Dr. Jaque's VINDICATION Against Mr. Kirkwood's DEFAMATION In his Plea before the Kirk, and Civil Judicature of SCOTLAND.   

Dr. Jaque's VINDICATION, AGAINST Mr. Kirkwood's DEFAMATION In his Plea before the Kirk, and Civil Judicature OF SCOTLAND.  
NOT the Vanity of appearing in Print, but the necessity of self Vindication, hath obliged Dr. Jaque, thus publicly to take notice of a late Scurrilous Pamphlet Entuuled Mr. Kukwoods' Plea before the Kirk and Civil judicatory of Scotland. The like of which (all things being considered) was never Written in any Language, by any Persuasion, being both Profane, Blasphemous, and Obscene: He is in the whole Process of his book instigated, not only by an Unchristian, but an Ungenerous Inhuman and Sordid Spirit, which doth so highly ferment his Gall, that he is at length, forced to spew it out, tho' to the defiling the Personages, and Characters, of the most Reverend, Pious, Learned and Judicious, Members, and Judicatures of this Renowned and Reformed Church, which will notwithstanding all his false Suggestions, be living Witnesses against his malicious Calumnies; And so very inconsistent is the Crazy-Headed Pamphleteer, with himself, that even what he so Satirically inveighs against in others. viz. An endeavour to ruin his Reputation and Fame, he makes his own Practice, and that most Cowardly and Invidiously, stabbing as it were under the fifth Rib, without giving a fair Challenge for self Defence; this was often allowed him, as he evidenceth by the many Instruments he took in the presence of the several Judicatures, before whom his cause was beard, and Witnesses Examined on the matter; He had fair play according to the Discipline of the Church, but allows not the least Umbrage of the like to another, but takes false and malicious report, as a sufficient evidence and ground to vent his Reproaches, and endeavours himself to aggravate the matter, with his Pedantic Rhetoric, and even racks his shallow Wits, to find words sufficiently Emphatical, Hyperbolically to express the Heinousness, of the Imaginary Crime conceived in the Vacuum of his Choleric Brain: This he doth to a stranger of another Nation, not in the least concerned in his affair, without any provocation from the Person he defames, or candid Apology for Traducing his Name, and that in the most Public and Celebrated manner, publishing it in Print, and thereby exposing the Reputation of a Gentleman, wholly unknown to him, to the Obloquy of the Censorious World, and to all the disadvantages that he charges the Reverend Judicatures with, as to himself.  
Whatever Mr. Kirkwood may think of the matter, he may assure himself the Gentleman he abuseth, is not of so Phlegmatic a Constitution, as to let such an Injury pass unresented, and must therefore expect to be called to a legal account for his procedure in that affair.  
In the Second Act of his Comme-Tragedy, (for such on a strict perusal his Pamphlet will be found, and even such as will be hised off the stage, of Truth, Modesty and Honour) he brings in Dr. Jaque, Son to Mr. William Jaque and Mrs. Stones (as he calls her) for a part in that scene, he introduceth them with a lie, assuring the Auditory, that he will pass by that famous business, that fell out at Mr. Jaques house at Bsggar, but at the same time hurrys them off the stage with a huy-an-cry, as guilty of the most notorious Crimes, endeavouring at the same blow, to ruin the Reputation of Mr. Jaque, the Dr. and Mrs. Stone.  
That the world may therefore be undeceived and Mr. Kirkwoods' Malice, more plainly detected, Dr. Jaque, thinks it highly requisite to publish, the following plain and Faithful account, of the whole matter, relating to Mrs. Stone, both for his own Vindication, and likewise for the Information and Satisfaction, of such who are as yet unacquainted with the Truth of the matter.  
Know then that Mrs. Stone spoken of, in Mr. Kirkwoods' 2d part page 38 is the only Daughter, of Mr. Arthur Stone, an Emment Merchant in London, and a Member of the Common Council of that City, a Man of Good Report amongst all he deals with, of great Piety and Candour, and an Oppulent Man as to his Worldly condition: His Wife likewise a Woman of great Piety and Integrity, was the nearest Relation (except a Mother) to Dr. Jaques Wife, and therefore upon all occasions shown great Respect and Civility to her Kinswoman, and the Dr. Mr. Stones Daughter, and Dr. Jaques Wife being bred up together, from their Infancy, contracted a very Endeared Friendship and Love, such as continued, Ad extremum Mortis, without the least Violation, their Endearments so mutual at all times, that they each did partake of the others Prosperity or Adversity. The last time Dr. Jaques Wife and he were at London, before they came to Biggar, where she died, they Lodged at Mr. Stones house, and then it was that Mr. Stones Daughter discovered to the Drs. Wise and him, that she was Married to one Daniel Vanderkisiee a Dutchman, and intimated her resolution of going a way along with him, unknown to her Father and Mother; which to prevent, the Dr. assured her he would discover it to her Parents; she very much resented the Drs. freedom; however her Father's friendship, and her wellfair, being principally aimed at by him, he did divulge it first to her Mother, who took a convenient time, and then disclosed it to her Husband; they were both highly incensed at their Daughter's folly, and would not for some time see her, but confined her to her Chamber, until they should inquire into the Condition, and Circumstances of the Man, with whose person they were formerly acquainted, this they speedily did and found that he Cohabited with an other Woman, who was reputed his Wife, and by whom he had several Children then living; Mr. Stone and his Wife, from hence concluded that the Covetous Man's design was only to get Money from them and to get what he could from their Daughter, some things of value (having been already conveyed to him by her) And therefore they resolved with the advice of Friends, not to suffer their Daughter to go to him, if possibly, they could prevent it, being well assured that it would be their Child's ruin, if they suffered her to go with him, Therefore they entreated Dr. Jaques Wife to use her endeavour to prevail with her Kinswoman to leave London, and to go with her and the Dr. to their house in Yorkshire, which being agreed to at length after much difficulty, Mr. Stones Daughter consented, and did go down into Yorkshire with Dr. Jaques Wife Mr, Stone allowing Twenty pound starling per Annum, for his Daughter's Board. It was likewise Mr. Stone and his Wife's desire, that their Daughters unfortunate Marriage should be concealed, and that she should still be called by her Maiden-Name, resolving to use their utmost effects to get the Marriage dissolved by a Divorce; Dr. Jaque and his Wife not overseeing the mischiefs that ensued upon it, consented to their request. Notwithstanding the watchfulness of the Drs. Wife and his, over their Kinswoman, yet did she maintain secret Correspondence with her Husband, and several private metting they had (as hath been since discovered) the Dr. and his Wife having promised to Visit their Relations at Biggar, took Journey, for Scotland, and at the desire of Mr. Stone and his Wife, took their Daughter along, both to see Mr. Jaque and his Wife (with whom she had formerly been acquainted at London; and also to give her a diversion, by Travelling, being at that time some what indisposed through Melancholy under the apprehensions of her unfortunate Wedlock. Mr. Stones Daughter, being at Biggar continued her Maiden-Name, according to the desire of her Father and Mother, Dr. Jaque never having been taxed by any as to her Marriage, till after she brought forth her Child.  
It's confessed by Dr. Jaque, that he was extremely faulty and inconsiderate, and that only his promise to Mr. Stone and his Wife at London, led him into so Egregious an Act of Imprudence and folly, as not to make known her Circumstances to Mr. Jaque and his Wife before her delivery; He is so far from Extenuating his Crime, that he is willing to aggravate it against himself, and as a punishment hath ever since suffered the displeasure of Mr. Jaque, and been an Exile both from his favour and presence.  
It pleased the Lord about six weeks after Dr. Jaque came to Biggar, to Visit his dear Wife with a Malignant Fever, (which was at that time very frequent through out the Country,) of which she died the Eleventh day, to the great grief and Affliction of all concerned in her, but Especially of Dr. Jaque and her Kinswoman Mr. Stones Daughter: There were no means left unused for her Recovery, but all proving ineffectual Dr. Jaque by her death lost not only the best of Wives, but a considerable yearly income which depended on her life; And the Dr. can with boldness Challenge the whole World to say that from the first hour of his Marriage to the last period of his Wife's life, there ever appeared the least Symptom of discord or unkindness, nay all beholders who were conversant with the Dr. and his Wife in the whole time of her Sickness, must do Dr. Jaque the Justice to say, that Mutual Endearments were continued between them, without the least Diminution: One particular evidence of which was, that the afternoon before she died, being apprehensive that her Change drew nigh she called for Mr. Jaque her Father in Law, and his whole Family, and after she had declared to him the Assurance she had of an Interest in Christ, she desired that he would draw her last Will and Testament, which was to make the Dr. her Executor, and to settle all that was here's on him and her Child after his decease. The Affliction that Dr. Jaque was under for so great a loss was so Apparent that envy itself cannot detract from the Juss Praise due to him on that account.  
Mr. Stones Daughter was likewise under so much trouble, for the loss of so near a Kinswoman, and dear a Friend, and laid it so much to heart that it hastened in all probability her Travail before the time she reckoned (having as she declared according to her own count six weeks longer to go] so that she was brought to bed soon after the death of Dr. Jaques Wife, it so happening that Dr. Jaque being called to Lanerick some time before, on some Extraordinary occasion, was there surprised with the news of Mr. Stones Daughter having brought forth a Child in Mr. Jaques house, where at he was extremely troubled, both because of the Vexation and Disquietude it brought to Mr. Jaque and his Family: Dr. Jaque immediately on the news repaired to Biggar, and satisfied Mr, Jaque so far as he was able in the matter; Mr. Stones Daughter produced also her Certificate to Mr. Jaque from the Minister who Married her, but Mr. Jaque was so incensed, both against the Dr. and Mr. Stones Daughter, for not timeously discovering her Marriage and being with Child, that he would neither patiently hear, nor yet give Credit, to what could be said for his Satisfaction.  
And therefore Mr. Jaque wrote immediately to London, to Mr. Stone the Gentlewoman's Father, and had from himself a full account, that his Daughter was unhappily Married to his great Trouble and Grief, to one Vanderkistee, together with the other Circumstances as before related; Mr. Jaque likewise wrote to Mr. Burroughs, his Son in Law [then living at London but now in Kelsoe] that he should find out this Vanderkistee, and get an account of the matter from him; this Mr. Burroughs, did according to direction, and had from Vanderkistees own mouth the assurance, that he was Lawfully Married to Mr. Stones Daughter, that he had both Beded and Boarded with her, and could have access to her when he pleased, these things are evidently to be made appear by Mr. Stones and Mr. Burroughs their Letters in Answer to Mr. Jaques, which the Dr. supposeth Mr. Jaque may still have by him; and the same thing Mr. Burroughs doth now viva Voce, declare to all that speak to him on that subject.  
Mr. Stones Daughter being brought to bed in Mr. Jaques house, stayed there (tho' contrary to Mr. Jaques inclination, if he could have helped it) till she was so far recovered, as to be in a condition to Travail: Her Father in the mean time, having an account of her condition, both from Mr. Jaque and from herself, sent her a Bill of Ten pound starling, payable at sight by Mr, Watson Merchant in Edinbuegh, to defray the necessary Charges that such a condition required. The Gentlewoman was no soonet able to stir about, but M. Jaque required her to be gone, and hereupon she went with her Child to Edinburgh, and having received her Money, she returned to England: However being but weak at the time of her departure, she took Mr. Jaques austere Carriage ill, as did her Father also and Mother at London when they came to hear of it, in that Mr. Jaque did not show their Daughter, more Tenderness in the time of her necessity; so that Mr. Jaque hath born the reflections, both of Mr. Stone and his Wife for his unkindness to their Daughter, and also of his Enemies in Scotland, for not being more severe to her, and on the account of such like Reproaches is his anger more highly aggravated against Dr. Jaque.  
This is the plain but true account of that Business which fell out in Mr. Jaques house in Biggar, which Mr. Kirkwood hath endeavoured to aggravate to the Disrepute and Disgrace both of Mr. Jaque and the Dr. He calls it the famous Business, that deserves so severe a touch, and as he saith was accompanied with such dreadful Circumstances; but were it, as he maliciously would represent, and as he industriously endeavours to pawn it on the Faith of the World, it were a very infamous Business. Mr. Kirkwood hath (it's confessed) a very peculiar gift of expression, but he is equally unhappy in it as he is in his Rhetoric, for an Hyperbole with him is Instar Ommum; and for his Logic a man may safely adventure to deny the Conclusion, there being no relation between it and the Premises, let now the thinking, and unprejudiced part of the World judge what reason Mr. Kirkwood hath to abuse either Mr. Jaque or the Dr. on the account of that Business, or basely to insinuate under the disguise of Common Report, that the Child brought forth in Mr. Jaques house was the Drs. had Mr. Kirkasood taken half the pains, to find out the truth of the matter; which he industriouly hath done to Print malicious and false Calumnies he had undoubtedly been undeceived, and saved himself the trouble of inserting that Paragraph. But poor man! he hath now undeniably demonstrated to the World, the Crazieness of his Intellectuals, and given a sufficient Testimony that he hath the Rickets in his understanding, and that Rooted Envy, not Polished Reason, had the Ascendant, when he by Scribbling undertook to asperse, and if possible to lesson the Authority, and Reproachfully to Ridicule the Discipline of this Ancient and Renowned Church, which for its great knowledge in Government and Experience in Disciplne, is preferable to any Reformed Church abroad, as is confessed by the Learned of other Nations.  
Ex Vngue Leonem, (To make Mr. Kirkwoods own words militate against himself) no unbyass'd Reader, but may easily through his whole Pamphlet, discover the malignancy of his Spirit, and that it is not particular Persons or Judicatures, but the whole Church as now by Law Established, that he levels at, and in so doing strikes at the highest powers of the Nation, who have by their Civil Sanction restored the I resbyterian Government of the Church, and committed it to Ministers of that Persuasion; And even at the King himself, who Honours the Church Judicatures with Honourable Persons, to sit with them as His Representatives, and also by His most Respectful Letters, which are Extant in Print, The Honoutable, Pious and Learned Nobility and Gentry of this Ancient Kingdom, who favour the Church Judicatures, with their presence and Assistance, as Ruling Elders, are not exempt from the severe and false Censures, which Mr. Kirkwood casts on the whole Church, (with which, as he audaciously boasts he contends) of Partiality, Injustice, Envy, Malice, Ignorance and Falsehood, and his Impudent Incivility advanceth to such a pitch as to make the whole Church an Herd of Savage wild Boar's, Styling them the beasts of Ephesus: The Profaneness Blasphemy and Obscenity, contained in Mr. Rirkwoods' Pamphlet, is such as can't pass the Observation of the diligent Reader, and deserves a severe Animadversion; His Blasphemous Parable about the Ass; His Immodest Representation, of things which God and Nature ordain to be kept secret, and his Ignominious contempt of the whole Ministry, and Rabshekah like railing against them, together with his Profane and Blasphemous drolling upon Scripture Phrases, his horrid Assertion that he led some of the General Aslembly down to Hell to Tame them, and round about the whole Confines of Eternity, and such like are all sufficient proof both of the Corruptness of his Pen and Heart, it may also be remarked how unworthy the Pamphleteer is of being entertained in common converse when he is so base as in Print to Publish every ordinary Dialogue, that past between him, and those that discoursed with him; and that which superlatively aggravats his Impudence is, that he is so foolish, furious and Inconsiderate, as to shelter his monstrous and menstruous Brat, under the Noble wings of so Virtuous a Countess, the Modesty of whose Sex, and Honour of whose Quality cannot but induce her to abhor, and with detestation to Resent the same.  
Should Mr. Kirkwood be let pass with such Affronts without being Branded with some public mark of Infamy, he would Glory in his shame and this Ancient Kingdom and Church, which is Applauded and Honoured both by the Voices and Writings of the Learned Abroad and of Neighbour Nations, for its Antiquity and Purity, would be greatly reflected on. It's not to be doubted but the Venerable Church, will sustain their own Quarrel, and by Answering Mr. Kirkwood's Pamphlet, decipher the Author in his proper Colours. He is indeed the Object of Pity rather than Envy, and it's to be feared that the old saying, Quos Deus vult perdere, prius Dementat, will be verified on him.  
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