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 ANSWER 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Scots Presbyterian Eloquence, 
 
 Dedicated to the Parliament of Scotland. 
 
 Being a Vindication of the A(ks of that Auguft AlTembly, 
 from the Clamours and Afperfions of the Scots Prelati- 
 cal Clergy, in their Libels printed in England, 
 
 With a Confutation of Dr. M -Poftfcript, in Anfwer 
 
 to the former, proving. That it^s not the Church of Eng'- 
 Un£s Interert, to countenance the Scots outed Clergy. 
 
 As alfb Reflexions on Sir Gto, Mackenz>y*s Defence of Charles 
 the Second*s Government in Scotland. And Inflances on 
 Record of Sir G^<?r^/s Subornation again ft Sir/ftf^^and 
 Sir George Campbely and the Laird of Blackivood, Presby¬ 
 terian Gentlemen. 
 
 Together with the AXs of the Scots General Aflembly and 
 prefent Parliament; compared with the AXs of Parlia¬ 
 ment in the two laft Reigns againft the Presbyterians. 
 
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 TO THE 
 
 STATES SC or LAND 
 
 in Parliament Aflembled. 
 
 Mofi Noble Patriots ; 
 
 I Prefutne, but with that profound Refpeft which is due to fuch 
 an Auguft Aflembly, humbly to implore your Protection to 
 this rude and indigefted, yet real Effort of true Love to my 
 Country, and to you Worthy Patriots in particular, whom all 
 honeft-hearted Scotfmen look upon as the Healers of our Breaches^ 
 and Reftorers of our Paths to dwell in : And therefore it is not poffible 
 for any Man who has a drop of true Scaf/Blix)d in his Veins, to 
 hear your Authority impugned, and your Wifdom called in Qiiefti- 
 on, without refenting it to the utmoft of his Ability : And if, ac¬ 
 cording to the common Opinion of fome of our Neighbours, Seo- 
 torum ingenia ftnt prafervida^ an Affront of that Nature is enough 
 to make them boil over. Hence it is, that in a former Endeavour 
 I could not forbear to befprinkle, Scotico aceto^ fome degenerate 
 Monffers of our Country, who expofed to contempt, as much as 
 in them lay, whatever Scotfmen account dear in things Civil and 
 Sacred. 
 
 Had i: been only a particular Party, or fome fuch pack’d Clubs 
 as difgraced the Name of Parliaments in former Reigns, and en- 
 afled fuch Laws as their prefent Majefiies, with your Advice, have 
 declared to be impious; had it, I fay been thus, the Matter might 
 have been the more'ealily digefted *, but to have a lawful and a free¬ 
 ly elected Parliamentof Scotland^ charged in a Neighbouring King¬ 
 dom with a deliberate and malicious Lie,in an ACt fo unanimouQy re- 
 folv’d on and duly canvas’d, as was that of your Aflembly, concern¬ 
 ing the Nation’s being firH reformed by Presbyters s and that there¬ 
 fore Presbyterian Government is moil fotable to the Inclinations of 
 our People ; I fay, to have a Lie of that Nature charged upon you, 
 
 A 2 is 
 
is a Piece of Impudence that none but the Party culpable could be ' 
 guilty of. And yet, as if they had a mind to exhauft all the Trea- 
 fure of the bottomkfs Pit at once, and to bankrupt the Malice and 
 Fallhood of Hell for ever after, they go on to charge you further, 
 with lodging the Government of the Church, in the Hands of fuch 
 blafphemous ignorant and immoral Beafts, as Africa never produ¬ 
 ced the like *, and to aggravate your Guilt, would make our Neigh- 
 bouring^Nadon believe, that at the fame time you have turn’d out 
 fuch a Generation of Miniflers, as the Primitive Church would 
 have been proud of for their Sandlity, and ador’d for their Learn¬ 
 ing. Thus thole common Incendiaries, in their printed Libels,, 
 treat the Parliament of Scotland-^ which for the Antiquity of its 
 Standing, and fulnefsof its Power, gives place to none in Europe.. 
 But it is not to be wondred at, moll Noble Patriots, that that Par¬ 
 ty Ihould treat you thus, feeing they hate your being any otherwife 
 than to ferve ru their Drudges-, and devour the hefi and' mef^ indujirious 
 Part of the Subject by which both you, and that Ancient King¬ 
 dom which you repiefent,. were well-nigh entomb’d in Oblivion 
 and Difgrace. It was that Party who changed a well-limited and 
 regular Monarchy, intoan abfolute and uncontroulable Tyranny v 
 thatdurll arrogate a Power to cafs and annul your firmelt Laws, 
 and treat you with Contempt as perfed Slaves C^).. It was that Par¬ 
 ty who rt)bbed Chrill of his Prerogatives Royal, to be Jewels in 
 the Crowns of their Abfolute Monarchs {h'). It was that Party 
 which robbed the People of their Confciences, to bring them to an. 
 abfolute dependance on the Prelatical Mitres (c) : And not only de¬ 
 prived you of the Property of your Houfes (f^), but denied you ar 
 fafe Retreat into your own Hearts {e). It was that Party who 
 rend red K. James ihQ Sixth fo much a Prelatical Bigot, as to the di- 
 fturbance both of Church and State, and contrary to his Oath, tO; 
 obtrude Bilhopsupon the Nation, and perfecute the fincerellProte- 
 ftants,. while at the fame time he indulged the Papilts; and in fine, 
 had fuch an avcrfion for his Native Country, that inllead of fee- 
 ihg it once in three Years, for adminhlring JuRice according to his 
 Promife, he never came to it but once after his Succellion to the 
 Crown of England ^ and inllead, of favouring his Church of Scot^. 
 
 landy 
 
 Qa) K. Janies’.j Prodmatm. (i") ASioj SHprmacy. (c) A5t for jiriSt Corfomi- 
 ty.. (d) By frequent making thm Qmfons. (ef Extorting ■ yow: Thoughts ly Torture, anA\ 
 then bianging you ffo} thm< 
 
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 tnnd, which he pretended once fo much to admire, he perfecutcd 
 thofe who declin’d a Conformity with the Church of England. It 
 was that Party who influenced Charles the Firfl:, though a Native 
 of Scotland^ to put fuch an intolerable Affront upon the Nation, as 
 to demand their Crown to be fent to England ; and afterwards to 
 invade us with a formidable Army, defigning an abfolute Conqueff, 
 and in an unnatural manner to fubjed that Nation to his newly ac¬ 
 quired Crown} which his Anceftors did fo much difdain, that they 
 maintain’d 300 Years War upon that Head with no fmall Glory. 
 And how the Fadlion prevail’d with Charles the Second, to requite 
 our Nation for making themfelves a Field of Blood in Defence of 
 his Title, is fo frefh, that it needs not be recapitulated *, and it is 
 yet much more recent, how well K, James the Seventh rewarded us 
 for owning his Right of Succeffion, when had in a manner 
 
 fpued him out by the Bill of Exclufion ; he, I fay, rewarded us, 
 by publilhing fuch defpotical Proclamations, as with an unparallel’d 
 audacity,declared us Slaves to the perpetual Infamy of that Genera¬ 
 tion of Scotfmen,who were fo tamely bereft of their Liberty, which 
 our Noble Progenitors maintained againfl: Romans^ ViHsy Britainsy 
 Banes., Saxons., Ehrmans Englijh^ for twenty preceeding Ages. 
 So that 1 fay, confidering how the Prelatical Fadion influenced thofe. 
 four Monarchs to treat our Nation, though they derived their Be¬ 
 ing and Honour from it \ and were otherwife in many refpeds,, 
 tantornm hand qnaquam indigni avorum. The Refolve of your Augull: 
 Aflembly, that Prelacy was an infupportable Grievance to that 
 Kingdom, deferves to be engraven in Pillars oi Corinthian 3 
 and that all Scotfmen (as no doubt many thoufands will) fiiould 
 not Only whet their Pens, but their Swords, in defence of it. It 
 is that Party, who in this Reign, impugn your Authority, by procu¬ 
 ring Letters from Court to command fuch things to the Affembly as. 
 by Law they are not obliged to comply with-, and if they fhould have 
 done it, could neither have been anfwerable to God nor yonr Honours- 
 for it, to pull down with their own Hands, that Hedg which he in 
 his Providence, by your Ad, hath fet about the Church, in lodging 
 the Government upon themfelves, which no doubt theWifdom of 
 your Augufl Aflembly judged to be the belt Expedient to fecure the 
 Peace of the Church •, and yet for noncompliance, how did they 
 procure the Diffolution and Reproach of that Aflembly, to the ma- 
 nifeft violation of your Authority ; and that by the Advice of fome 
 Englifh Courtiers and Prelats, as if they had a mind to homologate 
 the Ancient Pretenfions of. that Crown and Church over yours, 
 
 and! 
 
and in the view of the World declare our Parliament and General 
 Aflembly not able to give Advice in our own Affairs, but fit to be 
 over-ruled by a pack’d Club of another Nation : and lhall they adt 
 thusto affront a Parliament, which Malice it felf cannot fay, 
 as their Party did formerly of the Englifii Parliament, That it is but 
 afuperfluous Tumour or Wen: for all who know our Hiftory, are 
 fenfible of the' fliare which the Scots Parliaments have, from the firit 
 Conffitution of our Government, been pofTeft of, not only in the 
 Legillative, but the Executive Power: and, if our Hiflorians may be 
 believed, laid the Foundation, and have often-times fince regulated 
 and limited the Power of our Monarchy *, and to the eternal Con- 
 fufion of all thofe who would infinuate the danger thereof to King¬ 
 ly Government, have, notwithffanding, preferved our Monarchy in 
 a longer and more uninterrupted Succeflion than any Nation of 
 Eurofe. 
 
 It is not unknown to your Auguff Alfembly what Convulfions. 
 the Prelatical Party have thrown the Kingdom into, fince the firft 
 Intrufion of their Prelacy ^ and how near the Ruine both, of our 
 Religious and Civil Liberties were effeded, by their Concurrence 
 with the Tyranny of the late Reigns, reprefented in your 0/ 
 Eight \ and therefore the World cannot but juftify your Condud 
 in depriving them of any fliare of the Government of the Church, 
 which they only feek, that they may undermine *, and tho they 
 fhould comply with the Terms required in Law, yet their former 
 Perjuries and contradidory Tefts are but too fiirew’d Caufes to 
 fufped their future Levity, which, together with the Difaffeded- 
 neC they have generally evidenced to the prefent Government, de- 
 monflrates hovj dangerous it is to entruft them with the Coiidud 
 of Peoples Confciences. And what may juftly render them hateful 
 to all honeff Scots-men, is the Obloquy and Reproach they have 
 thrown here upon the whole Nation •, and their under-hand deal¬ 
 ing with the high-flown Church-of-Ew^/W-Party, who have a 
 Heart-hatred at our Country and Religion *, and hav'c treated you 
 with fo much Contempt, that tho you mov’d for an Union, and 
 his Majcfty was gracionfly pleafed to back it, they difdain’d to give 
 him any Anfwer, as thinking you'unworthy of a Politick cr Tem¬ 
 poral Union ; and yet they would be at forcing you to an Ecclefia- 
 fficnl and Spiritual Union, which if they could effeduate, the World 
 mufi: allow that they ought, in the next place, to beg us fcr Fools, 
 who could believe that they have a Kindnefs for our Souls, who 
 have none for our Bodies. Yet this is the Party that our Prelatical 
 
 Country- 
 
Country-men do fo much court and make Application to, while 
 they flight Scots-men who are authoriz’d to reprefent our Affairs : 
 So much have they divefted themfelves of all natural Refped to 
 their Country, that if their Prelacy live, they care not tho the Name 
 and Fame of Scotland die f and that they may effedluate their De- 
 ligns, there’s no doubt but they will be forming Parties in your 
 Augufl: Aflembly, and make many fair Pretences of defiring Liberty 
 only to exercife what belongs to their pretended indelible Character 
 of Paftors, and promife to undertake nothing to the Difturbance 
 of the publick Tranquillity : But their worming themfelves in by 
 degrees in King James the Vlth’s time under fair Pretences, and 
 then overturning all when they had opportunity, is a fufficient 
 Caveat to beware of them, as inwardly ravening Wolves, tho out- 
 wardly they appear in Sheeps Cloathing. Your Augufl: Affembly 
 cannot fo foon have forgot that the Nation was almofl: totally ruined, 
 your Counties invaded by favage Highlanders, your Tenants 
 murdered, and Families impoverifh'd, your Houfes plundered, your 
 Wives, Daughters, and Relations ravifh’d, your feives and tender 
 Infants expofed to Wandring, Hunger, Nakednefsand Cold, and 
 all the Miferies and Opprembns which you groan’d under in the 
 late Keigns, both as to Soul and Body. I fay your Honours cannot cer¬ 
 tainly have forgot thefe things, fo far as to be prevail’d upon by any 
 Infinuations whatever, again to deliver up your bleeding Church 
 and Country into the Hands of that Fadion, lefl: the latter end be 
 worfe than the firflr. 
 
 There’s no caufe to fear a Rupbre with England on that account. 
 The good Church-of-£;?^/4«^/-Laity, and not a few of their Clergy, 
 have incurred danger enough from their high-flown Tantivies, and 
 have fmarted fuflSciently under their Dodrine of Paflive Obedience, 
 to make them cautious and willing tp fecure themfelves from their 
 •Fury, fo far will they be from concurring vyith them againfl: you. 
 
 The chief Arguments ufed here for re-admitting the Prelatical 
 Clergy are. That it will contribute to his Majefty’s Interefl:, and 
 pleafe the Church of England^ and fupply the vacant Congrega¬ 
 tions. As to the firfl:. How it can promote his Majefty’s Interefl 
 to dilbbligethe greatefl: part of Scotland, and all the Diflenters in 
 England and Ireland^ is beyond the reach of Mankind to determine. 
 2. How it can be fuppofed that a Party, who have hitherto witnefled 
 fo much Rancour againfthis Majefty’s Perfon, Family and Govern¬ 
 ment, as the ScotsEpifcopal Clergy have done,is only to be anfwered 
 by thofe who can fwear contradidory Oaths, as our Curats did in 
 
 their 
 
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 their infamous Tefls, &c. As to the fecond. That it will pleafc 
 the Church of 'England ^ it may eafily be anfwered, that we do 
 not owe them fo much Kindnefs •, and if we did, we mull firft 
 know what that Church of England is that we mufl oblige; for 
 hitherto fhe hath been an individmm Vagum^ that no body knows 
 where to find, it being as difficult to define her, as to make a 
 Coat for the Moon. Her Dodlrinal Articles are own’d by us, and 
 all good Proteftants; but that is not the Charadferiftick of 
 the Church of England: for in the late Reigns Paffive Obedience 
 and Nonrefiftance were her Shibboleth •, but now Ihe hath renounced 
 thofe Dodrincs, by ading diametrically oppofite to them. And for 
 a Charader of the Church of England in this Reign, we cannot 
 certainly have it better than from a Vote of the lafl: Houfe of 
 Commons, who refolved on an Addrefs of Thanks to his Majefty 
 for the Care he had taken of the Church of England, in the Altera¬ 
 tion which was then made in the Lieutenancy of London *, and that 
 was, becaufe by the ill Advice of a certain Prelate and others, the 
 Military Power of the City was lodg’d in thofe who had furren- 
 dred her Charter, and dipp’d their Hands in the Blood of my 
 Lord Rnffel^ Colonel Sidney^ Alderman CorniJJj^ &c. and contributed 
 to the Arbitrary Methods of the late Reigns: And becaufe this 
 is but one half of the Parliament, let’s look into the higher Houfe, 
 and there you will find, that according to the opinion of none of 
 the leafl: Church-of-f^^/W-Men, when the Aftpafs’d for depri¬ 
 ving the Nonjurant Bilhops, it was look’d upon as a fatal Blow 
 to the Church of England. So that in plain terms, the Jacobite 
 Party is what that Fadlion means by the Church of England. And 
 as a Commentary upon the Text, let’s but confider the main En¬ 
 gine which they have made ufe of to qualh the Difeovery of all Plots 
 againll the Government, and we fiiall find that it was by giving 
 out thofe Difeoveries as the Efforts of Republicans and DifTcnters 
 againft the Church of England ; and if we look nearer home, and 
 confider how k comes to pafs that fuch Men are advanced to the 
 highell Places in the Scots Government, who were the Contrivers, 
 Eiiaders, and bloody Executioners of thofe Laws which your 
 Auguft Afiembly hath declared to be impious, we ihall find it to be 
 done by the Intereft of that Party in the Church of England. If we 
 confider further, whence it is that thofe who betray’d our Army, 
 murder’d our People, and plotted the Deflruftion of your Conventi¬ 
 on, efcape unpunifh’d, you will fin’d it to be by the Procurement of the 
 .aforefaid Party. Now all thefe things being confidered, it will eafily 
 
 appear, 
 
■appear, whether it be your Interefl: to oblige this Church or not. 
 Or, if we take her according to the general Acceptation of 
 Jhops 2nd Ceremonies^ the Vote of your Augull AOembly concerning 
 Prelacy, your Ad eflablifliing Presbytery as moft agreeable to tlie 
 Word of God, and the Oppofltion made to the Ceremonies by our 
 Country in CW/e/ the Firil’s time, will fpeedily determine the cafe. 
 And it will yet appear lefs reafonable to oblige that Church, fo 
 taken, if we confider, that thole of her own Communion, and the 
 beH: of them too, look upon both Bilhops and Ceremonies to be 
 indifferent, and not of Divine Inftitution, as may be feen by the 
 Writings of Mr. Hkk^ingil^ Counfellor Stephens^ and Stillingfleeth 
 JrenicHm. So that in effed, the belt of the Chmch-o{-England- 
 Communion are embark’d in the fame Bottom with your felves, 
 and the common Enemies of both call them Presbyterians as well 
 as you, and treated them accordingly in the late Reigns: So that 
 from that w'orthy part of the Church of England^ who are Men of 
 good Lives, and keep firm to the Dodrine of their Church, you 
 need fear no Oppofition *, for to do them Jullice, they are as zealous 
 for the Proteftant Religion as any, and never join’d in perfecuting 
 their Brethren of a different Opinion. 
 
 To what they pretend of fupplying the vacant Churches, may 
 fpeedily be replied i The AfTembly hath declared their Willingnefs 
 to employ fuch of them as are Godly and Orthodox. And as for 
 others, the good old way of our Church in the Reformation ( when 
 IVlinifters were fcarcer than now ) of appointing Men to preach by 
 turns to thofe vacant Congregations till they can be otherwife fup- 
 plied, is the much fafer and better Expedient, than to entruft fuch Men 
 with the Charge of other Peoples Souls, who have difeovered fo little 
 care of their own, and whom in your Wifdom you objeded againll; 
 as the great and infupportable Grievance of the Nation. Nor 
 have you any fuch Encouragement from their former Succefs to 
 imploy them again : and if it lhall feem good in your Eyes to go 
 on as you begun, and encourage a Reformation, fuch of our 
 Country-men as are abroad, will be the fooner prevail’d with to 
 come home ; and others to profecute their Studies, to adapt them 
 for the Minillry, and fill up the Vacancies •, for it cannot be hid 
 from your Illuftrious Aflembly, that the intruding the chief Ene¬ 
 mies of the Presbyterians in the Government, is a great Difeou- 
 ragement to ail that wilh well to our Church or Country *, and 
 
 a admini- 
 
adminillers but too juft caufeof Sufpicion, that ^we muft either be 
 imbroil’d in aCivil War, or return to our former Bondage, which 
 nothing but your Care, with his Majefty’s Affiftance and God’s Blef- 
 ling, is able to prevent^ 
 
 Your Honours may perhaps be inclin’d to think, that there is 
 too much Gall in my Pen againft our Prelatical Clergy ^ but fuch of 
 your Number as have been lately at London^ cannot but know what 
 an Odium they have endeavoured to bring upon the Country in ge¬ 
 neral, and your Auguft AfPembly in particular-, infinuating, lhat 
 you are neither the True 7Jor full Refrefentatives cf the Nation^ and but 
 a meet furreftitiom Fallen got together by the Opportunity of tHmul-^ 
 tHOHi Times *, and that you neither aUed from a Principle of Honour 
 nor Ccnfcience^ but did only what you thought would be pleafing to the 
 Prince of Orange. And hence they have ufed their utmoft Endea¬ 
 vours to have you Didblv’d, by the Intereft of the high-flown Pre¬ 
 latical Englifli Courtiers, to whom they reprefent you in the black- 
 eft Colours, which their Malice or Wit can invent: And not only 
 fo, but they make ufe of your Name, as the Turkifli Slaves do 
 thofeof their Barbarous Mafters from whom they have efcaped, to 
 move thofe of the Church-of-£«^/W-Communion to’ open their' 
 Purfes, pretending that you have turn’d them out in a barbarous 
 and illegal manner, or that they have had fuch and fuch Indigni^ 
 ties and Affronts put upon them. And thus they beg from one Cler¬ 
 gy-man to another, and fpend what they get at Taverns and Ale- 
 houfes, or fitting up whole Nights at Cards, particularly at Mills 
 in IVeJiminJler^ or Hutchinfons in the Hay-Market: and when their 
 Stock is fpent, renew the begging Trade, or elfe troop about the 
 Country, and with their ftoi’n Sermons, or railing Invedives a- 
 gainft' the Government of Scotland^ both in Church and State, inli- 
 nuate themfelves into the Adorers of Bifliops and Ceremonies j 
 for the latter of which, though they exclaim’d againft them at 
 Home,they profefs themfelves to be mighty Zealots Abroad: and thus 
 they difleminate their Poifon in our Neighbouring Nation, by their 
 lying Tongues and blafphemous Pamphlets. So that hence your 
 Auguft Affenibly may have a fufficient view, whether it be fafe to 
 reintroduce fuch Men into the Church, who have given up them¬ 
 felves to all manner of Villanies, and are become Devotees to 
 thofe unfcriptural Ceremonies, which occafion’d the fatal War in 
 Charles the Firft’s Time 3 and have moreover evidenced fuch Le- 
 
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 vlty and Unftedfaflnefs both in imbracing 6c rejeding them atHome, 
 fince the Revolution, that it’s vifible they are not aited by Princi¬ 
 ple, butlntereftj and that their Intereft has been always contrary 
 to what your Augufl: Aflembly hath now efpoufed, both as to Poli¬ 
 cy and Religion, is fo evident, that whoever calls but an Eye up¬ 
 on the Hillory ever lince they were obtruded upon the Nation, 
 may foon be convinc’d of it : Or by a Ihorter view, if they pleafe 
 but to read the Grievances which you delired to be redrelTed by 
 their prefent Majeflies, of which the Bi(hops and Clergy were for 
 the moll part Contrivers, Promoters and A( 3 :ors. And we may the 
 better be fatisfied what thofe Men who now follicite for a Share in 
 the Government of the Church, do chiefly aim at, both as to that 
 and the State, if we do but confider that their principal Converfe 
 is with the Jacobites in England^ and that the chiefell of their 
 Friends are none of the bell Williamites in Scotland. 
 
 It’s not unlike that your Honours may be accolled with this a- 
 mongll other Arguments, that admitting thofe Men to a lhare of 
 Church-Government-, will gratify the King to whom you are fo much 
 obliged, which of it felf is an impeachment of your Wifdom *, for 
 none can fo well know the Interell of Scotland as a free chofen Par¬ 
 liament, who are confequently fittell to give the King Advice : 
 And feeing the Interell of all good Kings, and their People, is one 
 and the fame, that ought to be moll grateful to the King which is 
 fo to the People, and what that is you have already declared. It is 
 obvious to thofe that know our Hillory, that ever lince the Refor¬ 
 mation, the Church of Scotland hath claim’d a ^ight of Calling and 
 Adjourning her own Allemblies, pro re nata *, and what difmal Con- 
 fequences the Invafion of that Privilege hath been attended with, 
 to thofe Kings and Grandees who have attempted it, is lb well 
 known, that it cannot eafily be forgot. And whether King 
 the Sixth’s Curfe hath not taken place upon thofe of his Succeflbrs 
 who invaded the Church, the Revolutions of the Crown have fuf- 
 ficiently witnelled : and if the Hand of God hath not been re¬ 
 markably feen in punilhing thofe Great Ones who were their 
 Tools, let the Ruin of their Families from time to time declare. 
 Nor hath the Nation efcap’d punilhment for the Treachery of their 
 Reprefentatives, God having been jultly provok’d to give them 
 and their Liberties to be fwallowed up by thofe very Men whom 
 they would needs fet upon his Throne, and into whofe Hands they 
 
 a 2 betray’d 
 
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 betray’d the Liberties of the Church, of which your own ClaiiB 
 of Right is a fpeaking Monument: and feeing there is no doubt 
 but your Auguft Aflembly had valuable Rcafons for abolifhing the 
 Supremacy, it’s an Affront to your Authority to demand its Refli- 
 tution : Its being pofTefs’d by the Church, can bring no Damage 
 to the Crown •, for Presbyterians are known to have as good, if not 
 a better Opinion of his prefent Majefty, than any other of bisSub- 
 jeds *, and all Men of Senfc mull: needs take it for a Proof of it, that 
 they follicite for fuch good Laws in his Reign, as may fecure them 
 from the danger of others. And feeing our Church-men are fub- 
 jed to the Laws, and never did refufe to aHemble at the Call of 
 their Kings, and to give an Account of their Affairs, it’s but equal 
 to leave them in the PoflelTion of that Liberty of calling Aflem- 
 blies, concerning their own Matters, which the Church was pof- 
 fefled of before ever there was a Chriftian Magiffrate, if the i<yth 
 of the be the Word of God. And certainly he who promifed 
 that Kings fliould be Nurflng-Fathers, did never intend that they 
 fhould be Step-Fathers, to rob the Children of what is their 
 due.. 
 
 As for the Calumnies of your Church*of-£«^/4»^-Enemies, it is 
 eafy to flop their Mouth with jlrgHmenttm ad Hominem •, their Car¬ 
 riage to K. "Barnes the Seventh, proclaims their unlhaken Loyalty. 
 And for your own Epifcopal,Party, all the World knows that they 
 and their Kings together, did fo tyrannize over your Bodies and 
 Souls, that you durft fcarcely plead a Property in either. And if 
 the Church of Englavd muff be plcafed, which is the Achillean Argu^ 
 ment ufed by the Party, we can juftly anfwer the peeviffi Lady,, 
 as the young Crab did the old One, / pra Mater & ego fequar. 
 Let’s fee how careful flie will be to teftify her Gratitude to his Ma- 
 jefty, in taking off the Teft, and taking in Diflcnters to the 
 Church, which will but juft make them even with us v and then, and 
 time enough then, becaufe we are the oldeft Nation, we may think 
 which way to make the next Advance: for as we have got the Pre¬ 
 cedency, it’s but reafonable we fhould keep it; for I know fo much 
 by my fclf, that Scotfmen love to go, but neither to be driven nor 
 dragg’d. 
 
 I cannot but acquaint yctir Honours, that fincc the writing of 
 what is above, the Jacobitea here are mightily elevated, and big 
 
 with 
 
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 wklT hopes of feeing you all in ConfuHon, and the Nation in a 
 Flame, by the Defigns which they give out to be on foot amongfi: 
 you, of lodging the Power of Calling and Dillblving Church-AlTem- 
 blies in the Magiftrate alone, and depriving the People of the 
 Right of chufing Minifters i by which means they are fo bold as to 
 fay, That they hope not only to fee Prelacy gradually reintroduced, 
 but their late Monarch reinthroned : And that they may accomplilh 
 thefe Defigns, will infinuate themfelves into both Parties ^ and are 
 very confident, that the Refulc will anfwer their Expeiftation for a 
 fpeedy Recftablifhment, of Prelacy at leafl: ^ thefe Meafures, as they 
 give out, being concerted with Englifli Prelats, who have form’d a 
 Party among you fdr their Defigns. But as they have hitherto re¬ 
 proach’d your Proceedings, there’s no doubt but this is a Calumny 
 from the fame Forge, by which they would Ridicule your Authori¬ 
 ty, and reprefentyou to the World as Men of no Principle nor So¬ 
 lidity, but fuch'as will make your felf Tranfgrelfors, in building 
 again what you have already deftroy’d. But may the God and Fa- 
 tfer of our Lord Jefus Chrift direff your Counfels, fo as to ilTue in 
 the Comfort of his Church, Peace of the Nation, and Confulion of 
 thofe your black'mouth’d Enemies, who are engaged in an Interefl:,. 
 not only diIl:inftfrom,but altogether deftrudive of y ours: Of which 
 there’s no room to doubt, if we confider the following Addrefs of 
 the Reprefentatives of their Church, which they have endeavour’d 
 to perform on all Occafions *, and as they have never yet revok’d it, 
 we need not doubt but that the Party are ftiU of the fame mind. 
 
 The Addrefs of the Archbifhops and Bifhops of Scotland to 
 the late K.j 4 w^i,upon the News of the Prince of Orange^s^ 
 Undertaking, November th^ loth^ i688. Vid. 
 
 Numb. 2598. 
 
 May it pleafe your mod: Sacred Majcfty, 
 
 W E profirate our felves to pag onr mofl Devote Thanks and 
 
 ration to the Soveraign Majefly of Heaven and Earthy for pre- 
 ferving Tour Sacred Life and Perfony fo freqnently expo fed to the great ejl 
 Haz.ardsy and m often deliveredy and Tott miracalonjly profpered with 
 Glory and V'iSiory^ in Defence of the Rights and Honour of Tour MajeftyS' 
 Atigufl Brothery and of thefe Kingdoms y and that by his Merciful 
 Goodnefs the Ragings of the Seay and Madnefs of VmeafonaHe Meny have- 
 been fillcd.and cahned: And Tour iHajejly^ aS' the Darling of Heaverty 
 
 peaceably 
 
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 peaceably feated cn the Thrones of your Royal Ancefiors^ xohofe Rong^ 
 JUnfiriom and VnparalielCd Lirte-i is the greatefi Glory of this Tear Ancient 
 Kingdom, 
 
 We pay our mcfi humble Cratitude to Tour Afaje/ly for the repeated Ajfu- 
 ranccs of Tour Royal Prcteblion to cur National Church and Religion^ at 
 the Laws have eflablifsed them •, which are very futable to the Graciom 
 Countenance^ Encouragement and Proteblion Tour APajefly was pleafed to 
 afford to our Church and Order^ whtlfi we were happy in Tour Prefeme 
 amongft us. 
 
 We magnify the Divine Mercy in bleffing Tour Majejly with a Son, 
 and m with a Prince, whom we pray Heaven may blefs andpreferve to 
 fway Tour Royal Scepter after Tou^ and that he may inherit with Tour 
 Dominions the lllufrious and Heroick Dertues of his Auguji and mo{i 
 Serene Parents. 
 
 We are amaz,ed to hear of the danger of an Invafion from Holland, 
 excites our Prayers for an univerfal Repentance to all Orders of Men-, that 
 Cod may yet fpare his People, preferve Tour Royal Perfon, and prevent the 
 Effupon of Chriflian Blood, and to give fuch Succefs to Tour Majejiy^s Arms, 
 that all who invade Tour Majefty s jufl and undoubted Rights, and difiurb 
 or interrupt the Peace of Tour Realms, may be difappointed and clothed 
 with Shame ; fo that on Tour Royal Head the Crown may jiili fiourijh. 
 
 As, by the Grace of God, we fhall preferve in our felves a firm and un* 
 fihaken Loyalty, fo we Jhall be careful and z.ealom to promote in all Tour 
 SubjeBs an intrepid and fiedfajl Allegiance to Tour Majejly, as an Effential 
 Part of their Religion, and of the Glory of out Holy Profeffion, not 
 doubting but that God in his great Mercy^ who hath fo often preferved 
 and ' delivered Tour Majejly, will fiill preferve and deliver Tou, by giving 
 Ton the Hearts of Tour SubjeSls, and the Necks of Tour Enemies, So 
 pray we, ivho, in all Humility, are. 
 
 May it pleafe Tour Mofi Sacred Majejly, 
 
 Tour Majejly s rnojl Humble, moji Faithful, and 
 mojl Obedient SubjeSls and Servants. 
 
 Edinburg, 3 . i588. 
 
 Signed by 
 
 The Lord Bifhop of Brechen. 
 
 The Lord Bifhop of Orkney. 
 
 The Lord Bifhop of Murray, 
 
 The Lord Bifhop of Rofs, 
 
 The Lord Bifhop of Dumblanel 
 
 The Lord Bifhop of the JJIes,^ 
 
 Pardon 
 
 The Lord Ar.Bp of St. Andrews. 
 The Lord Archbifhop of Glafcow. 
 The Lord Bifhop of Edinburg. ; 
 The Lord Bifhop of Galloway. 
 The Lord Bifhop of Aberdeen. 
 The Lord Bifhop of Dmk^ll, 
 
Pardon my Freedom, mofl: Noble Patriots •, God the Searcher of 
 Hearts, knows what Veneration I have for your Augufl Allembly', 
 as Reprefentatives of the ancientefl: Kingdom upon Earth : I own 
 that your Wifdom and Authority fets you above the reach of 
 Didtatesv nor is anything here intended as fuch ■, for if the Cafe 
 would admit it, I am far from the Vanity of thinking my felf able 
 to do it, but cannot forbear to contribute my poor Mice towards 
 the Vindication of what you have already done, and to put you in 
 mind how much your Wifdom is vilified, and your Authority im¬ 
 pugn’d amongft Strangers, which I have the opportunity of know¬ 
 ing better than many of the Members of your Augulfc Affembly. 
 And at the fame time to inform your Honours, that the Authors are 
 our Prelatifts, a Set of Men whom you voted to be the infuppor- 
 table Grievance of the Nation •, and certainly not without very good 
 Reafon, feeing they had in a great meafure obfcured the Glory 
 which our Gallant Anceftors had acquired by their noble Defence 
 of the Liberties of their Country from Tyrants at home, and Ene¬ 
 mies abroad, and particularly Kome^ both Pagan and Popifh. May 
 the God of Heaven and Earth pour out his bell Blefllngs upon you 
 in general, and incline your Hearts, with of that your Heroick Sove- 
 raign, to what may be bell for the Good of the Nation, and tho 
 Glory of his Name. 
 
 The Badnefs of the Copy, and the Diflance of the Author from the Prefs, has 
 occafion’d many Errata'i^ the mofl: confiderable of which the Reader is defircd 
 to amend, as follows, becaufe they mar the Senfe. 
 
 P Age. 17. line antepenult, dele fo. P. 25. 1 . 7. read afperius. P. 27. 1 . 52. dele fenfe. 
 
 P. 35. 1 .33. read to maf^e no fcruple. Ibid. 1 .34. r. and therefore ought not to be believed, 
 P. 34.1. !♦ t. another denies it. Ibid, 1 .7. r. FriW^. \h\d.\.\g,T.and you apflyit to aW 
 in grofs. Ibid. 1 . 21. r. tvarily, P. 3 5. 1 . 24. r. Lords of the Jufticiary. p. 1. g. dele is. . 
 Ibid. 1 .7. r. and yet owns. Ib. I.23. r. and I am. P.38. 1 . i. dele your felf. Ibid. f. 17. 
 r. inanfpicioHs. P. 40. 1 .27. r, -muld they allow. P. 41.. 1 . p.r. difalfefled, for diffatisfud, 
 P. 51. 1 . 25. dele and. 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 P Age 1,2,3 . Jplogyfor the fharpefs of the Stile^ and Infances^ 5 cc. 
 
 in my lafi\ 
 
 Pag.4,5,6,7,8. Arguments to prove that it^s not the Church of England’/ 
 Jnterejl to endeavour theSubverfion of Presbytery Scotland •, and that 
 the Scots Presbyterians don’t think therafelves obliged to a forcible 
 Extirpation of Prelacy in England by the Covenant. 
 
 Page p, I o, 11,1 2. The Vanger which moderate Church-of-£;7^/4«^- 
 Men are in as to their Religious and Civil Liberties from our Scots Prela- 
 tifts, and their high-flown Tantivies, whom they ought not to countenance 
 in their Deftgns againfl the Church of Scotland. 
 
 Ibid. The Faljhood of the Dolor's Ajfertion^ That the late Governments 
 were obliged to make fuch fevere Laws againfl pu in their own Defence. 
 
 Page 13,14. The moderate Chmd\~o(-England-MQn to blame in not 
 making a publicly Proteflation againfl- the PraUices of their high-flown 
 Party in the late Reigns, and this. 
 
 Ibid. Inliances of the Difloyalty and ungovernable Pajflon of D. M—0. 
 Page 17. Anfwers to his Calumnies and Defence of the Seve¬ 
 
 rities of Charles II’/ Reign againfl the Presbyteriansj and Proofs from his 
 own Conceffson.^ that we may juflly accufe that Government of Cruelty. 
 
 Page 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,23, 24. The DoBoPs ObjeUions from the 
 Cameronians, and his Arguments from our Pratlices in Charles the 
 Firfl and SecondPs time, anfwered and retorted. 
 
 From Page 25, to 30. Anfwers to Sir Geo. Mackenzy’/ Defence of 
 Charles the Second's Government, with Retortions^ and Proofs that either 
 William and his Parliament of Scotland, or Sir Geo. Macken^y 
 and our Scots Prelatifls rnufl be Liars *, and the Pr. of Orange’/ Vnder- 
 taking unjufl, if Charles II’/ Government in Scotland can be defended. 
 
 From Page 30, to 38. Fimher Anfwers to the DcFlor'^s Poflfcript, and 
 his Exceptions againfl my Jnflances in thelafl. 
 
 From Page 38, to 45. An Account of Sir Geo. Mackenzy’/ Suborna¬ 
 tion and Injuflice againfl Cefnock, Blackewood, &c. 
 
 From thence to the end, A Comparifon between the Presbyterian 
 Alls of their General AJfembly and Parliament againfl the Epilcopalians m 
 this Reign, and theirs againfl the Presbyterians in the late Reigns. 
 
A FURTHER 
 
 ANSWER 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, 
 
 By way of Animadverfon on Dr. M.— 
 As Tojlfcrip in Anjwer to the frjl. 
 
 B efore I take the Doctor to task, I think it neceflary to 
 anfwer the Objedions made by Friends againfl: my firft 
 Eday *, which are. That the Stile is too Satyrical, the In- 
 fiances at the latter end too Fulfome ^ and that their Book 
 deferved no Anfwer, as carrying its Confutation in its Forehead. 
 I reply. That as to the fliarpnefs of the Stile, none who read, or 
 confider what they wrote, can think they ought to be otherwife 
 treated : So that I fhall for once make ufe of the Tinker’s Apology 
 to a Farmer, who quarrelled him for flriking his Dog with the fharp 
 End of his Staff, alledging that it had been fufficient to have beat 
 him with the Blunt. Ter, fays the Tinker, when your Dog runs at 
 we with his blunt. Endy I fhall ufe the blunt End of my Stick but when 
 he runs at me with his ftarp Endj give me leave to be as fharp with him. 
 Not that I would jullify the rendringof Railing for Railing, which 
 I acknowledg to be contrary to our Saviour’s Command, but I fub- 
 mitktothe Judgment of Divine?, Whether anfwering Lies with 
 Truth, and making the real Infamy of him appear, who endea¬ 
 vours, by forg’d Accufarions, to take away my good Name, be a 
 Breach of that Divine Precept ? So that while the Matters of Fad 
 
 B where- 
 
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 wherewith they are charged, hold true, the Reflections upon them, 
 and Epithets given them, can never be juftly quarrelled 5 and there¬ 
 fore 1 would entreat my Friends to be fparing of their Cenfures ; 
 for while the Memory of K. Charles the Second, or K. James the 
 Seventh endures \ and till Time, the confumer of all things, hath 
 eat up their Parliament-Rolls, it will hold an undeniable Truth, 
 That the Prelatical Party of ScntU^id are Perfecutors *, and that in 
 denying the fame, they have made themfelves notorious Liars. 
 
 2. So long as it appears by the fame ATs, that they impofed and 
 took a contradidlory TeR, fo long will it hold that they are perjur’d 
 themfelves, and chargeable with the Perjury of others. 
 
 3. So long as it remains in the Records of Council, that they or¬ 
 dered Men to be killed, without any Trial or colour of Law ^ or fo 
 much as with an Exception, Whether they refifted or not refifted j 
 fo long will it hold that they are bloody Murderers. 
 
 4. So long as the Records of the laR General Aflembly of ^the 
 Church of Scotland remain, it will appear, by their Evafions, An- 
 fwers,and difingenuous Refufals, to declare their abhorrence of Ar- 
 minianifm, Socinianifm and Popery, that they are Fire-brands in 
 the Church, and Incendiaries in the State. 
 
 5. So long as any of their villanous Libels, called ‘The Scotch 
 Presbyterian Eloquence^ exill, wherein they charge Holincfs with 
 Deformity, God with horrid Decrees, and mock at Serioufnefs 
 and Piety, fo long will it be evident that they they are Blafphe- 
 rners. 
 
 6 . So long as that Icurrilous Addrefs of their BiSiops againfl the 
 Prince of Orange their oppoling him in Parliament v their refuling 
 to pray for him, or fwear to him now he is King, and the legal Pro¬ 
 cedure againfl: them on the faid accounts are on Record, folong will 
 it appear that they are Rebels. 
 
 7. So long as their bloody Ads of Parliament, and barbarous 
 Execution of thofe Ads againil ns, and our gentle Ads of Parlia¬ 
 ments, and moderate Execution of thofe Ads againft them are 
 upon Record, fo long it will appear that they are infamous Liars, 
 in aflerting, that we treat them more barbarouOy than they trea¬ 
 ted us. 
 
 8. So long as the Well: of Scotland ( which was the principal 
 Scene of thofe bloody TragediesJ has a Being, fo long will it appear 
 that they were barbarous. 
 
 So that I hope all Men of common Senfe, perceive that there’s no 
 denying the Cenjeqte.nce^ without denying the Precedent } which they 
 
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 can never do fo long as any Records have a Being in Scotland i and 
 therefore I refer it to the impartial Reader, whether they do not 
 deferve to be lharply treated. 
 
 To the fulfomnefs of the Inftances I reply, That indeed fuch 
 things are not fit to be named amongft Chriftians as a Subject of Con- 
 verfation ; but feeing they charge our Minifters with Impurity of 
 Life and Dodrine, i hope it may be allowed in fuch a cafe to ex- 
 pofe their really vicious Pr^dlices, in oppofition to what they have 
 forged againlt us *, and feeing the thing is in a manner juridical, and 
 they the firll Aggrefiors, it was but neceflary for our own Juftifi- 
 cation, to difplay them in their own Colours. However, if any 
 thing either in this Particular, or others, be offenfive, let the Blame 
 reft upon me alone s for I folemnly declare, that I neither had the 
 Commiftion nor Connivance of my Party to write what I did, only 
 fome particular Perfons and Laicks like my felf, gave me moft of 
 the Pafiages nowTound fault with. But e’re I leave this Subje(ft, let 
 me add, that 1 humbly conceive my Foundation to be very folid, 
 whatever Biemifh there may be in the Superftrudure, feeing thepre- 
 fent Parliament of Scotland^ when a Convention, palled fuch a Vote, 
 That their Bilhpps and Clergy were the great and infupportable 
 Grievance of tfcie Nation,, for which no better ground can be alTigncd 
 than their Profanity, Perfecution and want of Piety. So that 1 have 
 only made out by Particulars, what they charged them with in ge¬ 
 neral : and therefore feeing I only fpoke the tr uth, to vindicate thofe 
 who were fallly accufed, and not to gratify the profane Palat ot 
 the Age, I hope I may have fome grains of Allowance, it never 
 being reckoned a fault in any Evidence, to repeat the Blafphemies of 
 the Atheift, or the Treafon of rhe Traitor : nor can Religion be a 
 Sufferer by the expofing of thofe Men, any more than it was by ftig- 
 matizingof the Scribes and Pharifees as Hypocrites. 
 
 As to the laft Objsrftion, That it deferved no Anfwer becaufe con¬ 
 futed by it felf*, I reply, in'Scotland it’s true, but here we are 
 
 rot known: and being reprefented as the worft of Men. and greatelt 
 of Barbarians to thofe of the Church of England-, that Atheifti- 
 cal Vomit'was greedily lick’d up, and by many believed *, fo that 
 their Pamphlet^ fpread, and..Vvere mightily hugg’d by fuch as are 
 enraged at our abolifting Prelacy, and by the jacobites who thence 
 took occafion to relied upon hi' Majefty for fetling fuch a monftrous 
 Church in Scotland^ that they might render him odious to the Church 
 of England. I cannot mention it without Concern, that thofe 
 who are able to defend our Church and Country, are; lb unwilling to 
 
 B 2 write j 
 
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 write*, and when they do, that they let the Adverfary triumph fo 
 long before they reply. If it mull be fo, I wifli that they would ob¬ 
 lige fome of their Friends here with Hand-Granadoes, to keep the 
 Enemy in play till they come up with their Mbrtar-pieces. 
 
 Before 1 take the Poflfcript in hand, 1 find it needful to make it 
 evident to the World, that Presbytery cannot be over-turn’d in 
 Scotland without the Subverfion of our Religious and Civil Liber¬ 
 ties \ and confequently that our Scots Epifcopalians arc Enemies to 
 the prefent Government, and French Incendiaries, or at leaft fuch 
 a Crew as would facrifice all chat is dear to us,as Men and Chriftians, 
 to their own private Refentments. 
 
 I. It is very well known, and too lately tranfadted to be forgotten, 
 that the States of Scotland in their Claim of Right did demand the 
 Abolition of Prelacy, as contrary to the Inclination of the Gene¬ 
 rality of the People *, on which Condition, amongfl: others, their Ma- 
 jefties accepted that Crown *, and in purfiiance of their Promife have 
 by Ad of Parliament, abolifhed Prelacy lince^ and eftablilhed Pref- 
 bytery in Scotland^ as moft agreeable to the Word of God, as well 
 as the Peoples Inclinations. Then if their Majellies fiiould be pre¬ 
 vailed upon (which blefled be God there is nocaufe to fear^ toad 
 contrary to their folemn Oaths, and the Claim of Eighty they mull 
 needs fee that the People of Scotland would have ground enough to 
 plead a Breach of the Original Contrad *, nor could the Church 
 of England for fhame condemn them, feeing they made ufe of the 
 fame Plea in their Convention and Parliament againft King James, 
 And in the next place, let them but confider, that upon the fame 
 ground this, or any other King may as well break with them, and 
 invade the Conftitution of their Church, which by the Coronation- 
 Oath they have bound him to maintain : And whether Charles the 
 Second, after he was by them perfwaded to break his Oath to the 
 Presbyterians in Scotland, made any greater Confcience of main¬ 
 taining the Civil and Religious Liberties of England, I appeal to 
 themfelves. And therefore feeing by that excellivc Power which 
 they gave their Kings in things facred, meerly to deftroy the Presby¬ 
 terians, they found at laft that they had put a Rod in their Hands 
 to whip themfelves s I think they fhould be cautious how they 
 play that Game over again. 1 do not write this, as having any 
 fufpicion that their Majellies are fo weak as to be prevailed upon 
 to alter the Church-Government in Scotland, but meerly to let the 
 World fee, that they who follicite them to it, are their greateft 
 Eneraies, anddehgn to (hake their Throne j and that it is not the 
 
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 Church of Englandh Interefl: to countenance our Scots Prelatifls, 
 nor to importune their Majefties on that Head. 
 
 If what is already faid be not enough, 1 would earneftly intreat 
 all fober Church-of'£»^/<?«</-Men to confider what were the Confe- 
 quencesof their meddling in our Affairs, and incenfing King CW/fjr 
 the Firft againil the Presbyterians, in favour of our Runnagate Pre¬ 
 lates, and their Hirelings. And feeing like Caufes may have the like 
 Effefts, they would do well to beware. It is not unknown that 
 Scotland is a diftindt Nation, and ought to be govern’d by their own 
 Laws and Councils and therefore it muft needs be an Invafion of 
 the Rights of Scotland, for Englifh Minifters of State, and Prelates 
 to meddle, or give Counfel in Scotifh Affairs when not call’d to it. 
 And I cannot but think that aD reafonable Men will cafiiy grant, that 
 the Parliament, and General Affembly of the Church of Scotland^ 
 are better Judges of what is expedient for that Nation, than 
 a few Englifh Minifters of State, or Prelates and that both of 
 them have reafon to rejed what Diredions or Injundions come 
 from fuch a Mint, And I would put it to the Confciences of all 
 judicious Church-of-£«^/W-Men, how they would take it if the 
 King were in Scotland^ that any of the Diflenting Minifters who- 
 are really injured, as thofe who preached at Su Hellin Hinley- 
 Chappels in Lancajhire, or the whole of them, becaufe denied a 
 Com prehen (ion, fliould fly thither, and by their Intereft with Scots 
 Presbyterian Minifters of State and Preachers, importune his Ma- 
 jeftytohave the Conftitution of the Church of overturned, 
 
 and procure Orders to have fuch and fuch Minifters planted in 
 Churches, tho they refufe to fatisfy the Law. 1 fay, in fuch a cafe 
 I appeal to their own Confciences how they would take it, whether 
 they would reckon themfelves obliged to obey, or if they would' 
 not complain that their Rights were invaded, and demand Satif- 
 fadion of fuch Minifters of State, &c. as Incendiaries and Diftor- 
 bers of the Harmony between King andSubjeds? I believe verily 
 they would, and that not without good reafon, tho I am fure the. 
 cafe is much ftronger on our fide ftill: for the Diflenting Minifters^ 
 of England are all of them Loyal to his Majefty, willing to fwear 
 Allegiance, and pray for him *, but fo are not our Scots Prelatifts. 
 And befides, his Majefty is really the Head and Fountain of all 
 Power in the Church of England, who have not only their Tem¬ 
 poral Baronies and Honours from him, but are nominated to their 
 Bifhopricks by him : but fo it is not in Scotland, where he hath db 
 veiled himfelf of the Supremacy, and neither heftows Lands nor 
 
 Honours 
 
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 Honours Upon Church*Men. Then the cafe being fo, the Golden 
 Rule, which commands us to do as we would be done by, fliould 
 oblige Englifh-Men not to meddle with our Church, no more than 
 they would have us to meddle with theirs > and if the Parliament 
 of Scotland do pafs over what of that Nature is already done, 
 it’s not to be fuppofed that the Red Rampant Lion is become fo 
 much a Calf as not to roar fometime or other, and make the fat- 
 teffc and proudeft of the Bealls in the Field to tremble, as erfc of 
 old; but I hope and pray that God will avert both the Caufe 
 and the Efre(n:. The Englilh Bilhops did not gain fo much by the 
 the lall BeUum Epifeopale againll us, that they need to be fond of 
 another; and we doubt not to find as much Jultice from the Parlia¬ 
 ment of England now as we found then, and have no reafon to doubt 
 but King William would be as ready as Charles the Firft, to deliver up 
 his Minilters to the Law, if it Ihould be made appear againll them 
 that they have been meddling too mu.h in our Affairs. 
 
 I know that our Scots Prelatills podefs the Church of EngUndy that 
 we think our felves obliged to endeavour the Extirpation of their 
 Hierarchy, and upon that account prevail with them to endeavour 
 our Subverlion. 
 
 But I would earnellly beg all moderate Men to weigh the following 
 Anfwers. 
 
 1. That the reafon of entring into that folemn League and 
 Covenant, was the Fury which the Englilh Prelates evidenced at 
 that time againll the Church of Scotland, having excommunicatecl 
 the fame in all the Churches in EngUndy forced a Service-Book 
 upon us more exceptionable than their own *, and in Conjiindlion 
 with Papills, enabled Charles the Firll to raife 30000 Men againll 
 us, when the Parliament of England refus’d to concur with him, in- 
 fomuch that that Expedition was called the Btjhops War, But 
 bleP.ed be God his prefent Majelly is far from any fuch Attempt, 
 and the Englilh Bilhops, the chief of them at lealt, are Men of 
 more Moderation : So that there is no fuch caufe for us to en¬ 
 deavour the Overthrow of their Hierarchy. 
 
 2. That the Scots Presbyterians do not at all think themfelves ob¬ 
 liged, by that Covenant, to endeavour a forcible extirpation of 
 the Englilh Prelacy, but in Concurrence with the Parliament of 
 England : and therefore fo long as they have not their Call to the 
 Work, the Englilh Prelacy is in no Hazard •, and the belt way to 
 keep fo, is for the Church of England 10 carry modeltly, and nei¬ 
 ther to meddle with us, nor give their own Parliament occalion to 
 
 make 
 
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 ftiake fuch a Vote againft them, as the Parliament of Scotland made 
 igainft our Bifhops, That they were the great and infipportahle 
 Grievance of the Nation : fo that they have their Safety in their 
 own Hand. But if they fhould be fo infatuated to proceed as they 
 began, in relation to the late General Aflembly of the Church of 
 Scotland \ or if they be fuch Fools, as to concur to the ftifling of 
 all Plots againft his Majefty as hitherto, becaufe fo many of their 
 own Communion are concerned in them, let them blame themfelves 
 for what will be the unavoidable Confequences, foon or late : for 
 the Church-of- England Laity are too good Proteftants and Englifh- 
 men, to be always led by the Clergy, or continually hood-wink’d, 
 and not difeover the Plots carried on againft the State, under pre¬ 
 tence of Zeal to the Church; of which me-thinks the Hot-headed 
 Clergy fhould take warning, feeing they may eafily perceive how 
 little Ground their Paftive Obedience had gain’d, when the honeft 
 Chmeh-oi-England Laicks found themfelves in hazard by K. 
 as to their Liberties and Religion. 
 
 Next 1 would earneftly beg, that they would confider how the 
 Fadlion, under a pretence of Zeal for the Church, and againft Pref- 
 bytery, ferew’d up the Prerogative to fuch a height, that Englifn- 
 men had very near loft their Liberty and Property. It was this 
 miftaken Zeal that threw out the Bill of Exclufion, furrendred the 
 Charters of Corporations, enabled the King to pack Parliaments, 
 pick Juries, and cut off whomfoever he pleafed, under pretence 
 of Law. It was this miftaken Zeal, that brought the late Reign, 
 and all the direful ElFeds of it, which we have already felt, or are 
 ftill impending upon us. It was this miftaken Zeal which delay’d 
 his prefent Majefty’s Accefs to the Throne ; gave the Enemies op¬ 
 portunity to ruin Ireland, raifea Rebellion in Scotland, and Plot, as 
 they do ftill, in England -, And fliall we never be aware of it ?' Me- 
 thinks that if the Church of compared Things paft and' 
 
 prefent, She might eafily perceive that this intemperate Heat againft 
 Presbytery, doth naturally ilTue in Popery and Slavery •, and that flic 
 has much more reafon to unite, for Defence of the Proteftant Inte- 
 reft, and her own Doftrinal Articles, with the Church of Scotland^ 
 than by efpoufing the Caufe of a few profligate or traiterous Cler¬ 
 gy-men, becaufe Epifcopal, run her felf into unavoidable Dan¬ 
 gers. 
 
 Is it poTible that a Harmony in Diftipline fhould have more Power 
 to unite diftin^ Interefts, than a Harmony ra Doctrine and Agree- 
 
 ,inent. 
 
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 ^ment under one Civil Head, hath to cement thofe who drive the 
 fame Intcreft ? It cannot be unknown to the Church of if 
 
 Ihe believes either their Majefties Proclamations, orconfiders the 
 procedure of his Parliament, and other Courts in Scotland, that 
 the Prelatical Party there drive at a Delign to reftore K. Jamts. 
 
 And will fhe yet entertain fuch Vipers in her Bofom as their outed 
 Clergyand not only fo, but for their fakes entertain Sufpicions of 
 hisMajefty, andfollicite him againft the Church of Scotland? Can 
 Ihe fay that we have ever made any Addrefs to him againft the 
 Church of England ? and why Ihould they be more zealous againft 
 us than we againft them ? Does (he not know that Arch-bi(hop'L^J?;fr, 
 and Tome of the greateft of her Fathers, thought Epifcopacy and 
 Presbytery reconcileable, and the other things in Controverfy in¬ 
 different ? How is it then that (he thinks her Differences with King 
 James and the Church of Rome more reconcileable, as (he muff: needs 
 do if (he fall in with her own high-flown Tantivees and our Scots Pre- 
 latifts ? But I hope, if no Religious Gonfiderations will prevaifthat 
 the danger of their running the fame Risk with us may, they feeing 
 both they and we have the fame Security, viz. the King’s accepting 
 of the Crown on fuch and fuch Conditions, and conlenting to Aefts 
 of Parliament accordingly : If he (hould break to one, he may 
 do the fame to both and though they may think that he will not 
 overthrow their Hierarchy, becaufe the Biihops depending on him, 
 may be ufeful to him in the Parliament-Houfe •, yet at the fame time 
 he may, as Charles the Second did, invade their Civil Liberties, 
 and then their Religion, nor nothing elfe, can ever be fecure. I muft 
 again beg the Reader not to miftake me, as defigning to create any 
 Sufpicion of his Majefty following fuch an unhallowed Pattern, but 
 meerly to fet this as a Beacon before the Church of England, that 
 they may beware of being Shipwrack’d twice upon the fame Rock s 
 which will be unavoidable, if they (hould prevail with any of their 
 Kings to break the Original Contrails,or call in K. James, or (et up 
 any other Pretender againft hisprefent Majefty, and profper: which, 
 bieifed be God, there’s no probability that ever they will, for never 
 was King better beloved by Subjeds; and let them try it when % 
 
 they pleafe, they’ll find he has in Scotland Twenty to One firm 
 in his Intereft: And whatever Noife they may make (to blind their 
 own Defigns) of our hazard from a Republican Faction; if they 
 will affure the Nation of fuch Governours as are now at Helm, 
 thofe whom they call Republicans, will as cordially fubmit to them 
 as any. 
 
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 But I forefee an Objection as to Scots Affairs, That they only fo!- 
 licit his Majefty to diflblve the prefent Parliamej?r,* and call ano- 
 thet:, which will reffore Epifcopacy, and recognize liis Title. 
 
 ^nfw. I. His Majefty hath had too many Proofs of the Loyalty 
 of Presbyterians, and the Treachery of Epifcopalians, to venture 
 fuch an Experiment ^ or if he fliould, and they happen to recognize 
 his Title, he can never think that they fubmit from Affeflion, but 
 raeerly from Intereft, when they fee they can do no better : And in 
 truth, whatever Pretences of Loyalty they make, ii’s demonftrable 
 enough, that as the Country-man, when the London- Drawers bauPd 
 out. Welcome^ laid his Hand on his Fob, and faid, I thank you 
 ?ny Friend r, fo may his Majefty, when our Scots Prelatifts pretend 
 Loyalty, put his Hand to his Side, and fay, 1 thank^you^ my Sword ; 
 for no longer will they be his Friend, than he is able to cudgel them. 
 Whereas ifs very well known, that the Scots Presbyterians decla¬ 
 red for him before Providence had determined their Crown in his 
 Favour, and have beat into the Prelatifts whatever Loyalty they 
 pretend to have. Nor is it to be thought, a Prince fo Good and Ge¬ 
 nerous as his prefent Majefty, will ever be fo ungrateful to his 
 Friends, or aeft fo much contrary to Reafon, and his own Confei- 
 ence, as to lhake the prelent Title he has to the Crown of Scotland^ 
 to buy the Confent of the Scots Prelatifts, who could not defend 
 their Darling K.James^ nor make any other Effort to re-eftablilh 
 him, but by hedoring among the inacceffible Hills, ftealing Cows 
 and Sheep, plimdring the Country, murdering the People by 
 Treachery and Surprize; and at laft felling the inlignificant Rock, 
 called tlie Bafs^ where, if they pleafe, they may fend lor him to 
 govern the Solon Geefe, and themfeives, the greater of the two. 
 But, 
 
 2. They will find themfeives miftaken, if bis Majefty.fnould gra¬ 
 tify them fo far as to dillblve thi-, and call another Parliament •, the 
 Presbyterians have not ioft but gain’d Ground ffnee the Revolution, 
 and they have fmarted too feverely under the Prelates, to fuffer 
 themfeives either to be bedored or kick’d out of their prefent Set¬ 
 tlement by any more pack’d Clubs ^ and knowing that Inftruments of 
 Cruelty are in the Habitations of the Prelats, will rather quit them¬ 
 feives like Men, for the Ark and People of their God, than be 
 brought again under the Phiiiftin Slavery. This is only to undeceive 
 our Prelatifts, who premife themfeives fuch an eafy Conqiieft : not 
 that we can fiifped a Prince of our King’s Prudence, Generofity 
 and Confcience, capable of fo much Weaknefs, as to difohligcthe 
 
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Kingdom of ScotUnd^ tliofc who preferved him Crown of he^ 
 land, and fuch a5>are his ftcady and ufeful Friends in England, as 
 he muft needs do if he gratify the Scots Prelatifts. They have 
 not now an effeminate and luxurious Prince to deal with, who, 
 provided lie might wallow in impure Pleafures, was content tO' 
 abandon all Care of his Subjects v but one who knows his Friends 
 from his Foes *, has been accuftomed to Government from his Cra¬ 
 dle*, outbrav’d the Hector of France in his Youth v and therefore 
 is not to be frighted by our Scots Prelatifts, and the Engliffi Tories, 
 into fuch mean Compliances, for fear of Prelatical Infurreftions 
 and Tantivy Grumblings *, he ftifled greater Serpents than thof^ in 
 his Cradle, and carries a Sword to cut off the Hydras Eieads as faft 
 as they multiply. 
 
 But now to come to the or pretended Anfwer to 
 
 my Laft. 
 
 Gne would have thought that our Prelatifts had bankrupt their 
 Treafure of Lies, Malice and Blafphemy, in their late Pamphlet, 
 call'd, The Sects Presbyterian Eloquence: But the Apologift and 
 Poft-feribkr demonftratc the contrary,, and evidence, That their 
 Magazines are ftil) full, and running over ^ and I confefs there is 
 BO caufe to wonder at it, when we confider, that the Bottomlcfs- 
 pit, whence they are furnilh’d, is an unfathomable Source, and 
 that the Father of Lies is not yet fo fuperannuated, but that he caa 
 beget more of the Breed. ’But to come to our Author; he tells you, 
 in his very firft Page, That he could not read two Lines of Dr* 
 Rhle’s Book, without being provok’d unto the Undeccncies of PaP 
 lion *, and therefore it is no marvel that the reading of mine put 
 him ftark mad, feeing I treat the Fadion with ibme more roughnefs 
 than the Dodor did. 
 
 Pag. 1 . After a very fiiperficial DiviCon of my Book, he gives a 
 futablc Anfwer ^ and that you may know he was blinded with 
 Paflion, he begins with downright Nonfenfe, and a notorious Lie. 
 1 foppofe there is fcarcely any body but knows that the Fadion did 
 brag of Charles the Second’s peaceable Reftoration, as a Miracle and 
 Demonftration that God own’d his Title, (nay, Sir Geo. Mackstu 
 z.ie, Vindic. p. 5 .owns he was reftored almoft by univerfal Confent *,) 
 and yet the Scriblcr allcdgcs that be, and our fubordinate Gover¬ 
 nors, were forced to-raake Laws againft the Presbyterians of Scotland 
 ia their owa Defence. Now it is certain that none have any Le^ 
 
 giflative. 
 
giQatire Power in ScetUnd but the King and Parliament and by 
 fubordinate Governours, he mull therefore, if he underftands him- 
 felf, mean the latter*, and if fo, it is plain that the Presbyterians 
 at that time attack’d neither, but had fufficiently fmarted under the 
 Ufurper for maintaining the Right of King and Parliament by the 
 Sword, and refufing to abjure Charles Stewart^ and the Lords, who 
 are a Gonflituent part of om* Parliament; fo that neither of them 
 being attack’d,nor threatned to be attack’d,in Authority nor Perfon, 
 but on the contrary the Presbyterians t^ing fworn to maintain 
 them, the pretence of a necefiity to make Laws in their own De¬ 
 fence is a falfe excufe. But if our Author would fpeak Truth, he 
 fliould fay, that Charles the Second having a Mind to break his Oath, 
 which he had taken folemnly, to maintain Presbytery and the Privi¬ 
 lege of Parliaments, and being fecured,as bethought, in fort divint^ 
 by the Difpenfation firfb of his Popifh and then of his Epifcopal 
 Priefts, he mull find fome pretence to falve his Credit in faro huma^ 
 no^ and lb with his pack’d Parliament formed Iniquity into a Law. 
 Whether the Laid Laws were gentle, as our Author fays, I leave it 
 to the Conlideration of all thinking Men, who pkafe to perufe them 
 as exhibited in my other Book. It feems indeed that the Prelates 
 thought them too gentle, and not extenfivc enough for them, when 
 they prefled Conformity in fo barbarous a manner beyond the extent 
 of the faid Laws, in fo much that they wero forced to extort Certifi¬ 
 cates from the People that they had been civilly ufed, becaufe they 
 knew they had exceeded the Law, and were liable to be called to an 
 accouL: for it. One of the firlt Laws tliey made, was an unlimited 
 Oath of Allegiance, which fwallowed up the Privileges of the People, 
 took away all the Suffrage of Parliaments as to the Succeffion of the 
 Crown, and eftablilb’d a Defpotical Tyranny, which this Author 
 calls the King’s Hereditary Right: fo infallibly true isit,that Tyranny 
 and our Scots Prelacy are infeparably conneifted, and fuch Brethren in 
 Iniquity, that the one is always prodadlive of the others and there¬ 
 fore as foon as he had deprived the People of their Native Rights, he 
 made bold toinvade their Confciences, and contrary to his own Oath 
 and the Peoples Inclinations, brought in the abjured Prelates, as know¬ 
 ing very well that Tyranny could not fubfifl: without them \ and fo 
 he fupport^d them in their Lording it over the Peoples Confciences: 
 and they to requite their Creator, preach’d up his Divine 
 Right to Tyrannize over their Purfes and Perfons. And thus did 
 Tyranny and Prelacy, like two fcabbed Jades, nab one another, til! 
 they were both fent a packing by his prefe-nt Majcfly, Nor can I 
 
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omit to take notice of the natural Avcrfion which Prelacy has to a 
 lawful GoUernraent, it being vifibly feen that not only our Scots 
 prelates who were his Majelly’s perfonal Enemies^ but even the 
 Engliih Prelates, moll of whom pretended to be his Friends, were 
 and are jealous that the Deftiny of their Hierarchy is at hand s for 
 every one knows how follicitous the Pillars of Prelacy were to club 
 ?t^the Devil-Tavern to contrive means for the maintaining their 
 Hierarchy, and how to fetter his Majelly with Oaths not to touch 
 It: and after they had got this AlTurance once,they weremot fatisfied, 
 but dunn’d his Majelly as if he had been their Debtor, for a Repeti¬ 
 tion of his P'romifes, till he took notice of it, and told them he was 
 very willing to lay hold on every opportunity of renewing his Aflu- 
 rance to maintain the Church of England^ or words to that Effeft. 
 So that it is evident beyond Exception, that Prelacy is afraid, when 
 they fee Popery touch’d \ and that they are jealous that our Dread 
 Soveraign, whom God has raifed to break the Horns of the Anti- 
 chriltian Carpenters, fiiould alfo prove the Bane of the Popes 
 Journey-men, the Prelates*, and hence it is that they behold his 
 Majelly’s glorious Succefs with Jealoufy, whkli all the reft of the 
 ProteEaqt World looks upon with Joy. 
 
 So that their Convocation when aflembled, were very loth to give 
 his Majelly Thanks *, and when they did, could hardly be brought ta 
 thank him for what he had done for the Protellant Interell in ge¬ 
 neral, but only for playing the Bugbear to frighten away K. James^ 
 who began to bring in their elder Brethren the Papifts to be lharers 
 of the Fat with themfelves; and kR we Ihould doubt what this 
 Chitrch of EngUnd is, which they are fo mightily tender of, they 
 informed us in an Addrefs of Thanks to the King for the Care he 
 had taken of the Church of England in the Alteration which was 
 then made in the Lieutenancy of London^ and that was for putting 
 In fome of the Bloody Juries, and thofe who bad betrayed 
 the Charter of the City, and were the Tools to promote Tyranny. 
 Now this being matter of Fad and undeniable, the moderate Church- 
 ^i'England-^icv\ fee v.'hat they mull exped it that Fadion 
 get the Afcendant once more : it’s not their Agreement in Govern-) 
 ment .and Ceremonies that wdllgive them a true Title to be Sons of 
 the Church s GtheHm they are, and as GiheJllns they mud die. The 
 Murder of my Lord Alderman Cornijh-^ and many others, 
 
 are fad Proofs of what 1 aflert ^ and feeing the moderateChurch- 
 i^GEngUnd-^lzi). and the Presbyterians of Scotland were fellow- 
 Suiferers in the late Reigns, now that we have Men advanced to 
 
 tb.e 
 
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 the higheft Dignity of the Churdi, whofc Repute for Modeiation did not 
 a little contribute toward? it, iiiethinks it is but what their Brethren in 
 Scotland might expedf, that they fliould be lb far from countenancing our 
 runnagate Epifcopal Clergy in their malicious Clamours at Court, that 
 they ought to oppofe them, efpecially conhdering that they were fuch 
 Implements as the late Reigns found very fubfervient to their Defigns of 
 bringing Slavery upon us, under which they thcmfelvcs fmarted cither in 
 Perfon or Sympathy. And now that I am upon it, I cannot but take no¬ 
 tice with regret, that notwithftanding of the almolt indilpenfabic necelli- 
 ty of it, the fober Church-of'£»^/<iff5^Men in their Ecclefiaftical Capaci¬ 
 ty, have never given any publick conjundt Teftimony againll the Tyranny 
 of the laft Reigns, northofeof their Communion, who were Abettors - 
 of it, and at this day labour to re-introduce it. Let them think what 
 they will, their Silence in this Affair is no finall incouragement to the Ja¬ 
 cobite Party, who have hitherto baffled the diicovery of all their Plots, un¬ 
 der a pretence of Zeal for the Church, which together with the ill Exam¬ 
 ple of the Nonjurant Bhliopsand Clergy, hath been of more ufe^^to the ' 
 French King, than an Army of 6ocoo Men ; From this Source it is that 
 his Maje/ly^s Affairs meet with fo many Rubs v his Friends are fb far fronj 
 being rewarded, that they are endangered and diffouraged *, atid yet our 
 moderate Eccleliafficks have never made open and conjutidf Proteftation a- 
 gainft it. It was the Saying of the God of Truth, That the Children 0 / 
 thU Generation are wifer than the Children of L^ht \ and our Times fur— 
 nifli us with many fad Inffances of its undeniable Verity. Did not the 
 Pulpits in the late Reigns thunder againff all Attempts of recovering oui. 
 Liberties, cither in the Parliament or in the Field ? Did not the Church 
 concur with her Excommunications, to render Diflenters uiicapable offo'' 
 much as chufingor giving Votes for a fober Church-of-£«^/4»<!/-Man, .. 
 who would ftand by Liberties of his Country toreprefent them iuPar-- 
 liament ? Did not Come of their Biffiops prefs the Execution of tlieir Pe¬ 
 nal Laws againff CHflenters, to keep them under Hatches for that very , 
 reafbn ? And did not the Clergy fpend their confccratcd Lungs in bellow¬ 
 ing out Presbyterian plots to drown the Pppiih ones ? And yet now they 
 don’t excommunicate their Jacobites, notwithftanding of their Conven¬ 
 ticles and diftindForm of Worffiip their clubbing to chufe Enemies to-' 
 the Government to reprefent them in Parliament, even thofe who wer©.' 
 violent Enemies to the Abdication ^ as Sir R. S\ &c, who was claoien by . 
 by the Univerffty of C - ge. Nor do the Pulpits now found with Jaco¬ 
 
 bite Plots in this Reign, as they did with Presbyterian and Whiggifh^ 
 Plots ill'the late R;eigns ; which, together with the tendernefs that hath 
 been fhewed. towards tlieir Noniurant Biffiops and Clergy, and the Op-^ - 
 
 pofitioa ' 
 
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 pofition they make to abjuring the late K. James^ are fufficient Evidence 
 that it is his Majchy’s Intereft to keep up the Presbyterians in Scotland 
 as a Ballance, Icll the Scale turn on the fide of-K. or his pre¬ 
 
 tended Son : And as for our Scots Epifcopalians, their Loyalty was fuf- 
 ficiently difeovered after the Defeat of the French by Sea i (or none 
 were fo indultrious.as they tolefTenour Vidtory, when God had given 
 it us. Nor was their Carriage lefs remarkable for difaifedtion upon the 
 taking of Namur^ the firli News from Steenklrk^^ and when the Intel¬ 
 ligence came that was befieged •, which fo elevated the Spi¬ 
 rits of Dr. M - -5 the Apologih, and Sbeelds the Jacobite Parfoii, 
 
 ( lately in for a Conventicle) that they were overheard to fa- 
 
 lufe one another, in the Park^, with no lefs Titles than that of My Lord 
 Bfjhop of fuch and fuch a Place, fo big were they with hopes of the French 
 Cohquefis. 
 
 Pag. ^6. Our Author not having time enough to recover himfelf 
 from the Undecencies of hisPaffion, continues his Nonfenfe, and 
 tells you very gravely. That if the Presbyterian Delujions did not up¬ 
 on an Turns prompt them to overturn the Government.^ they might liiSe 
 in Scotland in all Peace-, as other Dijfenters did, I fuppofe our Author 
 to be fpeaking of the Time pad *, and if fo,then he fliould have faid, 
 might have lived: ' And whether this Blunder of Grammar, iil his 
 own Mother-Tongue, be not as unpardonable in him,, as are the 
 Blunders in Latin which he falfly chargeth upon Mr. .let any 
 Manjudg; and that he meant of the Time pad, needs .no other 
 Demoridration, than to confider that the Presbyterians do and ean 
 live at Peace in Scotland now,without being obliged to the Preiatifts. 
 But Nonfenfe is one of bur Author’s lead Indecencies of Palfion *, for 
 they who know him, inform me, that in his Heat he cannot forbear 
 Swearing,notwithdanding of his Dodtoral Scarf: And it can be pro¬ 
 ved on him, that when talking to a certain Minider about the Church 
 of Scotland^one of the good-natur’d Do(dor’s commendable Expreffi- 
 ons were. That if the Epijcopal Party had it not., he car d not if the Devil 
 had it. Well, but to proceed, the Dodtor acknowledges, that 
 other Diflenters liv’d peaceably in Scotland. Now other Diflenters 
 we had none, biit Quakers and Papifls •, and that they liv’d peace¬ 
 ably we very well knew, and ufed to ask why they perfecuted-us 
 more than them, feeing their Difference in Principles was much 
 greater, if our Epifcopalians had been ( as they pretended to be) 
 good Protedants. Now I think every one knows the Principles and 
 Pradicesof the Papids to be dangerous in all Protedant Govern¬ 
 ments j and that (^^akerifm has too great affinity with Popery : lb 
 
 that 
 
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 that their kind Treatment, while we were barbaroufly perlecuted, 
 is none of the beft Arguments to prove our Epifcopalians good 
 Proteftants. And pray let our Author in his next, give us an ac¬ 
 count, Why Popifh Recufants (for denying the King’s Eccleflafli- 
 eal Supremacy ) were not dragoon’d to come to Church, plundred, 
 hunted, and hanged, as we were. But feeing I know he will not 
 tell the Truth, Tie venture to tell it for him, in Bifhop Car»crojfe*s 
 words, The Pafiflswerttheirneceff'aryFriends: A King of their Re- 
 Hgion was dropping ripe to fall- into the Throne; and every one 
 knows, that under Popery, Bilhops may grow Cardinals and Popes ^ 
 Iwt under Presbytery they cannot exift : and this is the Rope which 
 draws the Inclinations of our Hierarchical Men fo much towards 
 Rome-, inftead of drawing Rome fo much to them. If I be raiftaken, 
 let the Advances which the Church of made upon us, and the 
 Intereft they obtain’d in Court and elfe-wherc, under the warm 
 Wings of Prelacy, in the Reigns of both the Charles's^ and thelafiJ 
 of the Jamesh bear witnefs. Nay, our good-natur’d Dodtor was 
 even fo kind to Mother-Church, as to impofe on his Scholars an 
 Oath in IR, Jameses Time, to maintain the blank Chriftian Religion, 
 and to hinder the publilhing of Mr. Jamifon.s Book againfl: Quake- 
 rifra^ yet his Rancor againfl Presbytery was fo great, though 
 the Malice of the Court feem’d to be- affwaged, that when the 
 Presbyterians defired they might have the Common Hall of the Col¬ 
 lege (of which he was then Principal) to meet in, he anfwered, 
 like a fcurrilous and fpightful Villain, That Hall flionU never bp 
 A grpping Office, Indeed, Dodor, I am very well fatisfied, that if 
 any fuch things had been pradis’d at our Meetings, the Epifcopal 
 Clergy would never have been their Enemies ^ for very fure I am, 
 that the greatefl Swearers, Drunkards and Whoremaflers of the 
 Parifh, were generally the greatefl Friends to the Curats: And 
 Arch'bi^iiop Paterfon, whofe Champion you are, may for ever flop 
 your Mouth, feeing Mfg^ Patterfon^ witJi whom he had been bafe,. 
 own’d it before the Court upon Examinatio»» And your other 
 .good Friend, Mt. Hamilton-, whom you are fo careful to vindicate, 
 would certainly have been a frequenter of fuch groping Offices, had 
 there been any, feeing he was not afhamed^ upon a certain Occa- 
 fion to declare, TJiat he hated all words whichended in except 
 Baptifm and Priapifm, 
 
 The Dodor having dropt out a feeble and a faint Lie, to juflify 
 the making of theXaws againft us, Ftces acquir 'tt enndo r, and, ibi<k 
 tfiils: you boldly, Thsx the Scheme offi the Presbyterian Religion-^ vsher^*- 
 
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 4 n they difer from the EftfcofalUns^ ie nothing hut mgomrHahle Humour 
 and Rebellion. Well faid, good-natur’d Dodor, who is a Separa- 
 tift from good Nature and the Chriftian Church now ? Modcft Sir, 
 I inufl; beg your pardon to fay, that you arc either an ungovernable 
 paffionatc Prelate, or the King and Parliament are Ifark Fools and 
 Knaves to have aboli(bed Epifcopacy in Scotland^ where, according 
 to you, they 1110(1 have eftablilh’d nothing but ungovernable Hu¬ 
 mour and Rebellion. Certainly his Majefty and the Parliament are 
 more concerned to preferve the.Soveraigntyj than fuch Fellows as 
 you; and if they had not been fatisfied that the Presbyterians 
 were better Friends to it than the Prelatilts, thej^ would never have 
 eftabiifli’d them, and ejedlied the other. 
 
 Pray, Sir, if your Eyes be not blinded with Paillon, look upon 
 the Harmony of GonfelTions, and fee whether ours or yours (if 
 you know where to find your own) be mofl agreeable to the Re¬ 
 form’d Chriftian Church ; and then, if you pleale, look a iitde fur¬ 
 ther into their Difcipline, and if it do not provoke you to Indecen¬ 
 cy of PaiTion, read i 20.28,29, 1 5. 
 
 Titus I. Phil. I. I. and fee which of us are the greateft Separatifts 
 from the Chriftian Church, and whether thofe Texts be chargeable 
 with ungovernable Humour and Rebellion*, and fo long as thofe 
 Texts make it evident that Bifhop and Presbyter are the fame in 
 Name and Office, not fo much as Ordinatione excepta^ if it be un¬ 
 governable Humour and Rebellion to believe fo, we will be ungo¬ 
 vernable and rebellious fl ill. As for your citing the Hind let loofcy 
 Populi^ and ^uphtnii^ it’s altogether foreign to the purpofe, all 
 of them contain fuch Arguments for the lawfulnefs of refifting Ty¬ 
 rannizing Princes, as youi: Party could never anfwer *, and for any 
 thing particular in any of them, efpecially the Hind let loofe^ which 
 was writ againit;jPresby^terians as well as Prelatifls, none but one 
 of your own Kidney can charge them . upon the Presbyterians in 
 general. Rut further, ids mighty ftrange that this Principle fhould 
 Re'fo Criminal in us,,nnd yet Venial in the Chiirch-of-£w^/^i 77 ^-Men. 
 VVl'^refore do not ybacite Julian the Apeflate., Mr. Hkk^ringil^ or 
 f)r. the Biffiop of Works, &c. to the fame pur- 
 
 -pofe': And; 'pcayr let uS know why the Presbyterians are more 
 .chargeable with; Jm EcpulL &c^ than the Church of England are 
 until thofe? 
 
 The Author will not'take’notice of what has been fo often told 
 1 im and his Party, that the horrid Cruelties exercis’d upon the 
 Presbyterians in the Vi^’efl:, as dragging them to hear the Curates 
 
 per 
 
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 ptr Force; plundering them of all they had *, ravilhing their Wives» 
 Daughters and Maids *, chafing them to the Woods and Mountains 
 in the extremity of Winter j denying the poor Children left at 
 home, any other fubliftance than what was left by the furfeited 
 Dogs 5 the tying of Gentlemen Neck and Heels, and rofting them 
 before Fires, without fo much as allowing them a draught of Water 
 to quench their infupportable Thirft; forcing of Bonds from them 
 for fuch and fuch Sums *, and extorting Certificates, after all this, 
 under their Hands, that they had been civilly ufed. I fay, the Fa¬ 
 ction will not hear, when we tell them, that all this was done before 
 they could charge us with any Infurredtion ^ and yet are fo difinge- 
 nuous as to inftance our pofteriour Efforts for Self-defence, as the 
 Occafion of all fevere Laws: Than which nothing can be more un¬ 
 juft; and by the Dodor’s own confefiion, Pag. 87. That the King 
 and his Miniflers of State^ might more flaufibly be accafed of Cruel- 
 ty^ if they made fevere Laws againfi the Confequences of the Pref- 
 hyterian Ofinions. We have reafon to charge the King and his Mi- 
 nifters with Cruelty: for fuch Laws as were made before i 655 , were 
 direcftiy againft the fuppofed Confequences of our Opinions, or no¬ 
 thing ; for v;e made no oppofition by Arms at that time againft 
 Charles the Second. Nay, it is expreHy own’d, Pag. 5, and 6 , by 
 Sir Ceo. Mackenz.ie^ That the Laws were made againfi the Confee^uences 
 which they pretend to charge upon our Principles. 
 
 But to return again, P. S 6 , he alledges. That the Presbyterians de- 
 clar‘*d open War againfi the King in his own Dominions \ preach'd to their 
 Hearers^ that they ought to kill his Servants *, that he had no right to the 
 Crownfiecatife he had broken the Covenant : Than which nothing can be 
 more falfe. It was but a fmall number of the Presbyterians that ap¬ 
 peared in Arms in 1666-., and they were fo far from declaring 
 War againft the King, that they only defired a Redrefs of thofe 
 Grievances which the Epifcopal Souldiers had committed beyond 
 Law. Nor would they have done it in Arms, if it had been pofii- 
 bletohave had accefs to the Council otherwife : For thofe who 
 appeared at BothweUBridg., they were fo far from declaring againft 
 the King, that they took his Intereft into their Declaration *, and 
 the Party who oppos’d it, were fo much difrelifn’d, that Multitudes 
 deferted becaufe they were concerned. Nay, Charles the Second 
 wasfo much convinc’d, that Mr. JohnWelch^ and the majority of 
 the Presbyterians, were fo far from difputing his Title, that he 
 granted an Indulgence immediately after the fuppreffing of that In- 
 furreftion ^ and to my certain knowledg, offer’d a particular 
 
 D Licence 
 
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 Licence to the faid Mr. to live and preach in any part of his 
 Dominions *, though our Epifcopalians had formerly incens’d him fo 
 much againft him, that Proclamations were iflued, offering 500/. to 
 any that would bring him in dead or alive. 
 
 So that the Doctor has no Foundation for his Charge but the 
 Fradtice of a few Camerenians^ one of whofe Preachers excommu¬ 
 nicated the King, and about twenty of the Fadion declared War 
 againft him at Sanqhuar ^ and fuch a little number did afterwards 
 pretend to dethrone him : which will appear to all Men but fuch as 
 our Author, to be contrary to Presbyterian Principles, feeing we 
 allow not fo much as Excommunication of a private Perfon without 
 Judicial Probation, Admonition, Sufpenfion, and the Confent of 
 the Presbytery. And, by the Covenant which they reproach us with 
 as our only Rule, we fwear to maintain the Privilege of Parliaments^ 
 and the King’s juft Powerand Greatnefs*, to which nothing can be 
 more diametrically oppofite, than for a few Perfons, without the 
 Confent and Commiliion of the whole, to take upon them to ex- 
 audorate Magiftrates. And whatfoever this Libeller may fuggeff, 
 it’s known that fen. Mr. Mr, Jamfon^ Mr, ^«/r, 
 
 Mr. Riddel, and other grave Presbyterian Minifters, fell under the 
 Obloquy of ihz Cameronians for protefting publickly againft the 
 Principles which they were driven unto by ti^ furious Tyranny of 
 the late Reigns. 
 
 But if the Dodor be not yet fatisfied,d’ll give him ^gimentHm ad 
 Hominem, thus. The Vifcount of Dundee and his Party declared 
 War againft King William, and all the BiHmps of Scotland oppos’d 
 his Title to the Crown: Ergo^ All the Epifcopalians in Scotland de* 
 dared War againft him, and that he had no right to the Crown-j> 
 and therefore by their own ConcelTion, the preienc Government 
 would be juftified to enad as fevere Laws againft them, as the late 
 Government did againft the Presbyterians. The Premifles being 
 undeniable, the Conclufion cannot be avoided, if our Author’s way 
 of arguing hold good. 
 
 But fuppofing it true, that all the Presbyterians in Scotland had 
 declared King Charles the Second to have forfeited bis Right to the 
 Crown becaufe he broke the Covenant, it had been no more than 
 what the Church of England have declared againft King James, 
 becaufe of bis breaking the Original Contrad: and I would delire 
 our Gentleman to look upon the Claim of. Right by both NationSi 
 and he. will find thatmoft of the Infradipns upon that Contrad 
 were made by King Charles j, fo that if this bc.a Crime, t/Ethiopem 
 
 alhw^^ 
 
Ki9) 
 
 Lorifidem reUm derideat. But as £ov that malicious Lie, that 
 of them preach’d that his Servants ought to be killed, it’s fo 
 grpfs,. that none but the Author could invent it, nor any but his 
 Party believe it: for tho fome of them did kill A.Bp Sharps and others 
 vybd were hunting for their Lives, and took the fame advantage 
 of them that they dtd of others \ it will not fo much as follow, 
 that any of their Miniilers preach’d this as their Duty, and much 
 kfs that’ic was fo to kill .the Kipg’s Servants as fuch. 
 
 VVeH, but this Methodical Doftor, who would fain perfwade the 
 World that he and his Party have engrofied all Reafon and Logick 
 to themfelves, comes with a Hyjleron Proteren^ and tells you of the 
 Presbyterians Cruelty toward the Epifcopalians after the Year 1^37, 
 which C mark the gbod-natur’d calm ExprefTion ) he fays were im- 
 parallell’d in Hiftory, as they were diabolical in their Nature, 
 This is Scots Epifcopal Veracity. The Dodtor thinks he is didlating 
 to’his Scholars ^ and truly I mull tell his Dodtorlhip, that if he 
 taught them no better Philofophy, than lie teaches us Hiftory, they 
 had but a poor Bargain onk. - But now, good Dodtor, did you never 
 read of the Malfacres at ParU^ in the P" dtcline^ and the Duke of AlvuPs 
 Butchery in Netherlands ? We fliall not go fo high as the ten 
 Perfecutions, or thofc againfl the Wicklevites^ Waldenfes^ &c. And 
 tell me if what Cruelties were exercifed upon you about 1537, ag¬ 
 gravate them as much as you can do in any raeafure, come near 
 them j and if they do, as I am.fure they cannot, I would knovv 
 whether the Modefl:, Rational and Religious Dodlor be not guilty 
 of an Immodeft, Irrational and Irreligious Lie ? • And in the next 
 place, feeing we mull go back to 1^37, pray what did your Party 
 then fiiffer anfwerable to the Perfecution of the Presbyterians by 
 your High Commiffion-Court before that time ? Or, did your Suffer¬ 
 ings come any thing near the horrid Cruelty which Montrofs with 
 his Hi^hlandtrSi and the Jrijh Rebels, who join’d him after they had 
 raalfacred the Proteffants in Ireland^ committed upon the Country 
 in Defence of your Prelacy ? But further, if your Party did fuffer 
 any,thing at that time, as it was impoffible but they fhould when 
 the exafperated People had taken Arms againfl; their Invafions both 
 of Church and State, and the Quarrel came to be decided by the 
 Sword, who was to blame for it ? They drew it upon themfelves, 
 they would not be fatisfied that they had obtruded their domineer¬ 
 ing Prelacy, but they muff: alfo impofe a new form of Worfliip, for 
 oppofing of which they incenfed the King to raife an Army of 
 30000 Men to force it upon us. So that here was Precedent enough 
 
 D 2 according 
 
according to the Talion Lm^ to force the CoV'enant upon them, 
 which yet we never did in that manner, tho the honcft Doctor has 
 the Confidence to aflert, that we impofed it with greater Tyranny, 
 Malice and Violence, than the Fathers of the Inquifition ever 
 pradtifcd. Good Mr. Doftor, (for you were very angry that I did 
 not call you fo in my laft) Did your Dodtorthip ever hear that wc 
 put the Prelatifts in Dungeons to be eaten up with Toads and Ser¬ 
 pents ? Did we ever put any of them upon the Rack ? Did we ever 
 thruft pieces of Cloth down their Throats to their very Stomachs, 
 and pull them up again ? Did we ever burn them in Habits painted 
 with Devils ? Did we ever twill the Mufcles of their Arms and 
 Legs with Cords, which your Fathers of the Inquifition are known 
 to have pra<ftifed ? Or, did we ever torture them with the Boot, 
 Thummikins, or burning Matches (as your Brethren of the Pre- 
 latical Inquifition did us) to make them take the Covenant ? I am 
 confident your Confcience, tho proftituted to a Prodigy, flies in your 
 Face, and gives you the Lie. Well, but the Dodtor has not done 
 yet, he tells you the Covenant was iTnpofed upon the Children at 
 Schools. Truly Mr. Doctor, to do you Juftice, I believe it was 
 required of the little Children that offered to take Degrees of 
 Matter of Arts: and tho your Dodtorfhip was never nearer Rome 
 than 480 Miles, as you fay in your Poftferift^ you have learn’d the 
 Art of equivocating as well as if you had been there ♦, for every 
 one knows that Men of thirty Years old may truly enough be called 
 Children, and Univerfities may as well be called Schools: But if 
 that was unlawful, how came your Party to follow the Example, 
 and even your own Dodtorfhip to offer a blank Oath to your 
 Scholars ? And why does the Church of England irapofe Oaths upon 
 Children at Schools in Oxford and Camhridg ? 
 
 Pag, 87. He fays there’s nothing in the firtt part of the Anfwer to 
 the Scotch Elot^Henccj but an iil-contriv’d Abttraft of the Hind 
 let loofe. Good Dodtor, I am afraid that the Eyes of your Head, 
 as weU as of your Mind, were blinded with Indecencies of Paflion, 
 elfe you would have feen fomewhatclfe, viz. frequent Demonftra- 
 tions, that you and others of your Party are notorious Liars, in 
 afferting that our Proceedings againft you are more barbarous and 
 cruel than yours againft us, and that by Authentick Proofs, viz* 
 your own Afts of Parliament. 
 
 Next the Dodlor tells^s that the Epifcopalians publifli’d a Com¬ 
 pendium of the Mind let loofty that all Men might fee the Principles, 
 Praftkes and Humours of that Se^l whom they oppofe v and that 
 
 there 
 
there cannot be a better Defence of the Second’s Govern¬ 
 ment than the Hind let loofe. We have told the Fadion often c- 
 iiough that the faid Book is againft Presbyterians as well as Epifco- 
 palians, and was writ in the height of a Schifm, and never own’d 
 by the hundredth part of the Presbyterians: but fnch is the 
 Unreafonablenefs of our Prelatifts, that they will charge it upon us, 
 and would make the World believe that it is confequential to 
 the true Presbyterian Principl^, though I have already demon- 
 ftrated, lhat. the excommunicating and exaudorating the King was 
 contrary to our Difeipline and Covenant. But to anfwer thedif- 
 ingenuous Man with JirgamentHm ad hominem^ I argue thus ; There 
 can be no better Defence of the Proceedings of the Presbyterians 
 againft the Prelatifts, than Declaration, their refufing to 
 
 fwear Allegiance, and pray for King William and Queen Mary^ 
 feeing thofe who do fo, ad more confequentially to the Prelatical 
 Principles of Paflive Obedience and NonreCftance, than thofe who 
 comply. 
 
 Ibid. He tells us, That if the Minifters of State under K. Charles 
 the Second in Scotland, have done nothing but what all wife, great and 
 good Men have done in the like Cafes, then the Clamours of this 
 Party are rather an Honour than an Accufation. This is poor So- 
 phiftry, Dodor •, we deny your Affiimption, and by courfe your 
 Confequence mull fall, which is an Anfwer fufficient; but to be 
 plainer with you. If King Charles and his Minifters of State did 
 nothing but what^ all wife, great and good Men have done in the 
 like cafesthen his prefent Majefty and the Parliament of Scotland 
 muft, by this Argument, be foolifti, little and ill Men, to difapprove 
 their Methods; fo that we fee how fuperlatively loyal and modeft 
 the Dodor is. But yet further : We would have his Dodorftiip 
 to know that there was never fuch a Cafe under Heaven, and there¬ 
 fore the Dodor will be at a lofs to find good, great and wife Men 
 for Precedents. Ay, let him turn over all the Hiftorics of Enrope^ 
 give us a Parallel, that any Proteftant Prince fhould Iblemnly before 
 God and the People, fwear with his Hands lifted up to Heaven, 
 that he would govern according to the Terras on which he re¬ 
 ceived the Crown, viz., Prefervation of the Presbyterian Go¬ 
 vernment, and the Privileges of Parliament ^ declaring that he was 
 under no Conftraint to take the faid Oath, but that he did the 
 fame voluntarily and without Mental Refervation; acknowledging 
 the Sins of his Family, and promifing a Redrefs of Grievances; - 
 I fay, let him give us an Inftancc of any Proteftant Prince that 
 
‘ever perjur’d himfelf in fuch' a manner, and requited Subjed? 
 as he did us, tho we ovvn’d his Title, defended Jiira againft the 
 Ufurpsr who had cut ofl' his Father’s Head, and expofed our felvds 
 to ruinc for his fake: for reward of iyWcK, imihedlately after h’h 
 ■Reifaurati'on, he overturn’d our Civil and ^Religious Llbeftyi 
 off the Earl of ^rgile^ Head, who had fee^ the Crown upon hi^ * 
 and afterwards enaded Laws to make thdPeople own the abjur’d 
 Prelates, and involve them in the fame Perjiiry with himfelf i and 
 becaufe they could not not in Confcience. dp. it,^ fdnfJForces to take 
 free C^iarter upon them, drive or drag them ta ChUrbii, deftroy 
 their 'Subftance,'a;nd'treat their Perfons in that biarbarous, manner 
 as before related, tho'many of them advanced, and none of them 
 oppofed his Reftauration, lior threatned any Difturbance to his 
 <jOvernment' But the truth of the Cafe Vas, he anddis.MiniEers 
 of State knevy well enough that he had, forfeited'his Right to the 
 Crown, and that, th^ Presbyterians could ippr but .in; Heart ab¬ 
 hor his" Per far y ^ and'therefere thtV'w^ere refolved to put them out 
 of condition to demand the Forfeiture,-if ever they Ihould happen 
 to be fo minded : which that poor People were, fo far from, that 
 not one of thdfe 'wl^^rl^ take 
 
 Arms Qt Pentlapii{ bv on the 
 contrary, 'Eill own’’^'hirin'; And that fmall inconfiderable num¬ 
 ber that adted otherwife at 54;7^W4r, &c’. it’s already demonftrated, 
 thatthey neither proceeded according to our, Principles, nor with 
 our Confent: And therefore, fo long as there are any Records in our 
 Nation, King the Second’s 'unpat'a'llell’d Perjury, IngratL 
 
 tude to his Subjedts, and Tyrannical Government can never be juEi- 
 fied. And as for the Rebellions he charges us with under King 
 Charles the Firff, let any body perufe Rajhworth's Colledtions, or 
 even Sir Richard Baker^s Chronicle; and tho all the Truth be not 
 written there, it will be eafy to perceive that the Innovations made 
 upon the Church of Scotland^ arid the Invalions on the Liberties Of 
 England^ were the catife of that Prince’s Misfortunes, who was 
 mifled by a Popifli Wife, ^nd raifinforraed by Popilh and Prelatical 
 Miniffers to his Ruine. That unfortunate King put one Affront 
 on our Nation, mentioned by Sir Richard Baker^ that wms enough 
 of it felf to have made them fliake off his Government, viz. the 
 demanding of the Crown of Scotland to be brought hither for him 
 to be crowned with, which argued fuch a Degeneracy of Spirit, 
 and fo much of an alienated Mind from his Native Country, that 
 it was a wonder how ever Scots-Men fhould have own’d him after¬ 
 wards; 
 
wards: the greatefl: Monarch that ever fat upon the Englifli Throne, 
 would have gone as far as Swow, and thank’d us too, to have had the 
 Honour of if, and for a Scots-Man fo .far to undervalue his Na¬ 
 tive Country^ as to demand the poor, and almofl: the only remain¬ 
 ing Badg of their Honour, Antiquity and Independency, to be 
 
 brought into another Nation, ^ntalia fando temperet a - .N^ 
 
 ^tiid afperfpu dicam. Certainly nothing but an exuberant Loyalty 
 and Efteem for their natural Prince, whom doubtlefs they conli- 
 dered as over-ruled by pernicious Counfel, could ever have made- 
 that Kingdom put up the Affront. And therefore when he perfifted 
 to opprefs and perfecute them upon the account of their Confei- 
 ences, it was no wonder that they rc-affum’d the Spirit of their 
 Anceftors h and let him know that the Kings of Scotland were never 
 allowed an Arbitrary Power, nor did ever any of them ufurp it, 
 but it proV’d fatal to them or thdrs : Normever was the Nation 
 fo:much degenerate but fince che Reign of;bur Protellant Prelacy, 
 who were the'Creatures and Supporters of Tyranny i for in the 
 times'of Popery we had more Grandees than we have now, that 
 could tell how to put the Bell about tlie Cat’s Neck on occafion, as 
 ^rchbald Vougioig of did to'King the Third \ bat 
 hnee the Unions of the Growins, the. fall < of our Grandees, and the 
 Combination'of tbe’Englilh and Scotsi Mitrds, Scots-Men durit ne¬ 
 ver fay their Head was their owri but when they had the Sword in 
 their Hand, except it be under this prefent Government. And 
 therefore the Nation of Scotland is mightily obliged to Prelacy. 
 
 Ibid. He charges the Presbyterians with Enthufiafm. Our Pre- 
 latifts are of late become as fond of this Exprelfion as is the 
 Cuckove of his known Note *, and 1 can imagine no other reafon* 
 why, than becaufethey are fo accullomed to fwallow their Liquor 
 that as the Lecher pleafes himfelf with Baudy itories^ lb do they 
 with the very word Enthujiafm^ which is but a Greeks Term figni- 
 pouring in^ and in this fenfe Fll maintain it, that it’s more 
 proper to be applied to our Drunken Prelatiftsy than in any man¬ 
 ner to us. I always underftood Enthufiaftsto beafortof Perfons 
 who pretended to other Revelations than the .written Word for 
 their Rule, fuch as par and the old .German or' 
 
 abjit verbo jnvi^a,^ Prelatifts^; who, build more upon jthe nncer?i 
 tain and fupefftitious:rWritixigs; aferibsd tb foal.e of the Fathers; 
 than on the Writings of the 'Apoftles, who are the Grandfathers ^ 
 or on the Rattionala of Dnra»du4^ of the Poetical Whims of any 
 Ghurch>X><wro for tfaeir* unfcriptural; Ceremoniesthan on ^ Divine 
 
 Revelatioii.}. 
 
Revelation, which orders us to worihip God as he coniniands, 
 and not as we think good in our own Eyes. Then feeing the Pref- 
 byteriansdo plead fora ftridt Conformity to the Scripture as the 
 Rule of Faith and Manners •, and that our Prelatifts admit of By- 
 Rules, for which no Reafon can be affigned, but the Capricio of fome 
 fanciful Bigot, or corrupted Father-, let the World judg which 
 Party is moft chargeable with Enthufiafm. 
 
 Ihid. He fays, That the of onr General AJfemblies do fafficient- 
 ly vindicate Charles Second^ and his Miniflers of State^ from any 
 pjadow of B-igoar or Cruelty. It were eafy to anfwer the Dotlor in 
 his own Coin, that the knavifh Addrefs of the Scots Bifhops againfb 
 the Prince of Orange.^ their oppofing him in Parliament, and the 
 Barbarities committed upon the Presbyterians by the Prelatilts, as 
 above related, are fufficient to vindicate us from any lhadow of 
 Rigour or Cruelty, which muft, by all Men who have not forfeited 
 Senfe and Reafon, be allowed more than a fufficient Anfwer. But 
 further, the Dodtor would have done well to have cited thofe A(Jls, 
 and then a more particular Anfwer could have been given : How¬ 
 ever, I’le guefs at his meaning, and fuppofe them to be fuch us de¬ 
 clared againft imploying Malignants in Places of Power and Truft ^ 
 which was the Opinion of thofe called Remonjirators: And if To, 
 pray^ good Dodor, why is this more culpable than your Church-of- 
 England-T which excludes all DifTenters from Places of Power 
 and Trufl ^ and that alfo againft his Majefly’s Defire, in his Speech- 
 to the Parliament, wherein he did rationally infinuate, that the 
 taking off of the fame, would unite his Subjeds in his Service a- 
 gairfl the Common Enemy ? If the Copy was bad, why does the 
 Church of England follow it ? Or, do you not think that we had 
 as much Reafon to keep out Prelatifts from Places of Power and 
 Truft, as you have to keep out Presbyterians ? Nay, I do verily 
 believe, there is no true Englifh-man, or Proteflant, who does not 
 fee the Mifchief which happens daily by the continuance of this 
 Teft, which obliges his Majefty to makeufe of fuch as do betray 
 him continually. And whether the Scots Presbyterians were mif- 
 taken in their Conjedures, that our Prelatifts, when admitted into 
 Truft, would betray our Religion and Liberties^ let the late Revo¬ 
 lution, and the Caufes of it, teftify. Or, if there was any fuch 
 Ad made or intended, by any Aflembly of the Church of Scotlandy 
 as difown’d Charles Stuart., the Head of the Malignants, becaufe of 
 his breach of Covenant, and defigns to enflave the Nation ^ it muft 
 needs be own’d, that they were too clear-lighted, and that the 
 
 Church 
 
uo 
 
 Church of England do the fame in relation to K. James^ who had as 
 good a Right to the Crown, according to the Prelatical Principles, 
 as ever his Brother had; and, if Pailive Obedience be a true Do- 
 dlrine, ought as little to have been oppofed as he. Then fuppo- 
 iing it true, that the Remonllrators were againft owning of him on 
 the Accounts aforefaid ; yet feeing they were not the majority of 
 the Presbyterians, and v/ere willing tofubmit to his Legal Admini- 
 firation, fwear Allegiance, and live peaceably under his Govern¬ 
 ment, neither Reafon nor Confcience will juftify his Proceedings 
 againft the Presbyterians in general on that Account •, or the making 
 of Laws on purpofe to fret their Confciences, and prefs the execu¬ 
 tion of theminfuch a barbarous manner as muft unavoidably pro¬ 
 cure Infurredions, when they fubmitted to him without the leaft 
 Oppoiition. Sure I am, the Church of are more moderate 
 
 to the Jacobites, when they won’t fo much as admit of an Oath of 
 Abjuration to be impofed on thofe in Places of Power and Truft. 
 
 Pag, 22 . He refers to Sir <jeo. Mackenzie^ UskncQ Charles tho. 
 Second’s Government, as unanfwerable, though the fame hath al¬ 
 ready been confuted, better than he can defend it. But the modeft 
 Dodor goes on, and fays, The ObjeUions againfi that Goijernment^ are 
 brily little Cavils and Exceptions. No doubt, Sir, K. William^ and his 
 prefent Parliament of $cotland^ are but little cavilling Fellows ; 
 and the following Grievances complain’d of by the Convention of 
 States, were but fmall Exceptions, viz., 
 
 Difarming Proteftants, while Papifts were employedo 
 Impofing Oaths contrary to Law. 
 
 Giving Gifts and Grants for exading Money, without Confent 
 “ of Parliament, or Convention of Eftates. 
 
 “ Levying and keeping on foot a ftanding Army in Time of 
 ‘‘ Peace, and exading free Quarters wit&nt Confent of Par- 
 liamenL 
 
 “ Imploying Officers of the Army as Judges through the King- 
 dom, even where there were Hereditary Offices and 
 Jurildidions ^ who put many of the Subjeds to death with- 
 out any Form of Law. 
 
 Imprifoning Perfons without expreffing the Reafon, and de- 
 “ laying to bring them to Trial. 
 
 “ Forfeiting feveral Perfons, on ftretches of old and obfolete 
 “ Laws, as the Earl of Argile,^ tothe fcandal of the Juftice of 
 the Nationr 
 
 E $«h' 
 
Subverting the Right of Royal Burroughs, i'mpofing Magi- 
 ftrates and whole Town*Councils upon them, contrary to 
 “ their Charters, without pretence of Sentence, Surrender or 
 “ Confent. 
 
 Ordering Judges to defifl from determining fonae Caufes, and 
 ‘‘ how to proceed in others. 
 
 Impofing extraordinary Fine';, exadling of exorbitant Bail, 
 “ and dil]3ofing of Fines and Forfeitures before Sentence. 
 Forcing ihe Subjects to make Oath againft themfelves in Capi- 
 ‘‘ tal Crimes. 
 
 ‘‘ Uling Torture without Evidence, or in ordinary Crimes. 
 
 “ Sending an Army in hoftile manner upon feveral parts of the 
 “ Kingdom, in time of Peace. 
 
 ‘‘ Impoling Bonds without Authority of Parliament. 
 
 “ Sufpending Counfellors from the Bar, for not appearing when 
 fuch Bonds were offered, contrary to Law. 
 
 “ Putting Garifons in private Mens Houfes, in time of Peace, 
 “ without Confent of Parliament. 
 
 Making it Treafon for Perfons to rcfule giving of their 
 Thoughts, in relation to Points of Treafon, or other Mens 
 Actions. 
 
 ^ Imprifoning and profecuting the Subjeds, for petitioning the 
 King and Parlianaent to grant Remedy by Law. 
 
 Now whether thefe be little Cavils and Exceptions r Whether 
 CW/fj the Second was not guilty of thefe Male-adininiftrations: 
 and if fo, whether he deferved to be called a Wife and Peaceable 
 Monarch, let any Body judg, And that they may do it the more 
 impartially, I would wiffi them to confider, that there is a Woe 
 denounced againft them who call Evil Good, and Good Evil. And 
 I would pray the Dodor to tell me, whether it was modelly in Sir 
 or is modefty in himfelf, to defend thefe things, which com- 
 snon Senfe muff: needs condemn, the Reprefent^tives of the Na¬ 
 tion have adjudged as Grievances, and the continuance in them as 
 Tniefiy conducing to K. Jatnss\ Forfeiture of the Crown ? 
 
 Iconfefr Ido not at all wonder that SirG..M. fliould defend a 
 yjQvernment which advanc’d and imploy’dhim: Thefe barbarous 
 laws,, and- inhumane Profecutions, brought Grid to his Mil), and 
 ffll’d: his Bags *, for it will eternally hold, Dalcis odor Lmri ex re qua- 
 emn jfom Pifs- it felf. And there is yet the Icfs caufeof fur- 
 Uaifal, v^hea we. confider, that he was John Whitens fanglice Jack 
 
 ■' Ketch's) 
 
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 Ketchh) Journyman, or as he eall’d himfelf, CMmiatsr piMicm], 
 and theconipion Libeller of the Presbyterians *, fo that of necefijty 
 he mull reprefent them as MonHers, elfe he muft own himfelf a 
 bloody Butcher in profecuting them at fuch a rate as he did. 
 
 But further, Sir George's Arguments are all built upon a faife Nar¬ 
 rative of Matter of Fadl; nor could a truer Relation be expe(fted 
 from a Man of his Kidney, who proflituted his Coiifcience, not 
 only to dilierent Parties in the Church, but contrary Factions in 
 the State : Let not the Scribler tax ipe as not generous for faying 
 lb, feeing it is true *, for it can be no more a Crime in me to at- 
 taque Sir C. after his Death, than for him to attaque Mr. Ruther¬ 
 ford and others, who are alfo in their Graves. His Subornation a- 
 gainft Sirand Sir Geg.-Campbel^ was charged on him to his 
 Face in open Court, ,by the Perfonswhom he had fuborned. And 
 in like manner it can be proved, that he fiborned others againfl: 
 fJalfideznd did aflualiy profecute Blackwood^ for a pretended 
 Crime, whereof he himfelf was guilty, -y/si. converfing with Mr. 
 Wilfon a Bothwel-Bridg’^Mzu^ for which he aim’d at the Gentleman’s 
 Life and Ellate : fo that no Reafon will allow the Teftimony of 
 one who was lb much a Party, and notorioufly unjull, no more 
 than we could allow the Calumnies of Bifliop Bonner againft the 
 Proteftants, whofe Blood he Ihed and thirlted after. 
 
 Nor are the Presbyterian Nurjlings^ as he calls them,fo much gauled 
 by Sir Cferne’s Book as he fuppofes *, and the unwary Dodor himfelf 
 owns what I alTerted, that the Reafonings in the Treatife relate to 
 the Papers publilh’d by the Cametomam^ which (hows how unfair- 
 \Y Sir George argued, to inftance Adions of Menrendred mad by a 
 barbarous execution of Cannibal Laws, to defend the making of 
 thofe very Laws. 
 
 As for the Honour he alledges 1 do the Fadion, in mentioning 
 forae Great Men as Perfecutors, much good may it do them : for if, 
 according to the Leamed Dodor’s Argument, Quality, Senfe and 
 Interell call the B:^tlance, then certainly AVo, and Julian t\\t Apo- 
 flate, were too heavy for the Apollles and Primitive Chrillians \ 
 and that great Monfler, Lewis XIV. has much the better of his Pro- 
 teftant Subjeds. Well, but the Dodor fays afterward, Lhey have 
 reafon to glory in their Pans-, Honour and Integrity ; which is none of 
 my Bulinefs to queftion. But the Inllances they are charged with, 
 will come under none of thofe Heads, and therefore the Dodor’s 
 Panegyrick is foreign to the purpofe. But wc can ealily anfwer, 
 that their Majsllies and prefent Parliament, have declared the very 
 
 E 2 Laws, 
 
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 Laws, which were yet more torelable than their barbardus Execu- 
 tion. Wicked and Impious *, and I hope the modeft Dodtor will al¬ 
 low, that they have Quality, Senfe and Intereft enough to caft the 
 Ballance. 1 fliall only add, that Sir Geo. Mackenzie.^ by a Conceflion, 
 17. deftroys his own Hypothefis for there he owns that Prcf- 
 byterian Minifters, who were fent to reclaim thefe Criminals, 
 and Preibyterian Jurors who were fummoned to their Trial, feldom‘ 
 failed of condemning them : fo that hh own Month he giver 
 himfclf and the DoBor both the Lie.^ when they charge thofe Principles 
 upon the Presbyterians in general^ arid confeqnently difeover the faljhood 
 of that Necejfuy^ which they pretend the Government was tinder, to make 
 pich Laws againfl m in their own Defence. 
 
 13. Sirb’fforfff fays, That the Heretable Judges, i. e. Here^ 
 ditary Sheriff's, refafed to pat the Laws in exeention againfi Conventi¬ 
 cles, by which they became formidable. Which deftroys two more of 
 his and .the Fadtion’s Aflertions, viz. That Preshyterianifm was not 
 popular, and that none but the Rabble were their Friends j for thole He- 
 ^reditary Sheriffs are the bell and molt ancient Families generally 
 in every County : So that Sir George wrongs his Caufe exceeding¬ 
 ly by that Conceffion, feeing thofe Hereditary Judges living upon 
 the Place, and being acquainted with the Induftry and Honefty of 
 the perfecuted Party, would not abandon their Honour and Con- 
 fcience to become Hangmen to til dr Neighbours and Tenants. And 
 therefore the Court being refolved to ruin the Country, imployed 
 bloody cut-throat Papifts, as the Earl of Atrly and Laird of Mel- 
 flrnm, and their barbarous Savages the Popifh Highlanders. But 
 according to the natural difngenuity of his Fadtion, he takes no 
 notice, ^that thofe Military Judges puli’d the Hereditary Sheriff 
 from off their Benches, and would not let them proceed againft 
 the Presbyterians according to the Statute-Law, becaufe that 
 was too mild in theif'Opinion. One remarkable Inftance there¬ 
 of was at Selkirk., where Meldrum pull’d Phtliphangh, who is He¬ 
 reditary Sheriff of the -Foreft (now a Lord of the Seflion ) out 
 of his Chair, when holding bis Court. 
 
 Another of Sir George\ Defences are, the alledged Severity to 
 the Cavaliers in the Firft’sTime : Which if true, though 
 
 there’s no reafon to take his Word for Proof, he could not but 
 know the truth of that Maxim, Inter Arwa flent Leges •, and that 
 this could not juftify the Dragooning of People to Church, and 
 taking free Quarter in time of Peace. But Sir George, accord¬ 
 ing to his wonted difingenuity, takes no notice of the Cafe of 
 
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 tftat Severity^ if any fuch were, viz, that the Perfons fo treated, 
 harafled their Native Country with Fire and Sword, in conjundion 
 with thofe who had cut the Throats of Proteftants in Ireland^ filled 
 the Kingdom with bloody Murders and barbarous Villanies. 
 
 I have neither time/ nor is it confiftent with my prefent Defign, 
 to animadvert any further upon his pretended unanfwerable Book ^ 
 but 1 think any honefl: Reader will be fatisfied that it needs no worfe 
 Charader, than to be ftigmatiz’d a§ a flat Contradidion to their 
 Majefties and the prefent Parliament of Scotland, being a fophiftical 
 and unfair Relation of Matters of Fad, to make the World be¬ 
 lieve that all thofe Grievances have been falfe, which the Parlia¬ 
 ment complain’d of, his Maleily declared againft, and founded the 
 jufiice of his Expedition ^upon their Red refs: So that .it will illiie 
 in this, cither that Sir George Mwkerzy is a Liar, or that his Majefty 
 and the Parliament of Scotland are fuch; and therefore, good 
 Mr. Dodor, I am not afraid to appeal to the Judgment of all dif- 
 intcrefted Perfons, whether it be you or I that are mod void of 
 Generolity, Honour, Modefty and common Senfe, of all which you 
 deprive me in the 2>9th Page of your Libel. So that tho the Afs may 
 vapour a while in the Lion’s Skin, the Ears of the dull Bruce will 
 difeover him at laft. And thus our Dodor has wounded his Pre¬ 
 tences to Loyalty, by defending Sir George'^ Book. 
 
 But allowing all to be true that Sir George alledges as the Caufe of 
 our Perfecution by Charles the Second •, 1 fay Hill, that the Fadion 
 deferves to be more feverdy treated by this Government upon the 
 ve y Parallel, -y/x. thus f They own Pafllve Obedience to be true 
 Dodrine, and were as much fworn to that as we were to the Co¬ 
 venant ', fo that if they believe that Dodrine, they mull needs look 
 upon their prefent Majefties to have no juft Title, and think them- 
 felves obliged to rebel. Now Malice it felf could never faften any 
 Rich Coniequence \ipon the Covenant as to Charles the Second’s 
 Title : Ergo, Paflive Obedience muft be more dangerous to this, 
 than the Covenant was to that Government. But the Dodor turns 
 his back, and takes no notice of this Argument, only magifterially 
 tells you, that if there be no more in the cafe than Palfive Obedi¬ 
 ence, the Government needs not be afraid : Tho every body but 
 the Fadion, whofe Iptereft it is to diflemble the Confequences of their 
 Principles, fees the contrary by Demonftration from the Pradices 
 of the Nonjurant Bifhops,the high Church-oK£»g/W Zealots,and the 
 Scots Rebellions. 2. The Epifcopal Party difown the Presbyterian* 
 Minifters, and won’t hear them \.Ergo, by George Mack^nzf sVo^ 
 
 fition,, 
 
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 fition, they (hould be dragoon’d to Church, and with much more 
 reafon than they dragoon’d us ^ for there’s nothing in our way of 
 VVorihip but what they pradis’d themfelvesnor can they object 
 againlt our f orm, of Government, for they had it in conjundion 
 with their own Epifcopacy. then feeing we neither do nor defire 
 that they fiiould be perfecuted on account of their DilTent, whe¬ 
 ther are they or we mofi: moderate ? All the difference is, that there 
 are no Lav/s againfl; their Nonconformity as there wereagainfl ours: 
 which -1 grant to be truei and hence, we can demonftrate'Presbyte-i 
 rian Moderation, that the Parliament did not raake.any Laws againfl' 
 the Confequences of Prelatical and PaiTive-Obedience-PrincipIes, 
 tho the Prelatifts made Laws againft ours *, and Pure I am, we had 
 much more reafon to have made l,aws againft them, who did aftually 
 oppofe and rebel againft his prefent Majefty while the Parliament 
 was fitting, and yet no fuch thing was/ever moved. As for his 
 Allegation, that our Moderation proceeds from the oppofite Biafs of 
 the Nobility and Gentry ; it fhows his Ingratitude : but all Men of 
 fenfe muft needs be convinced that the Parliament, who fettled 
 Presbyterian Government, and that with fo much care as toentruft 
 none but the old Presbyterian Minifters, thrown out by the Prelates, 
 and fuch as they fliould admit, with any fhare of the Government, 
 were not fo much biafs’d in favour of the Epifcopalians, as to re¬ 
 frain from making fuch Laws on that account, if there were no other 
 reafon. 
 
 He owns that the Author of the Scotch Presbyterian Ela- 
 ejHcnce has perhaps been unwary as to fome Stories, which need Con¬ 
 firmation. Well faid, Doftor, perhaps unwary^ when I have made 
 it evident from his own words that he contradifts himfelf \ but the 
 Inconfiftencies I charge him with, you fay you have no Inclination 
 to examine •, and truly I believe it, becaufe you know they are true. 
 And whereas you fay there is not one good Confequence in my 
 Book : pray let’s hear what you can fay in your next to avoid the 
 dint of the Confequences there deduced, and here repeated, to 
 prove your Party in general. Liars, Perfecuters, &c. But dje good- 
 natur’d Dodor being forty that he has done us fo much ravour as 
 to grant that his Friend was unwary as to fome Stories, retrafts 
 immediately, and tells you, there are multitudes of trne Stories againfl: 
 Hi of that nature^ and believes that there was no Injury dene us in pub* 
 lifting that Book^ Well argued, wary Doctor •, you own that your 
 Friend was unwary in publifiiirig Stories which needed Confirmation, 
 tho he delivered them all as pofitive Proofs, and yet fay he did 
 
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 US no Wrong. So that I perceive, according to your Epifcopai 
 Conference, a Breach of the Ninth Commandment is no Injury. 
 But Dodtor, feeing you have given your Friend the Lie, e en box 
 it among you till you box one another’s Ears. But in truth, 
 Doftor, he has no reafon to be angry with you, feeing you give yodr 
 felf the Lie as well as him : for Pag. 91. you fay that you believe 
 the Presbyterians had no Injury done them by publilhing that Book. 
 And yet Pag. 93. you fay, you do not believe thofe Stories of 
 Mr. Pale publilh’d in that Book; fo that the wary Dodlor mull 
 either grant himfelf a Liar, or that to publilh- Lies againll a Man 
 is ho Injury, which makes him a Blafphemer. Now, good Dodlor, 
 Vtrum mavU elige, take your choice. 
 
 The Dodtor goes on, and proves his Argument thus: The printed 
 Accounts cited from their Books are equal to theunprinced Rela¬ 
 tions of their Sermons and Prayers: but takes no notice of the 
 perverted Propolitions and falfe Citations, which I have proved 
 upon his Friend from our printed Books, nor of what I faid in 
 Mr. Rutherfordh Defence, but goes on to revile him, tho his Works 
 praife him, and make his Memory precious. Good Dodlor! re¬ 
 member your own beloved Apology of the Kites, Crows and Jack¬ 
 daws, and pray take in the Cuckows, folemiirzlng a Jubilee over 
 the dead Falcon ; and apply the other Fable to your felf, that the 
 Afs, amongft other Bealls, kick’d and infulted over the dead Lion. 
 •For fure I am, if Mr. Rutherford were alive, he would difdain to 
 enter, the Lifts with fuch an Epifcopai Hawker as you, but would 
 content himfelf to fay, Etiamfi tn poena fHera4 dignm, tamen ego indig. 
 nm cpiiia te pcenru famam, which is in ^lain Scots, he would ftorn 
 to foul his Fingers with you. 
 
 Well, the Dodlor knows not whether to believe, or not be¬ 
 lieve V and mark his Civility to Mr. Rale., for you mult know? he 
 will not allow him the Title of Dodlor, that’s too much for a Pref- 
 byterian : He tells you he has given you a couple of Inftances of 
 greater Ignorance and Nonfenfe in Mr. Rales Book than any that’s 
 to be found in the Scotch Eloquence *, and yet in the beginning 
 of the P3<i Page, he tells you he does not believe the Inftances in 
 that Book againft Mr. Kale why^ good Dodlor, it would feem 
 you think them not Nonfenfe great enough for Mr. Rale: But 
 ihould not you believe your Brother, the Author of the Presbyterian 
 Eloqaencey as well as you would have him to believe you? Truly ia 
 his next Pamphlet he had e’en beft be quit with you, and ufe ycyr 
 own words, viz. That he will not believe what you fay unlefs ha 
 
 have; 
 
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 'have better Authority. And laftof all, Dodor, feeing you own 
 that his Authority is not good j pray, why are you angry with rne 
 for writing againft him ? Poor Dodor! remember that the falfe 
 Witnefles againft Jefus Chrift could not agree in their Evidence : and 
 feeing you and your Comrade are at giving one another the Lie, be 
 not angry if 1 call you both Liars. 
 
 Ibid. The Dodor tells us, that the moft blafphcmous Story in 
 the Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence^ can be proved by the moft un¬ 
 deniable Evidence, particularly thofe againft Mr. Vrqhuart and 
 Mr. Kirton ; But he would do well to remember that he himfelf has 
 already belied one of his Evidences, and we have no great reafon 
 to think that the reft are of any better Credit. But further, I am 
 fufficiently fatisfied by thofe who have lately made an Enquiry into 
 the Affair, that the whole is a malicious Calumny. 
 
 Well, after a little more Vomit, he tells you, That theabfurd 
 ludicrous Sed metamorphofe Religion and its folemn Exercifes into 
 Theatrical Scenes. Commend me to the wary Dodor ! what, not 
 one Page without contradiding your felf, or your Brother the 
 Author of the Presbyterian Eloquence f He laid that Our Preachers 
 were whining Fellows that drivelPd at Eyes and Mouth, and now 
 your Dodorfhip tells us that they are Merry-Andrews. Well, 
 Dodor, who’s the Liar ? he fays it’s you, and you fay it’s he, and 
 I fay it’s botln 
 
 Pag. The Dodor feems content that he and his Party be 
 reckoned Publicans and Sinners, fohecan but perfwade the World 
 that we are Scribes and Pharifees. Pray, good Dodor, dignify and 
 diftinguilh your felf and your Party by what Title foever you pleafe, 
 and obferve the wife Man’s Rule, <rgauT^v j but be chari¬ 
 table to your Neighbours, and before you charge us \vith adi’ng 
 Comedies, conhdef how you’ll reconcile your felf to your Brother, 
 Author of the^cofj Presbyurian Eloquence^ who chofe rather to repre- 
 fent us as perfonating Tragedies *, and you and he both fcem fo very 
 well acquainted with the Cuftoms of the Play-houfe, that you had 
 e’en belt petition their Majefties for Mumfordh place, and the other 
 fwhat do you call ’em) that’s lately dead, and then we may not only 
 ling but fwear, “That the Pulpit and Stage have corrupted the j^ge. 
 But one word more, Dodor, and that’s this*, Take your Brother 
 Foyer along with you, for he’ll make a fpecial Bully, and then you 
 may fport your felves in your Theatrical Scenes, I had almoft laid 
 Obfcenities,and ad Comedies,Tragi-comedies and Farces altogether; 
 and take liiy word for it, you need not doubt of Vifits from the 
 
 fame 
 
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 fa-iiie Angels and Ladies who are fo Wnd to you now. 
 
 ?4^.94. The Do(flor breaths out fuch venomous Reflexions,and fo 
 remote from Truth,that they muft needs be infpired by Hell it felf: 
 fo that his DoXorlbip may very well pafs for a black Enthufiaft. But 
 it is very ft'range the Presbyterians fliould be fuch foohj}) and Comi~ 
 nal ?r-.each€rs^ at to make idl Religion ridicnloiiu^ and yet be preferred 
 by King, Parliament and Country, when the Epifcopalians are re- 
 jeXed. . _ 
 
 95* He comes to invalidate my Infbances of the vicious 
 Lives, and ridiculous Sayings of (the Prelatical Clergy s and truly, 
 poXor, I agree, that it’s neither decent nor generous to wreftle 
 with a Scavinger, but it’s much lefs to attempt it and be foild. 
 Well, DoXor, to your firftTopick, that this way of Libelling is 
 the true CharaXeriftick of our Party. Good Sir, let’s join Hands 
 then, for really I did not know ^before that yours and ours -were 
 the fame •, as they muffc of necellicy be, if Libelling be^ our 
 CharaXeriftick: for that your Party are Libellers, needs no other 
 proof thgn the Catalogue in the frontice-pieceof your Apology ^ 
 The Scots Presbyterian Eloquence^ your Apology it felf, and the Poll-*’ 
 feript, rj/iw cHnEliGens Hna fumus and pray, feeing it is fo, don’t 
 difturb the Repofe of your Prehtical Friends at Court any fflore^ 
 to patch up an Union by Force or Fraud. But now I think on’t, 
 there are a fort of Lit era. Mutabiks^ which run from one lide to 
 another •, and I believe that’s the Reafon why CharaXerifticks can¬ 
 not be fo eafily diftinguilhed 4 For who can tell where to find a Man 
 that’s fometimesa Proteftant,. fometimes a Papift *, turns Proteftant 
 again v and from a Cadee, become a Curat; then Head of a Col¬ 
 lege, and at laft leaves his Country for Schifm and DiQoyalty ? 
 
 As for your Story about Sptfwood^ you would have done well to 
 have cited your Author *, for fince, as I told you not long ago, you 
 gave your, felf the Lie, we have no reafon to believe you. More¬ 
 over, it’s but very natural for a Cadee of Vunbartons Regiment, 
 which us’d to plunder People of their Goods, and make no fcruple 
 to rob Men of their good Names, not to be believed. 
 
 For your Encomium on Arch-bifliop SWp, it’s no furprizal to me, 
 bis Villany was fo univerfally known, that no Man but thofe of his 
 Gaiig will defend him', and that’s no more than Whitney^ lately 
 bang’d for Robbery, mayexpeX, and without doubt has from his’ 
 quondam Underlings. As for your charging the Arch-bifhdp’s Mur¬ 
 der on the Presbyterian Principles, ’tis like your Philofop% : Mr. 
 Shields fays it, Er^o it’s true. It were a fuffkient Anfwer to tell you, 
 
 F anotlier 
 
another denies. Ergo it’s falfe. And I tell you, again and again^ 
 That the Bind let loefe^ was never the Standard of our Principles, nor 
 approved by our Party » and I dare venture to fay, Mr. Shields will 
 not now own every thing in it himfelf: Nor is it his Difgrace, but 
 Honour, to retrad what fecond thoughts he finds will not 
 hold. And as for your Allegiance, that there’s ttothing werfe in the 
 Morals of thejefnits : You do well to defend your but I di- 
 
 reded you before, where you might find as bad, nay worfc) among 
 our Scots PreUtifisy who gave publick Coramillions to murder Men 
 without Form of Law, which is more than a fudden intemperate 
 fit of Rage in a few Men, who accidentally rencountring the Prelat, 
 who was adually purfuing them for their Lives by his booted Apo- 
 ftles, did inconfiderately deprive him of his. 
 
 As for what Lfay againft the Church of England^ it’s what many 
 of her Sons own to be true : and whether the Paflive-Obedience- 
 Men deferve any better treatment, I refer to the incomparable Ar^ 
 gnment lately publifhed by Mr. Johnfon. So that if there be any In¬ 
 civility to the Church of EngUndy it’s yours and not rainei^ for I di- 
 ftingoifh whom J mean, and apply it to all in grofs. ' 
 
 .lOL He charges me with attaquing all our.Kings fince the 
 Reformation. Thbds unwarily,argded^ Dodor y then I perceivcy 
 that according to you, King William is none: of enr Kings, for fare I 
 am J da not attaque hint. 
 
 But your Dodorflup may pleafe to know, that I accufed none of 
 your Kings, ^but what . the Parliaments have acculud before me, and 
 I. think their Copy maybe writ after : not do 1 know any reafon 
 why,we fhould<be more fparing of late, -than former Kings^ if their 
 Male-adminiflrations be alike, and that it may be done with equal • 
 lafety. Ail Hiftories, Sacred and Prophane, abound with the wicked 
 Lives of Kings *, fo that this Prelatical Maxim, of burying, their 
 publick Faults in.Silehce, never yet found, nor never will find en¬ 
 couragement from God or Man.v and 'their contrary pradice fioWs' 
 not from Principle, but Inte'reft.: nor do they fpare Kings more 
 than others, when they thwart that-, witnefs Heylin'^s Refledions 
 upon pious Yi.> EdwaYdt\\t Sixth *, and the Carriages of the whole 
 Party when he granted the Indulgence *, and to 
 
 this we may addtbeirxGntinualTnvediv.es and . rebellious Pradices 
 againft their prefehCjMojefties. So that they have forgot the fo- 
 rauch wrefied Text, which condemns fpeaking Evil of Dignities,, 
 they being the giiiltieft of all Men alive in that refped, as may be 
 demonftrated, from theti--Clamours againft all but Monarchical 
 
 Govern- 
 
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 Goyerntiientj though all Powers that be are ordained of God ; 
 and to which according to the Divine Command, we fliouM always 
 chearfuUy fubmk, whether to the King as Supream, or other Gor 
 vernours. Magiftracy iin this,refped being alfo called the Ordwance 
 «/ Man \ becaufe, though the Genm be determined by -God, yet 
 th^Sfecies h left to the determination of Men ^ elfe were it alto¬ 
 gether .unlawful for the Subje<^s of Republicks to own their Govern 
 nours> which' no Man, fan<t mentis^ will affirm. And herein God 
 has evidenced-his Love to Mankind, that he hath bounded all forts 
 of Governments with one Commiffion, which is, to encourage 
 the Good, and puniffi Evil-doers: So far may they go, andnofur¬ 
 ther. 
 
 ' Ihid, He fays. That I charge them with fuch as were depofed for 
 their Immoralities, as Dean Hamilton and Cock^urn of St. Bothens t 
 whereas I only charge them with having proteded thofe Men from 
 the Puniffiment due to their Impieties, and baffling their Profecu- 
 tors: So that if thofe Men were depos’d at lall, it confirms ray 
 Charge of Injuftice in the Adminiftration, which punilh’d Men 
 for accufing thofe, whofe Guilt at laft they themfelves were forced 
 to confefs. 
 
 As for your Apology for Arch-bilhop Taterfon \ Itfis not much 
 for your Credit to be Patron to a common Stallion, whlM^' all Scot¬ 
 land Yncm to be fuch; and Mag Paurfon (a common Strumpet) 
 didown before the Lords of the Seffion, but a few Years ago, that 
 Ihe lay both with him and his Brother : and one of the greatell 
 
 Scotland^ took him in the very Ad of Villany with one of 
 the Dutchefs of Tories Maids of Honour, upon the back-ftairs of 
 the Palace. The modell Dodlor pretends to be very fqueamiffi, 
 and complains of my Obfcenity, alledging. That none hut a Devil 
 can repeat, nor none but the Author invent fuch Infiances as are there 
 brought againfi the Epifcopal Clergy. Good Sir, to ufe your own Ex- 
 prelTion, the paltry eruption of your Paffion fecms here ungovern¬ 
 able : If he be a Devil that repeats them, what is he that ads them ? 
 But why mull he be more a Devil that gives an account of Epifco- 
 pal Debauches, than he that forges prophane Stories againft the 
 Presbyterians ? Let any unbiafied Man rea4 the Scots Presbyterian 
 Eloquence, and the Anfwer, and certainly he mult own, Thatif the 
 latter was writ by a Devil, the former rriult be writ by a Beelzebub. 
 Your magnifying the Arch-bifhop’s Merit fo much, who was impri- 
 fon’d for Dilloyalty, ffiows your difaffedion to the Government. 
 
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 Your Defence of Brown and Cant^ are folike a pedantick Dodor, 
 that they deferve no regard ^ and what I write of them, are fo far 
 from being my Invention, or, as you moll learnedly word k, isths 
 Exhalation of my mofi infedtiom Breathy that I can bring you the AH'* 
 thors to avow it to their Faces. 
 
 Pa£* lo^. He fays, IPs fleafant to fee me acenfe the Church for 
 the Sayings of the Preshyterians: You own that thofe who preach’d 
 fuch ridiculous things, were guilty of Bhindcrings after they con¬ 
 formed to Epifcopacy. Truly, Dodor, if there were any greater 
 Blunderers amongfl: them than your felf, they mull have been Blun¬ 
 derers in Folio; for I cannot think they were guilty of a more pal¬ 
 pable Blunder than this, to call Preachers, who complyM with our 
 Scots Epifcopacy, Presbyterians •, for, by that fame Argument, we 
 may Hill call the Dodor a Papift, for fuch I am informed he fome- 
 times was. 
 
 As to Dr. Canaries^ your Teflimony is not of validity enough to 
 clear him of that Accufation which I fay Hill is upon Record : And 
 fuppofe it true that thefe Presbyterian Minifters and Judicatories 
 declared, they could make nothing of it, that will not amount to 
 prove it falfe i every one knows that Crimes of that Nature are 
 very difficult to prove, efpccially when all the Parties concern’d arc 
 link’d together in Intereft, and think it behoves them to retrad 
 what they formerly faid, as I am very well alTured by them, whofc 
 Reputation is fairer than the Dodor’s and yours both, that there 
 k unexceptionable Evidence of the Woman’s having declared the 
 thing her felf; And we have a very pregnant Inllance of a Perfon 
 of no mean Note, whole Accufation moft in England are fatisfied 
 is true, and yet we fee nothing can be made cut, neither before the 
 Judges, nor the Lords. 
 
 As for your Appeal to Mr. Spaldings that he Ihould fay, nothing 
 could be made of it, itisabfolutely falfe *, he only faid it as to the 
 baptising part v which yet, as I have already hinted, is far from 
 proving it a Lie. 
 
 So that this Topick, that nothing can be made appear of k that 
 may juftify the Decrees of a Court after fo many Years time, is not 
 Efficient to acquit Dr. Canaries, But fuppofo the thing to be alto¬ 
 gether falie, k argues a very great want of cleanly Men amongft 
 the Epifcopalians, that they fliould chufc fuch a Man for Agent, 
 who lay under a flagrant Scandal The ApoHle’s Rule is clear, that 
 a Bifiop ought to be bUmelefs, 
 
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 The Dcxflor’s next Apology is for himfelf, and very angry he is 
 that 1 faid, {^commonly called Vollor'} which now I hope I have 
 made him amends for. But heark you, Dodor, 1 had almofl: for¬ 
 got to tell you of another Lie you have given your felf, and your 
 Brother-Libellers, the Authors of the Scotch Eloquence: for you 
 all Laid, Nemine contradicente before, that the Presbyterians were 
 a proud, row*re,unconverrible Tribe, and that there was nothing like 
 Juftice among them •, and now you own that the Presbyterian 
 Privy-Council, and a Presbyterian Synod, treated Dr. Caftaries with 
 fpccial Honour, acquitted him, and reproved his Accufers. Really 
 Dodor, this is fomewhat odd : Can any good thing come out of 
 Nazareth? Is it pofTiblc, that notwichftanding of all your Clamours, 
 that you have at laft dropM out a Commendation of their ha- 
 nourable Procedure ? Truly, Doctor, this is not warily done, pray 
 reconcile this with what you advanced before, that we had no Injury 
 done us in the former. Book, tho therein we were Laid to be Enemies 
 to all good Morals ? But, Dodor, I beg your Pardon, perhaps you 
 intend our Civility to Dr. Canaria a Proof of it j for truly he 
 was accufed for no good Morals. 
 
 Well, but what did I fay of Dr. M - o ? truly that it’s well 
 
 known he rid in the Pope’s Guards, and the Dodor denies it, and 
 fays it’s known to none but Presbyterians, who can difeover Plots 
 in the Moon. Dodor, I wirti it were as lure that there are none in 
 your Prelatical Church. But give me leave, Dodor, this impudent 
 hint of denying the late Prelatical Plots agairrft the Governmenc, 
 fhews you have need of a better Purgation from the Charge that 
 you rode in the Pope’s Guards than you own : For really, if that 
 were as true, as that there have been and are Plots among,ft the Pre- 
 latifts, iCatrue enough. But to fatisfy your Dodor/hip that it’s-none 
 of my Invention, I tell you truly that 1 can bring you twenty who 
 heard it of you before ever your Bloqaenee or my Jinfwer was 
 publifti’d V and if our Friends make ufe of Stories now and then 
 which want Confirmation, it’s no more than what you accufed your 
 Brethren of juft now, then Veniam damtu fetimiifcji^ viciffim. And 
 indeed, Dodor, to be ferious with yon, I wift that the Falftioods 
 which have been mutually charged on one another, may oblige both 
 to be more tender of publifhing Reports upon truft \ but feeing you 
 are the firft Aggrefibrs, blame your felf for the Confequences *, and 
 I think that your Dodorfhip particularly ought to have been a 
 little tenderer of juftifying fuch felTContradidions as the Scorj. 
 Fresbyterian Eh^HencCy feeing ! underftand that when yon were your 
 
Tdf Parfon in *— -- you were your felf accufed of Villa ny 
 
 with a Woman among the Corn *, truly, or otherwife, is not mine to 
 determine : But feeing 50 U publiih’d random Reports againft us, we 
 cannot be blamed to anfwer with what we have heard concerning 
 you^ a,nd truly, Dodor, I am fo far from being guilty of Forgery, 
 with which you charge me fo often, that were I to fpeak my 
 laft, 1 can freely declare, that I do not know one Syllable of what 
 I write to be falfe, tho I know' a great deal of it to be true, yet I 
 never avoudfd all thofe Inftances of the Follies and Vices of your 
 Clergy as undeniable Truths, as you and your vapouring Brethren 
 did yours in the Scots Treshyterian Eloquence. For 1 fcarce think it 
 pollible that at fuch a diftance, fo many Stories can be tranfinitted 
 on fuch a Subjed, and in fo great hafte, without Miftakes: And 
 yet I think there is no fuch great odds betwixt riding in the Pope’s 
 Guards, and being a Cadee in DHmbarton\ Regiment which guarded 
 Popery, and contributed fo much to enflave Eurofe; fo that it was 
 but an aufpicious Omen of being a good Country-man, much lefs a 
 pious Proteftant Preacher, to be a Volunteer in that Regiment j not 
 that I would detrad from the Honour of their gallant Colonel, who 
 tho he was fo unhappy as to be a Papift, yet did truly inherit the 
 Noble Soul of his Family. Nor yet would I derogate from the 
 Valour of that Regiment, but 1 think tbefe Nations are pretty well 
 fatislied how little we are obliged to them either for our Civil or 
 Religious Liberty t And I make bold to fay it, they are as little 
 obliged to their Cadee. 
 
 The feeble Defence which in the next place yon make for Gray^ 
 HendryHannnn.^^<:. deferves no Thanks from themj nor Anfwer 
 from me i and for your abominable Charge of a prollituted Confci- 
 ence, lodg your Accufation nearer home ; and tho you have profti- 
 tuted yours to Churches and Princes who drive diftind Interefts, I 
 never did fo with mine. And to conclude with your pitiful Re- 
 ferve to prove me,a Liar, becaufe in the Title Page it’s faid. Printed 
 by Eho. Anderfon Charing'Crofs^ It Ihews your Caufe 
 
 was finking, when you lay hold on the firfi: thing comes to hand ^ 
 but to fatisfy you further, I tell you ’tis no Lie, and charge you upon 
 Credit to prove it one, fov ajfirmantimcHmbit:probatio. You have 
 not fcribled fo much, but you rauft know that Bcokfellers often put 
 the Date of the following Year to Books printed in Michaelmas 
 Term, which was the only apparent Fallity ^ and for the reft it 
 furpalfes your Skill to prove it a Lie. 
 
 In/lances 
 
Injtances on Record of the notorioui Cruelty and Injitjlice 
 ufed in the time of the Ute PreUtical Adminijlrations in 
 the Courts of Judicature againfi the Presbyterians^ in the 
 ' Perfons of Sir Hugh and Sir Geo. Campbel, and the 
 Laird of Blackwood. 
 
 A S for the Morality and Vertue of the furviving grand Patron 
 of the Faction, and their lately deceafed invincible Champi¬ 
 on, Sir Geerge Mackenzy^ this following Inftance will fee it in its 
 
 true Light. ^ -ry, tho Douglas by Sirname, yet envying the 
 
 Mar^juifs of DcHgla^, the Chief of the Family, whom he hath a 
 Pique againft, forrefufing to take the Crofs-barout of his Arms, 
 deligtied to revenge himfelf on his chief Chamberlain, or Steward, 
 the Laird of BUckroood^ a pious and worthy Gentleman, by whofe 
 Care'the Marquifs’s Eftate is frugally managed, and that illuftrious 
 Family chiefly enabled to maintain it fejf in what remains of its 
 ancient Splendor. ^and - Sir Gmgey not' knowing which 
 way to reach this Gentleman, didi.on ;purpofe procure an to. 
 make Converfe with fuch Mthey were fleafed to (MlBebels^ or Converfe 
 with any that had Converfe with them^ HIGH TR EA SON, The 
 Marquifs having good part of his Eftate about Douglas in the Wefl-,. 
 where a great many of his Tenants were concerned in the Infur- 
 redliOn at Bothwell-^Bridg •, they; thought that Blackyood muft una¬ 
 voidably converfe with fome of them upon the Marquifs’s account,: 
 and fo of necelTity be catch’d •, hereupon they indided him, and 
 found it a hard matter however to prove any fuch thing upon him. 
 But getting notice that there was one Mr. Wilfon^ an Inhabitant of 
 Douglas^ . 2 Man of conlidcrable dealing with many of the Noble¬ 
 mens Chamberlains of the,Weft, that had alfo dealt with Blackpood-j, 
 and the faid Wilfon was reputed a grand Rebel, becaufe one of thofe 
 who had been forc’d to take Arms by the Tyranny of the then 
 Government. They feC a great many of their Implements at work 
 to take him, which was no hard matter to efted, becaufe he fre¬ 
 quented moft Markets in that part of the Country, and was often 
 at Edinburgh •, fo having taken him, they broug.hc him to Sir George 
 A'/ackenzy^ whothreatned him terribly, and accufed him with abun¬ 
 dance of Rebellious Pradlices, which had rendred him obnoxious 
 to the Law, and liable to Death s and having, as he thought,. 
 
 all arm’d ' 
 
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 •allarm’d him fufficiently ; then he begun to Ratter him, that he 
 fiiould not only have a Remiffion, but alfo a Reward, if he would 
 give Evidence that he had converfed with BUc^ood^ whom 
 they had then in Cuiiody, and under Proccfs, which he altoge¬ 
 ther refufedo However, Interceffion being made to Sir CJeorge on 
 Mr. Pf^ilfens account > and feme undertaking to perfwade him to 
 a Compliance, he admitted him to Bail, to appear fudi a certain 
 
 day. ^ - ry having notice that Sir had let Mr. 
 
 go, was fo enraged at the Difappointment of fwallov^ing BUckc 
 rood's Ellate, that being then in great Power, he I'wore, that if 
 Sir George did not get Wilfon again to hang BUckwood, he Ihould 
 hang for him, becaufe he himfelf had converfed with Wiifon^ a 
 Rebel, and let him go. Sir George being thus circiimfl-antiated, 
 ftnt in quell: of Mr. WHfon before his day, but he could not be 
 found. However, they proceed to Trial, and, which was eafy 
 for them to elfedtuate, who were fo dexterous at fuborning of 
 Witnellbs and packing Juries, got Blackpood condemned, w'hich 
 his Advocates (or Counfel) particularly Sir George Lockhart.^ were 
 lb angry at, that they offered publickly in Court to prove Sir George 
 to be as guilty as he, viz. in converfing with Mr. Wilfon^ who not 
 being able to deny, tho fain he would, he confelfed it, and told 
 them that he would go to his Majclly and get a Remilfion : Where¬ 
 upon all cry’d out Shame upon him ! to prolecute a Gentleman to 
 Death, for that whereof he was guilty himfelf. And BUck^ood^s 
 Counfel infifted that he ought to have the Benefit of a Remiffion 
 alfo. Notwithllanding, ^—ry and Sir George hurried on toward 
 Execution, nor could they allow the Gentleman time to prepare for 
 Eternity, but call’d for his Accounts of the Marquifs’s Eftate, which 
 the Noblmen and others appointed to take, finding lb juft, and fee¬ 
 ing the Gentleman fo grave and compofed, they became Interceffors 
 for a Remiflion, which was obtain’d, and the Greed and Malice 
 of his Enemies fruftrated. However, we fee by this Inflance the 
 Vertue, Religion and Morality of the grand Pillars of our Scots 
 Prelacy, which our Pamphleteers do fo much boaft of. But this fol¬ 
 lowing Inflance will yet add a new Varnifh to their illuflrious and 
 refulgent Vertues. 
 
 The barbarous Prelatical Perfecution, together with that un¬ 
 heard-of way of proceeding againft BUckmod^ having alarm’d Sir 
 Hhgh and Sir George Ca/^ybel of Cefmek^ with other Gentlemen who 
 were Presbyterians, or favourers of them, although they knew 
 thcrafelves innocent, yet thinking it not fafe to ftay in the King¬ 
 dom 
 
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 dora, Vihcre^ir GeorgeMackefizie could llretch the Law, and make 
 it reach the Life and Eftate of whomfoever he would, they came 
 for London:, with a defign to reprefent their Grievances to K. Charles 
 the Second: But that fame Hand which perfecuted the Presbyteri¬ 
 ans in Scotland^ falling upon the Dillentcrs and moderate Church¬ 
 men in England *, thofe Gentlemen happened to come hither when 
 the Earl of EJfex^ my Lord Rnjfel, &c. were committed on pre¬ 
 tence of a Plot ^ and Scots-men, becaufe opprelled, being generally 
 look’d upon as Dillatisfiedj the faid Six Hngh and ^iv George Cam^- 
 belj were illegally taken up, without a Warrant •, and having been 
 divers times examined by the King and Council, there could not 
 the lead; ground of Sufpicion be found againlt them, faving what 
 j^tterbury the Meflengerdid falfly Swear : And being made fenfibic 
 of liis Perjury by the faid Gentlemen, he told them, that his Oath 
 could not harm them. Which my Lord Mdford and Six George 
 Mackenx*ie bCing aware of, they went to the Duke of Tork^ And 
 my Lord having a Profpedl of the Gentlemens Eftates, they dealt 
 with the Duke to procure a Warrant from the King to fend them 
 fox Scotland^ where they would do their BuiineE. This was quick¬ 
 ly granted *, and then Six George fet about fuborning of Witnedes 
 ngainilthem ^ and the Evidence was managed and inftruded by Sir 
 iV. Wallace of Craigy^ my Lord Melfordh Brother-in-Law *, ^ngh 
 Wallace oiGarits, Chamberlain (or Steward) to the faid Six William ^ 
 SiTid JLugh Wallace of Engiljlon. The Evidence being prepared, Sir 
 Hugh Camfbei was brought upon his Trial, before the Earl of Perth 
 then Lord-JuEice.GeneraL, (or.Lord-Chief'joftice) of Scotland^ who 
 ■wasfvery eager in the Prolecurion ^ and having pick’d a Jury for 
 theputpofe, they.proiceed^d to call the Evidence, viz. Tho.lngrdm.^ 
 Tenant to Hugh Wallace of Borland, Couiln to Sir William Wallace 
 the Suborner •, Dmkl Crawford.^ and one Fergnjfon. The Earl of 
 Perth having, according to Form, adminiftred the Oath to the 
 Witnedes^ which is always done with much Solemnity and Gravi¬ 
 ty in Scotland., their Gonfciena;s began to rebound and upon Exa¬ 
 mination, they folemnly declared that they knew nothing againft 
 Sir Hugh Camfhtl. Which ftruck Sir Geo. Mackenzie and the Court 
 with Confufion ^ and all the ‘^pcdfators fliouted for Joy, crying out. 
 That it was the Hand of God. Whereat Six George Mackenzie b^lng 
 enraged, bellow’d OUC, That he never heard of fuch a Protefiant Roar., 
 hut at the Trial of the Rebel Shaftsbury. However, the Jury being 
 fhut up, return’d in a little time, and brought the Prifoner in, Not 
 ■Guilty. His Council pleaded. That according to Law he might be 
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 difcharg^ed at the Bar : Which my Lord-Chief-Juftice and Sir Georgt 
 Mackenz.k refnfed, the latter being the King’s Advocate, or Attor^ 
 ney-General v and alkdging, that hefhouldfind both Sir Hugh the 
 Father, and Sir George the Son, guilty of High-Treafon in Eng^ 
 land. Whereupon Sir Hngh was remanded to Prifon, and an In- 
 didment exhibited againft both Father and Son, to appear before 
 the Parliament *, wherein the Duke of ^eembury was to be Commif* 
 lioner, who was as zealous for purfuing the Prifoners as any. The 
 next Thing which the Profecutors took in hand, was, to being 
 down fome of the Englifh Evidence, who pretended to difeover 
 the Plot at London ; and accordingly they were fept down in one 
 of the King’s Yachts./ And by the Artifice of the Profecutors 
 brought into the Company of the Prifoners, who neither knew 
 them nor their Defign. The Evidence being examined before the 
 Secret Council, and not being able to fay any thing againft the two 
 Gentlemen, they were fent for London again in the Yacht. After 
 this the Duke of ^eensbary., Earl of Perth., Sir George Mackenzie., 
 and others of the Fadion, tampered with the Prifoners own Coun- 
 fel, to advifethemtocaftthemfclvcsuponthe King’s Mercy, ufing 
 for Argument, That the Parliament would condemn them, though Irtr 
 ?iocent ^ and that they knew there was no Appeal from their Sen# 
 tence: and therefore if they would caft themfelves on /the King s 
 Mercy, they would be fure to procure a Remiffton, and a good 
 part of their Eftate. ButSir abfolutely refufed to 
 
 eaft himfelf on the Mercy of either King or Parliament, becaufe he 
 knew it was fought for only to be an Evidence of a Plot, whereof 
 they were altogether Innocent.- After which they feparated Sir 
 from his Father, and fhut him up without Pen, Ink^ or Pa¬ 
 per *, and fo kept him in clofe Prifon for ten Days: But finding they 
 could not prevail, they dealt with his Father to perfwadehim, 
 and fo returned him again to his Father’s Room j where being con¬ 
 tinually dealt with, by Perfons of Quality, who were loth to fee 
 the Family ruin’d, and did urge, that be would certainly bring his 
 Father, and himfelf both, to the Block i he anfwered. That he 
 was willing to facrifice his own Life, fo his Father might be pre- 
 ferv’d. And finding that that could not be done, without cafting 
 himfelf on the King’s Mercy, he was prevail’d with to do it. And- 
 though their Lives were faved,yet moft, if not all their Eftutes were 
 Edfed. 
 
 1 cannot omit one Particular more, via. That the faid Sir 
 
 havinga mind to ingratiate himfelf with the faid Gentleman 
 
 fince 
 
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 fincc the Revolution, he did ferioufly tell him, that he fwore the Evi¬ 
 dence three times (on their Knees) in bis Chamber, that they fliouid 
 Swear what they were taught againft his Father ^ and hop’d God 
 would forgive him. 
 
 Now I appeal to the Reader, whether ever a Piece of blacker In- 
 juftice was tranfaded, for the Kind, on this fide Hell; and whe- 
 ther pur Prelatical Adverfaries have reafon to boaft: of thofe Mens 
 Vertue, Worth, and Piety, who were principally concerned ? And 
 whether any Credit can be defervedly given to Sir George Mackenzie's 
 Relation of Matters of Fad, from which he deduces Arguments to- 
 juftify the Severity of the late Reigns againfl: us, wherein he himfelf 
 was the Profecutor, and fo deeply engaged, as appears by his own 
 Confeflion. Now, I fay, whether his Defence of Charles the Se¬ 
 cond’s Government, writ fince the Acknowledgment aforefaid \ or 
 the Parliament of Scotland^ who in their Claim of Right complain 
 of thofe things which he defends, ought to be bell believ’d, let 
 thole who are unbyafs’d judg. And feeing thofe two Inftances of 
 his notorious Injullice are Matters of Record, let the Reader bear 
 Witnefs if I have not fairly difarm’d the Scots Prelatical Party of 
 their bed Weapon *, feeing to all which was told them of their bar¬ 
 barity to the Presbyterians, they condantly oppos’d Sir George Mas- 
 \enzies Defence, as a Buckler that could not be pierced. 
 
 I have but one word more, and then I have done : I would have 
 any moderate Church-of-£«^/W-man, anfwer from his Confcience, 
 Whether he thinks thofe of his Communion were faithful to his 
 Majefty, who conllantly follicited him, till he was prevailed with, 
 to imploy Ibme of thofe principally concern’d in the black Ads of 
 Injuftice above-mention’d, in the chief Places of the Government 
 in Scotland-^ being moreover of the number of thofe Evil Counfel- 
 lors whom he declared againfl at his firll coming over. And feeing 
 his Majefty, who has been but a little while- among us, and often 
 called Abroad, muft needs in a great meafure be a Stranger to Men 
 and Things : May the Great God of Heaven preferve his Perfon 
 and Government, from fuch dangerous Enemies as thus impofe up¬ 
 on him, out of a pretended Zeal for the Church of England'^ and 
 in the mean time they have no reafon to be offended at us and our 
 Parliament, if-we witnefs as much true Zeal for the Church of 
 Scotland, 
 
 G 2 
 
 Proofs 
 
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 Troofs of the Moderation of the Scots Presbyterians towards 
 the Epifcofal Party, from the Acfs of the General Ajfemhly 
 held in the Tear 1690, 
 
 T Hat the World may be fatisfied of the Moderation of the Pref- 
 byterifins, and how little reafon the Dodor has to charge the 
 Cameroman Principles upon them in general, I thought fit to exhibit 
 in the Words of the General Aflem&y, held in An. 1690, what they 
 exprefs concerning the large Paper given into them by Mr. Lineing^ 
 Mr. Shields, and Mr. Boyd, called Cameroman Preachers-, and the 
 Subftance of their Ads any way relating to the Epifcopal Gler- 
 
 gy. 
 
 As to the firfl: they enaded, That it contained feveral peremp- 
 tory and grofs Miffcakes, unfeafonable and impradicable Pro- 
 pofals, uncharitable and injurious Refledions, tending rather to 
 kindle Contentions, than compofe Divilions; and therefore the 
 faid Paper was denied reading. And yet what is fo heavily chatr 
 gcd in that Paper, is far fhort of thofe Principles which the diflnge- 
 nuous Dodor will needs fallen upon the Presbyterians in camnb. 
 
 And as to the Epifcopal Clergy, read what follows. 
 
 By their Ad of 0^.28.'they recommend to the Presbytery,to*.f4^tf 
 notice of alt Aiinifters within their Bounds, the late COKtFQBMIST 
 incumhents or OTHERS, who jhall not obferve Fafis and Thanksgivings, 
 indiSled by the Church, or jhall be guilty of any other irregular Carrie 
 age. See. So that they are no feverer upon the Epifcopal Clergy, 
 than their own, for all the Clamours of the malicious Fadion. 
 
 In that of 29 they enad, That all fuch who (Ijall be received into 
 Communion with them in Church-Government, be obliged to fubferibe the 
 Confejjlon of Faith, ratified in the fiecond SefiJon of the Parliament, 
 There it’s plain that they arrogate no more Power than what is 
 given them by Law j and it’s obvious, that by this Ad, they neither 
 exclude the Prelatills ab officio, nor benefcio .* So that the Church-of- 
 Men have no reafon to complain, that their Brethren are 
 feverely treated, for they have made no fuch Heps towards a Com- 
 prehenlion with the EngliOi DifTenters, though his Majelty delired 
 it. And yet what a racket do they keep, becaufe the Scots Epif¬ 
 copal Clergy are only denied a lhare in the Government of the 
 
 Church, 
 
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 Church, which they defignedly feek that they may undermine it, 
 and are not afhamed to own it. 
 
 In their Letter to his Majefly, Novmh. 13. 1690. at theClofeof 
 that Afl'embly, they acquaint him with the Inftrudions which they 
 had given to thofe appointed for Vifltation, concerning the Confor- 
 mifts, That none of them (hall be removed from their Pla- 
 
 ‘‘ ces, but fuch as are either IniufEcient, Scandalous, Erroneous, 
 “ or fupinely negligent •, and that thofe of them be admitted to 
 “ Minifterial Communion, who upon due trial iliall be found Or- 
 “ thodox, Able, Godly, Peaceable and Loyal 3 and that fuch who 
 “ lhall be found to have received Wrong in any Inferior Judicatory 
 of the Church, Ihould be duly redrelTed. Yet what Clamour, 
 what Lies, what Obloquy and. Reproach have the poor Presbyte¬ 
 rians of Scotland been loaded with, in blafphemous and virulent 
 Pamphlets, publifh’d in London by Hindmarjij^ the late King’s Book- 
 feller, and promoted and dilleminated by that ungovernable Fa- 
 dlion. And what a clutter did the high-flown Courtiers keep about 
 the Scots General-AfTembly.5 how induflriOu's to mifreprefent them 
 to the King', nnd hov/reftlefs, till they had them diiTolve'd, con¬ 
 trary to the Laws, and at fuch a time as we were threatned with a 
 Rebellion at Home, and an Invafion from Abroad •, that fo his 
 Majelly having difobliged his only Friends in Scotland, might be to¬ 
 tally deprived of any Ahiftancefrom thence: but, blelTed be Gqd, 
 who difappoihted.thcir. Deligns: And I hope, that moderate and 
 truly Religion'^ Churdi-=of-A«^f^^-Men, will henceforth be more 
 cautious in liftening to the.Calumnib of our Epifcopal Clergy, when 
 they confider the Moderation of the above-mentioned Adts of the 
 Presbyterian Genetal-AlTembly •, which they have no reafon to think 
 of fuch dangerous ConYeqtfence as our Pamphleteers would have 
 
 them believe ', and as D- -AY--—ro, in his Papers lately 
 
 feized by Authority, would have further infinuated. 
 
 And that they may have yet a further proof of their Moderati¬ 
 on, I would pray them to read the feventh Initrudion given by 
 the faid Aflembly, to the Commifiloners appointed for Vifitation^ 
 viz.. 
 
 That they be very cautious of receiving Informations againfl 
 “ the late Conformifts, and that they proceed in the matter of 
 Cenfure very deliberately, fo as none may have juft caufe to com- 
 “ plain of their Rigidity *, yet fo as to omit no means of Informa- 
 tion, and that they (hall not proceed to Cenfure, but upon fuffi- 
 ‘‘ cient-Probation. And that the World may be farther fatisfied 
 
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 in their Impartiality, in the fourth Inftruftion they declared that the 
 power of the Fifiters jltaS reach Presbyterians as well as others : and in 
 the fecond Inflru(Ction, they gave them Power to flop thQ fr^ecifitant 
 er unwarrantable Procedure of Presbyteries in Procejfes. If any Pro¬ 
 ceedings can be more mild or regular, let the World judg: So that 
 
 whether Dt.M -oand his Fellow Libellers, who impudently 
 
 aliert, that there is nothing like Order, Moderation, or Juftice 
 among the Presbyterians, be Liars or not, let thefe Acts determine. 
 And if there were no other thing to (top the Mouths of all Cavil- 
 lars, the Airembly’s Declaration, Ihat they would depofe no Incum¬ 
 bents fmply for their Judgment concerning Church-Government, nor yet 
 urge Reordination upon them, were fufficient; and if there be any In¬ 
 genuity in the Church-of-JE«^/W-Men, it may for ever filence them 
 as to their Complaints againft our Adminiftration, feeing thofe of 
 their Communion have been, and continue Hill to be fo much guilty of 
 a contrary Practice towards Dillenters. And further, this Aflembly, 
 whom they branded as void of all Moderation or Humanity, ma(le 
 an Ad in favour of Mr. Curat of Humby, and recommepdeci 
 
 Mr. Cameron^ one of the late Conformifts, to the Privy-Council for 
 Charity, which is more than ever was done by any Epifeopai Allem- 
 (bly in favour of Presbyterian Minifters. 
 
 Having proved the Fallhood of the Epifeopai Calumnies againft 
 our Church as void of Moderation, it remains that I do the fame 
 as to the State \ and tho it be already fulBciently done in my firft 
 Anfwer, it will not be amifs to infill: on it in this: And becaufe 
 
 contraria juxta fe pofta magis elucefcunt^ I lhall exhibit a fliort Epitome 
 of their Ads of Parliament againft us in the two laft Reigns, 
 and of ours againft them in this, that the World may fte on w£)fe 
 fide Juftice and Moderation lies. 
 
 J0S 
 
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 Mis of Parliamefft by Charles the 
 Second, dnd James the Seventhy 
 Agdinft the Presbyterian Govern- 
 wenty and Prebyterians in Scot¬ 
 land. 
 
 A^s of Parliament by 
 William and 
 Queen Mary againfi. 
 Epifcopacy in Scot-* 
 land. 
 
 P Arl. I. Seffion i. Car, II. They enacted 
 the Oath of Allegiance, alTerting 
 the King to be the only Supream Gover- 
 nour over all Perfons, and in all Caufes •, 
 and obliging the Takers to the utmoft 
 of their Power to defend, aflift and main¬ 
 tain his Majefty’s faid Jurifdi(ftion a^ 
 gainft all Perfons whatfoever, and that 
 they fhould never decline his Power and. 
 Jurifdidion- 
 
 PM, I. Stff. I* AH 2, 3,4, 5, II. An 
 Acknowledgment of the King’s vaft and 
 unlimited Prerogative was enjoin’d to 
 be fubferibed by all in publick Truft 
 over and above the Oath of Allegiance. 
 
 OHob. i 66 i. The Council, not Parlia¬ 
 ment, turn’d out 300 Minifters without 
 Citation or Hearing. 
 
 Pari, 1, Sejf, i. AH 7. Sejp 2. AH"!, 
 They enadled. That the National Cove¬ 
 nant, and Solemn League and Covenant, 
 Ihould have no Obligation *,, and ordered 
 them to be burnt by the Hand of the 
 Hangman. 
 
 SeJf, 2, AH 3. They reftored Patro¬ 
 nages. 
 
 SeJf. I. AH 4. Enabled, That none be ‘ 
 Mafters in any Univerfity, except they 
 take, the Oath of Allegiance, and own 
 
 Prelacy ? 
 
 P Arl. 1. W.M. They 
 enadled the Oath of 
 Allegiance thus. “ 
 
 B. do fincerely pro?- 
 “ mife and fwear, that- 
 I will be faithful, and 
 “ bear true Allegiance 
 ‘‘ to their Majellies K. 
 William and Q: Mary, 
 
 July 21,, 1689. A(fl: 2^ 
 gainft Prelacy, as a great 
 and infupportable Grie¬ 
 vance to the Nation. 
 
 SeJJ, 2. AH ' 2, For re-' 
 ftoi ing Presbyterian Mi— 
 nifters, ordering .them to 
 have immediate Accefs- 
 to their own Churches, if 
 vacant, and to have the 
 whole Year’s Stipend %. 
 but if there be an Incum¬ 
 bent in their Churches, 
 he lhall have right to the 
 half Year’s Stipend. 
 
 AH Ratifying- the 
 Confelfion of Faith and. 
 
 Frss'-^- 
 
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 Prelacy *, and none Ihould be School- 
 mailer, Tutor, or Pedagogue to Chil¬ 
 dren without a Prelate’s* Licence. 
 
 Sejf. 2. 5. and Sejf, 2. 3. Enadled, 
 
 That all in.publick Trull or Office renounce 
 and abjure the Covenant on pain of loling 
 their Places, and Privilege of Trading. 
 
 Seff.2. 2. Enaded,That all Petitions, 
 Writing, Printing, Remonftrating, Pray¬ 
 ing or Preaching, niewing any dillike of 
 the King’s abfolute Prercigative, and Su¬ 
 premacy in Caufes Eccjefiallick, or Epif- 
 copacy,bepunilhed asfeditious: And that 
 no Meetings be kept in private Roufes. 
 
 ■ Seff. ,3. A^ 2. Enaded, That all Noti- 
 ebnformed MiniHers that preftime to er- 
 ercife their Miniftry, ihall be paniffi’d 
 as feditious Perfons. And that all Per- 
 fons in acknowledgment of hii Majelty’s 
 Government Eccleliallical attend the Ser¬ 
 mons of the Curats: Noblemen and 
 Gentlemen refuling, to lofe ,a fourth of 
 their Rents *, Burgefies their Freedom, 
 and a fourth part of their Movables *, 
 and Yeomen the fourth of their Mova¬ 
 bles, and others 10 s. a time, leaving the 
 Council at liberty to inffid'further Pu- 
 nifhmehts, that if there were three above 
 the Family at Preaching or Prayer, it 
 lliould be eEeemed a Conyenticle^ and 
 commanding Lords of Manners, Mailers 
 of Families, and Magillrates of Buroughs 
 to caufe all under their Charge to'co'me 
 to Church. And for putting thefe Laws 
 in Execution, a High-Commiffion-Court 
 was ereded by the King, contrary to 
 A^ 13. 10. Jac. 6 . with Power to 
 
 examine upon Oath de piper inquirendk, 
 
 Parl.2. AB I. Lauder dak 
 Enaded, That by virtue of the Suprema¬ 
 cy, the ordering of the Government of 
 
 the 
 
 Presbyterian Govern¬ 
 ment, as raofl: agreeable 
 to the Word of God, 
 and moll conducive to 
 the Advancement of Pi¬ 
 ety and true Godliriefs, 
 and eltablilhing the Peace 
 of the Realm, being re¬ 
 ceived by the general 
 Confent of the Nation 
 to be the only Govern¬ 
 ment in the 114 A^ Jac. 
 6 , Pari. 12. Aa-. 
 
 Setling the Government 
 of the Church on Pres- 
 byteria]] MiniHefs outed 
 fincQjati. 166], and.fuch 
 as they have received or 
 fhall receive. Taking 
 notice that many of the 
 Epifcopal Miniders had 
 deferted their Flocks, 
 and others were'depriv’d 
 for not reading the Pro¬ 
 clamation, and not pray¬ 
 ing for the. King and 
 Qiieen. ■' ‘Ibid. They au¬ 
 thorize' the Presbyterian 
 Minilters' to appoint Vi¬ 
 ctors, and purge out 
 fcandalous and- in fuffici- 
 ent Miiiillers, arid order 
 thofewho afe cqntuma- 
 eious, and proven guilty!, 
 to be fufpended and de¬ 
 prived. 
 
 14. Impowerin^ 
 the'Council to tender 
 the Oath of Allegiance 
 to fufpeded Perfons^ or 
 
 to 
 
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 the Charch doth pro-perly belong to his 
 Majefly and Succeflbrs, as an inherent 
 Kight to the Crown > and that he may 
 enafl and emit fuch Con fti tut ions, A^ls 
 and Orders concerning Church- Admini- 
 ftrations, Perfons, Meetings and Matters, 
 as he in his Royal Wifdom fliall think 
 fit-, which Ads, &c, are to be obeyed by 
 all Subjeds, any Law, Ad or Cuftom to 
 the contrary notwithftanding. 
 
 Sefft 2. Pari. 2. Enaded, That all who 
 fhould be required do depone upon Oath 
 their Knowledg of all Meetings, or Per- 
 fbns at them, on pain of Fining, Impri- 
 fonment, Banilhment or Tranfportation. 
 
 5. Enaded, That all outed Mini- 
 fters found preaching or praying in any 
 Houfe but their own Family, be impri- 
 foned till they find Bond for 5000 Marks, 
 not to do the like again. Every Hearer, | 
 toties queries^ 25 /. if a Tenant, and 12/.' 
 if a Sub-Tenant. And that all who 
 preach in the Field, or in a Houfe, if any 
 of the People are without Doors, fiiall be 
 punilhed with Death; and thofe who can 
 feize and fecure any fuch Minilter dead 
 or alive, Ihall have 500 Marks Reward. 
 The Magiftrates of Burghs to be fin’d at 
 the Council’s Pleafure for any Conventi¬ 
 cles held in their Burghs, and they to be 
 reimburs’d from the Landlord of the 
 Houfe: And Men to be fin’d if their 
 Wives and Children went to Meetings. 
 
 6 . Impofed Fines from loo/. to 
 20 1 . Sterling a time, on fuch as had their 
 Children baptized at fuch Meetings i and 
 Servants to be fined in half their Wages. 
 
 11. Sejf. 3. The fame Fines were 
 impofed upon them who fiiould keep their 
 Children un-baptized for thirty days. 
 And by 7. that fame Sefllon, they 
 
 enabled 
 
 to fecure them who fiiall 
 be informed againfl on 
 probable grounds, and to 
 fine fuch as refufe in a 
 fifth of their Eftate, and 
 not to exceed one or two 
 Year’s Rent of them 
 who are Landed-Men. 
 
 ^ AEl 17. About vifi- 
 ting llniverfities, appoin¬ 
 ting Profeflbrs in the Fa¬ 
 culties to take the Oath 
 of Allegiance, and fubmk 
 to the Government of 
 the Church. 
 
 35. Againfl fuch 
 Mini/ters as being de¬ 
 prived for not praying 
 for their Majefties, do 
 preach and pray elfe- 
 where, and diffufe the 
 Poifon of their Difaf- 
 fedion, forbidding them 
 to exercife any part of 
 their Miniflerial Fundi- 
 on on any pretence what- 
 foever, until they fwear 
 Allegiance, engage to 
 pray for King William 
 and (Lueen Mary^ and 
 difown King Jam^s ; or 
 to be proceeded againfl 
 as difaffeded. 
 
 23. Concerning 
 Patronages: I'he Free¬ 
 holders and Elders of 
 the Parifh, being Prote- 
 ftants, are to have the 
 
 H Pre- 
 
enaifted intoIeraBIe Fines on fuch as ab- 
 fented from Church for three days toge¬ 
 ther. 
 
 Achq.Seff.^. They declared all Ordi¬ 
 nation fince which had not been 
 
 by Bifnops to be invalid. 
 
 In 1678, a Convention of States held 
 by Lauderd^ile^ laid on a Tax to levy For¬ 
 ces for fuppreffing Field-Meetings^ which 
 was afterwards continued by the Parlia¬ 
 ments held by the Dukes of Tork, and 
 
 Qjuenfherry. 
 
 in I<581, the D. of Tork^ being Com- 
 miilioner, without taking the Oaths ap¬ 
 pointed by Law, and againfl; Ads which 
 rendred Papifts incapable, they doubled 
 the Fines for Field-Conveaticies ^ and or¬ 
 dered Gentlemen to put away their Te¬ 
 nants, and Maftersof Families their Ser¬ 
 vants, or fub-Tenants, without Warring, 
 if they went to Meetings. 
 
 Ad 18. They enaded. That all ]urif- 
 diclion doth fo refide in his Majefty, that 
 be may by Himfelf or ComniLiioners take 
 Cognizance of, and decide any Cafes or 
 Caiifes which he pleated. 
 
 Ad 6 y and 25. They impofed on ail a 
 felfcontradidory Ted, which obliged 
 them to Hand by the Confeflion of Faith 
 recorded in Farl. i, Jac. 6 . which dif 
 own’d the Supremacy, and own’d the 
 Lawfulnefs of Defenfive Arms, tho the 
 contrary to both were fworn in the TeH- 
 without fo much as a non chfiante. 
 
 Pari. I. Jac. 7. D. ^teensbtrry Com- 
 miffioner. Ad 3. allowing Prifoners in- 
 dided for High-Treafon to be fummon’d 
 to make their Defence in 24^ hours time. 
 Aii 4. T hat fuch as being cited for Wk- 
 nelfes in cafes of Treafon or Conventicles, 
 and refafed to depone, ftiould be liable to 
 
 be 
 
 Prefentation of the Mi- 
 nifter : if the Pari/h diF 
 approve him, their Rea- 
 fons are to be judged by 
 the Presbytery s and if 
 the Freeholders and El¬ 
 ders do not apply to 
 the Pre.^bytery for cal¬ 
 ling and chooiing a Mi- 
 nilter in lix Months, the' 
 full Power to be in the 
 Presbytery, tanquamjare 
 devolfito. And the fame 
 Ad orders a Compenfa- 
 tion to the Patrons for 
 their Right of Prefen¬ 
 tation. 
 
 Aid 38, For ;fecuring 
 their M a jellies Govern¬ 
 ment, obliging' all Per- 
 fons who in Law are ob¬ 
 liged to fwear,. to own 
 their Majellies as King, 
 and Queen de jars, as 
 well as de fado^ and de¬ 
 fend their Title againfl: 
 King James, &c. the Re- 
 fufers to be reputed dif- 
 affeded,deprived of their 
 Offices, and be obliged 
 to give Security for their 
 Good-Behaviour, as the 
 Oovernment fliall think 
 fit, providing it extend 
 no further than Bond, 
 Caution, or perfonal Im- 
 prifonment, fecuring of 
 Horfe, Arms, or putting 
 Garifons in their Koufes. 
 
 There 
 
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 be puniihcd a' gmhy of the fame Crimes. 
 
 5. That giving or taking the Natio¬ 
 nal, or Solemn League and Covenant, or 
 owning them obligatory, flmuld be High- 
 Treafon. 7* Making the Conceal¬ 
 ment of any Supply given to forfeited 
 Perfons, tho the nearell Relations, Trea- 
 fon. S.' That all who preach at 
 Houfe or Field-Conventicles, or fuch as 
 hear at Field-Conventicles, fliould be pu- 
 nilhed by Death and Confifeation. 1 3. 
 Re-injoining, and further extending the 
 Impoiition of the Tell. 23- Making 
 the refufingtheOathof Abjuration, High 
 Treafon. ^^24. Ordering all Lords ol 
 Mannors,C^r. toinferta Claufe in all Lea- 
 fes to their Tenants, obliging them and 
 their Families to Conformity under exoibi- 
 tant Penalties. AU 2^. Ordering the 
 meronians to be putTued, and thofe who 
 negledted it to be reputed equally guilty. 
 
 There is alfo an Adf, 
 but what Number or 
 Seffion 1 cannot tell, (be¬ 
 ing where 1 cannot get a 
 fight of the Adl:s) abolifh- 
 ing the King’s Supremacy 
 in Ecc’eliallical Affairs^ 
 for which we are mighti¬ 
 ly reproached by our E- 
 ncmies, who do not con- 
 flder what has been writ 
 unanfwerably by Mr.6V/- 
 ieffy in his AarorPs Rod 
 hlo(fo?mng , and other 
 Books, againft it. I con- 
 fefs my felf but a meer 
 Laick, and not skill'd in 
 GontroveiTies,having ne¬ 
 ver made them my Study, 
 any farther than to fatif- 
 fy my felf, that I did not 
 Obedience. 
 
 give blind 
 
 But the Scripture telling us, that Chrill: is Head of his Church, and 
 that other Foundations can no Man lay, than what is already laid 
 pn the Prophets and Apoftles: and Common Reafon mult needs in¬ 
 form me, that for any Man, or Party of Men, to take upon them any 
 'other than a Declarative Power in (llhurch-Matters, and that accor¬ 
 ding to the Word of God, muft needs bean invading ofChriE’s 
 Prerogative. And feeing he himfelf declar'd, that his Kingdom is 
 not of this World, that it fliould be govern’d by Worldly Monarchs,. 
 is himano capti cermcem jmgere equinam. And I cannot but wonder, 
 that the Church of England s late Experience /hould not convince 
 them of the Unreafonablenefs of this Do(Rrine : For 1 believe they 
 were fenfible under the late King, that a Popifh Head was altogether 
 inconfifient with the Safety of a Proteflant Church. Andd am con¬ 
 fident the Chriflians in Turky never dream’d that the Grand Signior 
 was the Head of the Chriftian Church : and this being a Demonllra- 
 tion that it cannot belong to the Chief Magilfrate, as fuch, he can 
 lay claim to it no other way.. Efpecially, if we confider that the 
 Church, as in Afis i 5. did meet and declare the Mind of God im 
 Church-Mutters, without ekher the Call or Gonfenc of the Heathen; 
 
 .Emperosm 
 
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 Emperors or Kings: So that it’s plain the Church had Power to do fo, 
 and we have never yet had any Divine Revelation to recal it. Then as for 
 aboliQiing Patronages, which occaiions a further Clamour : It’s plain that 
 the Parliament have made a very rational A£ton that Head i and it’s but 
 c.qual that every one who Iras a Soul, and evidences any real Concern about 
 it, fliould have a Vote in choofmg his Minifter, and not wholly rely on the 
 Choice of a Patron, who perhaps is fo wicked, that he takes no care of his 
 own, and is very unfit to choofe a Minifter for the Souls of a whole ParUh. 
 And as for tlie other Adfs, they arc fo plain, that any who will but take 
 care to compare them with thofe of the late Reigns, if they be not blinded, 
 as our Dodtor was, with the Indecencies of Paliion, we dare refer to them 
 which are the moft moderate ; or, whether the Scots Prelatifts be not guilty 
 of an audacious Lie, in after ting, that they are more fcvercly treated than 
 ever wc were ? And 1 would pray the Reader to take this along with him 5 
 That their Laws, tlio barbarous to a Prodigy in themfclves, were yet more 
 barbaroufly put in Execution beyond their Extent: and that our Laws, tho 
 moderate in themfelves, arc yet more moderately put in Execution. Yea, 
 and belidcs thofe Adfs of Parliament, their Council took upon them a 
 Parliamentary Power, and made Adts more bloody than thofe of their Par¬ 
 liaments, enabling Souldiers to examine any Man they met, and lo kill him 
 without any further Trial, if he did not give them fatisfying Anfwcrs to 
 their Queftions s of which any that pleafes may be fully fatisfied in my 
 firft Anfwer. I had almoft omitted taking notice of one remarkable thing 
 which paft in the Convention of States after the Revolution. They de¬ 
 clared themfelves a free and lawful Meeting, whatever might be contain’d 
 in the Letter (xom-James the Vllth to diftblve them, or impede their Pro¬ 
 cedure } in which Archbilhop Paterfon and fix other Bifhops, and the Vif- 
 coLint of Dundee concurr’d. Now if this was not a manifeft difowning of 
 K.James'^s Authority, let any Man judg ; and yet thefe Men did afterwards 
 exclaim againft the Convention and Parliament as unlawfully called, be- 
 caufe wanting K. Jamesh Authority, and oppofed K. coming to 
 
 the Crown. So that it’s evident, our Scots Epifcopalians are Men of the 
 lame Kidney with thole Jacobite Biftiops in England^ who join’d in fend¬ 
 ing for the Prince of Orange^ and yet afterwards turn’d his Enemies out 
 ©f a pretended Loyalty to K. James. The Fadlion have lately drawn up 
 and difperfed amongft their Friends a fort of APamfefio from thofe of the 
 Epifcopal Perfwafion in the North of Scotland., full of Invedlives againft 
 the Governmenf, which, together with other Monuments of their Re¬ 
 bellious Temper, &c. againft their prefent Majcftics, may perhaps in a 
 Httlc time fee the Light. 
 
 F J N I S.