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A77444	An historicall vindication of the government of the Church of Scotland from the manifold base calumnies which the most malignant of the prelats did invent of old, and now lately have been published with great industry in two pamphlets at London. The one intituled Issachars burden, &c. written and published at Oxford by John Maxwell, a Scottish prelate, excommunicate by the Church of Scotland, and declared an unpardonable incendiary by the parliaments of both kingdoms. The other falsly intituled A declaration made by King James in Scotland, concerning church-government and presbyteries; but indeed written by Patrick Adamson, pretended Archbishop of St. Andrews, contrary to his own conscience, as himselfe on his death-bed did confesse and subscribe before many witneses in a write hereunto annexed. By Robert Baylie minister at Glasgow. Published according to order.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.; Adamson, Patrick, 1537-1592. Recantation of Maister Patrik Adamsone, sometime archbishop of Saint-Androwes in Scotlande.; Welch, John, 1568?-1622.	1646 (1646)	Wing B460; Thomason E346_11; ESTC R201008	133,114	153

my head and Lord hath gone before me Jesus Christ is the doore and the Porter Who then shall hold me out will he let them perish for whom he hath dyed will he let that poore Sheepe be pluckt out of his hand for whom he hath laid downe his owne life Who shall condemne the man whom God hath justified who shall lay any thing to the charge of the man for whom Christ hath dyed or rather risen againe I know I have grievously transgressed but where stane aboundeth grace will superabound Rom. 9. 20. I know my sinnes are red as scarlet and crimson yet the red blood of Christ my Lord can make them as white as Snow or Wooll Whom have I in heaven but him Psal 73.26 or whom desire I in earth besides him O thou the fairest among the children of men the light of the Gentiles the glory of the Jewes the life of the dead the joy of Angels and Saints my soule panteth to be with thee b Master Welsh in his greatest prosperity spent every day more time in prayer and soliloquies with God then men in this prophane Age can beleeve John 1.14 I will put my spirit into thy hands and thou wilt not put it out of thy presence I will come unto thee for thou casts none away that comes unto thee O thou the onely delight of Mankinde thou camst to seeke and to save that which was lost thou seeking me hast found me and now being found by thee I hope O Lord thou wilt not let me perish I defire to be with thee and doe long for the fruition of thy blessed presence and joy of thy countenance Thou the onely good Shepheard art full of grace and truth therefore I trust thou wilt not thrust me out of the doore of thy grace The Law was given by Moses John 1.17 but grace and truth by thee Who shall separate me from thy love Rom. 8.35 shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword Nay in all these things I am more then conqueror through thy Majesty that hath loved me for I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor principalities nor powers nor height nor depth nor things prefent nor things to come nor any other creature is able to separate me from the love of thy Majesty which is in Christ Jesus my Lord. I refuse not to dye with thee that I may live with thee I refuse not to suff●● with thee that I may rejoyce with thee Shall not all things be pleasant to me which may be my last steepe c He points at the sentence for he and the rest of the Ministers were all condemned to be hanged as Traitors by which or upon which I may come unto thee When shall I be satiate with thy face when shall I be drunke with thy pleasures Come Lord Jesus and tarry not the spirit sayes come the Bride sayes come even so Lord Jesus come quickly and tarry not Why should the multitude of my iniquities or the greatnesse of them afright me Why should I fe●nt in this my desire to be with thee Rev. 22.17.20 The greater sinner I have beene the greater glory will thy grace be to me unto all eternity Oh unspeakable joy Eph●s 3.18 endlesse infinite and bottomelesse compassion O Ocean of never fading pleasure O love of loves O the breadth and height and depth and length of that love of thine that passeth knowledge The love of Jonathan was great indeed unto David it passeth the love of women O uncreated love beginning without beginning and ending without end thou art my glory my joy and my gaine and my crowne thou hast set me under thy shadow Cant. 1.3 Cant. 2.4 5. with great delight and thy fruit is sweet unto my taste thou hast brought me to thy banquetting-house and placed mei● thy Orchard stay me with thy flagons and comfort me with thy Apples for I am sicke and my soule is wounded with thy love Cant. 2.15 Behold thou art faire my love behold thou art faire thou hast Doves eyes behold thou art faire my beloved yea pleasant also our bed is greene the beames of our house are Cedars Cant. 7.6 and our rafters are of Firre How faire and how pleasant art thou O love for delights My heart is ravished with thee oh when shall I see thy face How long wilt thou delay to be to me as a Roe Cant. 2.8 9. Cant. 1.13 Cant. 1.3 or a young Hart leaping upon the Mountaines and skipping upon the hils as a bundle of Myrrhe be thou to me and lye all night betwixt my breasts because of the savour of thy good oyntments thy name is as oyn ment fowred forth therefore desire I to goe out of the Desert and come to the place where thou first at thy repose Cant. 1.7 and where thou makest thy flockes to rest at noon When shall I be silled with thy love surely if a man knew how precious it were he would count all things drosse and dung to gaine it truly I would long for that Scaffold or that Axe or that Cord that might be to me that last step of this my wearisome jeurney to goe to thee my Lord. Thou who knowes the meaning of the spirit give answer to the speaking sighing and groaning of the spirit thou who hast enflamed my heart to speak to thee in this filent yet love-language of ardent and fervent defires speak againe unto my heart and answer my desires which thou hast made me speak to thee O Death where is thy sting 1 Cor. 15.55 O Grave where is thy victory the sting of Death is sinne the strength of sin is the Law but thanks be to God which giveth me Victory through Jesus Christ What can be troublesome to me since my Lord looks upon me with so loving and amiable a countenance and how greatly doe I long for these embracements of my Lord O that he would kisse me with the kisses of his mouth Cant. 1.2 for his love is better then wine O that my soule were the throne wherein he might dwell eternally O that my heart were the Temple wherein he might be magnified and dwell for ever all glory be unto my God Angels and Saints praise ye him O thou earth ye hils and mountaines be glad ye shall not be wearied any more with the burthen of corruption whereunto ye have been subject through the wickednesse of mankind lift up your hearts and be glad for a fire shall make you cleane from all your corruption and vanity wherewith for the space of many yeers you have been infected let all the Saints rejoice for the day of the marriage with the Bridegroom even the Lambe of God is at hand and her faire white robes shall be given her she shall be arrayed with the golden vesture and the needle-work of his manifold graces that shall be put upon her he who is life shall quickly

before any Assemblies were in Scotland should be laid to their charge But what may those absurd asserions of Iohn Knox be he sayes as you alledge that the Nobility of Scotland who are borne Counsellours of the Kingdom and by the Laws have great priviledges may represse the fury and madnesse of a misled Prince I grant this to you must be a great Heresie who makes it one of the Articles of your faith that though Princes were as mad as ever Nero and should openly avow their desires to overturn all the sworn Lawes of their State and to kill without any cause all their Subjects yet for the Nobility or whole States of Parliament to make the smallest opposition or to goe one haires breadth beyond a naked supplication were no lesse then a damnable Rebellion and Treason but beleeve it the subjects of Scotland will not take off your hand such maximes without some Argument for their truth Iohn Knox is alledged to say that the Commonalty may bridle the cruell beasts and resorme Religion but what does it concerne the generall Assembly whatever power the Lords or Commons have by the Law or usurpe against the Law The matter whereof Iohn Knox is speaking is this The body of Scotland in the yeare 1557. were true and zealous Protestants the Masse and Images were to them Idols long before the governour and protector of the Kingdom Duke Hamilton was for the Religion At his first Parliament he did authorize some good beginnings of Reformation the Cardinall and Clergy at this grew mad and found means to translate the government from the Duke to the Queens Mother sister to the Duke of Guize and Cardinall of Lorain in the time both of the Duke and Queen Mothers Regency the cruelty of the Bishops was unsufferable They took divers of the most zealous Preachers and Professors men and women and publikely without any Commission from the Magistrate onely for their zeale to the truth of God did burne them quick as Hereticks After many yeers patience the people at last seeing no end of the Prelates fury did cause write Letters to some of their most wicked persecutors telling them that if they gave not over to murther their Brethren themselves should taste of that Cup of which they forced others to drink All the Reformation which the people at that time practised was to keep themselves pure from most vile Idolatry and in private to heare the Word of God purely preached They made no publike Reformation till first they had openly supplicated the Queen and gotten her allowance and a promise of an Act of Parliament in the yeare 1558. which promise when the Protestant Nobility Gentry and Commons did presse in face of Parliament it was not denyed by the Queen but cunningly put off upon assurance that all their desires at the first conveniency should be granted in the meane time she received their Protestation for a Liberty to live in their reformed Churches separate from Popish Idolaters and promised in due time to give to the Protesters full satisfaction Though you have brought together all the malicious a persions which your predecestors the Popish Prelates and Priests were wont at these very times to heap upon the heads of our blessed Reformers yet shall you never be able to leave any stain upon that happy work though here and elsewhere you spue out your dispight against it The Reformation of Scotland was begun by publique Authority in the first Parliament of Queen Mary the yeare 1542. holden by the Governour the Earle of Arran a Protestant for the time the setting up of it in publique was avowed and protested for in face of Parliament 1558. with the Queen Regents evident allowance and without the opposition of any but in the next Pa●liament 1560. the whole Estates without the contradiction of any but three Popish Lords did set up by Law the whole body of that Religion which since by Gods mercy we have ever peaceably possessed except so farre as wicked Prelates have troubled us It is true The suspension of the Queene Regen●s authority was an act of the State which did nothing I rejudice the Soveraignty that Queen Regent notwithstanding of her good countenance and faire promises was forced by the privy Instructions of her wicked Brethren Guize and the Cardinall of Loraine to oppose Reformation wherein fore against her own minde as at her death shee professed shee went so farre as to bring in many thousands of the French to conquer and subdue the Land They began to the terror of the whole Isle to fortifie Leith and other Maritime places they exercised an evident tyranny both in Church and State and overthrew the Laws and liberties of the Nation which forced the cheise of the Nobility for the casting off of this yoak of stavery from the Church and State and preventing the danger which threatned the whole Isle to enter in a covenant of defence both among themselvs and with the Queen of England but without the least prejudice to the just authority of their Soveraign then Queen of France as it after appeared for when by the blessing of God and the helpe of the English they had ejected the French usurpers they did heartily receive and obey the Queen so soon as she came from France For the justification of all this I could bring formall testimonies out of Spotswood himselfe What you say of the deposition of Queen Regent from her Authority it is false that any Church Assembly did ever meddle with it lesse or more it was the Act of the three Estates how just let any judge She was the first woman as I remember that ever in Britain had the government of the State it belonged not to her by any right the Lawes provided that charge for Duke Hamilton but she and the Prelates couzend him out of his right and long possession she became not only a violent persecuter of all the faithful against the Law and her own promises but also went about evidently by violence and force of Arms to subdue the land to the tyranny of strangers much of this shee did albeit at the direction of her Brethren of Loraine yet without all commission from our Soveraigne her daughter When no supplication nor remonstrance could stop her the Estates of the Land being all denounced Rebels and Traitors by her did passe an Act not for depriving her of her Regency but for the suspending of her Authority till the next Parliament or till shee altered the course of her tyrannous government with an expresse protestation that the authority and power of the King and Queen of France their Soveraignes should remain to them sacred and inviolable This act of the Statewhether right or wrong what does it concerne the generall Assembly of the Church be it so that a Minister or two being called for advice did give their assent to this action which is the furthest our Enemies alledge yet what hath this to doe with our Church government

Generall Assembly were these actions either decreed or allowed by any Church meeting but the truth is you are gathering togither a confused masse of all the odious fables which you can either find or invent to the prejudice of Protestant Religion since it came first in Scotland to this day As for the Cardinalls slaughter Cardinall Beton by all Law and reason deserved death yet Knox did not defend the way of his slaughter all good men who heard it did heartily rejoyce at the judgement of God in taking away that cruell persecuter a most vicious wretch as Spotswood himselfe relates the story his crimes were many for which his life by all Law and reason was forfeit the suborning of a false Testament to King Iames the fifth for his owne advancement the burning quick by his owne Ecclesiastick authority the most holy Martyrs the marring with all his might the Reformation of Religion that such a man was removed in the indignation of God according to Mr. Wisheard the martyrs prophesie the whole Land did greatly rejoyce As for the manner of his slaughter that it was by the hands of privat men and not of the publick executiooner this no man did defend of Mr. Knox disallowing thereof Spotswood testifies expresly but that which troubles you is not the killing of a man but as you speake of a Preist of an Arch-Bishop of high dignity that is a Cardinall of Rome these circumstances are but poore agravations of that fact The other horrible fact at Edinburgh how detestable it was P. 31. An account of the tumult at Edinburgh for the Service-booke Let all the Isle judge When a company of base men were come to that height of insolency as to tread on the necks of the whole Kingdome as to make it an Act of high treason for the greatest of the Nobility to keep albeit very secretly in their Cabins a Copy of a Petition presented to his Majesty in person Vide the large Declaration against some new illegall usurpations of the Prelats to get Noblemen condemned to lose their heads only for this action and to avow in print the great Justice of such a sentence and the extraordinary favour in pardoning so high and treasonable an attempt When they became so extreamly malapert without so much as once acquainting the Church to bring in three or foure whole books full of Novations in Religion and withal to proclaime the absolute unlawfulnesse for the whole Land to make the smallest opposition if to morrow they should bring in upon the back of their former Novations the Masse in Latine or the A coran in Arabick when they came with a high hand to put in practice this their lawlesse Tyrannie that good zealous people whom you maliciously and falsly stile whoores and coale stealers should have their patience so far tempted as to break out in violence against you was it any wonder when atrocious injuries are multiplyed upon a Nation and by a few openly vicious and corrupt persons the current of Justice is stopped all the world will not be able to hold the passions of a people not totally subdued from breaking out into unjustifiable insolencies which a little Justice might easily have prevented What ever wrong might accompany the zeale of that very good people the reverend Answerers to the corrupt Doctors of Aberdeen doe openly disavow it and all of us were ever very well content that the whole action of that famous infamous day might have come to a perfect tryall That all persons according to their demerits might have suffered legall punishments That you and your associats the professed Authors of these popish books and violent introducers of them in our Church against all our Laws and Customes might have been brought to answer before your Judge competent a lawfull generall Assembly also that the interrupters of your shamefull usurpation might have come to an accompt for all their words deeds that day but you and your Colleagues knowing well your legall deserts would never bee pleased to come to any tryal You pressed very hard for some dayes that a number of very honest men and women might have bin put to bodily tortures and that all your abominable Novations might have been quietly without any scruple every where thereafter received upon these conditions your clemencie was content to intercede with his Majestie That the horrible and monstrous uprore might be pardoned but when this your overture was not hearkened unto your Antichristian furie broke out so high that nothing could satiate your rage but the destruction with an English Army of all your opposites in the whole Nation and the fastning upon the neck of the Country with undissoluble bands the yoke of a perpetuall slavery Though in opposition to this your horrid designe many thousands in both Nations be already destroyed though the King himselfe be brought in extream danger both of his Crown and person yet so matchlesse is your rage and that of your friends that unlesse your pride avarice and errors may be satisfied except Bishops books and a Turkish royaltie may be gotten established you are willing the King his Family the remnant of his people should all bee destroyed with you and turned into water to quench the fire of your ashes It 's a great mercy of God to these Lands that such unparalelled furies are not buried below the ground or beaten off to so remote corners that they may no more bee seene in the societies of men either of Church or State From your 32. page P. 32. Our Assemblies did ever deferre all loyall subjection to the King as a man distracted ye ramble up and downe backward and forward you rayell in so many things old and new that to follow you with any orderly cleere and distinct answer I think it impossible Your first gybe is at the power of the Generall Assembly which the King and Parliament has allowed unto it and whereof they are in a quiet possession to wit that in matters meerely Spirituall they are the last ordinary Iudges but if they should miscarry that the King and Parliament should not have power to make them reforme their errours it never came in any of our minds Your next calumny is that wee count it but a curtesie and no necessary duty to Petition for the civill sanction to our Acts and that if our Petitions bee not granted we are ready by Excommunication and rebellion to force the King and the State to our will These are but Symptomes of a spirit in which Excommunication has wrought its first effect I wish it might worke farther for your repentance and salvation For proofe of the Assemblies usurping over the King Mr. Hinderson is farr from all disloyall and papall humours you alledge first the late Sermon of the Scottish Pope at Westminister and then you run backe upon our first reformation It is true that Scottish Pope was the man whom the Generall Assembly made their instrument to deliver