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

ignorant for almost 16 Ages I say for such a Rebel as this to pretend to such secret significations of Pardon from Gods Spirit at the hour of execution when in the next words he declares his utter impenitence for his crime can be nothing but a delusion of Satan or an effect of the same Enthusiasm which makes them pretend to Praying and Preaching by Inspiration and other gifts of the Holy Ghost Intimations of Pardon and Peace betwixt God and my Soul and as concerning that for which I am Condemned I magnifie his grace that I never had the least e Behold good people how like a Jesuit he speaks He acknowledges that he never had the least remorse or accusation of Conscience for his Treasons and Rebellions but counted it his honour to die under the name of a Traitor and Rebel for that Many-headed Pope the Presbyterian Government which as the Kirk-men Teach is the Royal Scepter of Christ Challenge but on the contrary judge it my honour that ever I was counted worthy to be Staged upon such a Consideration 3ly Another thing that re●ders the Despicable lot of the Christian Superable is that there is a felt and f That God also was sometimes wont to give unto his Martyrs the Spirit of Fortitude at the hour of death as a sign that they were supported by him and by consequence suffered for him is plain from the Holy Scriptures and both Jewish and Christian Martyrologies and therefore this wretch pretends here to this Sign also that he might seem to die not a deplorable as he speaks but a glorious death i. e. not as a Malefactor but as a Martyr But yet because he was conscious to himself how timerous he appeared notwithstanding all the Brandy and Cordials which he had drank he speaks ambiguously about it telling the people he had ground to believe that more or less God would perfect his own strength in his weakness certainly he meant that God would yet put forth his glorious power in a greater degree in him so that it should become more apparent to the Spectators before he was turn'd off the Ladder than at the moment when he spoke Sensible presence from the Lords strengthening the Soul when most put to it and if I could have this for my allowance this day I could be bold to say O death where is thy Sting and could not but cry out Welcome to it and all that follows upon it I grant the Lord by an Act of Sovereignty may go and come as he pleases but yet he will never g There are many Texts in the Old-Test which speak of Gods forsaking and not forsaking his people the Jews and the Kings whom he set over them as his Vicereys which are all to be understood in a Political sense Thus 1 Sam. 12. 22. Saith the Prophet Fear not for the Lord will not forsake his people for his great names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people So 2 Kings 21. 13 14. I will saith God Stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and I will wipe it as a man wipeth a dish and I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance So Psal. 94. 14. The Lord will not cast off his people nor forsake his inheritance So Psal. 71 King David prays God his rock and fortress to deliver him from the hand of his enemies and not to forsake him i. e. not to lay him aside in his old age till he had shewn his strength to the generation in which he lived and his power to every one that was to come So also he prays God in the 51 Psal. not to cast him away from his presence as he did Saul nor to take his holy Spirit from him by which he was enabled to Govern his people For God was wont to send his Spirit in visible impressions upon all those whom he called to judge and Govern his people as upon † Judges 3. 10. 6. 34. 11. 29. 13. 25. Othniel Gideon Jephtha Samson and Saul whom Samuel told when he was to be made King that the Spirit of the Lord should come upon him for a Sign and that he should Prophesie and be turned into another man 1 Sam. 10. 6 9. And at King Davids inauguration 't is expresly said 1 Sam. 26. 13. that Samuel took the horn of oyl and anointed David in the midst of his Brethren and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him from that day forward this was the Spirit of Government which consisted in a mighty power and impulse to do brave Heroical actions and carried along with it all the Royal qualifications that a man ought to have whom God was pleased to call to the Helm Maimonides calls it the Spirit of Fortitude but he might as well have called it the Spirit of Wisdom and Counsell for it fitted the persons upon whom it came in all points for the Royal Office and the Collation of it in visible impressions upon them was a Sign to the people that they were Authorized and Commissioned by God And therefore King David after the matter of Uriah for which he deserved to be rejected like Saul prays God in a most penitential manner not to cast him away from his presence nor take away the Spirit of Government from him which he had instead of a standing Commission from God Upon these and such like Texts which are to be understood in a Political sence hath been founded the Doctrine of Spiritual desertion or the comings and goings of God from the Soul which hath been as usefull an engine for the Ministers falsely so called to take fast hold on the Souls and Purses of their Melancholick Disciples as the Doctrines of Transubstantiation Purgatory and Absolution hath been to the Romish Priests of taking hold of the Souls and Purses of theirs For when a man oppressed with Melancholy or Melancholick Doctrines shall in his fits of dejection think himself deserted by God will he not admire and reverence the very Shadow of that holy man whose Prayers shall prevail with God to return unto him again And then after the recess of the Melancholick fit which he is taught to believe is the comfortable return of the Spirit he cannot but be very liberal to him by whose powerfull intercession he hath received such a Divine benefit a blessing better than life it self I deny not but that God may sometimes beget Supernatural joy in the soul of an holy man by impressing upon him a secret sense of his love and likewise kindle the flames of Hell in the Conscience of a sinner by impressing on his soul a secret sense of his wrath But these are extraordinary ways of dealing with men of which the Scriptures are silent but he can no more impress the sense of his wrath upon the spirit of a gracious then the sense of his love upon the spirit of a graceless Christian nor secretly contribute to enslave and torment the Consciences of good men

Papist and having an hand in the Irish Rebellion and at his Present Majesty for not punishing the Papists for Burning of London and compares him to Nebuchadnezzar for setting up a Golden Image to be Worshipped and to Saul and Uzziah for Usurping the Priests Office and to Julian the Apostate for destroying the Christian Religion pag. 9. 26 28. He also calls the Appointing the 29. of May a Profane Institution and saith That the Native issue of the Prerogative is the Establishing the Kingdom of Antichrist and an Usurpation of the Prerogative of Jesus Christ and saith That the King Erects a Papacy in himself more absurdly than the Pope did and saith That he is a stated Antichrist Pages 39 40 41 90. He Reproaches the Parliament pag. 86. saying That they made the Kings Throne the foundation of Perjury and Apostacy and pag. 87. he saith That they Blaspheme the Spirit and Work of the Lord in the Act For the Anniversary Remembrance of his Majesties Birth and Restauration and pages 2. 93 and 94 he accuses them all of horrid Apostacy and Rebellion against God and of appointing a Declaration of high Impiety to be Signed and saith They were the Rebuilders of the Kingdom of Antichrist As for the Privy-Council he calls them Murderers Pag. 123. and pag. 91. he saith That they have set the King in Christs Throne He rails at the City of Edinburgh for the Engagement they took of their Burgesses against the Rebels at Pentland Hills p. 166 167. and accuses them of Apostacy and Rebellion against God and threatens them with the Burning of London and pages 177 178. he tells them They had made a Conspiracy against the Lord and against his Annointed As for the Church-Ministers he calls them Wolves Thieves Graceless Hirelings and Plants which God never planted and saith It is the indispensable Duty of the People to drive them away and root them up page 108. The Author of the Apologetick Narration calls the Honourable Senators of the College of Justice Perjured Men and the Vilest of Men from whom no Justice can be expected and who are not worthy to be Judges among the Heathens c. and all because they have taken the Declaration against the Covenant Pages 328 329. The General-Assembly 1648. in their Supplication to the late King August 12. who was then under imprisonment hath these words It shall be your Majesties Wisdom in this as in all that hath befallen you these Years past to read the righteous hand of the Lord writing bitter things against you as for all your provocations so especially for your resisting his Work and authorizing by your Commissions the shedding the bloud of his People for which it is high time to repent that there may be no more wrath against You and Your Realms And page 58. of that Supplication they say Had your Majesty hearkened to our Counsel some years ago the bloud of many thousands that now lies upon your Throne might have been spared The Assembly and Parliament in their Declaration against Montross Printed 1649. pages 7 8 c. call him Excommunicate Traitor Viperous Brood of Satan Child of the Devil perfidious proud Atheist and Traitour though he had the Kings Commission for all that he did and was a man of as eminent Piety as Valour The Assembly of Divines at London with the Scottish Commissioners drew up a Letter in Latine and the same did the General-Assembly in Scotland which by order of the English House of Commons for so they called themselves they sent to the Belgick French Helvetian and other Reformed Churches wherein they assure them That the King made it his whole business to root out the Protestant Religion and used all means possible to reduce the Nation to Popery again I know a Gentleman who hath a Letter pretended to be written from Paris in the name of the French-Church dated June 5. 1662. wherein they call the Parliament of Scotland an ungodly Assembly a Seed of Evil Doers that gather themselves together against the Souls of the Righteous and condemn Innocent Bloud that slay the upright and breath out Blasphemies against the Heavens c. But the Style of this Letter demonstrates That it was written by some Western Fanatick and Fathered on the French Church In the Declaration of the Lords and Commons of England sent to the General-Assembly 1643. page 9. they affirm That the King and the Prelatical Party in England were in Arms for the ruining and destruction of the Protestant Religion and all the Professors thereof and in the English Ministers Letter to the Assembly page 10. they call the King and his Party a generation of Brutish Hellish Men and page 17. they affirm That the Prelatical Party are combined for the universal depression of the true Protestant Religion in Europe Naphtali pag. 117 118. saith That the Bishops are favourers and encouragers of all Profaneness Drunkenness Adultery Blasphemy and that they have heaped together in their own Persons the Dunghill of vilest Vices and transmitted the same over all the Land and the whole Fanatical Gang rail just now at the present Bishops as their Predecessors did at the Bishops 1638. Page 300. he accuses Archbishop Burnet now the most worthy Archbishop of St. Andrews of furious Zeal Pride Ambition and Contempt of his Clergy and domineering over them though he is known in both Nations to be one of the most Moderate Meek and Humble Men on the Earth and one that loves and cherishes his Clergy like a Father and as a Father is beloved and reverenced by them again He also calls the Bishop of the I●les who is a man of eminent Temperance a Glutton and the Bishop of Dunkell who was a most Pious Man and lover of true Piety in other Men an hater of Godliness and Good Men. And as for the Curates as he calls the regular Clergy he calls them in general Men void of the Fear of God Drunkards Whoremongers and what not pag. 302. And at this rate the whole Sect talks of Bishops Episcopacy the Clergy and the Church and he that can speak with most Venom and Malice against them and the King and the Duke of Lauderdale is counted the greatest Saint Mr. Andrew Cant Eldest Son of old Mr. Andrew Cant and the true inheritor of his Fathers violent Spirit was deposed by the Synod of Aberdeen from his Ministery at Banchrie for railing at the King the Queen and the Bishops not long after his Majesties Restauration He said The Maintaining of Bishops against Gods Will had tried the Kings Predecessors and if he should be so foolish as to set them up again down he should go do what he could He said That her Majesty was a Vagabond Woman compassing Sea and Land to prosecute her wicked Designs and like a true Presbyterian Cursing Meroz Wisht the Cross if not the Curse of God to accompany her Mr. Welsh as Ravill Rediv. relates