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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

eos quos baptizaverat suos putabat esse non Christi in toto orbe decretum est ut unus de Presbyteris electus super poneretur caeteris ad quem omnis Ecclesiae cura pertinere● schismatum semina tollerentur Having now shewed that the Primitive Christians believed the Function of a Bishop to be distinct from that of a Presbyter and Superior to it and that the Bishops were the Successors of the Apostles and of Christs institution as they were I hope it is plain that this Antiepiscopal Deceiver dyed not in the Faith of the Primitive Christians as he hath the impudence here to profess From what I have here said of the Episcopal Office and Authority I may draw some Corollaries First that the Primitive Catholick Church acted in Conformity to its own Profession in declaring Aerius as an Antiepiscoparian an Heretick Secondly that Church-Government is not indifferent but that the † Episcopos esse in Ecclesiâ debere tanquam institutionem Apostolicam ac ordinationem proinde divinam contra Puritanos contraque Bellàrminum semper sensi qui negat Episcopos à deo immediatè suam jurisdictionem accepisse Sed nihil mirum à Puritanis eum stare quum Jesuitae nihil quàm Puritano-papistae ●int This was the Judgment of King James as is observed by Becanus de Prim. regn Angl. c. 7. Jacobi regis praefat Monar Episcopal is immediately of Apostolical and mediately of Christs institution and by consequence at least as unalterable as the Baptism of Infants and observation of the Lords-Day which the Presbyterians with good reason declare that the Magistrate ought not to change or take away Thirdly that it is Blasphemy to say that Episcopacy is an Antichristian usurpation over the Church Fourthly that to assert with the Covenanters that the Presbyterian-Government is of Divine institution is an Unscriptural Heretical and absurd Doctrine contrary to the Word of God and the practice and profession of the Holy Catholick Church And as this Jesuited Presbyterian died not in the Faith or Profession of the Primitive Christians so he died not in the Faith of the Reformed Churches First not of the Church of England which is Governed by Bishops like the Primitive Churches and after the warrant of their example hath Instituted Ceremonies and worships God by Liturgical Forms Nor secondly of the Reformed Church of France which submits to the regulation of the Edict of Nantes which is a pure and Secular Edict and which hath always worshipped God by a Common-Prayer-Book and observes Holy-days as Christmas Easter and Whitsunday and which reverences Protestant Bishops after the example of Calvin and Beza their first Reformers and owns Ministers Ordained by them and are never without some such in their Church And whos 's † The Kings larger Declaration pag. 75. Pastors especially those of Charenton were offended at the Solemn League and Covenant as an indelible Scandal to the Protestant Cause as also the Professors Ministers and Consistory of Geneva and their neighbour Reformed Churches as was certified to King Charles the First by his Publick Ministers abroad Nor lastly died he in the Faith of the Reformed Church of Scotland which never professed Episcopacy to be an unlawful or Antichristian Constitution c. as may be seen in the Larger and Lesser Scoticane Confession in the Harmony but I suppose he means the Covenanted Reformed Church that Schismatical Military Church which was and is the Reproach of the Protestant or Reformed Name by the mighty 9 So he calls the incurable obstination of the Presbyterian Party in Schism against the Episcopal Church and Faction and Rebellion against the State Power Goodness and Wisdom of God I bear my witness and Testimony to the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of the Kirk of Scotland by 10 A great * Presbyteries Tryal pag. 50. Apostle of the Covenant said in the Pulpit that the Angels and Saints of heaven if they could leave the sight of God would be glad to come down and see the admirable order of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods Which Platform being no where to be found in the Scripture made many that had cryed up the Presbyterian Discipline for a Divine Institution tu●● Independents Quakers and Atheists and condemn it as in truth it is for a meer human invention Which if Mr. Calvin had not hit upon and set up in that exigence in Geneva had never been known to the Western no more than to the Eastern parts of Christendom at least to great Britain where it hath been taught in both Kingdoms without any ground in the Scriptures or Antiquity for the sole indispensable government of the Church † King Charles his larger Declarat pag. 67. The National Covenant is that which in the Harmony is called Generalis Confessio it was first Subscribed by King James of blessed Memory and his Household 1580. and by Persons of all Ranks 1581. by an Ordinance of the Privy-Council and Act of General-Assembly It was Subscribed again by all sorts of Persons 1590. by a new Ordinance of Council at the desire of the General Assembly with a general Bond for maintaining the true Religion and the Kings Person and so far Authority permitting or commanding it all was well But then afterwards in † See the Declaration in w. on the first Speech and the Kings larger Declarat pag. 68 69 70. 1638. without the Kings Authority or Commission from his Council they imposed it again according to a new Interpretation of their own although no Authority can interpret any Oath Law or Rescript but that which made it or those whom they who made it have Constituted Interpreters and Judges thereof The new Interpretation was That this Confession was to be interpreted and understood against all the pretended Innovations as if every one of them had been expressed therein viz. The Five Articles of Perth the Service Book the Book of Canons the High-Commission and Episcopacy it self although these things were neither named nor hinted at in that Confession whereof the first Framers only abjured in it those Romish Corruptions which in their time had infected the Church Besides all this they altered the Bond which was annexed to the former Confession by adding these words without authority A mutual defence of one another against all Persons whatsoever by which what they meant the King by woful experience found The Copy of this Confession may be seen in the forecited larger Declaration of the King Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries Synods and General-Assemblies Also I bear my Witness and Testimony to our Covenants † National and Solemn-League betwixt the three Kingdoms which Sacred and Solemn Oath I believe cannot be dispensed with nor loosed by any person or Party upon earth but are fully binding these Nations and will be so ever hereafter Also I bear my Testimony to our publick Confessions of Sin and engagements to Duty and that either as to what concerns

will be mightily endangered if not destroyed by the latter not only the Baptizing of Infants the Observation of the Lords-day the Admission of Women to the Holy-Communion who were not as Cassand observes admitted to the Paschal Lamb which it succeeded nor can it be expresly proved out of the New Testament that ever they received it but the Order and Authority of Presbyters to Administer it nay the use of both the Holy Sacraments which the Vid. Apol. Relig Reform by Barclay Quakers say was a Temporary Institution and the Divine Authority of the Scriptures in general upon which the Christian Religion depends But I hear that one intends to do this in a particular Tract wherein he also designs to shew That scarce one particular of the Christian Religion except the Authority of the Scriptures in general hath been so little contested as Episcopacy and Episcopal Ordination wherein for above 1400. years the Hereticks agreed with the Catholick Church This being so it may easily be discerned to what cause we ought chiefly to ascribe that Deluge of Atheism and utter contempt of Religion which hath overflowed the Land You have been the main occasion of it the Atheists as well as the whole Brood of Sects are your though I confess Equivocal Offspring and to give them their due they have not been ingrateful but always serviceable to you and upon all occasions have joined with you in your main designs against the Bishops and the Church However it is the Churches unhappiness yet it is not Her dishonour that She and Her Clergy have you and them your Allies for their Common Enemies you joyn hand in hand against them and endeavour to cover their Faces with shame and fill their Souls with contempt But I desire you seriously to consider whether your ingratitude to God for such a Church and your contempt and forsaking of such a Clergy who have always been such faithful and invincible Champions against the Papists be not one of those crying Sins which have justly provoked God to threaten us with Popery and which may at length urge him to bring you under the King of Babylon both for your Punishment and Cure I believe you will be offended at me for what I have said of the necessity of Episcopal and invalidity of Presbyterian Orders but I have said no more of this Subject than Bishop Against Champney page 118. Fern who asserts that the latter are to be accounted void within the Church of England and every compleat and regularly formed Church Or Bishop Answer to the third Epist. of Pet. Moulin Andrews who asserted That the Reformed Church of France in wanting Episcopacy wanted something which was of Divine Right Or King In his first Paper to Mr. Henderson Charles the First who asserted That by the alteration of our Church-Government we should be deprived of a Lawful Priesthood c. Or in effect then Apocalypsis Apocalypscos page 130. Dr. More who on Rev. 13. 11. makes Episcopacy to be the Horns of the Lamb which were upon the Beasts or Antichrists Head Or last of all then In his Separation of Churches Mr. Dodwell who as I am assured from very good Judges hath unanswerably shewed the nullity of these by the necessity of having those in every visible Church I have not yet seen the Book but I am confident I am rightly informed about it because I find Mr. Baxter so angry both at it and the Author in his last Book I shall say no more than this That if this Doctrine be true then you who maliciously oppose the Divine Institution or who by virtue of Presbyterian Orders Sacrilegiously presume to Administer the Sacraments in opposition to our Episcopal Communions within the British Isles have a sad account to give without Repentance to the Head and Founder of the Catholick Church Edinburgh Jan. 5. 1679. 80. The Author having met with King Charles the Firsts Declaration concerning his Subjects of Scotland 1640. since he finished his Animadversions thought fit to add what follows out of the 56 57 and 58 Pages for the further illustration of what is said of the Letter of the Covenanting Lords to the French King in the 30th Page BUT to fill up the measure of their Treasons they have endeavoured to settle Intelligences in parts beyond the Seas and practised to let in Foraign Power into that Our Kingdom as We are able to make appear under the hands of some of the chiefest of them as if the fire which by their own Rebellions they have already kindled within the bowels of that State were not sufficient to consume it unless they added fuel to it from abroad And herein appears first their malignity to Us their Natural Soveraign in that they had rather prostitute themselves to Foraign Government and that such as is different in Religion than yield conformity to Ours But because the World shall see that We charge them not but upon very good and sure grounds We have thought fit to set down here their own Letter Of which We have given Our good Brother the French King accompt being confident he will not assist any Rebels against Us. The Letter follows with this endorsement Au Roy which in France is always understood from those Subjects only to their Natural Prince SIRE VOstré Majesté estant l'asyle sanctuaire des Princes Estats affligéz nous avous trouvé necessaire d'envoyer ce Gentilhome le Sieur de Colvil pour representer à V. M. la candeur naiveté tant de nos actions procedures que de nos intentions lesquelles nous desirons estre gravées escrites à tout ●univers avec un ray du Soleil aussy bien que V. M. Nous vous Supplions doncques treshumblement Sire de ●●y adjouster foy creance a tout ce qu'il dira de nostre part touchant nous nos affaires estant tresasseurés Sire d'une assistance eigale a Vostre clemence accoustumee cydevant si souvent monstrée a ceste Nation laquelle ne cedera la gloire á autre quelconque d'estre eternellement Sire de V. M. Les treshumbles tresobeyssants tressaffectionnés Serviteurs Rothes Montrose Leslie Mar. Montgomery Loudoun Forrester Englished thus SIR YOur Majesty being the Refuge and Sanctuary of afflicted Princes and States we have found it necessary to send this Gentleman Mr. Colvil to represent unto Your Majesty the candor and ingenuity as well of our actions and proceedings as of our intentions which we desire to be engraved and written to the World with a beam of the Sun as well as your Majesty We therefore most humbly beseech You Sir to give faith and credit to him and to all that he shall say on our part touching us and our affairs being most assured Sir of an assistance equal to Your wonted clemency heretofore and so often shewed to this Nation which will not yield the glory to any other whatsoever to be eternally Sir Your Majesties most humble most obedient and

King in his wrath and that the Church was well Governed for above 300 years before there was any Christian King Lastly is it not Jesuitism to teach the people that they ought to labour for an holy hatred of our Reformed Bishops and their adherents and that it is p Naphtali Jus populi vindicatum Mitchels greater Speech in Ravillac Redivivus The introduction to the Apology lawful and laudable to kill them and their Curates and that Protestant Prelacy is an enemy to true Godliness and admirably fitted to bring the Church unto a slavish dependance upon the King If these be Jesuitical Doctrines thou blind leader of the blind then thou and thy brethren will never be able to wash off the aspersions of Jesuitism with all the water in Tweed and the Forth Jesuitism is one I am hopefull there was never one that did converse with me that had the least ground of laying this to my charge and know not how it s come to pass to cast it upon me nothing except implacable prejudice that some have been prepossessed with against me I am not ignorant that near 2 years ago a person of Note in this Church who living was pleased to say that I had died in that judgment but after he was better informed he changed his Note and said it was misinformation but now the Lord before whom I must stand and be judged by and by knows that I have a perfect abhorrence of the things and it was never my intention directly or indirectly Though I must confess some few years bygone some were pressing with me that I might Conform and embrace Prelacy but for Popery and that trash it came never nearer my heart than the Popes Conclave or the Alcoran which my Soul abhors 9ly I have been also 11 Not by the Church-Ministers but by the indulged brethren who think it consistent with the nature and design of the Covenant and the Supremacy of the King of Sion to accept of his Majesties indulgence which Brown Welsh King Kid Cameron and the rest declare is unlawful to do branded with Factiousness divisive and seditious Preaching and practices I must confess if it be so it was more than I was ever aware of according to the measure that God hath given me it was my endeavour to Commend 12 In his Soverainity Royal Prerogatives Crown and Kingdom Christ to the hearts and souls of people even repentance towards God and Faith towards Jesus Christ according to the Word of God Confession of Faith 13 The Assemblies larger and shorter Catechism Catechisms larger and shorter yea I did press them also when God did cast it in 14 That was as often as he thought fit my way to remember their Sworn Covenant in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government and that they would make it their work to stand to it in substance and Circumstances seeing it is so cried down in this day and if this be divisive 〈…〉 10ly I am pressed in Conscience to bear my testimony against and abhorrence of every invasion usurpation or incroachment that is made or hath been made against Christs Royal Prerogative Crown and Kingdom original upon and derivate from that which they call the 15 See note y. Supremacy I was never free to lay a Confederacy with those that I judge in a great part have laid a Confederacy in that thing and the Lord is my Record I was never free in my Conscience for that which is called the 16 And as they hold it unlawful to take the Kings Licences and Indulgences as being inconsistent with their immediate Mission from Christ and his Prerogative Royal So they think it unlawful to accept of any Accomodation from the Church as being incompatible with their Solemn League and Covenant that Oath of God as they call it by which they are obliged to endeavour the extirpation of Episcopal Government and set up Presbytery in its stead Dr. Leighton sometimes Bishop of Dumblane and Arch-Bishop of Glascow offered them Six Articles of accommodation in his Diocess by which he did really unbishop himself and left himself nothing of the holy Apostolic Office but the empty name Indulgence neither first nor second as it was tendred by the Council and as it was embraced by a great many Godly-hearted men in this Island yea it was never lawful nor expedient to me and in effect The ARTICLES this is the main ground why I am rendred obnoxious to so many imputations 1st That if the Dessenting brethren will come to Presbyteries and Synods they shall not only be obliged to renounce their own private opinion anent Church-Government and Swear or Subscribe any thing thereto but shall have liberty at their entry to the said meeting to declare and enter it in what form they please that I have been all along contrary to their Indulgence in my judgment I confess I have been of that judgment and die in the judgment contrary to it and this I crave leave to say without any offence to 2ly That all Church-Affairs shall be managed in Presbyteries or Synods by the free vote of Prebyters or the Major part of them 3ly If any difference fall out in the Diocesian Synods betwixt any of the Members thereof it shall be lawful to appeal to a Provincial Synod or their Committee 4ly That Intrants being lawfully presented by the Patron and duly Tried by the Presbytery there shall be a day agreed on by the Bishop and Presbytery for their meeting together and for their Solemn Ordination and Admission at which there shall be one appointed to Preach and that it shall be at the Parish-Church where he is to be admitted Except in the case of impossibility or extream inconvenience and if any difference fall in touching that Affair it shall be referable to the Provincial Synods or their Committee as any other matter 5ly It is not to be doubted but my Lord Commissioner his Grace will make good what he offered anent the Establishment of Presbyteries and Synods and we trust that his Grace will procure such security to those Brethren for declaring their judgment that they may do it without any hazard in contravening any law and that the Bishop shall humbly and earnestly recommend this to his Grace 6ly That no Intrant shall be ingaged to any Canonical Oath or Subscription to the Bishop and that his opinion anent that Government shall not prejudge him in this but it shall be free for him to declare These are the Articles of accomodation in which that Prelate most unworthily parted with his Negative voice wherein the very essence of Episcopal power consists † Ignatius ad Smyrn ad Philadelph ad Trall For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. was the Apostolical rule of Church-Government can 39. Sanct. Apost and therefore next to the appearance of a Bishop before a meeting of Presbyters upon a citation from them and renouncing the Episcopal Function

occasion of their keeping of Coaches and admitting of their Secular Titles for which I likewise find them censured by the Viperous Author of the Reformed Bishop Printed lately at London Ruined Interest of our Lord and Master and for the relief of my poor Brethren Afflicted and r It hath always been the custom of Sectaries to miscall the Execution of the Laws by the odious name of Persecution which common People who seldom consider that the righteousness of the Cause and not the sufferings of the Prosecuted make Persecution are apt to think is really such as often as men suffer upon a pretended The true notion of Persecution stated religious account Therefore I will take an occasion from the abuse of the word by this Deceiver to declare from the words of our Blessed Redeemer That Persecution in the active sence is Inflicting and in the passive suffering of Evil for Righteousness-sake Whosoever then is truly Persecuted must be prosecuted for matters of professed Faith or Principles or for matters of Practice Upon the former account a man is Persecuted when he is prosecuted either for professing under which I comprehend Preaching and Teaching a true Doctrine which he is bound to profess as the Apostles were persecuted by the Jews for professing Jesus to be the Christ or for remonstrating against a false Doctrine which he is bound to remonstrate against as the same Apostles were persecuted for opposing this Doctrine that Moses his Law was to be observed under-Christ But whosoever is persecuted for matters of practise is prosecuted either for matters of Divine Worship which concern the first Table or for Matters of Morality which belong to the Second for there is no Righteousness or Righteous cause which is not reducable to one of these Two With respect to matters of Divine Worship a man is persecuted either upon a Negative account for not Worshipping a false god like the Three Children in Daniel or else for not Worshipping the true God in a false way as St. Paul and the other Apostles were persecuted by the Sanhedrim for not Worshipping God according to the Jewish manner after it was abrogated and these are the two Sorts of Persecution which most ordinarily occur in reading the Scriptures Or 2ly Upon a positive account for Worshipping the true God in a true way or to express it in the Sectaries own tearms for Serving of God as Daniel was cast into the Lions Den for Praying to God against the Kings Decree With respect to matters of Morality a man is also Persecuted two ways First Upon a Negative account when he is Prosecuted for not doing something which is in its own nature or by Gods positive Command Morrally Evil as the good Midwives were in danger of being Prosecuted by Pharaoh for not Murdering the Hebrew-Infants Or 2ly Upon a positive account when he is Prosecuted for doing some good Deed which in such and such circumstances ought to be done as our blessed Lord was Prosecuted by the Pharisees for opening the Eyes of the Blind and healing on the Sabbath-day These distictions being premised let us see in which of these cases the Covenanters are Covenantert not Persecuted Persecuted or which is all one for what they are Martyrs For no man is Persecuted but as far as he is Persecuted he is a Martyr and by his Suffeaings bears Witness to the righteous Cause for which he Suffers First Then they are not Persecuted when they are Prosecuted for professing the Principles of their Party because they are False Impious or both For contrary to the Universal Church of God they hold that Episcopacy is an Unscriptural and Antichristian Constitution That it is a sin to take Episcopal Orders or directly or indirectly to a See the Apologetical Narration and the Apology own the Authority of the Bishops and b See the Apologetical Narration and the Apology unlawfull to hear them or their Clergy Preach Nay That it is lawfull to kill them if they c For then they are Persecuting Prelates inform Authority or Preach or Write against them That the Use of the d A great Apostle of the Covenant Elder Brother to Dr. Owen said that the common Use of the Lords Prayer was a Papistical Charm And a Minister of Galloway thanked God that he had banished two Idols out of his Parish Our Father and I believe in God Lords Prayer the Creed and the Ten Commandments is Superstitious and Idolatrous That the Common-Prayer is an Idol That the observation of e See Bishop Lindseys Narration of the Assembly at Derth Holy-days the four Apostolical not excepted private Baptisms private Communions and Confirmation are unlawful Superstitious and Popish That the Presbyterian Government is of Divine Institution That the f The Apologetical Narration and almost all their Books solemn League and Covenant cannot be rescinded by any power on Earth but obligeth us and our Posterity for ever and that it is lawfull to kill those that g This was the true ground of their implacable hatred to the Marquess of Montross and the late Archbishop of St. Andrews Apostatize from it That the Oath of Allegiance in Scotland and the Oath of Supremacy in England ought not to be taken and That the h The Apologetical Narration see Note y on the first Speech Act of Supremacy unkings Christ That it is unlawful to appear at Bishops i The Apologet. Narrat and Napht. page 126. saith That their Oppressions and grievances by reason of this Court alone do far exceed the pressures and injuries of the Spanish Inquisition whereupon the United Provinces have justified their Revolt from the King of Spain Courts or before the k The Apologet. Narrat and Napht. page 126. saith That their Oppressions and grievances by reason of this Court alone do far exceed the pressures and injuries of the Spanish Inquisition whereupon the United Provinces have justified their Revolt from the King of Spain High-Commission-Court That the Supream Magistrate cannot silence a Minister nor indict a Fast which the good Kings of Judah and Israel and the King of Nineveh did That the l Jus Populi Vindicatum Apologet. Narr Sect. 11. People have a Right to defend themselves and their Covenanted Religion That m Apologet. Narr Sect. 9. The Apology Mitchels larger Speech in Rav. Red. Though the Right of Patronage is far Elder than Popery as is evident from that Law of Justinian Novel 123. c. 18. Siquis oratorii domum fabricaverit and the Council of Toled 9. c. 2. decernimus ut quamdiu fundatores Ecclesiarum presentations to Livings in the Church by Lay-Persons and Collations by Bishops is Popish and unlawful not to mention all their other Principles which are occasionally mentioned in these Animadversions But if all these and their other Doctrines which they profess in opposition to the Church and State be False or Impious or both as most assuredly they are then they are not Persecuted

are obliged by our Religion not to Worship Daemons nor approach their Altars which are polluted with Blood Thou hast Commanded us to Sacrifice or every Tenth Man of us shall be put to Death Know assuredly that we are all Christians who as to our Bodies are thy Subjects but not as to our Souls which now look up to the Founder of our Religion Christ. Afterwards Exuperius the Standard-Bearer spoke unto them thus You see Fellow-Soldiers I bear the Eagle the Sign of Secular War but it is not to these Arms that I desire to provoke you nor in War of this nature That I would have you shew your Valour but in another way of Combating by which and not by your Swords you shall win the Kingdom of Heaven He left also this Message to be sent to the Emperor That Desperation which made all other men Valiant in Dangers could not prevail with them to use their Arms against his Majesty who had refused to Resist with their Swords in their hands because they had rather Die than get an unlawful Victory and perish in Innocency than Survive in Sin All which shews First That Passive Obedience is no Chimaera but a real Notion Secondly That it is the indispensible Duty of all Christians when they are Persecuted by Authority and Thirdly That it is so far from justifying Rebellion as the Author of Behem foolishly Asserts That it is the only Doctrine which can keep Subjects who are really Persecuted and Oppressed or phansie themselves to be so from Rebelling against their Sovereign and therefore the Popish and Presbyterian Jesuits who love to have it in their Power to trouble the Government of Christian Monarchs declare it to be as great a Sin as active Obedience to their unlawful Commands And now when all Sects whereof some are not Chistians with great confidence call themselves Protestants upon the account of their Opposition No Orthodon Protestants who deny the Doctrine of Passive Obedience whether real or pretended to Popery I freely declare That none of them are or ought to be esteemed so in a strict and Orthodox sence but such as Profess the Doctrine of Passive Obedience as strictly as it was both Professed and Practised in the Primitive Catholick Church Nay furthermore seeing there are some common Maxims of Christian Divinity which were always professed by the Church Universal for undoubted Truths although they are not set down expressly neither in the Scriptures nor in the Apostles Creed and the truth of which were never questioned but by some few Hereticks who had no proportion to the rest I also assert That no Man nor Society of Men how Antipapistical soever they may be ought to be looked upon as Orthodox Protestants unless they profess these common Notions of Christianity without the Belief and Profession of which none could be counted Orthodox Christians in the Primitive Catholick Church These common Principles wherein all Christian Churches agreed are these That the Scriptures are the Word of God That there are Three distinct Persons in the holy Trinity the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and that these Three † That Infant are to be Baptized are one God That Christ is both God and Man in the same Person That the Lords-Day or First Day of every Week ought to be kept Holy That a Solemn Yearly Commemoration of the Passion Resurrection and Ascention of our Lord and of the Descent of the Holy Ghost ought to be Observed and that the Church Universal is to be Governed by Bishops above and distinct from Presbyters There never was any Church from the Apostles and downwards for above Fourteen hundred Years which did not consent to the Truth of These and some other Doctrines and look upon them as the common Notions of the Christian Religion delivered down from its first Original with the Articles of Christian Faith And therefore as no Arrian Photinian Sabbatarian or Aerian how Opposite soever they were to the Jews and Heathens the common Enemies of Christianity were admitted for truly Catholick or Orthodox Christians in the Primitive times but were Condemned and Anathematized for Hereticks The true not on of Protestancy so now no Society of Antiscripturists Antitrinitarians Socinians Antidominicans for I will not call them Antisabbatarians Antipaedobaptists Antiepiscoparians of what Denomination soever and likewise no Society of men professing the Observation of the Apostolical Holy-days to be Superstitious and Idolatrous how opposite soever they pretend to be to the common Enemie of the Reformed Churches ought not to be considered as Orthodox Protestants who by that name are understood to Protest against the Errors Innovations Corruptions and Usurpations of the Romish but not against the Common Doctrines of the Primitive Catholick Church the Lord. And that I Preached at Field-Meetings which is the other ground of my Sentence I am so far from acknowledging that the Gospel Preached that way is a Rendezvouzing in Rebellion as it is so termed that I bless the Lord that ever counted me worthy to be Witness of such Meetings which have been wonderfully Countenanced and owned not only to the x The Delusion of many Thousands as their numerous Field-Meetings do shew Conviction but even to the Conversion of many Thousands yea I do y I observed before That the Covenant-Preachers are apt to speak mighty things of their Party So Naphtali speaking of the Covenanted-Army which rebelled at Pentland-Hills 1666. saith That there hath not been in Britain such another Company of men joyned in Arms for the Covenant and Cause of God for sound Judgment true Piety Integrity of Heart Fervent Zeal undaunted Courage c. Whereas they were for the most part Crack-Brained men of broken Fortunes and such as had been processed for Fornications and Adulteries as all those who went to Christs Standard out of the Parishes of Kilmarnock and Phimus were known to be being in all Twenty Persons And if any man will take the pains to enquire into their Morals they will find this Sect to be one of the wickedest People not only for Treason Schism and Rebellion but for Sensual Sins and Abominations that ever professed the name of Christ. They use all manner of Care and Secrecy to Conceal their Wickedness but yet so many undeniable Stories of their Privy Pranks are come to Light as make them the Scandal of the Christian name Lysimach Nicanor First Edition page 79. Tells us of one Andrew Lesly who forsook Ireland to come and take the Covenant after which he immediately left his own Wife to live with a Whore the Daughter of an holy Sister at Edinburgh who Blasphemously said That her Child was fallen into an holy Fornication with a Brother not out of Lust but Love and therefore resolved That she should not Confess it lest the Gospel should be Scandalized and that it was better to fall into the hands of God by False-Swearing than to fall into the hands of men by Confessing the Fact which appeared

Episcopi secundum terrae fines determinati Jesu Christi sententia sunt unde decet vos concurrere Episcopi Sententiâ Ad Magnes In concordiâ dei studete omnes operari praesidente Episcopo in loco dei Ad Tralles omnes revereantur diaconos ut mandatum fesu Christi Episcopum ut Jesum Christum existentem filium patris Fresbyterion autem ut Synedrium concilium dei valete in Jesu Christo subjecti Episcopo ut dei mandato similiter Presbyterio Ad Magnes He commends Sotion the Deacon Quoniam subjectus est Episcopo ut Gratiae Dei Presbyterio ut legi Jesu Christi See many more citations to this purpose out of this Father in Dr. Hammonds Dissert 2. Cap. 25. Justin Martyr in his Apology to the Emperor Antoninus written about 155. speaking of the Customes of the Christians writes thus Postea † 1 Tim. 15. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 praeposito panis aquae vini poculum offertur quibus ille acceptis praesidens vero postquam gratiarum 1 Cor. 14. the holy Communion is called Eucharistia giving of Thanks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 actionem † Eucharistiam perfecit deinde lectore quiescente praesidens orationem qua populum instruit habet precibus peractis panis offertur vinum aqua praepositus itidem preces gratiarum actiones fundit Hegesippus a Christian Writer who flourished Anno Dom. 140. is cited by Euseb. lib. 4. c. 22. giving an account of the Bishops of his days where he saith Se plurimos Episcopos Romae Convenisse ab omnibus unam eand●mque audivisse Doctrinam and particularly of the Church of Corinth Corinthiorum inquit Ecclesia in rectâ fide permansit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 usque ad Primum Episcopum and Jerusalem Postquam inquit Jacobus cognomine Justus Martyrium pertulit frater patruelis domini Symeon Cleopae filius Episcopus constituitur About the same time or a little before Dionysius Bishop of Corinth wrote several Epistles apud Euseb. l. 4. c. 23. One to the Athenians in which he makes mention of Quadratus formerly their Bishop and of Publius the Martyr Bishop before him and then of Dionysius the Areopagite St. Pauls Convert as their first Bishop Another to the Gnossians in which he exhorts Pinytus their Bishop Ne grave onus castitatis fratrum cervicibus tanquam necessarium imponat Another Gortinensi Ecclesiae in which he commends their Bishop for the renowned courage of his Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Another to the Romans wherein he commends Soter their Bishop for his Charity and Hospitality Irenaeus who flourished Anno Dom. 180. writing against the Valentinians Argues thus Habemus annumerar● eos qui ab Apostolis instituti sunt Episcopi in Ecclesiis Successores eorum iisque ad nos qui nihil tale docuerunt quale ab his deliratur Etenim si recondita mysteria scissent Apostoli quae seorsim latenter à reliquis perfectos docebant his vel maximè traderent ea quibus etiam ipsas Ecclesias committebant valde enim perfectos irreprehensibiles eos esse volebant quos Successores relinquebant suum ipsorum locum Magisterii tradentes After this he gives a Catalogue of the Bishops who had succeeded Peter and Paul in the Church of Rome after again he urgeth That Polycarp made Bishop of Smyrna by the Apostles knew no such Doctrine Polycarpus autem non solùm ab Apostolis edoctus conversatus cum multis ex iis qui dominum nostrum viderunt sed etiam ab Apostolis in Asia in eâ quae est Smyrnis Ecclesia constitutus Episcopus quem nos vidimus See also his Epist. to Victor apud Euseb. l. 5. c. 23. Clemens Alexandrinus Contemporary which Irenaeus in the Story of the Debauched Young Man who was converted by St. John apud Euseb. lib. 3. c. 23. saith Quum ex insula Patmo Ephesum rediisset Johannes ad finitimas rogatus se contulit partim ut Episcopos constitueret partim ut integras Ecclesias componeret vultu ad eum verso qui super cunctos Episcopos erat constitutus hunc inquit testibus Ecclesiâ Christo studiosè tibi commend● Afterwards agedum inquit Episcope redde nobis depositum quod ego Christus tibi commendavimus sub testimonio Ecclesiae cui praesides And Strom. 6. mentions three Degrees of Clergy nam hic quoque in Ecclesiâ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 progressiones Episcoporum Presbyterorum Diaconorum sunt imitationes gloriae Angelicae and Strom. 3. T●m Episcopos inquit Apostolus oportet constitui qui ex domo propriâ toti quoque Ecclesiae praeesse meditati Tertullian whom I should have named before Clemens Alexandrinus de praescript c. 36. affirms That the Apostles Chairs or Apostolick Thrones remained still in his time which was the latter end of the Second and beginning of the third Age. Percurre Ecclesias Apostol●●as apud quas ipsae adhuc Cathedrae Apostolorum suis locis praesident proxima est Tibi Achaia habes Corinthum Si non longè es à Macedoniâ habes Philippos habes Thessalonicenses Si potes in Asiam tendere habes Ephesum Si autem Italiae adjaces habes Romam and c. 32. Edant ergo origines Ecclesiarum suarum evolvant ordinem Episcoporum suorum ita per successiones ab initio decurrentem ut primus ille Episcopus aliquem ex Apostolis vel Apostolicis viris qui tamen cum Apostolis perseveraver●t habuerit auctorem antecessorem Hoc enim modo Ecclesiae Apostolicae census suos differunt sicut Smyrnaeorum Ecclesiâ Polycarpum à Johanne collocatum refert sicut Romano●um Clementem à Petro ordinatum itidem perinde utique caeterae exhibent quos ab Apostolis in Episcopatum constitutos Apostolici seminis traduces habeant And de Baptismo c. 17. dandi quidem habet jus summus sacerdos qui est Episcopus dehinc Presbyteri diaconi non tamen sine Episcopi autoritate After Tertullian and Clemens Alexandr Origen who flourished Anno Dom. 230. writes thus in 2 Hom. in Num. Putasne qui sacerdotio funguntur agere omnia quae illo ordine digna sunt unde est quod saepe audimus blasphemare homines dicere Ecce qualis Episcopus aut qualis Presbyter vel qualis diaconus and Hom. 16. in Matth. Episcopi Presbyteri quibus creditae and 7 Hom. in Hierom. Plus à me Presbytero exigitur quàm à diacono plus à diacono quàm à Laico qui vero totius Ecclesiae arcem obtinet Episcopus pro omni Ecclesiâ reddet rationem Cyprian who flourished Anno Dom. 248. writes thus in his 27. Epist. Lapsis Dominus noster Episcopi honorem Ecclesiae suae rationem disponens in Evangelio loquitur dicit Petre ego tibi dico quia tu es Petrus super ipsam petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam

Converted Butcher and his Wife 34 35. Cardinal Beton his Murder and Melvils Speech to him 66. John Balfour the Assassin 36. Bestiality Seven or Eight Conventiclers put to death for that Crime 34. Bishops The Successors of the Apostles their Office distinct from that of a Priest and of Divine Institution 38 39 40. they had a new Ordination distinct from that of Presbyters 41. Mr. Robert Blaires Divinity 30. John Bridgeford his Adultery and Blasphemy 34. The Bond for the Peace 44. Rebels choose to be Hanged and Transported rather than take it 16. The Bond tendred in 1677. and 1678. what the Covenanters said of it 50 51. Mr. Blake his Pride and Blasphemy 53. Mr. Robert Bruce his saying to King James 50. what the King said of him 51. Buchanan 13. in Marg. his Doctrine of Kings 29. and of Ehuds Dagger or Heroical Murders 69. in Marg. Burning of London assigned as a Divine Judgment for burning the Covenant there by the hands of the Common-Hangman 8. C. Mr. Cameron 70. Mr. Calderwoods Altare Damascenum 24. 30. Mr. Andrew Cant 7. Mr. Alexander Cant 53. Solemn League and Covenant the great Scandal to Foreign Reformed Churches 42. The National Covenant 43. Churches Greek and Latin attributed as great a Supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters to the Christian Emperors as the English and Scottish do to the King 23. Church of Scotland hath no Liturgical Forms or Ceremonies 26. is in a state of Persecution 28. Covenanters They refuse to answer when examined by Authority 1 12. their blasphemies about the Covenant 7. 26 4● and against the Act of Supremacy 9. 25. They reckon Wariston Guthry and Mitchel c. for Martyrs 10. their ignorance and wickedness 12. Their Jesuitical Doctrines 13 14. 66 67 68. They impose new Articles of Faith 13 14 25. They Prea●● against the Five-Months Tax 16. 71. Their Pseudo-Martyrs dyed Drunk 18 19. They aggravate the common infirmities of Human nature and take no notice of their own presumptious Sins 21. They by their Principles must have separated from all Churches since Christs time till the Reformation 23. They call Episcopal Churches Erastian Churches and their Ministers Court-Parasites 24. They assert the use of the Lords-Prayer Creed and Ten Commandments to be Superstitious and Idolatrous 25. They condemn the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy 25. The true cause of their hatred to Montross and the late Lord Primate 25. in Marg. g. They are not Persecuted but justly Punished 25 26 27. They are great Persecutors and Tyrants 27. 28. They and their Predecessors Persecuted Queen Mary Stuart King James King Charles the First and the Second 28. Their Treasonable and Jesuitical Principles about Government 29 30 31. They mock at the Doctrine of Passive Obedience 32. They speak great things about the holiness of their own Party 33. Their wickednessess and debaucheries 12. 34 35. They Murder at Houses as well at Field-Conventicles 36. Their incivility and inhumanity 47. Their Sawciness and Impudence 49. Their Pride and Spiritual Fast Lying Slandering c. 51 52 53. Their agreements with Arrians Novatians Donatists and Papists 50. Their Assassinating and Massacring Principles 66 67 68. Cess granted by the last Convention The Field-Preachers Preach against it 16. 47 71. Jesuitical Letter Post finem Primitive Christians and Christian Churches the common Doctrines wherein they all agreed 33. All Protestants ought to confess them as the common notions of Christianity 16. Consistory of Geneva and Charenton Scandalized at the Covenant 42. Cup of cold Water a Book vid. Poor Mans Cup. D. Desertion The Doctrine of Desertion not grounded in Scripture 34. The Scottish Declaration against the Covenant 8. Mr. John Dickson his blasphemies 8. 12 45. Jannet Duglass 35. Mr. Robert Duglass his Papal Pride 50. Earl of Dundonalds Servant the cause of his Distraction 16. E. Episcopacy proved to be a Divine Institution 38. 39. c. Christian Emperors Their Supremacy and Power in Ecclesiastical Matters and over Ecclesiastical Persons 23. City of Edinburgh railed at by Naphtali 52. F. Field-Meetings proved by many instances to be Randevouzes of Rebellion against Mr. Kid 11. Lord Forrester his Tragical End 35. James Foyer the holy Beggar 34. The right notion of Free-Grace 4. 5. The fulfilling of the Scriptures the blasphemies of that Book 19 20. French-Church scandalized at the Covenant 42. a Letter forged by the Western Covenanters in the name of the French-Church 52. G. Gallows of two sorts invented by the late Rebels one for the common Enemies of Christ and the other for the Nobles 54. Geneva The Reformed Church there scandalized at the Covenant 42. General Assembly the Papal Tyranny thereof 51. Sir Edmondbury Godfreys Murder parallel'd 50. Goodman Knoxes Companion his Rebellious and Murderous Principles 30. 66. Causes of Gods wrath a Book so called 43. Mr. Alexander Gibson Clerk of the Privy Council his Certificat 12. Grayham the Apostat Bishop of Orkney 16. Mr. Patrick Gillispie his Papal Pride 50. H. Mr. Hamilton Captain of Mr. Welshes Guard afterwards General of the Covenanted Army his Debaucheries 35. Robert Hamilton of Barnes 35. Mr. William Houston 34. I. King James His opinion of Bishops 42. in Marg. he complains of the Sawciness of the Presbyterian Ministers 49. The Papal State which the Presbyterian kept with him 50. His Sarcasm against Mr. Robert Bruce 51. Incest Eight Fanaticks convicted of that Crime in one Parish 34. Indulgence The Field-Preachers absolutely against Indulgence 6. 14 47. Addit post finem they write and preach against the Indulged 16. The Information for Defensive Arms 14. 31. The Irish justified their Rebellion by the example of Scotland 30. Jus populi Vindicatum 68. K. Mr. John Karstaires 34. Mr. Kid pretends to miraculous assistance 2 3. The King no otherwise to be obeyed than according to the Covenant 31. Mr. John Kings Jesuitical way of answering 20. his blasphemous applications of Scripture 21 22 23. got his Wife with Child before Marriage 34. dyed not in the Faith of the Primitive Christians 37. nor of the reformed Churches 42. as he told the People he did King Charles the First his larger Declaration 42 43. Knoxes Hist 13 14. in Marg. 30. 66. Knoxes Liturgy 27. L. Duke of Lauderdale 11. 47 73. Andrew Lesly his Murder Adultery and Blasphemy 33. Leightons Sions plea 14. Archbishop Leighton censured for his Articles of Accomodation 15 16. Lex Rex The treasonable and blasphemous Doctrines of that Book 30. it commends Mariana the Jesuit 16. mocks at the Doctrine of Passive Obedience 31. A Letter in the name of the French Church forged by the Fanaticks 52. London The burning of London and the last great Plague assigned as a Judgment for burning the Covenant there 8. Lords-Prayer Called a Papistical Charm 25. Bishop Lindseys Narration of the Assembly at Perth 25. Covenanting-Lords They wrote a Letter to the French King which Montross penned 30. Lords discontented who went to London March 1678. prayed for at a Field-Fast 11 Chancellor