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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82335	The prodigal returned to Scotland, or, A letter, written by a gentleman, to his friend at Montrose wherein he represents, the lover's warfare, the vanity of reposing confidence in rich friends, a short historie of his own misfortunes, the desireableness of conversation, and lastly, the true character of magnanimity, and a noble ambition, and the uncertainty and contempt of riches.	Dempster, George, of Kirktounhill.	1700 (1700)	Wing D984; ESTC R212963	16,422	24

I stand not so much of need as of his I hope GOD will continue Peace and Love betwixt us according to my Dependance upon his Providence The sharp Eye of any Indifferent and Vnprâ—judiced Person who reads this my Letter may sufficiently discern and understand by the Sâ—â—ain of my Discourse That I have penned the same after some particular Offence received by me and done me by my Friends This was the true Reason that occasioned me to expose it to the view of your Citizens for whom in particular I have taken care to cause Print the same and thereby to let them know That a Brether offended is harder to he won than a strong City and their contentions are like the Barrs of a Castle Prov. 18 Ch 19 Verse There may be are some who will talk bad things of me and threaten worse for doing the same and for putting it to the Press But if hereby I do not incurr my kind Master his Displeasure by exposing my self in Print which I hope and expect I shall not I shall be very Indifferent of all the Censures I meet with from others He being the only man whom I now will be caâ—fulest not to offend seing I have and ow my Bread and Breeding to his kindness and Love I will take my hazard seing my offence can be reckoned nothing but a just Vindication of my self whom some of my Friends in in your City have endeavoured Characteristically to disapprove and defame For I am not affraid that I can be treated either as Sejanus was by the Emperour of Rome or as Haman was by Abasuerus both of which were great Favourites the one day and Hanged on the Morrow Dearest Familiar Salute in my name my dear Commerads the hopfull Infantry in your City whom I sincerly Love And if providence lay it in my way to serve their Honour and interest either by my Pen or by my Tongue assure your selves all of my willingness Salute my good Friend B. G. O. and all the nice Young Ladies of my acquaintance with you And Particularly the Gentlewoman who Loves me whom I am bound to Love if there be any such in your City I will not say whom I Love lest she love not me for ' â—is in vain to bestow Love and not to obtain Reciprocall Love in Remuneration This with my intirest Tenderest respects and Devotions to your kind self I humbly intreating that GOD may keep you from falling and present you Blamless before his Glory with exceeding Joy shall be all that is thought necessar at present from Kind Familiar Yours while I am George Dempster The POSTSCRIPT Loveing Commerad MY Uncle Mr. John was pleased to say when he had occasion to see me after I had sent him any Letters perswasive to Naturality and Humanity That I wrote the same in my Caballs or the Taverns although neither he nor his Brother Alexander ever Honoured me with one return to any Letter ever Written be me to them But I hope no Unprejudiced person nor even they although they may be will Discommend and Disapprove of the putting of this Letter to the Press will take occasion to say that I have Penned the same so Confusedly as it would have been done if in Company But may rather take it to have been Written ex IndustriÃ¢ and with some Previous Deliberation Dearest Familiar I shall be sory as I have said else where in this my Letter if the Printing hereof occasion any breach 'twixt my Kind Rationall and Honoured Master and me whom I am bound by many Obligations to Love But if the offence be not Justifiable nor VVorthy of ane Appeal or Merit one word to be said in my behalf and that this be the Common Opinion of all who Read the same Then I must only Lament the Fate of my Fancy which was so Prevalent as to induce me to cause Print the same and be Concerned and griev'd that the Printing hereof should if my Master and I must part for doing so Demonstrate that he has Ã greater respect for my Relations than for me by taking up the Quarrell yet not debateing the Contraversie betwixt me and them Although I humbly conceive it would not at all Reflect upon him not to take notice what Animosities or Latent VVrongs Jealousies or Debates be betwixt me and my Relatione And I hope that the same GOD who has Graciously provided for me from my Birth will although Friends Relations and Accquaintances forsake me not leave me as ane Ostrige in the VVilderness but pitty the Tender-hearted Pelican and cause me as the Phoenix out of her burnt Ashes rise more Glorious and Conspicuous after the Sharp Storms of Afflicting Providences and Misfortunes are past For man is born to trouble as the Sparks fly upward Cuncta prius tentanda sed immedicabile vulnus Ense rescindendum est ne pars sincera trahatur OVID Spernere mundum spernere nullum Spernere sese Spernere se sperni quatuor ista beant VALE

THE PRODIGAL RETURNED TO SCOTLAND OR A Letter Writen by a Gentleman to his Friend at Montrose Wherein he Represents The Lover's Warfare the vanity of reposing Confidence in Rich Friends a short Historie of his own Misfortunes the desireableness of Conversation And lastly the true Character of Magnanimity and a noble Ambition and the Uncertainty and Contempt of Riches Hebrews 12 Chap. 7 8 Verses For whom the Lord loveth He Chasteneth and Scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth If ye endure Chastening GOD dealeth with you as with Sons for what is he whom the Father Chasteneth not But if ye be without Chastisement whereof all are Partakers then are ye Bastards and not Sons James 2 Chap. 15 16 Verses If a Brother or Sister be Naked and destitute of dayly Food and one of you say unto them depart in Peace be you Warmed and Filled Notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needfull to the Body What doth it Profit 1. Epistle General of John 2 Chap. 15 Verse Love not the World neither the things that are in the World If any Love the VVorld the Love of the Father is not in him Dulcia non meruit qui non gustavit amara Si quid novisti rectius Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum EDINBURGH Printed in June 1700 by John Reid Printer and are to be Sold at John Vallange's Mrs. Ogstoun's and Thomas Carruthers Stationers in Edinburgh their Shops THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY To the Virtuous and Honourable Young Gentlemen attending the Honourable Faculty of ADVOCATS And Others who have their Dependance upon the Parliament-House the Seat of Administration of Justice at Edinburgh my Fellow Commerads and Acquaintances Ye justly challenge all Respect and Love From me who do in that same Body move With you who by the Pen and Ink Command Th' attendance here of Nobles of the Land Here by this Letter I present you Love How richest Friends Unnatural oft do prove How I have run a little piece of Fate By rash procedure and my now Estate Sweetness of Converse and the Divine Man Contempt of Riches hereby you may Scan. The Matters Flat Unpolish'd but 't is true Receive it kindly in it's Nat'ral hew I have not Homer's Pindar's Virgil's flight 's Dryden's nor Cowley's these Terrestrial Lights Neither could I by this rude vulgar Letter Better things write than taught me GOD and Nature I have not Cicero's nor Demosthenes wits Nor fluent Raptures and Diviner fits Of a Commanding Eloquence to dare And damp the Vulgar else you 'd had a Share Nor Soaring Flights of Poetry to give Or write with more Success than I can Live The Prodigal Returned receive with Charms Of Love and take him kindly in your Arms For as the Romans by their Wit and Sense More than by Force contriv'd a strong Defence So Love and Friendship by Mysterious Arts Vanquish the hardest Adamantine Hearts GENTLEMEN This is all from Your Humble Servant George Dempster To my Familiar and Intimate at Montrose Kirktounhill May 24th 1700. Dearest Commerad THough I have had as yet but little Correspondence with you yet I have found so great Satisfaction already in your Desireable Company that the thoughts and Consideration thereof have influenced me to offer my Respects to you by a Letter Some perhaps will be apt to carp at my putting the same to the Press But who ever wrote yet with that Successfulness as not to meet with Censures And I did not design to Emit it to publick View in hopes of obtaining the Suffrage and Applause of others seeing it wants the Ornament and Flourishes of Eloquence which might make it more pleasant and Desireable but to satisfie partly the Curiosity of some of my Acquaintances and your self And if I obtain their and your Approbation I shall not be grieved whether it be Condemned or Commended by the Multitude The World is a Comedy where every Man acts that part which Providence hath assigned him and seeing my Talent consisteth mostly in Writing though very meanly I thought fit to produce and give you a Swatch of iâ— and not to keep it tyed as in a Napkin or to lock it up in the dark like a Candle set under a Bushel For Man is not born to be only useful and helpful to himself but also to disperse his Gifts as GOD has blessed him to the Common Good of others Though you are more Capable to give than to receive an advice from me I have nevertheless used that Freedom to Write you my Thoughts anent the several Occurrences of Providence which I have already been Trysted with I shall not wish you to be so Unhappy as to meet with the like and what my carriage was or should be if I be trysted with worse any time hereafter Dear Soul It 's impossible to secure our selves against Envy and Competition for distance of Place cannot Protect us from her Malignity You have a clear instance of this in the Triumâ—viri at Rome whereof Marcus Antonius was one who rather chose to endure the greatest hardships before one of them would Succumb in Power to another and so it came to pass For Cleopatra with her Beauty Vanquished the Magnanimous Soul of Marcus Antonius and made his Valour become Effâ—minate by giving way to his Love Passions And she that she might not adorn the Romans Triumph and Victory by her being carried a Captive Applyed Snakes to her Body to draw her Blood and to prevent the comeing of Death by her Preparation So you may see That three Suns could not all shine at once For such is the Ambition of some That to prosecut their bad designs they would hire the Devil himself before they could not get them effectuate But on these Occasions where Malice rather than Emulation carrys the Van we should as Seneca advises with flying colour manage our Retreat Proverbs Chap. 27. Ver. 4. Wrath is Cruel and Anger is Outragious but who is able to stand before Envy 'T is hard to discern an Honest Man for what was the Subject of this days Conference will be the Subject of ane Accusation to Morrow and that secret which we did but laâ—ely Depositate in Our Friend's Breast will shortly fly in our Faces from the Mouths of our Enemies But though our Friend were Real and Secret yet his inconstancie may make these either no Verat all or ineffectual and Unprofitable Ones Such is the baseness of some who for a small Compliment will be Tempted to betray Secrets to become Rivals to their Friends who put Confidence in them and assisting to their Enemies Such a Man was the Perfidious Judas who betrayed our Saviour for 30 Talents And that which Aggravates the crime of such is because possibly they are our Dearest yet Hypocritical Familiar Friend who acts thus Treacherously under colour and a pretext of True Love After this manner The famous Renown'd Caesar was dealt with who with all the Prudence of his Court could not avert his

Massare in the Senate especially being contrived by his Confident Brutus And when our own Relations neither out of piety or naturality cannot conceal nor obliterate our offences or misfortunes How may we expect to be made the vox populi especially when such misrepresntatiâ—â—s flow from such a Fountain Which commonly are more easily believed and Intertain'd when they are vented by such whom others may be apâ— to believe through ignorance of their disposition who speak thus That they talk so as having no dislike or prejudice against us But I being perswaded you know perfectly well what and of whom I write this I leave them to their own fate and the just reward of providence As distress makes men run where they may expect heâ—p And as that must be the securest harbour to which distrestest vessels make their application So I fly to the choisest of your wholsome advices as the only Asylum and Sanctuary for my aid and safety If misfortunes could make men Philosophers as Afflictions are said to make real Christians I might expect to become wise by experiencing so many But such is the innate rudeness and dullness of my genius that it cannot look through the right end of the perspective and see the Wise hand of Providence directing them Dearest Familiar I know the Premisses and Preceeding Discourse stand in no need of a Commentar to Explain the Genuine Sense thereof you knowing exactly well that it is not propper to be too plain by Discovering my Thoughts to all who may have Occasion to see me in Print but I have Endeavoured alse much as possible Clearness and Ingenuity And because you have possibly met with the like Dispensation of Providence in your Amours that I met with some Years ago I have therefore to comfort you and me taken so much Leasure from my other Bussiness as to set apart one Afternoon and write you my following Thoughts The Design of Lovers should be al 's Latent as the Springs which do inwardly move Mechanick Machins if you either consider the Nature of it or the Inconveniencies that attend a Disappointment I fancie Love proceeds from a Vehement desire of the Object in hopes of a full Satisfaction of pleasure and content therefrom Which pleasure we fondly dote upon and this Love proceedeth from Contemplation But Love may be compared to Hunger which though it is once Satisfied continues no longer so than it hath for a litle time preyd upon what was at first presented to it And like the fire is so far from being Satisfied with what is thrown into it that it is by that new Fewel not only enabled to destroy but likewise forc'd to seek more Aliment for sustaining it's wasting Rage Pleasure in Men is ane Act of the Fancy and Consâ—quently of the Soul and certainly these pleasurs which do more immediatly affect the soul must needs be the most Active pleasures and such are those which arise from Contemplation For Contemplation does often drive our souls into Extasies and is so charming that it may be rather said to Ravish then Please committing so open a Rapture upon our Souls that it pulls them almost into a State of Separation Dear and kind Soul You have known these things doubtless by sad experience if ever Love had the Commanding Faculty of your Soul For by Love we go nearest the Image of GOD and the Imitation of our Savior 4. Chap. 1 Epist general of John 7 and 8 verses Beloved let us love one another for love is of GOD And every one that loveth is born of GOD and knoweth GOD. He that leveth not knoweth not GOD For GOD is Love The greatest Inconveniency that attends Lovers while they Sail upon so Vnknowen and Tempestuous Seas as the instability and unconstancie of a Woman's fancy are the false Reports whereunto they may be exposed by Bussie Bodies who may tale a Thousand Lies of them For who can promise that they shall never drop one word in Passion act any thing without a previous Deliberation or never fall under Misinformation And which is yet worse when Misrepresentations are forged against them they are not acquainted by such as either give or receive them and so their Defence becomes wholly imprstable But why need I expect to teach you what Love is or what discouragments Lovers may proposâ— to themselves before they arrive at the conquest seing you have traced those Paths far more succesfuly than I have done And it has added no small Commendation to your Character That Fancy rather than Ambition or Riches were your choice For what could you have proposed reasonably to your self in so doing For litle can defend us against our present necessities and nothing can defend against the Future And when Riches are piled up they serve either to satisfie Nature and that is easie or to satisfie Fancy and that is Impossible Riches are realy though they remain but like the Manna in that 16 Chap. of Exodus 18 verse Whereof he that gathered much had nothing over and he that Gathered litle had no Lack. Ecclesiasties 5 chap 10 and 11 and 12 verses He that Loveth silver shall not be satisfied with Silver nor he that Loveth abundance with Increase this it also Vainity When goods increase they are increased that eat them And what good is there to the Owners thereof saving the beholding of them with their Eyes The sleep of the Labouring Man is Sweet whether he eat little or much but the abundance of the Rich will not suffer him to slâ—ep Such was the Insatiat desire of that Rich King Craesus who waâ— said to have had Mountains of Gold and Vast Treasures that he took a great deal of pleasure to see his Gold and thefore called in for all his Exchequer at once whereupon his Subjects finding him to have so Vast a desire for Gold conspired against him and Murthered him And when he was Dead they were pleased thus Reproachfully to Triumph over him Saying he Loved Gold while he was on Life let him once have his fill of it before he be burried and accordingly they melted Gold and poured it down his Throat that it might be knowen how little a Portion of all his great Treasure would satisfie him when Dead when all his Dominions and the Riches therein could not Satisfie his vast Appetite when he was Living Solon gave him this Advice when he Enquired at him if he thought him a happy Man which Sentence made him set King Cyrus at Liberty when he was Captivated by him He gave him this Answer That no Man could be called happy till Death came as you have it prettily expressed by Invenal thus ultima Semper Expectanda dies homini Dicique Beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet The day of Death should still be thought upon And no Man can be happy till it come Dearest Familiar If at any time hereafter either Fortunatly or Unluckily you six your Contemplation upon a Woman whom Providence hath

that he thought himself not â—bliâ—ed out of barity and naturality to have cherished me but because of my hurting of my self and leaving my studies and of purpose to harden me by affliction In answer to this objection please consider That he shâ—uld have first challâ—eged me and then smiled upon me But I cannot deny but that he is otherways a Man of Good parts Learning and Piety but it seem's when the Graces and Vertues which he enjoys were a dealing he has been al 's much Hurried with joy of the conquest of a few Talents as the Roman Generals were when they rod in Triumph with their Opima Spolia and Possibly then he haâ— in his hast lost out of the Number of the Foundamental principales of Religion two of them Viz. Love and Charity perhaps by the way I cannot but Admire how he never has fallen upon thaâ— 58 Chap. of Isaiah 7.8 10. and 11. verseâ— Is it not Isaiah speaking of Charity to deal they bread to the Hungry and that thou bring the poor that aâ—â— cast out to thy House When thou seest the Naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from then own Flesh's Then shall thy light break forth as the Morning and thine health shall Spring forth speedily And thy Righteousness shall go before thee the Glory of the LORD shall be thy Reward 10 and 11 verses And if thou draw out thy Soul to the Hungry and Satisfie the Afflicted Soul Then shall they Light rise in obscurity and thy Darkness as the Noondayâ— And the LORD shall guide thee Continvally and satisfie thy soul in draught and make fat thy Bones And thou shalt be like a watered Garden and like a spring of Water whose waters fall not 1. Epistle General of John 3 Chap. 17 verses But whoso hath this World's good and seeth his Brother have need and shutteth up his Bowels of Compassion from him how Dwelleth the Love of GOD in him But to pass in silenc how much he has in him besides the want of Charity that may eclipse his other Enduments and Ornaments of his Life And that he wants not enough of Pride which does neither become a Minister not a Christian which is said to come before Destruction and a haughtie spirit before a fall I shall not express how Pâ—ejudicial it has been to him to have been brâ—d at Court whereâ—rom he has taken so much of the Lesson of Pride with him But seeing Wise Providnce I cannot tell why has sufficiently sent a cross and an Humbling circumstance to his own Family by the Afflicting his second Son John who has passed his Course at the Colledge with the want and â—re use of his Reason I shall not add afflâ—ction to the afflicted Though he dealt far otherwayes with me But as GOD never sends a Cross without the least tincture of Sweetness and Comfort so I when I had passed through the Territories of his Inhumane Barbarity and Selfishness at last arrived at a more safe Harbour and in stead of a Morose and Serley carrage which I met with from him then and lately in your City I found a person of a Tranquill Hospitable and Charitable Disposition viz. my Vncle in Law Mr. H. L. Minister at Dunnightin who was Generously inclined to quarter me for 3 Moneths till the Storms of the Winter were passed and carried such a respect towards me that he honoured me as if I had been a Son of his own Family If it were not Tedious to decant in his praises I would as I am obliged Proclaim his Bounty towards me al 's much as I have Discommended the procedure of the former But I being confident that any indifferent man reading this subject and reflecting upon my Misfortunes which rendered me then an object of their Benevoleâ—ce which is the saddest thing that can befall a man here below to be in sucâ— Circumstances as may make him Troublesome to his Friends will Disapprove of the carriage of the former and highly approve and commend the Hospitality of the Latter By the said Mr. H. L. his Advice I was prevailed upon to come the lenth of Montrâ—se to see my Uncle Alexander who is a Merchant about 24000 merks of Stock But I being formerly acquainted with the Nature and Disposition of his Bedfellow who would hardly Smile upon me even when in Prosperity I thought it most proper to take up my Lodging in another House viz G. C. whom I sent to him and did informe him of my Circomstances But it seems he had so litle a Compliment to bestow or rather so little and Narrow a Heart to give That he sent me back this return with him That he would not give me on Two pence to carry me on the Rod or to keep me from Starving Pardon me for this Digression and for giving so long a History of my Misfortunes but the true reason I did it upon was to let those who may be curious to know what was or may be the reason That my Relations did not then nor yet do give me the Favourable Aspect of their Countenance Therefore I thought sit to lay opâ—n to them the Mystery of my Offence and let others Judge of my Merits as they think fit But now I hope That as the Sun in a Rainy Day after the Rain is past becometh much clearer than formerly he was So I may become out of the Furnace of my past Afflictions both a better Christian and by sad Experience a better Divine And learn That it is not the Miserableness of the Condition of the Object but the Tenderness of the Compassionate and Simpathysing Heart that moves Men to Acts of Charity and Bounty This is sufficiently cleared by the forgoing History But virescit vulnere virtus Some persons who perhaps cannot suffer to hear the Truth will be apt possibly to say and Enquire what necessiâ—y was there for my Penning such a Letter or discovering either my own Frailties Miscarriages or Misfortunes to the World or the bad or good Treatment that I have met with from Friends or that I have Loved without Success I will give them no other Answer but that if it offend them by reading the same so it pleased me to write it and who can hinder the Press to serve Occasions for Money Yet Dear Friend The most Convincing Motive that Excited me to Write to you was to provoke your Pen to write me an Answer and to let you taste how a sweet a thing it is to Converse by Intercourse of Letters For as the Light not only makes us knowen to each other but also renders us Mutually usefull So Conversation and Converse does Whet and Adorn our Good Parts and the most excellent Endowments both of Nature Industry and Grace would grow dull and Stupid without Culture and Exercise We may be Employed though we be not all as Senators and Kings every Wheel in a Watch hath its Operation in the Movement without being all of them springs So we

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