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A50442	The antiquity of the royal line of Scotland farther cleared and defended, against the exceptions lately offer'd by Dr. Stillingfleet, in his vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph by Sir George Mackenzie ...	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1686 (1686)	Wing M150; ESTC R11636	78,633	233

have been true if it had not been spoken upon the supposition that our Country had been an Island for our Country lies benorth Northumberland in the Isle of Britain All which are to be found in the Third Chapter of the Second Book of Fordon with several others which I here omit rather as unnecessary than impertinent I add to these Paulus Diaconus who speaking of Wars betwixt the Britains and Saxons from the time of Ambrosius Aurelianus says that the Victory hung uncertain betwixt them donec Saxones potentiores effecti tota per longum Insula potirentur And this must be onely understood of England for the Saxons did not in his time nor since conquer that part of Britain which belong'd to us But by that he onely meant that the Saxons conquer'd that part which belonged to the Romans and was called an Isle as contra-distinguished from ours I prov'd this also from the Martyrologium Romanum Abredonioe in Hibernia Sancti Beani Episcopi to which nothing is answered And I now add to it Baronius in not is Beani vetera manuscripta ex quibus Molanus hac die fuit hic Episcopus Abredonensis Having thus cleared the Antiquity of our Kings and the truth of our Histories by so solid Reasons and from so good Authority I hope the reverend Dr. Stillingfleet will be as Ingenuous in retracting what he has written against the State in these Points As he did very Commendably retract what he had written against the Government of his own Church in his Irenicum At least he will retract That insolent Expression Praef. pag. 72. That our Antiquities are universally dis-esteem'd amongst all Iudicious and inquisitive Men Since all men have not written their opinion nor has he read all Writers and this at least contradicts the many parts of his Book wherein he acknowledges that Lipsius and other great Criticks are of our side And I have cited most of all the considerable Criticks and have fully satisfied the insignificant Answers made by Dr. Stillingfleet to them and if I have left any Expression in all the Book unanswered it is because it was unworthy of having been urged by Dr. Stillingfleet or answered by me And though I could add many new Authours who have owned our Antiquities yet loving rather to reason than to cite I produce one who not onely owns our Antiquities but makes our Antiquities a strong Argument against the Supremacy of the Pope For says he the Bishop of Rome cannot pretend that the Church in Britain received the Christian Faith from Rome since Scotland a part of it was Christian before the Romans had access to it The Authour is the learned Lomeierus who tells us That the Britains had the knowledge of Letters 270 years before Christ for Dornadilla King of the Scots wrote before then the Laws of Hunting observed to this day amongst the Subjects of that Kingdom as Sacred even to this Age. And they were not amongst the last who received the Christian Religion for Tertul. advers Iud. cap. 7. tells that the places which were unaccessible to the Romans had yielded to Christ. And from this he concludes that they are Parasites who flatter the Bishop of Rome as universal Mo narch of the Church since here were Christians to whom the Romans had never access From which I also draw these Conclusions 1. Here is a Proof of our ancient Learning and consequently a Foundation for the Credibility of our Annals 2. Here is an acknowledgment of a King before Fergus the Second and long before the Year 503 proved too by Laws yet observ'd which was a sure way of preserving his Memory and the matter of Fact is true for we remember those Laws as his to this very day 3. Here is an acknowledgment that Tertullian's Citation is applicable to us 4. It seems by this more just that the Bishop of St. Asaph should rather have sustained our Antiquities as an Argument against Popery than rejected them for answering an Argument against Episcopacy Religion being of greater consequence than Government and the inference being stronger in the one Case than the other for he should have urg'd that it is not probable that we who were Enemies to the Roman Nation would have submitted to the Roman Church but would have rather lookt upon their Missionaries as Spies especially in those barbarous times when Nations were considered more than Doctrine for though Religion already received might have Cemented us yet before it was submitted to so great an enmity as was betwixt us might have obstructed Commerce and Kindness from which probably proceeded our aversion to the Romish Rites as to Easter and other Points for many Ages in which we followed the Greek Church in opposition to the Romish But leaving this Argument to be prosecuted by Dr. Stilling fleet it cannot be denied but both the learned Blondel cited by the Bishop of St. Asaph and Lomeierus were both convinced that our Antiquities were undeniable for no man in his Wits draws Arguments from Premisses which himself thinks uncertain Possevinus also the Jesuit in his Bibliotheca Selecta inserts among the Historians whom he recommends as most Authentick an account of our Antiquities Wherein among other things we are asserted to have had a Christian Church here in the Year 203. and the Citations from Tertullian and St. Ierom are appropriated to us and to these are added three other Citations agreeing with them one from St. Chrysostome in Serm. de Pentecost a second from the same Authour in his Homilia quòd Deus sit homo and a third from Petrus Venerabilis lib. 8. epist. 16. And therefore as in my last Book I did conclude that our Antiquity behoved to be very remarkable since before Bishop Usher's time every Nation made us most ancient next to themselves so in this Book I may conclude that our Christianity must be much ancienter than those reverend Divines would make even our settlement since men of all persuasions concur in it and speak of it with great Elogies and draw consequences from it for the honour of their own Church Which according to the Doctor 's principles cited by me are the surest marks of Conviction Thus I hope I have sufficiently illustrated this Subject and therefore I am not resolved any farther either to burthen it or my Readers For clearing some Passages in this Book the Reader may be pleased to consider seriously these following Additions and Alterations PAG. 3. lin 4. for Kenneth III. reade Kenneth II. Pag. 5. lin 10. Add to what I have said concerning Lese Majesty That Dr. Stillingfleet Praef. p. 5. calls this the sharpest and most unhandsome Reflexion in all my First Book and I am glad he does so for if there be any severity in these my words Luddus is to be blamed and not I for my words in my Letter to my Lord Chancellour p. 11. are and since Luddus owns that he durst not deny the British descent from Brutus