A letter to a friend giving an account of all the treatises that have been publish'd with relation to the present persecution against the Church of Scotland
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             A letter to a friend giving an account of all the treatises that have been publish'd with relation to the present persecution against the Church of Scotland
             Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?
             Meldrum, George, 1635?-1709.
          
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           A
           LETTER
           To
           a
           FRIEND
           ,
           Giving
           an
           Account
           of
           all
           the
           Treatises
           that
           have
           been
           publish'd
           ,
           With
           Relation
           to
           the
           Present
           Persecution
           Against
           the
           Church
           of
           SCOTLAND
           .
        
         
           
             Lam.
             I.
             iv
             .
          
           
             The
             ways
             of
             Zion
             do
             mourn
             ,
             because
             none
             come
             to
             the
             solemn
             feasts
             :
             all
             her
             gates
             are
             desolate
             :
             her
             Priests
             sigh
             :
             her
             virgins
             are
             afflicted
             ,
             and
             she
             is
             in
             bitterness
             .
          
        
         
           
             And
             verse
             xii
             .
          
           
             Is
             it
             nothing
             to
             you
             ,
             all
             ye
             that
             pass
             by
             ?
          
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           
             Printed
             for
          
           Joseph
           Hindmarsh
           ,
           
             at
             the
          
           Golden
           Ball
           ,
           
             over
             against
             the
          
           Royal
           Exchange
           in
           Cornhill
           ,
           1692.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           A
           LETTER
           To
           a
           FRIEND
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           I
           Don't
           much
           wonder
           ,
           that
           the
           present
           State
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           should
           be
           a
           little
           surprising
           to
           you
           ,
           at
           your
           return
           from
           your
           Travels
           beyond
           Seas
           ,
           it
           being
           so
           very
           much
           changed
           from
           what
           it
           was
           some
           Years
           ago
           ,
           when
           you
           were
           last
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           that
           the
           bare
           reflection
           upon
           it
           must
           needs
           occasion
           Grief
           and
           Sadness
           to
           any
           who
           are
           endued
           with
           the
           least
           sense
           of
           Religion
           or
           Morality
           .
           The
           Church
           was
           then
           in
           a
           flourishing
           condition
           ,
           her
           Authority
           and
           Discipline
           in
           such
           force
           and
           vigour
           ,
           that
           a
           Sentence
           of
           Excommunication
           was
           even
           terrible
           to
           the
           most
           wicked
           and
           prophane
           ;
           her
           Pastors
           were
           Men
           of
           Judgment
           ,
           Learning
           ,
           and
           Prudence
           ,
           and
           of
           such
           unblameable
           Lives
           and
           Conversations
           ,
           that
           they
           quite
           stopt
           the
           Mouths
           of
           their
           calumniating
           and
           malicious
           Enemies
           .
           Whereas
           now
           the
           Scene
           of
           Affairs
           is
           so
           much
           altered
           ,
           that
           the
           Church
           is
           made
           level
           with
           the
           ground
           ,
           and
           her
           Adversaries
           take
           pleasure
           in
           the
           rubbish
           thereof
           ;
           the
           Apostolical
           Order
           of
           Bishops
           totally
           subverted
           ,
           and
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           barbarously
           driven
           from
           their
           respective
           Churches
           ,
           many
           of
           which
           are
           at
           present
           void
           and
           destitute
           of
           Pastor
           ,
           and
           their
           Flocks
           left
           desolate
           ,
           like
           Sheep
           wandring
           without
           a
           Sheepherd
           ;
           others
           of
           their
           Churches
           are
           invaded
           by
           Men
           who
           can
           lay
           
           no
           claim
           to
           that
           sacred
           Function
           of
           the
           holy
           Ministry
           ,
           having
           never
           received
           Ordination
           from
           those
           Persons
           who
           are
           duly
           authorized
           to
           confer
           it
           :
           and
           their
           pretences
           for
           Learning
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Qualifications
           necessary
           for
           that
           Office
           are
           so
           very
           little
           ,
           that
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           them
           have
           never
           had
           occasion
           to
           apply
           themselves
           to
           those
           Studies
           ,
           but
           have
           been
           all
           along
           trained
           up
           in
           Mechanick
           Employments
           ,
           and
           have
           now
           leapt
           directly
           from
           the
           Shop
           into
           th
           Pulpit
           ,
           where
           they
           exercise
           their
           Gifts
           at
           such
           a
           rate
           ,
           and
           entertain
           the●●
           Auditors
           with
           such
           nauseous
           Stuff
           *
           ,
           (
           sometimes
           intermixt
           with
           blasphemous
           Sentences
           )
           that
           instead
           of
           advancing
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           't
           is
           to
           be
           feared
           ,
           they
           have
           propagated
           more
           Atheism
           and
           Irreligion
           in
           the
           Nation
           ,
           than
           many
           Years
           will
           be
           able
           to
           root
           out
           .
        
         
           And
           since
           your
           Curiosity
           prompts
           you
           to
           a
           strict
           enquiry
           into
           the
           Ways
           and
           Methods
           by
           which
           this
           surprising
           Revolution
           was
           brought
           about
           ,
           I
           shall
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           your
           satisfaction
           ,
           direct
           you
           to
           all
           those
           Treatises
           that
           have
           been
           published
           on
           this
           occasion
           ,
           where
           you
           may
           find
           an
           exact
           and
           impartial
           account
           of
           the
           present
           Persecution
           raised
           against
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           ;
           how
           it
           was
           at
           first
           contrived
           and
           set
           on
           foot
           ,
           after
           the
           landing
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           here
           in
           England
           in
           the
           Year
           1688
           ,
           and
           how
           it
           has
           been
           managed
           and
           carried
           on
           even
           till
           this
           time
           ,
           with
           all
           the
           Fury
           and
           Violence
           imaginable
           by
           the
           Presbyterian
           Faction
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           Discourse
           ,
           I
           think
           ,
           which
           was
           published
           on
           this
           Subject
           was
           ,
           
             A
             Memorial
             for
             his
             Highness
             the
             Prince
             of
             Orange
             ,
             in
             relation
             to
             the
             Affairs
             of
             Scotland
             ;
             together
             with
             the
             Address
             of
             the
             Presbyterian
             Party
             in
             that
             Kingdom
             to
             his
             Highness
             ,
             and
             some
             Observations
             on
             that
             Address
             .
             By
             two
             Persons
             of
             Quality
             .
          
        
         
           This
           Memorial
           was
           wrote
           sometime
           before
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           was
           proclaimed
           King
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           the
           Author's
           design
           in
           it
           ,
           was
           to
           inform
           the
           Prince
           ,
           how
           seditiously
           and
           rebelliously
           the
           Presbyterians
           in
           Scotland
           had
           behaved
           themselves
           under
           the
           Reigns
           of
           K.
           James
           VI.
           K.
           Charles
           I.
           and
           K.
           Charles
           II.
           how
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           K.
           Charles
           I.
           they
           overturned
           not
           only
           the
           Government
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           but
           usurped
           likewise
           that
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           rescinded
           all
           the
           Royal
           Prerogatives
           ,
           and
           murthered
           Thousands
           of
           the
           King
           's
           best
           Subjects
           ,
           besides
           the
           many
           other
           Barbarities
           which
           they
           committed
           under
           the
           pretence
           of
           Religion
           .
           
           And
           from
           hence
           the
           Author
           takes
           occasion
           to
           shew
           the
           Prince
           ,
           how
           much
           his
           Interest
           obliged
           him
           to
           suppress
           that
           insolent
           Party
           ,
           whose
           Principles
           and
           Practices
           were
           not
           only
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           Monarchy
           ,
           but
           even
           destructive
           of
           all
           human
           Society
           ;
           and
           that
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           Episcopacy
           being
           necessary
           for
           the
           support
           of
           the
           Monarchy
           ,
           he
           ought
           to
           make
           it
           his
           chief
           care
           and
           concern
           to
           maintain
           and
           support
           it
           ;
           and
           the
           rather
           ,
           because
           he
           had
           so
           solemnly
           engaged
           his
           Honor
           for
           the
           Defence
           thereof
           ;
           for
           having
           published
           in
           his
           Declaration
           ,
           That
           his
           design
           of
           coming
           over
           was
           to
           support
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           he
           tells
           him
           ,
           That
           he
           was
           therefore
           in
           Honor
           bound
           to
           support
           Episcopacy
           ,
           it
           being
           confirmed
           by
           Twenty
           Seven
           Parliaments
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           The
           Observations
           upon
           the
           Presbyterians
           Address
           to
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           are
           done
           by
           another
           Pen
           :
           They
           sufficiently
           expose
           the
           Contradiction
           and
           Inconsistency
           that
           always
           appears
           in
           the
           Actions
           of
           that
           Party
           .
           In
           their
           Address
           to
           the
           P.
           of
           Orange
           ,
           they
           complain
           heavily
           of
           their
           Oppression
           and
           Suffering
           under
           K.
           
           James's
           Government
           ,
           that
           
             They
             were
             lying
             in
             the
             Mouth
             of
             the
             Lyon
             ,
             while
             Refuge
             failed
             ,
             and
             when
             they
             looked
             on
             their
             right
             and
             left
             Hands
             ,
             there
             was
             no
             Man
             found
             to
             pity
             them
             ,
             till
             the
             Lord
             raised
             up
             his
             Highness
             for
             their
             Deliverance
             .
          
           And
           yet
           notwithstanding
           these
           heavy
           and
           grievous
           Complaints
           ,
           we
           find
           that
           in
           their
           Address
           to
           K.
           James
           ,
           they
           render
           him
           their
           humble
           and
           hearty
           Thanks
           ,
           
             for
             putting
             a
             stop
             to
             their
             long
             and
             sad
             Sufferings
             for
             Nonconformity
          
           ;
           and
           they
           acknowledg
           the
           receipt
           of
           Favors
           from
           him
           ,
           
             valuable
             above
             all
             earthly
             Comforts
          
           .
           Nay
           ,
           so
           little
           reason
           have
           they
           to
           complain
           of
           Persecution
           from
           him
           ,
           that
           it
           's
           known
           how
           the
           leading
           Men
           of
           that
           Faction
           were
           only
           caressed
           and
           cajoled
           by
           the
           then
           Ministers
           of
           State
           to
           a
           very
           high
           degree
           ,
           and
           preferr'd
           to
           Places
           of
           great
           Trust
           in
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           they
           themselves
           were
           then
           so
           sensible
           of
           these
           Obligations
           ,
           that
           out
           of
           Gratitude
           they
           offered
           to
           use
           their
           Interest
           for
           carrying
           on
           the
           Designs
           at
           that
           time
           set
           on
           foot
           by
           the
           Papists
           for
           promoting
           of
           Popery
           in
           these
           Dominions
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           very
           well
           known
           to
           any
           who
           were
           then
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           how
           eminently
           they
           comply'd
           with
           the
           
             Dispensing
             Power
          
           in
           taking
           an
           Indulgence
           from
           the
           Papists
           ,
           how
           they
           magnifi'd
           K.
           James
           upon
           that
           account
           ,
           as
           the
           best
           of
           Kings
           that
           ever
           reigned
           ;
           and
           how
           active
           some
           of
           the
           most
           pragmatical
           Men
           of
           that
           Party
           were
           ,
           in
           engaging
           all
           of
           their
           own
           persuasion
           to
           promote
           a
           Relaxation
           of
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           ,
           and
           in
           persuading
           such
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           as
           they
           could
           influence
           ,
           to
           go
           along
           with
           the
           Designs
           of
           the
           Court
           therein
           .
           And
           this
           is
           so
           notorious
           ,
           
           that
           one
           of
           their
           own
           Preachers
           *
           was
           severely
           checked
           and
           rebuked
           by
           the
           Party
           ,
           because
           much
           about
           that
           time
           ,
           in
           a
           Sermon
           preached
           before
           their
           Provincial
           Assembly
           at
           Edinburgh
           ,
           he
           signified
           his
           dislike
           of
           these
           Proceedings
           ,
           and
           laid
           before
           them
           the
           dangerous
           Consequences
           of
           the
           same
           ,
           how
           fatal
           such
           Methods
           would
           at
           last
           prove
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           in
           these
           Nations
           .
           I
           could
           here
           entertain
           you
           with
           a
           great
           many
           Instances
           of
           their
           Behaviour
           under
           K.
           
           James's
           Government
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           ready
           complyances
           with
           all
           the
           Popish
           Designs
           then
           set
           on
           foot
           ,
           but
           that
           I
           think
           it
           altogether
           superfluous
           ,
           since
           one
           of
           their
           own
           Party
           *
           has
           sufficiently
           exposed
           them
           to
           the
           World
           upon
           this
           account
           ,
           and
           shewn
           how
           their
           Practices
           at
           that
           time
           were
           directly
           contrary
           to
           their
           former
           Principles
           ,
           and
           that
           their
           Behaviour
           was
           such
           ,
           as
           did
           rather
           become
           Sycophants
           and
           Court
           Parasites
           ,
           than
           those
           who
           assumed
           the
           Title
           of
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Gospel
           .
           And
           his
           Accusation
           is
           so
           very
           true
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           never
           as
           yet
           attempted
           to
           answer
           him
           ,
           or
           to
           vindicate
           themselves
           from
           those
           many
           Scandals
           and
           Reproaches
           wherewith
           he
           so
           justly
           charges
           them
           ;
           nay
           ,
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           they
           are
           so
           conscious
           of
           their
           own
           Guilt
           ,
           that
           in
           their
           Address
           to
           the
           P.
           of
           Orange
           ,
           they
           very
           very
           frankly
           own
           it
           ,
           and
           make
           a
           long
           Apology
           to
           his
           Highness
           for
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           thing
           that
           appear'd
           abroad
           with
           relation
           to
           our
           Scotch
           Affairs
           ,
           was
           a
           short
           Letter
           entituled
           ,
           
             The
             present
             State
             and
             Condition
             of
             the
             Clergy
             and
             Church
             of
             Scotland
             .
          
        
         
           It
           gave
           us
           but
           a
           very
           short
           and
           brief
           ,
           tho
           a
           true
           ,
           account
           of
           the
           many
           Affronts
           and
           Indignities
           that
           were
           done
           to
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           by
           the
           Presbyterians
           there
           ;
           but
           after
           having
           enumerated
           some
           few
           Instances
           of
           their
           atrocious
           Cruelties
           ,
           such
           as
           the
           killing
           of
           one
           Minister
           ,
           the
           daubing
           of
           anothers
           Face
           with
           Excrements
           ,
           and
           the
           inhumane
           usage
           of
           the
           Wife
           of
           a
           third
           ,
           tho
           in
           Childbed
           ,
           he
           at
           last
           concludes
           ,
           
             That
             it
             was
             beyond
             the
             power
             of
             words
             to
             express
             their
             Misery
             to
             that
             degree
             as
             they
             suffered
             it
             .
          
           This
           Letter
           had
           not
           been
           very
           long
           publish'd
           ,
           when
           there
           comes
           out
           a
           scurrilous
           Pamphlet
           ,
           under
           pretence
           of
           an
           Answer
           to
           it
           ;
           it
           was
           call'd
           
             A
             brief
             and
             true
             account
             of
             the
             Sufferings
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Scotland
             ,
             occasion'd
             by
             the
             Episcopalians
             since
             the
             Year
             1660.
             being
             a
             Vindication
             of
             their
             Majesties
             Government
             in
             that
             Kingdom
             ,
             relating
             to
             the
             Proceedings
             
             against
             the
             Bishops
             and
             Clergy
             there
             .
             With
             some
             Animadversions
             upon
             a
             Libel
             entituled
             ,
             
               The
               present
               State
               and
               Condition
               of
               the
               Clergy
               and
               Church
               of
            
             Scotland
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Author
           of
           this
           Pamphlet
           ,
           instead
           of
           answering
           the
           Letter
           ,
           as
           he
           pretends
           ,
           summs
           up
           ,
           and
           highly
           aggravates
           the
           Punishments
           that
           were
           justly
           inflicted
           upon
           the
           Presbyterian
           Dissenters
           by
           the
           Civil
           Government
           ,
           for
           their
           frequent
           Insurrections
           and
           Rebellions
           against
           it
           ,
           and
           charges
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           as
           the
           Authors
           of
           all
           their
           Sufferings
           upon
           that
           account
           .
           The
           Proceedings
           of
           the
           Civil
           Magistrate
           against
           this
           rebellious
           Crew
           are
           sufficiently
           vindicated
           by
           a
           learned
           Pen
           ,
           as
           I
           shall
           afterwards
           inform
           you
           .
           And
           as
           for
           the
           Behaviour
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           ,
           with
           relation
           to
           the
           Sufferings
           of
           these
           Men
           ,
           they
           were
           so
           far
           from
           being
           any
           ways
           the
           Authors
           of
           them
           ,
           that
           there
           may
           be
           many
           Instances
           given
           ,
           where
           the
           Clergy
           have
           interceeded
           for
           their
           Pardon
           ,
           and
           actually
           saved
           many
           of
           them
           from
           the
           Gallows
           ,
           which
           they
           could
           not
           have
           escaped
           ,
           had
           they
           been
           left
           to
           the
           due
           course
           of
           Law
           :
           And
           yet
           these
           Men
           did
           afterwards
           prove
           so
           ungrateful
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           the
           chief
           Instruments
           of
           all
           the
           Sufferings
           and
           Persecution
           which
           those
           Clergy-Men
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           owed
           their
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           ,
           met
           with
           in
           this
           late
           unhappy
           Revolution
           of
           our
           Church
           Affairs
           .
           And
           this
           is
           plain
           in
           the
           Case
           of
           Sir
           
             John
             Riddel
          
           and
           Mr.
           Chisholm
           ,
           Minister
           at
           Lisly
           ,
           whom
           he
           was
           then
           prosecuting
           for
           his
           Non-complyance
           ;
           and
           yet
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           ingenuously
           confessed
           to
           him
           ,
           before
           a
           good
           many
           Witnesses
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           been
           very
           much
           obliged
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           protested
           he
           would
           never
           have
           treated
           him
           at
           that
           rate
           ,
           if
           it
           had
           not
           been
           Matter
           of
           Conscience
           to
           him
           .
        
         
           This
           Answer
           is
           all
           over
           stuff'd
           with
           so
           many
           groundless
           Reflections
           and
           Aspersions
           upon
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           fill'd
           with
           such
           obscene
           and
           scurrillous
           Language
           ,
           without
           the
           least
           semblance
           of
           Reason
           or
           Argument
           ,
           that
           the
           true
           way
           of
           answering
           it
           ,
           had
           been
           to
           publish
           to
           the
           World
           a
           true
           and
           impartial
           History
           of
           the
           Author's
           Life
           and
           Actions
           ,
           that
           by
           comparing
           it
           with
           his
           Writings
           ,
           they
           might
           easily
           perceive
           what
           Credit
           and
           Authority
           they
           ought
           to
           have
           among
           all
           serious
           and
           sober
           Men.
           I
           must
           confess
           ,
           I
           'm
           a
           great
           Enemy
           to
           all
           personal
           Reflections
           in
           whatever
           kind
           of
           Writings
           ,
           as
           knowing
           how
           prejudicial
           they
           of●en
           are
           to
           the
           Merit
           of
           the
           Cause
           ,
           and
           how
           antichristian
           it
           is●
           for
           us
           to
           publish
           to
           the
           World
           the
           personal
           Infirmities
           of
           our
           Brethren
           ,
           when
           the
           Laws
           of
           Religion
           oblige
           us
           rather
           to
           cover
           and
           conceal
           them
           ,
           and
           to
           endeavour
           to
           reclaim
           them
           by
           a
           private
           and
           brotherly
           Admonition
           ;
           
           yet
           when
           Men
           do
           thus
           divest
           themselves
           of
           all
           Morality
           and
           Religion
           ,
           as
           at
           this
           rate
           ,
           without
           the
           least
           restraint
           of
           Modesty
           or
           good
           Manners
           ,
           to
           bespatter
           the
           sacred
           Persons
           of
           Princes
           and
           Prelates
           ,
           I
           know
           no
           other
           way
           to
           deal
           with
           them
           ,
           but
           either
           to
           oblige
           them
           publickly
           to
           recant
           their
           Calumnies
           and
           Aspersions
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           to
           fight
           them
           with
           their
           own
           Weapons
           ,
           and
           to
           expose
           them
           to
           the
           World
           in
           their
           true
           Colours
           ,
           that
           the
           unwary
           and
           undiscerning
           Multitude
           may
           not
           be
           bubbled
           into
           a
           belief
           of
           their
           malicious
           Lies
           and
           Calumnies
           .
        
         
           There
           was
           indeed
           a
           Reply
           very
           soon
           returned
           to
           this
           Answer
           ,
           which
           ,
           I
           suppose
           ,
           did
           not
           a
           little
           discompose
           our
           Author
           ,
           it
           giving
           him
           a
           small
           tast
           of
           what
           Treatment
           he
           might
           expect
           ,
           if
           he
           should
           still
           continue
           to
           write
           at
           this
           extravagant
           and
           scurrilous
           rate
           .
           The
           Title
           of
           it
           is
           ,
           
             The
             Prelatical
             Church-Man
             against
             the
             Phanatical
             Kirk-Man
             ,
             or
             a
             Vindication
             of
             the
             Author
             of
             the
             Sufferings
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Scotland
             .
          
        
         
           This
           is
           a
           short
           Vindication
           of
           such
           of
           the
           Clergy
           as
           our
           Author
           had
           attempted
           to
           wound
           in
           their
           Reputation
           ,
           by
           his
           groundless
           and
           malicious
           Aspersions
           .
           But
           much
           about
           this
           time
           ,
           or
           a
           little
           before
           ,
           there
           was
           a
           Discourse
           publish'd
           ,
           which
           ,
           tho
           it
           was
           not
           design'd
           as
           an
           Answer
           to
           this
           scurrilous
           Pamphlet
           ,
           it
           having
           been
           publish'd
           before
           it
           came
           abroad
           ,
           yet
           contains
           such
           Matters
           of
           Fact
           as
           do
           fully
           answer
           all
           the
           Calumnies
           of
           this
           Accuser
           ,
           and
           it
           relates
           the
           History
           of
           the
           Persecution
           so
           impartially
           ,
           as
           that
           it
           defies
           the
           Contradiction
           of
           the
           most
           effronted
           Adversary
           .
           It
           is
           called
           ,
           
             An
             Account
             of
             the
             present
             Persecution
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Scotland
             ,
             in
             several
             Letters
             .
          
        
         
           The
           occasion
           and
           design
           of
           this
           undertaking
           ,
           was
           this
           .
           When
           the
           Presbyterian
           Par●y
           had
           barbarously
           and
           inhumanly
           treated
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           when
           their
           Rabble
           had
           turn'd
           out
           of
           their
           Churches
           by
           Force
           and
           Violence
           ,
           above
           300
           Ministers
           in
           the
           Southern
           and
           Western
           Countries
           ,
           and
           had
           driven
           them
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           Winter
           ,
           with
           their
           Wives
           and
           tender
           Children
           ,
           from
           their
           Houses
           and
           places
           of
           abode
           ;
           and
           when
           they
           had
           got
           such
           Ministers
           ,
           as
           their
           Rabble
           could
           not
           reach
           ,
           deprived
           of
           their
           Livings
           by
           a
           Sentence
           of
           their
           Civil
           Judicatories
           ,
           and
           by
           this
           means
           had
           expos'd
           them
           to
           all
           the
           Miseries
           of
           Poverty
           and
           Want
           ;
           yet
           all
           this
           was
           not
           enough
           to
           satisfie
           their
           implacable
           Malice
           ,
           but
           after
           they
           had
           thus
           cruelly
           treated
           their
           Persons
           at
           home
           ,
           they
           endeavoured
           to
           murther
           them
           in
           their
           Fame
           and
           Reputation
           abroad
           ;
           for
           here
           in
           England
           they
           industriously
           printed
           and
           dispersed
           
           Papers
           ,
           under
           the
           pretence
           of
           giving
           an
           account
           of
           the
           Transactions
           in
           Scotland
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           which
           contain'd
           a
           number
           of
           malicious
           and
           bitter
           Invectives
           against
           the
           deprived
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           of
           that
           Nation
           ,
           representing
           many
           of
           them
           to
           have
           been
           deprived
           for
           gross
           Scandals
           and
           Immoralities
           in
           their
           Lives
           ,
           and
           impudently
           denyed
           the
           many
           Affronts
           and
           Indignities
           that
           were
           done
           them
           by
           the
           Rabble
           ;
           and
           by
           this
           Method
           they
           thought
           not
           only
           to
           render
           our
           Clergy
           odious
           to
           the
           English
           Nation
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           make
           the
           World
           believe
           there
           was
           no
           such
           thing
           as
           a
           Persecution
           raised
           against
           them
           ,
           and
           that
           all
           the
           noise
           about
           it
           was
           nothing
           else
           but
           the
           Clamours
           and
           Out-cries
           of
           a
           Party
           disaffected
           to
           the
           Government
           .
        
         
           The
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           therefore
           seeing
           that
           these
           malicious
           Lies
           and
           Calumnies
           gained
           credit
           daily
           with
           People
           in
           England
           ,
           who
           were
           altogether
           Strangers
           to
           these
           Transactions
           ,
           and
           being
           in
           a
           short
           time
           sensible
           how
           much
           they
           suffered
           in
           their
           Fame
           and
           Reputation
           upon
           this
           account
           (
           than
           which
           nothing
           ought
           to
           be
           more
           dear
           and
           sacred
           to
           Men
           of
           their
           Prof●ssion
           )
           ;
           found
           it
           altogether
           necessary
           to
           vindicate
           themselves
           from
           the
           Aspersions
           cast
           upon
           them
           by
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           to
           publish
           a
           true
           and
           impartial
           Account
           of
           their
           Sufferings
           ,
           that
           the
           World
           might
           not
           any
           longer
           be
           imposed
           upon
           in
           the
           History
           of
           these
           Transactions
           .
           And
           so
           they
           publish'd
           this
           account
           of
           the
           Persecution
           in
           Four
           Letters
           ,
           which
           do
           very
           fully
           and
           impartially
           r●late
           a
           great
           many
           Matters
           of
           Fact
           concerning
           the
           said
           Persecution
           ;
           how
           it
           was
           at
           first
           begun
           by
           the
           Rabble
           in
           the
           Western
           Shires
           ,
           how
           they
           were
           animated
           and
           inticed
           thereto
           by
           their
           Pastors
           and
           Teachers
           ,
           and
           how
           at
           last
           the
           Presbyterians
           having
           got
           the
           Government
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           in
           their
           hands
           ,
           did
           prosecute
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           in
           their
           Civil
           Courts
           with
           such
           open
           Partiality
           and
           Injustice
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           seem'd
           resolv'd
           never
           to
           deny
           it
           .
        
         
           This
           Treatise
           no
           sooner
           appear'd
           abroad
           ,
           than
           People
           easily
           saw
           how
           much
           they
           had
           been
           imposed
           upon
           by
           former
           Accounts
           ,
           and
           being
           now
           fully
           convinc'd
           of
           the
           Truth
           of
           the
           Persecution
           ,
           began
           to
           have
           some
           Pity
           and
           Compassion
           towards
           those
           Reverend
           Persons
           that
           were
           thus
           expos'd
           to
           the
           Fury
           and
           blind
           Rage
           of
           an
           opposite
           and
           bigotted
           Faction
           .
           But
           the
           restless
           Spirit
           of
           that
           Party
           was
           still
           at
           work
           to
           run
           down
           this
           Account
           of
           the
           Persecution
           as
           false
           ,
           and
           to
           persuade
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           the
           Matters
           of
           Fact
           related
           therein
           had
           not
           the
           least
           shadow
           of
           Truth
           in
           them
           .
           However
           ,
           in
           a
           short
           time
           their
           Impudence
           in
           denying
           so
           boldly
           these
           known
           Matters
           of
           Fact
           was
           soon
           baffled
           ,
           and
           they
           themselves
           were
           quite
           confounded
           at
           the
           sight
           of
           another
           Treatise
           which
           came
           out
           very
           shortly
           after
           the
           former
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           
           The
           Case
           of
           the
           present
           afflicted
           Clergy
           in
           Scotland
           truly
           represented
           .
           To
           which
           is
           added
           for
           probation
           ,
           the
           Attestation
           of
           many
           unexceptionable
           Witnesses
           to
           every
           particular
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           publick
           Acts
           and
           Proclamations
           of
           the
           Convention
           and
           Parliament
           relating
           to
           the
           Clergy
           .
           By
           a
           Lover
           of
           the
           Church
           and
           his
           Country
           .
        
         
           In
           this
           Discourse
           we
           have
           some
           further
           account
           of
           the
           Proceedings
           of
           the
           Rabble
           and
           Presbyterian
           Governours
           against
           the
           Clergy
           ;
           and
           most
           of
           the
           particular
           Matters
           of
           Fact
           ,
           mention'd
           both
           in
           this
           and
           the
           other
           Treatise
           ,
           are
           so
           fully
           attested
           by
           many
           unexceptionable
           Witnesses
           ,
           that
           it
           gave
           satisfaction
           to
           the
           most
           scrupulous
           Enquirers
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           Presbyterians
           themselves
           almost
           despair
           of
           cheating
           any
           more
           into
           a
           belief
           of
           their
           Lies
           and
           Aspersions
           .
           For
           here
           you
           'll
           find
           among
           the
           Collection
           of
           Papers
           ,
           particular
           Declarations
           of
           the
           Outrages
           and
           Cruelties
           committed
           upon
           many
           worthy
           Ministers
           and
           their
           Families
           ,
           owned
           and
           subscribed
           by
           themselves
           ,
           and
           attested
           by
           many
           other
           Persons
           of
           good
           Fame
           ,
           that
           had
           the
           misfortune
           to
           be
           Eye-Witnesses
           to
           many
           of
           their
           tragical
           Sufferings
           .
           Our
           Author
           has
           likewise
           inserted
           all
           the
           publick
           Acts
           and
           Proclamations
           of
           the
           Convention
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           relating
           to
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           by
           reading
           of
           which
           ,
           you
           'll
           in
           some
           measure
           perceive
           ,
           with
           what
           open
           Partiality
           and
           Injustice
           they
           were
           treated
           by
           the
           Presbyterian
           Governours
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           even
           those
           whose
           Station
           and
           Character
           did
           oblige
           them
           at
           least
           to
           put
           on
           an
           outward
           shew
           of
           executing
           Righteousness
           and
           Justice
           in
           the
           Land.
           
        
         
           A
           further
           continuation
           of
           the
           History
           of
           this
           Persecution
           we
           have
           under
           the
           Title
           of
           
             A
             late
             Letter
             concerning
             the
             Sufferings
             of
             the
             Episcopal
             Clergy
             in
             Scotland
             .
          
        
         
           This
           relates
           only
           to
           the
           Persecution
           of
           such
           Ministers
           as
           lived
           in
           the
           Presbyterie
           of
           Stranraver
           in
           the
           Shire
           of
           Galloway
           ,
           of
           which
           the
           former
           Treatise
           had
           promised
           us
           a
           fuller
           account
           ,
           since
           it
           was
           only
           hinted
           at
           there
           .
           Here
           we
           have
           a
           brief
           Narrative
           of
           the
           condition
           of
           that
           place
           for
           some
           few
           Years
           before
           this
           last
           Persecution
           arose
           ;
           he
           tells
           us
           ,
           in
           what
           Peace
           and
           Tranquillity
           they
           lived
           for
           a
           considerable
           time
           before
           the
           Indulgence
           granted
           by
           K.
           James
           ;
           how
           that
           before
           the
           publishing
           of
           that
           ,
           there
           were
           not
           above
           two
           Dissenters
           in
           the
           whole
           Presbyterie
           of
           Stranraver
           ,
           but
           all
           People
           went
           regularly
           and
           orderly
           to
           Church
           ,
           nay
           even
           the
           Presbyterian
           Ministers
           themselves
           were
           constant
           hearers
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           in
           their
           Parish
           Churches
           .
           But
           no
           sooner
           was
           this
           Indulgence
           proclaimed
           ,
           than
           the
           Presbyterian
           Ministers
           erected
           separate
           Congregations
           ,
           and
           by
           infusing
           seditious
           Principles
           into
           the
           Minds
           of
           the
           giddy
           Multitude
           ,
           did
           
           in
           a
           short
           time
           transform
           the
           Country
           into
           a
           Wilderness
           of
           Savage
           Beasts
           .
           He
           deduces
           their
           History
           in
           short
           till
           the
           commencement
           of
           the
           Persecution
           against
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           then
           informs
           us
           of
           a
           great
           many
           Barbarities
           that
           were
           committed
           upon
           them
           by
           the
           Rabble
           .
           I
           will
           not
           here
           trouble
           your
           Patience
           with
           informing
           you
           of
           any
           of
           the
           tragical
           Stories
           related
           both
           in
           this
           and
           the
           former
           Accounts
           ,
           but
           rather
           advise
           you
           to
           read
           the
           Accounts
           themselves
           ,
           where
           you
           'll
           find
           the
           Presbyterians
           charged
           ,
           and
           that
           justly
           too
           ,
           with
           such
           monstruous
           Barbarities
           ,
           as
           the
           most
           savage
           Infidels
           would
           have
           been
           asham'd
           to
           commit
           .
        
         
           There
           are
           two
           other
           short
           Treatises
           in
           Print
           ,
           which
           ,
           tho
           they
           do
           not
           immediately
           concern
           the
           History
           of
           the
           Persecution
           ,
           yet
           since
           they
           have
           a
           reference
           to
           the
           Principles
           and
           Practices
           of
           our
           Scotch
           Presbyterians
           ,
           I
           thought
           fit
           to
           send
           you
           this
           short
           Account
           of
           them
           .
           The
           first
           ,
           which
           was
           publish'd
           a
           considerable
           time
           before
           the
           Discourse
           last
           mention'd
           ,
           goes
           under
           this
           Title
           ,
           
             Some
             Questions
             resolved
             concerning
             Episcopal
             and
             Presbyterian
             Government
             in
             Scotland
             .
          
        
         
           Our
           Author's
           design
           in
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           is
           to
           prove
           that
           the
           Presbyterian
           Government
           was
           not
           by
           Law
           setled
           for
           many
           Years
           after
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           had
           the
           legal
           Establishment
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           was
           never
           setled
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           without
           restraint
           from
           tumultuous
           times
           ;
           all
           which
           he
           unanswerably
           proves
           from
           our
           Records
           of
           Parliament
           and
           our
           best
           Historians
           ;
           and
           further
           shews
           ,
           that
           even
           at
           present
           ,
           it
           is
           very
           far
           from
           being
           agreeable
           to
           the
           
             Inclinations
             of
             the
             People
          
           ,
           the
           Basis
           upon
           which
           it
           is
           now
           erected
           .
           He
           shews
           likewise
           that
           the
           Principles
           of
           Presbyterians
           allow
           no
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           to
           any
           that
           dissent
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           clearly
           demonstrates
           that
           their
           Principles
           are
           utterly
           destructive
           to
           the
           legal
           Monarchy
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           .
           He
           further
           proves
           that
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           in
           Scotland
           against
           the
           Presbyterians
           ,
           had
           nothing
           of
           Persecution
           in
           them
           ,
           and
           he
           fully
           vindicates
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           from
           being
           any
           ways
           concern'd
           in
           the
           Sufferings
           which
           they
           so
           grievously
           complain
           of
           .
           He
           has
           likewise
           given
           us
           an
           Account
           of
           the
           Behaviour
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           in
           reference
           to
           the
           Designs
           of
           taking
           away
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           against
           Papists
           ,
           and
           shewn
           us
           how
           industrious
           and
           active
           the
           Presbyterians
           were
           in
           promoting
           the
           Designs
           for
           taking
           away
           the
           legal
           Restraints
           against
           Papists
           .
           So
           that
           in
           this
           Treatise
           you
           may
           meet
           with
           a
           full
           and
           satisfactory
           Answer
           to
           all
           the
           Calumnies
           and
           Aspersions
           which
           the
           Presbyterians
           have
           in
           their
           Pamphlets
           of
           late
           maliciously
           thrown
           upon
           our
           Clergy
           .
        
         
           Soon
           after
           the
           publishing
           of
           this
           ,
           follow'd
           the
           other
           Discourse
           entituled
           .
        
         
           
           The
           Danger
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           from
           a
           General
           Assembly
           of
           Covenanters
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           Represented
           from
           their
           Principles
           in
           Oaths
           ,
           and
           late
           Acts
           of
           Assemblies
           ,
           compared
           with
           their
           Practices
           in
           these
           last
           two
           years
           ,
           By
           a
           true
           Son
           of
           the
           Church
           .
        
         
           To
           the
           first
           of
           these
           Discourses
           there
           was
           an
           Answer
           published
           under
           this
           Title
           ,
           
             A
             Vindication
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Scotland
             ,
             being
             an
             Answer
             to
             a
             Paper
             ,
             Intituled
             ,
             Some
             Questions
             concerning
             Episcopal
             and
             Presbyterial
             Government
             in
             Scotland
             ,
             wherein
             the
             later
             is
             vindicated
             from
             the
             Arguments
             and
             Calumnies
             of
             that
             Author
             ,
             and
             the
             former
             is
             made
             appear
             to
             be
             a
             Stranger
             in
             that
             Nation
             .
             By
             a
             Minister
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Scotland
             ,
             as
             it
             is
             now
             Established
             by
             Law.
             
          
        
         
           In
           which
           the
           Author
           pretends
           to
           prove
           ,
           that
           the
           Answers
           given
           to
           these
           Questions
           by
           his
           Adversary
           are
           altogether
           false
           and
           erroneous
           ;
           but
           the
           performance
           is
           very
           much
           disproportion'd
           to
           the
           strength
           and
           merits
           of
           the
           Discourse
           he
           undertakes
           to
           attack
           ,
           as
           you
           may
           easily
           discover
           by
           comparing
           them
           together
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           far
           inform'd
           you
           of
           the
           Discourses
           that
           relate
           the
           History
           of
           our
           Scotch
           Persecution
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           acted
           by
           the
           Laity
           ,
           viz.
           the
           Rabble
           and
           Presbyterian
           Governours
           :
           I
           come
           in
           the
           next
           place
           to
           acquaint
           you
           with
           those
           Treatises
           which
           contain
           that
           Scene
           of
           the
           Persecution
           wherein
           the
           Presbyterian
           Clergy
           were
           the
           Principal
           and
           only
           Actors
           .
           It
           is
           true
           that
           in
           the
           former
           part
           of
           this
           Tragical
           Scene
           ,
           their
           Ministers
           were
           not
           bare
           Spectators
           of
           the
           Sufferings
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           ;
           nay
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           they
           took
           occasion
           in
           all
           their
           publick
           appearances
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           from
           their
           Pulpits
           and
           elsewhere
           ,
           to
           incite
           and
           stir
           up
           the
           Rabble
           to
           the
           commission
           of
           all
           these
           Cruelties
           and
           Outrages
           upon
           the
           persons
           of
           those
           Reverend
           and
           Worthy
           Men
           ,
           by
           calling
           it
           
             the
             glorious
             work
             of
             Reformation
          
           ,
           and
           telling
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           carrying
           on
           
             the
             work
             of
             the
             Lord
          
           ,
           and
           that
           God
           would
           certainly
           reward
           them
           for
           the
           great
           services
           they
           were
           then
           doing
           to
           his
           Church
           and
           Kingdom
           .
           Whereas
           it
           had
           been
           more
           for
           their
           personal
           Credit
           and
           Reputation
           ,
           and
           more
           suitable
           to
           the
           Character
           they
           assume
           to
           themselves
           ,
           of
           being
           
             Ministers
             of
             the
             Gospel
             of
             Peace
             ,
          
           to
           have
           repressed
           the
           fury
           of
           the
           Rabble
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           restrained
           them
           from
           these
           Insolencies
           and
           barbarities
           which
           they
           were
           acting
           in
           several
           corners
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           But
           in
           this
           later
           Period
           of
           the
           Persecution
           ,
           the
           Presbyterian
           Clergy
           acted
           their
           part
           openly
           and
           barefacedly
           ;
           when
           they
           sat
           upon
           the
           Bench
           as
           Judges
           ,
           and
           established
           iniquity
           by
           a
           Law.
           The
           first
           Discourse
           of
           this
           Nature
           that
           was
           published
           ,
           was
           
             
             An
             Historical
             Relation
             of
             the
             late
             General
             Assembly
             held
             at
             Edinburgh
             from
             
               October
               16.
            
             to
             
               November
               13.
            
             in
             the
             year
             1690.
             
             In
             a
             Letter
             from
             a
             person
             in
             Edinburgh
             to
             his
             Friend
             in
             London
             .
          
        
         
           And
           here
           our
           Author
           has
           given
           us
           a
           very
           exact
           and
           impartial
           account
           of
           the
           proceedings
           of
           the
           Presbyterian
           Ministers
           against
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           both
           in
           their
           General
           Assembly
           ,
           and
           likewise
           before
           the
           meeting
           thereof
           .
           The
           Parliament
           after
           having
           abolish●d
           Episcopacy
           ,
           was
           pleased
           to
           lodge
           the
           whole
           Government
           and
           management
           of
           Church
           Affairs
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           some
           few
           old
           Presbyterian
           Ministers
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           year
           1661.
           had
           been
           deprived
           for
           refusing
           to
           submit
           to
           the
           Episcopal
           Government
           then
           Established
           by
           Law.
           This
           was
           a
           Presbyterian
           Constitution
           ,
           you
           may
           say
           ,
           not
           very
           agreeable
           to
           their
           Principles
           ,
           which
           only
           allow
           an
           equal
           parity
           among
           all
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ;
           but
           however
           the
           Constitution
           being
           so
           much
           for
           their
           Interest
           ,
           it
           was
           not
           thought
           convenient
           to
           stand
           two
           nicely
           upon
           Principles
           .
           These
           men
           who
           were
           now
           intrusted
           with
           the
           Church
           Government
           having
           met
           at
           Edingburgh
           ,
           and
           assumed
           into
           a
           share
           of
           the
           Government
           such
           of
           the
           Presbyterian
           Minist●rs
           as
           they
           could
           intirely
           confide
           in
           ,
           did
           first
           agree
           upon
           the
           Method
           of
           Constituting
           their
           next
           General
           Assembly
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           divided
           themselves
           into
           several
           Classes
           and
           Presbyteries
           ,
           for
           examining
           and
           enquiring
           into
           the
           Principles
           and
           Qualifications
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           this
           in
           order
           to
           deprive
           them
           of
           their
           Livings
           and
           Preferments
           .
           One
           Author
           gives
           us
           a
           great
           many
           instances
           of
           the
           partiality
           and
           injustice
           that
           attended
           the
           proceedings
           of
           these
           inferiour
           Judicatories
           ,
           and
           then
           continues
           his
           History
           to
           the
           sitting
           down
           of
           the
           General
           Assembly
           ,
           where
           he
           entertains
           us
           with
           an
           useful
           and
           pleasant
           account
           of
           what
           passed
           in
           that
           meeting
           .
        
         
           When
           the
           General
           Assembly
           was
           dissolved
           ,
           they
           appointed
           a
           Commission
           for
           prosecuting
           the
           work
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           and
           putting
           an
           end
           to
           what
           the
           Rabble
           and
           Assembly
           had
           begun
           .
           This
           Commission
           was
           invested
           with
           a
           full
           power
           to
           cite
           before
           them
           ,
           and
           deprive
           such
           of
           the
           Clergy
           as
           they
           should
           judge
           unfit
           for
           enjoying
           their
           Preferments
           in
           the
           Church
           .
           And
           what
           the
           Methods
           were
           which
           they
           used
           in
           turning
           out
           the
           Episcopal
           Ministers
           that
           as
           yet
           retained
           peaceable
           possession
           of
           their
           Churches
           ,
           what
           trifling
           Crimes
           they
           were
           forced
           to
           invent
           against
           them
           ,
           may
           be
           easily
           gathered
           from
           another
           Discourse
           which
           the
           same
           Author
           published
           not
           long
           after
           the
           former
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           A
           Continuation
           of
           the
           Historical
           Relation
           of
           the
           late
           General
           Assembly
           in
           Scotland
           .
           With
           an
           account
           of
           the
           Commissions
           of
           that
           
           Assembly
           ,
           and
           other
           particulars
           concerning
           the
           present
           state
           of
           the
           Church
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           In
           this
           Treatise
           the
           Author
           informs
           us
           what
           were
           the
           effects
           and
           consequences
           of
           the
           Measures
           ,
           which
           the
           General
           Assembly
           had
           laid
           down
           for
           establishing
           and
           securing
           the
           Presbyterian
           Government
           .
           And
           besides
           many
           Historical
           Relations
           of
           considerable
           importance
           ,
           which
           are
           contained
           both
           in
           this
           and
           the
           former
           Treatise
           ,
           he
           has
           likewise
           inserted
           here
           several
           Original
           Papers
           which
           add
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Light
           and
           Authority
           to
           his
           History
           ;
           among
           which
           there
           are
           two
           Letters
           from
           King
           William
           to
           the
           Commissioners
           of
           the
           General
           Assembly
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           wherein
           he
           requires
           them
           to
           receive
           into
           their
           Communion
           such
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           as
           were
           willing
           to
           subscribe
           their
           
             Confession
             of
             Faith
          
           ,
           and
           submit
           to
           the
           Presbyterian
           Government
           as
           then
           Established
           by
           Law.
           He
           further
           commands
           them
           ,
           during
           his
           absence
           out
           of
           Britain
           to
           stop
           all
           further
           Processes
           against
           the
           Episcopal
           Ministers
           until
           they
           received
           further
           directions
           from
           him
           ;
           and
           withal
           he
           assures
           them
           of
           his
           Protection
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           will
           maintain
           the
           Government
           of
           the
           Church
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           by
           Presbytery
           ,
           without
           suffering
           the
           least
           Invasion
           to
           be
           made
           upon
           it
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           to
           be
           hoped
           that
           the
           worthy
           Author
           of
           this
           Historical
           Relation
           of
           the
           General
           Assembly
           will
           gratifie
           the
           World
           with
           a
           further
           Continuation
           of
           the
           History
           of
           their
           Proceedings
           ,
           especially
           of
           what
           past
           at
           their
           last
           Meeting
           of
           their
           General
           Assembly
           .
           And
           this
           is
           the
           more
           earnestly
           to
           be
           wished
           for
           ,
           since
           the
           two
           former
           parts
           were
           so
           very
           acceptable
           ,
           and
           so
           very
           satisfactory
           to
           all
           that
           perused
           them
           .
        
         
           I
           come
           now
           to
           inform
           you
           of
           an
           Answer
           to
           some
           of
           those
           Discourses
           above
           mentioned
           ,
           which
           after
           a
           long
           delay
           was
           at
           last
           published
           under
           this
           Title
           ,
           
             A
             Vindication
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Scotland
             ,
             being
             an
             Answer
             to
             five
             Pamphlets
             .
             By
             the
             Author
             of
             the
             former
             Vindication
             in
             answer
             to
             the
             ten
             Questions
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Discourses
           which
           he
           pretends
           to
           answer
           are
           these
           .
           1.
           
           An
           account
           of
           the
           present
           Persecution
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           in
           several
           Letters
           .
           2.
           
           The
           Case
           of
           the
           afflicted
           Clergy
           in
           Scotland
           truly
           represented
           .
           3.
           
           A
           late
           Letter
           concerning
           the
           Sufferings
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           in
           Scotland
           .
           4.
           
           A
           Memorial
           to
           his
           Highness
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           in
           relation
           to
           the
           Affairs
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           &c.
           5.
           
           An
           Historical
           Relation
           of
           the
           late
           General
           Assembly
           held
           at
           Edinburgh
           from
           October
           16.
           to
           Nov.
           13.
           
           Anno
           1690.
           
        
         
         
           The
           occasion
           the
           long
           delay
           of
           this
           pretended
           Answer
           was
           this
           .
           The
           Assembly
           ,
           it
           seems
           ,
           enjoyned
           this
           task
           of
           answering
           the
           Historical
           Accounts
           of
           the
           Persecution
           to
           one
           *
           of
           their
           Ministers
           ,
           and
           recommended
           to
           him
           ,
           to
           receive
           particular
           Informations
           from
           the
           places
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           in
           which
           these
           cruel
           Barbarities
           were
           acted
           ;
           but
           he
           ,
           finding
           that
           the
           Informations
           sent
           him
           did
           confirm
           the
           truth
           of
           most
           of
           the
           Historical
           Relations
           he
           was
           required
           to
           answer
           ,
           and
           being
           a
           Man
           of
           more
           honesty
           and
           ingenuity
           than
           many
           of
           his
           Brethren
           ,
           did
           ,
           after
           he
           had
           for
           several
           months
           made
           a
           trial
           of
           the
           work
           ,
           at
           last
           intirely
           decline
           it
           ,
           because
           he
           saw
           these
           Accounts
           could
           not
           be
           answered
           without
           justifying
           what
           the
           Rabble
           had
           done
           ,
           which
           ,
           he
           ingenuously
           acknowledged
           ,
           he
           was
           neither
           able
           nor
           willing
           to
           do
           .
           And
           therefore
           they
           were
           forced
           to
           pitch
           upon
           another
           †
           for
           this
           employment
           ,
           whom
           ,
           as
           it
           appears
           ,
           being
           a
           Man
           of
           a
           greater
           stock
           of
           Boldness
           ,
           and
           far
           less
           Sincerity
           than
           the
           other
           ,
           they
           found
           both
           fitter
           and
           readier
           for
           serving
           their
           designs
           .
           And
           he
           after
           a
           great
           many
           strugglings
           ,
           what
           with
           the
           Checks
           of
           his
           own
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           the
           difficulties
           he
           met
           with
           in
           guilding
           over
           and
           disguising
           these
           Matters
           of
           Fact
           ,
           which
           are
           so
           faithfully
           and
           so
           circumstantially
           reported
           in
           these
           Discourses
           he
           had
           undertaken
           to
           attack
           ,
           at
           last
           appears
           abroad
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           thinking
           by
           his
           bare
           confidence
           alone
           to
           impose
           upon
           the
           Sense
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           bold
           denial
           to
           confute
           those
           truths
           which
           have
           all
           the
           proof
           and
           attestation
           that
           a
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           can
           possibly
           bear
           .
           They
           are
           owned
           in
           Publick
           and
           Printed
           Declarations
           ,
           subscribed
           by
           the
           Ministers
           upon
           whom
           these
           Outrages
           were
           committed
           ,
           and
           attested
           by
           many
           Witnesses
           of
           unspotted
           Fame
           and
           Reputation
           ;
           nay
           further
           ,
           the
           Ministers
           who
           were
           the
           Sufferers
           undertake
           ,
           under
           the
           severest
           Penalties
           ,
           to
           prove
           the
           truth
           of
           these
           Declarations
           before
           any
           Judicial
           Court
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           Conviction
           of
           their
           most
           obstinate
           Enemies
           ;
           and
           what
           further
           Proof
           can
           any
           reasonable
           Man
           desire
           ?
        
         
           But
           to
           let
           you
           see
           how
           fully
           and
           beyond
           the
           possibility
           of
           contradiction
           these
           matters
           of
           Fact
           are
           attested
           ,
           I
           have
           subjoyned
           hereunto
           two
           Declarations
           relating
           to
           this
           Subject
           ,
           the
           Original
           Copies
           of
           which
           are
           in
           my
           hands
           ,
           subscribed
           by
           the
           Ministers
           upon
           whom
           these
           Cruelties
           were
           acted
           ,
           and
           their
           Subscriptions
           attested
           by
           very
           good
           Witnesses
           .
           I
           send
           you
           these
           the
           rather
           ,
           because
           they
           are
           not
           to
           be
           found
           among
           the
           Collection
           of
           Papers
           annexed
           to
           the
           
             Case
             of
             the
             Afflicted
             Clergy
             in
             Scotland
             ,
          
           and
           one
           of
           them
           is
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           particular
           in
           the
           Relation
           than
           any
           therein
           inserted
           :
           For
           in
           this
           Declaration
           the
           particular
           days
           
           and
           months
           upon
           which
           these
           barbarities
           were
           acted
           ,
           and
           the
           names
           of
           the
           particular
           persons
           that
           were
           Actors
           of
           the
           Tragedy
           are
           expresly
           mentioned
           ,
           and
           three
           or
           four
           Witnesses
           at
           least
           brought
           to
           prove
           every
           individual
           matter
           of
           Fact
           that
           is
           there
           related
           ;
           and
           ,
           if
           my
           memory
           don't
           very
           much
           fail
           me
           ,
           a
           Copy
           of
           this
           Declaration
           was
           given
           in
           to
           the
           Privy
           Council
           at
           Edinburgh
           ,
           and
           the
           Gentleman
           desired
           a
           redress
           of
           these
           grievances
           ,
           and
           offered
           to
           prove
           before
           them
           the
           truth
           of
           all
           these
           particulars
           ,
           if
           they
           thought
           them
           worthy
           of
           their
           Cognizance
           ;
           so
           that
           I
           would
           gladly
           know
           what
           further
           proof
           and
           attestation
           can
           be
           brought
           for
           any
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           than
           is
           here
           offered
           to
           evince
           the
           truth
           of
           these
           .
           Here
           follow
           the
           Declarations
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   Declaration
                   of
                   Mr.
                   
                     John
                     Arbuckell
                  
                   ,
                   Minister
                   of
                   Rickartoun
                   ,
                   concerning
                   the
                   Indignities
                   done
                   him
                   by
                   the
                   Rabble
                   .
                
                 
                   I
                   Master
                   
                     John
                     Arbuckell
                  
                   ,
                   Minister
                   of
                   Rickartoun
                   ,
                   declare
                   to
                   all
                   whom
                   it
                   may
                   concern
                   ,
                   That
                   first
                   I
                   was
                   taken
                   Prisoner
                   by
                   the
                   Rabble
                   ,
                   commanded
                   by
                   one
                   
                     William
                     Campbel
                  
                   ,
                   accompanied
                   with
                   
                     Alexander
                     Hillhouse
                  
                   ,
                   his
                   Brother
                   
                     John
                     Hillhouse
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Laird
                   of
                   Allangreig
                   was
                   present
                   with
                   the
                   Rabble
                   ,
                   to
                   the
                   number
                   of
                   Forty
                   or
                   thereby
                   ,
                   all
                   in
                   Arms
                   except
                   Allangreig
                   ;
                   and
                   by
                   them
                   carried
                   along
                   to
                   Tarboltoun
                   ,
                   being
                   Five
                   Miles
                   from
                   Rickartoun
                   ,
                   together
                   with
                   my
                   eldest
                   Son
                   under
                   silence
                   of
                   the
                   Night
                   ,
                   and
                   there
                   kept
                   Prisoner
                   in
                   the
                   House
                   of
                   Mr.
                   
                     James
                     Gillespie
                  
                   ,
                   Minister
                   of
                   that
                   place
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   the
                   Morning
                   carried
                   ,
                   together
                   with
                   the
                   said
                   Mr.
                   Gillespie
                   ,
                   to
                   the
                   Church-Yard
                   ,
                   where
                   his
                   Gown
                   was
                   torn
                   ,
                   and
                   a
                   part
                   of
                   it
                   laid
                   on
                   my
                   Shoulder
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   other
                   part
                   on
                   his
                   Shoulder
                   ,
                   I
                   wanting
                   a
                   Gown
                   ,
                   in
                   respect
                   I
                   was
                   not
                   at
                   home
                   ;
                   and
                   after
                   a
                   long
                   Discourse
                   ,
                   previous
                   to
                   the
                   tearing
                   of
                   the
                   Gown
                   ,
                   they
                   led
                   us
                   by
                   the
                   hand
                   over
                   the
                   Church-Yard
                   Dyke
                   ,
                   not
                   permitting
                   us
                   to
                   go
                   over
                   the
                   Stile
                   ;
                   required
                   us
                   never
                   hereafter
                   to
                   preach
                   or
                   crave
                   any
                   of
                   our
                   Stipends
                   ,
                   and
                   forbid
                   all
                   Men
                   to
                   pay
                   us
                   under
                   the
                   highest
                   peril
                   ;
                   and
                   to
                   finish
                   the
                   Solemnity
                   of
                   that
                   great
                   Action
                   ,
                   they
                   dismist
                   us
                   with
                   a
                   Volley
                   of
                   Shot
                   .
                   After
                   this
                   I
                   was
                   forc'd
                   to
                   fly
                   the
                   Country
                   ,
                   my
                   Wife
                   and
                   tender
                   Family
                   continuing
                   in
                   the
                   Manse
                   *
                   of
                   Rickartoun
                   till
                   Fasting's
                   Eve
                   †
                   or
                   thereby
                   ,
                   when
                   she
                   and
                   her
                   Four
                   Children
                   were
                   turn'd
                   out
                   by
                   Violence
                   on
                   a
                   Saturday
                   ,
                   the
                   Mercat-day
                   at
                   Kilmarnock
                   .
                   It
                   being
                   Snow
                   in
                   the
                   time
                   ,
                   she
                   ,
                   with
                   great
                   difficulty
                   ,
                   obtained
                   liberty
                   to
                   stay
                   in
                   a
                   Stable
                   till
                   Monday
                   ,
                   upon
                   this
                   condition
                   ,
                   that
                   she
                   should
                   remove
                   the
                   rest
                   of
                   our
                   Household
                   Furniture
                   which
                   they
                   had
                   not
                   thrown
                   out
                   ,
                   on
                   that
                   Night
                   before
                   they
                   returned
                   from
                   the
                   Mercat
                   ,
                   which
                   was
                   not
                   half
                   a
                   Miles
                   distance
                   .
                   In
                   testimony
                   of
                   the
                   Premisses
                   ,
                   I
                   and
                   my
                   eldest
                   Son
                   have
                   subscribed
                   these
                   presents
                   at
                   Edinburgh
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     
                       
                         April
                         16
                         ,
                         1690.
                      
                       
                    
                  
                   
                     
                       
                         
                           Jo.
                           Arbuckell
                        
                         .
                      
                       
                         
                           James
                           Arbuckell
                        
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                   Declaration
                   of
                   Mr.
                   
                     Gilbert
                     Muschet
                  
                   ,
                   Minister
                   at
                   Cumbernauld
                   ,
                   concerning
                   his
                   barbarous
                   Usage
                   by
                   the
                   Rabble
                   .
                
                 
                   I
                   Master
                   
                     Gilbert
                     Muschet
                  
                   ,
                   Minister
                   at
                   Cumbernauld
                   ,
                   do
                   by
                   these
                   presents
                   declare
                   ,
                   That
                   whereas
                   I
                   was
                   orderly
                   presented
                   to
                   the
                   Church
                   at
                   Cumbernauld
                   by
                   John
                   Earl
                   of
                   Wigtone
                   ,
                   and
                   received
                   Ordination
                   and
                   Collation
                   from
                   Alexander
                   ,
                   late
                   Archbishop
                   of
                   St.
                   Andrews
                   ,
                   then
                   Lord
                   Archbishop
                   of
                   Glasgow
                   ,
                   and
                   continued
                   there
                   these
                   Twenty
                   Three
                   Years
                   in
                   the
                   Function
                   of
                   the
                   Ministry
                   :
                   Yet
                   nevertheless
                   I
                   have
                   been
                   of
                   late
                   excluded
                   and
                   expell'd
                   by
                   the
                   Rabble
                   ,
                   both
                   from
                   the
                   Church
                   ,
                   and
                   from
                   my
                   Manse
                   and
                   Glebe
                   ,
                   and
                   I
                   my self
                   ,
                   and
                   my
                   Wife
                   ,
                   have
                   been
                   in
                   great
                   danger
                   of
                   our
                   Lives
                   ,
                   having
                   been
                   hurt
                   and
                   wounded
                   by
                   my
                   own
                   Parishioners
                   and
                   their
                   Associates
                   .
                
                 
                   Follow
                   the
                   particular
                   Wrongs
                   done
                   me
                   by
                   the
                   Rabble
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Parties
                   and
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   if
                   I
                   could
                   have
                   a
                   hearing
                   .
                
                 
                   On
                   
                     Christmas
                     day
                     ,
                     1688.
                  
                   
                   They
                   took
                   away
                   all
                   my
                   Books
                   ,
                   together
                   with
                   my
                   Papers
                   ,
                   to
                   burn
                   them
                   at
                   the
                   Trone
                   .
                   The
                   Parties
                   were
                   
                     James
                     Mochrie
                     ,
                     Rob.
                     Allan
                     ,
                     John
                     Kirkwood
                     ,
                     John
                     Anderson
                     ,
                     James
                     Rae
                     ,
                     James
                     ,
                     John
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Alexander
                     Neilsons
                  
                   ;
                   by
                   order
                   ,
                   as
                   they
                   alledg'd
                   ,
                   from
                   
                     John
                     Carmichael
                     Chamberlaine
                     ,
                     James
                     Carmichael
                     ,
                  
                   his
                   Son
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     James
                     Fleyming
                  
                   ,
                   Ground
                   Officer
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   were
                   
                     Fergus
                     Lugie
                     ,
                     Hary
                     Logy
                     ,
                     John
                     Baird
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Robert
                     Boyd
                  
                   ,
                   Younger
                   .
                
                 
                   In
                   
                     January
                     ,
                     1689.
                  
                   
                   They
                   made
                   me
                   ,
                   by
                   their
                   Threatnings
                   ,
                   give
                   back
                   Four
                   Petty
                   Poynds
                   to
                   the
                   value
                   of
                   ten
                   or
                   twelve
                   Pounds
                   Scotch
                   ,
                   that
                   were
                   long
                   ago
                   obtained
                   in
                   a
                   fair
                   legal
                   way
                   ,
                   by
                   a
                   Decree
                   before
                   the
                   Sheriff
                   ,
                   for
                   payment
                   to
                   the
                   Reader
                   and
                   Beddal
                   .
                   The
                   Parties
                   were
                   
                     Ja.
                     Brounlees
                     ,
                     John
                     Ballach
                     ,
                     John
                     Russel
                     ,
                  
                   of
                   Catecraig
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Tho.
                     Smellie
                  
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     Fergus
                     Lugie
                     ,
                     Will.
                     Cassils
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Starke
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   their
                   two
                   Wives
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Robert
                     Stark
                  
                   ,
                   Kirk-Officer
                   .
                
                 
                   February
                   4th
                   .
                   They
                   excluded
                   me
                   from
                   the
                   Church
                   ,
                   and
                   sacrilegiously
                   robb'd
                   and
                   took
                   away
                   the
                   Key
                   of
                   the
                   Church
                   Door
                   ,
                   together
                   with
                   the
                   Vtensils
                   of
                   the
                   Church
                   .
                   They
                   likewise
                   broke
                   open
                   the
                   Doors
                   of
                   my
                   House
                   with
                   a
                   great
                   Hammer
                   ,
                   rent
                   my
                   Gown
                   and
                   burnt
                   it
                   ,
                   and
                   laid
                   violent
                   hands
                   upon
                   my self
                   and
                   my
                   Wife
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Kirk
                   Officer
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     Ja.
                     Bailzie
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Mochrie
                     ,
                     Rob.
                     Angus
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Bresh
                     ,
                     Alexander
                     Harvy
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Thomson
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Rae
                     ,
                     John
                     Gillespie
                     ,
                  
                   Younger
                   ,
                   
                     Agnes
                     Mochrie
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Agnes
                     Steil
                  
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Davy
                     ,
                     Rob.
                     Stirling
                     ,
                     Tho.
                     Buchanan
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Steil
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     March
                     ,
                     7.
                  
                   
                   They
                   came
                   out
                   with
                   Staves
                   and
                   Battoons
                   ,
                   and
                   stop'd
                   my
                   Plough
                   ,
                   after
                   I
                   had
                   till'd
                   near
                   Three
                   Acres
                   thereof
                   ,
                   and
                   threatned
                   to
                   beat
                   the
                   Ploughmen
                   ,
                   to
                   cut
                   the
                   Horse
                   Legs
                   and
                   Plough-tackling
                   ,
                   if
                   they
                   did
                   not
                   desist
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     Robert
                     Stirling
                     ,
                     Marion
                     Lamb
                     ,
                     Agnes
                     Mochrie
                     ,
                     Margaret
                     Moorhead
                     ,
                     Margaret
                     Miller
                     ,
                     Jean
                     Miller
                     ,
                     Margaret
                     Davy
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Ja.
                     Buchanan
                  
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Watson
                     ,
                     David
                     Macklay
                     ,
                     William
                     Cassils
                     ,
                  
                   Younger
                   ,
                   
                     James
                     Machany
                     ,
                     Margaret
                     Colen
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Mary
                     Stark
                  
                   .
                
                 
                 
                   
                     April
                     ,
                     30.
                  
                   
                   They
                   took
                   possession
                   of
                   my
                   Glebe
                   ,
                   being
                   Seven
                   Acres
                   and
                   a
                   half
                   of
                   Land
                   ,
                   for
                   the
                   use
                   of
                   the
                   Meeting-House
                   Preacher
                   ;
                   they
                   till'd
                   the
                   rest
                   of
                   it
                   ,
                   and
                   thereafter
                   did
                   sow
                   and
                   harrow
                   it
                   all
                   ,
                   (
                   except
                   one
                   ridg
                   which
                   I
                   had
                   caused
                   sow
                   and
                   harrow
                   before
                   )
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     Robert
                     Boyd
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Russel
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Gilmore
                     ,
                     John
                     Anderson
                     ,
                     John
                     Young
                     ,
                     James
                     Mochrie
                     ,
                     William
                     Cassils
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Ja.
                     Rae
                  
                   .
                   And
                   tho
                   Eight
                   of
                   them
                   had
                   promised
                   to
                   pay
                   me
                   for
                   what
                   I
                   had
                   tilled
                   and
                   sown
                   thereof
                   ,
                   yet
                   they
                   never
                   performed
                   the
                   same
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Carmichael
                     ,
                     James
                     Carmichael
                     ,
                     James
                     Davie
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Ja.
                     Jarvey
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     April
                     21.
                  
                   
                   They
                   violently
                   ,
                   by
                   force
                   of
                   Arms
                   ,
                   stopp'd
                   my
                   entry
                   into
                   the
                   Church
                   ,
                   in
                   order
                   to
                   read
                   the
                   Convention's
                   Proclamation
                   ,
                   and
                   threw
                   the
                   Proclamation
                   in
                   the
                   Ditch
                   ,
                   and
                   carried
                   me
                   Prisoner
                   to
                   the
                   Town
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     Ja.
                     Rae
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Greenlees
                  
                   ,
                   armed
                   ,
                   their
                   Associates
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Kirkwood
                     ,
                     William
                     Cassils
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Mochrie
                     ,
                     Robert
                     Allan
                     ,
                     James
                     Thomson
                     ,
                     John
                     Anderson
                     ,
                     John
                     Smith
                     ,
                     James
                     Buchanan
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Tho.
                     Dinn
                  
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     Rob.
                     Bresh
                     ,
                     James
                     Machany
                     ,
                     John
                     Stark
                     ,
                     Robert
                     ,
                     Alexander
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Ewans
                     ,
                     Hugh
                     Templeton
                  
                   ,
                   with
                   divers
                   others
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     April
                     28.
                  
                   
                   The
                   entred
                   the
                   Meeting-House
                   Preacher
                   into
                   the
                   Church
                   by
                   force
                   of
                   Arms
                   ,
                   tho
                   he
                   never
                   read
                   the
                   Convention's
                   Proclamation
                   ,
                   nor
                   obey'd
                   the
                   tenour
                   of
                   it
                   then
                   or
                   since
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     Ja.
                     Mochrie
                     ,
                     John
                     Kirkwood
                     ,
                     William
                     Cassils
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Thomson
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Rae
                     ,
                     John
                     Greenlees
                     ,
                     Thomas
                     Dinn
                     ,
                     John
                     Smith
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Anderson
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Renie
                     ,
                     John
                     Gillespie
                     .
                  
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     Ja.
                     Russel
                     ,
                     John
                     Young
                     ,
                     John
                     Stirling
                     ,
                  
                   with
                   divers
                   others
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     May
                     2.
                  
                   
                   They
                   broke
                   open
                   the
                   Windows
                   of
                   my
                   House
                   ,
                   robbing
                   me
                   of
                   several
                   things
                   to
                   a
                   considerable
                   value
                   ,
                   and
                   charged
                   me
                   to
                   remove
                   the
                   rest
                   of
                   my
                   Furniture
                   within
                   Twenty
                   four
                   Hours
                   ,
                   otherwise
                   they
                   would
                   throw
                   it
                   into
                   the
                   Stone-Quarry
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     Ja.
                     Mochrie
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Rae
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Gilmore
                     ,
                  
                   Younger
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Ja.
                     Buchanan
                  
                   ,
                   with
                   others
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     Jo.
                     Kirkwood
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Neilson
                     ,
                     John
                     Gillespie
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Ja.
                     Buchanan
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     May
                     3.
                  
                   
                   They
                   again
                   ,
                   after
                   opprobrious
                   Language
                   ,
                   haled
                   me
                   Prisoner
                   to
                   the
                   Newtoun
                   ,
                   commanding
                   me
                   to
                   deliver
                   up
                   the
                   Key
                   of
                   the
                   Manse
                   ,
                   and
                   three
                   of
                   them
                   broke
                   two
                   of
                   the
                   Doors
                   in
                   my
                   own
                   House
                   within
                   the
                   Newtoun
                   of
                   Cumbernauld
                   ,
                   beating
                   my
                   Wife
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     Ja.
                     Mochrie
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Rae
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     James
                     Buchanan
                  
                   ;
                   the
                   first
                   of
                   these
                   searched
                   narrowly
                   for
                   me
                   in
                   my
                   own
                   Chamber
                   ,
                   threatning
                   to
                   kill
                   me
                   ,
                   where
                   I
                   narrowly
                   escaped
                   ,
                   and
                   he
                   thereafter
                   pursued
                   me
                   upon
                   the
                   King's
                   High-way
                   .
                   Associates
                   to
                   the
                   said
                   Three
                   Persons
                   were
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Gillespy
                  
                   ,
                   Younger
                   ,
                   
                     Ja.
                     Gilmore
                  
                   ,
                   Younger
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     James
                     Renie
                  
                   ,
                   together
                   with
                   
                     John
                     Kirkwood
                     ,
                     William
                     Cassils
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     James
                     Thomson
                     ,
                     John
                     Anderson
                     ,
                     John
                     Greenlees
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Smith
                  
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Young
                     ,
                     Hary
                     Luggie
                     ,
                     Ja.
                     Barrie
                     ,
                     Hugh
                     Templetone
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   others
                   at
                   a
                   publick
                   Wedding
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     May
                     20.
                  
                   
                   Mr.
                   
                     Michael
                     Robb
                  
                   ,
                   the
                   Meeting-House
                   Preacher
                   ,
                   extruded
                   me
                   from
                   the
                   Glebe
                   ,
                   as
                   the
                   Rabble
                   did
                   from
                   the
                   Manse
                   ,
                   and
                   caused
                   his
                   Servant
                   to
                   
                   beat
                   the
                   Kirk-Officer
                   ,
                   when
                   he
                   was
                   shearing
                   a
                   little
                   Grass
                   for
                   my
                   Horse
                   ,
                   when
                   he
                   was
                   taken
                   away
                   by
                   the
                   command
                   of
                   one
                   Lieutenant
                   Haddo
                   ,
                   who
                   took
                   him
                   along
                   to
                   the
                   South
                   and
                   West
                   Countries
                   twenty
                   days
                   ,
                   upon
                   pretence
                   of
                   a
                   commanded
                   Party
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Stirling
                     ,
                     John
                     Bennie
                     ,
                     John
                  
                   and
                   
                     Tho.
                     Buchanans
                     ,
                     Jo.
                     Cowie
                     ,
                     Robert
                     Stark
                     ,
                     Alexander
                     ,
                     Robert
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Ewans
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     July
                     28.
                  
                   
                   After
                   ringing
                   the
                   first
                   Bell
                   I
                   entered
                   the
                   Church
                   ,
                   and
                   read
                   the
                   Convention's
                   Proclamation
                   before
                   an
                   English
                   Captain
                   and
                   Cornet
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Carmichael
                     Chamberlain
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   having
                   thereafter
                   offered
                   to
                   preach
                   in
                   the
                   Forenoon
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   obey
                   the
                   tenour
                   of
                   the
                   said
                   Proclamation
                   ,
                   I
                   was
                   stopped
                   by
                   
                     James
                     Rae
                  
                   and
                   
                     William
                     Cassils
                  
                   ,
                   the
                   last
                   whereof
                   laid
                   violent
                   hands
                   upon
                   me
                   in
                   that
                   sacred
                   place
                   ,
                   and
                   hurled
                   me
                   by
                   the
                   Shoulders
                   through
                   the
                   Church
                   Isle
                   ,
                   and
                   thrust
                   me
                   out
                   at
                   the
                   Door
                   ,
                   tearing
                   my
                   Coat
                   and
                   my
                   Gown
                   .
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     Ja.
                     Robb
                     ,
                     James
                     Neilson
                     ,
                     John
                     Gillespy
                     ,
                  
                   Younger
                   ,
                   
                     James
                     ,
                     John
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Tho.
                     Buchanans
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Ja.
                     Renie
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     August
                     6.
                  
                   
                   They
                   caused
                   Home
                   of
                   Nineholes
                   Troop
                   eat
                   a
                   whole
                   Night
                   the
                   Grass
                   of
                   that
                   Meadow
                   ,
                   which
                   I
                   paid
                   Duty
                   for
                   to
                   the
                   Earl
                   of
                   Wigtone
                   ,
                   the
                   Hay
                   thereof
                   being
                   worth
                   Ten
                   Marks
                   Scotch
                   ,
                   was
                   quite
                   destroy'd
                   ,
                   and
                   they
                   caus'd
                   Captain
                   
                   Morton's
                   Horse
                   eat
                   a
                   considerable
                   quantity
                   of
                   my
                   Corn
                   of
                   that
                   Land
                   I
                   pay
                   for
                   yearly
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Carmichael
                  
                   ,
                   who
                   quartered
                   the
                   said
                   Troop
                   ,
                   Mr.
                   Robb
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Cuy
                  
                   ,
                   his
                   Servant
                   ,
                   who
                   put
                   them
                   from
                   the
                   Glebe
                   to
                   eat
                   my
                   Meadow
                   ,
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   John
                   and
                   
                     Thomas
                     Buchanans
                     ,
                     Alexander
                  
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Ewans
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     September
                     20.
                  
                   
                   They
                   pursued
                   me
                   upon
                   the
                   High-way
                   as
                   I
                   was
                   convoying
                   a
                   Cousin
                   of
                   my
                   own
                   ,
                   alledging
                   that
                   he
                   and
                   I
                   had
                   taken
                   down
                   the
                   Bell.
                   They
                   hurled
                   us
                   back
                   Prisoners
                   to
                   the
                   Town
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     James
                     Rae
                  
                   ran
                   at
                   me
                   with
                   a
                   Halbard
                   ,
                   it
                   seems
                   ,
                   with
                   a
                   design
                   to
                   have
                   killed
                   me
                   .
                   Parties
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Gillespy
                  
                   ,
                   Younger
                   ,
                   who
                   wounded
                   me
                   in
                   the
                   Head
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Kirkwood
                     ,
                     William
                     Cassils
                     ,
                     James
                     Buchanan
                     ,
                     John
                     Smith
                     ,
                     David
                     Dabie
                     ,
                     John
                     Russel
                     .
                  
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   
                     John
                     Ker
                  
                   ,
                   Younger
                   ,
                   
                     William
                     Grudlay
                     ,
                     Andrew
                     Currie
                     ,
                     Geo.
                     Mushet
                     ,
                     John
                     Carmichael
                     ,
                     John
                     Fleeming
                     ,
                     John
                     Donaldson
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   several
                   others
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   truth
                   of
                   the
                   Premisses
                   is
                   attested
                   by
                   my
                   Subscription
                   of
                   these
                   presents
                   at
                   Edinburgh
                   ,
                   the
                   Eleventh
                   day
                   of
                   
                     April
                     ,
                     1690.
                  
                   before
                   these
                   Witnesses
                   ,
                   Mr.
                   
                     Richard
                     Scot
                  
                   ,
                   Parson
                   of
                   Aschott
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     John
                     Falconar
                  
                   ,
                   Master
                   of
                   Arts.
                   
                
                 
                   
                     
                       Richard
                       Scot
                    
                     ,
                     Witness
                     to
                     this
                     Subscription
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       John
                       Falconar
                    
                     ,
                     Witness
                     to
                     this
                     Subscription
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   
                     G.
                     Muschet
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           And
           now
           Sir
           ,
           I
           hope
           ,
           you
           see
           with
           what
           evidence
           and
           clearness
           of
           Demonstration
           ,
           the
           particular
           Instances
           related
           in
           the
           History
           of
           the
           Scotch
           
           Persecution
           are
           accompanied
           ,
           and
           from
           this
           you
           may
           easily
           judg
           what
           a
           height
           of
           Impudence
           Men
           must
           needs
           arrive
           at
           ,
           to
           deny
           so
           plain
           and
           so
           evident
           Matters
           of
           Fact
           ,
           that
           have
           all
           the
           Proof
           and
           Attestation
           that
           the
           Nature
           of
           the
           thing
           can
           possibly
           bear
           .
           And
           yet
           the
           Author
           of
           this
           pretended
           Answer
           is
           not
           in
           the
           least
           asham'd
           to
           put
           on
           such
           a
           degree
           of
           Confidence
           in
           this
           matter
           ,
           as
           no
           Man
           besides
           a
           Presbyterian
           is
           capable
           of
           .
           But
           to
           let
           you
           see
           a
           little
           of
           his
           Disingenuity
           in
           managing
           this
           Affair
           ,
           he
           has
           collected
           together
           five
           Discourses
           whieh
           he
           undertakes
           to
           confute
           ,
           and
           then
           urges
           the
           number
           of
           the
           Books
           he
           's
           to
           answer
           ,
           as
           an
           Excuse
           why
           he
           cannot
           confute
           them
           all
           sufficiently
           ,
           least
           he
           should
           swell
           his
           Answer
           into
           too
           great
           a
           Volume
           .
           What
           should
           have
           obliged
           this
           Author
           to
           undertake
           to
           answer
           so
           many
           Treatises
           at
           one
           time
           ,
           I
           cannot
           readily
           conjecture
           ,
           unless
           it
           were
           to
           have
           some
           plausible
           pretence
           for
           not
           being
           able
           to
           give
           a
           sufficient
           Answer
           to
           any
           of
           them
           singly
           .
           I
           'm
           sure
           the
           meanest
           of
           these
           Treatises
           does
           far
           exceed
           the
           Malice
           of
           his
           weak
           Efforts
           ,
           and
           the
           Assembly
           enjoyn'd
           him
           but
           the
           first
           two
           Discourses
           to
           confute
           ,
           which
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           done
           to
           purpose
           ,
           he
           had
           better
           s●tisfy'd
           the
           Commands
           of
           his
           Superiors
           ,
           and
           done
           greater
           Service
           to
           his
           Party
           ,
           by
           vindicating
           them
           from
           those
           heavy
           Crimes
           so
           justly
           charg'd
           upon
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           all
           the
           Vindication
           he
           offers
           to
           bring
           for
           them
           ,
           is
           in
           some
           Cases
           with
           a
           daring
           Boldness
           to
           deny
           point
           blank
           the
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           without
           disproving
           the
           Attestations
           brought
           to
           confirm
           it
           ;
           in
           others
           to
           alleviate
           it
           ,
           by
           pretending
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           had
           expos'd
           themselves
           to
           the
           Hatred
           of
           the
           Rabble
           ;
           but
           in
           most
           Cases
           he
           acknowledges
           the
           Truth
           of
           the
           Relation
           ,
           and
           then
           disowns
           the
           Actors
           were
           Presbyterians
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           sober
           Presbyterians
           ,
           he
           says
           ,
           ought
           not
           to
           account
           for
           those
           Proceedings
           :
           Whereas
           it
           's
           notoriously
           known
           ,
           that
           these
           Persons
           whom
           he
           thus
           disowns
           and
           reflects
           upon
           ,
           are
           the
           only
           true
           Presbyterians
           ,
           and
           act
           in
           a
           close
           Conformity
           to
           their
           Principles
           ,
           while
           others
           ,
           pretending
           to
           a
           little
           more
           Sobriety
           and
           Moderation
           ,
           have
           evidently
           deserted
           the
           
             Old
             Cause
          
           ,
           and
           degenerated
           into
           a
           mungrel
           Constitution
           which
           they
           know
           not
           how
           to
           name
           .
           And
           notwithstanding
           that
           the
           Author
           disowns
           the
           Actors
           to
           be
           of
           their
           Communion
           ,
           yet
           in
           his
           Vindication
           he
           is
           pleas'd
           to
           call
           them
           the
           Zealous
           Party
           ,
           and
           represents
           them
           as
           pretty
           gentle
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           made
           it
           
             their
             work
             only
             to
             deprive
             ,
             and
             not
             to
             murder
             the
             Episcopal
             Ministers
             .
          
           In
           some
           particulars
           ,
           the
           better
           to
           disguise
           and
           lessen
           the
           attested
           Matters
           of
           Fact
           of
           our
           late
           Persecution
           ,
           he
           has
           brought
           a
           few
           Evidences
           and
           Attestations
           of
           some
           Witnesses
           ,
           whom
           he
           looks
           upon
           as
           Men
           of
           Integrity
           and
           Credibility
           ;
           but
           they
           are
           those
           very
           Persons
           who
           were
           the
           principal
           Actors
           of
           that
           horrid
           Tragedy
           ;
           and
           how
           fair
           and
           candid
           dealing
           this
           is
           ,
           I
           leave
           the
           World
           to
           
           judg
           .
           Is
           it
           to
           be
           suppos'd
           ,
           that
           Men
           who
           had
           such
           a
           degree
           of
           Malice
           to
           act
           these
           unheard
           of
           Barbarities
           ,
           will
           be
           at
           a
           loss
           for
           a
           little
           Impudence
           to
           deny
           them
           ?
           And
           yet
           this
           you
           'll
           find
           to
           be
           the
           whole
           of
           his
           Vindication
           ,
           after
           perusal
           of
           it
           ,
           which
           I
           would
           advise
           you
           by
           all
           means
           to
           do
           ,
           since
           ,
           instead
           of
           answering
           ,
           it
           rather
           confirms
           the
           Truth
           of
           the
           Accounts
           that
           have
           been
           given
           by
           the
           Eye-witnesses
           and
           Sufferers
           in
           that
           Persecution
           .
        
         
           There
           are
           lately
           publish'd
           some
           Remarks
           upon
           this
           Vindication
           ,
           which
           are
           printed
           with
           another
           Book
           called
           ,
           
             The
             Scotch
             Presbyterian
             Eloquence
          
           ,
           which
           I
           shall
           have
           occasion
           to
           mention
           afterwards
           .
           But
           the
           Author
           of
           these
           Remarks
           has
           taken
           the
           pains
           to
           collect
           several
           of
           this
           Vindicator's
           Falshoods
           and
           Contradictions
           ,
           with
           which
           every
           Page
           of
           his
           Book
           doth
           abound
           ,
           and
           which
           may
           be
           sufficient
           to
           direct
           us
           in
           passing
           our
           Judgment
           on
           the
           whole
           ;
           he
           shews
           ,
           how
           in
           some
           places
           he
           justifies
           or
           excuses
           the
           greatest
           Barbarities
           of
           the
           Presbyterian
           Rabble
           ,
           and
           in
           other
           places
           disowns
           and
           condemns
           them
           ;
           so
           that
           he
           is
           not
           asham'd
           to
           contradict
           himself
           at
           every
           turn
           .
           It
           's
           probable
           that
           ere
           long
           you
           may
           see
           this
           Vindicator
           more
           severely
           chastis'd
           ,
           as
           he
           truly
           deserves
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           'll
           trouble
           you
           with
           no
           further
           Account
           of
           him
           at
           present
           ,
           but
           leave
           him
           to
           the
           Correction
           of
           those
           that
           are
           chiefly
           concern'd
           to
           take
           notice
           of
           his
           Insolence
           ,
           and
           shall
           conclude
           with
           this
           one
           Remark
           .
           That
           if
           these
           Men
           were
           in
           earnest
           to
           answer
           the
           Historical
           Relations
           of
           the
           Persecution
           published
           by
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           ,
           the
           most
           effectual
           and
           satisfactory
           way
           of
           confuting
           these
           Accounts
           ,
           were
           to
           examin
           upon
           Oath
           before
           an
           impartial
           Judicatory
           ,
           the
           Witnesses
           that
           attest
           all
           these
           publick
           Declarations
           printed
           in
           the
           
             Case
             of
             the
             afflicted
             Clergy
          
           ;
           and
           if
           they
           disown
           the
           truth
           of
           these
           Relations
           ,
           or
           if
           the
           Ministers
           be
           not
           able
           to
           prove
           their
           several
           Declarations
           by
           sufficient
           and
           unexceptionable
           Witnesses
           ,
           let
           them
           ever
           after
           be
           reputed
           as
           Men
           infamous
           for
           Lying
           and
           Calumny
           .
           This
           ,
           methinks
           ,
           is
           a
           fair
           way
           of
           dealing
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           that
           Party
           ought
           not
           in
           reason
           to
           refuse
           ,
           since
           they
           have
           the
           Government
           of
           the
           Nation
           in
           their
           hands
           ,
           and
           may
           easily
           put
           it
           to
           a
           Tryal
           when
           they
           please
           .
           And
           till
           they
           do
           this
           ,
           they
           must
           excuse
           the
           World
           to
           believe
           these
           Accounts
           of
           the
           Persecution
           to
           be
           true
           and
           genuine
           Relations
           ,
           and
           to
           proceed
           neither
           from
           Malice
           nor
           Revenge
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           Period
           of
           the
           History
           of
           our
           Scotch
           Affairs
           ,
           relates
           to
           the
           Visitation
           of
           the
           Universities
           ,
           and
           other
           inferior
           Schools
           of
           Learning
           .
           The
           Presbyterian
           Ministers
           never
           thought
           themselves
           secure
           ,
           were
           never
           at
           Peace
           and
           Quiet
           till
           they
           got
           this
           brought
           about
           ;
           they
           lookt
           upon
           them
           as
           Nurseries
           of
           such
           Plants
           as
           would
           infallibly
           overturn
           their
           Settlement
           and
           Constitution
           ;
           and
           therefore
           it
           was
           still
           the
           subject
           Matter
           of
           their
           Sermons
           before
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           to
           press
           them
           to
           a
           speedy
           purging
           of
           the
           
           Universities
           ,
           that
           the
           Youth
           of
           the
           Nation
           might
           not
           any
           longer
           be
           poyson'd
           with
           Loyal
           ,
           Episcopal
           ,
           and
           suchlike
           Antichristian
           Principles
           .
           This
           was
           their
           constant
           Topick
           for
           many
           Months
           together
           ,
           and
           there
           was
           nothing
           gall'd
           them
           more
           than
           the
           delay
           of
           so
           desireable
           a
           Work
           ;
           but
           at
           last
           their
           Importunity
           was
           gratify'd
           ▪
           and
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           publish'd
           ,
           constituting
           a
           Commission
           for
           visiting
           the
           Universities
           and
           other
           Schools
           and
           Seminaries
           of
           Learning
           within
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           This
           Commission
           divided
           themselves
           into
           several
           Committees
           for
           visiting
           the
           particular
           Universities
           ,
           who
           were
           to
           make
           report
           to
           the
           General
           Commission
           of
           the
           Qualifications
           and
           Behaviour
           of
           the
           Professors
           and
           Regents
           in
           each
           University
           .
           And
           what
           the
           Methods
           of
           their
           proceeding
           in
           this
           Visitation
           were
           ,
           you
           may
           easily
           learn
           from
           the
           History
           of
           what
           they
           did
           in
           relation
           to
           the
           Colledge
           of
           Edinburgh
           .
           It
           goes
           under
           this
           Title
           ,
           
             Presbyterian
             Inquisition
             ;
             as
             it
             was
             lately
             practised
             against
             the
             Professors
             of
             the
             Colledge
             of
             
               Edinburgh
               ,
               August
            
             and
             
               September
               1690.
            
             
             In
             which
             the
             Spirit
             of
             Presbytery
             and
             their
             present
             Method
             of
             Procedure
             ,
             is
             plainly
             discovered
             ,
             Matter
             of
             Fact
             by
             undeniable
             instances
             cleared
             ,
             and
             Libels
             against
             particular
             persons
             discussed
             .
          
        
         
           This
           Discourse
           is
           a
           sufficient
           demonstration
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           what
           injustice
           and
           severity
           the
           Professors
           of
           this
           Colledge
           met
           with
           from
           their
           Presbyterian
           Visitors
           .
           It
           would
           not
           satisfie
           their
           Malice
           to
           strip
           them
           of
           their
           places
           and
           preferments
           ,
           but
           they
           must
           likewise
           contrive
           some
           ways
           to
           ruin
           their
           Fame
           and
           Reputation
           ,
           the
           better
           to
           palliate
           their
           own
           injustice
           .
           They
           invent
           Libels
           ,
           and
           deliver
           them
           into
           the
           Visitors
           ,
           no
           Accuser
           produc'd
           to
           own
           the
           Libel
           ,
           *
           no
           Witnesses
           brought
           to
           prove
           any
           particular
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           yet
           these
           Libels
           must
           be
           Registred
           and
           kept
           upon
           Record
           as
           Authentick
           Evidences
           ,
           containing
           the
           Crimes
           for
           which
           the
           Professors
           were
           then
           deprived
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           with
           design
           to
           render
           them
           infamous
           not
           only
           in
           the
           present
           ,
           but
           likewise
           to
           future
           Ages
           .
           It
           was
           this
           sort
           of
           treatment
           that
           obliged
           the
           Professors
           of
           the
           Colledge
           of
           Edinburgh
           ,
           to
           publish
           a
           true
           Narrative
           of
           the
           Proceedings
           in
           their
           Visitation
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           vindicate
           themselves
           from
           the
           aspersions
           cast
           upon
           them
           by
           these
           Libels
           ,
           and
           let
           the
           World
           see
           ,
           that
           the
           greatest
           Crimes
           their
           Adversaries
           had
           against
           them
           were
           their
           Sallaries
           and
           Revenues
           .
           In
           this
           Account
           you
           have
           a
           general
           Narrative
           of
           the
           Proceedings
           of
           the
           Committee
           against
           all
           the
           Members
           of
           that
           Colledge
           ;
           and
           particularly
           you
           have
           here
           inserted
           at
           large
           the
           whole
           Trials
           of
           two
           of
           their
           number
           ,
           viz.
           Doctor
           Monro
           Principal
           of
           the
           Colledge
           ,
           and
           Doctor
           Strachan
           Professor
           of
           Divinity
           .
           There
           you
           may
           
           see
           all
           the
           Articles
           Libelled
           against
           these
           two
           Doctors
           ,
           to
           what
           necessity
           their
           Accusers
           were
           reduced
           ,
           in
           being
           forc'd
           to
           invent
           mean
           and
           trifling
           Calumnies
           against
           Men
           of
           an
           unblemished
           Character
           ;
           you
           may
           see
           likewise
           their
           particular
           Answers
           to
           the
           Libels
           ,
           wherein
           they
           have
           fully
           vindicated
           their
           Innocence
           against
           all
           those
           silly
           aspersions
           ,
           that
           the
           utmost
           effort
           of
           their
           Adversaries
           Malice
           could
           contrive
           .
           The
           Author
           has
           likewise
           inserted
           in
           this
           Treatise
           ,
           the
           Report
           of
           the
           Committee
           to
           General
           Commission
           in
           relation
           to
           these
           two
           Doctors
           ,
           and
           the
           Commission
           's
           Sentence
           of
           Deprivation
           against
           them
           ,
           together
           with
           their
           several
           Animadversions
           upon
           the
           Report
           of
           the
           Committee
           .
           And
           that
           none
           might
           doubt
           of
           their
           partiality
           in
           this
           Affair
           ,
           Mr.
           Andrew
           Massie's
           Libel
           is
           inserted
           ,
           which
           ,
           though
           notoriously
           true
           ,
           owned
           and
           offered
           to
           be
           proved
           by
           persons
           of
           unquestionable
           Credit
           and
           Reputation
           ,
           was
           not
           in
           the
           least
           enquired
           into
           ,
           because
           he
           had
           declared
           himself
           to
           be
           of
           their
           Party
           .
           All
           these
           things
           you
           'll
           find
           fully
           related
           in
           this
           Account
           ,
           which
           in
           your
           reading
           will
           afford
           you
           Matter
           of
           Diverson
           as
           well
           as
           of
           Instruction
           .
        
         
           These
           are
           ,
           I
           think
           the
           chief
           Discourses
           ,
           that
           have
           been
           published
           by
           our
           Episcopal
           Divines
           ,
           relating
           to
           the
           History
           of
           the
           Persecution
           under
           which
           their
           Church
           at
           present
           most
           heavily
           groans
           .
           But
           I
           must
           likewise
           beg
           leave
           to
           mention
           another
           Treatise
           lately
           come
           from
           the
           Press
           under
           this
           Title
           ,
           
             The
             Scotch
             Presbyterian
             Eloquence
             ,
             or
             the
             foolishness
             of
             their
             Teaching
             discovered
             from
             their
             Books
             ,
             Sermons
             ,
             and
             Prayers
             ,
             and
             some
             Remarks
             on
             Mr.
             
             Rule
             's
             late
             Vindication
             of
             the
             Kirk
             .
          
        
         
           The
           occasion
           of
           publishing
           this
           Tract
           ,
           as
           I
           am
           inform'd
           ,
           was
           this
           .
           You
           may
           observe
           that
           the
           Presbyterians
           of
           Scotland
           in
           all
           their
           Vindications
           ,
           endeavour
           to
           justifie
           their
           Proceedings
           against
           the
           Orthodox
           Clergy
           with
           this
           Topick
           ,
           by
           pretending
           that
           a
           great
           many
           of
           them
           were
           turn'd
           out
           meerly
           for
           their
           Ignorance
           and
           Insufficiency
           .
           This
           was
           the
           great
           Test
           by
           which
           the
           Presbyterian
           Teachers
           pretended
           to
           proceed
           in
           Judging
           and
           Depriving
           such
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           as
           condescended
           to
           appear
           before
           their
           Assemblies
           .
           Upon
           this
           account
           therefore
           ,
           it
           seems
           ,
           the
           Publisher
           of
           this
           Treatise
           thought
           it
           convenient
           ,
           to
           inform
           the
           World
           a
           little
           of
           the
           Qualifications
           and
           Learning
           of
           our
           Presbyterian
           Doctors
           ,
           and
           if
           it
           were
           possible
           ,
           to
           make
           them
           sensible
           of
           their
           own
           Infirmities
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           future
           asham'd
           of
           their
           Insolence
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           pretend
           to
           Deprive
           Men
           for
           Ignorance
           ,
           who
           are
           so
           many
           degrees
           above
           the
           reach
           of
           their
           low
           capacities
           ;
           that
           they
           ,
           who
           in
           their
           Preachings
           and
           Writings
           appear
           to
           be
           not
           only
           void
           of
           all
           manner
           of
           
           Learning
           ,
           but
           likewise
           destitute
           of
           common
           Sense
           and
           Reason
           ,
           that
           that
           they
           should
           be
           so
           arrogant
           ,
           as
           to
           think
           themselves
           fit
           Judges
           of
           any
           Man's
           Qualifications
           for
           the
           Office
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ministry
           .
           They
           might
           have
           acted
           perhaps
           more
           prudently
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           set
           this
           Topick
           aside
           ,
           and
           made
           choice
           of
           another
           Test
           for
           Depriving
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           pleas'd
           to
           call
           it
           ,
           
             the
             want
             of
             Grace
          
           ;
           then
           in
           all
           appearance
           ,
           they
           had
           not
           given
           our
           Author
           this
           occasion
           of
           proclaiming
           to
           the
           World
           their
           scandalous
           Ignorance
           ,
           and
           they
           would
           have
           acted
           more
           consonantly
           to
           their
           own
           Principles
           and
           Doctrines
           ,
           when
           they
           run
           down
           all
           kind
           of
           Human
           Learning
           as
           a
           thing
           truly
           Antichristian
           .
        
         
           And
           here
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           I
           must
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           their
           particular
           despite
           against
           all
           manner
           of
           Learning
           is
           so
           observable
           ,
           that
           when
           you
           return
           to
           Scotland
           ,
           you
           'll
           find
           your self
           deprived
           of
           the
           Society
           of
           many
           of
           these
           Learned
           and
           Ingenious
           Gentlemen
           ,
           in
           whose
           Company
           and
           Conversation
           you
           were
           formerly
           wont
           to
           be
           so
           much
           Edified
           ,
           and
           so
           highly
           pleased
           .
           They
           have
           not
           only
           Persecuted
           the
           Clergy
           at
           that
           rate
           ,
           as
           to
           make
           some
           of
           our
           most
           eminent
           Divines
           leave
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           but
           have
           likewise
           extended
           their
           Malice
           against
           the
           Learned
           Men
           of
           all
           other
           Professions
           ,
           and
           discouraged
           them
           to
           that
           high
           degree
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           forc'd
           some
           of
           the
           most
           Conspicuous
           of
           our
           Lawyers
           ,
           Physi●ians
           and
           Mathematicians
           ,
           to
           desert
           their
           Native
           Country
           ,
           and
           take
           up
           their
           Residence
           among
           such
           as
           have
           a
           just
           value
           and
           esteem
           of
           their
           Merit
           and
           Desert
           .
           I
           could
           instance
           in
           all
           these
           Particulars
           ,
           but
           that
           you
           your self
           will
           be
           too
           sensible
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           instances
           are
           so
           well
           known
           ,
           and
           so
           generally
           exclaimed
           against
           ,
           that
           the
           Presbyterians
           themselves
           begin
           to
           be
           somewhat
           asham'd
           of
           their
           Proceedings
           towards
           them
           .
           And
           truly
           no
           wonder
           ,
           if
           they
           consider
           with
           what
           abhorrence
           and
           indignation
           their
           Posterity
           will
           remember
           them
           ;
           that
           they
           should
           have
           been
           such
           
             Hostes
             Patriae
          
           ,
           such
           open
           and
           declared
           Enemies
           to
           their
           Native
           Country
           ,
           as
           by
           their
           violent
           Proceedings
           to
           banish
           therefrom
           Men
           who
           were
           the
           Glory
           and
           Ornament
           of
           their
           Nation
           .
        
         
           This
           Discourse
           is
           a
           Collection
           of
           several
           remarkable
           Passages
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           Writings
           and
           Sermons
           of
           the
           Presbyterian
           Pastors
           ;
           in
           which
           their
           gross
           Ignorance
           in
           matters
           of
           Learning
           ,
           and
           their
           ridiculous
           and
           almost
           blasphemous
           way
           of
           Worship
           is
           sufficiently
           described
           .
           The
           Author
           has
           collected
           a
           great
           many
           instances
           of
           the
           Madness
           and
           Delusions
           of
           the
           Presbyterian
           Vulgar
           ;
           how
           they
           are
           passionately
           moved
           with
           a
           Sermon
           of
           the
           greatest
           Nonsense
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           pronounced
           but
           with
           a
           loud
           Voice
           and
           a
           whining
           Tone
           ;
           how
           they
           contemn
           the
           Creed
           ,
           the
           Lord's
           Prayer
           ,
           and
           the
           Ten
           Commandments
           ,
           as
           childish
           Ordinances
           ,
           and
           far
           
           below
           their
           Care
           or
           Concern
           ;
           and
           how
           upon
           their
           Death-beds
           they
           take
           it
           as
           a
           certain
           sign
           of
           Salvation
           ,
           that
           in
           their
           life-time
           they
           never
           heard
           a
           Curate
           preach
           .
           These
           are
           such
           strong
           Delusions
           and
           Infatuations
           ,
           that
           it
           's
           easie
           to
           guess
           by
           what
           Spirit
           they
           are
           thus
           acted
           .
           In
           the
           next
           place
           he
           describes
           the
           peevish
           and
           unconversible
           Temper
           of
           their
           Pastors
           ;
           how
           they
           have
           enslav'd
           themselves
           so
           wholly
           to
           the
           Humors
           of
           their
           People
           ,
           that
           to
           gratifie
           them
           ,
           they
           must
           divest
           themselves
           of
           common
           Civility
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Christian
           Charity
           .
           He
           shews
           that
           their
           Pretences
           to
           Learning
           go
           no
           further
           than
           to
           understand
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           Election
           and
           Reprobation
           ,
           and
           how
           by
           their
           indiscreet
           Sermons
           upon
           this
           Subject
           ,
           they
           often
           drive
           many
           of
           the
           ignorant
           Multitude
           into
           such
           a
           high
           despair
           of
           God's
           Mercy
           ,
           as
           to
           make
           them
           lay
           violent
           hands
           on
           themselves
           ,
           and
           this
           they
           call
           
             The
             Saving
             of
             Souls
          
           .
           They
           infuse
           into
           the
           Minds
           of
           their
           Hearers
           sordid
           and
           low
           Notions
           of
           the
           high
           and
           eternal
           God
           ;
           they
           represent
           him
           as
           a
           severe
           and
           unmerciful
           Being
           ,
           and
           have
           not
           the
           Prudence
           to
           intermix
           God's
           Offers
           of
           Mercy
           with
           his
           Threatnings
           .
           They
           not
           only
           force
           their
           Followers
           into
           Despair
           ,
           but
           likewise
           sometimes
           encourage
           them
           in
           direct
           Impieties
           ,
           by
           telling
           them
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           be
           among
           the
           number
           of
           the
           Elect
           ,
           they
           may
           be
           guilty
           of
           the
           greatest
           Sins
           without
           hazarding
           their
           Salvation
           .
           They
           talk
           of
           the
           greatest
           Mysteries
           of
           Religion
           in
           such
           homely
           ,
           coarse
           ,
           and
           ridiculous
           Expressions
           ,
           as
           are
           very
           unsuitable
           to
           the
           Gravity
           and
           Solemnity
           with
           which
           these
           sacred
           Mysteries
           ought
           to
           be
           treated
           .
           And
           all
           these
           Particulars
           the
           Author
           of
           this
           Treatise
           proves
           against
           them
           by
           such
           undeniable
           Instances
           ,
           that
           I
           believe
           they
           'll
           hardly
           be
           so
           bold
           as
           to
           offer
           to
           confute
           them
           ,
           least
           thereby
           they
           expose
           themselves
           to
           the
           greater
           Scorn
           and
           Derision
           .
        
         
           I
           think
           I
           need
           not
           caution
           you
           to
           read
           this
           Discourse
           I
           here
           speak
           of
           ,
           with
           a
           due
           Regard
           and
           Veneration
           to
           those
           sacred
           things
           you
           see
           thus
           polluted
           and
           prophaned
           ;
           and
           not
           to
           improve
           it
           to
           such
           a
           bad
           use
           ,
           as
           I
           too
           much
           fear
           some
           of
           our
           open
           Prophaners
           of
           all
           Religion
           will
           be
           inclin'd
           to
           do
           .
           I
           know
           you
           have
           more
           just
           and
           adequate
           Notions
           of
           the
           Divine
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Mysteries
           of
           our
           Holy
           Religion
           ,
           than
           to
           entertain
           the
           meaner
           Thoughts
           of
           these
           holy
           and
           sacred
           things
           ,
           because
           you
           see
           them
           prophan'd
           in
           this
           manner
           by
           the
           Mouths
           of
           such
           sordid
           and
           silly
           Creatures
           ;
           you
           know
           that
           Pearls
           cast
           before
           the
           Swine
           lose
           nothing
           of
           their
           intrinsick
           Worth
           and
           Value
           .
           I
           must
           therefore
           intreat
           you
           to
           improve
           the
           reading
           of
           this
           Treatise
           to
           the
           true
           design
           for
           which
           it
           was
           publish'd
           ,
           viz.
           That
           all
           good
           Men
           ,
           being
           rightly
           inform'd
           of
           the
           present
           Misery
           and
           Desolation
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           and
           being
           sensible
           of
           the
           great
           Detriment
           that
           accrues
           thereby
           to
           Religion
           in
           general
           ,
           may
           contribute
           their
           assistance
           ,
           what
           by
           their
           Prayers
           and
           other
           lawful
           
           means
           ,
           for
           restoring
           that
           National
           Church
           to
           its
           Primitive
           and
           Apostolical
           Institution
           ;
           that
           Religion
           may
           again
           flourish
           there
           as
           the
           Palm-tree
           ,
           and
           all
           manner
           of
           Iniquity
           being
           depress'd
           ,
           Judgment
           may
           as
           yet
           run
           down
           our
           Streets
           like
           a
           River
           ,
           and
           Righteousness
           like
           a
           mighty
           Stream
           .
           Is
           it
           a
           matter
           of
           no
           moment
           ,
           to
           see
           a
           whole
           National
           Church
           ,
           with
           its
           Apostolical
           Government
           ,
           quite
           overturn'd
           and
           destroy'd
           ?
           To
           see
           many
           Hundreds
           of
           the
           Ministers
           of
           God's
           Word
           ,
           together
           with
           their
           Families
           ,
           expos'd
           to
           the
           extreme
           Necessities
           of
           Poverty
           and
           Want
           ,
           and
           by
           that
           means
           to
           the
           Contempt
           of
           the
           Laity
           ?
           To
           see
           them
           thus
           sacrific'd
           to
           the
           Fury
           and
           Rage
           of
           a
           blind
           and
           bigotted
           Party
           ?
           Is
           it
           nothing
           to
           see
           Religion
           in
           this
           manner
           abused
           and
           polluted
           by
           sordid
           and
           stupid
           Men
           ,
           who
           assume
           to
           themselves
           the
           Name
           of
           Pastors
           ?
           To
           see
           them
           prophane
           the
           sacred
           Mysteries
           of
           our
           holy
           Religion
           by
           their
           Drollery
           and
           Ridicule
           ?
           To
           behold
           many
           Christians
           in
           a
           Kingdom
           wandering
           to
           and
           fro
           ,
           without
           any
           Guide
           to
           direct
           them
           in
           the
           ways
           and
           means
           of
           Salvation
           ,
           or
           which
           is
           worse
           ,
           having
           only
           such
           Teachers
           as
           entertain
           them
           with
           Nonsense
           and
           Blasphemy
           ,
           and
           infuse
           into
           their
           Minds
           such
           seditious
           Principles
           and
           Doctrines
           as
           must
           inevitably
           tend
           to
           their
           Ruin
           and
           Destruction
           ?
           These
           are
           Matters
           not
           of
           mere
           Jest
           and
           Diversion
           ,
           but
           of
           great
           Concern
           and
           Importance
           ,
           and
           will
           at
           last
           prove
           to
           be
           of
           far
           more
           fatal
           Consequences
           than
           ,
           I
           fear
           ,
           many
           of
           us
           are
           aware
           of
           .
           If
           this
           Deluge
           of
           Atheism
           and
           Impiety
           ,
           which
           these
           Men
           are
           too
           too
           likely
           to
           introduce
           into
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           by
           venting
           such
           nauseous
           and
           ridiculous
           stuff
           in
           their
           Prayers
           and
           Sermons
           ;
           I
           say
           ,
           if
           this
           Deluge
           be
           not
           timely
           prevented
           ,
           but
           be
           suffered
           to
           go
           on
           without
           any
           stop
           or
           hindrance
           ,
           it
           will
           not
           be
           found
           very
           easie
           to
           rid
           the
           Nation
           of
           the
           bad
           Effects
           of
           it
           for
           many
           Generations
           .
        
         
           Having
           now
           gone
           through
           all
           the
           Discourses
           that
           have
           been
           publish'd
           on
           both
           sides
           ,
           concerning
           our
           late
           Revolution
           in
           Church
           Matters
           ,
           I
           think
           it
           may
           not
           be
           amiss
           to
           acquaint
           you
           with
           two
           or
           three
           other
           Treatises
           ,
           which
           ,
           tho
           they
           principally
           relate
           to
           the
           Civil
           Affairs
           of
           our
           Nation
           ,
           yet
           do
           contain
           some
           things
           that
           concern
           likewise
           our
           Church
           Affairs
           .
           The
           first
           of
           them
           is
           entituled
           thus
           ,
           
             The
             late
             Proceedings
             and
             Votes
             of
             the
             Parliament
             of
             Scotland
             ,
             contain'd
             in
             an
             Address
             deliver'd
             to
             the
             King
             ,
             sign'd
             by
             the
             plurality
             of
             the
             Members
             thereof
             ,
             stated
             and
             vindicated
             .
          
        
         
           That
           you
           may
           rightly
           understand
           the
           occasion
           of
           printing
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           It
           is
           necessary
           to
           acquaint
           you
           ,
           That
           after
           the
           Convention
           of
           Estates
           in
           Scotland
           had
           devolved
           the
           Government
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           upon
           K.
           William
           and
           Q.
           Mary
           ,
           they
           fell
           into
           great
           Heats
           and
           Animosities
           
           among
           themselves
           .
           What
           the
           causes
           of
           these
           Divisions
           were
           ,
           I
           am
           not
           at
           present
           concerned
           to
           enquire
           ,
           but
           divided
           they
           were
           into
           several
           Parties
           ,
           one
           of
           which
           went
           ordinarily
           under
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Club.
           It
           consisted
           of
           a
           great
           many
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           who
           were
           most
           of
           them
           Presbyterians
           ,
           and
           zealously
           affected
           to
           the
           present
           Government
           ,
           haveing
           appeared
           very
           active
           and
           industrious
           in
           dethroning
           K.
           James
           ,
           and
           advancing
           K.
           William
           and
           Q.
           Mary
           to
           the
           Throne
           .
           This
           Party
           combin'd
           together
           to
           obstruct
           and
           oppose
           all
           Matters
           brought
           into
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           till
           they
           should
           first
           get
           their
           Grievances
           against
           the
           former
           Governments
           redress'd
           by
           this
           ,
           according
           to
           their
           
             Claim
             of
             Right
          
           .
           They
           alledged
           K.
           William
           had
           refused
           Satisfaction
           and
           Redress
           to
           these
           Points
           of
           the
           Grievances
           which
           were
           most
           material
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           was
           so
           far
           from
           performance
           ,
           that
           both
           he
           and
           his
           Ministers
           deny'd
           there
           lay
           any
           Obligation
           upon
           them
           for
           that
           end
           ;
           so
           that
           in
           this
           Revolution
           ,
           they
           pretended
           the
           People
           did
           only
           observe
           a
           change
           of
           Masters
           ,
           but
           no
           ease
           of
           Burden
           ,
           or
           redress
           of
           Laws
           .
           And
           this
           obliged
           them
           to
           send
           up
           an
           Address
           to
           K.
           William
           ,
           subscrib'd
           by
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           representing
           to
           him
           the
           Grievances
           which
           they
           wanted
           to
           be
           redress'd
           in
           the
           present
           Parliament
           .
           This
           Address
           was
           deliver'd
           to
           him
           by
           the
           Earl
           of
           Annandale
           ,
           the
           Lord
           Rosse
           ,
           and
           Sir
           
             James
             Montgomery
          
           of
           Skelmurly
           ,
           at
           
             Hampton
             Court
          
           ,
           the
           15th
           .
           day
           of
           October
           ,
           1689.
           
           They
           were
           much
           dissatisfy'd
           with
           the
           Ministers
           of
           State
           whom
           King
           William
           had
           received
           into
           his
           Councils
           and
           Service
           ,
           alledging
           that
           he
           had
           made
           choice
           of
           those
           very
           Men
           ,
           who
           had
           been
           the
           Instruments
           of
           K.
           
             James
             '
          
           Miseries
           and
           Ruine
           ,
           by
           advising
           him
           to
           these
           Courses
           that
           had
           robb'd
           him
           of
           the
           Hearts
           of
           his
           Subjects
           .
           It
           was
           these
           Ministers
           whom
           they
           blam'd
           as
           the
           Authors
           of
           all
           the
           Differences
           that
           had
           arisen
           betwixt
           K.
           William
           and
           his
           Parliament
           in
           Scotland
           ;
           they
           thought
           his
           delaying
           to
           gratifie
           their
           Desires
           ,
           proceeded
           merely
           from
           the
           sinister
           Misrepresentations
           given
           him
           of
           their
           Demands
           as
           illegal
           ,
           and
           as
           Encroachments
           upon
           the
           Royal
           Authority
           .
           And
           therefore
           ,
           to
           justifie
           their
           Actions
           ,
           they
           publish'd
           this
           Treatise
           and
           their
           Address
           to
           King
           William
           ,
           to
           shew
           ,
           that
           what
           they
           desired
           therein
           was
           agreeable
           to
           all
           the
           Rules
           of
           Law
           ,
           Religion
           and
           Policy
           .
           The
           Author
           has
           inserted
           at
           large
           the
           several
           contested
           Votes
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           to
           which
           K.
           William
           had
           refused
           his
           assent
           ,
           and
           he
           endeavours
           to
           demonstrate
           the
           Legality
           ,
           Reasonableness
           ,
           and
           Necessity
           of
           them
           ,
           by
           proving
           them
           to
           be
           in
           all
           Points
           agreeable
           to
           the
           antient
           Laws
           and
           Customs
           of
           that
           Nation
           .
        
         
           This
           has
           produced
           us
           another
           Discourse
           on
           the
           same
           Subject
           ,
           in
           answer
           to
           the
           former
           .
           It
           is
           call'd
           ,
           
             
             An
             Account
             of
             the
             Affairs
             of
             Scotland
             ,
             in
             relation
             to
             their
             Religious
             and
             Civil
             Rights
             .
          
        
         
           Here
           our
           Author
           undertakes
           to
           satisfie
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           K.
           William
           had
           offer'd
           to
           the
           Parliament
           in
           Scotland
           all
           the
           Satisfaction
           and
           Redress
           of
           their
           Grievances
           that
           reasonable
           Men
           could
           expect
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           true
           Source
           and
           Fountain
           whence
           proceeded
           all
           the
           Complaints
           of
           the
           discontented
           Party
           ,
           was
           ,
           that
           some
           of
           their
           Number
           were
           not
           advanc'd
           to
           such
           honourable
           and
           advantageous
           Posts
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           as
           they
           thought
           they
           had
           merited
           by
           their
           Zeal
           for
           K.
           William
           ,
           and
           the
           eminent
           Services
           they
           had
           done
           him
           in
           advancing
           his
           Interest
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           .
           And
           to
           evince
           what
           he
           undertakes
           ,
           he
           has
           set
           down
           at
           length
           the
           Grievances
           themselves
           ,
           and
           the
           Redress
           offer'd
           them
           by
           King
           William
           in
           his
           Instructions
           to
           his
           Commissioner
           ,
           and
           makes
           some
           Reflections
           on
           both
           .
           If
           you
           encline
           to
           search
           any
           further
           into
           the
           History
           of
           these
           Debates
           betwixt
           K.
           William
           and
           his
           Parliament
           ,
           you
           may
           consult
           the
           Treatises
           themselves
           ,
           to
           which
           I
           refer
           you
           .
        
         
           I
           suppose
           you
           may
           have
           heard
           how
           active
           and
           diligent
           the
           Presbyterians
           in
           Scotland
           have
           been
           ever
           since
           this
           late
           Revolution
           ,
           to
           exclaim
           against
           the
           Injustice
           and
           Severity
           of
           the
           former
           Reigns
           ,
           and
           particularly
           that
           of
           K.
           Charles
           II.
           (
           under
           whose
           Administration
           we
           enjoyed
           so
           much
           Peace
           and
           Tranquillity
           )
           whom
           they
           charge
           with
           Tyranny
           and
           Oppression
           ,
           Cruelty
           and
           Persecution
           against
           them
           and
           their
           Adherents
           ;
           and
           reproach
           his
           Ministers
           of
           State
           as
           Subverters
           of
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           Betrayers
           of
           the
           Liberties
           and
           Property
           of
           the
           Subject
           .
           The
           bad
           Impression
           which
           these
           Clamours
           made
           upon
           Strangers
           that
           were
           ignorant
           of
           these
           Transactions
           ,
           obliged
           Sir
           
             Geo.
             Mackenzie
          
           ,
           (
           who
           had
           been
           Advocate
           to
           K.
           Charles
           II.
           and
           was
           principally
           aim'd
           at
           in
           many
           of
           the
           Reflections
           cast
           upon
           the
           Government
           and
           its
           Ministers
           )
           to
           vindicate
           his
           Majesty
           K.
           Charles
           and
           his
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ,
           from
           these
           Calumnies
           and
           Aspersions
           so
           unjustly
           thrown
           upon
           them
           .
           And
           this
           he
           has
           very
           fully
           and
           satisfactorily
           done
           in
           a
           Discourse
           publish'd
           after
           his
           Death
           ,
           and
           called
           ,
           
             A
             Vindication
             of
             the
             Government
             in
             Scotland
             ,
             during
             the
             Reign
             of
             K.
             
               Charles
               II
            
             ,
             against
             Misrepresentations
             made
             in
             several
             scandalous
             Pamphlets
             .
             To
             which
             is
             added
             ,
             The
             Method
             of
             proceeding
             against
             Criminals
             ,
             as
             also
             some
             of
             the
             Phanatical
             Covenants
             ,
             as
             they
             were
             printed
             and
             published
             by
             themselves
             in
             that
             Reign
             .
             By
             Sir
             
               George
               Maekenzie
            
             ,
             late
             Lord
             Advocate
             there
             .
          
        
         
         
           In
           this
           Treatise
           we
           have
           a
           short
           Narrative
           of
           the
           Proceedings
           of
           that
           Government
           in
           relation
           to
           the
           Presbyterian
           Dissenters
           ,
           which
           alone
           is
           sufficient
           to
           undeceive
           Persons
           that
           have
           been
           imposed
           upon
           by
           Misrepresentations
           ,
           and
           to
           confute
           all
           the
           malicious
           Calumnies
           raised
           against
           the
           Government
           .
           For
           when
           we
           consider
           the
           frequent
           Rebellions
           and
           Commotions
           which
           the
           Presbyterians
           raised
           during
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Charles
           II.
           we
           shall
           soon
           find
           that
           those
           Acts
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           which
           they
           tax
           with
           the
           greatest
           Severity
           ,
           savour
           of
           nothing
           but
           Mildness
           and
           Lenity
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Government
           proceeded
           by
           the
           slowest
           steps
           imaginable
           to
           punish
           those
           who
           openly
           own'd
           their
           Designs
           of
           subverting
           the
           Monarchy
           .
           The
           Authour
           has
           collected
           all
           the
           Objections
           and
           Instances
           of
           pretended
           Cruelty
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           which
           the
           Malice
           of
           its
           Enemies
           could
           contrive
           ,
           and
           has
           answer'd
           them
           beyond
           the
           possibility
           of
           a
           Reply
           .
           The
           Publisher
           has
           subjoyned
           a
           Collection
           of
           original
           Papers
           publish'd
           by
           themselves
           ,
           which
           contain
           an
           Account
           of
           their
           avowed
           Principles
           and
           Practices
           ,
           and
           from
           thence
           you
           may
           easily
           judg
           how
           consistent
           it
           is
           with
           the
           Security
           of
           any
           Government
           ,
           to
           suffer
           the
           Propagation
           of
           such
           wicked
           and
           seditious
           Principles
           .
           But
           I
           think
           you
           cannot
           have
           a
           more
           impartial
           and
           true
           Account
           of
           their
           Principles
           ,
           nor
           a
           fuller
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Proceedings
           of
           the
           Government
           against
           this
           rebellious
           Party
           ,
           than
           from
           a
           Book
           lately
           publish'd
           under
           this
           Title
           ,
           
             The
             History
             of
             Scotch
             Presbytery
             ,
             being
             an
             Epitome
             of
             the
             
               Hind
               let
               loose
            
             ,
             by
             Mr.
             Shields
             .
             With
             a
             Preface
             by
             a
             Presbyter
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Scotland
             .
          
        
         
           It
           is
           Epitome
           of
           a
           larger
           Book
           published
           by
           Mr.
           
             Alexander
             Shields
          
           ,
           one
           of
           their
           most
           eminent
           Preachers
           ,
           and
           a
           zealous
           Defender
           of
           the
           good
           
             old
             Cause
          
           .
           Here
           we
           have
           a
           true
           Description
           of
           the
           Temper
           and
           Genius
           of
           the
           whole
           Party
           ,
           and
           it
           discovers
           the
           true
           Spirit
           of
           the
           Presbyterian
           Gospel
           .
           There
           is
           none
           of
           them
           that
           b●tter
           understands
           the
           true
           Tenets
           of
           the
           Presbyterians
           ,
           nor
           is
           more
           consequential
           to
           their
           Principles
           ;
           for
           he
           fairly
           sets
           down
           their
           Doctrines
           and
           Opinions
           ,
           and
           disowns
           none
           of
           the
           most
           absurd
           and
           pernicious
           Consequences
           that
           naturally
           flow
           from
           them
           .
           He
           gives
           us
           an
           Historical
           Account
           of
           their
           many
           Insurrections
           and
           Rebellions
           against
           the
           Civil
           Government
           ,
           and
           very
           frankly
           owns
           and
           justifies
           them
           all
           ,
           together
           with
           several
           of
           their
           barbarous
           Murders
           committed
           upon
           the
           Archbishop
           of
           S.
           Andrews
           ,
           and
           some
           others
           ,
           ;
           so
           that
           by
           a
           slight
           view
           of
           this
           Book
           ,
           you
           may
           easily
           judg
           ,
           whether
           any
           Government
           of
           whatever
           species
           can
           subsist
           where
           such
           Principles
           and
           Doctrines
           are
           suffer'd
           to
           be
           propagated
           among
           the
           Subjects
           .
        
         
         
           And
           now
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           I
           have
           satisfied
           your
           desire
           as
           fully
           as
           possibly
           I
           could
           ;
           I
           have
           given
           you
           an
           exact
           Account
           of
           the
           most
           ,
           if
           not
           all
           the
           considerable
           Treatises
           that
           have
           been
           Printed
           with
           respect
           to
           the
           present
           Persecution
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           and
           that
           you
           may
           be
           the
           better
           able
           to
           judge
           of
           the
           truth
           and
           certainty
           of
           it
           ,
           I
           have
           set
           down
           the
           Treatises
           published
           by
           both
           Parties
           ;
           and
           likewise
           that
           you
           may
           the
           more
           easily
           procure
           any
           of
           them
           you
           are
           desirous
           to
           read
           ,
           I
           have
           subjoyned
           to
           this
           Letter
           a
           Catalogue
           of
           them
           all
           with
           the
           names
           of
           the
           Booksellers
           by
           whom
           they
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           .
           I
           think
           it
           is
           sufficiently
           evident
           from
           the
           foregoing
           Collection
           ,
           what
           Sufferings
           the
           Orthodox
           Clergy
           in
           Scotland
           have
           endured
           ,
           and
           how
           unaccountable
           the
           Proceedings
           of
           the
           Presbyterians
           are
           towards
           them
           ;
           and
           which
           is
           most
           to
           be
           lamented
           ,
           the
           present
           miserable
           state
           and
           condition
           of
           the
           whole
           National
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           great
           prejudice
           that
           Religion
           sustains
           by
           the
           overthrow
           thereof
           ,
           is
           no
           less
           apparent
           .
           How
           much
           it
           concerns
           all
           Sober
           and
           Religious
           Men
           to
           contribute
           their
           endeavours
           ,
           for
           delivering
           that
           Oppressed
           Church
           from
           the
           Miseries
           and
           Calamities
           under
           which
           it
           at
           present
           Groans
           ,
           I
           hope
           we
           are
           all
           sensible
           ;
           and
           therefore
           I
           shall
           give
           you
           no
           further
           trouble
           but
           of
           this
           one
           request
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           That
           you
           would
           be
           careful
           to
           inform
           all
           persons
           with
           whom
           you
           may
           chance
           to
           converse
           ,
           of
           the
           present
           deplorable
           state
           of
           Affairs
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           that
           every
           one
           may
           lend
           their
           assistance
           for
           rescuing
           the
           Revered
           Clergy
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           from
           under
           their
           present
           Sufferings
           and
           Oppressions
           ,
           that
           the
           Rod
           of
           the
           wicked
           may
           lye
           no
           longer
           upon
           the
           back
           of
           the
           Righteous
           ,
           least
           they
           stretch
           forth
           their
           hand
           unto
           Iniquity
           ,
           and
           likewise
           that
           our
           National
           Church
           may
           be
           restored
           to
           its
           Primitive
           Order
           and
           Beauty
           .
           This
           is
           the
           earnest
           desire
           of
        
         
           
             
               June
               1●
               .
               1692.
               
            
          
           
             Sir
             ,
          
           
             Your
             most
             affectionate
             and
             humble
             Servant
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           A
           Catalogue
           of
           Books
           mention'd
           in
           the
           foregoing
           Letter
           .
        
         
           A
           Memorial
           for
           his
           Highness
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           in
           relation
           to
           the
           Affairs
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           &c.
           
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           Randal
           Taylor
           near
           Stationers-Hall
           .
           1689.
           
        
         
           The
           present
           State
           and
           Condition
           of
           the
           Clergy
           and
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           .
           London
           Printed
           .
        
         
           A
           brief
           and
           true
           Account
           of
           the
           Sufferings
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           occasioned
           by
           the
           Episcopalians
           since
           the
           year
           1660.
           &c.
           
           London
           Printed
           Anno
           1690.
           
        
         
           The
           Prelatical
           Church-man
           against
           the
           Phanatical
           Kirk-man
           ,
           &c.
           London
           Printed
           Anno
           1690.
           
        
         
           An
           account
           of
           the
           present
           Persecution
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           in
           several
           Letters
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           S.
           Cook
           
             Anno
             1690.
          
           .
        
         
           The
           Case
           of
           the
           present
           afflicted
           Clergy
           in
           Scotland
           truly
           represented
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           J.
           Hindmarsh
           
             at
             the
             Golden
             Ball
             over
             against
             the
          
           Royal
           Exchange
           in
           Cornhill
           .
           1690.
           
        
         
           A
           late
           Letter
           concerning
           the
           Sufferings
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Clergy
           in
           Scotland
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           Robert
           Clavel
           
             at
             the
             Peacock
             in
             St.
          
           Paul
           
             's
             Church-Yard
             .
             1691.
          
           
        
         
           Some
           Questions
           resolved
           concerning
           Episcopal
           and
           Presbyterian
           Government
           in
           Scotland
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             ,
             and
             are
             to
             be
             sold
             by
          
           Randal
           Taylor
           near
           Stationers-Hall
           .
           1690.
           
        
         
           The
           Danger
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           from
           a
           General
           Assembly
           of
           Covenanters
           in
           Scotland
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           Tho.
           Bennet
           
             at
             the
             Half-Moon
             in
             St.
          
           Paul
           
             's
             Church-Yard
             ,
             and
          
           John
           Hovell
           ,
           
             Bookseller
             in
          
           Oxon.
           1690.
           
        
         
           A
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           being
           an
           Answer
           to
           a
           Paper
           ,
           Intituled
           ,
           Some
           Questions
           concerning
           Episcopal
           and
           Presbyterian
           Government
           in
           
             Scotland
             ,
             &c.
          
           
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           Tho.
           Salusbury
           
             at
             the
             Sign
             of
             the
             Temple
             near
          
           Temple-Bar
           in
           Fleetstreet
           .
           1691.
           
        
         
           An
           Historical
           Relation
           of
           the
           late
           General
           Assembly
           held
           at
           
             Edinburgh
             ,
             &c.
          
           
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           J.
           Hindmarsh
           
             at
             the
             Golden
             Ball
             in
          
           Cornhill
           ,
           
             near
             the
          
           Royal
           Exchange
           .
           1691.
           
        
         
         
           A
           Continuation
           of
           the
           Historical
           Relation
           of
           the
           late
           General
           Assembly
           in
           Scotland
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           Sam.
           Keeble
           ,
           
             at
             the
          
           Great
           Turks
           head
           in
           Fleetstreet
           ,
           
             over
             against
          
           Fetter-lane-end
           .
           1691.
           
        
         
           A
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           being
           an
           Answer
           to
           five
           Pamphlets
           .
           
             Printed
             at
          
           Edinburgh
           ,
           
             and
             reprinted
             at
          
           London
           ,
           for
           Tho.
           Parkhurst
           
             at
             the
             Bible
             and
             Three
             Crowns
             near
          
           Mercers
           Chappel
           in
           Cheapside
           .
           1691.
           
        
         
           Presbyterian
           Inquisition
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           lately
           practised
           against
           the
           Professors
           of
           the
           Colledge
           of
           Edinburgh
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           J.
           Hindmarsh
           
             at
             the
             Golden
             Ball
             in
          
           Cornhill
           .
           1691.
           
        
         
           The
           Scotch
           Presbyterian
           Eloquence
           ,
           or
           the
           foolishness
           of
           their
           Teaching
           discovered
           from
           their
           Books
           ,
           Sermons
           and
           Prayers
           ,
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           Randal
           Taylor
           near
           Stationers-Hall
           ,
           1692.
           
        
         
           The
           late
           Proceedings
           and
           Votes
           of
           the
           Parliament
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           contained
           in
           an
           Address
           delivered
           to
           the
           King.
           Glasgow
           
             Printed
             by
          
           Andrew
           Hepburn
           1689.
           
        
         
           An
           Account
           of
           the
           Affairs
           of
           Scotland
           in
           relation
           to
           their
           Religious
           and
           Civil
           Rights
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             ,
             and
             are
             to
             be
             sold
             by
          
           Richard
           Bald●in
           
             in
             the
          
           Great
           Old
           Baily
           
             near
             the
             Black
             Bull.
             1690.
          
           
        
         
           A
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Government
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           during
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           
             Charles
             II.
          
           By
           Sir
           
             George
             Mackenzie
          
           late
           Lord
           Advocate
           there
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           J.
           Hindmarsh
           
             at
             the
             Golden
             Ball
             in
          
           Cornhill
           .
        
         
           The
           History
           of
           Scotch
           Presbytery
           ,
           being
           an
           Epitome
           of
           the
           Hind
           let
           loose
           ,
           by
           Mr.
           Shields
           .
           London
           
             Printed
             for
          
           J.
           Hindmarsh
           
             at
             the
             Golden
             Ball
             in
          
           Cornhill
           .
           1692.
           
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A51157-e170
           
             *
             Vid.
             
               The
               Presbyterian
               Eloquence
               lately
               printed
            
             .
          
           
             *
             Dr.
             Hardy
             ,
             at
             Edinburgh
             .
          
           
             *
             Mr.
             Shields
             
               in
               his
               Remarks
               upon
               the
               Presbyterian
               Addresses
               to
            
             K.
             James
             ,
             
               at
               the
               end
               of
               his
            
             Hind
             let
             loose
             .
          
           
             *
             Mr.
             
               Alexander
               Pitcairn
            
             .
          
           
             †
             Mr.
             
               Gilbert
               Rule
            
             .
          
           
             *
             Or
             Pasonage-House
             .
          
           
             †
             Shrove-Tuesday
             .
          
           
             *
             And
             refused
             when
             legally
             required
             .