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A48077 A letter from Scotland with observations upon the Anti-Erastian, anti-prælatical and phanatical Presbyterian party there by way of dialogue between Anonymus and Antiprælatus. 1682 (1682) Wing L1503; ESTC R36332 4,468 2

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Ingenuity I have heard what strange feats the Cause has done it has Sanctified greater crimes indeed have not the worst of Murtherers been reputed Martyrs Is not Rebellion made the Test of the sincerity of Religion You know I could give many instances to prove this and much more Yea Buggery Bestiality incest Adultery clame interest In your Cause But I shall at this time forbear Antipre I shall let you rail on but do not you think that Ladies meet with hard Measure to be carryed before Criminal Courts for receipting honest men who have no other retreat in time of danger Is it not Barbarity Anony No I neither think it hard nor Barbarous For Women are certainly in this case the cause of our ruine when they Keep Preachers who Sow poysonous seed in the Land And if they might plead Impunity because of their Sex we should never remove the cause of our disturbances we should never enjoy peace nor tranquility Your principle of Resistence is so far improved that the Kings Authority is declined and a War Proclaimed against him It is thought Duty at any rate to destroy his Dutiful Subjects and must Authority tamely suffer Women to harbour Instruments to put in Execution your bloody designes This were a Barbarity indeed but to the Government Especially when your Murthering Martyrs have sealed that Principle with their blood that it is not only Lawful but Duty to Murther his Majesty and all his Servants A Principle that Humanity must blush at Antipre That is but the principle of a few but may not honest well-meaning Men be protected Who do not Preach up Resistance and whose Conscience will not permit them to comply with the times Anony Authority Protects honest men for no honest Man will disobey the Laws of the Land where he lives and those who obey their obedience is a surer safeguard than a Ladies Chamber Those who are not pleased with our Laws let them go and search for better elsewhere or stand to their hazard at home But the truth is whatever you may pretend Resistance is the Soul of your whole work was not your Covenant that Monster of Religion brought fourth and mantained by Rebelling was it not nursed with and yet thirsts after Christian blood I hope you will acknowledge these things since they cannot be suspect of falshood We have learned from the principal Standards of the Party who are living instances of his Majesties inclination rather to pardon penitent than punish obstinate offenders that the Interest of a few Men of broken Estates and no Conscience Was the Spring that acted the people as they pleased but now when the Mobile is left to it self j you ●e what effects furious Zeal in Conjunction with ignorance hath produced have not a party of you burnd the Bible Renounced their Baptisims committed Adulteries every Man with his Neighbours Wife of late at a Meeting near Borrowstouness retaining nothing of Saintship but that of having all things Common But you are not ignorant of hundreds of such instances perhaps not come to my knowledge Therefore be ingenuous confess all to be a Cheat you have an Indulgent Prince And besides it will be the greatest despight you can do the Devil for frustrating your hopes Antipre vou mistake me perhaps and think I will divulge the Secrets of the Saints Shipwrack my Conscience lose my inward peace and Break my Staff of Bread Anony I have more Charity than to think it was a principle of Conscience made you Phanatick I had rather think you Knave than Fool for Knaves may repent and make amends by their after services to the Government but little to be for hoped from fools and the division of the Party in Fools and Knaves is exact And if as I must p●●sume Interest led you from the way Let the same ●otive now bring you back there are many ways of living honestly and tho your Gain be less yet your safety will cast the Ballance You can have no place of retreat now Antipre I will be so ingenuous as to acknowledge I was never satisfied with the methods taken by the Party I have told them of their Errors over and over again but it would do no good However you must pardon me to think your Complement but very course And your motives for my return not at all convincing There are yet places of retreat even at home but I can live abroad If one Trade fail me I can fall to another Anony I thought you only dealt in Rebellion I would have said Religion But it seems you deal in other Commodities pray inform me further Antipre It is true the propa●●tion of Religion is the end I aim at but I use not alwayes the same means In Scotland I am Preacher in England Pedler in Holland I deal in Books Anony How much pains are you at to do the Devils business to raise a flame to consume three Kingdoms He dilate you to his Majesties Advocate as an Incendiary a Wilful fire raser Antipre Then to be alike with you I shall dilate you at our next publick Meeting as an Incorrigable Enemy to God and his Cause and as a person not worthy to live This will be Sentence of Death without further proof than my assertion and when ever occasion offers none of the Party will think it below him to be your Executioner for this Crime And tho you should dilate me your Evidence wil be no proof Anony You talk so ●aturally of Evidence that I believe you would make a Swingeing witness if Occasion offer and this would be another means to promote the Cause But now I must be going and if you will meet me here again to Morrow we shall talk further of affairs Antipre I le not fail to meet you London Printed for E. C. 1682.