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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57865	A vindication of the Church of Scotland being an answer to five pamphlets, the titles of which are set down after the preface / by the author of the former vindication in answer to ten questions.	Rule, Gilbert, 1629?-1701.	1691 (1691)	Wing R2232; ESTC R22719	77,003	86

A VINDICATION OF THE Church of SCOTLAND BEING AN ANSWER TO Five Pamphlets The Titles of which are set down after the Preface By the Author of the former Vindication in Answer to the Ten QUESTIONS Licensed and Entered according to Order Psal. 31 18. Let the lying Lips be put to Silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuosly against the Righteous Psal. 55.3 They cast Iniquity upon me and in wrath they hate me Psal. 63.11 But the mouth of them that speak Lies shall be stopped Gregor Lib. 18. Moral Nonnunquam pejus est mendacium meditari quam loqui Nam loqui plerumque precipitationis est meditari vero Studiosae pravitarie Augustin contra Parmen L. 4. Quisquis vel quod porest corrigit vel quod non potest Corrigere salvo pacis vinculo excludit vel quod salvo pacis vinculo excludere non potest equitate improbat is pacificus est Printed at Edingburgh and Reprinted at London for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns near Mercers-Chappel in Cheap-side 1691. The PREFACE THe Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland have been manifold and of long continuance Jacob and Esau have been long strugling in her womb many Changes have gone over her sometimes the one Party prevailing and sometimes the other If there were no more at bottom of this strife then is pretended there might be some hope of Peace If not by Oneness in Opinion and practice yet by yeilding so far as Conscience can allow and mutual forbearance in that wherein we cannot unite But the Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent as it began with the World it self so it is like to have no more early Exit I am sure Lying Railing and malicious Reproaches instead of Argumentive Confutations are not conducive to peace This Conduct cannot convince them that are otherwise minded nor can it render that way Lovely for the sake of which it is used to one who is influenced either by Religion or Reason But it tendeth to render the Cause that is so managed Suspicious yea to disparage and Blacken a good Cause in the Eyes of the Sober and rational part of Mankind It is a bad Cause that must be so supported and a worse Soul that will use such a weapon Yea men of a good temper will not listen to such Discourses but abhor them Nor will they auribus aliquem calumniari as Simonides speaketh It hath been an old stratagem of Satan to disparage Truth or the right wayes of God either by misrepresenting or disguising the Opinions of them who own them or drawing strange and absurd Consequences from what they hold Or imputing that to them that they never said nor thought Or by raising and venting Calumnies against the Persons and Actions of them whom they would expose Thus did the Heathens against the Jews and against the the Christians For the former enough to this purpose may be seen in Joseph contra Apion lib. 1.2 And the Antient Histories of the Church are full of the Latter And the Apologies of Tertullian and others were occasioned by them It was also the way of Papists against Protestants Yea our Lord in days of his flesh suffered the same and the very footsteps of these Enemies of Truth do these Authors tread with whom I have now to do As will appear in our progress It is a woeful work for men to employ their Wit in and their time about The Devil hath his Name from this practice not only in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but also in the Syriack N. T one that feedeth on Calumnies It is strange that Veracity is become as much a stranger among Protestants as among Jesuits Heathens would be ashamed of such Intemperance of the Tongue as some Divines use and that in Debates about Religious things It is Unmanly as well as UnChristian to tell a Lye tho' for never so good a Cause or on never so good a design Plutarch de Liber Educand Mentirienim servile est Et dignum apud omnes Homines odio ac ne mediocribus quidem servis ignoscendum Is it any wonder that we hesitate about some things related by Antient Historians when so much false History is with such effronted Boldness written about the things that we all know and about which we could be proper Witnesses and could Swear them to be Lyes before a Judge Or that we can have little perswasion of what we Read or hear about remote Nations When things acted among our selves are so falsly represented Woe to Posterity if the Lying Stories that some have Printed and with bold Impudence avouched pass with them for Authentick Histories Not only the Writings of Jesuits but these of some discontented Prelatists are able to turn the succeeding Ages into absolute Scepticisme about all the Transactions of former times Sect. 2. Our Opposities in the Debate that I now manage have not only loaded as with reproach without just cause given for their obloquie and clamours But they have shewed their aversion from Peace with us And that by the methods unbecoming men of Candor and Integrity as well as Lovers of Peace We are not ignorant of the measures that were the result of deep consults both in this Nation and at London when open Spire and Malice was not able to effect what they designed that the several Parishes should address the King for their Ministers to be continued with them even while it was evident that many of them regarded not the Civil Authority of the Nation now setled and others by the Leudness of Conversation made themselves unworthy to be in the Holy Function of the Ministry and when this attempt did not succeed it was concerted at London and advice about it written by Dr. Canaries to Mr. Lesk to be communicated to the rest of the Party That they should yeild seigned Obedience to the Presbyterians at present because their other Methods could not take at that time In pursuance of this addvice two adresses were prepared for the Commission of the General Assembly in which as little Wit as Candor appeared It was evident by them that the Addressers did not intend nor desire to be received into a share of the Government with Presbyterians And these Papers were so ill contrived that it was visible to all that no blame could reflect on the Presbyterians by refusiing to admit them on the terms that they proposed For their Lesson was conned for them One of them was offered to the Commission of the Assembly that was for the South part of Scotland by Mr. Alexander Less the 17. day of July 1691. In his own Name and of several others in the North. He was told by the Commission That they could not receive nor consider his Address because he and they in whose Name he made application to the Commission lived in the North and that the Commission had no Power from the Assembly to meddle with any Affairs in that part of the