some Presbyters against the King and the Acts of Parliament to Assist and Deliver him when perfidiously Imprisoned by the English Rebels he says it was no gross nor scandalous Crime but only a speculative Opinion in a controverted Point This shews what is the Opinion of Mr. Rule and of the Party that imployed him but how it consists with his telling the World so often in his two last Books That Presbyterians do not take upon them to meddle in matters of State nor to controul their Civil Governours I leave him to shew us in his next Vindication In the same Page and the following Mr. Rule vindicating the Proceedings of the General Assembly in this matter says That the fatal Division about Protestation and Remonstrance was through the Mercy of GOD not so much as mentioned among them and yet in the very next lines he says That it was moved that the old Sentence against the Remonstrators should be revoked and the revoking of their Sentence was confirmed by this Meeting That Mr. Pitcairn one of the Reverend Brethren was dissatisfied with the Determination of the Meeting in that Affair and was a little hot about it and spoke of entering a Protestation against it Would any People but Scotch Presbyterians have imployed such a Scribler as dare thus prophane the Mercies of GOD to justifie his own foolish and palpable Contradictions Page 160. He grants that to make up their Meeting some Presbyteries sent more than was customary or allowable and yet it was a Regular Lawful General Assembly and that they had none at all sent from other parts which parts were more than one half of the Nation And was not this a pretty General indeed that included only the least part of the Particulars This is true Presbyterian Logic and the Author of it deserves well to be Head of a Colledge In the same Page he denies confidently that Presbyterians were wont to appoint their Fasts on the Lord's Day whereas he might have with at least as great shew of truth denied that ever they fasted on any Day But his two Reasons for the General Assembly's appointing this Fast on the Lord's Day will render this whole matter as plain as a Pikestaff First says he It was the Harvest time and to fast then on a Week-day would have been a high Inconveniency Well we godly Presbyterians that are the Children of the Lord may make bold with his Day rather than seem by Religious Exercises to incommode the People in their Worldly interest Secondly Religious Joy and Religious Sorrow do very well agree And even so Fasting and Feasting at the same time may be very religiously and well observed by the Godly They that write Contradictions must needs speak some Truths and Mr. Rule stumbles upon one that 's well known Pag. 161. where he says We confess that planting work went more slowly on than purging work Well St. Paul was a Divine and he was all for planting and healing Dr. Rule calls himself a Physician and he is all for purging and launcing The Presbyterians are always for purging work Now they are for purging the Kirk next have at the King Council and Houshold there must be some purging work there too Again There are many malignant Members which like so many ill humours corrupt the Body of the Parliament therefore that must be also purged Then the filthiness of the Army by which Reformation-Work must be carried on that must be likewise purged and then that all the Streams may be pure Presbyterian the Fountains must be cleansed the Universities must be purged from the corruption of all ill-affected and suspected persons and in a word to make a thorough Reformation in the Land the whole Nation must be soundly drenched and purging work must go on in the Land after the old Presbyterian manner so long as there remains either Guts or Brains in it My Lord C d who is deservedly honoured by all the party His Godly Parks and Orchards are well planted already and why then should the General Assembly be any farther concerned about planting work Purging work is their Great Business There is another evident truth that Mr. Rule happens to Deviate into Pag. 188. viz. The worst of the Prelaists would be readiest to profess Repentance for conforming to Episcopacy which they who acted from a principle could not do In this I heartily agree with him and am sufficiently satisfied that that Episcopal Renegado who professed such a Repentance before their Assembly neither acted from any Principle nor can be supposed to have any Conscience and we bless God that all the Presbyterian interest art and industry now that they have power could not prevail with any but this one man to prostitute his Conscience to his interest in such a base and scandalous compliance I shall end my reflections on this Author's sayings with some short Remarks upon the Witnesses which he alledges to attest his assertions and first in general I say of them in his own words Pag. 88. That they are the sworn Enemies of the Episcopal Church and in a combination not only to defame them but to root them out and cut them off from the face of the earth and we have from the Pamphlet now under consideration a taste of the veracity of the men with whom we have to do If his witnesses make no more conscience of speaking truth than he himself doth then few thinking men will be moved with what they say 2ly Of the Witnesses named by the Authors of our Books he says they are mostly teste me ipso the Complainant is the witness which is not fair Now all Rule his Evidences are by this exception to be rejected for he himself and all others that know them are fully satisfied that those very Cameronians whom he names as the Evidences to disguise and lessen the attested matters of fact of our late Persecution were themselves the principal actors of that horrid Tragedy Since then it is not fair to admit parties to be witnesses why should these Cameronians be received as such in this affair Again he saith that Ministers witnessing for one another derogateth much from the Credibility of their Testimonies but what say you to Cameronian Presbyterians witnessing for one another why this derogates nothing from the credibility of their Testimonoes for they are not Ministers that 's one evident reason and moreover they are all men of strict Conscience a godly generation and very faithful to their Solemn League the Holy Scots Covenant Upon these considerations M. Rule Defender of the New Gospel-Faith would have the world receive the testimony of that Cameronian Rabble as infallible proofs of what he asserts in his second vindication of the Presbyterian Kirk And yet Preface pag. 6. he says of them That he will not pledge his veracity for theirs that he pretends to no Personal knowledg of but a few of them and that if they deceive or have been deceived not he but they
hast rejected that we seek it is King Christ that has been a stranger these many years in poor Scotland It is reported of Mr. Robert Blair at St. Andrews that he had this expression in his Prayers Lord thou art a good Goose for thou art still dropping And severals in the Meeting-houses of late have made use of it to which they add Lord thou rains down middings of blessings upon us Mr. Anderson a Phanatick Preacher in Perthshire in a Prayer said Good Lord it is told us That thou knows a proud man by his looks as well as a malignant by his works but what tilt thou do with these malignants I 'll tell thee Lord what thou wilt do Even take them up by the heels and reest them in the Chimney of Hell and dry them like Bervy Haddocks Lord take the Pistol of thy Vengeance and the Mortar-piece of thy Wrath and make the hairns of these malignants a hodge podge but for thy own Bairns Lord feed them with the Plumdames and Raisons of thy Promises and e'en give them the Spurs of Confidence and Boots of Hope that like new spean'd fillies they may soup over the fold-dikes of Grace A learned Divine of that Sett at Pitsligo in his publick Prayer this last Summer said O Lord thou' rt like a Mousie peeping out at the hole of a Wall for thou sees us but we see not thee Mr. William Moncrif whom I named before pag. after his Sermon is Summer last at Largo in Fife in the Intercession of his Prayer said O God establish and confirm thy Church in Scotland and defend her from her bloody and cruel Enemies Popery and Prelacy O Lord prosper thy reformed Churches of Portugal and Piedmont and of the rest of the Low Countries and carry on thy work which is begun in Ireland and sweet good Lord finally begin and carry on a work in England Mr. Shields preaching near Dumfreis in his Prayer for K William said Good Lord bless him with a stated opposition in his Heart to the Antichristian Church of England and with Grace to destroy all the Idolatry and Superstition of their foolish and foppish Worship and bless all the people of the Land with Strength Zeal and Courage throughly to reform the State as well as the Church in these Kingdoms that they may be untied in the Bond of the Solemn League and Covenant and purified according to that pattern in the Mount which we and our Posterity are all sworn to Mr. John Welsh pray'd Lord we are come hither a pack of poor Beggers of us the day alms to the poor blind here for God's sake that never saw the light of the Gospel alms to the poor deaf here that never heard the joyful sound to the poor Cripples that have their Legs the Covenant broken by the Bishops Lord pity thy poor Kirk the day poor Woman sad is she Lord lend her a lift and God confound that filthy bitch that Gumgal'd Whore the Whore of Babylon One Mr. Hustone said Lord give us Grace for if theu give us not Grace we shall not give thee Glory and who will win by that Lord One Bâ—rlands in Gallowshiels a blasphemous ignorant Blockhead said in his Prayers before Sermon Lord when thou was electing to Eternity grant that we have not got a wrong cast of thy hand to our Souls Another time praying at Jedburgh he said Lord confound the Tyrant of France God's Vengeance light on him the Vengeance of God light on him God's Vengeance light on him but if he be of the Election of Grace Lord save him Lord confound the Antichristian crew in Ireland indeed Lord for the great man time heads them God knows we wish not his destruction we wish him Repentance of his sins but not the rest As for the crew of the Church of England that 's gone in to fight against them they are as profane a crew as themselves Lord but thou can make one man destroy another for the Interest of the people of God and to give Gods people Elbow-room in the Land One who is now a Head of a Colledge and is look't upon by the party as their great Advocate and Oracle in a publick Congregation at Edenburgh 1690 in his Prayer had these words which one that heard them and immediately committed them to Writing shewed to me O Lord give us give us good Lord but Lord you 'll may be say to us Ye are always troubling me what shall I give you now but Lord whatever thou says we know that thou in thy hart likes such trouble and now I 'll tell thee what thou should give us Lord I 'll not be greedy nor misleard now Lord then only give us thy self in earnest of better things Good Lord what have ye been doing all this time where have you been this 30 year What good have ye done to your poor Kirk in Scotland that has been so many years spurgal'd with Antichrist's riding her she has been long lying on her back and sadly defiled and many a good lift have we lent her O how often have we put our Shoulders to Christs Cause when his own back was at the Wall to be free with you Lord we have done many things for thee that never enter'd in thy noddle and yet we are content that thou take all the glory is not that fair and kind It 's true good Lord you have done gelly well for Scotland now at last and we hope that thou hast begun and will carry ony thy work in England that stands muckle in mister of a Reformation but what have you done for Ireland Lord ah poor Ireland then pointing with his Finger to his Nose he said I true I have nickt you there Lord. O God thou hast bidden us pray for Kings and yet they have been always very troublesome to thy Kirk and very fasious Company Lord either make them good or else make us quite of their Company They say that this new King thou hast sent us takes the Sacrament kneeling and from the hand of a Bishop ah that 's black that 's fowl work Lord deliver him from Papary and Prelacy from a Dutch Conscience and from the hardheartedness of the Stewarts and let us never be trysted again with the bag and baggage of the Family the black band of Bishops to trouble and lord it over thy Church and Heritage Good Lord send back our old King of poor Scotland restore him to his Throne and Dignity to his absolute Power and Superemacy from which he he hat been so long and so unjustly banished Lord you ken what King I mean I do not mean K. James na forsooth I do no mean him I mean Lord you ken well enough wha I mean I mean sweet K. Jesus that 's been long kept out of this his own Covenanted Kingdom by the Bishops and Godless Act of Supremacy Lord I have many more tales to
tell you and many sad complaint to make of our Governors and great men and of the malignants and Dundee's men and many Pardons to ask for a broken Covenant and a backsliding Ministry but I must refer them all till you and I be at more leisure and I will not end without that old musty Prayer that they now call our Lords Mr. Robert Kenedy Brother to the very learned and moderate Hugh Kenedy the Moderator of the General Assembly once praying at a Conventicle at Chidsdale said Lord grant that all the Kings in the World may fall down before thy Son and kiss his Soles not the Pope's Soles c. no nor his stinking Panton either Mr. Boyd the famous Preacher in Chidsdale finding in the Forenoon that severals of his Hearers went away after the Forenoon Sermon had this expression in his Afternoon Prayers Now Lord thou sees that many People go away from hearing thy word but had we told them Stories of Robin Hood or Davie Lindsay they had stay'd and yet none of these are near so good as thy Word that I Preach Another praying against Church Government by Bishops and Curates said Lord will thou take the Keys of thy own House out of the hand of those thieves and hirelings and make them play clitter clatter upon their Crowns till they cry Maw again he pronounced the word Maw like the noise of a Cat for thy locks have got many a wrong cast since they had the Keys About the beginning of March 1689 one prayed for a Presbyterian Election of Members to the Parliament in the City of Edinburgh in these words Good God now when Christ's back is at the wall put it in the heart of the Townsmen to chuse George Stirling and Baillif Hall Another prayed Lord thou hast said that he is worse than an Insidel that provides not for his own Family Give us not reason to say this of thee Lord for we are thine own family and yet we have been but scurvily provided for of a long time Another praying after the Baptism of a Child in the City of Edinburgh said Lord bless and preserve this young Calf that he may grow an ox to draw in Christ's Plough Mr. Areskine praying in the Tron-Church last year said Lord have mercy on all Fools and Idiots and particularly on the Magistrates of Edinburgh Another Imprecating as is very ordinary with them to do said Lord give thy enemies the Papists and the Prelates a full cup of thy fury to drink and if they refuse to drink it off then good Lord give them Kelty Mr. John Dickson praying for Grace said Lord dibble thou the kail-seed of thy Grace in our hearts and if we grow not up to good kail Lord make us good Sprouts at least Mr. Linning cursing the King or France in his Prayers said Lord curse him confound him and damn him dress him and guide him as thou didst Pharaoh Senacherib and our late King James and his Father One Frazer a young Fellow Preaching in Jedburgh after Sermon blasphemously inverted the Blessing thus The Curse of the Lord Jesus Christ and of God the Father and the Holy Ghost be upon all them that hear the Word and profit not by it Mr. Arskine in the Tron-Church prayed Lord be thou in Mons Mons Mons be thou in Mons good Lord meikle need has Mons of thee Lord for now they that be Confederates we hope they may be made Covenanters Bring the sworn enemy of the Solemn League the Tyrant of France to the place whence he came and cause his Dragons shoot him in his Retreat that he may cry out with Julian the Apostate Now Galilean thou hast overcome me One Mr. James Webster was admired lately at my Lord Arbuthnet his zealous Patron 's Table for this Grace before Meat Out of the boundless bankless brimless bottomless shoreless Ocean of thy goodness we are daily foddered filled feasted fatted and half an hours Discourse to the same purpose Mr. Kennedy before the late Assembly in which he had the name of Moderator said in his Prayer Lord Moderation is commended to us by the King we all know it 's a Vertue that 's sometimes is useful Lord but I cannot say that that which they call Moduration is so convenient at this time for thy People and Cause for even to be free with you Good Lord I think it best to make a clean House by sweeping them all out at the door and casting them out to the Midden Their famous Scrib Rule in a Prayer not at Sermon but upon another occasion as publick a little after the dissolution of the General Assembly expressed himself thus O Lord thou knows that Christ's Court the General Assembly ought to protest against Usurpers upon Christs Kingdom but if we had known that King William would have been angry with us in earnest and if the Brethren would have followed my advice we should have pleased the King for this time and taken Christ in our own hand till some other opportunity The Moderator Chrighton immediately after the Assembly was dissolved praying amongst many other reflexions upon the King and his Counsellors said these words O Lord thou knows how great a Surprizal this is to us we lookt upon King William at his first coming among us to have been sent in mercy for deliverance to this poor Kirk but now we see that our Deliverance must come from another hand Good God grant that he be not sent to be a plague and a curse to thy Kirk Hind let loose by Mr. Shields pag. 468. I conclude this Head says he with that Form of Prayer that I use for the King O Lord to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy self lift up thy self thou Judge of the Earth render a reward to the proud Lord how long shall the wicked how long shall the wicked triumph shall the Throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee that frameth mischief by a law the mighty and terrible God destroy all Kings and people that put their hand to alter and destroy the House of God overturn overturn overturn this Throne of Tyranny and let it be no more until he come whose right it is These are but a few of many thousand instances that might be given of that ridiculousness profanity and blasphemy which the Scotch Presbyterians daily use in their Preaching and Praying and tho Strangers may think it incredible that men professing Religion or Reason should thus debase and prostitute both yet they who are unfortunately bound to converse with and hear them frequently cannot be but sadly sensible that all that 's here charged upon them is but too true and that many of the worst expressions they are daily guilty of are purposely here omitted lest by such obscene Godless and fulsome stuff the ears and eyes of modest Readers should be nauseated and polluted which if these opposers of Truth and Religion should deny there are thousands in Scotland of the best quality and
in a Garret and she hearing some body coming up Stairs she said to him Ah here 's my Aunt I must devise a Trick to divert her upon which she â—ell a whining and howling aloud as these People use to do at their most private Devotions O to believe to believe O to have Experience said she And by that means she diverted her Aunts further Approaching who instantly retired commending her Niece's Zeal and Devotion The Gentleman conceals the Woman's Name out of regard to her Honour and his own begs Pardon for the Sin and tells it only to discover the abominable Nature of their Hypocrisie They are generally deluded by Persons that have but specious pretences to Godliness And such is the force that a loud Voice and a whining Tone in broken and smother'd words have upon the Animal Spirits of the Presbyterian Rabble that they look not upon a Man as endued with the Spirit of God without such canting and deformity of Holiness A person that hath the dexterity of whining may make a great Congreation of them weep with an Ode of Horace or Eclogue of Virgil especially if he can but drivel a little either at Mouth or Eyes when he repeats them And such a person may pass for a Soul-ravishing spiritualist if he can but set off his Nonsence with a wry mouth which with them is called A Grace pouring down Countenance The snuffling and twang of the Nose passes for the Gospel sound and the throwings of the Face for the motions of the Spirit They are more concerned at the reading the Speeches of their Covenant Martyrs yea such Martyrs as died for Rebellion and Murder than in reading the Martyrdom of St. Stephen or any of his Followers A Sermon of mere Railing and Nonsence will afâ—ect them more than Christ's Sermon on the Mount and no wonder for all they do is to affect the Passions and not the Judgment One Mr. Daniel Douglass an old Presbyterian Preacher in the Mers simple man as to the World yet of more Learning Ingenuity and good Nature than most of them he was not long agoe preaching before the meeting of his Brethren and agoe annalysing a Text Logically and very remote from vulgar Capacities yet so powerful and melting was his Tone and Actions that in the Congregation he spies a Woman weeping and pointing towards her he crys out Wife what makes you weep I am sure thou understandest not what I am saying my Disourse is directed to the Brethren and not to the like of you nay I question whether the Brethren themselves understand this that I am speaking Several Instances can be given of their strong delusions this is none of the least that they take it for a sure Evidence upon their Death-beds that it 's well with them because they never heard a Curate in their lifetime For an indulged Presbyterian who is the Author of the Review of the History of the Indulgence tells us thus much Page 527 and Page 528 That some of the leading people among the Presbyterians were of Opinion that Baptism by Episcopal Ministers is the mark of the Beast and the hearing of them as unlawful as Fornication Adultery or the worshipping the Calves of Dan and Bethel And I think that a Curate can tell no worse tale of them than this which a Presbyterian himself owns and declares to the World in Print I cannot here pass by what happen'd a few Years ago in the Parish of Tindrum in the South-west a person that was Executed for Bestiality there in his Prayers bless'd God that for a long time he had heard no Curate preach at which the Hearts of some Presbyterian Saints began to warm with Affection to him and exprest so much Charity that upon that account they doubted not but that he might be saved and were sorry that he was not allow'd to live because of the good that such a Zealous man might have done It is a well known truth in the Parish of Teviotdale that two or three sighing Sisters coming to a Man in Prison the Night before he was burnt for Bestiality the wholsomest Advice they gave him was this O Andrew Andrew Andrew all the Sins that ever you committed are nothing to your hearing the cursed Curates if you get Pardon for that Sin Andrew all is right with you A young Woman in Fife Daughter to a Presbyterian Preacher there reading that of St. Peter Christ the Bishop of our Souls blotted out the word Bishop and in the place thereof incerted Presbyterian of our Souls And by the same Spirit of Biggotry one of her Zealous Sisters in the same Family tore every where out of her Bible the word Lord Because said she it is polluted by being applied to the Profane Prelates Instances of their Madness and Delusions might swell into an huge Volume but I shall only mention two or three which are commonly known What greater Instance of Delusion than that Seven or Eight thousand people should be raised to Rebellion at Bothwel-bridge from laboring their ground and keeping their Sheep and that by Sermons assuring them that the very Windlestraws the Grass in the Field and Stars in Heaven would fight for them And that after the Victory they should possess the Kingdom themselves O it 's the promis'd Land and you Israelites shall inherit it but in this they found their Preachers to prove salve Prophets After their Defeat a Gentleman told me that going to view the Field where the Battle was fought he saw one in the Agony of death crying out Ah cheated out of Life and Soul The Gentleman inquired what he meant by that expression Ah said he our Preachers our Preachers they made us believe that as sure as the Bible was the word of God we should gain the day for that the Windlestraws should fight for us About the same time a person of Quality returning from the West with some of the King's Forces being necessitate to lodge in a Country House where there was but one Woman and she with child for the Men and all that were able to run had fled out of the way The Nobleman encouraged the poor Woman desiring her not to be afraid sent one upon his own Horse for Midwife and other Women to attend her The poor Woman surprised and encouraged with this unexpected kindness began to talk more freely and said Sir I see you that are Kings-men are not so ill as we heard ye were for we heard that it was ordinary for you to rip up Women with Child but pray will you tell me Sir what sort of Men are your Bishops They are said he very good Men and they are chosen out from among the Clergy to oversee the rest of the Ministers But are they says she shapen like other Men Why ask you that said he Because our Preachers made us believe the Bishops were all cloven-footed There is scarce one of an hundred among the Presbyterian Vulgar that will be either reason'd or laugh'd out of
all Obedience to the Civil Law and yet the Presbytery of Dalkeith permitted one Calderwood a declared Enemy of Mr. Heriot's and some others of his Accusers to sit as Judges among them and not only admitted but also invited and encouraged two or three Knights of the Post to swear That the Minister had danced about a Bon-fire the 14th of October 1688. And when it was made appear to the conviction of all Men that there was no Bon-fires in the Town upon that Day and that the Town was never wont to use any such Solemnity upon the occasion of that Day all that the Presbytery said was That they could not help it for the matter was sworn and deponed and and they behoved to proceed having a Call to Purge the Church Besides their not having good Notions of the Gospel nor of any good Heathen Morals one reason of their malicious and crabbed Nature may be that they never suffered Affliction for after they abdicated their Churches in 1662 they began every-where in their Sermons to cant about the Persecution of the Godly and to magnifie their own Sufferings by this means they were pamper'd instead of being persecuted some of the godly Sisters supplying them with plentiful Gratuities to their Families and Mony to their Purses they really lived better then ever they did before by their Stipends They themseves boasted that they were sure of Crowns for their Sufferings and that Angels visited them often in their Troubles and both were materially true I know severals of them who got Estates this way and that grew fat and lusty under their Persecutions Mr. Shields one of their honestest and best Writers being well acquainted with all that they suffered and a great Sharer in it glories in this that they were highly provided for in their greatest Difficulties and makes an Argument for it of their being God's People In his Annalysis as he calls it on the 29th of Deuteronomy delivered in a Discourse to the People on the Preparation-day before they renewed the Covenants p. 10. l. 8. these are his words Tho' in the Wilderness of Prelatick Erastian and Antichristian Vsurpations we did not meet with Miracles yet truly we have experienced Wonders of the Lord's Care and Kindness and for all the Harassings and Persecutions c. the poor Wilderness-Wanderers have look'd as Meat-like and Cloath-like a others that sat at Ease in their Houses and drank their Wine and their strong Drink The Party finding such good Fruits of their Itinerary Labours continued to preach the unthinking Mobile out of their Money and Senses and well as out of their Duty to God and Man receiving in the mean time instead of Cups of cold Water many Bowls of warm Sack the true Covenant-Liquor and the best Spirit that inspires the New Gospellers By these means the Malignity of their Nature was rather kindled than abated the only Men and suffered any thing being the poor silly Plow-men and Shepherds in the West whom the false Teachers hounded out to die for a broken Covenant It 's true indeed that many such Men being deluded into several Rebellions put the State under a necessity of defending it self by punishing some of them and killing others in Battels but yet before the danger of these Battels the Preachers were generally so wise as to save themselves by running first for ad they been so honest as to have born but a part of these Burdens which they imposed upon their Proselytes or so couragious as to have but shew'd their Faces in the day of Battel to which they always sounded the Allarm by their Sermons then it 's like we should not have been now infested with such swarms of these Locusts as have over-spread our Land and again filled our King's Chambers as the Frogs and Lice of Aegypt did that of Pharaoh's Tho' upon certain occasions the more subtile and cunning Presbyterians knowing that no art can defend or disguise the unaccountable wildness and madness of some of their party are forc'd to disprove and condemn them Yet they never fail to make use of the Sufferings of these same wild Men to magnify that Persecution which themselves pretend to have undergone but had not the least share in Eminent instances of this we have in Rule 's late book To whom among other favours we owe this new distinction of wild and sober Presbyterians Truly if the Presbyterians had met with the same measure with which they formerly served the Prelatists if they had been used as they did good Bishop Wishart whom they made to lye seven Months in a dark stinking close Prison without the conveniency of so much as changing his Shirt but once so that he was like to be eaten up of himself and the Vermine which that nasty place produced its probable that by such Severities which I am glad they suffered not they might have been brought to something of that good Man's Christian Temper and Disposition And that this was very great the worst of themselves were constrained to own when upon changing of the Scene he being deservedly advanced to the Bishoprick of Edinburgh was so Charitable as to convey large supplies to such of them as were Imprison'd for their Notorious Rebellion at â—entland Hills 1666 and that without letting them know from what hand it came nay his Compassion to them was such that he continued such Presbyterian Preachers as were any thing tollerable in their Churches and Office without imposing on them the conditions of Conformity which the Law then required But now Presbyterian Preachers even those that are called the soberest as we may see by their daily Practices and Expressions are highly galled because they are not allowed to treat the Bishops and other Ministers of God's Word after the same Barbarous manner that they formerly did that is Hew them in pieces before the Lord as they were wont to Phrase it for they commonly compare Bishops to Agag and those ordained by them to the Amalekites The Episcopal Ministers and Rulers used all Christian and discreet Methods when they had Power to gain and oblige the Dissenters and to save them from the Penalties of the Law But now such is the ingratitude of some even of those same Presbyterians whom the Episcopal Ministers had saved from the Gibbet to which the Law had justly doomed them that they were the only Persons that invented false Stories forged malicious Lybels and raised Tumults against those very Ministers who had been formerly so exceeding kind to them we have but too many instances of their rendering Evil for Good in this manner And that which makes this the more strange and odious is that it is Acted under a pretence to Religion and Reformation and that the giddy People are instigated to this Wickedness by their Preachers I shall trouble the Reader at present only with two Particulars to this purpose Mr. Monro Parson of Sterling was lately lybelled and accused before the Brethren of the Inquisition by one
are to blame for it After all this if neither Bishops nor other Ministers neither Laick Lords nor Gentry both of the Scotch and English Nation must be allowed to have any Credit when they are brought by our Authors to attest known Truths and matters of Fact whereof they were Eye Witnesses then I beseech you why should men receive that high Character and Testimony which Mr. Rule gives of himself pag. 169 when he says He did not only practice Medicine but likewise took the Degree of Doctor in it yet never giving over the Work of preaching frequently This is a terrible Man indeed who it seems can kill both Soul and Body He is far stricter to the Covenanted Work than his Brethren the Presbyterians in England for they can upon occasion for Interest and other such holy Purposes unite and joyn with Independents whereas he like a man of unmoveable Conscience withstood the temptation of having an Independent Congregation at Aberdeen when great offers of that Charge were made to him there and in Northumberland he suffered no small loss because he would not fall in with that Independent way Again if you 'll believe himself he hat no want of Latin and that he speaks false Lattin is false he is ready as he hath done to give proof to the contrary and to compete with all such as pretend to it but when and where we must not know till Elias come Nay besides all this he hath an excellent hand at Latin Prayers which he can make longer or shorter as the occasion requireth but never so short as some men alledge neither doth he use to pray VERY LONG in publick even in English and that 's more indeed than any other of his Fraternity can alledge for themselves Long Prayers serve the Party for many great ends in them they can sound the Alarms to Rebellion commend themselves highly defame the King rail against and revile Malignants raise and inflame the Mob vent false News and Stories and many other Hocus tricks their long ex Trumpry Prayers serve for Moreover Mr. Rule to shew his Parts longs for an Adversary like himself I wish says he a Sciolist would make it appear by a Solid Refutation what Ignorance I have discovered in my Writings I am ready to defend it with all the probability the subject matter is capable of But my mistakes if I be in any must not pass for proofs of my Ignorance If any Momus will make his censure on the Presbyterian Government it 's like Mr. Rule the great Atlas of the Cause or some for him will give him a farther Answer Just such another as this exceeding civil and fair Vindication And then to conclude his own Character he assures us That he exceeds all other Presbyterians both in his tenderness to the Episcopal party and in his Argumentative way rather than bitterness of all which the new Gospel Modesty and Meekness the Candor Ingenuity and Argumentation that appears every where in his late Books is a sufficient evidence Now for a man to say all this of himself because no body else will this sure is teste me ipso with a witness unless it shall be allowed that Gilbert may witness for Rule and Rule again for Gilbert that the Doctor may witness for the Principal and the honest Principal again by way of Requital does the like kindness to his beloved Doctor this is the Presbyterian way of proving things by Witnesses Mr. Rule answers our Books so throughly that he imputes to the Authors as a fault in their Method every little escape of the Printers about wrong numbering the Pages which is frequently occasioned by sending one and the same Book to several Houses for the speedier dispatch however the Alphabetical numbering of the Sheets ordinarily serves to help the misplaced Figures but tho' Mr. Rule be often dabling about the Press yet it seems he either does not or he will not know this Mr. Rule at last to confirm all the Contradictions and Falshoods of his Book brings in Mr. Meldrum one of his own Kidney and just such another Scribler as appears by his Letter Page 195. where he says That the Prelatists way is to spread Reflective Pamphlets in England keeping them as secret as they can in Scotland where the falshood of matters of Fact are not known and they might soon have their Shame and Lying discovered None but a true Scots Presbyterian could have asserted this for he himself too well knows that his Party which domineers now in Scotland allows no Episcopal Pamphlets to be brought into or dispersed in that Kingdom and that sometime before the writing of his Letter several hundreds of these Pamphlets were by the Presbyterian Party seiz'd at Berwick to prevent their being dispersed in Scotland and that contrary to all the Rules of Justice and Commerce betwixt the two Nations and to the great prejudice of the Bookseller these Books are by the Arbitrary Power of Presbyterians still kept up But we shall allow Mr. Meldrum to be more candid in this than in his former dealings with us if he will but now obtain to us the common liberty of the Press in Scotland and then we promise that he shall have a sight of all our Pamphlets sine praetio aut praece which now he says he cannot obtain by either of these means Page 196 None but a Cameronian will assert as Mr. Meldrum does That the Covenant is a Sacred Oath just as Sacred as that by which the Jews bound themselves to murther St. Paul The World is not now ignorant how that Covenant was by Subjects who had no shadow or Authority pressed upon their Brethren in despite of the King at the expence of much Treasure and many thousand Lives and Perjuries Page 197. he says That the submitting of some who had been ordained only by Presbyterians to be re-ordained by Bishops is Scandalous None but one of Rule 's Evidences would have said this the Reformed French have been always justly reputed by all other Protestants for the great Learning and Piety of their Ministers and yet the most Learned and Pious of their Ministers at their coming into England when they could have the advantage of being Ordained by Bishops have chearfully not only submitted to it but begged it of the Right Reverend Fathers of the Church Of which we have many late Instances The account he gives of his shufling and shifting about the Oath of Canonical Obedience is very Comical for he owns That he Subscribed a Paper whereof he did not seriously consider either the words or the matter and he thinks himself sufficiently absolved from that because forsooth he was not present when that paper was read in the Church and by telling the People next Lord's day that he conceiv'd he had yielded to nothing but what he first offered which they that know the matter of Fact call Canonical Obedience for which if you 'll believe him he lamented several years after all
hinder the Work of Reformation The crying Sins of the Land which we should confess with sorrow before the Lord are That the Graceless Prelates and Curates are not hung up before the Sun and that Men should be so Godless as to assist the King in his distress before he had satisfied the Kirk by publick Penance for opposing the Work of God in the Covenant Jus Pop. Throughout Act General Assembly Aug. 13. 1650. Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties appointed and published 1648. And again renewed at Lesmachago March 3. 1688. with Accommodation to the present times SECT III. Containing Notes of the Presbyterian Sermons taken in Writing from their Mouths AT first I begin with one I heard from Zetland who Preaching on David and Goliah he told the Hearers Sirs this David was but a little manekine like my beddle Davie Gaddies there but Goliah was a meckle strong fellow like the Laird of Quandal there this David gets a Scrippie and Baggie that is a Sling and a Stone in it he slings a Stone into Goliah ' s Face down falls Goliah and David above him After that David was made a King he that was keeping Sheep before in truth he came very well too Sirs Well said Davie see what comes of it Sirs after that he commits Adultery with Uriah Nay said the beddal Davie Gaddies it was but with Uriah ' s Wife Sir In Faith thou art right it was Uriah's Wife indeed man said Mr. John One Ker at his entring into a Church at Teviotdale told the People the Relation that was to be between him and them in these following words Sirs I am coming home to be your Shepherd and you must be my Sheep and the Bible will be my Tar-bottle for I will mark you with it and laying his Hand on the Clark or Precentor's Head he saith Andrew you shall be my Dog The sorrow a bit of your Dog will I be said Andrew O Andrew I speak mystically said the Preacher Yea but you speak mischievously said Andâ—ew Mr. William Guthry preaching on Peter ' s Confidence said Peter Sirs was as Stalliard a Fellow as ever had cold Iron at his Arse and yet a Hussie with a Rock feared him Another preaching against Drunkenness told the Hearers There were four sorts of Drunkenness 1. To be drunk like a Sow tumbling in the Mire like many of this Parish 2. There is to be drunk like a Dog the Dog fills the Stomach of him and spues all out again and thou John Jamison was this way drunk the other day 3. There is to be drunk like a Goose Of all Drunkenness Sirs beware of the Drunkenness of the Goose for it never rests but constantly dips the Gobb of it in the Water You are all drunk this way Sirs I need name none of you 4. There is to be drunk like a Sheep the silly Sheep seldom or never drinks but sometimes wets the Mouth of it in the Water and rises up as well as ever and I my self use to be drunk this way Sirs But now I see said he two Gentlemen in the Kirk and Gentlemen you are both Strangers to me but I must vindicate my self at your hands I have here the cursedest Parish that ever God put Breath in for all my preaching against Drunkenness they will go into a Change-house after Sermon and the first thing they 'll get is a meckle cup full of hot Ale and they will say I wish we had the Minister in the midst of it Now Gentlemen judge ye how I am rewarded for my good Preaching After Sermon the Clerk gives him up the name of a Fornicatrix whose name was Ann Cantly Here is saith he one upon the Stool of Repentance they call her Cantly she saith her self she is an honest Woman but I trow Scantly Mr. John Levingstone in Ancrum once giving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper said to his Hearers Now Sirs you may take Christ piping hot and finding a Woman longsome in taking the Bread out of his Hand he says Woman if you take not Christ take the meikle Devil then One John Simple a very Zealous Preacher among them used to personate and act Sermons in the old Monkish Stile spoken of Sect. 1. § 16. At a certain time he preached upon that Debate Whether a Man be Justified by Faith or by Works and acted it after this manner Sirs this is a very great Debate but who is that looking in at the Door with his red Cap follow your look Sir it is very ill manners to be looking in but what 's your name Robert Bellarmine Bellarmine saith he Whether is a man justified by Faith or by Works He is justified by Works Stand thou there man But what is he that honest-like-man standing in the Floor with the long Beard and Geneva Coul a very honest-like-man draw near What 's your name Sir My name is John Calvin Calvin honest Calvin Whether is a man justified by Faith or by Works He is justified by Faith Very well John thy Leg to my Leg and we shall hough down Bellarmine even now Another time Preaching on the day of Judgment he told them Sirs this will be a terrible day we 'll all be there and in the throng I John Simple will be and all of you will stand at my back Christ will look to me and he will say Who is that standing there I 'll say again yea even as ye ken'd not Lord he 'll say I know thou's honest John Simple draw near John now John what good service have you done to me on Earth I have brought hither a company of Blew Bonnets for you Lord Blew Bonnets John what is become of the brave Hats the Silks and the Satins John I 'll tell I know no Lord they went a Gate of their own Well honest John thou and thy blew Bonnets are welcome to me come to my right hand and let the Devil take the Hats the Silks and the Sattins This John was ordinarily called Fitch-cape and Claw-poll because in the time of Preaching or Praying he used to claw his Head and rub his Callet At a certain time he was called to preach in a Neighbouring Church and his Preface was in these words Sirs I know what you will be saying among your selves the day ye will say Here is Fitch-cape come to preach to us the day but as the Lord lives I had a great deal of do e're I could come to you for by the way I met the Devil he said to me What now Fitchâ—cape whither are you going I am going said I to preach to the People of God People of God! said the foul thief they are my People They are not yours thou soul thief said I. They are mine Claw-poll said he again to me so the foul thief and I tugg'd rugg'd and riv'd at one another and at last I got you out of his Clooks Now here is the good that
Fitch-cape hath done to you now that ye may be kept out of his Gripes let us pray Another Lecturing on the first of Job said Sirs I will tell you this Story very plainly The Devil comes to God one day God said What now Deel thou foul thief whither are you going I am going up and down now Lord you have put me away from you now I must even do for my self now Well well Deel says God all the World kens that it is your fault but do not you know that I have an honest Servant they call Job is not he an honest Man Deel Sorrow to his thank says the Deel you make his Cup stand full even you make his Pot play well but give him a cuff I 'll hazard he 'll be as ill as I am called Go Deel says God I 'll yoke his Honesty with you Fell his Cows worry his Sheep do all mischief ye can but for the very Saul of you touch not a hair of his Tail Mr. Robert Blair that famous Presbyterian Preacher at St. Andrews was very much thought of for his familiar way of Preaching He preached often against the observation of Christmass and once in this Scotch jingle You will say Sirs Good old Youle-day I 'll tell you Good old Fool-day You will say It is a brave Haly-day I tell you it is a brave Belly-day you will say these are bonny Formalities but I tell you they are bonny Fartalities Another enveighing against the Vanity and Gaddiness of Women spake thus Behold the Vanity of Women look to them you 'll see first a Sattin Peticoat lift that there is a Tabby Petticoat lift that there is a Flanning Petticoat lift that there is a Holland Smarck lift that and there you will see what they ought not to be proud of that 's no very cleanly spectacle Eve said he was never so vain she sought no covering but Fig-leaves Mr. Simple whom I named before told That Samson was the greatest fool that ever was born for he revealed his Secrets to a Daft hussie Samson you may well call him Fool Thomson for of all the John Thomson's men that ever was he was the foolest I have a Sermon of theirs written from the Preachers Mouth by one of their own Zealots whereof this is one passage Jacob began to wrestle with God an able hand forsooth I Sirs but he had a good Second that was Faith Faith and God gave two or three tousles together at last God Dings down Faith on its bottom Faith gets up to his Heels and says Well God is this your Promise to me I trow I have a Ticket in my Pocket here Faith brings out the Ticket and stops it in God's hand and said Now God! is not this your own Write deny your own Hand-write if you dare Are these the Promises you gave me Look how you guide me when I come to you God reads the Ticket and said Well well Faith I remember I gave you such a Promise good sooth Faith if you had been another thou should get all the Bones in thy Skin broken Mr. John Welsh a Man of great esteem among their Vulgar once preaching on these words of Joshua As for me and my House we will serve the Lord c. had this Preface You think Sirs that I am come here to preach the old jocktrot Faith and Repentance to you not I indeed what think you then I am come to preach I come to preach a broken Covenant Who brake it Even the Devils Lairds his Bishops and his Curates and the Deel Deel will get them all at last I know some of you are come out of Curiosity to hear what the Whigs will say Who is a Whig Sirs One that will not Swear nor Curse nor Bann there a Whig to you But you are welcome Sirs that come out of Curiosity you may get go e're ye good back again I 'll give you an Instance of it There was Zaccheus a Man of a low stature that is a little droichy body and a Publican that is he was one of the Excise-men he went out of Curiosity to see Christ and because he was little he went up a Tree Do you think Sirs he went to harry a Pyet's Nest No he went to see Christ Christ looks up and says Zaccheus thou' rt always proving pratticks thou' rt no Bairn now go home go home and make ready my Dinner I 'll be with you this day at Noon After that Sirs this little Zaccheus began to say his Prayers Evening and Morning as honest old Joshua did in my Text As for me and my House c. as if he had said Go you to the Devil and you will and I and my House will say our Prayers Sirs as Zaccheus and the rest of the Apostles did Another time preaching in East Lotham he told them the great danger of hearing the Curates in these words Sirs if ever you hear these Rogues you will cry out at the day of Judgment O Arthur-seat fall upon us O Pentland Hills fall upon us The Grass and the Corn that you see growing there will be a Witness against you yea and that Cows Horns Passing by will be a Witness against you Another Preaching about God's sending Jonah to Nineveh acted it thus did you never hear tell of a good God and a cappet Prophet Sirs The good God said Jonah now billy Jonah wilt thou go to Nineveh for ald lang syne The Deel be on my feet then said Jonah O Jonah said the good God be not ill natured they are my people What care I for you or your people either said the cappet Prophet wherefore shall I go to be made a lyar in my face I know thou will have mercy on that people Alas alas we bide not the tenth part of that bidding yet when we come to you I fear we 'l find you like Ephraim a Cake unturn'd that is it 's stonehard on one side and skitter-raw on the other Another Preaching in the West near a Mountain called Tineock cried out in a loud voice thus What think you Sirs would the Curates do with Christ if they had him they would e'en take him up to Tintock top cut off his head and hurle his head down the hill and laugh at it Another in the South of Teviotdale in his Sermon said Our Neighbour Nation will say of us poor Scotland beggarly Scotland scabbed Scotland lousie Scotland yea but Covenanted Scotland that makes amends for all One Preaching against Bishops expressed himself thus Sirs at the day of Judgment Christ will call the Prelates and he will call one of the falsest Knaves first and say Come hither Sirrah he will not call my Lord do you remember how you put out sike a sweet Saint of mine upon such and such a day Sirrah do you mind how you persecuted one of my precious Saints that was Preaching my Word Come
reputation ready to attest by their Oaths and Subscriptions as shall be made appear in a 2d Edition of this Book if the clamors of the Party extort it and very many are willing to join in this who were not long ago their great friends and have many of their Sermons and Prayers in writing which they are now willing to expose having fully discovered the vile hypocrisie and Pharasaick professions of that Faction but this trouble we can hardly suppose that the Presbyterians will put us or themselves to because it 's not probable that they will deny what they so much glory in viz. this extraordinary way of Preaching and Praying which they think an excellency and perfection and call it a holy familiarity with God a peculiar priviledg of the most refined Saints Some may perhaps think this Collection was publish'd meerly to render these Puritans ridiculous but it 's plain enough to such as know them that we have not made but found them so we hope that our discovering their snares may prevent some mens being intangled with them they compass Sea and Land and are fully as zealous as their Predecessours to make proselytes to their Party and new Gospel Now the general intent of the Collectors of these Notes was that they might stand like Beacons to fright unwary Strangers from these Rocks upon which so many have formerly made shipwrack both of faith and good conscience Alas it 's but too too evident what havock and desolation these pretended Reformers have made in the Church and State Gods Name Honour and Worship is profan'd the Gospel exposed to the scorn and contempt of its enemies the more modest and honest Heathens and Turks the Flood-gates of Impiety and Atheism are set open the foundations of all true piety or policy are overturned and all regard to things either Sacred or Civil quite destroyed by these who as the Royal Martyr speaks seeking to gain reputation with the vulgar for their extraordinary Parts and Piety must needs undo whatever was formerly setled never so well and wisely I wish as the same Royal Author did that their Repentance may be their only punishment that seeing the mischiefs which the disuse of publick Liturgies hath already produced they may restore that credit use and reverence to them which by the Ancient Churches were given to set forms of sound and wholsome words And thou O Lord which art the same God Blessed for ever whose mercies are full of variety and yet of constancy Thou deniest us not a new and fresh sense of our old and daily wants nor despisest renewed affections joined to constant expressions Let us not want the benefit of thy Churches united and well-advised Devotions Keep men in that pious Moderation of their Judgments in matters of Religion that their ignorance may not offend others not their opinion of their own abilities tempt them to deprive others of what they may lawfully and devountly use to help their infirmities And since the advantage of Error consists in novelty and variety as Truth 's in unity and constancy suffer not thy Church to be pestred with Erros and deformed with undecencies in thy Service under the pretence of variety and novelty 〈◊〉 nor to be deprived of truth unity and order under this fallacy that constancy is the cause of formality Lord keep us from formal Hypocrisie in our hearts and then we know that praying to thee or praising of thee with David and other holy men in the same forms cannot hurt us Evermore defend and deliver thy Church from the effects of blind zeal and over-bold Devotion Amen FINIS Me was but last Year sent to Agent their Affairs at Court * Though Mr. Rule who defends the New Gospellers by denying their Prints and by palpable vntruths seems to disown this in his Second Vindication of his Kirk Yet much honester Presbyterians affirm it and glory in it Vid. Covenants with acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties renewed at Lesmahago 1688. Et Hind let loose †A Person who was well educated and justly esteemed at St. Andrew's Vniversity †That is in English some other Fish to fry * Charity it self cannot put a better Construction on so foul an Action * The name of a ridiculous and rebellious Book emitted by them in K. Charles the Second's time * Tear Notes of printed Sermons before the Parliament * Spaldin's Discourse to Parliament ‖ The Hill on which they first drew up their Army against K. Ch. 1. * Such the Scoth Phanaticks are indeed * The glorious days of the Covenant * That is true blue Presbytery * Herle 's Tripus †Three notable Rebellions raised by the Presbyterians against K. Charles the Second * Mr. Rule denies this in his late Book altho' himself and every Man acquainted with the Doctrine and Practice of the Kirk knows it to be very true * Compare this with making Presbytery the Foundation of the present Civil Government without which he says it cannot subsist Second Vindication Pag. 9. at the end †Easter Christmas Shrove-Tuesday * Mr. Rule upon the matter affirms the same Second Vindic p. 90. * Compare this with the late Assembly's refusing at the King's desire to admit of any of the Episcopal Clergy with them into the Exercise of the Ministry Compare this with the Presbyterians now denying the Power to the King of dissolving the Assembly * Vpon this consideration the late Assembly refused at K. W.'s desire to receive the Episcopal Party into any terms of Peace or Communion * All that are not true Covenanters * Taxes * Alsop and other London Pesbyterians Address to K. J. * Shields Chaplain to my Lord Angus's Regiment one of their famous Authors and Preachers * That was no doubt in the peaceful and godly days of the Holy Covenant But how seem'd the Devil to be bound then why it was after the New Gospel way he was bound in the Chains of Blood Murther and Rebellion being surfeited with those Sacrifices he seemed to lay himself down to rest leaving all his Drudgery upon Earth to be performed by his Covenanted Agents * The Presbyterians indeed ordinarily prevent the King 's putting forth his hand against them by assaulting him first * The great design of the New Gospel to decry Passive Obedience and to blaspheme the Church of England * The English Clergy who scruple to Swear shew that they can patiently suffer and therefore are not concerned at what Presbyterians threaten the Devil can go no farther than his Chain reaches * And so do all the new Gospellers * By the same argument the Protestant Religion must be Antihumane in France Italy and Spain and the Christian too in all the Grand Seignior's vast Dominions * Every thing that 's not agreeable to the New Gospel must be slavish nonsensical and damnable * Loved and honoured by all but Presbyterians * And yet they own the same Religion with us pag. 1. l 3. * The Authority of their Assemblies above that of King and Parliament * Well Ranted Rule * Preface Parag. 6. at the end and p. 26. c. * This is the Civil Style that he promised to exceed in Pref. par 6. * Where in the sense of the Law the King never dies * 'T is no new thing for Presbyterians to think Power a sufficient Call to act Illegally * As Mr. Rule himself did * Just like the Roman Catholick Church an Vniversal Particular Pag. 167. * Witness their many Covenants and Engagements to that purpose * Rule 's 2d Vindication of the Kirk * Even tho' it be solidly refuted by a Sciolist * Vid Rules 2d Vindication pag. 88. 177. * Honestly come by * A sham * Rent * Strange * Frown * Hugg * Get. * Dish * Accounts * Rent * Spilt †Goods * Engage * Bankrupt debters * Yearn * Noise * Ill manner'd * Foolish Song * Sculk * Give him credite * Empty * A Box. * Sack full of Grains * Streets * Table â—ead * Husband * Rent * Toped over * In the hand of a Notary * Fondled Darling * Foolish Child * Accounts * Longing * Higle * Pampered * Breding * Over and above * Put to Auction * Pag. 80. * Distaff * Beke * Large dish * Great * Hood * Trip. * Knew not * A Course * Nasty * Pulled and haled * Clutches * Sound bang * Kill * Christmass * Gay †Smock * Foolish Wench * Hen-peckt men * Beats * Dwarfie * Rifle a Magpies-Nest * Pettish †Old kindness †Wait not * Intreating ‖ Thin Dung of young Children †Such †Hold. †Two English Quarts * English Pint. †Haste * Childrens Toyes and Rattles * To Flout †Know ‡ Deep Dish †A Strong Porrage * Breeches †Little Children * Puâ—l †Too familiar †Child †Neat or Cattle †Low * Whisper ‖ Letters of Arrestment †Absconding * Nesty †absconding * Two-pence Half-penny †All 's not well * Mischief doing †Thin Dung * Christmass †Hold. * Wooden Cups †Two Wombs †Piece of Money * The name of a great River which washes the Walls of that City * Trifles * Raise on Action before the Judges and Arrest him * Stark mad * Tinkar * Dunghils * Smoke * Brains * Pruins * Weaned * Jump * Little Mouse * Gain * King James was then in Ireland * Ill mannered * When he could not stand without a Supporter * Pretty * Much in need * Troublesome * Encountered * Slipper * Another Cup full of it * Dunghill * Run a Tick with him * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon the Ordinance against the Common-Prayer-Book * King Ch. his most pious and pertinent Prayer