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A43681	The spirit of popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical-Protestants, or, The last speeches of Mr. John Kid and Mr. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his murder, extracted out of the registers of the Privy-Council, &c. / by an orthodox Protestant.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1874; ESTC R6348	165,592	93

Jesuit he pretends to Suffer upon a Religious account though he really suffer'd as a Disturber of the Government and as a Traitor and Rebel to the King He suffer'd not for Preaching but for Preaching in arms and among armed-men who assembled themselves on Stated days every week against the Law and defended their Assemblies by force of Arms. Or if he suffer'd for Preaching it was not for Preaching Christ and the Gospel but for Preaching up Rebellion which is contrary to both For Preaching against the Established Government and the Laws For railing in their Preaching against the King and his Counsellors telling the people that he was guilty of Perjury and had no right to Govern and that they endeavoured to drive Christ out of the Kingdom Lastly for Preaching up the Covenant and the Presbyterian Government of which they assert the same things as Priests and Jesuits do of the Pope and this is the main thing for which I must lay down my tabernacle this day viz. that I did Preach Christ and the Gospel in several places of this Nation for which I bless him as I can that ever such a poor and obscure person as I am should be thus priviledged by him for mentionmaking of his grace as I was able 3ly Give me leave to add this word further that though there be great appearances of spreading and Preaching this glorious Gospel yet I fear there is a snare at the bottom and poyson in the dish which may gender and be productive of not only greater scarcity of honest Preachers and Preaching but a real Famine of the Word this I say is my fear and I hope God will keep his o i. e. The Kirk-Ministers and people from seeking or accepting of any indulgence from the King For to Preach by leave and permission from the King is to grant that Ministers depend on the Secular power for the actual exercise of their Ministery and supposeth that they may receive limitations and restrictions from the Magistrate which is utterly inconsistent with that independent Authority which they derive immediately from the King in Sion and destructive of his Supremacy Kingdom Crown and Scepter as may plainly be seen from Mr. Browns Jesuitical Letter Printed at the end of these two Speeches and the Apology Servants and people from fomenting any thing to the detriment of the Gospel I am afraid that the Lord is beginning to multiply his stripes upon this land We have walked p i. e. Several times contrary to him in setting up Episcopacy Seven times contrary to him and therefore we may lay our account unless repentance prevent it that he will walk seven times contrary to us there is more and more ground to fear that there is a q Well threatned Sword bathed in heaven a glittering Sword sharpened and furbished against thee O guilty and Harlot Scotland let this Land consider how neutral and indifferent we are grown in the r i. e. In the matter of the Covenant matters of God even like Ephraim long ago a Cake not turned which is upon the matter Contrary to and inconsistent with our Solemnly sworn Covenant next how far are we fallen from our s viz. Our love for the Presbyterian Discipline first Love How far are we degenerate from that noble Vine into which the Lord did once Plant us How lamentable it is How far we have gone the way to t viz. Episcopacy Egypt drinking the waters of Sihor Again What a woful Spirit of bitterness is predominating in this Land and in this Age u viz. The indulged Ministers against the Field-Preachers such as Welsh Kid King Cameron c. and the Field-Preachers against the indulged Ministers who hold that as long as they are not subjected to the Bishops it is not against their Solemn League and Covenant nor inconsistent with the Ministerial Authority nor destructive to Christs Soverainity to accept of a limited indulgence from the State And therefore they were content to be obliged not to Preach without their Parishes not to Baptize Children of other Parishes nor to engage Parents at the Baptism of their Children to bring them up according to the Solemn League and Covenant nor to Preach against the Government of the Church or State and to observe the 29th of May. c. Ephraim vexing Judah and Judah Ephraim Manasseh Ephraim and Ephraim Manasseth the growing doggedness of this temper almost amongst all portends terrible things from the Lord against this Land 4ly Reformation according to our sworn Covenants is neither designed nor practised What means all this deformation that is come to pass in these days instead of the Contrary How many of us have been Pulling down that which we have been building up how many of us call good evil and evil good disowning and dissavouching that which sometime we judged our honour to testifie for and avouch 5ly A Publick Spirit in contending for God and his matters in substance and Circumstances according to our vows and obligations is much amissing amongst us at this day Further I am pressed in Conscience to make mention of all those great and glorious things that God hath done in Scotland since the year 1640. and 1641. the aboundant measure of his Spirit that was poured out upon his servants and people and the renewing of that National Covenant twice in that year and once in the year following the Blessed efficacy that the Gospel had at that time in all the Corners of the Land the great things that followed upon it which while improven made our Land most desirable w The Solemn League and Covenant is the Alpha and Omega of the Kirk-Doctrines and Cause Hence they commonly call it the Holy League and Covenant as both the Pope and Jesuits called its Prototype the League of the Papists in France and as the Pope compared the Duke of Guise to Judas Maccabaeus and the Jesuits to Gideon Davila lib. 9. So the Kirk-Preachers taught that the Lords who began the Design of the Covenant acted like the Jewish Worthys in promoting of it and were moved and directed so to do by the secret motions of the Spirit of God In the beginning of the Covenant they set up one Mrs. Mitchelson a Ministers Daughter for a Prophetess who pretended to be Inspired with a Spirit of Divination and she said that it was revealed to her by God that their Covenant was approved by him and ratified in heaven and Mr. Henry Rollock a Covenanting-Minister being desired to pray with her answered he durst not because it would not be good manners in him to speak while his Master Christ was Speaking in her and yet at length she openly confessed that she was an Impostor and that the Ministers told her in private what she should speak The Author of Naphtali pag. 240. brings in Mr. Hugh Mackell a Rebel-Preacher saying Whatever indignity is done to the Solemn League and Covenant I esteem it no less than doing despite to

was and yet is the bane of our Cause and that which hath given the bleeding Interest of Christ in that Suffering Church a more dreadful stroak than all that Prelacy hath done some so far as they will not have it mentioned a Sin upon the Land nor preached against others so far as they will have none so much as hinting what iniquity lieth wrapped in hearing and countenancing these Indulged Persons yea I say the generality for any thing I know are come that length to be ready to question and censure such as preach against it or preach upon the ground where any Indulged Minister is Oh where are we now when it is come to that and what will be the end of this prodigious fainting and change are we so in love with the Supremacy the like whereof was never heard of in any Christian Church no not in the Church where Antichrist sits nor was ever arrogate by any Magistrate either Heathen Turk or Christian which is our shame and should be our sorrow and will prove such a provocation in the sight of the Lord that he cannot pardon till Vengeance be executed upon the Land and Posterity in a degree proportionate to the unparallelled height of that Abomination and Desolation are we I say so inamored with that Image of Jealousie which provoketh to Jealousie that we must plead so much for that woful Spirit come out of that bitter root after we have seen and felt the lamentable effects of it wo is me if this be all our Zeal for God and his Christ this day when his Prerogatives are incroached upon by men who have sold themselves to destroy so far as they can all the Interest of Jesus Christ and to banish himself his Kingdom and all his Concerns out of the Land Who I pray among these Indulged Men I say as such for otherways I honour such as are known to me and shall entertain charitable thoughts of others can be called the Ambassadors of Christ who depend as to the actual exercise of the Ministerial Function or such who never were immediately intrusted even as to kind with Church-power receiving Injunctions Limitations and Authority not Interpretatively but expressly and In terminis from them and so acting under the Magistrate in a Subordination as directly and formally as an Inferior Civil-Court or Magistrates do for any thing I can observe And who dare say that this is consonant to our received and avowed Reformation How may can or dare any be silent and not lift up their voice like a Trumpet not only to exoner their own Consciences and bear full witness against this Sin when now by reason this universal condemnation of all publick appearance against the Indulgence as becoming in a more plain undeniable manner the Sin of the Suffering Church whereas before it seemed to me to be only the Sin of the fainting People who had contrary to their Oath and Vow departed from the Suffering Brethren to the weakning the hands of the Suffering Remnant and strengthening the oppressing Adversaries but also so far as in them lieth are for the Peoples altogether lying by and compliance with this Evil to the further provoking the Lord against the whole Land Is it reasonable for us now in the day of the Lords contending to be thus tender of a few men how worthy soever otherways and untender of the grand Concerns of the Lord our Master I'ts strange to me that any should plead for it directly or indirectly and it were directly designed to countermind the Lords wonderful appearance in and by these Assemblies of the Lords People now named Conventicles and blasphemously Vid. Animadvers p. 11. Randevouzes of Rebellion and that now after the Lord hath counter-wrought these Enemies to the astonishment of all I look upon this and taking the Bond lately tendered and Submissive payment of this Exaction Money for all the three were and are contrived designed pressed and carried on expresly and in plain terms to burden and keep down the work of God by Field and House-meetings Randevouzes of Christs Militia where he as King and Generalissimo is Leading Ruling and Mustering his faithful Soldiers nor can I see that such who are so favourable to the Indulgence can speaking consequently condemn the taking of the Bond or the payment of this Imposion which is to me a practical compend of all former compliances with this Enemy and a plain practical declaration of their ingagement to root Chirist and all his out of the Land Tho it is true there is a Magis and a Minus that may be yielded yet there is nothing that can alter the kind Wherefore dear Brethren hitherto God hath helped you go on in the strength of the Lord contending against all flesh for your Lord and Master who is able to make all grace abound beware of all formal or material and virtual yieldings unto any compliance with any contracts whatsoever that have a tendancy to weaken Christs Interests either in it self or in the mind of any faithful for he who is faithful in a little will be followed with dominion over many Cities The Spirit of Zeal would make us wise as Serpents and resolute to stand upon Foot 's or Inches for as not a light Skirmishing with fore-parties but the main Battle ad triarias v●ntum in est and the yielding of one foot may occasion the losing the whole day O Lord God of Hosts arise thou and then thine Enemies shall be Scattered and strengthen the weak things that remain when the things that once were are now as it were disappearing and plead thy own Cause and determin that long depending Controversy in thy own time and way Let me hear from you my dear Brother His Grace be with you Yours in the Lord Subscribed J. B. Supposed to be one John Brown a Field-Preacher and Traiter who fled into Holland where he is an Agent for the Covenanting-Party Amen THE INDEX For the Animadversions A. ACcomodation absolutely refused by the Covenanters 15. Acts of Parliament damned by the Covenanters 8 9 10. St. Andrews Presbytery of St Andrews its Papal way of Proceeding 50. Late Archbishop of St. Andrews the true ground of the Covenanters hatred to him 25. in Marg. g. his Murderers 29. 63. the manner of his Murder 56 57. his Meek Carriage to his Murderers 57. his last words 16. his Murderers lay wait for the Collectors of the Cess 16. Five of their Accomplices Hang'd up in Chains at the place where he was Murdered 44. Present Archbishop of St. Andrews 52. his House Plundered by the Covenanters and his House-Keeper beaten 47. Scottish Oath of Allegiance 43. The Apology for the Persecuted Ministers c. 1. 14. 24 25 26. The Apologetical Narration 25. 52. Apologie pour Jean Chastel written by the Jesuits and practised by the Covenanters 67. Mr. Hugh Archibald his Adulteries 34. Bishop of Argyles Children 47. The Principles of Assassination out of the Presbyterian writings 66 67 68. B. Balfour the