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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

A Letter from Scotland WITH OBSERVATIONS UPON THE Anti-Erastian Anti-Praelatical and Phanatical Presbyterian Party there By way of a Dialogue between Anonymus and Antipraelatus SIR I Acknowlege my self extreamly your Debter for the constant Intelligence you send me affairs are going in the right Channel and cursed be he that diverts their course I receive your Observator every Post the Author does discover the underminers of Authority and consequently of your Peace in very Intelligible Characters and since we are endangered by a Malicious and restless faction of Phanaticks I shall endeavour to represent them in their true collours I am confident this will give no offence to Authority whose only Crime is the weakness of its Author Others might have done it more effectually but it were unreasonable for me to refuse to fight for my Prince because others might do that better And now I cannot but regret our circumstances when I consider how our affairs are misrepresented abroad I must confess we live among a Generation of Vipers whose teeth are set on edge to tear out the Bowels of their Mother tho they cannot reach her but through the sides of a most Indulgent Father his Sacred Majesty But I can assure you that Party is very inconsiderable and dayly loses Ground while Loyalty gains it Certainly if Rebellion and Witch craft where not of kin and Fascination in the case Men would not be at so much pains to ensure to themselves Damnation is there any Crime more severely threatned in Scripture than Resisting Authority they that Resist shall receiue to themselves Damnation the Laws of the Land threaten it and Reason will allow it no favour For before we ingage in any thing we ought to consider the conveniencies and inconveniencies that attend the undertaking but reason and experience the best School-Master will instruct us that a Civil War the most intollerable of all burthens is the natural product of Resistance therefore Resistance as the greatest evil ought to be abandoned Neither can Gratitude admit of it for we owe so many blessings to the Government that it were the higth of Injustice to fly in its face The Government of a Caligula is desirable if compared with the Miseries of that Land Where every Man does that which seems good in his own eyes So that it is evident that none but Knaves invented and Fools approve so Unchristian Illegal Unreasonable and Ingrate principles Sir this is a peice of Service I owe to my King and Country however I have resolved to give better Testimonies of the sense I have of my Duty when an occasion shall offer and till then let me be known by no other Title than that of Your Friend and Anonymus News publick and private explained the Party in a bad taking A Man may salva conscientia indulge the flesh a little so it be done in the fear of God of protecting Preachers and others Resistance the Soul of the work Of Whiggs Preachers Packmen and dealers in books Anonymus I See you have been in the Coffee-House What News are stirring Antiprelatus I can hear no good news the Pillars of the Cause are tottering our Private News bring no comfort and what can we expect from the Publick but matter of grief Now I fear the Cause will down Anony I remember to have heard the distinction of Publick and Private news ring in the streets a while ago But now the import of these terms as you use them is almost out of my head Antipre Private news are these which our correspondents send us exactly Calculated for the Meridian of the True Phanatical Presbyterian Anti-erastian Anti-Praelatical party however dispersed in any place of the Earth Publick news are these which go abroad Cum Privilegio Anony I remember the private news that the City of London was in Armes and that the Dutch had joyned with them in Petitioning for a Parliament that his Royal Highness was fairly repulsed when he came last to London by 50000 Men in Arms did tickle the Party a little but methinks the disappointments they met with should be very insupportable after such hopes But what private news are now current Be igenuous Antipre Not one word of news is stirring except what is made publici Our Informers abroad will not send bad and cannot send good news And as for affairs here you see how they go we have been praying for an English Parliament but have got no return neither by Dreams nor by Vrim nor by Prophets We are in Sauls condition before he caused to raise Samuel to him Anony Well if you would consult a woman of a familiar Spirit alias a Witch as did Saul you will have less difficulty of finding her tho a great many of that sort of late be added to the number of your Martyrs I must confess you are but in a bad taking your friends in England do not agree with the air there but are gone in search of more healthful Climats and our Kingdoms cold as it is is too hot for your Polititions here you have nothing left but a few Tools ready for any work but none to set them a going and without being used they will rust and be of no use I imagine I hear the Cause at the last gasp complaining its Votaries are pursued to and hunted from their last and safest refuge the Bed-Chambers and Closets of Keeping I mean protecting Ladies They have oftimes given proof of their Manhood there By their skill at close fighting as well as Preaching They are still in Duty one way or other You know a Preacher who in a Ladies Family improved that precept increase and multiply extreamly and such effect had his Doctrines and Vses upon the Ladies Daughter that it was evident by the fruit his seed had been sown in good ground Antipre I must interrupt you since it runs in my head and vindicate that Preacher you speak of I had the Narration from his own Mouth of that affair Several of his Majesties Guard having in the night time invaded the Ladies House in search of my Friend she for his security Charitablely did take him to her own Bed and left him there with her Daughter while she waited upon the Guard and had got them dispatched in the mean time my Friend fell a trembling and the young Lady his Bedfellow out of Charity could not but cherish and embrace and such effect had her Embraces that the temptation grew too strong to be Resisted Nay he gave me instances of several Saints who had done the like even while they conversed with none but those in the state of Grace And yet their Saintship was never called in question The truth is betwixt you and me when Scandal can be avoyded a man may salvâ conscientiâ indulge the flesh a little that way so it be done in the fear of God and not with the Daughters of the Land It is not for the interest of the Cause to deny it Anony I love thy