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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29422	A Brief and true account of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland occasioned by the Episcopalians since the year 1660 being a vindication of Their Majesties government in that kingdom, relating to the proceedings against the bishops and clergy there : with some animadversions upon a libel intituled, The present state and condition of the clergy and Church of Scotland.		1690 (1690)	Wing B4533; ESTC R8736	23,445	35

Money never refuse Baptism to such Brats or to couple Whores and Rogues together which are there called half-Mark-Marriages when by their previous Dalliances the Belly begins to swell so that for Shame they cannot in that Condition go to be married in their own Country and I have heard it as the Encomium of a deceased Parson God be with him he never refused to make a Christened Soul or a married Couple But lest any should say that these are malicious Reflections upon the Church of England I answer that a Poet of their own viz. Mr. Hickeringil in his Ceremony-Mongers Character and other Books says a great deal worse and in express Terms That it is the worst constituted Church in the World But that which is enough to confound the Impudence of Gain-sayers The most part of the Abuses which Dissenters accuse the Church of England of are named and a Reformation of them commanded by his Majesty in his late gracious Letter to the Bishop of London which as it hath heightned and confirmed the good opinion which all honest Men had of him it hath also incensed the Debauchees and high-flown Prelatists who upbraid him as now beginning to discover himself and say that it were not best for him to meddle too much Which verifies the Observation that Dissenters have always entertained of those Tantivies that let their Hyperbolical Pretensions of Zeal for Religion and Loyalty be what they will if the King put but forth his Hand and touch them they will curse him to his Face and rather than part with an Inch of Superstition or a swinish Lust will as the Party have always done say a Confederacy with Hell and Rome as times past and present do evidence beyond Contradiction of which if my designed Brevity would permit I could give Authentick Instances out of their own Authors from the Reformation to this very Day But to conclude this Point and manifest to the World that the Presbyterian Discipline is infinitely beyond that so much idolized Discipline of the Church of England let them give such an Instance as this of the now Presbyterian Ministers of Edinburgh who charged their Elders at their Election to visit the Parish two by two and see that the Master of every Family prayed in his Family and if he were not able to do it that they should instruct him and pray with the Family themselves Neither is this a Novelty to capital Applanse but the old Practice of the Presbyterians both at home and abroad where the Government did not obstruct it and which God hath many times bless'd with Success Those being Helps of his own Appointment to assist his faithful Ministers in the Discharge of their Pastoral Duties And we should be very glad to see the Church of England as conscientiously discharge what Discipline their own Canons enjoyn and his Majesty hath now commanded as the aforesaid Ministers are to put theirs in practice out of mere Principle and without any such Command but this is more than we can hope or their Church bear as now constitute which time will verify Nor do we want Testimony from Officers of their own Communion of the good Discipline of Presbyterian Families in Ireland where they quartered and as a thing extraordinary to them gave an Account by Letter to their Friends that they were quartered in Scots Presbyterian House who read pray'd and sung Psalms in their Families twice a Day And yet those are the Men whom the Church of England will not admit into Command though they have sufficiently evidenced their Courage Christianity and Loyalty in the Desence of Dery c. whereof others basely and maliciously have robbed them of the Honour What our Author means by the Orthodox Principles the Scots University were so careful to infuse into their Students or by the great and distinguishing Doctrines of the Church of England defended in Print by an eminent Professor at Glasgow I know not When I was at the University of Edinburgh about 9 Years ago the Assemblies Confession of Faith was taught there and generally by the Episcopalians through the Kingdom though their Practice and the same were as much opposite as black is to white And I cannot think our Author will allow that Confession as Orthodox lest he should thwart a Church-of England-Jury who brought it in as a Libel not many Years ago it being also formerly damned by the University of Oxon And that the Church of England though different in Government and Ceremonies held any Doctrine which distinguished her from other Reformed Churches none ever averred except it were that new up-start slavish Doctrine of Non-Resistance and Passive Obedience in the sense of the present disloyal Recusant Clergy whereof as she had the Dishonour to be the Mother she has also the Ignominy to be the Murderer having basely cut its Throat as Harlots use to do sometimes with their spurious Brood whereof if their darling K. James had had timely Notice a thousand to one if ever the Nation had seen the blessed Day of an Abdication and Vacancy of his Throne and the same filled with the best of Kings as it is now to the Terror of Papists and their Adherents But if as there is all the Reason in the World to believe they are the Apostles of Passive Obedience whose Cause this Man advocates we know what Friend he is to the Government For if they believe their own Doctrine they must needs look upon resisting and dethroning the greatest Tyrant as unlawful and consequently disapprove of what the Nation has done against the late King and look upon their present Majesties as Usurpers whom they may lawfully resist and depose when they have sufficient Force which that they may attain we need not doubt of their Zeal to buz about their venemous Principles and intoxicate the Minds of those who that they may without Controul enslave themselves and others by their Profanity to the Devil which his present Majesty by his Letter aforesaid has shewed himself an Enemy to they will freely render Themselves and the Nations Slaves to the Tyranny of France and Rome What was the Behaviour of the Episcopal Clergy at the Insurrection of Bothwel-Bridg our Author says every one knows but I believe if all the Truth were told he himself knows little of it and I am confident helooks upon himself as some Body and would be very angry if his Neighbours did not so too However seeing he hath put me in Mind of it I 'le let some know what I am sure he is not willing they should which is thus When the extraordinary Hazard of those in whose Houses they met the frequent Surprizes and barbarous Usage of those who did meet and the Blessing of God upon the Endeavours of the Preachers did so much increase the Number of Meeters that they could not with Conveniency and Safety be accommodated with Houses they betook themselves to the Field where it pleased God by the Foolishness of Preaching or in the