sm 5ii>. w ^ '^~^^'~^ss:mm CibrarjD of t1\e Cheolojical ^eminarjp PRINCETON • NEW JERSEY PRESENTED BY Dr. Charles G-. Osgood sec \y -lll llliilli MHIIIilUMIilMyMli^il , /i/: Jiuu (?/ t/hit, U(//'/'o?m (^ /vn' 7jf/ u//o/h7//'c 7J/^ Notes out of the Hind let loofe, printed 1687. which Book is the great Oracle and Idol of the true Covenanters. jPage 3.T T's obfervable how reproachful he fpeaks X of Princes, and even of fuch as are now our King*s Allies, in thefe Words ; *' The *' Pfoteftants of Hungary are under the tearing ** Laws of that ravenous Eagle, the Tyrant of *' Aujlria ; thofe of Piedmont under the graflant *' Tyranny of that little Tyger of Savoy.** Page 24. " Our firft Reformers never refign'd ** nor abandonM that firft and moft juft Privilege ** of Refiftance ; nay, nor of bringing publick ** Beafts of Prey to condign Punifhment, in *' an extraordinary Way of vlndi6live Juftice. " E. G. Cardinal of Beaton, that was flain in the *' Tower of St. Andrew's by James Melvin, who <' perceiving his Conforts to be mov'd with Paf- *' fion, withdrew them, and faid, This Work and " Judgment of God, although it be fecret, ought to *' be done with greater Gravity ; and prefenting the *' Point of his Sword to the Cardinal faid. Repent '* thee of thy former wicked Life^ but efpecially of <' the fhedding of the Blood of Mr. George Wif- heart, which yet cries for Vengeance from God upon thee -, and we from God are fent to revenge it \ for here before my God, I protefl that nothing moveth me to ftrike thee, but only becaufe *' thou haft been, and remaineft an obftinate Enemy ** againft Chrift Jefus and his holy GofpeV Of which Fa6t (faith my Author) the faithful and famous Hiftorian Mr. Knox, fpeaks very honour- ably, and, after the Slaughter, join'd himfelf with them ; yet now fuch a Fad committed upon fuch another [ 53 ] another bloody and treacherous Bead, the Cardinal Prelate of Scotland^ eight Years agone, is generally condemned as horrid Murder. Page J^. Speaking of the King's Defeat at Worcefier^ he fays, *' Ifrael had finn'd and tranf- " grefs'd the Covenant, having taken the " accurfed Thing, and put it even amongft their " own Stuff •, therefore the Children of Ifrael " couki not (land before their Enemies, but an " Army of them near 30,000 was totally routed *' at Worcefter \ and the Achan^ the Caufe of their " Overthrow, was forc*d to hide himfelf beyond *' Sea, where he continued a wandering Fugitive *^ in Exile, till 1660. Falfe Monk^ then General, ** with a Combination of Malignants and publicic *' Refolutioners, did machinate our Mifery, and " effedluated it by bringing the King home to ** England^ from his Banifhment, wherein he was *' habituate into an implacable Hatred againfl the " Work of God." Page g6. " The Covenant is our Magna Chart a " of Religion and Righteoufnefs, our greatefl ** Security Tor all our Interefts." Page gcj. *' That fame perfidious Parliament " fram'd an Aft for an Anniverfary Thank fgiv- " ing, commemorating every 29th of May^ that *' Blafphemy againft the Spirit and Work of God, " and celebrating that unhappy Reftoration of the *' Refcinder of the Reformation, which had not '* only the Concurrence of the Univerfility of the " Nation, but (alas, for Shame that it fliould be *' told in Gath) even of fome Presbyterian Mini- '* fters, who afterwards accepted the Indulgence ;, " one of v/hich, a Pillar among them, was ktn '' fcandaloufly dancing about the Bonfires.'* O holy and afionijh'ing Jujiice^ thus to recompence our Way upon our Head -, to fuffer this holy Work and Caufe to le ruined under our unhappy Hands ; who, , E 3 fuffer'd I [ 54 ] juffer^d the Dejlroyer to come in \ who had it in his Hearty fwell d with Enmity againft Chrijl, to raze and ruin the JVork^ as he inofi wickedly did. Page 1 10. " The King gave us many Proofs ^' and Demonftrations of his being true to Anti- ** chrifi, in minding all the Promiles and Treaties " with him, as he had of his being falfe to Chrift, *' in all his Covenant-Eiio;agements with his Peo- " pie ; for in the Year 1666, he, with his dear ** and royal Brother the Duke of Tork, contriv'd, *' countenanc'd, and abetted the burning of Lon- *^ don, evident by their employing the Guards to ** hinder the People from faving their own, and to " difmifs the Incendiaries, the Papifts, who were " taken in the Fa(5l." Page 123. *' At length the virulent Traitor, " James Sharp, the Arch-Prelate, receiv*d the '* juft Demerit of his Perfidity, Perjuries, Apo- ^' ftacies. Sorceries, Villanies, and Murders, fharp *' Arrows of th° mighty, and Coals o^ Juniper i *' for upon the third of May, 1679. feveral wor^* *' thy Gentlemen, with fome other Men of Cou- ** rage and Zeal for the Caufe of God, and the " Good of the Country, executed righteous Judg- ** ment upon him at Magus Moor, near St. An- *' dr eld's : And the fame Month, on the 29th of " May, theTeftimony at Rutherglen was publifh'd " againft that Abomination of celebrating an An- <' niverfary Day forfeiting up an ufurp'd Power, " deftroying the Intereft of Chrift in the Land, *' and againft all finful and unlawful A6ls, emitted << and executed, publifti'd and profecuted againft " our covenanted Reformation • where alfo they <•« burnt.'the AlIs of Supre7nacy, the Declaration,, <«^ the A^ ReceJJory, for the burning the Covenant.^*' '.Page 146. '' At length the King of Terrors, a *^' Terror to all Kings, cut off that fupremc Au- caufe not knowing how to pray, without they mufi have Recourfe ^o a form, which is as unreafonahle and unnatural an Impcfition upon the Strong, efpecially * Every Thing that's not agreeable to the New Gofpel, muft be flaviflij nonfenfica!, and damnable. on [ 77 ] on Minijlers, as ivould he the impofmg of Crutches lipon the adult and able Part of Mankind, who can vjalk better ivithout them. WelJ, Chriil prefcrib'd a Form of Prayer to his Difciplcs ; the firft, and all the fucceeciiiig Ages of the Church, thought it not only convenient, but neceffary to ufe Forms in publick Worfhip ; but, alas, the Difciples them- lelves, and all the preceding Chriftians, are but weak, unable Infants, in refpe<5t of the adult, ftrong, and covenanted ProfelTors of the New Gofpel in the IVeJl of Scotland. The next flunous Author is Mr. Rule, who calls himfeir a Do6lor of Medicine (for they never pre- tend to have any in Divinity). In the Second Vin- dication of the Kirk oi Scotland., he fays, PageUp. That is an unfair., injurious., and falfe Imputation., to charge the Severity of the Stile of this jiutbor upon the Presbyterians, ivho, he fays, difown the Stile, it being luritten by a Cameronian, while they flood at a Diflance from the fiber Presbyterians. How- ever, thofe whom he calls fiber Presbyterians .^ have never yet, by any publick Deed, condemn'd that Book, nor any other of the Barbarities of thefe unfiber Cameronian Presbyterians, but have, on the contrary, rccciv'd them into their Communion, v/Ithout the leaft Acknowledgment of any fuch Crimes •, and Dr. Rule (that I may not offend him) calls them the Zealous Party, and reprefents them as pretty gentle, in that they made it their Work only to deprive, and not to murther the Epifcopal Miniflers, Page 125. Although the Doftor knows, that Inftanccs can be given of fome Miniiters that were even murther'd by that zealous Party, not long ago ; and himfelf owns, in the Beginning of his Poftfcript, that five Men and fix Women,'Pro6crine of P.ifTive Obedience ; *' and that in their Government they are di redly *' contrary to Chrifl's Inftitution, to the Defign of " the Reformation, and to the Holy Covenant, " being 'Tyraniiical^ Prelatical^ yea^ and Archi- " papa-p-elaticaL What we are bound to by the " Covenant, fays he again, is not to reform them, " but to concur with them, when lawfully called, " to advance the Reformation ; '* that is, wholly to overtuKn their Church and State, as we formerly did by our own glorious Gofpel-Methods of Fire and Sword, having a very lawful Call from a godly Party, who invited us to fight the Bat-* ties of the Lord againfi the Mighty, the King, " who oppofed Reformation- Work in the Land : " And now, fays he, it*s far from our Thoughts to " go beyond that Boundary, in being concerned " in their Affairs •, we wifh their Reformation, buc " leave the managing of it to themfelves -," that is, till we find fuch a bleifed Occafion thofe Worthies of the Lord, the Reformers, did in 4S. Page 23. He fays, 'That King James abdicated the Government^ and that the Farliament called it fo. If he knows any Thing of thofe Affairs, he knows that the Parliament of Scotland did not give it that Name, though that of England did : However, if he did abdicate, I would fain know, how this con- flfts. with /^^//A concluding juft before, /•. 22. 'That his Royal Authority was taken away by tie Nation j and with what he fays, p, ico. 1'be Nation laid him afidey and chufed anothevi" That is the conftant Do<5lrine [85] Doclrine of Scotch Presbyterians, (and they pradife accordingly) That the People can give and take a- laay the Royal Authority, can lay afide and chufe Kings at their Pleajiire. vide Buchan. de Jur. Reg. Jus Populi Vind. Lex Rex, and Rule'j Vind. Now, to ufe Mr. Rule\ moderate Phrafe in that Place, Some Mens Necks have been made tofiretch for a lefs Crime, than to afiert under an Hereditary Monarchy, that Kings are not to be defied. And it's certain they are as little Friends to their prefent Majellies, as to Monarchy, who v/oiild found their Authority upon fuch a tottering Bottom •, nay, Mr. Rule, in the Name of the other Presbyterians, tells plainly that they own no Allegiance to King William, but in fo fir as he fuppo-ts Presbytery, and that it would overturn the very Foundation of his Authority to reftore Epifcopacy -, For (fays he) it is declared againfi in the Claim of Right as a Grie- vance, and therefore cannot be reflofd without over- turning the Foundation of our -prefent civil Settle- ?ne'nt, p. 90. Parag. 4, And again. Page 152, Parag. 2. "The Convention hath voted Epifcopacy to be a Grievance to the Nation, and in the Clai?n of Right made it a Fundamental Article in the Government, that it fjjould be aboliflfd. Now what's the Mean- ing of all this, but that the prefent Government of State mud neceffiirily (land and fall with Presby- tery ? So that all their great Boafts of Loyalty to the prefent King, amount to no more than this. No Presbytery, no King William. Page 36. Parag. 11. he fays, Moft of the Epif- copal Minijlers ivho isKnt out, were put out by their own Confciences •, for they deferted their Charges without either Sentence^ Threatening, or Compulfion, And yet before that, Page 26. Parag. 6. he owns. That the Presbyterian Rabble did perfecute, and drive them away. But that this is no more imputalde to the Presbyterians, than the Drunkennefsy Swearing, G 3 Whore- C8S] fVboredoms, and Pcrfecutions, * thai we charge ma-r. ny of the Prelatifis with, are to he looked on as the Crimes of all the EpifcopaUans. And farther he excufes thau Rabble, becaufe, as he there avers, ^hey were under the highefl Provocations imaginahhy to do what they did ■■, yea, to have proceeded to farther- Severities, And he adds, out of the Abundance of Presbyterian Senfe, That thefe things were done in an Interregnum • which, by the bye, can never poflibly fall out in an hereditary Kingdom -f : And though he fays we had then no Church Gor vernment, yet hlmfeJf knows the contrary, and that Prelacy flood then eftablifhed by many Laws made in twenty feven Parliaments, freely and Icf; gaily ele6ted in the moft fettled Times, and that the Prince of Orange, v/ho had then, at the Defire of fotiie of the Nobility and Gentry, taken the Kingdom under his Proteftion, did by his folemn Proclamation order all Things in the Church and State, to continue as the Laws had fixed them, till the Convention of the States fhould meet. But, fays honeft Mr. Rule, l^hefe enrag\i People were chafed in their Minds, and having now Potentiam, though not Poteflatem, therefore it was not to be won- dered that they relievW themfelves [j ; that is, by rabbling the legal Orthodox Cleigy. Moreover, Page 1 6. he fays exprefly, Ihat in Galloway the. Incumbents tvere generally driven away : But how all this is confiftent with what he faid before, viz. ThaA they deferted without cither I'hreatening or Compid- fion, I leave the infliUible Alfcmbly, who imploy'd. this Author, to judge, and, if they can, to recon- cile what he writes in the following Citations. * Thfs is the civil Stile that he promls'd to exceed in, fref. Par. 6. f Where in the Senfe of the Law the King never dies. li *Tis no new Thing for Presbyterians to think Power a fufficient Call to ad iilegilly. [ 87 ] Page 54- P^rag. lo. Speaking of the rabbling Cameronians^ he fays, " That they came into Mr. " Skinner^ Minifter of Baly^ his Houfe, and after *' they had eaten, they went away without doing " any Prejudice to any in the Family." Again, Page 27. Parag. 10. he owns exprcfiy, " That " thofe Rabble- Reformers by Force took away " the Money out of the Poor's Box, from Mr. «' Rtijfel Minifter at Goven ; but, fays he, they did " it zvith all Tendernefs" And if you will credit thofe fieri legious Robbers, Rule's Informers, both Mr. Rujfel and his Wife were drunk. But that our Author may prove himfelf and his Book to be all of one Presbyterian Piece, he tells again. Page 29. Parag. 5. That the Author of The Cafe of the Affiifbed Clergy, foully mifreprefents the Ca- meronians, while he fpeaketh of their eating and drinking at the Expence of them whom they rabbled ; all the Reports that we have of them^ give Account of their not laying their Hands on the Prey^ Efth. ii. i j. Page 145. It's better that England and Scotland he tzvo different Nations^ than that the Injiitutions of ChriJ} fhould be thwarted^ that they may be made one. May not two Nations trade together^ and be governed by the fame Laws^ and yet bear with one another as to Church Ways ! And may not alfo the JVeJl of Scotland^ and the other Parts of that King- dom, trade together, and be govern'd by the fune Laws, and yet the Weft not impofe their Kirk- Ways upon the reft of the Kingdom .'' Refponde Gilberte. The Presbyterian Government was fettled by Chrift^ p. 151. Here he leaves it to the Difcretion of the Reader, to judge whether this be a fimple Affir- mation only, or an Affirmation and Oath conjoin- ed i though the firft may be his Meaning, yet the latter Senfe feems moft natural to the Words, and ifi any other Senfe there is no Truth in them ; and G 4 indeed [ 88 ] indeed the Arguments by which their Preachers would perfuade the People to this, are as ridicu- lous as the Afieition itfclf; for their ordinary- Cant is. Beloved^ ive read in the Word^ that the Apoftles went up together^ one did not go before the other •, there was no Precedency a??iongjl them^ Be- loved ; and therefore it's clear^ that there was no Prelacy in thofe Days : And again we ready that ho- nejl Paul (they never call him Su Paul, becaufe he never fwore to the folemn League and Covenant) left his Cloke at Troas : IVhy, Sirs, you fee plainly from this l^ext, that Paul had not a Gown, hut a Cloke J for, fays the 'Text, he left his Cloke, it does not fay that he left his Gozvn : Never a Gown had that precious Man to leave. Beloved, and therefore you may he fire he was no Prelate ; for they, falfe Lowns, have no Clokes, hut Gozvns. ' From thele and fuch like Arguments our Author allows no Church but the Presbyterian to be of divine Infti- tution, and at one Dafh he unchurches all the Epif- copal Churches : And yet, fays he, Page 1 54. Presbyterians deny not Papifts to he- lawful Minifers. If he can but confute the learned Dr. Pearfori's Defence of Ignatius'j Epifles^ or fnew us from any authentick K.ecord, or receiv'd antient Hiftorian, that Presbytery was ever the Government of the Church, then we fiiall yield the Cauf^^ and believe, in fpite of our Reafon, that all Rule\ vain and empty Boafbs of this Matter, are indeed well founded, that both Parts of his Contradidiions are certainly true, and all the real Foolijhnefs of their Preaching folid Arguments. Pages 154. and 155. he rakes his Wit and Cun- ning to evade and fhift this notorious Truth, That inftead of fourteen BifJjopSy which were forrnerly in the Churchy the Kirk had now fet up Sixty : 3ut in this Matter, all his Qtiibbles and Sophifms (and his bed Arguments are no more) depend upon this Suppo= [89] Siippofitlon, That the Parliament zvas the Churchy (which is directly contrary to the tundamental Principle of a fpiritual Power, inherent in the Kirk, altogether independent on the Parliament, which has no Power over Chrift's Office-Bearers 5) for it was that Parliament, in which there was not fo much as one Clergyman, that hnpower^d thefe fixty Presbyters to govern the Kirk, and rejlrained all the reji from that Privilege \ it was that Parliament which took upon them to judge of the Hability of thefe fixty, and of the Inhahility of other Presbyters to govern. Well then, according to his Way of arguing here, it''s the Parliament that^ pro Eccle- fias Statu, can impower or reflrain Presbyters, not- withftanding, of tlicir univerfal and equal Privilege to govern. Indeed this Parliament was exceffively kind to Mr. Rule, and he for once will be civil to them, and, in Contradiftion to all the Principles and Prafbices of former Presbyterians, they Ihall pafs for the whole omnipotent Kirk. Page 1 56. We are for Moderation, mauger all the Reproaches cafl upon us. The Moderation of any Parcy is beft known by their Practices when in Power : Now when the Presbyterians were laft in Power, all the Evidences of their Moderation were, The Reeking of Fields and Scaffolds ivith the Blood of Princes, Prelates, Nobles, Gentry, and Cotnmo7is j the Cries and Tears of Widows and Or- phans ', the Groans of Men imprifoned, banijhed, excojnmunicated, fequefired ; fome Cathedrals razedy and others converted to Garrifons and Stables, and the leffer Churches made Dens for Thieves, in the moft literal Sen fe : And now that they are in Pov/cr again, all the Evidences of their Moderation, are rabbling, robbing, beating, wounding, irnprifvningy and baniJJjing of Bifljops, Curates, Wives, and Chil- dren j the fligmatizing and Jlandering innocent arid pod Men ; invading thejuji Rights of the King, and [9° 3 of his hejl Suhjeofs \ rendering whole Countries dejii- tute of any Minijiry i flying at every Turn in the Face of civil Authority -, becoming falfe Accufers and Informers^ and at the fame Time fitting as Judges of Men in Ojfice^ and the 7iext Day intruding into their Places * : This is purging JVork^ as they call it ; Kirk Moderation with a Witnefs ; and, to ufe Mr. Rule's own Words, it*s even as effential to Presby- terians as Rationality itfelf ; which they pretend to be great Mailers of, though their Scribblers be now and then delirious. Page 157. Speaking of the Proteflation made by fome Presbyters, againft the King and the Acfls of Parliament, to alTift and deliver him, whenper- fidioufly imprifon'd by the Englijh Rebels, he fays, // was no grcfs nor fcandalous Crime, hut only a fpe- culative Opinion in a controverted Point. This fliews what is the Opinion of Mr. Rule, and of the Par- ty that iinploy'd him ; but how it confifls with his telling the World fo often in his two laft Books, That Presbyterians do not take upon them to meddle in Matters of State, nor to controul their civil Gover- nors, I leave him to fhew us in the next Vindica- tion. In the fame Page, and the following, Mr, Rule, vindicating the Proceedings of the General AfTcmbly in this Matter, fays. That the fatal Di- vifion about Proteflation and Remonflrance, was, through the Mercy of G O D, not fo much asjnen- tior^d among them ; and yet in the very next Lines he fays, 'That it was inov^d that the old Sentence againft the Remonftrators fJjould be revoked ; and the revoking of their Sentence was confirmed by this Meet- pig ^ Tloat Mr. Pitcairn, one of the reverend Brethren, was difjdtisfied with the Determination of the Meeting in that Affair, and was a little hot about it, and fpoke of entering a Proteflation againft it, * As Mr. KiiU Iiimrdf did« Would [ 91 ] Would any People but Scotch Presbyterians have imploy'd liich a Scribb'^r as dares thus profane the Mercies of GOD, to juftify his own foolifli and palpable Contradi6lions. Page l6o. He grants, that to make up their Meeting, fame Presbyterians fent more than was cu- Jlomary or allowable \ and yet it was a regular, law- ful, General Afiembly ; atid that they had none at all fent from other Parts ; which Parts were more than one half of the Nation : And was not this a pretty General indeed, that included only the leaft: Part of the Particulars ? * This is true Presbyte- rian Logick, and the Author of it deferves well to be Head of a College. In the fame Page he de- nies confidently, that Presbyterians were wont tf) appoint their Fajls on the hordes Day -, whereas he might have, with at leafl as great Shew of Truth, denied that ever they fafted on any Day : But his two Reafons for the General A ffembly's appointing this Fafl on the Lord's Day, will render this whole Matter as plain as a Pike-StafF: Firft, fays he, U 'uoas the HarvePt-Time, and to fa§i then on a Week Day, would have been a high Inconveniency : Well, we godly Presbyterians, that are the Children of the Lord, may make bold with this Day, rather than feem by religious Exercifes to incommode the People in their worldly Intereft. Secondly, Reli- gious Joy and Religious Sorrow do very well agree : And even io Faffing and Feafting at the fame Time may be very religioufly and well obferv'd by the Godly. They that write Contradidlions muft needs fpeak Ibme Truths, and Mr. Rule flumbles upon one that's well known, Page i6i. where he fays, JVe (onfefs^ that Planting Work went more flowly on than Purging iVorh * Juft like the Roman Catholick Church, an univerfal rarticular, Well, Well, St. Paul was a Divine, and he was all for Planting and Healing. Dr. Rule calls himfelf a Phyfician, and he is all for Purging and Lancing, The Presbyterians are always for Purging JVork. Now they are for purging the Kirk: Next, have at the King*s Council and Houjhold ; there muft be fome Purging Work there too. Again, there are many Malignant Members^ which, like fo many ill Humours., corrupt the Body of the Parliament, therefore that muft be alfo purged -, then the Fil- thinefs of the Army (by which Reformation Work muft be carried on) that muft be likewife purged ; and then, that all the Streams may be pure Presby- terian^ the Fountains muft be cleanfed, the Uni- verfities muft be purg'd from the Corruption of all ill affefled and f^fpefted Perfons ; and, in a Word, to make a thorough Reformation in the Land, the whole Nation muft befoundly drenched, and Purg- ing Woi'k muft go on in the Land after the old Presbyterian Manner, fo long as there remains ei- ther Guts or Brains in it. My Lord C — d, who is dcfervedly honoured by all the Party, his godly Parks and Orchards are well planted already -, and why then ftiould the General AfTembly be any far- ther concerned about Planting Work ? Purging Work is their great Bufinefs, There is another evident Truth, that Mr. Rule happens to deviate into, Page i88. viz. The IVorfi of the Prelatijis would be readieji to profefs Repen^ tance, for conforming to Epifcopacy, which they who a^ledfrom a Principle could not do. In this I hear- tily agree with him, and am fufficiently fatisfied, that that Epifcopal Renegado, who profefTed fuch a Repentance before their Affembly, neither afted from any Principle, nor can be fuppos'd to have any Confcience *, and we blefs God that all the Presbyterians Intereft, Art, and Induftry, now that they have Power, could not prevail with any but this f 93 1 this one Man, to proftitute his Confcience to his Intereft, in luch a bafc and fcandalous Comphance. I Ihall end my Refledions on this Author's Say- ings, with feme Ihort Remarks upon the Witnefles which he alledges to atteft his Aflertion ; and firft, in general, I iliy of them in his own Words, Page 8 8 . 'J'hat they are the fworn Enemies of the Epifcopal Churchy * and in a Combination^ not only to defame them^ but to root them our, and cut them off from the Face of the Earth ; and we have fro7)i the Pamphlet^ now under Confideration, -[ a Tafte of the Veracity of the Men with whom we have to do. If his Witnefj'es make no more Confcience of [peaking ^riith^ than he himfelf doth, then few thinking Men will be mov'd with what they fay. Secondly, Of the Witneffes nam'd by the Au- thors of our Books, he fays, 'Jl^ey are moftly Telle me ipfo, the Complainant is the Witnefs, which is ?tot fair. Now all Rule'j Evidences are by this Exception to be reje6led -, for he himfelf, and all others that know them, are fully fatisfied that thofe: very Ca?neronians, whom he names as the Evi« dences to difguife and lefien the attefted Matters of Fa 61 of our late Perfecution, were themfelves the principal A6lors of that horrid Tragedy. Since then it is not fair to adrnit Parties to be Witneffes, why fhould thefe Cameronians be received as fuch in this .Affair ? Again he faith, That Minijlers wit- neffing for one another, derogateth much from the Credibility of their Teftimonies ; but what fay you to Cafneronian Presbyterians witneffmg for one itn- orher ? Why, this derogates nothing from the Credibility of their Tefimonies, for they are not Mi- nijlers, thai's one evident Reafon -, and, moreover, they are all Men of JlriB Confcience, a godly Gene- ration, and very faithhil to their Solemn League,- * Witnefs their many Covenants and Engagements to that Purpofe. t Rule's Second Vindication of the Kirk. the holy Scots Covenant. Upon thefe Confideration^ Mr. Ruiei Defender of the New Gofpel Faith,' would have the World receive the Teltimony of that Cameronian Rabble, as infallible Proofs of what he afierts in his Second Vindication of the Presbyterian Kirk. And yet Preface^ Page 6. he' fays of them, That he will not pledge his Veracity for theirs -, that he pretends to no perfonal Knoijoledge of hut a few of them ; and that if they deceive^ or have been deceiv'd, tiot he, hut they are to hlanie for it. After all this, if neither Bifliops nor other Mi- nifters, neither Laicks, LordSj nor Gentry, either of the Scotch and EnglifJj Nation, muft beallow'd to have any Credit, when they are brought by our Authors to attefl known Truths, and Matters of Fa6l, whereof they were Eye-WitnefTes ; then, I befeech you, why ihould Men receive that high Charadler and Teftimony which Mr. Rule gives of himfelf, Page 169. when he fays. He did jwt only praufife Medicine, hut I'tkewife took the Degree of Do3or in it^ yet never giving over the Work of Preaching frequently. This is a terrible Man in- deed, who, it feems, can kill both Soul and Body 5 he is farftrifter to the covenanted Work, than his Brethren the Presbyterians in England -, for they can, upon Occafionj for Intereft and other fuch holy Purpofes, unite and join with Independants ; whereas he, like a Man of unmoveable Confcience^ withflood the Temptation of having an Independant Congregation at Aberdeen, when great Offers of that Charge were made to him there ; and in Nor- thumberland he fuffered no fmall Lofs, hecaufe he would not fall in with that Independant Way again* If you believe himfelf, he has no Want of Latin,- and that he [peaks falfe Latin, is falfe , he is ready (as he hath done) to give Proof to the contrary, and to compleat all with fuch as pretend to it ; but when and where we muft not know, till Elias come -, [ 9S ] nay, befides all this, he hath an excellent Hand at Latin Prayers^ which he can make longer or /Jjorter, as the Occafion requireth, but never fo JJmt as feme alledge ; neither doth he ufe to ■pray VE R T LONG in publick, even /« Englifh ; and that's more indeed than any other of his Fraternity can alledge for themfelves. Long Prayers ferve the Party for many great Ends -, in them they can found the Alarms to Rebellion, commend them- felves highly, defame the King, rail againft and revile Malignants, raife and inflame the Mob, vent filfe News and Stories, and many other Hocus Tricks their long ex 'Trumpery Prayers ferve for. Moreover, Mr. Rule, to fhew his Parts, longs for an Adverfary like himfelf. / -k;//^, fays he, a Sciolift would make it appear^ by a folid Refutation^ what Ignorance I have difcover d in my Writings, I a?n ready to defend it * with all the Probability the Subjeol Matter is capable of : But my Mi/lake, if I be in any, mujl not pafs for Proofs of my Ignorance. If any Momus will make his Cenfure on the Presby- terian Government, it's like Mr. Rule, the great ^tlas of the Caufe, orfo?ne other for him, will give hi??i a farther Anfiver : Juft fuch another as this exceed- ing civil and fair Vindication. And, then to conclude his own Chara6ter, he affures us, That he exceeds all other Presbyterians, both in his Tendernefs to the Epifcopal Party, and in his argumentative Way, ra- ther than Bitternefs \ of all which the New Gofpel Modefty and Meeknefs, the Candor, Ingenuity, and Argumentation, that appears every where in his lati Books, is a fufficient Evidence. Now for a Man to fay all this of himfdf, becaufe no Body elfe will, this fure is Tefle me ipfo with a Witnefs, unlefs it (hall be allow'd, that Gilbert may witnefs for Rule, and Rule again for Gilbert ; that the Do^or may witnefs for the Principal, and the ho- ♦ Even though it be folidly refuted by a Scioliji- neft nefl Principal again, by way of Requital, ddes the like Kindnefs to his beloved Doctor : This isr the Presbyterian Way of proving Things by Wit- neffes. Mr. Rule anfwers our Books fo throughly, that he imputes to the Authors, as a Fault in their Me- thodj every little Efcape of the Printers about •wrong numbering of the Pages *, which is frequent- ly occafion'd by lending one and the fame Book to ieveral Houfes forthefpeedier Difpatch : However, the Alphabetical Numbering of the Sheets, ordina- rily ferves to help the mifplaced Pigures ; but the* Mr, Ride be often dabbling about the Prefs, yet it feems he either does not, or he will not knowthis.^ Mr. Rule^ at laft, to confirm all the Contradic- tions and Falllioods of his Book, brings in Mr^ Melnrum^ one of his own Kidney, and juft fuch another Scribbler, as appears by his Lsttttr, Page 195. where he fays, Ihat the Prelatifts Way is to Jpread Rcfieolive Painphlets in England, keeping them m fecret as they can in Scotland, where the Falf- hoods of Matters of Fa^ are hiovm^ and they might Jhcn have their Shame and Lying difcovered. None but a true Scots Presbyterian could have affert- ed this ; for he himfelf too well knows, that his Party, which domineers now in Scotland, allows no Epifcopal Pamphlets to be brought into, ordif- pers'd in that Kingdom -, and that fome Time be- fore the writing of this Letter, feveral hundreds of thefe Pamphlets were, by the Presbyterian Party, fciz'd at Berwick, to prevent their being difperfed in Scotland % and that, contrary to all the Rules of Jullice and Commerce betwixt the two Nations, and to the great Prejudice of the Bookfelkr, thefe Books are by the Arbitrary Power o^ Presbyterians ftill kept up : But we fhall allow Mr. Meldrum to * Fide Rw/e's Second Vindication, p. 88- ©* 177. be 19^ be m6re candid in this Man in his former Deal- ings with us, it" he will but now obtain to us, the common Liberty of the Prefs in Scotiafidj and then we promife that he Ihall have a Sight of ail our Pamphlets Ji>ie pretio aiit prece, which now he fays he cannot obtain by either of thefe Means. Pa^e 169. None but a Cameraman will afTert, as Mr. Meldrum does, 'That the Covenant is a Sacred Oath ; juft as facred as that by which the Jews bound themfelves to murther St. Paul: The , World is not now ignorant, how that Covenant was by Subje6ls, who had no Shadow of Authori- ty, prelTcd upon their Brethren, in defpite of the Xing, at the Expence of much Treafure, and many thoiifand Lives and Perjuries. Page 197. he fays, 'ihat the ftchmit ting of fome who had been ordain'' d only by Presbyterians, to he re-ordain*d by Bijhops, isfcandalo'us. None but one of Mr. Riders Evidences would have faid this ; the reformed French have been always juftly reputed by all other Proteftants, for the great Learning and Piety of their Minifters ; and yet the moft learned and pious of their Minilters, at their coming into England^ when they could have the Advantage of being or- dained by Bifliops, have chearfully not only fub- mitted to it, but begged it of the Right Reverend Fathers of the Church ; of which we have many late Inflances. The Account he gives of his fhufflingr and fhift- ing about the Oath of Canonical Obedience, is very comical -, for he owns. That he fnhfcrib^d a Paper, whereof he did not ferioufly ca/ider either the Words or the Matter ; and he thinks himfelf fuf- ficiently abfolv'd from that, becaufe, forfooth, he was not prefent when the Paper was read in the Church, and by telling the People next Lord's Day, that he conceived he had yielded to nothing but what he frji offered \ which they that know the H Matter [ps ] Matter of Fa6l call Canonical Obedience ; fot which, if you'll believe Him, he lamented feveral 7'ears af- ter ', all which Time he ftill continued both in his La7nentations and Canonical Obedience together •, and now he fiys, He^s obliged to thofe he calls his Ene- mies, for giving him the Opportunity to tell the IVorld, that he repents of it. The other Matters narrated in that Letter, and in the Book to which it is annexed, are only fuch as will, at firil View, appear defign'd on purpofe to difguifc and fmother evident Truths, to extol and magnify themfclves and their Party, as very innocent, godly, and candid Men ; and to reproach and condemn all others as perjur'd Liars and Slan- derers -, and to all which, as they neither need nor deferve any particular Anfwer, fo I hope Nobody fliall ever vouch fafe to them the Honour of it , and if they do, I wifh it may have the good Ef- fect of opening fome Mens Eyes. But there is no Book fo much admir'd by the whole Party, as Samuel Rutherford^ Letters ; there one may fee the genuine Stile of thefe New Gof- pellers -, the v/hole Book is uniform, all of a Piece, and fpeaks out in their own Dialed, the Spirit of Scots Presbyterians, therefore I fliall here fet down fom.e Pafiages of it. Epifl. I. To Mr. Robert Cunningham, he fays^ Let us be faithful to him that can ride through Hell and Death upon a Windle-Straw, and his Horfe never fcumble. Epm. 1. T'o his ParifJjioncrs, Chrift fought his black Wife through Pain, Fire, Shame, and the Grave, and fwimm'd the Salt Sea for her ; and llie then confented and faid, Even fo I take him. Ibid. Every Man hath Converfion and the New Birth, but it's not leel * come by •, they had never * Iloneftly come by, a fick a fick Night for Sin •, when they go to take out their Faith, they take out a £iir Nothing, or, as we ufe to I'peak, a Bcraflum. * ^ Epifl. 3. To the Pynfc£'ors of Chriff in Ireland. It will be ask'd at every one of us, on what Terms we here brook Chrift, for we have fitten lonsr meal -j" free. We found Chrift without a wet Foot, and he and his Gofpel came upon fmall Charges to our Doors -, but now we mull wet our Feet to feek him. Ibid. Chrifi will not bring before Sun and Moon all the Infirmities of his Wife, It is the Modefty of Marriage- Anger, or Husband- Wrath, that our fweet Lord Jefus will not come with chiding in the Streets, to let all the World hear what is betwixt him and us. Ibid. O that I had my Fill of his Love ! but I know ill Manners make an uncouth and ftrange Bridegroom. Epi^t. ^. To my Ladyli^tnmmc. Madam, why Ihiould 1 fmother Chriil's Honefty ? He look'd i fram'd and uncouth- like upon me when I came firfl here ; but I believe himfelf better than his Looks 5 I Ihall not again quarrel with Chrift fora§ Gloom. Now he hath taken the Mask off his Face, and faith, Kils thy FiJk Ibid. It's little to talk of Chrift by the Book and Tongue* but to come nigh Chrift, and hailfs [j him, and embrace him, is another Thing. Kpi^. II. To the Vifioii}2t of Kenmurc. I defpair that ever I Ihould win ** to the tar End of Chrift's Love, there are fo many Plies in it. I wonder what he meant, to put fuch a Slave at the Board- head, at his own l^ibovv. Ah ! that I fhould lay my black Mouth to fuch a fair, fliir, fair Face as Chrift's : He got neither Bud nor Hire of me ; it coll me nothinc:;. * A Sham, t Rent. :{: Strange. § Frowti.| {| Hugg, ♦* Get. H. i Epffi [ 100 ] Epi§i. la. To my Lady Kenmure. If there were? buying and felling, and blocking for as good again betwixt Chrjft and us, then Free-Grace might go play itfelf, and a Saviour might fing dumb, and Chrift go and fleep. EphJ. 14.. 'To John Gordon of Gordonefs. Ma- ny a fweet, fweet, foft Kifs, many a perfum'd and well-fmeli'd Kifs, and Embracement have I re- ceiv'd of my Royal Miller. Ibid. And now, who- ever they be that have return'd to their old Vomit (Prelacy) fince my Departure, I bind upon their Back in my Maftcr's Name and Authority, the long, lafting, weighty Vengeance, and Curfe of God •, in the Lord's Name I give them a Doom of black and unmix'd pure Wrath, which my Mafter fliall ratify, except they timeoufly repent and turn to the Lord. Epiff. 15. To ?ny Lady Boyd. Chrift delighteth to take up fallen Bairns, and to mend broken Bones ; he is content that ye lay broken Arms and Legs on his Knee, that he may fpelk them. ri?id. I think Shame of the Board-head, and the firft Mefs *, and the Royal King's Dining- Hall ; and that my black Hand fhould come on fuch a Ru- ler's Table. Ibid. I know he hath other Things to do than to play with me, and trindle an Apple with me. Epi^. 17. To viy Lord Lowdon. You come out to the Streets with Chrift on your Forehead, when many are afhan/d of him, and hide him under their Cloaks, as if he were a ftolen Chrift. Epift. 19. To Mr. Hugh Mc Kel. O how ma- ny black Counts -f have Chrift and I rounded over together ? O how fat a Portion hath it given to an hungry Soul ? I had rather have Chrift's four Hours, * Difh. I Accounts. than { loi ] thiin have Dinner and Supper both in one from any ocher. Epift. 20. To my Lady Boyd. I fee now a Suf- ferer for Chrift will be holden at the Door, as well as another poor Sinner, and will be fain to eat with the Bairns, and to take the By-Board, and glad fo. Epi^.ll. To Mr. David Dickfon. I cannot get a Houfe in Aberdeen^ wherein to leave Drink- fiher in my Mafter's Name, five one only ; there is no Sale for Chrifl: in the North, he is like to lie long on my Hand, ere any accept him. Epifi. 27. To Mr. Mat. Mowat. If I had Vcffels I might fill them, but my old riven, * holely, and running-out Dilli, ever when I am at the Well, but little away can bring. Alas, I have skail'd t more of God's Grace than I have brought with me. Ibid. I had not fo much free Gear ^ when I came to Chrift's Camp, as to buy a Sword ; I wonder that Chrill ihould not laugh at fuch a Soldier. Epi^. iy. To Earlfton Younger. I have feen the Devil, as it were, dead and buried, and yet rife again, and be a worfe Devil than ever he was j therefore. Brother, beware of a green young De- vil, that hath never been buried ; the Devil in his Flower is much to be fear'd : Better yoak § with g.n old grey-hair'd, withered, dry Devil, i^c. The Saints in Heaven are nothing but Chrift's forborn, beggarly Dyvars |j, a Pack of redeem'd Sinners. All Chrift's good Bairns go to Heaven with a bro- ken Brow, and a crooked Leg. Ibid. It's a hard Matter for a poor hungry Man to win ** his Meat upon hidden Chrift ; for then the Key of his Pan-^ try-Door is a feeking, and cannot be had ; but Hunger muft break through Iron- Locks. I be- * Rent. t 3pilr, i Goods. § Engage, jl bankrupt Dcbters. ♦* Yearn. H 3 moan [ 102 J moan not them that can make a Dinn, ^ and all the Fields ado, for a loft Saviour •, yet muft let hin^ hear it, to fay fo, on both Sides of his Head, when he hideth himfelf it ftandeth you hard to want Chrift -, and therefore that which idle On- waiting cannot do, mifnurtur'd f Crying and Knocking will do. Chrift will not dance to your daft Spring 4:. Ibid. At our firft Converfion the Lord putteth the Meat in young Bairns Mouths with his own Hand. We love always to have the Pap put in our Mouth. Ibid. If my Creditor Chrift v/ould take from me what he hath lent, I vv'ould not long keep the Caufey. I think it Manhood to play the Coward, and jouke § in the Lee-Side of Chrift ; and thus I am fav'd. Ibid. I complain when Chrift cometh -, he cometh always to fetch Fire ; he is ever in hafte •, he may not tarry -, and poor I (a beggarly Dyvar) get but a ftanding Vifit, and a ftanding Kifs, and but, Hozu doft thou ? in the By-going. Epiil:. 28. To Alexander Gordon of Knockraigo O if 1 could be a Bridge over a Water, for my Lord Jefus to walk upon, and keep his Feet dry. lie can make a fair Bead out of a black Devil. Ibid. If God were dead, and Chrift buried and rot- fen among Worms, indeed then we might look like dead Folks, Epff. ^4. Tb Earlton. I would give him my Bond under my Faith to y frift Heaven a hundred Years longer, fo being he would lay his holy Face to my fometimes wet Cheeks. Epijl. 25' I'o Marion Mac Naught, Chrift, who is your Head, hath win through with his Life, howbeit not with a whole Skin. Sometimes King Jefus fended me out a ftanding Drink, and whif- perethaWord through the Wall, and I am well * Noifc. t Ill-manner'd. ^ Foolifh Song. § SJculk- il Give him.Credit. "-.r" " '• content [ 103 ] content of Kindnefs at the fecond Hand ; his Body is ever welcome •, but at other Times he will be MefTenger himfelf, and I get the Cup of Salvation out of his own Hand, he drinking to me, and we cannot reft till we be in each other's Arms. Epift. 4.1. To my Lady Culrofs.- O to be fnat- tering and fwimming over Head and Ears in Chrift's Love : Blefted be my rich Lord Jefus, who fend- €th not away Beggars from his Houfe with a * toom Dllh. Epift, 45. To John Keanedy. It doth a Soul good to get a f CufFwith the lovely, fweet, and fofc Hand of Jefus -, what Power and Strength is in his Love -, I am perfuaded it can climb up a fteep Hill and Hell upon its Back. Shame may con- found and fear me once to hold up my black Mouth to receive one of Chrift's undeferved Kifles. Epift. 50. To James Bantie. The beft Regene- rate have their Defilements, and, if I may fpeak fo, their t Draff Pock that will clog behind them, all their Days. If my Lord had not given me his Love, I would have fallen through the § Caufey of Aberdeen ere now ; but for you that hunger, ye fliall be fill'd ere you go-, there is as much in our Lord's Pantry as will fatisfy all thefe Bairns -, and as much Wine in his Cellar as will quench all their Thirft : I Ihall tell you what ye fliall do, treat him well, give him the arm'd Chair, and the || Board-head, and make him welcome to the mean Portion ye have. Epijl. 51. To John Stuart. That mifcarried Jour- ney is with Child to you of Mercy and Confolation, and ftiall bring forth a fair Birth, and the Lord iliall be Midwife to the Birth. If our Lord ride upon a Straw, his Horfe fliall neither ftumble nor fall. * Empty, ■)■ A Box. 4^ Sack full of Grains. § Streets. II Table-Head. H 4 Eplfi^ [ 104 ] Epijl. ^^. To John Stuart. O if my Lord will make Dang of me to fatten and make fertile his own Corn" Ridges in Mount Zion. Ibid, God he pleas'd to take home to his Houfe my Harlot-Mo- ther, O if her Husband would be fo kind as to go and fetch her out of the Brothel- Houfe, and chafe her Lovers to the Hills -, but there will be fad Days ere it come to that. EpiJl. 54. To my Lady Busby. Wo is me that Bits of living Clay dare come out to rufh hard Heads with him, and that my unkind Mother, this Harlot Kirk, hath given her fweet * Half- Marrow fuch a Meeting. Epift. 56. To Mr. Thomas Garvan. I confi- dently believe, that there is a Bed made for Chriffc and me, and that v/e fhall take our Fill of Love in it. EdiJI. 57. My f riven Pifh, and running-out Veifel, can hold little of Chrift Jefus. Ibid. It's Chrift's Wifdom that his Bairns go wet-fhod and cold-footed to Heaven. £/>//?. 6^. To the Earl of CafTils. Many now would go to Heaven the Land Way (for they love not to be fea-fick) riding up to Chrifl upon Foot- Mantles, and ratling Coaches, and rubbing their Velvet with the Princes of the Land in the highefb S^ats. If this be the narrow Way, I quit all Skill to the Way of Salvation. Epift. 85). To John Keanedy. Q that the Courts fenc'd in the Name of the Baflard Prelate (their Godfathers, the Popes, Bailiffs, Sheriff) were cried down. — If this had not been, I would have t sk inked over my Part of Paradife for a Breakfift of dead moth-eaten Earth. Epift. 92. To Mr. David Dickfon. I have been thefe two Sabbarhs, or three, in private, taking y ^ Husband. f Rent. -^ Toped over. U In this Hand of a Notary. Inflrument^ [ 105 ] la-ftruments in the Name of God, That my Lord Jefus and I have kilTed each other in Aberdeen. Who can blame Chrifl to take me on behind him, (if I may fay fo) on his white Horfe, thorough a Water ? Will not a Father take his little * dated Davie in his Arms, and carry him over a Ditch or Mire ? My fhort Legs could not ftep over this Lair (or finking Mire) therefore, ^c. Epijl. io§. To Robert Gordon of Knoxbrex. I love to be kifs'd and fit on Chrill's Knee ; but I cannot kt my Feet to the Ground, for Affliflions bring the Cramp upon my Faith. EpiJl. ii8. To Bathia Aird. At my firfl Entry hither, Chrill and I agreed not well upon it ; now he is content to kifs my black Mouth, to put his Hand in mine, and to feed me with as many Con- folations as would feed ten hungry Souls j yet I dare not fay he is a Waller of Comforts. Eptjl. 121. To Robert Gorden of Knoxbrex. Chrift feemeth to leave Heaven (to fay fo) and his Court, and to come down to laugh and play and fport with a -f daft Bairn. I deny nothing that the Mediator will challenge me of; but I turn it all back upon himfelf : Let him look his own old i^ Counts, if he be angry, for he will get no more of me. Epifi. 122. To Earlefton. There is a Myftery of Love in Chrift that I never faw. O that he would (Jay by the Lap of the Covering that is over it, and let my l| greening Soul fee it : I would break the Door, and be in upon him, to get my own Womb full of Love. Epift. 128. To Mr, Hugh Henderfon. Chrift fhuffled up and down in his Hands the great Body of Heaven and Ivarth, and Kirk and Common- wealth are in his Hand, like a Stock of Cards, and ♦ Fondled Darling. j FoolilTi Child. ± Accounts. P Loqging. he [ lo6 ] he dealeth the Play to the Mourners In Zion. When Chrift has fleep'd out his Sleep, and his own are tried, he will arife as a flrong Man after Wine, i^c. If Chrift bud and grow green, and bloom and bear Seed again in Scotland^ and his Father fend him two Summers again in one Year, and biefs his Crop, O what Caufe have we to rejoice, ^c. Epijl. 139. To Mr. John Mein. I fee Chrift will not * prigg with me, nor ftand upon fcepping Stones, but cometh in at the broad Side without Ceremonies, or making of it nice. Epft. 141. To the Earl of Lothian. If youf Lordfhip and others fhall go on to drive to the loweft Ground and Bottom of the Knavery, and perfidious Treachery to Chrifl, of the curfed and wretched Prelates, the Antichrift's firft-born, and the firft Fruit of his foul Womb, and fhall deal with our Sovereign, then your Righteoufnefs fhall break thorough the Clouds, ^c. Epijl. 142. O for a long Play- Day with Chrift. Epjjl. 145. To Mr. John Fergufon. Were it not that I am -]- dated now and then with Pieces of Chrift's fweet Comforts, I fear I ftiould have made an ill t Browft of this honourable Crofs. Epijl. 162. To Mr. Hugh Mc. Kell. I will verily give my Lord Jefus a free Difcharge of all that I, like a Fool, lard to his Charge, and beg him Pardon to the § mends. Epifl. 1 6^. I tremble at the Remembrance of a new Outcaft betwixt him and me ; but I find Chrift dare not be long unkind. Epijl. 137. To my Lady Boyd. Nothing hath given my Faith greater Back fet till it crack'd again, than my clofed Mouth. Epijl. 139. 5o Carletown. The Lord hath done it, I will not go to Law with Chrift, for I would * I-Iigle. t Pampcr'd. i^ Breeding. § Ov«r and above. gain. [ '07 ] gain nothing of that. The Devil is but God's Mafter- Fencer, to teach us to handle our Arms. Epift. ip8. To Mr. John Lcvingfton. The Devil cannot get it denied but we fuffer for the Apple of Chriit's Eye, his Royal Prerogative as King and Lawgiver: Let us not fear, he will have his Gofpel once again * rouped in Scotland^ and the Matter go to Vows, to fee who will fay. Let Chrifb be crown'd King in Scotland? Is it true Antichrift ftirreth his Tail ? But I love a rumbling and raging Devil in the Kirk, rather than a fubtle or fleeping Devil. Chrift never got a Bride with- out Stroke of Sword. Epijl. 20O. O Hell were a good cheap Price to buy him at. Epin. 207, A Kifs of Chrift blown over his Shoulders, the Parings and Crumbs of Glory under his Table in Heaven, a Shower like a thin May Mill of his Love, would make me green, lappy, and joyful. Epifl. 214. Go on, as ye have worthily begun, in purging of the Lord's Houfe in this Land, and plucking down the Stalls of Antichrift's fil- thy Nell, this wretched Prelacy, and that black Kingdom, whofe v/icked Aims have ever been, and Hill are, to make this fat World the onl5r Compafs they would have of Faith and Religion to fail by, and to mount up the Man of Sin, their Godfather, the Pope of Rome., upon the highell Stair of Chrift*s Throne, and to make a Velvet Church, i^c. Ibid. Thefe Men mind nothing ejfe but that by bringing in the Pope's foul Tail firft upon us, their wretched and beggarly Ceremonies, they may thruft in after them Antichrift's Legs, Thighs, and his Belly, Head, and Shoukiers ; Jind then cry down Chrift and the Gofpel, and pt>t up the Merchandife and Wares of the great Whore. f Pat to Auftloq. •- ■ Ibid. [ io8 ] Ibid. Chrift fhaN never be content with this Land, neither Ihall his hot fiery Indignation be turn*d away, fo long as the Prelate (the Man that Jay in i\ntichri{l's foul Womb, and the Antichrift's Lord Bailiff) fhall fit Lord Carver in the Lord Jcfus's Courts. The Prelate is both the Egg and the Neil to deck and bring forth Popery • plead therefore for the pulling down of the Neft, and crufhing of the Egg. All that is meant here by Chrift, is Presbyterian Government. I fliall conclude this Sedlion with fome of their moft remarkable Principles and Opinions concern- ing civil Government. The Presbyterians of late have talk'd much of their Loyalty •, but if they have any, it muft be in Contradidion to their Principles. For Proof of this I fhall not trouble you with Citations from private Men, but appeal to their Covenants and Solemn Leagues^ to their conftant Do(5lrine, as well as Praftice of Refiftance •, and fome few Inflances I muft not omit, taken from the A6ts of their ge- neral Affemblies, and thofe Books which have the general Approbation of the Party, in which they ^xprefs themfelves thus : Unlefi Men blot out of their hearts, the Love of Religion., and Caufe of Gody nnd ca§i off all Care of their Country., Laws^ and Liberties^ &c. they muh now or never appear a^ive^ (again ft the King) each one ftr etching himfelf to^ yea., and beyond their Power \ it is not Ti?ne to dall\\ or go about the Bufmefs by Halves ; not to be almo^y but altogether zealous. Curfed is he that doth the Work of the Lord negligently. Solemn and feafonable Warning to all Ranks, Feb. 12. 1645, Seff. 18. In another feafonable and neceflary Warning, dated July Tj. 1 649. SeJJ. 27. they fay. But if his M^ijefy., or any' having or pretending Power and ■ ' Commiffion [ 109 ] Commljfmn from hhn^ /hall invade this Kingdom^ upon Pretext of eflallijhing Wun In the Exercife of his Royal Power ; as it will he a high Provocation againji God to he acceffary or ajfjling thereto^ fo it will he a, necejfary Duty to refift and oppofe the fame. The Author of the Hiyid let loofe^ Page 86. re- flefting on thefe Paffages, fays, " Thefe Fathers *' could well diftinguifli betwixt Authority and " the Peribn, and were not fo loyal as now their *' degenerate Children are ambitious to Ihew them- *' felves ftupidly ftooping to the Shadow thereof, " and yet will be call'd, The only AJfertors of Yr&^- *' byterian Principles. " The Presbytery hath the Power of making *' Peace and War, and the Parliament ought not- *' to enter into any War without them ; more than *' Jofhua did without the Confent of Eleazar. ** Any Union or Engagement of the Nation, *' to defend the King's Perfon, Honour, or Pre- *' rogative, is unlawful, unlefs allow'd by the " Presbytery. " The Presbytery alone knows, and it only can " determine, what the Caufe of God is ; the Kino- " and Parliament are not to be complied with, but *' in Subordination to the Covenant. *' The Presbytery can counter-ad: the A(5ls of *' the States of Parliament, and difcharge the Sub- *' jcfts from obeying fuch A6ts as are impos'd " without the Confent of the Presbytery. Act General Affembly., Aug. 3. 1648. Act and Declaration againfi the Act of Parlia- ment^ July i:^. 1648. Aul General Affemhly^ Aug. 13. 1 650. (( " Though our Saviour told his Difciples, That his Kingdom was not of this World., and that there- of- fore they ought not to fight for him ; yet that Doc- *' trine [no] «' trine does not now oblige Covenanted Chrijlian^^ ** for they may fight without, yea, andagainftthe " Confent of the fupreme Magiftrate, for the *' Caufe of God -, and a probable Capacity to ef- '* fe(5luate their Defigns, is the Call of God to " do it. ^us Pop, Preface to the Reader. Naph. Page 7*, 8, 16, IJ9. " Not only is it neceffary to refift the King by ** Force, in Defence of the Solejnn League and Co- " venanP, but alfo to refift King and Parliament^ " when they pervert the right Ways of the Lord, '* and hinder the Works of Reformation. The *' crying Sins of the Land, which we fhould con- " fefs with Sorrow before the Lord, are. That " the gracelefs Prelates and Curates are not hung *■' up before the Sun -, and that Men lliould be fo *« godlefs, as to aflift the King in his Diftrefs, be« " fore he had fatisfied the Kirk by publick Pe- *' nance, for oppofing tiie Work of God in the " Covenant.''* Jus Pop. throughout. . Aci Ge7ieral JJfemhU\ Aug. 13. i6jO. Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties appointed and puhlijhed^ 1 648 . And again renewed at Lefmachago, March 3, 1688. wUb Accommodation to the prefent 'Timefi S S G T^ SECT. III. Containing Notes of the Prefbyterlan Sermojis^ taken in Writing jrom their Mouths, AT firft I begin with one I heard from Zet- land^ who preaching on David and Goliah, he told the Hearers, " Sirs, this David " was but a little Manekine, like my Beddle Da- *' vie Caddies there ; but Goliah was a meckie *' ftrong Fellow, like the Laird of Randal there i " this David gets a Scrippie and a Baggie, that is, *' a Sling and a Stone in it ; he flings a Stone in- " to Goliah'^ Face, down falls Goliah, and David " above him : After that David was made a King \ " he that was keeping Sheep before -, in Truth he '' came very well too. Sirs : Well faid, Davie ! " fee what comes of it, Sirs. After that he com- *' mits Adultery with Uriah. Nay, (faid the bed- *' die Davie Gaddies) it was but with Uriah's " Wife, Sir. In Faith, thou art right, it was *' Uriah's Wife, indeed Man, faid Mr. John. One Ker, at his entering into a Church at Te- viotdale, told the People the Relation that was to be between him and them in thefe following Words. " Sirs, I am coming home to be your Shep- ** herd, and you muft be my Sheep, and the Bi- *' ble will be my Tar-bottle, for I will mark you " with it. And laying his Hand on the Clerk, " or Precentor's Head, he faith, Andrezv, you " Ihall be my Dog. The Sorrow a Bit of your " Dog will I be, faid Andrew. O Andreiv, I *' fpeak my^'icaWy , faid the Preacher. Yea, but ^' you fpeaic mifchievoufly, faid Andrew. Mr. C "O , Mr. JVilliam Guthry^ preaching on Peter^s Con-* fidence, faid, " Peter^ Sirs, was as Stalliard a ** Fellow as ever had cold Iron at his Arfe,and yet •' a Huflie with * Rock feard him. Another preaching againft Drunkennefs, told the Hearers, 'There were four Sorts of Drunkennefs, " I. To be drunk like a Sow, tumbling in the ** Mire, like many of this Parifh. 2. There is *' to be drunk like a Dog. The Dog fills the " Stomach of him, and fpues all out again •, and '' thou, John Jamifon^ waft this Way drunk the " other Day. 3. There is to be drunk like a Goofe. *' Of all Drunkennefs, Sirs, beware of the Drunk- *' ennefs of the Goofe, for it never refts, but con- *' ftantly dips the f Gob of it in the Water : *' You are all drunk this Way, Sirs, I need name " none of you. 4. There is to be drunk like a " Sheep. The Sheep feldom or never drinks, but *' fometimes wets the Mouth of it in the Water, " and rifes up as well as ever •, and I myfelf ufe " to be drunk thus. Sirs. But now, I fee, faid " he, two Gentlemen in the Kirk •, and, Gentle- " men, you are both Strangers to me-, but I *' muft vindicate myfelf at your Hands. I have *' here the curfedeft Parifli that ever God put " Breath in, for all my preaching againft Drunk- *' ennefs, they will go into a Change-houfe after *' Sermon, and the firft Thing they'll get is a *' meckle t Cup full of hot Ale, and they will " fay, / wifh we had the Minifter in the Midfi of it : *' Now Gentlemen, judge ye how I am reward- *' ed for my good preaching." After Sermon, the Clerk gives him up the Name of a Fornicatrix, whole Mame was Ann Cantly. Here is (faith he) one upon the Stool of Repentance^ they call her Cantly, fhe faith herfelf fhe is an honeft Woman, hut I trovi fcantly. * Diftaff. t Beke. ^ Large Difli. Mr, [ "3 ] Mr. John Levinjlon in Ancrmn, once giving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, faid to his Hear- ers, '^ow^ Sirs, you may take Chrijl Piping-Hot ; and finding a Woman longfome in taking the Bread out of his Hand, he fays, IVofnan, if you take not Chrijl, take the * ineikle Devil then. One John Simple, a very zealous Preacher among them, us'd to perfonate and a<5l Sermons in the old Monkifli Stile ipoken of Seel. I. §. i6. At a cer- tain Time he preach'd upon that Debate, Whether a Man he jujlifyd hy Faith or hy Works, and a6led it after this Manner : *' Sirs, this is a very great " Debate ; but who is that looking in at that Door^ " with his red Cap ? Follow your Look, Sir; it *' is very ill Manners to be looking in : But what's *' your Name ? Robert Bellannine. Bellarrnine>i " faith he. Whether is a Man juftify'd by Faith» "or by AVorks ? He is juftify'd by Works. " Stand thou there Mani But what is he, that *' honeft-like Man, ftanding in the Floor with a " long Beard, and Geneva -J- Coul ? A very ho- " neft-like Man, draw near ; What's your Name, *' Sir? My Name is John Cahin, Calvin, honelt *' Calvin, Whether is a Man juftify'd by Faith, or " by Works ? He is juftify'd by Faith. Very " well John, thy Leg to my Leg, and we fhall " II hough down Bcllarmine even now. Another Time preaching on the Day of Judg- ment, he told them, " Sirs, This will be a terri- *' ble Day, we'll all be there, and in the Throng *' I John Simple will be, and all of you will Itand " at my Back. Chrift will look to me, and he *' will lay, Who is that ftanding there? I'll fay *' again, Ye even as ye § kenn'd notLord. He'll fay, " I know thou's honcft John Simple ; draw near " John •, now John, what good Service have you " done to me on Earth ? I have brought hither ♦Great. jlloo.i + Trip. ^ Knew nor. I a [ IH J " a Company of blew Bonnets for you, Lord, *' Blew Bonnets, John! What is become of the '* brave Hats, the Silks, and the Sattlns, John? *' I'll tell, I know not. Lord, they went a " * Gait of their own. Well, honeft Jo^;?, thou *' and thy blew Bonnets are welcome to me ; come •« to my Right- Hand, and let the Devil take the ♦' Hats, the Silks, and the Sattins." This Jshn was ordinarily called Fitch- cape, and Cla-zv-poll, becaufe in the Time of preaching or praying, he ufed to claw his Head, and rub his Callet. At a certain Time he was called to preach in a neighbouring Church, and his Preface was in thefe Words : *' Sirs, I know what ye will be faying among *' yourfelves the Day ; ye will fay, here is Fitch- *' cape came to preach to us the Day •, but as the ** Lord lives, I had a great deal of do ere I could ** come to you •, for by the Way, I met the Devil *, •' he faid to me. What now Fitch-cape^ whither •' are you going? I am going, faid /, to preach *' to the People of God. People of God! faid the *' foul t Thief they are my People. They are *' not yours, thou foul Thief, faid I. They are *' mine, Claiv-poll^ faid he again to me. So the *' foul Thief and 1 1| tugg*d, rugg'd, and rivM at " one another-, and at lad I got you out of his «* § Clooks. Now here is the Good that Fitch-cape ** hath done to you ; now that ye may be kept out " of his Gripes, let us pray. Another lecturing on the firft ofjob^ faid, Sirs, I will tell you this Story very plainly. The Devil comes to God one Day •, God faid. What mow Deely thou foul Jhief, whither art thou going ? J am going up and down now ^ Lord you have put me away from you now, I mufi even do for myfeif now. Well, well, Deel (fays God) all the World * A Courfc. t Nafty. + PuHed and hailed. 5 Clutches. kens C >'i ] kens that it is your Vault : But do not you know that I have an honefi Servant they call Job ? Is not he an honeft Man Deel ? Sorrow to his Thank^ fays the Dee], you make his Cuffi and full even^ you make his Pot play well ; hut give him a * Cuff, Pll hazard heHl he as ill as lam caWd. Go Deel (fays God) /'// yoke his Honejly with you : Fell -f his Cows, wor^ ry his Sheep, do all the Mifchief ye can, hut for the very Saul of you, touch not a Hair of his 'Tail, Mr. Rohert Blair, that famoas Preshyterian Preacher at St. Andrews, was very much thought of for hisfamih'ar Way of Preaching. He preach'd often againft the Obfervation of Chrijimas -, and once in a Scotch Jingle j 7~ou will fay. Sirs, good old * Toule-Day ; Pll tell you, good old Fool-Day: Tote will fay it is a hrave Holiday ; I tell you, it is a brave Belly-Day : P'ou will fay, thefe are || honny Fornicilities ; hut I tell you, they are honny Fartali- ties. Another inveighing againft the Vanity and Gad- dinefs of Women, fpake thus : Behold the Vanity of Women, look to them \ yoiHl fee firfl a Sattin Petticoat ; lift that, there is a Tahhy Petticoat • lift that, there is a Planning Petticoat -, lift that, there is a Holland § Smarck \ lift that, and there you will fee what they ought not to he proud of, that is no very clea-nly Spectacle. Eve (faid he) was not fo vain, fhe fought no Covering hut Fig-Leaves. Mr. Simple (whom I nam'd before) told, 'That Samfon was the greatefi Fool that ever was horn ; for he revealed his Secrets to a daft t Huffy, Samfon, you may well call him Fool Tomfon, for of all the -ft John Tomfon* J M£n that ever was, be was the foolefl. * Sound Bang. j Kill- * Chrijimas. |[Gay. § Smock. :|:Foolilh Wench. tt i^«n-peckt-Mcn. I 2 I have [ ii6 ] 1 have a Sermon of theirs, written from the Preacher's Mouth by one of their own Zealots, whereof this is one Paflage : " Jaccb began to '' wreftle with God, an able Hand iorfooth j I Sirs, " but he had a good Second, that was Failb ; Faith ** and God gave two or three Toufles together ; at "*' laft God * dings down Faith on its Bottom -, *' Faith gets up to his Heels, and fays, Well, *' God, is this your Promife to me ? I trow, I *' have a Ticket in my Pocket here ^ Faith brings *' out the Ticket, and flops it in God's Hand, " and faid. Now God! Is not this your own . '* Write ? deny your own Hand- Write if you *' dare? Are thefe the Promifes you gave " me? Look how you guide me when I came to *' you. God reads the Ticket, and faid. Well, '' well, Faitby I remember I gave you fuch a Pro- ■*' mife, good footh Faith -^ if you had been an- *' other, thou fliould get all the Bones in thy Skin ■*' broken." Mr. John Weljh^ a Man of great Efteem among their Vulgar, once preaching on thefe Words of 'Jojhua^ As for me, and my Hotife^ we ivili fer'ue ' the Lord, &c. had this Preface. *' You think, Sirs, that I am come here to ' " preach the old Jock-trot Faith and Repentance '" to you; not I, indeed : What think you then I " am come to preach ? I came to preach a broken *' Covenant. Who brake it? Even the Devil's ' " L.airds, his BiHiops, and his Curates ; and the *' Dsel,E)eel,will get them all at lafl. I know fome '" of you are come out of Curiofity to hear what *' the Whigs will fay. Who is a Whig, Sirs? " One that will not fwear, nor curfe, nor ban ; " there is a Whig to you : But you are welcome «' Sirs, that come ' out of Curiofity ; you may get ,** good ere ye go back again. I'll give you an ♦Beats. " Inftance [ 11? ] Inftance of it : There was Zaccheus^ a Man of a-, Jow Stature, that is, a little § droichy Body, and a Publican, that is, he was one of the Excife- men -, he went out of Curiofity to fee Ghrilt, - and becaufe he was little, he went up a Tree : Do you think. Sirs, f he went to harry a Pyet's Nell ? No, he went to fee Chrift \ Chrift looks up, and fiys, Zaccheus^ thou art always proving Pratticks, thou'rt no Bairn now •, go home, go home, and make ready my Dinner, Pll bewith you this Day at Noon. After that. Sirs, this, little Zaccheus began to fay his Prayers, Evening and Morning, as honeft old Jojlma did in my Text : As for me and my Houfe, &c. as \i he had faid. Go you to the Devil and you v?-ill, and I and my Houfe will fay our Prayers, Sirs, as Zaccheus and the reft of the Apoftles did." Another Time preaching in Eajl- Lothian, he told them the great Danger of hearing tlie Curates, in thefe Words : Sirs, if ever you hear thefe Rogues, you iznll cry, out at the Day of Judgment, O Arthur -feat, fall upon us j O Pentland- Hills, fall upon us ! The Grafs and the Corn that you fee growing there zvill be a TVitnefs. againjl you -, yea, and that Coirfs Horns faffing by, zvill be a Witnefs againjl you. Another preaching about God's fending Jonah to Nineveh, a(5ted it thus •, Did you never hear tell of a good God, and a cappet || Prophet, Sirs ? The good God faid, Jonah, now billy Jonah, wilt thcu go to Nineveh, for aid § lang fine ? The Deel be on my Feet then laid Jonah. O Jonah faid the good God, be not ill-natured, they are my People. What care I for you or your People either, faid the cappet Prophet -, wherefore fhall I go to be made a Liar in my Face ? I know thou will have Mercy * Dwarf t Rifle a Magpy's Neft. |1 Pettilh. § Old Kindners. I 3 on t n8 ] on that People. Alas, alas, we * bide not thq tenth Part of that bidding •, yet when we conje tq you, I fear we'll find you like Ephraim^ a Cake unturn'd, that is, it's (tone-hard on one Side -j-, and § skitter raw on the other. Another preaching in the Welt near a Mountain called Tintock^ cried out in a loud Voice thus, What think you, Sirs^ would the Curates do with Chrift if they had him ^. They would e'en take him up to "Tintock Top, cut off his Head, and hurle his Head down the Hill, and laugh at it. Another in the South of Tiviotdak, in his Ser- mon, faid, Our Neighbour Nation will fay of us, poor Scotland^ beggarly Scotland, fcabbed Scotland, loufy Scot la fid •, yea, but covenanted Scotland, that makes amends for all. One preaching againft Bifhops, exprefled him- felf thus ; Sirs, at the Day of Judgment, Chrift will call the Prelates, and he will call one of the faleft Knaves firft, and fay, Come hither Sirrah, (he will not call my Lord,) Do you remember how you put out t fike a fweet Saint of mine, upon fuch and fuch a Day ? Sirrah! Do you mind how you perfecuted one of my precious Saints that was preaching my Word ? Come, come. Sirrah, ftand there at my Left- Hand ; thou and the Devil fhal] go together even now. There is nothing more ordinary among the Ge- nerality oi their Preachers, than to tell that Chrift did not fet his Foot in Scotland this eight and twen- ty Years ; or this, I brought a Stranger to you now, and a very great Stranger indeed, this many a Year : Would you know who it is ^ it is Chrift, Sirs, ff hadd him fdik then, for if once he get out of Scotland ■a.g^d.in, it's like he'll never return. It is very v/ell known in Pert/hire, that one of their Rabbies preaching at 67, Johnftonc, or there- * Wait not. flntreating. § Thin Dang of young Chil- clfdn. ^ Such. jj- Hold. about. ["9] about, a little before the ^a.ti\Q of KiUickrankie, up- on thefe Words, Reftft the Devil, and he will fiy from you -, he begins very gravely, after this Manner : (Humph) my Beloved, you all here die Day, even for the Falhion's Caufe-, but wot ye who is amongft you the Day ? Even the meikle horned Devil ; though you cannot fee him, yet I do: I fee him Sirs, by the Eye of Faith: But you'll fay, now that we have him here, what fliali we do with him. Sirs -,( HufnphjWh^tWsiy will ye deflroy him; fome of you will fay we will hang him; ha! ha! my Beloved, there are not fo many Tows in all the Parifh as hung him •, befides, he's as light as a Feather: What then v/ill you do with him? for he will not hang. Then fome of you will fay, we will drown him, (Hmnph) my Beloved, there is too much Cork in his Arfe ; he's as fouple as an Eel, he will not fink. Others of you will fay, we will burn him : Na, na. Sirs, you may fcald yourfelves, but ye cannot burn him, for all the Fire in Hell could never yet finge a Hair of his Tail. Now, Sirs, you cannot find a Way among you all to kill him, but I will find it : What Way will this be. Sirs.? We fliall even fhoot him: Wherewith fhall we fhoot him ? We fhall fhoot him with the Bible. Now, Sirs, I fhall fhoot him prefently. So (prefenting the Bible as Soldiers do their Mufkets) he cries out, 'Touff^ '^ouff, 1'oiiff, Now he is fhot, there lies the foul Thief as dead as a Haron. Some Eye-witnefTes report of another that was to give the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, fuch as they can give ; and having got into the Pulpit, he looks about him, and fays, Sirs, I mifs fomebody here the Day, I mifs Chrift here the Day ; but he prom i fed to be here the Day, I think he will be as good as his Word : However, I will go out and fee if he be coming. He at this went out of the Pulpit, and flaying out fome little Time, 1 4 l\e [ 120 ] he comes in, and tells them, Now, Sirs, Chrift is coming, I faw him on his white Horfe coming to you. Now what Entertainment will you give him ? I will tell you, Sirs, Will you get among you all but * one Pint of Faith, a Gill of Grace, and a -f Mutchkine of Sanftification, and this will make a good Morning Draught for him. In the Mers there was a Communion given late- ly, and, as it is ordinary, there is a Difcourfe for every Table. One of the Preachers that's molt cried up for his Eloquence, faid, You that are Wives, ye will be faying/ordinarily when ye meet. Cummer, have you fpun yourTarn yet? But alas ! I fear there are few of you that have fpun a Wed- ding Garment for Chrift the Day. But Chrift will be among you, and fee who is his well-busked Bride : He'll fay to them that have not on their Wedding Garment, Is thatnafty Slut there my Bride? Shame and Lack fall that Bride j go nafty Slut, fway'd away to Elell. It is ordinary among fome Plebeians in the South pf Scotland^ to go about from Door to Door upon Ne-iv-Tear^s Eve, crying Hagmane^ a corrupted Word from the Greek ayiA [mwh, which fignifies the Holy Month. John Dickfon holding forth a- gainft this Cullom once in a Sermon at Kelfo., fays. Sirs, do you knov>/ what hlagmane fignifies ? It is the Devil be in the Houfe, that's the Meaning of ith Hehreiv Original. Another Time he told his Hearers what an Ido-r latrous Church the EngliJJd Church is ; for lay two Eggs in a Difti, and the one is not fo like the Or ther, as the Church of Rome and the Church of England are to one another. I know a Minifter that went purpofely to hear this Man, and declared upon his real Truth, that he held out a nonfenfick Rhapfody for an Hour and * Two &;^///7> ()uaris. 1 Erighjl Pint. ail [ I^I ] an half's Time, on the Third o^ A4cilthsiv. This h my beloved Son, in ifhom I am 'well pie a fed : All the Graces of the Spirit (Giid he) are Myjhncs^ Faith is a Myftery ; there is a Faith that is not favirig^ but that's no Myjiery. I believe if 1 flrndd ask any ofyoii "whether or no ye believe the JVords that I read toyou, you loill all fay (l^um) zve all believe that. Sirj\, the Devil does more^ and yet he is 710!: faved, -nor like ■ to be in hafie. This is a Pajfage of our Savioufs Tr an f migration •, »9irj-, (fays he) // tells hozv our blcj- fed Saviour zvas reformed like an Angel of Light ; "when his Bifciples faw that glorious Sight, they "j^ers all like a Countryman that had never tafied Outlandijh Wine before^ the Wine runs up into his Head^ and makes him dizzie -, fo the Difciples were dizzie, the 17th Ver. They knew not what they faid, that is^ they zvere dizzie. From the Words we learn this Note of Doofrine, That Cbrijl he is lovely^ O he is -lovely! he is lovely! Firj}, as he is the Son of God, 8 Prov. Ver. 15, By me Kings reign, and Princes ,decree Juftice ; That is, lovely Chriji hath Authori- ty over all the Kings of the World : The great Turk, can do nothing without him : The meikle Deel and the black Pape can do 710 thing zvithout him. There were a Pack of Deefs Limbs a Tear or two ago here, and they thought forfooth all would be their own \ and no-zv, lovely Cbrifi, in his providential Providence, is like to difcippoint them all -, and who kens but they'll come begging Peafe and Pottage at our Doors yet ? Chriji is lovely, as he is Mediator -, cut him all in Pieces J from Head to Foot, every Bit of hi7n is lovely. 'The f II tell you nozv the young Prince is hanifhed Bri- tain, but ril tell you of a young Prince that has been banifued Britain thefe twenty-eight Tears, by the in- coming of the perjured Prelates and drunken Curates : Lovely Chrifi is that young Prince, and nozv he is like to come back again to get his Crown : O take him now, now zvbcn he is comin? zvith a Whiti in his Hand to fsourgc C 1^2 ] fcQurge out the curfed Curates^ &cc. This was preached in the Parifh of Smalliim in ^iviotdale^ and the Ef- fed of this Preaching followed the next Sabbath, for the Rabble came and pulled the Minifterout of his Pulpit in the time of his Sermon, One Mr. Thojnas Ramfay^ in Mordington within the Shire of Berwick^ faid in a Sermon upon the Foolifhnefs of preaching, thefe Words : Inhere are two forts of -preachings Sirs ; there is a Gentle-manny J^reaching^ and a Cominon-manny -preaching •, for Gen- tle-manny preaching they'll feed you up with pemvj Whifiles^ or * Nigg-nays bonny wallies : At which he perceiv'd one of the Commons laugh. He points out to him, and faid, Man^ do not thou think to ■\ gull one of God's Minifters that way^ lift "Up your Bonnet off your It ace ^ think no fhame of your Shape. I tell you s Sirs, there is a Gentle-manny preaching and Cofjimon-manny preaching ; I will give you com- mon- ?nanny preachings Sirs, I will give you 7nilk* pottage, and this will make you bonny, fat, and lufly, in your Journey to Heaven. Te -i^ ken Sirs, ye ken ; to tnv great griefs I may fay ye ken no: But I tell you there is Gentle-manny preachhig, and Com?n7non-, manny preaching. TJoere are three j^oris of Men that defpife 'Convnon-manny p-eachitjg. Firfi the Politician. 2. The Gallant. 7,. The Ignorant Man. ¥irf, for the Politician, he will go Twenty Miles to hear a Gentle-manny preachitig -, What cares he for Convmon'manny preaching ? adly. for the Gallanty^ give him a Glafs of Wine to drink, and give him a Lady to kifs^ and what cares he for preaching ? 3dly For the Ignorant Man, give him a § Ccgfid of t| Brofc to his Belly, and a pair of*'* Breks to his Arfe, what cares he for preaching. A little thereafter he faw a little Child lookins; too and fro -, he faid,S i t 'o * ChildrensTovs and Ranks. | To flcut. :}: Know. § Deep Difli, ' H A Itiong Pottage. ♦* Bieeches. lilH [ 123 ] Jim little Rogue^ elfe Pll cut a Lug out of your Head Sirrah. O the Glorious Days of the Gofpel^ the very * iVie-ones were then fo ferious that they would \ rug Chrift out of my Heart, hut now they are all bawdy- fac d, they look as if the Curates and their Mothers were -^ over great. This was written from his own Mouth, by a Per-, fon that is ready to declare the Verity of it, were he to die juft after. Mr. John Veach in Wool-Jlruthers, in a Nonfen- fical and incoherent Difcourfe, at the Opening up of 3. Presbyterian Synod It J edbwrgh, faid, " That *' one Duty of Minifters was not to preach clofe and " neat Difcourfes ; his Reafon was this, Men ufc *' not to bring the Spits and the Racks to the Ta- *' ble, when they bring the Meat to it. There are many in Edinburgh who heard Mr. James Kirton, in a Sermon concerning Jofeph and Mary^ fay, " The firft Night, fiid he, that they *' met together, he laid his Hand on her Belly, *' and found her with § B.iirn -, the honed Man " turn'd very angry, and Would put her away, as *' any of us all wou'd have done, had we met <' with the like ; and who is it that ever would " fiifped: that the Holy Ghofl: iliould have another '' Man's Wife? One Mr. John Heburn, led:uring on the Second Pfahn, told, " That there was a Dialogue betwixt " the Father and the San in Heaven •, the Son faid, " Father will you give me my Portion now ? " Your Portion, Son, fiys the Father, indeed '' Jhall you \ thou had been a dutiful Son to me, " thou never angered me in thy Days -, what '■ Portion will you have. Son ? Will you p-ive *' mepooriS^ro//^;;*^, faith the Son } ScDthrnd, laid " the Father, truly thou fhall get poor Scotland, * Luth Child re::. j Pall. :f: Too furaiUar. $ ChiM. and [ 1^4 1 '^ and he proved that it was Scotland he fought; " from ver.^. I Jh all give thee the oiit'mojl parts *' of the Earth for a Poffejfion, Now, Sirs, Scot- " land is the outmoll Part of the Earth \ and '* therefore it was given to tlie Son for a Patri- " mony. One Mr. Mofnian in Newhotle^ paft this Com- pliment upon himfelf in a Sermon." All the *' World knows that I am a learned Man, a judi- *-* cious Man, and a Man that can clear the Scrip- »* tures well •, but there are fome in the Parifli that " have not fuch Thoughts for me ; .as for them I *' pity them, for they muft be very filly. " At that Time he was Preaching againft taking God's Name in vain; he told, " O Sirs, this is a *' very great Sin; for my own part, I rather (teal *' all the horned * Nout in the Parifh, before I *' took God's Name in vain once. • One Mr. Robert Steideman, in Carridden, told once, " That the People of God had many Doubts *' about their Eleftion ; for Proof of this, fee (fays " he) the 2 Cant. v. 16. Aly Beloved is ?nine, and " I ain his. Another Time he told, " That the befl of God's " Saints have a little Tinfture of Athcifm ; for a *' plain Proof of this, you may fee, fays he, Pfal. *' xiv. I. The Fool hath faid in his Heart that there " is no God. Another Time he tells, " That Chriftwasnot *' Proud nor Lordly, for he rode upon an Afs, " which is a f Laigh Beafl •, and wherefore think '' yc did he this ? It was Sirs, for the Conveniency <' of the old Wives that followed him, that he " mi^ht § kuttle in the Gofpel in their Ears as *' they went along. One Mr. Murry^ marrying a Couple, call'd the * Neat o'Catrle. f Low. § Whifper, Man r 125 ] Man the Head, and the Woman the 'Tail : In the Name of God then, fays he, I join Head and Tail to- gether. Sirs, let 710 Man ever feparate thevi. The lame Perfon preaching at Hadden^ faid, Chriji is a great Stranger to you thefe 2,8 Tears, but I have brought him to you the Day, Sirs, and if ye 'will have him, I will take him with * Horning and Caption for you. One Mr. Shields, preaching at Borthwick, faid. Many had Religion the Day, but zvill have none the Morn ', their Religion was foon gone like a Woman' sVir- ginity. One Wedderhurn, preaching in Irvin, faid, Lord, we have over "X foul Feet to cojne fo far benn as Hea- ven, but yet as broken a Ship has come to Land, Mr. Rutherford, preaching at Jedburgh, faid, Thefe 28 Tears the Grafs has grown long betwixt Jed- burgh and Heaven, Mr. Willaim Stuart preaching lately in Fores, upon thefe Wordj, Our God is a confuming Fire^ faid, *' Sirs, I will explain thefe Words in a very " homely Manner: There was a godly Man of *' my Acquaintance, Sirs, he had a young Bairn '' that was dying, and he comes to him, and faid, " Sandy, now my Cockie, believe in God now, *' for ye will not live long : No, no, faid the *' Bairn, Iwill not believe in God, for God is aBoo ; *' but I will believe in Chrift, for he is fweet, •' Daddy, and he is good. Now you may by this '* fee Sirs, that God without Chriit is a Boo." Boo is a Word that's ufed in the North o( Scotland to frighten crying Children. Mr. William Fetch preaching at Linton in Tiviot- dale, laid, " Our Bifliops thought they were very " fecure this long Time : * Letters of Arrcftment. t Nafty. Like [126] Like Willie Willie Wajlel, I a?n in my Cajicl^ A the Dogs in the T'oivn^ Dare not dinz me down. o *' Yea, but there is a Doggie in Heaven that haS " dung them all down." Another, preaching of the Dialogue betwixt God and Ada7n after his Pall, " Adam^ (faid he) went *' to hide himfelf. God comes to him, and faid, *' where art thou, Man ? I am * courring here, " Lord. I'll hazard -f- twaanda plack, faith God, * ' there is a § Whap in the Kape Ede -, has thou been " at II Bairn-breaking Ede ? come out of thy '* Holes and thy Bores, here Ede. Mr. ^afnes KirHon told feveral Times in his Ser- mons at Ede'dling^ " That the Devil had his Kirk ** Government as well as God •, and would ye *■' ken what a Government it is ? Indeed, it is a " 7Vc\ft'y/d'm« Government ; for he has his Minif- " ter and his Ruling- Elder ; his Minifter is the " Pope, and his Ruling-Elder is the King of " France:' The fame Man, once fpeaking of the Evils of the Tongue, faid, " Your Tongues, Sirs, are as foul *' as a Dog's Tongue, when he licks 4: Skitter ; ** before God, its true: But do not take this out *' of the Houfe with you, Sirs. Mr. MaiiheiD Selkirk preaching againfl keeping of Days, faid, " They that keep tt Youle Day* " Sirs, deny that Cliriit came in the Flefh, and *-* are rank Jews \ and they keep that Day inCom- " memoration of Julius Cefar the chief of the Jews. Dr. Hugh Kennedy^ Moderator of the General * Abrcondlng. •]■ Two-pence half-penny. § All's not well. |1 Mifchief doing. :}: Thin Dung. it Chviftrnas. Affembly >x r 127 ] Aflfembly, being about to chriften a Child in the Colkdge-Kirk, looked about him, and faid, ** Look Sirs, and fee the Devil painted in that " Bairn's Face •, but we fhall do the beft we can to " conjure him out. I fhall fliortly nail his Lug to ** Chrift'sThrone, till from a Calf he grow up to an *' Ox to draw in Chrift's PJov/." Mr. Arejkine in the Tron-Cburcb, faid, " That *' the Work of the Lord is like to beruin'd ; for *' there are two Sorts of People that have taken " their Hands from the Work of the Lord. Firft, *' the Mai ignants that never laid their Hands to it. *' Secondly, the Court- Party. But you Laffes and ** Lads put your Shoulders to that Work, take a *' good Lift of it, for it will not break your Backs* *' and you can never ufe your Backs in a better ** Work." One Mr. Robert Gourly, preaching of the Woman of Canaan, how our Saviour called her Dog, told, *' Sirs, fomeofyou may think that our Saviour " fpake very improperly, for he fhould have call- *' ed her a Bitch •, but to this I anfwer, a Dog is *' the Mafculine or Feminine Gender, there is a " He- Dog, and a She- Dog. But you will ask, *' v/hy he did mifcall the poor Woman, and call *' her a Dog ? There are God's Dogs, and the '< Devil's Dogs •, flie was God's Dog, not the De- *' vil's Dog." Mr. Shields, in a Sermon at Aberdeen, told the People, " The only Way to hold a fafl * Gripe '* ofChrift, was to entertain him with three Li- " quors of three fundry (| Bickers; you muit have *' a Pint of Hope, three Pints of Faith, and nine " Pints of hot, hot, hot burning Zeal. One Mr. Strange preaching on A^s ii. 37, 38. before feveral Ladies of the befl Quality of our ^Kingdom, They zvere pricked at their Hearts, faid, *HoId, II Wooden Cups. " Some [ '^s ] ^* Some or you are come hither the Day to get a *' Prick ; I fear fevv' of you have gotten a Prick, " but Tome ot you may get a Prick within a fliort " Time. And feeing fome laugh, he faid. Do not " miuake me. Sirs, it is not a natural Prick I ** mean, but a Prick at the Heart. I mean not the *' Pricks of the FleOi, but the Pricks of the Spirit, " the fv/eet Prick ofConfcience." One Mr. James Wilfon^ now in Kirhneddon in Galiaivay, told, " That Faith had wonderful Ef- " fecSts ; For by Faith ^ '^odj\ faw the Deluge he- " fore it came. But I will tell you a far more won- " derful Etiej, he told, I have been this Tear of God preaching againfl the Vanity of Women, yet I fee my own Daughter in the Kirk even now have as high a Ccckup as any cf you all. Another time giv- ing the Sacrament ot the Lord's Supper in Grain- mond, at the breaking of the Bread, he told the Participants, Take, Eat, Sirs, your B?rad is baken j and that was all the Form he us'd, as one of ths Communicants told me the Day after. A Presbyterian Preacher in the Parifh of KilU Patrick- Ea[ler, above Glafcow, in whole PariQi there is one Captain Sanderjon, a Church of Eno--^ land Man, who is look'd on there by them as a rank Papift i he once went to Church to fee their Way. The Preacher feeing him in Church, took a § Fourteen oat of his Pocket, and held it up before the Congregation, exprefling thefe Words. Hers I take Infirument in the Hand of Qod, that tho* a Man be pardoned of all his Original and A^ual Sins^ yet if he neglect to attend our Pafis, he jhall never go to Heaven, The Preacher owns what he faid ar.d did ; and the Captain defires the Thing to be pub- lifh*d in his Name, he being ready to juftify it up on any Occafion. § Piece of Money. [ I3G ] Mr. IViIliam Moncrief, in Summer lafl:, preach- ing in the Church of Lango in Fife^ the firll thing he pretended to prove, was, That all his Hearers tvere Atheijls and Reprobates. And having demon- ftrated that, as he faid, from that Pfahn on which he leftur'd; he proceeded next to his Sermon on- this Text, NO W is the accepted Time^ now is the Day of Salvation ; on which he faid, The Jews had their Now, and the Papijls had their Now, hut ah ^ww, they have no Now -, for the Gofpel is for ever hid from their Eyes. Scotland, ^oor Scotland had a gracious Now in the glorious Days of the Covenant, "when Chrift was freely forc'd upon them j hut alas ! this Land breaking the Covenant^ had brought Dark- iiefs upon it for many Tears lafl •, hut yet God has heen pleafed at leaf to [bine through the Cloud of Pre- latical^ which is worfe than Egyptian Darknefs, and to give us another Now ; that is^ to offer us again his Covenant^ and the Foundation of it, his Gofpel ; for which ye are all heartily to he thankful, for that is your Now. And you would know now, how to exprefs your ^hankfulnefs, I'll even tell you now \ ye mufl do it by tanifhing out of the Covenanted Land, all the Ene^ Tnies of God, the Prelates, the Curates, and all their Adherents : Te mufl not converfc with them^ hut finite them Hip and "Thigh -, ye mufl root the Philif- tines quite out -, ye mufi hate them, and perfeciite them, and that upon Pain of Damnation •, for if ye ■iiegleEl it now, your Now is pafl for ever. Now Sirs, ye mufi not think this firange Do^rine, for I can prove it by plain Scripture -, for did not God fre- quently command his People to cut off the Canaanites Root and Branch ; and did not David pofitively hate end curfe the Prophane and Wicked who were Cod's Enemies. *' But ye'll fay to me Sirs, that Chrift defiredus *^ to love our Enemies, That*§ true indeed ; but there's [ >3i 1 ** there's no Word of God's Enemies there ; mark '^ that Beloved j tho' we love cur own Enemies, '* yet we are bound to hate God's Enemies -, that *' is, all the Enemies of lbs Covenanted Caufr^ This was heard by ieveral fober and judicious Per- fons, who were heartily forry to hear the Scriptures fo bafely perverted, who immediately after the Sermon wrote down this Account, and fent it unto me attefted under their Hands. About two Years ago, Mr. Shields^ who is Chap- Jain to my Lord Angus's, Regiment, being with the iliid Regiment at the Town of Perth, and hear- ing that the Colonel to an Englijh Regiment^ which had been In that Tov/n the Week before, had made his Chaplain to read the Engliflj- Service upon the Sunday before, in the ChUrch to his Sol- diers j ShieUs upon this Occafion thought fit to rail highly agalnll the Church of England and its Li- turgy. Among other things he faid. That there was 720 difference betwixt the Church of England and the Church of Rome, hut that the one faid Adafs in Eng- lijh, and the other in Latin i and that upon the mat-- ter they were loth indeed equally idolatrous -, ajid ye. know Sirs, that according to God's Law^ all Idolaters Jhould he floned to Death \ alaSy all the TVater in * Tay will not be able to wafl? away the Filth of that Idolatry, with which the TValls of this Kirk was lajl Sunday defiled ; ah, the Service Book has polluted^ and made it fniell rank^ t and Jtrong of the old IVhors of Babylon. Mr. Kirkton preaching in his Meeting-Houfe, in the Cajlle-hill of Edinburgh, adduced feveral Inftances of the Poverty of the People of God 5 amongft others he had this remarkable one^ Bre- thren, fays he, Criticks with their \\ frimframs and why tie waities, may imagine a hundred reafons for * The name of a £»reat River which walhcs the Walls of that City. t Trifles, K a Abraham*^ [ 132 ] Abraham 's^oiA^ cut of the Land of Chakica ; hut I ivill tell you what was always my Opinion^ 1 believe Abraham, poor Man^ was forced to run cut of the- Land of Chaldea/or Belt. Anoth^}: Sunday^ beforefeveral Gentlemen, who told me the Story fo foon as they returnd from Church, preaching on the All-fufficiency of God^ he told his Hearers, " That they might make out of " God what they pleafed, Hofe, Shoes, Clothes, *' Meat, and Drink, £^f. One, fays he, may have " a good Stock, but he cannot get it out of his " Friend's Hands when he needs it; he muft purfue *' him iirft before the * Lords of the SeiTion -, " regiftrate his Bond, get a charge of Horning, *' and at laft take him with Caption ; but no Man " ever needed to regiftrate God's Bond, or take *' him with Caption, txctt^i Jacobs who took him " once with Caption at the Side of a Hill, and he ** got a broken Leg for his Pains. Once in the Monthly Faft-day, I heard him my- felf difcourf^ to this Purpofe, after he had read his Text, which, if I rightly remember, was, In that Day I will not regard their Prayers nor their I'ears^ &c. " In fpeakingtothefe words,/nj/v, I fhall " fhew you live loft Labours, three Opportunities, " three Fears, three Woes, tliree Lamentations, " three Prophefies, and a word ihout^oox Scotland: " For the three Fears, the tirft is a great Fear, and " that is, left this King give us not all our Will, " Thefecond is a very great Fear, and that is, if *' we fhould get all our Will, I fear we Ihould *' not make good ufe of it. The third Fear is the " greateft of all, but I muft not tell you that Fear, " Sirs, for fear it fhould fear you all to hear it. " All the Town knows that this is true, and that he ne- ver preaches but after this ridiculous manner. * RaiTc an Adionbeforc the Judges and arreft bim . f '33 J I heard one Mr. Selkirk^ in a Sermon he preach'4 in the Church of Inverask^ fay, Sirs., drink^ ivhore^ debauch^ and run * Redwood through the World ; yet if you have as much 'Time as to take hold of Chrijl in your lajl Gafp, I JJoall pawnmy Soul for yours. It m.'.v fccm Incredible, that one who ever heard of Chriitianity, fhould have us'd fuch an Expreffion ; but it made fuch an ImprefTion on the People's Minds at that Time, that I believe there is hardly one of them who have forgot it to this Hour ; and confe- quently, all of them will be ready to vindicate the Truth of what I here relate. One preaching in Prejlon-pans^ upon Jo/Ijua\ making the Sun to fland ftill, refolving to make a very Learned Difcourfe, began thus, " Sirs, fays *' he, you'll may be ask me how JoJJma could " make the Sun toiland ftill ? To that I anfwer, it *' was by filling of the Motion of 'Primum Mobile^ " commonly called the Zodiack Line ; but as to *' the ^lomodo^ it's no great matter • but that the *' Story was true, we have reafon to believe from " the Heathen Writers ; for it was told by them *' for a bafe bawdy Tale, how Jupiter made a " Night as long as two, that he might get a longer *' time to lie with Alcmena. Mr. Arskine in the T^royi Church, preaching on thefe Words, Cry aloud and fpare not •■, told his People, " There were three forts of Cries : *' There is the Cry of the Mouth, fays he, Pfal, '' civ. 'The young Lions roar after their Prey, that " is with their Mouth. The Cry of their Feet, / ' ' zvill run theJVays of thy Commandments ; that is the *' Cry of the Feet : And the Cry of the Eye, They " looked on him and were lightened ; that's the Cry of •' the Eye : If we would go to Fleavcn, we muft * Stark Mad. not [ 134 1 ^^ not only cry with our Mouth, but likewife with " our Hands, Feet, and Eyes. The fame Mr. Arskine faid in another Sermon, " What, Sirs, if the Devil fhould come with a " Drum at his Side, faying, Hoyes, Hoyes, " Hoyes, Who will go to Hell with me Boys ? " Who will go to Hell with me ? The Jacobites " would anfwer, We'll all go, we'll all go, Mr. James Kirkton^ Preaching on Jezebel^ faid, "' That well-favoured Whore, what became of " her Sirs ? She fell over a Window, Arfe over " Head ; and her black Bottom was difcovered ; " you may all guefs what the Beholder faw, Be- ^' loved, a black Sight you may be fure, One Mr. Mnir, a Presbyterian Preacher, Son to Mr. John AJair, the Kpifcopal Minifter in Towcb, being defired by his Father to preach for him ; the Son faid, " He would or could not preach in '« their Churches, becaufe they were polluted, but «' was content to preach in a Fire-Houfe," This " was provided for him and the Company (whereof his Father was one) being convened, he faid, " I " will tell you a fad Truth Sirs, you have been " driven to Hell in a Coach this Eight and Twen- •=' ty Years, and that old Stock my Father (points ^' ing to him) has been the Coachman, Mr. Kirkton^ in Oulober laft, preaching on Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, told the People, •■' There be four kinds of Songs, Profane Songs, " Malignant, Allowable, and Spiritual Songs, " Prophane Songs, My Mother fent me to the Welly " She had better go'tie her felf. For what I got I dare '' mt tell. But Kind Robin loves me. Malignant ** Songs, fuch as, // On Sunday, in January laft, immediately after the King had recommended to the General AlTem- bly, a Formida, upon the Subfcribing whereof, by the Epifcopal Presbyters, he defired they might be re-admitted to the publick Exercife of the Miniftry, I heard one Mr. JVebfier, a noted Profeflbr of the New Gofpel, ledluring upon FfaL xiv. On the ift Verfe, he faid, <' That none but God could an« *' fwer the Pfalrniji's Queftion there ; and there- ♦' fore, faid he, it does not belong to any earthly * Tinker. K 4 ^' King *' King, Prince, or Potentate, to detefmine who " lliould be Officers in God's Houle, or to pre- " fcribe Terms of Communion to his Kirk, On '^ the fecond Verfe, he faid. That it was necef- '■ fary for God's People to walk uprightly -, that *' is, faid he, never to betray the Caufe of Chrift's *' Kirk for Fear of great Men : Our Way to God's " own Way, and fure to ftand ftiff in that, is the '* beft W^iy to pleafe God, and even great Men,' '' at the long Run. On the third Verfe, he ap- " pealed to the Confciences of his Hearers', If Scots " Pfeshyterians were not a holy, harmlefs, inno- " cent, fmcerc, modeft, and moderate People ; " and whatever is faid to the contrary, are. but Li- *' bels, Lies, and Slanders. On the fourth Verfe, " he laid. That the Prelates, Curates, and '^^, malignant Counfellors, are the vile Perfons **■ fpoke of there, and whom all that fear God are ". bound to contemn and defpife ; efpecially, (faid *■' he) becaufe they have fworn to the Hurt of the ^^ Kirk, in taking the Oaths of Alleo-iance and ^ Supremacy, the Teft, and the Oath-ot canoni- " cal Obedience -, and now think to expiate all *'? this, by fubfcribing a bare foolifh Formula^ be- *"*j caufe King William^ forfooth, has fent it to us ; ^'i^'f, alas! this Dragon's Tail has fwept the -" !\jrth oi Scotland^ for few or none of Chrift's " Miniflers are to be found there." The fame Frafer o^ Bray preaching at a Conven- ticle, in the Beginning of King Ja-mes's Reign, be- gan his Difcourfe thus; I am come here to preach this T>ay^ Sirs, in fpite of the Curates^ and in f pile of the Prelates their Majlers^ and in fpite of the King their Mafier^ and in fpite of the Heuior of France his Mafter, and in fpite of the Pope o/Rome, that''s bath their Mafter, and in fpite of the Devil, that^s all their Mafler. S E C T. IV. MR. James Kirkton faid once in his Prayers, O Lord reflore our banijhed King ! Lord re- jtore our hanifJoed King ! Do not miflake my Meaning^ Lord, it is not King James, i^hom thou hafl rcic^ed, that ive feek -, it is King Chrifl, that has '^heen a Stranger thefe many Tears in poor Scotland. It is reported of Mr. Robert Blair it St. Andrew's, that he had this ExprefTion in his Prayers, Lord, [thou art a good Goofe, for thou art fliU dropping. And feveral in the Meeting-Houfcs of Jate have made ufe of it. To which they add, Lord, thoti rflins dozvn * Middiiigs of Blfings upon us. * Dunghills, Ml', [ 138] Mr. Anderfon^ a Fanaticl^ preaching in Pert^ Jhire, in a Prayer faid, Good Lord, it is told us, that thou knows a -proud Man by his Looks, as well as a Malignant by his Works : But zuhat wilt thou do with thefe Malignants ? Pll tell thee Lord, what thou wilt do, even take them up by the Heels, * reefi them in the Chifnney of Hell, and dry them like Ber- 'uy Haddocks. Lord take the Ptjiol of thy Ven- geance, and the Mortar-piece of thy Wrath, and make the f Hairns of thefe Malignant s a Hodge- ^podge : But for thy own Bairns, Lor d, feed them with the + Plufndanes and RQifins of thy Promifes ; and e'en give them the Spurs of Confidence, and Boots of HopCy that like \\ 7iew-fpean'd Fillies they may § loop over the Fold-dikes of Grace. A learned Divine of that Set, at Petfigo^ in his publick Prayers this laft Summer, faid, O Lord, thou'rt like <2 "f "f Moufie peeping out at the Hole in the Wall, for thou fees us, but we fee not thee, Mr. William Moncrief (whom I named before. Page 130) after his Sermon in Summer laft, 2it Lan- go in Fife, in the Interceflion of his Prayer, fiid, *^ O God eftablifli and confirm thy Church in Scot- '' land.^ and defend her from her bloody and cruel *^ Enemies, Popery and Prelacy : O Lord profper *' thy reformed Churches o^ Portugal and Pied- *' monty and of the reft of the Low Countries -, and *' carry on thy Work which is begun in Ireland-, *« and fweet good Lord, finally begin and carry on «' a Work in EnHand,'^ Mr. Shields preaching near Dumfries^ \n his Prayer for King William, faid, " Good Lordblefs •* him with a flatcd Oppofition in his Heart to the «^ Antichriftian Church of Enghfid, and with *' Grace to deflroy all the Idolatry and Superfti- ** tion of their fooliih and foppifli Worfliip ; anci * Smoke. t Brains. :|: Pruins. |l Weaned. ^ Tump. ttLiulfMoufe, [ 139 3 ^- blefs all the People of tiie Land Lord with *' Strength, Zeal, and Courage, throughly to re- ** form the State as well as the Church in thefe f' Kingdoms ; that they might be united in the *' Bond of the Sok??iJi League ■^Lud Covenant^ and *' purified according to that Pattern in the *' Mount, which we and our Pofterity are all fworn ** to. Mr. John WelJJj pray'd, " Lord we are come " hither, a Pack of poor Beggars of us the Day •, *•' Alms to the poor BHnd here, for God's fake, ** that never faw the Light of the Gofpel -, Alms ^* to the poor Deal here, that never heard the *' joyful Sound •, to the poor Cripples that have *' their Legs, the Covenant broken by the Bilhops. " Lord pity thy poor Kirk the Day, poor Wo- *' man ! fad is fhe Lord, fend her a lift, and God *' confound that filthy Bitch, that gumgall'd Whore, '■' the Whore of Babylon. One Mr. Hiiflone laid, " Lord give us Grace, " for if thou give us not Grace, we fhall not give " thee Glory, and who will win by that Lord ? One Borlands in Gollow/Ijiels., a Blafphemous Ig- nora nt Blockhead, fiid in his Prayers before Ser- mon, Lord^ when thou was Ele^ing to Eiernity\ grant that we have not got a wrong Cajl of thy Hand to our Souls. Another time praying at Jedburgh^ he faid. Lord confound the Tyrant of France^ God's Vengeance light on him, the Vengeance of God light on him, God's Vengeance light onhim : Buc if he be of theEIedlion of Grace, Lordfave him: Lord confound the Antichriilian Crew in Ireland: Indeed Lord, for the great || Man that heads them, God knows we wifn not hisDeftruction,we wifh himRepentance of his Sins, but not the reft : «' As for the Crew of the Church of England, that's ^ J^iPp J't.w; was jhen in {redrnd. «>■ gone [ MO ] *' gone in to fight againft them, they are as pro- " faneaCrewas themlelves, Lord-, but thou can " make one Man deftroy another, for the Intereft *' of the People of God, and give God's People " Elbow-room in the Land. One who is now a Head of a College, and is look'd upon by the Party as their great Advocate and Oracle, in a Publick Congregation at Edin- hirgh^ 1 690. in his Prayer had thefe Words, which one that heard ihem, and immediately committed them to Writif'g, fhewed to me-, O Lord give us, give us, good Lord : But Lord, yoiCll may be fay to IAS, Te are always troubling me, what /Jjall I give mw ? But Lord, whatever thou fays, we know that thou in thy Heart likes fuch Trouble -, and now Pll tell thee what thou fJjall give us Lord, Pll not be greedy, nor * mifeard now Lord, then only give us thy felf in earneft cf better things. Good Lord, what have you been doing all this time, where have you been this thirty Tear? What good have ye done to your poor Kirk in Scotland, that has been fo many Tears /pur-gall' d with Anti-chrifl* s riding her ? floe has been fo long lying on her Baek^ andfad- ly defiled \ and many a good lift have we lent her ; O how often have we pit our Shoulders to Chrifl* s Caufe, zvhen his own ■f' Back was at the Wall : To be free with you Lord, we have done many things for thee, that never entered in thy Noddle, and yet we are content that thou take all the Glory \ is not that fair and kind? *•' It's true, good Lord, you have done § gelly *' well for Scotland novj at laft, and we hope that ** tl\ou haft begun, and will carry on thy Work in " Ergland^ that ftands |] muckle in mifterof a Re- '' formation : But what have you done for Ireland, * I'll manner'd, f VS'hen he could not ftand without a. Supporter. ^ Pretry. jj Much in need. "Lord? [ I4« 1 Lord ? Ah poor Ireland ! (then pointing with his Finger to his Nofe, he faid) I true 1 have nick'd you there Lord. " O God, thou haft bidden us pray for Kings, and yet they have been always very troublefome to thy Kirk, and very * fafious Company Lord ; either make them good, or elfe make us quit of their Company. They fay that this new King thou haft fent us, takes the Sacrament kneeling, and from the Hand of a Biftiop : Ah, that*s black, that's foul Work ! Lord de- liver him from Papacy and Prelacy, from a Dutch Confcience, and from the Heartednefs of the Stuarts ; and let us never be -f trifled again with the Bag and Baggage of the Family, the black Band of Bifliops to trouble and lord ic over thy Church and Heritage. Good Lord, fend back our old King of poor Scotland,, reftore him to his Throne and Dignity, to his abfolute Power and Supremacy, from which he has been fo long and fo unjuftly baniflied •, Lord, you ken what King I mean, I do not mean King JameSy nay forfooth I do not meanhim, I mean. Lord you ken well enough what I mean, I mean fweet King Jefus, that's been long kept out of this his own Covenanted Kingdom, by the Bi- fliops and Godlefs Ad of Supremacy. *' Lord, I have many more Tales to tell you, and many fad Complaints to make ofourGover- nours and great Men, and Oi the Malignants and Dundce^s Men ; and m.any Pardons to ask for a broken Covenant, a :d a backfliding Mi- niftry ; but I muft refer hem all, till you and I be at more leifure, and ] will not end without that old mufty Prayer t'iat they now call our Lord's. * Troublefome. j Encountered. Mr. C 142 ] Mr. Robert Kenedy^ Brother to the very learned and. moderate Hugh Kenedy^ the Moderator of the General Jjfembly^ once praying at a Conventicle at Child/dale faid, " Lord grant that all the Kings " in the World may fall dowii before thy Son, and "■ kifs his Soles, not the Popes Soles, 6^c, no nor '' his ftinking * Panton neither* Mr. Boyd, the famous Preacher in Childfdale^ find-^ ing in the Forenoon that feveral of his Hearers went away after the Forenoon-Sermon, had this Exprefiion in his Afternoon Prayers, Now Lordy thou fees that many People go away from hearing thy Word ', but had we told them Stories of Robin Hood, or Davie Lindfay, they had flayed ; andyet none of thefe are near fo good as thy Word that I preach. Another praying againft Church-Government by Biiliops and Curates, faid. Lord wilt thou take the Keys of thine own Houfe out of the Hand of thofe thieves and Hirelings, and make them play Clitter- clatter upon their Crowns, till they cry Maw again (■fie pronounced the Word Maw like the Noife of a Cat) for thy Locks have got many a wrong Caji ftnce they had the Keys, About the beginning ofM^zr<:Z7, 1689, one prayed for a Presbyterian Eledion of Members to the Par- liament, in the City o'i Edinburgh, in thefe W'^ords: " Good God, now when Chrifl's Back is at the *' Wall, put it in the Heart of the Townfmen to *' chufe George Stirling and Baillif Hall, Another prayed, *<• Lord thou haft faid, that " he is worfe than an Infidel that provides not for '* his own Family : Give us not Reafon to fay this " of thee Lord-, for we are thine own Family, and " yet we have been but fcurvily provided for of a " long time. Another praying after theBaptifm of a Childjj in, * SUpoer, the r 143 1 the City of Edinhirgh, faid, " Lord blefs and pre- «< ferve this young Calf, that he may grow an Ox, «' to draw in Chrill's Plough. Mr. Areskine, praying in the Tron-C\mrc\\ laft Year, faid, " Lord have mercy on all Fools and " Idiots j and particularly on the Magiftrates of *' Edinhu?~gb. Another imprecating (as is very ordinary with them to do) faid, *' Lord give thy Enemies the Pa- " pifts and Prelates a fullCup of thy Fury to drink ; " and if they refufe to drink it off, then good Lord '* give them * Kelty. Mr. John Dickfon praying for Grace, faid, " Lord " dibble thou the Kail-feed of thy Grace in our *' Hearts, and if we grow not up to good Kail, " Lord make us good Sprouts at leaft. Mr. Linning, curfing the King of France in his Prayers, faid, " Lord curfe him, confound him, and *' damn him ; drefs him, and guide him as thou *' didft Pharaoh, Senacherih^ and our late King 5' 'James and his Father. One Frafer^ a young Fellow, preaching in Jed- hurgh, after a Sermon, blafphemoufly inverted the Bleffing thus : The Curfe of the Lord Jefus Chrijl, and of God the Father, and the Holy Ghojl, be upon all them that hear the Word and profit not by it. Mr. Areskine in the Tron-^Chxirch, pray'd, Lord he thou in Mons, Mons, Mons, he thou in Mons, good Lord, ineikle Need has Mons of thee. Lord ; for now they that be Cojjfederates we hope they may he made Covenanters. Bring thefworn Enemy of the So' lemnLeagiie, the Tyrant o/" France, to thePlace whence he came, and caufe his Dragoons to JJjoot him in his Retreat, that he may cry out with Julian the Apof- tate. Now Galilean thou haft overcome me. One Mr. Ja?nes JVehfler was admir'd lately at * Another Cup full, niy C H4 ] my Lord Arbuthnot his zealous Patron's Table for this Grace before Meat. Out of the houndlefs^ hank- kfs, brimlefs^ bottomlefs^ Jhorelefs Ocean of thy Good- nefs^ We are dally foddered^ filled^ f^^f^ed^ fatted i and half an Hour's Difcourfeto the fame Purpofe. Mr. Kenedy before the late Aflembly, in which he had the Name of Moderator, faid in his Prayer, Lord^ Moderation is co7nmended to us by the King •, we all know it^sa Virtue thafs fometimesufeful^Lordi hut I cannot fay that That which they call Moderation is fo convenient at this time for thy People and Caufe \ for even to be free with you. Good Lord, I think it hejl to make a clean Houfe, by fweepitig thein out all at the Door, and caftingthem out to the * Midden. The famous Scribe Rule, in a Prayer not a Ser- mon, but upon another Occafion as publick, a lit- tle after the Diflblution of the General Aflembly, exprefled himfelf thus ; " O Lord, thou knoweft *' that Chrifl's Court,the General Aflembly, ought *' to protefl: againft: Ufurpers upon Chrift's King- " dom •, but if we had known that King William *' would have been angry with us in earnefl:, and *' if the Brethren would have follow'd my Advice, '* we fliould have pleafed the King for this Time, *' and taken Chriil in our own Hand -f till Ibme '* other Opportunity. The Moderator Chrighton, immediately after the AflTembly was diflblved, praying, (amongfl: ma- ny other Refle(5lions upon the King and his Coun- fellors) faid thefe Words, *' O Lord, thou knoweft " how great a Surprifal this is to us ; we look'd *' upon King William at his firft Coming among *' us to have been fent in Mercy for Deliverance to *' this poor Kirk ; but now we fee that our Deli- " verance mufl: come from another Hand. Good *' God grant, he be not fent to be a Plague, and * Dungili, I Runatick with him. [ Hi ] '' a Curfe to thy Kirk. Hind let loofc^ by Mr. *' Shields, pag. 468. I conclude this Head, fays he, with that Form of Prayer that I 11 le for the King ; O Lord, to vjhoni Vengeance belongeth, /hew thyfelf, lift up thyfelf thou Judge of the Earth, render a Reward to the Proud : Lord^ how long /ball the Wicked, how long Jhall the Wicked triumph ? Shall the Throne of Iniquity have FellowJJjip with 'Thee, that frameth Mijchief by a Law ? The Mighty and terrible God deflroy all Kings and People, that put their Hand to alter and deflroy the Houfe of God : Overturn, overturn, overturn this throne of Tyranny, and let it be no more, until he come whofe Right it is. Thefe are but a few of many thoufand Inftances, that might be given of that Ridiculoufnefs, Profa- nity, and Blafphemy, which the Scotch Presbyteri- ans daily ufe in their preaching and praying -, and tho' Strangers may think it incredible, that Men profelTing Religion or Reafon, fhould thus debafc and proftitute both ; yet they who are unfortunately bound to converfe with, and hear them frequently, cannot be but fadly fenfible that all that's here charged upon them is but too true ; and that ma- ny of the worfl Expreffions they are daily guilty of, are purpofely here omitted, left by fuch obfccne, godlefs, and fulfome Stuff, the Ears and Eyes of modeft Readers Ihould be naufeated and polluted ; which if thefe Oppofers of Truth and Religion fhould deny, there are many Thoufands in Scotland of the beft Quality and Reputation ready to atteft it, by their Oaths and Subfcriptions, a§ Iliall be made appear in another Edition of this Book, if the Clamours of the Party extort it ; and very many are willing to join in this, who were not long ago their great Friends, and have many of their Ser- mons and Prayers in Writing, which they are now willing to expofe, having fully difcovered die vile L Hypocrify [ 146 ] Hypocrify and Pharifaick Profeffions of that Fac- tion ; but this Trouble we can hardly fuppofe that the Presbyterians will put us, or themfelves to, be- caufe it's not probable that they will deny what they fo much glory in, viz. this extraordinary way of preaching and praying, which they think an Ex- cellency and Perfedion, and call it a holy Famili- arity with God, and a peculiar Privilege of the moft refined Saints. Some may perhaps think this Collection was pub- lifhed merely to render thefe Puritans ridiculous i but it*s plain enough to fuch as know them, that we have not made but found them fo. We hope that our difcovcring their Snares, may prevent fome Mens being intangled with them; they compafs Sea and Land, and arc full as zealous as their PredecefTors, to make Profelytes to their Party, and new Gof- pel. Now the general Intent of the Colleftors of thefe Notes,was, that they might ftand like Beacons to fright unwary Strangers from thefe Rocks, upon which ^o many have formerly made Shipwrack both of Faith and good Confcience. Alas it's but too too evident what Havock and Defolation thefe pretended Reformers have made in the Church and State ; God's Name,Honour, andWorfhip arepro- fan'djtheGofpelexpofed to the Scorn and Contempt of it's Enemies, the more modefl and honefl Hea- thens and ^urks i the Flood-gates of Impiety and Atheifm are fet open, the Foundations of all true Piety or Policy are overturned, and all regard to Things either Sacred or Civil quite deftroyed by thefe •, who, as the Royal Martyr f fpeaks, feeding to gain Reputation with the Vulgar, for their Ex- traordinary Parts and Piety, mud needs undo what- ever was formerly fettled never fo well and wife- ly. + Y.iM)V 'Ecf.(TihiKn upon the Ordinance againfl the Com- mon Piaycr-Bpok. ! ['47] I wifli (as the fame Royal Author did) that their .epentance may be their only Pi kepentance may be their only Punifliment, that feeing the Mifchiefs which the Difufe of publick Li- turgies hath ah-eady produced, they may reftore that Credit, Ufe, and Reverence to them, which by the ancient Churchers were given to fet Forms of Sound and Wholfome Words. * " And thou, OLord, whichart the fame God " Blefled for-ever, whofe Mercies are full of Va- " riety, and yet of Conftancy ; thoudenieft us not *' a new and frefh Senfe of our old and daily Wants, '* nor defpifeft renewed A ffed: ions joined to conf- " tant ExprelTions : Let us not want the Benefit of " thy Churches united and well advifed Devo- *« tions. " Keep Men in that pious Moderation of their " Judgments in Matters of Religion, that their Ig- " norance may not offend others, nor their Opi- '' nion of their own Abilities tempt them to de- " prive others of what they may devoutly ufe to *' help their Infirmities. And fince the Advantage '< of Error confifts in Novelty and Variety, as " Truth's in Unity and Conftancy, fuffer not thy " Church to be peftered with Errors, and defor- " med with Undecencies in thy Service, under the " Pretence of Variety and Novelty ; not to be de- *' prived of Truth, Unity, and Order, under this ** Fallacy, that Conftancy is the Caufe of FoYmality* *' Lord keep us from formal Hypocrify in our '* Hearts, and then we know that praying to thee, '' or praifing of thee(with David and other Ploly *' Menj in the fame Forms cannot hurt us. Ever- " more defend and deliver thy Church from the Ef- " fe^ls of blind Zeal and over-bold Devotion. Amen, * K. Ch. his moft Pious and Penitent Prayer, La POST- [ >48 ] POSTSCRIPT. Dear S'lr^ IF your Scott'ijh Presbyterian Eloquence take as well in all other Places of England as it does hereabout, I make no Queition, but there will be Occafion for a fecond Edition of it in a little Time. So I fend you a few Notes of the Sermons and Prayers, which I remembred upon reading thofe that are printed. I iTiall begin with the flimous Mr. Rog2X Rotter- dam^ who, in his Interceffion, exprefTed himfelf one Day to this Purpofe : O Lord^ thy Kirk zvas once a Bonny-hraw tvell-fac* dKirk^but Jiozv it*s as hare as the * Birk at Yuil Even \ we've done our Part in telling thee of il^ if thou wilt not do thine ^ to thy felfhe it. A little after, O Lor J, pdl off the Crowns of all the Kings and Princes Heads in the World. Andwhat wilt thou do with them.^ good Lord? Even put them all upon thine own Pleads fweet Lord Jefus. And what fhall we fay to thee then^ good Lord ? E^en well may you brook your ncw^ Sir. I was told a Story of this Mr. Hog when I came firft to Holland. A good well-meaning Scottifh Skip- pei , having been from home a long time, and be- ing very delirous to receive, the Sacrament of the Lord'-' Supper, went to Mr> Hog^ (whom he un- derftood was to adminifler it in a Fortnight or three Weeks Time) who promifed to receive him, ^o the Man was very well pleafed, loft feveral good ^V^inds, and prepared himfelf the beft Way he could i )r fo facred an Adlion. But when he came to the '^ Bi?ch at ChrJRntas-E've. Table, [ 149 ] Table, was uncxpe6ledly commanded by Mr. Hog to get him gone, for he underftood he had taken the Tefv. The Man told him, he had not. Ay but: (faid he) I'm affured you are a Bilhop's Man, therefore go to them and receive the Sacrament, for you lliall have none here. So the poor Man was even forced to be gone. A Lady of Quality went one Day to hear a Presbyterian in Tevioldde preach, and all the young Ladies of the Country waited on her. They hap- pened to come in when the Teacher was praying ; lb he refolved, it feems, to compliment them, by offering up a Petition particularly for them, which was in thefe Words : Lord^ here's a great * Hantle of Bonny-braw well-fac'd young Lajfes here To-day^ come down good Lord, hobbie upon their Lilly-white ■f WyrneSy and get them ^ fow of the Bairn of Grace. One of them preaching one Day in the Merfe^ upon If a. i. i8. Come let us reafon together, faith the Lord, &c. faid thus, " Sirs, I have been a long " Timea making up a Match between Chrift and " you, but you (land far back -, I have wooed, " and courted, and kiffed, and clept you in " Chrift's Name •, but all this will not do. I ken ^' what you'll fay now Sirs, Flow but ye " be fcornful Mr. John, even as Chrift would " have usMr. Jo/?« ; ye ken well enough Mr. "^ohn^ '* that Lads do not marry Laffes now, except '' th^y have a § Tocher, and we have no Tocher *' good to give Chrift. We have no Faith, no " Charity, -no Hope, no Humility, nor no " Chriftian Grace, nor no Virtue, and fo " Chrift will not take us to Bed with him, though " we would never fo fain doit. I tell you Sirs, ♦ Handful ot fine well-favoured. t Wombs. \ Full. ^ A good Portion. you're «c «t [ '5° ] yoLiTC a'the better that ye ha' none of all thele 5 Chrifl loves ye the better. I warrant, Sirs, you'll think this odd Preaching, but I prove't to you by a homely Example: A young Man being to vifit his Miftrefs one Morning, came to her Chamber-Door (which flood a f giej- he knockt (here the Teacher knockt on his Tub) once and again, but no Body making Anfwer, he put ope " the Door, came in, and found her a-Bed. She *' got up in lier f Sark, and faid, Dear Sir, do not " come near me, for Tm naked. Indeed (faid he, " folding his Arms about her) I love you a' the " better, ye're fweetell when you're naked. Jultfo, " Sirs, Chrift will love you the better, that you " are naked, ftark naked, naked of Grace and all *' good Things." I have often heard blind Mr. Be ft at Utrecht^ ufe this Exprefiion in his Prayer, " O Lord confound *' that Man of Sin, that Child of Perdition, that " Antichrift the Pope of Ro?ne : Thou muft con- " found hinij thou Ihalt confound him, good Lord " I will have you confound him." One who having been lately a Schoolmafter at St. Phillane in Fyfe^ and was turned out by the Epifco- pal Minifter there, becaufe he endeavoured to de- bauch a Maid, and force a married Woman, but is now a godly Zealot * when he was pafTing his Trials for the Miniftry before the Prefbytery of Cou^ per in -F\/t% he had this Exprefiion in one of his Prayers : " O Lord lay afide thy Mediatorial Of- " fice, and come down and fee what we are doing " To-day." I have heard a Knight, who was prefent, give an Account of the fecond Part of the Story, which is fet down Pag. The Preacher was leduring on * A Cher. t Smock. the [ «j' ] T;he fourth Chapter of Jonah. He flood at the Back of a Chair, in which fat a good handfome I .a - dv, whofe bare Shoulders were his Cufliion. 5o after he had read the Chapter, he fpoke thus : *' Belbved, I fliall not trouble you with this Fa- " ther's Sentiment, or that learned Man's Opi- *' nion about the Senfe of the Words (as the Cu- *' rates do) but I fhall give you the Meaning of the " Holy Ghoft, Beloved ? (Humph) And what's the *' Meaning of the HolyGhoft,Beloved ? Why here's " aDifcourfe between a good God and a * cankard " Prophet. What fays the good God, Beloved? *' (Humph)y[Y 'LoYzJonaSymy L.ov(i Jonas., {Here " the Parfon clapt theLadfs Shoulder) What -f gars " you be angry, Jonas? (Humph) And wh3.t laid " the cankard Prophet, Beloved? (Hiwiph) Sir, *' fhould you fend me of an Errand, and not make " my Words good? ( Humph )'Wt\\^ but what fiys *' the good God, Beloved? {Humph) My Love " Jonas, (Here he clapt the Ladfs Shoulders again ) '' do not you know that I have in the Town more *' than fix-fcore thoufand Perfons, that know not " their Right-hand from their Left, Jonas, and " would you have me deftroy my own People? ^' {Humph) Well, what fays the cankard Pro- *' phet to all this, Beloved ? {Humph) Sliould you "' make me a Liar for you and your People too *' Sir ? I fcorn it Sir." Mr. Rymer preaching at St. Andrew's, upon that Text, Little Children, it is your Father's Pleasure to give you a Kingdom, faid, (T^his was viuch about the Rabbling Time.) '• Who are the little Children here " fpoken of? Why, V\\ tell you, even the Rabble «' as they are called, they are God's little Children, *< who work his Work, and therefore look for a l' Reward." ♦ Pettifh. I Makes. Another Another Time he told them, *' That he was *' not reputed agood Hufbandman, who did not *< * muck his Land well. Now Sirs, faid he, ex- *' cept you get your Hearts -f- mucked with the " Sharn of Grace, you'll never thrive." July the 24th 1692. *Dung. % Dung'd with the Dunghill of Grace. FINIS. ""^DCIb _3J %l >^ r>> %^ "^i