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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51154	An apology for the clergy of Scotland chiefly oppos'd to the censures, calumnies, and accusations of a late Presbyterian vindicator, in a letter to a friend : wherein his vanity, partiality and sophistry are modestly reproved, and the legal establishment of episcopacy in that kingdom, from the beginning of the Reformation, is made evident from history and the records of Parliament : together with a postscript, relating to a scandalous pamphlet intituled, An answer to The Scotch Presbyterian eloquence.	Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?	1693 (1693)	Wing M2437; ESTC R20155	87,009	107

Ratifications thereof and this we crave to be Recorded in your Register for the Vindication of Truth and exoneration of our Consciences The Lord give you wisdom in all things and powre out upon you a spirit of Healing the backslidings of the Land of building up our Breaches We rest Your Wisdoms loving Brethren and Servants in Christ Subscribed and sent from Pearth to Dundee to which place the Assembly was Adjourned from S. Andrews upon the 21. July 1651. by M. Alexander Dunlap William Sumervell John Mauld James Donaldson John Veatch John Hammilton in Carmichael Alexander Barterem Ministers and William Brown of Dolphington a Ruling Elder POSTSCRIPT WHEN the Printer had cast off the former Sheets there appeared here a scurrilous Pamphlet intituled an Answer to the Scots Presbyterian Eloquence in three parts If you would have a Character of the Author you must read the Book and perhaps by so doing you may meet with something that is extraordinary and which cannot so easily fall under words he appears with all the storm and Thunder that passion and rage can furnish him with he breaths nothing but violence and indignation and blusters with so much fury that at first view you may perceive him as great a Separatist from good nature and modesty as he is from the Christian Church and her Worship He divides his Pamphlet into three parts In the first he complains of cruel Laws made against the Presbyterians in the former Reigns In the second he meddles with the Author of the Scots Presbyterian Eloquence In the third he assaults the Sermons and Lives of the Bishops and Clergy As to the first King Charles II. and our subordinate Governors made no Laws against the Presbyterians in Scotland but what they were forc'd to make in their own defence when the King was restor'd to his hereditary right and the Nations deliver'd from their Egyptian bondage the Parliament being call'd they enacted such Laws as were absolutely necessary for preserving their Liberty and sundamental Constitution and because they had so sadly smarted under their cruel Taskmasters the Covenanters in the late Civil Wars they took care in the first place by gentle Laws both the reclaim the deluded and secure their own safety The frequent attempts and insurrections of the Presbyterians afterwards oblig'd them to make more severe Laws nor did ever any man in that Period suffer capital punishment but for high Treason against the King and State If their errors and delusions were purely speculative and did not upon all turns prompt them to overturn the Government and grasp the Sovereignty they might live in Scotland in all peace and tranquility as other Dissenters did But when the whole Scheme of their Religion as far as they differ from the Episcopal party is nothing in it self but ungovernable humor and Rebellion and when their insolence became so intolerable that they proclaim'd open War against the King in his own Dominions and preach'd to their Hearers that they ought to kill his Servants and that he had no right to the Crown because he broke the Covenant what Apology needs there be made against the unreasonable clamours of such desperate Incendiaries especially when their cruelties towards the Episcopal Church both Clergy and Laity after the Year 1637. were unparallel'd in History as they were diabolical in their nature And their Oath of the Covenant impos'd upon all ranks and degrees of persons within the Nation and Children at the Schools not excepted with greater tyranny malice and violence than the Fathers of the Inquisition ever practised VVhat was it then that the King was to be blam'd for and his Ministers of State VVhy they would not acknowledg that the King had lost his right to the Crown they defended his calm and obedient Subjects from the hands of these religious Harpyes who would needs persuade the Nation that there was no Sin so much to be dreaded as any the least transgression of the solemn League and Covenant The King and his Ministers of State might more plausibly be accus'd of cruelty if they had made severe Laws against the consequences of Presbyterian Opinions rather than against the open and avowed efforts of treachery and Rebellion Prudence and caution might arm them against the first but self-defence the Laws of nature and Nations their own honour and safety must needs prompt them to the second In short you will meet with nothing in the first part of this Pamphlet but an ill contriv'd abstract of the Hind let loose and you know that the Episcopalians took care to compendise that Book and publish it of new that all men might see the principles practices and humors of that Sect whom they oppose nor can there be a better defence of King Charles the seconds Government than the Hind let loose if duly consider'd and upon the whole matter I will only say this that if the Ministers of State under King Charles II. in Scotland have done nothing against the Presbyterians but what all wise great and good Men have done in the like cases then the Clamours of this party against their Ministry are rather an honour to than an accusation against their proceedings For as long as there are any Records of publick transactions preserv'd in our Nation the Rebellions under King Charles I. and II. and the principles by which they have been maintain'd and the Artifices made use of to delude the people unto misery and Enthusiasm can never be forgotten and if there was no other Book extant but the Acts of their General Assemblies they sufficiently vindicate King Charles II and his Ministers of State from any shadow of cruelty and rigor But all this and much more is made evident by the Learned and Loyal Advocate in his short and accurate Defence of King Charles the 2ds Government where he attacks and baffles by Reason Law and the customs of Nations the little cavils and exceptions started against the administrations of that wise and peaceable Monarch A Book which shall never be answered I do not mean that they shall not write against it but that it is unanswerable and they may as wisely run a tilt against a Rock as endeavour to shake any part of its main design The reasonings of it are so clear the historical retorsions so undeniable and the villanies of their factions and combinations so transparent that to meddle with that Book will more and more discover their folly as well as renew their correction and the publisher of it thinks still he has done the Nation good service and he is the more confirmed in his Opinion that he perceives that the little and hidden Nurslings of Presbytery are galled by it It is a Lye that Sir George Mackenzie pretended he would not publish it tho he would not allow a Copy surreptitiously procured to come abroad without his immediate orders and directions and when he saw it convenient he recommended it to his Friend to publish it