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A80277	The complaint of the boutefeu, scorched in his owne kindlings. Or The backslider filled with his owne wayes: in two letters of the ministers of the Presbytery at Carrick-Fergus, to the Lord of Ardes, now in rebellion in Ulster, in Ireland, against the common-wealth of England: with his answer to the first of those letters. Together with some animadversions upon the sayd letters.		1649 (1649)	Wing C5614; Thomason E566_18; ESTC R206202	7,759	16

man yet was too old for them he conceales his Commission from C. S. till George Monro with his Brigade of Irish from Ormond was come to Carrick-fergus and then he declares himselfe what Authority he was cloathed with and what help the poor Covenant and Presbytery is like to have from him being Commissioned from him whose Leivtenant Generall professes to maintaine the Christian Religion in the large Extent and not under a strict notion of new invented Names themselves begin to suspect and George Monro was no Dissembler with them when they lately at Carrick-fergus asked him whether he would take the Covenant or not He ●●●●●ed The Devill take the Covenant and you too These are the sweet effects of that Consisteriall Libell which yet by accident and no thankes to them may in time proove of advantage both to England and Ireland But no more of that now It is worth the observing how these Backsliders from their duty are filled with their owne wayes And t' were good that others of that Tribe would give over their trade of Intermedling with Civill affaires for they finde that Young men can over reach them T' were perhaps good that their Brethren of Scotland would for their better information consider what may be their case if Montrosse should bring but a small strength into the North of Scotland to joyne with the malignants there or if George Mo●r● Having seiled his businesse in Vlster should transport thither his Irish Brigade might there not be found men enough in Scotland to bring things there once againe to the condition they were in before the ●●●tell of Kilsyth consider it And t is ten to one Montrosse hath made so good Observtaoin of the cause of his misfortune at Phillips-bough that you would never take him in that condition againe deceive not your selves you that are the conscientious Presbitery in Scotland if any such there be either your Civill or Kirke ruine is inevitable in the way you now goe you may yet establish hath if you will there is one way and it cannot be hid from your eyes but who can helpe it if you will not see He had need be a good swimmer that dare imbrace a sinking man And perhaps some would say t' were no bad counsell if I should advise some of our hyper-poly pragmons the St. politiques of the Pulpit to meddle only with their proper worke least they doe like their poore silly Brethren at Belfast raise more such Devils then they can conjure downe If they be up they will breake into their Circle there is nothing so sacred which these they plead for will not proph●●●e Oathes Covenants Priests Pulpits any thing take heed you raise not a new Warre for if you doe 't will be most miserable to your selves So much of the Alteration of affaires and the cause thereof Wee would first put your Lordship in mind of the hazzard c. Why doe you not speake it once it may be his Lordship knowes no such hazzard and how was it avoyded by renewing the Covenant That same can admirable Panpharma●on it cares all diseases infallibly But what 〈◊〉 was he in danger to loose his Estate in Ireland to the Sectaries because he was a Religious Presbyterian I doe not heare that any of them have such opinions Certainly he is in danger to lose it now to the Common-wealth of England for his Rebellion to which you his Ghostly Fathers instigated him you tell him of his Declaration that he would doe nothing without your advice least God should let him fall into errour Pray where learn't he that your advice was like to be so sure a preservative was it not from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his ●●●telous Vncle could have taught him better he hath no such Hyperbolicall opinion of you Are you not ashamed thus obliquely and 〈◊〉 to insinuate your owne infallibility Doe you● 〈◊〉 think you have led him sufficiently into errour when you led him into ●●bellion against the Common-wealth of England he must needs be a wise man that gives up himselfe to your leading When the blinde leads the blinde you know the event and this is like to prove a woefull one to you both Your Lordship hath had secret dealing with Malignants c. And you have openly been so unlesse Treason Rebellion and to stirre up to it be Anomalous and excepted from that Generall rule And with what face doe you tell his Lordship of his dissembling and subtile dealing professing one thing and intending another to ensnare the people of God to his sinistrous ends why may not his Lordship doe it as well as you whose whole course is nothing else but masking under the vizard of the Cause of God and reformation of Religion to impose upon all who have the weaknesse to trust you while you carry on your owne ends But to your Expresse His Lordship were best consider whether there be not something of an Omen in it perhaps while he pursue the Course you put him into his END may be SINISTROUS It seems incredible to you he would take a Commission from the King while he refuses as much as his Father to secure Religion and follow wicked Counsell Why may not the King of Scotland follow other mens wicked Counsell as well as your wicked Counsell for who shall assure us you will give him better then you gave the Lord of Ardes when you put him into Rebellion against the Common-wealth of England But because you talke of securing of Religion tell us what that same Religion is that needs to be secured by Kings was 't not that true Religion that once grew and spread in the World and made a Conquest of the Roman Sword against all the power of the Empire set on worke by the Devill to oppose and endeavour to root it out Religion properly so called can maintaine it selfe without Externall power 't is their Religion that calls for defence from the secular Arme that is not able to defend it selfe from the appearance of truth which is great and will prevail over all Antichristian forms and clouds But you will be faithfull to his Lordship now 't is well you will at last you should have been so when you put him into Rebellion For your denunciation and Prophesie we will not much contradict it your Grand-sire Caiaphas hit it once and so did that shadow raysed by the Witch of Endor when he told Saul that to morrow he and his Sonnes should be with him but if this be his doome for his Rebellion what will become of you that put him on to it The Lord of Ardes Answer to the Presbytery at Carrick-fergus Reverend Friends I Cannot but with unexpressible griefe resent the bitter expressions and ill grounded wrong aspersions you are pleased to cast upon me in your Letter as if I had secretly brought in Sir George Monroe his party into this Countrey and so have been the chiefe Author of all these present distractions whereof God the searcher of hearts is

my witnesse I am free notwithstanding of the jealousies raised upon some expressions in that Letter of Sir George Monroe to Sir Robert Stewart which was intercepted and that among other many prevalent reasons and motions too long here to expresse induoing at this time to owne his Majesties Commission It was not the betraying but the securing of these Garrisons from Sir George his party which in our distracted and disjoynted condition for want of Authority and by reason of the Souldiers affection to their former Officers were likely to be rendered to him The Lord he knowes that the preservation of the established Church-government your peace the good and quiet of this poore corner and the advancement of Religion according to the Covenant all which by private underminers to your owne knowledge were in apparent hazard of ruine are the chiefe reasons which induces me to this course of making use of that Authority as the onely meane to secure us being so united under command from the violence of opposers hereunto It request you therefore and untill my carriage after that now I am cloathed with Authority may witnesse whether my intentions and resolutions be not according to my profession you would be pleased to have more charitable thoughts of me and rest assured that I am Your affectionate faithfull Friend and Servant MONTGOMERY Belfast June 30. 1649. THE poore Thunder-stricken Lord answers with the humility that becomes a good Son of the Kirke he now ownes 〈◊〉 his Commission and thereby confesseth himselfe guilty of Treason to the Common-wealth of England but dare not owne his juggling with George Monroe and Sir Robert Stuart because perhaps that might be Treason against the Presbyterie and Covenant which may not be forgiven him neither in this World nor that to come neither dares he tell the reasons why he did not declare his Commission till then nor is it convenient for me to tell them though they cannot be unknowne to him that is acquainted throughly with the state of those affaires The poore Man hath learned from them to appeale to God too take heed my Lord you know who was wont to doe so and the World hath seen that God will not be mocked nor is an 〈◊〉 but an Omnipotent and Omniscient God that judgeth in the Earth whether the New Rebels of Vlster beleive it or not But now your Lordship is clothed with Authority we shall see how Georg Menro will give you leave to use it which the Presbytery have told you in their next Letter they doe not beleeve will be for the good of Religion and the Covenant being Associate with the Enemies of them both indeed your Lordship is in bad tearmes with them and with all men else you had better been still persevering Right Honourable WEE received yours wherein you with greife resent our bitter expressions and ill grounded wrong aspersions as much as to call them false which you say we cast upon your Lordship Truely our expressions flowe from the bitternesse of greife and sorrow and not disaffection towards you You have often knowne our aboundant affections and endeavour to serve your Lordship in our stations These which your Lordship cals wrong aspersions are the words of truth and sobernesse Intercepted letters from that party together with Colonell Conawayes discovery of that which is now clear w●● many other circumstances of your Lordships latter carriage and the exact correspondence betweene Colonell Monro's motions and yours does evince the reality of our assertions as well as his owne Letter which we beleive spake neither affection nor a conjecture of your Lordships designe being written to such a close friend It is a sad jest to your Lordship to tell us that it was the securing of these Garrisons from Colonell George Monroe that moved you to put on that commission wheras by the conjunction of your Lordships forces and command he lyes before this Garrison to destroy it It were a good proofe of the reality of your purpose if yee should with your whole power urge him to remove which if yee were cordiall in were easy to doe Neither know we how to beleive that your Lordships present course is intended for the good of Religion and the Covenant when yee are not onely associate with the enemies of both but your commission as we are informed subjects you to the immediate commands of the Marquesse of Ormond whose infamous and irreligious peace made with the Rebels may easily tell us what establishment to the Covenant or Presbyteriall government we may expect from his Orders and Authority his owne printed speech to the councell of Kilkenny explaines to us his reall resolutions concerning Religion to maintaine Christian Religion in the large extent and not under a strict notion of new invented names and besides the King yet refusing to secure Religion how shall you establish it except ye doe very far transgresse the limits of your commission which we beleive you desire no man to thinke In a word your Lordship hath but reassumed the old quarrell which the Engagers the last yeare and before them James Grahame and the Malignants in England were of old pursuing Neither we are confident will it prosper better in your hands nor it did in theirs The Lord in Justice hath declared his displeasure against that course will do so against all them who seek to advance the King against Christs throne and even while he refuses to give Christ his due first We would therefore yet againe as lovers of the standing of Christs Kingdome and of your Lordships salvation as the Messengers of God beseech your Lordship before you run a further hazard of the Lords wrath to leave of that ungodly course and take better meanes to effectuate the good of Religion Remember those who honour God he will honour and those who despise him shall be lightly esteemed of Whereas your Lordship desires our charity towards you truely as we have ever testified a due respect to your selfe and family we shall yet continue but you have involved your Lordship already so far in the guilt of unfaithfulnesse to the cause of God and your owne subscriptions that we cannot but testifie against the course you are in and denounce judgement upon your person family and all your party till the Lord perswade your heart to return which shall be our fervent desire and shall remaine Your Lordships servants in all dutifull observance the Ministers of the Presbytery At Carrick-fergus the 2 of July 1649. TO the reply of the Presbytery there remaines little to say they here discovered his falshood and tell him by whom and all his humble and calme language gaines him nothing of credit with them they now see he that could be drawn from his fidelity to the Common-wealth of England by the Presbytery at 〈◊〉 may also be drawne from them by the glorious ●●●mises of a pretended King they will trust him no 〈◊〉 they are inexorable And so doe the Presbytery 〈…〉 deale with those that will not serve their turn 〈…〉 shadow of it here in England though they want a 〈◊〉 story for the forming those dreadfull Thunder-bolt 〈◊〉 they make the Pulpit serve for a shift to blow the Tr●●pet to Rebellion and a new War what would our 〈◊〉 doe if they had the power of the Kirk of Scotland T●● poore Viscount Montgomery lyes under their Prophesies and Fulminations which may be like 〈◊〉 come upon him though he should repent his s●ule ●gainst the Covenant And for a close of all I shall aske them onely these Questions Whether it be not as dangerous for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of men as for another to set up themselves against the Throne and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ And whether it be not a great part of his Kingly office to rule in the understandings and consciences of Men Whether the true light that lightneth every one who commeth into the World may not give out that light in what ●●●ner and measure and by what meanes he pleaseth And whether they doe not usurpe his Throne that seeke to oppose those beames or limit and present the 〈◊〉 And whether the Presbytery be not every where more imployed in this worke then is for their safety if the wrath of the Lambe be kindled FINIS