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A51762	Manes presbyteriani, or, The monuments of the Kirk the covenants confession : Argyle's reliques : Guthrey and Giffan's passions : and Gillespy's recantation : all compiled and laid together.	Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 1598-1661.; Gillespie, Patrick, 1617-1675.; Guthrie, James, 1612?-1661.; Giffan, Mr.	1661 (1661)	Wing M421; ESTC R14790	23,220	56

reverence might hang for us beeth I's never speak a word more against my Prince Gu. Too late to repent Brother do you not remember of whom it was said by Emphatical interrogation Did not die like a fool Gif What do you deduce and infer out of this Scripture Gu. That it is better to die like a Knave and but that my time is short I would insist upon Reasons thereof wherefore I will conclude with the Application onely My Dearly beloved Brethren of the Covenant stand fast in the perswasion to which you have sold your selves body and soul and if there be any Jenkinites among you that can turn as often as a Shrove Tuesday Pancake my ill boding spirit foretels me of a great Apostacy have no conversation with them but continue stedfast that so the blessings of your Scotch Parents may be upon you and yours henceforth and for Ever THE RECANTATION OF Mr. PATRICK GILLESPY c. WHereas I Patrick Gillespy Presbyter being convened before the High Court of Parliament and the Lord Commissioner his Grace and there charged in due process with several Treasonable and seditious speeches and papers against his Majesties Person Family Authority and Government of which I ought justly to stand convict the said crimes being manifestly found releivant against me yet through the undeserved clemency of my Judges having obtained leave to consider and consult with my self they desiring if by any means possible to reclaim or dispossess a Presbyterian spirit do in satisfaction to their Lordships and out of a pressing fear of Death ensuing most humbly recant and retract saving to my self alwayes a power if occasion serve to deny them again these following Errours and dangerous Tenets First Whereas I have Dogmatically and avowedly taught that Princes if they will not be ruled tby he Kirk and in all things conform themselves to their dictates as being his Supream and a power ordained over him might by the said Holy Kirk be bound and manacled or more plainly imprisoned and deposed and finally put to death I do now truely and unfeignedly relinquish that fond Opin●on begot in me by the Excess of our Lordly Domination over his present Majesty as also the necessitated condition of his glorious Father when with us in Scotland 1650 my eyes through the multiplied terrours of Death seeing as through a glass the manifold danger of that Principle the rather for that the gude people of Scotland will daunce no longer after our pipe when we thought the Circe● incantations and charms of our Kirk had transfor●●● and alienated them into Everlasting rebellion I do therefore heartily and resolvedly abjure that Doctrine which I know will never be believed again in Scotland under the danger of being next inslaved whereas they scape for th●s time by being but conquered And this I do informed by reason of State not complying altogether with it in my Conscience Secondly whereas I have often declared in the Pulpit that God had rejected his present Majesty together with his Family for not owning the Hand of Providence against him but pers●sting in the steps of his Ancestors who were Enemies to Reformation I do freely confesse from my heart that I never thought of his restauration by any visible means abroad and it was so farre from the intendments of this Kirk either to advance or defend him that we would have made an Easier bargain of him then of his Father had a Chapman offered in time and as learned Coke I mean the High Court of Justice Solicitor said in the very same case for his life also since it was crimen Avaritiae non malitiae covetousness not cruelty I pray your Lordships do not put a greedy Presbyter to repent of that And yet I will make bold a little further with your patience while I repeat in an humble and submisse reverence what a great Rabby of our way in England effectually and advantagiously said for himself in a most curious Petition to the Rump of the Commonwealth of England in the same words Mutatis mutandis about Mr. Loves business I shall omit the Title as no way serving my design having declared already the Powers to whom it was addrest Shemeth THat your Petitioner being deeply sensible of your high displeasure into which by some late actings he is unawares fallen hath made a greater research after the mind of God in these late dispensations of his Providence in the great Curns and Changes of State in this Common-wealth and is therein wholly convinced that all Powers are of God and that He both dispose of them according to his own good will and pleasure that he is also satisfied and convinced that no person may presume under Damnation to resist or withstand the said powers And whereas your Petitioner by several failures of obedience to this Authority p'aced over him by God is become obnorious to your Justice and that accordingly he is to be tryed for the same and unlesse your mercy mediate and prevent the Sentence is like to suffer the severity of your just indignation Your Petitioner in all humility prostrates himself before you beseeching you favourably to remit his offences he engaging to live in all due obedience to your Government and to pray for the prosperity and continuance thereof Signed W. JENKINS This so well succeeded that upon the return of those rotten members by Lamberts resurrection to their place and possession of the power again he was the onely man thought fit to preach the congratulatory Sermon which he did very gravely and heartily thankfully remembring their bringing him from life to Death to see a like miracle for them in that their happy day And why may not I my Lord be such an Honest godly Convert if you please to try me but this once Thirdly whereas it is objected and proved against me that neither during the Time his Majesty was in Scotland nor since I did ever so much as mention his Majesty unlesse with bitter taunts and reflections in my Prayers nay have wholly discontinued praying for him after his defeat at Worcester besides my discontented preachments since his return to his Kingdoms I do freely acknowledge that what I did was by the major vote of my fellow Remonstrants and in obedience to the usurping English whom in all Kirk policy and reason and the general practise of our Brethren in England ever since 1642 when the warre began where they prayed for the King as Gamesters for ill Dice with Curse ye Meroz we were forced to comply-with even in our private devotions so fear'd we were that any body nay God Alinighty himself should hear us to speak for the King I must indeed herein acknowledge my weakness for I cannot but confesse that if we did not then excommunicate him 't was because we thought the English Sectaries would not thank us who were able enough to shut him out of this Kingdome without our Keyes As for my malapertnesse since his restitution I humbly pray your Lordship to consider how many inveterate diseases are grown upon Presbytery in its declining age Crazinesse and Testinesse are inseparable companions of it now as madnesse rashnesse and hot zeal gave life and being to 't But if your Lordships suspect me incurable deal with me as favourably as the English have done to Philip Nye and I will learn and endeavour to frame my mouth with him to the thanksgivings of secret murmurs whispers obloquies and reproaches against the State and Kingdome Item whereas I stand charged with procuring and inciting the Parliament of this Kingdome then sitting at Edinborough to take away the lives of the Marquesse Montrosse and those other Gentlemen then prisoners with him and that I did dispitefully and maliciously traduce the memories of those Persons after their death As I cannot deny it so I will not nor cannot make any defence to it if your Lord●hips be pleased to consider the Kirk whose motto from Tomyr● was Satia te sanguiue and whose inexpletible cruelties have murdered more in one age then all the Tyrannies in the Christian world have done in Twenty you will find my particular case like to one in a Contagion I did that in the height of the infection for then the Tokens were on us and we came to present destruction A general malignancy and fury seized us and we kill'd and slew those persons in our rage whose courage conduct and Loyalty might haved the Kingdome My Lords you have Confitentem reum to this Particular And so I say no more to it To all the rest of the charge exhibited against me as refractorinesse rebellion the businesse of the Remonstrance c. I appear before your Lordships with a clear and cleansed stomach to confesse them I have vomited up the Covenant and have purged out the Remonstrance I am swept clean and if your mercy enter not speedily the seven deadly Devils of Presbytery will soon return and I shall be worse then I was at first Therefore I say make sure of me lest like my Brother Crofton I say one thing to night by way of submission and the next morning boggle at it again like an old Womans arse at no Certainty Just just now I am in the humour if you let this cold fit go off me and remove the Death-Head I shall unsay all again and then the London Elders will boast wonderfully and some other fools will plague you with my Example here as well as some there therefore be sure you record it that there may be no exception against the verity of it when ever I may have the opportunity of reneging Signed and Delivered to be kept as a Monument of the Courage of Sir John Presbyter Patrick Gillespy The POSTSCRIPT PRay be pleased to communicate these sad Dispensations upon this our late Flourishing Kirk to the morning Lecture we are utterly divided here such skipping and leaping from Principles such a variation and contrariety to the received Discipline that a Hopping diversicoloured Jack Daw may be a fitter Embleme for the Covenant then a Phaenix You are never like to have any other newes but of Scotland and so gude Brethren set your hearts at rest and be quiet Farewell FINIS Mr. Jenkins