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A35017	The Scotch Presbyterian eloquence, or, The foolishness of their teaching discovered from their books, sermons and prayers and some remarks on Mr. Rule's late Vindication of the kirk	Curate, Jacob.; Calder, Robert, 1658-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing C6961; ESTC R10498	97,496	122

did suffer any thing For these others were settled in Churches by an Indulgence granted by the King Against which Indulgence all the Sufferers like true Presbyterians gave their Testimony calling it a meer brat of Erastianism What Government could tolerate such Ministers as John Deckson whom I named before who in a Sermon Preached by him in the Parish of Gallashiels declar'd That it was all one to Sacrifice to Devils as to pay Cess to King Charles The Author of the Review of the History of Indulgence one of the Sober sort of Presbyterians tells Page 610. the same of a Preacher of his Acquaintance I shall say no more of their Sentiments concerning Government but only referr the Readers to their Printed Acts of General Assemblies and to those Covenants which themselves have Printed often Subscribed and Sworn and which are now again for the benefit of Strangers published in that Excellent Vindication of King Charles II. his Happy Government in Scotland by Sir George Mac Kenze in which it's Evident that they plainly renounce Monarchy and all Power but that of the Covenanted Kirk As to their Disposition to live peaceably I appeal not only to their Principles vented in these Covenants and Acts of their general Assemblies but also to the many private Murthers and open Rebellions which they have been guilty of under every Reign since their first entry into Britain Even in our own Days since 1666 they have raised no less than Three formidable Rebellions besides many lesser Insurrections and Tumults wherein many Christians have suffered With what Violence did they flee to Arms and persecute all who were not of their Party upon the occasion of the late Revolution when if it had not been for their indiscreet and fiery Zeal this Kingdom might have been happily united to England But what ever Advantage such an Union might have brought to the Church and State yet because it seemed to have no good Aspect to the covenanted cause therefore the motion of it though offered was industriously stifled and that Opportunity which we can hardly hope to recover quite lost Nay under the present Government for which they in the beginning pretended to be so zealous 't is well known over all the Kingdom that they were last Year contriving by force without any regard to Authority to have the Solemn League renewed and imposed after the old manner upon all Men Women and Children and in order to this good end many Thousands of them at Field meetings in the West conveened after their ordinary way with Bibles and Musquets Psalm-Books and rusty Swords and subscrbed a new Association for raising of Men Horse and Arms to advance the Old Cause repurge the holy Kirk and make a thorow Reformation in the Land But I shall take occasion by and by to give you some later and more evident Instances of their Neglect and Contempt of their present Governors In the next place survey them in their Learning and you shall find that it lies only in the study of some Anti-Arminian Metaphysicks and in the practical Divinity they pretend to draw from the Heads of Election and Reprobation whereby they preach Men out of their Wits and very often into Despair and Self-murder It 's generally known that Joseph Brodie Preacher in Forress in the time of the late Presbytery did in the presence of a very Learned and Eminent Person take occasion in the Pulpit to speak of a poor Man who was then in such a desperate Condition that it was judg'd necessary to bind up his Hands lest otherwise he should cut his own Throat as he continually threatned of this desperate Wretch the pious Preacher above-named pronounced thus Sirs this is the best Man in my Parish would to God ye were all like him he does truely fear Reprobation which most of you are not aware of There is a common printed Pamphlet compos'd and publish'd by a Presbyterian Preacher concerning one Bessie Clarkson a Woman that lived at Lanark who was three Years in despair or to speak in their Cant under Exercise Whosoever reads that Pamphlet will find that the poor Woman's Distemper proceeded only form their indiscreet Preaching representing God as a sower severe and unmerciful Being It is known in the Shire of Teviotdale that Mr. William Veach murder'd the Bodies as well as Souls of two or three Persons with one Sermon For preaching in the Town of Jedburgh to a great Congregation he said There are Tow thousand of you here to day but I am sure Fourscore of you will not he saved upon which Three of his ignorant Hearers being in Despair dispatched themselves soon after And lately in Edenburgh Mr. James Kirkton the Everlasting Comedian of their Party one of their famous Preachers in that City praying publickly for a poor Woman much troubled in Spirit said A wholesome Disease good Lord a wholesome Disease Lord for the Soul Alas said he few in the Land are troubled with this Disease Lord grant that she may have many fellows in this Disease Not only do they make their People distracted with such desperate Doctrine as this but moreover they incourage them in direct Impieties Mr. Selkirk preaching at Musselburgh expressed himself thus God seed no Sin in his Chosen Now Sirs be you guilty of Murder Adultery Bestiality or any other gross Sin if you be of the Election of Grace there is no fear of you for God sees no Sin in his Chosen covenanted People And this is consonant to an expression of Mr. Samuel Rutherford's printed Letters Hellfulls of Sins cannot separate is from Christ In the Parish of Mr. Macmath Minister of Leswade some of those who were lately the most active in persecuting and driving him form his Residence even after he had the Privy Councils Protection and a Guard assign'd him for his Defence have since suffer'd violent deaths two of them prevented the Hangman's pains by becoming their own Murtherers When the Earl of Lauderdale and Sir George Mackenzie dyed last year much about one time the party who pretend to unriddle all the most secret Causes of God's Providence called their Deaths a visible Judgment for their being Enemies to the good Cause altho' it be well known that both these honourable Persons dyed of a natural Death in a good age being both of them worn out with their great diligence in their King and Country's Service perhaps indeed their days were shortened by seeing such Firebrands able again to force themselves into the Church as had before ruin'd both it and the State and were the Scandal of Christianity as well as Disgrace of their Nation But when these abovenamed Self-Murtherers of the Parish of Leswade had divided Judas's death betwixt them the one hanging himself the other ripping up his own Belly till all his Bowels gushed out The Presbyterian Preacher in that Parish holding forth next Sunday was so ready of Invention as to find Arguments from thence for the Confirmation of the good Cause Ab Sirs says

Mankind they allow not to Persons of the Quality that are of a different Opinion from themselves To avoid and flee from the Company where a Curate is as if it were a Pest-house is a common sign of Grace To affront a Prelate openly is a most meritorious Work and such as becomes a true Saint To approve and applaud the Murtherers of the Archbishop of St. Andrews is an infallible Evidence of one thoroughly reformed That the World may be satisfied of their Behaviour towards ordinary Men I shall give you some late Instances of their Carriage towards those of the highest Rank and Quality the matters of Fact are such as are known to be true by Multitudes of People before whom they were acted and themseves have the Impudence still to Glory in them and yet I will not say but some of the Party may deny them upon occasion at Court as they do other things as evident for I know what Metal their Foreheads are made of 1. Then when their Majesties Privy Council by advice of all the Judges conform to a standing Act of Parliament and common Practice appointed a Sermon upon the thirtieth Day of January 1690 The Council some time before sent a Person of Quality one of their own Stamp and Kidney to the Commissioners of the General Assembly to desire them in their Majesties and Council's Name to appoint one of their number to preach before them in St. Giles's Church on that Day and to put them in mind that it was the Anniversary for the Martyrdom of King Charles the First and that a Sermon proper for the occasion was expected according to the Religion Law and Custom of the Nation The grave Noddies of the Assembly answer'd thus Let the Council to do their own Business for we are to receive no Directions from the State nor to the take our Measures from the Council especiallly in preaching Anniversary-Sermons Upon which they appointed Shields a Cameronian one of the most wild and violent of the Hill-men to preach in the Tron-Church where-in they used to have Weekly Lectures as it happened upon that Day of the Week but where neither the Lords of Council nor Judges were used to come All that he spoke concerning the King's Murther was this Ye Sirs perhaps some of you may foolishly fanoy that I came here to day to preach to you concerning the Death of King Charles the First What preach for a Man that died forty Years ago if it be true what some Histories tells of him he is very mach wronged but if it be true what we believe of him and have ground for he is suffering the Vengeance of God in Hell this day for his own and Fore-fathers Sing The same Shields as he was holding forth sometime before at Edinburgh said That for ought he saw King William and Queen Mary were rather seeking an earthly Crown to themselves than seeking to put the Crown on Christ's Head That is in the Conventicle stile to settle Presbyterian Government This same Year again they peremptorily refused and despised the Privy Council's Order requiring them according to a standing Act of Parliament to preach upon that day 2. Inst Mr. Areskme preaching in the Tron Church at Edinburgh the day after the King by open Proclamation had adjourned the General Assembly said Sirs Ye heard a strange Proclamation the other day which I hope the Authors of may Repent some day It brings to my mind Sirs an old story of King Cyrus who once set his Hands fairly to the building of God's House but his Hand was not well in the Work when he drew it out again All is well that ends well Sirs for what think ye become of King Cyrus Sirs I 'll tell you that Sirs He e'en made an ill end he e'en died a bloody death in a strange Land I wish the like may not befal our King they say Comparisons are odious but I hope ye will not think that Scripture-comparisons are so whatever you may think I am sure of this that no King but King Jesus had Power to Adjourn our General Assembly This was spoken so lately before so great an Auditory that whatever Rule may say in his next Book yet I think the Author himself will not have the Impudence to deny it 3. When last Summer their Commissioners returned from King William in Flanders and told the General Assembly That the King had possitively told them that he would not any longer suffer them to oppress and persecute the Episcopal Subjects and desired them in his Name to acquaint the General Assembly with his Mind that for the time to come they should proceed more moderately otherwise he would let them know that he is their Master The Moderators said openly That if it were not for the great Army he had with him he durst not have said so to them and however he had been wiser to have held his peace for that they own'd no Master but Christ When King William in January last desired them by his Letter to the General Assembly to re-admit into the Exercise of the Ministry so many of the Episcopal Presbyters as should be willing to submit to and comply with a Formula which his Majesty sent to them and appointed to be the Terms of Communion betwixt the Parties This Proposal of Peace and Union which moderate Presbyterians might have been thought to have rejoyced in was insolently rejected and exclaimed against by all the Assembly except one Mr. Orack Then the common discourse and preaching of Presbyterians was That King William design'd to Dethrone King Jesus that the prescribing to them any Formula was an Incroachment upon Christ's Kingdom and a violent Usurpation of his Priviledges that any Formula but the Covenant is of the Devil 's making and ought not to be tolerated by Presbyterians The Moderator of the General Assembly in his Prayer immediately after its Dissolution reflected upon King William as sent in Wrath to be a Curse to God's Kirk He and the whole Assembly protested against the King's Power to dissolve them and before his Commissioner disclaim'd all his Authority that way Afterwards to make their Testimony that 's their word for Treason publick they went to the Cross of Edinburgh and took a formal Protestation after the old manner against the King in behalf of the People of God by which they intend their own Subjects The Magnanimous Earl of Crawford vowed before the Commissioners that he would adhere to the Protestation with his Life and Fortune two things equally great and valuable Their ordinary Doctrine and Discourse in the Pulpit and out of it speaking of the Kirk and King is Deliverance will come from another hand but thou and thy house shall perish Mr. Matthew Red holding forth the New Gospel at his Kirk in North Berwick Feb. 20th 1691-92 said The Kirk of Scotland is presently under the same condition that David was when he was so sore persecuted and pursued by Saul that he seemed to