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A55669 The prelatical church-man against the phanatical Kirk-man, or, A vindication of the author of The sufferings of the Church of Scotland Author of The sufferings of the Church of Scotland. 1690 (1690) Wing P3212; ESTC R6613 6,534 8

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THE PRELATICAL CHURCH-MAN Against the Phanatical Kirk-Man OR A VINDICATION OF THE AUTHOR OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE Church of Scotland LONDON Printed in the Year 1690. To the READER THO I have always had an Aversion to Writing And thought it greater Prudence in a Man meanly gifted to be silent and conceal his Weakness than in Print to publish and proclaim it Yet when the Credit of the Church of Scotland lies at Stake and that of England whereof I am a Member is reflected on I thought in Conscience I was bound and that in Duty to my Ghostly Fathers I could do no loss than to confute those Things which I know to be Aspersions and to proceed from a Parasite who transposes and sub●erts the Truth He has lately wrote a little Pamphale● called Animadversions on the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland Which indeed is so full of Venom and of Words so unbecoming a Christian That one would think this Author was some Amphibious Creature void of all Morality and Religion I 'm inform'd he 's a Physitian or rather a Salamanca Doctor who having for some time beat his Brains and crack'd his Scull in the Study of the Civil Law which he could never Reach nor Comprehend did at last expecting some Relief from Physick read Culpepper's Midwifry Aristotle's Problems and Burton's Melancholy And then after the Fashion of our Quacks set up for an eminent Doctor But had he been a Civilian I should have expected Sense and Reason from him Or if a Physitian something to heal and not to fester our Sores But what he scribles being mere Stuff and Trash and obscene scurilous Language I should rather fancy him to be of Kin to the Billingsgate-Wenches whom I think he more by half resembles than our Bishops do Antichrist or our Church the Hirarchy of Rome or by his Words Hellish Prelates and Infernal Furies one would take him to be a Cameronian Phanatical Thunderer whose Excellency consists in someing out Horrors Hell and Damnation in his Pulpit A Subject so common to this Sect That he who preaches Salvation or Universal Redemption is excommunicated by 'em But I think I need give no farther Character of our Author his monstrous ugly and deform'd Issue His Animadversions shewing him to be a Malicious and Envious Person whose Bowels are fall of Gall and his Tongue dip'd in Poison For he shews so much ill Nature in every Paragraph he writes that one would take him to be an Enemy to the Race of Mankind And indeed he is so full of Choler and so hurried with Passion that he lets his Words fly at Random without Reason Deliberation or Sense And this being the hot and firy Temper of our Phanatical Zealot I hope the Ingenious Reader will be pleased to examine what this Kirk Animadvertor says THE Scotch Animadversions CONFUTED IF Episcopacy was not of Divine Right which very Eminent and Learned Divines have asserted Yet being of Apostolical Constitution according to the received Opinion of the most Judicious Ancient and Modern Writers being established by positive Laws in a Nation And by all unbyassed and unprejudiced Persons being acknowledged the best of Ecclesiastical Governments I should think it no superlaive Impudence in one of this Perswasion to disown all Seditious Meetings and Conventicles for their Church Nor do I think it any piece of Arrogance in the Bishops or the Priests of this Church nor in any of their Communion to assume to themselves the Name of a National Church And tho' our Ingenious Observat in the first Page of his Pamphlet compares the National Church of Scotland to that Universal Church of Rome and appears to make no distinction between the Two bringing the Scotch by way of Similitude and Comparison Yet he is much mistaken in his Logick and if he had not told us he was an University Man I should have thought that he was Bred at Gresham-College or as the Phrase is in his own Idiom in the College of Buckhaven for here he makes no distinction between the whole and its parts and appears as little to discern whether Genus and Species be the same for the Scotch owning their Church and a●l other Churches to be but a Number of Men set apart or collected together to Worship God after that Form prescrib'd in his Word They own England and Holland and all the Companies of Believers that Worship in a Decent Form to be a Church as well as themselves nor did they ever exclude Rome from being a Church tho' in their Pulpits and in their Books they have all disown'd it for a True and Vniversal Church To that here our Animadvertor either understands not what an Universal Church is or if he does is very unjust in imputing to a Church what she never thought nor did For there being but one True Church in the World and all National Churches being Members of this one that which comprehends all must only be Universal and none but our Author could be so Ignorant as to think there was two Universals of the same kind or that the Church of Scotland did ever in Discipline or Doctrine shake Hands with the Church of Rome as our worthy Animadversionist with a stock of Confidence and Ignorance does Assert But as Malice will make a Man invent where there is no subject and Asperse where there is no Blemish so likewise this Worthy Gentleman would make the World believe that there was nothing like Devotion and Piety among the Bishops and Priests of this Church Nay that they were so Wicked in their Lives and Conversations that they did Countenance and Encourage the worst and greatest of Crimes This certainly must be a Notorious Falshood for I my self during Twelve or Thirteen Years have been a constant Spectator of the Lives and Carriage of the Clergy and in all that time could never see nor so much as hear of any that was guilty of the least Misdemeanor I Liv'd at Edenburgh where they were every Day to be seen and happen'd to converse with those who would have made a Mountain of a Mole-hill and made any little-Failing or Infirmity in a Bishop the most Heionus and Aggravating Crime yet notwithstanding their envious and watchful Eyes which did follow and attend the Bishops even to their Homes yet could I never hear of any Scandalous thing laid to their Charge nay I never heard of any Bishop but Dr. Paterson late Arch-Bishop of Glascow that ever was tax'd with any thing undecent or unbecoming their Gown and it was the Opinion of most Men that the Report rais'd on him was very False and did meerly proceed from Envy Because the Duke of Lauderdale did take so much notice of him therefore they thought the only way to be even with the Bishop and the Duke was to call the Bishop his Sister Hatton's Gallant which I dare affirm is a Notorious Lie and 't is pity that Scandalum Magnatum does not reach as well there this foul Mouth'd Wretch as