein this Herd of Goats did stand in the Seat of Publick Repentance there were but two Regular Persons besides the Minister and Precentor in the Church I know you are already wondering that Fanatical Sinners will do Penance in the Kirk which is as serious and solemn a piece of Worship as any belongs to the Service of God Therefore to unriddle the Paradox unto you be pleas'd to take notice That if any Fornicator Adulterer c. contumaciously refuse to submit to Church-Censure his Majesty's Advocat is to pursue him before the Supream Judicature or Lords of the Session who upon Evidence of his Contumacy issue out Order for having him declar'd the King's Rebel that is to be solemnly denounc'd an Out-Law with the sound of an Horn. After the Horning for so we call the Denunciation Letters of Caption are direct against him so that if he be taken he must be put in Prison and although he be not he forfeits his Personal and the Annual Revenues of his real Estate and becomes altogether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Theophilus the Greek Civilian calls Slaves and Minors and all that are Civilly dead Hence an Out-law is almost in the same Condition with us as Deportatus in Insulam was among the Romans he is uncapable of all Civil Employments he hath no Head in Law He can make no Will or Testament of his own nor receive any Benefit by any other Man's So that our Whigs like yours who will be Married by the Common-Prayer choose rather to mock God and offend their tender Consciences sometimes than forfeit their Liberty and Estates I am very well satisfy'd in my own Conscience that I have done nothing against the strictest Rules of Christian Charity in discovering the impious Principles and Practises of this Sect I have done it upon the same grounds and motives that the Ancient Fathers publish'd the Wicked Lives and Opinions of the more primitive Hereticks particularly of the Gnosticks who were the Archetype of our Whigs And the Parallel in most Particulars runs so exact between them that I cannot abstain from comparing them together First then as the Gnosticks were so call'd from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Knowledg falsly so call'd and boasted that they were the most Knowing although they really were the most Ignorant of the Christian Religion of any Sect in the World So our Whigs stile themselves the Knowing Christians and look upon us who adhere to the Church but as ignorant silly formal People that understand not Gospel Mysteries but are spoil'd after the Tradition of Men after the Rudiments of the World and not after Christ Secondly As the Gnosticks pretended to understand the Scriptures better than all other Christians and yet did most absurdly and blasphemously interpret them as Epiphan hath shew'd in many particulars So our Whigs pretend to this gui●t as their own peculiar Talent and yet interpret the Word of God as absurdly to make it comply with their wicked Opinions as the Gnosticks did to make it countenance theirs Mr. Mitchel's Papers are full proof of this Charge besides the Books I mention'd before Thirdly As the Gnosticks spoke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or mighty high things of Simon Magus equalling him with God So our Whigs speak big-swelling words of Baal-berith or the Solemn League and Covenant to which they ridiculously apply whatsoever is said of the Covenant of Grace which God made with Abraham and of that Political Covenant which he made with the Jews and of the counterpart of it which the Jews or any of their Kings made and renew'd with God baptizing their Children into it as into the Covenant of the Gospel and making it the cause and Interest and Truth of Christ In the fourth place As the Gnosticks pretended to be Christians and yet in many things comply'd with the wicked Jews and joyned with them in raising Persecution against the Church so our Whigs pretend to be the purest Protestants in the World and yet in many things are real Papists and now joyn most cordially with them to overthrow both our and your Church which the Papists acknowledg to be the strongest Bulwarks against themselves that are in the Protestant World In the fifth place as the Gnosticks contumeliously used the Apostles and Presbyters of the Primitive Church hating them with the Malice of Cain and gain-saying them among the People after the impudent manner of Corah and opposing them as Jannes and Jambres did Moses and Aaron so our Whigs treat our reverend Clergy with all imaginable contempt and barbarity hating our Bishops with a mortal hatred calling their Government an Usurpation over God's Heritage and rail at his Majesty and all other Magistrates that support them binding and re-binding themselves by a solemn Oath to extirpate the Apostolical Function though in doing of it they should shed an Ocean of Protestant Blood To proceed as the Gnosticks were raging Waves of the Sea i.e. a fierce tumultuous and troublesome people so are the Whigs

involvens cuncta tenebris Huc ruit impietas tenues sic ivit in auras Pacta fides perjura manus coit omnis in unum In scelus horrendum saevos feritate Leones Mittit ab Occasu suscepta ut faedera Regni Deleat Christi praedetur ovile Cupido Namque tenet lucri nunquam satiata nefandum Proh Scelus in Pharias remeavimus oras Atque iterum nostrae sic Relligionis habenas Papa regebat adest nunc nunc Deus ultor inulti Ne pereant justi dextrâque ultrice ●urorem Comprimet Hunc Divina lupum non terruit ira Fraudibus occultis odiisque immanibus actum Grassantem rabie solitaeque cupidine caedis Horruit ejectum Patria peregrinus at aequum O coelum exilii postquam mala tanta tulisset Tormenta in Patria atque homicidae vincla parantur Tandem perstringunt sccleratum vincula collum Exitus hic dignus tam prodigialibus ausis Jus aequum perpessus obit sed caetera nescit Aeternos quisquis nondum damnatur ad ignes Finis Epitaphium ejusdem ubi ipse ab inferno introducitur loquens Quò vesana ruis Grex vis effera praeceps Quò ruis impietas sine lege furor Heu mea sero nimis constantia victa fatiscit Sera sed atroci faenore paena venit Jam Coelo extorri terror Deus ipse coquenda Dum manus in Stygio Sanguinolenta lacu Christi si quis adhuc lupus expugnator Ovilis Se sciat in magnum tela movere Deum Finis Iisdem pene verbis convellitur quibus adstruitur impietas Ambros There was also a severe Satyr in Scottish made in revenge to the many Libels which the Fanaticks scatter'd about Town upon this occasion I got a Copy of it which I here present unto you Entitled as it was to the Memory of Mr. James Mitchel O-Y-ES O-y-es Covenanters Filthy Cruel lying Ranters Come here and see your murdering Martyr Sent to Hell i' th' Hangmans Garter Your sealing Witnesses we hear Are Mr. James Mitchel and Major Weir One with his hand but had no pith Th' other your Wives know well wherewith Which makes them sigh and sighing say Welsh can but Preach but Weir could pray It 's this that all Religion shames To give Hells Vices Heavenly names Then Devils then cast off your Masks Murder and Whoredom are your Tasks Which you to all the World proclame Boasting and glorying in your shame And say your Covenant doth allow This Maugre your Baptismal vow And that the holy Oath doth bind you To leave such holy Seed behind you For at and after your long prayers You lye together pairs by pairs And every private Meeting-place Is a Bawdy-house of Grace You shew it is your loving Natures To be sweet fellow-feeling Creatures But to prophane your Holy Order With Incest Buggery and Murder Is plainly to proclame you Devils And horrid Crimes to be no evils Mas James Mitchel lay four year In Grissald's house with Major Weir And from his Ghostly Father learns To lye with Women and get no Barns The Mystery of the Tribe a Trick Makes all the Women mad Fanatick And now they both in Hell are met Where for your Company they wait Then fill your measure and post on To your deserv'd Damnation Go Whore and Bugger Kill and Pray Till every Dog shall have his day Or go together to Hell in Troops Else strive for new Grasse-market-loops He that Whores best and Murders most Of him the Sect shall always boast And put him as they 've put Mas James Among their Saints and Martyrs Names YOu see the Latin Verses take notice of the West as a place above all others of this Kingdom wherein Fanaticism most abounds This must needs awaken your curiosity to enquire from what magnetism it is that our Conventicle-preachers have acquir'd such a strong verticity to that point Truly the reason is the same for which yours haunt London and the most opulent Towns and Countys of England even the Riches of the place for where the Silver is there are the Suisses where the Carcase is there are these Vulturs gathered together There 's a necessity laid upon them to Preach the Gospel there yea woe unto them if they Preach it not in Fife and the West where so many Rich Traders and Heritors live But as for the Highlands and other poorer Countys they have no Christian compassion for them but let them live and dye in Ignorance and Idolatry because their Souls are not so precious for want of Silver and Gold I remember when I was at London in 76. I heard a famous Conventicle-minister say That if it were not for the Non-conforming-ministers thousands of Souls in that populous City would starve for want of the Word I very much wondered to hear him say so considering how many hundred Sermons were Preached every week by the Orthodox Ministers and the best I thought that ever I had heard But being the next day in some Company which was discoursing about Conventicles one or two of them began to tell of the great store of Mony the Conventicle-preachers had in the Banks and how some of them kept their Coaches and he believ'd it would not be long er'e their Wives kept their Chairs Then I began to understand the reason of the great care those Gentlemen had to feed the Souls of the good Citizens and was very glad that to keep a Coach was no longer a sign of Prelatical Pride When I return'd home I told our Whigs that the Non-conformist-ministers of London began to keep Coaches but the greatest part of them would not believe me and those that did said with sighs they were sorry that there were Diotrepheses among them that loved the preeminence and that God would have a controversie with them for their Prelatical Pride The like I have seen in a Preface to a Presbyterian Treatise of Divinity Printed about that time wherein the anonymous Author whose name I have been told complains of the Prelatical Spirit that began to shew it self among the Non-conforming-ministers whereof some living in great Plenty and State contemned others who were poor and whose lot was fallen in places where Persecution did abound In the Scottish which you will call the English Verses you see the Poet upbraids their Baptismal Vow with the Covenant not as I conceive upon the common account as another Poet may do but because 't is the frequent practise of our Whig-preachers to Baptize the Children of their Disciples into the Solemn League and Covenant as well as into the Covenant of Grace He also takes notice of the intimate Familiarity betwixt Mr. Mitchel and Major Weir and unless you will be at the pains to read the life of the latter as well as the former you 'l never be able to understand the Satyr nor know whether the Satyrists indignation be just or unjust He promise you beforehand That the Narrative shall affect you both with Wonder and Indignation