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A50598	A memorial for His Highness the Prince of Orange in relation to the affairs of Scotland together with the address of the Presbyterian-party in that kingdom to his Highness : and some observations on that address / by two persons of quality.	Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, 1630-1714.; Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Presbyterian address from Scotland to the Prince of Orange.	1689 (1689)	Wing M169; ESTC R18197	18,250	45

and the Liberties of Mankind 24 For going on in his work c. Let it be a through Reformation a truly covenanted Work such as may bring all Malignants the most Protestant Kings not excepted to condign punishment or else you 'll never believe it to be indeed the Work of the Lord. 25 Humble you c. He will be sufficiently humbled if ever you get him under the Yoke of Presbyterian Discipline and you should take all care to conceal from him the Methods you are wont to use for humbling Princes as also the difference betwixt your way and that of the Presbyterian Churches abroad either in France or the Netherlands 26 Accession to our Persecution c. You mean undoubtedly the Conform Clergy whom when you have not power to persecute ye shew your inclinations to it by calumniating and misrepresenting them However in the present business whenever lawful Authority injoyns them they will be ready to observe a day of Thanksgiving for our Deliverance from Popery and Slavery with more chearfulness and order than you can pretend to In the mean while it 's worth the Prince's notice how you adventure without the State to appoint publick Solemnities It may be some will inform his Highdess how your Predecessors appointed a Thanksgiving on that very day wherein the State had injoyned a Fast. And to shew their cross Disposition a Fast at another time when King Iames the Sixth had appointed a Feast for the publick entertainment of Foreign Ambassadors in the City of Edinburgh THis is the Address which in your publick Meeting of the Assembly at Edinburgh you agreed to and subscribed but upon the News of the Prince's having communicated with the English Church you demurred a little and the sending of it to his Highness was delayed till ye heard from your Friends at Court by whose advice your Address perhaps suffered some Alterations before it was sent thither but these as I am credibly informed were not material and therefore deserve no notice However the industry you used to have some persons of Quality at London subscribe it was very remarkable for as some of these persons themselves have told me you would not allow them to read it till they should first sacredly promise to subscribe it A Method very agreeable to that which ye used in getting hands to the Covenant when several young Children were taught to write their Names of purpose to affix them to it and School-Boys were brought from dreiving their Tops to dreive on the Work of the Lord in subscribing the Covenant Implicit Faith it seems is a Doctrine as much in vogue among Scots Presbyterians as among Papists themselves and the Consistory and Conclave do not really differ so much as you would have the World believe In all this that I have said I must tell you that I have no thoughts of Cruelty against Distenters I indeed pity them as deluded And if it were in my power I would not persecute them but rather as Brethren restore them with the Spirit of Meekness I allow that so long as they are willing to contain themselves within the just Liberties and Limits of Subjects they have as good a right to the Royal Protection as any other Set of Men in the Nation but then they should let the World see that they can allow other Protestants to live too as having the same natural Right with themselves and that they are capable of such an Accommodation as the Learned Protestants abroad are not against and that they do not abhor the Communion and Practices of other Reformed Churches and particularly that they do not think themselves bound by the Covenant or any other Tye to persecute these of the Church of England Lastly it were very just and pertinent in them to declare their resolutions never again by their Sentences to counteract and condemn the Decrees of the supreme Civil Judicatures of the Nation and to satisfie the World in this it will be fit for them by some publick deed to disclaim and renounce that absolute Supremacy or Papacy which the Kirk hath always claimed over Kings and Civil Powers Many publick and known Instances might be assigned wherein they have challenged and usurped this power but Hercules may be known by his Foot and therefore one instance that 's yet fresh in the memory of many shall serve for all and it 's that of the unnatural as well as undutiful Behaviour of the Kirk to their lawful Sovereign King Charles the Second in the year 1650 when like a hunted Partridge he fled from the Birds of Prey in England to them for Sanctuary The easiest Proposals they made to him were no less than these 1. To subscribe the Covenant which they knew his Majesty did not nor could not like because of the Destruction it had brought upon his Father and Kingdoms and of the Door it opened for continual Rebellion against himself 2. To make publick satisfaction to the Kirk that is open Penance before their Congregations for his own Sins and these of his Fathers House particularly for his and his Families Godless Opposition as they called it to the Cause of God the Work of the Covenant 3. That his Majesty should subscribe and publish to the World a Declaration charging himself and his Family with the whole guilt of all the Miseries and Blood not excepting that of the Royal Martyr his Father which had been occasioned by these unhappy Civil Wars themselves had raised and carried on for so many years before Upon these Conditions they promised to make him a most glorious King indeed But when his Majesty modestly declined the last two which in Honor and Conscience he could not submit to immediately out comes that Tundering Bull from the General Assembly against him THE ACT OF THE WEST KIRK it was commonly called so because the Assembly was held at the West Church of Edinburgh where both the foresaid Declarations which they would have imposed upon the King and that Act of the West Kirk are still kept and to be seen upon Record in the publick Register at that place A true and exact Copy of which Act as it was faithfully transcribed from the authentick Original I shall here for the satisfaction of the Reader subjoyn West Kirk the 13th Day of August 1650. THe Commission of the General Assembly considering that there may be just ground of stumbling from the King's Majesties refusing to subscribe and emit the Declaration offered unto him by the Commissioners of the General Assembly concerning his former Carriage and Resolutions for the future in reference to the Cause of God and Enemies and Friends thereof doth therefore declare that this Kirk and Kingdom do not own or espouse any malignant Party Quarrel or Interest but that they fight meerly upon their former Grounds and Principles and in Defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdom as they have done these twelve years past and therefore as they do disclaim all the Sin and

A MEMORIAL For His HIGHNESS the Prince of Orange In Relation to the AFFAIRS OF SCOTLAND Together with The ADDRESS of the Presbyterian-Party in that Kingdom to His HIGHNESS AND Some OBSERVATIONS on that Address By two Persons of Quality Psal. xcv 10. Forty years long have I been grieved with this generation c. Licensed LONDON Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers Hall. 1689. A MEMORIAL for His Highness the Prince of Orange in relation to the Affairs of Scotland May it please Your Highness THE Rise of our Animosities and the reason why they are warmer in Scotland than in England is That England reformed by the Royal Authority and therefore the Government of their Church was suted to the Monarchy but Scotland Reforming by force and violence some of our Reformers coming from Geneva and the Republicks of Switzerland tho otherwise good Divines yet were so far mistaken in their Politicks as to inspire many of their Converts with an aversion to the Monarchy as well as to Popery Buchanan and others wrote Books which were thereafter condemn'd as Treasonable even in King Iames's minority These Puritans as they were then called so vex'd the righteous Soul of King Iames the 6th that he was never at ease or secure till he succeeded to the Crown of England and then he setled Episcopacy in Scotland as most sutable to the Monarchy and fitted to unite the two Kingdoms and though it was fully agreed to for many years yet some factious and ambitious Noblemen being desirous to advance themselves though by the ruin of their Country and some Priest riden and blind Zealots among the Gentry admiring the Parts and Persons of their Enthusiastick Preachers were instigated by them to join with the Puritanical Party and at length to rise in a most unjustifiable War against their lawful Sovereign During which the Presbyterians entred in a Covenant wherein they obliged themselves by solemn Oath to extirpate Prelacy and bring all opposers of their Covenant to condign punishment and thereafter into a League with England wherein they obliged themselves to reform England after the Model of the best reformed Churches abroad for their own ends leaving the Rule thus general All these Oaths and Leagues being entred into by Subjects without and against yea and in despite of the Royal Authority and the evident design of them being to overturn the fundamental constitution of the Church and State in the two Kingdoms were therefore mostly justly condemn'd as Treason by the Parliaments in both Nations Notwithstanding whereof the Covenanters in prosecution of the black designs of these Oaths raised first the Rabble and afterwards strong Armies against that most pious and Protestant King Charles I. who out of a religious desire as much as in him lay to preserve their peace and his own condescended to all that they desired in a Parliament held by himself at Scotland But the lust of rebellious Zealots hath no bounds for the Faction encouraged with this success and having obtained now the Government of the Church they immediately after usurped that of the State calling by their own pretended Authority rebellious Parliaments wherein they rescinded all the Royal Prerogatives murthered thousands of the Kings best subjects and almost quite ruined all the Antient Families of the Nation who opposed them preferring and enriching chiefly mean and factious persons who headed the Rabble robbing more from these Loyal Families in one month without any pretext of Law than hath been exacted from them since the Kings Restauration in prosecution of it besides the many other barbarities which they committed under pretext of Religion as the Poyniarding hundreds of them in cold bloud after Quarter granted and the hanging them with the Kings Commission about their Necks At length having robbed the King of all Power to defend himself they gave him perfidiously up to those who inhumanly murthered him at his own Palace-gate to the great reproach and scandal of the Reformation themselves being all the while after supported by these very Regicides against the Royalists whom they called Malignants till God restor'd King Charles II. and then offers of Peace and Pardon were made to these Presbyterians provided they would but disown the Covenant and their rebellious principles But they refusing all offers Episcopacy was restored chiefly for the Monarchies sake The Faction being enraged at this proceeded with all fire and fury to preach up Rebellion in their Conventicles The Parliament in the mean time justly displeased at this insolence and contempt of Authority and desirous to secure the peace and the people from the Poison of rebellious and false Doctrine appointed all to come to Church whereupon they broke forth in open Rebellions and some of their Ring leaders being taken in the guilt and not disowning nor promising to help these faults were punish'd in order to terrify others and this is all the Severity complain'd of By this your Highness may see 1. That You being come to support our Laws You are in honour bound to support Episcopacy which is confirmed by twenty seven Parliaments 2. That Episcopacy is necessary for support of the Monarchy and that the Scottish Presbytery is not opposed by us as an Ecclesiastical Government but as having incorporated into it many horrid Principles inconsistent with humane Society in which the Monarchy is more concerned than we 3. That what these who were in the Government did was conform to Law and that these Laws were made for preservation of the Protestant Religion Monarchy humane Society and Self-defence And that they value their Church-Government more than the Protestant Religion is clear by their late compliance with the Papists upon getting an Indulgence Whereas the Church of England and we hazarded all rather than comply They magnified the dispensing Power and we opposed it 4. This appears more clearly by their present Principles whereby many as we are informed own that Subjects have a right to force their King to do them Justice and that they are his Judges and may dethrone him That the Rebellion against King Charles the First and Second and in favour of the Duke of Monmouth were just and that the Monarchy being returned by Forfeiture to the People there remains no Prerogative with future Kings who are to have no more power than the People will give them and because we love the Monarchy we are decry'd as Slaves whereas it had been easier for us to have connived at their Insolencies and to become Republicans with them 5. To evidence that they resolve not as yet to be quiet They in place of accommodating differences at this time wherein all Protestants should shew what happy change they hope for from Your Highness coming to restore our Religion and Laws do threaten Magistrates out of their Government and Ministers from their Charges forcing them to swear after many indignities that they shall never return to their Imployments doing thereby all that in them lies to disgrace Your Highnesses designs and to