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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55669	The prelatical church-man against the phanatical Kirk-man, or, A vindication of the author of The sufferings of the Church of Scotland	Author of The sufferings of the Church of Scotland.	1690 (1690)	Wing P3212; ESTC R6613	6,534	8

it be not a Phanatick Yet I think the Episcopalians as he calls 'em deserve no such Usage because the Phanaticks were guilty every Day of Rebellion and Treason did make many Uproars and Insurrections and did several times involve the whole Nation in Blood and to subdue and quell such Spirits and to punish such great Offenders who did disturb the Peace and Government of the Nation methinks could be no Crime at all and their Sufferings being for doing Ill they should be asham'd to glory in them or to think that by turns they ought to punish the Church And as to the Sufferings of the Episcopal Church which he so confidently contradicts and says That the Author cannot instance the Persons Place and time He walks upon a false Supposition for there was a Clergy-man not many Days ago with me upon the Royal Exchange who came from Galloway in Scotland who said That he would swear it before the King and Council and prove it by several Witnesses that all was true that that Ingenious and Charitable Gentleman wrote and that there was much more true than what was there contained and if there should be any Occasion for it he would prove both the Time and Place Nay I myself do remember That Six or Seven Years ago there was one Mr. Kirk a Minister in the West who told me that these Phanaticks were so furious that they did first Rob a neighbouring Minister of his Goods and afterwards did pull down the House upon him And if they did commit such Outrages and Villanies when the Civil Government was in force what less than Barbarity could be expected when every Phanatick was allowed to do what was right in his own Eyes And this verefies that Epithet which the Revered Bishop Atkins bid a Writer to the Signet give him John or William by the Indignation of God Bishop of Incarnate Devils And these are the men who approve of the murthering of their High-Priest a Crime having such a Train of aggravating Circumstances that none but a Phanatick without Horror and Trembling would mention it For this poor Gentleman being gray headed and above Eighty Years old was in his Coach beset by a Company of Phanaticks and tho his Daughter with Tears in her Eyes pray'd 'em for Christ's sake to spare her aged Father and he himself had earnestly entreated them after they had determined to butcher him to let him have but time to recommend his Soul to God they in the very instant of Prayer cut off his Right Hand shot him through the Body and left him in the Choach wallowing in his Blood which made his Daughter miscarry and being Melancholy was in great Danger of losing her Life Yet this worthy good man does this Cannibal exclaim against and tho Death should put an end to the Rage of the worst of Men yet could this vile Wretch be contented to be glutted with his Blood again And his Malice does not terminate here but he must likewise have a Stroke at the Metropolitans and Bishops of England and compares them to Titus Oates and calls 'em Dark Lanthorns who are the great Lights of our Church and have done more Good in one Week than he and all the Salamanca Doctors can do in a whole Age And tho our Author be so favourable to Oates yet I think it not strange since Birds of a Feather will flock together Besides this he threatens That if any of 'em should read the Service or endeavour to introduce it to Scotland that they may perhaps suffer as much as Arch-Bishop Laud did that is become a Victim and Sacrifice to the People which one Expression deserves a Rope if there was no other and 't is pity such an Incendiary should be suffered to live Yet I would with all my Heart that there was no greater Danger than this and that Ireland was as easily subdued as Episcopacy might again be brought in and kept in Scotland And I am sure was there a Pole about Eipiscopacy there that Three Parts in Four of that Nation would be for it and all of 'em in a few Years might perhaps be perswaded to entertain the Prayers of the Church of England Which if they cannot as yet be so happy as to enjoy I shall earnestly pray to God That he would make their Majesties King William and Queen Mary successful in their Arms That he would give them the Necks of their Enemies bless 'em with a happy and prosperous Reign and make them yet instrumental in re-establishing that Episcopacy which in Scotland by a Trick was Voted out That all good men may with the Poet say There is a Church but not a Kirk of Scots FINIS