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A43681	The spirit of popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical-Protestants, or, The last speeches of Mr. John Kid and Mr. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his murder, extracted out of the registers of the Privy-Council, &c. / by an orthodox Protestant.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1874; ESTC R6348	165,592	93

so I die in the Faith of it that there will be a Resurrection of his Name Word Cause and Covenant and of all his interests therein though I dare not determine the time when nor the manner how but leave all those things to the infinitely wise God who hath done and will do all things well Oh that he would return to this Land again repair our breaches take away backslidings appear for his Work O that he were pacified towards us Oh that he would pass by Scotland once again and make our time a time of love Come Lord Jesus come quickly himself hasten it in his own time and way The Lord is my Light my Joy and my Life my Song and my Salvation The good of his chosen be my mercy this day and the enriching comforts of the Holy-Ghost keep up and carry me fair through to the glory of his Grace to the Edification of his people and my own eternal Advantage John Kid. Amen THE LAST SPEECH OF Mr. John King With Animadversions thereupon Men and Brethren I Do not doubt but many that are Spectators here have some or other end then to be edified by what yee may see in the behaviour or hear in the last words of one going to eternity But if any of you have ears to hear as I doubt not but some of this great gathering have then I desire your ears and attention if the Lord shall help and permit me to speak to a few things First I bless the Lord since by his wisdom and holy providence he hath carved out my lot to die after this manner that I die not a As unwillingly as other malefactors use to do for in the interval betwixt his condemnation and execution he by his friends used all the means he could to procure his Majesties pardon unwillingly nor by force It is true I could not do this of my self neither allways having an inclination to put the evil day farr away but through b There are two sorts of courage one natural and the other supernatural or inspired and the raising of the Animal Spirits by strong liquors for Aristotle compares Enthusiasm to wine will plausibly counterfit both Hence we see that common Malefactors party to rid their minds of the torment of fear and partly out of a vain glorious desire to be mistaken by the rabble for men of great natural courage who contemn Death privatly fortify themselves before the time of execution by strong spirits and cordials by vertue of which they often appear to die like gallant men In like manner religious Malefactors I mean such as pretend to suffer upon the account of religion that they may rid themselves of the terrours of an evil conscience and appear to be assisted like Martyrs with supernatural courage highten their spirits at the time of execution by strong liquours and cordialls which make them brisk and bold and insensible of Death and Hell But then as the former sometimes drink to much and so discover the Cheat by dying Drunk so the latter who are so much the more execrable Hypocrites of the two as it is a greater sin to counterfit Grace than nature sometimes by taking too much of the creature discover their imposture by their Drunkenness and by dying not like Martyrs but sots This was the deplorable case of Hugh Peters whose sad condition that good penitent Mr. Cook lamented at his execution This likewise was the case of the Pentland-Rebels who were executed at Edinburgh who were so stupified and besotted with the Sack and Brandy which they drank on the day of their execution and the day before that they died like Beasts without so much as making a prayer to God or desiring others to pray for them to the great scandal of all good Christian spectators who saw them and whereof many yet a live can witness what I say Lastly this was the case though not to that degree of Gaven the Jesuit elder brother to this deceiver who delivered as much as he was permitted to speak of this speech which he had composed before in such a broken confused manner as Drunken men use to do in somuch that the orthodox spectators pityed the wretch and his brotherhood were ashamed See notes d and f on the first in Speech grace I have been helped and by his grace yet hope to be and though possibly I might have shunned such a hard sentence if I had done things which though I could I durst not do no not for my Soul yet I durst not God knows redeem my Life by the loss of my Integrity and Honesty I bless the Lord that since I have been apprehended and a prisoner God hath very wonderfully upholden me and made out that comfortable word c I shewed before on note c in the first speech that this sort of Ministers falsly so called have a Jesuitical trick of abusively applying the holy Scriptures to themselves Here we may see another notable instance of it where the deceiver applys to himself this comfortable message which the Prophet delivered in Gods name to the Jews as they were his People in a civil sence bidding them not to be afraid or dismay'd because he would strengthen them help them and uphold them against their Enemies so that those who were incensed against them should be ashamed and confounded and those that warred against them should be as a thing of naught But here he blasphemously asserts that God miraculously upheld him and made out these comfortable words to him as if the Holy Ghost had whispered them in his conscience as expressly as the Prophet spoke them unto the Jews Or as if whatsoever was written in the holy Scriptures were to be so exactly transcribed in the works of Providence that even the Prophetical passages and predictions were to be accomplished over and over in different Ages or as if the latter works of Providence not only in general but as to particular Societies and Persons did answer as exactly to some or other places of the Scripture as Face answers to Face in a Glass This Doctrine is taught in a Book called The fulfilling of the Scriptures Printed 1669. wherein are such Blasphemous applications of the Scripture-promises to the Condition of the Covenanters in Scotland as cannot be read without horrour and indignation by any Orthodox man Ever since the Re-establishment of Episcopacy the Conventicle-Preachers have assured their People that God would destroy it again and restore his own work but then as often as they began to withdraw from them seeing no probability of such a turn then they Preached and Wrote of the great promises which were made to Believing as that Faith was the Evidence of things not seen and that they ought to believe the naked Word when there was no appearance of its out-making according to 2 Chron. 20. 20. Hear O Judah and Inhabitants of Jerusalem believe in the Lord your God so shall you be Established believe his Prophets so shall you

most affectionate Servants Rothes Montrose Lesly Mar. Montgogomery Loudoun Forrester Texts of Scripture which the Presbyterian Preachers Blasphemously misapplied to the Solemn League and Covenant 2 Kings 11. 17. AND Jehojada made a Covenant between the Lord and the King and the People That they should be the Lords People between the King also and the People Isaiah 44. 5. One shall say I am the Lords another shall be called by the name of Jacob and another shall Subscribe with his hand unto the Lord. Josh. 24. 25. So Joshua made a Covenant with the People the same day and gave them an Ordinance and Law in Sichem Deut. 29. 25. Jerem. 22. 8 9. Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this Land and to this great City Then Men shall say Because they have forsaken the Covenans of the Lrod God of their Fathers which he made with them when he brought them out of the Land of Egypt 2 Chron. 34. 31 3a And the King stood in his place and made a Covenant before the Lord c. 1 Chron. 16. 15. Be ye mindful always of his Covenant Jerem. 11. 2 3. Speak unto the men of Judah and Inhabitants of Jerusalem and say unto them Thus s●ith the Lord the Lord God of Israel Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this Covenant With many more which occur in their Writings See Note w. on the first Speech ERRATA Page 37. line 29. for Twenty two read Twelve on the Title-page of the Narrative for 1669. read 1679 THE LAST SPEECH OF Mr. John Kid. With Annotations thereupon Right Worthy and Well-beloved Spectators COnsidering what bodily distempers I have been exercised under since I came out of the a Which was applied to him to make him Confess his Accomplices in the Rebellion and answer to such Questions as Authority asked him in order to the perfect discovery of it which before he was brought to the boot for that is the name of the Instrument of Torture he Jesuit-like refused to do Contrary to the manner of the Primitive Christians to whom the Rebellious Covenanters are blasphemously compared in the Apology for the persecuted Ministers and Professors of the Presbyterian reformed Religion Printed 1677. of whose behaviour at the criminal Tribunals Tertullian writing in his first Apolog. saith That it was their Custom freely to Confess when they were examined by Authority Christianus vero si denotatur gloriatur si accusatur non defendit interrogatus vel ultro confitetur But the † 2d Act of the 2d Session of the 2d Parl. of Charles the 2d began at Edinb July 28. 1670. Rebellious Covenanters quite contrary when they are required by his Majesties Authority to declare either simply or upon Oath what they know of Rebellious Field-meetings and the persons who were present at them and disorders done therein are wont to give either shifting Equivocating Answers or else not to answer at all contrary to their Allegiance as Subjects and in contempt of the lawfull Powers and of God who hath ordained them but exactly according to the Doctrine of the Jesuits in the Rhemish notes on the New-Testament Acts. 23. which say If thou be put to an Oath to accuse Catholicks for serving of God as they ought to do or to utter any innocent man to Gods enemies and his thou oughtest first to refuse such unlawfull Oaths but if thou hast not Constancy and Courage so to do know thou that such Oaths bind not at all in Conscience but may and must be broken under the pain of Damnation Torture being scarce two hours out of my Naked Bed in one day it cannot be expected that I can be in a Capacity for saying any thing to purpose in such a Juncture especially seeing I am not as yet free of it However I cannot but Reverence the good hand of God for good upon me and desire with all my soul to bless him for this my b As if this Rebellious Pseudo-Minister who helped to Preach eight or nine thousand Subjects into arms against their Lawful Sovereign Suffered for the same Cause as did the Blessed Apostles who rejoyced that they were counted Worthy to suffer for the name of Christ. Acts. 5. 41. present Lot It may be there are a great many here that judg my Lot very sad and deplorable I must confess death in it self is very terrible to flesh and blood but as it is an out-let to sin and an in-let to righteousness so it is the Christians great and unexpressible priviledg and give me leave to say this that there is something in a Christians condition that can never put sin without the reach of unsufferableness even Death Shame and the Cross being enclosed and if there be Peace betwixt God and the Soul there is nothing that can damp peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ which is a most supporting ingredient in the bitterest Cup and under the Sharpest and c There is nothing more common than for these Presbyterian Ministers falsely so call'd to delude the poor people by abusive Applications of and allusions to the passages of the Holy Scriptures after the manner of the Jesuits Thus he by this expression of the Fiery-Trial gives them occasion to consider the Fineings Imprisonments and execution of the Rebels as a Persecution which as Fire tries true from false Gold would distinguish Sincere from Hypocritical Christians i. e. those who would Suffer for Christs Soverainty and the Solemn League and Covenant from those who would desert both As if a Conspiracy against the Apostolical Government of the Church Universal for above 1500 years for so the Covenant deserves to be called could Justifie shall I say or Sanctifie an Insurrection of Subjects against their Sovereign which the defence of the Christian name cannot justifie by the Gospel and by consequence make the Legal Fineings Imprisonments and Transportations of incorrigible Rebells Persecution their executions by Axes and Haltars Martyrdom and themselves Martyrs for the holy Jesus the Prince of Peace who will not have even the very being of his Church and Gospel defended by the Subjects Sword ●●●yest Trial he can be expo●●● 〈◊〉 This is my mercy that I have some-what of this to lay claim to viz. d It cannot reasonably be denied but that God hath sometimes irradiated the Souls of Confessors and Martyrs at the time of their Sufferings and begot within their hearts such a secret sense of his favour as hath made them Sing in their torments and rejoyce at death but this is a very extraordinary and unpromised favour and given like the miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghost but to some of those who have truly suffered for the Cause of Christ. But for such a Malefactor as this who lived in a state of Rebellion against his Sovereign and whose whole imployment was to Preach his Subjects into Rebellion against him for the re-establishment of the Presbyterian Discipline of which the whole Church of God was utterly

ignorant for almost 16 Ages I say for such a Rebel as this to pretend to such secret significations of Pardon from Gods Spirit at the hour of execution when in the next words he declares his utter impenitence for his crime can be nothing but a delusion of Satan or an effect of the same Enthusiasm which makes them pretend to Praying and Preaching by Inspiration and other gifts of the Holy Ghost Intimations of Pardon and Peace betwixt God and my Soul and as concerning that for which I am Condemned I magnifie his grace that I never had the least e Behold good people how like a Jesuit he speaks He acknowledges that he never had the least remorse or accusation of Conscience for his Treasons and Rebellions but counted it his honour to die under the name of a Traitor and Rebel for that Many-headed Pope the Presbyterian Government which as the Kirk-men Teach is the Royal Scepter of Christ Challenge but on the contrary judge it my honour that ever I was counted worthy to be Staged upon such a Consideration 3ly Another thing that re●ders the Despicable lot of the Christian Superable is that there is a felt and f That God also was sometimes wont to give unto his Martyrs the Spirit of Fortitude at the hour of death as a sign that they were supported by him and by consequence suffered for him is plain from the Holy Scriptures and both Jewish and Christian Martyrologies and therefore this wretch pretends here to this Sign also that he might seem to die not a deplorable as he speaks but a glorious death i. e. not as a Malefactor but as a Martyr But yet because he was conscious to himself how timerous he appeared notwithstanding all the Brandy and Cordials which he had drank he speaks ambiguously about it telling the people he had ground to believe that more or less God would perfect his own strength in his weakness certainly he meant that God would yet put forth his glorious power in a greater degree in him so that it should become more apparent to the Spectators before he was turn'd off the Ladder than at the moment when he spoke Sensible presence from the Lords strengthening the Soul when most put to it and if I could have this for my allowance this day I could be bold to say O death where is thy Sting and could not but cry out Welcome to it and all that follows upon it I grant the Lord by an Act of Sovereignty may go and come as he pleases but yet he will never g There are many Texts in the Old-Test which speak of Gods forsaking and not forsaking his people the Jews and the Kings whom he set over them as his Vicereys which are all to be understood in a Political sense Thus 1 Sam. 12. 22. Saith the Prophet Fear not for the Lord will not forsake his people for his great names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people So 2 Kings 21. 13 14. I will saith God Stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and I will wipe it as a man wipeth a dish and I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance So Psal. 94. 14. The Lord will not cast off his people nor forsake his inheritance So Psal. 71 King David prays God his rock and fortress to deliver him from the hand of his enemies and not to forsake him i. e. not to lay him aside in his old age till he had shewn his strength to the generation in which he lived and his power to every one that was to come So also he prays God in the 51 Psal. not to cast him away from his presence as he did Saul nor to take his holy Spirit from him by which he was enabled to Govern his people For God was wont to send his Spirit in visible impressions upon all those whom he called to judge and Govern his people as upon † Judges 3. 10. 6. 34. 11. 29. 13. 25. Othniel Gideon Jephtha Samson and Saul whom Samuel told when he was to be made King that the Spirit of the Lord should come upon him for a Sign and that he should Prophesie and be turned into another man 1 Sam. 10. 6 9. And at King Davids inauguration 't is expresly said 1 Sam. 26. 13. that Samuel took the horn of oyl and anointed David in the midst of his Brethren and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him from that day forward this was the Spirit of Government which consisted in a mighty power and impulse to do brave Heroical actions and carried along with it all the Royal qualifications that a man ought to have whom God was pleased to call to the Helm Maimonides calls it the Spirit of Fortitude but he might as well have called it the Spirit of Wisdom and Counsell for it fitted the persons upon whom it came in all points for the Royal Office and the Collation of it in visible impressions upon them was a Sign to the people that they were Authorized and Commissioned by God And therefore King David after the matter of Uriah for which he deserved to be rejected like Saul prays God in a most penitential manner not to cast him away from his presence nor take away the Spirit of Government from him which he had instead of a standing Commission from God Upon these and such like Texts which are to be understood in a Political sence hath been founded the Doctrine of Spiritual desertion or the comings and goings of God from the Soul which hath been as usefull an engine for the Ministers falsely so called to take fast hold on the Souls and Purses of their Melancholick Disciples as the Doctrines of Transubstantiation Purgatory and Absolution hath been to the Romish Priests of taking hold of the Souls and Purses of theirs For when a man oppressed with Melancholy or Melancholick Doctrines shall in his fits of dejection think himself deserted by God will he not admire and reverence the very Shadow of that holy man whose Prayers shall prevail with God to return unto him again And then after the recess of the Melancholick fit which he is taught to believe is the comfortable return of the Spirit he cannot but be very liberal to him by whose powerfull intercession he hath received such a Divine benefit a blessing better than life it self I deny not but that God may sometimes beget Supernatural joy in the soul of an holy man by impressing upon him a secret sense of his love and likewise kindle the flames of Hell in the Conscience of a sinner by impressing on his soul a secret sense of his wrath But these are extraordinary ways of dealing with men of which the Scriptures are silent but he can no more impress the sense of his wrath upon the spirit of a gracious then the sense of his love upon the spirit of a graceless Christian nor secretly contribute to enslave and torment the Consciences of good men

Ecclesiastical within the Kingdom of Scotland was asserted by the first Act of the Second Parliament began at Edinburgh Octob. 19. 1669. The Kirk-Ministers have ever since rail'd against this Act above all the rest saying that Jesus Christ is quite exauctorat and unkinged by it that it hath overthrown his Prerogative Royal and made the King Supreme in the house of Christ. That the Three Estates have thereby Blasphemously declared that they have no King but Caesar that it is most expresly contrary to the 2d Psalm and that by subjecting all Ecclesiastical matters to the Imperial Scepter they have given a sinful mortal power to King it over the house of God Insomuch that Iesus Christ hath neither name nor thing of Kingly power left him by this Cursed Act by which all power Ecclesiastick is declared to be the intrinsick and inherent Prerogative of the Crown In particular the Author of the Poor Mans Cup c. saith that he admires the Patience of God that the Nation wherein such a wickedness was decreed hath not before this Perished from under heaven and saith that the Question is put by the Governours to the followers of Christ in the fields with greater contempt than Pilate put it What is Iesus than your King And then he crys Oh noble Cause Oh who would not rejoyce to enter the List of contradiction with these his enemies and have once an opportunity to say Yes he is a King and will be a King when you are gone and will prove himself higher than the Kings of the Earth by rescinding your Supremacy that Idol of his jealousie and indignation and object of his revenge Nay he saith that it is a pure perfect and unparallel'd contradiction to the Doxology of the Lords Prayer and that never any thing was so like it in Sence and Sound as what is Recorded by the Holy Ghost of the King of Babylon Isa. 14. 13 14. I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North I will ascend above the heighths of the Clouds I will be like the most High Supremacy and every thing Original upon and derivate from it 3ly I can but make mention of that honorable and noble practise that this Land was priviledged with viz. that after both defections the Lord put it in the heart of Christs Church and State to renew those Covenants again with the National and Solemn League and Covenants together with an acknowledgment of sin and an engagement to Duty and that in the close of that year which performance was attended with so much of the z So he Blasphemously calls a National Fascination to Rebellion and Schism Lords power and presence that it was like a Resurrection from the Dead to all that were Witnesses thereof both Speakers and Hearers that many were forced to Cry out The joy of the Lord is our strength God of a truth is here 4ly I dare not but add this in the case wherein I now stand viz. I dare not but add my Concurrence with and Adherence to all these publick Testimonies Protestations and Declarations that have been owned evinced and remitted by all the Presbyterian Ministers and Professors that appeared against the publick resolutions for taking in the Malignant Party into Judicatories and Armies as also I joyn my Cordial adherence to and with them that protested against the 2 general Assemblies at Saint Andrews who endeavored to approve what the Commission had done in the year 1650. and 1651. in reference to the intrusting of the Malignant Party which as was said by these protesting worthies laid the foundation of all that has come or may come upon us I hope this will not offend any 5ly I am bound in Conscience in the next place to testifie my dislike and abhorrence of that horrid cruel barbarous unheard of and unparalleld Deportment and practice of that 1 This is the 15th Act of the First Parliament begun at Edinburgh Ian. 1. 1661. whereby all the pretended Parliaments from 1640. to the end of 1648. and by consequence the Established Presbyterian Government were all rescinded and Annulled and they also rail as much against it as against the Act of Supremacy and burnt them like two Idols both together Act Recissory wherewith as at one Lash by an Act of that Precipitate Parliament they endeavored to Rescind Annul and Repel all those great and glorious things that the 2 So he Blaspemously calls a strong hand of Rebellion strong hand of the Lord had done in Scotland for more than 20 years bygone over the belly of so much opposition and standing contradiction of proclaimed and avowed Adversaries upon all hands yea I proclaim my abhorrence of all the Confusion 3 He means the Blood first of those who were Executed soon after his Majesties Restauration as of Wariston Guthrie c 2ly of those who were Executed for the Rebellion at Pentland-Hills 1666 who in Naphtali and Ius populi vindicatum are called Worthies precious Saints and Martyrs c. and lastly the Blood of Mitchel who suffered for attempting the Murder of the late Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews since effected by them whom the Author of the Poor Mans Cup hath Canonized for a Saint and Martyr in this Parallel with Samson which I shall set down in his own words pag. 35. First Samson was a Rackel and Rough handed Saint ready to Pelt the Philistines on all occasions yet Secondly the Holy Ghost for all the faults that followed him hath Recorded his name and Enrolled him in the number even while the names of many others are left out of those Eminent Worthies Heb. 11. And so he hath made the name of Mr. Mitchell Savory 〈◊〉 ●s he took many Testimonies from him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his appearances to the Cause so he owned him in the end and honoured him to die Witnessing a good Confession which will be on Record to Posterity Thirdly as Samson did more mischief to the enemies of the people of God at his death than in all his life for when they sent for him to make themselves merry at a sight of his misery the Lord helped him to spoil their Sport So I judge it is beyond question with every Sober man that Mr. Mitchells death hath done more hurt to its Contrivers and furious drivers than ever his life could have done even though he had shot again and hit that unhallowed Mark c. Blood murder Fineing Confineing Imprisonments Stigmatizing with other unexpressible Cruelties that has issued 〈◊〉 that Cursed Generation there ●9 years by gone and moreover I leave my Testimony against all other Confusions Imprisonments and Blood that is or may be intended against these in the Land who design to 4 He means from Idolatrous revolting from God into the Episcopal Church which is not the house of Christ as they Sacrilegiously teach keep their garments clean whether in

before them and craving their pardon that he had accepted of it as † The Epistle Dedicatory to Bishops Halls Episcopacy Graham Bishop of Orkney did his forsaking of his Negative power by a contract with his Presbyters and committing all Church-Affairs to their sole management not to mention the remitting of their Canonical Oath would have been as Sacrilegious a concession as a Bishop quatenus such could make He had thereby virtually reduced himself into a Presbyter which the Primitive Church did abhor as † Can. 29. Concil Chalced Math. Blastar Cap. 28. in E. Sacrilege and would undoubtedly have deprived and Excommunicated if not Anathematised any Bishop that durst have been so perfidious to the Apostolick cause But yet though beyond all example he cut the very Nerves of Episcopal Jurisdiction in these Articles of Accomodation the Nonconform Ministers scornfully rejected them and wrote against them in a book intituled The Case of Accomodation c. Printed in 4 o 1671. the Godly and 17 There is not one Learned man among them unless he be a Priest for so custom emphatically calls the Romish Presbyters or a Jesuit in Masquerade Learned that are of another judgment I judge it fit likewise in this case to leave my Testimony 18 Last Summer was Twelve-month the Convention of Estates gave his Majesty a Five-months Tax or 30000l Sterling a year for five years successively to maintain a Regiment of Foot and 3 Companies of Dragoons and 3 Troops of Horse for suppressing of the Field-Conventicles This Act was like to be such a Blow to the Cause made up of Faction and Schism that it was vigorously opposed under some colour or other by an insignificant contrary Party who were not the Sixth part of the House And as soon as it was passed the Field-Preachers who had told the people before that the Convention would come to nothing fell immediately to Preach against the Five-months Tax telling them that it was given by the enemies of Christ to drive him out of the Kingdom and that it would be as great a sin to pay it as it was to Judas to betray Christ. Nay they told them that this was the day of Christs enemies and the power of darkness and the very Nick of temptation which God permitted to trie whether they would have Christ for their King or no and charged them as they would answer it before them at the great day not to forsake him contrary to their Holy Covenant by sinfully complying with such an Antichristian Act. Their people upon this were so affrighted that many of them rather than pay the Cess will suffer distreint and in particular the Earl of Dundonalds chief servant fell perfectly distracted by trouble of Conscience for having assisted his Lord at Renscot in laying the Cess upon that Shire And the very same Sanctified Ruffians who murdered the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews in Fife had several days before laid wait for the Collectors of this Tax against the stent taxation cess that hath been so unjustly imposed so irrelevantly founded and vigorously caried on by the late Convention of Estates and meerly upon no other account imaginable but to make a final extirpation 19 i. e. of Christ as King in Sion of the Covenant of the Presbyterian Government that Pattern in the Mount of Christ his Gospel and Ordinances out of the Land and how lamentable it is to consider how many Professors did willingly pay it and were most forward for others to do the same In the next place though to many I die desired yet I know not to a few my death is not desired and it s the rejoycing of my heart that I die in the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath loved me and given himself for me and in the Faith of the Apostles and Prophets and in the Faith that there is not a name under Heaven by which men can be Saved but by the name of Jesus and in the Faith of the Doctrine Worship and Government of the Kirk of Scotland as it is now Established according to the Word of God Confessions of Faith Catechisms larger and shorter like as I leave my Testimony against Popery Perjury Prophanity Prelacy Heresie and every thing contrary to sound Doctrine In the close as a dying Person and as one who hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be Faithful I would humbly leave it on the Godly Ministers to be faithful for their Lord and Master and not to hold their peace in such a day when so many ways are taken for injuring him his Name nay his Sanctuary Ordinances Crown and Kingdom 20 Well threatned false Prophet I hope there will be found a Party in this Land that will contend for him and his matters upon all hazards and as faithfulness is called for in Ministers so Professors would concern themselves that they countenance not nor abate any thing that is inconsistent with their former principles and practices I have a word to add further that God is calling persons to repentance and to do their 21 To assert the Covenant first Works O that Scotland were a mourning Land And O that Reformation were our practice according as we are Sworn in the Covenant Again Christians of grace and experience would study more stability and straightness in this day when so many are turning to the right hand and so many to the left 22 Consider how Blasphemously he applies this Scripture He that endures to the end shall be saved he hath appointed a Kingdom for such as continue with him in his temptations Next as ever ye would expect to have the Form of the house of God shewed you in all the Laws thereof goings 23. Of the Presbyterian Government Discipline out thereof and comings in thereof then think it no shame for you for all that hath been done sitting down on this side Jordan is like to be our bane Oh when shall we get out and run after him with all our hearts and never rest till he return I commend my Wife and poor young ones to the care and Faithfulness of the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the God that hath led me to this day and who is the God of my Salvation be their God and my God their Father and my Father I am also hopeful that Christian Friends and Relations will not be unmindful of them when I am gone Lastly I bear my Testimony to the Cross of Christ and Bless him that ever he counted me worthy to appear for him in such a Lot as this Glory to him that ever I heard of him and that ever he fell upon such a method of dealing with me as this And therefore let none that loves Christ and his righteous Cause be offended at me and as I lived in the Faith of this that the three 24 Married to God by the Solemn League Covenant See more in Notes upon W. Kingdoms are married Lands

Loudon 34. Lysimachus Nicanor 13. 33. M. Mr. Hugh Mackell his Blasphemy 7. Mariana approved by Lex Rex 30. Mr. Malne 29. Martyrs Miraculously assisted by God Mr. Kid pretends to that miraculous assistance 2 3. the Pseudo-Martyrs of the Covenanting Cause 10. they dyed Fudled or Drunk 18 19. Mary Queen of Scotland her saying of a Presbyterian Fast 28. Sir George Maxwel bewitched to death by Witches who were Fanaticks 35. Covenanting-Ministers False Ministers or Usurpers of the Ministery 36. They assume Prophetical boldness 49. Prouder than any Bishops the Pope not excepted 50. Mr. Mitchel his Blasphemies 22. 68. blasphemously compared with Samson 10. Mrs. Mitchelson a Ministers Daughter a pretended Prophetess her Basphemy 7. Marquess of Montross at first a Covenanter 30. The Covenanters cruelty to him afterwards 29. the reasons thereof 25. in Marg. g. Murderers of the late Lord Primate 29. 63. N. National Covenant 43. Naked Truth refuted 40. 41. Naphtali 7. 13 25 26 29 30 31 33 51 52. see Probable capacity O. Passive Obedience Asserted against the Jesuits Covenanters Mr. Hobbs c. 31 32. the profession of that Doctrine a badge of true Protestancy 33. Ordination of Bishops unto their Office distinct from that of Presbyters Oxford-Divinity Preces Lacry●● c. so called 31. P. Scottish Acts of Parliament damned by the Covenanters 8 9 10. Mr. Peter Paterson 34. Patronage of Ecclesiastical Livings elder than Popery 25. in Marg. m. Mr. James Porter 34. Presbyterians vid. Covenanters their Preachers abusive and blasphemous applyers of holy Scriptures 3. 8 9 19 20 21 23 48 49. Protestation of the Covenanters 1638. 13. in Marg. c. Protestant Is a Papist reformed into a Primitive Christian 33. who true Protestants and who not 16. An account of the Army at Pentland-hills 33. Hugh Peters dyed Drunk 19. The true notion of Persecution stated 24. Phineas Or Heroical Murders justified by the Presbyterian Writers 66 67 68. Probable Capacity That Doctrine 29. contrary to the practice of Primitive Christians who were in a most Probable Capacity 31. The Poor Mans Cup c. 9 10. Q. Quakers Why the Presbyterians are so angry at them 45. their unanswerable Arguments against the Presb. 45 46. R. Ravillac Redivivus 12. 14 22 34 35. Mr. Henry Rollock 7. Mr. Rutherford 34. Remish Testament 1. Mr. Matth. Rumsey 34. S. Scriptures Blasphemously or abusively applyed by Fanatick Preachers 2 3 9 19 20 21 23 48 49. Spotswoods History 13. in Marg. 14 49. Soldiers murdered in their Quarters by Fanaticks 70. The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon 48. 54. Supremacy condemned by the Covenanters 9. 25. Addit Post finem Mr. James Symson 34. T. The Thebean Legion 52. Earl of Trequaire 30. Town-Major of Edinburgh Sir Edmondbury-Godfreyed by the Fanaticks 36. 70. Mr. Robert Tran of Egglesholm 29. W. Wandring thoughts will interpose in Devotion as well as in Studying if resisted not sins 21. The seasonable warning the treasonable and blasphemous language in it 28. Mr. Welshes Prophecy of himself 22. his Impudence 53. Major Thomas Weir 34. James Wallaces Wife her Adultery and Blasphemy 34. West of Scotland where Fanaticks abound famous for Fornications and Adulteries 35. Whole Duty of Man vindicated against the Cavil of Mr. Hobbs 32. Mr. Williamson a Conventicle Preacher and the Lady Carrs Daughter 35. Witchcraft a reigning Sin among the Fanaticks 16. Witches of Burrostoness all Conventiclers 16. Causes of Gods Wrath a Book so called 43. ERRATA In the first Speech PAge 2. line 11. him page 13. line 2. wide 10. wish 35. those page 17. line 22. fed In the second Speech PAge 47. line 9. Cess page 54. line 47. tristed In the Animadversions PAge 23. l. 41. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 25. Marg. e Perth p. 29. l. 23. 9 l. 25 Milne p. 36. l. 10. John in marg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 42. l. 23. purely dele and p. 48 l. 30. Ittecha p. 49. 3 in marg Balcanquel p. 53. l. 8. Alexander There are other Errors of less moment which the Reader may be pleased to Correct