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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

are not void of Errours the greatest mistake of this wise Prince was in his too great affection towards Episcopacy the Presbyterian Nobles and Divines in Scotland set him in his Infancy upon his Throne when his life and Crown without their cordiall assistance was given by all men for gone in all his great feares from Spaine or any where else at home or abroad so long as he remained in Scotland his recourse was only to them and notwithstanding of the very hard measure which oft they had received and still feared from him yet did they never faile to support him in his need neither ever had they any difference with him but that which flowed from the unhappy fountaine in hand Had it been the will of God that this otherwise very wise Prince at his first comming into England had cast over the hedge of that Church the evill weed of Bishops and their Ceremonies he had certainly procured much greater peace to his own minde and in all probability prevented the huge mischiefes which from this neglect above all other causes doe this day overwhelme his house and all his Kingdomes What here you subjoyn to prove the pride of the Presbytery and the state it kept with King Iames is an ill conceived bob Page 7 8. No Presbytery did ever keep any state with the King when the Prince was pleased to honour them with a Message was it not better manners and greater civility for them to returne an answer by some of their owne number then by his Majesties owne Messengers had they sent their mindes otherwise how much more would the Prelatick Courtiers have cryed out upon their saucinesse and pedantick Rusticity The next Tale you tell us is The Presbytery is very tender of the fame of all persons though the Magistrate punish strumpets of the Presbyteries severity and unjustice in bringing shame upon many yong women on groundlesse suspicions of putting them in prison till they confesse their secret sins in forcing them to clear themselves by oathes in the Congregation of needlesse jealousies This tale is delated with many odious circumstances but consider first that you shoot your Arrowes at the wrong Butt You may remember the Classicall Presbytery uses not to meddle with any such matters its true the Congregationall Eldership by clear Divine Right and consent of all differing parties take notice of the manners of the whole flocke if pregnant presumptions of fornication be delated to the Eldership by any Officer they will send to admonish the parties deferred but first in private with all discretion and tendernesse if secret admonitions be contemned and persons willfully will continue in a scandalous behaviour then will they call them before the Eldership and after earnest request if nothing else can do it will at last ordaine them to eschew conversing together in private and suspect places but for calling of any before the Eldership upon light presumptions for prisons for feeding with bread and water for troubling of families it s but a Prelatical calumny This indeed is true some known whores and strumpets when they have brought forth children in fornication and refuse absolutely to name the Father or when they give up such men as all know to be innocent the Magistrate will put them in prison for some time and if a flagrant scandall of fornication arise upon persons who desire themselves to be cleered they will be admitted to purge themselves by their oath in the Eldership or in the Congregation as the flagrancy of the Scandal or the parties themselves do require but what is all this to these odious fables here related it seems you were angry at another matter which I will here speak out for you Scotland however subject to many sins It does not curiously inquire in secret faults but knowne crimes it doth not passe by yet I dare say is much more free of fornications and adulteries among people of any fashion then any Nation I know or have heard of this makes the conversation of persons there to be free and without all su●picion except on very good ground but if such crimes be clear there is no sparing of any person of what ever quality all are called to an account that is the matter which seems to burn you Your bosome companion Mr. Menteth having deboshed a prime Lady in his flock when no secret advertisement could break off that wickednesse though a child or two were brought forth the honourable friends of the Knight who was wronged could keep no longer patience but did openly crave justice whereby Menteth was cast out of the Church and Kingdome and the Adulteresse di●●●ced from her Husband at this and the like procedure you are grieved your meeknesse would have all such abominations covered and remedied only by Auricular confession That this Epi●copa l indulgence flowes from no merciful disposition it app ars well by their ordinary rigour pressing the most gracious Minister and others for the smal●est opposition to any of their Traditions with their Oaths ex Officio and casting them upon their meere pleasure into the closest prisons and greatest afflictions well may the malevolence of Enemies declame against the severity of Presbyteries and paint them out as most cruell and intollerable inquisitions but beleeve it they that know and have seen them either in France Holland or Scotland can assure that the fault if any be fals upon the other hand of too great indulgence no man is called before them but for a notorious fault persons of any tollerable civility or circumspection use not to be called all their life time to any account of their behaviour if the Presbytery were able to give so satisfactory an answer for its to great meeknesse unto the Sectaries challenge as it can to the Prelates for its too great strictnesse I should be very glad What is subjoynd of the Presbyteries medling with Trade and commerce of dischargeing men to persue for their debts Page 9 10. The Presbyteries meddle not with matters of trade or debt and Landlords to sue for their Rents are stories so true as the father of lies is wont to dite to his obedient children Possibly in the eighty eight yeare of God when the Spaniards were comming to destroy the Land some godly persons had disswaded their Neighbours to carry victuals to Spaine at that time and some men may have had scruple of conscience for sending of waxe and furnishing of immediate materials for Idolatry I beleeve also that gracious Ministers have given private counsel to rigorous exacters of their Rents and unmercifull persuers of their debts But that ever any Presbytery in Scotland did take cognizance of any such matters to the uttermost of my best knowledge is an Episcopall that is a manifest and malicious untruth The same I say of your next story They never took upon them to change a Market day the Munday markets in some chiefe Towns were an evident occasion of prophaning the Lords holy Sabbath this to all the godly was a matter of griefe both particular persons and whole Presbyteries have oft regrated it and offered their Petitions to the Councel and Parliament for the remedying thereof but that they ever of themselves did attempt to make any change of Market dayes it

complaint of the Scottish Ambassadour were able easily to get an affront put upon a Presbiterian fugitive but if ye will beleeve Spotswood Mr. Lawson was a man so eminent both for piety and prudence that it can hardly be supposed any thing could escape him in preaching which might deserve the Queenes displeasure how ever that excellent man did dye at that time in London as it seemes martyred by the injuries of the Scottish and English Prelates which doubtles did helpe to bring downe that vengeance upon the Prelaticall State in England which our eyes now doe behold For the further evincing of the intollerable miscarriages of the General Assemby P. 39. The case of Iames Gibson you bring three other stories p. 39.40 all are faults alleadged against single Mininisters which were they never so great and true ought not to be laid upon the Assembly but see how all are misreported the first concernes Iames Gibson a zealous Country Minister who Preaching in a very troublesome time spoke more rashly of the King then became him the words that you ascribe to him we may not take them at your hand for in the same matter by Spotswoods owne Testimony you are gui●ty of a great untruth you avow that the King caused complaint to be made to the Assembly of this man But by no intreaty could obtaine any punishment to be inflicted upon him Spotswood says the contrary that the Assembly did pro●ounce the mans words to be slanderous and therefore suspended him from his Ministry and while they were in further agitation of his cause that he fled into England doubtles for feare of his life what became of him thereafter I know not only I have read in a good Author that what here you insinuate of his favouring Hacket and Copinger is a very false calumny The next you speak of is Mr. Master David Black his case David Blacke Minister of St. Andrews a man of great piety and prudence his name is yet very savoury in that Towne though there be in it some three or foure thousand people yet so great was the zeale wisdome and diligence of Mr. Blacke that during all the time of his Ministry there no person was seen either to beg or prophane the Sabbath day in all that Congregation This man being delated to the secret counsell by a very naughty person that in a Sermon he had spoken disgracefully of the King was willing to have appeared and cleered himselfe of that calumny but finding that it was not his person which was aimed at but a quarrell with the whole Church in him sought for by the misleaders of the Court he thought meet to appeale not simply from the King but from the King and secret counsell to the King and Generall Assembly as to the proper and competent Judge appointed by the Law for matters of Doctrine While this question is in agitation a great storme did fall upon the Church from the seventeenth day of December which made Mr. Blacks cause be laid aside yet a little thereafter for to please the King the Commissioners of the generall Assembly did passe upon that gracious man a sentence severe enough removing him from St. Andrews to some obscure corner where he passed the rest of his dayes P. 40. A clea●e vindication of the assembly at Aberdeen in the yeare 1605. Your third story is of the Ministers who went to Aberdeen the year 1605. upon them you make a tragick Narration a gu●●ty of the most treasonable rebellion Your rashnes is great at these times to bring up to the sight these things which for the honour of many did lye long buried but since it is your wisdom to make the world know whereof with your friends advantage they might have been ignorant the matter was this It was the custom of Scotland ever from the Reformation to keep generall Assemblies twice or at least once every yeare After some debates in the yeare 1592. it became a Law and an Act of Parliament agreed to unanimously by the King and States and accordingly it was practised without any interruption that the Generall Assembly should meet at least once a yeare and appoint when all other actions were ended the day and place for the next yeares meeting In the yeare 1602. the Assembly in the Kings presence and with his advice did appoint the day and place of their next meeting in the yeare 1603. His Majestie at that time going to England tooke upon him to prorogat the Assembly till the same day and place of the yeare following 1604. of this prorogation there could be no necessity but his Majesties meere pleasure When the Dyet of the yeare 1604. did come the affaires of the Church did greatly call for an Assembly yet it was his Majesties will to make a second prorogation 〈◊〉 the fifth of July 1605. This was much to the hurt griefe and feare of all the godly yet they indured it but when the Dyet of the yeare 1605. was come His Majestie did not only prorogate the third time but also made the day of the next meeting ●●tertaine and inderinite This gave an allarme to the whole Kingdome all the world did see the Kings designe to bring the English E●iscopacie and all their Ceremonies upon the Church of Scotland also the mistery of popery was then working vehemently a mighty faction of popish Lords were still countenanced among us immediate correspondence with the Pope by the chiefe States-men was much surmised and afterward was found to be too true Scotland had no considerable B● warke either against English or Romish corruptions but their generall Assemblies if these were removed the poore Church lay open to the inundation of what ever Antichristianisme the Court was pleased to send in The generall Assembly besides its divine right was grounded upon so good Lawes as Scotlanâ cou●d afford but ●o that at the end of the present Assembly the Dyet of the next should alwayes be appointed however his Majesties designe to put downe the generall Assembly was evidently seen by a● intelligent men yet so long as he prorogate it to a certaine day men were quiet but so soon as he commanded the third dyet to be deserted and that to an uncertaine and infinite time they to whom the welfare of the Church was deare did awaken and found it necessary to keepe the Dyet appointed in the second prorogation at Aberdeen Iuly 2. or 5. 1605. The Commissioners of the Presbiteries in their way to Aberdeen advised with Chancellor Seaton the prime Magistrate of the Kingdome in the Kings absence and were incouraged by him to goe on yet so soon as any of them came to the place A Gentleman the Lord of Lauristone came to them with a warrant from the King and privy Counsell and discharged them to keepe any Assembly there yet the will of the King and Counsell was not intimated to them in convenient time for when the King and Counsells Letter was presented they shew

appeare and she shall quickly appeare with him in the glory and happinesse of a consummate Marriage But I must remember my selfe I know I have been greatly strengthned and sustained by your prayers honourable Lady and dearly beloved in our Lord Jesus continue I pray you as ye have begun in wrestling with the Lord for me that Christ may be magnified in my mortall body whether living or dead that my soule may be lifted up to those third heavens that I may taste of those joyes that are at the right hand of my heavenly Father and that with gladnesse I may let my spirit goe thither where my body shall shortly follow Who am I that he should first have called me and then constitute me a Minister of glad tidings of the Gospell of salvation these sixteen yeers already and now last of all to be a sufferer for his cause and Kingdome To witnesse that good confession The matter of this gracious mans suffering was the very controverfie now in hand betwixt us and the Erastian Statesmen that Jesus Christ is the King of Saints and that his Church is a most free Kingdome yea as free as any Kingdome under heaven not onely to convocate hold and keep her meetings Conventions and Assemblies but also to judge of all her affaires in all her meetings and conventions amongst her members and Subjectsd. These two points first that Christ is the head of his Church secondly that she is free in her government from all other jurisdiction except Christs These two points I say are the speciall cause of our imprisonmēt being now convict as traitors for their maintainance we have been waiting with joyfulnesse to give the last testimony of our blood in confirmation thereof if it would please our God to be so favourable as to honour us with that dignity yea I doe affirme that these two points above written and all other things which belong to Christs Crowne Scepter and Kingdome are not subject nor cannot be to any other authority but to his owne altogether so that I would be most glad to be offered up upon the sacrifice of so glorious a truth But alas I feare that my sinnes and the abuse of so glorious things as I have found deprive me of so faire a Crowne yet my Lord doth know if he would call me to and strengthen me in it it would be the most glorious day and gladdest houre I ever saw in this life but I am in his hand to doe with me whatsoever shall please his Majesty It may suffice me that I have had so long a time in the knowledge of the Gospell and that I have seen the things I have seen and heard the things I have heard and that through Gods grace I have been so long a witnesse of those glorious and good newes in my weak ministery and that my witnessing hath not been altogether without fruit and blessing so that I hope at that great day I shall have him to be my Crown my glory my joy and my reward and therefore boldly I say with Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace not in a peaceable dying but by rendring up to him my spirit in stamping of this his verity and in sealing the same with my blood I have fought a good fight and have finished my course 2 Tim. 9.7 I have kept the faith henceforth is laid up for me a Crowne of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me onely but to all them also that love his comming Now is the prophesie at hand to be fulfilled which these two worthy servants of the Lord Master George Wishart and Master John Knox my Father in Law spake which was That Christ should be crucified in this Kingdome againe but glorious should his resurrection be e This strange Prophesie of Knox and Wishart is here explicat and mervailously enlarged by this divine man the first part thereof whereupon alone be here infists has been performed lately in every tittle before our eyes the second part of Christs glorious resurrection and our glorious deliverance we expect shall be as punctually performed in the Lords good time as Master Knox with his owne hand upon the Margin of Calvins Harmony upon the Passion did write which is yet extant But alas for the Kingdome my testimony now doth not differ from that of many before this time who said That the Judgement of Scotland should be blood this Kingdome shall be drowned in blood a furbished and glittering sword is already drawne out of the scabbard which shall not returne untill it be made drunke with the blood of the men within this Land f More blood shed by the sword in Scotland the other yeere then for many Generations before first the heavy intestine sword and then the sword of the stranger g This indeed was the Lords method with us the blood shed in our first troubles at the Bridge of Die and divers parts of the North from the Castles of Edinborough and Dunbartan and in the South was onely by the intestine sword but the great bloodshed in our present troubles was for the most part by the sword of strangers the barbarous Irish Rebels having their Commission from Ireland O dolefull Scotland well were he that were removed far from thee that his eyes might not see nor his eares heare all these evils that are to come upon thee h Never so great a flight in Scotland as the other yeer the m●st considerable persons fled away to England or Ireland or some corners and strong holds of the Land for the safety of their lives neither the strong man by his strength nor the rich man by his riches nor the Noble man by his blood shall be delivered from the judgements there is a great sacrifice to be made in Bosrah in thee O Scotland of the blood of all sorts in the Land Videf. Ephraim shall consume Manasseh and Manasseh Ephraim Jsaiah 9.21 Brother against brother and every man in the judgement of the Lord shall be armed to thrust his sword in the fide of his neighbour k Thus indeed it was among us under the standard of the enemy many of our Brethren Kinsmen and Neighbours did fight and by their hands much of our blood was spilt and all for the contempt of the most glorious Gospell and that blood which was offered to thee O Scotland in so plentifull a manner that the like thereof hath not been offered to any Nation Therefore thy judgement shall be the greater but the Sanctuary must be begun at and the measure is not yet fulfilled till the blood of the Saints be shed then the cryes will be great and will not stay tili they bring the Lord downe from Heaven his Throne to see if the sinnes of Scotland be according to the cry thereof neither shall there be any Subject in the Land from the greatest to the

meanest guiltlesse The guilt of our blood shall not onely lie upon the Prince but also upon our own Brethren Bishops Counsellours and Commissioners it is they even they that have stirred our Prince against us we must therefore lay the blame and burden of our blood upon them especially however the rest above written be also partakers of their fins with them And as to the rest of our Brethen who either by silence approve or by crying Peace Peace strengthen the arme of the wicked that they cannot returne in the meane time make the hearts of the righteous sad they shall all in like manner be guilty of our blood and of high treason against the King of Kings the Lord Jesus Christ his Crowne and Kingdome Next unto them all Counsellours Chancellour President Comptroller Advocate and next unto them all that first or last sate in Counsell and did not beare plaine testimony of Jesus Christ and his Kingdome for which we doe suffer and next unto them all these who should have been present and supplied who should at such times have come and made open testimony of Christ faithfully although it had been contrary to plaine Law and hazard of their lives when the poor Jewes were in such danger that nothing was expected but utter destruction Queen Ester after three days fasting concluded thus with her selfe Ester 9.16 I will said she goe in to the King though it be not according to Law and if I perish I perish with this resolution such as are borne Counsellours should have said Christs Kingdome is now in my hand and I am bound also and sworne by a speciall Covenant to maintaine the Doctrine and Discipline thereof according to my vocation and power all the dayes of my life under all the paines contained in the Book of God and danger both of body and soule in the day of Gods fearfull judgement and therefore though I should perish in the cause yet will I speak for it and to my power defend it according to my vocation Finally all those that counsels commands consents and allowes are guilty in the sight of God but the mourners for these evils and the faithfull of the Land and they who are unfainedly grieved in heart for all the abominations these are marked as not being guilty Ezek. 9. I know not whether I shall ever have occasion to write againe and therefore by this Leteer as my latter will and testament I give testimony and warning and knowledge of those things to all men according to the Lords direction to the Prophet Son of man I have made c. therefore I give warning to all men hereby Ezek. 33.7 that no mans blood be required at my hand Thus desiring the help of your prayers with my humble commendations and service in Christ to my Lord your Husband and to all the Saints there the Messenger of peace be with you all for evermore Amen Yours to my full power for the time Christs Prisoner JOHN WELSCH From Blacknesse Jan. 16. 1606. This second Letter was written before the first to Sir William Levinstone of Kilsyth one of the Lords of the Colledge of Iustice RIght honorable Sir after my hearty salutations Your love and care towards us uttered many wayes hath certainly comforted me and having no other thing to requite as I am able I shall desire the Lord who is mighty and hath taken upon him so to doe to meet you and yours with consolations in his good time As for the matter it selfe the bearer will shew you that what is required is such a thing as in the sight of our Lord we may not doe without both the hazard of our consciences and liberty of Christs Kingdome which should be deerer to us then any thing else What a slavery were it for us to binde our consciences in the service of our God in the meanest point of our callings to the will of man or Angels And we are fully resolved that which we did was acceptable service to our God who hath put it up as service done to him and has allowed and sealed it to us by many tokens so that it were more then high impiety and apostacy to testifie the ruine or undoing of any thing which our God hath ordained to be done and has accepted of us being done a This Letter is an Answer of Master Welsh to Kilsyth it seemes Spotswood then Archbishop of Glasgow had moved Kilsyth to tempt the prisoners after their condemnation to acknowledge a fault and crave pardon for their actions at Aberdeen upon assurance of libertie this overture Master Welsh rejects as unlawfull and withall denounces the judgement of God against Spotswood the chiefe instrument of the gracious Ministers oppression in a mervailous and altogether Propheticall manner Wee Sir if the Lord will are yet ready to doe more in our callings and to suffer more for the same if so be it wil please our God to call us to it and strengthen us in it for in our selves we dare promise nothing but in our God all things As for that instrument Spotswood we are sure the Lord will never blesse that man but a malediction lyes upon him and shall accompany all his doings and it may be Sir your eyes shall see as great confusion covering him ere he goe to the grave as did his predecessours Now surely Sir I am farre from bitternesse but here I denounce the wrath of an everlasting God against him which assuredly shall fall except it be prevented Sir Dagon shall not stand before the Arke of the Lord and those names of blasphemy that he weares of Lord Bishop and Archbishop will have a fearfull end a This Prophesie of the abolishing of Episcopacy is now accomplished in our eyes Not one beck is to be given to Haman suppose he were as great a Courtier as ever he was suppose the Decree were given out and sealed with the Kings Ring Deliverance will come to us elsewhere and not by him that hath been so sore an instrument not against our persons that were nothing and I protest to you Sir in the fight of my God I forgive him all the evill that ever he hath done or can doe to me but unto Christs poore Kirk in stamping underfoot so glorious a Kingdome and beauty as was once in this Land he has helped to cut Sampsons haire and to expose him to mocks but the Lord will not be mocked he shall be cast away as out of a sling-stone his name shall rot and a malediction shall fall upon his posterity after he is gone c Not a word of this is fallen to the ground Spotswood in the top of all his honours when he had come up to be Archbishop of St. Andrewes and Chancellour of the Kingdome he was cast out of Scotland and dyed a poore miserable man at London having not a sixpence of his own to buy Bread or to put him in his grave but as it was begged at Court the evident hand of God lighted on his posterity his Lands of Darsie all the conquesse he was able to make to his eldest Son Sir Jo. Spotswood is ready to be sold and that branch of his posterity to goe a begging his second Son Sir Robert Spotswood President of the Colledge of Justice for his treason against Scotland did dye miserably on a scaffold at St. Andrews an obdured impenitent man his brother the Bishop of Clogher was cast out of his great estates in Ireland and here in extreame old age was put as he told us to teach children for his Bread and being unfit for that imployment he was long a suitor here at London for the meanest place in the Ministry that he might be kept from starving but could not obtaine it Let this Letter Sir be a Monument of it that it was told before that whē it shall come to passe it may be seene there was warning given him and therfore Sir seeing I have not the accesse my selfe if it would please God to move you I wish you did deliver this hard Message unto him not as from me I assure you but as from the Lord that except he repent he shall be made a fearfull spectacle of Gods wrath in this Land d These things were Prophesied in the yeer 1605. forty yeers before their full performance contrary to al worldly appearance for then and many yeeres after Master Welsh his death it was more improbable that the Episcopall thrones in the King of Britains Dominions could ever have been overthrown by any humane force then that the See of the Pope at Rome and the Seats of all the Antichristian Prelates in Italy France and Spain or any where this day in the Earth should be overturned in despight of all their Defenders I have kept the matter onely to my selfe as our Brother will shew you Now the grace of God be multiplyed upon you Yours from my heart to be commanded in the Lord. JOHN WELSH From Blacknesse Oct. 9. 1605.