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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35017	The Scotch Presbyterian eloquence, or, The foolishness of their teaching discovered from their books, sermons and prayers and some remarks on Mr. Rule's late Vindication of the kirk	Curate, Jacob.; Calder, Robert, 1658-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing C6961; ESTC R10498	97,496	122

cry of their Feet I will run the ways of thy Commandments that is the cry of the Feet And the cry of the Eye They looked on him and were lightened that 's the cry of the Eye If we would go to Heaven we must not only cry with our Mouth but likewise with out Hands Feet and Eyes The same Mr. Arskine said in another Sermon What Sirs if the Devil should come with a Drum at his side saying Hoyes hoyes hoyes who will go to Hell with me boys who will go to Hell with me The Jacobines would answer We 'll all go we 'll all go Mr. James Kirkton preaching on Jezabel said That well-favoured Whore what became of her Sirs she fell over a Window Arse over Head and her black bottom was discovered you may all guess what the Beholders saw beloved a black sight you may be sure One Mr. Mair a Presbyterian Preacher Son to Mr. John Mair the Episcopal Minister in Towch being desired by the Father to preach for him the Son said He would or could not preach in their Churches because they were polluted but was content to preach in a Fire-house This was provided for him and the Company whereof his Father was one being convened he said I will tell you a sad truth Sirs You have been driven to Hell in a Coach this eight and twenty years and that old Stock my Father pointing to him has been the Coachman Mr. Kirkton in October last preaching on Hymns and Spiritual Songs told the People There be four kinds of Songs Profane Songs Malignant Allowable and Spiritual Songs Profane Songs My Mother sent me to the Well she had better gone her self for what I got I dare not tell but kind Robin loves me Malignant Songs such as He ho Gillichrankie and the King enjoys his own again against which I have not much to say 3ly Allowable Songs like Once I lay with another man's Wife Ye may be allowed Sirs to sing this but I do not say that ye are allowed to do this for that 's a great deal of danger indeed Lastly Spiritual Songs which are the Psalms of David but the Godless Prelates add to these Glory to the Father the wrost of all I have yet spoken of The same Kirkton in March the year before that in a Sermon upon Come into me all ye that are heavy and weary laden expressed himself thus Christ invites none to him but those that have a great burthen of Sins upon their back ay but beloved ye little ken what Christ is to day what Crafts-man do you think him now is there none of you all can tell me that Sirs truly then I must e'en tell you would you ken it now in a word then he 's a tell you would you ken it about to day Have ye any broken Hearts to mend bring them to me and I 'll soder them that is give them Rest beloved for that 's the words of my Text. Mr. Arskin in January last holding forth in the Tron Church concerning Noah's Ark said that the Wolf and the Lamb lodged most peaceably together in it and what do you think was the reason of this Beloved you may think it was a strange thing and so indeed it was Sirs but it was done to fufil that Prophecy of Isaiah Sirs The Wolf and the Lamb shall lye down together there 's a plain reason now for it Sirs On Sunday in January last immediately after the King had recommended to the General Assembly a Formula upon the Subscribing whereof by the Episcopal Presbyters he desired they might be re-admitted to the publick Exercise of the Ministry I heard one Mr. Webster a noted professor of the New Gospel lecturing upon Psal 15 On the 1st Verse he said That none but God could answer the Psalmist's Question there and therefore said he it does not belong to any Earthly King Prince or Potentate to determine who should be Officers in God's House or to prescribe Terms of Communion to his Kirk On the 2d Verse he said That it was necessary for God's People to walk uprightly that is said he never to betray the Cause of Christ's Kirk for sear of great Men Our way is God's own way and sure to stand stiff to that is the best way to please God and even great Men at the long run On the 3d Verse he appealed to the Consciences of his Hearers If Scots Presbyterians were not a holy harmless innocent sincere modest and moderate People and whatever is said to the contrary but Lybels Lies and Slanders On the 4th Verse he said That the Prelates Curates and Malignant Counsellors are the vile persons spoke of there and whom all the fear God are bound to contemn and despise especially said he because they have sworn to the hurt of the Kirk in taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy the Test and the Oath of Canonical Obedience and now think to expiate all this by subscribing a bare foolish Formula because King William forsooth has sent it to us as if the Presbyterians ought to admit or allow any Form but the Covenant About that same time I mean in January last Mr. Fraser of Bray at Edenburgh at the new Kirk pretending to preach upon this Text of the Revelation There was joy in Heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and his Angels Michael and his Angels why no good Christian can doubt but by this we are to understand Christ and this Kirk and by the Dragon and his Angels is plainly meant the Prelates and Curates You see from this then Sirs betwixt whom this War and this Fighting was in Heaven and since they fight in Heaven for this Cause of the Kirk why should not we fight for it also upon Earth What needs our Kirk be affraid of Kings they are but men but we have Christ to fight for us and we are his his Angels and must fight with him till we destroy the Dragon Prelates and their Curate Angels Ah Sirs ye read says he that this Dragon's Tail swept down a third part of the Stars of Heaven I have a sad thing to tell you now Sirs Alas this Dragon's Tail has swept the North of Scotland for few or none of Christ Ministers are to be found there The same Frazer of Bray preaching at a Conventicle in the beginning of King James his Reign began his Discourse thus I am come here to preach this day Sirs in spite of the Curates and in spite of the Prelates their Masters and in spite of the King their Master and in spite of the Hector of France his Master and in spite of the Pope of Rome that 's both their Master and in spite of the Divil that 's all their Master SECT IV. Containing some few Expressions of the Presbyterian Prayers MR. James Kirkton said once in his Prayers O Lord restore our banished King Lord restore our banished King do not mistake my meaning Lord it is not K. James whom thou

in a Garret and she hearing some body coming up Stairs she said to him Ah here 's my Aunt I must devise a Trick to divert her upon which she ●ell a whining and howling aloud as these People use to do at their most private Devotions O to believe to believe O to have Experience said she And by that means she diverted her Aunts further Approaching who instantly retired commending her Niece's Zeal and Devotion The Gentleman conceals the Woman's Name out of regard to her Honour and his own begs Pardon for the Sin and tells it only to discover the abominable Nature of their Hypocrisie They are generally deluded by Persons that have but specious pretences to Godliness And such is the force that a loud Voice and a whining Tone in broken and smother'd words have upon the Animal Spirits of the Presbyterian Rabble that they look not upon a Man as endued with the Spirit of God without such canting and deformity of Holiness A person that hath the dexterity of whining may make a great Congreation of them weep with an Ode of Horace or Eclogue of Virgil especially if he can but drivel a little either at Mouth or Eyes when he repeats them And such a person may pass for a Soul-ravishing spiritualist if he can but set off his Nonsence with a wry mouth which with them is called A Grace pouring down Countenance The snuffling and twang of the Nose passes for the Gospel sound and the throwings of the Face for the motions of the Spirit They are more concerned at the reading the Speeches of their Covenant Martyrs yea such Martyrs as died for Rebellion and Murder than in reading the Martyrdom of St. Stephen or any of his Followers A Sermon of mere Railing and Nonsence will af●ect them more than Christ's Sermon on the Mount and no wonder for all they do is to affect the Passions and not the Judgment One Mr. Daniel Douglass an old Presbyterian Preacher in the Mers simple man as to the World yet of more Learning Ingenuity and good Nature than most of them he was not long agoe preaching before the meeting of his Brethren and agoe annalysing a Text Logically and very remote from vulgar Capacities yet so powerful and melting was his Tone and Actions that in the Congregation he spies a Woman weeping and pointing towards her he crys out Wife what makes you weep I am sure thou understandest not what I am saying my Disourse is directed to the Brethren and not to the like of you nay I question whether the Brethren themselves understand this that I am speaking Several Instances can be given of their strong delusions this is none of the least that they take it for a sure Evidence upon their Death-beds that it 's well with them because they never heard a Curate in their lifetime For an indulged Presbyterian who is the Author of the Review of the History of the Indulgence tells us thus much Page 527 and Page 528 That some of the leading people among the Presbyterians were of Opinion that Baptism by Episcopal Ministers is the mark of the Beast and the hearing of them as unlawful as Fornication Adultery or the worshipping the Calves of Dan and Bethel And I think that a Curate can tell no worse tale of them than this which a Presbyterian himself owns and declares to the World in Print I cannot here pass by what happen'd a few Years ago in the Parish of Tindrum in the South-west a person that was Executed for Bestiality there in his Prayers bless'd God that for a long time he had heard no Curate preach at which the Hearts of some Presbyterian Saints began to warm with Affection to him and exprest so much Charity that upon that account they doubted not but that he might be saved and were sorry that he was not allow'd to live because of the good that such a Zealous man might have done It is a well known truth in the Parish of Teviotdale that two or three sighing Sisters coming to a Man in Prison the Night before he was burnt for Bestiality the wholsomest Advice they gave him was this O Andrew Andrew Andrew all the Sins that ever you committed are nothing to your hearing the cursed Curates if you get Pardon for that Sin Andrew all is right with you A young Woman in Fife Daughter to a Presbyterian Preacher there reading that of St. Peter Christ the Bishop of our Souls blotted out the word Bishop and in the place thereof incerted Presbyterian of our Souls And by the same Spirit of Biggotry one of her Zealous Sisters in the same Family tore every where out of her Bible the word Lord Because said she it is polluted by being applied to the Profane Prelates Instances of their Madness and Delusions might swell into an huge Volume but I shall only mention two or three which are commonly known What greater Instance of Delusion than that Seven or Eight thousand people should be raised to Rebellion at Bothwel-bridge from laboring their ground and keeping their Sheep and that by Sermons assuring them that the very Windlestraws the Grass in the Field and Stars in Heaven would fight for them And that after the Victory they should possess the Kingdom themselves O it 's the promis'd Land and you Israelites shall inherit it but in this they found their Preachers to prove salve Prophets After their Defeat a Gentleman told me that going to view the Field where the Battle was fought he saw one in the Agony of death crying out Ah cheated out of Life and Soul The Gentleman inquired what he meant by that expression Ah said he our Preachers our Preachers they made us believe that as sure as the Bible was the word of God we should gain the day for that the Windlestraws should fight for us About the same time a person of Quality returning from the West with some of the King's Forces being necessitate to lodge in a Country House where there was but one Woman and she with child for the Men and all that were able to run had fled out of the way The Nobleman encouraged the poor Woman desiring her not to be afraid sent one upon his own Horse for Midwife and other Women to attend her The poor Woman surprised and encouraged with this unexpected kindness began to talk more freely and said Sir I see you that are Kings-men are not so ill as we heard ye were for we heard that it was ordinary for you to rip up Women with Child but pray will you tell me Sir what sort of Men are your Bishops They are said he very good Men and they are chosen out from among the Clergy to oversee the rest of the Ministers But are they says she shapen like other Men Why ask you that said he Because our Preachers made us believe the Bishops were all cloven-footed There is scarce one of an hundred among the Presbyterian Vulgar that will be either reason'd or laugh'd out of