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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

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

Prison or out of Prison 6ly As concerning that which is the ground of my death viz. 5 See note n. Preaching here and there in some Corners I bless my God I have not the least Challenge for it though these that Condemned me were pleased to call these Preachings † If weekly Meetings of Hundreds and Thousands of Armed-men in the Fields nay if weekly Meetings of Armed-men formed into Troops and Companies ready upon all occasions of probable capacity to Fight against the King for the King in Sion were Rendevouzes of Rebellion then your Field-Preachers were Rebels and the Field-Meetings Rendevouzes of Rebellion What else were those Field-Meetings of which was gathered that Army of Saints which fought the Kings Forces on Pentland-hills in a ranged Battel 1666 What else were those numerous Field-Meetings a little more than 2 years since upon his Grace the Duke of Lauderdales going down into Scotland which 〈◊〉 the Privy Counsell to advise his Majesty to send English forces to lie in readiness 〈◊〉 the borders and to order the Vicount Granard to lie with an Army on the Irish 〈◊〉 ready to be Transported upon occasion and likewise upon the motion of the Marquess 〈◊〉 A●hol to procure the Lords of the Highlands a Commission to March with their Vassals under the Command of his Majesties Major General into the West to prevent the Field-Conventicles from running together into a general Rebellion as they did the last May. Or to come to particulars what else was that Field-fast near Iedburgh in Tive●tdale towards the latter end of March 1678 where there were present 7 Preachers and 5000 people the men being armed to seek God for 3 things 1st That he would be pleased to put an end to the Persecution of his people in this Kingdom 2ly That he would have mercy on all those that took the wicked Bond and give them grace to repent of it 3ly That he would bless with success those noble Lords who were gone to London What else was that formidable Conventicle in the March the May following where were Assembled eight or 9000 people to receive the Sacrament and renew the Solemn League and Covenant of which the Privy Counsell gave his Majesty an account What else was that Conventicle neer Dumbar shortly after where they fell upon the Kings Forces of the Basse that went out to dismiss them and killed one of the Souldiers and wounded more But if I should go on to enumerate all the Field-Meetings till that great one which began the Rebellion in May last I should rather write an History than a Commentary but I shall be ready to give a particular account of them when a good occasion shall require Rendezvouzes of Rebellion yet I must say this of them They were so far from being reputed so in my eyes that if 6 The Kirk-Preachers are always wont to speak Great and Magnificent things of their Followers whereas for the general they are the most ignorant and wicked sort of people perhaps in the Christian world For their ignorance take this as a Specimen or proof of it ever Christ had a Party or people wherein his Soul took pleasure I am bold to say these meetings were a great part of them the Shinings and Glory of our God were eminently seen amongst these Meetings the Convincing Power and Authority of our Lord went out with his Servants in those Blasphemously Nicknamed Conventicles this I say without Reflection upon any 7ly As for that other Clause in my Indictment upon which my Sentence of death is founded viz. Personal presence twice or thrice with Parties whom they called Rebels for my own part I never judged nor called them such I acknowledge and do believe that there were Edingburgh 13. of May. 1678. THis day a number of persons being brought before a Committee of Council and examined concerning their being at a Field-Conventicle at or near Catcart upon Sunday the 12th of this instant one of them named David Ferguson being interrogate why he did not keep his Parish-Kirk answered that he had Sworn the Covenant whereby he was obliged not to hear Bishops Deans or Curates And several of these persons being asked why they went to Conventicles declared it was to hear the truth of God and being interrogate what that truth of God was declared they could not tell and diverse of them being asked acknowledged that they could not say the Lords Prayer the Belief nor the ten Commandements This is attested to be true by me Mr. Alexander Gibson one of the Clerks of his Majesties Privy Council Alexander Gibson The number of persons which were brought before the Committee were about 70 being the very same Company of men who were brought into the Thames about 9 Months since in order to their Transportation according to the 2d Act of the 2d Session of the Second Parliament of Charles the II. began at Edinburgh July 28. 1670. into his Majesties Plantations for obstinately refusing when they were examined by Authority to discover any persons who were at that Field-Conventicle in coming from which they were taken and the disorders transacted therein And were not the Disciples of these Field-Prophets very ignorant it were not possible for them to believe Episcopacy to be an Antichristian and Presbytery which is but of yesterday to be a Divine institution to Baptize their Children into the Solemn League and Covenant to think it unlawfull to hear Protestant Bishops and Episcopal Ministers Preach and call that Church Idolatrous which hath neither Idols nor Ceremonies nor any Liturgical Forms nor any thing which can give the least umbrage of suspicion to tender Consciences falsely so called but worships God in the self-same manner as they themselves do I speak not this to upbraid our Sister-Church for which I dayly pray with her defects for her imperfect state is not her fault but her misery caused by the iniquity of the times but to shew the gross ignorance of the people that are led away from her Communion and Believe that the use of the Lords Prayer is Idolatrous that they cannot profit by the Church-Ministery nay that all the Bishops and their whole Clergy never did nor never will Convert a Soul as Mr. John Dickson Blasphemously Preached at Pollemadie in June 1673. And then for their wickedness I refer the Reader to the 3 or 4 last pages of Ravillac Redivivus though I could say an hundred times more upon this Subject having by me a Manuscript of 20 sheets Entituled the Principles and Practises of the Phanaticks under the heads of Jesuitism Anabaptism Blasphemy Cheating Lying Cruelty Slandering Fornication Bestiality Witchcraft c. which perhaps ere long may be made publick for the honour of these Gnostics and their Teachers but were there no more to object against them but their Rebellious and Schismatical Principles and Practises 't is enough to make us conclude without breach of Charity that they are not a Party or

King in his wrath and that the Church was well Governed for above 300 years before there was any Christian King Lastly is it not Jesuitism to teach the people that they ought to labour for an holy hatred of our Reformed Bishops and their adherents and that it is p Naphtali Jus populi vindicatum Mitchels greater Speech in Ravillac Redivivus The introduction to the Apology lawful and laudable to kill them and their Curates and that Protestant Prelacy is an enemy to true Godliness and admirably fitted to bring the Church unto a slavish dependance upon the King If these be Jesuitical Doctrines thou blind leader of the blind then thou and thy brethren will never be able to wash off the aspersions of Jesuitism with all the water in Tweed and the Forth Jesuitism is one I am hopefull there was never one that did converse with me that had the least ground of laying this to my charge and know not how it s come to pass to cast it upon me nothing except implacable prejudice that some have been prepossessed with against me I am not ignorant that near 2 years ago a person of Note in this Church who living was pleased to say that I had died in that judgment but after he was better informed he changed his Note and said it was misinformation but now the Lord before whom I must stand and be judged by and by knows that I have a perfect abhorrence of the things and it was never my intention directly or indirectly Though I must confess some few years bygone some were pressing with me that I might Conform and embrace Prelacy but for Popery and that trash it came never nearer my heart than the Popes Conclave or the Alcoran which my Soul abhors 9ly I have been also 11 Not by the Church-Ministers but by the indulged brethren who think it consistent with the nature and design of the Covenant and the Supremacy of the King of Sion to accept of his Majesties indulgence which Brown Welsh King Kid Cameron and the rest declare is unlawful to do branded with Factiousness divisive and seditious Preaching and practices I must confess if it be so it was more than I was ever aware of according to the measure that God hath given me it was my endeavour to Commend 12 In his Soverainity Royal Prerogatives Crown and Kingdom Christ to the hearts and souls of people even repentance towards God and Faith towards Jesus Christ according to the Word of God Confession of Faith 13 The Assemblies larger and shorter Catechism Catechisms larger and shorter yea I did press them also when God did cast it in 14 That was as often as he thought fit my way to remember their Sworn Covenant in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government and that they would make it their work to stand to it in substance and Circumstances seeing it is so cried down in this day and if this be divisive 〈…〉 10ly I am pressed in Conscience to bear my testimony against and abhorrence of every invasion usurpation or incroachment that is made or hath been made against Christs Royal Prerogative Crown and Kingdom original upon and derivate from that which they call the 15 See note y. Supremacy I was never free to lay a Confederacy with those that I judge in a great part have laid a Confederacy in that thing and the Lord is my Record I was never free in my Conscience for that which is called the 16 And as they hold it unlawful to take the Kings Licences and Indulgences as being inconsistent with their immediate Mission from Christ and his Prerogative Royal So they think it unlawful to accept of any Accomodation from the Church as being incompatible with their Solemn League and Covenant that Oath of God as they call it by which they are obliged to endeavour the extirpation of Episcopal Government and set up Presbytery in its stead Dr. Leighton sometimes Bishop of Dumblane and Arch-Bishop of Glascow offered them Six Articles of accommodation in his Diocess by which he did really unbishop himself and left himself nothing of the holy Apostolic Office but the empty name Indulgence neither first nor second as it was tendred by the Council and as it was embraced by a great many Godly-hearted men in this Island yea it was never lawful nor expedient to me and in effect The ARTICLES this is the main ground why I am rendred obnoxious to so many imputations 1st That if the Dessenting brethren will come to Presbyteries and Synods they shall not only be obliged to renounce their own private opinion anent Church-Government and Swear or Subscribe any thing thereto but shall have liberty at their entry to the said meeting to declare and enter it in what form they please that I have been all along contrary to their Indulgence in my judgment I confess I have been of that judgment and die in the judgment contrary to it and this I crave leave to say without any offence to 2ly That all Church-Affairs shall be managed in Presbyteries or Synods by the free vote of Prebyters or the Major part of them 3ly If any difference fall out in the Diocesian Synods betwixt any of the Members thereof it shall be lawful to appeal to a Provincial Synod or their Committee 4ly That Intrants being lawfully presented by the Patron and duly Tried by the Presbytery there shall be a day agreed on by the Bishop and Presbytery for their meeting together and for their Solemn Ordination and Admission at which there shall be one appointed to Preach and that it shall be at the Parish-Church where he is to be admitted Except in the case of impossibility or extream inconvenience and if any difference fall in touching that Affair it shall be referable to the Provincial Synods or their Committee as any other matter 5ly It is not to be doubted but my Lord Commissioner his Grace will make good what he offered anent the Establishment of Presbyteries and Synods and we trust that his Grace will procure such security to those Brethren for declaring their judgment that they may do it without any hazard in contravening any law and that the Bishop shall humbly and earnestly recommend this to his Grace 6ly That no Intrant shall be ingaged to any Canonical Oath or Subscription to the Bishop and that his opinion anent that Government shall not prejudge him in this but it shall be free for him to declare These are the Articles of accomodation in which that Prelate most unworthily parted with his Negative voice wherein the very essence of Episcopal power consists † Ignatius ad Smyrn ad Philadelph ad Trall For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. was the Apostolical rule of Church-Government can 39. Sanct. Apost and therefore next to the appearance of a Bishop before a meeting of Presbyters upon a citation from them and renouncing the Episcopal Function

Marquess of Huntly or Me and yet this Answer is defended by Mr. Robert Bailly in his Dissuasive from the Error 's of the Times It is notoriously known in Scotland That Mr. Robert Duglas of Edinburgh and Mr. Patrick Gillespy of Gl●scow were more haughty and insolent in their behaviour than all the Bishops I will not except Cardinal Beton that ever were in the Land But to proceed from the Pride of single men let us reflect a little on the Insolence of their Spiritual Judicatories the Presbytery Synod and General Assembly It is notoriously known what great state the Presbytery or Consistory kept with King James and it is upon Record in the Presbytery-Books of Edinburgh how his † Presbytery Displayed pag. 7 8. c. Majesty not once but often hath sent Persons of Honour and great Quality demanding or rather requesting some things of them who have heard the Commissioners propose the Kings mind but then to keep the power and place which the King of Sion had given them in that dignity which was suitable to so high a Trust they have dismissed the Noblemen sent by the King without Answer and by Order of that Spiritual House have appointed one or two as Commissioners of the Presbytery to go to the King with their Will and Pleasure losing nothing of Christs Authority and carrying themselves with the King almost as if two Free States or two Free Princes had met to treat together The Presbytery of Edinburgh as many yet alive remember attempted to censure the Merchants for Carrying Wheat to Spain in a time of Dearth because it was to feed Gods Enemies but above all to Transport Wax to Spain for that was to be accessory to Idolatry because the Wax for the most part was employed in making Tapers and Candles to the Virgin Mary and other Saints The * Presbytery Displaid pag. 9. 10. Presbytery of St. Andrews threatned to Excommunicate a man who had gotten a Judgment from the highest Civil Judicatory in the Kingdom against another who ought him a Sum of Money if he persisted to put the Judgment in Execution and he for fear of this dreadful Court and Sentence desisted from his Pursuit Many instances might also be produced of this holy Sunhedrim's repealing of Royal Grants confirmed by Law and of citeing Noblemen and Gentlemen before them for Commencing Civil Suits against their own Tenants because it bred Strifes withdrew the People of God from their lawful Vocations and hindered the progress of the Gospel as may be seen in the Author cited in the Margin They also undertook to Remove and Transplant any Minister at pleasure though never so learned and unblameable upon a pretence That it was for the Good of the Church or That the Congregation was not edified by his Preaching as may be seen in the same Author and as many yet alive can tell In their Provincial Synods which consisted of Commissioners chosen out of all the Presbyteries within the Province they extended their power in proportion to the dignity of the Court and the Commissioners at their Return home were to see that every Minister of their respective Presbyteries were to Preach as the Synod did direct and command The Nobility and Gentry were forced to court these leading Ministers and make Addresses to them as to so many Popes to strengthen themselves and their Party with the Spiritual Sword In their going to and coming from the Synods the most Eminent of the Nobility and Gentry used to meet them and invite them to their Houses lodge them in their best Chambers and set them at the head of their Tables and never any Bishops in Scotland entered Cities with such Convoys and attended with such great Personages as these Arch-Presbyters used to do When Mr. Robert Bruce came from his Visitation in the West or South he made his Entrance into Edinburgh like a Prince or like an Ambassador or like the Pope into Rome insomuch That King James once looking out of the Window in his Palace and seeing his Cavalcade said with indignation which extorted an Oath from him Mr. Robert Bruce I am sure intends to be King and declare himself Heir to King Robert Bruce Their General-Assembly was composed of Commissioners sent from all the Presbyteries of the Kingdom It was the Supream Sanhedrim wherein the King of Sion sate in the highest power and glory he could upon Earth It was there where Ecclesiastical Sovereignty and Infallibility was to be found and concerned it self in all Temporals in ordine ad Spiritualia The authority they exercised in it they pretended to have by immediate Trust from Christ and declared That whosoever obeyed not this Sovereignty be he King or Subject it was all one was to be Excommunicated They allowed the King or his Commissioner to sit there but he had only one affirmative Voice and if the greater part of Voices determined contrary to his Voice or his Conscience he was bound to put it in Execution In this Court the Spiritual legislative power was seated it was the highest Tribunal and Judicatory of Christ upon Earth from which no Person no Office no Condition of Creature was Privileged and from whence no Appeal could be had The King had no power to appoint the time or place of this Assembly but once a Year it must necessarily meet and oftner if the Commissioners of Assembly thought fit They Contemned Usurped and renounced the Sovereign Authority as it served their Turn they denounced the same War against their Enemies which God commanded Israel to execute against the Canaanites all the Ministers of the Church were to Preach as they directed and a Minister Preaching Treason was to be censured by none but themselves They challenged to themselves a power of Condemning Annulling and Repealing Acts of Parliament and of subjecting the Supream Civil Judicatory of the Nation to them as in the case of Graham one of the Lords of the Session and if any man doubt of the truth of these Assertions let him read the 6th Book of Spotswood's History or the Author of Presbytery Displayed in the General-Assembly In their General-Assembly 1648. July 28. pag. 7. they made an Act and Declaration against the Act of Parliament and Committee of Estates and against all Oaths and Bonds imposed in the common Cause without the Consent of the Kirk They also Ordained all that engaged in the late Kings Relief to incur the wrath of God and to be processed with the highest Censure of the Church which was the heighth of Blasphemy Insolence and Pride This Self-Conceit and Persuasion which they had of their own Spiritual Excellence and dearness to God is the true reason why they indulge themselves the liberty of speaking so Contemptibly Disdainfully Slanderously and Reproachfully of the Church and all that are of Episcopal Communions without any regard to the Functions or Qualities of Men. Naphtali rails at the late King of Blessed Memory for a

page 45. in a Preachment to a Multitude of 7000. People spoke these words The King the Nobles and the Prelates are sure the Murderers of Christ and then sitting down in his Chair he said Oh People I will be silent speak oh People and tell me what good thing the King hath done since his home coming yea hath he not done all the mischief a Tyrant could do At another Conventicle not long after he spoke thus or to this purpose That God would yet assert the Cause of Pentland-hills in spite of the Curates and their Masters the Prelates and in spite of the Prelates and their Master the King and in spite of the King and his Master the Devil This Spirit of Railing Slandering and Reproaching hath always been the Gift and privilege of this People of the Lord from their first Original to this day For John Knox in his Appeal and Admonitions Printed 1644 calls Queen Mary Stuart a Wicked Mischievous Proud False Dissembling Unconstant Woman a breaker of Promises a Traitoress to the Crown of England and call her Reign a Monstriferous Empire of a wicked Woman an Usurped Government c and old Mr. John Welsh Grandfather to the Villain before mentioned in a Sermon said That King James was possest with the Devil and compared him to a Mad Man c. And Mr. Blake in a Sermon at St. Andrews 1596. as Spotswood cites him in his 6th Book page 423. said That all Kings were the Devils Bairns That the Kings heart was Treacherous and That the Devil was in the Court and Guiders of it That Queen Elizabeth was an Atheist That the Nobles and Lords were Miscreants Godless Degenerate Dissemblers and Enemies to the Church That the Privy-Council were Holliglasses Cormorants and men of no Religion For all which notwithstanding the Kirk would not let him be questioned because it was delivered in the Pulpit Accordingly we still find how that evil Spirit haunts the holy Sect at this day in Lying Slandering Reproaching and Back-biting all that love or defend the Church In particular I cannot but observe what monstrous and malicious Lies and Calumnies they and their Patriots have for some years almost daily raised against the Duke of Lauderdale for no other reason but because he stands as a Work of Defence between the Projectors against the Government and the King between Presbytery and Episcopacy Popery and the Church And therefore we need not wonder at that Speech of King James who was experimentally acquainted with the Presbyterian Spirit to Dr. Reinolds at Hampton Court who begged of his Majesty a Presbytery or a Constitution very like it Stay I pray you for one seven Years before you demand that of me and if you find me pursey and fat and my windpipes stuffed I will perhaps hearken to you for let that Government once be up I am sure I shall be kept in breath and then we shall all of us have work enough both our handfulls but Dr. Reinolds till you find I grow lazy let that alone Presbytery Displayed pag. 7. And so much for the Lords People and ought to be concerned to 31 As if they were Apostles and the Christian or Protestant Religion depended upon their Breath speak even upon the peril of Life It 's certainly a dreadful Sin in the sight of God I shall only desire that God may open the mouths of some of his faithful Servants that with all 32 Impudence See Note boldness they may speak out the mind of their Master that so the Work Interest Crown and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ may not be destroyed and that the 33 As if the Salvation of the People depended on the mouths of these Blasphemous Pseudo-Ministers Souls of poor People which are precious to God may not be without a Testimony Ruined I shall add but 2 or 3 words more First all that are profane I would exhort you seriously that ye would return to the Lord by sincere repentance if ye do iniquity shall not be your ruine if not know that the day of the 34 Viz. By the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon for as this People think themselves the People of God in as peculiar a sence as the Jews were so like them too they pretend to be Carnifices gentium which made them call their Standard Christs Banner and march with Gallows of the common Make for the common sort of the Enemies of God but for the Nobles that durst Oppose Christ and his People they had invented a new sort of Machine with Hooks and Spikes whereupon first they intended to Hang them up and then to set up their Quarters and Heads as Traitors and Rebels to Jesus Christ. Lords Vengeance is near and it hastneth on O know for your comfort that there is a door of mercy yet opened if ye be not despisers of the day of Salvation and ye that have been and yet are Reproachers and Persecutors of Godliness and such as live Godly take heed take heed sad will your day be when 35 In the Old-Testament Jewish sence to scatter his Enemies by the Sword of his People God ariseth to scatter his Enemies if ye repent not of all your ungodly deeds 2ly All those that are Gallios if their own private Interests prosper and go well they care the less for the Interest of Christ take heed be zealous and repent lest the Lord pass that Sentence I will spue you out of my mouth 3ly As for the truly Godly and such as are lamenting after the Lord and are mourning for all the abominations done in the City and in the Land and are taking pleasure 36 The Rubbish and Ruines of the Presbyterian-Government upon which they strive to build the whole old Fabrick again as the Jews endeavoured to Rebuild the Temple on its old Foundation in Zion till Earthquakes Fire and Lightnings made them desist from the cursed Work in the rubbish and stones of Zion be of good courage and cast not away your Confidence I dare not say any thing to future things but surely the Lord has a 37 An handful of Precious Zealous Militant Saints of whom every single man thinks he can chase Ten of Christs Enemies and Two put Ten thousand of them to Flight handful that is precious to him whom he will be gracious to This is a dark night how long it may last the Lord knows O let not all the sad disasters that his poor People are trusted with though very astonishing terrifie them Beware of Snares that abound cleave fast to your Covenanted reformed Religion do not shift the Cross of Christ if ye be called into it it 's better to Suffer than to Sin account the 38 Consider how blasphemously this Text is applied Reproaches of Christ greater Riches than the Treasures of the World In the last place let not my Death be grievous to any of you I hope it will be more profitable both for you and for

people wherein the Soul of Christ takes pleasure as this deceiver confidently boasts many that came in the 7 The Scripture speaks of those who followed Absolom as Rebels though many of them followed him in the simplicity of their hearts as many of the Western people followed their Preachers into the late Rebellion thought that they did God good Service in so doing being deceived by this Murderer of Souls and his Bretheren who make the people ignorant and then abuse their ignorance to the ruine of their Bodies Souls and Estates simplicity of their hearts like those that followed Absolom long ago I am as sure upon the other hand that there were a great Party there that had nothing before them but the reprocuring of the 8 So he Blasphemously calls the Covenant and Presbyterian Discipline Lords fallen work and the restoring of the breach which is void as the Sea and I am apt to think that such of these that were most Branded with mistakes will be found to be most single But for 9 He means Rebellion in his own Jesuitical sence Rebellion against his Majesties Person or just Government the Lord knows my Soul abhors the name and thing Loyal have I been and wille every Christian to be so I was ever of this judgment to give to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods 8ly Since I came to Prison I have been much Branded with many things which I must call aspersions whereof 10 Neither thou pretended Minister of the Gospel nor thy Brethren will ever be able to wash off the aspersion of Jesuitism a 6 Book of Spotsw Hist. particularly the story of Adam Blake For is it not Jesuitism to maintain that the Rebellion of Church-men is not treason because they are not subject to the Secular power Is it not Jesuitism to carry on Solemn Leagues and Covenants among the Subjects without and against the Princes consent b Buchan de jure regni Lysimachus Nicanors letter Is it not Jesuitism to Teach that Kings ought to be Excommunicated and that Subjects ought to withdraw their Obedience from them when they are Excommunicated nay as soon as they begin to abuse the power against the Church c Spotsw Hist. 6 book the Covenanters protestation July 1638. published at the Cross in Glascow Lysim. Nic. Naphtali Is it not Jesuitism to deny that Kings have power to Convocate and dissolve Ecclesiastical Synods and Councils And that no power on Earth is above that Manyheaded-Pope the general Assembly which hath power to make Laws without the King Is not Jesuitism to condemn the English Liturgy and to forbid the people under pain of publick Penitence or Damnation to read it or any books of Episcopal Divines nay not to have them in their houses nor to converse with Church-Ministers whom they scornfully call Curates and the Bishops Journey-men much less to hear them Preach Is it not Jesuitism to assert that Salvation is not to be had out of the narrow Communion of Presbyterian Churches and to invent and impose new Articles of Faith as That Episcopacy is an Antichristian constitution that it is Popery to observe the † The passion resurrection and ascention of our Lord and the discent of the Holy-Ghost Apostolical Festivals or to administer the Communion in private to sick persons and that Presbytery is the sole and unalterable Government of the Church Is it not Jesuitism to Write and Preach against the Scottish Act and English Oath of Supremacy and to d Knox in his Chron. pag. 78 and ●3 Lysim. Nic. absolve the people from their Oath of Allegiance under a pretence of the Kings being an enemy to Christ Is it not e Naphtali Buchanan de jure regni Jesuitism to Teach that there is a Reciprocal obligation betwixt Kings and their Subjects and that if he perform not his part they ought not to perform theirs Nay is it not Jesuitism to Teach that the f Buch. de jure regni Supream power is lodged originally in the people which they may take from the Prince when he is no longer worthy of it and that the g Buch. de jure regni Naphtalies probable capacity Primitive Christians did not take Arms against the persecuting Emperors for the same reason that Christians take not up Arms in the Ottoman Empire because they had not sufficient force Is it not Jesuitism to assert that a good intention will hallow a wicked action or which is all one to Rebel Murder and Rob to advance the cause of God Is it not Jesuitism to compare Protestant Princes to Heathen idolatrous and persecuting Tyrants And to distinguish betwixt their Private and Political Persons and so make the people believe they fight for the King when they fight against the anointed man Is it not Jesuitism to Teach that h Apology c. Printed 1677. Magistrates in Church-matters have only a Cumulative but not a Privative power and that all the Secular power on Earth cannot deprive or silence a Minister because every Minister is so by special mission from Christ and in his Ministerial capacity is subject to none but him Is it not Jesuitism to assert that the King hath not power to Ordain a publick Fast or Festival and that i Apology Sect. 3. passive obedience and Submission to the unrighteous Decrees and unjust Sentences and punishments of Rulers is as great a sin as active obedience to their unrighteous laws Is it not Jesuitism to assert that King Solomon deprived k Apology Abiathar the High-Priest not as a King but as a Prophet and that the Ministers ought not to Preach by permission from the Magistrate nor to have the exercise of their Function regulated by Secular Edicts and Laws Is it not Jesuitism nay the usurpation of the Inquisition it self l Spotsw Hist. lib. 6. An. 1596. to meddle with every thing even Edicts and Acts of Parliament under the colour and pretence of Scandal and use the holy Communion as a Seal to other Oaths Vows and Covenants besides that of our Baptismal Covenant with God Is is not Jesuitism to assert that a m Naphtali about Mr. Mitchels attempt Knox in his Chronicle applauds Norman Leslies kelling the Cardinal at St. Andrews and James Melvin calls it a godly fact and Leighton in his Sions Plea saith that Feltons killing the Duke of Buckingham was an heroical and laudable fact See also Mitchels Speeches in Ravillac Redivivus private person may kill a man in publick Authority by impulse and that such Acts are heroical like that of Phineas and have wrought great deliverances for the Church of God Is it not Jesuitism to represent Christian Protestant Kings as a judgment and not as a Blessing to the Church by telling the people n The information for defensive arms Sions Plea pag. 196. there were no Kings before Cains days that God gave the Jews their first