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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25698	An Apology for the failures charg'd on the Reverend Mr. George Walker's printed account of the late siege of Derry in a letter to the undertaker of a more accurate narrative of that siege.		1689 (1689)	Wing A3549; ESTC R24184	9,989	29

due form and full strength partly out of the deserence I bear to Mr. VValker's Person partly because this will fall properly within your Province in your intended Narrative Sussice it they answer the end they are produced for viz. To evince that an History obnoxious to the heavy charge these Premises inserr can with no Modesty vouch a Person of Mr. VValker's Character for its genuine Author some one of these taken single being of sufficient force much more the whole Conjunct to blast the Credit of any History whatever In summ this History bears no more resemblance to the excellent Governour of Derry than Simon Magus to Simon Peter But if any be found so hardy as to attempt an Attaque upon either these Premises or the Conclusion pray Capitulate with 'em for a Cessation of Arms 'till your Narrative is Printed and then I promise to give 'em Battle if they please before the Walls of Derry Mean while I take leave of the first part of my Apology for the Collonel and proceed to the second in my Conduct to which I doubt not to make some Advantage of those very Blockad's by which you endeavour to prevent my Passage The first and I hope principal is Object If it be an unpardonable Crime to entitle Mr. VValker to those Misadventures of which you impeach his Narrative what Hecatomb can attone for the bold Adventure of the High and Sacred Dedication prefix'd to it For a full Answer to this formidable Objection which will go a great way to compleat the Apology I humbly offer to your second thoughts whether you are not in equity oblig'd to allow in the Person of Mr. George VValker the discriminating qualities of late Governour of Derry and Rector of Donnogh-moor In the former you are to consider him in a Martial Capacity in the latter an Ecclesiastick In the former he own'd no Superiour terrene but his Sovereign in the latter many in special his Diocesan In the former he commanded thousands without controll in the latter he must obey not dispute the Authority of his Superiours In the former he sought for King VVilliam Queen Mary and the Protestant Religion in conjunction with you Presbyterians avoiding all discrimination of the Church and Kirk-party which then would have proved fatal in the latter he was oblig'd to publish his Narrative under the Conduct and Command of his Ecclesiastick Governours consequently in a Method might equally subserve the Churches Honour and Interest and disserve those of the Kirk If you would know who these Ecclesiasticks are to whom you owe the most injurious mistakes in this Narrative pray enquire who that very Reverend Prelate from Ireland is who went as far as Barnet to meet Collonel VValker receiv'd him into his own Coach conducted him to London under whose menage Mr. VValker was observ'd to act while he was preparing his Narrative This Bishop with some others of his Club can inform you best of any I shall then adventure to give you their Names when the Act of Scandalum Magnatum as it respects that Order is repeal'd which I dare affirm will be found the Interest of both Church and State. 'Till then I beg your Excuse Obj. If you further Object it suits not over well with Mr. Walker's Character to pass such things in his History as have nothing to support their Credit but the bare Command of his Ecclesiaftick Superiors Sol. I confess all the Distinctions in Scotus your subtle Countrey-man must leave this Objection unanswer'd upon the Principles of you Presbyterians whose nigh thirty Years Sufferings Contempt and Indigency you owe to your opposing your private Cosciences as the proximate Rule of your Actions to the conscience and Commands of your Superiors But upon Mr. Walker's Principles 'tis easily blown off For though our Church pretends not to Infallibility in determining Points of Faith yet she pretends and I hope justly to uncontrollable Authority to her Commands over her inferiour Clergy and to the dictates of the publick Conscience over the private and therefore though Mr. Walker might modestly concert the Truth of those Passages which bear not so much as its imperfect Colour yet might he at no hand dispute inserting 'em if his Superior require it Mr. Walker could not forget though you may that Modern Doctrine very edifying to the Embracers as well as Inventers of it viz. That where the Matter of my Superior's Command is doubeful as undoubtedly in this Case it was his Command makes it my undoubted Duty to obey Obedience to my Superior being my undoubted Duty complying with my doubting Conscience being a business of very doubtful and dangerous Event Though I 'm very apt to believe had some men among us foreseen it would ever be their own fate to take Sanctuary in the private and as they call'd it pretended Conscience which is the pittiable I say not ridiculous misfortune of all those of our Clergy who now refuse to Swear Allegiance to the best of Kings they would heretofore have less ridicul'd it But to compleat Mr. Walker's Vindication and the solution of your Objection I 'm forc'd to reveal an Horribile Secretum whose Discovery by Mr. Walker had prov'd as fatal as Calvin's Horribile Decretum on which you know who among us betray'd horrible Ignorance of Latin as well as Divinity 't is this On that memorable Evening of locking Derry-Gates in an Assembly of the chief Citizens consulting their Bishop then present whether they should receive a Popish Regiment of King James's Army then approaching to seize the Garrison for that King's Service the good Bishop having long before ebib'd the Doctrine of Passive Obedience gravely exhorted them to the Affirmative assuring them though with the loss of the Garrison for King William and the Protestant Religion they should thereby become a Victim to the sanguinary Cut-throats yet the Loyalty of their Obedience to their ONLY lawful Sovereign would abundantly recompense their deepest Sufferings Upon which one Irwin I'm told a young Presbyterian Scot cry'd out My Lord your Doctrine's very good but we can't now hear you out and immediately getting the Keys with some others of his Fellows lock'd all the Gates a few Minutes before the two formost Companies demanded entrance in King James's Name Can you imagine had Mr. Walker been sui juris his Narrative would not have afforded at least one Line to the Resolution Gallantry and inestimable serviceableness of this Action without which this Account of the following Gallantry display'd on that Stage had probably issu'd in a second History of Massacres exceeding those of 41. But to return to the Bishop he finding his Doctrine the oftner repeated less credited by Church-rebel Jack Presbyter left the City some days after to the disloyal Whiggs Now Sir make Mr. Walker's Case your own and suppose your Merit as indeed his is above the Deanry of Derry vacant by Mr. Manby's exchanging the Communion of the Church of England for the more encharming Imbraces as he pretended of