PRINCETON, N. J. \ Presented by Mr. Samuel Agnew of Philadelphia, Pa. Division •-"''^••^^^,^,. Section f \^C^ ^^"--^ Number . .^ 1 AN * HISTORICAL ESSAY Upon the LOYALT Of PRESBYTERIANS I In Great" Britain and Ireland from the 1 Reformation to this Prefent Year 1 7 1 3. ! #*^^*^*^ WHEREIN ! Their Heady Adherence to the Proteflant IntereJ}^ our happy Civil Con- fiitHtion, the Succejfion of Trotefvunt Princes, the jufl: Prerogaiives of ihc CRO IV N, and the Ltbertiis of the PeodU is demonftrated j from I'ublic Records, the befl: Approv'd Hifiories^ the ConfcHlDa of ' their Jdvcrfanes^and divers Valuihle OrigiTid Papers well atcelled, j and never before Publifhed. And an A JSl <> IV E R given to the 1 Cahimnics of their Accufcrs, and p.irnc;ula(ly co two lite Pamph- ] Ut% viz,. I. A Sample of true Blue PrcshyceriAft Loyalty &c. 2. The CoMdluQ of the Dijfer.ttrs inlrtUnd&ZC. v^ ^Y Jg-nxes JK-irkicnx trick viih a Pt.EFAlORr ADDRESS to all her IWajefty's Proteftanc SvibjcdtS, of all ?^xL)z\\o[,s,.,\i Gr tat' Brit tiin -d^A IrciarJ, sgainft the Vretender, on behalf of the PR(nESrANX^J^(.\\^\QU, ihe OVEEN, "\ rhe Hr bft of HANOVER., and our LlBEtflES. .Printed in the Year MDCCXIII. 7r i- /' ( iii)r PHIITGSTGIT I. -)T rr rr -I 1. PREFATORY ADDRESS To all her lidajfftfs ^rcteftcint Snhjefts of all Terjmjxons^ in Great-Britain and Ireland, againjt the Pretender, on hehalj ofthe^Tro* teftant Religion^ the Queen, the Houfe ofYid* nover, and our Liberties. THE Tlaming Diviftons of Trottfiatits have no vrhere been a greater fcafiJi alal to Religion^ m more dangerous to the Chi I Liberties of any Nat ictt in the Worlds than nmorgfi us in Great-Britain and Ireland : j^ll Europe Ino-wt it^ and all the Conttneting Parties Conjefs it. jind yet alas ! the fatal Difeaje continues: This makes us appear to the fchtr thinking Part of Alankind, as if wi hai a mind to difpute cur felves cut of our Relgicn ana our Liberties^ as if we fcorn*d our Deliverance^ and ccurted our Ruin^ while Vnity amon^fi: our felves (the chief J if not the or ly means under Cody of fa%'irg us) inflead of Meeting Vfith a due Regard^ is treated with hfoUnce and Conterrpt \ And Mcderatlon anJi Moderate Men loudly Decrfd^ and RidjcuCdbcth frcm Pref? /»;7/5^Plilpil 5 Af^d vow we are brought to that Pafs^ that thtft xtho wcud cure our Divifions^ can't ^ And they who caUy won't. Jfwe fearch into the unhafpy Caufes of theft continued Liv.fons^ xte'll find effk aU Reducible to "XyiO Central Heads. 1. Ihe dijftrent Sentiments that i^te a* mongji Prctefiants^ about ChuTLhCowcxYXUim, Liturgies and tiuman Cere* monies ;>7 Divine Woyflnp^ and about the Terms both of Minifterial, ar.d^iU irattChiiR'ianCeumunionttithrefp(n:to ili^ic 7htrgs. 2. Tkeir not Exertifg thetnfehes according to the drnmon Principles of the Pi ct if art Rch'gicn, vhtre* in they Are flU agreed^ and the true Intereji oj BiU'liii SubjeCls. As to tkef^if^f *tts ntitktr the JDtfttn of this Beck r.er of this Addufs, to tcaih the Afiritj ft:ifltials avd Vicils of Rdigifn.lt is certain^ that the {hining Beauties tf true Hjlinefs a^e AttraElive of the Love and Reve* vence of all good Men, it V.nites their Ajf:^ions, and links ''em into a H.irminy of Mea fares. Brotherly Love and [Vleeknefs, the Effential Ingredients of true Religion, have fo much oftheTemperofHiavenin ''em, that they W)'i*d fson m-tke let all eafy, <:harity woii'd put the belt Conftrusftioa upon the Principles and PraHices of orte another. ItWoii*dnot flrain Confeqasnces, nor infije (^'■o anile f; Jrilo'iflss, nOr wiU fully mifreprefent Matters of Fa£i, nor ufe better Scurrilous Exyrsffiins, to alienat-e the ylffcBions ofProtefiants and keep ^em at a difitnce from one another. It woii'd cover and forgive TCefi Faults infieai of R iking into Tru^^irury ones. h woii'd rnxke all good Men Honor M:n of worth and real Goodnefs, th-? of a dijfrrent Per- fuafion from themfelves, much more than the 0 : 3iJCtiee3 ofthrir ow i Pe'ju tfion, A Charitable Churchman wou'de^eem a pious Presbyterian much m->re than a Pn- fiig'ate Wretch of his own Communion, who thinks to recommend himfelj by Cur- ling, Sweiring,Drinking and iMobijiiig for the Church ; andfo wou'd a Cha- ritable Presbytetinn have a real value fr the Imtge of God in a Chnrchman , and defpife a Prophane Presbyterian, let himprofefs whit Zeal he pk^es for Prerhytg- ry to the highefi Degree. This woii'd mAe Ahn Impartial t'l their Jnagij^g of Principles an i Perfuajions , and not load a Community with Reproaches ptpori the Account of the Faults of fo;ns Kiavci and^ooXs which belong to-it. In a,Mf9rd, it woudmakeus all ahanhn every bafe Party-lnrerefl: ', it vpoud cure BlgOwry «« all fid'. s^ and keep M:nfr^m rnnnin^ M,itters to Extremes. Amii. as the Argils re- (V) rejoyce over one fwner that repent eth^ whether he hath obtain* AthAt Repentance by theGoffcl P, each' A in c5 by yrmr Uiianimicv. / have ftiorvn and * viU always Ihew^ how Deftrous I a^n to be the CdMMON PAT HER of all my * Veofte, Do you in like marimr lay afide Parties an. i Divtfions. Let there be ' no other Difliadion htard of among us for tht future \ but of tkofe who are * for the Ptoteflant Religion, and the prefent RftabliflimexTt j and of thofe wh9 * mean a Popifti ?\ ince, and a French. Government It is near Forty Years (ince England hasbeen ftruggling for a Bill of Exclu* fion, and it ceit d not be obtained until- v^ wjri all ready to be devour'* d by Pope- ry and Slavery, and until our Gracious G.ed fitv*d us by a Revolution, rt>hick was next to a Miracle ^ and thus he taught us as ©ideori taught the Men of Sdc^ COth by Briars and Tiiorns ; may his Infinite Mercy prevent the Ntcefity of a fectnd wjiruBion of that hnd. Shall we be fuch an Vngratefiil Generation both to God and Man^ as to rejeEi our Mercy and "freedom, arid prefer our old Chains to our Valuable Lberties! ?or God^sfake, let us not follow the Wicked Example cj the murmuring ifiaellECS, who mere for rtturntng to the Egypfiaa Bondage, sfter God had delivered ^em from it, and broight themth-o'' the Red Sea. Can Infatuation tt felf do worfe^thanto throw up at once all the Rdtgion we havegain^ei fincethe Reformation, and all the Privileges we ever had fine e we were a People? Or, jhall we be fo vain and Credulous, as to believe that the Pretender, who tfhe comes to the Crojon, muft come fraugkted with all the Vengeance that Enraged Re* fentments ofhtsfupposdVather''s being unj " ft ly Dethroned and hi rn felf injur'' dean fupply, will ever proteB the Religion and Liberty, nhich he has been taught from bis infancy to deftroy ? Shall we be fo Demented, as to think that the Model of a French Government, and the DoBrincs of the Popiih Keligion will everfute the Completion of a Bricifh ProteBant? Or, can any man offenfe helteve,that theRi- diculous Report of the Pretender's turning Proteftant has any Reality in it ^ our ^duerfaries are fo fenfible oftheftrengchofthe Proteftant Intereft in theft Na- tions, that they dare not a tempt to obtrude rl?c Pretender tipon its, but under ^ Proteftmj mask' But tht accurs'd DiffimuUtion oj r^fPope/firous dt^rte of iVickeinefs^ are too wife to do a ibm9 which all good Vrote^nnts trntfl look Hpon as a Millicy in it fclf as bsinor founded in Perjury, and the \\k^ of Cnmcs. They know that thci* ^ J.Kobite's Confcience he frtf tiring aSdntion for o;«/:(j>2 of thefe Kingdoms^ by our Obligations to God^and the World, the Reformed Religion, th: Liberties of Greai-Britaln and Ireland, id none but Papifls, and fome Dlitra^QQ People who ca\] themfelves ProtQ^d'^.ts, ag^inft it; vohofe part no Protefiant can take but at the Ecpence of his Gonicisnce, Hoaor and Incereft. Let us then contendfor it as for OUR. ALL, Let us not render one anothtr Vncapable of Defending the Common-Ca^fe, or refifiingthtCommm E^iemy,iet us not perfccute cr dilgrace one anot her, whe ft our Halted Q:vcnu,ihis all little t^ougit again]} thejewho \vou''d rejoyce in nothing more than iu widening eur Breaches large enough for letting in the Pretender, to ritin us all; and becattfc^ as matters are flated, the Church o/England is the only Party that hxve Power enough ta Opprefs the Presbyterians, therefore the Papifts and Jacobites are at work to pn§j ^em o« fo Perlecution, athingfoOppofite to the Nature of the Protefiant Religion, and declared by the Church of Engliad to he a^ainfi her Corifiitutio'^. Aadyet feme Unwary BigOlsC not confiiering whofe Canfe they manage) are Induftri' ous t$ Mifreprefent the PrebyteriansinGxt3^t-^\ii2L\i\and Ireland as men 0% DiHoyal Prmcipks <«w<^ Pra^ifes, ; and therefore Iperfuade myfelfthat n§ wellafFectcd Pretejtant o( any PerJuafion^wiH he offended at my undertaking to prove that our Common-Intercft hath more friends to fiand by it^rhan fome People wou^datttvo off. jind J thought this Defign cou*d not befo well obtained unlefs JJt)OU*d look bad into the Behaviour of Presbyterians in former Keigns^tnd compare the whole with the Loysilty of thtir ?vlnc'\pUSjand j4NSlVER the me f Con fidtrablt Calumnies that have been raifed againffem^ jindthis hath obliged ne to Intermix with this Hiftorical EiTdy fever al very Material Feints of the Civil Hiftory oj thefe Kingdoms, which were nectffary for fetting my Subjrft in a clear Light, And I have beenfo far from Partiality in my inqitiriesythat tho mo(i Confider^ able Defences 1 have made for the Loyalty of Presbyterians are grounded upon fuch Vouchers ai were Prof efi Members of the CWc^ #/ England' and who were Zealous Patrons both of her Government andWorfhip, as the Reader will find^ when he comes to perufe the Book it f elf. And where J have adduced any oftbier tfjrwManufcripts, or built upon their own Authority, / have demonflrated the Credit of my Konchersby fuch Arguments as are fufficient to induce thebeliefofaU Unbiafs'd Judges. Where 1 fetjorth and explain their Principles^ ^twasabfo- lutely neceffary to haveRecourJt to their Confefllons<>/ faith, the public Declara- tions and k^xvigs of their Minifiers and Elder Sy confiderd as a Society and Body,cff»>^ in Name of the trhole. Vor every Party mufi be allowed to know their own Principles befi^and no principle ought to be fathered upon them, but what they have own^d and ejpoufed by fome thing that may be juflly called the a6i and Deed cfthe whole Body. And therefore jhou^d the Reader find any Mifiakes in what I have afferted of them in this Booky thefe ought not tobe imputed to the whole^ but to my felfj who^tho I write in their Defence^ yet write not in their "^^mt^exeept in thefe Fa^ages fthich are quoted from their publtc Confcffions, AddrefTes, A- pologies, and futh like Authentic inftruments declaring their Common Senti- ments, whereof I am only the Tranfcriber and not the y^uihor. IVhile I was laying f^^Schcme of my anCwcr to theCalumniesof their Adverfaries^ havingperufedfeveralofthe Vncharitable Libels publijh^d both tn former Reignsy A 1 snd (xii) andJtfjeetneUteViiipTpyKcvnhtion 1688. I t?iet with two Pa mpb lets thai furnijl]ed we with a, Colleftioii 'ini an abi i^igment efthr wofimatertal ofti'^em ull^ tohh-dL^^\\\Q)\\z\yiccitfatAons to a*^yii.»£ fh t J.ticl. foywnly.,fft,r/ie: ir print cff' 11 fi them ^ a>.d therefore [ have rcfi^trd thrfe two Pamphl-CS i't pai'tictilit , a^ they came to he co7!Jidcr''d m the M.thod oj my Hiflory^ Ihr. fill of t^ em is t.ritttidd a Sample of TrueBlevir Pa''d by avothtr hand, yet th^t ^nfwer, and this eicok may not h^pfen to I't into the fatfie hands -^nfia if they froou'd^ there ii fitch a vx- rtfty of rric.it er in 'i?«, as neithtr ej "^tm mahsthe other ^Jtl^fs And Kleedufs. The Second and Third PaitoJ the Cordift ct DifKnrers confifsofp^rtUu-- lar petendea Fa^s, rvhuh the y^ntl.or does not redmtto any one P triad or R,i£n: and therefore J have been eblig'd te tonfider th^m difi^ir.Eliy^ in the third pjrc of this Bock, jAndthe Eeadcrv ill perhaps cenfure me for takirg ary notice of fuch of thefc prcter.dcd fafts, as he vrillhfill) fausjy^d upon Perufalofthis Biok^ to be ^^.rXriviaJ. But the re^fon nky I £(id it^ xtas^to jhvw tie jlrain ihAt the u^cc lifer s of the Lcyahy cf Prrsiytirians gn upon : thty mhfter up ez ery little flo- jytkty can catch at, ardpiik uf all thi private Chat thty can find ever a Bot- tle oi Wine, er Uch it was neceffary togize the Reader this ^dveriilemeRt, lefr he fijcud fall upon ore of the Copies that is otherwife pag'd. I fhan't detain the Feader with any farther y ccci.nt of the AUthrdofthis Book cfwhish the Contents will give him a view at crce. And the Alphabetical Ta- ble ^t the Clofe wtlU.ircd: him to tke Prii cipal Points in thn 1 reatiTe. \/^lI I fiiall addis^ that I earntfily dtfire the Keai^er may jcfufe it cartfufy wnh the fame regard to Ti\M\) an dC\\A\\i^ th^^tX had in conpofirg it, ard with thi-t Glorious J»^o/llniiing all Putefiams in Zeal far the Ret' i m'd Religion, Loyalty to our mrfi Gracious Sovereign tbe Queen, and hearty O.rctrn Jor the Snccrffio?i in tke Ui^flricHs Hiufe oj Hanover, /•'extir.gui(hii.g and uiteily citkating the hopesof the/./ f/f ;7^f rand ail his ^teitcis. The. ( xiv ) The CONTENTS. PART I; The Loyalty of Presbyterian Principles in all Reigns fiated and A-gu^d : and the Loyalty ofPrefbyterian Pra^icesin the Reigns of Quten ELIZ \ii£rrf and King J \MES I. f^tndicafed. C H A P. I. The Loyalty of Presbyterian Principles, from page I. to n. 69, C H A P. II. T^^ Loyalty of Presbyterians during the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH, from p. 5p. to p. 145. CHAP. III. The Loyalty of Presbyterians dunng the Reign of King JAMES ^^r fir ft of England, and fixth ^/Scotland, from p. 145. ^op. i58. PART II. The Loyalty of Presbyterians from tht beginffing ofthsReigu of King CHARLES I. to thisprefent Tear 1713. "* C H A P. I. The Loyalty of Presbyterians during the Reign of King CHARLES I. from pa UZ. (op. IS*. C H A p. II. The Loyalty of Presbyterians during tht Reign of King CHAR LES 11. from p: 250. to p. 385. t I V An APPENDIX to the Preceding ChsTpter concerning the Reign of Ktng JAMES U. from p. 385. top. 393. CHAP. HI. f The Loyalty of Presbyterians during the reign of King WILLIAM III,*/ GLO- RIOUS MEMORY, from p. 395- to p. 453- C H A P. IV. r The Loyalty of Presbyterians Jrom Her Prefent Majeftfs Happy Aceefm f the Throne^ to thisprefent Tear 1713. from p. 4$ 3- to p. 48S. PART III. [ Wherein the fecond find third Parts of the Pamphlet Entitled, The Conduft (XV) of the DlfiTenters of InUttdmth refped both to €hurch and State,^ art Ex' tuntri'd^ CHAP. I. Wherein thf firft foHrFafts Ch/irg^dufon TreskyterUnsin the fecoid/'xrf of the Conduft of the DlfTeuterse^r. viiL, i. Their Synods and y^fTemblics. i. Their Ruling Elders. 3. The Private Philofophy School of KiilileMih. aid ^: Their Wriung and Preaching againft the Eflablifh'd Form, of Marriage ; are fit in a true Ifght^ and a Modefi J^folo^y offered jor them from f, 488, to p.- 510. CHAP. II. Wherein the Ufi four Fafts ehar^d Hpon fresbyterians in the fecond Tart of the Ciftdali efthe Diflenters, &c. viz..i. Their Ercfting NewCongregations, and pari^icularly one in Drc^keda. 2. Their diflurbing ihe EftabliftiM Cler- gy in the Burial of the Dead. 3. Their Printing Books of bad Principles, againft the Government, and, 4, Their Entertaining of forre i^inifters amongft them who have not taken the Abjuration-oath > are examined and anfwered from^. 51 crop. 5i|o. CHAP. m. ^ Wherein the four Prcfumptive Fidts Charged ufon Preihyterians in the third Tart of the Conduft of Diffenters fcc viz 1 .Their lakirg the Soknin League &c. 2. Their Common Funds agairft the Church. 3 Ifctir Erflaving People by their Certificates ^ and 4. The many Dreadf«l things, prevented by the Teft-CIaufe, are examm^d/rcm p. 54©. to the end. ERR^/>J; "unlawful, thefe Books contain iiothing but a Kiftory of a RtbclJi-^^^^"'^ ion, and all the Devotion that runs thro' them is but a Cane, and inftead of reading them as Examples of Life^ a^id hfrruBion offnan- ners^ we ought 10 tear them out of cur Bibies with Detcftaiion. I fhall afterwards fhew what ufe was mace ofthele Books •, not only by private Writers of our Church, but by what the whole Body in Convocation was about to determine. *"' The next ftep to be made, is to conlider the Homilies : The fe- cond Book of Homilies, which has the Homilies in it againfl rvil- ful Rebellion^ is general!/ believed to hive been com pofed by Bi- /hop Jewell^ who was by much the beft writer in that rime. It is certain, he underflood the meaning of them Well : Now I will read you two Paflages out of his Defence of his apology for the Church of England •, from whence we may clearly gatiier what his " Notion of Rebellion was, and that he thought a defence again fl " unjufl and Illegal Violence was not Rebellion. In one place he *' has thefe words •, " The Nobles of Scotland neither drew the fword^ nor attempted^ '* H^ar itg^infl the Prince : They fought only the Continuance of God's^ " undoubted Truths^ and the Defence of their own Lives againji your Barbarous and cruel Invafions : They remembred^ befdcs all other Warnings^ your late dealings at V^^^dy^ where great numbers of their Brethren were miirder'^d^ being together at their Prayers in the Churchy, holding up their Innocent hands to Heaven^ and calling upon God. In another place he writes, Neither do any of all thefe (Luther^ MekO'* chthon) teach the people to rebel again j} their Prince: But only to de^ fend themfelves by all hivful means againB Oppreffions^ as did David againji Saul, fo do the Neblesin France at this Day^ they feck not to kill., hut tofave their own Lives. *' Thefe Paflages fhew that he looked on Rebellion to be a violent rifing againft a Prince executing the Laws, which was the Cafe of " the three Rebellions in England that they had in View: that in K. " Hchry the 8^^'j, in K. Edwmrds^ and in Q.. Eltzabeth^s Time, " where the Papifts took Arms againft their prince, who was exe- " cuting Laws made in matters of Religion, and that with a greaS " Gentlenefs.^ -— ^' Lei us next look thro' Q^ Elii^iabeth's long and Glorious Reign, and cc u ct S Chap. I- 'The Loyalty of A art. I ^" and^ fee what was the Conflant Maxim of that time; {^y'\>'-\j *■ The Year after the Queen came to theCrown, the war in5f<7f- " Ufid broke ou£ between the Qiieen Regent that Governed by ^* Gommifhon from her daughter then Qlieen of France and th§ 1 Lords in Scotland/. She to obtain the Matrimonial Crown to be *' fent to Francis the i'*. gave affljrances for the Exercife of the " Reformed Religion j buE that poinc being gain'd, fhe broke " all her Promtfes^ and ref jlv'd to force them to return to the '< Exercife of the Popi[h Religion, Upon which the Lords ofScot- M Und form'd themfeivcsintoa Body, and were caTd theLords i} of the Congregation. Forces were fent from F/^vcr to affiffc the *' Q.'Ccn Regent ^ upon that Q. Elizabeth enter'd into an agreement " with the Scotijh Lotds, and fent an Army to their Affiftance, " vvhich continu'd in Sct^^/^w^ till all Matters were fettled by ilc *» Pacification of Lrth ^ And in a Manifefio^ that I have in my *' hands, fet forth 25 years afcer that,I find her refleding upon that " Iinerpofiiion in the Affairs of that Nation with great Satis- " faction. " The year after this War wis ended, upon fraficis tlit zd^s. ^t Death CW/cj 9'", who was a child, fuccceded in France^Edkts ^f- were granted in favour of the ProteftantSyTrtefe were foon after ■t' broken by theXriumvirate, and upon th^it fcllowM a feries ofwar *' often pacified, bu£ alway breaking out again, by reafon of the '' Violence and Cruelly of the G^vernmert. All thefe Wars, till *t Henry the ^th. Was fettled on the Throne, were in a Courfe *^ of 2$^ years that cvhich fome wou'd call Kehe/Iion^heiDgcanYd *^ on againfl; two fucceeding Kings. Yet the Qiieen wasinall that *' time ftill affifliiig 'em with men and money. *' In the Year 151^8, the Provinces in the N'ethcrUnd^^ threw *' off the Sva-riijh Yoke^ that was become i'ltolerably fevere and '^ cruel. The Queen for fome Years afiifted tbem more covertly, " bu^ when the Prince of Or/?;?^? waskill'd,andthey were in dan- *' ger lobe over-rui)-, fheiook them more openly into her Pro- " cectit^n ; and by the hianifefio which I have in my hands, fhe ^' publifh'd the Grounds upon which Ihe proceeded. She laid down *' this for a Foundation that there had been an Ancieat League •*' noc only between the Crown of England and the Princes ot the ** NeikerLv-id'^'yinviCQn the Subjeds of both Countries under f^ their feaisinterchangeably, for all Friendly Oifices, If this was SI 1 Prefhyterian Principles. Chap. i. ^ * a good reafon for the Queen's giving aid totheOpprcfl'dPco-p ^ * pie of the Netherlands^ then if the cafe had been leveri'd, that «^^*- ' • « the People oiErgUnd had been illegally and cruelly opprefl'd, it L/VNJ * furnidiM the Princes of thoft Provinces with as gotd a reafon * for afTifting them. In this affiltance given the States, the Queen ' perfifted till the end of her Reign •, Hor was this only done by * the Court, but both Parliament and Convocations granted her * feveral aids to maintain thefe Wars : And in the Preambles of ^ thole Sub fid y A^^s, The Queen'' sPr oceedings in thofe TarticuUrs ' were highly af fro v^d and magnify^ d. Bilfon 'Mfhop of I'Vinchefier^ ^ and feveral other Writers in that time, jullify'd whatfhe did^ * and not one that I overheard of cenfur'd or condenin'd it. ' Upon King Jamesh comiiig to the Crown,the firft great Ne- ' gotiation was tor a Peace between Sp.wiand the Vnited Vrc^in- * cffj ^ which lafled feveral Years. The States infifted on a Preli- 4 minary, that they fhou'd be acknowledg'i free. Sovereign and * Independent: States ; the Spaniards wou'd not yield to this, nor t wou'd the States recede from it. Same here in England began to * fay, they were FormM in Rebellion, and ought not to carry their ' Pretentions too far : Upon that King James fuffer'd a Convoca- ' tion to meet-, and a Book of Canons, with relation to the Su- ' preme Authority, was prepar'd ^ in which tho' the Authority of ' the c'rince, even when he becomes a Tyrant, is carry'd very jar ^ ' ye^ the Caleof the Maccabees is Stated •, and it was determin'd, ' that when a new Government, tho' begun in a Revolt, is come ' to a thorow Settlement it may be own'd as lawful. — ' — ' ""*' Biit ! fuw much clearer into the matter by an Original Let- ' ter of King Jamts^ which a worthy Gentleman lent me. I knew * his hand well, the Letter is In Print ^ bnt I will read feme parii- ^ cularsofit. It is directed to Dr. Abhot^ afterwards ArchbidiDp * of Canterbury, ft begua with Cenfuring fome Pofitions concerning ' a Kng in PolTeffion, the fame with our modern Term of a King ' defaBo : He goes on in thefe Words, My reafon of cAllivg yen togC" * ther^TPds t9 g'-ve your Jw^gments^ovo far aChrifii/in & aProteji-a>nKing *" may concur to ajfifi his Neighbours to (hake cjf their Obedience to their * own Sovereign upon the accomit of Oppreffion.^ Tyranny or rt>hat elfeycit ' like to name it. In the late Oueen''s time tins Kingdom was very free ^^inaffifiing r^^ Hollanders both with Arrns and Advice '^ nJid none C "l lo Chap, i^ Tl^e Loyalty of of thefe fcruples^ till the Jffairs of Spain and Holland forced ms^ to it, I call' drrjy Clergy together, to fatisfy not fo mitchme, as tke> World about us, ofthejufinefs of my owning the Hollanders at this time. This Inecded.not to have done^ andy^H have forced me to fay . J wijli I had not.- — Here is a full account of King James's Thoughts of tiiis matter, which was then the chief fubjedt of Dil- courfe all Europe over. ' This lets us fee, that the Words in King James's Speech that year to his Par- liameiu, were not chance words that fell carekfly from him, A King leaves to be a King, d.nd degenerates into a Tyrani, as foon as he leaves off to Govern by Law : I^ which the King's Confcience may fpeak to him, as the poor woman to Philip of Macedon, Either govern by- Law^ or ceafe to be a ¥>.ing. *• 1 here is another eminent Inftauce towards the end of thaS Reign that ihows what the fenfe of our befl Divines was in. this Matter -, When the Archbifliop of Tsrh's fon and Mr. Wadjrvorth had chaag'd their Religion in Spain, IVadfivorth wrin over a bold Defence of that ; and among other things, Charg'd the Reformation with Rebellion. This was anlwer'd by one- of the befl; Books of that time, writ by Dr. Bedell, dedicated CO the Prince of Wales, who afterwards promoted him to a Bifhoprick. His words on this Head are full : I will read fome of thera. Do you think SubjeUs are bound to give their Thraats t&' to be' cut by th'etr jellowSubjcEts^ er to their Prince, at their meer Wilis, acrainji- their own Laws and EdiBs 1 Ton won' d know quo ]uVQ the'. Proiefiants Wars in France and Holland, are Jufiifed. Firft, The Law of Nature which not only alltweth, but indimth and inforceth ivery living \ thing to defend it ftlf FromP^iolence. Secondly , That of Na- tions^ which ^ermitteth thofe who are in the ProteUion of others, to ■ whom they owe no more than an hemnrable Acknowledgment, in cafe they 00 about to make themfelvts abfolute Sovereigns, and to ufur^ their liberty, to Reffi and fland' for the fame. And if a lawful- Prince, who is not yet Lord of his Subject Lives and Goods, Jhall attempt to defpoil them of the fame, under colour of reducing them to his own Religion, after all humble Remonfirances, they may ftand tfpon their «wn Gnard^ and being ajfailed, refifi Force with Force as Trejhyterian Principles. Chap: i , 1 1 ^ as did the Maccabees undet Antioehus; In which cafe »tf/ir;V/7-p^-.*. j ' ftanding^ the Perfon »/ the Trince himfelf ought always to he Sucred^ «1 • 'And Inviolable-^ as was Saul to Divid ^ No Commentary is wanLed here. V^N^"^ *'.My Lords, Yoa fee how this Matter flood during King J/smes\ Reign. In the firfl year of King Charles's Reign, Grotms^s Book dejnre Belli & Pads, was publifh'd at Paris, dedicated CO the King of France, while France was Uiider the Adniinift- ration of the wifefl and mefl: jealous Minifter of the late Ags Cardinal Richelieu. In that Book, in which he aflerts the Right* of Princes with great zeal yet he enumerates man/ cafes in which it is larvful to refijl : particularly that of a total Subverfion, And that Book is now all Enrofe over in the higheft Reputation of any Book that the Modern Ages have produc'd. in. the beginning of King Charleses Reign, a War broke Oi\tmFrance^ againfl the Proteftants •, upon which he fent over Ambafladors, by whofe Mcdiatien a Peace was concluded -, but that being ill kept, the War broke out again -, and the King thought him- felf Bound by his Mediation toprotedt the Proteftants. So in the Second Seffion of the Parliament 1628. in the Demand of a Supply that the Lord Keeper Coventry made in the King's Nam© thefe words are to be found, France isfwafdby the F of ijh Fac- tion, and tho* by his Majefiy% Mediation, there were articles of ^gree^ ment between that King and his Subjects, that Treaty hath been broke and thofe of the Reformed Religion Will be mind without pre- fent help. Upon this the Commons petition'd the King for a Faft, and deSr'd the Concurrence of the Lords who joinM witli them in it. The King Granted it; and an Office was Compofd fuitable to the Occalioa ^ in which among other Devotions, the Nation was dirtfted to pray for all thofe^ who here or dfewheie were fighting God'S Battels and Bejending his j4ltars. Thus the wnolc Body of the Legiflature did concur for a Fall for that, which if this Do(flrine is true, was no better than Rebellion -, and yet the whole Nation, Clergy and Laity were required to pray forSuc- * cefs in it. The fame point is clear'd by the Learned Bilbop ofOxford in his Speech upon the fame Article, from whence I fliall qu^te the fol- lowing Paflagcs ^ ' If in a Legal Monarchy, where fuch Laws have ' been enafted by Common Confent of Prince and People, as are so ^ betbe meafures of his Government as v^ell as of their Obedience C 2 thai, 1 2 Chap i.^ The Loyalty of Part I ' '■"^^ ^'^^'^ ^^^ Power as Well asfecure their Rights and Properties,' "" the Priflce fhall change this Form of Govemmtm •, into an AbfDlLitc ' L/'vNJ t Tyranny,^ fee aiide thofe Laws, and fet up an Arbitrary Will in the 'room of them.- When the Cafe is plain, and when all Applica^ *" tions and Attempts oi other kinds prove unfjccefTful ^ if then the ' Nobles and Commons join together in defence of their Ancient *" Cenlhitmion, Cavernment znd Liws^ I cannot call them Rebels. ' Allow me, my Lords, to liy before you a few things in mainte- * nance of what I have AdvancM. And, ' I. I would humbly offer fome EfFfds, which I allow do not di- * rcAly prove what I have faid to be true, but they da prove it to * hace been the Opinion of our Princes, Parliament, Clergy and * People in the Reignsof thofe three great Princes, Q,. Elii.abeth^ *- K. James^ and King Charles i. I mean the AJfifiance which thcfe ^ Princes ga\^e to the Subjects of other Countries that were refifting ' their Refpective Princes^ and to enable them to do fo, they had ' Subfiles given them in Parliament and Cenvocatiei^ . and there * were Prayers Composed and us'd for the Succefs of their * Arms. ' Surely, my Lords, if thofe Trinces^ Parliaments^ Clergy and- * People had been of Opinion, that the Rejtjtance of Subjects a- ' gainfl their Princes, was in no Cafe lawful, but always Dam- ' nable Echelion ^ they v/ouM never by aiding and affifting luch ' Rebels have involved themfelves in the Guilt, andexpos'd them- ' felves to the Dangerous Confequencesoffucii aSin. I mention ' not the particular Stories, becaufe they are better known to your ' Lord fill ps than to me, and becaufe I doubt not but in the Courfe ' of this Debate, fome Lord or other will give a large account of *- them y but I cannot forbear obferving one thing relating to that * Affiftance, which that pious Prince, and now glorious Saint in *- Heaven, K. Charles i. gave to the Kochellersy who were furely the ' Subjects of the King of France^ he order'd a Faft by Proclamation, ' and appointed a ¥orm of Prayer^ to be drawn up for the imploring ' of God's Blelfing. It is highly probable that Bilhop Laud had the * great hand in compofing thofe Prayers, he being then Bifhop of ''London^ and in great favor, and the Archbifliop oi Canterbury^ ''Abbot, at that time in Difgrace, but whoever compos'd them, ' I beg leave to read part of one of tbe ColliSls in that Office. O^ ^ Zerd God of fjofis, that ghefi Ki^»ry in the Day ef Battle, and Dehverancf. rrefhyterlan Principles. Chap. i. ig * Deliverance iff the timi of Trouble ^ We befeech thee to fireftgthen ''^'P-t*.^ t ' Hands ^ and encourage the Hearts of thy fervants in pghting thy * ' Buttles and defending thy Altars that are among its^ and in all the L/*\*'NJ^ ' Reformed Churches. Ic feems ehe Reformed Ciuirches were thought ' to haveCoi^V Altars among themthen^howevcv thtyhave been vilify 'd ' fiiice. But that which 1 would obferve from thisPalTige is this, ' that neither that Excellent King who commanded thole Prayers ' to be compos'd nor the Bi/hops who compoPd them, ror'the ' Clergy and People who us'd and join'd in them, cou'd in io * folem.:; a manner have recommended thofe Forces to the Divine ' Protection and Favour, and as fuch as v/ere fighting God^s Battles^ ' if they had thought they were fighting againfl: God in his ' Vicegerents and as defendirg kis Altar s^ if they believ'd they were ^reSfling his Ordinance. 2. I could produce feveral Authorities in fupportof whaE I have Lid down, but I Ihall mention but one -, U is in a Book written profcfl'.dly on this Nibject and the pafTigelfluiiquote, comes home in puint 10 the matter in hand — "^ — The Book I mean^ is intitul'd, Thttrtte Difference bttv.-een Chrijlian Snl0jc^tion and Vnchriflian Rebellicn. \i is written by w^y of Dialogue between a Chriftian whom the Author calls Thi- ophilus &• a Jefuit whom he calls Philander. I beg leave to read a Quotation out of it. TkcpW/;o the Chriftian fays, 1 bitjy net my felf in other mens Commonwealths as ym {the Jefuit s) do^ neither vrill 1 rajhly pronounce alt that rtfjf^ to be Rebels : Cafes may fall cut even in Chrifia^ Kingdoms^ where the people may plead their Right again ft- their Prince^ and not be chat^d with Rebellion. Phi' Under the Jefuit asks, as When for Example? 7 hecphilus the Chil' Itian reply's thus. J/a Prince flwu'd go about to fubjeVt his King-^ dom to a Foreign Realm^ or charge the Form of the Comftfonwealth from Impery to Tyranny^ or negleU: the haws ejiahlijhed by Common Confent of Prince and People^ to execute his own pleafurt ? In thefe and other Cafes^ vhick might be named^ if the Nobles and Coynm ons join together to defend their jincient and accufiomed Liberty^ Re* giment and Lavfs , they may not well be accounted Rebels, This Book is faid, in the Title Page, to have been perus'd and allow'd by public Authority; was written by a great Man, Dr. Btlfon then Warden of Wwchefier-College ^ Printed at Oxford by the U- niverlity Printer, and dedicated to Q.. Elizabeth, and the Au- thor was afterwards made Bilhop oiWtttcheffer. I could offer ma- ny other Authorities— "^*-"' But I am fuperlcded in producing, onff i 14 Chap I. The Loydty of Part I ' 3nd your Lordfhips trouble fav'd iiUiearing more particular Quo- ' •*• tations to this purpofe, by w'ue is yielded by a Rev** Divine of O^VNJ ' great Parts and Learning, far enough fiom the fufpicion of b*- ' ing prejudic'd againfl: the Rights of Princes, or partial tothofe * of the People, I naeaa the Revd. Dean of Carlifle^ who in a latin * Difcourfe preach'dand priated in this Town upon the Duty of ' Siibmijjion^ Statin-^. f(ime Caies of Exereme Neceflity, and putting * the Qiieflion, Whether ttmay not be lawful for the People in jfich ' Cafes to Refifl 1 AnfArers f^inboni & graves^ &c. ' ihat good and 'JhUc'iohs Men^ men that have taken great and *" ufeful pains in defending the Rigks of Princes^ and repr effing p' *" fiilar Licenfcy have contended that it is Uwful: He adds indeed * whether they have done right or wron^^let others judge '^ and does ' not give his own opinion. But fince he has granted, thai fuch Ij * Men as he has defcrib'd,Men of Probity and ^lidgment^ Zealous I * AflTcrtors of the Rights of Princes^ ^nd Repreffnrs of Popular Licenfe^ I * have contended that inCaies oi extremeNecefjity in is lawful for the ' People to defend themfelves \ I may comfort my felf-, if I err in ' my Opinion, that f err in good Company. But I humbly con- :' t ceive I do not err, and that, |; *- 3. For this plain Reafon, That if it be utterly unlawful to Ij * refill in any Cafe what foever, even ti»at of a total 5ubverrion of I * the Conflitutions and Laws ; then there is no Diftinftionof Go- ^ vernments, of j4bfolute I mean, and Limited : or if there be a ' Diftinftion , it is a Nominal one without any real DilTerence, ' for what DlfTereice is there between a Piince's Governing * Arbitrarily without Law, and Governing Arbitrarily againft '* Law.? BctV/ixt having no Laws at ail, and having precarious * Laws! that depend intirely on the Will of the Prince, whether ' he will obferve one of them or fubvert themal), aadifhedoes, *• the People cannol help themfelves . ' Bat, my Lords, I hope and believe t^at there is a real Dif- ' lindion of Governments, and chat the Subje&s of all Governments * are not in the fime wretched Condition that thofe of Fr^rnce * and Turkey are in. I hope we iiave rot boalted falfly or * vainly of our own ^orm of Government, that we are blefs'd ' with a Conftitution more happy than any other Nation in the ^ World enjoys, that allows and fecures as great and (I had * aim oft fiiJ^ G^d-likc Power and Prerogatives to the Cro.va Treshyterian 'PrincifUs. Chap- i* 15 * as any wife and good Prince can defire, a power of doing e- p^^ 4. j *' very thing that is good and nothing that is i!), and at the^"''- * fame time fecures mofl valuable Rights and Priviledgcs to the t^y\r\J^ * People. Dr. Kift^ ( now Archbifhop of Dublin ) in his firll Chip, of his State oftheProtcflants of Ireland. Jullifics this Dodrine of Refiflance and fays. Mt(^; Then in fo'ne Cafes the Mifchief ot * Tamely fubrr;itting to the Tyranny and Ufurpation of a Ga- ' vernor may be worf« and have more dangerous and mifchie- * voiis Confeqnences to the Common-wealth , than a War, I fup-- ' pofe it ought to be granted , that where this neceffity is * certain and apparent , people may. lawfully refill and De- * fend themfelv^s even by a War , as bein^ the lefTer evil. Mr. Johnfon fays in his Notes on the Pallorji Letter, * It (h) is vain to talk of Laws which fecure to us our lives, * Liberties and Eftates, when Paffive-Obedience comes into play.- * For the Property we have in thefe things, which makes them ' all our oxvn^ is fwallorv'd up by IrrefiftibiUty. In bis yirguvient f roving the vA brogation of King James to he according to the Conflitution of the EngUpi Government^ fcr quotes fome of the oldeft and moft Famous Lawyers, ai Braclon^ Fortef- cue &c. And the mod famous Laws of the EngUjh Conltituti- on , in favor of this Refiflance from Knyghton*s Hiftory. Dr. Sachevere^''s CoxariC]]. gave k^ the Canft of Ho n Refiflance, and sllov;*d that the General Dodrine admitted of Exceptions of cafes of extreme Neceffity , which is all that either Presby- terians or any other Loyal Subjeifls plead for. And I Ihall here jnfert a Pjfljge or two from two of their Speeches ; The two Gentleme'n do now fill the mofl Eminent Polls in Law within Her Majelly's Dominions % Sir. Simon Harcoun being Ld. High Chancellor of Great Britain , and Mr. Phipps( now Sr. Con fi amine Phipps ) Ld. High Chancellor of Ireland, The former pleads for the Dr upon the firfl Article of his Impeachment thus: ' My (i) Lords, There is nothing further from *" onr hearts^ nor is any thing lefs neceffary to the Doftors De- l fence, than for us to dilputc or call in Qyeflion the Juflice of {l) ^i S(^)P' iS^COp* ^©8. iGpi of Dr. S«?;^kwrW's Tryal Chap. I.' The Loyalty of . Part I. of the Revolution *, we are fo far from it, that we look on ©ur felves to be arguing for it, whilft we are endeavouring to fhow your Lordfhips^ that iht ke finance ufed at the Revolution^ is not incoTififient vrith the Voclrine of the Church of England^ and with the Law oi England^ and thaf theDoftor ufes no other Language^ than what they both fpeak, — — I humbly apprehend, my Lords, that Extraordinary Cafes, Cafes of Mecefllcyare always implied, though not exprtfT'd in the General Rnle. Snch a C.^fs undoubtedly the Revolution tv^;, when our late unhappy Sovereign, then upon the Throne^ mif-led by evil Couiifellors, endeavor'd to fabvert and extirpate the Pro- teftant Reliii,ion^ and she Laws and Liberties of the King- dom. The latter makes the very fame Concefiicnin thefe words.' To (k) carry this yet further^ fuppofe that the nrgiijg the ille- galicy of Refiflance on any Preteace whadbever^ had been a Subftantive Claufe, and had no Reiation to or Depend ance upon any other Claufe or Senceaccj or Uippo-fc fucb a General A fll^iti^ on can be collected from any part of the Da.'^or's Sermon, yet it mull be taken only ior a general Propoluion ^ And if fnch General PropoHcions are true in the general and to a common Intent, tho* tney arc fubject to particular Excep- tions, yee it is fubminted whether the Doctor is not well warranted in afieriing loch a general Propofition, without men- tioning the particular Exception f For all generd Rnles have Excqtions^ and yet ihQ Perfon that Cites them, feldom or never mentions the Exceptions ; for when ever fuch general Propofitions are urged, tiu; Excrptions are always nnderflood & im- plied , And, there was lefsRealbnto mention the Exception in this Cafe, becaufe it isfb univtrfally known .- It had the Concur^ rer.ce cf the whole Nation and wasfo often efiablp''d and approved by the Legi fixture. ' And the Do^or entirely concurs with the Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons that the Revolitttpn ts an Exception ^ and is * not Adverfaiy to one of the Learn'd Managers, who waspleaf- ' ed to admits it was the only Exception from this general rule j * and I fubmit to your Lordly p'-j if the naming that Excep- ' tion would not be a greater kefl .ction on the Revolution, than * the preaching that Dodrinc in general Terms withouf narii- 6 ini: it r Far to name now, lince the Revolution, would be TreJhyterianTrinciples. Chap. i. 17 ' be to fuppofe, that it was not implied and ondeiftood as an P^i't. I * Exception, out of that general Propofition, before the Revolu- ^J . ' tion, and then the Exception is to be warranted by the Revoluti- V/"V>J ' on, which is to infe!\ that no Reiiftancc was lawful till the Revo- ' lution •, whereas we fay, That fkch an extvAorditiaryCafe^ as that ' of the Ret'oluticr?^ toas always imflied as an Exception out of ' that general D9Urine^ and fo the DoUrir.e Jufiijies the Retola- * tton. ^ Thofe Eminent and Learn'd Lawyers fpokc agreeable to the He- roic and Juft Principles aflerted in ihe Aflbciations Subfcrib'd by fo many Perfons of Honor and Integrity, upon the happy Arrival of our late CLORIOVS DBLlf^ERlR, then Ptince of Orangty & afterwardsKingPTiAV^iw of 1>V1M0RTAL MEMORY,two whereof 1 (hail here tranfcribe. The Aflbciation fign'd at Exeter runs thus. * We (I) whofe Names are hereunto Subfcrib'd, who have now joyaM with the Prince of Orange^ for the Defence of the Pro- teftant Religion, and for the maintaining the Ancient Govern- ^ roent, and the Laws, and Liberties of £^7^/4^^, Scotland and Ire- larnl^ do engage to Almighty Gcd, to his Highnefs the Prince oi Orange^ and to one another, to ft ich firm 10 this Caufe, in the Defence of it, and never to depart fiomit, until our Reli- gion, Laws and Liberties are fo far fecur'd to us in a Free Par- liament, that we (hall be no more in danger of falling under Popery and Slavery. And whereas We arc engag'd in this Com- mon Caufe, under the Prote^ion of the Prince of Orange^ by which caufe his Ferfon might be expos'd to Danger, and to the Curfed attempts of Tapfts^ and other Bloody Men •, We do therefore folemnly engage to God, and one another, Th?.t if any fuch Attempt be madcupon him, we will purfue not only thofe that make it, but all their Adherents, and all tkat we find in Armsagainft us, with the utmoft Severity of a Jull Revenge to their Ruin and Deftrudicn^ And thatthe Execution of any fuch Attempt fwhich God of his infinite mercy forbif^; fhall not divert us from profecuting this Caufe which we do no w un- dertake, bu? that it fhall engage ustocarryit on viith all the Vigor that fo Barbarous an Adtion fhaU deferve. D U (0 vid: The Secret Hiflory of Europe Part2^p. 152. ;i S Chap. I ; The Loyalty of Part T In the Northern Aflbcistion, which / as the Author of the 5^- ' cret Hijfcry of Eiiropef^ys) was honor'd with the prefcnce ofihc L/^VNJ Biiho\y o( LorJon y and even of her prefcnt Majsfty Qy^een^nre, there are thefe Remarkable waroJs, ' We (w) being made fadly ' fenfibleof the Arbitraiyand Tyrannical Government, that is, ' by the Influence of Jefuiticai Councils coming upon us, do una- ' nimonfly declare, that not being willing to deliver onr Poflerity * over to fuch a Condition g{ Poetry zndStavery^ as the aforeiaid * Illegalicies do inevitably threaten^ We will, to the utmofl of * cur power, oppofe the fame, by joining with the Prince of * Oran^e^ &c. And herein we hope all good Proteflants will, with ^ their Lizi^s and Fortums^ be afllltant to us, and net he vughear''d ' with t^e opprobrious Terms of Rebels, by which ihey vvouM fright * us to become perfed Slaves to their Tyrannical Infolencies and * Ufurpations t, for we afTare our felves, that no Rational and Vn- ' by^Jf'dprrfon vpIU judge it Rebellion to defend our Laws and Reli- ' gion, which all our Princes have fworn ai their Coronation 5, ' whici ©ath how well it hath been obferv'd of late, we dcfire a ' Free Parliament may have the Confideration of. VVc own it Re- * bellion to rciifl: a King that governs by Law, but he was always ' accounted a Tyrant that made his ^Vill his Law, and to refifi;' '"fuch a one^ n>tf j'^fi^) fficem no RebslUoriy hm a necejfury Defence^ ' "&c. The above mentioned Author makes this Rtfledion upon thar AIlQciation \ ' Theie (n) were the Sentiments of thofe Chjjrch mea^ ' and Patriots. Thcfe were the Sentiments ot the Duke of ' Leeds, the Bijliop of London^ and a great number of Lords and Gen- ' tlemen-, who had their Swords by their fides to defend them, * and make good what they aficrted of the Lawfuln;fs of Defence^ *• agaiiifl: Tyranny. "1 he Office for the %tlo ofNo7'ember plainly implies that Solenia- thanks are returned to God Almighty by the Clergy and all of the- Eftablifli'd Churches of England and Ireland for his Bleffwg the R?- fjfarce made to K. James, and his defeating the Oppofition made- to the Prince of Or/i;/^f,in thefe Words, ' We blefs thee for giv- * ing his Majefty that now is, a fafe Arrival here, and for making ^'ajlcfpr.fiion Jaliheiotc blra, till he became our King and Go- ~ vernoro (m) id, ibid > p. I^|, (n) ibid, p» l^^i PreJ^yterian Principles: Chap^ i7 'vernorr rnorr p h wou'd be tedious to trouble my Reader vrhh all the Quotations ^ *" * • that might be adduc'd on this Head j but C have fmgled out thofe U^^V^O already mention' d, to Ihow the true State of the Controverfy^ ihc Jufi Limitations of the Dodrine of Rejtfiance^ and fome ot the chief Arguments to fuppori it, from the /.^ip of Nature and ;v:> tions^ pofiiive Li-wsofGod^ the Co:* jfitHti en di En^l^.nd._ and the O- pinionsotthe mo fi Learned Epfccpel Divines^ and even of rvhoU Convocations ', from which the World may fee, That hh neither a Peculiar TrefbyteriAnleriet^ nor repugnant to the Duty and Alle- giance chat is due to Magiftr.jEes; but on che contrary, a neceflirw and honorable Defence of Her Majrfty\ Title, a Security to the Protejlant S ucc fjfi ok m the ll]i:ilriods Honfe of //4;7'?y^r, and a juft Barrier of the Liberty of the Subjed. Of all which the Britifh Par- liament were (o fully fenfible, as to pals a maft Solemn Cenfure and fix an Indelible Stain upon the Oppofite Dodrine, in the De- liberate and Jufl IlTueofthe Tryal ofDr. Sachsverell. Seeing then this Dodlrine of Reftflance in Csfes of extrem: Nicef- fity is fupported by the Law of Nature and Nations^ the Judgment of i\\t mo^ Eminem Divines and Lawyers, the happy Conflianion of Great Britain^ r,nd the moft Renf^wn'd Monarchs that ever fat U- pon a Britiflj Throne, and is an Eflential Fundamental Principle of the late happy Revolution^ and the Source of all rhe BleHings deriv'd to us from it j it's plain that neirhcr Presbyterians nor any other People can be jaflly charg'd with Difloyalty/ f o'- the pra£iice there- of. If ever Prefbyterians refifled their Sovereign when ke was afting for the end of his Office, the Public good. Religion, Li- berty and Property, they mufl confefs gjilr, bvi^ this is what chey deny .- If all their Regltanct was co the unju^l I.iva'ioCsof i/^'r/^ hy the Vrerogattve^ and when the Prince us'd his Eoxoer to the hurt and Trejndice of human Society^ and in no other Zu2^ I fhou'd En ink them fairly acquitted of all Rebellion and Difloyaky, upon the- faine Principles e« which her Majefly and the Nhi'-sn proceeded in the Ute happy Revolution-^ And for my own part, I am free re ^p^^rure the whole Catife upon this Iflue ; Let it (land or fa ft by that Uiidcubted Tefloftrue^mz]^ Loyalty. A Native Coi::feqnence of what has been advanc'd roncerning the Dodtrine of Repfi.tnce^ is, thac a decent and m^defl Difovery of Defence of good men, and to revenge and punifh al! open Ma" lefaftors. Moreover to Kings^ Princes, 'R.klers and MaHf\Yates^ we aft'rn'/, that chiefly and moft principally the Confeivatiori and Purgation of the Religion appertain, fo that not only they are appointed for Civil Policy, but alfo for maintenance of the true Religion, and for fupprefling of Idolatry and, Superllition whatfoever; As in David, Jofaphat, Ez.echias, J( sias, znd oilKtS' highly commended for their zeal in that cafe, may be efpy'd. And therefore, we confefs and aver, Thatfuch as refifl the Su- preme Power, doing that which appertaineth to his Charge, do refifi Cca^s Ordinance -y and therefore, cannot be guiltlcfs. And fur- ther, we affirm That whofoever deny unto them their aid, their Counlel, and Comfort, while the Princes and Riders dili^erHly ■ travel in the Execution of their office ^ thai the fame men deny their help, fupport and Counfel to God, who by the prefence of his Lieutenant doth crave it of them. The fecond Paflage is taken froia the Weftminfter Confeflion, allow'd alfo and receiv'd by the Church of Scotland, and by the Prefbyterians in Ireland, as the Confeffion of their Faith, and as mh fubfcrib'd by all the Minifters and Preacfaers cf both, and com- pos'd- 24- Chap, i^ The Loyalty, of Part ^ posM by an AfTembly of the rno^ Famous BrgUfh Presbyterian ' "^ Divires. In 23^. Chap, of the faid Confffion we have thefe VV^ words. *" God the Supreme Lord and King of all the World, hath or- ' ^4;V<:i Civil Mag'flrates to be under him, over the people, for his * own Glory, and the public good •, and to this end hath arm'd them ^ with the Tower of the ^worA^ far the defeiire and Encouragement of * them that are good, and for the p'.inifliniein: of evil Doers — ' ' Tlie Civil Magiftrate may not '^irume to himfeit" the 4dminifl:rati- * on of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the keys of the * Kingdom of Heaven- Yett'? hath Jutho ity^ and it ishisduty to ' take order, that Unit^ and Peace be preferv'd in the Church, that ^ the Truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all Blafphemies * andHcrefies be fjppres'd, all Corruptions & ahufes in Worfnf and * Difctpline vrevontrd, ot reformed '^ and all the Ordinances of God ^ duly fetiled, admiiiiftred and obfervM. For the better effedi- * ing whereof He hath power to r,all Synods^ to hi prefent at them^ and * t/) provide^ that whatfoever is tranja^led in them^ he according to the ' Mind of God. ' It is the duty of People to pray for MagiHrates, to honour * their perfons, to pay thtm Tribute and other Dues, to obey tht'iv ^ lawful Com nands and to be Subject to their Authority, for Con^ ^ fcience fake. Infidelity or Difference in Religion, doth not ma):e * void the Magiftrates juft and Legal Authority, nor free the Peo- *■ pie from their due Obedience to him .. From which Ecclejiafiical * Te^fons are nnt exempted &c. The id. Paflage is taken out of a Book entitul'd Unglijh Puritanifm coritainific the main opinions of the rigideji Sort of thofe that are called Puritans in the Realm of England y wherein they hold Chap. 5. ' That * there fnou'd be no Eccleliaflical Officer fo high but that ht ought * to be )ubjc[l unto^ and pHn^jhable by the mcanejl Civil O^cer in a King' *■ doniy Citj? or Town, not only for Common Grimes, but even *■ for the Abiife of their EcclefiafiicnlOgices-y Yca^ they hold that they ' ought to be more punifhable than any other*Subjed whatfoever, * if they fliaH offend againfl either Civil or Eccleliaflical Laws. * They hold, that the Civil Magillrate is to puuifi with all Severity ^ the Eccleiiafiical Officers of Churchef;, iftheyfhall m/rWfupon * the Rights and Prerogativesof the Civil Authority andMagiltracy, * and fhall pifs thofe, bounds and limits that Chrift hath prefcrib'd to * ilifiai in his word. ^^^^ Presley terian Principles. Chap, i* 25 * They hold fChap. 5. concerning the Cenfnres of the Chnrc''}) That P/^i-rf- ■ the keys of theChmch are r otto be put to this ufc: to lock up theOown, ^ ^'-^ *- ' Swords or 5ceprers cf princes andCivil States, or the Civil Rights, U^/*^J Prerogatives, and Immunities of Ci;il Subjcds in the things of this Life. The ^th PafTige is taken out of a Bonkentif^rd EngUfh Presbytery^ giving The main Opinions of Presbyterians in England p. n (Concern- ng the Civil IVlagiflrate j they fay, •■ 1 hat they do with all Thankfulnefs to God, oww and reverehh Ordinance of Civil Ma^ gtfiracy, and are To far from encroaching upon it, thai they be- lieve no Minifter of the Gofpel ought to employ himfelf in is. But to give up himfelf to Meditation and Prayer^ and the tneer fpi- itual Over fight of the flock of CI rift committed to him. * For the Dm Form oj Govemmsnty or power of Governors in any Nation^ thty believe Cod's woref hath fix^d no univerfal Ride^ cnly confirming the jail Laws of Kingdoms andi Policies^ And they believe ir. to be their Duty to be obedient to fuch Governors in all places, as the Laws i^ that place haveeftablifli'd, and ii^ the exe- cife of fiicb power 2s thof*" Laws have giveii him- From the Obedi- ence to which no pei fon upon the account of Religion can pretend toan Immunity. And in the exeicife whereof no Magi/Irate oughc by any to be refilled . The f^th Paflase is taken from Mr. Corbefs Account of the Principles and PraElices of fever aI Non-Confo mifts^ which Book was approved by them, as appears by the Title page : In it they fay p. 8. * We believe that the power of Civil Magiflra'esM (j(?^»''j Ordinance^ ne- cefDry for the Govetnrpent of she vV^^orid -We ackaow- ledge that Supreme Magiffrat^': ha-ze a Civil Suprentacy in all Ecle- fi;ip^ical Matters^ and a P )lu.calEp Lopacy ov^v' t{:° Pallors of the Church in their Sacred 'V'liairiiiiraiioiis, and m.iy cornbu. thecn to the performance of their Duty, a; d pivrufli i.hem for theii N-gU- :^ gence or Male-Adminiflration, that they may call Synods^ make Canontj and warrantablythni reform the Ch'tri.h^ whe;i IP itar.ds in need of Re formation.. Moreover, ae believe f hat ttie Higher Powers are not to be msre ExtcatioRers ofrhe j'.igiiients of Ecckfiailicks, but thatthey niav and nuft ht judges ihereoj them- ! felves^ in order to their o^n execution. Tne 6th and laft PafTige is taken ouc of the Book eiuiturd, A f^^n- ■dication of the Prefbyteri/ilCoie: nment And Miniftrypitblifa^d^ bj the /vil- E nijters 26 Chap. I : The Loyalty of P . niftersand Elders^ met together in a -provincial Jjfemhly in London ralC I . jsiovemhtr id, 1^549. ' We '0) freely acknowledge, thnM^gJ-ra- {^y^/'\J ' cy is an Ordinance ofCod^ appointed for the great good of Man- ' kind •, fo that, whoever are enemies to Af^^»y?^racy ? Becaule fome Minifters have highly dbus'd their Sacred Fiindion, ftiall we therefore lay afide that holy Office ? In a word ifthcPresbyte- vians have in theExercile of their Inherent Povuervivon^^d the Civil Magiflrate at any time, that is no Argument againft the Inherent Power it ielf, beca'jfe in fuch Cafes they muft be fuppo'sd to be guiky of Male-Adminiftration. And if ourAuthor can prove this,it is chargeable upon the ?raBices and not upon the Principles of Prelby- terians, and therefore comes in Impertinently in thisphce. As to this Inherent Power it felf the Presbyterians claim no more than what the Primitive Chiiilians had for the three firfl Centuries; and we mull either fuppole 'em all chat time to be Difloyal Subjeds or elfc chat the Inherent power of it felf can't make any Church Dif- leyal. If it be ohjeded that for the three firfl Centuries there being no Chri/liai Emperors^ the ChrifliaH Church mufl: hive an Inherent Power, otherwile they cou'd have none at all ^ but that after Confian* tine's time, the Cafe was altered, And that there was no Parity of Reafon for claming an Inherent power of Church-Difciplinc .• The anfwer is very Obvious, and 'tis founded upon a Principle which the Mofl Critical Writers upon this Subject, and particularly the mo/1 Learn'dofthe Church of England have advincM. Viz. That tioe Power and right of Princes to concirn themf elves {by vertne of their Office as Magift rates) in Ecclefiafiical Matters do' snot defend upon their Religion. T his is very clearly exprefs'd by the LearnM Bilhop Burnet in his Expofition of the s^Articlesof theChurch oi England. When he is treating of the ^jth Article concerning the Regal Smremacy after he had prov'd from the Holy Scriptures that Princes have a 'Right and povv^ to cOiicern themfelves iniMacters Ecclefiaftical (which no Presbyterian denies) he next defcribes theMeafureandExtent of that power in chtfe words, p. 285. ^ ' Ins certain, Firll, That this Power does not depend upon the ^ Princes Religion ; Whether he is a Chriftian, or not ; or whether . he is of a True or falfe Religioa .* or is a good or a bad man. By the Trefhyterian Principles. Chap. i. 2p * the fame Tenure that he holds hisSovercigr£y,he hojds thislikewile.p^j.^ I ^ *- jdrtaxe/xes] ad it as well as either David or bch^non^ when the Jtrvs *■ were once lawfully his Subj^t'h ♦, and the Chriftijns owM the fame 1^/^/^^ * duty to the Er/pe^ors while Heathen^ chat they paid them when * Chrifii.w. Tlie Relations of Nature, Inch as that of a Parent and * CloiU^ t/nsba-rtddnd i^Vi-fc^ contiiiiie the f:; me that they were, what- *" foever Men's Pcrf< afions in Matters of Reliyion may be : So do alto * Civil Relations, y^-^/rer and Sfr7Ai;7f, prince and Subj-^h-^ they arc 'neichtr increas'd nor di/ninifli'd by the ituth cf their Sentiments ' concerning Religion. All Perfous are fiibjedt to the Prince's Au- ' thoritv, and liable to fitch Puniihments as their Crimes fall under ' by Law. tvery Soul is Subjetl to the higher Posters. Neither is ' Treafon hCs Treafon^ becaufe fpoke in a Pulpit, or in a Sermon .* ' It may be more Treafon for that, than otherwife 'twou'd be •, be- * caufe 'tis fo public and deliberatCj and is deliver'd in the way in ' which it may probably have the worft Eftcd. So that as to Perfons ' no great Difficulty can lye in this, fince every Soul is declared to bs ^SubjeH: to the Higher Powers. From this Principle it follows as a Native Conlequence , That if the Church had an Inherent Power under Heathen Emperors, they mull have it under Chriftian ones too ; and this very Principle was aflerted by Chriftian Emperors, and by Councils that were held under , them, as well as by particular Fathers who flouriAi'd m their Reign?, The fame Judicious Hiftorian (Dr. Burnet) in his Book EnticuPd, The Hifiory of the Rights ofPnnces, &c. defcribing the Inherent Right that wa? in the Primitive Church to Eledf their Bifhops, gives us the following Remarkable Account of the Chrijlian Emperors declining to meddle in that Matter, fo as to deprive the Church of their Inhe- rent Right. ^ This way of Elcdion Cfays he p. 29. 30. 31O was not a Privi- ' lege peculiar to jilexandria-.^ we have two great Inftances that Ihew * that Conflantine did not intcrpofe in Elcftions. The one was in M- * CO wf^/iis room •, Upoa which an Indru- ' ment, or Decree of Eletifnn "^ js made^ but he refiifing to accept of *■ it, Conflamine writ to chem, (rj In which he takes Notice that their ' Cafiom was to life great c.-.y^, prudence a?id diligence in the feeking out *• fuch a Bijh^p as was fi^ for them. And in another Letter ( f) to the ' Bifhops that were the;: at Jntioch^ he recommends two Perfons to ' ihcm ^Eiiphroniiis and Georgius^ but defires, that when they proposed ' thefe or any others to bt chofep*, the Ele^ionJIionhi be made according *" to the Rule of the Churchy and the Tradition of the Jp-flles. This is * but a Recommendation •, two are offered, but leave is given to the * Biihops to put more in the Lifl: ; and a Charge'is added to manage * the Election according to Cultom. It was no wonder that all com- ' plied vJiuh fuch ;a Recommendation, and chofe him that was firft ' named. But h is vifible that the Emperor left them to their Liber- ' ty. ' Great ConfuHohs folIowM in the Reign of Ccnflantim^ by reafon *■ oi x.\iQ Anan Hcicfy, many of the Orthodox Bifliops being turn'd ^ out, and others put in their rooms, by the Emperor's Authority ^ ' whom among other things, HiUry accufes for this, That he gave ' Biihopricks to thofe of his Pany : And Writing againft Auxemius^ * ad'drcff-s himfclf thus to thefe Bifhops placed by the Court (O h O ''ye B'pops^ J pray you what Suffrages did the Apcfrles make itfe of} did *" they receive their Dignity from the Palace} And he runs out more ' copioufly on thofe Court B'fhops, in his Expofition of the firfl ' Pfalm n He fjys, Ti'H Ambition of Secular Honors had corrupted them^ *- and that they were polluted by the pefliferoHs Contagion of thofe Aff'a'irs * in which they were convtrfmt. When that Storm was over, and the ' fhorc, but terrible Cloud rais'd by Julian^ was diflipated, then the *■ Ancient Method of Eieftions was again continu'd- But two things *^ occafionM great Contentions in them ^ The one was, The Wealth ' and Dignity of fome Sees •, the other was, the Heats that had been ' raisM by the Anan Herefy, by which Peoples minds were embit- * tered one againft another. Here are Paflages demonftrating not only that the Chriftian Em- perors 0 Euf. de vlt, Conft. i. 3. (/) Ih, c <52. (t) lib, i.in Conft.' Trefhyterian Prmciples. Chap, i . 31 perors left the Church to their former Itnrinfw Liberty of EIc(f^ions, P'l r^ j but that they thought it not Inconfiltent with their Imperial Dignity and Right?, nor with the Allegiahce due to them from their Subjects, ^^Z^^^"*^ thit they /. tf. Emperors; might be SuhjM- as ChiJl'iAus to their Bidiops in Matters of a Spiritual Nature tliat concernM their Souls. Any that pleafeth may confult the Originals from which Burnet quotes thefe PafTiges, which I have confider'd^ but 'tvvoifd he too te- dious to iiileit *cm here ^ and therelore 1 have contented my felf with his Abilract. The Council of v^/?f/oc/; allembled about the ycjr 34 r, decreed ia their i ith Canon ' That («; no Presbyter depos'd by his own Bifhop, ' and thatnoBifhop deposM by a Synod fioidd prelnme to trouble the ' Emperor -J but that he fhou'd apply himfelf to a greater Synod of ' B:pops^ and lay bsfore them what Allegations he has to m:ke of the ' Jullice of his Caqfe, and wait for their Sentence ; and that if in- ^ itcad of doing this, hQ apply to the Emperor^ that his Fault Ihall not ' be pardon'd, nor fiiall he ever be rellor'd to his Office. Nothing can be more exprcfs in favour of the Inherent PoirrNJ ' this mufl needs be underftood of a Civil Government^ and may in na ' reafon be extended to that which is rneerly of another kind. lly. I fay, * That where an Ambiguity is conceiv'd co be in anv pjrt of an Oath ^ ' it ought to be taken according to the iinderflanding of him for * whofe S'cisfaftion the O.tf/; w.^s Miniftred. Now in this Cafe iE * hath bcei fuffi-icncly dechr'd by public Authority, that no other ' thing is meant by the Gojemment here mentionM *, but that of the ^'CIVIL SWORD ONLY. * For in tlxBiok of ^r/rc/^j agreed upon by the Arch-bifliDps and ' BlfiiDps 2nd the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London^ ' Anno. I 552. thus we read, iVhere we attribute to the Qjieen^s M^jefiy ' the chief Government^ 3zc. Ws give not to our princes the Minijlrina e- * ther ofGod'% Word or of the Sacrament s^ &C. But that only Prerogative ^ which we fee to have been given always to all Godly Princes in H ly bcrip^ ' tnres by God himfelf, that is^ Toat they Jhoii'd rule all Efiates and Ds- *' grees c$mm'.tted to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclefiaflicd or 5 Temporal, andreflrain with the Civil Sword tht ftiibhorn and evil doers. ' I never- read a Presbyterian Writer, who made larger demands on behalf of the Church, the!i thofe mention'd by the Learn'd Vflnr in the ab^ve Speech ^ and who was not cordially fati>fy'd to make the fameConceflions with him to theCivilMagiftratCpOt which theirCon- feflions & other Authentic Accounts of their Principles already quo- ted give a fufficient Proof. And yet we never find. That t\'cr Vfier was tax'd with DiHoyalty for aflerting the //2/;J words. The Judgment offome Bijhops concerning the Kin^s Supremacy. An ORIGINAL, (m) THE Words of St. John in his 20th Chap. Skut mifit me Pater^ ' & ego mitto vojy &c. hath no refped to a King's or a Prin- * ce's Power, but only to fhew how that the Miniftersof the Word * of God , chofen and fent for that ilntent , are the MelTengers of * Chrift, to Teach the Truth of his Gofpel, and to loofe and hind Jin^ * &:c. As Chrifi was the MelTenger of his Father. The Words alfo * of St. Paul in iht\ioth Chap, of the ABs-^ Atttndite vohis & uni- * verfo gregi^ in quo vos SpiritHS Santas fofnit EfifcopoSy regere Ecclest* * am Deij were fpoken to the Biihops aid Priefts, to be diligent Paf- * tors of the People, both to Teach them diligently, and alfo to be * Circumfped that falfe Preachers fliou'd not feduce the People, as * followeth immediately after in the fame place. Other places of * Scripture declare the Highnefs ard Excellency of Chiiftian Primes * Authority and Power', the which of a Ttuth is mofl high , for he * hath Power and Charge generally over all, as vf^WBijhop and Priejh * as others. The Bifhops and Priefls have Charge of Souls within * their own Cures, Power to Minifler Sacraments, and to teach the i Word of God i to the which Word of God Chriftian Princes G 1 kaow- (w) id, ibid* Conedioj\,^of Records Book 3. p. ill- ^'Jf^- z}.^ Chap 1. The Loyalty of Part T ' knowledge themfelves Subjecft^ and in cafe the Bidiops be negU- •*- ' g^^'i^ ili is the Chriftian Princes Office to fee Ehein do their Duty; t/V"^J T. Cantuarien. Joannes London. CutlobertHs Dundmen, Jo. Bafwellen- l' loo mas Eli en. NjccUi's Sarishurien, Hugo Wygorn. J. Rojfen. Herein thefe Bifhops fix the Power of the Paftors and Governors of the Chriftian Church, to hind and loofeSin., ( which includes the Power of Church-Government and Difcipline) upon a Commiffion from Chrifl, and deny that this Commiffion hath any refprB to the J'ower of Kings iind Princes'^ which is in Effect to fay, That Princes have no Spiritual Power of Cburch-Governmens or Difcipline v and then they declare for the King's Power over all Perfons, Bifhops as well ss others : but when they tell us what this Power is, they fay no more of ic, but that in Cafe the Bifhops ht negligent ^''tis the Chri' fiian Prince'' s Office to fee them do their Duty , which Presbyterians heartily agree to. In or about the fame Year, 1538. there was a much fuller Paper concerning Orders and Ecclefiaftical Funftions Sign'd by Crooiweflf the two Arch-bifhops aad Eleven Bifhops, and twenty Divines and Canonifts, declaring that the Power of the Keys^ and other Church- Functions \s formally di/}inB from the Power of the Sword (n) a Parfi whereof! fhall here Tianfcribe. A DECLARATION made of the Fun^lions and Divine Inftitutioii of Bifliops and Priefts, ^n ORIGIN JL: HPJST(o) and his j^po^les did inftitute and ordain la th.e-Nes^ ' Teltament, that befdes the Givil Powers and Governance of Kings 'O (n) id. ibid. Booh 3. p. 355. f(?)/<^. /'^/W Addenda p. 321. 6cc Trefbyterian Trinciptes Chap, i ; 4.$ * Kings and Princes, which is cal I'd in Scripture, Pt^r^r,/?;?/ CW//, the Pqr(- t * Power of theSword,there fliDuld be ^Ifo continually \\\ tbeChurch-Mi- ' • ' litanE, certain other Minillers or Officers, which (houU have S^iri- ^^^'"V^"*^ ' tual Power^ Autkority and Commiffion under Cnrifl , to Preach and ' Teach the Word of God, unto his People, and to Difpence and ' Adminiller the Sacraments of God Uiuo them •, and by the fame to 'confer and give the Grace of the Holy Gh oft, to confccrate the ' Blelled Body oi Chrivi in the Sacrament of the Altar, to loo[e andab- *• foil from Sin ^ all Perfons which be duly Penitent and forry for the ' fame •, to bind and Excommunicate fuch as be Guilty in Manifeft * Crimes and lins, and will not Amend their Defaults •, to Older aid ' confecrare others in the fame Room, Order and Office, whereunto ' they be call'd and admitted themfelves , and finally to feed Chrill's *' People like good Paftots, and Rectors, asthe v^/^cy^/^calleth them, ' witli their wholfom Doctrine, and by their Continual exhortations^ ' and Monitions to reduce them from Sin and Iniquity, fo much as ' in them lyeth, and to bring them unto the perfect knowledge^ ' the perfed love and dread of God, and unto the perfect Charity ol ' their Neighbours. — — *•■ ' //fw. That this Ojfice, this Power and Authority ^ was committed ^ and given by Chnfi and his AvoftUs to certain Perfons only, that is to 'fiy, unto Priejls and BiJJjops ,' whom they did EkSi, call and admic * thereunto by their Prayers and Impolition of their hands. Thomas Cromwell. T. Cantuarien. JEdvfardus Ebor» Joannes London, Cuthhtrtus Dunelmenfts, Joannes Lincoln. Joannes Bathonienfi Thomas Eli en, Joannes Bangsri NicoUus Sarum, Edxvardus Herefordcff, Hugo Wygorn, Joannes Roffen^ Rich, Ciceflr. Richard as Wolman, Joannes Bell. Willidmns Clyjfg. Robertas Aldrige. Cilfridus Downes, Joannes Skip, CuthbertHs Marfhall: Marmaduh Waldeby, Robertus Ohng* NicolaHs Heyth. Rodalfhns Brndford^ Richardus Smith, Simon Matthew. Joannes Prynn. GuUelmus Bnckmafirffi Willielmus Maye, NicoUus Wotton, Richardus Cox, Joannes Redman, Thomas Robertfota Thomas Baret. Joannes Nafe, Joannes Barbar. (Some 46 Chap. I. The Loyalty of Pa rt T (Some other hands there are that cannot be read) (-/"VX) SacYA TheokgtA^ Juris Ecclefiafiiciy & Chilis Profe forest It appears plain from this Paper, That thefe Prelates and Di- vines were not for any other Supremacy in the Crown, than what is confiftent with the Intrinfic Power of the Church in Ecc'lcfiafti- cal Difcipline. For Befides, that they aflli»a Power and jiuthoiity in h\^o\>sio excovirrumc fit e and ahfclve^ by wtriuto fa, Commiffion from Chrifl, and diftind from Civil Magiflracy, they exprefly af- fert that this Power and Au hority was committed to certain perCons enly viz. Priefts and Bi(hops\ and therefore they couM not think that the Magiftrates Comminion Entitled him to that Power and Authority, unlefs they wouM make him a Pried or a Bifliop by ver- tue of his Offi::eas a MagiftratCjA Thought too grofs to be imputed to men of their fenfe and Learning. And it ought to be remarked. That not only the Venerable Cranmer , the Martyr^ But Cromwek iign'd this Paper ^ tho' the latter had an Extraordinary Office,&was cail'd the King's yjcegertnt in Ecclefiafiical /Affairs \ and it can't be fiippofed, That he wou'd have coiifented to the Inherent Power of the Church f"Hy afTerted in this Paper, if he had believed it to . have been a Dilloyal Principle Bifhop Burnet^ a Strenuous alTcrtor of the Regal Supremacy in IViatters EcckTnflical, when he comes to explain it, makes it only a Civil Power \ for in his anfwer to Sander s\ Book of the Englifh Schifm he dates one of Sanders's Objidions againfl: the Reformed thus. * He i^p) fays, Kin^Edwardvfas not only declar'd King of * England^ znd Ireland^ hxMTXZ^t Supreme Head of the Church'^ and U- * pon that runsout, to (hew how uncapjble a Child was of that Pow- er. ' To which lie replies thus, ' This is ^ct down in fuch Terms, ' as if there had been fome fpecial Adi made for his being Supreme '- Head, of the Churchy diftind from hi; btihg r'-ocliim'd King,where- * as there was no fuch thing \ for the Snprc-macy being annex'd to * the Crown, the one went with the other : And it being BUT f A CIVIL POWER, might be as well exercifcd by the King's Govcr- (p j ////?. of the Reform* Part 2 . j^ppendix p. 383, TreJhytericinT^rinciples. Chap. i. 4.7 * Governors, before he came to be of Age, as the other Rights of P^^ f^ t ■ * the Crown were '. * And it this Power of the Crown be only a Civil Power, that is, U'^vnJ the Power of the civil Sword, 'tis plain that a Spiritual Power of Church' Government and Difcipline is quite another thing, and ma/ be Inherent in the Church, tho' tVit other remain entirely in the Civil Magiftiatej who, has his right to it not by his Religion^ but by his O^cz^ as Magiftrate; (is the fame Rev'd. Author clears, in his Explication of the 37^^ Article, which I have quoted p 28,29 and therefore can't be invefted with theEvangelical and Spi- ritual Power of Church- Government, committed by C/?r/7? to the Pallors and Governors of the Church \ which Dr. Burnet is not wil- ling to put into the hand of Laymen .• For after he had finifh'd his Excellent Hiftory of the Reformation under Queen EUz.abetk^ in the Points of Doctrine and Worfliip; he makes this Refledion upon the Reformation, in point of Church Government. ' As (q'j for the Canons and Rules of the Church-Government, ' they were not fo foon preparM. There came out Tome in the ' Yean 57 1, and more in the year 155)7, and a far largerColledion of ' them in the firft Year of King Jameses Reign. But this matter has * yet wanted its chief force •, for the Penitentiary Canons have noti * been fet up, and theGovernmenl of the Ckurch is not yet brought * into the the hands of Chnrch-men. So ihat in this point, the Retor- * mationot the Church wants fome part of its finilhing, in the Go- * vernment andDifcipline of it. Here indeed he fpeaks of theChurches Spiritual and InhercntPower ofGovernmentandDifcipline,which be wou'd haveplac'd in thehands of Church-me;i and of none others, fubjeft to the Civil Supremacy ofthe Prince even in Matters Ecclefiaftical ; which Prefoyterians reckon the true way of explaining the Diftindion and Relation be- tween the Vower ot the Sword, and the Power ofthe Keys. The fam* Learn'd Author advances a Principle in his Preface to his lecond part ofthe Hifiory of the Reformation^ (vhieh necefl-irily infers all the Inherent Church-Power, that ever Presbyterians pleaded for : For, while he is bewa iling the Heats and Contentions thai (q) id, ihidy f , 407, 48 Chap, i: The Loyalty of •p^ ^^ T that arofe early in inland about t he Power oiB^jhop and Treshyters JLcirC 1. ^^j,j^g Matter of Church- Government and Difcipline^ he acquaints iyV'NJ us with the I ffae of the Debate jand fpeaking of Ecclefiallical Dif- cipline he fays, ' And all went into thofe Courts commonly call'd ' che Sviritiml Courts ', without making Diftinftion between thofe ' Caufes of Teft3ments,Marriagcs and fuch other futes, that require ' fome learning in the Cm/ and C«w«Law, and the other Caufes of ' the Ceuf jres of the Clergy and Laity, which are of a more Spiri- ' tual Miture, and oughundeed to be tryed ONLY by the Bilhops * and Clergy, f-r they are no fmall part oftheCareof fouls, *■ which'is incumbent on them: and by THEM ONLY Excom- *■ munications ought to be made, as being a Sufpenfion from the ^ Sacred Rights of Chriflians, of which NONE can be the COM- '- PETENr JUDGES, ^«f t^r^ to whom the Charge of Souls is * Committed; ^ ^ ...;,,. " Dr. Po/ffr Regius FrofefTor of Divinity in the Univerfity of Oat- ford hach written a Book,Entiturd, A Difcoiirfe of Church-Government^ wherein the Plights of the Churchy and the Supremacy cfChriJlian Princes^ are -vindicated and adjnfled. In his 5^/? Chapter of that Book, he iully maintains the fame Principles afTerted by theB)fhops andCler- -sy i have already menticn'd, for the Churches Inherent Pow- er as appears from the following Paffiges, ' The (r) Nature and ' '^DefKrn Q^ihQ Powers^ wHch belong to the Church, will bell ap- ' pearly confidering the Conditution of the Church, and the ends ■*■ for which it was founded: Which having been form.crly fliDwn ' to be Spiritii^J, and fuch as v;holly relate to the ne^t World ^ k ^ follows that all the f oirerj,which belong to the Church are of the ' fame Nature •, and confcqueiuly diflind from chofe of Civil Ma- ' giftrates, which concern the affjirs of this life, and are deiignM ^ for the prefent Welfare of Hunii^n Societies. • In (/) treaLingon the prefent argument; 1 fhall endeavor to * fiiow. Hr(>, THAT our t-kflld Lord has eninifi-ed the Churchy * and particulaily the Governors oi'lt with authority to cenfure Of- * fenders and f.vc7/iJ He enlarges upon thofe three Heads, and proves the Churches In- herent Power and Right in Ecclefiaical matters : and as he often af- ferts the thing it felf. fo he frequently mentions the very Terrrn INHERENT AlllHORITY, and INHERENT POWER a; and afcribes them to the Bifliops and Clergy of the Chriftian Church, as rightfully belonging to them by our S^Wor'j Commif- Hon, and from the Confideradon oftheChuiche s being a Spiritual Society. This Paper wou'd f^vell to too great a bulk, fhouM I here infert the Quotations I might adduce from tbeWrinngs of the Revd. Dr. Atterhitry^ and feveral other FamousModern Divines of the Church of England^ .vyho put in for as large a meafure of Inherent Church- Fower as ever the Presbyterians claimed. Upon the whole, I hope the reader will be fatisfy'd from what has been offer'd upon this Head, that Fresbytenans do acknowledge and chearfully yield to Magiftratesthe IntireCi?iI Jurisdiction in as ample a manner as any other faithful Subje£\s whatfoever. In Ec- clefiaftical affairs they allo^v them all the Power chat's necefTary for preferving true religion. Unity, and Peace in the Church j for cor- reCtirg and reforming all Abufes; and taking order that everything in h be done according to the Word of God : and thas they fliou'd make ule of the Power of the Sword by vertue of a Politi- cal Civil SUPREMACY in Ecclefiaftical Matters, according to the Explication thereof in the ^^th Article of the Church of 'Ergland. And feeing all the Inherent Church- Power they claim is Confiflenfr with all the above Rights, Powers and Prerogatives belonging to Civil Authority, and is agreeable to the Judgment and Sentiments oi l\\t pirefi Primitive C\\mchts in the three firfi Onturifs •, of the Chf Iftian £wffrfl?/5 of the General Council oi Conftantim-ple where there were 150 Orthodox Bifhops, and of other Blfhops and Fathers in the4tfc Century^ and of many jirchbifio^s an& JBiJhops and other H ... Clergy W f-3l<^. 3<^S t ^o Chap li The Loyalty of Pir^ T Clergy of the Churches of Englartd and^^Ireland^ and fome of them XdlL i . Q,^r)ng[\: the firft Reformers, Martyrs, and rnofl: Eminent Lights for ty^/*%J piety and Learning thit have appeared in them. It feems lo me to be a plain anduiianfwerable Confcqueace, That either Presbyterians are «;7//^//ycW^'^ with Difloyalty for their afll-rting an Inherent Church-Power in matters meerlySpiritual and Ecclefiaftical •, or,thafi ail the Perfons 1 have mencion'd mufl be reputed Difloyal and In- jurious to the Secular Powers, and the Magiflrates unwife and unjufi: to themfelves for tneir confenting to it. And as all the Rights of Magiftracy, even in EccleflaRical Matters^ are well fecur'd by the Limitations and Reftridions put upon the In- herent Power, as 'tis aflerted and explained by Presbyterians ^ fb the right exercife of the Political Supremacy is render'd the more enfyand prafticable by a Principle of Presbyterians, which is this,' Tneir Clergy have no vote in any Civil Court {'froxii the High Court of Parliament to the meanefi in the Kingdom) they do not allowthem- felvcs a Liberty of Intermeddling in thofe thing^^their principles do not permit 'em to Ihare either in the Legislature, or the meaneft Office in the Civil Magiftracy : Whereby the State has the fulleft and greateft Liberty imaginable to corred all theiiDiforders,& reform all their AbufeSjlncrurionSjIncroachments or any violation ofCivilRights, or even the abufes oftheirEcclefiaflical Fundti^)ns. Whereas a Clergy who have a large fhare in the Civil Adminiftration, are fliil the more capable of refilling thole Ads of the Legiflature and Government^ which may become neccllary for reforming the Church from thefe' Corruptions^ wherein frequently themfelves may have too great an hand. This is known by fad experience in many Pf?/?///^ Countries, where the Clngy not only rule the Church, but have become fo great Isy their er^grojfwg Secular EwplGymems and the greateft: PoR's atCourt, thattliey govern the State, and become too great for the Magiftrate to meddle with them, let their faults, and Church-Corruptions be whac they will And by this means, they have both an/»m»//V and f.vmw/ri? Power in the Cnurch,the Conjunftion whereof in the hands of Am- bitious men may indeed prove dangerous to the State, and generally introduces Corruption into the Church. But there is not the leaft ground of nneafinefs to ihc Civil Magiftrate,'' on thisAccount,in theCafe ofPresbyterianMinifters; theirParityin the InherentSpiritual Power,and their Renouncing allCivil jPo7?j,and Em- ploy meuCs makes it Impoffible for them to be a Dead Weight upon the . Trelhyterian^rinciples. Chap. i. ^i the honefl Meafiires of Any Government, or to awe the Magiftrcte Po*.*- j into a truckling fervile way of abetting inftead QiCorriBtrg their Er- i • 1 . rors : Befidcs, that ic enables 'em to difcharge the more faithfully L/'^V^ the Inherent Truft and Powers of their Spiritual Fundtion, while the/ give themfelves wholly to it. They reckon it ground of Mighty Comfort sii\d Peace to 'ciWy Thit their principles exclude 'cm from the Guile of that Crime, which was fo particularly Cenfur'd by the greateft men that have been in the Church in its befl Times ^ whereof I Ihill give the Reader a fliorc Account, in the Words and Opinion of the very Learn'd Hiltorian fDr. Burtiet) who fpeaking of Bilhop (joo^ncFs being made Ld. Chancellor in iSS^- i^ys. ' When {u) the Reformation v/as firlt preach'din£»^/<««^,7"tW;t/> Barns^ &: Latimer i,took anOcca(ion,from the great pomp &Luxuryof Cardinal Wc-lfey^ and the Secular Imployments of the other Bifhops and Clergy-men to reprefent them as a Sortof Men that had who!" ly negleded the Care of Souls, and thofe Spiritual Studies and Exercifes that difpofcd Men to fuch Funftions ; and only carried the Names of Bifhops and Church-Men, to be a Colour to ferve their Ambition and Covetoufnefs, And this had raifcd great Pre- judices in the Minds ot the people againft thofe who were called their paftors, when they faw them fill their Heads with cares, that were at leaft Impertinent to their Callings, if not Inconfiftent with the Duties that belonged to them. So now upon CpoHrick's being made Lord Chancellory that was a Reformed Bifliop, it was faid by their Adverfaries , thefe Men only con- demn'd Secular Imployments in the Hands of Church-men, hecaufe their Enemies hadthem^ but ehang'd their mind asfoonas any of their own Party came to be advanc'd to them. But as Good- rick was raif'd by the popifh Intereft in Oppolition to the Duke ofSoTterfet^ and to O-^w/wf r, that was his firm Friend ^ fo it ap- pear'd in the Beginning of Queen Maries Reign, that he was ready to turn with every Tide .* And that whether he joyn'd in the Re- formation only in Compliance to the time, or was perfuaded in his mind concerning ii j yet he ftad not that fenfe of ic that be- came a Bifhop, and was one of thefe who refolv'd to make as much Advantage by it as he could, but would fuffer nothing for it. So H 2 his Cy) ^^fi» ^fff^f Keform,?an 2. Book i. p. 182. 183.. 52 ' Chapt I? The Loyalty of Part I . hisPraftice in this matter is neither a Precedent to jiiflifie the lik£ in others, nor can it call a Scandal on thcfe to whom he join'd himfelf. Chrifi- being fpoke to divide an inheritance between two Brethren^ faid, iVho made me a Judge or a Dividtr f St. Paul fjieafclng of Church- men, (liys, No A'fa?i that warreth intavgleth him* [elf with the ajfairsofthis lije : Which was underftood by St. Cy- prian ?.s a PERPETUAL RULE agaiiifl the SecuUr Employments oftheClergy. There are THREE o( the ^poflilical Canons a- giinfi: it: And Cypri.^n reckoning up the Sins of his time,thaE had provok'd God to fend a Perfecution on the O'surch, names this, th3t many Bipop: forfahng their Sees^ undertook Secnlar Cares. In which be was fo flriO:, that he thoaght the beins Tutor to Or- phans was a Diftradion unfutabk to sheir Gharader .• So thaton€ Pried leaving another Tutor to his Children, becaufe by the Ro- manL^vj he to whom this was lefi was oblig'd to undergo it-, thePriefts name who midethat Teftament was appointed to be ftnickouiofthe Lift ofthofe Church-men who had died in the Faith, and were remembred in the daily Offices. Stmojatenus is reprcfented as one of she firft Eminent Church-men that involv'd himRlf much in fecular Cires. Upon the Emperor's turning Chri- llian, it was a natural eftc(9: of their Converfion for them to chc- rifh the Biihops much, and many of the Bifhops became fo much in love with the Court and public Imployments, that Canons were made again fi their going to Court^ unlefs they were call'd, and the Canalii or Road to the Court was kept by the Bifhop cf Rome^ fo that none might go wiihout his Warrant- Their meddling, in Secular matters vf^salCo coridemn'd in MANY Provincial Coun- cils, bvit mo fi copioujty and Amply hf the GENERAL COUH»- ^ CIL at Cha'cedon. But I proceed to examine what our Author objefts to Presbytcrs- zns^of their exerting thts Inherent Power to the Excommunication and ]£,xc I u fan of the Civil Magi fir ate. Excommunication is proceeded in with as great Solemnity and Caution by the Presbyterians as by any People In the Worlds as may be feen in the Scots AlTemblie's Form cf jProcf/} in their Printed Afts, ^*»o 1707. Notorious Scandals, un- rcpented of and obftinately perfifted in,are in the Judgment of ^//tie- formed Churhes fufficicnt Ground for Excommunication. And the irue qptftlon is, Vvhether Magiflracy docs Entitle any perfon Treshyterian Trinciples. Qiap. r. 53' ioiX^cVvWilcidg^soi Chr-fl-UnCommirlorj^ notwithftanding of his ^'P^rf r ing as '/lotorioiifly^ Sicaiidalcujly aiicI Obfiharely Trofane and Wicked , as you can fuppoie any Body to be ? whether is it the duty of an hoaell w>rNi/ &faithfiilClergy-man. toeilvc tlieSacrament to fuch a prince ?0r mayhe not juftlyrefuie it him,& yet be a goodLoyalSubjca.^Letus hear whaJ theCharch ofEf?fflandhys upon thisHead.i^^oo^C' o- Ho mlies. Horn. ohhc Ri^ht life of the Chmch, part id. they fay, ^ And according to this Ex- ' ample of our Saviour C/?ri/^, in the Primitive- Church ., which was * moll Holy and Codly, ?.nd in the which due DiJcifUne withieveri- ty was us'd againlb the Wicked, open offenders were not once fuf- ferM to enter into the Houfe of the Lord, nor admitted to Com- mon Prayer and tte ufe of iheHolySacraments with othertrue Chri- ftians, uniill they had done open Penance before the whole Church. And this was Praclis'd not only upon mean Perfons, but alfo upon the Rich Noble and Mighty ?erfom^ TEA VPON TBEODOSIVS THAT PVlSSJNr and MIGHTY EMPEROR whom for com- mittng a Grievous and Wilful Murther St. Ambrofe Bifhop of ;T//rf« reprov'd fharply, and did alfo EXCOMMVNICATE THE SAID E M P E RO Ry and brought him to open Pen- nance. And they that were fo juflly exempted and banifn'd ( as k werej from the Houfe of the Lord, were taken (is they be indeed, ) for Men divided and feparated from Chrift's Church, and in moffc dangerous Eflate, yea as St. ?anl faith , even given unto Satan the Devil for a Time. Here is the Hiftory of the Excommunication of a Vni^ant and Mighty Emferory and his being brought to open ?ennance approv'd by the Church of England. Why a Son of the Church fhouM tax Pres- byterians with a Principle which he fays makes all Crown'd Heads their Vaflals, when his own Church mentions that fame Principle as juft and Laudable, and yet does not believe any fuch Confequence to follow from it, is what I am not bound to account for. If he be a Layman^ perhaps he has never read the H$rmlieey and fo his Ignorance '' extenuates his Crime ^ but then Methinks, he fhou'd not be fo pretend- ding^ to accufe the Principles cf others, untill he firft learn his own a little better. If he be a Clergyman, I'm at a greater lofs what to fay for him, becaufe he hath fubfcdb'd the 39 Articles, the 35th whereof approves the Homiligs as containing a Godly and whole/am Doc- trine and neceffaryfor thefe times^ and judgeth them to be read in Churches hy the Miniflers diligently and diftin^ly. As to the Exchfton of the Civil Magifiate , if he means Exclufion from- 54 Chap. 1. The Loyalty of p^ rf T ^^^"^ ^^^ ^^^'^ Jurifdidion, 'tis what the Inherent Power has nothing 1 d.1 L i • ^^ ^^ ^^j^j^^ jj. ^jgi^g purely Civil, and conkquently what no Prefby- Syy^ terian Chiircb-Judicatory lays claim to, but exprefsly rencunceth 2^. BookofDilcipline Chap. 7. ' Diligence fhou'd be taken, chief- ' ly by the Moderator, that only EccUjJ.ifiical things be handled in ' the Afpjmblies, and that there be no meddling with any thing per- * taining to the Civil Jnrjfdidion. Our Author further objeds fp. S) ' Nor is the Prince alone thus *- fubjedt, but all the Lav/s of the Nation, which they fhall judge any ' way relating to the Kirk, (and what Law can they not, and in a * manner have they notreduc'd to that HeadJ are fo wholly ia * the Power of the iTir^, that they fhall null and make them void * withoutany confent of the Legifliture •, and that by a power In- ' hcrent in the /0>i&, Superior to and Independent of all Authority * otthe Civil Magiltrate, even by a Commiffion from Chrift, of .* whofe Extent they are the fole and proper Judges. Now that * this is the known Principle of the Presbyterian Kirk, by theirBook-s * ofDifcipUne, and repeated At^^s ot tbeir Aflemblies, will be ma- ^ nifell to all, who will take the pains to peruf.^ them. ^nfw. It IS no Difhonor to the Prince, That he, as a Chriftian^ Ihou'd be fubjcd to the Laws of Chrifl. D )es not every Pious Ma- giftrate look upon himfelf bound in Conicience to obey the Word of God preach'd to him, and to amend thofe faults for which he may fwith all due Deference to his Charafter as a Magifliratej be admo- niAi'd by Chrifls faithful Servants ; who, feeing they have ihtcharg-t oiihtM^K^ifirate'i Soul and muft give an Account to God, theymuft difpenfe^//the means of Grace and Salvation eo him, of which the Right ufe of the Power of the Keys by Church-Cenfures (when ueedful) as well as by Dodtrine is a part •, which they can't omit in the Cafe of Chriftian Magiftrates without manifeft llnfaithfulnels both to God and their Souls .• For our S.^vior'^s CommifTion runs thus iVhatfoevcr (x/) you Jhall bind on Earth, jh.ill he hound in Heaven^who- foevir fins yon remit they are remitted to them -, arid whofoever Sins ■yon retain they ar-e retained ( iP j. Magiftrates are not rxcepted here: And feeing the Church of £^^/^«^ allows, That they may be iy) Matt. 18. i5. (n>) John 20, 23.. Preshyterian Principles. Chap. r. 5S be Excommunkated as well as other men ^ ic neccfl"jrily follows, that Pq^2-(; j they are «■« rW r^^//;f^^ fubjed to thofe who are Eacrufled with the /«v n'* Power of Ecdefiaflical Difcipline, for the good of their Souls •, tho' L^^'^r^ AS they are invsfed with Uegal Dignity and the Supreme Civil- Pow- er, they are not fubjedl to the Churches Authority ^ nor can their So- vereign Pjwer and Dignity be in the leafl affeded, or they di- vefted of it, by the Higheft Ads of Church Power which touch them only as Chrifliansand Members of the Church. And' tho' the fer- vants of Chrifl mufl: do nothing by Partiality, yet they ought to ufe the utmofl Difcretion and Prudence in the ufe of their Spiritual Power in Cenfuring Scandalous Magiflrates. And here I can't for- bear the mentioning of a Refolution of the Englifh Puritans in this cafe, which favors very much both of Piety and Loyalty ^ 'cis to be found in the Book Entilul'd, EngUjli Puritayiifm^ containing the m is a mofl falfe Confequence. Ecclefiaflical Matters are Spiritual M-itters relating to men's Confcience .- Bat a Law may have Relation to the 70>i, when <7nly fomeExternal Revs- aid, orCivil Punifliment is intended andStatutcd in it, or in diverfe otherRefpeif^s may be jomtway relating tn the Kirh^tho'' it be notflrnctly concerning £cclrfajlical Matter^. Bat to ftiow the fallacy of his whole Rea- foning upon this Head, let the Reader be pleaf d to perufe the An- i^N^v wLyfimachiis JS/icancr^^) ' Ye objedti fays he p. i8)an annulling of (x) Bitrnrt'^s Hifi. of the Rights of Princes, p. 37, 38. (y) Theod. L 4 c d, 7. z.^ The Book call'd Lyfimachus Nicanor was publifh'd ia thePv-eignof King Oiarles i. and is ftufi'd with fuch Refledioiis as iht\{ii'(\Qv oi the True blue has in his Papers*, and was refutedia a Judicious Anfwer of which the above Quotation is a part. TrefhyterianTrinciples] Chap. i. 57 of the Adsof Paiiiarnent by the Decrees of our AflcmhlieS) and the Par^ t ' extending ihe Power of our Synod to miay Secular Affiirs. /-v i* What ye fpcak of our encroaching upou O'^Vn-' Parliaments is no ways true \ only fomeevil AlIs of your evident- ly corrupted Afl'emblies, whereto ye had ob^aio'd, by your tJiHi- lar A6ts of fraud and force the P^ssifieatiop of foms Parliaments we did recognofce, and that Alone in their Ecclefiaftic part, wish the good leave of the King's Commiflioner .- As for the Civil S;inc- tion of Parliament, according to the ordinar Ecclefi^flicProceediag of our Cherch mail by-gone times, we did appoint CommiOloners from our AlTembly to fupplicatc the Farhamtr.t forthe Abolition thereof, neither do we meddle at all in our Synods with Secular Affairs.- Remember what your felf in your Canons do pronounce to be the due and lawful fubjed of Ecclefiaftic Jurisdiction, ye will find that our General Affemblies did never take in fo much matter as ye appropriate to any of your Official Courts. To juftify this Anfwer, let the Reader condder thai in the Gene- al Jjfertibly met Aiiguft ^th 1590. ' Their {a) Moderator having exhorted the "brethren to deal earneflly with the King, to refcind and annul dan,f>erous A4r'L;r£S and ORDINANCES^ and by the fame Candoi expounded Bcclefiafiical Affairs to be what Any way relate to the Kirk^ all this won't ferve him, but lie muft add a moft Malicious and Uncharitable Inlinuation in thefe words •, And what Law can they not^ and in a manner have they not reduced to that JHeai.Ht has notlnflanc'd,aorcan'i iaftance oncLaw that ever was re- - duc'dbythem fo thatHead,but what is plainlyreducible to it^and if it / be a Law of the Ssate, he can't give an Inftance, wherein they ever pretended to abrogate and annul the^ leajt Qaufe of it, bu2 left it always to the Legislature that made it. 5or (0 /^/ p''A(>^* Trefhyterian Principles. Chap: i. $9 For what Reafon our Author has in his Quotation of this PafTigeP^j-f j^ out of the 2d. Bork of Difcipline Ciu^^.j. added thefc words, ip/;/?- y^,yrvi out any Reclamation or AffelUnon to any Judge Civil or Ecclcjiaftical %•>• ^•^ (tho there are no fuch words there, but the/ are in the iir^ Cha^. and upon anniher Occafion) he himfelf belt knows. If this be fair dealings 'twill be in any man's Power at the fame Rate to turn the hefifen(e and ihz grcAtefi Truth that can be coatain'd h any Books, into the meerefl Nonfenfcy and the wlej} Err or ^ that can be well ima- gin'd. You may only fhuffle together a few Sentences, diflorted fr6m their proper places, without altering one word of them, and fo the work is do.ie. He brings in this Claufe. in a place, which he expov-nds of an 'Abrogation of the Civil Laws of the Nation \ the power whereof the Presbyteria ns never pretended to ^ but much more intolerable and infolent wou'd fuch a Pretenfion be, if itlefj no room for Appeal £0 any Civil Judge, who indeed is the Proper and only Judgein all iuch Cafes. Whereas the Claufc ispHt in fr.ch a placeas evidently lliows. That *tis only in Cunfes EcclefiaflicalytheYe lyes to Appeal to the Civil Jadge. The words are (Chap. 12) ' And all men as well Magi ft- ' rate?, as Inferiors, 10 befubjeft to the Judgment of the fame 0'.' * e, the National Ajfemblies^ in Ciufes Eccleliaftical, without any Re- ' clamation or Appel/ation to any Judge Civil or Ecdefiaflical within the Realm. And becaufe a great part of his Reafoning, or rather Re- flections are grounded upon t\mUft femence^ I fiiall a little conlider its true meanin:^, however it be mifplacM by him. The whole Nicety of this Matter ifeth in the word APPELLATION : For tho' they do not allow of a Formal Appeal^ytt they yield all that's neceffiry or can be defir'd by the Magiftrate in order to his ufing his Authority of the Civil Sword^ for correcting any Male- Adminiftraiions committed by them in the Exeicife of the Power of the Keys. TheAflemblyy^;?«oi585.C/)ln theirPetitionto theKingfay 'YourHigh- ^ nefs will grant us Liberty and Freedom to hold our Ordmar af^ * fembliesjind ufe fuch Difciplineas we wercin ufe of before thefe ' latt Ads, for Government of tlieEcclefiafticalaffjirsj concerning * which we fhall beat all times ready to ^ii?. 48, and 162, P9 Chap I . The Loyalty of Part T ' truth of which, I refer you firfl; to the anf^er of the General af* ctiL 1 i I ^gj^^ijjy jg jl^g Paper prcfentcd from the Honorable the Commie- U^VX;. ' tee of Eftaees, Augi'ft i, 1648. That Paper of Che Afl'embly (which he trankribes) doth of it felf fiiffidentiy vindicate the Inherent Power from his foul Afperfions, for they fay, ' If their Lordfhips mean an'7 FOLIflG INTE- * REST in fuch Undertakings, we cUimmfuch things \{t\\z meaning * be of a ^iritH4 Interefi and fo far as concemeth the Point of Confci'' * rwcf there can be no doubt thereof made by fuch as with David. ' make the Teftimonies of the Lord their Counfellors ". Compare this with 3 Claufe in it, which our Author has thought fie to leave out, tho' 'tis very material for fetting the whole matter in a true * light ' HaEh not the Word of God (fay they) prefcribed to the ' Chrif!ian Magiflratc the Rules of a lawful War, and doth ii not 'belong to particular Minifters, much more to the adjemblies' ' of die Kirk, 10 declare the Mind of God from Scripture, for all *" Sorts of Duties and afrainft all Sorts of Sins, -^nd if the prefenc ' War be a Cafe ofConfcience^ and alledg'd to be the mofl fit and wr- ' cejfa'ry means {qx ihz Prefervation of Religion^ who feeth not thaE" *- the Kirk harh an undoubted Interell in Rcfolving and Determining '^ fuch a Cafe af Conference from the Word of God. Any man who reads our author's Commentary upon this Paper^ wou'd think he makes the Jffembly to afllime a Power of Declar- ing War, raifing Troops, and Commanding Armies ^ and conclud- ing Peace and Alliaaces with Foreign States &c, this is indeed a Poli- tic Interefi ia War and Peace, which they utterly difclaim. Bus where the harm can be of their Pious Endeavors ti refolve Cafes of Confciencps about the Lawfulnefs or Unlaw fulnefs of war, for en- couraging the former, and preventing the Shedding of Innoceni Kiood by the latter, but more efpccially when confulted ^ is whas- I believe all People of Judgment will be at a lofs to find out. I fhall be fatisfy'd toheir wl at any Body can fay for aggravating' this Crime in the afTembly, and how they'll attempt to prove they have taken to themfelves, more Power in this matter than whae iVlr. Hoadly thinks well becomes all honeft Clergymen, vs^ho in his Sermon before the Lord Mayor of Londan^Stptember. ly. 1705. makes rhis Apology (p. \\.) for his taking upon him to determine in the Eights ot Magiltracy. * ^nd iho' fome may perhaps be apt $0 call ^rejhyterian Trtnciples. Chap, i.^ 6j ' this by the Name of VoUtkh^ and Cenfure it as Foreigg to our Po^^f t . ' Office and this place, f which they are fur« to do then only when -l L i . ' their own Notions are contradided) yet 1 mufl declare that I l^/V^sJ * cannot think it an unbecoming^ or even an unnecefTary Pait of * our care to fettle the mtafures of Chrifiian Ditty in eli Cafes, Fvhmte vp^er {^dys{ Leco citato) *' Thac the Spiritual Rulers do * exercife theii kind ofGovernment in bringing men into Obedience, ' liOE of the Duties of the fir ft Table only but alio of the r«cond. * And that both Prince and Piieftare in their fcveral Places Cufiodes * Vtriiifque TAnla. ' y/re not the fe as High Precenfions as ever the aflembly made, who upon thcfe Principles may Conclude thai they may very lawfully expound the 5r/? Command, Thonftjalt not kill^ and refolve Cafes of Conicience that may arife from it, and yet may be as Innocent as St. jimbrofe^ who REPROVED The- odoftm the Emperor for his wilful Murthcr, for which he's COM- MENDED and APPROVED by the Church of JE^^/4;;^. The Conclufion of that Paper fhows that the aifembly pretended to no more Power in Peace and ^-/ar, than in the Duties of Pa- rents and Children, Husbands and Wives, Mailers and Servants, i, e. fo far oi concerntth the Point ef Conjcience to declare whf.t God''s Word fays abaat ''em. .y^nd the very beginniag of thiE Paragraph quo- ted by our author fhows, That the State entercain'd Confere.i-' ces with the Kirk iipon this Subjeft, which oblig'd 'em to declare their Opinion, and therefsre it cou'd not be officious in 'em fo to do. The Reader may perceive what this Fearful Military Princiflt of the Kirk amounts to, and about which our author makes fuch a Buflle. If the War in which the Magiftratc engages be lawful they can very well bear with his net confulting them, or in hav- ing their confent to it: And therefore he falfly infinuates that the Magiftrate mull wait for it. 'Tisthe Vnlawfulnefsof thelVar^ and «of its being entrcd inio without their Confent^ which they are dif- tpleas'd with. i\'hat follows p. <5. and 7. concerning the AfTemblics oppofing of Duke fjamilton\ Engagement^ in 1648. doth not at all belong to the Principles, but to the Praftices of the Kirk ^ and therefore I fliall ^ at prefcnt difmiis the Confideraiion of it until we come to the Reign of K. Charles 1. where feveral things fhall be offifi Jmfopd Forms of Fvayer. Ifindtheln- geniousand Revd. Mr AVce in his Deftvfio Fratmm D.ffemientiurn in yi-figUa^ had Collected thefe Opinions ot lVickliffe''s^Qw% of thefe and fome Anchors, and digefted 'em under their proper Heads , and I /hall pnl^rttthe Reader with a Tranflation oi Pierce upon thisHead; and aiw Body that doubtsof his Fidelity in quotinj his Authors, he i'; defir'd CO perufe Fc^xand ^dler and the Reft from wnom he bis got the Account he givesof thole Principles, and from whom I ^intended to have drawn an abflrud^jhad not thatWoithy author done ic CO my hand. He proceeds thus, (O Of \({) vide Biler's Chrofiiclep. 195. (r) p. 3,4. The Vouchers made ufe of b^ J'ein'e are yafcic ]{eruni Exptt. fjj Fug. Tom- i, p- 26^5, 270. 574. 276. CutaL Te(f. Tort). 2. p. Hio.ArticuH^o. r/icUijfeJnCQru. Coriftant, fcls. §. Avui^Jho.lVaJi, . a pud fK^/'r li'^; 4.^,132 To which I addfox'i- Mx'tyro/f;^, in d. vers places frose V' 5 55- '•'-'P, 6oy. The Loyalty ofTrefhyterians. Chap., i \ fi " Po Y^i- T Of the Degrees and Offices of CMini/lers. ty-/-sj ". If. fccms to the Holy Dolors fipei fluous, in the Sacrament of * Orders to aflen more than two Degrees, viz- Deacons or Levltesj^ * ar:d Presbyters cr Bijfiops In PauCs time, two Orders of ' Clergy-mn were fufficient for the Church, viz. PRIEST and * DEACON It is Certain, That pride invented Other De- * grees. * It were ufefulfor the Church, that there were neither Pope nor *- Cdifarian Pr^/^ff ; and it were ufeful and decent— that the Church J were purg'd from their Traditions, * Confirmation of Youth, Ordination of Clergymen andConfccra- ' tion of places, are referv'd for the Pope and Bifhops to gratify f ^ their defire of Temporal Gain and Honon - Of the Holy Scriptures the only Rule of Faith and Worjhip. * Let the Believer infifl upon Reafon and Scriptural Faith, and- * not believe fuch Extravagant and Groundlefs Tables concerning * the Power of Prelates. * All Human Tratlitions^ ttot taught hy the Law of the Gofpel^ art * /nperfiuofis and Jin/nl We muftpraSife, learn and teach only ^ the Laws of Chrif} ^Ti s not lawful for a Chriflian after the Pub- * licationof theLaw ofChrifl, to frame LAWS FOREIGN to it ^ f for the Government of the Church of Chrif^, Of Rites x^nd Ceremonies. ' He plainly rejedted Human Rites, aad Shadows and Traditi= Ctirs- f "ois. ^Q Chap. I. Treshyterian Principles, Fart I. Chrifni and the other Ceremonies of that kind, oughenot to be us'd in Baptifm. ' If the Ceremonies of the Old Law, becaufe of their being burn- thenfom, and for their Multitude,were to be abolilh'd by tlie Law of Grace ^ horo much more ought Jnch Groundlels Inventions and Tra^ A tuns of men^ to he I'Axdi afide under the Gofpel Circumcrfion a;id cheCiTemoniss of the OldLaw are not to be obfervM by Belie- vers ^ and far lefsfiiou'd they obferve the prefenc Ceremonies, that have neither Authority from the Old Law, nor from the New. Of Vigils and Forms of Prayer. * To RESTRICr men to certain PRESCRIB'D FORMS of * Prayer, is contrary to the Liberty granted them by Coi There is no ' Obligation to obferve Vigils and Canonical Hours. ' it were profitahle for the Church, that ^twere rejlor'^d to its for.- ' mer Liberty ^ and by this mean, the Solemnities of fuper added *• MalTages, and the Prayers that are invented with the Canonical ' Hours, wouM ceafe- Words can hardly be Contriv'd that moreCompendiouflyScfignifi- cantly exprefs the Sentiments of Presbyterians in the debated Points concerning Church Government,Liturgy and Ceremonies, than thofe wherein ^K?:(^i>/'jSentiments upon the fameHeads are delivcr'd to US ^ and as to the firft, befide what feirce has obferv'd let the Rea- der conlider, that among the Opinions CoUeded from his Writings and Sermons, this wasone viz. That the Pope of Rome hath no more m the Power of the KeySy 4han hath any other within the Degree of Priefi^ hood (s) Add if he gav« as much Power to any Pneil as to the Bifhop ofRome^ he cou'd hardly t^i^'k that any other Biibop was in- verted with more Power than ^ Prieft. Tho' rF/c/^/i/s wasof Presbyterian Principles, he had many Fol- lowers andic pleaf'd God, P^' a TcftimoRy to his o^n Truth a- gfiin^ if) Fox. Marty fo'.f. 563- Under §^en'Eli'zg^)cth. Chap. 2; 73 gainft the Corruptions of the Church of Romcy to give Eminent Sue- Pa^t-f r cefs tothe Unwearied Labors of that Renowned Confeflbr *, he was •■■ **^ ** * fammon'd to appear before a Synod at i:o»^^(?« j^nno \s'j6. calFd t«/V^NJ by Simon Su^hnry Archbifliop of Canterbury, to anfwer for his He* retical Opinions, astheycall'd them. But he was fupportedapainffc them by John of Gaum, Duke of Luncajier and fon to King Edward 3. aad by the Lord Tiercy Lord Marihal of England, who both at- tended him, when he appeared before the faid Synod •, the latter in- troduc'd him to it, and the former fpake openly in his behalf, and took the Archbifhopto tafk very keenly. The Patronage of fuch great Men, with the Univerfal Opinion that all Men had of his great Partsand Profound Learning,together with his Eminent Piety and Unwearied Painfulnefs both in iiis Divinity Lectures in the Co//f^^rCwhereiahc continu'd feven years after his Opinions came abroady and his preaching frequently thro' Different Parts of the Kingdom, were the Means (by God's BlefTing) of Propagating his Honeft Principles among great Multitudes 9 infomuch that in a litilc time there were many who appcar'd Eminently in Defence of Wtch- //jfir's Dodrine ^ of which tak« this fhort Account in the Words oi ipather Fox, who in his Preface, to his Martyrology, fay?, * To defcend now fome what lower in drawing out the Defcent • of tiae Church, What a Multitude here cometh of faithftil Witnef- Tes in the time of John WidUfe, as OsUfe, WickUjfe, Anno 1379. Wil. Thorp. White, Purvey, Fatjhal, Pain, Gorver^ Chaucer: Gafcoyn^ Wtl. Swinderby, Walter Brute^ Roger Dexter, Wil. Sautry, about the y ear \ ^00. John Bxdby,knx\0 \^\o.NichoUs 7 ailor,RichardWagfidjfe, Michael Scrivener, WiHiam Smith, John Hendry, William Parchmenar, Roger Coldfmith, wiihzu knchrt^ik czWtd 2\^athild» m the City of Ltcefier^ Lord Cobham, Sir Rcger A^icn Knight, John Beverly Pre^chtr, John HuJfe,Jerome of Frague, a fcboolmafter with a number of Fakhfvil Bohemians, Thaborites,not to be toId-,with whom ImighC alfo adjoin Laurentius Falla,^ Joannes Picus, the Learn'd £arl of Mirandula. But what do I ftand upon the rccitil of Names, which almojt are infinite ? And the fame Author fubjoins immediately an account of the Progrefs of Wickl'ffeh Doctrine, and brings it dowa to the 1 6th Cen- tury. His Words are thefe, *" Wherefore, if any be fo far beguil'd * in hisOpinion to think the Dodrine of theChurch of RomeCas it now *ilaiidethjtobcof fuchAn»quity,&that the fame was never ijnpugn'd be 74 Chap. 2. The Loyalty ofPreshyterians Part I. the time of Luther and Zvinglim now of late, let them read thefe Hiflorks.- Orifhe think the faid Hiftory not to be of fufficienc Credit to alter his Perfuafion, let him psrufe the J^s and S^atmes • o{ Parliaments pafT'd intnis Realm of Ancient time, and therein ' Confider and Confer the Courfe of Times •, vvhere he may find & ^ read. Anno 5. Regis Richardi 2. in the Year of our Lord, 1380 of a great number fwhich there be call'd Evil Perfons ) going about from Town to Town in Freez.e Gowns, preaching unto the People^ &c. Which Preachers alcho' the \Vords of the Statute do term there to be DifTembling perfons, preaching divers Ser- mon^ containing Herefiesand Notorinus Errors, to the Ernblemi[h' ment of Chnftiun Futh^ and of holy Church, &iQ. as the Wot ds do there pretend 5 yet notwithftanding every true Chrifl-ian reader may conceive of thofe Preachers to teach no other Dodrine, than now tney hear cheir own Preachers in Pulpits preach againft the Bifliop of Rome, and the Corrupt Herefies of his Church. * Furthermore, he (hall find llkeWife in Statnt. anno. 2. Hen.^. Capl 15. insheyear (f >ur Lord 1402. another like Company of good Preachers and faithful Defenders of true Doftrine againfl blind Hcrefy and Error. Whom, albeit the Words of the Statute there, thro' Corruption of that time, do falfiy term to be falfe and per- verfe Preachers^ under dijfembled hohnefs teaching in thofe days openly and privtly new Dotlnnes and Heretical Opinions, contrary to thg Faith & Determination of h9lyChHrch,^z.yQinotvj]th^md\n% who- foever readcch Hiftories, andconferrech the Order and Defcent of timss, fhall underfland thefe to be no falfe Teachers, hut faith- ful ^i^itnefes of the Truth, not teaching any new Doctrines contra- ry to the Determination of /?o/y-Cfe^rcib, but rather Ihall find that Church to be unholy which they preach'd againlt , teaching racher it lelf Heretical Opinions, contrary both to Antiquity and verity of Chrift's true Catholic Church. Of the likenumber alfojor greater, of like faithfuIFavorers&Follow- ers of God's holy Word, wc find in the year 1422. fpecified in a letter fent from Henry Chicheflie Archbifhop oi Canterbury to Pope Martin the 5/^, in the fifth year of his Popedom, where mention is made offo many here in England in/e^ed ( as he faid ^ with the Herefies ot Wtckiiffe and Htifle, that without force of an Army they cou'd notbe fuprejf'd^ S^c. Wlicrcuipon the Pope fent two Cardi- nals Chap. 2; Under §i^en Elizabeth: 75 * nals to the Archbifhop, tc caufe a tenth to be gather'd off all Spi- Pn ri* t * ritual and Religious men and the mony to be laid in the Chamber "•^*' ^' ' ApoHolic, and if that be not fufficient, the Refidue to be made V^VX^ * up of Chalices, Candlefticks, and other Implements of theChurch, ' &c- ' What (hall need then any more witnefs to prove thi? matter, * when you fee fo many years ago whole Armies and Multitudes ' thus Handing againft the Pope ? Who tho' they be term.'d here * for Heretics and Schifmatics, yet in that which ihey call Here- * fy ferv'd they the Living Lord within tfee Ark of his true Spiri- * tual and Vifible Church. • And as Wicklifs and his Tenets werelik'd by great Numbers, ^o there were many men of great Learning, who embrac'd them botii in England and tlfewhere. "^John Hnjfc fhis difciplej wasfofuc- cefsful in maintaining them, as he got the Approbation ot the Univerfity of Trague^ who wouM not condemn the 45 Articles oiWichUf e^ Cenfur'd by the Council of Conflance, And I ihou'd be highly injurious to fuch a Venerable Body, as the llniverlTcy of Oxford^ if I did not here inferi their Teltimonial and Approba- tion of lVicki:ffe^ which runs thus. The {t) Public 7 eflimony given out by the Vnivcrfty of Oxford touching the Commendation of the great Learning and Good Life of JOHN mCKLlBFE. ' Unto all and lingular theChildrcnof our holy Mother tleChiirch, - to whom this prefeni letter fhall come, ihz rice-Chanceflsr of zhe ' Univerfity of OA/or^,with the whole Congregation of the Maflers, wifh * perp«ual health ii theLord. Forfomuch as it is not commonly feen, * That thL Ads and Monuments of Valiant Men, nor the Praifc and * A'ferits of good men fhou'd bepafs'd over and hidden with Perpe- * tual Silence, but that true Report and Fame fhou'd conriaually ' fpread abroad the fame in flrange and far dillanc Places, b/nh for * the IVitnefsof the fame, and example of others j Forfomuch alfo as ' thf Provident Difcrction of man's Nature being recosnpenfiMwith ' Cruelty, hath devis'd and ordain'd this B ickler and Defence a- ! gainft fuch as do blafpkeme 3^ ^ (lander other mens doings, that L X when- (0 Fox'f Martyr, p. 5$^. 7 6 Chap: 2V The Loyalty of Prefbyterkns Part I . whenfoever witnefs by word of Mouth, cannofe be prefcnt, the pen by Writing may fupply the fame. ' Hereupon it followeth, that: the Special good Will and care which wc bare unto John Wic'kl!Jf<:^ fometime child of tMs our Ua- iverfity, and Profeffor of Divinity^ moving and itirrlng our Minds, fashis manners and Conditions required no lefsj with one mind, P^oice and Ttftimony we do witncfs, all his Conditions md dsingx throughout his whole life to have been mcfi fincere and Commendable • . Whole honcft manners and Conditions, Profoundntfs of Learnings and mofl Redolent Renown and Fame,we delire the more.earncfl- ly to be notify'd & known into all the faithful, for that we under* ftand the Maturity and Ripeaefs of his ConverfatioiT;- his diligent labors and travels to lend to the praife of God, the help and fafe- guard of others, and the profit of the Church, . ' Wherefore we fignify unto you by thef e Prefents, that hisCon- verfationCeven from his Youth upwards unto the time of his Death) was fo praife worthy and honefi-, that never at any time was there there any note or Ipotof fufpitian noyf'd of him. But in his ANSWERING, READING, PREACHING and DETER- MINING, he behav'd himfelf Laudably, and as a ftOBft and Va- liani Champion of the Faith ^ yanqui/hing by the force of the Scrip- tures, all fuch, who, by their wilful Beggary, blafphemM and Slan- der'd Chrifts Religion. Neither was this faid Doftor convift of any Herefy, neither burn'd of our Prelates after his Burial* God forbid that our Prelates fliou'd have condemned a man of fuch hQ^ nefty, for an Heretic, Who, smongdall the reft of the llniver- fity, had written in Logic, Philofophy, Divinity, Morality, and the Speculative Art WITHOUT PEER. The knowledge of which all and lingular things we do defire to teftif y and deliver " ' forth ^ , to theiiuent that the Fame and Rfnown of this faid Dodor * Miy be the more evident and had in Reputation, amongfl f- them into whofe hands thofe prefent Letters Teflimonialfhall 1 cQme. In Witnefs whereof, we have cauPd thefe our Letters Teftimonial to be feall'd with our Common Seal. Dated as 0^/^r^ in our Congregation Houfe, the 5^^ day of *««f OUoher^, Under §^een EIi:zabeth: Chap. 2. 7/ OSiol'er^ in the year of our Lord, \^c6. P2,rt I » It Teems that Learn'd Univerfity (in thefe days) thought the Doc- -^^^vj irines concerning the Identity of Bi/hop and Presbyter, Free Prayer V^V^s.^ without a Liturgy,&WorflFp without Human Ceremonies to be hnocewr Opinions. For all the(e were taught and preached amongft 'em by the Revd. WtcWffi^ and yet ihey Certify in moll amp*s Terms, concerning his PrcAchirg and Determining as Laudable with- out Exception. But he had not only the Countenance of men of all Stations, ex- cept the Pope and his Creatures j but was remarkably countenanc'd by God, who by lurprizing Difpenfations of Providence, prelerv'd his Life and evidenc'd his Difpleafure againfl his Enemies.For Rt^hard the 2^,who encourag'd the Perfecutors oiWickUfe and his i^ollowtrs ^ f not like his Grand- father E^ip^ Church, /ind Compel^ (by his Civil Power) Spiritual Perfons to do their duty. IVickliffe's'-fevcntee^^thA'ticfeh full upon ihis Heii, and was de- fended by his Followers in the fecond Difpntation in ^he Univerliiy G^ Prague with admirable Learning and Loyalty. Pox gives us tfee whok'Dirpatatlon,and iatroducf.th it with this Title. ' The (v) Second Dtfputation in the llciiverfity oi Prague CDDn the feventeenth Article oijoh^t WicUiffe^ mo/l fruiE- ful {v) Vol I, p. 595 Under §^ecn Elizabeth. Chap'. 2. 79 ' fultoberead ; proving by four and Twenty ^"-^^^'^^P^l't I ' out of the Scriptures, how that Princes and Lotds rem- * ' poral have U-vful Authority and JnrisMction over the Spin- XJ^^T^J * tualiiya\v\ Conrchmerr^ both in taking from thein.y and Cor- •^ renting their abufes according to their doings and dcfcrt?. I have not met vikh any thw^ in Modern Authors which fays nnrefor jaflifying the Enj^li(l] Refoimation, in taking away the Ahhty-L:inds from thcfe who then poffefs'd them than the Reader will find la that Difpntauon ^ and that advanceth more Lovd Pii'ici- ples to the Grown, than are to be found there. And the Loyalty of Eheir Principles (the lame with the Presby- terians of r/^// and the /or/;2fr age) did produce in them a Dutiful and Loyal Behavior to their Prince ^ cho' they had the misfoitune to be reprci^^nicd by their bloody Enemies, the Papiils, as Difloyd and Seditious: a noted Inftance whereof we have in H^rpsficWs Hif^ toria IVickt^fiana by AUttnns Copies^ who filfly accufeth them of be- ing accefTiiy to the Rebellion of M^ar ttler and Jack Straw and their Accomplices, headed by John Ball an Excommunicated Priefl, a- gainftK. Richard 2. Fuller fp^aking of this Rebellion fays, ' rhefe *• f n? >j11 were fure Levellers (infiam'd by the abus'd Eloquence of one ' John Ballj an Excommunicated PrieftJ who , maintaining, that no ' Gentry was Jure Divmo^ and all equal by Nature, * When Adam delv'd aj^dE^tf^an^ * Who was then the Gentleman ? / *endeavor'dtheabolifhingofallCivil5cSpirituaiDegrees,&difl:in(fl:ions. ' Yea, they defir'd to level mens Parts, as well as their Purfcs ^ and * none fhou'd be either wealthier, or wifer than his Fellows ^ project ' * the General /y^ccK/V of Rebellion and Difloyalty, as their Sue cejfors have been in following Reigns-^ and that Sober, Moderate Epifco- pdl Proteftants have thought, that the Inter.eft of the Gofpel and the Caufe of Truth oblig'd them to defend the innocence ofthofe Wor- thies, who madefoir<«t/r a fland^ for the Purity of Keligion and the Rights of Monarchy and the People, againft Antichriftian Tyranny and Uarknefs •, I mufl not omit the Juft Vindication of them, which Fuller gives us in thefe Words. ' It is no News for the befl; of God's Children, to be llanderM in * this kind. Jeremy * to p^j-(^ j^ J deftroy, and whofe Pallacein the 5/r^«^ they pillag'd. ja>^/'*<% ' 3. Wicklife himfelfcame within the Compafs of their Deflruc- ^^i/r^f^ '■ tive Principles, defigning the Death of all, who wore a pen and ' ink. >^nd, that VVicklTjfe had both pen and ink, Cofe himfclf * doth know, and the Coure o^ Rome, with ihamc and forrow will t confefs. ' 4. Wtdlife liv'd fome years after, and died peaceably poflcfsM ' of the Living of Lutterworth \n Leicefier-fnre, Surely, had he * been reputed the inflamer of this Rebellion, thcWifdomof the t King, and CouDcd, wouM have taken another Order with him. ' 5. Amongft ;he Articles laid to the Charge of Wicklife^ and * his Followers, in this King's Reign, examia'd at Oxford, andelfe- * whet e, not a Title of this Rebellion is prelT'd upon them- Which * their Malicious adverfaries wou'd not have omitted, if in any, t hope to make good thaft accufation a.^ainft them; * 6. Whereas it is charged on Wicklife, that he held, that, Do- * minion wa^ founded in Grace, which occafion'd this Rebellion -, we * know this that /y«/i his fcholar, tho' he did hold, that a King, * being in Mortal Sin, was only call'd a King a^uivoca Dominatioxe-^ * yet the fame Hnfs confeffeth (to ufe his own Words) Ipfum Deum * af^robare htijiifmodi Regem^^ quoad ejfe Frincifttn exterius, Th^t God * hitnfelf alhws fuch a Kwg to he a Prince in all ontward matters. So * thar,, leaving him to Divine Juftice, he never dreamt of any Re- ' SItance, or Rebellion to be made againfl him. ' 7. The Modern Protectants {'heirs, fay the Papifts to WicMife'i ' DcdrineJ fofar abominate thcie lebels their Levelling, and Igno- ' rani Principles, that they are known, both to maintain Diftan- * ces of People, and to have been the reftorers of loft, yea the re- * viversof Dead Learning, and Languages.- How haf^ the Mat be- * matichs meafu^'d their own grave ? Creeh tm'n'd Bar bar ifm] He- * brew Casit readeth) gone backward, never to return again, * had not ProteHant Criticks, with vafl Pains and expencc, pre- * ferved them ? ' 8. It is more fufpicious, that this Rebellion came cut of the * Francifcan Covert •, becaufe fome of thefe, belike t\erc the P.ebels * Wktteboys ^ and (as issforc mention'd ;to be fpar'd in a general 5 Deftruaion. M The rart I. Chap. 2 . The Loyalty of Treshyteriani The Roman Antiehnft rais'd fo violent a Storm of Per fecution againft thole Innocent People ^ that, the' there remain'd fome, even down to the time of K. Henry %. who remerabred Wicklijfes Doftrine with honor,yet its chief Patrons and Defenders were root- ed out, and the Reformation fuppreg'd ^ until K. Henry %. threw off the Pope's Supremacy, and then they began to appear again. But during rW King's Reign, the Reformation was larae, and fo many Popifh Corruptions both in Dodrint and Worfhip re- tain'd, tbat many were then pcrfecutcd, even for the Plain Truths of the Proteftant Religion. But if we defcend to the yetter times of his fon, the good King J.dwArd the 6(h^ the ENGLISH JOSMH ; no fooner were the Sabftantials of the Reformed Religion profelTd, but the Seeds of Nonconformity began to appear \ of which Fuller gives this Aort account, ' For {y) now Non- Conformity in the days of King E/xward * was corcciv'd, which afterwards in the Reign of Queen EUz^abetla * was nurs'd^ and weaned •, which under King James ^rew up a uung ' youth, 9r tall Stripling ^ but towards the End of King Charles his ' Reign, ftiot up to the full /Irength, and flature of a m an ^ able^ * not only to cope with, but Conquer the Hierarchy its adver- t fary. ' Two Oppofitc Parties plainly difcovered themfelves, dri^ t viflg on different Uierells, under their Refpedtive Patrons. Founders of Conformity., Such as remained hernlchres^vfhh John Hoo- * pr^ afterwards Bi/hop of * Glocejler^ were Ring- lea- ! ders of this Party. The fame Author gives a brief Account of the ai^in Argum^ncs on both h'des that were then deliver'd by the Contending Parties for maintaining their fevcral Opinions ^ vvhich I fhall here infert, not with any Delign, to touch the Merits oftke Caufc or dip into the Controverfy between 'em i but only to give an Hiftorical Ac- count of the Progrefsof Non-Conformity, Fro. I. TheOrnimentswcrc In- *i diferent of themfelves,and M 2 Con. i. The befl thing that could ' be fald of them was, that •f 84 Chap. %; The Loyalty of Presbyterians Part I. of Antlenft Church (4) ufe in the 2> Bc'tig enjoynM by law- ' ful Authority, they be- * came necejftry^ not to * Salvation, but to Church- ' Uaity^ and it was fcan* J dalous £0 decline them. 3. It would bring the Papjl *" over to our Church ^ be- *" holding all things by them ' ufed, not totally aboli- * fhcd by a Spirit of Con - ' tradidion, but fome de- ^ cent Correfpondencif s ftiU * moderately continued. 4. It would caft a ftnr on ' the Credit of fuch Bifhop * who formerly had ufed * thofeOrnaraents, as more * Rcmifs in Religion, thaa ' fueh as rcfufcd them. 5.. rhofe who have Sthbhorn * tVilh pretend too often * to tender Cfnfcienees ^ nor * ought a Private Pcrlbnto * ie indulted, with the * Difturbanee of the pub- * lie Uniformity of tke * Church. ■«^ k ' they were ufelefs, being etherwife Ridiculous^ and * Suj^er^itioiis, 1. Cnrfed be he that Removes ' the Bonnd-marh. Grant * them indifferent in them- ^ felves, and left fo by Di- * vine Wifdom, it was ' Prejumption in man to * fiarnp nscejfity upon them. 3. Too much of the Serpent ' nothing of the Dove here- * in, to cjfendthtfe within^ ta ' invite tkofe without to> * the Church, driving Vro* ' tefiants thence to drm [ Papifis thither. 4. The Credits of fome goo3 * men were not to be pre- * ferved, by defiroying the ^ Confstene esoi other Si 5, Hoofer put himfHf lipoil ' the Trial of the Searther * of Hearts^ that no Oblli- ' -nacy but meet Confcience * made him refofe thofe Or- t nam«ats. ( * ly fctdowPion both fides. Poftericy in this Mutter having difco- ' ver'd no new MV;f,buE only Refined, wha^ formerly was fcund * out in this Contrcverfy. The fame Author informs us, that thtre was a Totem ?arty in this K'n;?'s Reign difc--jfe[led to the Liturgy^ which tiovo began to be veryConfi- derable tn Engh^'d b). Thefe EngliJJ} Puritans in this King's Reignbehav'd 'emfelves with that D^'ifiddni L^yal Jjfe^ion to His Majefty ti»32 v^e c^op/t find any thiiq; of DiflDyalty laid to their Charg e. The King ard Govern- ment fliow'd greatModeration to thena ; He wrote to the Archbi- fiiop in flivcr of Hooptr, and indulged his Scruples qbont the' Veft- went«;as may be feen in Yuller{€\ who givss us the Copy of his Letter, in thefe Words j ' Right Reverend Father, and Right Trufly, and Wclbeloved, * We greet you well. Whereas we by the Advice of our Coun- * cil, have called and chofen Our Right Well-beloved, and vVtll- * Worthy Mr. John Hooper^ ProfcfTjt of Oivinicy, to be our Bifliop * of Glocefier^ as well for his great Learning, Deep Judgment * and long Study, both in the Scriptures and ether Profound Lear- ' ning 'j as aifo for hia good Difcretion, ready Utterance and * feoii eft; Life forihat kind of Vocation, &:c. Frcm Coftfecrating of f whom We under ftand yoH do ftay, becaufe he would have you o- * nrtt, snA'tit'pafscfrtain'RiresahliVe'r'emuiefoffenfive totjisCdhlcicnce"^" * whereby you ihink you fhould fall in Prxmunire of Laws : We * have thought good by Advice aforefaid, todifpenfe and difcharge * you of all manner of Dangers, Penalties-, & Forfeitures you (hould *• run into,and be in any manner of way,byoTiitting any of the fame. *^ And thefe our Letters ftall be your fufficient Warrant, and Dif- 9 charge therefore. Given under our Signet, at our Caflle ©f Windfir^ the fourth ysar of our Reign. Martin $0 Id, PH, p. 4»^'i(0 P« 4®3''^ o6 Chap. 2; The Loyalty of Trefhytericins Part I '^^^'''^ Bitcerz{\6i PeierMdrtyy were encoura^M,and tntertainM InEngZ /*N/^ ^'^w^j tho'they were of the famcjudgment with theEngHJIj Puritans.And s^^^rSJ tjie famous John J Lafce a Pdonlan with a Congregation oiGermans of the Helvetian Confejfion^ had great Marks of Regal Favour placed iiponthem.They were Refugees in England^hew^ banifh'd from their own Countiy for their Zealous ProftfRon of the Proteftanii Religi- on. John jftUfco one of the Miniflers, and Suferintendent of that Con- gregation, was a keen Non-Ccnformiftj as may be feenby his Books: tor he wrote againfl the Habits, and againfl: kneeling at the Sacra- ment ^ and was for the Table-Geflure. He and the other Mini- /lers of shat Congregation praftif'd their own Difcipline, which was truly Presbyterian . And the faid Minifters and Congregation were trected into a Corporation, by Letters Patents, with fnli Liberty t^ Dijfent from the Eftablifh'd Church, in Government, Difcipline and Iforpjip : And becaufe this matter can't be fet in a true light without the Recital of fome Part fat leaftj of the faid Letters ^ 1 fhall prefenfi the Reader with a TranflaSion of the Preamble and Conclufion there- of, and fet it down in the Original Latine, at the bottom of the page. * Edward (d) t! € 6th &c.we being Ipecially induc'd from great and ' Weighty Confiderations ; and particularly having at heart how • mnch it becomes Chjjfiian Princes to be highly animated with a *• ftudious care and love of the Gofpel of God and the y^pofioUcal * Religion begun, inftituted and deliver'd by Ghriit himfelfj witk- GUfi (d) vide Burnet's ii\&. of the Refjrmacion, Coll^ft. Record. Book i. p. 2029 ' Edwardus Sextus &c. Cum magnse quaedair & graves Conliderationes nosad * prefensfpecialiter impuleruntj turn etiam Cogitantes illud, quanto Studio & * Charitate Chriftianos Principes in Sacrofanftum Dei Evangelium & Religionem * Apoitolicam abipfo Chrifto iachoatam, inftitutam & traditaoi, animatos & pro- * pettfoseffe conveniat, line qua haud dubie F6litia& civile Regnum necconfifte- ' re diu, nrq ; nomen fuum tu^ripoteft, nifi Principes, cxLeriq ; prypotentes vi- * d, qaos DeiJs ad Regnorum Gubernacula federe voluit, id in primis operain dent * ut per totum Reipub. Corpus, cafta finceraq, Religiodiffundatur,& Ecclefia in * t'ere Chriftianis& Apoftolieis Opinionibus& Ritibus inftituta, atq , adulta pel" * fanclos ac carni & iriHndo MortHos MiniftrQS cojifervetur ; pro eo quod *^CI-rirtiani Principis Officium ftacuimus, inter alias fuas gravillimas dn<; a?iH Rirpc F^ •'Viaf thp-\i h.ctA ntir** P^ llni^nr.. iplii ^, if he had believ'd the contrary, the Patent wou'd have bee;) incon- fiftent with icfelf and grounded upon a Confideration thqt was falfe as to theai, and confequently impertinent. Befides, he fpcaks of his T>t{\gn X\\\\s^That tbere might be an incortupted hterp' e-ation of the Gofpcl^ and an Admtmflration of the Sacraments according to theWord of God and Jpoflclical Ohfervation \ which diews that he believ'd b^th thei*- Dodrineand Worfhip to be pure and Apoftolical, and thae they had faithful Miniftcrs. And therefore ic mufl be own'd that King£^iF^?'<^(5f^, iiiftead of finding fault with them as Difloyal or Seditious, gives an Ample and Honorable Teftimony in favour of N their * tibus& AlderraanisCivitatis noftrse Londtnenfis (between the 2afl memioned [Voris- V of this Patent ivd vjhit fellows^ ^okn a, Lajco^in hisjrrnfmpt of it, infer ts thsfe Words * Epifcopo Londonenfj) & Suctefferibus fuis, cum omnibus aliis Arcbiepifcopis, * Epilcopis, J ifticuriis, Officiirjis & Miniftris Roftris quibufcupq;, quod per- * mittaut ptaeFatis, Superinrtndenti ^ Miuiftris, k fua, fuos lib^i-reSc quiete frui, * gaadt-re, uci,& exercci e Ritub & Caeremcnias fuas proprias, & Difciplinam Ecck- % fiafticam prtpviam&peculiarem, non obftantc ^uod non conveniantcum Ricibus; * 8c Catremon.ii in Regno ho(^io ofitatis, abfq^ impeditione, perturbitione aut In- * quietatiope eorurn veleorutn alicujus, aljquo Statute, aftu, Piuclamafiuve, * lr.jun£tione,R ^riaio?ie,ieu iifu incon:rarJum iudeantehilCWbitis, faftis, editis, J ftu promulgaui wc^i^turium livii obfitotijuus. 5)o Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Preshytevians pi. J their Orthodoxy, Chiirch-Conftitution ^ and the Gofpel Purity of |,a.lC 1. their Worfhip. L/^y^O The Defigd of King Edward 6th, in giving fnch gre^t Encourage- ment to thtfe Gertran Divines, is a Den^onftiation of his preferring I heir Principles and VVorlhip before thefeof the Church of England it fclf ; vvhxh will appear, by confidering what this Defign was, and what Plan theyhad laid down for the Accomplifliment of it. This is fully and pliinly reprefented to us by a L'ifco in hii Book, DeOrdina- tione Ec(lejUrH7n ferfgrinariim in v^»g//^, printed Anno I555,whichbe dedicates to 5,^ jy>;2/pus rem omnibus modispromoveret; nan deerant tamen qui id molefte ferrcnt ade- oque & reluctaturi fuerint liuic inftituto Reg,io, nili Rf^x 'pfe, non tantuni Authoritate fu^ reftitiffet ; fed produ£l;s eriam inftituti hujus rationibus cucatus eorum reprefiiffet. Conceflis iiaque Peregrincrum EGclefiis, & quidem ea kge feu libertate potius, utin iSlis omnia juxta Deft. inam atque Obrrvatio- ' licm Apoftolicam inftituercntur ; curaillarusi mihi (Rt 2,1,1 & bcHatusAutho- ritatej. 92 Chap, t The Loyalty of Trefhyteriam Pirf f ' to their own UberEy,without any Prejudices. The faithfulnefs of X ai L I . t ^YsQ Miniflry with vvhic'i we are entruflcd for thofe ends, requirM CyV*^ ^ this at our hands; Seeing the Care of our Church was committed * to us chiefly with this Ftew^ that in the Miniftrations therein, we ' fh-)uM rather jollovf the Rule of God's Word and the Pra^ice of the A- ' fcfJes^ than ar^y Rites of other Churches-^ and were admoniHl'd by the ' King himfelf and his Chief Nobility, to make a right and faithful ' ufe ot To great a liberty of our Miniflry as was permitted us ; noE ' to pleale men, but for the Gbry of God sAonz^hffromoting Re- ' formation in the IVorJJnp of Cod: And that we fhou'd takecare,thaE * our Adverfaries (who wou'd be many) ihou'd non find anything * in us, that mighE afford them a jull ground of accuflng us. The Credit of this piece of Hiftory is fupported by mort; Con- vincing Circumfcances. For xB^John a Lajco had it from theking's own mouth and thofe of his chief Nobility ; he does not tell a Story of matters that happened out of his ov7n time, and that were remote from his own knowledge : in fuch things men may be impos'd upoa by Credulity in themfelves, and Mfinformation from others ; but ia this cafe there was no fear of either. 2^//, He hath from the King and Council (in the Patent) theCha- rattler of being, homo fropter Integritatem & himcentiam vita &merHm^ at fingularem Eriiditione?n valde Celebris, i, e, A man very famous for the hi' * ritate; committebatur. Jubebarque mihl Collegas afcifcere quos ei minifterio * aptiifimoseffe indicarem : ut illorum nomina llegio Diplomat! infererentur ^ CONos nequecontemptu ullo aliarum Ecclefiarumffcr quas nos aiioqui indivi- * noruinCognitione profec;ffi, ingenue & libenter agnofciraus neque item ullo * novap.jji qurdquam ftudio egiflTe quidquidhujus egimas; fedpotius Id eonatos * cff?, ut fublatis oi-anib'js anti ChrliVi.iniS Novationibus (quod'ejus fieri poflVt) * ad prii'cam iliam primEevse Ecclefix Apoftolicas puritatemqaara proxime accede- S remus, permiffa interim aliis EccI efiis, fua (bacin parte) libertate, & fine * prxjudiciis ulU<;. Ad b?ec fidem ipfam coacrediti nobis Minifterii id poftalaffe: * cum hac porifTimum rdtione cur? nobis noftre Ecclefias .committeretur, ut in * illniis Minifterio, non tani equidem aliarum Ecclefiarum ritus ullos, quam * Verb! Divini lllegulani potiui atque Apoftolicam Obfervationeni fequereraur. '* Demique cum& a Rege iplb, &apr2ecipuis fuis Proceribus fubinde moneremur^ * ut permilTa nobis tanta libertate in noftro minifterio, refte, & fideliter, non in * hominum gratiam u'.Iam, f-d ad Del foiius Gloriam (per Cultus ipfius Re- * P'jrgationem) uteremur. Et caveremus, ne quid in nobis a noftri^ Adverfa- '* riis^quos equkie m multos kaberemus) accafari merito foflet, .aliis Uncler '^^cen Eih^hcth. Chap^ 2: 9^ Inte£rity&1}inoctT]ceof hisLife and ConverfatioK,^Ar.d for Singular Learning, pa rf T Now, if he fiid all poflible Opportunities of knowing chc Truth of /fv/«s^ what h« relates, Judgment to apprehend it, and Honefty and Intc- ^-^^T^** grity to give it faithfully without a Wilful Deviation from the Truth ^ his Hiftory challengeth all the Efteem and Credit, that can be due to an human Tellimony : which will yet further appear, if we •confider, 3^/)/, That he did not delay the Publicatioa of this Narrative, un- til the Story became Stale, and the Means of Conviding him of falle- hood ("had there been any in if J were lofl : But he publiiheth this Concert between the king, the Council and him, within* or ae molfc 5 years^ after the affair was tranfaded .• by which means, all his Enemies had the faireft Opportunity imagiaable of difcovering the error of what he aflcrted, had they been able to do it. ■^hly^ There are leveral Expreflions in the King's Letters Patents, which confirm A Lafco\ Narrative •, for the King propofeih to have fi4re and Vnaorru^ted Religion dijfus'd thro"* thr rrhole Body of the Com- monvpealth^ and to have a Church it'jlrti^ed in truly Chriftian and j^pef- tclicd Opinions anA Rites ^ this was his very Vhvt in the Preamble of the Patent, and agrees very well with the PLAN OF REFORMA- TION laid down by that'Excellent Prince, as ALafco explains it - and what farther confirms it is, ' 5f^/y, That the king in Purfuance of his Refolution comrauni» cated to A L^fco^ fills to work and makes Gradual attempts towards Z farther reformation of the Churc^ both in Difcijline and Worfhip : For tht latter^ theie ccm^s ouc afccond Edition of the Liturgy^many Popifh Corruptions concainM in the lirfl were left out of this- A CommilTioii waspreffutly fet onfoot to 32 CommifTioncrs to pre- pare a 6cheme oj Ch'.rc'hD fcifline-j whereof 8 Were nominated to prepare the Dr.iught foi the lefl, which they did : and John a Lafco was nam'd as one of the 32. (kj The work was perfected and call'd Refer matio Legum Ecclefiafiicarnm 5 But the k'l^g died before it obtained the Civil Sandion, and the Work died with him. How- ever, 'tis evident that it went much farther towards a Reformatioa in D'lfcipline than any thing, that has been enadcd fincc in theChurcfa of ^) vidiSumi's Hift. of the Reformation Pm 2, BooJu.i), 197, 94 Chap. 2 ; The Loyalty oj Trefhyterians Part !•* ^^ ^^gl^^d' And it mnkes ic rslain, tliat the kin^ had a mind t3^ . did Right or wrong in iayiig this Scheme for perfeding the Re- formation of the Church of England: For that wou'd directly en- gage me in the CoLtroverfy about Church-Government, Ceremo- nies and Liturgies. But fo far its fubfervient to my prefent purpofe, as to be a Dcmonftrativc Evidence oihisfenfe of the Loyalty of Pres- hyterians : y^nd that his Miniftry and Council concurr'd in Opinion with him, is a farther P/oafoi the duii'iil and Loyal behavior of thaE People. God having pnnifh'd an Uiworthy People with the Death of thife Religious and Excellent Prince, the Wonder of his Jge \ Popery became agaiii the Eflablilh'd Religion in £;7^//««<^ under his Siller and Succef- Ibr Q. Mary^ by whom Proteftantsof all Perfuafions were feverely perfecuted. During her Reign the F^n^LJlj Exiles ai Fra^cford fes up a Congregation, wherein they f .v.^5?// pr^tf /V botii the Prejbyter- ian DifcifUne and Worfiip. Upon the Death of Q; Mary (which was as great a Blefling to the NaMon, as the Death of K E:Vn?<«r^6ffe was a Curfe and an heavy Affliction) Q, Eliz, b'th\h^ppy AccefTion to the Crown open'd a D^or for the Return ofthefe Exiles ; and the Proteftant Religion was Re-eftablirnM. Pi oteftaut Non-Conformty made a Confiderable Progrefj duriui; her Reign-, and I hope to make it appear that the fttritans in her lime, tho' tney h id the Miffortuneto be treated with great Seventy by her, were her faithtul and Loyal Subjeds.- Under §^een Elizabeth. Chap. 2. 9$ 'And here I \^ill examine what our Author has faid to the Con- Pcit-f* T* trary. ^^m He begins hisv^jcouit of theirRehavior wish tlvsM'^ky App-nattu p 7. U^v*^^ * I will now proceed to fhow how far tteir Anions have been Con- ' formable to their Principles in all Turns of Government, and will * asmnch aspoffible, confine mylclftothe very Words aad Senti- ' ments of moft of the Queen's Royal Predeceflbrs in Relation to * them, whereby you may judge what fenfe they had of their ' Vntainted Loyalty to them in their Refpcdive Reigns. Seeing our Author has diftinguifhM between the Principles and practices of Prfj&^rfn4«.f,&accordingIy treats 'cm, it might have bee* expcfted that they fhouM not be confounded and intermixt in this latter Part of his Eflay, as fometimes they are •, but efpccially, feeing he brings in Evidences to prove 'em j and therefore let the Reader obferve, That no Man's Teftimony whatfoever is fuificient Evidence for condemning any Principle in Religio.i upon : for doing whereof Divine Teftimony and Sound Reafon is the only fuiEciens Ground. Indeed in Matters of Faft, good and Unexceptionable Witneflcs are to be admitted. Rul if the Presbyterians fhou'd alledge, that fome of the Qiieen'sRoyal Predeceflorsand theirPrime Favorites by w'nom they were influcnc'd were Perfecutors of the Diffenters^ to the pablic Prejudice oi Religion znd Liberty^ they lay no more thai what the heji States-rne*t^greatefi Patriots, M.o^I'nfartidHi(lorims^^\\\e Ablrfi Di^ 'Vines of theModerate Cenformifis have scknowltdg'd. And therefore lett the Reader judge, whether fuch TeHimonies be Conclufive. I am forry that otir Author Ihou'd have To little Regard to the Memory of fome of thofe ?i inces, as to raife a Difturbance to x\\e\xKoyd Aflies^ and oblige men inevitably in their own Defence to mention lome of thofe Dark Shades, with which their Pictures are drawn in the Public Records of Hiftory. This is a Tafk I ffiou'd altogether decline,werc it not, that thofe Miflakes of the Court have been already hid open by thofe whole Zeal for the Church oiEv^Und is pift all Qiieflion ^ and that fuch Hiftorical Dlfcoveries have the Royal Coiintenance of a very great and Impartial Judge, namely the late Queen M^'joi Glorious Memory, who * When Refledions were once mite before • her, of the Sharpnefs of fome Hiftorians, who had left heavy Im- l putations ofl the Mejnory of fome Princes : She anfwer'd, That if thofe ^6 Chap; 2^ Tide Loyal cj ofVreshyteriaas p ^ T ' thofe Trirces were truly fHch as the Hijforlats Reprefented the^i, they XcilL 1. ^ ]r,;i(l^ell defer-j'd that Treatment : And othtrs who tread their fieps {y^^^^Sj ' fjiiip lookfor thtfame i,jorTr({thrvoii^d betold atUft. And that with ' the mors AcrimoTiy $( Stiie^ for bein^ folm^ Refira>:!^d. h w^f a Gentle *' Sufering te he exp Tdto the iVorldin thrirtrne Colour s^ much keloiv ' what others haifuffr^d at their Hands (/'. Vm fure no man h chargeable with the Sin oi fftakina evil of Dig- nities ^mctxly for giving a jaft accouit of the Male-ALdminiftratioas of Princes, when the Caufe of lanocence and Truth requires it: with this Caution, I (hill confider his Proof. ' To begin (fiys he p. 7. ) ' with Qiieen Elizabeth We find in her Speech to the Parliament ' Anno RegniVecimo feptimo^fhc fays,That the Furisans are DangeroHs *• to Kingly Rule^ every man according to his own Cenfure making doom of *" theValidity or Pravity of his Prince's Government^with a Common Vail ' and Cover ofGod^' Word. If we examinethe Reafons which induc'd Q^^m'EUz.aheth to have this Opinion of the Pnritans^fie may coHect ihera from the following Paflages, taken from three Hiftorians, who are all above the lealt fiifpicion of Partiality in their Favors. The firfl is Bp Burnet^ who ijS the Prefase to the id. Volume of his Hifiroy of the Reformation^ fays , *■ There were many Learn'd and Pious Divines in the beginning of * QvittnEli7^aheth'*i Reign, who being driven beyond fea had obferv'd ' the New Models fet up in Geneva^ and other places, for the Cen- * luring of Scandalous Perfons,of mixed Judicatories of the Minifters ^ and Laity^ and thefe reflefting on the great Looftnefs of Life * whish had becnHniverfally Complain'd of in /Cing Edward^ tiine^ * thought fuch a Platform might be an Effectual way for keeping ouk * a return of the like Diforders. There virere alfo fome few Rites * referv'd \n this Church, that had been either ufed in the Primitive * Church, or tho' brought i.a of later time, yet feeraed of excellent * ufe to beget reverence in Holy Performances. — — Yet thefe ^ Divines Excepted to thefe as Compjyances with Pfpery^ ' '>i ^ Thofe of the Z>m//^» finding th.y could n(*carry iheir main Ekfign,^ * raird all the Clamors they cou'd againftthe Charchmcn y and putt ia (D.Bi^ms ^ffay 9;! the Meipory of Queea M^f^^^ji^, bjM. ' Under §^en Elizabeth Chap. 2. py ^ in Bills inco tlie Parliament againft the abufes of Tlnrnlitiss^ Ntfti-'D^Yf j ■ ' Ktfidences^ and the Exccfies of the Spiritual Courtf. But the Qiiecn * beingPOSSESS'D with thisi,that the Parliamems medling intkofs mat- CfO/%e? ' ters tendedto thelejfenivg o/HELl AUTHORITY, of which fhe vvas ^ ^ EXTREMELY SENSIBLE, got all thofe Bills to be thrown out; * *' If the Abuies that gavefiJch Occafion to the Malc-:ontentcd to ' Complain, had been effcftua^ly redrefs'd,tbat Party muft have had ' little to v/ork on ^ But thtfe thivgsfurniflj'd them with new Corr.m ' f I aims ft ill. After he has been ftaungf^* /?///; Prejudice againd the Reform.ztitjff^ he brings in she Latter Part of the Objedion thus^ ' There are befides * this a great many other abufes, brought in in the worfttimes and ' now purg'd out of fome of the Churches of the Roman Communion, ^ which yes continue and are too much in ufc among us, fuch as P/w- * ralities^ Non-refidences^ and other things of that nature : {o that it may ' be faid, that fome of the manifeft Corruptions of Popery, where they ' are recommended by the Advantages that accompany them, are not * throughly purged out'.) notwithftanding all the noif: we have made ' about Preformation in matters much more difpucablCjand of far lefs ' Confequence. * This whole Objedion, whsn 3llacknowledg'd,as the greatefiFan » of it can\ he den-fd^ amounts indeed to this •, that our Reformation ' is NOT YET ARRIV'D at that full Perfedion^ t\^2iiist9he de- * /rV. The want of public Pcnnance, and Penitentiary Canons is ' indeed a very great Defed .- Our Church does not deny it, buE ' acknowledges it in the Pr-f/tfctf to the Office of Commination. It *-wasoneof the greatefl: Glories of the Primitive Church, that they ' were fo govcrn'd, that none of their number cou'd fin openly * without public Cenfure and a long Separation trom the holy Com- ' munlon ^ which they judgM was defiTd by a Piomifcuous Admit- * tifig of all perfons to it. , *' It wilJ appear in the followins; Work, that a Plat- ' form was made of an ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE, tho' the * Bifhops had no hope of reducing it to Pradlce, lill the King fliou'd 'come to be c^-Age, and pafs a Z>aw for the Aiuhorizing of it .- but ' he dying before this was effected, hwas not profecnted with thafi '.Zeal that the thing required in Queen ^/i^i^^r/?'s time. O lii pS Chap; 2. The Loyalty of Treshyterims^^-, Pcirt I, In his Hi^ory of the Reformation (w) he fays, ' The Qiieen had ^^^ * ' been bred up from her Infancy with a hatred of the Papacy, and %y>ryj '• a love to the Pveforraation ; But yet as her firfl Imprefl'ions in her ' Father's Reign were in favor oifuch Old Rites as he hadflill retain'd'^- ' io in her own Nature Ihe lov'd S^ate and fome M^.finificence. in Reli- gion,as well as in everything elie. She thought in her Brother's* '- Reign they had (Iript it too much of external Ornaments, and ' had made their Dodrine too narrow in fome Points, therefore fhe * intended to have fame things explain'd in more general Terms,thac * fo all Parties might be comprehended by them. She inclin'd ro ' htf lip Images in Churches .• And to have the manner of Chrift's ' Preience in the Sacrament left in fome General Words, that thoft ^ who belie v'd the Corporal Prefeuc® might not be driven a way from ' the Church by too nice an Explanation of id. The fameAuthor in his Letters («) fays, , By theLettersC/?*? means oj ' enrRcformres toBuUmger j of which I read the OriginalSjin appears ' that the Bifhops preferved the Ancient Habits rather in Complyancs * wish theQ//^.'«'s//7c/f;?^A/:i7?;jthaacHtofany likeing they had to them-,r6 * far w«re they from liking them, that they plainly ^.v^r^/}'/^ their DifUke *• of them. Jervtl in a Letter Feb. 8. i$66. wifhes that the Vcftments ' togftherwith all the other Remnants of Popery ^might be thrown both- ; cat of theirChurches,and out of the Minds of the People,& laments * the Qjieen^s Fixecnefs to then'ijfo that {lie wou'd fuffer noChange to ' be made. And Januayy i %66. Sands writes to the fame Purpofe, ' ConttnditHr de f^efiihus Papiflicts utendis '^ dabit Dens his quoque finem ' Horn., luly i6. i$6^. writes of the Ad concerning Habits with ' GREAT REGRATE, andexprefles fome hopes that it might be '' Repeal'd next Seffion of Parliament, if the Popi^ Party did not hinder *■ it andhsfeenas toflandin doubt, whether he fhou'd conform ' hfrafelf to it or not,upon which he defires BuUinger'^s Advice. And * in many Letters wrote on the Subjed it is afrerted,That both Cran- ' mer and Ridley intended to procure an A^ for abolijhing the Habits '- &c. G"riW^/ Auguft 27. I $65 writes that all the BiOiops who ' had been beyond Sea^h^d at their Return dealt with the Qjieen to let ' the matter of the Habits fall .• but fhe was SO PRgPOSSESS'D, that (w; part 2. Book 3. p. 376. (»; j?, 4^. i^s. Under §^en Elizabeth Chap. 2. < '* that tho' they had all endeavor'd to divert her from proftcnting Pov/- ' themiticr, (hs continu'd STILL INFLEXIBLE. This .had * "^^^ * n-iadc them to refolvc to fubmit to the Laws, and to wait lor a fit ' Opportunity to reverft them. The fame Learn'd Author, in his Sermon before the Honfe o^ CQiXiiWOir^J an nary.^ 1688 on P/. 144. t/fr. 15. gives us a Piece of Hi/lory, which will give farther light in this matter, " H^xq ^^i- fer me to tell yoii(y^;/j /;f^ that in the beginning cf Queen EHz,.^.- hfih^s Reign, our Adverfaries ff^^ P-i/'/^j) faw no hopes of Re- triveing their Affiirs, which had been fpoiled by Q.. Mxry\ Per- fecutioii, busby fe t ting on foot Dji^?/?cwj Among Vrete^mts^ upon very inconllderaale matters. I my felf have ken the Letters of the Chiff Bifjops of that lime^ from which it appears that the QIIEEN'S STIFNESS in maintaining fome Ceremonies flowed do2 from their Counf?ls,but from the pradlces of fome difgaifed Vapifts. And I have faad in my hands the Original JourncI of the Lower Howfeof Convocition in the 5.^^ yearof that Glorious Reign, is which the matter of the Ceremonies was firllargu'd, and v/hea iii came to the Vote, it was carried by the greater Number of the Voices of the Members that were prefene TO LAY DOWN ALL THESE SUBJECTS OF CONTEST; Bui the Proxies turn'd it to the feverer fide. The fecond is Dr. Hiylin^ v;ho fpeaking of Qiieen 0'>:<«^?f.'^, fays,' with refpcd to the book of Common-prayer eftablifh'd by her ' Theie was great care taken for expunging fuch PafTages in it, as migh: giv&anyfcandal oy Offence to the Popiflj Party, or be urg'd by them in excufe for their not coming to the Church*- — In the Litany firft made and publifh'd by King Henry Zth^ and afterwards conti- nu'd in the two Liturgies ot K. Edrvard 6. there WSS ^//f from the See o{\Vorcejler to that oi Canterbury^ Re- prefents Q,. Eliz,abeth\ Inftrutftions to him in thefe Words, ' Himfo) * TheQueen Cwho,as in Civil Matters,fo alfo in the LawsEcclefiaRl- * calwas of Opinion that no loofe Remiffnefs was to be ufed, j gave iir ' Charge, thas he fhould take fpecial Care to leftore the i^ifci- * pline of the Church oiEnglmd^ and the Uniformity in the Service ' of God eflablifliM by Authority of Pjrliament j which thro' the ' Connivance of the Prelates^ the Obllinaey of the Puritans^ and the '■Power of fome Noblemen^ was run out of fqiiare ^" Whitgift^ in Pur- fuance of thefe Inflruftions urg'd upon the Minilters a Subfcription 10 r/jr^f Articles, the /^(Tijw^ whereof was in thefe Words, That the B^ok of Common- Prayer and another Book of Ordaining Bijhops and Priefis containtd nothing in them, contrary to Gods Word^but might lawfully be ufedi, (0) Cambte Hift; ofQ; Elizabeth Booli 3* P« ^^S. Under §lueen Elizabeth. Chap. 2; lOt itfed'^ and that they Jl)Ohld i^fe thi^t^ and no other Formy either of?i-/fyer^T)^..L. i>r Admin'i(trAtion of tie Sacraments. Upon which than Auclinr makes ®^ this Reflexion, ' Bv Occafion hereof wr^a'/WMC is what CONTRO- L/'VXi- ' VERSIES ai^dDiSPU FAT JONS arofe-^ — From tiigfe Paifi^es 'tis ealy to derermine, what were the CiVifcs of Qace.i Ey^abcth'^s bad Opinion of the ?uritaiS' 1 hey thought the Reformation in her time was rf^/y DEFECFIVE, and you fee Dr. Burnet freely confejfeth the fame : Nay theythought that in fome Points things were made worf« by her, and fome things reform'd byherBro- therKing ZVir^sr^, reduced to the Old ?cp fj Cii[i:oms ag3in,which tlie above Hijflorians Confirm. That good King was for a P/.<« of £c-- cUfiaftical Difcipline^ which fhe would not fuflernor ef^ablifh ; and for want whereof many ^bufcs were retained Sz encreas'd in the Church, and all this wasregrated by the PuritanF, and was what they ftiil fought to be reform'd. v^nd you fee the mofl Learn'd and Pious Bifhopsin her time Joyn'd with the Puritans, lamentine the Qiieen's FIXEDNESS, and that flie was fo PREPOSSESS'D and INFLEXIBLE. She was fo great a lover of 5tate and Magnificence in Religion and iii every thing elfe, that fhe could not bear to be contradicted in any thing, which her Natural Temper was fond of^and flie was {oExtreme- ly jealous of hcv own Authority^ that file w»)u'd not f^iffcr die Pailia* ment to reform the Abufes of the Spiritual Courts, NonReftdcr.ce^ Pluralities. &:c. Now, I would gladly know whether Q: Eli:iabethwci^not tooj.:a* Icm of heroir« Af^thorjry^and too fearful of its bciig dimir.ifli'd,whea fhe carried it fo high, as to hinder the NecffTiryReformation of PW'- fahleAhnfes in the Church .? Wherein could that diminifli her Autho- rity in the leafl .'• and if fhe was mifJaken in this Pcinf, why mi^hE not her opinion of Puritans being Enemies to Kingly Rule be grounded • upon the like miflake ? Wert they any further Enemies to Kingly GovfrriHient, than by prefTmg tor a farther Reformation of the Church ? vf^nd were nor all ihofe Worthy Prelates and other Grea^ Ones who jayned with them, as much Enemies to Kingl) Government: as they ^ that is, in Truth no Enemies to it at all. Her flopping the Reformation of Abufes in the Church gave jii/l ground for continual Complaints and Petitions^ and yee fbe ftill found fault with thofe Complaints, as levdl'd againft her y^uthoricy • whereas 1 02 Chap. 2: The Loyalty ofPreJbyterians Part* T ^^^^^^^sthey were only leveli'd againfl thofe Corruptions, which ha€ ^ ^ * too much Countenance from her^againft the Inclinations and declared i/VNJ Opinion of all the Moderate Clergy. That Glorious Princefs vvas very hearty and Zealous in promoting every ftep of the Reformation that was agreeable to her own Inclina- tions , for which her Memory will be tranfmitted to late Pofterity with the Uaiverfil applaufc ofall goodProteflants; but in Tome 0- ther Points, 'tis plain that our Reformers had a Mind ^0 hay-e gone much firLher,but for want of her Concurrence their Endeavors were fruflrated \ which was ^o great a Misfortune to England^ that fmolt prohablyj it has been the Caufe of ail the Unhappy Divifions and Animoileies among Erglifij Proteftants from that time to this. For un- til that Fatal Charge given by She Queen to Whitgift^ anno 1 583 ^ The Prelates generally and the other Clergy, had fo good an Underftand- ingamonfzft themfelves, fhat they bore with one another-^ and the Terms ofConformity were ji'^t rigorouflyVrg'd.WhatParts of theCom- tnon-Prayer were againfl the Gonfciences of Men, and were likely to divide the Church, and catife a Separation, were let alone-, and the ■^Ceremonies left indifferent, and no prefling of Minilters to Subfcrip- tions and declarations with refpeftto thofe Points; and this is vj\\iiCamhdcn calls theConnivance of Pr^/^/ a, which fo much diflurb'd the Qiieen. Now is it to be imagin'd,butthat Clergy who by their Mutual Moderation continu'd incorporated into one Church and Communion for f3 many years, wou'd have fallen upon fach a healing Scheme^ as wou'd have prevented all the unhappy Differences which have fince follow'd, if dieQiieen had heartily concurr'd with 'em. But inflead of that, IVKitgift by herOrders, carry'd matters fo high, thatMuldtudes of faithful^ Learn'' d ^Lahoyioiis Minifiers v/ere filenc'd and Grievoully perfecuted for Non-fubfcription to his New Arii- clcs,prefs'd without Authority either o^ Parliament ov Convocatign'fWhllQ In niany places a fcandalous Unqualify'd Miniftry who Conformed •to his v4rticles were kept ii their Peaceable PoffefTion. ^nd here- upon Multitudes of Families were ruin'd bylniprifonme;nt,andBanilli- mcntand other Severities. The perr;cudngRigor and VlokncGo£lVhitgift^ and the Leyal ^nd Seaceahle iith?.viov of thoTe Puritans fo cruelly harafs'd by him, is a:ceftcd by the gre.ueft SuteilnenGf lint Age, and particuhrly by the Under §l^en Elizabeth. Chap; 2) 103 the Celebrated Lord Treafurer BnrUtgh, who in one of his Letters Vg^^i I « upon that Sul.jedt to the Archbifhop 5(r/?r. 17. i5S4fays, ' 1 (p) Tee ^.. » ° ' fuch VVorldlinersin many who were cr^.wrF^/i' afilc^ed before they L/>^^=' ' came to C^/k'^V^/ Churches, tlullk^r thcl^laces alter the mcn^^n& ' herdn I condemn not all .- but few there be that do beiter being ' Bij}jofs^ than being Preachers they did '^ — by your Order, ' poor fimple men, have rather hztn foKght for by hiquifition to befouud ' Offenders, than Upon their fads condemn'd. In another letter to WiJiwft dited July 5^'; 15S4. The Time Noble Lord fays, ' (q) * k May pleafc your Grace, I am forry to trouble you fo often as I ' do, but I am more troubled my felf, not only with many private Petitions of//.';;^y^ Mwijlers recommended for perfons of Credit^ &for ^sfi.ccMe ^ti^om in theirMini(try,&yetbyComplaintsto your Grace^&other yourCollegues inCommi0ion^rf<2//)'f?-(^;/^'/;7/«rf^, and thereby the Oneen'*! Majejlfs SAFEIY ENDANGER'D •, — ~ But "now. My good Lord, by chance I have come to the fi^^hi of an Inflrum.ent of 24 'Articles of great length&Curiofity,/orrw'^ m aRotmjl^Siyle^xo examine * all manner of Minifters in this time without Diftindtion of Perfons, which Articles areEntitul'd afudLanbethMaij. \ 584 to be executed exofficio mero ^c. And upon this Occafion 1 have leen thcm.ldif* recommend unto your Grace's Favor two Miniflcrs Curates of Cambridgt Shire, to be favorably heard, and your Grace wrote to * me that they were Contemious, Seditious, and Perfoss Vagrant, maintaining this Controverfy, wherewith I charg'd them (harply, and they both deny'd thofe Charges, and requir'd to be try'd and fo to receive Punifliment : I anfv/er'd, That your Grace wou'd fo ^ charge them,&then Ifhoa'd fee afterwards what cheyfiiould deferve, .^&: advifed them to refort to your Graee,comforting them that they * ihoiild find favorable Proceedings^fi^fo I hop^ upon my formerCom- nienda- (:;) vide theHarmony between the Old and Prefent NonconforiHh'^s Frlndi>les p.to. ^i) Vide Fuller's Church Hiftory Book 9. p . 1 5 4 ^:c, " 104. Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Preshyteriam Pot-f T * nicadations the rather. What may befaid to ihem I know not, ' nor whether they have been fo faulty as your Grace hath been in- L/^/'NJ « foim'd do I knew*, neither do I mesn to treat for favor to fuck ^ men, for pardon I may fpeak upon tl eir Amendment. Bus now * they coming to mc, I off^r how your Grace proceeded with them. ' They fay, they are commanded to be examin'd by the Regiflier ac . London ^'di\(\ I ask'd them whereof. Theyfiid of a greas Number ' of Articles ^ but they c'ouid have no Copies of them , I anfwer'd ' that they might anfwer to the Truth \ they faid that they were fo ' many in number, and fo diverle, as they were afraid to anfwer ' them, ioT fear q{ Capio Its Interpretation. Upon this I fenE for the * Regiller, who brought me the Articles, which I have read, and ' find fo curioujly fenn^d^ fo full of Branches, and Circumffances, thai -' I think the JNCLIUSITIONS of SPAIN nfe not fo many Q^efi ions ' to comprehends and to intrap thdr Treys. I know your Canonifts can * Defend th^fe with all their Particles : But furely under your * Grace's Corredion, this Juridical and Canonical Siftner of poor Minify ' ters-^ is no? to edify and reform. And in Charity I think they ought ' not to anfvver to all thefe nice Points, except they were very Noto- ' riousOflenders inPaplflry or Herefy. Now good my Lord,bearwith * my fcribling/I write with Teflimony of a good Confcience. I defire * the Peace of the Church I deiire Concord, and Unity in the Ex- ' ercifeofcur Religion. I fear no Senfiwl and Wilful Recufait. *" But I conclude, that according to my fimple Judgment, this kind ' of proceeding is t90 much favoring the Romi^j Inqutfition, and is ' rather a Device to feek for Offenders, than to reform any. ' » — L 1 have willed them not to anfwer thefe Articles^ except their ' Confciences mav fuffer them. If COUNSELLORS and PUBLIC PERSONS thought r/;/r^/yi's Vehcmei t Proceedings againll Fiiritar.s to be er.conragingto Papifls^ and .^;7ft'i/Difpos'd5/%V^.;,and DANGEROUS to her MAJESTY'3 SAFETY, ihen 'twas not poffible that they (hou'd reckon. Puritans ahewfelves dangerous to her Majefly's fafeiy, or that they were, tn .the leafi ev: I- Difpfpd Subjects -j^nd therefore they were accounted by .ihcm Lryal diid peaceable in the Exerciie of their Miniftry, which Charader ofem prevails fo far upon the Lord freafurcr'sBeliefjas he jvillskim not to anfwer IVhitgifs Romifl} ^nquifidoHj promoted by fuch ^whofe Places alter d ths men. Nay Under §^en Elizabeth. Chap. 2. 105 Nay the PRIVY-COllNCIL therr.felves laid foch weight upon p j. the many Compliints made to them upon thisdole/iij Stibjecl, that "*■ ^ ^ • they wrote a grave letter of Admonition to the Archbifhop ot Can- Kj^/"'"^^ terbnry and Bifhop of London ddlQd September 20. 1584. in favor of tit Non Confoimifl?, as follovvs, ' After (r) our bedrty Commendations to both your Lordfhips^ ' altho' we have heard of late tlm^^ fnndry Complaints out ot divers' ' Countries of this Realm, of feme Proceedings againfl a ^y-^^r n//w- '' her of EccIifiafticalPerfons, fome Purfons of Churches, fomc Hcarsy ' fome Curates^hvit ALL PREACHERS , whereby fome were de- ^'friv'^d of their Livirgs^{om( fiijpendedixom their Minijiry^ & Preach^ ' ^"i'-) y^^ tve have forborn to enter into any particular Examina- * tion of fuch Complaints, thinking that howfocver inferior Officers ' ' as Cha*icellDrs.Commij[uries^kVQh-Deacons and fuch like, whofe Offices * are of more value and profit byfucb like kind of Proceedings,mighc 'in fuch fort proceed againfl the Minifters of the Church: Yet your *■ Lordfhip the Archhifnopof that Province of C^zwf^rW^ have,beiides 'your General Authority, feme particular Intertft in the prefcen * Jurisdidion offundry Bifhopricks vacant. And you alfo the Bifhopr" ' of London both for your own Authority in your Diocefs, and as" ' headCommiflioner Ecclefiaflicsl,would have a Palloral care over the '■ ' particular Officers^ to flay and temper them in their hafly Proceedings ' againfi the Miniflers^ and efpecially againfl fuch as do earrcftly pro- ' ' Jefs and inflrucl the People againft the Dangerous St^s of Papijflry. ' Bufi yet of late, hearing of the lamentable Kflate of the Church in 'the County of Ef ex, that is, of a GREAT NUMBER oflEA- ' LOUS and LEv4RN'D PREv^CHERS there fufpended from ^ their Cures^ the Vacancy of the place for the mofl part without ' '' any Minifiry of vreaching^ ?ray as and 5acran:ents', v^nd in fome ' places, of certam appointed to thofe void Rooms, being perfons ^neither of Learning nor of good name '^and in other Places of that * Country, a great Number of Parfons occupying the Cures being ^' not«rioujly unfit^moHfor lack of Learnings many charg'd or charge- [ able with great andErrone»usfaHlts atidDrnifkennefe^ tiUhinefs of lifc^-. P Gamfiers ' C'^)/^/^. p. 151. &c,- io6 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Presipyteriam Part T ' CamfierJ aiCards, haHnting of jile-houfes^ and fuch like',againftwhom ^^^^ A • J y,e bear not of any Tr6€eedings biiE that they are QUIETLY .U/'V^V ' SUFF£R'D, to the flander of the Church, £o the offence of good * people, yea to the famifhing of them for lack of good teaching 4 ' and thereby dangerous to thtfuhvsrtir.g of ma^^^^^xvgakUvgs from their ' Duties to God, and the QUEEN'S MAJESTY, by fecret Jeloits * ' and Counterfeit Papifts. y^nd having thus m a general fort heard ' out of many Parts of the like of this lamentable Eftate of the * Church, yet to the Intent we (hould nut be deceived with the ' Generality of reports,wef(:)Ught to be inform'd of fomeParticulars, ' namely of fome parts of Ejftx\ and having receiv'd the fameCredihlf ' in Writirg^ we have thought it our Duties to her Majefty and the * Realm for the Remcdyhereof^withoutintermedling our lelves with . * your Jurisdiction Ecclefiaftical, to make Report unto your Lord- -* (hips as perfons that ought mofi fpeciallyto hive regard theretel as we * hope you v/il1-,and therefore have fent you herewith in Writing * a Catalogueof the Names of perfons of fundry A'atures, and Con- ' ditions, that x^^onefort bsirig reported to be LearneJ^Zeahus and goed ^ Trsachers der^rixed And faff endsd^ and lo the Cures not ferved with * meet perfons. The other 5ort a Number of perfons having Cures, ^ b.ing ill fundry forts far unmtet for any Offices in the Church, * for their many Dekds and /mperfedtions^ andfoas it feemsby the * Reports have been and are /^I^Vrf -5^ to continue WITHOUT RE- ' PREHENSION or any Other PROCEEDINGS againfl: them •, and * thereby a great number of Chriflian People untaught ; a Matter *■ very lamentable in this time. In a third fort^ a number having ' double li/ings with Cure, and fo not refident upon their Cures, * But yetcijoying the beneiic of tbeir Benefices without any Perfonal '* ^ttc niance upon their Cares. Againft all thefe Sorts ofLewd, and ^ evil^ and Vnp-ojitable Corrupt Memhtrs^ we hear of NO INQUISE- * TION, nor of any kind of iProceeding to the Reformation of thofe « horrible Oflences in the Church, but yet of great diligence^ yea, t and Extremity up d again fi thoje that ««r* KNOWN DILIGENT e PREACHERS. Now therefore we, for the Difcharge of our ^ Dude?, being by our Vocations under her Majefty bound to be •^ careful thatth« Univerfal Realm may be well governed, to the feo- i nor and Glory of Godj and to the Difcharge of her Majefty being the Under §lueen Elizabeth.^ Chap. 2. lof the Principal Governor, over all her Subjeiftis under Almighty P^j"(; t God, do moflearnelHy deiire your Lordfhips, to take foms Chari- table Confiieration ofthefe Gaufes, that the People of the Realm L/'^v^ may not be deprived of thdr Pafl-ors being DILIGEN F, LE A.RNED * and ZEALOUS, iho'' in fo^ne Faints Ceremonial^ they may fecm doubtful only in Confcience^ and not of IVtlfulnefs. Nor that their Cures be fuffcrM to be vacant without good Pallors, nor that fuch as be phced in the Rooms of Cures be infufficicnt for learning, or unmeet for their Converfation. And tho' the Notes which we fend you be only of Perfons belonging to EJfex^ yet we pray you to Icok into the reft of the Country in many other Dioceircs,for we have, and do hear daily of the like in generality in many other fUces ^ but we have not fought to have the Particulars fominifefbly dc- liver'd of other places as of Ejfcx^ or rather, to fay the Truth, of one Corner of the Country. And we Ihail be mofl glad to hear of your cares to be taken for Remedy of thefc EnormitieF, fo as ' we be not troubled liereafter, or hear of the like Complaints to * continue ^ aad fo we bid your good Lordfhips right heartily fare- rwell. Tmr Lordjlup Loving Friends C. Howard^ Will. Burleigh ^ J. Croft. CeorgeSlorewfbnry^> Chr. HAtton^ A. IVarwick. Fra, Waljlngham. R. Lewefitr, Does any man believe that her Majefly's Privy Council, cou'd ' have pleaded in this manner for the P«r/f 4 «j, if they had thought themDifldyal and Seditious? If they did, I'm fure they muft be chargeable with great Uafaithfulnefs to the Queen, and the true Int€reil of the Nation. IfCambdenhad feen all the Debates that have been raifed upon the fameground, he wou'd have had m«ch more reafon to fay^ as he did^ it is Incredible what Diffutations & Controverfies &:c. Non-Conformity till that time made but a fmall Figure in England^ becaufe the Mode- ration of fevcral Bifhops was fuch, as the Puritans were connivM at in their Omiffion of the Rites, Forms and .Pradtices which they P 2 ' moil 1 o'8 Chap. 2. The Loydty of Trejhytertam Pq|.f. x mofl: fcrupled at : And therefore the number of thofe who fepirated "* ^ " from the Communion of the Church wa3,before ihartirae, but in eon- ^L/'V"NJ fiderable. But the fatal Caufe above mention'd ( viz,. IVhit^ift^s Rigor j did then Effedually break the Peace of the Church, by" ex- cluding from her Communion many found Proteflants of Uablemifh- ed Characters .- And, at the fame time, gave a Demonllration of the Juflice of that Obfervation made by the Learn'd StilUf^glUet (^f)-^ '" Without all Controverfy the main inlet ofall the DiftraElions^ Con^ *• fusions and Divisions in ti^e Chriftian World, hath been adding * ether Conditions of Church Communion thanCyr//? hath made. Upon the whole, {{QviQ^n EliTLabsth^s ftiffiiefs in thefe Points, rivet- ■ td mhsv by htv extreme Jedoufy oflier own Authority, and her Natural Inclii ation (from her Education and Temper) to the Magnifi- cence of fome of the Pop/]^ Ceremonies^ Modes and Hahits^ did PRE- POSSESS herjudgment&make her INFL£XIBLE,even to the defires •ofthewtf/ Glorious o{ om Reformers in f/jf/"^ very Points, wh:ch to this day are fome of the Grounds of Non-Conformity: The Confequence plainly is this, thai her Judgment of Puritans wzs not imparEial,being ^yjfs'dind Prepfesjf'dyind therefore ought not to bf receiv'd to their 'Prejudice. Meveyy Puritan according to his own Cenfure^ mad: doom of thi Validity ar Pravity of his Princt\ Government^ I think he did no more than v;hat the Rights of Mankind and Subjeds allow every tjndividuai to do, who ought in the Judgment of Difcrttion to exa- jiiine every Command ot his Superior w herein he's concerned, whe- ther it may be obeyed lawfully aid with a good Confcience : To deny this, is to make as mary "^o^ts as there are Princes in the Woild, by ^yielding them all an /wp//cif Obedience. And Q. Elizaheth^s charg- ing this upoa the Puritan?^ is a farther Argument of her extreme jealoufy of her Authority,and of herPrepofTelT'd Judgment. Oar Author, to give us a farther Account )t the fenfe of Q. Eliz^abeth^ quotes two Pafljges ^ the one from a Speech of Serjeant Tucktripg to the Houfe of Commons,whereof he was Speaker : And 0Zht other from the letter of Sir ^rancii Walfingh,im to Md-ifuur Cr.toy, the French King's Secretary. But feeing ke quotes them only as (p^vide Ir€?}icuraVtef. p. 9« 'Uffcter ^^eenElaahcth: Chap. 2; lop ss fft4hnr t'fjc f(Kfe of ;^ begins thus (p. 7. 3 ' You are Commanded by her ' i\1ajefl/ that no car be given to the VVearifcm Solicitations of tl ofe ' that commonly call themfelves Vntitans^ wherewith aH the late Par- •Haments have been exceedingly importun'd.* Allfabjcdfs have a Liberty of Petitioning for theRedrefsof Grievances, and to hear fach Petitions and frame wholcfom Laws upon 'em, has been ftill though! the great balinefs of Paliaments and the great Means of preferving # the Liberty of the Subject ., and therefore that the Queen fhou'd Command herParliamentsto^/t'rwtf ear to the Complaints ofSubje(^s, is a Siile and manner of fpeaking, which Parliaments have no great reafon to be fond of. Both Houffs ofParliament being ^jf/.Trf/WBranch- es of the Legislature,are/c?rrkw/i/x'fj Judges of what ought or ought not to pafs into a Law ^ And therefore have Itill endeavor'd to pie- ferve to themfelves the freedom of Speech & Voting according to their oir« Judgments, and not by ^ny Prep^Jfrffion from another Spring. Neither did thef account the Solicitations of Puritans wearifcm-jbvit^on the Contrary ^Rea-fonahU ; as appears from the Petition of the Houfe ofCommons to theHoule ofLords anno 1587. in their fa vor,F«//fr gives us the greater Part of the Petition it feli, with an Account of the Debates upon it in the Houfe of Lords, and of the Artifices and Ma- nagement oiWioitgijt and his party with the Queen to obftrud ir.And becaufe allthefe things give Confidcrable infight into the Hiftory of the P«nV<«»i and their Behavior ai that time,and the Caufes not only of their being Difcountenanc'd, but of a Stop pat to the Refor- mation of Palpable Abyfes, I mull not overlook it. Take FHller's Account of the whok in the following Words' But * (f)now a Sejfion oi Parliament was held at Wefir/iinjier^ w herein * the Houfe oi Commons prcfented to the Lords Spiritual and Ter/jporal a ^; Church Hift. b. 9.p. iS^&c,* i I o Chap^ 2i The laOydlty ofPreshyterictns P^irf T •^^ '^ Petition. Complaining how many Parifhes efpecially i;i the North JTdit 1. c Q^ Efjgiandand Wales^ were dellltute of Preachers^md no care VVN#^ ' lakeii tofupply them. Sixteen were the Particulars, whereof^ the ' fix firft were againft iafufficlent M'.nifiers ^ very earneftly prellidg ' their taking the fime into their ferious GQafideration, for fpeedy ' Redrefs of the Grievances therein contained. 7. ' That no Oath or Sabfcription mighi he tendered to any at their en' ' terance into the Ministry ^ hnt fnch a! is exprefsly frefcrib^dby the * Statutes of this Realm^ except the Oath again]} corrupt En" ' tring, a. ' That they may not be troubled for OmS>S\0\i^ of SOy[E RITES ' or PORTIONS prefcribed in the Book of CoTimon-Praym ' er. ^. ' ThM they may not he calPd and urg'd to an freer before the Officidi ' and CommiJJaries^ but before fil?^Bilhops themfelves. 10.' That f/ich as had been fnfpended or deprived fer NO OTHER. ' #;7Cf,W o«/>/tfr NOr SUBCRIBING, mightbe refrored^ ^ and th.it the Bijhops would forbear their Excommunication^ ex *- officio mero, of GODLY and LEARN'D PREACHERS * not dete^edfo^ o^en cffence of life or apparent Error in Doc* ' trine. II.' That they might not be calCd before the High'Commiffion^ or out ' of The JDioceJs tphere they lived^ except for fame notable Of- ' fence, 12. ^ That it might he ptrmitte dto them in ^-y^ry Afch-Deaconry, to ' have fome Common Exercifes and Conferences amongfi them^ * felveSy to hQ limited and prefcribed by the Ordinaries. ,13. ' That the high Cinjure of Excommunication^ may not be densnnced ' or executed iorfmall matters. 1 4. * Nor by Chancellor s.^ Commifjaries or Officials^ hnt hy the Bijhops ' themfelves with affifance of grave Verjons. ' Ihat Non-Relidency may be ^Hite removed out of the Churchy * or at leafithat according to the Queen's Injunctions (Artie, * 44.) No Non-Refidcnfi having already a Licenced faculty * may enjoy it, unlefs he depute an able Curate^ that may weekly preach. * ^and Catechiz.e, as is required in her Majeflies JnjunBions. * Of all thek Particulars the Houfe fell moft fiercely on thcDebate I 'of FluraUties and (ikt Efif^ tj^exeof) NQjhRefidms, .^ Under §l^een Elizabeth. Chap. «J i f r 2. ' jKh'Bi[l}op lVhit£ift ^UsLded^thuLiCQrnccs for Noft-Refidimy-, Part T '' •' were at the ^refent but JeUom granted. And yet in xvay of Recovering ' ' health hv changing of Air., oj Study for a time in the Vniverfity^ of ^-'^"'^''^M ' Mortal Enmity born hy fome in the Panjh^ of Profeeution of Law^ or ' of being Employed in Vnhlic Affairs., they cannot be wholly abrogated^ ' That there were in England four thoufand five hundred Benefice's with * G^rguments or his be the ftropgefl:. The Learn'd Divine I mean is Bifliop Bnrnct^ who in hh Pre- face to the fecond Pari of the H//?^^^ ofthe Reformation^ delivers himfelf thus, ' If men had a jufl notion of this Holy Fundion^aid ' a right fenfe of it before they were initiated into it, thcfe/r^«- ' dalous yibufes of Plurality of Benefice? ^ith Cur 2, (except w!icre * they are fo poor and Contiguous, that both can Icarce mniniain ' one Incumbent, and one man can difcharge the duty of b^ui ve« 5 ry well^ Non-refidenciesy and the hiring out that Sacred TrUi^ to 114. Chap. 2. The Loyalty ofPreJbyterians Pa j-|- I 'Pitijid mercenaries at the cheapefc Rates^ would foon fall o^. Thgfeare things of ^o cryi/7g a nature, that no wonder if the Wrath of God is read/ to breakoui upon us. Thefe are Abufe? that even the Church of RomCj after all her Impudence is afluni'd of, and are at f his day generally difcountenancM all Vrance over.- Qiieen Alary here in England in the time of Popery, fet her felf ef- fcdually to root them out. And that they iTiould be fli!1 found among Pfoteflams^'^nd. in ^ct Reformed a Church, is afca.rdal thn may juHIy make us blufh. All the honeft Prelates at the Council oiTrent eadeavor'd to get Refidence declared to be of Divine^ight,and fo noE to be difpenc'd wich upon any Confiderationwhatfoever.- and there is nothing more appireatly contrary to she moil Common Imprefllons, which all men have about Matters of Religion, than that B'-nefices are given for the Office to which they are annex'd ; And if inMatters of mens Eftates, or of iheir Health, it wou'd be a thing of high fcandal, for one to receive the Fees, and commit the Work to the Care of foms Inferior or raw Practitioner, how much worfe is it to turn over fo Important a Concernment, as the care cf fouls mufl be confefs'J to be, to mean Hands ? And to conclude?^ thofe who are guilty of fiich Diforders, have much to anfvver for both to God, for the negleifl of thofe fjuls for which they are to give an Account, and to the World, for the Reproach they have brought on this Church and on the Sacred Fundions, by their ill Practices j nor could the Diviflons of this Age ever have rifen to fuch a height, if the people had not been poITefs'd with ill Im- prefllonsoffome of the Clergy, for thofe hjexcuf Me faults than are fo Confpicuous in too many that are call'd. Shepherds .• Wha death thernfelves rvlththe Wooly but htve not fed the ¥locky that have 7Kt firengthened the Difeas^d^ nor Healed the Slcky nor bound up that which is Broken^ nor brought again that which was Driven a- way, nor fcnght that which was lofl^ but have ruled them with force Cfi' Cruelty. And if we wouM look up to God who is. vifibly angry with us, and has made ushafe and Contemptible among the People, VJQ Ihcu'd find great reafon to refl di on thofe Words of Jeremy^ Th'' Vcifiors are become brHtijhand have not fought the Lord, therefore. theyjfjall mt p^ofper^ and all their flocks Jhali befaattcredt Under ^^mEli'zabeth. Chap. 2. i r $' Fnt to leturn to Puchrhg ^ let us examine the remaining Part oTPg*-*- j^ bis Evidence againU the Puritans, of whom he afl'erts That ' VVhild'^ ^^ ' they bbor to advance a New Elderfhip, they do nothing bui dlf- L/^^*^^ ' turb the good People of the Church and Commonwealth. For which he brings no Proof but his own Word. Here he reflects on X.\\z\x Vrinciples^ and the»*efore, (as I obferv'd before) his Evidence without a Reafon to fupport it, is none at all .* He ihoiiM cither have fliown that their Elderfhip were of themfelves a jDifturbance to the Church and Commonwealth, or by their Indifcreet Manage- ment were foj but, feeing he does neither, I fay no more bat deny his Affertion. ' y}^ the prefent Cafe Hands (fays hejit maybe quellion'd whe- * ther the Jefultes do offer more danger &c. or be more fpeedily to ' be fuppreJfs'd.' Lei all Sound Proteftants compare thePrinciplesjand Pradices of Jfjitits with thofe of the Furitans, and judge whaE Temper thofe People are of who make it a Queftion which of 'em are moft fpeedily to be fupprefs'd, and whether our y^uthor has done any fervice to the Memory of (^ueen EUz.abeth,bY makingP//c;^- ering's Speech to be her fenfe in this ma«;ter. But let us hear Mr. Speaker^ Reafon of this grand doubt.For albeit ( fays he) the Jefnites *do empoyfon the Hearts cf her Majefty's Subjedts &c. Yet they do ' the fame but clofely and only in Privy Corners-, but thefemendo * pubiifh in their printed Books, and teach in all their Convcnti- ' cles Opinions, not only dangerous to the well Settled Eftate of ' this Realm, bue alfomuch Derogatory to her Sacred Majefly, ' as well by denying her Highnefs's Prerogative and Supremacy, as ^' by ofr(?ring peril to her Majefly's Safety m both Kingdoms. Tnis Strain of Ktdi^owmg determines the (Queftion in favor of the Jefuits as being lefsdangerous than Puritans. There being no par- ticular Opinion of thePuricansmention'dr, 'tis fuffident anfwer to this Calumny, to deny they hold any fuch Opinions as are there alledg'd- Ai\di that Gentleman fliows how little jlcqmintAnce he has bad with the Principles of the Puritans, who did all unanimoufly affert the Queen's Prerogative and Supremacy ^ as appears by their opinions quoted in the preceeding Chapter p. 24.0U5 of the bookEn- tituled Erglijh Puritaf!ifm,Jad the fame is farthei Evident from aBook Entituled a Proteflation of the Kin£s Supremacy^ written in their name in the Reign of King James \fi -^ and from their Readinefs to fub- fcribethe firftof^^/f^Z/t's v^rticles concerning that veryPoint,asappears O2 ' by ii6 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Presljterianf I Part by their own Authentic Petition fign'd b/ their hands to the Privy Council, and printed from the Oj-iguial in the Hijloiy of Conformityy W'V^^ ;?. 1 5. Wherein they fiy, ' It is well known to all your Lordfhipsy. * that anAbfolute SubfcriptiOii throughout the vvhoIeProvince oiCan- ^■terburyto three Articles. Tlif pr/? coaccrning, her Majefty's 5/r- ' preme Authority. The Secma^ lO the Book of Common- Prayer ' with that of Confecratin; F'.'IiOj iand Ordaining Prieftsand Dea- ' cons. The f.Wrf^concerniugi the Book of Articles-, As to tkefirjf- * we ojfcr carfducs to a fail jiibfcf option as always heretofore we have do}f€ « &c. That their Opinions or Prafiifes either Cjfer'^d Peril to her Majefiy^s fiifety in both (or either j Kitigdoms^\% of a Piece with the reft of his Binter, henot being able to give one fingle Inflince of it. As for their Printed Books they are not inferior to any in that Age, for their Qfefulnsfs, Learning, Orthodoxy and Piety, as appears from the great F<3.v and C^ertipn^k's Writings, and the Eminent Proftifjrs Ik both Univerfitics, and many other Celebrated Divines then ealledi Turitans.^\'A\ok Opinions have nothing in 'em to give the leaft: handle for that Uncharitable Refledion. Cartwrtght fervM the Proteltant IntereS: by his Learn'd Pen, in one of the moll Accompliih'd Pieces which that Age produc'd,againfi: the Rhemi[li7ranjlationof the New^ejlameKt. F«//tfr » gives us fuch an Account of thar. Performance, as not only advanceth the jufl: Prail- es of its Revd. Author, bat alfo lets us in to the Secret Spring of Op- pofition that wa? made in that Age by the High-Church-Party to the moil. Innocent yea Laudable Attempts of the Puritan Divines. He expreffes himfeU thus. ' Secretary f^; Walfingham^, by his Letters folicited Mr. Thomas : Cartwri^ht t(y undertake the refuting of this Rhemijh Tranflation .° * And the better to enable him for the Work, fent him an hundred * pounds out of his own Purfe. A bountiful gift for one who was * tho' a great Statesman a man oifmallEfiatt^ contrading honourable * Poverty on himfclf by his Expence on the Public, as dying not ^- io engaged to his private Creditors, as the whole Church, and State * was endebted to Kis Endeavors. Walfingham his Letters to Cart> I iw/^^ vvere ficonded by another from the DoUtrs^ ai^d Heads of Houfes^ S^} i^/rf. .p, 17^ Under 'sltieen Elizabeth, Chap. 2. lif * Hsufes Cand Dr. Fnlke amongft the redj at Cambridge, befldes tlie P^j i->[^ t * laiportunicy of theMiniuers of Z/i?«^o;? and Suffolk Ibiiciting him * to the fame purpofe. Hereupon Cartvpyight buckled himfelf to the V«'''"V>J *"' Employmeat, and was very forward in The piirluance there- "^ of. 'No fooner h3djf'%/f^/fi5 gottenNotic€,wbat C«rfirr/^^/i was a writ- ' ting, but prefeatl'/ he prohfbiced his farther proceeding therein. ' It feems Walfinghcm was Secretary of State not of Relgion^ wherein ' the yiicbbiniop ovf rpovvcr'd him. Many commended his care,- '■ not to entrufl the Defence of she Dodriae of E^tgland^ to a Pen fo ' difafKded to the Oifcipline thereof. Others bh^med his jealoufy '" to deprive the Church of fo Learn'd pains of him, whofe judgment! ' would fofolidly, and ;ifFec^ions fo zealoufly confute the Public Ad- * veifary. Diftallfv]! Palljges (Ihooting at Rome, but glancing atCan- ' rfrWy) if any fuch wtrt found in his Book, niight be expung'd' ' whiiflit was pity fo good fruitfliould be bh.led in the bnd,for some ' bad hayes about it. Disheartned hereat, Cartwight deHfted, but for ' fome years afcer, encourag'dby a Honoiable Lord, refumed the- ' Work ^ but prevented by death, perfeded no further than the- ' fifteenth Chapter of the /^ir-yf/^f/^^. Many years l-jy this V/orthy ' Work negledted and the Copy thereof moufe-eaten in part, whence' ' the Printer excufed fome defers therein in his Edition *, which the' * late, yet at laft Cime forth ar.no \6\%. .^4 Bock which notwithdand-- ' ing th-e forefaid Defedts, is fo comfUat that the Rhemijlsdm (t neveu ' return the l^afi Anfvper thereunto. We may fee that the Puritans were employing theirStudies againfb • the Papifls and not againfl; the Q_ueen's Authority or Safety. Bus fuppofing ffor Aiguments fake, tho' it be falfe in i^ fell) that the Puritans had advanc'd fome Opinions, which were rot fo much for the Qiieen's fafety, as they fhou'd have been •, yet all v/ho have the leafl Acquaintance with the Opinions of Jefuits, Muil own that their Opinions are by great Odds more dangerous to a Protc- ftant Queen than the very worft Principles that ever were al- l«dgd upon the Paricans. The Jefuits hold, that Prircesexcom^ municated by the Pope may be depriv'd of their Crowns, They free the People from their Allegiance, and ^flertthat its Meritorious to deftroy fuch Heretics &c ^ which Dodtrines Puritans ever ab- korr'd. Neither does it mend the matter, Thaf the Jefuits do thi» slofdyandin a Com ; they arc the more dangerous, and the v^ntidot a^ain-ft" 1 1 8 Chap. 2. The Loyalty ofPrefbyterians Pir^ T sgain^^^^chpoyfon the more difficult to be apply'd \ whereas if this were done openly, the Remedy is obvious, FroTi which it appears L/^/^J ho^v Irrational as well as uncharicable his Speech is j which he con- cludes thus, * by the reparation of themfelves from t lie Unity of * their Fclio*v-SubJ!;dts, and they do but Joynand concur with the ' Jefui^s in opening the Door and preparing the way for shsjpanft ' Invafion 6vC. They never feparated till they were driven away by Whitgift^i Ar- ticles which they cou'd not in Confcience fubfc'ibe, and therefore they were noE chargeable with any bad Confequence that might flow from ir.- 'cis not to be doubted but Dlvifions among Proieftants give great advantage to the Common Enemy^ but the Debate is who are the Caufes of fuch Divifions.? For which i refer to StilH^gjieet's opinion alreadyquoted | I'l o2.Thot?iiis Lof?^hhGte adducM byour-^jthor to confirm this SuggeH ion of P//c/^m;7g-, who lays, ThM when the King of 5/?.?z>2 fen: his Arm^do upon theCoafts, The ?rotefla^t Dlf. * sditcrs inflead of Arming inDefenceof the Queen and themfelves < did with greater! mportunity and Confidence aflauk the Queen with ?hile) that he has borrow 'd Matter, method, and fometinies Expreffion from this dear friend of his Thomas Long. That the Puritans did then ask VnTeafonMe Requefsov give in Li- ^tf/i/or^f C^'ff«, is deny'd 5 and why i£ fiiould be Unfeafonable in the time ofdanger from a Common Enemy, to defire the hearty U- nion of all good Proteftants &to petition for proper Expedients to- wards it, I can't fee- And this was all the Puritans did ^ wl.o were ftill reaf^y to defend the Queen by their Arms, at any time vv::^ii .1:3 thought fif to employ 'em. And by L^e Obfeivaiion our Author has made, as the foundation 1 2G Cliap 2. The Loyalty of 'Prejhytertam T>^y^ -. cf his Difcourfe p. 5. vItl: ' That there ever was a perfedl harmony 1 . i bath in Principles and Pradice, among all the Diflenters ofEngla^il, L/^/'NJ ' Scotland^ and Ireland '.The EngU^ Puritans are efffCliialiy vindicated from this Malicious Afperfion, by that Solemn Band entreJ into by all the Scots Prahyterians^ and faithfully profecuted againll the Spanijl} Invafipn-j among other things they fwear in thefe words ' To ' {V) conveen and afTemble our fclves publickly with our friends in ' Arms — «— at fuch times and places as we fhall be required to ' joyn with the whole forces of ouv friends ^nd favorers againll what- ' foever foreign or Jntejline Towers that fhill arrive or rife wtthl» * thAs JJlandor zny part thereof toexpofe and hazard oar * Lives, Lands and Goods in Defence of the faid trur. and ' Chriftian Religioi>, and his Mayjefly's Peifon and Eftate againft * whatfoever Jefuits — : I come next to anfvVer the Tcftimony of Sir Francis Walfmgham^ whom our Author very juflly adduceth in this place, as fpeahng the finfe of Quee:! Fliz.abeth : for any one who knows .his Character will readily grant, that he did not fpeak his oxvnfenfe. ^ duller fays of him (rv) ' Amongft all tiie Favorers of the Presbyterians, furdy Honef- * ty andWifdom never aret more in any than in Sir FravcisH^alfifighan:^ Let the Reader obfsrve the perfon to whom Sir Francis wrote this Letter, viz. Monfcur Cntoy^ the French King's Secretary j and that he lay under tne greaceft Temptation^; poflible to put the beft face he cou'd upon the Condud of theQiieen his Millrefs. He had been overpower'd by IVhit^ift's Pdrty^ who kept a Jealous Eye over him : And when he is reprefenting the Queen's Anions and the Max- ims of hfr Government to a Foreign Court, and to a perfon of fo public aCharader,3nd himfelt being in an Eminent Poft at home^ he muft have faid the moft Plaiifible thi.igs that cou'd be thought on, for j'ifi:ifyii!g the Queen's whckfome Severities fas fome call 'em) a- gainft the I'lirttanf. Let the Woild judge whether the TeftimoRy •o( Sr. Francis under thefe 7 emprdions and in thefe CircHmJiances^ be 10 be laid in Ballance with the Teflimony of himfelf^ fpeaking in ichalf of ihe Puritans^ and pleading for the Prtvemign of tijefe Severi- lies iv}Vik CiUervioWi Hift. p. 223.(1^;)?. 9. p. 161 = Under §^en Eliizabeth- Chap. 2. ritiesagaJnfl: thfm, which be endeavors * That ConfcieBces are net to h forced^ but to be won and reduc'd * by force of Trnth with the aid of time, andufe of all good Mems of * Inftrudion, a.id Perfuafion. The other. That Caules of Confci- ' ences when they exceed their hounds and grow to be Matter of * FrfSf/o^' lofe their Nature, and that Sovereign Princes ought diftinc- * tly to punifti cheirPraftifes and Contempt, though coloured with the *. Pretence ot Gonfcience and Religion. . j>^ow unlcfs Sr. Francis prove that thefc two Trincifles were obferv'd in her Proceedings againft i^tFuritans^ his Teflimony can mtlitate notlew^ againft 'cm. A Particular Exanaination of what he offers, will give us a« Opportunity of jjdging how far the Managc- mcHts of the Queen with refpedt to her Puritan Subjects, were agree- able to thefe two Maxims which He makes to be the Ground-H^erk of the whole. * For the other Piny fays he which have been of- * fenfive to the State, cho' in another degree, which named ihem- ' (tUz% Reformers^' and we commonly call Puritans this hath been the ' Proceeding towards then*. • A great While, when they inveighed ' againft fiich Abufes in the Church, as Pluralities Non-Refidence and * the like, \\\tiv z.edtV'^s^ot Condtmr^d only their Vidence was fome- J timecfofui'd. ^nfwerj it is here acknowlaig'd, that tliey were right in the main^ in oppofing Pluralities, Noa-Rtiidenceand the like; and that thefc > ife) J5«r8wHifl. of the Retormation. Parts, Beok 3. p. 4i8» 122 Chap. 2; The Loyalty ofPrefl^jtenarts Pa rf T ■ '^^'' '^^''^''^ ^ ^ ^^'^ C:-Jarch; «.nd v=':Sr Fr^w/j very w^H k'ievv,that the A clI L ^ * RcforniaLioii of em wjs ftopc f)^ r.ht; c9^z and the High-P^rty^^ Vy"V^ .iS evide.itlv apDra^s fror. the H,floHans\ \\\'h'ir r o'.ence, tne/ u^M ;z f^'Ctf, they ralPd no Reh lUon^ nor fliejv'd the/f.i/<^ Dijloydty agiinfl their r^rince. And if any of.'em Were taovehn^cnr Mi \v» ^1 in F.i'^^r Kxp'^eifn is, this was nit to be cnrg'd '■•p'Ti c'i'.e whole B >dY oi Puritans \ and in fuch Cafes^ Cen- fii'.es are to be mirigated, wlierc men are driven i;,to Dnrie lictle Ex-TfT^s by cheir Vli^cia^ wich an Vtreafo^ible Jppodtion to what is j ;fl; and landible. Again he fays, ' When they reful'd the llf^ cf fome Ceremonies * an 1 Rice*;, as ' uperfl:iiio»is,they were tok raced with much Comivan- ' cy anAGemUnejs '^ yea, when they call'd in queftion the Snper' * /#r/ry of Bifhop, andprecended to bring ^Democracy into theCnurch, ' yet their Pr^p^iicions were here conliderM, and bj contrary Writings ' dcbaced and difcufs'd. A'ifro. Here is indeed the Spirit of true Chrifliin Moderation,'- which breathed in man/ of the beftEpifcopal Divines, in the begin- ning of Q: ELz^ahcthh Rci^n .• And this lafteJ till Wfiitg'^t''s Advance- ment to the Se-? of C^«ff>'i'^''v. O feappy Engitnd^ it that had con- tinu'd and had never been ftifled by th^"fi^'-y heat of an Im- pofing Spirit,by which the Nation has been fo freq-ien^ly thrown in- to miferable Gonv.ul(ions ! But he goes on and fays, ' Yet all this while, it was perceiv'd * that their X:ourfe was dangerous and very popular : as becaufc ' Papiflry wasodiois, therefore is was ever in iheir Mourhs, that ' tbey fought to pure^c the Church from the Rdiques of Papift-ry ^ a * thing accepiablc to the People, who love ever to run from one ex- f treme to tht other. yirifw. Sr. F>'^«aA AfTertion here mufl be wsigh'd and jidg'dby the Validity or Invalidity of the Reafon he gives f:)r it ^ for its foun- ded upon this 5npp")(ition, that the P^m^ir me^-tf leading the P/nfU frgrnthi Evfrens or P jper/, intt fo-ne 0)T<(irg Extreme \ Which they deny'd ; for the Puritvof worfh-pand Dlfcipline which they aim'd atv 'v^s not (in their Opinion) any Extreme a t all. Ttie Merit of J he Can fc here lies in the D-bue a'jout Gharch-Go'/ernment and Worikip, with wliicii the Cjufe of Loyaky is j^ok concerii'd. He Under ^een Elmbeth. Chap. 2. 123 He adds, * They open'd to the People a way to Government, by P^f f i j ' their Confiftoty and Presbytery \ a thing, tho' in Confcqaence ^^^rsj ' no lefs prejudiciil to the Liberties of private Men, than ^-^ * to the Sovei eignty of Primes ^ yet in firll ftiew very popu- « lar. Jnf. This being an AOertion not offad, but againfl: a Princi- ple ^ human Tellimony is not fiifficienc to prove it. And that Prcf- byterian Government is not prcj idicial to cli.eSovct eignty of Princes, 1 have furyprov'd inthe preceding Chapter,Nuther is it prejudicial to theUberties ot piivate men .For there is no Form of Church-Govern- ment whatfiever, VVhereiii greater Provifion is made againft the V- furcation and Tyranny of ihe Clergy ^ and for having the People duly Reprefented, and their Liberties prefirv^d. And tor the faicher 11- luftration of this, I refer my Reader to the Pafl'ge quoted in tke following Chapter, out of the Book EniitulM,Aa Auount of the Pro- eeeaingsofthe Pa- hamtnt of ^coiUnd 1703. and to the Remark, whick I there m ke upon it. He ^dds, *" Neverchelefs this, except it were in forr-.e fern that en- * tred inlo extreme Onten.pt^ was i)orn with j becaufe they pretended * in d'ltiful mariner to make Propofitions, and to leave it to the Pro- ^ viden e of God, aud the Au fipiity of the Magjftrate. Ti'is (hows there wert but jew thac entred into extreme contempt, and fo can't affjd the B^dy of ihefe Puritans, who never Jjftify'd afiy wilful CoKtemp:. tho^ Lhey cou'd not condemn a ConfcemiousDiffent. It is Cerrain^ the Bronnifis were a dangerous Sed, who carry'd mat- ters vtry high, and deny*d the Chnrth oi England to be a Church, and were indeed L'uilty ot Extreme Contempt -^ but the Sober Puritans both from the Pulpit and Prtis lefuted the Dangerous Errors of thefe Wild Sedines -^ and yec their Adverfarjes took an handle from the Ext-avaganties ofthat Mad SecV, to deal fevercly with the whole Purijan>, as if they had been anfwerable for the folly of the Deluded Brownips-^ in the fime manner, as the Prtsbytenafis were charged in the Reign of K'ne Charles \fi. with the abominable Principles and Piadices of the Sedarian Paity ^ of which more in its proper place. What Sr. Francis hath hitherto laid, proves That the Puritans weie look'd upon as fat leall) a Tolerable People, aud iufinu-.tes tliat, as the Rcafon of the mild Treatment they mes with from the State R 2 fo. 124- Chap. 2. The I^dty oj Presbyterians Part I. for fome tirrc. B\it when he comes to wind up his Argviment^ and to give a G-^lourable Glifs to the feverity of the Que ea's Proceed- ings a^ainfl: 'em, he then picks up a few Heads, and links 'em toge- shet in fhort and general Expreflltjnsv weH knowing, that they could not b.ar aa EaUrgcment, vviihouE IpoiUng the '^JiKed'scaufehe was thendetciidin?, •• For had he toM the particular Stories, upon whick his General 0-::)reryatioflS arc founded, every one niiift have prefent- ly feen, thai they v/ere not fufficitnt to vindicate the Severity of the litter part of that Reign a gai nil the Puritans. He proceeds tiiu% ^ But now ofjuc years, when there ifTi'd from them a Colony of thofe, that ^ m'd the Confent of the Magiflrate was not to be attended^ when under a Pretence of a Coafeffion, to avoidSlander and»mputa:ions,theyCombin'd themfclvesby CUjfe a-* Suhjcriftions^ and when they began to make many Subjects in doubc tD take an Oath &c. When they began to vaunt of their ilrength, and Numbers cf their Vartifavs^ and to ufc the Comminations that their Caufe wou'd prevail, tho' with Uproar and Violence then ic " appear'd no mere Xfal-^ ns more CenfcicTJce^hut morcF^chon andDU'i" :^''i^*?fio?t.'^ %m therefore tho' the State were compell'd to hold fonicwh^tt an harder hand than before, yet ic was with as -;?r4'"?2t Moderation, as th« peace of the Church and State wou'd 'permit. I fhall particularly inquire into the faifls, which gave any Colour for what isoffLi'd in the absve Words v and make it appear, that tl':ey arecithcr innoceat; or, lb far as they are bad, not chargeable Bpon the Puritans as a Body; but on fome few of theirNuraber only,- And confequcnrly no Proof of their b2\n^ faEl ions and Difinrhers of the State, nor of the Equity of the bad Treatraenc they met with. f/r/?, 'sis laid that they affirm'd. That the CevfcntoftheMagifiratc was not to^be attended : This is fhort and Obicurc. That the Gonf^nt at t he > Magi lira re is not to b^ attended ifl all Cafes, is a Tiujh ac- Icno\v«dg'd by all Sound Divmes y otherwife the Primiuve Chrifti- ans, mid even Chnfi- himfelf and his Af^pies had been in the wiong, to aflcrt aiid adhet e to the Chrifliaa Religion, without the Confeni of the Civil Magiltnte ; and 'tis certain, wherever God by bis Fo- jtfive Command eiijoyns us to perform any.Duty, thai Duty ought t» »Vt Under ^^en l^iiZdhcth. Chap. 2. 125 y 6e performed, whethenhe M.-ig\i\:rate Confent to it or vet: for no Pot-f- t human Law c^n Repeal the DiviiiCuStctutes, and in every fueh Cafe ' we mi'fl: obey G^d rather than tnan. K^^r^ Now tht Cife of the FuritaiiS ^^ bich gave Occafion for this Re- Biirk wjs this. They br^lievM iii their Confciences, that ':was the Will and Command of God to theni to proceed to a fa' titer Degree ot Reformation than the Public Laws had enjoyn'd. In this Cafe they Petitioned the Queen a-i;d Paili^tmenr, arid'Coiivccition ^ befidc their AddrcfTes to Paiticuiar Bifhops, and othei Peifons of Note boch in Church and Statr. But by the Means I have already hinted, tfeeir Endeavors v^'eie triifli;:;tfd •, and thtrcfore after all this /;/<:>- lefs rouit:r,ff^ 'twas their Opinion that, feeing they cou'd not prccure inch Laws, as might reform the Chuich oi EvgUnd in General, fromihofe things they judg'd to be abufes, ^vae 'twoud be a Sin . in 'em tocontr.idid the Light of their own Ccnfcience, by delay- ' ing the Exercife of that Difcipline and Woifbip which they thoug^hc Biofl agreeabe to the Word of God, tho' the Magiflrate wou'd not add the Civil Sanftion. Now fnppofe that they had been mif- taken in their Opinion about the Presbyterian Model oi Ecckfiaftical Difcipline, and that Epifcopal Government were the befl ^ that does not infer any Difloyalty in 'cm, or that what they did was freni Faction, and not from Conlcics cc. And if we once believe, tha£ their Confciences truly dictated to 'em the Points wherein they dif- fer'd from iht Eftablifh'd Church, they cou'd not f without maniftfl: Contempt of the Authority of God) forbear to put their Pririciples in Practice. Indeed if any of them had affiim'd, That they raighc take away the Church-Lyings of the Conformable Clergy, and poflcfs themfelves of 'em and of their Churchts, without the / Confent of the Magiftrate •, this had been a plaia Ufurpation rpon tlieRights of Civil Authority. But this is what they never plead- ed for. And for the Reader's farrhef Satisfa(flion ii^ this Point, I muft refer him to the 3d Chap, of the 3d. Part of ihis Difcourfe, • where thai matter is largely dcbataS. lly Its Objedcd, that under Trefence of a Covfifficn to Avcid Slander and Imputations^ they combined themfelves by Claffks a^d SubfcriptionS* This can't have a Relation to any thing, but the Mettirgjf of the Fuiiwa Miuiit«is, for the jExer^ile of Oiftipliiie, acioidii^g to their Con.r 1 26 Chap. 2. The Lojdlty ofTreshyterians PA rt T Confciences. And the fame anfwer given to the former Accnfitioii ^^^ ^' maybe applied to chis. But here 1 Ihall lay before the Reader a %y^r\) brief account of the progrefs of the Difciplinarian Party in England^ {or fo thofe were termed that set up their Clafcr or Presbyteries a: d Synods-^ that we may have not only an Hifto- leal Idfa of the E?£ljb Piesbyteiians m Q.. Eliz-abeth's Reiin, but fee that their presby!er- ies and Synods did mth^rg that was prejudicial to the Crown^ tho' they were againft ErgUfi) Prelacy. That the Readi-r may at once have both the Hiftory and my Vouchers,! (hall giv^ it him in FHllerh own Words ^ joining together fuch pieces of his Hiftory, according to the Order of time, as will beft enlighten the Subjtft. * The^3')Non-Conformi[ls,tho' ovei-power'dfortheprefent inPar- * liamtnt (viz. anno 1572) yet foumi fuch favor ihereiir, that after ' the DiflTilution thereof they prefumed toEred a Presbytery at * IVandsrtorth VI Surrey. Eleven Elders were chofen rheieiu, and * their Offices and General Rules (by them to be oHferved ) agreed * upon and defcribed-, as appears by a 8ul ifidorfed w-th the hand * of 'Vlr field the Lecturer fas I take it) of that i^l'^ce, but living in ' London. Mr SmithoiMicham^^nd Mr Crane 0^ Roiighampt^nCimgh" * bouring Villages) are mentioned fir their Approbation of all Pa f- ^ fi'^es therein. This was ihefiri}-born of all Presbyteries in England^ 'and fe-undu^ HSHmWrndtsworth as much honored byfomc^as secHfidnm * tisumSarnm by others. ' It miy f€em a Vv/onder that the Presbyte'ian Difcipline, fhould * ripen fooner in this Country Village than in Londo/ i: felf.- where,as * yet, they wercnot arrived atfo formd a CoHftitution, tho we ' may obferve two forts ofMinilters: ft ft, M . Fiell, Mr ^Vilcox ' Mv Sta>!den^ Mv Jackfonj Mr Bo/iham^ Mr Seintl»e^ Mv Crane^ Mr * Edmonds ^ Afterwards, Mr Charke^ Mr Travers^ Mr Barber.^ Mr '* Gardner., Mr Ch f ft en., UxCro oh ., and Mr Egerton. The former of • ■' thele were Principally againfb Minifters Attire, -jnd the Common- ' Prayei Biok. fne Latter endeavor'd the M.>delli>-g of a Nevo t Difcipline, and itwas not long betoic both Streams uniting, to- gether _(y) vide Fuller's QhuKh Hiiiory b, 9. p, 103 , Under ^4een^liXdhcth: Chap. 2. 127 ' gether, iV(?« Gj';A.r-M.'7 began to bear a Large and great Channel Pov-f- t ■ * in the Cit> o^ Loneion. i dll !• In the yeir 1 590. The Venerable Curt^right wis c^ll'd before the L/^VNJ Hlgh-Comvnifll >n, to anrvvtr up->n his Oath t3 31 Arcicbs, wnich are very Arctuilyr'enn'd-,& becanre di^Trsof cm relate to theSynods and PresbytC'ies thit had been vr-'/orfome years preceding that, by the ■■-^l^-Jh P'es^y^ertu'is^ and give fome Account of their C -nititu- ti-tn ana Baiiijefs, I Ihill infert here what relates to that Sab- °f€t, ' O 1 (z, ) the firftof September (anno i 58S )Mr. Car/ n?n>/j/- Batch elor * in Divinity, was browght before her Mijefty's Coinmiflloners, ' there to tjks his Oach, and give in his Pclitive Anfvver to the foi- * lowing Articles. Such 0''thele Ai tides as concern the Hiflory of the Presbyterian Dif^iplinariun Party, are thele. 9; ' h(m'^(i)y That lince his faid Return, in fundry private Con- ferences, with fuch Miniflers andoihers, as at fundry times by Word, and Letter, have ask'd his Advice or Opinion, he hith ih^vved Miflike of the La^vs, and Government Ec^lefi^Ilical, and ofdivers parts of tbe Liturgy of this Church ^ and thereby ptr- fuaded, and prevailed alfo with many in fundry Points, to break the Orders and Form of the B)ok of Common-Prayer who ob- ferv'd them before, and alf j to oppofe themfelves to the Govern- *ment ot tiiii Church, as himfdf well knowcth, or verily belie v- eth. 13 ' Item.Th^^ preaching at the Baptizing of one of 7*?^ Thro^* worfan's C'liliren, hefpoke much of the U jtiichfulnefs, and in Der'^guion of the Govcrnmc'it, Polity, Laws, and Liturgy Ec- lefiaftical of tr.is Realm ^ and to the Juftification cf a GoverumenE by EUerJhifs in every Congregation^ -dnd by ('o^ffer en ce and Synods ^ &c. abroad, as Divine Liftituiions commanded by Chrift •, and ihe onlv lawful Church-'Jovtrnment , leeking to prove and tfta- ablifh iuch Eldei (hips out of that Woid in one of ttse J'fMms where • Thrones ziQ mention'd. (?) M. Mi, p, 197. (a J id, kiU, p. i$$. 128 Cftap. 2. The Loyalty ofTreshyierum Part [ * ^ ^^' ^^^^(^^ That for, and in tire behalf of the Church of "■ ' * * England he penii'd or procur'd to be pennM, all or fome part l^'*'^^*^ '^ of a little book enriiul'din one pan Difciphna Ecckfi£ Sacra Verho t Dei Defcrij)ta ', and in the other Parr, Drfci^lii^aSynodtcaex Eccle^ f(intmnfu&c. And, after it was perurd by others, whom he ' fi'fl acqn3iEUedEherewith,he recommeaded the fame to theCenfares '^ ^nd Judgmeucs of moe Brethren fbein^ Learn d Preachers) and * Ibaie others, aflembkd together by iTisMeans, for that and other * like Pur pofes : which, after Deliberation, and fome Alteratiois, ' was by thera or mofl of them allow'd, as the only lawful Church- * GovernmeiU^and Ae to be put in Pradticejand the ways and Me ins *for the practifing thereof in this Realm,werc alio then, or not long f after, agreed or concluded upon by them. 25. ' Ittrr/^ Tnac for the betE:er,and nrjorc due praftife of it with- ^ in the Space of thefc /^t^^w, (ix\ five^four^ tU-^ee^ tx9\ or one year ^ laftpaft. ihefiid Thomas Cart wri^ht and i^\i:idrY other*, (a«i afore- ' laid according to former Appointment, and Determinations by ^ them made) have met in aflemblies, term'd Sy-ods, more General * (as at Lorrdon^ at Terms, and Pailiameris Times j in Oxford at *.the Aft, in Cambridge at ttie Times ofCommenccment,at StHrbridge * fair) and alfo more particular^ and Provincial Synods^ a?5d at Clajfss * or Conferences of certain Selected Minif^ers in one or moe Phccs ' of fund 7, Sever il Shires, as iVarwicky Northampton^ RmUad ' Oxford, Leiceffer, Cambridge, Norfolk, Sajfolk, hfftx, aiidothers. 27, ' Item That at fljch Synods, and Conferences it hath been con- * cluded5 that ail the Minifters which fh >uld be received to be either * of the faid General 5yr.ods, or of any rflore particular aad Fro- ' vincial, or of a Claffis, or Conference, duould J nbfcribe to the faid *" pifcipline, that they did allow it, would promote is, praftife it, * and be govern'd by it. And according to the Form of a Schedule * hereunto annexed, or fachlikej bith he the faid 'Thomas Canvoright . * and many others, at fundry, or forae G? leral Aflemblies, as aE * Provincial, and at feveral Conferences have within the fiid lime, % fubfcrib'd the fame, or fonie pait thsrecf. (*) IW. E, 201. Under §^eenElhdhcth: "Chap. t. 129 28, ' Item, That at fuch Synods and all other Aflemblies, a p^«i. ^ Mod€ratcr of thu Meeting^ was firft by him and them Chofen, ^ ^^^ A. * according to the Prcfcription ot the faid Book. And at fome of L/VX^ ' fuch Meetings and Afil'mblies amongft other things,ie was RUolv'd * and Concluded^ that fuch Particular Cohftremes in fever d shires * fhou'd htcreae^-^ho^ many Pcrlons and with what Letters from * every of them fhou'd be fent to tlie Gtmrd/^ffemhly \ and that one ' of ihem, at !ihei» crming home to their Conference, lliou'd make * known theDeterminationsof the General Affembly, tobe by every ^ ofthemfoHow'd, and put in Pradlce; which Com fe in fuudry ' Places of this Realm hath (within the tieie aforefaid) been accord- J in;Iy follow'd and perform'd. > 30 ' ttem\j:) That he withorhers Affembled in fuch a General ' Aflembly, or Synod at Cambri^^e, did corxludc and decree ('as m * anotherSchedule annex'd or in f me part thereof is conEiin'd)which * Decrees were m^de known afterwards at iVarwick to fundryClafles * there by his means airtrnbltd^ amJ al'ow'd alfo by ihcm then met * together in the lame or like fofm. 31 ' lum^ That at fuch feveral Meetings, Synods, and Conferences * within the faid time, many other Determinations, as well whatt * fhou'd be done and perform'd, or omirred \ as alfo what ftoa'd ba * holden Confonant w Gog's Word, or dilagreeing from it hwe * becij let down by the faid Thomas C^rtwright and others. As name- ' Iv, that all :i(^mitttd to either AfTembly fhou'd fubfcribe the faid * Book of Difupline, Holy, and Synodical, thaf thofe who were feni ' frcmaiiVConte-ence toaSvnod, fhou'd bring Letters f/W/^r/^yy * or Credence: That the laft Moderator fhou'd write them: that the * Superfcription thereof fhould be to a known man of the Affembly * then to be holden : That no Book made by any of them fhou'd be * put inPrinr, but by Confent of theC/^Z/Ij at leafl ^ That fome of * them njufl be tArrefi, and fome more Mtldmdi Temperate where- ' by there may be both of the Spirit of i://^.f, and ELz,ais' That all ^ admitted amongft them, fhou'd fubftiibe and proniiie, to conform themfelves in their Proceedings, Acmir.ilhation of Sacraments, and of Difcipline, to the Fo,m of that hn k ^and that they would * fubjtd thtmlelves to the Cenfuring of the ^m^^fw,boih for Dodrine ^ and Life : and laftly, That upon Occaficn when any of their ^ Brethren ihaJl be lent by them upon Affairs of the Church Cas to iit Ibii, ;. 202. r^o Chaps 2. The Loyalty of Prefbytertanr P krt I.* ^^e great M?etngs, Parliameni (Sec) they air wouM bear th^ir ' ' Charges in Common .• That there might be no Superiority amon^ it ^^srSrSJ t tht rn, and that the Moderatorflif^^as it happen'd) is not a Superior- ' itv, o*- honor, but a B irden : That no Profaue Wricer,or any other ' than Cinojiicfil S^r'p'nremiv be alled^M in Setmous : that they ' iJiouM all teach, thai I'r.e Mimflry of thofe who did not preach, is * no Mhi\(trfy baz a Mee- Nullity , that it is not iiwful to take any ' O-nh, w!iereby a min may be driven todilcover any thing Penal ' to himftlf^ or to h.s Brother ; efpecially if he be perfnaded the ' Matter co be law^ul,ror which the Punifhment is like to be Inflit'\eda * or having taken it in this Caie. need not difeover the very Truth •• * that to a B'(i%rp or other Officer Ecdefiujhcal (as is ufed now m the * Ciuirch of £>?g/<«'?^/) none Obedience ought to be given, neither in ' appearing beroie them, in doing that whicn they command, nor 'in abHainuig from that which they inhibit ; that in fach Places ' as the mofl: of the People favor'd the Caufe -jfSincerity, Elderfliips * fliou'd wari!y& wifely be placed and Eftablfh-d^whichConflftory in "fome places hath been either whoHy, or in part erecled accord- ' ingly, yea in fome Golledges in the Uaiverfityjas he knoweih^hath ^ he3-r.d, or verily Vclieveth. The mofl Particular Atcount I find of the A^s of any of their Synods, is that of the Synod oiCoventry^ Anno 1 588. But Fuller takes it all from B\^o^ Bancroft^ whofe Authority is not very g?eat, as I fliall fhew in the next Chapter : However compared with better af- ttfled accoihits, in may help to gtve fome light in thi*; matter, and will be of ufe in my Application- of this Hiftorical Narrative^ for vindicating the Loyalty of thofe Presbyterians. * A ?<^^ Synod oi iht Presbyterians^ o{\]\tWarmchfliire-Cla[fis^vj2i% * call'd at Coventry^ die decimo qnarti '^ that is oa the tenth oi Afrit {Anno 1588): wherem the Qyeftions, brought the lafl year from the Brethren of Cambridge- Synod, were refok'd, in manner as follow- cth. 1 . ' That Private Baptifm was mlawful. 2. ' That it ij not law; id to read Homilies in the Chu^'chi 3. ' That ths Sign of the Crefs is net to be us'd in Baptifmi 4' {i)J(l* ObifL s» »94» *C! Under §^een TJiT^ahcth. Chap. 2 ^ 131 j^. * That the Faithful onght rot to Com'^umcate with urlenrri'd M-- Poj-f t ' niflers^ ^Itho^ they m-iy be prefcnt nt their Fervice^ if ikey i * come of fHTpofe to hear a Sermon^ the retijon is^ becaitje C/''v^w* ' Layrr.en as wett as MiniFters may read fuhlic Service, 5. ' That the CalUrg of BifJjnp &c, xs nr.Uvcifnl. 6. ' That asthey deal inCuufes tccUjiaBical^ there is no duty hi- * longing unto^ nor any pihUckly to be given them, 7. ' That tt is net laxpful to be ordain* d Mini (Ins by them^ or to ds' ' noitnce either ^uf^ensions^ or Excommunications fsnt from ' them. 8. ' That it is not lawful to reft in the Bijhcfs deprivation of any from * the Minijlry^ except (upon Confnltation with the NeighboHr Jl^i- ' nifiers a<^joinirg and his fleck) it feems fo good unto them: but * that he cor.tinne in the fame nntdhe be compeWdto ^e Contrary ' by Civil force, ^. ' That it IS not lawful to appear in a Bifhcfs Court y but with PrO" ' teflation of their unlawfuinefs. 10.' 'that Btfhops] are not to be ac}inowleg*d either for Do^ors^ ' Elders^ cr DeaconSy as having no Ordinary Calling- 11.* That touching the Keftaurativn of their Ecclefiijfiical Dif-* ' cipline^ it ought to be taught to the People as Occafion jhaU * ferve . 12.' That (as yet) the People are net to be folieited (publiihly) to the * praUife of the Diftifline^ {till) they be bitter irftrh^ed in the * knowledge oj it. 13.' Thut men of better Vndtrjlanrirg are to be allured privately ' to the prefert etjibracing oj the Lifitphre^ ana ^ruElice of ity ' as far as theyfhali be well able^ with the Peace of the Church, * Likewife in the fcine Alftinbly theaforcfaid Book ofDifcipiine was appiov'd to be a Draught I ffemial and rec-jf-ry for alltimes-^dind certain Articles { dcvisV n. Approbation, ind tor the mannei of ibe ule thereof, ) v-ere biought forth, tugud of, and fubfcrib'd unto, by Mr. Cartwnghtj and others, and afrerward? ttndeied far and near to the feveral CUJfes^ ior a general Ratification of all the Brethren. J3ui the beft attelled and moft Authentic Account of ihsfe Meet- S 2 iiigs 122 Chap. i. TbeLiydtyofPreshperlani Part \wi'^ for DlCciplii?, '^ from Mr. Stone oaQ of the Miaifters and ■ Members of the Hid AlT.mbUes. WVNJ * Taom.is (e) Stone Pirfm of iVarkton la Nirthtmmn-Shire (by ver- ' cue of aa Oarh cender'd him the day before b/ che Queen's ^ttor- ' ney, and folemnly talc.n by him) was examia'd (««/» 159' •) by * the Examiner for the 5r<«r.Ck'2fw^a- inGr^y-Zww, troni Hx of che * Clock in the Morniag, lill feven at nighs, , to anfwer unto thirty * three Articles, but couM onlv ephiwdly aepfs zo thefe which ' foibw -^ faichii'ly by mz traifcriya oir of a G:)nfe(fiaa wric- ' ten. wirh his own hand, and lately in my PolT^^dlon. * I. Interroir. Who and how many afn;m')led a.id met together wich ' the * fiid Defendents, T. C H. E. £. S. ^c. all or any of ' them, where, wlicn, how often &c? ' * The Anf.verof T. S. to the /.f^rfv^. touching ihc Circum- ' ftances of firft, Places of Mceiing. 2 Times. 3 Perf^ns. The Pla- ' cesof Mf^etin^ were eiclier grearer or lefs ; The greater were Len- * don in the Hi'^ufcsof f ravers^ Egerton^ Gt^ii-n'r and Bayher '^ and *' Cambridge \\\ St. John's Colledge. The left'er Places of Meeting were * Northa.niftin i i the Houfes ot Jih-'fan and Snakes ^ and Kettering or * near ic i>i the Houfes of D.immes and Stones. *2. The times of Meeting were i. Since the beginning of the lafi; * Parliament. 2. Sundry limes at LW^^z, how oft he remembred ' not. 3. Sundry times at iVtfr^^4'^pfo«, how ofc not remem )red. 4. ' Sundry times at Keneringy how ofs not remembred. 5. Once at * CamWtdge-^ about 5/^«>-^r/%rerally were, Mr; * Travirsy Mr. Ch^trke, Mr. Egenon^ Mr. Gardener^ Mr. Barber ., Mr. * Brown., Mr. Somerfcales^ Mr. Ca^twrighf., Mr. Chat'erton^ Mr. Gyf- * ford, Mr. y4!ien, Mr. Edmunds.^ Mr. Gyliykaftd, Mr Cuhermell^ Mr. * OxenbridgCy Mr. Barhon^ Mr. Fludde\ and this Deponent. Thofe iMeeting ^> irf. 1>U' f . 20#, kc? Under §tueen'E\i'L^hcth. Chap. 2. 133 Meeting in Camhrldoe werc,Mr, Ch^tterrofrand others oi Camhrii^ge^ Piri" T Mr. Cirtrvrigot^ Mr. Gyjord^ Mi. JlUn, Mr. 5;/../'?, Mr. Fludde, ai.d t. * this Deponent. Thoie mecciag in Northampton jointly or feveral- U^^>«'^- ^ ly were, Mr. Johnfon^ Mr. Sn.t^f^ Mr. Sybrhorp^ Mr. Edw.irdi^ Mr. Fln-fde^ thi^ Deponent, Mr. Sf/cer, Mr. Flcf.nrare, ^\r:.H.rrrifon^ Mr. Littleton^ ^\ .Willi M/jfon^ Mr, RufJjbrook^ iSir. Buvrcr^ Mv. Bivbon^ Mr- A'/.^;^^, Mr. Trouatome^ Mr. /t/'«y/i<', and Mr. i^radjhaw. Thofe racetiag at Knteritig^ or near it, were Mr, r)^^/??^?!-, Mr. Tattifun^ Mr. 0.i^r, Mr. BAxttr^ Mr. RnjUyook,, Mr. Athnfon^ Mr. WiiU.ifn- [on, Mr. A'fajfie^ and this Deponent. 2- Interrog, Wno called tiicie AfTjoiblies, by wh^t Aathority, how, or in wvnat fort .^ Anfwer^ That he knew net by who n they were call'd-, neither k:iew he any other A -th-rity therein, laving a Voiuncary or tree Motion,one giving another Iiitelhgence as occafion ierv'd, fome- times by Letters and fo ne times by word of Moiuh. 3 Interrog, Who were Moderators in them, and what their Of- fice ? Anfw' That he remembred noi who were Moderators in any Meeting parricuhrl/, faving one at JVorthampto?7^ when Mv.Jfih}'- [on was armonifh'd, and that was eicner himfelt, or Mr. 'inapes^ he knew nor well whether. 4 /^fc'rrog-.VVhac things A^ereDebatedin thofe Meetings or AfTcm- biics ? Anfrer. That the things chiefly an J mofl often confiJer'd of in th fe AfTjmMies were thefe. ^r/r, the Subfcription to tlie Book of Cmmon Prayer ^ h;)W far it might be yielded unto, rather ihaa any flT)u'd for^o his Miniftry. idly^ The Booi of Difchline was of- ten Perus'd, difcufsM &c ^d'y^ Three Petitions or Supplications were agreed upon to be drawn, jirfi^ to Her Majefly. idly^ To the Lords of the Council. 3^/^, To the B Ihops The things de- bated of in particular, he remembied not more than thefj. ftr/f^ the peifediig of the S'?-?/^ o/i)//e/>//«f , and purpofe to Subfcribc to k 2i Camb/idge^ Sicendly^ This Qucftion difputed, whether ii were convenient f )r Mr. Cartrpright ro reveal the Circumltances of the Conference a little before he was Committed. Thirdly, The Admonifliing of A^r. John fort once at Northampton. Foitrthly, The debating of this Queftion, whether the Books call'd Apocry- pha I c?^4. Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Preshyterians 'Pqrf T ' P^'^ were Warrantable to be read Publickly in the Church, as the * ' Canonical Scriptures. ^L/~ynNJ *■ 5. interrog. Whether any C^»/«rf J were exercis'd,what /^/«^.f,TpW», ' vphere^ upon tp'jow, by tpjo^, fiv what Cn\ik ? y^;.'/ip. That he never Hw any Geafire exercif'd^ faving Admonl- * tiow once u\>':yn Mr Johnjo^'^ of North impton J for mifcairying him- •^ felfin his Converflition to the fcaiidal of his Calling, neither was * that iifed with any kind of Authority, but by a voluntary yielding ^ untn it, and approving of it, as well iahim that was admonifhed, as ' in him that did admomjh. *• 6 Inttrrog. Whether any of the faid Defendents had moved *" or perfuaded any to refufe an Oith, and in what df^Q &c i ' Anf. That he never knew any of the Defendents t^ ufe words of '' Perfuafion to any to refufe an Oath ^ only Mr Snape fent him down ^ in Writing certain Rcafons drawn outof the Scripture, which •^ moved bim to refufe the General Oath;) ex Officio ^ which I flood * perfuaded, that he fent to no other end^ but to declare that he re- '^ fiTed not to fwear, upon any Contempt, but ordy for Co/ifcience * Take. -* * 1 have infifted the longer en this Depofition, becaufe the firll ^ and fullefl: I find in the kind thereof, containing their CUJfes more '' formally fettled m Northampton-Shire^ than any where elfe in E»g- ^ land. For as the weft part of that Shire, is obferved to be the ^ highefl placeof £w^/<««^, as appcareth by the Rivers fifing there, ■*^ and running thence to the four Winds .• fo Wis that County a pro- •^ bable Place (as the middtft of the Land)for thePiesbyterianDif- * cipline, there Erected, to derive it felf into all the quarters of the ■^ Kingdom. This Hiftory of the Difcipllnarian Party makes it plain, what the meaning was of their Combi ting themfelves by Cl.ijf(s and Subfcnp' (lonsy (as Sr hrancis li^aljingham terms it). They &re(^ed Presbyte- ries, reduced thtir Difcipline into a Mechod, and took care that their Members fhould oblerveie. And all this amounts to nomorc than thi?, that they were Presbyterians, and aded according to .their Confciences, believing that they were fetting up and Promoting zn Ordinance of God. And therefore they mult either have pro- ,c;e€ded sccoiding to thofe PrincipleSjOr they mult wilfully have pmk- t€d Under §i^een 'EVaahtth Chap. 2f i^d tfd what they believed in their Confcienccs, was their Duty to prac- D^ ^a, j life, which would have ^eea in thema very great Sin. IVas not thU * meer Confcience then, and not Faction / VVherefore accordinf^ to the L/'^^'^ firflrnf i\\t txvo Maxims h'i which the Qiieen propos'd to govern in Matters Ecclediftical, \izJ hat Confcience jhoidd not be forced, the Difci- plinanavs ougSt not to have been {-> ftverely dealt with, for hcldmg tlieir CUjfes^ and fiich like INIeerings. 1 beg the Reader may carefully obferve one thin^^, that tho'a creaS Pare of the above Hiftory is t:^k n from the Profefs'd Hitter Enemies of the Prcsbytei ian!;,^//::.. from Bancroft (out of vjbomPiil.er tianfcribes the A(fts o! the Synod of Coventry) and from the Hij,h-Gomaii[riJij ; who exhibited the Articles againfl: Cartwright^ yet there isnot fo much as AN HINT of any Rebellion ^ Confpiracy agatnji the Qjteen''s Titlci^ Perfon^ or Gevernmetn ^ or of any Seditious Combination 3^d'mit her .• r.or are any of thofe things laid to the Charge of thofe Presbyterians. If any thing of this Kind could have been with any Colourable Pre- tence charg'd upon 'em, would the High-Commiflion have failed to ' have put it in rheir Articles againft C?rnrn^k ? Surely nothing had been more Proper to juftify thf!ir Proceedings againfl ih€ Puritans, than to have impeacbed'epn of an Uadutiful Behavior to their Prince*, for that wou'dhave taken away all ground of Cenfuring their Con- c^ud as fpvfre. Bur inflead of this, they proceed againit 'em for Meer- Non-Conformity. Mr Stone's Evidence upon Oath exiceedlnaly flrengthens the Ob- fervation I have been making. For, fome of his Biethren and Friends beiiigdiffjtisfy'd with his revealing the whole of their Procfet inss in their Meetings for Difciplinc, he gave the Reafons of his Pradice in feveral Letters to his friends, faithfully tranfcrib'd by Fuller^ as he af- ferts. And among other things Mr Stone alledg'd in his own Defence, that their concealing of thtir Meetings and of what was tranfcnfted in them might occalion fufpition of fome Evil, 2is Treafon, Rebellion^ Sedition &c. And that to Ihow the contrary to the whole World^ be did freely revealall that was done by 'em, which ir,decd they them- ielves did i>ot conceal out of anyConfcicufliefs of fuch VillanousPrafti- res,but leaf]: aDifcovery fliould draw upon 'em (cn^eRigorcusProceed- sngs, and cauft the Peifecuiioa^of hoaeft Innoceoi People. Com, par«- 1 36 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Trejbyterians IPcLtt I ^'^''^ ^^^^^ ^^'^ ^^^^ Charader, which his greatefl Eaemies gave * him. «i/V%J ' Sure I am rfays Tiiller (f) ) the Bifhops till his dying day beheld ' him ^^ -An Inaevuoits mariy carrying his Conf-ieace with the Rea- ' foil thereof in his own breaft, and not pinning it on the Prefident of ' any other ; vV^herenpon they permitted him. peaceably to poflefs ' his Parfonage, (being none of the meaneil) tho' he continii''d a ' fi-.jf N n-Co-^formifl^ only Quietly Enjoying his own Opinion. ' Indeed h?wasa downright Naikanad^ If not Guilty of too muchof ' the Dove in V\m. And feeing fach a Nathanad^iredy relblving to tell all, could nod Sx the lealt olotupon < heir Loyalty, and when he was upon Oath too^ and thnt their i.nikell Enemies cou'd not find any Ground to accufe 'em upon, except their meer Non-Conformity •, I can't fee wfeas can be f^id, from thefe Meetings for Difcipline , to jullify the hard Treatment the Pre^jbyterians in thofe days met with. There are indeed feme things in the Ads of the Synod oxCoventry^ and in fome of the Concinlions fram'd in thefe Meetings, as they are reprefenitd in the Articles againft Catxvrigk^ w^hich, tho' they are not D. floral, yet appear, (^asih^y . j * ('hitherto invifible; Forces to flormthe Fleet ^^nA refcuethtir friends ^-/^»***^ ' therein. A third fort behtld IVigmgton the writer of thefe words, as ' one, butof the foberer lore of D/fl/a^ed Mtn^ a:id E lerefore in ' vain do jliiCd Heads make ferious Comments on light mens random- * Exprejfionsy where the knos is neither to be nntied^ ner cut^ bnt C^fi ' avpAy. Thus have I been led into a Confiderable Part of the Hi/lory of the Presbyteriins undei Q. EUtl n the Pretender^s Jnvafion \ accufing 'em of Difloyalty for their refuiing to Enlift in f.he Militia, and to take the Oaths. And he ofizvs this Parallel of Practices, to draw Her Mijefty into Severi- ties Parallel to thofe of Q. Eliz.aheth. But the true Hiftory and Rea- fons of their Condud, belonging to the Reign of Queen JNNE *, 1 difmifs it until we come to that Period, and fhill then give a full Account of is, and coafider what he hasadvanc'd in both hisPamph- lets concerning it. CHAP. (.m) E if.hort, to Peace cui Vv'mi p.. 27. quoted by P. A. in his Vmity^ Mifchief ^mViinger ofcontiriuing Ccrcmnies^ Sii^, p. 4. Under King ]^mcsL Chap;' 3. 145 CHAP- III- The Loyalty of Presbyterians Dur- ing the Reign of King JAMES, the Fir ft ojf Englandj^/^^ Sixth of Scotland. FRom the Reign of Queen Eliz,aheth our Author next comes to her SucceiTor King James, ' And here (fays he) I do folcmnly * proteft to 50U, that 1 think it wou'd raife the Indigna-ion of any * iBgentotiSTMan and Loyal Subjed to read the Account, that not on- * ly Bifhop Spotlwood, but even Petrie and Calderwood give of their * Treatment of that Prince and his Royal Family. In fhort, the Af- * fembly of the Ktrh, rejeUing all his Authority, and convening them- * felves, 2iX\^ fuhverting the whole ConftitHtion as they pieasM, did treat * him lo indecently, fo infolently, I may fay barbaroujly upon all Occa- ' fions , that no body can wonder, that that much Injur'd Prince ' fhould tell his Son in his BafiUcon Doron , I have been vex^d by thefe ' Turitans from my very Birth, ytatheyftrfecHtedmewhilftlwasinmy ' Mother's Belly, and it muft be little that they had not Murdered me *■ before 1 was born. 1 hope every good Maa will be on his Guard againft that HEIGHT U Of Part I ' 1^6 Chap. 3- The Loyalty oj Preshyterians ■n .. OF INDIGNA.T10M, and Tr^nfpn of Tajfion into which this Au- rart I. ^horismjV,-andbvwhichhe has been driven into //:jr/> Reproach- ly'VNJ fill Errors. How the Aflcmbly, that never m'.tdJring his whole Reign without: Addrefling W'm as their only Sovereign upon Earth, and owning their Allegiance to him ^ And who never encouraged any iMan to take up Arms agaiaft him, but who often Addrefs'd him for punifhing the FopiPii Lords, and their Abettors who rebellionfl/ iTiidean'lnTurreftion againfl him, and who er.coHrag'dall the Suhje^s to' {land by him, not only againft the Spaniard^ but all Foreign Pow- ers that (houM make any Attempt upon his Crown, Dignity andDo- miaions •, who were particularlv Inftrumental in ^^^p/w^ ^//his Siib- iedhin Peace during his Abfence in Denmark^ ashe himfelfacknow- led^'d on his Return •, and who after all his thwaning of them and ovmurn'ing their Eccleliafticaj Conftitution afcer his Acceffion to the Crown otErglzndj never once rais'd the leafl: Difturbance to his Ti- l tie or Authority : How, I fay, the AlTemMy fnotwithflanding of all i tnis) can be fald to rejeii all bis Authority^ is fuch a piece of Hiftory, '* as not'r.in? buE an highly >'^^y"^(!5^/'7^''^?7^f'o« dui ft advance- Seeing he eives not'one Inftance outot C^/^cj'irW, ov Petrie, of their-lndecent, InfolsnE and Barbarous Treatment of that Prince, or of their Subver- ting theleaft part (znd far lefs the whole) of the Conftitution, lam fatisfy'd he cou'd not do ic^ for his Indignacion was too great to pafs any thing of that kind that was within the Compafs of his kenn. And tho' he Pnou'd pick out of Sfotfwood fome Stories refleftiag upon their Behavior, yet fev/ Impartial Men will lay much Strefs upon what he fays againft them, feeing the Strain of his Hiftory favors fo much of Party and Refcntment. As for King Jamesh Teftimony of the Puritans : I defire our Au- thor may take that Prince's Teftimony of the Kirk of Scotland in his Speech to the Afismbly Jnno 1590 ' wherein (n) he prais'd God, * that he was Born to be King of fuch a Kirk^ the lincereft Kirk of ' the World, the Kirk of Geneva^ (faid he) keeped Pafch^ andTw/^^ ' what have they for them ? They have m Infiitutlm. As for our * Neighbour Kirk in England^ their Service is an EVIL SAID MASS (»; U% IbiA, p. 25^? Under King ]amQS I: Chap. 3. 14.7 * IN ENGLISH; they want nothirg of tke Mnfs ^ but the Liftirgs. iPoi'f t * charge you, ray good People, Minifters, Debtors, Elders, No- * * bles, Gentlemen and Brirons, to fiavd to your Purity^ and to exh^re VyV*NJ ' the People to da the fame, and, I forfootb, fo Ung as i BROOK * MY CROWN AND LIFE, (hall maimain the fame aga'wfi nil dead- Compare this with his Letter to Queen Eliz-^heth in favour of the Puritan Miniflers u]E>gU?id^ which is as follows, 'Right (o) Excel- lent, High and Mighty Princefs^ Our deai eft Sifter and Couiin \ in our heartieft manner, We recommend Us unto You. Hearing of the Apprshenfion of Mr. Vdall and Mr. Cartwngh^ and certain other Minifters of the Evangel within your Realm-, oixohcfe good Erudition and faithful travails in the Church, wc hear a very credible Commendation ; howfoever, that their DivcrfitT from the Bijloup and Others of Your Clergy^ in matters touching them m Coiifcience, hath been a Mean by their Delation, to work thtm Your Mijliking ; at this prefent we cannot (weighing the duty which vv§ owe to fuch as are offtiHtdfor their Confcience in that Pro- fefion) but by our moft Effedtuous and Earneft Letter interpone us at your hands, to flay any harder Vfage of them for th.it Ciufe ; re- quefting you moft earneftly, that for our Caufe and IntercefTion, It may pleafe you to let them be relieved of their prefent Strait, or whatfoeverAccufation or Purfuit depending on tbatGround.-refped- ing both their former Merit, in fetting forth the Evangel-^ the Sim' plicity of their Confcience^ m this Defence ; which cannot well be let by Comfuljion-^ and the great flander, which couM not fail to fall out, upon their farther Straitning,for any fuch Occafiony which we aflure us, your Zeal to Religion, befidcsthe expcftation we have of your good Will to. pleafure us, will willingly accord to our Rcqueft: ; Having fuch Proofs, from time to time of our like Difpcfition to you, in any matter which you recommend unto us. And thus Right Excellent, Right High, and Mighty Princef, our dear Sifter and Coufin , We commit you to God's Protection. Edinburgh^ June nth 1591. U 1 Let (0) f«fler's Church- Hiftoi^y. 3o9i 9, p« 203, 1 4-8 Chap. 3. The Loyalty of Prejhyterians ? ^^i. -r -^ Lei the Judi'ious Reader obferveihat here is a full Vindication of chac KirkoiScotUn-i^ and Ehe Puritans of E>cUnd : The former l/^/'NJ neicher could be £he Sincerefi; nor the Purefl Kuk in the World, if they hid been fuch a Narfery of Rebellion, Sedition and Birbarity 10 their Prince as our author makes 'em to be •, and why the King Ihould charge 'em to ftand by their Purity and exhors all the Peo- ple Co do fo ^ and promife to maintain the fame againfl all Deadly, if they had rcjcded all this Authority, fubverted the whole Con- Hituiion, vexed him from his birth, and Perfecuted him from his Mo- ther's Belly, is hard to Determine, If it beobjeded, that hefpoke all this agai^ft his Ccr/fcievce pnd only to flatter the Kirk ^ its as eafily anfwcr'd, that he might fpeak agaimlEhe Puritans from the fame Principle, and to flatter a Paity of the Hrgh Church ^ he lay under as great Temptations to the Litter after he went to England, as to the forrrnr v!hi\Q in Scotland : btCvhs, this Objef^ion does fo impair ihe Reputation of his Teflimony in any Cafe, that I queftion (if it be truej if his fingle Evidence can be admitted to prove any PoinS whatfocver. We don't ufe to lay much ilrefs upon Witnefles who give Contradidory Evidences. As to the the Erglijh Puritans, he gives 'em a large Character, for their^(?Oifl^ Erudition, faithful Irava'Us in the Church, as.d former Merit ^ reprefenting 'cm as differing from the Bifhops from Confcience and not from WUfulnefs^. and there- fore diffuades from perfecuting of them. But let us confider theCredibility of the thing it felf affcrted in his Baftlicon Doron. The Lord Darnley\ Relations did indeed when he was in his Mother's Belly, kill the Italian David Riz,to m her Pre- fence, forReafons which Hiftorians mention, and which the Rules of Decency forbid m« to repsat. If his own Father's friends did this, 1 know not how the Kirk is bound to anP^'er for it-, ind I never beard of arjy other danger he was in while in his mother's Belly, if ihAi was any at all. Upon his ifirth, he was taken care of ." and his , mother a violent Enemy to the Reformation, having ^I'.aVc/jr^^, all pof- fible care was taken of the Young King's Education to that Degree^ that he was one of the Learnedelt Princes of his Age, or perhaps of any other. The General Affembly were fo far from encroaching upon the Rights of his Crown, or from railing, abetting or countenancing any Rebelliou& Under King James I; Chap. 3. 1 4.9 Rebellious, Treafonable or Dlfioyal Pradifcs againfl him, tliat theyp^^|. j thonglit chemlclves bound in ConfLierxe to ufc their Ecckfiaftical ^■>- L a « Authority andCcnfaresagainn: thofe who were guilcy of 'em;,:n lla- L/'VNJ doubted Proof of their b:ing DuUtul and Loyal Snhjc^s. TheCaleof Mr Jndrevf Hunter is a phin laftance of this. Mr Humtr had de- fei ted his FIock,and joined h'mfeif to Bothnel^who was guilty of Re- bellion aoainft his Prince: Whereupon ihzGentral ^jfembly inthe year I $94 SOLEMNLY DEPOSED thefaid Mr Hunter i^om the Office of the holy mii:iflry, until he fiiould fatisfy his Maj-fty and the Kirk. And the King hlmfelf acknowledged, That this was the fir ft hfianc£ of an open Traytor of their ^unBion againfl a Chrifiian King of their oTvn. Rd'giofj^ and their Natural Sovereign, (p) Their early Zeal againft this Scaidibusand Rebellious Grime was not only a mark of their j'jft ladignition againft it, butalfa the beft means thit could be Apply'd on their Part for preventing it in others. Bothitel him- fclf(who headed that Rebeliionj and Ibme of his Chief Followers were Excommunicated. In the Year 159$. the AfTerably met at A^ontrofe^to (how thek Deteftation of all Treafon and DiOoyalty, and to teftify their Com- plyance with his M^ijefty's juft Defire, made an Aft in the follow- ing Words, ' Whereas iq) an Ordinance is craved to be made a- ' gainftPraftifers of any TreafonableEnterprifs, or Confpiracy a- ' gainft his Highncfs Pcrfon or Eftate, being found and declared * Culpable thereof by Lav/ ^ thas they therefore ftiall incur the Sen^ ' tence of Excommunication ''\'^t GEHEKkL ASSEMBLY ACRE- * ETH, Lefitima Cognitione Ecclefiafiica Praeunte. When he came into England^ the Puritans received hinv with all the joy and Satisfaftion Poffible (r) \ after all their hopes were fiuf- tratcd upon the Hampton-Court-Conference, They prefenc a Petition to the King {Tgned by one thoufand Minifters,wherei.i they lay ' See- ' in^ ^f) it hath pleated the Divine Majefty, to the great ComforE ' of all good Chriftians, to advance your Highnefs, according to * your jifl; Title to the Peaceable Governmeiu of this Church and * Commonwealth of England \ Can any thing be more dutiful and Loyal (f) videC^Jderrvfod's Hift. p. 304, 30'5, 307. (q)Id. Ibid p. 308. (r) Ctf.te's Deiea. Part i. p. u, 12. if) FwiVr's Church Hift". Bock 10. p. 22, i r^ Chap. 3. The Loyalty of Treshyterians V^Yi T Loyalih^n what U contained in thefe Exprefllons f And in the Body J ai t 1 f ^^; ^j,^ p.jjtjoii i^ felf. They frankly ofter'd Subfcrjpcion to the Articles V>'^V"NJ of Pvcl";gion accorciiiig <0 the Law (i t.fojar as concern d Matters of Faith i^nd the Dcctrtv°vf the Sacraments^ being all that was reqaired by the Statute of 13 £//2l.) ?nd co the Kings Supremacy. And the Noo-Conformiftsof D, or Rebetiioii at home '. And I. believe ■*• "^^ ^ • all will own that L^^/i/ was not To great a friend to the Tuiritans^ as U^^/'NJ to ^^i''ei-i! dfta VjiI any of thcjr Rebellions, if he cou'd bit haVe had the leafi Pretence of acculing 'cm. bi.L .r .\e tx.iraifie c^eRcafons of tliisPrince'SjSpleen agaiifltl-ePrn/- tar.s^ Ccke in hisr^ff^.will heln rs lo find 'em oiu,who(//:ra>'S of hin?, *■ Tbit he v^as the firflCac ieail iince^icW^' 2d) ThaL afferccd and ' endeava'd to introduce an Arbitrary Fairer in E?:glanii^ Foreign to ' the Lawsand Conflitutionsor it ^ and in ail his Reign was more ' governed by Flatterers zndk Favorit es^ihan by theAdvice of hisP^r- ' liarr.ent or a wife Council He was more zealous for * hin:kif and the Prefervaticn ot his liihercnt Uirth- Eight to the * C\ \\n oi Enojandy than for the honor ot God and our Sivior by ' the Pope's Ufurpations otherv;ife^^or in his Speech at the Open- * ing;he firftParliament cf hisReign he calls theChurch oiRome a true ' Cwxrc/?, and our Motlcr-Chmch^ and if they would by afide thdr ' King-k.i)ling and King-Depofing Dodrine, and lome Niceties ^ (but he n^mes them not) he was tontent to men tlitm t7iid- " way' ' When King 7^w// agreeable iheir Principles about it are to all the Ends and Rights of Ma^iitracy has been already clear'd. What ihey did in the Kings Minority ^ is buii what all Nations in the World do, when their Kings are Mi»or*^ that is, they do their bufinefs the belt way they can by i\k AfTi tance of a Regency. And all their Policy and Difcipline begun in the King's Minority, was after many full and free Conferences between him and them firmly Eflablifh'd by him and the Parliament, when he came to age^ they never pre- tended to ^/r^r 1?;?^ Larv (as has been ftiown) and far lefs without Knowledge or approbation of King and State. SjcH falfe Hillo- ry does not become any man in any Place, but far lefs a Ckrgy-man and from the p/p> too, which is too Sacred lo be made the Stage of fi}ch Untruths. And to our Author's Qj'eftion in his Marginal Note upon ir, viz. rvhat tio they now in their Provincial Sy^iods ^ I an- fwer, they do their own proper bufinefs for the go.d of Mens fouh, without attempting or pretending to alter any Law of the State, or difi:urbing either Queen or Subjedh In his 2d Article, he fays, they difeharg^d the Bifljops ; for w^iich the fame R*afon which juflify'd their Opinion againft the Superi- ority of Bifiiops, is fuiHdent. They ufe no fiich Terms as Command- irg the King and Coi-mcil under fain of Excommunication^ tho' they did frequently Petition him in moll humble manner, to that tffed. 3/y, He fa^s they ^rrfcrih^d Laws for the King and State , which is as great an Untruth as any of the former. And tho' they may ies forth in their humble Supplication , that fuch and fuch particular things wcu'd be an Efiabhjhing of Iniquity by a Law. ('as his Marginal Note Infinuates) is this prefcribing a Law ? I fappofe our Author and all good Proteftancs wou'd allow the Convocation to Addrefs the Government, if they were about to eflablifh any Jniquity by a Law 5, (which I hope they are too Vertuous to Attempt) anci yet this cou'd not be reckon'd a prefcribing of Laws to the Queen and State. If the Aflembly has judg'd that to be Iniquity^ which in truth is no Ini- quity afi all, that it k\i wou'd be nothing to the^urpfe in Hand\ and the Uiukr Kmg]amcs I. Chap. 3. 157, tliedifcnfTi' g ot that Controverf/ wouM lead me dear oR' the pre- P^rf r- fenE Sur.j..ct: Aid clierefore I (hill fay no more of ic, but oniy infert one t'aragraph of the humble Addrcfs and Apology of the Pres byte- ^•-/'vvJ ria.'i Aiiuijlers and Gentlemen in the North oi IrelatiJ, cccafionM by the Reprefentatioa ot the /r/;//? Convocation agaiiill cbem, vvhereia that matter is fufRcicndy ckir'd. It runs thus, ' While (a) che Convocation iff^rts, thae where we have the Af- ' ccndency, the conllant Tenor of our Difcourfe is to call Tolerati- ' on, efla'vUlhing Iniquity by a L^rv ^ We beg leave to acquaint ycur ' Msjelly, that we neither know nor remember that ever we us'd ' any fich Exprefllon, but find it once us'd in a Reprcfentaticn ot the ' Commifiioners of the General AfTemkly of the Church of Scotland^ ' not with any 'Defign to pafs that Cenfure upon all Tohraiion in Gc- ' neral of fuch as Diflent fiom 'em, but only sgainfl a particular ' Draugh? of an Acl of Toleration for Epifcop-il D .flenters, broughi ' into the Patiiament of that Kingdom, in the year »703. which ' laid them under no Obligation of giving Security for their Fideii- ' ey to the Government, tbo' many of 'em \stxthiOvan J^xcchites^ and * continue dill to be fuch, as appears by their praying open'y for ^ the Pretender^ and refiifmg to pray for your mofb Excellent ?.1;.jclt7. * And whether fuch a Toleration wou'd not have been an eilablifh- ' ing Iniquity by Law, even in the Judgment of all your faithful * Subjects of all Perfuaflon?, we humbly fdbmlt it to your Wajefly, But to return to Bancrojt^ he mifreprefents the Principles of Pref-. byteri3ns,whi]e he aflerts that theymaintain'd before the King,* That * He WAS an Incompetent Jndge , and Utterly difclaimM his Autiiori- ' ty, that for fuch matters as were fpoken in the Piilpir, they * ouglit to be exempt from the Judgment and Corrc6ion of Princes.' For they teich that the Magiftrate ought to maintain the true Reli- gion, and fupprefs Herefy and Idolatry ^ whence it neceSiily fol- lows that the Magiftrate has a power of punifhing Preachers of falfc Doctrine taught \n the Pulpii as well as out of it. But the true State of the Controverfy between the King and fome of the Miniflcrs was thisj fome of them having been cited to appear before the Privy- Council W v/ie Prefent Jtate of Religion in Irehni, p. 38. k8 Chap. 3. The Loyalty of Trejhyterians Pirf 1 Council, on pretence of iheir fiying lometbing in the Pulpit vvhidi i ci.i I 1 . ^fflgi^gjj c^j^ t-t^e £^j.ig an^j the Conrr, they pUaded that the Faichhil WV^J Exercifeof their Miniflry oblig'd 'em to Reprove Sin in the Highefi ■a> well as the Afeaneft ^ and that what they did being a Part of their Micr Spiritual I'lnMion^ & HO way relating to the King's Title to ! is Crown, or to his Civil Authosicy, Power and jurifdidion, was Cog- ^li2able only, Frima hflantia^ by the Ecckfiailical Judicatures of the Church. The Debate tuin'd much upon the Quellion about their Church Eflablifiimcnt. But the King's l^ower in punifhing by the Civil-Sword the Preachers of Falfe and Scandalous I^odrine, and of Ms being a Competent Judge of h in order to the Exercife of that .Fowei was notdeny'dby tliem: But the Queflion was whether the \ -Church was to judge in thefe matters Trima Infiantia^ or whether 'the Magiftrate might do it before it was try'd in any Ecclefiaflical Ccurt \ For, that he might do it afterwards, and punifh a Pres,bytery cr any Ecclefiaflical Judicatory that give a wrong Judgment, is . what i/'r/?tfr///r(^ and G/Z/i^/pV (two Zealous Presbyterians) have fully granted, as I have fhown Q;ap. i. p. 6©, 5i, 62, 6i, 64. Our Author alledgeth thatMr. Boyfe and Mr. Mc Brtde (two Presby- .ferian Miniftersjdo fcurriloifly Preach againft the Conftitution, the Inflance he gives of the firil is his Sermon a^ainfi Epifcopacy ( Ifuppofe he nie.Mns the Sermon Entitul'd the Striptnral Bijlwp , ) But the De- bate between Mr. B — and his Opponents upon that Head being in Print, I refer the Reader to what is faid on both Sides. T he In- fiance he gives of tlie Utter^ is his Sermon Preach'd at the Synod in jlmrim-^ an Account whereof we have in the firft Apology of the Presbyterian Minillers in the North oUrcUnd^ occafion'd by the Re- ■prefen cation of the Houfe of Lords, in thefe Words. *■ As(^)to '^ th.e Sermon alledg'd to be Preach'd by Mr, Mc Bride^n a Provincial Synod at Belj.fi; we humbly offer, That that Sermon was Preach'd -^ ' at Antritr,^ in the Year 169S. When the Author cou'd not be cali'd •' a Non-Juror^ the Oath of Abjuration not being then irapos'd , ^ That it was Printed without his Order and Knowledge, and that * he, being on account of it called before the th^n Loids Juftices and f Council, was acquitted. 'BuE (^b) mi .p.o 28. U^7der King James I. Chap. 3 ; 1^9 But to pifs our Author's Marginal Digrefllon?, let us return to P^j;^ j ^ . the ici^n o(Khi9,Jarnes I. And here I find onr Authcr has very prudently w.ivM gi^/ing any Account of the Behaviour ot Picsbytc- L/'vnJ rians in Ay/^;?'? under this Reign •, for (^if he Is acquainted v.-ith the State of Ehat Kingdom, upon King ^^^^wf/s Acccfljon to the Crowa' of Epghtjd) he'H foon find thai the Settlemenr of P:esbyteri.^ns in the North oil-eUnti^ vva?^ one of the Chief Means of bringing that King- dom into the Obedience of the Ciow^n of ErgUnd^ and of Se- curing and Enlarging the Briti^^ and frotefl^vt Interefl in Jrc" land, as will appear by the following brief account otit. When \^ing James i. came to the Cro^n oi EngUnd^ the King-' dom of /rf/<2W in General, and the Britifl] and Proteftant Inteieft there in Particular was in a very Deplorable Condition: A Tragical" Series of Concurring Caufcs contributed to the Miferies of th u un- happy Nation. The Natives had a rooted Prejudice againfi; the , £w^////j Government, looking upon themfelvcs as rcduc'd to a State of Slavery by England ;and believ'd that sheir Antient Government by their own Kings, and their Laws, Liberties and Properties were all taken from 'em 6y Violence j and they had not the Right notion of the Excellency of the £"?7g///?j Conflitution, which is very fit for civilizing a Barbarous People. This oblig'd the £?.^///Jj to have a Watchful and Jealous Eye overall the Motions of thofe, whom they rather feund to be Implacable Enemies, than good Subjects .• and therefore they tranfplanted as many of their own Country- men into Ireland^ as they cou'd well fpare from home, and perfaade to go a- broad, upon fo difcouraging an Enterprize. But the Engliflj Setdements in Irelandbe'ing weaken'd bv theDebates between the Houfes o^Terk and Lancajier about the SuccefTian, which carry'd home divers of the £;7j^//y/; to affift the feveral Cindidates, according as their interefl and Party led 'em,the Iriflj gof Head again. In King Her.ry 8r/?'s time, their Averfion to the Englijh grew greater, upon his throwing ofFthe Pope's Supremacy, and then their Bigotted Clergy wrought upon a blinded People, and infiam'd 'em to the greateft Height, telling them thai before they had loft their Liber- ties and Aficient Privileges, but now their Religion (more valuable than all the Refty was a: Stake. All thefe Grounds of Prejudice werefarthcr improv'd upon Qvieen Elzabeth's happy AccelTion to t^c Croyv ^ i6o Chap. 3. l^he Lojalty of Treshyterians Pcirt I C^°^^'" 7 in whofe Reign the Epglljh were mlferably harafsM, and manj oi \m dii}:ioy''d in Ireland^ by the Rebellions and Infurredi- ^^-^^''V^*^ onsiaii'd by that bloody People. And there was a Law Enaded C3. and 4. Fhil-pznd Mar)2 ^nXXmVd An j^El' again fi brir.girg in of Scots^ rttairiing 0] thitv^ and Alarryin^ Toith them -^ which continu'd ia force during th.e whole Reign of Oueen Eliz.aheth^ and hindred jhe ScotSy from planting 'Zy/y/^r or any other \icin o( IreUnd : the Rebelli- ons of the/?///;, the Deftrudion of the Englifh^ and the keeping out the Scorj made it a miferable Difl^'acted Kingdom. And in this Poftureof aOjjrs King Jumes found it. That Prince finding that he couM neither Levy the Rents and Revenues of the Crown, nor execute the Ordinary Courfe of Juflice, nor Protcd fuch of his Subjects as were fiitbful there, withouE Military Force, eiidea/or'd to Civilize the Barbarous Na- • tives, and win them by acts of Grace and Lenity 5 and therefore reftor'd fome o{ the moll Confiderable of the irijli Rebels to their Eftates ?A\d. Inheritances. B'Jt this Experiment had not the Defir'd SlTiic. For loon after followed the Ungrateful and Traiterous Re* beliion of the Earl of 'Tyrone^ and Sr Cahir O D<5^k/rf;> and their Accomplices, wliich made a Confiderable addition to th-fe Miferies under which the Nition lay groaning, when he came to theThrone. The Parliufnent o{ Ireland^ (11, 11^ and 13 Jac. i. Cap^ ^.^ pad an Aci for the Attainder 0/ Hi5gb late Earl tf/Tyrone,Rory Late Earl of ryrconnd, S.r Cahir O DoG^hirtie a^id i'thers^ wherei 1 there is this Rem.rk^ble Exptffio ',:hat gives a moflAuthentic Pioof of theWeak- nefs of the Proteftant an(»^ Briufli Inteicft in Ireland at that time ^ the Words are, ' It may pUafe your mod Excellent M.^jcfty of yonr * Gracious Difpofition. which vour Hl^hnefs doth bear towards the * S E r r L I N G OH ! HIS UNREFORMED KINGDOM " The Parliament then look'd upon Ireland to be an Vnrefortn'd and an Vr2Jatled Kingdom. Many Projtds were fet on foot for the fettling and Reforming of it, and among oihers, that fame Parliament that had fo feeling- ly expr^fs'd its Mifrries, and who were the befl Judges of proper Expedients for remedying them, pifl: an A£t fChap. ^.) for repeal- ing the AHr againft bringing in of Scots, reta-.nln^ of them^ and Mar- ryina xcttht'mm j and thereby gave a public ? AKLI AMEN V ART En- conragemsm and Invitanon to the Scots NiEion co come and plant Ire- I and Under King James I. ; Chap; 3 . 161 lattd^ ind CO promote the Settlement and Reformation thereof. And P^t-f r thoMivers ot che5c^f j had co;ne over before the paffing of the af oreiaid "'■ ** * • >^(J?,cORC€iviug hopes that their own Natural Prince wou'd take care to ^*/'V"NJ havefucha Law piitii due cimc, ycc iveftufl; date the Commence- ment of the moH: confiiderable Atcemprs of the Scots for the Plantati- on of Vlfter^ fromcha'tt Law, after which^ there came over many Thow funds of 'etn in a few > ears, and fettled int;//?fr.They brought alongfl: with them their Presbyterian Principles, which they had learn'd au home, and cncourag'd Minifters of their own Perfuation to fettle a- mongft 'em. The firfl: Minifter'of thatPerfuafion (of Ehe5cofjNation)t have heard of wa5theReverendMr.£^ip^?'^^rj'f^who fettled vaBroad- ijland in the County of Antrim^ Anno \6\\. And about the fame time, or very fooa after it, we have an Account of the Reverend Mr. Robert Cunningham in Hollywood^ in the County of Down, And tnere were three Minifters who came from England^ and were Contempo- rary with Mr. Brice and Mr. Cunnhgham^ viz. Mr. John Ridges of AntriTi^ and Mr. Henyy Calvert^ and Mr. Hubbard oiCarrickfergus^ who had been a Pupil under the great Canmight in England. He was encourag'd by the Lord Chichefier^then Lord-Deputy of Ireland^ who himfelf had been a Pupil of Cartwrighth too ^ and was a Man of greax Part?, had got a confiderable Edate in Ireland^ and was amongft the firfl Planters of Vlfier'm this Reign, and an Encourager and Favorer of the Puritans, finding it for the Interefi; of the Crown and King- dom to have the Country Planted with Proteftant Inhabitants^ Mr, Ridge and Mr. Calvert were encoarag'd by the Family of the Clot- wonhfs of Antrim upon the fame Principles , and eipeciaily being themfelves of t-hat Perfuafion. In the Year 1^22. the famous Mr. Robert Blair came from Scotland^ and was ordain'd Minifter of B.trgor ^ in the County of £)6tp« •, he was Encoivrag'd by the Lord Clantboy^Son to a Presbyterian Minider in Scotland^ who liad been a Fellow in the Colledge ot DuhUn^ repor- ted to have been Tutor tc the great Vjhei^ was now become a Lordj and pofrefj'd of a great Eftate ^ and a great Encourager of the Plan- tation of Vljler, and who faw a nectffity of Encouras.ing the Presby- terians upon his Eftate, othervvife the Country muft h&ve remained a Wi'ldernefs. Hi»own Nephew Mr. James Hamilton^ became Presbyterian Minilfer of Ballywalter^and Mr. John Ltvingjhn (a Man • of lingular Learning and Piety; camefooa after into tlie Miniftry 1 62 Chap, j: The Loyalty of Trefhyterians Pcirt I ^''^ ^^^ fetckd in the Parifh of KdliKfliy^ with divers others, in the County of Dc/H'w. And in the County of y^«fnw,were fettled about ^-/"V*"^ this time) Mr. Jofias Welfl} •diTerjiplefatriek Son to the great Jolc}! H^tlp^ and Grsnclfon of ||kPA- the Reronner, and Mr. Gecr^e Dnmbar at Lam with divers others in that County. TliC m-'Jcual Modevatioa of the diffeient Denominations of the Prcteilaats of JrcUrJ at that time, was a great help to the Settle- ment and Plantation of Vljler ; of which I ihall give ieveral fnftances, . which I will) m3y be du-y conhder'd by their Succefibrs. When Mr. Revert BUir was presented to the Parifh oi BAvgor by the Lord Clanc l^cy, the difficulty that ftnck with nim was how he cou'd be ordain'd, for he was a Zealous Presbyterian, and fcmpled to receive Efifcofd 0/W/;?4^/6« according to the eltabiifiiM Form. The Lord Clanehoy^ brought him into Company with the then Bilhop oiDown^ viz. Bi/h- cp Eccliv'j and the Bifhopand Mr. BUir had u free Conference upon that Suhjed, and at laft Compromis'd the matter thus. The Bifhop ^ prcrpos'd that Mr.^i?i'\\'j Contribute to the Vnion of Proteflants in order to the preferving and promoting the Lifani-Plantation of Vlfler^ and for laying a good Foundation for rooting out the Principles of Popery and Rebellion, which had been foinduftrioufly kept up by the Irifh Natives* All thefe of the fanie Perfuafion who were ordain^ in he- i^;?^ between that time and the Year 1542. were ordain'd after the Dme Method , and pirticularl/ Mr. Jo'on. Livingjione hath left a full Narrative of his Conference wit^ Knox Bilhop oi^afhe^ who join'd ?7ith the Presbyterian Minillers in his Ordination. And all of them, (BUir and all the reftl enjoyed the Churches and Tithes, tho' they remaiifd Presbyterian Itill 3 and us'd not the Liturgy, and there was Under King James I; Chap.3. 1 6:^ W3S a Civil Comprehenflon of ihem, and a fort of an FcckfidHical p^i-t" t Comprehenfion too^ for they frequently met an(J Confulied vvith the *" ** ^ * BifliopabouE Aftjirs of Common Concernment to the incertft of Re- L/W'NJj ligion, and fome of 'em weie Memaers of the Convccaton in the Year 1534. Thefe iMiniflers kept a Monthly Meeting at Atitrim^ wherein four of them vu'ually preach'd in one day, and ihty commonly fpcnt two days at thefeMeetings in Preaching ai d (biemi;Hjmiliation,bv Prayer and fi(l:ing,for the Sins of the Land i and tMeu confultcd amongffc themfelvesof the bell* Methods for Giierilhing Piety in their feveral Congregations, and for the Propagation of it thro' tne whole Coun- try, and for the Extirpation of Popery ; wheteia God was pleas'J to blefs 'em vvith Admirable Succefs in a few Years. A very Coaifs People were brought in by their Mmiftry, not only to be wonder- fully Civiliz'd, but by a Powerful Blefling upon the Golpel, great Numbers of 'em became ferious Chriftisns ; and from all parts of the Country reforted to thefe Monthly Meetings, and to the Quarterl/ Communions then in ufe. For Mr. ^/^/r and Mr. Cy^ninghum foon Concerted between themftlves to give the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, each of tr:emfoHr timts a >ear, and adjufled the Times of the Celebration of it, fo as the Create/} Number of their Pai ifhioners, yNhowtvePrcficiem^ in Rdgion Communicated in both theiiCnurches, upon all ihefc Occafious, which i^/as once in fix or feven Weeks. And the otherMiiiifters tound fo greatComfort.& fo much divineAffiftjnce in their Work, as enc uiag'd them like wife to a Defi^cable Fiequcn- cy in the Adminiftratiou of that folemn Ordinance. They employ- ed th-smfelvej in their MiniflerialWork with Indefatigjble Diligence, to the Approbation of all tne Moderate and Srber Epifccpaliar.s •, and particularly of r.he Great Vjher^ with whf m Mr Blair was well ac- quainted, and from whom he and his other Brethrfn had great Ap- plaufe. And many of them were in high Efleem amongfl the People of Diflindion and of the belt Station then in Vlffer^ and their Miniilry w«e^ regarded, and attended upon even by theft vjhohad free -^of a in their Coifciences to conform to all the Rites and Ceremonies of the Ell-Mifh''dOi\wxQn^ one Inftancc whereoffto mention no morej was in Mr. BUir^ Preaching before the Judges of Aflize (atthedefireofthe Y 2 Bfh:>p *^ 164 Chap. 3; The Loyalty ofprefbyterians ?art f Bifhnp of Di^irw) upon the Lofds-day which happeiiM to be Ealter- * Sunday, upon which the Judges were to receive the Sacrament •, he \y^>r\^ preach'd to 'em before Noon that day,and on the Situmday before ^ had noE cle^rnefs to Communicate kneeling, upon which the Curate of the Place performed the OfE:e, accordiiig to the Liturgy; And Mr. Blair v>/as fent for on the Lords d^y in the Evening by one of the Judges, who made Kimre^fat the Head! of his5(rrw3/y acknowledoethy * That that Prince was mifled into many Millakes in the Condud of ' his Government, we may modeftly fay^that 'c^a^ the proper buli- ^ nels of the Parliament to infifl: upon a thorcngh Reformation of all that ' had been done amils, and to OBTAIN SUCH LAWS as might * Ejft^ually fecure the Liberties and Properties of the People from the * like tnvaJioKs lor the future : If the King, at P.rll, adhered to the * Advice of thofe who diflT'aded him from giving fuch fatisfadion ' to his Parliament, as he wou'd have yielded to at laft ^ and if he * was perfuaded to decide the Dilpute by the Sword, and to bcgia» * it by Difplayjng his Standard of War againft his People, wisat ^ coit^d thrnre-nain for them to chuk.^ but either to ^/fff up for ever * all rheir Eights and Liberties^ and to fubmit themfelves and their * Pofttrity to begovtrn'^d by the Will and Fkafure of all their future * Kings : Or, to refolve to defend theirAncient Laws and Privileg- * es to the utmofl, and to oppofe Force with Force ? ' There is, donbrlers, a t ue DifMndion to be made between a * Rebellion and a Civil War j the firft is Notorious, when Subjeds * take up arms againft Lawful Governors Lawfully Governing j buS * when a Prince "y/o/i^^fj the Eilabliffi'd Laws of the Nation, raijes ' Titjd to ' fuch Terms as might have fetckd the Nation in Peace, they rrjti'led ' all manner cf j^ccomodutton with him, hurried him to the Block^ ulurpM ' the Rcgnl Power, kept up the Aimy to fappore 'their own Tyrjn- ' ny, opprefs'd the People with illegal exadions, and rui'd the three ' Nuions by the Sword ^ and if thofe who Style the whole a Rebel- ' lion, had .but ^?7?«>?g«(/fc'^ between the Commer.cemem of the Civil *" War, and the time when thefe Anions were perpetrated, I fhall be * content to allow them that Term, or even a worfe if they cou'd in- * vent it. That the Reader may be able to judge whether the Reafons of F.he lafi; mention'd Anchor, or of the Biflicp of Saram^ be of greateft Weight,, it will be proper for him to obferve that thofe who defend the Parliament's War againlt the King do alledge, that his Reign con- jlifted not o{forne few fingle A£ts j but of a conftant Series of Mak-Ad- miniftration, to the Endangering of the Protellant Religion, the fnh" 'verting of the Priviledges of Parliament, and the Overthrow of the Liberties and Properties of his Subjedts : And that all pojfihle means on their Part were us'd for the Redrefs of thofe Grievances, but to no purpofe ^ that the Intrigues of his Prime Favorites and the Preva- lency ot evil Council put the Parliament and Nation under the un- happy neccfllty of defending their Rights by the Sword, as the lafl and only means of their Self-prefei vation. One main Caufe of the People's Grievances in Religion unckr his Reign, was his Marrying a Bigotted Papiji, upon fuch bafe and Bif- honourable Articles confitm'd by his Oath, as inevitably open'd a Door to a Popifh Intercfl and Council with all its mifchievous cfFeds both in Church and State. This unfortunate Prince was led into this fnarc by his Father, who us'd all his Intereft for promoting the Spam^i Match, in the Articks whereof there were many things highly pre- judicial to the Protefiant and favorable to the Popipj Religion. The 1 74 Chap. I . • The Loyalty of Trejlyterians P^u r> The Eoman-Cathdkli Jfoftolic Reliaion, and the Hcdy Koman Churchy art 2. ^^g^g ^^^Q jQfgy Epithets for a Proteftaut Prince to Sv/ear to, as he did c/^/%J in the 2 and 8 Articles. By the 6th Article, not only the Infanta h?r ielf, but alfo her Men-Servants and Maid-Servants, and their Servants Children and Defcendajits, and all t'xir Families of whaE ' fort (bever ferving her High;iefs might be fredy and publickly Ca- ' tholicks." The 5, 7, and 8, provide her a Church, Chappel and Oratory, with all Popifh Ornaments. The loth allows her 24 Prlefts and AfTiflants to ferve in them^ and over them a Bifhop or his Vicar, (by the i i)with fullAnthority and Jurisdidioii : who ' only maypro- ' ceed fby rjie i <;?') Article) againft Ecclefuftical Perfons as h^th been ^ accHfiomed byCatholich ;And if any Secular Judge fhall apprehend any * Ecclefiaflical i-erfoa tor uny offeace, he (hill forthwith Caufe him to ' be delivered to the aforefaid SHfenor Ecclefiaftic, who fliall proceed * againft him according to the Canon-Law. By the "13, the Infanta and * her Servants might procure from Rome Difpenfitions, Indulgences, ^ Jubilees, and all Graces as (liiU feem meet to dieir Religion and * Confcieiices. By the \6th^ the Laws made againft Catholicks m ' Evgland^ or in any other Kingdom of the King of GY^^f-^nM/V; * (hiYl not extend to the Children of this Marriage^and tho' they be ^ Catholicks, they /lull not lole theirRight of SucceSjon to theKing- * dom and Dominions of Great Britain". The Infanta muH chufe the veryNurles for theirChildren of theMarriage by the iqth^^ which is tnoi;e,the Chih'ren mufl be brought up in her Company.uz 'the Ieafl,un- til the Ags of Ten Tears^ by the 10th. By the 2 id, The i'ing. Prince, and Council muS; Swear to all the Articles, and endeavour, if pofiible eo have them LftablijVd by Parliament, And by the 2^4, All was *" to ' be allow'' 4 and approved of by thQ Pope, that /;e may ^/r-' ^ to the Romiih Religion, fudlnot at anytime hereafter^ by any means or Chance whstfoever aircHly or indiren:ly he Ccm-oiavded to be fat m £.v^c//r/c«aga4ifi: the faid Roman Catholicks ^ A;.d wc will cuifc that^enrCv^uncil fhall take the fame Oath, fo far as it pertaii.s to them, and belongs to the Executionj which by the hands of thJr iViinifters is to be exercis'd. * 2. That no other L^v7s fhall be made anew againft the {liid Ro- man Catholicks, but that there ihiWhs a perpetual loleration ot ihc Rcm^n Catholic Religion, occ. ' 3. Than neither by us, nor any other interpos'd Perfon dircdtly or indlrcftly, privately or publicly, will we treat (ov attcmpty any thing with the mofl; Renowned Lady Infanta Donna Maria v/hich fhall be repugnant to the Roman Cathrlic-Religion, neither will we by any means ^trfnade her that (he fhou'd ever renomce or relin- quifii the fame, &c. * 4. That we and the Prince of frz from fuch Anions, which may tefify ' our Hatred againft tte Roman- Catholic Religion. Both Houfes^f ParliamenE ^nno i52j. in their joynt A^^drefs to the King fay, r (i) Ibid. p. a?.S. (e) 11 Ufl p. 135. ^Under King CI la rle$ I. Chap. • i ^ 177 * wbich occafion'd Bonfires /ringing of EeUs, and great Joy in Lon- Porf o ' don. (f) ■* «^^^ ^^ The Parliament,being refr;lv'd to flrike the Iron while 'cwas hot, vyVVJ prepar'd a fmart Petition againft PopifhRecufart?, exadly oppofite to the Ardclas of the Sj)anifo Match ; which the King in his Z^etter to Secretary Cb^TT^^ calls, a Stirging Tetuton againft the Papifts, In which this is one claufc, (£) ' Seeing we are ttius happily deliver'd ' from that danger, which thofe Treaties now Diflblv*d, and that * ufe which your ilI-affc(fVed Subjefts made thereof, wouM certainly ' have drawn upon us, and cannot hut forefee and fear left the like ^ may hereafter bappeo, and inevitably bring fuch Perils to your Ma- ' jefty's Kingdoms -, we are moft humble Suitors to yonr Gracious ' Majefty, tofecure the Hearts of your good Subjeds by the Engage- * ment of your Royal word unto them, that upon m Occafwn of Mar- * riageor Treaty or ether Reejitefls from any Foreign Prince or States ' whatfoever, you will tah iff^ and flacken the Execution of your \ Laws againft the Popilh Recufants. The Parliament Anno \6i\. gave fufficient Warning of thofe Mif- chiefs and danger to Religion by anyfueh Match : The Commons in their Addrefs (^j to him fay, ' finding how ill, your JMajefty's * Goodfiefshath been requited by Princes of Different Religion, who '* even in time of Treaty have taken opportunity to advance their * own ends, tending to the S^ibverf on of Religion" •• by teafon where- * of your //^^^i^^i^ Subjects at home, thel*opifliRecufants,bave taken * too much Encouragement, and are danger oufly encreas'd in their ' Number, and in their Infolencies". In this addrefs they give 14 Cauies of great and growing Wifchiefs in the Kingdom, whereof the 'jth. is, ' The Expectations of the Popifh Recufants ot the Match ' with 5;>4/», and feeding themfelves with great Hcpes ofthe Con- ' fequences thereof '. They propofe?(r« Remedies of the Evils they ~ fearM fromthefe Caufes, whereof the 6f/7 is, ' That to fruftratc ' their Hopes for a future Age, our moft Noble Prince may be timily * and happtly married to one of our own Religion. A 2 In (/) Id, Ibid, p: 128. (g) U Ibid, p. 14,2. (ft) \d. Ibid, p. 40* 1 78 Chap. I i The Loyalty of Presbyterians Part 2. In a\\ the Intrigues of this Match, dechrM by ^i/i/^r/ Parliaments to ■ be ^angeroHs to Rel!gUn,&: the Kingdo*n^ King Charles \fi Cchen Prinoe oi Wales) was ?.s deeply concern'd as his Letters^ Oaths and Promifes ^ above mentioa'd couM make him, being early enfnar'd by his Fa- ther's Favorites. This Match being broke off*, there is an®ther imrrediately fet on f >ot with fV^wcr, which took effcd, and produc'd all the Mifchiefs, . which thefe wife Parliaments above mention'd did forefee. Of which Ruftoworth dys (i) ^The French enlarged their demands in favor ofPa<- pifts: ( as the Spanianls did do before them ) and flrain'd the King to the Co^ceffiju offuch Immunities, as he had promis'd to his Parliament, he wou'd never grant upon the Mediation of Foreign Princes, ' The Cardinal ^/ci;f/«V«—.t—* being appointed to the Manage* ment of the Treaty, aflar'dthe Catholicks of G teat- Britain^ thafi l\\cmf)(l Chriflim King remembring that he was born and rais'd up no lefs for the Propagation of the Catholic Caafe than for the En- largement of his own Dominions^ was refolv'd to obtain honorable Terms for Religion^ or never to conclude the Match .-and for his own part, fuch was his Corapaflion towards them, that if lie might " work their Deliverance, or better their Condition, not only with Counre),Iaterefl:& Ai ihority, but with his life and Blood,he wou'd gladly do it. — -^ ' In JHgufh the Match was concluded, and m November the Ar-^ tides were fworn unto by King James, Prince Charles^ and the French King. The Articles concerning Religion were not much (horc of thefe for the 5/?^;?/[& Match '. The private Aiticles of it- befides what was common to it and the Sp^nifi Match were (k) ' That the CathoUch as well Eccieliifticks as Temporal, imprifon'd ' fince the laft Proclamation which followed the breach with Spain^^ * fhou'd htfet at Liberty, andthas the Goods of the Catholicks, as ^ ' well Ecclefiaflical as Temporal, that werefeiz'd on fiace the fore- * mentioned Proclamation, Ibou'd be reftor'd to them, and that the ^ J;?j/«:yfe Catholicks friou'd be no more fearch'd after, not molefted for (i) Id* 'Ibid, p. 152,, (^') Id, Ibtdc p, 16 p. Under King Charles I. Chap, i . 179 don ot all Offences commicted againfl theLaws then in Force againft r-Papifls. The firll Parliament of his Reign exprefs'd th« Eminent Danger of the Proteflant Religion, and the growth of Popery under his AdiLi- niftration^in aLong petition in as moving and plainTerms ascou'-i be devis'd ^ they give \l) eight Caufes of the Encreaie of Popery, each whereof doth either explicitely or by neceffiry Confequence tax him vvifh Male- Adminiltration j but for Brevity's fake, I take notice only of the i /?-, 2^, and %th. ' 1. The Want of the due Execution of ihe Laws againfl Jefjites, - ' Seminary Priefls, and Popifh Recufants, occafion'd partly by the ' connivamy of the ftate^ pardy by Defeat in the Laws themfelves, and * partly by the mauifold ahufes of Officers. ' 2. The Inicrpoling of Foreign Princes by their Am^baffidors ' and Agents in Favor of them. * 8. The Employment 0 men ill-Jjfeiledin Religion in Places of Go- ' vernment, who do, fliil?, or may countenance tke fo^ijii par- They propofe 1 5 Remedies <«£-<«^>fj'? this Outraglous and Dangerous Difcafe as they juftly term'd it, all prefliiig the Itrid Execucion of the Laws, and propofing the wifeft Expedients for the more cfftdual cooing of it. To this he gave three Anfwers, 1. A very General one, promifing to be more particular, and ily, by the Lord Keeper in a fliort meOage afluring 'em of his real Performance in every pa'ticu. Ur (w).The third Anfwer was full to each Article, and parijoccafion'd by the Commons Defire fometime after, that the Lords migpt concur with them in prefeniing to the King thefe Matters follow' ^ >,«) ' That notwithitanding they did petition his Majefty f<>r i jvancing 'God's true Religion, and the fupprcfling of Popery .• UaiG which * his Majefty vouchfaf'd, as well from his own mou.th, as 5hUeper iDid.Uid, p. 181, &c. (w) Id, ibid, p. 174. (wj W, IbU,^^ li^ 1 8o Chap. I. The Loyalty of Tre/hyterianr Part 2. Keeper, to return Tuch an Anfwer, as nflur'd them of his RoyalPer- formancr; vej ae this Meeting u'ley found, that on the 12 ot July l3(l,his MijefT;y granted a pardon onto AUxAnder Bahrz Jefuite,& unto ten (iiheyPapifis,whic\{jiS the Commons have been inform'd^vvas gotten by the Lnfortunity o{ fo:ne forrcign Amb^fDdor, and.pafs'd by Immediate Warfam^ and was recom-nendeM by the Ffincipal Secre- tary ot State, ivithouc the payment of the Ordinary Fees, v^nd further that ^/of the ^oo^cts ofState,;«/?/y toibe ' fufpe^ed.vihkh was then prefenicdas a great and i'rincipal Caufeof * that Milchief,\Notwithltanding whereof, they in the body of their -i^ddrefs (j) Id, J bid, p. 391 Under King Charles I. Chap, i . 1 8 1 Addrefs mention hv Name above 70 Perfons of that kind to be then P/a ,.4 q in Officesof Triifl: ^ five whereof were Lords, a great Number of them ^^^^* '^^ Kn'tgms and few or none under the Degree of Ejqmrts^ and many -yVNJ of chofe Offices they enjoy'd were very conliderable, and of grean Importance to the fifety of the Nation. The £ni:meration of ihefe Perfons, their Offices and Charaders fills 5 Pages in Rujhworthj after which they proceed in thefe Words, * Wherefore they humbly be- ' feech your Majefty not to fuffcr your loving Subjeds to cominm ' iitiy lo'ger difcoiirag'dhy ihz Apparent Senfe of that encreafe both ia * Number and Power, which by the favor and Countenance of fucli ' ill-affefted Governors accrueth to the Popifh Party. A new Parliament calFd y^^rc/? 17?^, 1627, falls a frefn upon the" Grievances in Religion, and finds the Infolencies of Popiih Recufants and Perfons Popifhly affeded Cnotwithflanding of all theendea^-ors of formerParIiaments)to remain as yet intolerable, whereupon feveral Worthy Members made fuch Speeches as will ever be rcmembred to their honor ^ and even the King's Secretary (Ctfoi^jafTertsCp) "whilft ' we fit here in Parliament, there was another intended Parliament, ' of Jefuits and other Well-wifiiers within a Mile of this Place, that * this is true, was difcovcr'd by Letters f«nt to Rtr/.e, The IfTue was a Petition from both Houfes of Parliament againfl Recufants confining of eight Articles, all grounded upon the Non- Execution of the Laws againlt them, or making fuch Compofitions with ihofe againfl: whom the Laws were executed, as defeated their Defign, and continued the Danger ' to the Emboldning of Popifh Recufants to entertain Majfing-Priefis^ into their private Koufe?, and to exerctfe all their Mimick Rites of their grofs Superftitioa fas by their daily Pradice and Oltentation we may conceive) to the Nature of a Concealed Toleration-. Your Majefty C fay they) wou'd be Gracioufly pleas'd to entertain this particular ^more nearly into ' your Princely Wifdom and Confideration ^ and to diffolve this My- fiery of Iniquity patchM up of colourable Leafes, Contrads, and Pre= conveyances, being but Mash on the one part to deieive your Ma- jefty (i?) U, Ibid. p. 505, I S 2 Chap, I , The Loyalty ofTreshperiam P^rt 2 ■ ' ^'^^. ^"^^ ^f^ff^ i 0^ the other part, for private Men to accomplifh ' their Corrupe Ends (cj) i/*V%^ In their Petition about BiHeting of Soldiers, they take ' Notice of ' many Compinies who openly protefs'd themfelvcs Papifls, iand that ^ feme of their Captains and Commanders were as Popifhiy afleded " as chera reives, (r) In the following Seffion, we End ihe Commons in three Remon- Frances /) fpeakine very home to theConrE in thefe Words, ' There ^ h a GEiSIEaAL ^FE AR conceiv'd in yonr People of S E C R E T ' WORKING and COMBINATION to introduce into this Kingdom, '* Jmovation and Change of our Holy Religion — •■ — for nolvithltan- ^ ding the many good and wholefome Lav;s and Provifions made to ^ prevent the eacreafe of Popery within this Kingdom, and notwith- ^ ftanding your Mijefty's mofl Gracious and Satisfactory Aniwer to ■ the Per-'tion of both Honfesof OA/ori, we find there hath follow'd * no good ExtcHtion nor Effect^ but on the contrary — thefe of *• that Religion do find extraordinary favor and refpefl in Court fiom ^ Perfons of great Quality and Power, whom they continually icforE ' unto, and in particular to the Countefs of Bitckingham^ who her felf ^ openly profefilng thit Religion, is a known Favorer and Supporter "^ of them, that do tie fame, which we well hoped, upon your iMa- -^ jefty's Aniwer to the atorefiid Petition at Oxford^ ^nou^d-not have ■■'^ hcen permitted^ nor that any ct yonr Majefty's Subjeds of that Re- •^ ligion joftly to be fufpedc', fhjo' 1 be enter tain'd in the Service of "* your Maje-fty, or your Royal Coiifort the Qjieen ; fome otherwile ' ot that Religion have h^d Honor ..^ O^c-^s ind Placej of Command and ■^ Authority I'irx]^ confer'' dVi'^onthtm. But thit which Sl'RlKElH * ^HE GREAT ESI TERROR inro the Hearts of. your Loyal Sub- ■^ jedh concerning this, is, that Leeters of /lop yf Legal Proceed- • * ings againft them have been ^rocurd from your -ifajejly (by what in- * direct Means we know not) and CcmniJlTnns undtn the Great Seal, ' granted and executed for Compr^fiMtni to be made with Popifh Re- ^ cufanrSi, with Inhibitions and Refiraint both to the Ecclefiaft caland ■■\ Tem-poral Couits and Officers, to intermeddle with them :^ which is con- icf) II Ibid. p. . 5 1 7. CO U. Jbii, p. 6 x 9, (jO Id* Jbil p. 620, 641. Under King Ch^rhsl. Chap.' i. 1S3! * COnceWM to amount to tjo lefs than a Toleration^ oMous to Cod^ full of r)o -i-f 9 i DISHONOR and EXTRrMt JDISPROHT to Tour Maje/ly , of ■* ^^'-^« « GREAT SCANDAL aid GRIEF f." your COOD PEOPLE, end L/'VNJ- ' cf JP PARENT DJNGF.R to the \re'fem State of your Wajefty and ' of tliis \lingdom ^ their Numbers, Power and Infokncy, daily w^- ' creafivg mall parts of your Kingdom» and efpecially zhom London qwA * the Suburbs thereof.' After me^ntioning the danger from the Armi^ tjian Fa(ftion headed by Laudzn<\ Neai sind the difcountenancing of Orthodox Preachers (of which more afterwards) they fubjoin thefe Words, ' It doth not alfo a little incrcafe our Dangers and Fears this * way, to undeiftand the iniferable Condition of your Kingdom of ' heland-^ wliere without C'ontroul, the Popifh Religion is openly ' prcfels'd and pradis'd in every part thereof, Popifli Jtinfdt^iom ' 6eing there generally exercis'd and avow 'd, Monaflerics, Nunne- * ries and other Superftitious Houfes newh ErtEitd^ reedify'd and re- * plenifii'd with Men and Women cf feveral Orders, and in a plemi- * ful manner maintain'd at Dublin, and moft of the great T owns, and' '• divers other Places of tie Kingdom ^ which of wh'st ill confequence ' it may prove, ifnol feafonably reprefs'd, we have to your Ma-- ' jefty's Wifdom to Judge-, And now, if to all thefe your Majefly •■will be pleas'd toadd theConfideration of theCircun^ fiances of time* * wherein thefe Courfes ttndin^ to the DeJlrn^Unof true RtHgion^' * within thefe your Kingdoms, have beei taken here, even when the * fame is with open force and violence perfecuted in otherCountries, ' and all the Keforni'd Churches in Chnfttndom either deprefs'd or mif- - ' erably dijlrefs'd-^ we do humbly Appeal to your Wajefty'sFiincely ' * Judgment, whether there be not jujl Ground oi fear, that there is ' fome Secret and Strange cooperating here with the Enemies of our * Religion abroad, for tht utter £.«?Vp^no« thereof ^ and whether ' if thefe Coarfes be not fpeedily redrefs'd, and the Profcflion of ' true Religion more encourag'd, we can -exped any other but Mife- * ry and Ruin fpsedily to fall upon us. In the laft Stllion of this Parliament, there arofe divers Debates - between the King and them about the Order of their proceeding^ he urging fir ft of all for Subiidies, and they preferrini the Confidera- tion of their Grievances in Religion •, and therefore gave him a De- daratiofl, containing their Realcijs for fo doing j they continued h'^t i 84 Chap, 1 : The Loyalty ofPreJhytermns T>>:.rt- o 3 ^^^^ ^'^^^^' ^^^ finding they were imniedutely to be diflblv'd, the rV4lt Z. coj^mons fram'd three RefoluElons ^ the firfl: whereof was this Tr; ' Whofever /hall bring in liinovjiion of Religion, or by favor or ^ Countenance feem 10 extend or introduce Popery or Arrnimatitfwj or * oEher Opinion Difagreeing from the Truth and Ortho'JoxCnurch, * fhillbe reputed a Capital Enemy to chis Kingdom and Common- ^ wealth. From the Year 1528. to 1640, the Court took care that there fhou'd be no Parliamentary Complaints of Mde-Adminiftration in the Aflairs of Keligicn nor aiy thing elfe •, for during that time, there were no Pariiiments in England at all, butbefides what Hiflotians fay of the Dangers of Popery in that time, public Records of Inferior Courrs give a Melancholy Account thereof. Let the Reader be pleas'd to perufe Prynn's Royal Popijh Favorite, wherein He'il find an Account of King Charles iffs, ^ Extraordinary Favors * and Protedions of Notorious Papifls,- Priefl;s& Jefults, againlt '^ all ProfecHtions and Penalties of the Laws enaUed againfi them, not- *■ withflianding his many Royal Proclamations , Dtckrations and ^ Frotefiations to the contrary, manifefted by fundry Letters of Grace, * Warrants and other Writings under the King's own Sign-Manual, ^ Privy-Signet, his Privy-Councils and Secretary WindeUnFs hands * and Seals, by divers Orders and Proceedings in open SefTions ad '^ Nervffate in the King's- Bench, and elfewhere Call extant on Record, ' in tneSeftons Books, Goal-Booh, Crown-Office, where all who fcruple -* their Indubitable Verity or Reality, may Perufe them for their bet- * ter Satisfadtion.V Some of the Perfons Names, in whofe favor thefe Writs CCopied by the faid Author, and publilh'd by Authority of Parliament) aiethcre,W;jL. Will, Keely Gtnt. Will. Cobb Gent. Sir Francis Eagelsfield Barronet, Sr. John 5^f//)' Barronet,and his Lady, Sir John Wintour and his Lady, Sir Francis Marnock Baronet and hisLady, Thomas JenningsMevibsiai, Sir Charles Smith, Sir Henry Bedngfield, and his Lady andFamily, Clement Prejlon Efq^ Will. PtttrsGtm. My LaJy Eliz,abcth Stover, Sir Will. Pearfti Knight, John Carill Efq ', Son toSk John Carill', Edward Cctton Efq ', snd his Wife, The Lord ^r/m- del and his Lady. Will. J horold Ei'ci -, and his Wire, Lady Eltz,abeth Dormer^ Capt. John Read^ Anthony Midca^ Gent. My Lady Sands Dovp" CO U\ Ibid* I. 660 Under King Charles I; Chap, i . 185 Doxvager^ and her Daughter and Servant, Sir Henry JuMey^ and his P^rf o Lady; My Lady W^/>7<^/or, Will. Jrundell Efq ; (Son 'ito Lord Jmndtl) snd his Lady, Sir Hevry Brovpn and his Lady, ivili.BradfijawEiq ;and ^^^^^^ his Lady. The followint^ Perfons deliver'd by the like Letters were all Priefl:s,viz. John Dally., ComdiMsCraniey., John Southworth., Rtyyinult Mc. "Donald^ Palmsr^ Gilbert Bredin'^ Roger Clay., 1 hotnas Catint.^ Mi ddlet on ^ Stevens^ Ja/nesH^lliamJon., Richard Salvin., Thomas Ri dale ^ Btyan Midc'ff., John Seargin^ IViU. Bidale^ Thomas Holms., Robert fVid- dington. Tho. Readman^ Tho. Berry.^ Tho. Shepherd., Qilh. Shekon^ Matth.lVilJon., John Plan sf or d. All legal Proceedings againft thefe and vafl Numbers more were ftaid by Writs under the King's own Hand ; befide all that was done by the Privy-Council and Wmdcbank. The three firfl Articles charg'd by the Commox\s^B ecemb. 7. 1^40. (u) ' are i. Seventy fourLettcrs ofGrace toRccufams,wiEhin thofefour * Years, fign'd with his own Hands. 2. Sixty four jPriefts difcharg'd ' from the Gate-houfe at Weftminfter within thefe four years, and for * the moft part by him. 3. Twenty-nine difcharg'd by verbal VVar- * rant by him.' Of the King's Letters above mentioned it's remarka- ble that in many of them there is this Claufe, at the Injiance of our dear Con fort the O^een ; fome of 'em fiy, at the Inftance of the Queen Dowager of France^ aud divers of 'em were at the Infiance of foreign Popijh ?vinc€s and tlKir j4mhaJfadors. ^ , The Parliament met Jpnl 1 3. 16^0. vpou'd not Grant the King any Subfidies to enable hjm to invade the SCOTS^ until their Grievances Jhou'd be firfl confider'd ; among which thtir Members complain of the,univerfa5/4^n/?c« of theLaws againfi thePapfts^theiih^'mg employ'd in places tfTr/tft and Poiver^^ many other things of that kind, tending to theDeftrudion ofl^e^gionrn')bufe Vfere dijfolv'din difgnfl^ht(orcth&f cou'd come to any Refolutions* except about Conferences between the Ta'o Houfes, and MefTages. Between this and November ^d 1646, (the Meeting of the long Par- liament; the Papifts were fo far from having theLaws executed againil 'em,that the King's extraordinary Favors to them were theArguments us'd by the (lueen, Montagnt and Sir Kenelme D^gby and others iniheir B b fe- QuJ Colka. p. 327, (rv) j^ujhw. Cell. p. 2; from p. 1127, top. 11^4. 1 86 Chap. r. The Loyalty of Preshyteriam P ^ fevcral Letter* to the Roman-Catholicks for raifing Money for the 3-rt 2 • j^j,jg againrt rhe Scots , x) • And particularly in that from many Pa- \,J^>r^SJ pifls in London to theij Triends m the Country* there is this remark- able exprefllon, * \i is t'l? fenfe oi hi all both Ecclefiaftical and Lay- * Perfons, that befides th^ diicharging of their and our Duties to God ' and the' Kina;, it mainL tmforteth the good of the Catholieks^ to have * their bufi .cfs -ake gocJ Succefs. And thus I h^vegiveiuhe Reader a brief Account of the open and barefaced Coiintc lance gi^^en by the Court to Papfis^ from the public Records of the Nation, during that part of his Reign, which prece- ded the long Parliament. The Arguments from thefe Inftancej are fo fuHy improved by all his Pa!liaments,that makes it altogether need- lefs to fay any thing further about them-, and I chink he fees little, that fees not that Ehele wife and prudent Parliaments who were fo Zealous for Pieligion and Liberty, have not proved to a DemGnflration thQ.ihoth vfsre evidently endanger'^d under this King's Adminiflration: If his Marrying a Pofiflj Queen^ and upon fuch Articles, as he mult ^if he kept themjdifpenfe xviththe Laws, and deny all his Parliament's ;«/? Delires in Religion,together wish all that followed natively there- upon, did no Prejudice to Religion and Liberty j our wifcParliaments ■ lince tlie Revolution mufl be mightily to blame, who have enadted^ that if the Succeflor to the Crown be Papf^ or hut Marry a Eapift, he or fhe (lialllofe the Crown and right cf Snccejfion, and the next Pro- teftant Htir is to fucceed, as if the former were Dead. Shall a Pra- ctice til the Proteflant Succeflor be carried fo far as to make him Guilty of a Forfeiture of his Crown ? and /hall not that fame Fradice in a Proteltant Predeceflbr with what followed upon it, be juftly ac- counted a dangerous Subverfion of the Fundamentals of a Proteftant Government s' My Lord Clarendon himfelf confcfTeth the truth of a great pari of what has been now advanc'd C>)'The P.jpiUs had for many years (./rf^i * he) enjoy Ma great Calm, being aponthe matter abfolv'dfrom thefe^ t vtr eft parts pf the Law, and difpens'd with for the Gentlell j and were (x; U, Jiiii, Part 2i from p. 1 327. to p. 13 i\.(y)viie Chranion^i Hift. Book 2* p. 116, 117. Edit. JFolio. Under King Charles I. Chap, i , 187 were grown only a part of the Revenue, without any probable dan- V^^t iifm^ for corrupting Proteftam Worjinp by dangerous Innovations, for ahu/ing Protefiant Church-C overnment . by making it degenerate into a mofl Arbitrary and Tyrannical Ufur- pation ^ whereby many yTw^y^ and Zealous Proteftants weteruin'd, - while dangerous Recufants were treated with diflinguifliing Marks of Royal Favor. To this purpofe the Commons in their Remon- lira nee Arm 1628. (z.) fay, ' And as our fear concerning Change or *- Subverfion of Religion is grounded upon the daily encreafe of Pa- ^ pifts — So are the Hearts |of your good Suhjeds no lefs ' perplexed, when with lorrow they behold a daily Growth and ' Spreading oi the Fadion of the Arminians, that being, as your Ma- ' jefty well knows, a cunning way to bring in Popery, and the Pro- ' felTors of thofe opinio^^s, the Common Difinrbers of the Proteftanfi ' Churches, and Incendiaries in thofe States, wherein they have got- ' ten any Head, htingProteflants in jiiew but Jefttits in Opinion ' who notwithftanding arc much favor'd and advanc'd, not wan* * ting friends even of theClergynear to yourMajefly,namely Dv.Neaig ^ b\i^o\) of Winche fier J and Dr Land Blihop of Bath and Wells, who ' are juHly fufpffted to be unfound in their Opinions that v/ay. And ' it being now gefierally held the way to Preferment, and Promc- * tion in the Church, many fcholars do bend the Courfe of their Stu- '• dies, to maintain thofe Errors 5 theirBooks and Opinions are ' fuf- (\)U* Ml Pa«i'P' _^2iJ <5?2, Under King Charles L Chap, r, 1 89 * fufFerM to be Printed and Publidi'd, and on the other fide the !m- p^*.f 9 ' prinnngof fuch as are VVricten againll them, and in defence of "'■ '*'*■ ^ the Or/^t),^/^?^- Church, are liinder'd and prohibited and fu^-- ^yVNJ) ' ther increafeour fears concerning Innovation of Religion, we find ' there hath been w/m^// laboring to ^twoz/^ that which is the mofi ' poxterful means to flrengthen and increafe our own Religion, and ' ' to oppofe both there,which is the diligent TeachingScInftnidicn of ' the people in the true Knowledge, and Worfiiip of AlmightyGod, ' And therefore Means have been fought out to deprefs nnd Difcoun- '''tenance pioi4« and power' hI a^dOrthodox Preachers, and how Confor- ' raable foever, and Peaceable in their Difpofition aiid Carriage they ' be, yet the preferment of fuch is oppes'd,and inltead of being en- ' conraged, they are molefced with Vexatious Courfes, and PurfuitSj ' and !)ardly permitted toiedure. ' Among the i5 Remedies ProposM by both Houfes of his firlt parliament rf«»o 1625, againft Popery and the danger of Religion, this was the 3^/, («?) ' That fpecial Care be t>iken to enlarge the ' Word of God,throughout all the Parts of youi Majefty's Domiai- ' ons, as being the mo ft powerful Means for pUming of true Religion, ' a.jd rooting out of the Contrary ; To which end, among other ' things, let it pleafe your Majefty to advife your Bifliops by * fitherly Entreaty,and tender Ufage to reduce to the peaceable and * orderly Service of the Church, fuch able Mlfilf^ers as have been fi' ' lenc'd^ that there may be a profitable ufe of their Miniftry in theie * needful and dangerous times. ' K\ng Charles (fays FnJhworth){b)\n hhUth^r^ life time was ' link'd to the Duke of Buckingham, and now continu'd to receive ' him (j- e. in the beginning of his Rei^n^which he thire defcnbes) Into ' an Admir'd Intimacy and Dearnefs, making him partaker of all * his Counfels and cares, and chief Condudor of his affairs * The public State of Religion, and the Steering of Church Matters ' had an early JnfpiBion & confultation in the Cabinet-Council. Bifhop * Land who in King Jamesh life time had deliver'd to theDuke * a little Book about Dodtrinal THritantfm^ now alfo deliver'd to the Duke (a) Id, Jbjd, p,. 1,82. (b)lHd, p. \6q. ipo Chap, i; The Loyalty oj Treshyterians Part Q. ' ' ^"^^ ^ Schedule wherein the Names of EcclefiaflicaT Perfons were "^ • ' written under the Letters 0 and P, O {landing for Orthodox and P ^^^"^^/^"^^ ' for Puritans ; for the Duke Commanded that he (hou'd thus digeft * the Names of EminencPerfoas, to be prefented to the King under ' that Partition. Whothife Perfons were, defrtfs'd At Court ^ and perfecuted with the h'lghej}: Seventy under the name of Puritans^ appears by the above mentioned Petition of the Commons , whence we may fee that all the fober, moderate Conformilts, who were againlt Arminiamfm^ and ■Land's other Innovating Principles, did fuffer under that name, and thofe who were diflatisfy'd with fcj^me things in the Legal Eftablifh- ■ment and therefore filenc'd,'vere^W^^^«iy?^r^, to be intreated and tenderly us'dy and their Miniflry neceffary In thofe dangerous Times. Their Charafter with ihcir ill Ufage is attefted by a very Violead RoydiH. viz Dr. Bates (c) ' They were treqred (fays he) with * Snfpsf!sions^'Deprivattof2s^Im:rifcnments anti Banffj'mnt by the Billiops '* and Ecclcliaflical Courts. But that i^fj/mV^, tho' 'twas inflicted al- * moft according to the letter of the Law, hroughl an odium on * the Prelates , a:id mide the Oppofers of Hierarchy to be pity'd ^ ' and the rather becaufe they feem'd to fuffer for Confcience fake^ * and their defire of purer Worfhip •, were men of flrict Moral<^5 ' fervent in their lermons, zealoufly given to prayer and the OfR- * ces of Piety, and,in one Word, otherwife good Men. Therefore ' many frcs born Subjeds even among the Gentry and Nobility took * their pa't, carels'd them, and at length came into the fame Senti * ments,andmcafures with them agaiuft the Hierarchy. All w.Vich is furtner attefled in. the Celebrated Speech ofSr.Benj j i?«4''^r^?3great Royalill and friend to Epifcopacy, made in Parlia- ment ^w-zo 1640 (dj * We well know { fays he ) what Difturbance '.' hath been brought upon the Church., for vain petit Trifles^ how the whole (c) Elench. Mot. Nuper. m AngWi part. i. p- 11^. i\6.)* Sufpensiones, Prl- ■* vationes, vincula;, Fxilium regeruntur ai Epifc(pis,fX Cwiis Ec<:Iesijfticiis, fed o- ' dium in PrxiulesconflaviciftaSsveriras, eti k 'ji-Ti ad t-Tx Cilpta fc^re exerce- ;^ retur ; & AiKi-hierarchicismifcricofdiam psperit,eoq ; M^jorcti, guod Confci- entias <<0 v!46 CoUeB, Printed Speeches and p. 103. Under KingCh"Tch and the Difll'acers, they took various Methods for accomplifhing this ■ dangerous end .• V>/ith refptd to the Low- Churchy they went to work, two ways. i. They contrived ways againfi the Promotion orpreferment of any of that Party to places either in Church or State. 2. They turn'd them out of all Offices they enjoy'd, upon the leafl ^Colorable :Pr{£ence. The fir fi was eafily done/ the ciispollng of Bilhopricks and other confiderable Offices bsing in the breaft of the Court j and that they did fo, is confirmed by the above-mention'd Addrefs of the •Commons .-and that fuch places as were at the Difpofal of Bilhops might not be given toperfons oppofite to the unhappy Inter eft of the thcf^'Court.'dW peifons were put into the higheilEcckfiaflica] PoftsahsC might anfwer the Ends of their Advancement. L<3«^ was brought f^rom ilep to flep till he cou'd rife no higher-, Manwaring and Mor.t ague ^iho' cenfur'd by theParlianentjWere preferr'djand all thatParty encourag'd with all poffible refpeft and Power. The feco?/d EfPay was moie difficult, wz.. how to turn them out of what they had, inftead of giving them more .• but this by Degrees was accompli fh'd. ArchblOiop ^^W, becaule he wou'd not iicenfe Sibthorp^sSeimoVj fuch another as Sachevertlf s and Manwaring\ was if queftred, coijfia'd to his houfe, and dlfgraced^as in the King's letters of bequcflricion, his long Narrative of his own cafe, with the Hiftory relating (d) Detea, p»rt. i, p. 206' Uinder Kin^ Chd^rlcsl. Chap, i; ip^ relating^to-rt, the reader may fee in Rufhworth (e) and the moll fuf- D^ -.^ . peded perfons and greateflH-gliflyersenttufbed with tii' Adminiftrat- -'^"AC 2^ ion of a!) his Ecclefiaflical Offices. The Archbifhop among many L/'VNJ Memorable things in that Narrative fays, (f) * I law what little eft- eem was made of me in chofe things which belong'd to my own Occupation ^ with Bifhopricks and Deanries, or other Ciiurch- Places, I was no more acquainted, than if I had dwelt at f^cnice^ and underftood them but by fome Gaz.ette. The Duke of Bnchrg am had the managing of thofe things, as 'twas generally conceivV : for what was he not fit to determine, in Clour ch or Com-Tion-weahh ^ in Court or CoHncil^ m Peace or iVar ; at Land or at Sea^ at Home or in Foreign Parts-. Montague had put out his Arminian Book ; I three times complain'd of it, but he was held up againft me, and by the Duke magnify'd asa well-deferving-Man. Copns put out his Trca- tife, which they commonly call the [even Sacraments^ which in the firil Edition had many ftrengthenings, as it feemcih j I knew ao- thing of it, but as it pleafed my Lord of Durham, and the Bilhop of Bath. To throw out the Inferior Conforming Clergy, of fober Princi- ples, the BOOK OF SPORTS was enjoin'd to be read b-y them on the Lord*s Day, without any Parltamentary Authority \ an Ad in it ftif profane and cdion*, for Dil" bediencc thereunto many iober Conformifts were depriv'd, and thereby Room was made for thePro-, motion of an Hgh fl wn Armiman Laudey^fian Clergy. And now, that the Party feemM lo have fecur'd to themfelves the prefent Pofllfli m of Ecciefiaftical Benefices , and to have enhanced the Supreme Management of Ghuich-AfF-irs^ to confirm all againft any ntccfTary Reformations, they impofc an Oath in the Convocation 1460. commonly caPed the et c.e^" 54- W l^* P* n^» ip6 Chap, i; The Loyalty ofPrefhyterians Part 2. *^^^^ the7 wou'd grant no more Subfldies tho' earneflly Prcfs'd for by him, uadi their Grievances were redrefs'd ^ .md therefore he ^-'''''^^"^dif^>l/'d thcmr^;. Immedia ely after their DifTJuiion, he ifTueth out his LeEters in' Levying Money ofFthe Subjeft by way of LosnC^?) and Summons a new Parliament to meet in February. The Commons begin upon Grievances, vix.. the Mifcarriage of the Fleet to Cadiz, ; the evil Counfelltrs about the Kmg ^ and Mifgovernment an^ Mi'femployment oftheKii^g's RevenH! {^). Tunnage and Poundage, and the other Im- pofitions without Authority of Parliament, arc queftion'd. He pref- fech for their fpeedy Refolntion of giving him Subfidies, urging his great Necefricies to which they Anfwer, begging him to * accept of *" the faithful and nectflfiry Information of his Parliament ' in * dilcovering the Ciufes, and propoGng the Remedies ofthofe greae ^ evils which occafionM his Majefty's wants, and his People's Grief. {q) And in afTarance of the Redrefs of their Grievances, promife fa fupplyhina. He gives this return. ' I mufl: let you know (fays he) thu I wi/l not alloxp any of my Servants TO BE QJLlEST'lON'D ' AMONGST YOU, much lefs fuch as are of eminent Place * and near to aie I fee you fpecially aim at the Duke of Bucking-. * ham^ I wonder what hath fo alter'd your Affeftions towards him * . 1 afliire you he hath not medled nor done any thing con- * cerniflg the public or Common- wealth, bud by fpscial Diredions * and ^ppointmeur, andas my fervantf/^. 7W.) *. TheHoufenot affrighted out of their Privileges by thisSpeech,proceeds and lays all their Grievances upon the Duke^s evil Counfel, upon which theK ng calls up the Commons to the Lords-Houfe and tells 'em, he wss come to JheT9 them their Errors and their VnparliameHtary Proceedings ^ and the Lord Keeper (by his Majefty's Command.) entertains them with a lorg and bitter Invective, Impeaching their whole Procedure^ vin- dicating the Duke in every thing ^ and with refped to their Search- ing into his Condud, fays, *- It is therefore his Majefty's EXPRESS ' and FINAL Commandment, that you yield Obedience unto thefc * Dircdtions which you have formerly recciv'd, and ceafe this Unpar- * Hamentary Inq.'ifi' Ion, and commit unto his Majefty's Care, and ; Wifdom and Jultice,the fature Reformation of thofe things, which yoa {») Id' f« i^i ♦ (o) id, i». 192. (,pjU* P« 207. (g) id. p. 21^ Under King Cliarles L Chap. i. i ^J * you fiippofc to be othcrwifethan they fhouMbe' (r) His Speech Por* o^ concludes with a (harp Reprimand to them for their ^ca^:ty Supply ^2ud iheii not difputc -king it before the Redrefsof Grievances, thteacning ^^/'"^"^^"^ they (h'uiM fit no longer, if tbey dsd not enlarge ir. The King not content with what mv Lord-Keeper had faid, tells 'cm himfolf (f) ' Remewbn that PAt LIAMENTS ARE ALTOGETHER IN MY * POIVER^ fo- their Calling, Sitting, Diflrjlution ^ therefore as I find ' the fruits of them^co^or evil^ they are to continue or not tabe : ' And remember, that if in this time, inilead of mending ycur Er- ' rors, by delay you perfifl in your Errors, you make them greater ' and ineconcileable. In Anfwer lo the King's and Ld Keeper's Speeches,the Commons prepared a.i humble Remonfirance^y\ihevein they sfTert their Proceed- ings to be grounded upon the Laws of the Kingdom and Parliamfei.t- ary Precedents, and particularly concerning Buchnaham they fay (t) ' Now concerning yourMajefty's Servants and namely theDuke of * BuchnghA'n ^ we humbly beieech your Majefty to be informed by us ' your faithful Commons, who can have no privare end, but your ' Mijifty's Service and the good of our Country, That it hath been * the Antient ^Zo^^iim and VndoHbtedKight & Vjage cf Parlia nents to * quellion an J complain of<«// Perfons of what Degree foever^ fom\d * Grievous to the Common-wealth, inabufing the Po^^'er and Trult ' committed to them by their Sovereign: A Cou' fe approved il )t only * by the examples in your Father's days of famous Memory, but by ' frequent Precedents in the beft and moft Gloricus Reigns of your ' noble Progenitors, appearing both in Records and Hiftories j with- ' out which Liberty in Parliament, no private Men^ no fervant to * a King, perhaps no Couiifellor, without expoling himfelf to the ' hazard of great Enmity and Prejudice, can be a Means to call ' great Officers in queftion for their Mifdemeanors, but the Com- * mon Wealth Mtght Langm(h Under Their PrefTures, Without Re- * drefs. The Commons Impeach the Duke in 1 3 Ardcles,of heinous Crimes. I . Of cngrrfling fomany great Offices, imprfTible for one man to difcharge faithfully. 2. Of buying the OiSce of Great Admiral. coa- (0 ii» iHi, p. 223. (/) U, Wd, p. 225, (0 U. Uil p. 245, 1 98 Chap. I . The Loyalty ofPreshyterians Pi rt O contrary to Law. 3. Of buying the Offices of Lord-Warden of the i ai I Z. cinqiie'Torts and Conflahle of the Caflle oi Dover. 4. Of negledtitrg .(^'"VNJ tQ guard the Teas, to the decay of Trade and Ruin of the Nation. 5. Of feizing the Ship Stephen of New-Haven worth 4.0000 pounds im- juflly, and detaining it for his own ufe. 6. Of oppreffing the i:.-?y?- y;7fl'i^ Merchancs, totf'fC Ruine of Trade. 7. Of putting treacher- ouflv the FiWguard Ship under the Command of Captain Pennington^ and fix- Efiglifh Merchant-Ships, under thePo.ver of the Fre-nch King, 8. Of his knowing that the afcrefaid Ships were to be employ'd by theFw/c-ii/King againfl the Proteftants ^i Roche 11^ to the fcandal of Re- ligion, and Difl-ionor of K. Charles^ and the Nation. 9. Of his d\^~ pofingof Titles of Honor to perlons unworthy of 'em, and forcing others to buy them againH: their Will. 10. Of Receiving a Bribe of 10000 pound for procuring the Lord Treafurer's Place, befide other Bribes raention'd in iliefaid Articles, n. Of procuring many Titles of Honor to his near Kindred, with Penfionsof great value from the Crown to fupport them, to the burthen of the Public, and Difcouragement of the Nobility. 12. Ofembezzding and engrof- iing the King's Mony and Lands, to the impovtri flung the Public Trea- ■furyand Ccnfufion and danger of the Kingdom. 13. Of his Ad- miniHring to ifing James a ^Flaifler and Potion contrary to the Advice of his fworn Phyficians, not compofed by (ox with the kncwkdge of) any of his fworn Apothecarys, in his laft ficknefs, whereof he died. It would mike any true EngUjli heart bleed, to coalider the Uparalleli'd and infupponable Oppreffion of the Subjcft occafion'd by this mighty Favorite, and proved againH: him v/ith fo much Soii- 'dity,Le3rning&Shiaing Evidence, by thofe worthy Patriots who were :the Managersof thofe Articles. («). Sr Dudley Diggs having made the Prologae, and Sr John £IHot the 'Epilogue to the Impeachment of the Duke ^ they wsre boih by the Xmg's Command committed to the To^er. And the Kini, himfelf ipsaks again to the Lords in behalf of the Duke, and to approve his Irinocency , as touching the Matters i^gainjt him^ 1 my fclfcan he a Witnefs :to dear him in every one sf them. The Commons prepare a Re^ monflranc^ againft the t)uke, and 7"/v'«;7<5e^c ah I Poundage 2i'^i\]€gd\ -^ • and that very day 'twas finijh'djthe Parliament is djiTolved, tho' the Lords .(«) 5^^' -i^i<^- from p. ?,o« top^ 55'5. Under King Charles L Chap, i . 1 99 I,ords had prepared a Pciirba adviflngthe contrary as iicccfl'iry PqrJ* o for ' prevent! ig great. and App.iieni Dangers at home and abroad, " ''' ^ ' and for nuikiig him lisppy ia theDuty and love cf his People, the L/'^V*^-^ ' greatefl: idiny and Trealtiry of a King, (ip} in that in redded Remonftrnnce, the Commons fet forth, the Court's iinjuft Oppofition to the former P.irliament, the Diflblation of it, when tney were about to redrefs Grievances bronghc on by the Duke's evil Coiinfti, and his Intrigue for keeping fonie of tlie nired Commons from being elected as Members at the prefenc Parliimcnt, by making them ShenjJ}. In this pr^font Parliamcne they obferve the many Interruptions they met with by mtflagcs from his Majelty, which hindred them from Proftcuting the Duke according to Law : the infringing of their PriviUclges in the Imprifon- ment of their Members ; the Dnke's Arrogance in procuring a fafticus Party to ekct him Chanceilor of the Univerflty of Oxford^ while he flood impeached of the above Crimes^his Majclty's MeCTige, that if /??^ Suldiers,/^?^^^ by Benevolence and Privy Seal, Impiifonmeni of the Retufers^ whereupon there were fuch Sneaches made as will ever be admir'd by all thofe who are not fond of A bfolute Slavery, (c). rhey prefent to the King their Petition againft his illegal way of billeting Soldiers, which Praft;ce they complain of as contrary ' to the funda^^ental Laws of the Realm * & a.i apparent violation of the antitnt & undoub ed Right of all hisMaje- ' fty's-— loyal Subjeftsto the exceeding great DifTciviceof hisMajes- * ty, the general Tei ror of all, and utter undoing of mjny of his ' people ( d). The Celebrated Petition of Rights another Magna Charta of Er-gtand, was fram'd by the Commons,concladed by both Houfes of this Nrble Parliament, and confiim'd by the King himfelf in common Foim,/^/> droit ^att comme il efi desire^ in which Petition there is a Narrative of the BREACH OF THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS ©f the iiTingdom, and Invapons of Liberty, and Property which occalion'd it. It runs thus (e) To (j) Id. Ibid. p. 415. (i) p. di8, 419. Ceai have 'fpt\i for th^ by * which Under King Charles I- Chap, i 203 Vi\\K\\ err t^in T^ erf arts have been fijfigri^d itnd af:ioijitecl Comm:j[ioners Pqr*f r> with I'ower ar.d Authority to proceed within the Land, accoiding • to thtjiiftke of Martial Law againft fuch Soldiers and Mariners, or wv>J other Difl()lute Perfoiis joining with them, as (hoii'd commit any Murder, Robbery, Felony, Mutiny or other Outrage or Mifde- meanor whatfiever, and by fuch Summary Courfe and Order, as is agreeable to Martial Laws, and isus'd in Armies in time of War to proceed to the Fryal and Condemnation of fuch OfTendciS, and them to caufe £0 be executed and put to Death, according to the Law Martial. ' By Pretext whereof, fome of your Majefty's Subje(fts have heea by fome of the faid Commiflioncrs put to Death, when and xvhere^ if by the Laws and Statutes of the f^and they had defervM Death, by the lame Laws and Statutes alfo tioey mi^ht^and by NO OTHER OUGHT TO HAVE been^ jiDjV DC D and EXECUTED. And alfo fundry grievous Offenders by colour thereof, claiming an Exemption have efcap'd the Punifhmcnts due to them by the Laws and Statutes of thi« your Realm, by reafon that divers of your Officers&Miaifters ofjuftice have urijufl:Iyrefus'd,or forborn to pro- ceed againft fuch Offenders according to the fameLaws andStatutcs, upon pretence that the faid Ofi^eiiders were puoifliable only by Martial Lnw, and by Authority of fuch CommilTions as aforefaid, which Gommiflions, and all other of the like nature^ are wholly aad dlreftly contrary to the faid Laws and Statutes of this your Realm. They do therefore humbly Pray your moff: Excellent Majefly, That noMan hereafter be C(?wpf //'<:/ to make or yield any Gift^ Loan^ Be" nevolenccy Trrx^ cr fuch like Charge^ without common Confent by Ad of Parliament *, and that none be call'd to make j^nfwer, or ■■ tale fuch Oath^ or to give Attendance , or be confined, or otber- • wife molelted or difqnieted concerning the fame, or for refufd there- ■ of : Aiid that noFreeman^ in zn^ fuch manner as is before mentioned • be imprifon'd or detain'd : And that Your Majefty will be pleas'd ■• to remove the faid Soldiers and Mariners, and that your People ' may not be fo burthen'd in time to come; And that the forefaid ' CommifTions for proceeding by Martial Law, maybe revok'd and ' annuird-^ and that hereafter no Gommiflions of like natuie luay ' iffAie forth to any perfon or perfons whatfoevcr, to be executed as ' aforefaidy left by colour of them any of your Majefty's Sjbjedts be ' deftroy'd or put to Death, contrary the Laws and Franchife of • the Land. D d 2 All 204. Chap. I. The Loyalty of Vrefbytertan Part 2 ■ 1 ' ^'^ ^^^^'^^^ ^^^""^ "^^^^ humbly Pray of your mofl Excellent Majeflv, t^r-^^ , ""' ^^''^ RIGHTS and VAW^XIX^ ACCORDING TO THE \^ \ ^^ L-^WS and Statutes of ths Realm i And that your Mijeftywou'd ' alfo vouchfafe to declare. That the Awards, Doings and Pro- ^ . jjcfly wou'd be alfo Gracioufly pk-. ^ _. .... ^ Cornfort and Safety of your People, to declare your Royal Will ^and Plesfure, That in the things aforelaid all your Officers and ^ Minillers fhill ferve.you,acrording to the Laws and Statutes of this Re^lm, 2s they Tender the Honor of your Majefty, and the Prof- ' perity of this King:dom. Before the above Peation pafsM the Houfe ^'i Lords ^ the Tmh and his Party v/ho did all they cou'd to flop it, or make it inefFedtual, prevail'd upon them to move the Addition of a Claufe call'd a Saving in thofe Words. ' Wt humbly prefent this Petition to your Majefty, not only with a care for Prefervation of our Liberties, but with a due regard to leave entire that Sovereign Power wherewith your ' Al-jefly is Tru/led, for (-he Protection, Safety, and Happinefs of your People \ Which Claufe theComnnons wou'd &y no means con- fent to have infer ted, and having in their Conference with theLords, given fach Arguments againfl it from Law and Reafon, as intirely fatisfy'd their Lordfhips, 'twas in the above Form concluded, and made the joint Deed and A? of King, Lords and Commons. And therefore'fis moft plain that the FUNDAMENTAL LIBERTIES and PROPERTIES of the Subj^-ct were, to the imminent danger of the People's ruin, violated under this King\ Jidminifrration. Who wou'd have thought that ever this Prince, after fuch a Petition aiTen- tedt© byhim in fo folemn a manner, wou'd have luffer'd his evil CDunfellors to prevail upon him to continue thofe Invafions he had m ide upon the yital Liberties of the Nation, and far lefs to encreafe the fame. The Commons fnppofing the King's Judgment to be fet ftraigbft by the Ptcition of Ri^ht, fell next upon the Vnhappy Inftruments h^t had abupd his Royal PosA^er, that the liice might be pr evented for the future ^ foi the beft Laws in the World are but a Fafer-Srcuity without ihtExarr.plary Punifhment of thofe Minijiers of Sftsat home, being ill provided in arr^mun-' tion, the Decay of Trade,lofs of Shipping and Martners, and gmvptng Po. vtrty of the Kirgdom jail which Miferies and Mifchicfs they fix upon the (/; U, UU. p. ^5. 2o6 Chap, I. The Loyalty of Treshyterians Par ft 0 ^^^^^^^ Council of the Duke of 5wJ&/;zffeers from his own A/firm'd by the Opinions of his Corrupted Judges^ enforc'd wish the feverefi Penalties of Imprifbnmeru and Profecution againli the Refu- fers, and particularly in the noted Gafe ot iMr. Hambden-^ the whole Arguments iis'd in his Gafe, which touch the Merits of the whole Caufe Pro and Con^ the Pleader may Perafe at large in Rujhworth^s Appendix to his Second Part. The hearts ot all good Subjects and Free-Men were rnis'd with joy- ful expctfiations from this Parliament, hoping their Grievances wou'd be redrefs'd ; and the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons (Serjeant Glanvile) in his firft Speech to theKing upon his Approbation of him, boldly acqu3ints him, * That if by the Subtilty oi Mi fin formers^ by the ' fpecio/is iaKe pretences ci public Good^ by cunning and clofe Contri- ' Vance of their ways to [educe, the (acred Royal Perfon Ihall at any ' time be circumvented or furpriz' d^or overwrought or drawn to com- . ' mand things contrary to Law, and that the fame be done according- ' ly ; Thefe Commands mil he void, and the King innocent in his very ' Perfon, being defended by the Prerogative : Neverthelefs the Au- E e ' thors (•) U U^V/p. 662. ip) Id, Ibid, 6$u 210 Chap. I. The Loyalty oj 'Preshyterians Fart 2. thorsin Hich MKiafo^'m-ijioir?, and Aftors \n thefe abufes will fl^iid * liable, and exp Vd to fir. [I Examination and y«/? Cenfure; having no* ' thing to defend chtmlelves bus the color ot a void Comjxnnd^fna^e ' voidby jnfr Frercgative^ and by the F^ndame^ual and true Reafo^s of ' State and Munarchy: And what Difference is rhere^ or can be iii Law, * between •SL'Void Command and no Command at all." (^^J The Houfe proceeds upon this Principle, Orders the Proceedings againft Sir John Eilioty Mr. Hollis^ and the other Imprifon'd Members of the Pirlia- mcnc (3 and 4 Caroll) to be fent ^or, the Carriage of Sir John Pinch Speaker of that Parliameat to be examin'd, all the Grievances men- tion'd in many Petitions from Counties and Boroughs to be Stated, and the Records' in the C *fe of Ship-Money concerning Mr. Hamb' den^ to be brought into the Houfe, ^r) Upon Repore, the Houfe Vo- ted Ench^s Ganiige in not obeying the Houfe, and his adjourning the Houfe by the King's Command, to be a Bieach of Privilege. The Gnind Commictee for Grievance', prefents Ship-Money as a Grievance ( Ihii, ) A id afterwar<^.s the Commons refolv'd on theie particu- lars following, as Heads for a Conference co be had with the Lords, I. Concerning Innovations in Matters of Religion, 2. Liberty and Property. 3. Privilege of Parliament'. The firft Head I omit here, having taken fomeNotice of it before,the other two are as follows. *2, As to Property of Goods. Refolv'd, that one Head of this Confe- rence, fh j11 be the Complaints which have been made by the Petiti- on^ from the feveral Counties, touching the Multitude of MonopO' /zVj and Reltraint of Trade, alfo the Complaints which have beea made by feveral Petitions from the Counties, touching the Grievan- ces of Ship-Money. The Complaints which have been made by feveral Fe itions from the Counties, of enlarging the Bounds of Forefs beyond what they have been for fome hundreds of Years laft paft, concerning Militaiy Charges, viz... Coat & ConduB mony^ Wages and Arms^ taken from the owners, forceing the Country to buy and p; ovide at their Charges, horfes and Carts by way of Tax concerning ih^ denyal oJjHftice in the Cor:riS ot Wefimi'j/tcry to the Subjvds * Prtjadice m Point of the Property of theirGoods.The frequent Im- fnfonm {<{) Id. part 2. p. 1 124. (0 W. U/4. p. 1x37* Under King Charles I. Chap; i . 211 ' prifonments and Vexation for Non-\)zyment of VfiivarramahU Tax. Part, 2 ' w, andfor not fubmicting CO W^^r//*/ Monopolies. Thirdly, as to *' ' the Liberties and frivilej^e of Parliament, refolv'd, that one head ^-^'""'^'^^ *" (hill be the CompUints that have been made touching the fiwijhirxr *• ot men out of ParliA'ne^n^ for things donem Parliament^ in breach ' of the frivil'ges of Parliament (f). While the Houfe is a Canvaffing tbofe Grievances, the King in- terrupts them with MelHges about the prefent urgent NecefTity of Supplies, and thai it muft be preferr'd to Grievances, which was the old Cant of his Miniftry in every Parliament ^ but fuch was their feeling fenfeof the diftracted and Miferable Condition of the Na- tion, that they wou'd not enter upon-Supplies^till their Grievan- ces fliou'd be firft confider'd, and thereby fufriciently exprefsM their belief of what one ot tbeirMembers(0 fud in to the houfc.- The Commonwealth {fays he) hath been MISERABLY TORN * AND MASSACREP, and all Property, and Liberty Jlmhen the ^ CHURCH DISTRACTED, the Gofpel and ProfefTirs of it per- ' fecuced, and the whole Nation overrun with fwarms of prcje^- ' tng C. inker-Worms^ and Caterpillars, the worjl- of all the Egyptian. ' Plagues all that I fhall f^y to it arc bur the Words that^ Ez.ya ' usM to King y^rf^ArrrA-fj of the Settlement of that State -jhal ' which cur'd theirs 1 hope will cure ours •• his Words are thefejir/^i;- ' foever hath not done the Laws of God^ and the Kw^^ let Judgment be ' fpeeddy executed upon him^ whether it be unto Bamfhment^ or to Con- ^ffcationofGoods^ or to Imtrifonment^ we can't complain we * want good Laws— there want only fofne Examples that fuch as ' have been the Authors and Caofes of al! our Miferies and Diftra- * dions ia Cluichand Commonwealth contrary to thefe good Laws ' might be Tread: to expel the poifon of Mifchief out of others{uj ' The King rather than let the Grievance? be ledreflT'd in a Parliamentary way'i diflolves the Parliament, imprifons fome of the Members, pnr- {\its tht Sh}^-mony<^ renews the Z-u^w, and gets Snbfijies from the C(>nvocation, when the ParJiame.Jt had refus'd *em. While affairs ftood thus, Divers Noble Lords, and likewife the whole City of iowi^o;? petitioned the King for calling a new Parlia- £ ^ 2, ment. (J)ldi p. 1148. it)Ul,Grmflone, {u)U,UJd.^, 1129. p Chap, r; The Loyalty oj Treshyterians AVt Q ^^^^^ feuing forthin thofe Petitions their great Grievances, on the accouat of Innovations in Maccets of Reliction ^ the Oath^ dnons^ L/~*V*^ and BentvoUnce impasM by i\\Q\itz Convocation^ the encreafe of Po- pery, and employing Papifls in Places of Truji: GvH and Military^ contrary to Law ; their fears of bringing in Inf} forces upon 'C'TI, the illegality of Ship- Mo^jy 3':i6. other Taxes then impas'd ^ and the IntermiflTn;) and D:iT;)liuion of Parliaments without the Redrefs of Grievances (rvX And on November 3. 1640. the Lo.ig Parliameat met. Before the King's leaving of his Parliament and the Commence- ment of the Civil War, there was an unexamfled Harmony and Vnani- mity in the Judgment of the 2 Houfes concerning the Main Gnevan-' ces complain'd of by the Nation, as appexrs by ihs following Votes. By the Houfg of Commons Pvefolved, Nemine Contrttdictnte^ ' That the Charge Impos'd upon all the Sabjf(fi:s for the providing ^-and furnifhlng of Ships and the Afleflrnents for raidng ofMoney,for '^ that purpofe called the Ship-Afoney ^ were again ft the Laws of the ' Realm^ the Subje^s Right of Pf operty ^znd contrary to former Refolmi- ^ ens in Parliament, and to tbe Petition of right, ' 2. That the Extrajudicial Opinions of the Judges publifh'd in * the 5Mr.C/j^w^er and inroU'd in the Courts at Weftminjier in ht&c ' virba &c. in the whole and in every part of them, are againfi the * Larvs of the Realm, the Right of Property and tne Liberty of the 5//^- *• jeBis^ and contrary to former Refolntions in Parliament, and to the * Petition of Right. ' 3. That the Writ following xnhac verhahc. and the otherWrits * commonly called the Ship- writs are agai>ift the Lairs of the Realm, * the Right of Property^ and the Liberty of the Subjeds, and con- ' trary to former Refolntions in Parliament, and to the Petition of ^ RightMa their J^th Refoluiion they condemn'd the Judgment againit iAr, Hambden as illegal. The Lords reduc'd the whole Subftance ofthefe 4 Votes ioto three and agreed with the Judgment of the Commons nemine Contradicente-^ and accordingly order'd ' Vacates and Cancellations to be made of the Re- (w;w.i^igby with the King at Cx/or^. p. 1337. (^) Sir fobn Culpqer after: wards with the Kmg at Oxford, p. »338t Under King Charles I. Chap, i: 21$ * The next G'ievance h tbe Canons ■■ " the oath et catera^ made P^^ft 2.- « by a Convocation that ended with the Parliament, vet afiCtwards ^-^y-vj * the fame men wichoi't ai^ new Ele^ion \Ne'it Shuffled into a Sa- L/>»^*«' * cred Synods dnd wichniit P.irlinmCTit cffttm^d to tbcmltlves Power to 8 inal^e Laws, to ffrant Berevolerce and to meddle with our freehild * U-1- The i.ex^ v^ Shipmor;y^ it cries aloud, ttftrikesthe frjt-hrn * of every Fjmily-, 1 nieari our I>.heritance. It the Laws give the ' King Power in any danger of the Kingdom whereof ht is judge, * ro impofe what and when he pkcfe, we owe all that is left to * theGoodnefs of the King. Tnere is one Grievance move, bus ' it Comprizech many, it is a Neft of Wafps or Swarm ot Ver- ' mine, which have ovcrcrept the Lind. 1 mean t\\t Alonotjolies d^ * Tollers of (he People: Thefe like the Frogs of r^^/?t have goaen ' Pffl'tfTionof our Dwellings ^ they///; in our Cnp^ they dif in our ' Dtjh^ they Jit by our jzr^, we find them in the ^Vajb-hoafe^ and * powdering- Tub, they {hare with the Buttler in his Bo« i they ' have mark' daud fe^Wdn^ (vom Head to foot ^ they will no6 abate ' usa Pin. :, Theie are the Leeches that have fiuk'd the Commonwealth^ ' fo hard^ that it is almoji become Helical. ^ (c) ' My Lorf^s, the Articles againfl Judge Crawley you have ' heard, how thefe S&«jof the Law have torn out the Bowels of their Mother. This Impoficion of Shipmony fpringing from a pretended necefijty- they entail upon the State for ever, at once m'iking Necejjity inherent to the Crown^ and Slavtry to the Subje^* ■ certainly there is no Privilege more properly be- longs to a Parliament than to open the Purfe of a Subject, and yen * thefe Judges have not only affam'd this Privilege of Parlia- * ment, bDt prefum'd at once to make a prefent to the Crown of ail ' that either ynar Loidfhipsor the commons of England do or Jlull * hereafter Pojfefr. {d) * Mr. ^;M;|/r,TheConIlitutionof thisCommonweahh hath e* * ftabliih'd, or rather er.deavor'd to eftablifh to us the Security of * our Goods, and the Security of thefe Laws which wou'd fecurc us^ aiid [J>2 I'm perfuadcd that neftherPuritan nor PresbyterianAffembiy ever did tne- likc ©t this. ['f3 Mi"« WsUer afrerwards fentecc'd to death fur adhering to K. Chxr. I. p. 1539. (J) Lord fa«/;t/dWii afterwards with the J^ing at Oxford*. Printed CoHcilidnuf Sketches &c. p. 337, &c ^i6 Chap, i: The Loyalty of Trejlyterians Pi r^ O ' ^"^ ^"^ Goods \ by appointing for us Judges, fo fettled, fo Sworo, X ai L Z. c j|^g{. fj^gjg ^jf, ^g p,3 Oppr.flion, bui they of neceflicy mn/t be Ac- U/V^ ' celTary ; fi jce if they neiiner deny nor delay us Juitice, which nei^ ' ther for the Great nor the little Seal, they ought to do -, the greatefl ' Perfon in this Kingd^^m cannot contin lie the leaft Violence upon ' the Meaneil. Bue this Security, Mr. Spe^.ker, hath been almofl- ' our Ruiae j for it hath been turn'd, or rather turned it felf into a ' Battery againH; us: And thofe Perfons whofliouM have been as Dogs ' to defend the Sheep, have h€Gn as Wolves to worry them Tne ' Caufe of aU our Miferies we nave fufFiii'd, and the Caufe of all our ' Jealoufies we have had, that we fhou'd yet fuffer, is, that a mofl Ex- * cellent Prince hath been nioft infinkely abus'd by his Judges, telling ' him that by Policy he might do what he phased. — And fince in * procuring of thofs Laws, upon which thofe Men have trampled, ' our Anceftorshave fh^^vn their ucmolt Care and Wifdom, for cur * uuiffeded Security, Words having done nothing, and yet having * done all thai: Words can do, we muit now be forc'd to think of A- * boIiiTiing our Grievances, aoH of taking away this Ju'igment, and ' thefe Judges together, and of reg^^lating their SiiccffTors by their ' Exemplary Piinifl^ment Among thefe there is one that I * mufl not loofe in the Croud who not only gave away with his ' breath what our Ancellors had Purchased for us by fo large an Ex- ' pence of their timCy their Care^ their Treafure^ and their Blood - ' but ftrove to root up thofe Liberties- — And to make our Grievan- * ces Immortal, and our Slavery Irreparable, left any Pa>t of our * Pojlerity might want occafon to curfe him- ■ l£ is my Lord- ' Keeper for my part, I think no Man fecure, whilft all our * Efljtes are in his Breaft^who hath facrific'd his Country to his Am- ' bition^ whilft he who hath proftrated his own Confcience, hath ^ the keeping of the King's, and he who hatW undone ns already by ' IVhcle/ale, hath a Power left m him by Retail. ' {e) Mr. Speaker^ when 1 look upon the Body of this good and * fl )uri!liing Kingdom in matters of Religion and of our Laws ( for *■ like Hippocrates Twins they Live and Die together ) I fay when I t bwhjld thefe in that State and Plight, as they have been reprefented to (O Mr. BigPiiv) afctrwards with the King at OxforL U,^. 345, &c. Under King Charles I. Chap, i . 217 to us, flere mttgislihtt quam dicer€.^\M this is ou»* Comfort, that we D^ *./- r> , are all met together, tor the Welfare and Happinefs cf Prince and People. And who knows whether this may not be the appointed L/^'"\J time, wherein God will reftore our Religion as at the fii ft, and our Laws as at the beginning To make People rich they mufl have Esfe and Jiftice ^ Eafe in their Confciences from the Bane of Superftition, ivom i\\q intolerable Burthen oi Innovation \n Religion, and from the Racks & Tortures of Strange and New-fang- /^^ Oaths. They mufb be eas'd in their Perfons in their Lands in their Goods-- yet if they have not Jiiflice they cannot fubfifl;. The King is Sty I'd fons Ji^fiitia^ and he com- mits it to his Judges ^— but not without an Oath required of r.hem i8£//;:,.ji. Thcefftdlof the Oarh i?, that they fhou'd do equal Law and Execution of Right to all the King's Sub- jsdis That they fhou'd not deny to do common Right to any Man fortheKing'sLetters,or for any or.herC3ure^& in cafe RichLetcers do, that they proceed to do the Law notwithfiar.dingfuchLttters^ how this Oath hath been perform'd, we hjvefeen and felt \ \ wou'd Ay no more •, but when I call my Eyes upon the inferior Courts of Juftice, wherein no fuch Oath is required : I mean the High-Com- mijfioa^ and oi:her Ecclefiaflical Courts, my Sottl hath Bled for the MANX PRBSSVKES Ihave chfervU in thefe Courts a-- gainft the King's good People ^ efpecially for the moft Af O N- SIROVS ABVSE of the Oaih ex Officio^ which, as it if now us'd^ I can cill no other than Carnificina Confcientia •.>-—. ., Thefe Worthies that fpoke before me, have told yon of our Miferies ; ^ but I cannot tell you of the Remedies : For things are come to thai Height, that I may fay, z^Livy Aid of iheRoman State in his time, nee Vitia nofl-ra fcire pcjfumi^s^ nee Remeaia : for no Laws will now do us good i better La^s cou'd not have been made than the Stare of Monopolies, againll Projeftors, and the Petition of Right againft the Infringers of Liberties ; ard yet, as if the Law had been the' Author of them ^ There hath been within thefe few Tears more Mo- nopolies and Infringement of Liberties, THJN HATh^ BEEN JN ANT AGE SINCE THE CONQVEST. And if ail thefe vile Har- lots, as Q. Eliz.. call'd 'em, that have been the Authors of thofe c- vils, and the Troublers of om Ifrael do go unpunifh'd, it will never be better with us-, for now during Parliament like frczen Snakes F f ! iheJr 2 1 8 Chap. I. The Loyalty of Trejhyterians 1 art 2. ' t^eir Poyfdn dries up, but let the Parliament diflblve, and then ^ thtir Poyfon melts and fcatters abroad, and doth moie hurl than 6 ever.— — iMy conclufion, Mr. Speaker is this — — let them be * made Examples of Punifliment who have been the Authors of all ^ thcie Miferies, according to the Counfel of Solomon^ take away the * Wicked from before the King^ and his Throne Jh. ill be efvabliQfd^c. ' (/j * My Lords, there can't be a greater Inflance of a (Ick and Ungiitlhitig Common wealth than the bufirefs of this day. Good God ! How have the guiliy thefe late Years been punifh'd, when tiie Judges themlelves have been Delinquents.' Tis no fach Marvel, that an IRREGULAR, EXTRAVAGANT, ARBITRARY POWER, like a Torrent, hath broke in upon U3, when our Bmks and our Bulwarks, the Laws were in the CuHody of fach PtrforiS, Men who had /^y? their Innocence couM not prefer vei\xtvc Courage. Nor cou'd we look that they who had fo vifiMy undone us thenifel'/es fliou'd have the vertue or Credit, torefcue us from thcOpprefion of other men. Had not this blejfed^^y come,a]l men wou'd have had that quarrel Co the Law it feit, which Marim had to the G'rff^ Tongue, who thought it a Mockery, for a Man to learn that Language, the Mailers whereof liv'd in Bondage under others.' ' It is in your Lordfliips Power — to reflore the dc jeded broken People of this Ifiand to their former Joy and Se-* curity, the SuccefTors of thofe men to their Old Privilege and Vc* neration, ar.d SEPULTAS PROPE LEGES REVOGARE. C^ ) ' It is moil certain that there hath not been in all that De- dudion of Ages ( /. e,fwce the Conquefl) fach a Confpiracy of all the Elements of Mifchief to bring a flourilhiag Kingdom (if h were pofliblej to I'wift Ruin and Defolation. I will be bold tofay (and I thank God we have fo good a King under whom we may fpeak boldly of the abafe by ill Minifters, without Refledion up- on his PerfonJ that an jiccHmulatton of all the Public Crievanas fince Magna Charta^^^wt one upon another unto that hour in which the PtHres and htermifiofi of Parliaments. 'Tis true,Sir,wicked ^ Minillers have been the Proximate Caufes of cur Mileries ; buE ' the want of Parliaments the Primary and the Efficient Caufe. Ill * Minifters have made ill Times, but that, Sir, hath made ill Mini- * Iters. From the fe and many fach Speeches, of great Royalifts, and the Unanimity of the above menrion'd Votes of both Houfes, the Nations juft and deep fenfe of the llniverfal Encroachments that were made upon their Fundamental Liberties and Properties byArbitrary Pow- er is abundantly manifefled ^ and the fame doth further appear from divers Ads of this Parliament, to which the King himfelf gave the Royal AfTentjViz. ^n Ad for the preventing inconveniencits happening hy the long Jntermiffion cf Parliaments. An AB to prevent the {nconvc- nienciesby the untimely adjourning of this Parliament. An AB for the Regulating of the Privy Conncil^ and for taking away the Court common" ly calCd the Stare-Chamber. Repeal cf the branch of a Statute i. Eliz.^ concerning Commijfioners^ or Caufes Eccle^iafiical. An A^ for the de- claring unlawful and void the late Proceedings touching Ship-mony^ and for the vacating ail Records and Procejjes concerni-ng the fame. An AEh againf} divers encroachments and Opprejfions in the Stannery Courts. An jiEtforthe Certainty of For efts ^ and of the Meets .^ Meers^ Limits and Bounds of the Forefis. An AEh for preventing of vexatious Proceedings touching the Order of Knight'kood. An Act about Tunnage and Poun- dage. Seeing the Experience of all the former Parliaments of this Reiga had made it evident that thebefl Laws they did or cou'd make, or which had been mide for them by their Anceftors cou'd do them no Service, without the Exemplary Puniflvnem of thofe who had trampled upon them ; This Parliament then falls ^ Work, and r^folves to Purge the Court of fuch Time-ferving Flatterers and Oppreflors, as by their Counfel had abus'd theKing's Honor and endanger'd the Peo- ple's fafety. My Lord Keeper Fmch and Secretary Wtndebank fled for F f 2 the 220 Chap, r; The Loyalty of Vrejhyterians P'^rf 9 the l;imc.5rr.'^y^ is beheaded, but mudi againfl: the King's Will. XalL Z* /,^/<^ and the uiijufl Judges are impeach'd. While the Ku g is ia L/'^^/'^J Scotimd^thQ horrid and bloody InJIj Mc^fljcre breaks out,which alarmed all the Proteflants of ihe three Kingdoms, and convinc'd the Lofig P/tr/i^'Wtfwtof theAbf)lute necclTKy ot Proceeding in their intended Me- thod of bringing ail the Inflruments of their Milerics to a deferv'd Punifhment. Accordingly tbeCommons prepare a Remonftrance (upon the King's return to Xo«i^5« which was in November 1541") wherein they let forth all the illegal and offrejfivg Practices of his evil Goun- fellors and Mlmfters of State^ wish their ill Confequences happen'd already, and to be jaUiy fear'd, if the Adtors fhcu'd go unpunifh'd. And while they are prortcuting thisD^iign, the King in January fol- lowing corr.si in Psrfcn with a Company oj Arm'd Alen into the Hoiife then licting, and demands five of their Members 10 be deliver'd to him, to be Try'd for High-Treafon, This unaccountable breach of their Priviledge filFd them and the Kingdom with foch Conjlemation^zs th.y no bnger thought their Lives Safe, and therefore were guarded by luch as had a refpedfcr 'em and their Privileges. Tis tiue, the King promifes not to do the like again, but while his evil Conn feliors were about him, yjho for 1 5 Tears had in fo many noted Inftances made him break his Royal tVord, they durfb not trufl him i and henc« arofc the Debate between him and them concerning the Militia ; they urg- ing that the Power and Truft of it might be put into fuch hands as both Houfes of Parliament might confide in, as abfolurely nectlTary for the Nations fafety ^ f for which as alio for their Demands, abouj ether places of Public Truft, they give a vafi- number of known Pre- cedents in their Declaration upon the breaking up of the Treaty be- tween him and them, ^f2no 1^43. (h) ) which he refus'd to dc-. He leaves his Parliament, goes to Tork, and from thence to hull, where Slv John Hot ham vefm'd him Entrance, and at Notingham \n ^ugnj} following, fet up his Standard^ Proclaims the Parliament Rebelsi and gathers an Army againfl «hem. From all the Public Adh, Records, Petitions, Remonftrances, De- clarations, Votes, CommilTions, Impeachments and other Adions, • and [h) vide ihQ PiQQscdings of the hte Treaty of Peace &c. Printed by Order of both Houfes p. 82, Vnder King Charhs I. Chap, i 221 and well Atcefled Hiftorica! Ohfervationsmention'd in the Premif- P^^rf 9 fe«, ftom the i^yh p-^geof this DifcouiTe, Jet the impartial Reader judge, vj\Klhci'lhefNn(iame?Jtal and Fital Liberties and moft ejfentid ^/'"V"^ Properties of ihe People of £??^/.j»^ were not M^nifefll/ overturn'd by the M lie- Adminiilrations of this Reign. If none but the long parliament had complain'd of this, one might have had (bme ground at Icalt to f^il'peci:, thaE all might have been but the noife and Clamor of a FMiou^ combined againll the looneji Dsfigns of the Coirn : but from what hach been f3id,'tis rlear t\\?itGrievarces^Of^rejfion&In[rtnfe~ mem of Liberties^ was the COMS TANT CRY of all his Parliaments whatfoever. Is it noi flrange, chat all the Marks of nifgrjce he put npon his Parliament?, by his MefTiges to them, imprifoning. their INIembers, and publilliing fuch bitter invedives againfl: them in his Declarations after their D'ATilation, and all the means that coird be us'd by the Court for new Eiedlions ; that all this, I fay, cou'd ne- ver procure him one Parliament in 1 5 years time^ that cou'd either fleafe him or bt tUas'd with hin,? Can any man of Judgment offer fo much Violence to his Reafon, as to believe, that the E?-glii)i N3iion(whore GalUm and L'tyd Ge- nius flands Celebrated in the Records of Immort.d Fame J fhou'd fo univerfally and Conftaatly, in fo many different Parliaments, con- fpire to load the Methods of their Prince's Government with fuch Difhonorable Afperfionsand Scandalous Libels, as their Proceedings might have been truly accounted, if they had not been juflify'd by an Unparallell'd Series of Oppreflion from the Conrt ? For what fup- pofable Reafon did the King intermit Parliaments for above Elevea Years, but for this, beciufe he was hopelefs of getting any that wou'd approve of his Meafures? For certainly the moft Arbitrary Prince in the World wou'd rather have his People on his Side than againfi; him. If any reafon be fufficisnt to juflify Rejijlanct^ it mud be when Religion^ Liberty and Property are underpin d-^ which appears to have been the Caufe of the Parliaments War againft this Prince. And I wou'd gladly know, what X)f^rfff of Violation and Invafion oi a Peo- ple's Rights Rdig\o\j.s and Civil will jufiify this Refinance, if thofe made by the then-Court were not fuflicient to do it ? And whether, ftppofing the Encroachments mide on each of them feparately were not fufncient ground for Refiltance, yet the Encroachments made 0:1 222 Chap. I. The Loyalty ofPreshperiam Pi3,rt 1i °" ^^■'^n^ a51 compared and duly weigh'd no£ by fomeyF'/^/tf ^m,but ^^j^^,^^'' byalmoft an nnwtcrrnpted Pregrefs^ ftill encreaiing in fpi^iht of the ^^y>ryJ molldf^r, Iri^iifputahlr, and fa^.^^amental Laws^ and VnanimoHs fenCe of the Nation, ht not an unanfiver able Re afon to acquit the Subjefts firfl: taking up I^efenfive Arms from the fcandal and Grime of Re- bellion .? As ihe Evils the People groan'd under were intolerable ^ fb their Patience before they took up Arms* was furprizln^^ ^ and exceeded all ihe Inftances, wherein ih^Englifli Nation ever refifted by Arms the Exorbitant at d illegal Will of their Princes, for reducing it to juft Bounds. For tho' the Grievances of the Nation were more in one Year of this King's Reign than in both the Reigns of Edward id and Richard I, (t.) (as the Reader may be fully fatisfied by comparing their feveral Hiflories; whom their Subjefts refifted, yet in this Cafe they waited i6 yegrs till things grew daily worlej and after all, the Subjeft drew not the Sword until! of three branches of the Supreme Legiflature they were dir: [led and headed by two of them to rcfcue the Nation from utter Coiifiuoa and Ruin; and until the greatefl if noE the only Barrier of their Libe.iies; viz. 'that all Subjetls whatfoever, even the gre.Jtefi Mini (I ers of State are accountable to and Purtijhable in Parliament^ was fla'lv, frequently, and without hopes of Recover/ any other way denyM 'em ; and until herefus'd to put [the Executive Power intofnch hands as the Parliament durfl confide \n for the fafeiy of their Ltves to Sit and do bufinefs. And that their fesrs and jealou- fies were not groundless, appears by the King's Letters to the Queen intercepted by the Pailiament,and publilh'd in their Account of the breaking up of the Treaty with him fp. 74.) j wherein hedifcovers his Dcfigns of filling thefe Places with Perfons recommended by her Councils, and imparts to her his other Prrje6ts ^ and therefore 'twas no great wonder, that feveral of ihofe who follovv'd the King fhou'd iuy (as Coke obferves) (k) 7 hey as much dreaded the King's overcoming the Parliament-Party^ as they feared to be overcome by them. That Au- thor farther fays of him, (/) ' The firfi: fifteen year? of his Reign were ' perfectly French^ and fiich as never before were feen or heard of in *■ the £«^i{/?^ Nation. Ibis brought on a miferable War in all the three King- <0 ^s Coke ttffures us Det eft. Part i. p. 397, (k) Jiid, p. 39^, (0 Il>i(l, p. 2®5. Under King Charles L Chap; r. 223 Kingdoms of £«ff/4w^, Scotland and Inland^ and Deflrudion upon Pqi^^ 9* the King, when as it was not in the Power of thofc wh > firft lais'd the War agaiaft him to Hive his Life, which they vvou'd have done. W%J And let any Man read the fliort PafTages of his Reign (fays he) (rn) and judge if the Imminent Ruin of the Nition were not from hi mfelf Within^ as Well as without:. No human prof| e:'^ (fays he) (n) coa'd have forefeen where the Tyranny of K- Chirles v\ Reign woit'dhave ended^ii the long Parliamem iu. 154.0. had not put a full fief to it. The true end of a lawful War is, thatan injar'd party may pre- feive or recover by theSword fomeRight w! ic'i he can't recover or pi eferve any other way ^ and therefore a War fhou'd flill be t'le lafc Remedy. To apply this to the Cafe in hand .• The points in Debate and in danger of imminent Ruine, namel\', Religion^ Liberty and Troftriy ^XQ valuable Kighis^ worthy of all Endeavors for their Pre- fcrvation and Reftitution ;but thefe cou'd not be preferv'dov re(lor'd by any other Methods than the fubjeds defenfive Arms. No Laws, no Petitions, ro Remonftrances, no Eflay us'd, no Patience exercis'd did prevail upon the Court^ and therefore what cou'd the Parliament and other Subjeds do, but either reftfi by Arms or tamely ft fiiH^ and fee the good and Happinels of Society intirely ruln'd and facri- iic'd, which Mr Hoadly thinks z greater ContradiBion to the Will of Cod than any of fc fit ion can he, as being a tacit Confent to the Ruine and Mifcry of Mankind^ mhofe fnhlic Peace and Haffinejs ts the end of Gc vernment. What other reafons can be given fot reMing the lateKingJ^??;^/, than thofe which jullify'd the Refilling of his Father ? 'Lis true. King James was a Profelf Papift .- But feeing the Bill of Exclnfon was rejeded vhisbeinga Papifl, as it cou'd not keep him out, fo it cou'd not legally turn him out, nor juflify Refiftance w^r^/jl on ihat fcore : and theiefore itmuft be his illegal attempts upon Religion, Liberty and property, that juflify'd i\\q Revolution : z^idi the very fame do equally juftify the Commencement of the War againfl; his Father. And yet the People of England waited 16 Years before they refilled the Father j .ho' their Patience was quite tir'd out, be- fore (m) ibid. 2* ^92, (w) Part 2, p. 4^^. 224 Chap. I. lloe Lojdty ofPreshyterians Part w^r^ 2 J fore they bad waited 5 Years under th«; Son. They redded not the Father til] both hhufes of FarUament declared for it, and p^elT'd 'ein to it. They refifted the 5^;^ without looking upon themfeives ob- ligM to wait for any fuch Formality. After they had refifted the Fa- ther,theyp«'?/>/o«Vhim as their UrvfidPrince^trQitcd with nim, begg'd him to return to his Parli3ment,and Govern according to Law ^ and afeer they had quite fubdu'd and rooted all bis Forces, and fo had Power to do what they pleas'd, yet they voted his Conceffionsy^/?/- fa^cry^ and to be fufficieni Ground for a Treaty^ all which fhew'd that they carry'd on a War with no defign to Dethrone him, or declare huTi CO h'^'Jt abdicated ; B it thcy had no [ooner refined the Son, bag they declare his Throiie vacanc ^ Entertain not the leall thoughts of repofleffing him of it, hut take all Mahods pofllble to put it out of his Po.ver tocome at it. W t^mW tho^c Gbrious Stepj ot Reft/lance to K. James buile upon the Impregnable Foundation o{ Ecfuityy Jujlice 2nd the public Gooii -^aad to be efpousM and cordially mai.itain'd as the ffpntial and Honorable Principles of the late H-^^FPT REFOLVTU om And Hiall a/#r and MORE LIMITED Refiftance to K.a^r- les I. tho' fupported by the fame Reafons* which warranted a greater and more Abfolute one to bis S<^c, be jaflly tax'd with Rebellion ? Upon the whole, I leave it to the Reader, eoform a Judgment for liimlelf, whether tlic Presbyterians were Guilty of Rebellion, in ta- king parr with the Parliament in their War ; and tho' I won'i give my own Judgment as to the Merits ot the Caufe, yet I fhall adven- ture to fay, that they had agreat deal to fay for themfeives ^ efpecially confldcring, that in the Parliament (at the beginning of rhat War; thtre were not ten A-^imbers^ who were profcfs'd Presbyterians, as my Lotd Llarendon contcileth , and therefore if the Presbyterians were Rebels, they were INVITED and COMMANDED to be fuch by their BRETHREN OF THE £STABLISHD CHURCH, and by thofc who were fitiirg in a LegalParliament, ar.d sding for the refcu- iigofthe vicUted Sihkmg Libe>ties oi the Nation: And the Aft of Ollivion hath laid a jufl: Foundation for removing all Ground<^ of Re- proach uponth^tt Account. TheKing's r'arty as well asthcParliament's needed fuch an Aft. Before I come to the fecond Crime objefted agaiufl Presbyterians dujing this Reign, I muft take notice of oar Author's Objections a- gaiiift thee Petitions of the Presbyterians in the North of Ireland i .10 Undfr King CharhsT. Chap. i. 225 to. the General Ajfemhly. While he is anfvrering the Challenge ^f Pqt-f ly the Author of the Parallel^ v;hich is \.o{hew the Rebellions^ the Jjfocia- t Z- tions)FaBiofis &c.which the Dtjfenters of Ireland ever raised a^ainjt their L/^'V^J Prince, tho'* they JJjou^dao back to the Tear di^ ^S. and 60. He refers to the Ads of the General Affemhly for ■- Three Petitions from the * Diflenfcrs of the Nrrth of Ireland to the General Allcmbly ot ' Scotland: The firfi: mjnly i6'42. fent by James Gordon 3ud Huo-h * C^*wp^f/;Thefecond was dated ^//^///?-5. 1643. The 3^ in A^ay * 1545. from Belfaft, ddiver'd by William Mc Hennah Merchant, la * all which Petitions you will pliinly difcover (fays he) what their * 'temper and Dtf^ofition then was both to the King and Royal Partv In all thefe three Petitions ('which I have carefully perus'd) I don't fina the lea ft Syllable relating to the King, or his Name lo much as mention'd excepr once •, and 'tis in the Lift of them, in thefe Words ^ We are nothina fljaken in our minds^ with the odious Jlfperjions cf Sedition, Combination againfl the King &c. And feeing they difown a- ny Combination againft the King, by giving it the Name of an 0« dious j^fperfi0n,\ think 'twill be pretty hard from thence to conclude anything againfl their Loyalty. I confefs 1 am at lofs to find out th€ leafl^ Confetjuence from any of thefe three Petitions, to prove what cur A \Mhov Jlledgeih from 'em ; &until he fhall think fit to form an Ar- gum^ent from 'emCwhich I don't find he has once attempted) I fnan'c chink my felf much concern'd with them. The Prayer of ihofe Petitions being for a Miffion of Mini(lerso{ their own Peifuafion to fupply the poor diftrefs'd Remnant o{ Presby- terians vnVlfier, who had furviv'd the Bloody MafTacre of 41 ^ they mention in their feveral Narratives the Severities formerly us'd a- gainft them by the Prelates in Wentwonhh Government^ but where the Sedition, the Rebellion^ or any other Fault of this was, our Author proves not. Becaufe they fpeak againfl the Tyranny of fome of the then-Prelates, mufl they therefore be difloyal? What's very obferv- able is. That as our Author quotes thefe Peiitions for a purpofe which they no way tend to advance viz.. Difloyalty againfl the Government ^■m fo he intirely pafleth the Sufferings and Oppreffion of Presbyterians mention'd in them, without any Remark. And indeed he had great reafon to do fo , confidering the Illegal and Arbitrary lEspolition of the Oath commonly call'd the ^/^c^-O^r^ in /rf/^^^^upon aiiPer- G g foa 22(5 Chap, I. The Loyalty of 'Preshyterianr P ... Tons of the S'rottifd Nitlon of the Age :>f \6 years ancl_ upwards, who alt 2« were then lahabitdKS ii /'-fZ-^wi, upon Dvere PeaaUies. The rr^/?? C^/'^SJ of Parlia^nentary J^tthority and Santilon to the fdid Oith was a TifHci- eiit ReaFm fevcn tho' the matter of it had been unexceptiom^.ble; to juftify any one's refufin;^ ic Bat the Presbyterians refus'd it not only for its being lilegally imposM, but becaufe of the Pernicious Ten- dency of the ma ter of the Oith it felt to dcllroy Liberty and Pro. pnty : For it oblig'd 'em to Swear in the f >nowin? Words, ' I will * notbear Arms, or doany ReSeilJoas or H >fl:ilf' A61 aiainfl AN7 ' OF His (i. e. the Kings ) ROYAL COMMANDS, but fubmit my ' felf in a!l due Obedience thereunto-, and thaE I will not enter into * any Covenant or Bind of Mutual Defence or AfTillince againfl any ' Perfon whatfoevir by Forces, without his Majefly's Sovereign and * Regal Authority, A:id I do Renourxe and Abjure all Oitbs, Co- * venanwS, and Bands v/hatfoever, contrary to what 1 have herein ' Sworn, profefs'd and promls'd. So help me G^d in Jefus Chri|>, They look'd upon this to be a dangerous Infnaring Oath ; becaufeis might be interpreted as an Approbuion and Aflenting to thcjl'ivifi Doctrine of the VrAawfulnefs of Refijtauce upon any Pretence what foe- ver. \\\Q Royal Commands are to be limited by the Covfiit»tion and Ltws of she Kingdom ^ and if the King fhou'd Command the Subjec^^t to join in theDefbrudtion ofReligi'jn, Liberty, and Property,and in the Overthrow of the Municipal and Fnndame?ital Lixos^ and EfTntialPri- vilegesofFrec bornSubject5,they cou'd not confent to diveft 'emfelves, upon Oathjof their Right of Self-Defence, without a manifefl betray- ing of the Liberties of the Nation which they durfl not S.vear to do, having always ceftify'd an Inviolable Regard for them. ThePrinci- ( pies of 5?-^^^^ and his Party (the Contrivers and Impofers of this Oathj leading to Arbitrary Government, were, according to the Rules of all Cafuiflsin fuch Cafes, confider'd in order to the U ider- ftinding of the Oath fram'd by them for ferving the Court-Deligns of that Reit-n. This Oith, tho' illegal not only for its matter as tending to fabvert the Civd Conftitution^ but alfo for want of a due Auihority to impole *i£, was violently U'g'd by a High-flown Party i:j Ireland^ headed by Wemworth la Conjunction with the Laudenftan Fadtion in England, For refnfing it. Multitudes of /^^cfre Proteftants were banilh'd, and miferably perfecujed : By which means the remaining part of the Pro- teltaats Under King Ch^rhs I. Chap. i. 227 teflants of IreUnd became a more cafy Prey t:i the Blordy Papiils, Po i-f 9 who foon improv'd the Advantage given to their Caufe, by fo re- • markable a Blow as the Protefiam Intereft had got by tliefe violent *^l/'^^^"NJ Courfes. And 'cis very obfervable, that as the Moderation of the Govern* ment towards Presbyterians vi'as the great Means of Planting Vlfier^ foPfrfetution weakned the Briti>fl} and Proteflant Intereft, and was the direful Forerunner of the Bloody Rebellion in 1541. Yet Divine Providence by removing the Presbyterian Minifters out of theKing- dom before theRebelJion fbeing driven away by Went worth's Perfecu- tlon and the Black- Oach j kept them alive, and re[crv'd them for farther Service to their Flocks, who receiv'd them again wirh great joy and Comfort, when their Perfecutors had either perifh'd, or been driven away by theCommonCalamity.And thereby a door was open'd for the replanting of theGofpelin thefe Presbyterian Con- gregations, whofe Miniftershad betnbanilh'd by the High-Chnrch- FaBio-a. IVhy may not this be told, without any ground fo'- thas Cenfure which our Author places upon the Presbyterians Cp. 19) * Is not this (fay the) a wr ndrons mark of their rendernefsSt Pro- * teclion of the Loyal Epifcopd Pattv at that time, when ttieir Ba- * nifhment by the PapiJIs wds leckon'd by thefe Charitable Bre- * thren the Opening a Door (a> they fay there) for the plamhg of the ' Gofpel^ as if they reputed them hfideb^ ' che Piesbyterians never call'd their Brethren o[ the Epifc - p 1 Church hfidels^ nor ever gave any juft Occalion to bcl eve rhat ih^yrfpatedthem to befuch. Nay they bjlieve 'aid a'wiys d 6) That there are of that Communion many worthy Proteltauts a .d good C!iiJftians,tho' they conformed to divers things in the Ectlefiiftical Eftablifhment, which were a- ^ainji the Conferences of Presbyterians. And therefore the widening of the Breach among Proteftants to that unaccountable Degree, as to perfuade the World (as our Author does} that one part of them reputes the other to be Infidels^ is DilTsrviccable to our Common Chriftianity; Elpecially, when there is nothing in the ExprefDon he quotes, to fupport the Charge founded upon it. But I come next to conlider the fecond Crime charg'd upon Pres- byterians during this Reign W2:. That the Commipon of the General JffcnMy of Scotland oppos'd Duke Hamilton's Ui,dertaking in 1648 ■ who wtnt into Enaland vfith an Army to fght for the King ^ Tnat G g 2 ihey 2 28 Chap, i.^ The Loyalty of Treft>yterians P^rt 2. ^^^^ ^^^ ^^' ^^ ^^'"^ ^^'"^ • ^^'^ °"^ Author filiifieth the Hiflory of ^* ic in divers (Material Gircumftaaces and Iniiiiuations. ' This Decla- iy^/^K) t ration of the Aflembly (f 1(^48. A Declaration of the General Affembly concerning the prefent Dangers of Religion, and efpeciaHy the Unlawful £;/^4£mfwr ia War, ^e. In the Aa$ of the General Affembly p. 388. 2C^O Chap. I . The Loyalty of Trefbyterians Pq|-|- 2 ' ^Vi hut alfo jl'tghzn offer of a Treaty made from the Pdiliamento/ * ' Engla-nd^ upon the Propofitions of both Kingdoms. L/^^^i^ The Committee of Eftates of Parliament made and publifh'd /c^we /, »• Bcciufe the Comm fli^ners at London did reprefent Wrongs and fctk Reparnti n. 2. Becaufe a Meflenger wasfent with the Oemands or the Pi-liimentof this Kingdom to the Kingdom of Ev^hvd. Buc be c 'tis n'^'t to be foig^otten, that neither the CommifTi ners ^t Lotion^ nor the Mflenger here meant of,did m ik.' k.iown to the Pariiamenc o*^ EngUvd the breach- es found & deciir'd by the Pir]iimei;cof thi^Ki'igdom in theirDe- claration to the Kingdom co:ceri)ing the Grounds and Caulss of the preicnt Engagement. Ho-.'canit then be f ppos'd that all the Means of preventing Bl odfhed were fufKciently efTiy'd, feeing the very Grounds and Caufes of the War found by the Parliamenn of this kingdom, xtere not fo much as made known to the Parli?mcn£ of r77^/^/?.'/,chat their anfwcr thereunto might be heard •, and whe- *• ther there is fome other My fiery in the not making known thofe * breaches to the Parliament oi England^ time may peradventure dif-' cover Under King Charles I. Chap, i « 2^1 cover. 2. T'-eir Lordfliips arc pleasM here to pafs in filence that Pq|-|- 9^ which ffenHd moft ftrangeto the General AfTemhly, fhiC the ofFcr of a Treaty upon the Propofitions of botl.Kingi'omsbeing made by L/'N/^'NJ the Parliameni oi E^gUnd^ was YET SLIGHTED and notem- brac'd by the Parliamenc of this Kinj^dom. 3. Was n^t ih.e Tcwa ot Berwick feized upon which Ad now \.\\?.'v Lordfhips own in this P-per of their Objtrvdt-.ons) before the Mcflenger was fenc with tht demands to thf Houfes o{ Pa-Uamem ? from all which l.iid toge- ther, ic will qu ckly appear that this Jngagemcnt was undertaken Without [irfl FJfyirg thr^fe Anicahle and Peaceable ways^ which might and cught to have betn nfed for preventing of Bloo^-jhed' j. The SECOND head of rcafons 1 proposed to infift upon for /how^ ing the unlawttilneGof that Ergagement^ is taken from this ^ becaufc, a^tnatters ihe/i flood, ic was dangerous to the Intereft of Religion ^ which the Aircmbly in the above-mentioned Declaration exprefs thus p. 386, 387. ' The Wars of God's People, are called the Wars of the Lord^ ^Nnmb. It, 14 2, Chrou.io. 15. And if our Eating and Drinki' g- much more our engaging in War, mufl be for God and his Glo- ry I Cor. \0. 31. iVhatfoever we do in Word or Deed^ we are com- minded to dj all in the Name of the Lord Jefts.^ and fo for his Glory, Col 3. 17. The Kingdom of God and the Righteoifncfs ihereojis ts he fo'^ht in the firft place.and before all other tnings, Matth.6. 33. Ic was che heft Flower and Garland in the former Expeditions of this Nation, that they were for God and f^r Religion Principally and Mainly. But it the Principal end of this prefent Engagement were for the Glory of God, how comes it to pafs that not fo v uch as one of the defires of the Kirl^ for the Safety and Security of Re- lie ion in the faid Engagement, is to this day fatisfied or granted ? but on the contrary, fuch Courfes taken as are deftrudive to Reli- gion And if God's Glory bs intended, what meaneih the em^loy^ inSL and VYoteaing in this Army fo many Blaffhemers, Pcrfecutors of Piety difiurhers of Divine Woi fhip, and others Guilty of Notori- ous and crying Sins ? Again how can it be pretended that the Good of Religion is principally aimed at, when it is propofed and decla- red that the King's Majcfty fhall be brought to iome 01 his Houfes in or near London, with Honour, Freedom and Safety, before ever there be any Sfc/^mv had from him, orfomnchas any JpfUcatton ' ' " ' made i 3 2 Chap. I : The Loyalty of Trejhyterians Plff" O ' made to him for the Good of Religion 1 What is this but to Poftpone «-i L ^* <- fi^e Honour of God, the Liberties of the Gofpel, the Safety ofGod's ^^/^'•SJ t People to an Human Incerefl, and to leave Religion in a condition ' of uncert -iivy ^uvfettlcdnefs ^ haz^xrd .while it is Urongiyeadeavor'd * to fettle and make lure fome what elfe\ TheCommittee ofEftates of Parliament in thsirOhfervations (^c,reply to the above re^fons in the followi'g words p. 2,5. ' We Anrwer,by ' acknowledging & believing that all theWars of the People ofGod, ' fhou'd be theWars ofG-d undertaken at theCommand of thefc who * have lawfiilAuthorijy underGod,as were theWars by theCjmmand * o{ Mofes^ Jofhua^the J'^dges md Kings of Judab,And as undertak- * en by Warrant from Gods Vicegerents, lb for an honefl: Gaufe^ * for the Glory of God ; But whereas it is afTumed thai this En- * gagement is not fuch, we deny it, bccaufe it hath the Warrant of * Lawful Authority, The Eflates of Parliament; and the Caufe be- ' ing honefl to do a duty Commanded of God to our Prince, God is * Glorified by doing that duty. The relieving of our King out of Pri- ' ton is a duty, John i8. 35. If my Kingdom^ fays our Lord, were *" of this worN, then rvou^d my fervants fight that J jJwii'd not be deliver- ' edtothe Jews,Our Lord fuppones it was a conmon duty, that * Subjeds (hou'd fight to frt-vent i\\t Caftivity oitlmv King, And if ' a war be lawful .:o prevent Captivity, is ic not Lawful to deliver * him from that /'rf/^ C^/j^mV^ ^ are we lefs obliged in duty to our ' Native Prince, than Abraham to his kinsman Lot} who engaged ' in a war for rcfcuing him, notwiehftmding Lot had aflbciated *- bimfelfinwar with Wicked Men, the So jlowites. Gen. 14. Are ' we lefs obliged than Davidand hh Aflbciites to their C;ptive ' wive?, who ingaged in war for their freedom, i Sam. 30. / * As for the Duty of honor,for performance whereof we have en- * gaged our felves , We believe it is a duty commanded by Gcd * hin-.felf inthe//?^ Commandment, Prow. 24, 22. i Pa. 2. 16, vj, ' We are forbidden to ufe our Chr'ftian Libzrtyas a Cloak of Malici' -* ohfntjsSox withholding or withdrawing duty. Yea Pagans \>^ the ■' light of Nature, reading the Law of Nature, which is from the ' God of Niture, do ufe all honor to their Kings. Yea, holy Sa- ' ^;//f/undoubtedlyZe?lous of G-^ds Honor notwithllanding he knew ^ cercainiy by Divine Rcvtlition, that God had rejedted Saul., yet t honored him before the People. 1 Sam, 15, 3 o, 31. B-ut Under King Charles L Chap i. 233 Butlct us hear the Defences made againd the above Exception by P^rf O' the Commiflloners of the General Aflembly, Ju^ufl \<^th. 1548, " * Wherein they fay p. 3, &c. ' /"^^rSJ ' The luhflince of the Argument ufed by the Afllnibly was this, * In all Lawful Wars of the People of God , the end principally la- ' tended and driven at, is that wherein the Glory of God is chiefly • ' concerned .• But in this ^refem VV'^ar^the end principally intended a«d ' driven at, is not that wherein theGlory of God is chiefly coBctrn'd ^ * Therefore 'tis not a Lawful War of the People of God. Their ' Lordfhips do not deny the propofition of Lhe Argument : ' • ' As to that which their Lordfhips fay concerning the AfTimpcion * of the Ancnihlic's Argument, we /Infwer ill, Their Lordfhips fiy « nothing to it as it ftjnds in the AfTcmblies Declaration with the ' Proofs thereof, but pafll 10; all this they form anotfier AlTumptioa » which they deny, and bring fome reafon for their denyal of it. The ^ Afl^mbly did clearly prove in tbtir Declaration, that the end prin- * cipally intended aiid driven at in thisEngagemei.t is not that where- ' in the Glory of God is chitfly concern'd \ and this wan proved by « the Pirli meni's not iatisfying of the defires of the Kirk concern- ' ing the lafety and fecurity of ReligiDn.- But all this their ' Loidfhips are pleaftd to pafs in fUtJce z, And, as if ths Afl'enibly had » f'enyeddW duty to the King, they go about to prove, that "tis a du- ' ty incumbent onSubjcfts to undertake a War for his Maj*.fl:ies frce- ' domand h'^nour (we know noiwhy their Lordfliips omit his fafc- '" ty.) Andfeveral Texrs of Scripture are ciccd by their Lordfhips to ' this end ^ VVhereas they touch not the poin? in Concrove.fy, viz.. ' Whether /?*//^/<5« hdrgin ("great darger by his A'fajtfiies Oppcftion *• thereunto^ it hs t e SuKj ds duty to make War for his M.^jcities ' Freedom and Honour^ before Security fought a;id had from him for * Riligior. ' 2. Their Lordfhips inflead of weakning the y^fTemblies fi ft ^v- ' gument, do indeed add no fmall llrength to it -, For while t^ey are * anfwerirg tnat veiy ^^rgument which Chalkngrth the neglect of ' thg GL^iy of God, and of Religion in this Engagement^ they men- ' lion nothing of Rdig'-on^ but only the King's Freedom and Hon&tir as ' the Caule of undertaking the prefent War. 3. ' The Kirk of Scotland hath ever been, and is mofl willing to ' referit any Injuries done to his M:^jcfly, and to perform every duty H h ' for { '2 34- Chap, i; The Loyalty oj Treshyterians Part 2. for his Mjjeflies Freedom and Honour in the Right Way and Order; that is, giving to God in the firjl Place what is Gcd's; But ic hath noi been the mind of Kirk or State in this Land to make War for his Ma jelly in an yihfolnte Way^ and wichouc any Qitahficatiori, or to the Detriment and Hurt of Religion. For in the Vear 1643, this Kingdom was SoliciteJ with hisM jeity to undertake War for him, butbccaufe he was engaged in a courfe againfl; Religion and tlie Liberties of the Kingdoms, thfrefore all giving ot AffiHanGe to him wjsDecliii'd,although at that time theKingdoms were not joined in Covenant; Ho v much lefs is it the Subjeds Duty, after fuch a Covenant and afier fo much Bloodfiied by the means of hisMajeftics oppofing the Covenant and Reformation, and his Majefties adhering flili to his former Principles, yet notyvithftanf^ing ot all this, to en- gage in a War for bim, and to efpoufe his QlJaiiel hefcre SccHfity deJpeA and had from him for Religion. 4. ' The tl ree Scriptures alledged by their Lordfhips John 18. ^6, . Gen. 14. and i . Sam. 30. do in no v/ife help their Guife, or Militate • againfl the ^flcmblits v^rgcment ^ For there ire four gieat differen- ces which v;i!l Marr the ^Application of thofe Scriptures to the pre. feat Engagement in War- i)? ,C/3//;;'^'; caafe againfl the Jews^ Lot's Caufe againft the 4 Kings, Vr h) hdd taken away him and his goods \ . ZJ.zi'/W and his Men, their Caufe againfl \\\t Amalthtes who had taken their Wives Captive, was without Controverfy a good and honed Caufe, and no wife to the prejudice of Religion. 2. The In- ftruments and Managers were v/ithout Exception 3". The Parries to b^ relieved were alfo without exception , fo far as can be known from Scripture, 4. None of the three Texts cited by their Lordlhips doth hold torth ji War undertaken for a human Interefl, with «r- ghU:in^. and poflponing thQ Glory of God, and therefore come not home"to the point of the y^iTemblies y^'rgumenc. When their Lord- fnips fnall prove tkeir Caufe to he asgcod., the Manag;ers and Parties to be as mkch without exception., the Glory of God to hQ as lit- th ne^Ltlid in this Engagement, as in ihe example Cited ;. then may their Lordfbips apply thofe Scriptures in reference to this Engagement,but not rtherwife. 5. Whatfjever be the Duty of Sub- jeds towards the relief of their King, which in the dm order and Subordination to the Glory of God and Security of Religion, is net denyecH, we cannot f^Q ho'N ihQ Text John 18. 3(5. proveth it ; fee- ing that Sciipturehaldcth forth a common Cullomoftiie World, rather Under King Chuitsl. Chap. i. s^i:; rratlier than a duty of Siibj^ds^and fhewftlt vh'^t Men vf-'d fo do, p^^i-j- ^ rather than what they cughc to do. /^nd this Senfe may he pl-iuly •» <^^ ^ ^* drawn from the Text if fe)f, IfviyKin^dim nereofthis [io-ld^ tiia'c VV~^0 is, as the Kingdoms of this Woild are, and ufe to be, tl.en rrafln' n.y Servants f^ht for me : Lea/l of all was it our Lord's meaning to aliovr fighting, and making War in a Caufe prejudicial and Ir.irifnl tc IVc- ligion. >^nd whereas their Lordlfiips fjy in their next Citation, that Xof had ^^nbciate himfelf in War with wicked Men ihtSod.rnites : Ai hereby they Tacirly intimate the L^wfulnefs of AfTociation in War wi;b Men as wicked as the Sodomites^ fo we (hall humbly b"- feech their Lordfhips to obferve here how neceflary it is for dicir Lordfhips tofearth more accurately into theftScripture-y^rguments,, for there is nofuchthhrgia the Scripture as is cited in their Ohferva^ tions. We read indeed oi Abraham's (not Z-or'sj Con^ede*"acy with Arter^ Eficol^ and Mamre ^ but that thefe three were either Idola- ters, or wicked Men is mere than can be prov'd. 6. The following Paragraph is as wide from the point, proving what no body denic?, vi:l. the duty of Honoring Kin^s. V/e wiih their Lordfhips ma/ ferioufly ponder two things join'd with this duty in the firfb Tcxc cited by themfelvcs, oneis/r^r (?^^and this is put in the firfl place, another is, meddle not with thtm that are given to Change : whereby we are warned ihntunder crloifrcf doing Jor the Honour cf Kifigs^ we may not join with thofe who fall of from the Caufe and Ways of God. ' To prefs any duty concerning the King's Honour, with the nc- gledtor prejudice of the Honour of God, is indeed to nfe Liberty as a Cloak of Maliciotifnefs'j Co that this falleth back upon them who charge it without Caufe upon others. The Text i Sam. 1 5. 30, 3 1 . Is no better appjyed, For when Samuel y'lddcd to Honour 5^/// before the People, ani to turn again witii him. It was upon hisConfffTion and acknowledgment of his (in , and withal, Saul was fo honoicd before the people that Agag v\as cut in pieces. To iDuftrate this Argument, all the Circumflances Inntcd by the Aflembly and their CommifTioners mufl be taken into the Account. The Kings Averfion to their Conflitution, his former practices a- gainft it and againft the Liberties of their Country, the effects of liis evil Counfellors upon his Roval judgment, the OpprcfTion they had groanM under formerly by the Scots Bifliops, of winch Clarendon nr]d Burnet givea clear account, which tbe Reader will find in the fol- H h 2 low- 2 3^ Chap. I. The Loyalty oj Treshyterians Pa^rt 2. ^■^''^'^"S Chapter of this Dock ^ Iiis refuflng to give them any [.efficient Security agiinH; the jike eviis tor the future •, all the Conncca'mce he L/^/**0 gaveand coni uicd to gi'/e to frofefi Papijls, of which I have piven a- fnirt N.irrativcia this Giapttr, fiis countenancing and d«^fi'j;ning to e.TipIoy fo m5iiy thaufiadsolP^pifls out of all the three Kiugdoms for carrying en this very Err^f.gcm'int -^ beiides the barbarous High- landers and thofe of tlie Scot's Nition who had but lately before this carried on a Civil War \n Scctla^d^ to the ruin and deflruftion of many good people, and who were all to be efnfloyed in this Engage- ment. Compare all thefe things duly, and they ftrc' gthtn the Af^ femblies Argument, for proving that as matters thm flood, thas £//- tragement was dangerous to the Intercft of Religion. for if we coiifider the Temper and Difpoficion of r^f/r Engagers^ we may argue thus; we muflinppofe that either they would over- come the Forces oi the Parliament of £;7^/^W, or be overcome by them.- if the firH, then what mull the three Kingdoms hive ex- ptfted, but the repeating of all thele Miferiesand Grievances, they had lain under dariug this whole Reign. The King was not then come to any Terms with his Parliament in England, and had he in thefe Circntnjrafices entirely routed their Forces, what cou'd all the Aflcriers of the Liberty of their Country have expeded, but that both Religion and Liberty wou'd have been in a worfe Condition, than they were in at the Commencement of the Civil War ? and all • the druggies of the Church of Scotland for her ju/l Rights & Confti- tution mml hsve ended in the utter ruin and fubverJion of the whole. On the other hand, (hou'd thefe Engagers be overcome by the Englifij Forces Tas eventually they werej then thePoiprr of the StHraries mufl be advanced, diforders both In Cmtrch and State muft be multiply'd every day. Monarchy mufl be exchanged iovVUffation and Jnarchy, and Religionhz fucceedtd by Enthiifiafm and all the wild Errors of Seflarian Frenzie. We know that all this happen'd accordingly, and that the Engagers inflead of doing fervice to the King, haftened his ruin (though not defigned by them) aad brought a flood of Calami- tics upon their Countryv^hereas had they firfl treated with the Par- j Ijament of England, and ii^fiiled on fartherSecurity for their Religion from the King, all trueFnends o[ RcVi^'iony Monarchy, and Liberty, I would have united upon that foot againft the Se^aries ^ that Scheme(by 1 the Blefliag of God) might haveaffjided them foiiie Rational Pro- Under King Charles T. Chap, r; 237" fpeAcf Trnngboth their King and Country, and the Church of P^j-f o' ScotLwd\v<^wU\\2iVQ mofl chcatfully and cordii'ly concariM widi Ic. The third Ht-ad of Reafons I proposed to iiififl upon for (hewing L/'V^ the unlawfo.lnefs o^ this Efigageme-'t^ was becaufe 'twas carry'd oi by unhwfM Adeau. What thcfe uribvvful Mtmi were, the AfHrnbly- difcovers to us ia thefe Words (9) ' The Engagement is carry'd 011 ' by fiich Means and Ways, as tend to the deJlro^i-:i of Rel.^ion^hy ea- ' fiarins and forcing the Gonfciences of the People of God wih n^- ' /^rpp/i?.?-7^i' ^;;^ Orf/-/:?^, and opprefiing the Peifjns and Eftjtes of' ' fuch as have been m-^fi Acllve and Zealous for Religion and the Co- ' venant. All which is flrengthen'd and Authoriz'd by Ads ofPar- * liament, appointing that ill thu do not obey, or perfuade others * not to obey the Refolutions of Parliament and Committee anens * this Engagement, or who (h^ll not fubfcribe the Afland Declara- ' tionofthe 10. June^ 1548. impos'd upon all the Subj. the fame Stoi y at great Ungth, bus tells us how barbatoully this Mditary Rump treated the Members . they (f) DcteO.part i.p. 4i3' Under King Ch^ixhs I. Chap. li 241 tbey excluded by the Army (t), and yet after all they met with a P^2-(; 2 brhk Oppofitiori by feme who had got in notwithft^nding of the ^-^-^.* Guards •, and therefort they were refolv'd to prevent the like again, ^-Z*^**^ and iuffer none of the excluded Members to (it until the Vote they had pafs'd in their Abfence (viz.. for Declaring the King's ConcefTi- ons unfatisfadory, contrary to their former Refolution) were fub- fcrih'd by them: ' And that they might find no more fuch Contra- ' diftion hereafter (fays he Ihid.) They committed to feveral Prifons ' Major- General Brown (tho' he was then Sheriff of London) Sir John * Clotvoorthy^ Sir William Waller^ Mjjor General ^^^ffey^ and Com- ' m.ffiry- General Cvp/«^, \s\\o'^txt\\\z MOST ACTIVE Mtmhers in * the Houfc of the PRESBYTERIAN PARTY. Lea any Man of Common fenfe Judge from hence, whether the Pre'ibytcri^ns were the Conflituent Members of the Ruwp : for if they had, why fliou'd Presbytery have been oppos'd by them ? Why fhou'd they have imprifan'd the mop- A^ive 0} the Presbyterian Mei^.bers} And why Ihou'd Presbyterians give always fo much Op- pofition to the Rump, and all their Pioceedings ? And yet 'twas this very Rum^^ that ereded the pretended High-Couit of Jiillice for trying the King. The Excluded Members Print a Proteftation a- gainlt the Proceedings of the Rum^ as void and null in thcmfelvcs, for which they were perfecuted by 'em. And rke Reader may judge whether a Rump from which the Prei^ byrcians were excluded, wou'd appoint Presbyterians Judges to try the King ^ or whether Presbyterians were fit Tools for executing that V)!lany which they hid with fo much danger and Prejudice to then fclves oppos'd '-, let the Char aders of al! she King's Judges be try'd, 5nany of whom were the chief Scdarian Officers of the Army, who had given Birth to the whole, and then let us fee whether they were Presbyterians or no. While they are proceeding to the King's Tryal, the Presbyteri- ans pre ted againftit. -C^f^j giving an Account of that Tryal fays I i («; 4n {t) vide his Hift. Vol. 3; part 8. B. 1 1. p. 238, 338 in 8vo: 24-2 Chap. I. The Loyalty of Treshjteriam Pi. ^ («) ' In the mean time Oppofition is given to it by dmoji all the X lijiE, Conferences^ Letters of Admonition, S/^p- ' plications, Pratellatior.s, and Remcnfirances publiftl'd to thc World. *- Tney ob:e(l 'cm, thai 5hey wjn'd not embrevv their Hands and * inv.>Ivc thc Kingdom in the Guilt of the Royal Blood, againfl the *- tremendoH> Obligations of fo many Oiths, againfl: the Pnblic and Pri- ' vare Faith confirm'd wish Declarations and Promifes, againft the ' Laws of Nations, and the Sacred Dilutes of the Holy Scripture and ' Relgion \ and ag,ainfl; rhe proft of the Common-rvealth. 1 (hiil here inf.rt tome Parts of three of thofe Remon (Frances or DecUrations of the Presbyterians, adducing one om of each Kingdom.;, from which thc Reader may jiioge of the relt. For England, let the following part of a Vindication of the Mimfters of the Gof'pel in and a- bout LONLOy, from the n-fufi Jfpe-fions caft upon their fo;mer AEtings for the Parliament, as if they had promoted the bringing #/ the King to Ca- pital Punifhment &c. be duly confider'd. ' When we firft did engage with theParlLiment, (which * we did not til call'd thereunto) we did is with Loyal Hearts and * Afftction towards the King and his Poflerity ^ not m.ending the leaft ' hart to his Perfon, but to ftop his Party from doing farther hurt to ' the Kingf^om ^ not to bring his Majefty to Juftice (as fome now I ' fpe;jk j but to put him into a better Capacity to do Jttjlice : Jo remove \ ' the Wiched from before him, that his Throne might be efl:abLfh*d tn ' Righteoiifnefs ; not to Dethrone ^nd Dtftroy him, which (we much ' fear) is the ready way to the dtflrudion of all his Kingdoms. *■ That which put any of us on at firft to appear for the Parlia- '■ meilt was, The Propofitions and Orders of the Lords and Commons in ' Parliament {June 10. -642.) for bringing in of Mony and Plate ' &c. Wherein they allure us, that whatfoever Ihou'd be brought in (m) vi^e Hlench. p, II. * Recbmant interea Miniftri Praeibyteriani, londinenfes ♦ fere o'nncs, cc ex plurimis Vrovinciis plures, imo ex Indepenaeriiium partibus * nonnulli, Concronibiisefugsicftis, Colloquiis, Literis Monicouis, Lbjllis Suppli- i cibus, Proteftaiioiiibus ct Rcuionftraatiis pubhce divulgacis. Obteftantur, ne contra Under King Charles I. Chap. i. 24.3 in thereupon, fhou'd not at all be employ'd upon any other Occa- Poi-f o ^ Hon than to maintain Tr}e Protejiant Religkn^ the Kwg^s Authority ^ 1 ai L Z. bis Verfon and his Royal Dignity^ the free Conrfe of Juflice, the Laws l/'V***-^ of the Land^ the Peace of the Kingdom, and the Privileges of Parlia- ment^ againfi any force nhuhjhall o^pofe ther//. ' And id this we were daily confirm'd and encourag'd more and more, by their many fubfequent Declarations and Proteftarions, which w^'. held our fcWes bound to believe,kn.>wing many of them to be godly and Conlcientious Men, of Public Spirifs, zealo'ifly promoting the Common Good, and laboring to free this King- doni from Tyranny and Slavery, which fome evil hjj-yur/ients about the King endeavored to bring upon the Nation, ^ ^s toe the prefenc Agings at Wejlminjier, fince the time thatfo manyotthe Members were, by force, fecluded, oivers imprifonM and others thereupon withdrew from the Houfe of Commons, r& there mi beinp that Conjunaion of the two Houfes as heretofore) v.eare WHOLLY UNS^TISFY'D fW«>, bccaufe we conceive them to be ic» far from being warranted by ii;fEcient Authority, as that, inour Appreheiifions, they tend to an Adual y^keration v' if not Subverh jn^ of that which the Honorable Houfe of Commotis iuzbdx Deilaration ni A'-ril I J. i6j^6. have taught us to call the fnndami.nt.'l Caftttution and Government of this Kingdom, which they thein'n afHire us, (if we underftand them) they wou'd ne- ver alter. ' Yea, we helJ our felves bound in Duty to God, Religion, the King, Parliament and Kingdom, to profefs before God, Angels and Men, that we verily believe that which is now fo much fear'd to be in Agitation, the taking away the Li^e of the King^ in the pre- fent way of Tr> al, is not only, not agneahle to any Word of God, the Principles of the Proteflant Rclgion, i^never as yet flai^-^d with I'HE LEAST DROP OF 1 HE BLOOD OF A KING j or the FVN- I i 2 DAAIEN- * contra tot juramentorum horrcndas Obligatlones, contra fidem publicam, priva- * tam, Declarationibu'^j PcllicltationibiK Con.iMni.amj coiicra legcs G^-^. m, « conrra Sacrae ^cripturse & Religionis bandlora Daan.i.ij, imocsntra R-!p. r.»i- * cae QrilicateiTi manus luas & Regnum Ciuure Regiu commaculeiu. Stou per * Delegatos tafta Proteftatione contra nituntur. 244 Chap. I. The Loyalty of Presbyterians Px. ^ , ' DAMENtAL CONSTITVTION of this Kingdom ^ but contra- ail 2 < ry to tlicm, as alfo to the O.tth of Allegiance, the Pfotefi-ution of ^/"V'NJ ' M.iy %. \6j^\. and iht Sole>nn League and Covenant'^ Frora all ' which Engagements^ we know noc any Power on Earth, able to ' abfolve us or oihets. ' Therefore, according to that our Covenant, we do in the name * of the Great God, (to whom all muft give a firic^ Acconnt) ' WARN and EXHORT ALL who either more immediately be- ' long CO our refpedive Charges, or any way depend on our Mi- ' niftry, or to whom we have admi liftred the faid Covenant fthat ' wemiynot byour filence fiifTer them to run upon that highly * provoking fin of Periaryj to keep clofe to the Ways of God, and * Rules of Religion, the Laws, and their Vows, in their conflanc * maintaining the true Reform'd Religion, the Fundamental Coiifti- ' tution, and Government of this Kingdom, (^not fufF^-'ring them- * felvcs CO be feduc'd from it, by being drawn in to fuofcribe f he ' late Models, or Agreement of the People ^ Declar'd by both Houfes ' (for the Subftanceof ifj to be deflrutllve to the being of Parliaments * and to the Fundamental Government o^ the Kingdo^i, m December * 1647. yea condcmn'd heretofore by the 6"^^;^?/, and hisCw/;7c/7of * War) And to pray, that God wou'd reffcrain ' the Violence of Alen, that they Af^r iVor DARE to draw up- ' on themfelves and the Kingdom the BLOOD OB THE IK SOFE- [ REIGN. The CommifTioners cf Scotland entred their Proteflation againft the King's Tryal and Murder, the following part whereof I Ihall here infert, * We underltand, that after many Members of * the Houfe of C-fmmons have been imprifon'd and leduded •, and ' alfo w thout^cind ^^4i>/y?theGonrenfi of the houfe of Peers,by a fingle I) ' Ac"^ of yours alone^ Power is given to certain Perlons of your own ' Number of the v^rmy, and Tome others to proceed againft his * Maj; fly's Perfon ^ in order thereunto, he was brought upon Sa- ' turdAy laft in the afternoon, before this new Extraordinary Conn y ' Wherefore we do iii the Name of the Parliament of 5c(?fL/2^, for ' their Vindication from talfe y^fperfions and Calumnies ^ Declare, II ' that tho' they are 1 or fatisfy'd wich his M..j fty's Conceffionsin 1! * the late Treaty at Ne-^v^rr, in the Iflc of W^^^k, elpecially in the J Matters of Religion, and are relblv'd not to crav* his Reltitucion to Under King Chd^rhs I. Chap. i. 245 ' to his Governmcn% before Saci^fsdion be R'vei by lii.-n to liis P^^rf o * Kingdoms, yet rhey do all UNANIMOUSLY WITH ONE >JIh 'j ' ' VOKE (not one Member exce-ted) dlLliirn the leift l^nowled;!i,5 ^'^^ ^ * of, oraccefTnn to ch° lite Proceedings of the army heie agaiuft ' his Mijt^fl'/ ^ a:id fiacerely profefs, that 't^^/iil be a grei£ Grief nn- ' CO their Hearts, and Ive hea^^y upon their Spirits, if ihcy Onll ' fee t'leir trnfbng of h - M ijeft/'s P>;;T3i, to the H )norable Houfes ' of the Pailiamenc of ErrgLmd, to be made ufe of to his Pvuine fo * far contrary to the DeclaiM Intentions of the Kingdom of Scot- '- land^ iindr^lemn Profefliins of the Kin:;doni of £^^/^';^, und to ' the end it may bem?nikfl to theWorJd,how much they abominate ' and detefl: fo horrid a D.'li^a agiinft his IMajeify's Perf);! ^ We ' do in the N. me of the Prliiiiienc ;ind Kingdom of ScotUnd^hsre- * by decU-e THEIR DISSENT from the [aid Proceedings, a'ldTHE ' TJKIAV A WAT HIS MAJESTT'S LIFE: and Protefl-,chat as ' they are altcgethifr free from the dme, fo they may be free from ' all Evil:, Miferies, Confofions, and Cilimities that may follo.v ' thereupon to ihefe diftracfted Kingdoms. January ii, 1649. Lothian. Jo, Chiefly. Willi nm Cicftdonir.g Befides the above Protellation in Name of the whole Kingdom oi Scotland^ the General ^fllmbly of that Church, in their Letter £0 King Charles 2, dated Au^uft 6. 164*9. fully and feelingly exprcfs'd their Deteftaiionof the barbarous Murder of his Royal Father^ The Letter it felf will be inferted at large in the next Chapter ^to which the Reader is rtferr'd. As for Ireland^ihe Presbytery of Belfaft read in their feveral Pulpits a Paper which they had fram'd Feb. 1 5. 1649. IntituPd, a neceff.iry Re- frefen^ation of the ^refent E^'ils and Imminent Dangers to Rdigion^ Laws and Liberties^ arifingfrom the latt and prefent Pr apices of the Sectarian- Party in ENGLAND and their Abettors ^ the following part whereof I Ihall here tranfcnbe, * Agam ii*s more than manifeft, that ' they letk not the Ftndication^but Extirpation of Laws and Liberties^ ' as appears by their feizing upon the Perfon c f the King j and at their * Pleafiire removing him from placs Co place, aoi only Without the 24^ Chap. I . The Loyalty of Vrejbyterians "Pirf" o ' Confent fif we miftake not) b.it againfl a dired Ordinance of -^^ ' Pirhamenc •, Their violent furprizing, z>»p>'f/'o«/>?f and fecluding (^i/'VNJ ' many of che raofb Worthy Members of the Honorable Houfe of ' Cotmnonr.^ direftly againfl the dechr'd Privilege of Parliamenr^an ' Adion certainly withouE a Parallel in any age, and their Parpofes ' of Abalifhing all Parliamentary Power for the future, and eftablifh- * ing a Reprefentative^ as they cail it, inftead thereof. ' Neither bath their fury ftopt here, but without all Ruk or Exam' * fle^ being but private Men, have proceeded to the Tryal of the *■ King ^ againft both the Interefl and Proteftation of the Kingdom *■ oi Scotland^ and the former public Declarations of both Kingdoms; * and vbefides £hei<- violent haP-e, rcjeding any Defences; with Cruel * Hands they put him to Death : An Ad ib HORRiBLE,^j no HIS fO- *■ RY DIVINE or HUMAN, ever had a PRECEDENT of the like. *• rhsfe and other De^ tft^ble lufolencies may abundantly convince ' every unbyafsd Judgment, that the prefent Practices of the Scda- * ries and their Abeirois do diredly overturn tht Laws and L bcrties ' of tht Kingdom •, root out all Lawful and Supreme Magiftracy i, the * juft Privileges wneieof vvc havt Sworn to maintain) and introduce ' a feaifulCcufuliOii and Lawlefs Anarchy. — — ' When we ferioi fly confider thefe things, we ' cannot but declare and manifcft our D;flike and Detejlation offuch ' V 'Warrantable PraUices direc^tly fubverting our Covenant, ReiiLn- * on, Laws, and Liberties-, and as Watchmen ferioiifly to warn all ' ihe Lovers of Trie h^ a id the wellafTeded to the Covcuant, careful- *- ly to avoid Comply.m.e wi-th, or not bearing Witncfs againll fuch * honid L.folencics; left partaking with them in their Sins, they ' be alf^ Partaker with them in their Plagues. The Reprefentauon of the Presbytery of Bdfafi had been adJuc'd by the Anthnr of the P^r^//f/to prove the Innocence of the Difien- uv^inlielartd'^ to which onr Author makes a very lingular Rcply^ fuch as I believe, few but himfelfwou'd have thought ot; ' 1 here ' were alfo fay! hep. 17 > in the very fume Ycai fevcral more made ' in E-f^aland and Scotland.^ by the Presbytei ians to the very fame pur- ' pofe, and ^ith d.% gieat Virulency ap.ainfl; the ScEldries in England ^ far their Procesdings^and particululy for the'rMurdering the King "' But I can by no w^Qm'^ conclude witii ehat Author, that the Prtfhy.. *■ teiy of Bclfaff\ Dirdaiming thacFad and Railing at the Se^aries, is any Under King Charles I. Chap, i , 2 4.7 any Argument at all foi their not being concerrid in the Counfels of p^f-f- o thofc Times. Beca life the fame Argi.imeiiE is fuH as flrorif^ far the ^ ^'^^ ^m Presbyterians ot Scotland ^\k\ EnjUnd^ who in the very fame Year l.y"V^%J mide their Reprefenration to King Charles \\. to the very fime pur- p^fe • Thu3 h is evidenj. That the Pre-byttrians thro' ' the three Kingdoms did with one voice loudly Dcchim againll the Sectaries., as Authors ot the King's Murder. ^ • ]i''^'j ihQ Coiwcils of tbofe ti7nes om \vithov means the Councils for Murdering the King and the Subverfion of Monarc!iy; the Argu- ment fully proves that neither the Prefbyterians ofE?f^li.>id,ScotUne\nor*' JrcUrd were concerned in them ^ but that they all oppos'd 'e'n to the ucniofl; of their Power. But it'he m-fans the Councils iis'd in the Parliamenl's defenlice war againft the King, that's nothing to the Purpofe ; for it was never pretended that the Presbjterians were noe concern'd in thefe Councils, for they own ic, and look'd upon their concern m thofe Councils to be lawfil and Juftifiible for the Reafons above mentioned ^ indeed the Presbyterians in Irelar.d had other work to do, than to embroil themfelves in ch^ Debates between the King and Parliament •, for while the greateft heat arofe and vvis a carrying on in England htt^tQ^ilho. PoyJifs and Parliamentarians ; she Presbyterians in Ireland had the Bloody /rip Rebels to fig;ht a- gainft : and were willing to take afUfl; nee from eicher the King's or Pailiament's Forces againft the Common Enemy ^ and this is the Reafon of chat alTertion of the author of the Parallel which our author d"^'s fo much miflake and qnarrel wich, viz. that the r>//- fenters in Irel ind voere left as a San^uary^ to rvhich the Duke of Ormond and the loyal Party retreated &c. Againit Ehis aflsrtion he pi oducGth the Declaraxionof the Presbytery oiBmgor^ anno 1(^49 Remon- Itrating againft the Duke of Ormond and ray Lord ot Airds their taking Gommiflion from King Charles 2 5/, /"'of which afterwards) which is quite another cafe and does not in the ledft difprove what the Au- thor ofttie Parallel intended ^ for he fpeaks of ihe AiTiflance given by the Presbyterians \Xi Ireland to Ormond and the Royal Party a- gainflthe Irijlj^ in the time of King Charles i . The Author of the Parallel had alledged Mltonh abufing the Prcf- byiery of Belfaft for their Reprefentation, as a farther confirmation of their Innocence, and our Author gives the fame Reply to it as to tlie former, viz^ thai Mlton abus'd the Scots Aflembly as mnch as he did , 248 Chap. I. The Loyalty of ^refhyteriam ^'AXt Q. ^^^^^^"^ ^P- ^ ^S)? 2nd is not that flill a gool ProDf of his looking on \ d,i L Z. ^,^^ /ff^rrMy and them too to be Enemies to the Rum^ and their Pro- tyV*^ ceedi.gsagiinft the lOna} Oar Aai:nor,wiC!i a deiign probably to invalidate thefe Arguments, feems to plcafe himfelf with aQiiotaiion oi Diigdde^ whom he intro- duceuh fptaking thus, Tp. 17J ' I cuiuoi deny buE as fooa as this hel- ' lidi \4urcher vvas c^mmicried, many of tht Presbyterians did loudly ' Diriiim agilnfl; it^ feemiag as much to wafh tfeeir hands of the guilE ' as PiUts did, fro 11 tl'.e Death of our Siviour." Tis phin from the above Accou;:ts that the Presbyterians opposed the fitil; Projcfts of this hcllifh iVUnder, and therefore 'tis bafe in any to off^r to iafinu- ace the contrary ^ and feeing they did not Sentence the King to Death, as PtUic did our Saviour, but wish all their might oppos'd his bei ig brought to Tryal,che Gomparifon is too odious to be made or coufitenanc'd by any Cniidian, or Man ot knowledge. If then the Preibyserians muft be excluded the Parliament, before the King's judges couM be appointed,if the King's Judges were not Presbyter iansy and ir the Presbyterians had no hand in the Sentence againft the King nor its Execution j but did openly and b Idly remonflrate againft tvery /top that vv'as caken to eff-(ft that horrid Murther, wner. Pr ;fGn5,Pwe- proaches, and ruine were all the Reward they cou'd exped from the furious Army and Party that Govern'd thofe hellilh Councils: caa any thing but eitiier the i. eight of Malice, or tm greateit of igno- rance, peififtia facii fcanJalous and unchriftian Libels to arraign their unltained Irip.ocence t But, fiys cur Aurhor, (p. 18) ' The Prabyterians fivfl murdered ' him in his political Capacity, as a p elude to the murther of his * Peifon' Our Acirhoi a'Cet his ufual manner thinks it vvon'd af- front the felf-evidence of his Afugifierial aflenions, lo vouchfafeth? leafl addition-il Proof in this cafe. 1 he Kings PoUticalC avacity is his Capacity of ruling his Subj.dts, and protedi.ig them in their Re- ligioa, Liberty, and PropcU), according to the La^'/s of tiie King- dom, which do at once limit his Freroaativi and provide for their Security. Now if his evil Counfeilors perfuaded him to encroach upon Religion and the Liberty of tne ^ubjcdt, contrary to the Fun- damental Lavvs, and to fLreixh hib Frerogacive beyond the Laws (as I have fully proved they diJ) then 11 w^s f HEY and not the PRES- EYTERLAHS, who Mjrdered him in his political Captcity. If - the !M Under King Ch^Lrhs I: Chap. i. 249 the Prfp/?^ and Hi^h-flyenwvidiCv Buchtigham^ Laud and the Heads P^vf o ' ofth tF:ftion, put the King out of capjcicy of ruling in the hearts * of his Su^>jefts, and prottding them in what the Laws gave them a ^T^f**^^^^ right to, by advancing Arbitrary Governmenti, and making way through ail the Barriers of che Public fafety and good of the Subje(fl ^ they, and their SucctfTors who abett their pimciples muft accouni for thai Murder, which none but themfclves Commicted, and which all fober Proieftants of both Communions;, Efifcepal, aiid Presbyte- riariy always opposed. As to the Kings Impiifonmsnt, the Gene- ral AlTembly in their Declaration in July iSth 1648, exprefs'd iheir DifTatisfadion with it-; Let theReader perufe their own words wnich I have tranfcribU (p. 2:^8; The Presbytery of 5^//i«/?, ia their Re- prefentation (which I have inferied p. 245, 245.) did likewife declare againft ir,& it was known to have bee'.i ivicAd and Oi:td only of she St^artm Party, and there- ^re it is very unfairly charg'd by our A«t Shorupon the Presbyterians. . CHAP. iS 2^o Chap. 2; The Loyalty of Trejhyterians Part 2. CHAP. II. The Loyalty of Preshyterians during the Reign of King C HA RLES II; I Shall conflder this Reign, t. From 'mbegmmng J^fio \€ 4^, to the RefiuHTAtion^ Anno i55o. and idly from thence to its Con- elufion. During the firfl: Period, the Presbyterians are chargM by our Au- thor wirh great Difloyalty in their oppoliiig the King's Authority^ Commiffionand Reflauration : to fupport the charge, he adduceth a Dedaradoil of the Presbyury at Bangor in Ireland^ July qth 1649. Of all the Accufatinns and Arguments ufed againfi: DilTeniers itt ei- ther of his Letters, this of, the B anger -DecUr at ion is fet off with thegreatefl Noife, hardefir Words and lcH£/(fi Triumph. He has not thought fit to Infert it vvith his MaiginalOuiervations upon it in that place of his firfl Letter, where according to the Order of time it came naturally to be confider'd viz. in the beginniiig of this Reign 5 but Subjoins it to the wh.;ie Letter, that the Reader may take his leave of him, full of this rare diTcovery •, for which he muft be pre- pared by the diftitigu.^ing manner wherein 'tis introduced in the Title- Page,and fome v^uot.inops from it and reflections Mpon 'em with whicli thatLctter isflufTd for of zzPages (wiiich arc thewhole) 5 "jiz.. the vith^ i5f?, 161//, i^th^ and 20^^ refer to it, with fuch A- buliye Lan^ua^e as is learce JuJiipMc even when one Speaks Truik Under King Charles 11. Chap. 2. 251' Truth, but far lefs when one do's fo unluckily flumble into bold mi- P^rf 9 lt3(CCS. He thinks this Decliration fuchan uncontefled evidence of D'lloy- U^'V^SJ ^ ahy, a?efF-duan^ rehires that part of the Addrefs of the Presbyte- rian Miniftets in theMorth of Irelaridio the Qiieen Anno 1708; which Aflerts thrir Vntamted Loyalty in all tur>:s of Government to have been the natural confeqaence of their known Privcifles^ for which he reprefents them to be Men chac TT'/7////c/(' at nothing to gain a pointy amujing the World with Grofs and PahMe mifrefrefentations ^ calls it a refined piece of Ajfnrar.ce^and a grofs Impvfticn upon the Queen and all Adanhnd, p. \6. Shou'd our Author think fit eo give us tie Defiiiidcn of a notori- cus Knave or V''t\\zin^ cou'd he give it in more fevers and harlh Terms than thofe he has bellowed fo Liberally upon the Preshyteriin Mi- niftersin the North ot Ireland ? What Knave can be greater than he that Tvi II fiick at nothing to g.nn a point} In his fecord Ltctci he Re- peats his liiVedtives agnnft this Declaration and the Pie«bytery wlao made it, in divers pUces, they are no lefs than Infamous Tongues and Tens in iiis Account, p. 7. He is lb very fond ot Magnifying the crime of thi«; Declaration and thrfc Peiiuons from the Fi csb- tei ians in the North ot Ireland to the Gtp.eraj AfRmbly of 5i:of/^j^?;?f^jy, another. Both thefe noble Lot ds ihow'd an early Ztal for ihe Intereft ot the Presbytery. For on the ipr/;day oijidy 1642 ^which was but nine Days after their fit II meeting j IMy Lord of ylirds fcnc Captain Ait Gill to the Presbytery then met at Carrickjhyus with a MeiTage to them, promifing that HL WOU'D JOYN WITH THE'M IN DISCIPLINE j and my Lord Clancboy wriE 'em a Letter, deliver'd the very fame day, and giving the fame affurance for him- fclf as my Lord o^ Atrds had done by his Mcflage. After the Civil War broke out in England beiween the King and Parliament, the Bntijh Proteftants then in Ireland, ^s well Inhabitants as Auxiliaries who came to defend them, begun to confider which fide they would take Part with •• And here it mjjfl be own'd, the Prcf- byterians were ge?7fr4//y in the Inteteft of the Parliament, and thofe of the £/)/'/'cop^/ Com muni ')n were as generally on the King's fide : Eue for divers Years, thefe Parties in Ireland dXd no\ engage againfl one another^ but were employed againft the common Enemy, the Iri[h Rebels. But tho' thofe in Irelana who took part with the King (the Head of whom was the Noblj Marquifs of Ormond) did not for di- vers Years commit any Open Adts of Hoftility agairfl the Parliarmn- uriansi\[txty yec chey did feveral things that were very difgufting and 2 54- Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Preshyterians Pa r^ 9 ^"^ prcj idicial to them ; the chief whereof was their repeated Attempt Xd,LL -^' qJ a co.iiition with the Ir/_//; ^ which produc'd a Ceffation concluded tyVSj with them in 1643, and a peace in 164(5, and inother in 1648. The Defign of the Marqulls wis co have carried over i ito EngLwd a good number of the Jrijh^ to flrengthen che King's jforces iigainil the Parliament. The Parliament Q{E?igUnd Crki.ig the Alarm from this intended Iri[]j Invafion, begun to put their.Party in lreland\\^on Methojs to prevent it. Their Commiffioners were^^c- tivcagainfl Orwo^'^'s Party ^ and the Jr^) p oving Freacherous to hirti in breaking the Articles of the Cefl^juon and Peace iu 1645, he W3S not able to make a ftand agsiufb cne Parliamcntariarj Fores, and fo had no choice left him, bnt one of two viz, : whether he wou'd fubmit to the \rijh or to the ParlUmcvtarians ^ and be, like a wife and an hontfl JVlan, pretcr'd the latter , who gave him hoiiourable Tcims.- upon whicl> he left 'cni in pr f]liri->n of Duhltn^ and went for Evgland^ Jnno 1647. After he had been in France^'dtid taken the belt advice he cou'd for retiieving the Kinv^'s Affairs, be returns into EvgUnd^ enters into a concert with feme of the '-ccts 0>mni.fli )ners that rbey fhoiild raifc Forces in ScotUfid snd he in Inland^ and thac both fhoi.ld meet in England and joyn the King ti'eie / Accorditig to which Pbn, the Scots went into ErgUnd under Duke Hamdcon's Com- mand, the fate whereof is known » and the Maiq ;ifs Lands in hthpd in 5(?pfe'/'^fr ;64b, prcfently ftts on Foot a New Treaty vvith the Ir/jJj, but CfMj'd 1 ot bring it to a conclnlion before the j7//j of Janu- ary, ^nd then it was roa late for his pUrpofe ^ for the Kin^ svas Mur- dcr'd the 3G//j ot the fame Month. Afloon as the facai News of the Kiii^.^ Dearh came to I eUnr>^ every Party begun to exert thcmfflves according to their fe-'crai Piinciples. The Marquifs cf Ormond makes an Eflay t J bring his New Co^jfede- raies iuto tiie L.tcrtit ot the yoH>:g Kh g j but Owen Ro O Nnl having rtii fed to iubmii co the Peace, txceedm^Jy embarajya his Affairs and perplexed a\\ his Mealures. I ht Party that Comm.anded rot the Rump in Et:gla:!d adhered to iWxx A4 after s^ and wou'd by no meam. Incor- porate with him and the \rt^o\ the Stcts Forces rtfus'd to j >yn with him coo, tho'ihey v^'cx^^firennoits j^Jfertors of Monarchy. The Pref- by tery emits cbeir Pveprefen ration ot the 1 5f/j of Feb? nary, and endta.- vor to btiiig Sir Charles Ci^of into their Meaiure?, but in vain, as spjxars by his Anlvver lo che Presbytery daicd A-J arch jth^ pubiiih'd iiii>,7ri^rrs oKonft'tuefit Mcfiihers, f/z,. the chief Offices ot ihe W^r^ Army, cd\\\\ihc Cfii?7Cil o! l^/ar: Some Gentletren inNiine of the Country, called5 the Com^ninee of the Country -^ avid a Committee of the Prebytery. Thefe i jrnd their Councils and cont'err'd togctiier abouE the Oeniands to be iiififl-ed oa, an.l the ^nfvvers to be given to Collo- nel Monk. The Propcfirions of chis Joint Meeting, and Mark's kn- fwers cm all be produc'd, with which 1 Hun't trou.'ile t!;e Reiderany farther than as they rf 1 -te to tiie AfTiir ia hand. He refiis'd to quia the liiterefl of the Rum^^ upon wh/ch the Treaty broke 'ffT Having feriniQ/ coulrlcrM what they vere obliged in confcience and Intertft to CO, they concluded I O A. MAN lo adhere to Mo^ narc'-y^ and p-irticulaily to .fl^it the Tiile ot King CjarUs II, ^s their lawful Soveicign and natural Prince :; and were deliberating about the Choice of a Gjmmiffioncr to be lent fo him : but in the meaa time, they co' fidered that he had all a'ongfl slTerted his Fathers caufe in the Civil War, feemM yet to pinTue the fime meafures, & therefore they look'd upon him as being Materially in a State of war with his Subjects- \i]d they were for waiting for the ilTue of the iS'ccf J treating with him, before they wouM put themfelves entirely in his hands^ ■.Tpecially coiafidering that all who dedar 'd for his com- ing to the immediate and full exercife of his Regal powecin heUnd^ had fubmitted to a dijhonorahle and ddngeroHs peace with the Iri{h deftrudive of Religion and property, and that they mnft fall in with that peace, if they declar'd for the />»wf^/<2.^^ and full exercife of hi* Regal power. In all which conclufions the Lord of A/rds joined v\kli them in Lettersto their friends in the Lagan and other parts of the Kiagdom,to perfuade 'em to adhere to the fdid declaration ^notwith- ftanding whereof the faid Lord took a commifTon from the King to be Chief Commander of the Forces in Vlfier^ to obey the Marquifs oi Ormortd^and incorporate his forces with the IriJJj Rebells. The Prtsbytery being furpriz'd at this fudden and unexpected change, framM their Declaration at Bangor, for preventing the JMifchievous conlequences which they appreli ended might enfue, to the dedrudion of Religion and Liberty, from tie execution of that Commiflion whichMy Lord of Jirds had taken frcm King Charles id^, and from the peoples fubmitting to the peace in 1648, and incorpo- r2« it^6 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Treshyter tans: Pa Vf O ^^^-^"g v/itli the /rr/^ Rebels. In the Declaration it felf you have the 1 al L ^. {sjartative and occalion which is fliort,and gives a general hint of thcfe ^ U/'^V^N,^ things I have rrjenuoii'd, luffiwiendy intelligibk to thcfe who .were then alive, ai;d who knew the Hiltory of their own times -, but I thought it nectfl'.ry ro explain it, by the above-account, to thofe who live 'dij^ich zDiJiance from tiie times when thefe affairs were tranfadt- ed. After they had 'cprefented the evil tendency of that Commlflion and of the Marquifs of <9r.'73£)/;^'s Peace with the hiJJjy they declare theniRIves in theie words ' All thefc things make clear as the beams *. of the Sun, the unlawfulnefs of his Aur' ority by fsich a Ccmmif- * fion &c. For this caule as the y^mbafi'.dois of C/W/?, we bcfccch our people in his flead nos to join bands with Juch a Caufc^ or to * Meddle wit>uhem who are given tochange, ai,u paniculaily we * charge all who have renewed the Covenant, and have entred into a ' Dvciaracirn of the Army and Country, not to join in cxecunng ' fuch a Gommiffion, by taking charge in the Army under the pre- * fciiC command, o> (ervin^ thtm either as Officers or Soldiers &c. ' Wedoaifoi i rnc Name of JcAis OriH: warn t'le people cf our ' charge ro keep fhrmfelves free from all c'-mplyaiice with their un- ' ^'odly courk, either by fpeaking favorably of them, acknowkdg- ' ing tin Authority of the prefcnt comm.and under the LVla[quifs of ' 0>mond, and the Lord of Ai^ds^ by liyipfiiig ofCefs upon others * for maintaining their unlawful power, or by conflant obeying their ' orders, i - paymgCefs unto iheir Army &C' 2dly^ I (hail coi fider the Reafons tffer'd in the Declaration it felf to jiilliF.e it And thefe are reducible to two heads \ ifi. The Eqgi« ty and Jaf?ice of the long Parliameni's Dcfenfive Waragainft King Chirles i. 2«?'/?',ihe Illegality and Pernicio'.is Confequences of the -/5r- tichs of peace v^'itb the Injli Rebelh in 1548. As to ihe firj]-^ I mufl rcmic the Reader to the reafons formerly given from p 169 top. 224., for j [tiffing the Parliament and thofe who fi.led with them in that war ^ which I there reprefented, toge- ther witn the reafons on the other hand ^ leaving the Reader to form a judgment vvithou? giving my own opinion in thai marter • All 1 have to do here, is eo fhew that the fame Reafons were of cq' al force to juftifie the Ji artgor-i^edaraiion^ and t'>^af the Declar' *rj went upon thefame foundation, upon which the Lovg Fa'/la^ msnt Under King Charles II. Chap. 2; 257 mem ]\^^\^Q(\l\\(ilt defensive Arms^'T^hXch will appear by confidering p^l*|- o Che following pira^rapli in the Dccl.iratlon. * Fjv the fiifl dif- * * ference (fay they) between the Kin?^, and his people was tonching his L/'VnJ ' Jbfolnte and unlimited vower in Civil things^^nd his Adherence to Pre- ' lacy and Miint.uning their po.ver,for which both our laieSovereign * and his Majsfly who now is did raife arnr? a^ difobeyed the Gommiflions o[ KmgCharles I. during che Civi' War: AM this makes it plain, that he accepted thisGommifHon from King Cha>les\\, on the fame Terms and Principles with thofe who accepted Gommiflions L 1 trom 2^8 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Presbyterians "Part '2 ^'^^ Ills Royal Father w^ile at VV^r with bis People ; and therefore the former m'j^^ht htns hiwiuliy Dilrcgardtd as the larcer, fcing the K,/^"'*'^^^*^ CoiiimilTions of K. Charles 2. were founded upoi) the fam* Principles and promoted the fuii'C defigns with tboie granted bv his Father du- r"ui<^. the War, which p» oviis ;;!ig young Klnjz to be Materially in a St.ue of War agaiiill all thofe with whom his Father had been at War. What exceedingly flrengthens the Arf nment is, that King Charles 2^ being a young Prii.ce uucci rhe Influeoce of evU Counfellors who had vuin'd hisF;uher, might (ii he had come to the immediate and /■«// fA,Yrf//f of his Regal Power, wiirhuut any frcvions Aniclcs with his People) ha\^e cirried his Refentments fo f.r againfl; thofe who Mana^'d the War againft his Father and Himlelf, as to have deflroyi ed a Multitude of his ^>'/? 5w^_;V(Jl.<-, enflaved all the rf/?, and exceeded his Father in Arbitrary Power, iaftead of Corrtd>ing and Amending tlie Errors of his Reign. When the fear of all this was fo well ftify lb full of D .nger to the public fafety. Let the fccond period of this Reign, viz,, from his Reflauration to his Death (of which afterwards) be a witnefs for Presbyteiians, from whence all wife men who love Religion and Liberty may be judges, whc'.her the Presbyterians had not good reafon to infill up- on the King's providing re-ifonably for both, befo'^e he fhou'd have all thrown at his Mercy. Let the Pf plfll P/of, Pop;lh Councils^ Popifh Succi^ion^ and Encfoachmtnts on Liberty, which were all {upp:>rted by the Court, Declare whether ic had no? been better for Britain 6c /^d^w^that they had Iniifted fas Presbyterians wou'd have had 'em^ upon fuch terras wJtft the young King, as wou'd have fccur'd them againfl all tboFc Mifchiefs. The /^twfl! reafon offer'd in the Declaration,to jiiflify it, is found- ed upon the Ilkgdity a-id pernicious tendency of the -/Articles of the Pf^cf made with the /?:_/?; Re be its in 164S: for (pe^^king of the Lord of /^/V^Vs CommilTion, they fay' it is to receive commands ' from the Marquifs of Otmon:i &c. who hath made a peace with the ^ Rebelis delti.udi c toReligic. -, unto which peace theLord of Jirds ' contrary to his in. ay profeilious and fubfcripdons has now join'd ' himfelf. Now- Under King Chd,rh$ IL Chap 2. 259 Now if tins P^i-ace was illegal, deftruftive to Rdigion, Liberty, P^]-f o and Property ^ then aliCommiffions to fupport this Pence, and Incor- ' porate withjthe A//?; Rebels according co the Articles thereof weie t/'^/**^J of themfelves null and void ^ and therefore might lawfully withoiu theleaft: infringment of Lov^ky and Dat/ be oppof'd and redftcd •* but fuch were the C3mmiifl.)ns granted to th e Maiquifs of Ormond and Lord of Jirds. To illuftrate this Argument, 'twill be iiecefTiry to l?y before the Reader all the Ariicles of this peace, they are to be found at large in Coat's Hiftory appendix 43 ^ and abrid.','d in BurUce^ pA"^e 205. '.nd becaufe there are di/ers things in the Articles at large' which are not fo much as hinted at, or bat darkly exprefs'd mBiirUceh abridg- ment, I have tranfcrib'd fncn of 'em at lar^i^e out of cVv, as are molt Material for enlightning the p.efent debate-, and as to the reft, liave contented my felf with Burlaee^ abridgment. Thofe tranfcrib'd out of Cox have this mark i" prefix'd to them. ^ The t^rticles of the Peace, 1 6^S. i. ' f I ^hat the Roin?in Catholicks of Ireland have free exercife of ' JL Religion. ^iii-'emlcles taken off, not oblii^'d totheOath of Su- ' premacy, to Et^JOY ALL ChUR^HES AND CHURCH-LIV- MNGS ".H; Y fiAVE l->5 PRESENi^ POSSESSION, and the ^ exercife of Juvisdidion •:: ercin. -I* ' 2. itet?i, 'tis c licluded, accorded, and agreed rpon, by ' and between tne fud i^, rtyi,aud his Mijcfly is hiuher gracjai:fly * pleas'd, that a free P,^' liai ent fhal! be held inchib Ki.'igdom wiir,- ' in fix months aftei the dat< ot rhefc Articles of Peace^ or as foon ^ afrer as 7^^w3- Pe,ice,chen bjs Mnjclie'sLord LieuneaanC, or other his M;3jen:ies chief Governor or Governors of this King- dom for the time bdag, wil, ac the rfqaeft of the faid Thomas Lord v^fconnt Dill n^ &:c. or the in ji' pirt of them, call a Ge- neral v^Qombly ot the Lords and Commo:js of this Kingdom, to attend upon the Aid Lord Lieutenant, or other his Mujelti's chief Governor orGovernors ofchisKingdom for the time being, in fome conveiiitn: pljce f )r the hecer H^tling of the affairs of the Kingdom^ and 'ds further concluded, accorded and agreed by and between the faid Pjrties, that ail matters that by thefe Ardcles are agreed upon tobe pilTwd in Parliamenfi, finl) be- tranfmitted into Etiglani^ accord! )g to the ufual form, to be rufTed in the faid Parliiment, and that the Did Acts fo agreed upon, and fa ta be pafled, fhiil receive no disjunEhion or alteration here^ or in England; Provided that nothing fhall be concluded by both, or either of the fiid Houfcs of Parliaiieiii, vv^hich may b'-ing prej.idice to any of his Majeftics Proteffar.ir Par y, or their /^dherents^ or to his Ma- jelti's Ronmn-Cathclic Subjects, or their adherents other than fuch things as upon this Freaty are concluded to be done, or fjch things as may be proper for ths Committee of Privileges of either or bofh Houfes to tike Cognizance of, as in fuch cafes heretofore hath been sccuflomed, and other than fuch matters as his Majefty vi^illbe gra- cioufly pleas'd to decL^^e his further pleafure in, to be pjfs'd ia Parliament tor t\\Q ficistadion of his Su^jtds, and other than fach things as flial/ be propounded to either or both Houfes by his Ma- jeftse'bLord Lit ulenant, or other chiel Governor or Governors of this Kingdoom iov the time being, during the faid Parliament, for the advancement- of his Majsfties Service> and the peace of the Kingdom ; which c'aufe is to admit no confiniBion which may trench up nrhe ArtuUscj Pcice^ or any of^em -^ and that both Houfes of Parliament miy confider what they /hall think convenient couching the Rental or Sufpeulion of the Statute commonly calPd P^yning^ yic\^ Efititvii'd, jin ^ii that no Parliament he holden in that land HU' til the ^fts be certified in^o England. 3- t That ^'LL L^WS maue la the Parlianieat of EngUnd fince Under King Ch^vhs 11. Chap. 2; i5i * fince i6'4i. ill blemifliotthe Cathoilcksjare atthenexu ParlijinentPo i-h o- ' tobj V.:/C>irr'.D. i ctlL Z 4'' ^LL INDIGTiMENTS agaiiiftanyCatholicks fincc 154^. U'^/'NJ ' be V -re /i TED. 'f- 5. ' Itern^h is likcvvife cor.cIi]Jed,accorded & ar,iefd,and hisMa- * jelly Is ^jraciovifly pkas'd, chjtas foon as podr^le may be, ALL ' IMPEDIMEiSirs which m.iv hinder the fiid Roman Catholicks ' to SIT OR VOTE IN THE NEXT IN! FENDED P^llLIA- ' MENF, or to clioofe, or to be chofcn Knights, and Bargefi's, ' to fi!: or voce there, fluil be REMOVED, aad that BEFORE ' the Faid Pciriian:er;t. 5. * A:\ Debts to remain as they were febrHarjS. 16^1^ Not- ' withflaiiding any y^tt^^lndcr. 7. ' The Fftatesof the K iighes, Gentlemen, snd Freeholders of ^ Connaght^ Clare^ Jhotnond^ Limertck, and Tipper ary^ befccu:'dby * anjS: 't* 8. ' Iiemy It is f jrther concluded &e that j^LL INCAPA- ' CITIES impos'd upon the natives of this Kingdom or any of them, ' as Natives, by any act of Pirliament, Provifos in Patents or o- ' thervvife, be TAKEN AWAY by aft to be pafled in the fvd Par^ ' llarnsnt *, and that they may bs enabled to ered one or more Inns * of Court in or near the City of Dnhlin or elfevvhere, as (hall he ' thoughi fit by bis Majeftis's Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Govcr- ' nor or Govei nors of this Kingdom for the time being — Andi that his Majefties Roman-Carholick Subjects may eredand keep Free- Fchools for Education of Youths in this Kingdom, any Law or Statute to the cortrary notwithjlarrdiK'g '^ and ' that all the matters aflented unto in this Article be palled as ^'cfs of Parliament in the Faid next Parliament. '|- 9. *■ Item^ Ie is further concluded S:c. Thai places cf command^ honor, profit and t^nfi\n his Majeftie's Armies in this Kingdom * fhall be UPON PERFECTION OF THESE ARTICLES adoal- * ly and by particular Inftances conferr'd upon his Roman-Caiholick Subjects of this Kingdom, and that upon the Diftiibution confer- ring and difpofirig of the places of Command, honor, profit, and truft in his iVajeHies -/^rmy in this Kingdom, for the future no DIFFERENCE fhaP be made between the Faid Rcman-Catholicks, and other his Majtfties Subjtds. But thai fuch Diltribution fhall be 26 1 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Trefhyteriam Pa rt2. be made mrh ecjual indiffertncy 2iCC0Xi}\ng to their refpedive me^ lies and abilities; and that all his Mcjcfties Subjefts of this King- dom, as v^ell Roman Cathoiicks as others, may for his Al.jsfties fervice, and their own fecurliy, arm thtmfelvcs the hefi they may^ v^' herein they fhall have all fining Incoiiragfinem ;and 'tis further concluded S:c. That pUces of CcmmancK^hcnoKr^ profit ^ nndtrufi in the Civil Government in this Kingdcnij {inll he upjn pafTing of the bills in thefe Articles mentioii'd in the next Pailianietit, actu- ally and by particular iiiflances conferr'^d upon his M.yejlies Roman- Catholich SuhjeBscf this Kinadom^ and that in the D";fttibuiioi!, con- ferring anddifpofingof the places of Command, honour, piofi.and trnfb, in the Civil Government ^ for the fuuue, NO DlFf-EK- EHGE SH^LL BE M^DE between the faid /?oman-Citholicks, and other his Majeflies S.ibjeds, bu; that fuch Diitrib:uioa fhall be msde with equal indijftvencies^ according to tneir seipcctive me- rits and abilities, and that in the Difti ib-itiopi of Miuiifcri.'^l offices or places which now are, or hereatce*" ihiil be void in this Kin.'^- dom, equality (lijii be ui'd to the /?oman-Catholick Natives of this Kingdom, as to other his MajeUies Subj.fts ; and that Che C^w?- mand of Forts ^ Caflles^ Garrtfons^ Towns^ and other places of Impor- tf-nce in this Kingdom, fha'.i be conferr'd upon his M^je-T^ies ^om.an- Catholick Subjects of this Kngdom UPON PE/^FEGVIONl OF THESE ARTICLES ac^lualiy and by particular inftances, and tnatin thediftiib.itiGn conferring and difpoH^ of the Fous, Gar- rifons. Towns ar.dothvernor or Governors of this King- dom for the time b^ing, and the raid IhomasLov^ Vifconit DU' lon.^ cjc or any feven or more of them, flu!) D MiNISH OR ADD unto the faid number, as they fh ill fee Cirufe from time to time. 10. That Under King Charles TI. Chap. 2. 26^ 10' That tbcKing take iioco ^onnd^tr Annum in lieu of theCourt of Parf o <^ vVurds. * ' 11' NoMoblcmen to have more Proxies than two in parliament,and '^.s/'VNJ ' all blinks to be nul'. 1 1 ' Tliat the depending of the Parli-iTient ofheUnd upon England^ ^ ill '11 be as bo h niall :i?iee and ftand vvjrh t.he Laws of Irdayid. 13 'ThnttheC u.icil-Tab!e meddle only with Matters of State. 14 *■ That a!) Ac^s forbidding the TrL:niporE of Wool, be iiull'd by ' the next Pailiament. . 15 ' That it 2.-.y have been wrona'd by Gra-us from King JAMES, ' or fince, they may Petidon, aiui have rtiicf in Parliament. 16 ^ riiat divers particular Lords,Knigh£s andGentlemen,who have ' beea ''as rhey conceive) wrona'd, fiidl now be righted. 17 ' That ail who had theirEflaies cakcn from 'em in Cork^ Toaghal & ' Dungcvrvan^ have Rcfloration or Rent. f . 1 8. ' Itenj^ It is further concluded &c.That an Act of Oblivion be ' pili in the nexc Parliament, to extend to all hls/VIajeflies Suhjetls of ' this KiTi'jdom^ m\d their aaherems^ ot ALL TPvliASONS and Of- ' fences, "CAPI f AL, CllIMlNAL and PERSONAL, and other Of- ' fences of what Nature, kind or q-ialiry Tjcver, in fuch manner as ' iftkofe TreafonsQV Cffevces had never be:n committal^ frrfstrated cr ' done •, That thp f^:id Ad do t•^lt^^d to the Heir&, Childi en, Kindi ed, ' Executors, Adminiflramrs, Wives, Widows, Dcwageis, or Ai- V figns ot fuch of the faid Subjcds and ^heir Adherents, who Died ' on, before, or fince the i^d oiOElober 1641. That the uid Act do ' relate to the ^v^ day of die nex*. Parliamenr, that the Aid An do ' extend toall Bodies Politick and CORPORATE, and their RES- ' PECTIVE SUCCESSORS,&nnto all Cities, Boroughs, Counties, ' Baronies, Hundreds, Towns, Villages^ Tithings, and every of 'cm ' within this Kingdosn, for and concerning all and every of the faid- * Offences, or any other Cftlnce or Oifuices, in them, or any of 'an ' dcmmitted, or done by his MajeRies faid Subjeds cr^their Adhe- ' rents, or any of them, beforc,ln or fince the z^a of Ocicb. 164 1. -— " 19. ' That no cffi'-er of Eminency in /-'f/^w^ firm the Culloms. 20. ' An A&. to pafs againgft MonopoHHs. 21. *Thac the Court of Cafile-Chamber be regulated. 22. ' That the Afts for prohibiting Plowing v\ith Horfes by the J Tails, and Burning Oats in the Straw, be null. 23. ' An Ad: for taking off the Grievances of ih: Kingdom. ']' 24. ' Jtem, lE is further concluded &;c. Thai iVlaruime Caufcs ' i may ±6^ Chap. 2. The Loyalty ofPreshyterians Part 2.1 miy be determinM in this Kingdom, without driving of Merchants or odiers to Appeal and feekjajhce elfewloere-^ and if it fliall fall out £hac there be Caufe of an Appeal, the Party grievM is to Appeal to his Majclly in the Chancery of Ireland^ and the Sentence thereup- on CO be i^iven by the Delegate^ to be Definitive cind not to beqae- llionM upon any further Appeal except it be in the Parliament of this Kingdom, if the Parliament (hall then befitting, othsrwife not -^ this to be by Ad of Parliament, and until the faid Parliament, the Admiraky aad Maritime Caufcs fhall be Order'd, and fettled by the faid Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor, or Governors of chis Kingdom for the Time being, by and with the advice and con- fenc of the fiid Thory.as Lord Viicount Dillon ^c. or any fevea or more of them. '\ 2,5. * 7'hat no Rents be rals'd upon the SubjcftSjUnder pretcQce or detet^iv€ Titles. 25. ' That Intereflr- Money be forgiven from 154 r. 27. /rm.lt is further concluded &c. That IMMEDIATELY IIPOM PERFECTION OF THE^E ARTICLES, the faid Thomas Lord Vifcount Dillon^^c. fhall be Authoriz'd by the faid Lord Lieute- nant to prDceed in, He^.r,Dcterrnine,and Execute, in and through- out chis Kingdom, the tnfmng particulars^ and all the matters there- fipcn defeiid-f7g, and that fuch Authority, and other the Authorities bereafttr meatiou'd fhall remain of Force without revocation^ alte- ration^ or diminntio'i^ nnJiL ACTS OF PARLI ANIENT BE PAbbED, Hccording to th'^ purpoit niid intent of thefe Articles, and thai in cafe of Death, Mifcarriage^Difability tD ferve, by reafon of ficknef^ or other \^ife of any the Tid Thomas Lord Vifcount Dillon^ &c. His MajcIlie'fsLord Lieutenant,or other chief Gove i or, orGo- vernors of chi»Ki]gdom for the time being, fhill Name and Au- thorize another i.i the place of fich as fhall be f) Dead, or fhill inif:!; i-y hirnfJf, or be fo Difabled, and that the f:mL' Hiall be fjch Perf^n, as SHALL BE ALLOW'D OF by the faid Thomas Lord Vifcount Dillon^ &c. or any feven or more of them then livin.o;. And that the faid Thojnas Lord Vifcount Dillon^ &c. or any feven or m.orcofihemfhall have POWER TO APPLOf, Raife, and Lq^Y nieans, wich indilFcrency and equality by way of cxcifc or Otherwifc, upon all his Majuflfs SubjcBs Tpithin the faid Kingdoviy thdr perfonSjEftates &Goods,towards ttie maintenance of fuch Army far Under King Ch^vhsll. Chap. 2. 2(?5 or armies, as fhiH be thoughs fit to continue, and be in pay for his P^^ff 2, MajeO"y's *^ervicc, the defence of the Kingdom, and other the necef- JitKr^^i farypuvlic charges thereof, and towards the maintcnincc of the ^^^'^^r. Forts, Ciflies, Garrifbns and towns of both, or cither party, other than fuch of the faid Forts, Garrifons, and Cafllcs, as from time to time, until therf (hall bea Settlement in P^nHnmene, fhall be thought f\t, by his Maj-fty's chief Governois of this Kingdom forthe time being, BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSEN r of the laid Ihomas Lord Vifcount Dillon &:c. or any fe- ven or more of them^ not to be maintainM ai the charge of the " public, provided that his Majellie's Lord Lieuten:mt,or other chief Governor orGovernors of this Kingdom for the lime being, be Hiffc midc acquainted with fuch Taxes, Levies and fixcifes as fhjll be mide, and the manner of Levying thereof, and that he approve the fame ^ and to the tnd that fuch of the Protefliant Party, ^sjha/ljiib- mit to the Peace m;3y in the feveral Counties where any of their E- flaceslveth^ have eqiiality a.id indifFcrency in the AlTeisments and Levies thas Ih dl concern their Eftatcs in the faid feveral Counties. ' It is cop.cluded &c. That in the Dirt^ions which IhiH iffiie to any fuch County, for the applotting, lubdividmg, and levying of the faid p^iblic AfTfsmeuts, fome of tlse faid Prottftant Par- ty fliJll be j'jyn'd with others of the Roman-Ciiholic Party to thrft purpofe, and for cffediiig that Service ^ and the faid Ihomas Lord Vifcount Dillon^ &c. or any ieven or more of ihem fhall have power to levy the Arrears of rll Excifes and other [ublic Taxes impos'd by the Confederate Roman-Cath- lies an.! y-* i^np^'d, and to CALLREG£lVERS 4^^ O ! HFR'ACCO'-^PTyiN ' SOF ALL FORMER. TAXES and ALL HlBLiC DU£S,io a Juft and Strift Account either by 'cmfelves, or by (be*; as ihry or a/y levea or moie of 'em (hall name or appoint^&: tin?: ihc fai-.LO L'cutenant or any other chief Governor or Governors o^" \\\\% Km_,d«)ni for the time being, fhall from time to time iflue Commifli 'i.s to fuch Per- fon <5c Pe/f>nsas (ha)l b.^ nam'U and appointed by the laid Tl:cmas Lord Vifcount Dt/lon^ &c. or any kvcn or more ofi';.em,for IctLing, fetting and improving the Eftates of all fuch Pcrfon or Peif)ns, as fhall adhere t« any Party oppofin^ his iMajcflie's Authority and nat fubmittitJg to the Peace, and that the Profits of fuch Ellaies fhiil be converted by the faid Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor, M m ' or z66 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Pre/hyteriaris Part 2. or Govf mors of this Kingdom for the time being, to the Mainte- nance of the King's Array, and other necefDry charges, until fet- tlement by Parliament. * And that the faid T^ow^i Lord Vifco^nE X)/7/ ine or humane c?n jtftifie the puttijig of/o much forcer into the hands of thole who hsd M^ffacred 2Cccco Proteflants ? fhall fo^ mich in- nocent blood bejhed, and r;o Inquifition made lor it ? was it no injury M m 2 to 26S Chap; 2^ The Loyalty of Vrejhyterians X>r^Yt o to the proteftant Clcgy no' IHfg,! to grant the popifli rebells aU rart ^* cmrches 2i\\(i ChiiYchAtmnisihe.^ \\-^^ivtnV\\>^-^^-^iy^ (which were Kj^^sfl'SJ very conliderabie; a'id Vin execife of JurisdiBio'-t tlt^vein ? mufx all ads of Parli.imcnc psOT'a in England agai.ifl the Roman-Cathohcs llnce 1641 he repeal Jin the next P^iiiameut, nnd all Indictmens a- gainft thirm fince i^^f. be vacated, miift all Incapacities impos'd upon theN itives by a.:> act of Pai liiment,proviros in patents or otherwlfe be taken ('ff", popilh Innsoi Court and popifh Free jchools ereded ? nuift 15000 foot and 25">ohoife, aH fapifts^ be mF the ftanding kv^ m^in freLnd^ and all M Ittary Employments be ^iven with hdiffcr- ency to Pupifls as well as Proteftants immediately upon perfcd:ifjg thcfe ArticUs ? Mud the King be oblig'd to ash and ohtam she confent of the popifh Com.mifliO'.iers to his Cjmymjfions tor the command of Foris, C.ftks, Gariifor.Sj Towns, and other places of importance and for mnhmg j.ifllccs of the peace ? mud the Papills (I fayj have all thefe priviledg sgra^t^d them by a t-eaty and ytt the pioteflant Religion be fate in InU-nd ? I confefs, 1 think that he who can di- . gift this Scheme fo as to make i I confident with Rtli ion, which it dire(flly overthrows, mud have a peculiar skdl in {olving CuntradiSiiomi, an Ai t, which wife men in all ages have thought it reafonablt to defpair of. It is obfervable, that thefe Articles are of 2 kinds, i/?, Such as^ prom.ife the irijlj RtbelU great privileges, which th.ey we/e to be pojTefs'd of upon che p'afli -g of Adts of Parliament for tnaE pnrpofe. 2(5/.)', Such as gram 'em immunitys and privileges to be Ciijoyed by 'em immediately upon the perfecting of the laid Articles. In the fird,the freedom and Privilcdees of Parliament are violated ; while theii piwer is fo lirriued by xht fecond 4rlicle, that there IhalV be no disjunEii'onor alteraiion in England or IreUnd with refpcct to what wascoacliided in this Treaty. Toadijme a power of obliging Par- liaments, to pafs ads for ratifying articles withont the ieajh dijnyitli- on or alteration is Ceo fay no worfe j a very large ftreich of tite Pre- rogative. If the Parliament themfclves had been a party to the Ar- ticles, no doubt they had a power of promifing to pafs fuch Ads, but I don't find that ourConftitution allows anyperlbn or pei ions a pow- er of ^/i^^/wg- the Legiflature without their own confent '^ and more ef- peciaiiy to approve of Articles in their own nature deftrudive of -K^- Ijgion and Liberty. But lead the Rebels fhould be baulk'd in their cxpedations by a Under King Ch^rhs 11. Chap. 2. 26^ Prr-ten-antParliimentin Irela7:d, that might refufe toenaft thefe ar- Po-t-f o ' ticlesiiicoa Lnw, the %th ^^ii ride provides that' all Imjiediments *-^^^ ^' ' which m.ty hi^ider the f;id Roman-Catholics to fie or voteinthc *?'^'V\J ' next intended Parliamcic, or tochiole, or to be chofen Knights ' and RurgefTes to fit or v ore there Inall be removed, and that bsjore ' rhfefiid Parliament. ' This gave them a moral alTurance thai the Ad.jority m boihMoufes w3u'd hepopjh oz pop.fjly affected^ and con- Ckquciitly th.it ihey miifl: carry their point. For the Cfown was ob- lig'd by the artichsto give the Ryal ^fllnt,. and noiv they are made fure of carrying it in the 2 houfts. The exorbitant and extyaw dina-y power to be put iflto the bands of tht Rebels upon the psi frcting of the articles, their vafl; f.iperiori- . ty in numbers to the froteflantj., being at Icdfl 8 to one, their h^vxn^^^o great ^ P^MjfUtig Army oi their own, and the C'.rurt on their fide, cou'd n u bat give 'em a vafl Interelt in the Eleft'on of Members of Pailiament; and all this wjsowi^g to thcfe Articles of Peace, which for that reaion mull have had a pernicious taidency to corrupt the whole Legisl.^ture- Among other piwers jiranted to the Com million era of the IriJJj Rebels, thele contain'd in the i-jth Article are very extraordinary being no lefsthan Parliamentary^ and to be juflly leckon'd a high In- vafion of the Liberty of the Subjcd. For the Popifli Commlirnners viz. ' The Lord Vifcount Di/l'n &c or any fcven or more of 'em ' have power to applot, raife and levy means with IndifTtrency and ' equaliry by way of Excife or otherwife upon all his Majeflies fub- * jeds within the faid Kingdom, their Perfons, Eftatesand goods * towards the Maintenance of fuch Army or Armies &c. And ' other the nectfTary Public charges thereof and towards the * maintenance of Forts, Cafllcs, Garrifons and Towns &c and for ' * buying Arms and Ammunition and entertaining of Frigots &c. ' If the power of ^'anting Subfidies to the Crown be not a peculiar- Par- liamertary Right^ nothing is fuch ; And if Money may be LtvyW off tV:t [uhjeti voitUmt his confent m Parliament, \ wou'd fain know what ftiadow of Liberty is left him. MAGNA CHARTA, the PETI- TION OF RIGHT, and all the FUNDAMENTAL LAWS of the Nation, are but metr Chimeras, if that pradice be not ittterl^ Hie- gal and unwarrantable • ant' yet never any Parliament in Evglund^ re Jreland prttended to any more authority for levying Money oIFthe Subject, than what is by this Article gianud to the Pepifi) Rebels. And 270 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Treshyterians P;?rf O Another ///f^^/ power, dwAof^^-angerous confequenceh granted 'era X ax L z. ^y ^i^g j-jj^ wrciclc, viz.. ' to levy Money by Excife or ccherwife in V*V^*^ ' the fcveral Cities, Corporate Towns, Counties and part of the ' Counties f hen in their quarters, and only npon the Eftates of the ' faid confederate Rof.^^an-Catholkh^ all fiich famm andftimms of Mo- ' ney asJhM afpear to tbe laid Lord Dillon &c to be really due for ' and in difcharge of the public Engagements of the faid confederated ' Roman-C.ithoIick.s-, tncitrr''d or grown due before the conclufion of * theft Articles ^c. And to appoint Receivers, Colkftors and all 0- ' the r officers for ft.Kh Monies &c, and in cafe of refracftoriaefs or ' delinquency tc diftrain and imprifon the delinquents &c. ' That the Reader may be fully fatisfied of the danger of tliis part of the Article, let him bepleas'd to confider that the hiflj having by private and traiterons concerts begun their M3flacre,0^ to defray the charges of fuch Enterprises j all v/hich may be feen at large in the Hiftorys of Cox (fi om p. j 23 to p. 127 part 2. and Appendix 14) and BurUce {\iom p. 173 to p. 178) y?nd to make all tfftdual rhey impos'd upon all the Roman-Catholic Confederates ar.Oath ofAflbciation^the laft claufe whereof is in thefe words (k) ' And tor the prefei vationand flrengthening of the ' aflbciation and Union of the Kingdom, that upon any peace or ac- * comodation to be made or concluded with the faid Confederare * Catholics, as aforefaid, I wiil to iht utmoft of my power Jnftjt upon * and maintain the enfuing Propolitions, until a fence as aforefaid be made ii) Cex's Hiftorypart2. j^ppendix 14, Under TT//^^ Charles IT. Chap* 2 271 * made, and the marter? to be agreed upon ia the articles of Peace, Pot-f o ' be ESTABLISHED and SECUR'D BY PARLIAMENT, So ^ / ' help file G:)d. VV^O The Trofofitions memionedin theaforefa'dOit^'i. * i/?. That the Roman Catholics both Ckrgy and Laity to their feveral Cipacicies, have free aad piihlic exercife of the Roman-CA- tholic Religion and Fnnfti>n throughout the Kingdom, in ^/ FULL LUSTRE and SPLENDOR as it was in the Reign ol King //p«- ry the 7r^,or any other Cstholic Kings his Predectfl^rs, Kings of EngUnJ. and Lords oi IrcLtnJ^ either in IrrUnd or Enghnd idly. Th2t the Secular Clergy of /rf/rfw^ ('1//2:,) Pumites, Arch- bifhops, Bifhops, Ordinaries, Deans, Deans and Chanters, Arch- Deacons, Prebendaries and other Dignitaries, Parf-ns, Vicars and all other Pa (tors of the S^culir Clergy, and their refpedive Suc- ceflbrs, fhall have and enjoy all and all manner of Jurifdictions, Pri- vileds;es. Immunities in AS FVLL and JAIPLE MANNER , a/ the Roman-Catioolic Secular Clergy had or enj .yed the fame within this Realm at any time, DURING THE REIGN of the hte Hc^^ ry ^th fommmcs King of England and Lord of Ireland^ any Law, Declaration of Law, ftatute. Power and Authority whatfoever to the contrary notwithflanding. 3/y. ' That all Laws and Statutes made fincc the loth Year of K- Henry 8f^, whereby any Reftraint, Penalty, Muld, Incapacity or Reftridtion whatfoever, is or may be laid upon any of the Roman- Catholicsy either of the Clergy or ot the Laity, for fuch t^e faid free exercife of the ^ow^n-Cu/W/c Religion within this Kingdom, and of their feveral FnnEiions^ JurifditHons^ and Priviled^es^ may be Repealed, Revoked and DECLARED VOID, by one or more Afts of Pa»liamene to be pafs'd therein, 4.ly. Thai all P;imates, Archbilhops-, BiHiopj, Ordinaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters , Archdeacons , Chancellors , Treafurers , Chaunters, Provofts, Wardens of Collegiate Churches, Preben- daries and other Dignitaries, Parfons^ Vicars » and other Paftors of the Roman-Cat hoUc S:fcular Clergy and their refpeflive Succef- fors fhallhave hold and enjoy ALL CHURCHES and CHURCH- LlViMGS, in as large and ample manner as the late Proteftant Clergy refpedtively enjoyed the fame , on the firft day oi OBoher in the Year of our Lord i6^i, together with all the Profits, Emo- luments ^72 Chap, 2. The LojdtyofTreshyterians Pjnrf 9 * li^iT^enEs, Perquifices, Liberties and ths PJghts to their refpedive •^ ^. 4 gg^g ^^^ Churche?, belonging as well in all places^ now in the Pof- ly^/'SJ • fefij /fl of the Confederate Cunolics, as alfo in all other places thai * Ihill be recoirc ed by the f^id Confederate Catholics from the Ad- * verie Party within this Kiigdom, fiving to «hc Rom-in-Catholic ' Laity their Rights according to the L^iws of the Land. Upon comp iring this piece of Hiftoi y with the Power granted the Rebels of Eaifing Alomy upon the Efiates of tke Rot?jai-Catholic Confederates {or all Sams due for and in Difcharge of the fublic Engage- ments of that Supreme Council^ befoie the conclufion of thefe Articles; I will ventu-e to mike one Obfcrvauon, which 1 believe will be al- low'd to be very natural. It is ibib, That they had a Power Granted them to R^ife Money become due for SUPPORLING THEIR FOR- MER REBhLLIONSand Treaibnable Defigns and Pradices, v\hich I caa't help think ng was a very DaISIGEROVS ALLOWANCE, not only bees ufcit gave too much Countenance so their former Bloody Councils^ butbccnife under ths Nation of Raifing Money due upoa • that Score, it ga'/e them an oppottunity of Raifing Money to Profe^ cute th^Jame Defigas for the rucure ^ and 'tis very plain from the Piopoliri3i,sthey >iad Sviorn to, that it was no lefs than the utter vuin of tbe Rcform'd Religion tney had in view. They Swore to m'd'mula thefs Ic'ir.pomior.s to the ttrnoft of their Power, unril the -r^rucks of Peace ilioii'd br ratified in Parlia . em ^ no Jv, they mnfl con- fider that either shefe ^^rticLs wou'd be Ratify 'd or Rejeded iii Par- liament j if Ratifiidj VnCii their raifing Mone> in the mean time might be of great Scivicc to them to procure farther en'aigement^ot their Piivikges^ and it ihAv foimcr Rebellion was fo weli rewarded by t^ie prclent Articlcsj they might conclude that a New At- tempt might g!vc 'em their hearths deftre^ and fimfh the Scheme rhey had laid, and now they have got power of levying Mo.iey for it. If Che ArticLo fnould bt rejefted in Parliament, they I. ad the more need of iMonty to S-.ipfort their Old Trade ot confpiring agaiiift^an;' Aujfam rriw^ thf ir Enemies; And under the Notion of callifig the Soprcmc Council to an -/Account or Disburfements &c the Popifh Commifljo- ners have really a Power of Calling them together for confuk^.tion^^ud for Hatching new Mijchiefs, What exceecingly ftrengchens this Obfervation is the firll Claufe oi the fame z7^/?Artic:€ in thefe WordSjZ//^,. That thefaid Lord DU- 4 Ion Under King Charles IL Chap. 2. 2 7^:5 * Ion &c (hall be authoriz'd by the faid Lord Lieutenant to proceed Poi-f 9 * in, hear, determine and execute^ in and throughour. this King.don'f, ' the oifiiirig particulars ^Xi^ all the matters thereupon defending ^ and Xjr^'/^J ' that fiich j^iithority and other the Jutkorities hereafter meiitinned ' fhill remain or force vvithout ^f^'o£•^//^J«, alteration o^ cUmtnittiofi^xia-' ^ til Acts of Parliament be pafl u according to the Import and intent ' of thefearF-icles ' Now in cafe the Parl'ament fhould meet and re- ject the articks.here is directly a power by cbis Article to the popifh Rebels to go on as they did before the making of thefey^rticles ^ tor it was an engagement in theirNation2lv«flcmi»ly, to maintain the a- bove-propofitions fworn to, t7ot until the articles of a Peace becofifidered in Parllamm, but VNTIL THEY BE ENACTED AND RATI- FIED in Parliament. In that cafe Money becomes due by vcrtue of the faid engagement, and here a power is given to raife it j and all thefe authorities of Levying Money continued, not only withouE but againft the Authority of Parliament *, and an AlTsmbly erect- ed formerly for PROMOTING Popery and Rebellion, now CON- TINU'D BY A TREATY WITH THE CROWN. That the Rebels had this in View, is beyond Quellion,if we may rely upon what Cox offers ns in his Hillory ( /) ' But it muft not be ' forgotten, thit the Confederates lay Oiil upon the Ittrch^ and in or- ' der 10 keep up their dominion and power, (notwi'hflandir.g the ' peace) they did on the nth oi January 1648. Make the following * Order \ By the Gmeral /iffsmhly. ' Whereas the Declaration of tioe Cenc'-al JJfembly of the Confederate * Catholics^ bearing ^ate the i^!:h .^ay of Ai/gtiji- 164.% and the explana' ' tian 0 f the faid General Ajfemhly therrt0I1^TS and to all purpofes until the articles of the Uended Peace SHALL BE RATIFIED IN PARLIAMENT -^ mtrvithjlanding of any PROCLAAd AVION OF THE PEACE &c. and on the firfl: of^ffw?'^^' (.f^ys that Author) they explain this not to impart any thing inconfiftenE with the Peace, nor to bieed an Interruption or Impediment of ic but to further its perform- ance. ' And t.ho' this Dec]aration(rotwitbfl:anding any explanation they cou'd make of it) vias di^>necricaliy oppjite to the Nature and De- figri ot a Peac^, becauie f/?/J would reduce them to the 05e'ience and Condition of Subjects, and that wou'd ftill keep them up in the condition ofaferarate (late •, yec there was a deeper Intrigue in this matter, viz.^ That if they would not pait with their alT^cia- Lion, it necefljrily follow'd that they cou'd not part with their Ar- my which w.^s the Ligament and fupport ot IE ^ and therefore, not- withltanding 6'/^^o?'^w's ConcelTi ins, yet that Earl mnfi: have pa- tience, and wait for the expected fuccors nnul Clje Ki.ij?, /hall pub^ Sickly raufie what his Loruiliiphad privately done, anJ they did not doubt but the fame necejfities continuing^ or rather encreafing., wou'd cotnpcl his 2W(Hje(ly to comply with thnr expectations. A plain DISPENSING PO\VER with the La^vs is fee up in the fecond article-^ wherein 'tis agreed chat ia the mean time ' untH the ' Articles of thef; piefeots ag.etd to be pafs'd in Parliament be ac" * cordinglypafTcdjCne fame Ihall be invio!aLlyohierv''d us to theMaii^vs ' therein contlinV,'?^ if they were €naU:ed in Parliament. Upon the whole, if thefe articles ot Peace were dedructive of Religion, of the Authority of the Legiflacure, of the Libeity, and property of the SubjvXt5 and the Prerogative of the King ^as I nave P'ovcd they were) then the Cammiflions granted to the jMatquifs of Ormond and Lord of Air as in purfuanceand miintenance of theai,3nd to oblige the Protellanli Forces to Incorporate wish the lri\h Rebels, ac- Under King Charles II. Chap. 2. 275 according to the Intent and purport of 'em, were void and I/legal -, Part 2* and therefore the Presbytery at 5^«i^.r might Lawfully declare a- y^^j/f>^ gainfl them. {^^w^^yJ I am fo far from charging the Gallant and Noble Marqnifs of Or- vjo^id with any dellgn to compafs thofe unhappy ends, which the Ar- ticles of this Peace had a tendency to promote, that I muft do him the Juftice on. the other hand, as to declare that it feems to me from the whole of hisCondnd in that^ffair.thiE thepreffiiigrecelTinesof the King his Mafler made him yield contrary tp his Inclination to fuch hard Terras, to enable him to retrieve the King's Affairs, and purely to do him Service. But then it muft be own'd, that a acod end car.not jujlifie unlawful Means^ and therefore the Presbytery at ^^«^or obvi- ate "this Oojedion, in their Declaration in thefe words * Neither can ' anyneceffuy (fay they) be an excufe to it, for we oughs to choofe * Affliaion rather than fin ^ to help the ungodly and to ftrengthen ' the hands of the wicked, is an evil worfe than any fuffering.' Both Cox and BurUce who offer all they can for excufing the Matter, are forced to acknowledge tl;e Marquifs's miftake, the firft exprefleth himfelf thus, Part 2. f^ge 205. •■ Upon this Peace Ormond propos'd * to get together fo good an Army, as might by Force or Treaty *• prevent the impending Fate of his Royal Mafter, for the underta- J ken Quotas were as folio wet h. Foot Horfe. ' Mnnfter-Jrijl}^ 4000 800 ' Leivfier 4000 8oD ' Jnfiqnin 3 coo <5oo ' ConnaKght 40OO 8co 'Oipr«i?of, ifhewou'd 9 -qq ' come in had b »tj ' *^^^"^™ ' 20000 SS®'^ ' But he depende'l upon a hrohn reed •, for befides that the /n//; had ' delayed theCondufionof thePeace too long to render it ferviceable ' to tht King, and had exaUed Inch Conditions as wou'd rather hajten ' than prevent hisM>^jfite's ruin^ the Lord Lieutenant was exceedii.g- ! Jy difappointed in his Calculation ^ for Owen Roe did not at ail come N n 2 1^^ 2 16 Chap. 2: The Loyalty ofTrefhyterians Pun 'in till it wa? to-. /<«rf ,and moH of the reft were cleficienl in their pro- art 2*^ 4 misM Propi')''tions or" Men nnd Money, fo thas he was forced to t^^VNJ ' borrow 80^ /. jpoi) his own Credic toen ible the Army to March. The o^her expicfnthhimfelr thus(5«^7^cf, p. 228, 229) 'From * the fi il hour of the Peace, the Fngiijh and Irtjh had noE been with- ' out th it prrjuiiice towarc s each ot -.er, a^ gave the^ Marquijs much * trouble, and they were rather incorporated bv their Obedience and * Subnviflion tot'^e A.uthoiity and Pkafure of rheir chiet Commander, ' than u.iiced by the fame Inclinsrbns and AfFvdlons, to any palilic ' end. Infomiich as before the Deteit at Rattj^ines^ there ^ere ma- * ny of the Irilh^ who much fear'd the Swift Succef. of the Army, and ' apprehended the Lord Lientcaant's fpsedy reducing of Dublin^. ' wou'd p-i^'c lim fnch Power and make him mote abf luce, thja * they defi-ed to fee h'm, and therefore were not forry for that Mif. * chief. On the other fide the £^7g////; were muchtroubled, to fee ' the Auchoiicy and Jaiiididion of the Maiqiif* fo R t fir ai n' d ^^nd ' Limited by the Articles, and that the ^rmy w.is neither Recruited, ' Difciplm'd nor provided, as it ou(z,ht to be. Soldy by his want of ' Poxrer \ and they had a ve.y low Opinion of the Spirit and Cou- ' ra^e of the /nj7); but now upon this Defed'on h\ Munjler there ' was a Determination of all Confidence and 'rufl; in each other. If wcconfider fhc State of the King's Affirs, we'll find that the firf]: thiiigfiai Cool'd the Afiedions ot his S'.'bj.ds to him was the Influence his evil Counfellors had upon him, to encouuge Popery, and by his Aibisriry and Illegal Ccu k: to Levy mony without con- fent of Parliament, as Tnnfia^e^ Pour'^aae^ Learf.f^ md Ship. Money, ard to dcftroy the Liberty of tnc S.ibjcd and tnc Fundamental Laws, Now I wou'd fain know, if if was a likelv way to Accommodate the unhappy D fferences between him and his People, which begun upon theie Foundations, to give greater Counter.aNce to Popery in Ireland, than ever he had dene before, and to .^utbonze Blood y P^;?f7?j theie to aflume a Parliamentary Power, to the dtftrudion of Liberty and Property as well as Religion, and to do in hdana under cover of his -/Authority that which he hud no Power to do any where j and moie efpe- cially after Khofe Papifts(who receive fuchan Illegal p.^wer; had bar- barcufly Murthercd 200000 of his ProtelUni bubj dt>. Let the demands ot the long Parliament be compa?'d with the --Ar- ticles of Peace with the In//; valid lei the World judge, whaher if had Under King Charles I/. Chap. 2, 277 bad not been more Honorable for the King to have granted tlie for- Pot-f o nier than the latter ^ aud Vvhecliei he did not, in fcveral piiticul. rs inthel'did Article*, g'jnt nure dangerous Poy/ers, and made moie L/W*^=^ ample Conctifrions to ftv^ral i f the lufli [vcDfls than he was wiHlngto grant to the whole P-irli.jment Qt tyiQiind. This was irdeed the way to haflcn his R:;in, ^s the evenc pro v'd, and C.x juftly obfcrves \ whivh is further confi'm'd by the Paiiijment's Intercepting Ormond\ Letter to ihQ^'iifre??,eC ncil, while the Treaty between him and chcni Wc'S in -^gi anon, and ti creeps n .nuki.g a Demur in this Treaty wiuh his SuHjtfts until his M j. fly wrote a Letter to tlie Marqiils not to proceed a/iy further in the I reaty with (ht IRISH: n^tw ithftandingwheie- of the Treaty was carried on, and the Ai tides ligiiM January ijch, 1648 f^'de Cx p. 2^»4. part 2. Neither can the Ma q*- fs or the Lord of Jrrdh adhering to the peace with the Lip be utfended, upon p;etenceof forving the Inter- eil of King Chj.rle.> id-^i.x t^e above reifjns, which demondriteiE to be i!leg:il and finful in it felt-', and liig' 1/ dilTerviceabie to tiie In- tereft of Ki !g Charles i//, are of eqvul fo- ce to fhow it's being de- ftruftive to the Incerefl: of King C;?^>/ei li^*- Nay, if there be any difpauiy,'!: coijfiils in the Argu.ncnc's being much rLrons.er in the cafe of th^ Son, than in that of the Father. For experience, having confirmed it's be^ng fit il to the Father, lliou'd have prevail'd with thofe who made it to lay it allde, as vciy unhappy to cheSon : which wiil ^eii farther appear, if we conuder that all thofe who were in ihe Intereft of the Long Parliament, be- fotethey were turn'd into the ^//wp, were to the I ft tegree diA gufted by this Peace ^ and h'j adhering to it, the youiig Kin^ riveted in them the fears they had conceiv'd ot his Refolutions to purfue the Meafures of hlsFather's Reign •, and now there was a party got up in EniUnd who had baibiroufly murdered his Royal Father, and were poifoning the Minds ot the People with ui.dutiful and dilloyal Prin- ciples agaialt Monarchy in General, and againft the whole Royal Fa* mily ^ and nothing cou'd give them a greater handle to work upon, for deluding and mifleading their fellow-Subjeds, than that the young King and his Favorites fhou'd adhere to the peace with the /- rip Rebels. 'Tis true, it was a bad confequence that for thefe faults. Monarchy and the whole Royal Family fh m'd be extirpated •, bnn then the premifles they made ufe of for inferring thai concluii n, were- 278 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Presi^yteri^ns^ P^j-f 9 'were fo evidently true and fhocking, chn they wrought exceed in. :^1y * Cby the vt/rcificesorbid M-n) upoa the v^eiknefs of M ikitude?, who tJ^^^*^ by that means were made enemies to the R.y.il Family, and mi^hE have been gain'd to theKiii^'/s fidejif: he and h' Gounflllars had carry'd otheiwife. The Kingdom of Scotlwd who as an entire U,ii:?d B^dy adher'd to his Title, a.id Proclaim'd nin Kh^g E-bmij 15?^ 1648, were To dlfoblig'd by the Peace^ thath>- foimd it Convenienc to D-ichre, that ' the Peace conclnded vvith the fr-IJ) Catho.'icks in 11548. by Au- ^ thority of the late King of ever Glorious Memory, and Goiifirm'd ' by himr:i'f, was Fronou-c'd aai A^juu^d Vold^ aid that his Majefty ' was Abfolv'd from anyObfervatiou ■ fJ!," The Marquifs, to prevent the Iri^ fiom being Scaud.iliz'd by thisDeclaration, Writes to them, ' that /'fince the Declaration va-; by undue means obrain'd from his * Mjjefly) he was refol/'d by all che meaas it fliou'd pleafe God to ' offl-t unto him and through all hiZirds in behalf of the Nuion, to ' Iniid upon snd .A Here the Lawfulneis of the concluilon of che Peace, * by vertu:? of the aforcTiid Aiuhoricy, and that the faid Peace was * fii'd vaV.d & of Force ,& bindino mto hlsMajefly and alt his SithjeEii. fm} This Declaration of the Miiq'iif;, lb oppolitc to that of his Roy- al Mailer,. producM no good Effed 'ipo:i any Party ^ for fuch was the experienced Treachery of the /?-/;, in breaking the CefTition in 1643, and Pcice of 1546, and delaying that of 1648 fo long thaG had it been Lawful, it became ufeiefs for the end intended 5 and they focramp'd his Power and £w3t^r../ir'<^ 4///;/j Af'-^Arrj,;hat they v;ere rot to be Svre;tcri*d into Loyalty by the Smootlcfl Langu-jge he did or eou'd give'enijand theMistortune was that all tiis farther Attempts to do it Sower'd and Difgufted the greattfi: bady of thefe Protellants in the 3 Kiiigdom'^i, who might be mo!t depended upon as ftanch Friends to Monarchy and tre Royal Family. Cromwel comes to Ireland^ a^d carries all be^'ore him, to whofe Suc- cefs this Irijl) PeaceContributed not a litile^ascht Reader will conclude from wli!t CcA-fays {n) ' In the m-an time the To.vn^- of the Coun- -^ * ty of C(7r4;, being Inhabited and GarrifonM miU Er>ffl:jlr>ien cou'd * not endure the thoughts of jjining .with the Iriih agaiiill their own Coun- (ffj) vlie Burkce ^, 26<), (n) Hiftory p. 12. Under King Charles IL Ch;ap 2. 279 Country. men •, they confideiM how the Lord Lieutenant was no^Pot-f 9 only Limited tn his Ai4thority by the Commiflloners of Trull, and ® was but Partially and I'recarioi fly cbey'd by the Iri{l)\ They knew '^■■•/^'^f^ the /r;j7;aiinM at their dtftrudion in the end, and continued the War to th.iC purpofe. Finally, they remembred the rcafonsof fur- renui ing Dahlin to the Parliamenc two years before ^ and they thought they had the fame Maiive to fui^mit now ; and therefore ))y the mesfiS of the Lord Broghill^ Collontl Courtney, Sir Perc^ Smith, and the Colioncls Toxtnfend^ Jifford and Warden^ they revol- ted all at once-, and about 2500 Men were drawn out of thofe' Garrifons, and they met Cromwel as V/hits Church not far from' I Dungarvafj. ' Tnis Revolution Difiolved all confidence between the Engljl) and ' ////'/.i^and as well for thjt Reafon, as in other refpects prov'd advan- tagious to Cromwel •, for otherwife he miifl; have been forc'd to en- ' dure a long and dangerous March to Dublin^ or to have embark'd his Me.i on board the Fleet, thatCoafted all along as he Marched ' to attend him ^ but by this Revolt he got excellent Winter Q,aar- ^ ters in Corl^ Bandon^ Kinfd:^ and Yonghai j which iail Place waS^ ! made his Head Quarters. This matter will be let in a farther Lightjby confidering the Pe- tition of the l^roteltaats of Munfter againfl Glamo-gan's Peace , and the fame Arguments contain'd in it againfl that Peace being of e- qnal Force againft the Peace in 164.8, the Grounds upon which the Presbytery at Bangor proceeded are very much ftrengthcn*d by them, and therefore I IhaU here lufert it. {0) The Petition of the Protefiatits of Mxmi^ev againft a Peace with tl/e Irifh to the Right Honorable the Lord UiHienam General ^nd, Conncil of Ireland. Humbly Sheweth, C r|''iHat whereas after along 2nd happy enjoyment of the Pea ce JL ' and Profperty under which ( by hisMajijfttes GracioiisG o- t vernment; this Laid did lately Flourifli j the InJIj Papills ci this Kmg- (o) Ccix'sHiftorypiirt2, /f^K"^. 2^. 28o Chap. 2. The Loyally of Trefhyterianr Part 2. Kingdom, have on cr about the three and twentieth oiOEioher 1 6^\ entred into a moH: wicked and tieacherous Confpiracy, tofnrprize the then Lords Jiiftices and G-)undI together with the City of i>//^//;?,and all other her Maj. flies Forts and Holds within this Kingdom, Intending thereby totally and at once to extirpite the FroLcftant Religion, and Enghjl) Nation from amon;;ft them, and ccnilquenriy to alienate this Kingdom from the Crown and Go- vernrnentof England. JnA. for thofe end?,!l£hoogh they were h^ theDivine Providence diiTippointed in the main point of thatBlco- dv and Cruel Delign, havepurfued the fame with indefatigable Malice into a^^ of open Rebellion and mofl Inhuman Barba-ifm, robbing and defpoiliag his Majeflies good Subjeds of their lives and Fortunes.- liifomnch as his Majcfty for the Vindication of his Proteftint Sul>jcc^s from the Cruel Rapines of the faid htt)i Papifts, was j ftly occalionrd to denounce and U idertake a war in t/iis Kingdom, the managing and fuppoit whereof he was grgcionfly plealcd to recommend to and ENTRUSr W ITH HIS PAR- LIAMENT theniitdngin E^gUnd.^ who having pioufly btgua the great woik of Snppieffiug the cruelties of the afoieLid In})^ were by the unhappy Interpolin;' of fundry fatal differences i.) tn- gland (famented^ as may be greatly doubted, by the Rehds of this Kingdom) diverted from the caieful and provident couries requi- ficc in To important an aff.ir, by Means whereof his Maj fly who had Mndert:ken the War for our Defence was nowconlrraia'd for our prcfervation to treat and conclude of a CcfTiCion of Arms for twelve Moi trs fpace^ in which tmie he was MADE BELiEVE the aforefaid Irifl) Papifls wou'd fubmit to feme fafe and honorable coiidirions of Peace. Lo which purpofe, Agents from t^e afore- faid Irij]) were admitted to itave accefs to his Roysl prefcnce, and his Majcfty did not only in Manifcftaiion of his Pious and Piternal care of his Proteflant Subjeds, command certain Scledf Perfons, well vers'd and Interefled in theState and affairs or this Kingdom, to attend his R ^yal Pcrfon, and give Iiiformation and afliflance in the debate of fo weighty a bufincfs, but did alfo give admiffion to fuch Agents as hii Proteftant Subjefts, were able to employ in re- prcfenting their particular and General Grievances and Sufferings by the iaid Injl) Papifts, who in Negotiation of that whole Matter, bave endeavored to make advantage of his Adajeftics ntceffuics^ and by Under King Charles l\. CHap. 2. s8r ^>y Sinider and Corrupt Mfans with a lavifh expence of that Trea- Pot-f q fure, and chofc Eflates which yonr Pffitioners save been defpoilM ^ ^ ■' *- ^* of by them, to raife a F.cfious Party at the Court, to SEDUCE *>:/'VNJ and MISGUIDE Ms Royal Majefiy, and ro beguile his Judgment, wich ^falje cpinion of tf^eir Inclination to Peace, and feigned for- wardnefs to advance his Service ad to diftnuncenance and rnj>prers thofe whofe Attendance his IM jelty hadiequire.i, ard thofe Agents whom yo r Pititionrrs had employed -^ by v^'hich Si kil and Serf en- twcCo,\M'k% the f;id Irijh Agents having qnaflit: and deprell all op- pofcrs and A-cufers, and removed all linpediments to their Devi- lidi ends of extii pating the < ?7g/ (7^, and before an\ equal Debate of the Cauf, procur'd a Tranduifllon of the whole Affiir unto your Lordfh'p?, v;ich Power and C^miniflion further to 1 reat and Con- clude of fuchConditioiis as by chofi decek^'ulGouries they had gain- ed too great ho|:e to be confirm.'d unto them, v\hich for feme R^afons was not thouglx: fit to be done m Erglapd^ xVts do now wi.h the fameArt ;? id SuDtiicy fludy to trfck your Petitioners here before your Lorcfhips, and to compound for ai] their Mifchiefs Mul- tiplied upon the Hcj-is of your Petitioners at rheir own Rare?. And iheiefore afi a lin'ie v\hen ntiher ycur Peiitioncrs, nor any fr^m them are prcfenc, when the Agents employed to his Sacfed -Mbj; fty are nnretur-ved to this Kingdom, and whilft mofl of your Pcf.iri' neis Evidences of tic ir L"f?f/rf.'/. Treafons, and hoynhU bat- barifms are remaining io f'^/<^n(a', they endeavor to fliike up the B^finefs with your Loidfliijis, upoii fucn Terms as your Petitioi ers who vvere once a confideiable P^rt ot this late Fiounfhiog and now unhappy Kii.gc^om, h^ve i ot the Honir to be made Pi ivy unto, or to be calltd or admitted to any D-^bne or ihe Bifincfs of that Main I, iiucnce upon themfelves and their Poflciity. *■ Wheref'ie your Petirioners having l.?.n low far feme Pei Tons of Honor HAVE BEEN MISGUIDED, and by Secief ar.d Subrjl Con- trivai.ces drawn to become Abi led PropcTties aiid Irf^tuments to Acc« mpiifh the Witked Dcfi; nsof the af'oiefdid ]r:jh RebfH ^ and finding how they art in a1] likelihood in danger to be oveibi in by the F<;wer and Potency of their f^^id Adverfaues ; do in pI' Humili- ty BESEECH your LordfhJps, fiifl to call to mind chat hisMajtfty hath by his Royal /^jfm Miiio an Act of Parlii'ment, obltg'd km^ftlf not togranc any Pardo« or Terms of Peace to the afoicfaid Rc- O o bels i82 Chap, 2. The Loyalty of Presbyterians PA, ' bels without the Cor^fent of his Parliament of England \ and accord ing- art 2. t jy ttiat Your Lord Oiips wovvd noE fuffer any part of his MajcHie's i/'*V«\J ' Honor to be betiay'd to Clu nay ia A {Tenting to fuch p^c^^<3' 7>rwj 4 of Peace as li-ey ha^ e akeady contrived to draw your Lordfhips un- ' to, without confem of the fid Parliament of £w^/««V, and with- ' out admitting your Petinoners to a free and full debite of theCaur- ^ ft whereby they may Vindicate his Majefty and themfelve=: from that * Unnatural Afpeifiuii wnich the lufi wouM Malidoufly faften on ' them ' by making the one the Fautor^ and the other the ocafion of ^ their Reaellion, and that the matter may no> be carried with fmh ' Indulgency towards them, as that to extenuate their Real Enormi- ' ties, your Petitioners mull be made Guilty ol Imaginary Crimes, ' and Vndergo a heavier Cenfure jor demanding jHjiice ^ than they for ' Perpetrating all their Tretfon^'^ and that their Lives, Fortunes, and * Pofterities, and which is deareft, their Religion may not be SOLD ^ or SACRIFICED to the Malice of the In^ Papifts \ or if this Law- * ful Favour (hall be deny'd them, that they may have leave to pro- * telt againlt any fiichf atal and Deftrudtive condufions as are in hand * to be made with the aforefaid lr-{h Rebels, without confent of the * Kin^; and Parliameat, or your Petitroncrs Privity ^ aid that their * FiliitiiHs pretences Li Q^\^\n^^\s Maj'^fty, wherewith they have too * long already abujed himfelf andfctV Minifiersy on purpofe to Protract * the War in England^ may not be a fufficient iVUe to deln-^e your * Lordjhips any longer -^ but that your Petitioners fand not Peifons dif- * affeded to their'Rcligion andNation now to be preferv'd or ruin'd) * may be heard to Plead in this Caufc, before any Judgment be gi- * ven therein and that the examples of their former and frequent * Breaches of the Ceflation yet unrepair'd, may be accounted a RE A- ^ SON '^BLE CAU flON to your Lordftiips to expeft UtHe better ob- * fervaiion of any P^<v^tit afteiwards exchanged between the Collonel and them ; but both of 'em refo- luttly adhering to their different Intercfis, he to the Rumf and they to the King, all Correfpondence between 'tm broke cfF Qi\i\\zi\[tQiMarch^ Collonel ^ fore he ga^^e any a, fwer ro them, he dcliver'd to 'em a Paper Eiiti- tul'd, Queue i given in by Coiio.-.el AdOKKto the Cunncil ofWar at BEL- FAST ySpril ^rh^ i<5'49- the 3 P^ ^dices tney vifibly pretend ' to Force upon us in this Km^-dom, fo foon as th^y can Tranfport ' hither co be Obeyed and Received ;.y us co 'trary to our Leat-ue ' and Covenant ^ for this Caule we do faithtuily oblige our felvcs U- ' nanimoufly with our ESTATE ^ ^w/i' L ves to RcfiJ} and OPPOSE ' j^NT SVC i IRRECVLAR -rOMMANDS^ which fhall proceed ' from them, and thu wc fhall Viaiiiii': \.\vz ji-fi Power of iT/wf and •' Parliamtnt dip\\\i^ ill the Cpp>>Ievs ehereof. *■ And being confident that thefe ou< prcie't Intentions Will not * want Bitrer and Falft- Afpc^fi ns aid Calum.oies of all for??, and * particularly that by this 4 * avowin!': ftedfaitneTs, and p'cffiig the fame upon cur flicks, and ^ ^*^^ ^« ' have fiftaul npo i us f.irh nnevea defigns as were fartheji from our l/'VNJ ' thoughts^ th;it we iiiteid nothing, bat a Revolt from the Lawful Au- * thoricy of England^ .lad to decl'hie ihe Subj:d!on of this Kingdom * tnereuato. For removing all fiich g'oundlefs Calumnies ubo' our ^'former r.o.'bine, Re^rejentatton and co^ijiant Pradice might have ' clear'J us ahiindanrly y U'e do yet Proftfs be^orc God and the ^Worll our condant lUf -InJons lo SubjtEi oh-- j elves to t-e LAlVfVL ' AVTHORITTof the RIGH- FOVS K/NG and fiee Par ia.ne.is: of ' E^gUnd, and to the LAA/rllL COVIMANDS o^ fnch as ihall ' have Po'JVtA- from them, aid do acknowledge the Interefl they have * /", and the Pcirrr t'^ey have o^'cr the bubj^ds of this Kii)gdomof "* lrela?:d'^ which by the Grace of God, we (hall coiuinue to Wicnefs * in all our PraHices^ and to Teach the People under our charge to *doihelike: And vve conceive there can be no better lellimony ' of the Re lity of our Proiclfions than the D/7^c/);/w/>?^ of the Pie- ' fent Uf rped Power of Sedaries in En^UJ, w ich agaiuft b ith the ' Z.aws of God and Men and our folemnCovenant, they have aflumed ' to themfelves whom we ^re refolved Nt^ER 10 OB FT as the ' Lawful Authority of EgUnd-^ and do thereby approve our feives * to be more Loyal Subjeds to that Grown, than ariy who overcome ' with the Temptations of the Times, Change voith every Wmd \ and * for fear of Ufurpers, lay afide the ProHcutioa of thei; Duty to ' their Lawful Magiftrates, contrary to their former Vows and Pio- ' feffions, and are now fo inconliderate as to return thtii own charge * upon us." This Paper was Read by all the Members of the Presby- tery in their refpedive Churches, according to an Order oiPresby* tery^ and in a very dangerous Jundtiire. This Commitee fliowM 2i hearty concern for the Kini^'s Tnteref^, ia reproving ihofe within the Bounds and under the Infpedi-jn of the Presbytery^ who did negled in their feveral Stations to Aflctt it, of- which take the following Remarkable Inftance of an Ad of thatCoin* mittce, FaithtuUy Copied from their Record?. ' jiprtl \oth 1649. Compeared Mr. Forfi^er iiyvev e'lgn of Self afi^and * VI^s rebuked (ov terx'ng(i. e. holding) the Courts without Adentioning * of the KING'S NAME^contrarY to th^Cowemnt^yvho promifed to a- *■ mend the iame in lime coming. Wh€.i ■f!-'^. 288 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Pre/hyterians Pirf 0 ' When the /?«w/)-P4r/j/ had get more power, and found that the a tii L ^. pj-e^u^yj-^j-y ^^,g^g jj^j jy )^g wheedled out of their Loyal Printiples by ^y^v<*NJ fair words,they begun to thi .k of dealin':; .vkh them by the more forcible ^rgiiiTients of 5fi^«r/?r^r/W'j, Prifofti^ and Bamjhmem^ tore- drain them from (what was their conliant prailicej praying for the King and preaching np his Title, and declaiming againftthe Ufurp- ers.- AnJ accordingly Coljonel VenMes fummonM the Mi..ifl-ers of the County o'i Down and Amrim to appear before hiin, to anrwtr for their pretended SiditLn in preaching, praying, and p^adid.ig agaii ft the G>mmonweakh of England^ and in favor of the Royai Family. Wheseupon, fome of the Presbytery fled, feme abfconded, and others were taken ptifoners. He fc-nt them a propofal under his hand wLich is anundenyable Teltimony of their Loyalty and is as follows * Wh.ereas the Minifters ot the Coimiy QiDoron and A tnm^ * have been fummoii'd to appear in a fair way before me,& havelbme 'jsaloi'ficsand falpiiions ;,as I conceive jthat I intended by that fiim- * mor.s, to have entrapped th.em^and to have taken advai tage of them ' had they come ^ this is to iiflure dum/hat if t ley come, and give it ^ rr.e under thnr har.d-^that they will not tor time to come in iheir fer- ' mans aid prajers, nor in any othtr p' ivate Conferencrs with the •^ peopls movetljem tc Sedition or t^'ouhl ^f'^'' COUch upon an. O'her thing ' of 6£ate matcc'-s than what is tiUcxcedt^y the ^t^teQttfgla>;d thar the/ ' fhijl have fieeLibejtyto depart from me again to tneir feveral pLc- 'es of abode, and Charges, and to life their Min.fleii.U Fnncfions. ' &-thac akhougn at cbeir being w.th rae,theyfhan not he convinced ' to give this Eng3gcment,vet i ihey engage rh-if-chcy will depiut this ' P'cvince and tepciir to ScotLndv\:khh\ ten days, Wind and Weather ■* ilrvini^.tiiey ftv^i! have fi ee Liberty to do the fame and to dep.-irt *" on THESE 1 EKMS, alfo wichouc Confinement or leftraiiits, all * whicii I pre mile ULder mjhand this '.6:hofJnne i6':o, . E. rEN.iBLES Dl^'crs of the Prcslytcry being bronpht piifcncrs to Collonel F/7?-f>' 4f Porta ferry, Mr. Bmcie^ Mr Main, and Mr Alexander, ^Mmflers^Prij'oners June io'5o. — ^^ The latter (i. e. the StVzaries) Although they might, yet ihey did not at the firfl publickly diflurb the iVlinill:ers,nbtwichfi:anding of their free preaching agiinft their Courfcs, ti)l once they had the Enemy without fofficicndy fubdu'd, and thefe people within taugtu to carry their Yoke. ' After they had found thcmfelves in a tolerable pofliire, they be- gan moft cunningly to loadcn the Miniftry wich renro.iches ('elfe their Malice and Piirpole of Perfecut'on couM nor. have been well enough convey'd) for fjy they^ ?/:;',upon a letter of iheir's defiring their Jiot impri- ' fonment til] he himfelfcameabngs to Cvmckferus^ at which time * they promifed to come to him ' fThis is the paper which i have ai- re dy iafertcd p .288 and therefore omit it here^. ' As ye may perceive by the paper,the ^ueftion was propounded * to the feven Miniflers, Whether thty won'd forbear preaching or fray- ' e or Conjerence in public a»d in private a^ainjt the preftnt Power and ' Scate 0/ England, except with fuch limitations as were then propoua- ' ded, unto which the Miniflers returfl'd this followir.s anfwer in i write fubfcribsd b;f their hands. 7hiy- Under King Charles IL Chap. 2 . 291 (That paper beirJ^ more fully fet forth in their Conference w/VA.Venables, Po *'^ ^ 1 emit it here ) J Ui L ^ , ' This we deliver'd i(y CoXontX renahles^ and had before and did '':a/'V"NJ after by way of Conference give found and valid ReafoDs of our An- fwer in that kind. ' I ehought bcil to pr-emife what is faid as an Intiodudion,unto the enfuiiig Rcafons, which hold forth clearly to the whole World found Grounds why in Confcience we cav.yot Condejcend unto the Command of Colonel Robert ^enables in that kind, to give Obedience thereunto. ' Firft, \t is fiid by Colonel Kenahles : Ye are Subjects to the King- dom oi lreU"J which is a Kingdom belonging to En^land^ou^^hi ye not therefore to obey the Ads of the Parliament of England^ vrho have by Ad ot Parliament adjudg'd it High-Tieaf^n, if any Man ftlall own Monarchical Government by King and Houfe of Lords, arid have Commanded under a Penalty to Subfcribe an Engagement to be faithful unto the Government^ novo Efiablijli'd without King cr Houfe of Lords : I will fhow you the Ads. ' To this we Anfwer. i. That we acknowledge our felvcs to be Subjeds ot the Kingdom of Ireland, and that Ireland is Suboidiaate unto Eng land, — * But it was objcded that now they were come in by the Sword as Corqierorj aad the Sword null be the La^v : To this we Anf^er, That there's a necefluy of PafTwe Obedience to their Power,thoughWE DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THEiR AUTHORITY. But, *i. Certainly thofe who are conquered mufb, cr at leafl ought to be made acquainted with the Laws of the Co* queron by public Pro- cLmation, and not receive them trom every ^rir-ate Soldier or Co- lonel in an Aimy ^ which was never as yet done for any thing we cou'd hear. 2. ' By two feveral Declarations, Colonel Ftnables fpoke to the People in this Comer in another Strain i wheiein are ihcfe Words, That he xvas come to deliver the well aff''U:ed in the C untry and the Ali' nijity from the Power of Malignant s •, fo chat we are Am z'' why he now fpeaks to us in a Dialed fo far different ^ And he knew then as well, in what we were well-aff'ecled,z% now. * But grant that the Kingd ^m of Ireland were immediately Subjcd- P p 2 td 292 Chap; f ; The Loyalty of Vrefhyterians Part 2. ed unto the Laws of the Parlinnent of En^Und^ and that we ia Confcience were boniid to Obey the Laws of the ParliamenE of Fngland\ (which we for our own Parts have been inofl ready to do always fince thefe troubles, fi, ding, this Kingdom in fuch Pofl-ore by the Bloody Rebellion chac from our own Parliament, wholefome' Lavvs couM not Iflae : And do fincercly profefs that we are aU cor^ dially ^T\^ xviil ngly fiihjsSi wnio tY\Q Lawful Authority of che King- d 'm q( Er:gU-ii, as ever we were and do refjlve by the {Irt-ngcd of God to co.uinue con/li' t *, ) yet we muft be convinced chu thaE Power wliich iiovv Rules in England is the Lawful Parliamentary Autf'orir/ nf thu Kingdom. ' To this Colonel Fe^^ihies AnfwerSjthat they call themfelves fo. * To this we '^'-/tPw-r, th^t it feems to us a ftraage Afllrtion, that they are a Parliiment, hscAufe they fay [0 ^ or a Power, becaufe /-.^^^ fUce Forvir in themfJves: Can Men be the Authors and Founders of a new Aothoiity ia themfelves ? Kings and other Magiftrares are csD'd th- Ordinance of Man, bccaule they are put into their Offi- ces by Men : But can the fame Perfons be the Creator and the Crea- tUYt ' Again, It feems to be more flrange to us ; for it overturns the very Inundations o\ Order and Right Government: For Men are call'd to thc'Vhp,iftracv by the Suffiageof the People whom they Govern ; And for Me i to'an^mie unto themfelves Power, is MEER 1 YRAN- NY and UNJUST USURPATION. ' ?^\\i ii may be faid that they are call'd by the People. ' Jfjf I. We indeed concsive that the firfl Parliament which was made up of the three Eftates were Orderly iri their Members, E- ledtd and Appointed by the People, according to Law. ' B;it we wou'd fain underftand the Nature ot this Government t, At t!;e fin fight it looks like a Democracy. Yet we conceive than in a Democracy, the Pow^r of Government is either in the Colle^^ ive Body of the People, or in fome ele^ed bv them, and entrulled therewith. But neither have the People affnmed Government in their own H-nJs, fince the Diffolution of the Old Government by King, Honfe of Lords and Commons ^ Neither h^ive they Elided any new Del'gates. There was once indeed propounded a draught, En- titled, yln j4g-r cement of the Feople j but it was not receiv'd nor was it Auiljori^'d by them. Secondly^ U^/^^r /v/V/^^ Charles IL Chap. 2, 293 ' Secon^'ly^ If this prefeiit RirUament (as you cill it) had f^ecn E- p^j-j^ 2- * kctcdJiiJ AuthorzMby the People, how comes it thit i.i En^Und ^^*,v|' ' they rjG£Nl-aALLY STAND OFF from Subibibing the £«- Ir^ ^ " B'K we cannot he pei fa adcd that this can he the Parliamcat of ' EnilAvd-^ it l")oki io Uiilike it, from tnefe rearoiis- * i.VVewlioare now accasM by you vvere formerly cail'd the ' friends o^ the P.irliamcnt of £«^/ W. >^nd we are in nothtng ' chang'd from the M:n we were at that '/evy time \ We walk upon ' thcfe ve V fimePriuciple^., vePreach thef^ very fame things: (o thaE ' Hirely if this were the Parliament ot £w^/.W, we wou'd continue * in their favors. ' 4. IDeParliamcnt of £^^>.Wand their Armie^callM us of the ' 5.^f. Ni'J.ri tiieir 13 ethrcn, their Armies ^nd Oirs v;ere one,- ' Lived as Brethren, fpff-rcd together .• But we are now by your Sol- ' diers cali'd Sed tions FciIavs, o'jr N ri on a Bafe and Treachirous Nati' * on which y OH will e're l^rtr make a P>ovime of^ you are in conflant Jet- ' Icufi-s vJii\\ us, we are not believ'd : N3,our Oaths no more accoiin- ' ted thai the Bark of a Dog. A\ thefe do evideiLly hold forth to ' U5, that this is not the Puiliameiii: of E-noltnd, A^ril 17. i6s,6. The Houfe of Commons declare thai ' their true and real Intentions are, to endtavoiir to Al-nntain the An' ' cient tuninmtn'al Government of England. ' B !t fays Colonel A'".? .'vi^/fj, this GuvimmtM is the ancient FnKda-' '' mental Government *, the H>tve of Lords is only Vfuro'dfrom Cuiiom. Anf. I. Szc fage ^ of that Declaration, A^ril 17.1646. And there ' the Honfc of Commons does fully expliiii themfel/cs, What they ' mea.] by the Ancitnt FUi.damental Government ot ErgUnd.^ iii * thefe Words, * Tkey are fo far from altering the Enndaojenta! Conjlitutlcn and Ga- i vernment of the Kirg hm of England ^y King, Lo'di and C^limons, 1 th.it they have only dejir*d that with the Confint of the King^fnch poivsr t may be Jettlcdm the I'wo Houfes, vpithout which we can hive no ^-jfn* 4 ranee but that the like and gre.^ttr Mifchiefs than tneje which Godh.nh t hitherto delivered its from^may break cht again and engage us in a SecoK-d c and more defirk^ive War. Whereby t' flam ly appears (Jay iheyj our c Intentions are not to clungi; the Ancient Form 01 Government ipn/> i in this Kingdom^ but toobtAin tht end of primitive Inltituuoii of all c Governments, . ' Z.ook 2 94- Chap^ 2. The Loyalty of Trefhyterianr Part 2 ' ^"^^'^ ^^^' ^^'^ Pedeion of the Lo^ds and Commons OB. ii. 1642,- * Miny m^re Adh andO-.dinances o' P.irUament: might hz inftaiic'd, U/'^'*^ ' as relating to che Govena.iE a;id Fim.iameiU.l Government of the ' Kingdom of EngUnd^ by a comp>'iad Magidracy of i^T^wj-, Lords^ * and Co7/jwf/;?j •, All whereof are m ^fl W'iw//e/?/v aej}roy'*d aid over- ' tura'd by ibis ^nefent Power. So that we cannot conceive this (To * caird) Pariiamenc to be t!ie very Pa: 1 amenx of E'lgUn-i. ' Bnc it was O jeded by Colonel yenables ., that the Honfe was ' Fnro^d^ for there was djfcover^d therein a FaHton that carry*d on the * King's laieteH.withoHt reffurd to the public Good or Liberty of the Sub' ' jeB. &c. ' Jnf. 1. Thev ^'cre Piir^M indeed, and fo PnrgM, that the very * SOUL, ESSENCE an i BEING of a Parliament was Purged from ' th(m: And noEhiiig krtbui i'mefew, e/en the lefler part of the ' Houle of Commons. Yon know when th^ breath' or Life expires, ' and the Soul depufstoGod wmo gave it, Man is DiiToIv'd, tho' ' fome of his Coiiltitutive Elements remain.* The far Ufiir pare of •' the Hcufe of Commons remiin,in whom the>-e can be noformaiPow * 41though our biadinc^ our fekes in that kind may fecm of fmall Po^f o ' Importance for t^e prefeni, yet ir's ^\-\ indlreSl a4vavcing of the ^^^^ 2* ^ urjtifl Tr^;/jof llfutpeis and oppreirors,and a Confirmation of them in L>^^V"NJ their ir/c^r<^fo//r/f'.'. ' Thirdly, Neither can we as Minifters of tbe Gofpel Condefcend to the defires cf Colonel Fenables^iOV thefe reafors. '^ \fi. Of allo£hers,IVliniftersof the Gofpel are mofl flriclljr ob- liged to fhew Oppofirion,- — and the Advjncemens of cquicv, in their Places and Stations. 2 Cor. \o, v. 4 5. Jja. 58, f . * Ohj : But what has Miniver? to do with State M itjers, let them preach Jefus Chrift, and not Meddle with otner things which do not concern them? ' An(: We take no pleafure to move wirhout our own fphere,Nel- ther through the ftrength of God refoh/c we to Meddle in State- Matters, further than it becometh Mi. afters of the Gofpel. ' /^sfiift^ we deal not 3i% St^usm^n \w St itt^ Ma ter^^ but only be- wails the EKormities in them^ and W'icntlTes againft their evil. ' idly. In fj far as they fall under the rhe>I .gic I Rules and E- vangtlica! Dofttines, we dare not reftrain our felves but as watch- men fet the Trur^fct to our Alauih^ and cry aloud, and not fear, ^bout^two Mo,:ths af er :hi';,S!r Charlts Coot publ.fh'd his Declara- tion againft the Miuifter-^ of -he Presbyrery, another Authentic proof of their I.oy Iry, the T tie a .d latter part thereof I cannot omii in this place, without runifeftli j ftice. A Declaration of the Right Honorable Sir Charles Coot, Knight and Baronet^ Lord Frtfidrnt of Conaughr, Comman- der in the j4rmy in the Province of W^^V and Oo^^w^hi^ and oj his Council ojWar, ^iigf-iir *4^^-'> i^^S*^' » -' As to that of the Minifttrs, we Declare that we arc * bcahnlv f)rry, that we ftiju'd be inforcM to that lireveience, we ' fetioiifly acknowledfgeaopenbns otf/j«V Fun6ti.^n^ but whenaUer * f{.veraladmoniiion^,privat<.^and public intimations^itihey w uiid ad- * heie to their formeiDifpenfation o\ the woid without thz'i^^ frequent * ohltcjue Calumhies fpcn that Government and P xver under A'hich they ^ iivejtathei giving the Children fton€S than bread, and inlLead of Q,q Edi- V apS Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Preshyterians V^vt ^ ' Edification of Souls, SEEKING THE SUBVERSION AND RU- J. ai L z. t if^ OF THE STATE, and fomenting fuch Diftempers among our L/^V'SJ ' fel'/es, that cannot probably fif way were given u ico it) but draw ' u= i itoFa6:ions,Diver(itiesofIntcrefl;s,and fo terminate in blood.- we ^ fiyjontof the duty we owe toGod inPreierving ihatPeace we enjoy ' ainongft one another,, and for preventing fiich Mifreports as lome * wouM Charge m winhali out of theRelation we ftand in to the PRE- ^ SENT GOVERNMENT THAT THEY WOll'D UNDER- ' MINE, we mud ufe all means to filence all fi^ch Ir.cendiary In^ * _/?r/<;wfW/,we being yet fcarcely whole of thefe deadly wounds this * Country receiv'J oy the like contumelious pradices, till which as ' in all liacerity we declare and delire it may be received in as friend- . ' ly a belief : figned byCommand of the Lord Preiident and his Coun- '. cilofVVar. The Uaiverfal refafal of the Oath mentioned in Mr BryfJlalirs de- fence, cali'd the £?7^4^^wf»f, wherein thejurantsfwore to be faithful to the Commonweakh oiEniUnd^ without King and Houfe of Lordsj the Uaiverfdl refufal,! fay, of thisOath by the Presbytery&all thofe of their perfuafiony was an uncontrovertible proofof their Inflexible In- tegrity. They were often prefT'd to take it, threatned and revil'd for reiufing it, when others comply'd, of which I fhall give the Rea- ,^^Lm der a brief account. Thofe who took upon them theGovernment of the "* North oi IreLind'm the year 165 2,& who were flyTd thtCommijfioncrs of the Revenue^ wrote Letters to the Presbyterian Minifters in thefe bounds, fubfcfib'd by Colonel ^ OATH#rSUB» SCRIPTION to itj and fubfcrib'd a paper to that purpofe, which they actually gave in to the Commiffioners next day. Ttie Commiflioners <&: they debated upon it 5 or 6 hours ^ bus ihe Minifters wou'd not in the kaft recede from their Paper, tho' they were much Dealt with both by Enticing promifes and fevere Threatnings* They were Dif- mifs'd at that time ; and defirM to appear again within fix Weeks, and in the mean time to make m JnfarrtUion in the Country -^ Theypro- mis'd Under King Charles IL- Chap, 2. 299 misM to do the {trft^ bus declined to givr any anfvvcr to the fe- Pavf o When the 6 Weeks were expir'd, They met the Commiffioncrs U^^*V^ again, h^'t RW] (,ont\m\''d tmmoveahU and fix'' d in their Loyal Princi- ples. The CommifTnaers being weary'd and not knowing what to do with 'em, put them off with a Propofal that they fhou*d fend one or two of their Number to Dublin to General Fleetwood^ and ilie Council of Officers there j to try if they cou'd give them Satisfacti- on. The Minifters accordingly chofe two of their num.ber for thai purpole (iho' they defpair'd of Succefs) viz.. the Reverend Mr. Pa- trick Adair^ and Mr. Archibald Fergnfon^ and gave them lnfcru(5tions to adhere ref.ilutely to the PrincifUs.^ they had oit»V and ajftrted to the CommifTioners below J and pirticulniy difkhargeo them, from giving any Titles to Fleetwoodj and ihs OUicers, which mi^ht feem to approve of their ^\i:hat?ovitr^ and appoin?ed them to Plead that it was pure C^nfrience and no ruibuleut Fadioas Humour that Influ- cnc'd cheii Opinion in that Matter. TiiC two Miatfters having gone to Dublin^ and D fconrfcd f/^rN mod^wert cM'* before a Meering of the Scdarian Offivcrs in the CafHe of Dubli--, and \ tenogarcd, Why they and their E ethren rtoii'd not t^ikf the Er^af-ment., nor gtoe Secmuy to live Qnterly ? To whicft, they gave anAaJver « x.!tly agreeab e to their InftiLdions, and were ^ niiich Unt^raidtd ai.ci Rtvil'd for ii. And yet they peififttd in AfTcrt- i ing their Principi'-s vs ith f ch Uf/dauuted Courage, as vei y much con- founded Tome t theii Accufcrs ^ ot which (among other Inftances) 1 (hall give the Reader tnisoot:. While Mr. Fergufon was Pleading Cnnfcience for tt^eir Judgment and Pr<>Q-icc, one Aitan an Ana "ap- tift reply v., a Faptft won^d end might jay as much for himfelj^ and pre" ten'^Confcience as vctll as yu : To which Mr. Aduir boldly Anfwercd^ bir, Vnder favour^ Tis a mi flake to corr.pare ottr Confctences xtithPapifis j for a Papijl's Cmjc ence c^a'U Digefi the Killing of protefiant Kings, ar.d Jo woiid not ours^ for our Principles are c-mtra^y to it, 1 here being di- vers there who had a hand in the King*s Murder, all of 'em were Jiruck with Shame., and fome vfhU Anger^ by Mr. Adutrh cutting Re- partee i pulling down tneri Ha:s over their Fjccs, and ufi^ig the o- therGeltures that are the uiual Judications oi ih.fePalTions: vVhcre- upou there was profound Sii-nce in the Compa jy. The Minifte-^ were not aik!dmy marc Qneft-iffriSy out in a day or two were difmifc'd 0-^2- by 300 Chap.' 2. The Loyalty of Preshyterians p^--*. n by F/f«/iroinful and Il/egal Vfitrpation of the then prevalent Power in England^ the unlawfulnefs of Abjuring the King and Houfe of Lords^ whofc Title they STRENU- OUSLY ASSEKTED j and exhorted their People with a COURAGE and STEADINESS becoming the GOOD CAUSE they Maincain'd, to be jufl and Loyal to the King, and to refufe the Engagement. The Commiffioners heard all with great Patience, not that they ap- piov'd the Matter of fuch Difcourfes, but that they might have the more full Proof and better Color for Pradifmg their New Expedi* ent of Tranfporting the Minifters and People to Tipper ary^ wherein thev were fo forward as to have at thai very time a Ship lying ready in the Road oi Carrickfergm^ to carry off the Minifters inftantly. Bu£ Divine Providence baffled this Defign iri a manner, and at a Nick of Time, which prov'd as Surprizing and Confounding to thefe Republic c^^nEngagers and to aU their Abettors, as 'twas Seafonable for reliev- ing the Refnfirsy and for Vindicating their opprefs'd Innocence j for an the mean lime, while the Gomniiflioners were full of this Projeft, and Uruler King Charles If. Chap 1. 301 and jiifl abouE ferdin^z flie MInifle-sa Ship-Board , the MuUitudc be- P^]-(; o - inj?, in Towr^ tfie piit)h"c Ne'vj> hmughc an Account ihstOhverCrom- rvd had rais'd the PailianKnt, DJfiAv^dthe Commonwe.dth, and made K^^^^^^^ himfelf Lord-'CroteElor : Now therie was no Common'xoeakh to Enp,age to, and that Sociery, chat was Erected upon the Ruin of the Cctifiitu-- tion^ had it frlf m.vlQ an Irfflon'oiis Exit.. . This Damp'd the CommifTioners, and made Vm Diflnifs the Miniflers and People with milder Terms and Treatment than they had defign'd. Oliver havirig now thrown offthe IMask, and Set up for hlmfelf; the MinilLcrs were as brisk in their oppofidon to/.'/w?as they had been ti the Cotimonweahh^ and for the fame reafons. After his Son Henry Cromvd was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland^ he being of an eafie gentle temper, they LivM in more Peace than formerly ^ but refus'd- all Compliance v/ith his Court, and woaM not obferve the Fads and Thankfgivings appointed by his Authority ; for which they were troubled by him. He wrote 'em threatnwg Letters^ full of /initnojny and Refeniment, and fpme of 'em were charg'd io appear before the- Council. Mr. Greg and Mr. Hart were call'd before Henry Crom' Wil himfelf, and askt the Realbns why they and their Bretheren did not obferve the Falls and Thankfgivings appointed by his Authori- ty •• In Anfwer to which they Pleaded, That their Confciences did net allow ^em to comply with any Power that was againft the Conflittition and Lawful A'fagifirac) of the Kingdom. He was much Inceus'd againft 'cm by this Anfwer, and Charg'd 'e^n with Ingratitude, Meaning that they had loo Pounds each of them^f^r Annnm^f\'o\VLihQ Govern- ment. But they never look'd upon that Salary as any Obligation up- on them to own the Government •, for the Ufurpers had t^ken the Tyths from 'em, and after fome Ye;irs gave 'em th^t hun. dred Pounds fer Annum-., which they accepted of, not as a Gift from the Government, but as a fart of their own to which they had a Prior Title, and of which they had been depriv'd by the Ufurpers, as has been obferv'd. But yet 'tis evident, that they were laid under a Temptation by the Precmons ^ooi w^on which t\\tiv Maintenance then flood •, Notwithflanding which , they perfifted in their Loyal Refolutions and Declarations, and conftantly and openly Prayed in their Pulpits for the King and for his Reflauration, to their great Danger from Oliver^ Army who heard them. Before I make any refledions upon thefe papers and Hiflorical pafljges. ^02 Chap. ^. The Loyalty of Treshyterians Part 9 p^fl^gTSi Ihaveadduc'd for proving the Loyalty of this Presbyrery, JTcirL J., ^j^Q fram'd the Bangor-duUmtion^ I am oblig'd to fatlsfy the Re2- Ky^^^ der (which I fhal) here do once for all; of their being auchen' ic and Genuine. A/^///t's Qijcries, and the Anfwen to them. \ the prof o/itions delivered to him, the Declaration of the Jrmy and Country^ are all kept amon^ffc the original papers and minu:s of the Presbytery ^ Colonel f^enuhltsh Letter is pnblifhM, from the very original yet in being, and kept amongft the faid papers. Sir Charles Oa/'s Declara- tion is from a Copy kept like wife aniongfl their papers.The KnMca' tio-tof the Ute proceedings of the Presbytery^ and the Committee's re- pro.ving the Sovereign o( Belfast for not mentioning the King's Nime i] fencing the Con ts IS taken from the Original Minuts of the faid CommiEcee. Mr Drysduilfs Defence is publifh'd from the Original Wanufcript, all written with jiis own hand, known to feveral peifons of untainced l^eputacir>n and Veracity, yet alive, who can aiteft ir. All the papers and records fiom whence they are taken, have all the evidences that any papers hi the wot Id can have of theii being authen* tic ^genuine, ^nd 1 do with the r?m Sincerity and Solemnity declare, as if i were upon oath,befr.re God .^nd tne world, that 1 have not ia- terpolated or added (.to my knowledge; i\\tleaji:Word ov Syllable lo any of 'em •, but d^^ find from undoubted evidences that the faid pa- ^^^^^ perswcreal! own*d anddclivei'd by the Miiiilfeis, who were ihen '^^. Members of that P;esbytery to their oiher Brethren, as genuine, and the fads therein fet forth, sffim'd by them to be true with ?!) the pofi ivtntP; and particular clTCumftnces of Eye and far-wit^fffcs ^ divers of 'em have cie-^ feveral years fince the late h^fpy Revohttton 1688, and particularly the Riverend Mr. /'«?^^rciy^^.W, Mr Thomas //«// ^nd Mr. Jnthor,y Kt-nedy. B^fides wh.^t all d»"e ag; eed on, a- bout rhe Maragement o'f the Rump- party even in Inima^ and what the public priured H'ifliO' ies relate ot Colonil Ferjables^ Sir Chdrles ■Coot and others fo well q ^d* ates with thefe pjpers, that there can- not beany fhadow ofS fpfdingticm. 1 have in my hands an ori- ginal paper fublcrihed by 5 of that. Presbytery to their brcvhren dat- ed Sit A^ lybcle in iht Pji re of Air in Scodand^November id^ 16^3 Shew- ing their bting banilh'd for their Loyalty by that party ^the 5 Minif- ters were,rhe Reverend Mr John Grtg^ Mr Vkornas Hall, Mr Fergus Alexander^ Mr A-thony Shaw^ Mr William Richardfon. The Hiftory I give of the Miiii/lers of GimWi/er much *timt fpentjit is rtfoh'ed,the f;kft-, wifell & to them Iraft charge=.ble ■' couTf to wait on the Enemy in hi*- ovvnCountry, whereby theycarryed * tht War from homeland not to fi-iy for h^m to bring it to their own ,' doors. ' Assjlrontr Motive to tbi?, jufl at the Inflant, they difcover ' that MANY OF THE PilEbBYl ER1/\NS o{ tngla :d, had by ' their Agents agreed with the Scots aiBrean^ xoRe-hft biijh hisMa- t ;>/?)/ in all his. Doaiinions whereupon MANY EMINEN T perfons are Under King Cimrhs 11; Chap. 2. . 305 * are feizM on, and among tbem Mr Cafe^ Mr Jerihns^ Mr Jadf->n, Pat* t O « MrLoT'^&c. Which Mr L^^v... together with one Mr Gibb^ns^ la^i. z. ' SUFFERED DEATH ^cgetncr on Towerhi/l, at the earmfi fuit of V*V"^ ' Crcmwel^ proteftinj^ he would n'Jt March into Scotland uiiltls they ' were cue off. The fame ^iithor having ".ivcn an Account of /^(7«Fs Intention of making an Expedi^->c into £«^;W< (or biingine; home the King ; acquaints us with iiis caliinii an >*.fr^'ribly of the Nobility and Gentry of S-:otUnd:\i EdirMnrgh ^ To whom he propos'd 3 things, viz.^ That In his Ahfevce they ji^ottd frefirve the Veace of that Nation^ and fuppljf loim with Men ^andMoney :or hisV idertahrrrg : to whijh cheEari oiGleti- cairn^ the Chair-man of that AfTembly, made fuch anlwcrsas were highly fatisfyivg to Geaeral Monk^ who (i.e. AioKk) ' Endeavois to * cartfs and endear them by giving the Lords and Gentry po/.er to I arm chemfelves by SATISFYING THEM PRIVATELY IN * THE DESIGN OF HIS EXPEDJ HON, ana accepting of their ' Years Taxes. Hereupon he refelves now to dally no longer than ' his fuppUes of Men and Money eome in ' (Ibid. p. 77; This makes it plain, thai the Scots were made privy to Monk's delign of bringing home the King, Jnno. 1660 ^ And that they gity. A tew of the firfl: " ftirrers t.'.ken away, by th^ Power thereof, without refpec^ to " Coiifiri or Country will keep all the refl: quiet. BuE whofoever " that Court Condemns, let them be as already Dead &c. B-.it let *' them be mofl: frcv^ in cutting the P^tnaCaphalica ( that is, the FRES- " J5YTERIAM PARTY) for the Bfifilwa (or Royal Party) will be *' latent. The a/r^.v/r for Levellers* woii'd be fpired as much as *' may be, That the Body be not too much Emaciated. Btfides, the *' BLOOD IS AIOST CO RRVPT in the UfhaUchs (or PRESBTTE- " RUNS) and i^ the very cai^fa cortinens of your Difeafc. Ycu need " not fear tofrt^'^ /rcc/y oj this rein^ f:c. According to the above Schemc,theSedtarles did ber.d their thoughts and apply themfelves in the moft effVdual manner they cou'd, fo the fupprcffing and ruining of the Englijh Presbyterians ^ and yet 'cvvas not ill their Power to make them abandon their Loyal Principles and Dutiful AfFedion to the Royal Family ; For the Presbyterians, a litile after Oliver^ Death, made an o;:en and hoU attempt: tor the King's Reftauration^ which will ever be rememb«-ed to their Honor. The Rump^ who had flill enteitain'd their Refentments againfl: Oliver {or depcfing 'cm and DilTolving their Common-wealth, finding that his Son Richard}:\z6. not his Father's Parts, nor cunning toMaintain him- felf in the Prcte^tojhip^ found means to get once more into the Saddle, and fee up their Rtfubiick again. How the Presbyterians in Englanei behav'd in this turn of Govert^mevt, I fhall relate in the words of the Author oithe Coniinuation o/S^rWalcerRaleigh's Hifl^ory p. 143. *• ^/V^- I:fh'd. During this Revolution, the Royalifts had not been Idle, they i^ad forn:ed a Ccnfpiracy for a general Infurredion ^ and we mufi do the Pref- byterians tne Juftice to own, that MOST OF THE CONSflRA-- TORS were of THEIR PROFESSION, as the Loid miloHg-by of Par ham who was to feize Lyn ; General M.Minifters ^tten- ded hfm in their Phces with ACCLAMATIONS, a.i by the Hands oioW^x Arthur J^ci^/.« prefented him with a rich auornd ^mie, which he rcceiv'd, and told them /f>/»V^f ffc^ Rde of his AtUms. (Id. Ibid. />. 218- and Mr.C^/..'..jy, Dv. Reynolds, Mr. Jfii, l;^^' ^r^ flow, DuWullis, Dr. BAtes, D* M. ton, Mr. Baxter^ and Mr.c^^, were made his Chaplains (y^ ibtd p. 229^ •'^^ ^ I o Chap. 2; The Loyalty oj^rejlyterians p ^u ^ The Great Sir Matthew HmU^ and the Learned Conformifi in his/r- .1 art /. ^Qj^^-pi^afor the Non-Coniorrr.ifs^ do the Presbytedans the Jiftice, as (^'^^/**SJ j^o own their Z-^al in prortioiiag the Reftauration^ the /^^^(fy qaoiing k\\& former with jail ApplanPi, in Ehefe Words *, (p. 65.) ' They v\h > are p'inifh'd (i. e. the EngHjh Non-Conformi/^s) are as *- Orthodox Holy Chriftians as ^«v m the World^ out of our ownChurch. ' They are profitMe and feaceMe Subjefts, notwithftandin^^ many ' difcouragemencs and pr-ji/cc 7fi3«j from Fellow-Subjeds, and hidden ' Traitors ', more paitlcu1a;ly, many of them have deferved well ' from the Church and Sfir^, ^hich in human Probability HAD NE- ' VER BFEN RESrORD, but for THEIR LOYALTY, Religion ' and Confcience, This made the mofl: Renown'd Sir Matthew Hale fay ' ( whofe fenfe may be as fo'in taken as moft Men's alive^ for his Wit *■ dom, Loyaky a;;d Incrtgrity, and Impartiality in ail Ad, of Jadg- > mentj ^' Many of the r^on-Conformifts had MERlTfD HIGHLY " in ihe bufi'.'.els of the King^s R-:j .im-ation^ and af leafl defer s^ed, thati " the Terms ot Conformity ^u^Mi"^ not be made flrider than they were " before the War. Upon the \vhole» kt the World judge, whether the Presbyterians be taiily Treated by our Author, when they are leprefentcd by him as Enemies to the Kiug's Rt-rtauration i which had they oppos'd, as Maiteis then flood, t*:ic Iff.eof ail other endeavours that were us'd to promote it had been at befl: very Dubion?, if not wholly unfuccefs- ful^ of which the King himfelf wis very feniible, when for that very reajon he uig'd the Hoiife of Loids in his fi'It Parliament, to h^ilea the J^ ojOhhviov^mihQ following Words5 *■ My Lords (fnd hej if ' ^ou do not join with me in exti;igi:iniing ih .fe Fears, which keep ' MeiiS Hearrs awakr, ai.d apprciienUve oi Safety zw\ Security^ you * keep me frcm pei forming m> pi omife,which it I had not made,/'«y ' ferfuadcd neither you nor 1 had been here. I pray kt US not dective ' thofe who i?'A.>/ij^/5f or /)£rwj«^-{/. us to come together. Having thus iiluil rated. 1. The Scope :.nd occafion of the Bangor- Declaration. 2. The Reafons thai juftifieic, and 3. The Loyaky of the Presbytery who maae it, aiid ihe Loyaky of the Britifl) Presby- terians from 1648 to 1(560^ In Puriuanceot the Method I proposed, 1 come 4f%i to aniwfcr what is objected by our IkUihor aj^ainfl: this Declaration ot the Pi tsbytery of 5^;7^c>'. ^nd here I muft obferve, that the Subltance of all headvaacts has been already refuted, while I Under King Charles II. Chap. 2, 311 I h^-jve demonflrated that the Presbytery were for owning King Po i-f o ■ Charles id^ dflcrting his Title.cppofing his Enemifs, and prnmoting ^* his Reflauration. But our auLhor makes one objeftion, which 1 fh^ll "^0/*^^^^ fiirfher ccnfider. Let the Reader tike it in his own words in iiis fecond Let:er, p. 9, 10. ' However to give yon a perfe(!l view of the Principles upon which the Northern Presbyterians proceed in this period let us Conipare one Paragraph of this Ba^cr-'Dcch\mon in 1649, With a Paragraph of a Letter writ to King Charles id, from the General Afl'jmbly in Scotland^ Dated the very iameycar and recorded in the y^.^is cf the General Jjfembly. - In the Declaration of B^.ngor^ they fay, He (i e ihe Lord of A'trds) hfis now cloath^d hlmfelfvrith a Commiffion from his Adajeflie^ who as yet refufes to give any fatisfaElion in Religion to the jafi demands of the Kiigdom of Scotland. Now what thofe demands were, to which that Presbytery of B^wgor referred in their Declaration, we find fumm'd up in that Letter to King Charles id^ before mention- ed in thefe word?, viz. ' That your Majefiy do humble your felf under the Alight y hand ofGod^ &c. Thefe are the jufb demands of the KirJi of Scotland to wh.icU the Presbytery cf Bangor refers % and which, you may obftrve they make the SOLE CONDITION of their Alkgiance and Sub- ]cd\ion. This I judge fufficient for a fpecimen of the Vntai?;ted Loyalty of theDifUntcrs of freland^^nd their lingular merit from the Crown and Church in the fecond period. Our Author,to make his y^rgument good,ought to haveprov'd two points, viz.. \fij Thai the demands which the Aflembly made were unreafonable ^ and idly^ That they were the fole condition of their allegiance to the King: And becaufe he reflects heavily upcn the Af- ferably's Letter, while he quotes but a partof it j and that not only Jaftice may be done to the AfTembly, but alf3 the v/eaknefs of our Author's reafoning upon theirLetter compar'd with the Bangor De- claration, may further appear, 1 IhalJ here Infert the whole Letter, which runs thus .- Mofl: Gracious Sovereign, (r) [ We your Majellie's moll: Hamble Loyal Subjedts, the Com- miffion ers ^ (0 vide iSftsofthe General Aflembly p. 480. ^12 Cha p. 2 . The Loyalty of Trejhyterians Part 2. miflio^crs from all the PresbyLeriesin this your Majeflie's Ancieiafc Kii.>:dom, and Mtmbt-rs of this preftnt Nitbnal AfTeinblv, h^iv^ ing f.v/?<=t^f^ to find :U o'Jf Meeting a Gracious and fatisfatlory re^ turnio thofe bumble ReprefentitioflSp made to your Maj^fly at thef/.-z^^^ by the ComiTiifTDners of this Kirk, canaot bui exprefs onr great Sorrow..?nd Giief,that your Majeftle's Goodncfs has been fr>f:ir abulcd, a? that rjoconly tl e jufh and ncc'Jf.j agiinfl THE LIFE OF YOllt^ ROY/VL FATHER, our late Sovereign ^ fo it is the unfeigned and earr/efi dcfireoi our Souls, that the ANCIENT Monarchical Go- vernment ofthefe Kingdoms may be EJIahLJh^d and Floirfijh in y^ur MAJLSTIB?S PERSON all the days ofyoni life, and be continu- ed in your Royal Family \ which by Divine Providence hath with- out Inter lupc'on Reigu'd over us and our PredecefTors f^r i^o many Generations, fi.nce tN time that we were a Kingdom •, and thas there is ?iothina^ under the Glory of God, and caufe of cur Lord Jefiis Chiift-, for which we do tvore heartily folicite the Throne of Grace, or wou'd more heartily (xfofe unto haz^ard ALL THAT IS DEAR tons in the World, than for THIS. Ji\d now though this very great difcouragemeni might eacline us to hold our peace at this time, yec the tendernefsand uprightnefs of our J[fc[iion and Love to your iViajeftie's h^ppiaels (which mAny Waters cannot quench) together wich the Confcience of our duty,»vhich our Lord artd^.^aRer has laid upon us in this ou* place and ftatioB,conft;rainech us, yea and your A1 iellie's own Goodneis andGracious DifpDfition, whereof the late Commiffioners have given us ^o large a Teftimo- i/y cloih much encourage us, to renew our Addrelsesto your Ma- Under King Chd^rhs II. Chap. 2, 315 jeHry in this humble faithful Reprcferitation, both ofthcguMC (iv6 P jjrf o growing dangers to yanr Royal Perf)n and Throne^ and of thcfc /^,t^^/ duiies, which the Lc-d of Lords, and Kir.g of Kings c^^Hs for from l/^^^Nj yo'i, as you vvouM Inok to find favor in his eyes, and to be deliver- ed out of your deep diftrefles. ' Our hearts are filled with fears and troubles in your xMajefJie's behalf, when we look upon the fad Calamities which have been already produced by fucli ways and courfes as we perceive your Majefly is entered and in danger to be further led av;ay into by the prevalency of evil Counfel,uponyour tender x^ge; particuhrly,your refufingto give SatisfaUion to the jffjl and neceffary desires of the Peo- ple of God. for advancing the Work of Reformation of Religion, and Eftablifhing and Securing the fame in your Ma]jftie'jD3minions, which is nothing elfe biiE to Oppofe the Kingdom of the Son of God, by whom Kirjs do /?f;^;7,and to refcfe that he fhould Reign o- vcr you and your Kingdoms, in his pure Ordinances of Church- Government and Worfhip ^ Your Cleaving to thefe Men as your Truflieft Counfe'lors, who as they never had the Glory of God, nor good of his People before their Eye?, fo nov7 in all their Ways and Counfels, atefecki^ig nothing but their cwk htenfis, to the haz- ard of KhtVtter Snbverfin of your Throne, the ruin of your Roy- al Family, and the D.fclition of your Kingdom? ^ Your owning the Praftices, and entertaining the Pcrfon-of that Flagitious Man, and mofl: ji3ftly Excommunicated Rebel, James Graham^ who hascxer- cifed fach horrid Cruelty upon your beft Subjed^s in this Kingdom ^ which cannot but bring upon your Throne, the Guiitincfs of all the Innocent Blood fhed by him and hisComplices ; And ABOVE ALL, that which we c^snnot think u|X)n viXthowt trimhluig oi Heart and Htrror ofSplrit,your fettling of laie fuch aPeace with the3^n(?/Papi{ls, the Murderers of fo many thoufands of your Proteflant Siibjcds, whereby not only they 2i\-%'QVcned as yoar good Lcyal SuhjtEisy but alfo there is granted unto fbem, ^contrary to the St andini- Lares of your Royal Progenitors, contrary to the Commandment of the Moft High God, and to the hig^ Contempt and Diftionor of his Majcfty^ and evident danger of th^roteftant Religion; a fuU Liberty of their abominable Idolatry j which cannot be othcrwife Judgsd, but B giving ofycnr Royal Power and jhength unto the Beafi, and an j^c- cef- S f 314 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Trefhyterkm Pp»r^ O' * ciffion to aH that Blood o^youv fODd Subjects, wherewith thofe Sons icliL z* c of ^.j/?f/ have made th?.e Land toSwim, [O'^VNJ ' We do in all Humility bcf^ech your Msjefly to confidcr and liy ' to Heart what the Moufh of the Lord of Hoils hath fpoken of all ' the Accounts of People, Nations, Kings and Rulers againll the ' Kwfdomof his Son, that they Im^gin avainthir.gy and that he that * fitte^ih in Heaven will have them h Derljton, and vex them in his fere ' JDifpleafure. Confider , how he hath Dialled and Turrcd upHde ' ('own thefe Years by pafl all the Devices and Plots of thofc Men ' that noTV bear the Svcay in your Majeflie's Councils : Confider, * how the Anger of God has be^n kindled even agiinfl his dearcft ' Saints, when ?hey have joined thcmfelves tofuch Men as he Ha^eth * and has Curfed. Confider, how feverely he hath Threatned and ' PuniflKd fuch Kings as have Aflbciate with Idolaters, andleaned to ' their hf Ip'. Surely, Great is the Wrath of God, whereof you are ' in danger •, and yet the Lord in the riches of hisGoodne^s,/er/;fig\(:i walk in the like Courfcs in the beginning of ' your Reign. It is high time to fall down before theThrone otGrace, ' feeking to get your Peace made with God through jefus Chrilf, ' whofe Blood is able to waJfh away all your fins, to walk no longer in ' the Connjclofthe nngudly^ nor cleave to fuch as feek their own things * and not the things of Jefus Chrifi;, nor ihe Welfare of your 5ub- ' jsds and Government \ but to fei your Eyes upon she faithful in ' your Oominions, that fuch may dwell with you, and be the Men of ' your CoAncils^ to icrve the Lord in Fear, and hfs the Son ofGod^ by ' a fincere and cordial Contributing your Allowance andAuchoiity for * eftabiilhingin all your Dominions, the Reformation of Religion, in ' Dodrine, Worfnip and Government, as it is now agreed upow ac- ' coroing to the clear and evident Warrant of the word of God by * the Afllmblyc Divines at W^r/ww/^r, aind the General AfTembly I ofthisChiirch j and aifolayingaiidc ihaU>i'?ff-^<'tf^, which is fo fturd Under King Charles II. Chap. 2. 51 5 ftuff'd with Romi(J} Corruptions, and conforming your own Practice P^rf o ' and the Worfhip of God m your Royal Family, to that Gofpel fim- * ■*■ '^* plicity and Purity which is holden forth from the Word of God, in U^^'VNJ the Diredory of Worfhip, and not only to gjant your Royal Ap- probation to the Covenant of thcTe three Kiagdomsf w/thouE which your People can never have from you fKfdcieiu fccusity either for Religion, or their jufl: Libertiesj hue alfoyoar fell to joiii with your People therein, as the grcareft fccurity under Heaven for your Per- fonaiid jufl Greatnefs, and tocauleall of them ftand to is by your Royal Goismand, according to the Practice of that Gracious King 'Jcfiah^ to whom we wifli your Majcfly in thefe your Younger Years, and this beginning of Your Reign, to look as to an enfample and Kingly Portrait approven of God. Thefe things if your Al^jefiy do-^ as we are well cflured, that the Hearts of all your Good Subjeds in thefcKingdoms will he enlarged with allChearfidnefs CO Embrace your Perfon, and flibmit unto your Royal Governmenr, i^o we dare pro- Hiife in the Name of our Lord, that you fliall find favour wiih God, Peace ^ni^joy unfpeakahU and full of Glory to your 5ouI, and delive- rance cut of your fad Afiiictions, and deep DiilrefTes in due Time. But if your Majefty {hall ^* o« in refitftng to hearken to wholeibme Council? ^ we mufl for the difcharge of our Ccnf.'unce^ tell your Ma- jefly in the Humility and Grief of our Hearts, that the Lord's Avgcr is not tHwed avpay^ but his Hani is ftretched ou£ ftiil againll you ixiA your Family. ' But we hope and fliall with all earneftnefs and conftancy pray for betser things ftom, and to your Majefly .* and whatfoefer mif- conftriiction (by the malice of ihofe who defire not a right Un- derltandi'ig and Cordial Corjanc'^ion between your Majefty and this Kirk and Kingdom) may be put upon our Declar^uion ^ Yet we have the Lord to be our-witnefs, that our purpofe and Ir'.euiion therein is no other buii to warn and keep the people of God commit- ted to our care, that they run not any courfe which wou'd bring upon themfelves the guilt of hightfl perjury and breach of Cove- nant with God, and cou'd not but prove moft dangerous to your Majefly and involve youin fhedding the blood or rhofc, who are mofi dtfiroHs to preferve yourMajeflie's i'eifon^&.jnfi Rights m aU your Dominions. A^dnoTf we do w ith all earneftnefs befeech your Ma- jefty,tha! yoa will follow the courfes of truth & peace & that when S f 2 there 3 1 6 Chap, 2. l^he LojaJty of Treshyterians Part 0 * ^^^^^^ '^ ^ '^^'^^ open'd for your Mcijefty to enter to your Royal ' Goven.mcr.c over us, in Peace, with the favor of God,and cordial- (.^V^SJ t love and E nbraciiigs of all your Good Snbjefts ^ You will not ' fufter your ff If, to be fo far abufed and mifled by the Councels of ' Men, who drlight tn war^ as to take a way of Violence and blood, * which cannot but provoke the mofl: high againft yourMajefty,6c ^/?- ' enMe jro'nyoii ths hearts of your befiSiihji5ls^who defire nothing more ' than that yourMajefty may have a long & happyReign over them .• * and that they may live under ycu ^ f eace Able and quitt Ltfe in aH * Godlinefs and hineliy. ' Edinburgh. 6. ' Tour Mifjefiies mcfi L'.yal Sub* ' y^iigiifi,^ ' je[ls and humble Servants^ ' i ^ 49, ' the Mmifters and Elders con- ' vienedin thit National ^f' ^ fembly of the Kirk of Scot- ' land. ry^Hete cannot be more folemn Proteflations nor more Pathetical A. £xprcffions, of an Inviolable Regard to Monarchy, a Loyal and diititi.'! Afifet^ion to the Royal Family and the perfon of ti eir Piince, than thcfe contain'd in the beginning of the above Letter, wliich therefore isa Itrong Argument for 'em inflead of being matter of reproach. Aad tho' in the latter part of it they make de- mands in favor of the Covenant, and againfl Epifcopacy, Liturgy and Ceremonies^ yet they don'e make thefe things the Condition of their Allegiance to liim •• and our Author's reafoning proceeds upon this fundamental millake, upon which the whole ftrength of his Argu- ment is built,and with which it falls \ viz. That he do's not rightly diftinguilh between the ^f/T/'w which the AfTv^mbly of 5co^/^«^ made to the King, aad the Conditions of their allegiance to him; but when- ever he finds any thing propofed by them to his Majefty, he pre- fently concludes that to be the fde Condition of their Subjedlion to him. His Right to be their King was the condition of their Alle- giance ; But then I fee no reafon why they might not defire him to dofome things, which they were net for making the eflential and fQleCondicion of their allegiance, but propos'd thera only as their earneji dtfiresj infinuating that his granting thefe things wou'd ex- ceedingly encourage them, to pay ilicir allegiance to him,with more chear- Under King Charles 11. Chap. 2. 317 cbearful afFiftion,and eflecm of his Royal Government .• snd this is all Po j-f 9 they fay, when they tell him, thefe thivgs if your M^jefly will do, ire are ajfdr^d that tkt hearts cf your A'fajejtie^s Sisbje^j will be enlaro^d^ i^jf^^^ As to the M.itter of thefe defiie?, il v.'cu'd qm:c Ic.id me cffche defign of this Book, to enter into the controverfie abouE Ffifcop^cy and Liiitifies •, 'tis enough for my piirpole to obfeive that thtChurch ni Scotland had a lip-^h? by theLaws of thcKingdom^to demand from theKing,a fuffirient fecuiicv for the prcfervation of their o.vnConlli* tution againit both •, and that In their Circomflancrs they had a great deal to fayfor their ufing lone exprefllons agalnft Prelacyf^Ce- renaonics, which mayfesm harp) to people who know not the Hiftory of the .rroi bles and ccnfufions brought on thatChurch aiidState by the forious Laude?if,,in ?{Q\;^tz% of that age^ of which 1 fiiall here give the Reader a brief account, in the words of two Hiftorians who cannot he fufpefted of partiality to Sects Presbyteiians ; The firfl is tiie Earl oiCh.rend . rationaU'^ever ia themfelves.and iiow diftant foever in the words '^' and cxprcfllons from indiniri2; to Popery, winch yczg-dva too tm.ch ^a/^V^*^ advent iige to thofe, who malicioHQy watched the occalion, to pcr- fa:?de wcik men that i: was an approach, and Introduction to that Religion, the very Imagination whereof intoxicated all men and deprived them of all faculties to examine and Judge. * S.)me of the Did Canons Defined and peter min'd fuch an unlimi- ted Power and Prercgative to he in the King flccor cling to thepAttern (in exprefs Terms) of the Ki?igs of ISR.^-EL, nnd fuch a full Suprema- cy in all Cafes Eccltfaflical^ ^s Imtlo never he n pretct7ded to by their for- mer Kirgs^ or fihmitttd to hy the Clergy^ and Laity of that Nation ', which made imprcfllan upon Men of all Tempers, Humors, and Inclinations •, And that no Ecdesiaflical PcrftnfhoH\l becfme Surety or Bound for any Af an '^ That Natio^tal or General y^ffemhlies fljouldbs called only hy the King^ s Authority fChat ailBlJhovs.and other Ecclesiafrical Perfons^ rr ho Dy-e xvithout Children^ ^Kii* d be oblig^ d to give a good par t- of their Eflatesto the Churchy and though they Jhou^dhave Children, yet to leave fornewhat to the Churchy and for advancement of Learnirg * which feemed rather to be matter of State and Policy, than of Re-, ligion, thwarted their Laws and Cufloms, which had been obferv'd by them ^ lefien'd, if not took away theCredit of Churchmen, and Prohibited them from that Liberty of Commerce in Civil Afi'aifs, which the Laws permitted to them, and reflcded upon ihe Inteiefts' of thofe who had, or might have a Right to Inherit from Clergy- Men. That none flion'd receive the Secrament but upon their Knees '^ That the Clergy ^joH^d have no private Adeetings for expounding Scripture^ or for Confulting upon Matters Ecclefiafdcal '^ 1 hat no Man jhoud cover' his Head in Time of Divint Service^ and that no Clergy-Man (Ijoii'd Con- cdve Prayers extempore, but heBound to Pray only by the Form Prefcnb^d in the Liturgy , (which by the way was not Icen nor fram'd) and that no Man jl}Oii*d teach a public School, or in a private Houfe^ with- out a Licenfe firft obtained from the Archbi(hop of the Province^ or the Bifliop of the Diocep. ' All thefe were New, and things with which they had not been acquainted ^and though they might be fit to be ccmmendtd to a regular and orderly People, pioufly difpos'd ^ Ytt it was too flrong meal for Infaats in Difcipline, and too much nouriflimeni to be ad- Bji. 320 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of "^Preshyterians Part 2. * miniflred a:: once, to weak and queaf/ Stomachs, and t03 muchia- * clin'd to naufc. tf w' 'C was rno(h wholefomc, bnc th:-!, to apply ' the old Terms of the Ghurt h,to mention the Qj^ntnor tempra^ and relfraii all Ordinations to tkdfe four fenfofis of the Tear ^ to erjoyn aFcrit ' tobe frevared in every O^ip-ch for Baptifn. and a decent Table fo-r the ' Commnmon'^andtodireU,, ^md appoint the places -vhere both Font and ' Table Jlwii'd ^:r Book of Canons, they were ni ' length agree'd to, that ihtont fliouM be the fcun of the Sects Wox- ' fiiip, and the other the Model of tiicir Government ^ which did TO- ' TALLY VARY from thQiv frnmcr praBices and Conftitut'ots-. And, ' as if all things had confpi' ed to cat ry c n their Ruin, the Bifhops net ' fiiti.fisdvnih the General Ht;',h-Coi-nmiflion Cotnt, produced War- ' rauts from the King for kr.ring nn (ncn Commiifcns in xhm fever d ' Diocejfes, in which with ot: er-AfT.llbrs, iMiiiifkrsaudGeiitlemcn, all ' of their own Nominaiion, they might pMnilh OfF nders. ' Thdt was pit in Practice oniy by iheBifh.rp of6'.?/W^;\wbo though ' he was a pious and learned Man, yet was Fiery and Paflicnate, and went {q roMndly to workj that II was cryed out tpon as a Yoke and * Bc)id/!ge which.the Natien w;isnct Me to bf^r"* From what both thefe Hitlorians relate cf the Arbitrary Mtafitrts and ///»ot'^?/o^j introduc'd by tht Scots Bifliops, it i"- evident that the Church cf Scotla--d cou'd not be blam'd for tnfifiing upon gcvd fecarity from the young King, for the Prefervatiou of their Legal Ef-alfliJIj- mer.t. But I mull not pafs another Objedtion our Author makes againfl T t 2 this 3-4- Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Preshyteriam P^^'t 2. ^'''''5^''<^^-'^^2^^°°<^^^^'^^^^ ''^^J^^^f the Marginal Notes upon it in ^ i^j* ^^'sfirflLeiterp. 2$ Jlie Words of the Declaration be founds the '^tJ^\^ Objection upon are theHi. * For (whereas the danger of fuch Acci- ' dents being forefeenjan Article v/as Inferted inthe Oeclararion to * acknowledge the King's Command \ he Confirming all the Articles ' of the Covenant, bej^rc he were admitted co the exercife of his Roy- ' al Power. Upon which he remarks thus ' h feems then thefeiLo)'^/ Gentlemen * wou'd notfo much a? acknowledge the King^s Commands how Lawful ' foever, except he firll Siould Confirm all the Articles of the Covenant^ * not one excepted. Anfw. That that Presbytery approved of the Covenant and wou'd gladly have procur'dthe P.oyal Approbation of it too, is indeed e- vident from that part of their Declaration, laft quoted .• But 'tis de- ny'd, that they made the King's confirming all the Articles of the Covenant, ih^ Condition of their jillegiance. They did indeed propofe that he Ihoa'd confirm them, betore he xvne adrr.itted to the exercife efhis Regal Power \ but they do net put the cafe of his Retufalto con- firm them, nor cffcr their opinion, that they wou'd rejtd his v^utho- rity altogtthtv^if he didrefiife to do It. Nay, it is plain that their principles oblig'd 'em to own him for their Ki g. though he fhou'd Bot confirm nor own theCovenant:for be[tdes,th3E they had all unani- raoufly received the Weflminfler Confefllon, which exp' efly rays,that Infidelity and difference in Religion doth not make void thei^fagifl-rate^s jiffi and legal Authority^ nor free the people from their due Oh(dierice to htm'y Mr Dryfdail in his Anfwers to f'^<;«/«^/ej's objections from the Cove- nant which was agaiall all Mslignants (fee p. 295 j clears thisMatter, by letling us fee, that they knerv the King to be the head of that party when they made the Covenant, ytitheyput a difference bei-wten him and other Malignant s'^ they fwore to him not ts diminijfi his jull pow- er and greatnefs, but to preferve his Royal Perlcn^ which demon- flrates, that they did not intend to make his Alteration of his prin- ciples in that pointy any tffential condition of their Allegiance and Snb* jeEiion to him. I Ihall next come to confidcr the behavior of Presbyterians in the id period ©f this Reign, viz.. From the Reftauraiion to it's conclufion.* During which time. Our Author exhibits his Libel againft 'em in his iirft Luttr (p. 12.; in thefc Words J I cannot al prefent produce a- Under King Charles IL Chap 2: c^o^ * nny expr^ilions rcljtlng to thcai from Kiiig Charlei the/rcoW-, but P'^t-f o^ ' let che l/.HVs of the Land made agaiii{}: rhern in his Rtjgn in the ^^'^'^^ '^' * tiiree Kiirgdcms, fpcak for him ^ Lti iht Proch.matiofi^ivomihz Cs^\y'^^ * Government, not only in £fifjnn^ 31)6 Scotland^ but in /rf/.-«(^fpeak * for him ^ particularly, that frcm the Gcverrmc-nt of Irclsrjd Dritcd ' the 30/^ ot ^ftil \66iAn thtfe woids ^ Whereas hdi.lieme to ar.dfr- *" hearaice of Diflontcis .'?;7^-t Non-conforming Perfons c/Z^z^^r^/ 7' <-r- ^ fii^if ions buth been lorg tttne ufed^ and yet the eve'thaih not aytfwered * ExfeEiation -^ WR ccvir3nts,Non-conformii2:s& ftd.irics^/7X' jrct.5 I ^^ verycfa Pop.fli Sncccfyr upo;i the Nations. ^dly.Thditxnev^n ParUan;e>n ia tius Rfign, the Hcufe of Com- mons ^vere ffnfible th.it thele Livvswere dangerous to Religion and Liberty .-and brc^ghc in Bills to repeal them^&made Vou^againfl the execution of them \ which was done even by t'mt^ icyj houfeof Com- . iTions that /M-^Vf/.).'?;?, after fevcral Years experience of /.^e tvtl of liiem -• and that all Gjod Bills for the uniting of Protefi-^jnts were J} ill defeated by the fufluence of the Court and Popijh Councils^ at that very time when the 'diTco very of the Popi(h Pi .t was difcourag'd, and when Arbitrary fieps for er.flaving the S^bjcdt were taken^ and when the Union of Proteflants was mofi Nectjfary and defire- able. !f I prove thefe remaiks to be jnfl, the Argument wiR turn up- on our Autl.or .• an i Infle.id of doing any harm to Presbyterian?, 'twill- be an tjfcUiid Vindication oVcm^Tis true friends to the Prote- ftant: Religion^ their King^ and Country : aad conchide them Enemas to Pofery^ Popi(h P/^ri, and a Popifh Si{ccejfian, ^rhhraTy Covirn- ment in the Pi inc\% ciad an Abjed flavery m the People. Tojnftifie chefe o?.it;! viri'-.]5, i flralliy before the Reader fede- ral paflagcs of- the Prr.csedmgs of the Parliaments during this Period, Speeches of the Honorsble and Worthy Members, and of Tome of the mod C?/.&r.;rfV Pieces written upon this Subject ; placing them in that Order as may bcfi; rend to the lllullration and Proof of my three Eemarks-^ and wichouc the Interruption of my ownjlcfledtions up:)H them, until I come, upon the whole, to Sum up the evidence. The firll: I mertion i^ a pare of a Treaiife, call'd, The /// Efi^s of j^nivr.ofiticsy in the State Trails (n) ' Tnonsh all P.nglfr: Proteflants have ever been at an 4ccord in * all the Eilentiils arpJ Vitals of R'JJgion^ yet from the very begin- ' nifig oi tt eRef:riration,theie have been dijjaences ^mong them con- ' ct\\\v^]i FfCclefiaficdCovernmfnt and Difcifl'ne^ and about Forms, ' Pvites & Cf/£//;o/?<.'-f of VVorfhip ^ ind had theyconfuked elthei their lave hjlanding the dlffc' rert' C«) Vol. 2d, i). 3 74, 37^ Under King Cnu-ks II. Chap. t , . , • , r^ ,' _-- ^ - Jf cliofe tilings whc;rein chey Diligree, yec they do murujlly TW^n^f^ and * beir wica one linocher .- The M trers wiierein ihey differ are neither ' m-ide th^ Terms o/ thrir Church- Communion ^ nor the Grounds of ' Mutual Excomm!i?nc^tio/!S and Pcrfeciitions. ' Buc alas, one P'rcy among us h.nh been always endeavorinf^ to * cuto^ftreich others to their own Siz.e^znd have m.ide chofe things ' which themfclvesScjle indifFcrentjboth cheQiuiificaticns for AdmiP- ■ {ioniothz TajhrdOfJice^znd the Conditions of Fellow fliip in the ' Ordinances oi the Gofpej : Nor is if to be cxprefs'd, what advan- ' cages were hertby Admini/lred a!l along to t/ie Common Enemy • ' and what Sufferings PEACEABLE and ORTHODOX Ch.iftiins ' were expofed unto from their PEEVISH and ANGRY Brethren. ' Andthongi-i theie things, wi[h the He.zts begotten among all ^ and ' theCiljmicifs U!:dergonebyow/I^f, were not the Caufe of thac * fnneftous War Detwixt Charks the Firft and the Parliament ^^zi they ' were an occaHon of [Diverting Thouf^nds from tl c fide -which the * Terfectv.ir.g Chnrch-Min efpoufed:, and eng-iging them in the behalf of ' the Tvoo Houfes in tie Qiiarrel I'v'hich they begun, and carried on a- ' gainfi: tiiat Prince for Defence of the Civil Liberties, Privileges and '- Rights of the People. Bat fome of the M.tnd Clergy were fj far ' from being made wife by their own and the Nation's Sufferings, as ' upon their ^(?/?^//rKi ' WhigsconMcr'd that the Duke of r^jr^ wa«a i^apift, and gave life ^j/^^^^ ' and ftrength to that Party ^ that if he fh.u'd live to Iwheric the ' Crown, bur Religion and L-herties wond be in (he litnofi davgtr : * that he bed a great Ii.fluence over the King his Brother : that fuch * Minillerswere employ'dln the AdminiRradon of the Government ' as were in his Interefh^ and who wers evidrnilv iiicli 'd to Arbltra- ' ly mcafure?. Ihey e'^ry where us'd their mmofi vJigence in the * Eledionsof Magjftratesfor Corporations, r^nd Menbers for Par- * liament, to chufefuch as they believ'd to bt zealous .^or the good of ' the public^^nd would of^ofe tl;e drfi^ns of the Conn in '^ny thing that ' might tend to the prejudice of the people in their Religicus or Civil * Rights^ tlity forefaw and endeavorM to pi event the many mifchiefs * thattiave lince fallen upon us/o' that/?// men of Cavdcur mufl Cnfefs J that tky were then true Patriots^ and had ^.-poAaV the bcfi Caufe- * On the other band the lorus applauded the Diikc oi Tuik^ and * promoted his Intereft all they could, they Contpud-d for fuch E- ' leftions as (hou'd then be ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO THE ' COURT ^ the Magiftrates ct that fide e^prefs'd the H^'hi^s with vex- * atious Profecutions, 'vulemly ferjeci^ted tho^Qth^t were Dijfattrsy * and went fo far as by PACK'D JURIES and STRAIN'D LAWS * to dejlroyjome of the BEST MEN tnthe Kingdom ^ in fhort, thai ' Gercration of Tories gavs themfci ves up to fulfii the wtlUnd VUafitre * of the Court in EVERY THllSi3 that lay in their Power ^ and, by ' what we have fince ktn come to pafs-Zt;? evident th^t they engag'd * on the wrong fide^ and wet e made the very INS 1 KUMENTS TO ' BRING ABOUT thofe evil Dcfi-^ns of the Puke oiYorh, and the ' Papifts, which broke out upon the Natio;i in the ncxs Reign : I will * not yet doubt, but that many hcneft tpr//w^^«/r^ men, ze?lous for ' iheMonarchy&riic Chjrdi,were imposed upon by the leadars of that * P'^rty, fwho were all the \s\\\\tfUyingtheir garr.e atCouiE prefer- * ments^ and fduJed into ^groundlefsjealoujy^ thatt the ' DifFcatcrs ' were aiming at the def>ru5ion of both. Let us next coiJider what isfaid in the Relation of the moB confde- raifle U H * ^30 Chap; 2. The Loyalty of Vrejhytenans T)^ ^i. O ^e^A^^e thivgihaytiUAinVaxliament^ rt)aungto Reli^iori^ -property ^ and Xd.LL J., i^ji;gyfy^^-^i[iQ St Ate- Tracts ( .vy, in thcfe words. i,rv*NJ ^February 16.'. 6 "J 1 J ' The Parliament, where notwithftanding his Majefl:^ told them * in his fpeech, he wou'd ftand by his Declaration of Indulgence^ yet * the Houfe ol" Commons February 10 Upon reading it, refolv-ed tloAt ' penal Statutes m matters Ecclefiajfical cat.not befufpendcd but by A^ of ' Furlia'nent. ; '' B\it yet it appeared that the/rw/^ of the Houfe was not ' againftthe matter of Indnlgence pi acndtd 10 be graHted by that * X>ecl3ra?ion to ProtefbntDifT^nters. For February 14. Refolded in the Houfe of Commons nemine Con- ^ tradicente. * That a Bill be brought in for eafe of his Majeftie's Pro- ' teflant Subj-ds that are D'lTenters in Matters of Reli- « ' gion, from the Church of England^ and the Houle to ' be in a Committee on Monday to confider the Sabjedt * matter of this Vote. ' A Bill being drawn accordingly, received no great oppofition in the Houfe, but was look'd upon by the Major part of the Mem- bers, as the only Means to hep popery from fiounfhing in this Nation^ and in time to expel tnat Religion, whofe piofefers have in all Kingdoms and nations endeavored by all ways to eftablifh their fuperflition, aiid to that end and purpofe, have troubled, as they have had opportunicv,thf p-ace of the ChriOian World ^ but had now,by theirCREAT INTERESTat a«rr,fuffiGiei.tly ftrengthen*d fas they imagin'd, and miji honest A/ewfeared;that party, to the c- 'verthrow of the.PiottKaiiL Interefl. The Clijf'rdian and fytnch Defigns were carried on in the In- terval oitjiis Scfsion, in as pernicious tho' different Manner from their fi'fl delign, whofe nu-thod they were foiced to Change, * by reafon that the Ad of Parliament for the luppreffion of che^ Growth^ (r; Y>A. 3. page 26. Under King Charles II; Chap. 2. 331 Growth of Popery^ was fo made that it extent edit felf ^ and the P^rt 1 Means of Introducing th3t Religion feeming then at a Hard, they *■ ^^ ^ ^* thought -of a new prcj:(!l thas in Probability might net receive O^VSJ fo ^reat opprifition, nor actri'dt that envy as the Preferment of the ?afi(ls in feveral grei?. offices ^nJ plices of Truflhad done, yet iUq fame ends might hs Move cntai^Uy and e^Ji/y^ tho* poflijly not fo foon obtained. And to this end, a Marviage between his Roy- al Hi^^hnef?, and the Princefs of Afodfva, Sifter to the PrefenE Duke thereof, was propofcd •, and the btttcr toadva;ice the fame and make the Match appear mote Confiderable, his moft Chriftian Mr break the intended Marriage and the fre^tr/!? Alliance, know- ing thac the Parliamenj wou'd ufe their utmoQ- endeavors to pre- reut the Con^ummarion of that Marriage, which was likely to ren- der both the Pop.jh R-ligion and the Fremh Alliance impregnable. Secondly^ Ccnfideripg tnat aBill of Eafl: for Prcteftanr DifFcnters fwhereby 'twas intendeHl that the M.^jor pan of them ihou'd have Liberty of CortfcicncfjSiid be capable of Chhrch-prefermein) had paffed U u 2 the t Chap, 2 The Loyalty of Trejhyterians part 2. ' the Houfc of Common?, and had been fent uptothcLords inMarch ' before, where it then remain'd, and wou'd not long dkk there (as ' they feared) before it fhouM obtain the Royil AfT^nt ^ which if ' onceefleded, they did imagine and forefee, t\vit this Vmtirg of Iii- ' terefts would tendgrently to the SupprtfTion of Popery ^ and confe- * quently no hopes of Repenting thereof in this Nation. But if they ' louM by ary mians wharfcevcr prevent th« pafTmg of that Bill, they ' doubted not, notwithftanding all the Parliament couM do, to be ' fafe amorgfl fo many D'ffemers^ and drive -on their defigns undcr- * band for the ruin and dcftruciion of all Parties but their own. mifi Compare this with the following PafTige, to be found in the Confer- 'fi^s fecundFleA forNon-Csnformifis'^, 22.) ' That which gives ftrength to my Argument is this. That at the next Meeting of Parliament, which began Feb. i^th^ 167 1. An Adt pjfled againic the Paprft^and a Bill was prefented by the Houfe of Cc ramons 10 the Lords , in favour of Diffcnting^ and for U'liting /'r;And from that time,that long Par- iiamenf, who had made the 4d againfl Conv entitles^ iiow rcfoluce foever they were agaiiifl an Indulgence, Feb. *%^h 1661 '^ they fav^ the INCOMPATIBILITY between the Execution of their own Law^ and the PRESERVATION of the ^rou/tuKt Religion, and law a wr- ceffay of llaiting Pr^tefinnts at the feme time, when they faw our in- creafing Dangers from the Increafe of Popery. And our feveral Par- liaments fince, have rcafoned upon the iame Principles and Founda- tions once again fo far as to commit a Bill to 11 litje all Proteflants. And no IV I have prepared my klr for this Argument, it is i\oi well doae, and cannot be good for the Church or Kingdom (and if not good to them.it fhou*d not b^^ thought good by Ptotefiants) which that very Parliament ihar made the Ad:, ar d majiy otherParlianiCijts thought not good for the Church and Kingdom, for fome parti- cular Magiftrates, upon the Intormoi^ion ot fome felf-feeking tnfor- mers, to Execute the Lja's againll the Senfe of the Ltgijl^Ators^ who fhou'd fand certainly didj heft know what was for our good, is to oppofe a/?j^/X'^ftf opinion to a p^tbitc Deliberation, and a private Spiric againfl a public. That I nay draw thefe rtaf nings to a condufiou, it is not a due Execution ot the Laws , exc<=pr it be upon the Perfons^ and to the c//<^.; iii tended in the Laws, But if you wou'U execute the Under KwgCh3.vhs 11. Chap. 2, ^33 * the Laws npon the proper Ohjedls, you mufl Execnte them upon 5^- P^j-^ 9 ' *• dhiotts SeEh.ries^ Vt{lo)al Per-foris^ very Hypocrites tlut do nridcr the z-^i* ' Frgterue 0} 'Relgivus Exerci/es^ inllil Principles ofSchifm tind Rebellion w'^r ^*jft mi filter- Hill, to Judge^ theCuiifes <»/Mcn(n & Tnum ; and if., on tJe other ha^id., the Fore of Tilbury w.is fi!2if>'d to bridle thf City, thf Frt of PI . mouth to fecure theWeft^&j^r,.tsJ0r 2O0jO tn each^of thofc.&.iri ti nil for the Northern pa^tf^ with fume Addttiofi whch might he e^fy and nndifceff.'ah!y made to the Purees now on foot ^ there rrere none thiit woH^d have either will^ Opportunity^ or power to refifi BiiC he addtd widal. he was fo fine ere in the maintenance of Propirty andkbeny of Conjeisnje., thjt t; he hud his Wtll.^ tho* he fh'ji^ld Jntr/^aitce a Bfhop of Durham {which was the Lijla'ice he then mad^^ thai S:e beit.g then vacant") oj another Religion ^ yet he wuuldnot difti^rb any of the Church btfde^ but fitffer them to die away., and not by kis Change (how h.tfty foever he was in it) overthrow eitherofthofe Principles, and therefore defj'd he might he thought an hone ft man., as to hit part of the Declaration, for he meant it really. ThQLovd shaftshary (with ^vhom I had more freedom) I with great afljrance ask'd, what he m-einl by the Declaration ? For u feemed to me (as I then t:ld him) that it afllimed a povrer to re- peal aud fiifoend all our Laws, to defirey the Church, to overthrew the Protefiant Religion, and to tolerate Popny ; He reply'd all angry. That he wondred at my Objcmoi, thrre being none of tnefe in the Cafe •, for the King affum'c no power of repealing Laws, or \iifpending them^ contrary to the mil of his Parliament or People ; and nt^ to argue wita me at that time the Power of the King's Supremacy, which wa: of ano- ther nature than that he had in Civils, and had been exer^is'd witheut ^ Excepti§nin this very cafe, by his lather, Granifathcr^ andQ. EiiZ. under the Great Seal, to Foreign Pretejlants become Subjdls oj Eng- land, not to in fiance inthefu/pendingtheexechticnofthe two ^cls of ■> ^av>gation and Trade. ■ ^ ..— .^ ' Thus, Sir, you have perhaps a better AcconnS of the Declaration than you can receive from any other Hand, -— - ' A^ the next Meeting ot Parliament the Proteffart Ime- * reft was run fo high, as an Ad came up from the COMMONS to ■ ' the Houfe of WT in FAVOUR of theDbSENHNG PROTES- t TANTS, and had p^fled l\i^ Lords, bui tor WANl OF TIME^. '^3^ Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Treshyterians Part 2; Befides another excellent y/^pnffed the ^tf)-^/ vy4, and fiKh whom he either over ai?eth or other- wife t;?/2//ff»ct?^^, that they do not only efcape thePuniftimests which they are liable unto for their Trcafoas ^ but THEY HAV£ OB- TAIN'D to have the Lavs made aganilt Proteftant DifTenters, to be Executed with the tttmofi Rigor and Seimty^ while in the mean time themfelves are as good as conniv'd at in the Violation of all the Statutes Enatffed agamfl; Popifh Rccufancy. For this cannot be thought to proceed Originally from the King, being fo inconfiilene wish that Princely Wifdom which he hach always Manifefted,\Nhen not over-ruled by the Importunity ct iij Men. How unlikely is it, that a Pri ice whoreceiveth and indidga^--- Foreign Proteftants,lnjuld at the fame time encourage the diftrtlH' g his own Subjcds, that do no otherwife differ from the Church of Evgjun-^^ than as ihofe Fo- reigners db ? Nor can it be the Advice oUaTty fmctrt and irne Pro- teftmt, tohjve the LawsExecuted at tins Seafn and Jundure againft PLvtiticJif^iihQxnxL^^o App'.rent a weak.niig oi VrQ whole ReJ or m^ ed hurrf?- m thofe Kingdoms, and a bfitrayi'g .i/J the Prot-.fiant Par- ty into the Po ver and Hands ot rheir woift knemifs. Aid feeing none but the Papiils can reap any benefit or advantage by it, ic m jft be THEY ard none elfe that were the firft Anthon^ and con:i:iuc to be the Prow^if^n of fuch Couucils. And as ibme ol thofc L^ws X X were (4) p. 27, 28, 29. '^q8 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Treshyterians Part 2. were procured by the means of Sir Thorn. Cliflrd^ S\v Thorn, Stricl-^ land and others, who have fince appear'd co be Papifts ^ ^o it is not unpleafant to abferve how they have endeavored to get the.n either nifpended or Executed, according as this or that have lyea in an ufe- fulocfs to their Defigns. Nor can we otherwife believe, but that as fome of our Minifters obtain'd them to be difpenftd with 1572.' iu favour of the Papifts, fo others purfue the having them pat in Ex- ecution in 1682. out of friendftiip to the fame People. Thus the Laws, which were pretended at firft to have been made for the Pre* fervation of the Church of England^ have been from time to time MANAGED TO SET FOR^VARD the CONCERNMENTS of the CHURCH of ROME, and advance ihc frojetiions of the Pa- pifts. AccordiLgly we hjve held them fufpeided for divers Years, vR htn bcth moft of the Er'^ljl} Clergy were earneft to have had 'em Execiiied, arid when the Execution of them fecm'd to lye in a fub- ferviency to rupix>rt the Grandefs of the Church ; but now whea neither the Church can be able to fubfifi, nor are any means left to the preftivdtion of the ProteJ}a^t Relij-iion, vink^s Moaeration and Lenity be rxncis^dto D:Jfenters, we are made daily and lad Spedta- tors of Opprfffion, Spoil and Havaci broM^ht upon a QJUIET, IN- DU^irRlOUS and USEFUL People, by the Execution of thefe ve- ry Laws. And we may t>e fure the Papifts hug and folace thena- felvcs, to find that thto' the Jfcendfncy which they have over fome public Perfons who Influence all our Councils, they can apply the Laws to th« Ruin of many Proteftants \ and in Revenge for their having efcaped their Murderous and Biooily Hinds, engage the Go- vernment and Authority of the Nation nga'pift them. Nor is It lefs than a matter of Triumph to them to think that when the Com- mons of England in Parlianaent ./^flemhled had not only Read and Committed a Bill/cr the Vniiing hisMajeJsie^s Proteftat^t Subjects ', but Refolved it as the Opinion of that '^^ouHr, That the Projecation of Proteftant Dijf:nters upon the Penal Laves^ is at this time Grtevous ta the SiibjeB^ a wealning to the Prcte^ant Interefty an encouragement ta Poptry^ and danger oui to the Peace of the Kingdom -^ they ftiould noS only be able to alienate and exufperace us more from and againftone another, than ever we were, but procure one Proteftant to Profecute another upon the Penal Laws, to the Scorn and Contempt of the Wi(^ dom of Pailiaments, and the Proclaiming to all the World of how little e&eem and value iheir C^unkl and Advice are. The Under King Ch?iYhs 11: Chap. q. 539 The Ingenious Conformifi in his third Plea for Nofi-Co/jfjrm:fis^Q}vcs D^ ..*- o • HS the Chara— " ' 3. A Third Branch of the Defcription of the Profecutors. They aie fuch as donot^ yea cannot anderftand the Stat« of the Kingdom, and Religion fo well as the Houfe of Commons did, ' I. No one Man of them can underftaad the trie State of the Kingdom, ss a Grand Aflembly of our Reprefcntatives did. ' 2. Nor all of them ; For when the Reprefcntatives of the King- dom met, and faw what was invifible to o?hcrs ^ there was a Collec- tion of OHfervations, and the Eyes of moll of the Kingdom moved in that great Body, and their Debates and Rcafonings were mature and full. And tho' a Vote have not the Formality and Force of an AEty yet it is ihsfirft matter and Original of an A5i^ out of wUich an AU: doih arife, , ' 3. This Vote was not of private Concernment, in which Inte- reft makes Men Partial, but it was of Concernment to the Church X X 2 ' and 34 o Cliap. 2. The Loyalty of T^re/hyterianr P^rf" 9 * ^^^^ K5iigdom. B\n many oHhs fir/l Movers inthQVrokcution^ snd * "-» •- ^' t of the Inllrumeats in it, j4^ from a private Spirit^ and a particular ^j/^^^'^^^ ' Incfrefl:, and find neither Concurrence from a ly, that are at lib tr^ ' fy and y^ii^f as Freemen^ nor v^pprobation from the Stxnders by^ ex- ' cept the few chat know Rot vvnat they do, and care not whae o- ' tlicrs do, any m.ore than G illio. ' L^^fily^ the Inferior Sort,are Informers 5c InferiorOfficers,Conn:a- ' bles and Church- Waidens, &c. Ofthefe, there is not one of ma- *■ ny, biu what abide fevere rhreatnings,aad hca/y Fines, coniidcr- ' ing their Eftates, be'^ore shey diftrain. This way is contfary to ' the very common fenfe of Chrillians, and ordinary men. But the ^ Informers area Sektfl Company, whom the long fuffering of God * permits for a time, of whom I will lay but liule in this place .- they ' areofwi' good Refutation -^ for their Kno,v ledge in the Country, * they do not know the names, or perfbns of fome of them that are * molefi-cd by them, they go by report of their under fervants and * ConAplicesj they are unknown to them that flifFer by them, until ' they fufFer : they come two or threeCouncies offjto let up this new ' trade :; whether they are Papifls or f nominal j Proteilants, who ' can tell ? they never come to Church, nor to their own Parilh- ' Churches, but lie in wait and Ambiifh. their Eftate is invifible, ' their Country unknown to many *, t^eir Morals are as bad as the ve* ' ry Dreg; of the Age. Thefe are they that diredt and rule many * of the Migiftrate^, and live upon the fpoil of better Chriftians, ' and Subjt.fts than themfelve^-. And who go away with honefl men's * goods, honeftly gotten, but rhev ? A ad the fame Author in his id pleafgr Non-Conformiftsy iiluftrates the maftet thus, p 23, 24, &c. *• The fecond lort of Arguments is drawn from the fad^, for which' f the Dill( nters are to fi ffli . ' Tie Crime, prima jacie^ is preaching in a manner different from * the Church of EngUnd, and not according to the Liturgy, to num- * bei s above four, befides the Hoi fh'jld. This is the Fad. The * Proof of ir, is either by Coaftflija of the Pa ties, which we will * notfuppofe, or th'.- Notorioufaefsof the F-d, which needs fur- * ther Proofs it aU tUpsnds upon the oath of two Witntfics, What * do iheydep^fe .? they (wh.> perhaps k^iow not what an oath is> * nor what a Sia Perjury is; dep^fe tnat J. B, preached at fuch a sime Under King Charles 11. Chap t: 341. time or times, in fdch a place or pljces^ to fuch Numbers againf^ Po r'f n ^ the Statuje. B it what if the Preacher preach'd trua Doctrine ? Exhorted to pe;KC and Hollncfs, 0'')edieiKe, Juflice, iMercy»and C/^V^NJ not one word tending co Schifni orRebellion i What if the Perfon be a l.oyt-l Subjeft ? fhefe things areo//f */ tht Qucflwn^ out ot ihe Depofidofi.But if thefe Witncfljs cannot depofc thar luch a Preacher is a Diflo^alPerPjn, his preaching to fee to inlbl Schifm or Re- bellion, or t6 move to Infiirredion : then if the Execution be according to the Depoiition, ic is Execution upon Peifons nofi intended by the L3v^,and for preaching not forbidden )>y the Law j for the Law foibids not preaching, bat to fuch an eud. I h-rc is one catching CircHraftance, it was above the Legal Number : But yet one would think, that thai fhjuld not be a dime, except Rebelli- on and Ihfurredion be the Intention of the Peifon, and the eff <^ of the thing; For many, for five hundred to heir a good Sermon, in a peaceable manner, is in it felfno Crime ^ the Number, and the preaching, mufi: be to an ill Defign^ in the Intention of the^ Law^ 5 For it were impous^ to forbid preaching in it felf. Ti^e Evil of is mull be in the Evil of the matter^ and evil of the T>efign ., an, Prerogative nor uinthority. If neither have been found in a. y of them, it is not Juftly imputable to them •, and then if thdr Pieiching and prayer be the Fad, for v. hieh they fiifFcr, they fi.fTer for that which no Pafiji: ever fuffer'd for alone. Let us hear the obfer various of \ 6Noble Peers of theRealm in their Iiumbls petition and advice Deliveud U ihe King January 25, i68q. Staie-Tra£ts 2 Vol. p. i2p, 1 30* TV Under King Charles IL Chap. 1} 345 to ths King's mofl: Excellent Majeftf. The Humble Petition Pai-f 9* ' and Mvice oj the Lords mdernarnd^ Peers of the Realm, 1 L Z* * Humbly Sheweth, < That whereas your Majefly hath been pleas'd, by divers Speech- es, and MefTages to your Houfes of Parliament, righdy to repre- fent to them the Dangers that thrcatned your Majefty's Perfon, and the whole Kingdom, from the Mifchievous, and wicked Plots of the Pafifts^ andthefudden growih of a Foreign Power, anio which, no fl-op or remedy could be Provided, unlets it were by- Parliament, and an UNION of your Majefty*s Proteflant SubjeUs^ in one mind and one Intereft. * And the Lord Chancellor^ in Purfuance of your Majefly's Com- mands, having more at large demonftrated the faid dangers 10 be as greats as we in the midlt of our fears could imagine them, and fo preffing, that our Liberties, Religion, Lives, and the whole Kingdom would be certainly loft, it afpeedy Provifton were not made a^ainff them. ' And your M'jefty oii the 217? 0^ April ^ i6j9. Having calFd fn- to yoar Council, many Honorable and Worthy Perfons, and declar'd to them and the wnole Kingdom, that bemg fenfible of the evil Eff£ts o{^fir:gle Mintftry^ or private Advice, or Foreign Commit' tee^ for the General Diiedion of your Affairs v yourMajcfty woald for the future refer all things unto that Council, aad by the Con- flant Advice of them, together with rhe Jreqnent nfeot your great Council, the Parliament^ Your Mujrfty was hereafter Refolved 10 govern the Kingdoms y We began to hope we fliould fee an end of our Miferies. ' Bui to our unfpeakable Grief and Sorrow, we foon found our Expedtations frultrated. The Parliament^ then fubfifting, was Prorogued and Dijfjlvedj before it could perfefl what was intent dtd iorowr Relict and Security^ and tho' another was thereupon called, yet by many Prorogations it was put off, till the iiji- of OBoboripaii-j and notwithftanding your Majelty was then again pleas'd to acknowledge, that neither your Perfon, nor your King-. dom could be lafe, till the Plot was gone thorow. It was unexpect- edly Prorrgu'd on the lOth of this Month, before any fufEcicnt or- der could be taken therein j all their Juft and Pious Endeavors to fave XjTsfi^ ;44- Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Trejhyterians Part 2. * fave the Nation, were overthrown ^ the GOOD BILLS they had ' beea Induftrioufly preparing to UNITE all your Majefly's Pro- ' tejtam Subj-.ds broughe to noughtii the Difcovery of the Irifl) Plot ' STIFLED, the VVitnefles that came in frcqi^cutly more fully to de- ' clare that,both oiEngUnd and /rW^w^.DISCOUa AGED Thofe Fo- * reignKingdoms &Siai:es,who by a happyCoi;jnn6ion with us might ' give a check to the French Power, diflieartmd^ even to fuch a Def- * pair of their own Security againft the growing greatnefs of thai ^' Monarch, as we fear may induce themi tot^ke new Refo.utions, ' and perhaps fuch as msy be f ital to us .- The Strtngth aad Coh' ' r4£tf of our Enemies both at home and abroad tti^xtd'i'd : aod our * felveslefs in the uimoft danger of feeing our Country brought in"- * to utter Defclaiion. ' In thefe ^xtrewities^wc had nothing under God to Comfort us, but the hopes, that Your Majelly fbeing rouch'd with the Groans of your Perifhing People) wodd have fiifili'd your Pailiament t® meet at tbeDay unto which ie was Prorogiifd •• And that no further Incerruptioii fliould have been givtn to iheir Proceedings, in Order to their faving of she Nation. But that failed us i< o : For then we heard that yonr Vbjtfty by the private Su^g-iftion of fome Wicked Perfons, FAVOURERS of FOPERY, Pm^t?f^r^ of l-RENCH DE- SIGNS, and ENEMIES to your Majefty and the Kingdom, with- out the Advice, aud as we have good reafon to believe agai.iil the Opinion, even q{ ycuf Prizy-Coanal^hud bcea prevailM with to Dif- folve it^ and to call another co meet at Oxford^ wiiere neither Lords nor Commons can be ia Safety, but will be d^^il/ exposed to the Sword of the Papfls^ and their Adherents, of whom too manyaiQ crept ia'o your Mijefiy's Guards. The Lib rcy of Speaking accord- i'12 to their Conic'ieixcf, will be thereby deflroy'd, and the vali- dicy of all Ad5 and Proceedings C';i lifting in it, left DifputM. The ftraitnefs ot the Phce, no wa/ admits of fuch a Concourfe of Per- fons as now tolIo*vs every P .riiament; the Witntjfes which are ne- celpry to give Evide.'ce agiinH the Popijh Loids,fuch Jadges, or or.hers vvhora t le Commons have Imp'jach'd,or have refolved to Impeach, c in neither hr-ar the Charg/' of goiug rhither,ncr truft 'em- felves under the Proteclion j>f a Parliament, that is itftlf evidently jundsr tne Power of Guards and SolMers. i The Premiflcs coufiflered, We your Majefty's Petitioners out Under King Ch^rhs II. Chap. 2, 345 * out of ajiifl abhorrence of fuch a dangerous and femicious Pai-f 9 . * Council r which the Authors hav€ not dar'd to avow J and the * *" direful Apprehenfions of the Calamities and M'ferics, tkat L/*'V\J * may enfue thereupon ; do make it Our mofl: Humble Pray- * er and Advice, that the Parliament may not Sis at a place, ' where ii will not be able to Ad with that Freedom, which * is necefldry •, and efpecially to give unto theirA(ftsand Pro- * ceedings that Authority which they ought to haveamongft * the People, and have ever had, unlefs impaired by feme * Awe upon them, fof which there wants not Precedents .• ) ' -^nd that your Ma jelly would be Gracioufly pleasM to Or- * der zV to Sit as lVe(lminfier (itbein5the ufual place, snd * where they may Confult and Adt with Safety and Freedom) And Your Petitioners fball ever Pray, ^c. Gyey Herbert Hovoard Deiamer, Let u<; next hear what pall upon this Subjedl in Two free Conferences hetrvetn Father La Chefe, and four confiderahle Jefuits in tk§ State Trads 3 Vol. p. 414 6vC. Sir ^ohn Warner: — — _-^ Let me befeech Your Reverence to fuffer me to give you in ' tiort our Account how the laterells in England are divided ^ to da , * which, I mull'be forced to look back to the Year 1660. Yen know * well, how much all wife and Eood Catholicks did apprehe.id, upon '' the King's rctum that thofe HAPPY DIFFERENCES between the * Epifcopal and Pm^;/r^m« Parties Would have been compofed. The * Kind's Declaration made lis think that he faw /?/; tme hnertft, and * would purfue it. And one would have thought that the Conten- * ders, fhould have grown wiCer, and uled the true way tor the tu- ' lure to avoid tkofe animofuies which had cofl them fo dear. But I it was f9 hafply erdmdy that the mo^ Mfcnet and hottefi of the y y ■ B^iJ'cf'^ MonmoHth Salisbury Shaft i bury Kent Clare Mordant Huntington Stanford Evers Bedford Fffex Paget 34^ Chap, 2. The Loyalty of Vteshyterians Part 2. Epifcopal Clergy were entt nfled with the management of this affiir ; who being /«// ef Revenge for what they !r.d faff^r'd, did not bring wiih chcmthaE feinper which was neced'iry to the good Gonclu- fion of fiicha b'jfi.icfs. some alterations wsre made in ib.^Liturgy^ but fuch as gave no fuisfadion ^&roon after^an exa^Conformityupon harder Terms^ thmever-j was required under the Severefl: Penal- ties. And Informers were everywhere encourag'd to a fevere pac- ing of tlicR' Ljws io Executiorr. Every mercenary Pen A'as cm- ploy'd againfl; cliem. fiie People were taught that Rebel & Fref- bytrrian wtvtSyy.ommoHs Terms *, and that it was Impoffilale to be a Dfl^nter from thtCoe monies of the Church, and ;?o? be Fadious aid Sfdiri us ^akho'they have no Depen^^ance ont upon an^-ther-i In ti'c Univfrruies the Y^uth were taught tc Lok upon ihofe as the iV4-rJ{ of men^ who would r.otccme up to every Title of what La/id in the late King's Keign wo. Id have intrcduc'd. Nay, they went f ) far, as tb2t iomp of the Dignified Cle.igy told the World in Piinf, that to rej'ct any of the tnj'iyned Forms or Ctremomes^ was a greater fin than to cemtr.it thegreateji Jmmordit'es. Nor were they content to reprefent thefe as the worft oiFilUnies unkfs they made them the grcateft of/oo/j too. And therefore the mofl ScHrriloHS fern were chol^n ou: to dtff? them up in as Ridiculous a fl^rt as they could deviie. 1 meotion thofc things to vour Reverence ^tzzu'iQ they were the OCC/^SION and ENCOllRAGEMEN f, where- upon WE VENTUR'D to attempt the Regaining of that King- dom. We obferv'd how deep a difcojiUent this fort of Behaviour towards them had fixed in the hcaitsof all theoppreflld Pariy,and we did conclude thty v^ere men, and would refent it., when they hadOpportunity, and wedid intinnate as muchas we could, their fears into the nai.:dsofche EngU^. Cleigy. At Court WE REPRE- SENT their numbers as dangerous, whilft the Epifcofd Party were as bufiein repiefcnting their Principles as Intolerable. And wewfreTuretohavc THE MINISTERS ON OUR bIDE . For a great mary cf the moll wealthy^ Soher^ and obferving mcn^ t'tiiig ot that Perfuafion •, that alone was fiffitient to nuke them obnoxi- ous and hated, in a luxurtons C(j/^>r,whers niony will ever bti wane- ing ^ and no way to get it, be look'd on as unjuftityable. Tne King was no kfsdifpleaffd with them, for when by our Iiterelt with the Z>. and the Lord CL, we had piocur'd the Declara- tion Under King Charles 11: Chap. z. 347 * tion of Indulgence t^k he fet out in the year f 57,S the Pre byte-Uns P^ ^t O ' ' piefently SUSPECTED f HE KINDNESS, aud, like wife mui, ^ VCl' * cioftd with fhe Conformifls and re^nfi-dthe Bait ; however I'j-tc'or.s lyvNj * it fee m*d, when they faw ehe A/oc)^ that /.'/yundcr it. This liiiug did hii^hly exufperatc the King agaiiifl them. '(Sir Thomas Preflon^^ Yo'j fee ttW Invitations we have to attempt what I pro- p fe, which if JoynM with Common Difcretion and Ordinary Diligence, will without donk be very SucccflTul. If we would fcE up fome in London^ or near ic, to prefent Petiti§ns for putting the Laws in Execution againft Dijfcnrers^ upon account of their late Infolent (as itmitft be called) Petition , or by burning the Rump a- gain,or fome fuch other psblic reviving the Refcncment of the Co/^rt againft the Actions ottlie late times, where we fhould Re- venge their Petitioning^ and their Burning of Pofes^zu^ prevent them for the future. Or if v^e could but get thcfe things done, either by OUR FRIEND 5 A V COURT, or any how, fo they were done, we might make very good »fe of them, elpecially if as Ptepar atory thereuato, (ome Reformation were made upon the Benches at Weft' mincer, and in the C£7««?ry, and all Courts <^{ 'judicature were fil- led with men of warm Tempers^ who have malice enough to the dijfenters, to execute the Laws in good earneft againlt Lhem. T he Imprifonments and Fines, and the Banifhment fr'^m Corpora-ions, would lo purfue both the Preachers and the People, that it would be cafy, with goodmanag€rKent^io\>xoYo)^Qih^\\\OTZl ].-?fl- iome of thcmeaneft^ who are ufually moft zealous, to m little £xcEAi:CNto thirk ot 3p^,tliatrent. Then 'twill ' be fit to diflolve this, from whom no poflihle gcod can be expedted, * and to fumman a New one. For by that time all the Prahyterians y V 2 will 34^ Chap. 2 The Loyalty of Trefhyterians Vc^rt O' ' w'^^^ ^^ ""^^^ ^^^ ^^^ °^^^'^ P*"^^ L^^^' SEVERELLY EXECUT- i. ell L Z. t ED, and under fulpicion of horrid Confpiracie.s by :he M£ FHODS V/*VN^ ' PROPOSED *, and confequently will not dare to precend to be e- * lefted, or to Interpofe ac Eledions, and fo we may once more have * a TarliaTieyit like the lall Lonv one. Aid if we can once again ' gei fuch a Parliament^ then the Presbyterians themfelves will look 'upon a Generil A.61 of oblivion as a Grace, and confequently there- ' by all our Friends may be fet at liberty. I conclude this head with the Hamble Addrefs of the Commons ir Parliiment afllmbled, prefented to the King Munday Novemher 29th. 1680. in anf.ver to his MefHoc ihomTafifJer^ wherein the Reader will find a moft comprehenfivc Hillory of the Managements of tl^e Court in that Reign. It is in the State-Tratis. z Vol. p, 104*^ ^c. -' To that pirt of your M. jelly's Mell^ge which expreflcs a * Reliaace upon this Houfe for the fupport of Tangier^ and a Recom- ' merdation of it toour fpeedy care, we do with all humilivy and ' reverence give this anfwer, that although in due time and order,v7e ' fhall omit nothing incumbent on us for the prefervation of every 'partofyonr Majefty's Dominion?, and advancing the. Profperity ' &flouriniing Eltateof this youf Kingdom-, yet at this t^me when a * Cloud which has LONG THREATNED JHIS LAND is ready to ^ break upon our heads in a ftorm of Ruiii& Confufion,£o enter into any ' further ConfiJeration of this mattery efpscially, to come to any * Refolutions in it, before we are efTdually fecnrcd from the IMMI- ^ NENf and APPARENT DANGERS arifing from the Povv'er * oi'Pofiflj Perfons and CcHncils^ We humbly conceive will not confill ^ either with our Duty to your Majefty, or the truft repofed in us ' by thofe we reprefent. ' It is;7tff «;z^;75ir;z to your Majelly how refllefs the Endearors * and how bold the Attempts of the Popilh Party, for many years ' lail paft, have been, not only within this,but other your Majeilie's ' * Kingdoms, to introduce the Romi[ii^ and utterly to extirpate the true * Protefiam Religion. The feverai Approaches they have made to- * wards the Compafling this their defign .^affifted by the Fieachery of perfiditus Protefiams) have been lb firangtly fuccefsfuly that 'tis matter of Admiration to us, and which we can only afcribe to an t Over. ruling Provideuce,that your Majefty's Rei^u is ftill continued over Under King Charles IL Chap; 2 549 over us, and that we are yet Adembled tn confuh the means of Poi-f; 9* ovif Prefervntion .- This Bloody and R(flL-fs Party not coniCDt with the great Liberty they bad a long time enjoyM to Excrcife their ^^"V^N? own Religion privately amongft themfelve-s top-utakc of an ecjual jreedom of Perfoiis and Eibates with your Maj. flit's Proteftant Sub- jei5ts, and of an Advjntage above them, in being excnfcd from chargeable Offices and Employments, hath fo far prevaiPd, as to find Countenance for an open and avowsd Praflice of their Snpcr- flition and Idolatry,without Controul in feveral Parts of this King- dom. Crf;?? 5ir^r7»j of Prieffs and jtfiiits have reforted hither, and have exercifed their Jurifdidion, and been daily tamferim to per- vert the Confciences of your Majeftie's Subjefts. Their Oppofers they have found means to dif^race, and if they were Judges, Ju- Itices of th? Peace, or other Magiftrates, to have them TUKN'D our OF COMMISSION : And in Contempt of the known Laws of the Land, they have pradiifed upon People of aH Ranks ind Qua- lities, and ^4/«(r^ over divers to their Religion •, ^ome o^enlji topro- fefs it,others fecretly to efpoufe ir, as moft conduced to the Service thereof. ' After fome time they becanje able to INFLUENCE MATTERS OF ST ATE and Government, and thereby to deftroy thofc ihey cannot Corrupt. T^^e Continuarce or Trorogation of Parliaments has been /Accommodated to ferve the porpofes of tbat Party. Money rais'd upon the People to fnpply your Majeftie's extraordinaryOc- cafions, was by the PREVALENCE of POPISH COUNCILS imployed to make IVar u\)o\\ a Prctefiam St^-.te^ and to advance and. Jngment the Dreadful Power of the FRENCH KING, though to the y^pparent hazard of this ^ and all other Protefiant Ccuntries. GreaE Numbersof your Mcjeftie's SubJ€(?ts were fent into, and continued in the Service of tbat King, notwithftanding the Apparent Inter eft of your Majeftie's Kingdoms, the AddrcfTes of the Parliament, and your Majeftie's Gracious Proclamations to the contrary. Nor caa we forbear to mention, how that at the beelnning of the fameWar, even the MINISTERS of ENGLAND were nnc'e Inflrummts to Prefs upon that State, the acceptance of o c demand. among others, from the Fremh King for procuring their Peace with hiiT',that they fliQuidadnit the public exercife of the Eo'^ar-Ci-tloUc Kiltgion in fhg Vnited Provinces, the CMIRCHES TUV.KE ta be DJ^PFD, ad the Romifh Priejis MAINTAIN'D OUT OF THE PU3L1G RE- VENUE. A| '550 Chap. 2. The Loydty of 'Treshterians' Part 2. ' At home, if your Mr.j^fly t^id at ?ny ums i)y the Advice of your Privy Council, or oi Ywur Two Hosfes of Parliament, ConiiPand the 1.3WS to bo put in Executio.i &ga"nrt P^piUs, even FROM THENCE they gaintd A-ivat tsge to U «'i) IViity, while tr e Fd^e ofthcfe Laws was turned agalnfl Protefiam Dijfsnters^ and the Papifts efcapM in a manner iintouch'<'. The Ai'^' o^ Pailiament, ehjiidiug a Teit 10 be taken by all P rions admitted inuo any public Office, and intended for a fecuric;/ agaiiifl P^piils coming into Employment, had To little Effect, tha? cith(-,r by Dlfpefifations, obtained f(cm Rome^ they liibmiaed to thofe Tells, and held their Offi :es them- felves, or thofe pit in their places, wee ^ favourahle to the fame Uerefls, That Pcpery it felf has RATHER GAINED 1 HAN LOST GROUND SINCE TH4iT ACT. 'Bat that theirbalinefs in hand might yet more fpeedily and ftrong- ly proceed, at length a Popifii Secretiry {fince executed for his Treafons; takes upon him to let a Foot and Maintain Correfpon- de icies at Rome (particiila'Iy with a Nadve Siihjtd of yonr Maje- fty's, promoted to be a Cardinal., and in thcCourts of other Foreign Piiijces (to ufe their own Form of Speech) for the Scbditivg that Ptjtdent Here fy^ which fo long d'^mineer''d over this Northern World '^ chat is, to root the Proteftiiit Religion ouc of Englan^^ and thereby to make way the more eaiily to do the fame iu other Proteftani Countries. ' Towards the doing this great Work> (as Mr. Colemai^K^if pleas'd to call it)Jeiijits,the moff- dangerous of ail PopifhOrders to thtLives and Eilite^ ofPrhccs, were diHi ibuted to their feveral TrecitdU within this Kingdom, and held Joint Councils with thofe of the fame Order in all Nciglibour Popifh Countries : Out ofthcfe Com" Cits andCorrefpondencies was hacche thaE Damnable und HelhfJi Plot, by the good pro'idence of Almighty God brought to light above two Years fiiice, but //•/// threatnivg lu ; wheiein the Trcitcrs impatient of longer delay, vtck.ning th^ prolonging of your ficred Majtdy's Life (which God long preftrve) as the great Obfl.cle in the way of the C:snfum.njtioa of their Hopes, and having in their profpect a Prfl/dj/ffir^ .jeftie's t Faithful .Commons found this your M.jeftie's Diflrdled Kingdom^ «. and other Parts of your Dominions labouring^ when we Aflembkd. .«. ' And therefore .from om j^/IegUnceio your Majefly, our Zeal to ■4 our Religion, our Faithfuhiefs 10 cur Country, and our Care of Po- .t Herity, We have lately, upon mature Deliberation, propofed (^ne t. Remedy of theft Great Evils, without which (in our Judgments^ t . all others .m\\ prove vain and fruitlefs, and (like all c^eceittul Secu- i ritics againfl; certain Dangers) will rather expofe your Ma- c jeftie's Perfon to the greatell ha2;ard,and the People, together with' ,5 at] that's valuable to them as Men or Chiiftians, to utter Ruin and .fe Deftruction. We have taken this Occaiioa of an Accefs to your t Majcflie's Royal Prefence, Humbly to lay before your Majcfly's t Great judgment aiidGracious Coniideration this MOST DREAD- .«, FllL DESIGN of Introducing Popery, and, as nccefliryConfeqaen- t ces of it, "— *. ■A Gentleman of good Quality who came late- ly to Paris afiliies me, That if a flranger were to hear theSermons and Difcourfes of the Generality of the Dignify'd Clergy^ he would indeed guefs, that there had been difcover'd of late a horridConlpi- racy againfl the King and Government , but he weuld never gnefs that the Githolicks had been accus'd of it. Gonfiier, if you pleafe, the numerous Party we have there ready to receive every Ir/tpnjfion to the Dilad vantage of P?ril')'f«n;i»/. ' A Numerous Party are longing for fome EvidcHce of a Guilt, which is found only in their cte/ires. Heaven does not only infpirc us with this project, but affifts and initructs us in it. Let us there- fore go OH with our ufual diligence and Conltancy. Every day D£- nSE NEW TALES to encreale the Jealoufy againit the Presbyte- rians. Let us wbifper abroad the ^/f^r?;?/} of their Numbers, the INCORRIGIBLENESS oi iheir Principles. Let us, when things are got to a little more Maturity ,/rr^^r^r« that Evidence which we have ALREADT PREPARED agaiaft them.— ^r- Z 2 2 Warrerf^ art 2- 1^6 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Presbyterians ' ^Varr-gn^ \ :i'ri p^rUdil^ oiSk ySrm Warner*^ Opinion, Thit ro greater happinefs cauld be ^ifh'd in this Jua'bire, Bhan to be able eo fix any feerning Plot up3n the E^jgiifli Ph*in:iticks. It ivouli be like frefli Game flatted, and would cersaialy tempt the ht-headed hnrr^ ters to kwe the old Gaace of the Papfii^ as £hsf call u?, and pur- fue the new Difco'/ery. I know very well eh.it it would be a very great weahiig of the Gomaion Eaemy, and make anothtr Civil War amongft PrcM^eflants^ I know, however their Lejrningbe defpls'd^ by the pretended Church of England^ That yzti\\^iS€verity which they keep up in rhsir M.umers, a ad i'o conl^antly P/efs on their Dlf- cipks, \\dLsm^nextrar>rdin.zry m.wner OBSTRUCTED theAdvaiice- ment of the CathoUs Rdiglon in Emltndy by hindering that general. Debj'jchery and G irrupiim of Manners, ainangit thofe Hercticks, which would have let th^-m in upon us fo eafily. As may be demon- fir atsd by OVR SUCCESS IN THE COUKI\ and oth^r places where none of thof*: Intractable Whinhg Stoich coUfie. I am not Ig- nor^ne that ^■?)' Reconciliation betwixt us and them is Impra[}:cMf. There have been Brjmhalis, and Lands^ and G'Otiuses^ and Lloyds^ have fancied it pofHble to reconcile otmer fort of Proteftams to us, but there ne\rer vvas yet a Man fo fond as to hope for any Unioii between the C^thoUch^ andth'^Dlfcivles ofCdviri. I An alfo Vf'i fen- fihU that NO SORT OF MEM have been fo INDLISTRIOUS la ruining our late hopeful Contrivances, nor none f^ jealous of us \ and conjequently, fo careful to Watch in what /hipe the defigns oi: i\\z Society will next appear. Bat let us put your Reverence ia mind, that it would be ever fatal to us, to fee on Foot fueh an at- tempt at fuch a tim.e and fail in it. - ''We have more than once attempted the fame thing, and have been Defeated. Sir John [Va'-ner mentioned to yoyxrRevt^ rence the iil Succefs of the Defign upon Claypole^ but he forgot to tell you of the later Detedion by Dangerfield. 'Sir Thomas Prefian^ ' I agree with Father Warrtn (faid Sir Tho. Prefton) that it's of ab- folute neceflity that we fliould not fijffer Parliaments to Sit, but I mull add with Sir John Warner^ that it is no lefs necelfiry for us to. fix fomc Conffiracy upon the Presbyterians immediately. Take the Counfelsof both the Fathers together, and we cannot fail of Suc- csfs.Our COUNTEHFEl V PLOT wiU be difcover'd, i^ the PAR- " UAMENT Under King Charles II. Chap. 9. 3 57 LIAMENT SIT. And the Parliavient mnft rrccds (ie i« a liicle Pa*^!' o time ; ii we cannot charge n P/^^ npoii the Preshyierians, (By P/-^/- ^ ^ bytcrian'^ I do not mean choie only that arc really, buc we mull ^■/'V^VJ Older it as Arch-billinp Land ^'id^ who called every one a Pnritan^ who was not br his fort of Govemmen!: iiiC/.v/rc^ and State.) Noc- witbrtanding a!l thasy^r^m /"//;/K;7/V2, that new good Huf- bandry tak^u upatC(W-ds that commonly called the Meal -Tub- plot, the Ac- count whereof is in mcfl; of the Hiftories of thefe times^ buc I chofe Coke's c8 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Preshyter tans Part ^ Co/^c^,hecnr.re of its being fa faccindtly narrated, viae Csi^^ Detecft. ^* (b) * Then a delTgn was fet on Foot tr, throw the Povijh PloE upon tl>c (^y^VNJ 4 Pre^hytiriaris^ by leaving Papers of a Plot in the Lodgings ot the Principal Pet Tons, who were Adive in the Difcovery of the Popidi Plot, ard then to fearch their Houfes, and profecute them upoa it, anJ.thefe Papers %o be given in evidence againfi: them. Mrs. CellUr wJS a Principal Agent herein and Danger field as her Inftru- ment ac [irfc made an Attempt herein, n^oa Coilonel AL-inftl who was profecuted upon it ^ bur. the Examiiaation of ic was referr'd to Sir William "jomSy then Artovney-Gcneral, upon whofe report of it to the Council, they thereupon Vo:ed CcUoneLi^/^'/yWIiinocent, and D^w^erjii Id Guilty^ and that this was a dcjign of the Pi>ipi/}s to lay tht Plot upon the Dffcr.ters Charge^ and a further proof of the PopiJJj Plot. But this was f.Kh a Cnms la Sk William Jones, tiut he was roon^dctputoiitofhispUce, and Si; Robert Sawyer put in it, who won'd not veniure the lofs of his Place lavjHch another Report. VBy this time my Lord Chief Juflice's Zeal, which he Proftil'dfor the Difcovery of the Popifh Plot, was inverted into the quite con- trary, and he v^as not ol the Opinion of the Council : For afcer this Z)^^^(?r/zc7a procured his Pardon, and then difcovered the whole Plot, which iie Printed^ Hereupon Mrs. Cf//i?r was Profecuted and Trycd before my Lord Chief Joftice Scroggs, upon the nth of June,! 580. and Mrs. Celller excepting ^g-MaHDufg^rfitld's evidence: he having his Pardon, the Cife was fcnc to the Cours of Common^ P/fvZi,for their Jadgment upon it^who gave it that Danger ji:id\ evi- derce v/as good \ yet let any Man Read the Tryal, and ice hov/ the Chicf-Jud'cc Raiedand Vilify'd him, [o as Mrs. CelUir was qiit^ and afcei the Tryal^ C.-mmitctd Danger field to Prifon, upon the Account there was a Defeft in his Pardon, tho'ic were not then be- fore him, whether there wasany Defeft In his Pardon or not'. The Houfe of Commons perceiving this Intrigue of the Papiftsfor ^aifing Sham-Prejh)t£rian-flots to difgiiifef/;f/r oirw, and turn thefcent of the Na'jon another way,?flo.^ the Jla.m^^ud (j far was thi^Presby- terian plot from gaining ^?7 Cr^^/f wich them, that they profecnted Ibme who had been the fcandalous Reporters of it, and made the fol- lowing Refoluwion and orders OUober 2 8f/?, 1680. CiE'^part 2 p. 792> Under King Charles IL Chap. 2.- 35(> Refohed, . P-j rf o 7 h.it it doth yifvtay by the tvidence this day given to this Hjufe^ that S'r Robert Gin is g-t.lty of publicly decUring m 'the City of Bnfhl in L/^V^*^ Oa )bci- i579 J hat: there ivus no Popilh Pbt^ hut a PRESBrTERIAN i'LGT. Ordered, Thiit Sr Robert Can a Mtmher of this Honfehe coimnitted to the fnfon of the Tow errand that he be E^P'ELVD 7 HIS HOVSE. 0:defd, Ikat Sf Robert Yearn ms he fent for in Cuflo^y to anfwer for fnhlic' ly dcclaritig in\^\\^o\^ that there rv,is no Popijh Flot^ but a PRESBY- T£RIAN"pLOT. vide a DfpUy cf Tyranny (c) TIt^ Houfe purfu'd this matter fa far, as to appoint a Committee to examine tiic infamous P.4rf!)nThonpfon of B-iftol^ for the f.ime report. The Coaimictee eximin'd eigne witncfles, divers where- of declared that the faid Thompfon ia a Sermon on the 5 orb oijann.t- ry ■' 679. faid there was nothing but a Prefbyterian-Plot^ abu(ing thofs of that perfuadon moil grolly ^ and fayir^g, upon that and other oc- cafions, many fcandalous things both againfl Church and State. The report of the Committee and the vote ofcheHoufe upon it the Rea- der may fee at large in the State-Tracls {dj . I (hall content my feif with tranfcribing the Voteof the Houfe, which \Yas made Decern-' her i4^.th 1680. Refolved, Nemine Contradicente^ ' That Richard Thomp/onClerk hith pablickl/ ^;LWm v;as hang*d, notwich/landiiig the Parliament's Votes j and Stephen Colitdge^ a poor biify Joyner Indi- ted of High Treaion^ for going Armed with the Earl oi Shaft shii- ry to Oxforel, and Other offences taken againfl: him. The Zo«^o«- Jury returned an Igncranuts on the Indidment^ Yet CoI/eJ^e vi^s removed to Oxford^ a new Indidment pret'etr'd againft him'', and the Judges did not doubt of getting fuch a Jury there as wou'd find rhe Bill. It appears by Sir John Hawles^ the late Sollicitor-Generars Learned Remarks on this Tryal, that the whole was nothing elfe but ^COMBINATION of the JUDGES to deftroy him ^ and 'tis jufl the World (hou'd know the chief of thofe Judges was Sir Thtmas Nsrth. Colledge was by the Oxford Jury, Condemn'd and Executed ^ but that mjufi Judgmem has been REP£AL'D BY ACT OF PARLI \MENr. The Earl of Shaftshury himfelf committed to the Tower, and Indided of High-Trcafon \ but the Grand- Jury returnM Ignoramus on the Bill, and the /r;]J; Witnefles which Swore againft him, with difficulty efcaped the fury of the Muhitude. ' The Duke of Tork having been f«nt toScotland with the Charader of Lord High-Commiffioner, behav'd himfelf fo Arbitrarily, that he gave general Difcontent, the P apt ft s 2nd their Adherents^ being the only Perfons that were pleafed with his Governm-cnc. The Earl ot Argyle on a Malicious Profecution, for explaining his Mean- ing when he took the Tell there, was foand Guilty of High-Trea- fon, and had he not made his efcape had lolb his Head four Years fooner than he did. The bold behaviour of the two juries above- mentioned, fo offended the Co«rt, that a Quo W^.rranto was brought againft the City of London^ the Dijfenters were every where P£R- SECVTED mihoutji^ftice or Mercy: And a few MiferMe Inhabi- tants of mofl Towns and Counties in England^ engaged to fend up Addrejfes'xn jif probation Qii.\\tk?voQttd\Q^'&. At the head of thefe were the lev d fort of Gentry, who thought i^dxfulje Loyalty wou'd make amends for the negleft of iheir Duties to Gcd and their Neighbour.Sheriffs were impos'd on theCity by Ftfdtnce^oxNerth & Riok had never had thatHonour,theChaiter was taken away in 1(583. A a a And '^6i Chap. 2: The Loyalty of TrePyterims Par -*- r> -. * And tho' the Meal-tub Ploi fiird^that: of the Fye-hcufe HiGceeded fo ' well, that the Lord Rufel, Sir Thomas Arm^troTjg^ Captain Wallcoat^ l3/"VNJ * and others, were Execated for it. Let who will take offence^ this Tef- *' tiiiiony muft be born to the Meiis of that hrdi^QEngUjli'Man : That ?' fcarce all the Misfortunes that have attended hisEnemies fince, have * been fufficient to at tone for the Righteous Blood of fo noble and fo *• Innocent a Gtin'Jemai, whofe Death the Parliament oi England have ^fi^iCtSOLrMNLT DECLARED TO BE A MVRTHER. The * Earl.ai Ejfex w^^s found De^d in the Tower with his Throat Gut, * and a famous Writer put up-n glviiig an eloquent Account of the ' G:!nipirjevwhich wispublfh'd in the King's Name. Coll one ISy*^- * w^^f^tbe Eiiii of L^it'f/?^^^ Brother, was Gondema'd and Executed ' for Writing aB -ok which was not theiiPrinted^but oj late \t has paf- ' fed the Prefs, and noTreafon appear'd in it. Bateman theChi'-urgeon,'. '" R0ufe and others were ferv'd in the fame manner 5 and 'tis well ' there were no more Proteftants SACRiFICED to xht Manes q{ the ' Pop/JfcS4i»fj, who y^J^r'^ for that Confpiracy. Quo Wart antos were * fene ajz,ai.ifl: rneji oj the Corporations in England^ that wou'd not fur- * render their Charters ^and there were not wanting in all Burroughs ' certain Tools to forward the delivery of thefe Charters ; They were ^ generally Men of no Morals nor Fortune^ and confeq'iently fis for ' any bad Service they wtve fut upon. All their Merit confiiled in * their ZEAL v^Gv^lNST DISSENTERS ; w th thePlnnder of whofe. ' Houfes, Shops, Barns and fields, they maintained their Riot and Dc t- banchery ^ fome thou9;htlefs Ptople were eiigag'd to fide with them « cue of Bigotry orFear^ and fome out of a natural Inclination to Rule 5 , * for by their cry of Rebellion aeainfl: r heir Enemies, and of Lcyalty t in themfelves, all this Paity then cJkd Tories were Tyrants in * the places where they lived. Enough ofthele Wretches, who are » long fince PerilhM, and may no worfe Fa^ion ever Rife out of their - ^ » Corruption. I fliall further fecommend to the Impartial Reader the perufal of the Book L^dlMlt^^No Proteftmt Plot^ in three Parts'^ wherein he'll find the Villany of the Witn- fles againfl Shaftsbury^ and many other things i^eteding the whole Forgery ; and in the Book^ callM Tyranny DtJplayed^Part i/,He'M be furnifli'd with fuchRemarKs upon the I ryals of the Great Lord Rajfel^ Colionel Sydney, Sir Thomas yirmfirong, and poor ColUdge^ii^ others, as may convinice him, thaf they, and others aftef> Under King Charles II. Chap t: 3 6*3 iifteT their txpv^(!Cmg a peculiar Zeal agiih\fk?o\)evy^ Arbitrary Pow- Poff o^ er and a Popifh Succcfror,wcre plainly Mnrt hired in ihc form of Juftice^ and all by the Popifh connivance of the Ryehonfe-PUt. ^nd therefore U/'VN«> I rannotbut differ in Opimon from our Author, who thinl^s the Rye^ Bonfe-FUt an Argument againfl: the Loyalty of Proceftant DifTenters, whereas the Papilts vvon'd never have put fuch s Plot upon them, had they not b^Qa afTured of their being hrecondleable Enemies lo Popery and Slavery, and (iansh friends to his Majeftie's Perfon, Crown and Dignity; againfl which they were carrying on their Hellifh Confpi- racies. What do's further prove this jljam-plot to be a mcer forgery oi the Papifts, is, the FoHclcer our Author has produc'd for fixing it upon Proteftant DifTenters, I mean, Dr ^/r^w's Hiftory of the Confpiracy; for that Book was publifhed in the year 1685, by the fpeciil order and Command of the late King James^ prcfixt to it. The Book it feifis Entituled, A True Account and Declaration of the horrid Confpi- racy agair.fi the late Ktng^ His prefent Majefiy^ and the Government^ as it xvas ordered to be pitblifijedby his Late Ada jtfiy. And had not the book been very Subfervient to the dcflgns of that Prince, for advan- cing Popery, and Arbitrary Power, he woaM not have taken tbaii notice of it, he did : nor wou'd he have been lo fond of it's publi- cation. And let any found Proteflant, who loves the Liberties of his Country, perufe the Book ferioufly ; and try, if he can pofTihly be of another Judgment. There are two things in it which makes that marter as plain as any thing of that kind can be,z//2:. i/, The Commendation and Applaofe which is given in it to fome of the Hioft Arbitrary Methods that were taken in the ReJgn of King Charles id. %dly. The Reprefcntation it gives of the Complaints of the danger of Popery as groundlefs. As to the^r/?, it is indifputablc that the breaking the Charter of the City of London^ and the compelling the other Corporations of England to Surrender their Charters and give up their Liberties,was the dircft road to the erfiaving of the Subje^^ and ^the dejlmElion of the freedom and PriviUges of Parliamtnt, and ccnfrquently of the whole Conftitution. And yet this Book beftows very ample £^7r(j- minms upon thole pradifes of the Court, and makes 'em to be the peculiar Glory of that Reign, in thefe words, p. 8, p. i Wherefore his Majefty foreleeing how deftrudivcjin time, the A a a 2 Effeas ^ 3^4- Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Tre/hyteriant Part 2* Effiifls of fo great and growing a Mifchief would be, rcfohed at Ici^th^after many intolerable Provocations, to finh at that which he had now found to be the very Root of the Faftlon. ' This his Maj^ity and all wife and good Men pereeiv'd, could be no otherw'Te done, than/r/by REDUCING the ELECTIONS of the Sheriffs ot London to their ancientOrdcr & Rules,that of Ute were becoTie only abufinefs of CLAMOUR & VIOLENCE; And then ro niike Inquiry into the Vdielityoi the Cty-Charter h felf :;, which an ILL PARTY of men had abufed to the Danger, and would have done it to the Deftrudion of the Government, had they been fuffcred to goon never fo little farther Uncon- troul'd. * Inhoththefe moft juft and necefTiry Undertakings, the Ri^h^ teorf^efs of his AfrjefiWs Caufe met with an anfwerable Succefs, Firlt^ Noiwichftanding all the lumuhuous Riots the Factious par- ty committed, to diftiirb the peaceable iflue of that Affjir ; \e6 iheun loiibced Right of the Lord Mayor's Nominating the eldefi: Sheriff, was reliov'd and eflablifhsr^ .• Andfo the Admiiiiflration of Juflice once mare put in a way of being cleared from PamaLty and Corruption j and then a DUE JUDGMENT was obsained, by an eqval proccft of Law, againfl: the Charter it felf, and its f ran- chiies declared forfeited by his Majefty. ' and in fage 164., 165^ We have thife words ' Hi/ Majefty cannot here forbear to lee the world know, what entire fatisfaction he has taken in one fpnial Tefiimony of his Subjefts Affeftions ^ whence through God's Gra- cious Providence ih^Monarchy has gained d. moft eonfiderable advan- tage, by means of this very Confpiracy *, and it is, th^t lo great a number otthe Cities and Corporations of this Kingdom, have fince fo freely rtfign'd their Local Immunities and Clo art ers into hi-s Maje-* [tie's Hands ; leaft the Abufe of any of them fhould again hereaf- ter prove h zardous to the Juft Prerogatives of the GroA^n. ' This his Majefty declares he eftecms as the PECULIAR HO- NOR of his Reign-, being fuch as none of the moll populai of all his late Royal PredecffTors could have promifed to themfelves^ , ' or hoped for. ' This is Dcmonftration that that Rye konfe-pUt was contrived and forg'd to advance -/Arbitrary Government, and deftroy the Liberty ©fthc Subject; and that 5pr^rtV Hiftory of it, commends Slavery tot .Under King Cli^,rlcs 11. Chap. 2. ^(5^ for Loyjtlcy^ and A ■ bitrary ?owcr hv jnfi Prerofa'ive, -but Piirt '2 2rt'/y, Tho' what 1 have advanced from the v^ddrefTiS and Voters of ' Parluments, and Other undenyable Teftimonies /how chat tiicNations L/'vNJ were in eminent danger, of being overrun with Popery and flivc- rp -, yet that Book aflerts;?. i62.An thefe complaints, to have been but Groum^.lefs Rumeitrs of Popery^ favery, and Arbitrary Poirer. Let us compare what has been faid with theaccount^given bytic Inge- nious Mr P/>rc .A. ^ difoivfCd hy himfeir, dttr'd by King James, CdcuUted for the M- i cirC 2. ^^„cewe/?.^ of Popery and Slavery, and PubllfhM by that unhappy \Jf*V*^ Prince, while he v^-as eagerly pHrfmngthe Meafiircs that vs/ere deftru- (^ive of the Welfjie of his good Subjeds. And I heartily wifh our Author,for his own fake as well as for the fake of Truch,wou'd for- bear thh Meihcd of impofing upon his Reader, by his referring as to fiich Pofijl.' Forgenes^ in Defence of his Allegations againil Presby- Itrians. I come next toconfider the Murther of the Arcbbifhop of St. An^ drtws, another Crime Okjeded lo the Presbyterians in this Reign; but this was a Fad Condemned by the Presbyterians, and therefore 1 can't fee what Ground there can be for charging them with it, as our Author does, for fiippofe him to be furthered by feme few ot that Perfucfion, who were his Tenants enraged againil him byOppreffioa, ] don't fee how Presbyterians are accountable for their Crime, any more than all the Murthers, Rebellions, Aduktries, and other Ciimes committed by Men of other Pejcfuafions are chargeable upon the Com- Itiunities to .which they belong. As to the Rebellion (as our Author calls it) fubfequent in Scotland upon this Murther, it was the Ad not of the Body of Presbyterians, but only of a Part ot them made Mad by unexampled Opprefllon, which fcemsto have been contrived by the then prevalent Fadion, of purpofe to raife a Rebellion, and rake occsfion from thence to ruia the Nation and make way for, Popei y ^ as the Noble Earl of Shaftsbu- ry obferves in his Speech in the Houfe of Lords, March 25. 1^79, vide tftate-Trads p.?!,?^- Vol. 2. ' Tcfery and Slavery like two Si/ler?^ go hand in hand, fometimes *■ one goes firll, fometimes the other in a Doors ^ hut the other is al- * V\/ays folmvirg clofe at hand. In EngUr.d Fcfery was to have brought * in Slavery, in Scctland^Slavcy went befoie,gndi'^ff>7 was to follow. ' 1 do not think your Lorcihipscr the Parliament have any JuriC- * d dion there ^ it is a Noble and Ancient Kingdom •, they have aa * lllnfirieHs Nobility, i.6'j'dwith the Pains there fptcify'^, the Article of the ApoIloHe Creed, J believe the Communion of Saints^ notwijhitanding. 2i//y, by the fame Aft it is declar'd, Tb^t whofoever without Licenfe or Au- thority aforefatd.^ Jhall Preach or PrAy at any Field- Meeting., cr in Any- Hoafe where there be more Perjonstkm the Htufe ctntainsfo as/»me cf them be without Dtors/ who may only be £v/o or three, and pofbed there by MaiiceJ or who (ImllConvocate ihefeMeetings^floallbepunijjj^d { with Death and ConffcAtitn of their Coeds^ and the Seizers sf I'^ck B b b Perfons 570 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Pre/hyteriam "P^irf ^ ' Terfons are not only indemnify* d for any Slaughter that jhallbe commit^ ■^ * ^ tedinthe affrehending^ but alfo ajfur'd of five hundred Mirk Scots of 4^/v^SJ I ^nr^ir^y, for each Perfon of them feizjd and feeui^d. So mortal a ' thing is this Field-Conven tiding, the Mafs and all its Idolatry ' hath nothing in \i fo deadly. ' ' Thirdly^ by \\\tfixth Aft of that Seflion, there are confiderable ' Pecunial Pains ordain'd againft diforderly Baptifms \ fuch as thofe ' are reckon'd to be^ That are perfsrm^d by Outed-Mini/erSy not Li- ' ctns^d^ or by any other than the Parifli-Miriijter^ without his Certificate^ ' or in cafe he he j^bfent^ the Certificate of one of the Neighbouring Mini" * fitrs. Fourthly^ by the feventh Adt it is appointed. That alibis Ma- *" jefifs SnbjeUsofthe Reformed Religien(^ov ?2X>1^% thit are without, * God judgeth) fiiall attend Divine Worfinf in their oyon Churches^ under * the Pecunial Pains there mentioned^ toticS quoties, ^c. and in Cafe * any landed Man fhall withdraw for the fpaceof a Year, notwith- ' Handing their being therefore fully Fin'd, They are to be prefented ' to his Majefi'*s Council, xvho are Authorized to require of them a Bond^ * not to rife in Arms again fi hisMa]efiy^ or his Ctmmijfioners fas if aMan ^ * couM not be fo far diiDtisfy'd with a pitiful Country Curate, but he * muft alfo befufpeded for Difaffedtion to his Majeflyj which if they * rejufe or delay ^ they are to bt imfnfon^A or banifi)*d^ a?id both their fmgle * and Life-Rent'Efche at doth immediately fall to his Majefly, And laftly, * by the Teco 'd Aft ot that fime SefTioo, It is 5r^fw^^ C^ Ordaiji'd^ * That all Perfons thereto caWd- by the CoukcH^ or others having his Alaje- ' fty'^s Authority are vblig'd in Cnfcience (very fair ! ) and Duty^ to dC' ' dare and drpofe upon Oath ^ their Knowledge of any Crime^ and varticU" ' Urly of any Conventiaes^ and of the Circumfiances of the Perfons prejent^ ' and things done therein ; may not tlien any one be brought from the ' Streets, aud urg'dto become upon Oath, Informer, Accufer or * Witnefs, upon all that he ever faw or heard in his Life,againfl: him- ' felf, his Friend, Father, and all Men elfe ? or if htjhallbe fo per^ ' verfiy wicked or dijloyaly as to refufe or ctlay^ he is to be punijVd by Fi- * ning^ clofe Imprifonrnent^ or Banifhment^ by Jexding him to the Indies, or * elfewhsre, at theCouncil^s Pleajure, Suie I am, the Spa?2ijJj Inqnifitioa '^ hath no broader Warrant. And yet notwithftaading all tbefe, my * Lord Lauderdale by a new Aft of the third Seffion of thisParliament, ' procures the Execution of the above mention'd Afts againft Con- ' vrnticlers, and withdrawers from piiblic Worfijip, to be enjoiu'd * to all Sheriffs and Magiftrates, with an exprefs Provifion, that they ihou'd Under KingCh^rlts^ IL Chap. 2 371, ' (hou'd render an Account yearly of their Diligence, under thePain P^j-f 1^» * of fi\^e hundred Marks Scots. ^i-\r*KA If we confidcr the Birbjrous Treatment the Scotch Presbyterians Kj"^*^^ met with before chat lufurredion at 5of/?iPf/-Bridr/, the Proceedings againft *em being as O iious and Unjuftifiible as thofe of the Spanish Inquifition, and a manifeft violation of the Law of Nature and Eflen- tiil Liberties of Mankind ^ their Deplorable Cafe ought rather to be niestion'd with thii Comp.tfflon which the Chrijiian Rel:'giofT, and even Haman Nutiire It felf makes Dae to ihem*, and with a jufl Abhorrence of th^Vrtnaturaldiwd, Cruel OpprelTnH by which they were driven in- to Defenfive Arms, than with thefe hard Terms cf Difloyahy and Rebellion. The Parliament of ScotUnd fwho were better Judges of that Matter than csr Author) were fo far from Calling that Pradice Rebellion, that they pafs'd zn A^July 4. 169©, Entitled, JU: Re. fcmding Forfeitures a?jd Fines^ pafi f nee the Tear 1655. From whence u appear?, that in the Judgment of that Parliament, the Perfons who made and were AccciT^ry to the fald Infurredion were not accounted Rebels. The following vVords of the faid AcX do clearly prove this Point. ' OUR SOVEREIGN LORB aad LADY, the King and Queen's * Majelties, and three Eftates of Parliament, in PROSECUnON" * OF THE CL^IM OF RIGHT, and for Relief of their M^jeftie's * goodSubje(5ls,,and the betterSettlemenJ of thePeice,Quiet and Tran- * qaility of this Kingdom, by the Tenor hereof, Declare, Statute and ' Ordain, that the ziecreets and Dooms of Forefaulture proneunc'd * againfl: the Perfons after Nam'd viz^\ fhere follows a vaft Number of the Names of many of thofe who were ae PentLmd aad BothmU Bridge) ' and generally,3nd whatfoever Decreets andDoomsand For- * feitures, given and pronounc'd againft any of the Subjefts of this * Kingdom, either by the High-Couri of Parliament, or Ordinary, * or Circuit Courts of Jufticiary, or any other Court or CommilTion, * from the firfb of January onQ thoufand fix hundred fixty five, to * the fifth day of A^oyrwkr one thoufand fix hundred eighty eighth, * with allEfcheates fallen upon theGround of the faidForfeitures^fince * the faid daycare, and fhall be void^ and of no avail^ force, firen^th^ - nor Effe^ in all time comings Refcinding andReducing the fame for I ever,cxc€pc theDecreets of Forfeiture pronounc'd againfl\here are fome PerlonsNam'd who were juftly forfeited forAtrociousCrimesj; B b b 2 ' And Chap. 2 The Loyalty of Trefhyterians Part ^. And in like m?nner,all aid (\i^^rf fnfsftments^ Charters, Precept?, Inftriiments of Seafin, Prefentations, s.-'d ocher Rights wha£f)ever of l^nds, Heritages, Tciiids and PofTiffiins, mAde^nA granted, and proceeding upon thsifaid For feititreSj and Hernin5'M-Mj, zxlofm Force, Stre»gt h nor Ejf^^i, and that wichoau any fpecial' Frocefs of R€dudion,or other l^darator to fjlb'.v thereiipDn. DcJclaring this prefcRt ^cl as fuffi. dent to all Parciss concern'd, as U Che U'ld Sentences oiForefaultHres and Hcrnings, wish she faid Chirters-^DifpofiEions, and other Righrs and Tides whatlbcver, with 5he Decreets and Sentences following thereupon, were fpecially and orderly Retreated and Reduc'd, and as all Parties having Intereil had been fpecially call'd thereto. Likeas, fiheir Majellles,' and three 'E.^axts^Re-hahiUtats ^Re4ntegrAt es 3nd Rrfiores h many of the faid Perfons as are living, and the/I^/*?- mory of them who are Deceased, fiheir Heirs, Suceeffors and Pofteri- ty, to their Goodsj Fame, and Worldly Honor, and to ufe all law- ful Ads and Deeds in Jodgment, and out-with the famiRc, and to all and fundry their Lands,Hcritages,T3cks, SeeidingSj Debts, and Poffeflions whatfoever, which they, or any of them hadjthe time of the leading of the faid Procefs againfl them. « And further, Their Majeflies and three Eftates, Ordain the Per- fons forefaulted, and the Heirs of them, who are Deceased, to be fully Re-poffefs'd to their Lands, Teinds,' Heritages, Tacks, or Poiletrions, whereof they or their PredecefTors were in Pofleflion, the time when they were challcng'd for the Deeds whereufon the Forefaultnres follow'd^ with full Right and Accefs to all Bygones lince the Time of A^Iartinmafs 1688. incli^fve, with all other Bygones, yet reftirg iinnfltfted in the Tenants hands : As likewife, to all bygones whatlbmever, intromctted with by any Donatar, or his Afligneys, in the cafe of fpecial Reafons, and Ads to be pall thercancnt, in manner aftermention'd. Likeas, their Majefties with Advice and Confent of the faidEflatcSjdo difchargeall Fines yet unpay'd,which were impos'd by Sentences from the firft of January ^ one thonfand fix hundred fixty jive, to the fifth of Novtmber^ one thou/and Jix htm- dred eighty eighty upon any Pcrfon or Perfons for Church-Irregula- rities, Unie^ King Cbarkst II. Cfijap 2. 37^ rkle?, or Non-Conformities, or ref-jflng of PnblicBx)nds,QrSubfciip Po.r(. 9 tions and Ojths, or for not obeying Ads, Proclamations, or Or- ders thereancnc, Refetting of, or Converling with Rebels, for the L/^V^S.) Caules forefviid', refufing Co depone on Libels ngairifb themfeU'c?, in Capital: Cafje?, slxit reftridcd to Arbitrary PaniOimcnc , aad any Bonds granted for thefc Fincs,widi all Hornings,_ D::iioiinciitions, and the ktercommunings, Given, Prononnc'd, and iflu'd fl:;rth i'a Pjrliara^nE, or by any other Court, CommilTun againll r^^-f Perfons, FOR THE SAID CAUSES; ~! ^ And feeing many of the Lied'ges were Spuilzied and Plundered without Any Previous Sentence^ and Bonds and other Riglits e/crcr.v- tcrtsd or exaded from them throughfr^randrfrrpr.-Th.eirMajellie?, with A'Jvice and Confent forefjid;, ordains theCreditors, or others having Right, to deliver up to the Debitors, all Bonds, and other Rights extorted or exaded upon the Accounts forefaid, and where the Bonds are regiHirat, xo grant Difcharges thereof, bearing a Claufeof Regiflration,and that betwixt and the firfl- cf Novemhsr nexE under thePain of the double of the Penalty in the Bond, to be decern'd againft them, without any Modification, in cafe the Bonds be found to bivc been extorted, or exaded in manner forefaid, and inlifled for,or not delivcrM up to theDebitors therein. And likevvife ordains the Clerks of thcPrivy Counciljand the Clerks of any other Courts, general Receivers, and others who have in their Hjnds, Bonds which were extorted, or exafted, on the Accounts forefaid ", to deliver up the fame- to the Debitors, if they be requir'd .• and allotvs the forefaid Perfons Spuilzi'd and ilmdertdy to purfue for Repetition of the Damages and Spuilzies, on the Accounts fore- faid, for which Bonds were not granted, either before the Com- mifHon appointed by this ad,or the Judge ordinary, as they pleafe 5 And appoints the Lords of Seflion, upon probable Grounds, to grant Sufpenfion of any Charges to be given on the forefaid Bonds without Caution or Confignation, and that gratis^ without Pay- ment of any Dues. >4nd their Majeftles, and Ellates of Parlia- ment, being willing, that this prefent jidihz inviolably J^^p^^^Q^^ dains the fame,andvTliolcClaufes thcreof,to be inttrftct byaijjudr.^ s and Miniflers of the Law, in the mofi extenfi've Se^fe gj^j Ccri^ flruEtion the Words can beaf^ in favors of the Perf0ns Forfeit g^ Fined Demmc'd Br OTHERWISE LESED as faidis, --1 ! , And 374 Chap. 2. The Loyalty of Preshytertans Parf "9 ' ■ And itis hereby declaiM, that this prefent A6t Ihall bs J. «irL z. (. as valid £nd effectual to all others Our Liedges Forfeited, Fined, Qi/'-VN.^ * or otheruife Lefed^ as forefaid^ from the faid firft day of January * oae thoniand fix hundred fixty five, to the fifih day of November *■ one tho'ufand fix hundred eighty eight, and not here nam*d, as if * they had been panicularjy here infert .- Declaring likewife, that ' this prefeat Ad is without Prejudice of any who have been Fof- ** feited, Fined, ov otherwifc Lefed m manner^ and af on the Grounds * forefaid^ In the Reign of King Charles id. before the Year one thoH- ' fand fix hundred fixty five, to bring in their ProcefTes or particular * Ads before the Pariiamenc, or fuch as they [hall appoint for that ^ Efi'ed^ and to crave and receive RedrefTes, according to the Merit ^ of their Ciufes, as Accords of the Law : Many other Privileges are declar'd by the above Ad to belong to theFofeiced Pd r3riS therein ra :nti jned,too longto be here inferted.But from the wholcTeaor of theAd,theirMaJ£fl:ies KWHiiam & Q.. Mary of Glorious Memory, &the Sects Parliament who fet the Crown upon their Flcads, and npprov'd of the late Happy Revoluuon, did not account the Infurredfions ai Pent land and Bofhwel-BndgQ to be Acts of Rebellion. For if shey had thought them to be fuch, v/hy fhou'd they have declar'd the perfons who were forfeited upon thefe Ac- counts to BE LESED.^ Certainly a Rebel forfeited for his Rebellion caa'c be faid to have been Ufed or injured ^ by his lofing Life, and E- fl:atc, which he has juflly forfeited .- and 'cis very obfervable, that this Law is not an Act of Grace, but of Juilice, for it is founded up' en the Clait?^ of Right -^ and accordingly, ii does not only render the Difpof-jl of the forfeited Eftates null and void for the future, biitex- prefly declares alllnfefrments, Charters ^q. and all Decreets and Sentences of any Judges &c. to have been null and void from the be- ginnirg. No Law can jnflly make the Sentence of a Judge concerning the Forefaukure to be void&nkll fr$m the beginning ^whcn that Law is po- llerior to the Sentence of the Judge,unlers the faidSentence be void in it felf from the beginning^And thatSentcnce can't be void in it feIf,feuE for one of thofe rn?oRealons,either becaufer .The Perfon is condemn'd for a Fa(a,which tho' clearly prov'dagainft him,is/« itfelf no Crime, d>c To can't render him obnoxious toaPenalty,or LBecanfe there hiL&t fff' fcicnt Proof of the matter of Fad, tho' it be a i^rirae. Now, let us apply Under King Charles II; Chap. a. q 7 ^ apply this to tbeCafe of thefe forfeited (nv being atPentland ^nd Both- Po-i-f /» . well'iridge. Many of them were upon Trial clearly and evidently * "•■*^L z. provV to hiave been f;;^^^V and c<7«c-;&c.And to feize ofthePeribn of hisGrsce theLd. Lieut. *&c*. To infer' from hence thai thcParliapnent believ'd [here wasfiich a Plot as they delcrib'd, is a very native Coifcqacnce \ but then, how /hall vve know upon whatPartv they f.x'dtheGuih of it?For theWords quoted by our Author (unlcfs they be compar'd with Tome ochef pars which he hath not quoted, and of which I can make no Judgmeni) don*t in the leafl: decide that Quellion 5 in order lo which, it muft be iiiquir'd whatDsnomination or Party they were fpeaking of in the preceding part of their Declaration, with which the Words quoted by our Author are conneded . And to make his Argument good, he mult produce fome Words which HecefTiriiy infer that this PalTige is to be apply*d to Presb)teriafis ovProtefiant Dijfentert ^ and he mud yet gooneftep farther, and prove the Parliament fix'd this Plot upon the Collective Body ot Presbyterians or Pi oteftant DifTentersin/r^/^^^, and that they did not confine it to lome few of thefe Denominations; Our Author indeed inferts a parenthefis of his own thiis * They (i.e. ' Dijfenters) did moft Traitoroi;fly and Difloyaily confpire to raife a ' Rebellion in this Realm &:C But I am not fare that he has not mi- ftaken the Parliament's Meani. g and Words, and that he has not put a Glofs and Commentary upon them which they will not bear. The Account which f will prefently give of the Innocence of the Presbyte- rians as to the Matter q{ Blood's Plot inclines me to believe that our Anthor has not rightly apprehended the Parliament's Senfe, who knew better things than to be Guilty of that miilake. Of the fame Nature is that precarious AScnion of his, ' But far- ther, as an Inflance of the Indefatigable Application of the Diflen- ters of thofti Days, and the v^ftful manner of their Addrefs, in Hf. tira Perfons of all Ranks into their Service •, They had not only in- ftu"ac'd many of the Common- People whom they judg'd able to fuftaia 'em, had they fucceeded in thatConlpiracy againit theChurcti and State ^ bus they had brought over feverai Members of ikeHonfe of Commons to bc Actors and \bctfors in their Hots ^ oi which thz Parliament takes notics in x}at fame DecLirdtion^ in thefe Words, viz.. And whereas one ofthofe Pcrfgns f» JHJlly ExccHud^ ^ndfome f- :hers alfo &e. ^t ' UpOB Under King Charles II?., Chap. 2; 377 'Upon Rcariins; thi? Paffage, I expected our Auchor wou'd have Pot-f- r> piov'd two chings by this Declaration, i. That the Members of Par-" *"* iiamenc Gniky cf /)/(7?ir^'s Plot, Yizrt brought into it ^^rfc, That the Dilfenters were Guilty not of x.im fwgle Plot only, but of more^bz- canfe he fpcai\s ci their Plots, and that they had drawn Members of Parliament into them ail,and that the Declaration clears thefe points. But 1 find my ffltdifappointed \ for the Declaration (fo tar as he has quoted it j fays not <7«^ iror^^ of the Peifonsby whom thefe Parlij- ment-men wcreenfnar'd into this Plot, nor does is make the lead mention cf any other Plot, in which thofe Members wire engaged. This Author's loofe wriy of Reafoning^and pretending to prove things by what will hardly amount to an innuendo^^zn never convince the Judi- cious, tho' it may go well enough down with the Wfaklirgs and Bigas of a Party. To ihow that I have not wrong'd our Author, by afTerting that that part of theDeclaratioa he qnotes, proves none of the Points for which he adduceth ic, I fhallhere tranfcribe fo much of the Declara- tion as he hlmfelf hath fct down (for that purpofe>) in his Book, ' And whereas one of thofe Perfons fo juflly Executed, and fome o- ' thersalfo who were involved in the Guilt of that Hideous Confpi- ' racy, were Members of the Cow/wo;?;-//.?///^ of Parliament, which * we mention with inward Sorrow and Grief of Heart, and with ' Horror and Detellation, to find that any Perfons, who had the ' honor (under the Proteftion of his Majefty's blefled Governmejt) * to be Members of this Houfe, &c. fhould be fo ungrateful, nay * Frayterous and Difloyal, as to Gonfpire againft that Government, * they were bound by the Laws of God, and Nature, to contribute * their bed endeavors topreferve and Maintain &c. And this Houfe • * doth aifo declare the deep Senfe it hath oifhis Grace the Duke of ' Orwi«A great Prudence and Seafonable Prevention of the Sad, ' Bloody, and Dreadful Effe^its, which might have follow'd thereupon * throughout this Kingdom \ for which his continu'd Watchful £n- ' deavors for the Safety of the King and Kingdom, We do return his ' Grace the moft hismble and hearty Thanks of this Houfe &Ca And * that this Houfe may not fail in any point of Duty to his Majefty, ' We are fully refolv*d to make flri<^ Enquiry, what Members oi ' this Houfe have been fo wicked, as to have had any hand in thofe C cc Hor., 578 Chap. . y* The Loyalty of Presbyterians Parf • ' Horrid Guilts, fa hateful tc^ God and Man, &c. And to the Etid •I ail 2, t fi^jg Declaration may be delivered over to Pofterity, &c. It.*s 01- iyV^sJ ' dered, that this Declaration be entrcd in the Journal Books of the ' Proceedings of this Houfe, Dated the \do{ Novcmbtr^ 1655. But 1 fhall here give fome (hort Account of5/^Iy in Mr Baxtsrs Life, part 3. p. 88. than in any other Book I have met with. '■ There was (fays he) this Year a Man much talk'd of for his En- * t^rpriiis, one Mapv Bloo Jan Er:glijh-man oi^ IrcUnd. This Man * liad been a Soldier in the Old King';;- Army againfl; the Parliament, ' and feting the Caufe lofl, he betook himfcif towards Ireland^ ' to live upon his own Eftate. In his way he fell in Company with ' the Z.Y/i///.'f Spirit, he was one thai: Plotted the Surprizing of the ' Duke of Ortnovd:, and of DHhlin'-CfiJik. But being detct^^ed and ' pre .ented, he fisU into England ' ^ylood had a Brother-iri-Lavv, one Mr Ucly aDlflenting Mifrifler, wholisd beena Fello V in the Colicdge of DnhUn^ was a Man of >Parts, and was engag'd in this Plot j Blood zw^ \\z us'd their utnioft I lijiercfl tobring into it as m.my as they coa'd. But they cou'd pre- vail Vv'ith fclK ornone, but with thofe w^ho had been Sedaries, and Crwfrir/r^ni- f^sUiey wcrecafi'd. There were three Memorable At- ttrflpLS thai^/f*^5ct«^j made upon the Sects Presbytcrians^two in the Koit'h 'dfliiUzti and orcein i)tlili?9 : U\s.\] vvhich thvy Wcie repuH'd with Under King Charks II. Chap. 2. 379 wich a PecnHar Loyalty and Steadinefs, by a People who were then Pai-f 9 in hard Gircumflance?, and ul'd otherwife thm their loyal ylpdcarar^ce ^ ^» and Sufferings for the King gnve 'em reafon to cxped they fliou'd have lyVNJ h^^wBlood and Z- was Treasonable • and by this meaas ttisir conccaling.of wh.5t paffd between 'eifi (iirall they were examined afterwards, of v/hicli I fnall prcleritly^ivean Ac- coitat) was not chargeable wiih^jthe Injpnta,;;on of rvhrprUlon of Trcafon, as thdr Judiiesacknowltdg'd. 'i hey m^de fiicJh ;an Attempt in thcCounty oi London- Derry up>n theRevererid Mr 3^fli'^;,//'i^f, mak- ing the fame propolal to hiin which they bad m?d£ in ilie (iountyof Vomtj but had no better Snccefs. And in Dublin they made a* Expei i. C c c 2 i mene gSo Chap. 2. The Lojahy of Treshyterians P^rt 2 i^e"t upon Mr T'/jtfwz^^^tfj^sf an Eminent and VVealtby Citizen, of the * Pfcsbyterian Perfuafion, and nr.ei with tht fame Repul/e. VVNJ. >The Plot being difcover'd^ &fome of the Principal Plotters apprehen- ded upon the very day upon which it was to have been exccvtie^^'viz,. May 11 i553,The Adverfaries ofthe Presbytsriansfather'd it wholly upon them^&poflefs'dtheGovernment with vi violent Snfficion shat the Scois in theNdrth were nniverfally guilty of le. Two things were Im- proved by '.em,as2n handle for propagating that Calumny. F/;-y?,The ChdiVQ.^tXQiBldoiit«^/i> in the Year \66i^ about the time when theConfpirators were hatching their Plot. Tbofe three Minifters were ■ sttending his Grace the Duke of Crwo;7^/,then Lord Lieutenant, with an humble Addrefs from their Brethren in the North, and were ob- lig'd to flay there for his Grace's Anfwer. But they were Aiifri^rc femed^ asftaying thereupon another Errand, as Promoters of the Plot, to which rhey were ferje^ Strangers. And yet upon this Sufpi- eioB, the Government gave Directions for bringing thofe three Mini- flers Prifoners to Diihlin. The Earl of Mcunt-j^Uxander being aflur'd of the Loyaity of ^a' Stuart^ prevented his being apprehended atr that time. The Lord -M^i^?r^f« interceeded in like manner for Mr Adair^ and procur'd an Order from the Duke, that Mr AdaW fhould not be brought up with a Guard, but come up upon the Command of xheGoverHment for his own Vindication. When he cam.e to T>Hh~ lin^ the Lord i*/tfj!/^«rff« baird'him i he flayed there three Month?, and frequently petitioned either to be brought to a Tryal, or Dif- charg'd : And there not being the le aft f roof againft him, nor the ■ ieafi ground iov fafp e ft lr!£ his Loyalty, he was difmifs'd ^ and com- irssnded to live peaceably and quietly, which he ever did. In the mean time, great Jealoufies of the Minifters and Gentlemen in that part of the North about the City of London-Derry call'd the Lagan^ being isduftrioufly infus'd into the Duke •, he difpatch'd Sir Arthur Forbes to inquire into that matter, who after the moft Critical and 5fT/^re Examination he cou'd make, cou'd not S.ad any greund oi Accufation agajnft either Miniflers or Gentlemen in that Country ^ only he took notke, that in Mr./f^rAExaminationjhe had Ingenuoufly own'd his Conference with Blood and Lceky^ giving the fame Accoune ' oV Under King Clmhs IL Chap, f . 38 r of it,as I have done already •, believing that it was fo far from being P^ft 2»* Criminal on his part, tbac 'twas a confiderabk l^indtcation of his Loyal- jr^^fs^ ty. And Sir Jrthnr was of the fame opinion. But Mr. Hart dro\)t Ky^f^^ anExpreffion in hisExaminauon.which tho' iE ocoifion'd much Trouble to Tome Worthy Gciu.lemen and Winlftcrs, yea it gave 'em an oppor- tunity of doing themfelves and their Reputation juHice; For while he was giving an Account of his abhorring any TraiteroiiS Confpiracy a- gainft the Government, he added thcfe Words, as Mr. Boyd ^/Dub- Imrvellkntw. What he meant by that expreffion was >riO more than this ^ that Mr. Han being in Company with Mr. ioyd m Dublin the Winter before thar^they difcours'd and communicated to one another the Conferences which ^/o*?^ and L(clyhi<^ entertaia'd with them, and fortify' d one another in their Loyal Principles a id Refolutions. Bnc the £xpt efllon, as it flood in the Examination, and was return'd by Sir ■ uirtbur to the Government, being Ihort and obfcure, Mr. Boyd was taken up and cxamin'd ^ and he knowing nothing ot M\\Han'*i ufing that Exprcffion concerning him, and fearing that in fuch a Critical and dangerous time, when a powerful prevailing Party were refblv'd to ' run do'X'H the Proteftant Diflenters 2it any Rate ., the moffc Innocens Words that had pafs'd in thafi Conference upon his Part (and he was not confciods ta himfelf of any tiling cire)might be fl:retcht,and a bad' Conllruftlon put upon 'em to his Prejudice ^ he wav'd any particular Narrative of it, and vindicated himfelf (as well he might) hy ftror.g Trot eft at ions of his Innocence in general .- But the Duke being Irrita- ted, and having fhown him Mr. Harth Examination, Mr. Boyd told his Grace the whole Story as I have related it ^ and farther acquain- ted him, that he believ'd the Minifters and Gentlemen in iht Nortk^ whom Blood had made any Eflay upon, utterly difcourag'd him from thinking upon any thing that was Treafonable or Difloya], and par- ticularly inftanc'd Mr. Greg^ iNir. Stuart^ and Capt. Afcor ; For Blood had told Mr. Boyd what they bad faid to him. Before this Examina- tion of Mr. Boyd^ the Enemies of the Northern Presbyterians put the Duke upon the feverell Meafures they cou'd againfl 'em j msny of the Minifters were imprifon'd upon bare and grouodlefs Sufpicion ^ And particularly feven of 'em viiL. Mr. Dryfdatl, Mr. Greg, Mr. 5r//- artj Mr. Mexandsr Hntchefon^ Mr. Rtcloardfon^ Mr. Ramfey^ & Mr. Gordon, were very ill us'd and imprifon'd in Car ling for d -^ aU the Scots In the Country were difarmM without Diftinlonh of freltr:^ ht con!iJercd ; it was near ten years Bkcr Blood' sPht^?.nd it is not iiippjfabie chat fie wou'd have granted ic, unlefs his Majeftj^ and Sr. Ankur F(nlus (afterwards Earl of Granard) had been. fully fatlsfy'd of the Innocence and Loyalty of thofe in whofs favor the Royal Grant was made.'Tis ]ij!>/he world fhou'd know the firft Motion that was made for that Penlioli, and the C£);7//^an ofsny ?.ood Cl-arafter, of whatfocvcr Pctfuafion, wou'd have cail'd in Qucilioi^jiffc rruth ot^what any of them faid, and far lefs of r-Faft ihey all agreed in. The Account ic felt 1 fiiall giv« in Mr Hutchefoi's owl 584 Ghap. t. The Loyalty of Preshytertans 1 Pcirt 2. ^'^^^ Word?-, as be his kfc them under his hand, which is as followf.- . A-'.^f^^ ' ^^^^ triiiy Honorable sir Arthur Forbes^ the fhdfalhnd real friend of the iMiniftctsand people in that pare of the Country, wrote for /(;/.'>' Miiiifteis to come to him 10 Dublin^ that he mighi com- n^uiiicace 10 them a maitc-r wherein they vfQie highly concerned. Tlfe Miiiillers were Mr Patrick Mair, ^\r William Semple^ Mr j^Uxan^ ' c\n Hut che fori ^ siKi Mr y^rckhald Hainilt on, wboal) went to Dublin alicut the uviddie of O^Jo^rr 1672. The matter was, as he related it jiimfelf.as tcnovvech .-He being a little time before in /.c^A^or^and being in Conference with the King, who had a great Kindnefs for )im {^nd dffirv er I)) the King amongft other things relating to this Kiiigdom enquiVd ac him, concerning the Presbyterian M'nifters and People in the North : How the Minifters lived, and that be had ^Z- rvays been inform\iy that they were Loyal and had been fnfferers oriO^ that acccii'.t^ and ^N^xc peaceable in their way and Carria^e^ nocwith- ilanding of the hardlhips they were under. Sir Arthur reply'd, 'twas a true account his Majcfiy had he/?;' Revo- Iniion. The fame Objection is made againft the EngUp) Presbyterians by fome of our Author's Faction j and ths Argument is manag'd at large by Mr W^f/'Z^yaad Mr Prf/wfr. The latter publifh'd y^;?«^. 1705^. a Concerning King James IL 387 f^tn^icAtim of the LeArninf^ Loyalty^ Mords^ and rroJlChriJli*^ Bekt- P^t-/- 9 - risr of the Diferjters ttvard the Church of England. He ftates the Objgftion and refutes ic p. 70, 7[. in thefe Words, ' But the mofl L/'VN^ Plaufible Argument ot our Enemies upon this Head is, that the A'j^?^ having ufurped the power ofdifpenfing with the Taws, and the Declaration of Icavor to hs, being founded upon fuch ufirped Powers ^ confequently our thanks to the Ktrg was aij Aclnevclrdgtnent and Mowance of it j but We havc feveral things; to Reply to this in cur Defence. And, i. We fay, 'tis Un- accountably hard to make our Addrefs of Thanks a Crime, and an acknowledgment of that IKurped Power which they themfelves advanc'd, Supported, and Voluntarily Gonferr'd upon the King. Thus when they had preach'd up A'ofclute Ohediencf, wiien they iiad taughc thai the Word of the 7w77^^ was Law^ when thty had fee up an Imperial Sovere-'grtty^ which they faid was above thePc?//- tical Pon-er^ and might Over-rule the Lrgal Authority : I fay, whfin they themfelves had thus fet up a Ufurped Power, to charge us with acknowledging of it as a Crime, is a naoft unaccoantable Con- duct:, and nothing elfe but as dieir own Poet has it j ' The fclf fame thing they wili abhor ' oneway, and long another for .- ' All Piety confifts therein ' In them, in other Men all Sin ! * But id^y^ We Urge, that when they had taught, that thp Kin^ was Head of the Churchy and had a Pknary Ecclefaflicd Capa- city and Power to Rule it. f^n(}^vi\\tXi l\\z Declaration for Liberty cf Confcience was a meerEcclef^iBical Act \ How cou'd it be oar Crime to acknowledge that Capacity^ which the Chnrch di(' give him, by our receiving the Benefit and Advantage of the Exercife of it. And ^dly^ We deny the Confequence, viz,. That our Addrefs of ' Thanh was an Acknorrled^mer.tefanyfiichVfnrpedPoTfer^ to belong 1 of Rfght to the Ki?7g. For as there's no Addrefs of o.irs ever mide that Acknowledgment in Terms -^ fo in the Thanks that we ofFvr'd we only alTerted our Right to that Liberty of Religion^ to which in the Nature of the Thing, and by the Law of God, we h?d a Right Prior both to the Laws mideagainlt us,& the DecUration that pre- tended to annul them. And if a Man might not thankfully acknow- ledge a good AB., as this in its own Nature was, being an Act of MiYcy.^ without acknowledging the Ufurped Power, that ftewcd D d d2 this 5S8 Part t. ^n appendix to Chap. 2. this mercy and Goodncfsto him ; 'Tvvould be worfe living under a Conquering and linjrping Power than it has hich^rco been, and men wou'd be barr'd from any means of foftning the Tyranny of Oppreflbrs. At this rate of Arguing Tnlly cou'd not have Coi^ipli- mented C^far into Clemency to Adarcelliis^ if his fo doing mult be j'ldged A wicked Allowance of C'^Aj^'s Right to deflroy the Repub- lic yand in the fame manner, if the Compliments pdJ to Cromwd for feme particular Adis of Goodnefs done by that Ufurperto the Friends of the King, were to be interpreted to be an aflent to his Ufurpation ^ I doubt forae gre:it 0;,wr^- 773^7 wou'd be found as guilty as any of the Phgnattch in their Addrefles to him. And that vre ought not to be charg'd with allowing the Diffenfing-Pow fr upon the accounts of our Thanks for this particular Favor is E- videni, becaufe 'twas not we, bui the Churcb-tnen that advanc'd it, the 7//^^^j that affirmed it were Members of the Churchy and of thQ i^io Vniverfuies ci Oxford ^x\-^ Cambridge. VVe at that very time declared our Abhorrence of it, and as foon as we could, we joined t!ie Frince of Orange to refill and oppofc iE,tho we hfid Rea- fon before to Re Joyce, that we v/ere delivered from the Oppref- Ibns under which for fo many Years we had groaned, till that De- " claration relieved us. Let the World judge, whether that Faction had any Reafon to ac- cuie Presbyterians of paying Exceffive Compliments to King James, when themfelves had fo fli^mefully exceeded all Bounds ofOecency in that matter, as will fuUy appear by the following Collection which Pahner has made of their Addreffes in the Kt\2^ns oi Charles 2, and James 1. fron the (7^2Le/ftf/, {ibid. p. ^<5, 67, 68 J ' Rtfon (c) Addrefs cHeems it a matter of the highelt Joy and Satisfadion thaE ' they were delivered from the Unwarrantable attd Arbitrary Procee- * dings oftheHoiife of Commons \ That o{ Richmond (d) is a very flrong ^ piece oiEr.thnfiafm^ wtiere tbeytell ih^King that th^Special Spirit ojGod ' inffired him to dilfolve the Parliament. High-Church too, it feems, * has a great Refpefl: for the Ltght within \ The Vniverftty of Cam' * bridge (^t of Parli.iment. Tho' this is dcchr'd to be a high lUurpation by the Law ^k)\ The Men o{ Winchefter {t) were To far, and fo early in the dtfign of the Impollure that was afrer- ' wards put upon ns •, That they Solicited the Omen to divert her ftlf in shcir Gouncry, thaG their Excellent Air might Work that Miradt^ which the Virgin Mary afterwards permitted to be done by the Gif^t/Zc Waters of the .g^f^! And to do thefe Gentlemen JufLice,i: mufi; beconfefs'd^that they have been even both with that Queen and the Virgin^ for flighting their Complement by a very Zealous Addrefs againfl their Miraculms Son \ Glocefier\ Addrefs is very free with the Parliament, and calls 'em a Parcel of Blood- thirfiy Villains, {or endeavoring to Exclude aSubjcd from the! hronc\ Woyctfler (tn)zu\\ forbearCompkmenting themfelves for their own Voluntary^ Free avd Vnanimoas ftirrender of their Charter \ But to dole aily-cw we are almoft tyr'd, Northampton (n) Addrefs will be ex- tremely refrefhlng :;, for they fay, they were refter^d from Death to Life^ and this coii^d ?wt huthegct all imaginable Veneration in theirAifinds and as an Eridence of it, tbty offer up i heir Lives And Fortunes t9 ferve hisA^ajtfy Wit HOVT RESERVE. Without Referve / That's very much indeed. B it then they give us a very good Rcafjn for it ; for w^en they had made the King a God^ it was but fif they jhou'd woifliip him, and m-ike an Abiolute furrender to him, and therefore they add in the fjme Addrefs, That they had that Reve- rence fer all his M^'^j'flys Declarations, particularly for that which rr- lates to OHT Religion as hy Law Eflahltjl^ d, as tf they came to us from HEAVEN I r SELF .' But what became of their Reverence for the Ktrig's Declaration for Liberty of Confcience^ did they think that came from Heaven itfelf .<' Did they efteem it (qial to the Declaration of Heaven ? No they trampled upon it, and forfook their Heaven, & found that they had a Refcive,for they never meant to pay this Reverence to any of his D(clarations^nn\t{s he fliou'd publi/h one to I -oblige 'em to read a Book of Sports, or Perfecute us / 'Tis time to be (k) Ftb. 12. i6Si. (/; iLil (wij March p.fw) March i6. 16S4. Concerning King James II. ^p r ' be weary of Trainfcribing thefe Impertinent and Impious Addrejfes ; P^^j-*- a ' and I fhou*d never hive done it, hue that I might evince the Falf- •* "-^ *- -^ • ' hood of Mr. Wrjly's Aflertion, viz. Tha* n>e made mnchgreAttr Cjttj- W^V"N^ * j)lemer:tsto Kirg'^miQiW. than the Gendemcn of the Cjjatc/j • and ' we join llKic here too, and Jeave thcfc few to be ccmpar'd with all ' \\\fi Dijfentirg Addrejfcs^ and if fuch If.folent ExprefTioiis to Parlia- ' ments, fiich Com plimen-Jng ^ri'/zr^?'^ Power, fuch Tarrendiing qf * Property, fiich EacMiragement of P^p^r)-, and of llfurp.uion upoa ' the Rights of the Kingdom, and with all inch Naufeous infipid ' Flattery as is here, and may yet be produc'd ^ Nay, as is i.i this ' {iQgkNjrihampton Addrefs, cm be charg'd'jpon ks, We deferve the ' Cenf-jre of Mankind for our Folly j but even then too, we defire to * be corrected by honefterHands than thofe of the Faction that oppofe ' us, who are thus Guihy of the fame, of which with fo much Bifotry * and blind R.^ge ihcy accufc bs. I mufl: obferve that the Charader, which hoLefl Britijl) Protellants ■ contend for with rcfpedt to iheir^Behavior under this unhappyReiga 15 not about their Loyalty^ but about their Difajfcciion to that opprcf- fi/e GDVcrnment ; They vie with one another, and b.tftily comend for the V.ighiT Praifes and Superior Merit for giving the brisktft Op- - poficion, and making the bravefl Stanj againit the Meafures of that Unfortunate Prince; I call this an Happy Centemi en, becaufeic IlTaes in a Noble andjufi Agreement againft the late King J^rr^es, and- all his Abettors.- For feeing all fides look upon their Non-Compliance witb his illegal Courfes to be a hrightnirg of their Charafter, aad an Efiabli^nng^ of their Merit \ Their contending with one another abouc that Queflion,ir/?/c-/7 ef them was mcft Vigorous and Early in thAfClorious £nterpriz,e for Refcuirig our Rd'gion, Liberties ard all that^sdeartouSy from his violent Pcpifli Councils^ is (under God) one of the bcfl: Securi- ties we can have againft the Return of that Intolerable Bondage^ Which neither we nor our Fathers were able to bear, or fhake ofi^ unlefs the immediate Hand of God (by an almoft Miraculous Provi- dencej had iaterpoi'd, in our greaieft Extremity, for our Relief. The Effedtual way for deciding that Q^nt(}ion will be this ^ for all Par- ties, to perpetuate that lucky and Lrynl Debate for the fut'-re, and con- tend with one another, which of 'em fhall be the moft Adtivc and Zealous in oppofing the Pretender^ in EximgHifbing all his Ho^es ^ and, Defeatirg all his Meafurts^ and to be true to the Queen and the Pro- leftani . l^p^. An appendix to Cha|>. ^2. p L. ^ tcH^nt Succcflion ia the IIluHirious Houfe of HANOVER: It was a xarL -2.gj.g2t Hiippineis to the Nacions, that manv of the Gentlemen and (jyV'NJ Clergy who were roFrolickfome as to gratify K. J^mss with then Lofty Addrellcs, i.i favor of Arbitrary Power ia the Prince, and paffi'/e Obedience in the People, were fo hontjf as torepent^ and join in a good Caufe. I know of no Parcy of ProteHanrs who hive (luck fo clofe to the ProfelTioas they made in favor of the late King James^^s the Scots Biihops, and their Adherents ^ who upon the Birth oi the Frermder^ and the Rumor of the Glorious Dedgn of the Prince of Orange to de- li\'er thefe Natioiis, from Popci y and Slavery, Addrefs'd the King ia thefc Words, ' We Magnify rhe Divine iMajelly for Bleffing ' you with a 5o ', and us with a Prince, whom we Pray Heaven may * Blefs andVreferve to Sway your Royal Scepter after you, and that he ' may Inherit with your Royal Dominions, the lllnftnons and Heroic * Virtues of his Auguji and mofl fnene Parents. ' Wc are AmazM to hear of the Danger of an Invafion from Hoi' * land^ which excites oar Prayers, for an Univerfal Repentance, to ' all Orders of men, thac God may yet fpare his People^ preferve * your Royal Perfon, prevenc the Eflfufion of Chrifdan Blood, and ' 2^1^-efuch Snccefs toyour Maje^ie's Arms^ that all who invade your ' Majefty's jail and Undoubted Right, and diflurb or Interrupt the ' Peace of your Realms may he Difappointed and Cloathed with pjzme : * f3 that on yoar Royal Head the Crown may flill flourifh. ' As by the Grace of God we fhall preferve in our felves an Un- ' (hiken and nrm Loyalty, fo we fhall be careful and zealous to pro- ' mote in all your S-.^bjects an Intrepid and Stedfafl AllegiaRce to your ' Majefty, as an Eff-ntial pan of their Religion^ and the Glory of our * holy Pfofeffion : Not doubting but that God in his great Mercy, ' who b-^th fo often Preferv'd and Deltver'd your Majefcy, will flill * Preferve and Deliver you, by giving you the Hearts of your ShhjeBs^ * and the NECKS OF YOVR ENEMIES, «>*-*^' CHAP. The Loyalty of Treshyteriam under Ch. 3. 395 Part 2. CHAP. III. The Loyalty of Treshyterianj during the Reign of King WILLIAM III; of GLORIOUS MEMORY, ^_ r A Frer aH the Tragical Labyrinths of barefacM Tofery^ and the j^X Prodigious Deftredlive Mafs of Arbitrary Power, under which the Nations lay Gafping, ready to breath out their lafl, with the Expiring C^-^^wj of a Perifhing People ^ Heaven open'd to us, all of a fudden,the Amazing and Pleafant Scene of the late HAPPY REVO- LUTION, y^Kfjif i588, which brought ks our Great and never to be forgotten Deliverance by King William of Glorious and Immortal Me^ mory. Divine Providence had made him the Great Inftrument of Saving the Dutch from utter Ruin, and of Preferving the Protcllant Religion Abroad •, and then fent him to us to Work ourDeliverancs: TheBalbnceoffftropff was put into his Hands, and he became the Rtftorer ZT16. Gnardian of our Religion and Liberties-, which made the Nations receive him with open Arms ,and place, with Univerfji Joy^ three Great Imf trial Diadems upon his Head, and upon that of his Royal Confort Qiieen Mary, a ROYAL PAIR, of luch llluHrious Princely Virtues, as added move Lnflre to the Tkrone than irW they recciv'd from it. The Presbyterians Exerted themfelves in the Ihree KingdoRis with E e e 394- C^* 3- T*^^^ Loyalty ofTrefbyterian^ under P2.rt 2 ^^ "^^^^ A:^ivity and Zeal for EfTeiling that Hi^^y Revolution^ which fei him upon the Throne ^ and behav'd with Tuch Inviolible Regar j, ^-/^/"^ 3nd Dutiful Affection to his Peifon and Government, as leaves no Ground of D^ubcing their Confcienuous Loyaky to him. And to this Day, no People in the World have a Greater Veneration for his Glorious Memory, when others Traduce and InfuU if. In Scotland, the Rcftoring and Eftablifhing their Conflitution was a Reward of their Loyalcy. They fubdu'd the Rebels that fought under Dundee dL- gainfthim^P^-f/iri^Vthat Kingdom in a Pe3ccabk5/f^;>(^/V;7 to him,and overawM thole who were Difaffeded to his Government Their Ge- reral Aflembly never met during his whole Reign, without a Remarlc- ableTeflimony and Acknoivkdgment of their Loyalty and ¥aithfiil»efs to him. by his Royal Letters. They chearfully fupported his Govgrn- mcnr^hy tfeeir fortunes at Homeland by theirZ,/wj Abroad, and fougtift his Battles with as much Br:zvery and Lo^aly.diS any in his Army. And al) Ranks TiMiaiflers and People) took the Oath of Allegiance, and S'jbfcrib'd the AlTarance declaring him to bs King de jure, as well as de faclo. In England, they were as Early & Active in Loyal AfHjciations for the Support of his Governmen":, as any, difchargM all the Places of Trufl both Civil ^Military with which they were honor'd,with ua- fhuken Fidelity, and none were more forward in that kingdom than the Proteflant Diflenters, for fjpplying his Nccefllties; and' advancing Mony before hand upon the public Funds. I never heard of fo much as one amongft 'em, that refaf'd the Oaths to him,or wasDif^ aftcc'^ed to his Government. They were delivered from Perfecution by the Toleration-Adl, and honor'd with many kind Hints in his Ma- jelly's Public Speeches from the Throne, ExprefTing his Royal fenft of their Steady Loyalty and Jjfc^iion to Him, and his ©efign to main- lain theirLegal Liberty of Gonfcienee inviolably.- And'iis wsll known, tha! he had (o great a Value for *em, and for the Peace and Unity of Proteftants^ that he was moft defirous of having 'cm comprehended in the Lfgal Efiahiifliment',Q^\tt'Li Mary the Chry of her Sex, in whom' all the Virtues that cou'd adorn an Eminent Chriflian^ a Great Queen^ atrue Brit tin, and a goodWife did happily C^^f^r, bad that bulincfs at Heart, and fet the Great and Pious Ttllotfomi Work ; but the Almighty foon exalted her to the Crown of Right eoufnefs, and at once koih Rckafd her from the Cares that attended jier Earthly Diadem, and King William of Glorious Memory. Ch. 3. 39^ and deprived us, for our Sins, of the Many Great B!'.. S>8. iof. ic6. The Aflembly ccu'd not Comply with his Majefty's defire in this particular,for two Reafons, T.Secaufe there was no fuf- iicieni Teft of the Orthodoxy of the Epifcopal Miniflers, provided for by the faid Formula : For all it contain'd with Relation to the Dctflrineof the Church was in thefe Ambiguous W or ds, ' And I do ' further promife, that I will fubfcribc the Confeilson of Faith, and * larger and Sorter Catechifm.s, now confirm'd by Ad of Parliament * as co7:taining the Dodrine of the Proteftant Religion profefs'd in * this Kingdom*. Now, any Man might Subfcribe the Confeflion of Faith, according to that tormula^ and yet deny all the Articles of Faith contain'd in it; for he is not oblig'd by it to Subfcribe the Confeflion of Faith, as the Conjeffionof his Faithy but only as con- taining the Dodrine of the Proteftant Religion profefs'd in this Kingdom ; and in the like Senfe, a Man may Subfcribe the >^/c<7- r/z;7,as containing the Dodrineof the Mahometan Religion profefs'd, in Turky. The Committee of that AfTcrably ,who were confidering of a proper -r^iifwer to his Majelty's Letter.did exprefly ask the Epif- King WilVi^.m of G lor torn Memory, Ch. 3; 403 copal Miniflers, what they mean'd by this ambiguous Claufe ofp^*.* q the FormnU, and whether they were willing to decUy-e^ that they be- • ^« liev'd the D3dtrine of the Church coniain'd in the faid Confeflion U/"V%.> of Faith to he true t h\i\ they refus'd to give the leafi: Satisfactory Anfwer to that Qiieflion, infifling on their being receiv'd upon the Terms of theFor/^j^^withouc any Explication of their own Senfe and Meaning of it. ily. The y^flembly thought the formula Defe6^ive, becaufe it did not provide any Security againfl the Endeavors of thefe Epifcopal iMi- nifters toovetturn tTie £cc/f/?^y?;c^/ Conllitution, fhou'd they be ad- mitted to a fharc in Church-Government. And they look'd upon this Rcafon to be f« much the ftronger, becaufe of the >4rabiguity of thai pars of the ^ormuU which related to the Dodtrine of their Church j concluding, that thofe who wou'd not plainly declare their Approba- tion of the Do^rincy cou'd be no Cordial friends to the GovernmerJt of the Church; and efpecially, confidering that many of 'em bad gone ia with all the Mcafures of the two former Rei^ns^ for Perfecuting the Pro- fcfTors of Presbyterian Principles, even to the Death. And yet the Af- fembly, under all thefe Difcouragements, were thinking of Expedi- ents for receiving and Comprehending fuch of their Epifcopal ^^t- threa as vf^TQ found Proteji-amsj good AiinifierSy and faithful Snhjc^ls : but in the mean time by the Artifices of a certain Party, the Affem- bly was abruptly diflblv'd. The Parliament of Scotland finding it ne- ceffary and j^ft to Countenance the Aflembly, and fupport their Ai- thority in what they had done, made an Act ^ June ii, 1693, for Sniling the Quiet and Peace of the Church , wherein they Enad divers Particulars which are a plain Approbation of the Af- iembly's Conduct with Refped to the Formula aboveraention'd. And tho' they made divers Laws very favorable to the Presbyteri- an Government, yet to fliow their Moderation towards all Men of Worth of the Epifcopal Perfuafion, in their A^ concerning the Churchy July 26' it^pf. they allow all Minljlersthat were at the time of his Majefy*s happy Acceffion to the Crovn^ and have Jince continued AB:iul JUmifiers in particular Parities ^ ar.^ no Sentence either of Depofition or Deprivation pajs^d againfl them, and n>hojJ}oii*dfwear the O^ih of AHegi' ance^ and fubcnbe the fame with the Ajfurancr^ in the time limited by the faid A^ ; and who jJjall behave themfducs worthily in DeElrine, Life and Converfation as becomes Minifiers of the Gofvd^ to enjoy his A^ajffly'^s F f f 2 t-KO- 404. Ch. 5. The Lojalty 0/ Treshyterians mde Vc\vt ^ ' PROTECTION, 4^ f(7 THEIR RESPECTIVE KIRKS, BENEFF- ]p^i ' ^^^ ^^ STIPEND'S, And this Benefit they had by way of a Ci- ii/!V!*'^ vil CompreheniioQ, without being oblig'd to join in Minifterial Com- munion with the Eflablifh'd Church. And by virtue of this k&yd. Conliderable Number of 'em enjoy'd the Legal Maintenance during their Lives ^ and in the Year 1710. above an hundred of 'em con- tinu'd to enjoy their Churches upon thefe Terras •, how many of 'em fince are dead, I do noft know .• Upon the whole, 'tis Evident thas greater Inftances of Moderation can't be given by any Eitablifh'd Church within her Majedy's Dominions, than thofe I have already mention'd of the Church of 5c:tff/4«<^ towards the Efifco^d DifTentecs there. And the Reader is referr'd for his farther Satisfaftioa in this point to the Book Entitul'd Presbyterian Perfecntion. Having thus examin'd our Author's Complaint againft the Scou Prefbyterians during this Reign,} fhall next take a Trip into Ireland^ and ex imine the Account he gives of the Co ndnU of Dijf enters there ^ during this Period. The faults he finds with them are reducible to fevenGeneral Heads, r. Their Petitioning the King by their Commif- fioners in London Bgainit the Church. 2. Their Invading of Churches^ and lefufing to pay Tyths. 3. Their refufing to pay their Landlords Rent. 4.Their engrojfmg of CivilPower.^. Their making a Monopoly of Trade. 5. The Confinement of their Charity and AlmsDeeds to thefe of their own Perfuafion, And 7. Their unfair Practices againfl the Church in the Matter of tht'iv farming. As to the firfl, viz.. Their Petitioning the King hy their CommijfiO' Mrs at London^ againft the Church : Oar Author inferts an Account of it {}. 45. j which he fays he receiv'd from a Reverend and molt Wor- thy Prelate, as his Lordfhip had it out oi the Secretary's Office ia London. The whole Narrative of that Prci.ite runs thus, 5/^, Duhliny January^ I. 171 1; ' I do remember. That ^^///y r^po. or thereabouts, I heard offome * Defigns of DifTenters to the Difadvantage of the Church in Ireland ; * upon it I went to the Secretary's Office, and there I underftood, ' that Two Petitions had been prefented to the King by the Lord * Majfareene^ S\v Robert Adair .^ ^i^di OtiQ Abernethy^ m the firfl there * was a Projed to Abolifli Epifcopacy in the North of Ireland^ accor- ' ding to the Model of Scotland. The Reafons for this were,That that J Country wastntirely Scotsby at kaft of the Presbyterian Perfuafi- King WWYi^mofGlorious Memory. C{i 3. 405 * on i That they had the whole Charge or Care of the Souls of that P^rf 9 * Part, and that they were the great Inftruments of Setting up and • ' fupporting his Mijefty's Intereft in that Country. This Account: L/"^/'^ ' I had of the fiift Petition, but I cou'd never ^et a Copy of it. Of the ' fccond Peiitior" deliver 'd by the fame Perfons I have a Copy, the ' fubftance o^ which I remember fets out the Purity of their Worfhip, ' and their many Services, the great Weight upon them from the ne- ' gleded Cure?.. A.iid for their fupport in the Difcharge of their Du- ' lies, they defired, in order to Encourage their Worfnip and DiPi * cipline, till their could he a Legtul EfiahliJJment ofhoth^ that the little ' Profit of the Deferted Livings of that Country might bz Colledcd * by them. This they faid wou'd encreafe Prayer for his Majcfly, ' and highly advance and (Irengthen the Proteflant Intereft and Reli- \ gion. That Prelate has been Midaform'd in feveral Particulars-, For t. He h:ns miftaken the very Names of the Petitioners: Infleid of Sir Robert Jdair, he ftiou'd have Did Mr Patrick Adair ^ And tho' the late Lord Majfareene and that Noble Family, were pleas'd to favor Presbyterians with particular Marks of their Friendfhip, yet his Lordlliip did not prefent that Petition. A Second Miftake in thai Prelate's Account of this Matter is, That two Petitions had been pr«- fented to the Kin£ by the Lord MafTireene, 6cc. Whereas there was none but One Petition prefented (not by his Lordfhipbut) by Coll. Arthur Vpton, Mc Adair, and Mr Ahet-jicthy. His third and great- eft Miftakeis, in his wrong Recital of the Contents of the Petition it felf, as will appear from the true Copy of it, which is as fol- l»v^s. ' To the King's mofl Excellent Majefly, The Humble ^ ' Petition of Coll. Arthur Vpton^ Patrick Adair and * John Abernethy. ; SHEWETH 4\ XTherEAS Your Petitioners did prefenfc a Humble VV ' Addrefs to your Majefty from the Presbyterian * Minifters, &others of that Perluafion in the North of Ireland^vthich ' your Majefty was gracioufly pleas'd to y^ccept,& they being inftruct- J ed Humbly to Rc^uell your Majefty's Protcftion & Favor \\\ foios par« 40^, Ch. 3- The Loyalty of Trejbyterians under Fart 2. ParticuIars,not yet ofTei'd to your Majelly'sConfideration/Domofl; Humbly Pray, That their former and prefent Sufferings well known to thofc who livM amongft them, as well as their CmtinH^d Ley- atty 3nd Ea- ly Jffearirj^ for Your Majefly, may be favorably Con^ fiderM. ' That all Suffeiings for Non- Conformity may be for the future prevented. ' Tnat as by Your Princely Care, Relief is fcnt to that Languifli- ing Poor Country, which by the BlefTing of God, hath already and will farther produce Happy EffciSts ^ fo Your Majefty will ap- pear as a Narfing. Father^ for Encouraging the Purity of the Gof- pel in Woiiliip and Difcipline, till there be a Legal Eflablillimeat of both. ' That thofe Minifters and theirFamilies,fomeof them havingbeen mLondon-Dtrry during the late Siege^Otfiers yet remaining in their Places of Vlfier^ And the reft forc'd to fly to Scotland^ being re- ducM to Infupportable Straits, may for their prefent neceflary fup- port have a Proportionable Share of the Public Charitable Collec- tions, and forthwith Eiicour^gM to return to nheirRefpedive Pla- ces by your IVajefty's allowing them a future Competent Supporf^ until the Peace and Quiei of thefe Parts of that DefpWd ancl Im- poverijh'd Nation enable the Inhabitants to Maintain the laid Mini- fters, in fnch a Way as your Majefly in your Greas Wifdom fhall find jnft. Which will greatly Conduce to the Replanting ihofe Parts of that Kingdom , Augment your Revenue there, iiicreafe Prayers for your Majsfty's Succefs, endear the Affedions of your Loyal Subj^ds, and ftrengthen your Hands againft your Rebellious * Enemies. Whkhis your Tititloners dally Prayer ^c. The Reader will perceive that there is no inch £xpreffion in the Petition as that Prelate bath Reprefented in thcfe Words viz.. That the little Profit of the Defgrted Livings of that Country might be ColUUed by them \ and which our Author (p. ^6») c?Ks a Petitioning the King for the Chuy-ch- Livings. Inftead of which, all they Petition'd for^ was a fhire of the Public Charitable Colle6iiof7( tofupply their prefent Straits. If there be any fuch fxprefiion in the Copy wh-ch that Reverend Prelate fays he has got, it cant he a true Copy: For what I have Publifh'd is taken from the Copy wbich Mr. Admr^ who prefented she Original, hatb KingWiWhm of Glorious Memory, Ch.3. ^07 hath left amongft his Pjpcrsi and the fime Reverend Divine kept a Pnj-f o' Journal of his Proceedings in London^ wherein he gives the exa<5 Hiftory of the Compofition and Management of that Petition, and ^/*V^ j hath left amongll his Papers the very firft Rough Draugkt of it that w,as prepat'd, which I have feen, and which has not tny ExpiefTion or Phrafe in it of the lil^e import with that fet forth in tlie above Prebte's Accon.it, The firft Kough Draught being thought too long, was Abridged and put into the Form in which I have Publifh'd ic. Mr. A'iair in his Journal gives us the Heads of the Petition, and feme of the Expreffion? which exadly agree with the above Cop/. The Origi- nal was Prefented in j^ugnft 1689, and lodg'd with the Right Hono- rable the Earlfand now Dukejof Shrcvoshury,^ontoih\s Majefty'sPrin- cipal Secretaries of State, who on the zSf^dayot September follow- ing delivcr'd his Majefty's mofl GrAcioHsAnfwtr toit,to Mv. Adair and Mr. Aberr.ethy \ which his Lordfhip read out of a Paper he had writ- ten from the King's own Mouth. Before the prefenting of the above Petition, there was a Humble Congratulatory Addrefs prefented to his Majefty by the fame Perfoc?,, wherein (as Mr y^i^^ir allures us in his faid Journal^ there was no Menticn made of any of the Grievances of the Presbytcriansin hel «/, , nor the leafllnfinuatiouof anything that was Pctitory^but onlyLoyal and Dutiful ExprelTions of their Zeal for the late Jia;>fy Revolution^ foe which they Ador'd the Infinite Goodnefs of Almighty God ; and with all pofTible joy Embrac'd their Gre.ti Deliverer^ and Congratula- ted his Happy Acceffion to the Grown, with AlTurances of their. Steady and Inviolable Refp e SI io his Perlon and GovernmenL And befides that Addrefs and the above Petition,there was no other Pa- per prefented by thefe Miniflers to the King in Londor-^ and in neithtr- of thfm was their Mention made of a Frojetl to JhoUflj Epifcopacy in the North 0/ Ireland, accordi7ig to the wodd r/" Scotland A.A there are divers Circumftances fbefides what I have faid from Mr Jdair'sJoHrfialaW written with his.own HandJ which farther Confirm the fhort Hi (lory I. have given of this Tranfaftirn. For thefe two Miniflers got their CommiflTion and Inflrudtans from their Brethren of the North of Ireland at Cof2nor in the County oi Antrim January 11. 1688 ^ and among all their Inflruftions there i.s no men- tion made of any Projea for the Abolifhing of Epifcopacy. ^fter thefe Miniflers had gone to London and prefented their Congratula- tory Addrefs, before they prefented their Petiuon they waited for fan her 40 8 Ch. 3. The Loyalty of Treshyterians under P3.rt 9 ^^'"^'^^^ Directions from their Brethren, who at that time were ba- '' nifh'd from their own Country by the Irifh-^ and had taken Sanctuary ^f^"^"*^ in ScotUnd^ and who all met at Glafgow the third Wednefday of Jme 16S9, and wrote a Letter to their Brethren in London which came to their Hands on the Sf^day oijuly foDowing, wherein they gave no luch Inftruftions about Aholijlnvg Epifcopacy. When the two Miniflers came borne they gave (as both aver'dj a full and faithful Account of iheit whole Management in London^ to their Brethren in theNorth of JrcUfid-^dx: yet Never Acquainted them with their Fro- pofalofaay fuch Projed about Epifcopacy •, tho'they told them the whole Tranfadions wherein they had been concerned .• And the Charaders of thefe two Minifters are fo well known to many wor- thy Gentlemen of all Perfuafians, th^t their Fidelity and Sincerity can't be call'd into Queflion by fuch as knew 'em .-as to Mr Malr's Charaj ' who, I know, is R:folv''d for your Saiisfaftion, to Efiahlijli the ' Presbyterian Ccvernmcnt in thefe Parts, and I believe, it may be in ' other Parts alfo, of the Kingdom : And no Man knows whether ' the whole Number of Protejlams^ may not agree to Embrace i it. And my Lord oi Airds in his Declaration dated July 4.. 1549. ex- prefTes himfelf thus, ' But lefi any fhDu'd feir thas Religion, ma7 ' hereby be prcjudg'd (tho I conceive my Conftant Prnfticcs might if * well ponder'd rclolve any fuchDoubfiJ I do in the Presence of GOD ' Protefi, I fhall ufe my Uciermoft Endeavors, whilH I am intruft- ' ed with Power, to Countenance and AfTifl the Exercife of our Re- * ligion in this Province, asitis now prafHf'd^ and like wife as I have ' good Ground to h^pe, with Succefs 1 fhall folicit his Majtfty^ for ' a Confirmation under his hand. Upon his Majelly's Happy Acceflion to the throne, it was the car- neft delireof many fober Protellants of both VcrCmUow^^Eptfcopal and Presbyterian to have a Coalition, and to have the National Eltablifh- ment Enlarged and Strengthened by the Comprehenfion of all the Ptous, G g g ■J)rthc-^ 41 o Ch 3. The Loyalty ofPreJhjterians under p^ r^f 'J Onhodox and Vfeful Minifters of both Sides: Ths Attempts that were i^dlLL "^'j^a^je towards it, and by what means they Mifcarry'd are fuffickiuly t/'VNJ known. However, the Proteflani Difieating Minifters in and abouE the City of London thought it their Duty to apply to their Majefties King iVtIliam and Qiiecn A^ary^ for promoting fo pious a Work, and received Si Gracious Anfwer : Bosh the AddrefTes and Anfwers were Printed /^ay \i, 1689, being puhlickly Licens'd .- And whether Mr. Adair and Mr. Ahemethy might not Uwfully have^iaddref/d their Majellies ii> the fame manner, is humbly fubmitted to all who love the Vmon of Prot([iants and the Peace and Welfare of their Country. Thefe AddrefTes of the Low^W^-Minifters breath fo much of a Catho- lic Spirit for Ghriflian Concord, and withal contain fo much Loyal Affeftion, that they Challenge a Peculiar Place in this Hiftorical Eflay. They run thus, ' An Addrefsof the Diflenting Minifters (in and about the 'City of London) to the KING and QUEEN, upon ' their Acceffian to the CaO .VN. With their Majeflies ANSWER to it. To the KING, M^^y it fUafe Tour Majefly^ ' The Series of fuccefsful Events that has attended your Glorious ' finterprize for the faving theff^ Kingdoms from fo Imminent and ' Deftructive Evils, has been fo Vifible and Extraordinary, that it ^ may force an Acknowledgment of theDivine Providence from thofe ^ who deny i't,and ralfe Admiration in all who believe and reverence ' ir. The Beauty and Speed ot this happy Work, are the bnght ^ Srg^atnres of hh Han6.f who creates Deliverance for his People. The " lefs of Human Power, the more of the Divine Wifdom and Good" * nefs has been Confpicuous in it. If the Deliverance had been ob- * tain'd by fierce and bloody Battels, VtBory it felf had been deje^edy * and Sad, and our Joy had been mix'd with affli6ting Bitternefs. * But as the Sun afcending the Horit^on^ difpels without noile the ' Dirknefs of the Night ^ fo your Serene Prefcnce has, withsut Tu- * m.ults and Diforders, chafed away the Dirknefs that invaded us. In ' the Senfe of this aftoni fent for the people that were to be his Hearers, to Caftkhane where he preached to 'em that very day, and Mr Cooler preach'd in Church, without any farther moleftation. and where Mr Li(lon preach'd in any Church, the meeting-Houfe was either quite Ruinous, or very much out of Repair: The whole Circumftances relating to theie Stories can be produc'd, but feeing 1 don't pretend to Juftify^but only extenuate 'em, and ftiow that they were not fo bad as • our Author makes 'em,! fhall not trouble my Reader with any farther Account of 'em. But what ever might be thought blameable in Mr. Lifton's Con- duft, the Presbyterian Minifters in the North of Ireland are fo far from being Chargeable with it, that they Rcprov'd him for it ^ and from their General Meeting at Belfaft July 3. 165)0, fcnt him the fol- low- 4 1 4- Ch. 5. The Loyalty of Preshytertans under rart 2. losing Letter, which I publifh from the Original now in my Hands, SubfLfibM by the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Hall oi Lam, Moderator o[ thu Meeting, a Man of profound Learning, great Abiliiiesand Pi- ety, and long Experience^ whofe Subfcription can be Attefted to be Genuine by many Perfons of Unqueftionable Integrity. The Letter runs thus, * >S, 3. July \6^9. ' The Breihren here met from all our federal Meetings ^ being in- formed Lhat fome of our Brethren ^in remote Comers of the Coun- try, and under fome extraordiriary Circumftances,) have for fome Jew Sabbath-days made nfe of fome Churches', by Law belonging to the Pielatical Clergy ; and confidering, that as this ts illegal in itfelf^ fpoken of to the Reproach and Prejudice of our Interelb by our Adverfaries, •and urtfuit able to our jormer Commendable Pra^ice ; Co likely to create great Offence to the Government, and may give occafion for evil Thoughts of all of us and our Way .- Have thought fit hereby eameflly to advife all the fever al Meetings and Brethren in them to abfiain from allfach Fra^-ices in time to come, and every fuch Thing or Praftice wherebyReficdion may be Juflly cafl upon our Way as Invaders upon the Law^ or Right of any SubjeB. And further to declare, that it is iheir Judgment that, if after Intima- tion to the feveral Meetings of this our Advice, any Brother fiiall infift in thefe or the like Praftices, that they are in that Cafe liable, as to Civil Punijlimcnts by the Law of the Land^ fb to Ecclefiaflical Cenfare^ as giving great Scandal and Offence thereby. THO. HALL Modr: Tm perfuaded the above Letter v?ill be alJow'd by all Impartial So- ber Church-raen, to be an Undeniable Proof of the Peaceable and Friendly Temper of the Presbyterian Miniflers in the North of IrcUnd. That the Northtrn Dijfenters dii generally rejufe the payment of their Tithes with Obflinacy^ is a very unfair Account. While tlje Calamities of the War had deftroy'd Corn, Cattle and the People's fubflance, the TyLhcscou'd nos be expe(E^ed, where the People had little or no- thing to themf.ives ^ When Duk« Sckomberg came to the Country, he pnbHfli'd Orders and Proclamations for fettling and refloring Peo- ple's Rights whether Clergy or Laity, and kindly and favorably Pro- tected Protcftantsof all forts, but f iisnd no Obftinacy in Difienters (and far Icfs any General one) to occafioa fuch Orders, as our Author ReprefentiJ. Dodor King William of Glomus Memory. Ch. 3. 415 Dofftor Kh^ Cnow Archhifhop of .O^W/w) gives a jjiler Account Poi-^ 9 . cftbisraatrer than our Author, .''.nd when their Tcltimoiiies are * * Confronted, 1 believe few men will he as a iofs which fide to fall in L/*V"%i^ with, or which of the two Authorities is mnfl: to be re-farcied, 'fie Archbifliop in his Strut of the TrottjUms of IRELAND. 5^c. p 260. elates the matter tkus, * M my Clergy-men were forc'd to remove, bccaufe they had nothing left to live on, their Parifhoiicis were as poor as themfelvesjsnd utterly unible to help tl-em , I do coii- fefs that there was no Reafon to comflain of the PeopWs Backrvizr^nefs to maintain the Cler£y ^ on £he contrary, they Contriiuited to the Htmofi of their fower^ a«d beyond IE, and made nn Diflir^lian of Stns'^ MANY DISSENTERS .o/^//5'as no^t kept in Peaceable PoflefTion., which ' every Body knows they were not thai Year, having very little but their Lives left, that the Enemy couM take from them. ' 2. That a D^tnifli Cojfonel quarter'd nt Belly- Clare ,^ wou'd not fuSer the Bayliffs to Diftrain for Rent, but Order'd his Soldiers to Op- KmgWiWmnof Glomus Memory. Ch. 3; 417 Oppofe them-jTho' Capi. Shavo oi Belly -gelly^h fevcral other Prcsby- P^^j-J; 2 terian Gentlemen us'd all the Interefl: with the faid Collonelnotco ^,-»^^w^^* interpofe in that Matter, but without Succefs. l/^vr/^ ' 3. Thai one "John Gnefl- an Attorney at Law fiU'd the Coantry with Expedations that either the Parliament of England or Irehnd wou'd by a Law free the Proteflant Subjeds of this Kingdom, on Account of their Sufferings, from paying any Rent for a certain Teim*, wHch Gnefl\\^(\ fo far won on the Credulity of the People, by a Fropoial which feem'd fo very Reafonable in it fclf, that they afterwards employ'd him to go to England to Manage that Affair for them at the Parliament,and for his Encouragement and Support Advanc'd a Sum of Mony to him. But the People that made thai Rcfiftance being a handful of Ignorant^ Headfrong People, appre- hended whatever their Neighbours cou'd fay to the contrary, that there was already a Law in their Favor, but that the Landlords for their own Ends fupprefs'd the Publication of n ^ and thence con- cluded, That if they RefcuM their Cattle, they cou'd not be in Danger of any Legal Profecution. It's true, the Conje(ffure was ill grounded, but what Party looks apon themfelves Accountable for the Folly of a Mob ? * Hew weak foever thefe Reafons were, j^kxandir Wallace of Prieft-town refufd to pay Rent to Mr. J^enjarran Adair his Immedi- ate Landlord, nor wou'd he fuffer him to diftrain, whereupon Mr. Jdairm2id.t Complaint to «iy Lord Donegal (the chief Land- lord j who k\MS\^fktmas Dancer vsiihiomt of his own fervants to afTift, but came not himfelf, as the Author Alledges \ then it was that the Oppofltion was given, Sir T/^c'w^/ wounded {lightly with a Pitchfork, and the Cattle rcicu'd. The next c^ay indeed. Sir 7^ow7<«;'s Expedition being fuccefslels, My lord himfelf came out Accompany'd by Capt. Lefty ^ Capt. Shaxo of Belly- GelJy, Capt. Shaw of Baflj^ Mr. John Crafford of Belly-Savage^ Mr. Robert Craf- \ordo( Hcle ftone^ and fcveral other Gentlemen of Difl:in(ffion in their Country, tho' the Author, for Reafcns befl known to him- felf, thinks fit only to take notice of Corporal T//,/.i/r ot Carrickfer- gus'^\[\^ Lordfhip was pleaf'd to bring with him a Company of foot Commanded by Captain Stirling^ who flriftly charg'd his Men to do the People no harm, but only if they oppof'd driving the Cattle CO fire upon tkem with Powder, which they did. and there was H h h no 41 8 Ch. 3. The Loyalty of Prefhyterians under P art 2. no more Oppofition ^given either then or any time after j bo4 whai will fufficiently vindicate the Presbyterians from any Impuia- tioa ot Difloyalty in this Matter is, 1. Ti^at the chief Aftors^ as I obfcrv'd before, were Separatifts from them, as well as from the Eftablifh'd Chnrch^fuch particular- ly as AUxander Wallace^ Thomas Lindfay who wounded Sir Ihomas Da^cery znd James Thompfony&:c. 2. My Lord Donegal \N3i% fo far from Jud,e;ing Lt««^/4)' Diiloya], that he employed Mr James Craford to perfuade him to inlilt in his Regiment. ' 3 That the Presbyterian Gentlemen of befl Note did joyn with my Lord Dcnegalyi^ii. went to the place where the Riot was com- mitted, to have Aided him if there had been need ^ nor wou'd it be forgot that my Lord himlelf did fo far own the Juftice of their Canfe Ctho' every wife Man will Condemn their fooiifh Proceed- ings, jas afccr wards io forgive one Quarter"* s Rent in conlideration of iheir Lofles by the Inlh, But what will demonftrativelv prove that my Lord Donegal had no fuch Opinion of the Presbyterians of the Six -Mile-Water or of any other in the Kingdom, as the Author wou'd have the World to have of thern, is, that my Lord did on all Occafions appear for them in Parliament^and confJantly affirmed 'em to be good and loyal Subjects j and none had better Reafon to know them than his Lordfhip. ^ After ail,we can't imagine how this Inllance ferves the Author's Defign, or how he comes to found a Charge of Difloyalty upon it. As the People made no Pretenfions to any Right of Inheritance, what ever the Author Alledges^fo my Lord Donegal tnade no De- mands on behalf of the Government, only was endeavoring^ to re- cover his own Right : He may as well fay, every Man is Difloyal v/ho refufes to pay any other jufl; Debt, and it muft be a prodgiouf- ^ ly large Notion of Dijloyalty that takes in every Cafe of that fort. ^ Given under our Hands Mgn(i 7. 1713. William Shaw James Cravpjfwrd, 'Tis known toaU Men of Senie and Intelligence in the Kingdom of Ireland^ that in confideration of the LofTes futtain'd by the Tenants, durin?, the War, the Landlords generally forgave fome of the bygone Rents, King William of Glorious Memory. Ch. 3. 419 Rents, foin€ ^«f>f/«r, fomefrp», more or kfs in Proportion to their Poj-j- 9< LofTes j and that bcfors the faid Abatements cou'd be well adjafted, * **^ ^ ^' their happenM feveral Debates between Landlords and Tenants in Vy*V*NJ that VnfettUd Condition of the Country, the former Diftraining,and the Utter r^fiibing; vhich was done withooe any Dillirdlion or Regard to the Divefluy of Pcrruallons in either : For Mr. Vftonh Tenants in Templepatrici refilled him, tbo'he v^as and is ftill cf the Presbyrerian Pcr(baiion. And in the Year 1(591, divers Tenants in the Fa/is of Bel- /rfy?(morLOt 'em ociig Ciiurchmen; refus'd to pay the Rent due to the Family of Da^v^.i/, and made a very triple OppoHtion to James Macartt2ey Efq ; wao was demanding tiie faid Reats in behalf of tfeae Noble Family,and was oblig'd lo take feveral Perfons out of the Town of Belfa^ to his y^fTiilance. And many other Inftances of die fame kind can be given: Which fh^ws our Author's Reflections upon this Fadt to be very VnchAntahle cLld Pri'tiaL j4 fourth fault our Author finds with Presbyterians in Ireland daring this Reign is, their E ''£'>' ejV^^f of Civil Pomr. He Ufbersin his Accouns of this Faft with this folemn Preface p. 18. ' No fooner was the Oath ' (?/"5///)r(rw^/» /^^Coot/^^/} of avfry few Te^rs after the Revolution^ the Dijfenters mana^^d matters with fuch y^rtifice andSuccefs^ that they had obtained a Majority of jildermen^ Bargtffts or freemen through all the Conjlderable Corporati- ons of the North ^/IRELAND. ' The Inftances he gives to prove his ^flertion are tour, viz: the Management of Diflenters in London-Derry, Belfafiy Colrane and Carrickfergus. What he advances conceraing Bdfafih in thefe Words U^/^0* In BELFAST, the Ele^ion of Magifirates and Re- prefentatives is by Charter vefled in the Burgeffes of that Corporatisn, of whish at the beginning of the late Revolution ^ there were Ten to Two of the Twelve Burgejfes^ who were Conformijls^ and before the pajfirtg of thi Tefl~AU:,the Dijfentey s had gain' d a Major' tty of Eight to Four. ' When be has finifli'd his Account of thefe four Inftances, he treats the wholeDiflcnters and their Managements in thefe Corporations with the following Calumnious Mifreprefentation p. 22, ^ Thefe Jn^ flanceSy which 1 have given, p*all ferve to difcover the Advances made by the Northern Dijfenters in our moji confiderahle Corporations. The dif- ficulty remains to knew the fleps they made towards it, which 1 freely »wn is a Myfiery J cannot ferfeUly unfold. ^Tis plain, fo great a Maj$rity »f Diffenting Mdermen, Burgeffes &c„ ceu'd not fuccted by the Death of their Predecejfors within fofhort a Compafs of Time ; it was Effe^edwlth the fame cjuicknefs and dexterity, that Jugglers play their Tricks, and in a great Mtafure by the famt Amufemms, viz., by Appealing with the King W\\X\2im of Glorious Memory . C[i 3. 421 great eji Cov^dence to thsfe very Senfes^ which they intended that Moment P^t-f o ■• to Deceive a?jd /rnpcje upon. ' For during the Interval before mention'' d., tke Dijprters exfrefs*d the ^/'^r^* greatefl 7 endernefs and Regard for their Epi fecial Br tt hern-, they rvere all true Protejlants^ there was little or no difference betlvixt them •, — — — Byfuch Amiifements as thefe^f^f ported by the Influence oj Public Funds^ it is very probable the Northern Dijfenters made this Progrefs in onr Cor- f orations^ and wrought upon the Credulity^ Ignorance and Ptvtriy of many of the Conforming Bitrgefes^ and to refign to them. * It is Evident the Author defign'd that a Part of tbofc hravy Re- flexions {hou'd fall to our fliare in "Qelfafl ^ but with how little Truth or Candor, any of them can be charg'd upon us, will appear fron:i the following Account. Thofe of our Perfuafion, who were ele^ed to be Biirgefies ofBelfaf^, between the Year '682 and tbe Commencement of the Tf/?-C/.?///ir in 1703. were William Craford^ William Lockhart, James Buller, David Smithy Arthur Macartney^ John Chalmers, Captain Brice^ David Bimle^ Ifaac McCartney,^ aad Neil Mc Neil. The perfons ia whofe Room they were eU(^ed, the Times of their Refpeftlve Eleftio.is, and the Perfons who wereMagiftrates when'they were choren,are exadly as follows(for theTruth whereof weappeal to thePublicTownBcok oi BelfafO-^^ Craferd wa%E\c(kzd March 24 i685. in the Room ofMr.John Hamil' ton MerchantjCapt. Robert Leathshtin^ Sovereign of the Town. Mr. Lockhart wasEleded Mayq. 1687. i" the Room ofLieutenant locUy^ ^ Capt. Leaths\i€m<^ Sovereign, Mr B«//«r was Eleded ^eb, 25. 1689* in theRoom o^Mr Thomas Wale oat ^Caipt. Leaths being Sovereign.Mr D^v/^^ 5»2//^ wasEieded -<^/^^ 26. 1690. in the Room of Mr. Francis ThetfordyCa^it. Leaths beingSovereign;Mr. Arthur Macartney wasE- ledted June i. 25pi. inthe Room of hisFather(7fo/-^f MacartneyE^^^^ Mr. Lockhart being Sovereign. Mr. Chalmers WisEkCtcdyApr. 8.I595',-* inthe Room of Enli^n Leaths, Mr. Craford being Sovereign. Capt; Brice vjasEhdiedDecembev 17. 1697. in the Room of Tho. Knox Elq; the Right Honorable the Earl of Donegal being Sovereign. Mr. Buttle wasEleded OBober ^. 1700. in theRoom of Capt. Edward Harrifon^ Mr. Black George McCartney being Sovereign. Mr. Jfaac Me Cartney vjzi Eleded April 16: 1701. in the Room of the Ho- norable Capt. Ci^<«r/r/ Chichtfter^ Hx. Black George Mc Cart ney he- Mng Sovereign. Mv, McNeil vta^Ek^id February 6. 1702. inthe ^ Room 42 i Ch. 3. The Loyalty of Preshyterians under Part. 2 Room of Mr. Bttlltr^ Mr. i?/^^//^ being Sovereig^n. All the Pcrfons la whofe Room any of our Perfiiafion were chofen BiirgefTes were Dead before they were chofen in their Rooms, except Thomas Knox Efq ♦, who having Purchased an Eftate worth near 1000 Ith. per An' num in and about Dmgannon^ went to live upon his Eltate, and Re» lign'd in favor of CapE. Brice^ his Brother-in-Law. ' Let the World judge whether theAuthor has not been aslnjurious to Truth, as to our Reputation, when he has averted that all this Majority of DiffentiKg BuYgeJfes con'^dnot fucceed by the Death of their Predecejfors infofijort a time 5 aad whether it be not a grofs Abufe put upon us, and an Impofition upon his Reader, to tell the World, that this was EfeStcdrrith the fame Ouicknefs and Dexterity^ that J^tg» olers Play their Tricks ^ and in a great Meafure by the fame Amufemems^ Viz.. by Appealing with the great efi Confidence to thofe verySenJes^ wkieh they intended that Moment to deceive andimp»fs upn. And let all who know Mr. Knox (the only Perfon who refign'd m favor of a Pref- b>terian) judge whether he be Chargeable with either Cr^c//^^>^, Ignorance or Poverty. And we put the Author and all his Abettors to Defiance to prove, that there was the lead unfair and indireift Method taken by us or any of our Perfuafion to procure our felves to be Eleded into the faid Offices j and as a farther Confirmation of the truth of what we alledge, we aflert and arc ready to prove, that all of us were Eleded not only with the Confent, but by the Intereft and Recommendation of the Right Honorable Family of Donegal., except two VIZ,. Mr. Chalmers whom the BurgeffesEIefted according to the Rules of their Charter which oblige them to chafe a Burgefs in feven Days in the Cafe of any Place become Vacant by Death; In which time , as matters were then Circumftantiated, there was not an Opportunity of knowing thelnclination of thatiVl?- ble Family 5 tho' all this Refpeft was paid to 'em in the £Ie£tion of anyDilTenting Bargefs,without any Obligation by vertue of the Char- ter. And my Lord D^w^-^^i/ was fo well fatisfy*d with Mr. Chal- mers being Eleded Burgefs, that by his Lordlhip's Interell and Re- commendation he was afterwards chofen and ferv'd Sovereign of the Town for one Year, ^nd pnfs'd to (erve a fecond Year, tho' Mr. Chalmers declin'd h. The fecond was Mr. Bailer., who was Elected when the Family was abroad in the time of the troubles, but was in good Reputation with ihem. Aad we do Aver, that 'tis utterly ' felfe KingWilliam of Gloriom Memory, Ch. 3: 415 ^ falfe, that we ever had the Benefit of any Public Fund for providing Poi-h 9 • ' or promoting the faid EleQ-ions.- Nor do we believe nor know, * ^*- ^ ^ ' that ever there was any PM-c Fund rais'd or apply'd to fuch Ufes L/VNJ ' either in this Corporatitn or rf«y (7;/?o- t2ii\on oi London- Derry : For they came in according to ih^ Stated -R«/tf that had been obferv'd in Eledions there, which very well ac- counts for ihtw gaining fuch a Majority of Numbers, andDemonftrates the Author's Account of it to be Calumnious, and thai there was no Juggltfg Tricks nor Apfealing to MensSenfes with a Defign to deceive and impofe upon Vw, as our Author with as little truth as Charity foggelts.- And if our Author had been at a little more pains to inform himft^lF, his own Senfes wou'd not have been fo much impos'd upon. He has been io carelefs as not to inform himfelf right of the Number of Prei- byterian Aldermen and Burgejfes in London-Derry at the breaking out of the late Troubles •, for at that time, there were four Presbyteri- an'Aldermen there, viz.. John Camppe^ John Craig^ Wtliiam Smith and Alexander L:chy '^ tho' he fays there were but three f p. 19.) and he AOerts (ibid.) that ofthe 24Burgefles there were hx^t jive of themPref- byterians at that time, whereas there were NINE, viz.. David Cairnes^ E^q^James Fi^er^ Jamej Conningham^ James Sympfon^ Robert Shennan^- Wtliiam Kyle^ JohnEwing^ Henry Long^ and John Burnfide, This Lift is reiurn'd by the fame Gentleman that gives the above Narrative. I have been the larger in Vindicating theEledion and Managements. of Presbyterians in the Corporations of London-Derry and Beljaft^h^* caufe they had more Power and Interell in thele two Corporations - than in any other whatfoever within the Kingdom of Ireland-. And 'cis reafonablc to believe, that if they behav'd well in them, there can be very little laid to their Charge in other Places. For if they did not abufe their Power where it was Createfi^ and where they had the grea- teft Opportunities of doing it, can any body believe that they wouM abufe their Power where it was lejfer^ and where it cou'd be fo readi- ly check'd and control'd? And therefore I /hall make but fomc Ihorfi Remarks upon what he offers with reipcd to Cdrane zn^ Carrickfer' gHS. With Refped to Colrane he publifhe^ a Certificate, which, he fays, V92i% given him by one ofthemojl conftderabls Members of that Corporation fp.ipj But I don't find any thing in that Certificate, to our Author's ][>urpofe j for there is not a Syllable in it, which fo much as infinuates thas. 43^ Ch. 3. The Lojaliy ofPrefhjterims under T^arf" 9- ^'^^^ ^^^^ Presbyterians us'd any tW/r«^ or unfair Means to procure ' Offices tothemftlves in the Corporation, or that they behav'd unjull- tyV^VJ ly or unfriendly cowards their Conforming Neighbours. While the Law made 'cm Gipable, 'cwas no fjuk in them to ufeljwful Means for getting into the faid Offices .• For there were feveral Merchants there of the Presbyterian Periaaiioti, wlio were as public-Spirited^ and made as good a Figure for their Worldly Circumllances, and had WK^« J and generally Diflentsrs abous one hundred and? orty, aad the Number of Church»Frcemen, who are Inhabitants of Carriclfergus^ are but forty ^ by which Meanj the Diflenting Inhabitants of Belfajt who can nether choofe their own Reprefentatives nor Magiftrates, do aftually govern all the Eleftions of C^mci/rr^wj, and this you may judge by the following Specimen, of what Choice they have made of Magillratts for thefc many Years pafl-. This Objed^ion will appear to be very frivolus, to all who eonfider hat the Inhabitants who were made Freemen of Carrkkfergns bad hat H:5nor conferred upon them by the Mayors oi Carrickfergus^ of he Communion of theEftablifti'd Church,noDiflenLer having been in h2t Poft, or in the Office of an Alderman thtre fince the late hap- py Revolution^ and the Diflenters of 5r//)?/? did not court their Freedom there, but were generally courted to aceept of it : and the molt of 'eni were made Freemen, not by any of thofe whom this Author is pleafd to Dignify with the Titles of the Qiiadnimviratc and the Rota-Covernmem^hvit from others who were not efteem'd to be very much in tliat Intsrelt, and who were never fufpefled of,being Enemies to the Church. What he fays of four Aldermen of thag Corporation is full of perfonal Reflexions, which are broughi in with a Defign to blacken the Diflenting Freemen, for making Choice of em to the Office of the Mayoralty. But 'tis a fufficieat Anfwer, that the Government approv'd of thefe Eledions j which, accord- ing tD our Author's Reafoning, wou'd have been as Criminal in them as in the Diflcnters who made 'em^and it is a flirewd Evidence, that Gur Author was Confcious to himfelf he had little to fay to the Dif- advar.tage of thefe Gentlemen's Charader, when he begins his furious Attack with upbraiding 'em, that they had been private men in the Ute Lord Donegal's 7'roop y whereas fome of that Nohle Lord'incar- eft 43'^ Ch. 3- The Loyalty of Treshyteriam under P^rt 2. ^^ Relations rode as private Men in his Troop, as well as they ; and ' -. -^ *. '"s very well known, that sll thefc four Aldermen arc Gentlemm S'^^^f^^ defcendedof Credicabie Families. ^ But I muft notomk a Remark upon the VnreafonMe Jealonfles our Author endeavors to foment,iii the Conclufion of his Hiftory relating to Cirrichfergusj in thefe Words (p. 12.) •" Ii is here with the great- ' ell Deference humbly fubmitted to theL^giflature, whether a Place ' of that vaft Importance, being a Fortify'd Town, a Harbour Sci- ' tnatcd in the Neighbourhood of Scotland^ in the very Center of the ' Northern Presbyterians, the Queen's great Magazine for the Ner* ' th;(l Parts ot Vlfier^ oughi to be entirely ia the hands of fuch Magi- t ftratesat this Jun(^ure ; and whether the Pofture of the Prefenti t Affairs wou'd not require an Eftablifli'd Governor of experienc'd ^ Abilities and found Principles, to command in a pljce of that Im- ^ portance'. Ii is highly Uncharitable and tends to promote Mifun- derftandings and National Quarrels between her Majelly's Pro- teftant Subjeds to insinuate (as our Author does here) that it's dan- gerous to live in the Neighbourhood of Scotland-^ as if that People were Enemies to her Majefty's Government, and dangerous to the Peace and Liberties of Ireland. If what he infinuatcs of them be un- derftood of a certain Party \\itvt who area'Tow'd Jacobites^ and who adhere to the Principles and Addrefs of the Scotch Bifhops to the late King James^ what he has faid is very true ^ but then it can't reflect oa the Eftablifh'd Church there, who are unaninioully oppofite to the Pretender, and Cordial Friends to her Majefly, and the Proteftaat Sacceffion in the Illnftrious Houfe of Hunover, as (hall be made ap- pear in it's proper Place. As to the Northern Presbyterians, in tfee Center of whom our Author alferts CamekfergHs to be Scituated, and to be the Queen's great Magazine for theNortheft parts of z;//?f r,and for thofe Reafons ofiers hisOpinion againft it^s being intirely in theHands of fuch Magif rates ^ this carries in ii a very Groundlefs Sufpicion, as if the NoithernPresbyterians were fo Unpeaceable and Unneighbour- ly, as to put the Government under a neceffity of keeping 'em in Awe with Garrifons and Military Force. Our Author clofeth his Hiflory of the Presbyterians unfair Engr of- fing of Civil Power, with a very palpable Mifl:ake,in thefe Words, p. 25. ' No looner had they obtaia'd a Majority, than they aded like * Tyrants, with refped to the Minority of Conforming BurgefTes or ' Free- King William of Glorious Memory Ch. 3. 4.0^ * Freemen of fiich Corporations, they fortifyM themfelves by firm 13 ' Alliance and Confederacy, never to admit nny more ChurdK Aider- 1 ^i't 2. ' men, Burg^r-sor Freemen, thjn they couM controul and govern \J^'''\^ * in all their Elections*. But let us hear what the Preshyierians cfTer in their own Defence in their firft Apology to her Majtfty yvidc Pre- fern State of Religion in hthnd p. 23.) * And whereas their Lordfhips ' have been intorm'd, that whenever we obtain'd theMajority in Cor- * porations, wc excluded all fuch as were not of our Perfuaflon .• We * can produce Undeniable Inflanccs in feveral Towns, particularly ' in London-Deny and Belfaj^ (the mofl confiderable in Vljler) wh^re ^ * the Diflenters chofe thofe of the Eftablifli'd Church to the chief 6f- * fices in Corpoiations, when they had Interefl: enough to have Elec- * ted thofe of their own Comraunion*. The truth of what is offer'd here is ConfirmM from the Narratives already given of their Behavi- or in Londori'Btrry and Beljafi, wherein Men were chofen to Offices according to iht'ir fit nefs, Ab0 rafting from their Perfuafion. And no Diffcnting Mayor or Sovereign in either of thefe Places refus'd to make any Church-man a Vreeman, who was an Inhabitant in the Place, and wou'd comply with the Rules of the Charter and Laws of theC^r- foration. And there being many more Presbyterian than Epifcopal Inhabitants in thefe places,the Presbyterian freemen mnft of Neceflity be fuferiour in number to the Church -Freemen, in proportion to the number of Inhabitants. And therefore 'tis a very unhandfome Expreffion in our Author to fay that the Diffenters y^^ed liieTyrants, and fortify^ d themfelves by firm yilHance and Confederacy &c. TheH/rfc fa»k our Author finds with Presbyterians in Ireland during this Reign is, their mahrig a Monopoly ofTrad^^ which lie ag^ gravates in very Indecent Terms C p. 23, 24J ' The natural and * immediate Confequence of this // ' it is a rare thing to fee a Thriving Dealer in the JSlorthtrn Parts ' of IreUndy except he be a Profefs'd Di{fenter or an Occafional ' Non-Ccnformiji: I profefs, I cannot recoiled, that there is one ' at this time in that part of the Country where I live, tho' the moft * Populous and Trading Part of the iVorf/», and where, before the * late Troubles, Church-Traders were ConfideraWe both in Number * and Bufinefs. I fpeak with greater concern in this point, from * the repeated complaints made, and the common cry which I have ' heard from the church-Dealers, Farmers, Tradefeen and even ' Laborers, for (I had like to have fai4) the Perfecuiion they lay * under for their Conformity to the Church fiftabliflied by Law, ' and that from the DifTcnters^ who only fubfift by a Connivance. Uany Presbyterians have beenfo Unneighbourly as to confine Com' mcYce to thofe of their own Perfuafion, it is more than I know of, or than can be chirg'd upontheBulk^ Generaliiy of thaiPcrfuafion.Our Author feems to think, that he can charge thishome upon thePresbyte- rians in Belfa(i--, for he fpeaksof ti^at Part of the Country where he lives, and calls it the moft- PopuloHs and TradingPartofthe North,which Defcripiion can agree to no other but Belfafynd if J prove that he has Mifreprefented this Fad in the very Place of his own Refidence,which of all places he bad reafon to know beft, let the World judge whe- ther the Account he gives of other Places is wholly to he relfd npm. At the defire and for the Vindication of the Presbyterian Inhabitants of B^faji-^ their Brethren of the Eftablifh'd Church there have been fo jufl: and faoneft as to Subfcribe the following Certificates, which i Tran- fcribe from the Original. t^E do hercliy Certify that the Presbyterian Inhabitants of Bel- ' fafi Deal and Trade with Us as freely and readily, as they ' do with one another,, tho* we are all of the Communion of the E- ' ftablifh'd Church, that we have the greatefl; part of ourTrade from * them j and that we do not perceive, know, nor believe that they * ufe any unfair Pradices in Confining Trade amongft therafekcs « : Given under our Hands ai£elfafi September 2th 171 5. Henry Ellis, Nicholas rheitford* ROB. LEATHES. Nich. Garmti George Portjs, Nath, Byrn, King William of Glorious Memory. Ch. 3: 435 Robert Dowglafs, jiUxandsr hegg. Barth. Mcnaghten, l^aVt Q. Thcmas Taverner. Edward I'urJey^ Francis Thenford, * Richard Lamb. ^afhua Turley. James Harrifon. L/'V^J John Tamer, Hugh Sherwood Jfrael Cotes. Jchn Smart, Micholas Brooks. Michael Gregfow, John Anderfon. George Lacels. James Ratclijf. Jihn Worthington. Edward Gardntr. James iVifUtlock, Ephraim Wills. John Jmbly. William Babie, Brian Mercer, Matthew Philips Hen. Kelly. Henry Douolafs. James Wilfon. James Ogins. Thomas He nderjon William B eaty. Robert Skirries. Elias Adudell. Charles Ward. George Kerren. George Manhn. Thomas Graham. George Kempfon. John Manhn. William Salters. Will. Johnfon Junior Francis Rankin, John Joy. Richard Crutchly. Patrick Allen. Jfrael Clotworthy. William Dormant, John Mc. Gouni Barnaby Mc.Cnrdy.John Mc.Cahy. John Langdell. John Ridda^h. Thomas Witnat: Henry BHlhatchet. Robert Story, Edward MuUan, Edward Harris, Pat. Phipps. John Burns. Richard Wilfon. Robert Ainfworth. David Leathom, Thomas Parker. WiHtam Ajhmore ]ohn Newland, Robert Potter^ Robert Whitfield. Roger Slemons. George Turley, Samffon Dixon, Alexander Imblyl ^ John RtcC' Tho' I am no Dealer in Town I am an Inhabitant, and never did Obferve any Diftinftion made by the Diffenters in Matters ef Dealing fo far asl have been there- in Concern'd, Buhard Hodgkinfon, We do Verily believe the Certificate on the other Side of this Paper True. Gi- v^nunderOur Hands Sept. 12. 1713. GEO. MACAI^lNEr. KOGER^ HADDOCtii CEO. MACjiKJ'NET Junior. TheSubfcribers of the above Certificates arc eight of 'em BuigefTes, fome of 'em Gentlemen of the boll Station in Town^ feme of 'em among the Wealthieft Dealers, and Keepers of Public Houfes, & the reft are generally fuch as refpedivcly follow the haidycraft Trades ofTobacco-ipinners, Taylor j,Shoemakers , Smiths, iadlers. Glovers, Butchers,Carpenters,^c.And there is no fort of Goods to be Sold or work to be wrought by any of thefeSubfcribers,bnt what thcPresbyte- rians xwBelfaftczn buyor have donefor 'em bythofe of their o^nPeriua- fion.And 'tis remarkable that fome of thefeSubfcribers are among the Oldefi Inhabitants of theTown ScParlfh oi Be If aft .,ont of 'em being near an Inun/lrfATityivtf.f A/t» A'wrom r\f 'piTi fiehiv anH narllciiUrlu the fifft 4:36 Ch. 3- The Loyalty of Preshyterians under Part '2 Subfcriber GapF. Leathes^ an honed Gentleman, who has been a Bur- jlalL ^. ggfjiQ t[je Xownof a long time, has been ofcen So-yrr^r^^, is ai pte- t/'N'^N^ fenl Di^Hty Sovereign^ and Ele(^ed Sovereign for the Enlbing Year. There are indeed very few in Belfafl of the Communion of the £fta- blilhM Church, who are confiderable Dealers •, but then this cannot be in the icaft imputed to any unfair Pradice in the Presbyterians, m\o were flill ready to join in Partner(hip in Trade withChurchmen as well as with one another, as can be made appear by Inllances of the mofl: confiderable Merchants of that Communion, and particularly m the Cafe of Mr Knox^ George Macartney Efq ;, and Mr. Black George Mc, Cdrtney, And there can be no other Reafons why there are net now fuch confiderable Merchants there, of the Eftablifli'd Churchy £s there were at the time of the late Troubles, but thefe ^ Some of 'em are dead, and their Children Educated to other Employments *, or, that their Children are of the Communion of DifTenters, which feme of 'cmfelves embrac'd z;/?:. Mr. Black George Mc-Cartrtey^ fome Yeais- before he Died r, or, that others have quiff their Employment and live upon their Eitate in the Country, as Mr. Knox \ And few or none of the EflabliSiM Church, of any conliderable Station or Wealth,Iave apply'd thcmfelves to Merchandizing Iince. But the DifTenters never difcourag'd any of 'em from attempiiing it, or from the Profecution of Trade and Bulinefs amongrt: 'em : and if any of 'em have funk from Merchants to Bankrupts, (which our Author alledges, tho' there are ^tw or no Inflances of thai in Belfaft) this was not owing to any Se- •verity or Vnkindnejs in the DiiTenters ^ Thej gave 'emCredit, as much as they did to one another, ihey never Ri^orouQy and Llnfeafonably put hard to 'em for exacting their own, which fometimes may fink a Merchant of good Credit. How the DifTenters fhouM bequalify'd upon feveral Accounts to undtrlive, and by that Means to underfd their Conforming Neigh- bour?, is a Myftery which he hath not Pinfolded, and perhaps c^««cf,' The Diflenters live fuitable to their Stations and Circumftances, and fome of 'em (as ou>r Author very well knows) are both Capable and Willing to give Gentlemen of all Perfuafions (Clergy and Laity) as Generous&LiberalEatercainments in their houles, as theirNeighbours. And if any of 'em have ri fen from Pedlars to Merchants^ they have no Caufc to be afham'dofit, being the EfFed of the BlelTing of God epon thsir hoaell Gomnicndabk laduftry. And why fuch an In- dultrious King William of Glorious Memory. Ch. 3. 437^ duftrions Trading People as the Diffenters ofche North of Ireland^ Part 2- ftiouid be dilcouraged and reproached, I lee no ^eafon. Trade has ^kj' been always juftlylook'd upon as one of the great Means to make ^^*^r!Nl a Nition ffounfh : It makes Mony Circulate thro' Town and Coou- try \ and Men of all Stations reap the benefit of ir. And there- fore all wife People have ever made it their bufinefs to fuppori and encourage it, and to countenance the Promoters of it. But before I leave this Head, I muit take Notice of another Rca- fon cur Author gives, why the Presbyterians have fo great a flrokc "n the Trade of the Kingdom ^ It is in thefe Words, (f. 17, 18.) The failure of our Woollen Manufadlory f«Dk the Church intereft of Ireland in the fame proportion that theEncouragement of thcLin- nenManufadorydid raife thelntercfl: of/'rtfj^)ffy_y.ThcWeavcrs&c. of theformer being generallyConformifl:?,who were obliged to recurn ioxEniUnd^oi' difperfe themfelves in theZ,oir-Cowrm/,as thofe of the latterwere asgenerally D/J!rf«r(?r/,who came ixomScotland fince the Re- volution.'Tis evident the Difieniers feem at prefent to be almofl: in full Polfeflion of that Conliderable Branch of our Trade, and what has mainly conducM to it, is this Revoli of the ^rerch Pro- tcllants from the Church •, of which the Principal Dire(n;ors and Managers in that Manufaftory, with a very Cojifiderahle Colony, have fettled atLtfb^m^ m the Center ol the Northern Presbyterians^ and have all declared for Presbytery^ and chofen a Teacher, who will not receive Epifcopal Ordination. From whence it is evident, that Matters have been foConcerted in favor of the Diffenterf^ thai the French Refugees diftinguifiied with fuch Marks of Favor by the Government, and the Eftablifhetl Church, which might have in- fluenc'd a grateful People to be true to our Eflabliniment, have now proved a dead Weight agaiaft it in the Scale of Presbytery. The Caufes of the failure of the Woollen Manufadory in Ireland are fo well known,thai no body can juftly impute it to thtDifenters: Andtho'thc Unnen Manufadory be chiefly promoted by Presby- terians, the Parliament of Ireland have made feveralA(^s to encourage it, which fliows that they believed it to be for the Public I/.teref of theKingdom .• And it can't be denyed that iht'^rench in Lifburn iiaye been highly ferviceablc to the Nation, by their frugality and Skill in Managing, and much improving that Manufa(f^ory ^ whereof the Houfc of Commons were fo fenfible. That they chearfully rr- commended '«ra to thr Governnieat for their favor, tho' they very ' ' 3yfl3' 438 Ch. 3. The Loyalty of Preshyterians under Part o w^n knew that they retained the Principles and followed the Prac- ^' tifes of the FamDUs Proteftant Ctiurch in Fraf7ce. Aa& in their Choice K^*^/"*^ oiaMimfi-er \'9hom\\ not rccdvQ Epifcopal Ordtnation^ they have done noihing but what the Laws of the Kingdom allow 'em to do, they having the benefit of a Legal Toleration ; which being an A<^ of Piiy tothePerlecuted, ought net to raife the envy of any good Proteftant •, And wken that fame Government that hath dipngiii^ud^em with [uch Marh of favor ^ hath Indulged 'em in a Li- berty^ot Diflenting from the National Church, our Author's In- ilauation of their being Vngrateful for taking the benefit of it, is an Vnreafonahle Accufadon*, elpeciaUy confidering, that they behave 'em- felves wich all the Loyalty and Modefty that becomes Dutiful Suhje^s^ and in the Matter of Trade, promifcuoufly employ and deal with People of aU Perfuaiions, without Diftindion. Sue he can't get off this Imaginary Crime^ about the Monopoly of Trade^ until he runs into one Miftake more in thefe Words (p. 25.) * At the fame time that the DifTcnters made ihi% Monopoly of the * Trade, they laid a lading Foundation to perpetuate the fame in * their own hands. They wou'd take no Apprentices without de- ' manding folemn AfTurances both from Parents and Children of ' Church. men, to quit thcEftabltfh^d Chureh^^ go conftantly to Meet' ' ing. Which Agreement they were fure to fee punctually perform'd.' * I am credibly informed, t hat there are feveral Inftances can be * given, where they have had Claufes of this Nature inferred in the * Indentures ^ by which Means many Church men both of Figure '' and Fortune in ihe North q{ Ireland ^ have been reduced to this ' fatal I?//tfww?.i, either of giving up their Children to Idlenefs and * Poverty, or to Presbytery '. But let us hear what the Presbyterians have offer'd in their own Defence againft this Accufation, in theic firfi yipoUgy to her Majtfty^ vide Prefent Slate ef Religion in Ireland (f, 23) ' Their Lordfhips proceed to charge our People, that in * many Towns they refufe to takeApprentices that will not covenans * to go to their Meetings. The true State of which Cafe is this .* ' Some Merchants of our Perluafion having had their Goods imbtz- ' leled by their Apprentices on the Lord'sDay, when they were ' at our Meetings, and their Apprentices, upon the pretence of ' being at Church were ill employed elfe-whereTwhich tiiey do not * imputeto their Perfu3fion,their being fome fuch profligate Youths ' of all Perfuafions) were obliged for their own Safety to take fuch '* as they could have undertheir Eye at the time of Public Worlhip. I * Put wherever they can, meet with Appreatices of known P.^ohity Kmg William of Glorious Memory. Ch. 3; 439 * and //o«rr/?r, tliey taketheni without any Dillinction of Perfuafions P^j-^ 2i * in all the Trading Towns of 'this Kingdom j of which many inftan- ^,-.^»vj ' ces may be given. M?/lN^ I don't believe thaS 6here are fuchlnftances as our Author is informed of, of inferring the CI laies he fptaks of in the Indentures ^ nor do i be- lieve there is any Church- man oi figure or fortune in the north of Ireland, but who may have his fan bound Apprentice to a Presbyterian, if he pleafes, without being obligM to change his Principles.- for the moit Confidcrable Presbyterian Merchants bjth in Derry and B elf aji- have taken fuch to be Apprentices, without anyfuch previous Articles or Conditions put upon 'em. As a Conclufion to his rare Difcoveries about Trade, he falls foul upon fome Diflenting Foft-Maflers for iding as Deputies to thofe in that Office, tho'they have not occafionally Conform'd, which he calls a fcandalou^ eluding of the AH of Parliament for Excluding Dif- fenters from Placet of Truftj and he fays, this feems to have its Effi^ in their General Scheme of this -Monopoly of Trade^ and then he dcfcants upon it thus (p. i6.) ' I defire to know, whether any inllance can be ' given of this Nature in any Nation, that the whole Bufinefs, ' Secrets and Corrcfpondence of thofe, who are Conformable to the ' Eftablifhmen{,fliould be left in thePower of fuch who are Diflenters t from that Eftabliftiment. ' Is it reafonabJe, that at a Critical Juncture, when Fa(^ion and ' Intreagueare fo faradvanc'd, the Conformifls ihou'd be pat under ' fuch neceflary Jealoufies and Confinement in their Correfpondence -, *■ that the Secrets and Bufinefs of Perfons, who by the Laws of cur ' Nation are only qualify'd for Public Trulls, fhou'd be left in the ' Power of thofe, who by the fame Laws are excluded from any fnare * in that Tnilt'. I fhou'd have been far from thinking it worth while, to have taken the leafl Notice of this Trifling Accufation^ were it not for the fake of one Obfervation, which can hardly efcape any Man of Common Senfe that reads it. It isthis,that our Author and thofe of his Temper are difpos'd upon all Occafions to Magnify and Aggravate things beyond Meafure, and to raife a Hideous Outcry for little or no- thing. For here are but about four orfive Men or at moft half afcore^ acting but as Servants in fome Poffc-Offices under Qualify' d Conformifls-^ and yet this mufl be call'd a Matter of the laft Confequence^ as if it were ready to Sap the Foundations of Church and State j and thefs poor laefl 440 Ch, 3. The Loyalty cfTreJhyterians under Part 2. Men rcprefeiUTd as ready to betray their Trufl^as if tliey wou'd Kna- vifiily open or keep up the Letters of Conformifls that come to their Hands ; For he afllrts the Conformifls to be put under necejfaryjea- loufics ^and Cor.jlr.nnent in their Con efvon dene e^ by having their Bkjinefs and Secrets lectin tie FcXTfy cf thofe Dtjfenting X>rp////fj, which infinuateshis believing them to be Knaves •, this is a way to Difeive all Confidence amongProteftants ; Buc 1 hope there are fo many wife and good Men among 'em of all Perftafions, as to prevent theSuccefs of ihhVnchit' r it able Hint. The Sixth fault our Author finds with Presbyterians in Inland is, the Confinement of theirCharity and Alms-deeds to thofe of their ownPerfna- ptn^ which he reprefents in thefe Words, (p. 24, 25.) ' Nay, lam Credibly inform'd that the Northern DifTemers have ConfinM their very Charity to Circulate amongfb themfelves, whilfl the Confer^ mifts deal it promifcuoufly. And an Inftance can be given, that in the inoft Confiderable Parifli of the North of Ireland^ whereby a Lift of the Poor -a the Church- Books fubfifled only by the Weekly Collcftion j Eighteen in fifty five are Diflenters. And by a Lift of the DifTenting Poor in the fame Parilh, Subfcrib'd by eleven Ruling Elders, oi3lyy?.vin Ninety-Jeven are Conformifls: That Propofals have been made by the Eflablifh'd Minifler and Chureh-Wardens to the DifTenting Elder?, to join the Charity- Money of Church and Meeting- Houfe, and deal it out to the Poor of the Parifh, and that they were utterly Rejeded by theDlfTsntersof theParifh. Frequent Inflances of this can be given in the Cafe of the Colledions for Lisburn^ both Notorious and Scandalous; and particularly Mr. Mc, Crackan and Mr. Maxrvell Oi Drum a Ruling Elder, have been pub- licly Tax'd, and Informations given upon Oath of Unfair Pradi- fing in the Clandefline Manner of Raifing the Colledions for the poor Inhabitants, who fuiferM by the Fire, and Applying it whol- ly to the ufe of the Presbyterians ; whereas the Collection purfuant to the Qjieen's Letters Patents was to be General, and difpos'd of by the CommilTioners fwiio were part Church-men and part Difjemers) to the Inhabitants, according to the Proportion of their LofTcs, * without refpcdt to Perfons. As to the General Charge againfl the Northern Diffenterj.that they have Confin'dtheirvery Charity to Circulate among themfelves, 'lis utter- ly deny'd ; and the few Inftaneesour Author pretends to give of it in two KingWilViamof Glorious Memory Ch. 3. 44.1, two places only, were they true, as ihmf are not ^ can never affc(fl Part 2* the Body of the Mr/ /j^r;; Presbyterians. And thefe pretended Inftan- ^^j$!%. »* ces ih^w the Groundlcfsntrs of his General Charge. The two Plices U'v^^w he refers to are Bclff^ and Lisbmn. He dcei not Nime the fifl, bus by railing ic the moft Gonfiderable Parifh of the North oi Ireland^ be frfficiently declares 'fvvas Belfaji he had in View. He tells a Story of ir, ^\\zz Eight etuxn fifty five SubHflcd by the Weekly Cclleclion of the Church are DilFenters, and by a Lift of the Diirc^nting Poor in fihe fame Parifh, Subfcrib'd by Eleven Ruling Elders^only Six in Ni?t- ty-Jeven are Conformifls. The true State of which Ciu is this^ the Sovereign of Bel\aft ufually returns every Year a Lift of the Poor of the Parilh who are exempted byAd ofPailiameni from paying f/r/ir/^ ^fl«^,to the Qiiarter-SelTions: And for his better Information, the Eftabliftl'd Mini ft er ^Curate or Church-Wardens \c^aiai hini with thol^ who are Subfifted by the >^//;3Jof the Church: And the Presbyterian Miniller, or Minifters^ or EUers give him the like Information with refpedl to their Poor ^ according to which Scheme, the above Lift of Ninety-feven was Subfcrib'd by thefe Ruling Elders ^ And the Rea- fon why there might be only Six ChHrchmen rcturn'd in that Lift was, becaufe no more of 'em Apply'd to the Elders, bui went to their own Minifter ; But 'tis a very Unreafonable Inference from hence to conclude, That the Presbyterians ConfineCharity among thcmfelves, and 'twou'd equally conclude that the ConformiflMinifter andChurch- Wardens are Partial in the Diftribution of their Charity ^ for Eigh- teen in Fifty-five^ which that Author fays was the Proportion in the Church-Book, is not the jufi Prcportion of the Poor of the Parifh at Urge^ there being at leaft Two Diflenters for ene Churchman in the Parifh, that are Snbfifled by Public Alms. As to the Propofal which he fays was made by the Iflabllfh'd Mini- fler and Church- Wardeis to the Diffenting Elders, to join the Charity Mony of Church and Meeting- Honfe^and deal it out to the Poor of the Pa" rifh^ the Elders might very well rejeift it, without incurring the Ccn- fure of Partiality in the Diftribution of their Charity •, for they be- lieve that the Poor of the Parifh, both Churchmen and Diflenters, arcvery well fupply'd according to the Methods that have been ftill foUow'd in the Relpective Congregations to which they belong. And I fuppofe the Miniftcr and his two Church- Wardens wou'd hardly fubmit the Diftribution of fuch a Common-Stock to $h« Majority of L 1 1 Voices 44-'^ Ch. 3. The Loyalty oj Treshytenans under P2,rt 2 ^^^'^^^ °^ ^^"^ Presbyterian Mini/lers and Elders, acting in Conjunction * with 'em. He has reprefented thefe Elders fo cdioofly from p. 52, to ^t^y^^ p. 55. of his feccnd Letter^ and ^tt ofFa fuppofed Conflict he hss there, msntioned between the BflahlijWd Minifler and- hisrip;/^? ^iVidi Connor and Dean H'/to/,paid to Poi-f n the two Church- Wardens and two of the Elders of the Presbyteri- . ' an Congregation, to be dillribiitcd as aforefaid. ^j/^VNJ ' That fome time after,in Purfuance of her Majefly's Letters Pa- tents for a Collcdlion to Li/bum, the Presliycerians o{ Belf^ft gave near 47 !h. to the Minifler and Church-Wardens, as by theUIl: may appear, tho' their Proportion w^s never intended to be Computed, nor their Charity to be Puhlifii'd till now, That their Candor and Impartiality, as well as Loyalty are Arraign'd by a late Pamphlet, Entitul'd, The Condncl of the Dijfenters in Ireland &c. Given under our Hands at ^f^/^/?j September ihe 10/^ J 703. Jfaac Mc. Cart my. j^lexander Adair, Having difproved our Author's Allegations of the DilTenters Con' fining their Charity amongfl: themfelves in Belfafi^^ I come next to fhow,tha6 the Inftances he pretends to give of that kind in the Cafe of the Colledions for I.//7'«r« arc very VMucky MiHakes, the he is pleafed to call them both Notorious andScandaloHS*^ he calls them fre- ^Hcnt Infiances^ but mentions only two, relating to and fixing this fuppofcd Guili upon Arthur Maxwell oi Drumheg Efq^ and Mr Alex- ander//cCr^^^w Presbyterian Minifler in LifbHrn. Mr Maxwell is known to be a Gentleman of thai Probity and worth as Tets him a- bove fuch Calumnies, which are fo much the more Inexcufable, be- caufe Mr Maxwell had the honor to be one of her Majefty's Truftees (in Conjundion with feveral other Gentlemen both Epifcopal and Presbyterian^Nominated in her Letters Fatents^ for the Diftribution of that Public Charity, / have feen a Lettsr from liim to his friend, fully vindicating himfelf from this Afperfion,Ehe irueCopy wh«reof is as fol- lows. Sir. * The Author of the ConduU: of Dijfenters in Ireland &c. fage 2^th ' ruggQUtsagainfi me^Thall Affly^d the Coll(^tcns raifed ier the Poor * Inhabitants of Lifburn rvho fi^ffered by the Fire^ rrheky to the Vfe of the * Presbyterians^ Whereas tJoe ColleUion furfnant to the Queen^s Letters ' Patents was to be general, and diffofed of by the Ccrr.mjffiomrs to the ' Inhabitants according to the Proportion of tkeir Lcffes wttkcitt Fefpe£l J to PerfonsJ' To Which / anfwer, thai the very reading of the L I 1 2 Letter ^^^ Ch. 3. The Loyalty of Trejlperians under Fart Q-. \ Letters Patents will Difcover thfs to be an impofing upon his Rea- der, for the Queen's Letters Patients require the fvliniller aad Church- Wardens to raife the Colleftions witli 1 their feveral and Rcfpec^ive Parifhes: How then could Mr Maxxvell A'^^A'j the Mony raifed by them to the life of the Presbyterians or of any Elfe, iinlefs the faid Minifler and Church-Wardens had given the facie to him, contrary to theirDaty and the Diredion and Appoint- ment of the faid Letters Patents ^ which .1 believe^ for their fakes, he will not aflirm. * Ail the Colour the Author can have for this Calumny j is that there were fome Private Charitable Colledions raifed from the Di Centers only, for P*ebuilding the Meeting- Houfe of Ltfburn thai had been burnt, and accordingly Apply'd to the faid Ufe, as other yclnntary Subfcripiions at the fame time from the Churchmen were to the Rebuilding of the Church, without any Re- latkn to the Letters Patents and before they had any Exiflence v his Cenfure G^i^e wkat he fays of his Charity j (hou'd have been bcftowed oa both promlfcucuily, to avoid' keeping of divers Weights dnd Meafures^ and calling that Unfair on the one Side of t\[^'^ Lagan-Water which was very fair on the other fide of it^ biit"afier all, tho' I contributed, yet I never Colleded one far- thing for any of ths faid Ufes. ' St>, I never heard and I cannot believe that ever any fjch In- formation upon Oath was given as he affirms, becaufe 'twould have been plain Perjury, and I cannot avoid cither the fufpeding his Veracity or admiring his Credulity, rather than believe any Man guilty of fo great a Sin. When he fays that Mr Maxwell was publicly taxed, he fhould have told when^ where y and by whemy what he anfwered ^ he fhould have fei down the Copy of the /»- formation upon Oath, and have told what Event it had, and vyhy he was not obliged to Refound the Mony fo Mifapplyed by him, bur general Terms were the fiitell for his Purpofe for DoIhs Latet in ^fW(f/^/;/?«j ^ he is a true Difciple of him who taught, Calnmniare AudaHtr alie^mdadharebit ^ can I exped better Meafure from him than he affords to herMajefl:y'sLettersPatents,which he citherDifin- genOoufly or IgnorantlyMifreprefents, while he fays,that by the fame the ColUrtion was to be dtfpos^d oj by the Commijfioners to the Inhabitants accordirg to the Prcportion •f their Lofes \ as if there v/ere no Chari- Sable Defigninthe Letters Patents, which ordef the Money to be dlfppsM of CO the Inhabitaits according to the Proppreioa of their T.f)ffe.t MingWi\\i^mofGlomustJ!Vlemory.Ch. 3' 44^ * Lcps ^nd Circumflances, Co he leaves ont the mofl Mates ial Word Porf; o: ^ ot the two viz. CIRCUMSTANCES •, 1 call it the moft Matei ial,be- / caufe noMan's LcfHs ticher do or can make him an Objcft o^Charity, V/vNJ , hut the Circumftances that by his Lofles or otheiways, he is brought unto. What if a Min had lofl 10:00 Uh^ can that make him an Objidof Charity, if he have 5cooo lib^ left behind ? If it be fa id, a man has loft all he had, Ergo his LofTcs makes him an Ob- ject of Charity j the anfrt'er is obvious, viz. that Propofition in- cludes his CircHmftdncfSy as well as his JL(3jfny for defray- -^y„>^ ing the Expence, hopiag to be enabled by the PnMic Col]c6ions L^^>rSJ to repay it, but they foon found thcmfeWes Miferahly difappointed / tor when theCollecrions came in^thelrufiees finding that they were far fhoil ofvvhat was expeded,did not think ItExpedient that eitherCWc^ or Meeting' Hoiife ihou'd beRebuiU out of thatFund,&allaw"'d 'cm only thePrcp^rtion that wouM have fallen tothemaiPnvAteHoufes ir.Otmulo with the reft. lathis Ci9o the DifTenters of Ufjarn^ being difiblcrt by the Fire to Defray the Expences of their Meeting Houfe, weie obliged to y^pp// ^^^/>/ to their Friends for AfTiftance \ but molt of 'em having given fo liberalTy before to theProtcftants ot Li sbum as large, were Uncapable of giving more fnr that End ^ tho' fome People of better Circumftances Contributed Towards it. In the mean time, vvhile the DifTenters in Ufburn were Receiv- ing & Procuring from their Friends what AfTiftance they cou'd, fome were pleafed to takQ Vmbrage from this Prad?ce, as if they had in aC/rfW^/?/>f Manner got into their Hands fome of the Mony that was Colleded upon the foot of the PHblic Briefs and Appropriated it to tlie Rebuilding of their Meeting. Houfe. BvX- after kveral Con- ferences between 'em and their Neighbours, for removing all ground of SufJDicion, the Principal Aianagers and Ovtrfeers about the M^ it ^^- Honje gave their Voluntary Oath, the true Copy whereof 1 fhiU here infert, taken from the Original all written with the Bipjofs own hand^ acd fubcribcd by thofe Who tookii ^ which is likewife fub- fcribed by four Get.thmen of the Church, to fhow that they were not guilty of any Unfair Pradifes in that Matter, at the End of each of their jour Names 1 have added the Letter (C). And the Order of the Truftees upon the laid voluntary Oath is likewife Copy'd from the Original^ fubfcnbed by feven of 'em, whereof the firft four are of the Eftablifh'd Church viz., the Bifhop of Doim and Conner^ Dean Wilkins, Di. Lffyy and Mr Halt ndge, Lifiurn 26th September 1710. ' I do fwear, that I will pay to the Treafurer for the time being ' any fum or fums of Mony whatfoKver, that came to my Hands for ' the life of Sufferers in General by the late Dreadful Fire at LiJ" ' bfirn. That I willdifcoverto the Commiffioners for the benefit 'of Lishurn or any Perfon Auihoriz'd by them any Mony that I hnofp f or Jhall hereafter know to be Colk^ed for the faid Sufferers, in rphofe hand 44^ Ch. 3. The Lojdty of Treshyterians under Part 2. hitrdi ic is, horv much there is, or vvas of ic, and to irW ///^ it was or is to he Apply 'd, ifithasnct been already paid, or fn.3n noc be hereafcer pjjd co the faid Treafurer. That whatever Mony hss beea CoPcded, or /hail be hereafter Colkded fjr the faid Suffe- rers, and has been or fhall be ApplyM to any other ufe whaifoever, / mill jathfully and hontfily makt a Cifcovery thereof irnmedtatdy. That rio Money rais'd for the faid Sufferers, hm to my KnoxfUdge been yfppyd to the Meeting- Houfe^ or any Butldin^s about it, or any nfe reladng to it •, And if it fhall be heresftcr fo Apply'd, to my Kaowledge, I will make an Immediate Difcovery of tt to the faid Treafurer, That it any Money has come to thofe of my Perlua- (ion iw General, or to me in particular, I will declare it to the Treafurer. That in Order to have the Money given to the faid Sufferers fairly Apply*d according to the Intention of the Donors, I will ufe ray belt endeavors to know the deiign of fuch Donors, and CO fee the Mony given by them ApplyM accordingly. And all this I Swear Voluntarily and freely upon the Faith of a Chriftlan, without any Evafion , Equivocation tr Mental Refcrvation , So help me God. Ralph Smyth C. Edward Mc. €»mfey Val. Jones Q, William Rothell E. Wogan C. Mex, Taylor Ed. Obrey C» W^^^- Livingjlon Daniel Kenley, 'John Charters Richard Grainger^ Jo, Martin, ' At a Meeting of the Truftces for Lijhurn Brief this 16th day ' 0^ September 1710; Concluded for the e«^iw^ of fame Sufpitions and * Difputes ^ho\M Private Colledions, That the Oath in the annexed * Lr^/taken voluntarily by every Perfon concerned Ihall intitle him ' fo taking it to his Proportionable Share and Part of all fuch Mony ' that is already come in,and ihall hereafter come in for the Ufe of * the Sufferers in General, and that fuch asrefufeto take the faid * Oath fhall be excluded from fuch Share and Part till farther Qr^ * der« Edw. Boun and Connor Jof Wilkins Hen. Lefly, Jahn Haltridgf n jirth' Maxwell Edwa. Brice, John Chalmtrs King William of Glorious Memory. Cli 3.^ 4^9 U mun: be own'd,tbat there can not be a more Solemn vindicati- po|.f ^ o^ of the Innocence of the DifTentfrs \n Lifburn^ wiih rtfptd to th.'s ■'■""»•'- -^ • Matter, than what is containM in this Oath, which gave full Sitisf.;c- U^^/^NJ tion to the Bifhop and the reft ot the TruUccs^ind no Man ought to tax'tni wit!) any Unfair Practices about the Public Colloflions, uu- kfs he allow hirafelf theUncharirable Liberty ol' calling 'cm Pei jur'd. And feeing no .Mony coa'd belaid out for the Meeting Houfe, bun what muft come thro' the Hands of ihefe Men, and be narrowly en- qiiir'd into by *eir, their Oath amounts not only to a Perfonal Vindication of ihemGIves, but alfo of Mr ,^'kCrackan andoi all the Diffenters in LifhHm. I would fain believe, for our Aithor's Credit, that wheajie wrote his Bock he was Ignorant of the Hillo- ry I havb given of tl.is Oath and the Order of tht Truflees iipo:i jr- otherwile he cou'd not have been ^o hardy, as to have pLblifhcd a Miftake in a point wherein a public Record doth fo plainly refute him. A> ^t;m« fault our Author finds with Presbyterians in /^-r/^W du- ring this Reign is, in the Matter of their Farming ; and here he RAI- SES A Ci^r againit ihz Numbers of Presbyterians who fwarrn'd from Scotland after the late Rovohtion^ by whom he reprtfents the Confor- mifts to be funk iti their Farming fp. 25,)ind he cndewors to unfold this Myfteryin thefe \Vords,(/^/^; 'Thefejiew Adventurers were in ' many Refpeds able to out-bid the Old Tenants, who had been in a * great Meafure ruin'd in the late Troubles. "- Firfi-y Becaufethey were upon many Accounts able to under- live ' 'em. Secondly^ Many of them came over botn in che H^bit and Qua- ' lily of Beggars, who with their whole Families were fubfifled by * the Charity of the People^ ilroling through the Country, till they ' had fix'd themfelves, where either they were diref\ed, or where ' they liked, and then open'd their Rags, in which they had quilted ' confiderablc Sums of Mony.and were qualify'd to flock their Lands, ' and grew able Tenants, before the Old Teaants coa'd Recruit, ' after the Defolation of the War'. 1 believe our Author wou'd be hard put to it to prove thaE there were one hundred Families that brought c -nfiderable Sums of Mony 'out of Scotland^ and came over in the Hub: t and QHality of Beggars -^ and fhou'd he be able to make it out (wHich I defpair of j that wcu'd have but a fmall Influence up- on the w'l'-ole Conformijis in the North o/" Ireland, nor cou'd it ever fink ^emortioe^t Imereft in farming : And feeing of the Old Inhabitants that were in the North of Ireland during the lateTrouble, many more M m m of 4 ^o Cli, 3. The Loyalty of 'Prefhyterians mder '^j-f 2 , "^''Vi^am were Fresbyteri^ than Epifcopal^the Old Prc-ihytman Inhr^ • r^r\^ bicants inull fuffer more, according to our Author's Argument, than ^j/^/ Ni/ jl^^ Cjnfor'mfls^ by this New Accefllon from Scothwd •, for our Author Acknowledges Tp. 27. j thst many of the Old Presbytirian. Teuams were (fnd fiill are h'dHfin'oits a?7d Subfiar.tial Tenant s^and had follow^ at heEx^m" pleof(heEi;]2\i(h Colonies in their fmprovemevls and Plantations: And conr.qacjulyjthe New Scotch Incomers had all the Advantages and Op- portunities ot /inhn£\m h their Farming which they had in Sinking Eftfcopal Tenants. And if fo, this cou'd never have been done with a deliga to fink the Chi:rch- Farmers more than Presbyterians, which tntirely dfjircys the Foundation of sll his Reafoning on this Head. And let the Gentle??.en^ whofe Defolated Eftates were feafonably Replanted by many of thefe new Satch Tenants, declare, v;hethcr their coming into a Ruinous Country was not an Acceflion of Strength So the! Proteflant Interefi:, and Beneficial for Improvement of the Landlords Rent. Tistrue, our Author calls it /rr^pr^^f;?^^ ^«;< v^t/;^* rice in the Ch/irch- Proprietors to prefer thife New Scotch Presbyterian 7 e- ■ TtAfits for fo me fin all Advance in the P^ent of their Lands ^ but 'tis certain, that in many Places 'twas the Landlord's Real Interefi to receive 'em as Tenants, and had they not found it to they wou'd net have done .ti Orv Author is aware that the Objections he hjs been making a- gainft the Presbyterians in the North oi Ireland^ and the Repre- ieiitation he has given of the low Condition into which the Church- In- tereflisftink by their means ^ can't bat make people believe that the Ccw/o?w//'r^ in the iV(?r.'/j are a very Inconliderabic Paitof the Pro- ted ants jand therefore he feems to bs under foms Difficulty, ho-^ to prtferve the Reputation of his own Party as Confderable and Nnmt- r'(7/^j,wiihout Contradiding \\vi^oron Hiflory of the Presbyterians. He fays the Conformifts in the North are much more Confiderahle in their Numbers than they are reprefented by the Diffenters And their Abettors^ that tbey hr-JcConfidnable Congregations in mofi: Towns & in great Niim' hers of Country Partjhes throughout the whole Province, ■ But feeing our Author docs not inform us whit Reprefentations or Computations the Biflenters have madeof theirNumbers in Proportion toChurch- men, hisReader can make no Judgment of theTruth of what he fays;and yet, after ail, I think 'tis not quite fo eafy to Reconcile this Account with whet he had y^/^ ^p/oy-^ifor he AfTures us ihai the Ctiurch-men/'f^f^/^- ed King William of Glorious Memory. Ch. 3. 4.5 edthemfdves at orce undone .^thtir Farmers fml^ tktir Fre(rr.(n lf{j/ f/:;? Penal Laws^ which he Defcribes in thefe Words {p. 28.) ' It is evident, that the Diflenters of Ireland^ coufcious of ' their growing Power and Trade, and Iraving Cultivated a llrong * Intereft with fame Leading Members of the Houfe of Commons, be- ' gan to think themfelves fo Formidable, not ro be difoblig'd in the J Refufal of anyDemand they Ihould make.Aod aTryalwasmade in an M m m 2 Af 4^2 Ch, 3 The Loyalty of Prefhyterians mder p ^ ^ ' Affilr of no hfs Gonfeqtje.Tce, than that of a Motion in the Honfeof X. dlX. A't Corn*nois^ iot 2iKep:al of aUthe Fend LiX>i araiijl DJjfcmers for a ' This Dirpenfiag Motion was made by Coll. Cuningham in an E- ' venini, after a tedious Sitting, when the //o///^ was thin, and was * warn:ily and ftrenuoufly oppos'd, particularly (as I am inform'd) ' by Mr, Dapping^ and thrown out with Indignation by a great Majo- * rity. The D^fTenters were refolv'd (and are Ttill) to make no Uireafona- bh Demands, and never demainded any thing of the Government hut by way ot Huinble Pciicion, and with all faitable Modefty and Decen- cy. He gives a Wrong State of iheC^re;,for he diftinguifhes between the Eepfal of the ?enal Zarvs again/i- D jfenters^ and the Toleration which they were dtf'ing '. For he brings in (p, 29.) a DifTenting Burgefs dif- courfing a Parliament- Min thus, We fcorn their Toleration an.i rviH accept of nothing Up thai a Repeal of the Penal LaiDi. Our Author loves dearly to pick up a little pri\rate Chat and' to reprefent it as the fenfe of -a Party. B.it I confefs he raufl have a very Metaphylical Head, who can have an Idea of a l^foal Toleration^ without a RepealoJ the Penal-L'iws that have been En*dled againft the Party To'eraied: For without fujh a Repeal there can be noToleration^S^ therefore ilKEn^VJ}} Toleration repeals all the Fend Laws agaififl the Separate Congregations of Difl'^nters there. And at the time- mentioned by our Author, there was ni Motion made either by Coil. Cumvgham ov any oiher Gentlemin, for any ether Repeal of the Penal-Laws than what is Fffential to every. Legal Toleration a;^ fa;h \ all that was debated at that time was, not whether they fhou'd have a Tolera:ion and a Repeal of the Penal Laws necefTitily included in it ( for thit was not oppof'd ) bus whether a Toleratiin-Aci fhouM bs Clog'd with the Sacra>ner,tal Tfft ; Upon which Occafion, the Cafe of the Tro' teflant D/jfenters in Ireland in Reference to a Bill of Indulgence was publifh'd, Ihowing the Realonablenefs of fuch a Toleration as fhould not Dif^^ble the Diir;;nters from ferving their King and Country. The Point came to be Debated in the Houfe of Com- mons ; But the Debate was Adj nirnM from time to time, the Sci- {{0^% concluded, and the Bufinefs dropt^ withcJnt any Refoljtion of the Houfc upon it. What our Author offers concerninj^ the Pamph- ifets publilhed on that Occafion, fhall be confidered afterwards , aed what he advances in general Terms Concerning the frequency " - ' of. Her Prefent Majejly §lueen Anne. Ch. 4. 4^5 o^ Prrshyteries aai Synods and their railing Pz/W^c Fnnds during this P^*-/- o -.' Period, Ihill be fully auf^v'er'd when I come co c^nfidcrin the *■ ^^ »- ^' third Pj-^t of this Bjok the more pacticuhr Account he gi/es of l/'VNJ thefe Fa5ls. CHAP. IV. The Loyalty of Preshyterians^ from Her Trefent Maje ft ie^s Happy Acceffion to the Throne yto this prefent Tear 1 7 1 3. TrT7"Hen Almlg^ty God affllfted thefe Nations with the- V V Death of that Jllnfirioui Hero and Incvmpa'-abL-' ?rince^ King > William the CHEAT, oiImmortalMi'nory^\\z(\i^^QVit(i at the fame time the Sinking Spirits of a Sorrowful t'copk witli N:w Joys, vipon the Acceflion of her Prei'ciit Majelly t> the Tnrone of her Roy- al /nct(lors. The Presbyterians in the thrre^ Kingdoms paid her all the Dutiful Homage of Z.9)(4/ Subjects, and approacded the Throne with their Humble AddrclTcs o{ Congratulation ^[A Condolance. They.cQafidered her Mijeflji'sGjyenimieaj as oae of the great BUf- fiHgS. f 2}. ^4- Ch. 4- The Loyalty of Treshyterians under Pi^rf O /^^-f ^^ciJred to thefe Nations by the late Happy Revchit ion -^ and AalL Z» 'ty,v3snor. pofljhle that they who had been fo Adtive in promotins; {yV\J ic, fliould be D; (loyal to a Qufen that had A(ftefl fj great a Part iu it her felf^ and who was now come to be poflefs'd of that Royal Dignity which was orvin^ to if, and to defend our Holy Religion & Liberties, which that Glorious Enterprize had RcfcU'd from Popery and Slavery, The Happy Union of Hearts and Interefts, w hich the ProteflanS " Dlflenters in ^/j-^/^jr^ cultivated and chearfully Improv'd with their Conformift Brethren for advancing the Gioiies of her Majefly's Reign, to the Terror of her Enemies, Comfort of her Allies, the Joy of her good Subjec>s, and the jh/I j^maz.tment of all Europe^ is a Demonftration of their Loyal Afl'edion to her Majefty. ^nd they defy their Worfl Enemies, to (how wherein they have dons any thing llnbecon^ing theirDnty to heiSacred Perfon & Government,or to forfeit her Royal Protcftion & Favor. And not only her repeated Gracious Arjfxvers to their Humble Addnjjes fiU'd with her Royal Promifes to Prcte6: 'em, but her public Speeches from the Throne are as Ample and Honorable Tefiimonies of their Loyalty, as they themfelves couM defire. The General Afiembliesof the Church of ScotUnd hav^ been, from time to time, honored with her Royal Letters exprefling her Satisfaclion in their CondiS & Loyalty- And Hef Majefty's Letter to the very lafl Aflembly fto meiition no more) is a convincing proof of this, it runs thus, Her Majefiy^i Mofl Gracious Letter to the General JJfemhly held cA Edinburgh the ^oth day of April 1723. ANNE R. Might Reverend and Well-heloved\ <^ WE Greet you Well. We laave had fi> mavyTroofs of Your Good ' and Prudent Managements in former Aflemblies, and parti- * cularly in the Lad, tnat we have Chearfully by our Authority ap- ' pointed this your Meeting, and we doubt not but you will take * is as a particul sr Mark of our Regard to yon^ that we have appoint- ' cd our Right Truflv and Right Entirely Bebved Coulin and Coun- ^ fdior John Duke oiAiholio be OarCommiffioner, who We perfuade ' Oyr Her Trefent Mnjefty ^een Anne, Ch. 4. 455 our fclv'cs will be Acceptable to you. Our concern for promo- Pg^j-t 2.' ting true Piety and Goc'lincfs. the great End of the Gofp^l, is /-%/-%! fiich tiiat yon may be fully Sitisfied it fhall be Our Cire to Employ ^^Z^*^ fucp, asihill be faithful in Executing the Laws^ in punifhing allfuch Pradtices as are a Scandal to the Chrifnan Profejfion^ and agai'ifc which We have fignify'd cur Difpleafure in our Proclamations. We are fenfible that a Pious and Le.vn'd Mirijlry is under God.thcGi cat Support and Ornanient of Chriflianity •, and therefore We are Re- folv'd to Countenance yon in your Endeavors to Promote it, and to employ Our Power and Authority for Advancing of it to ysur jufi .Satisfaction. Wc Sake this fokmn occafion to Renew the AfT^jrances We have formerly given you o^ Oav firm pnrpofe to Maintain the Church of %coX\iX\6. ns hjlahli^i'd by Law. The Addicfs of the late General Alfembly did fo much MANIFEST THEIR LOYALTY and AFFECTION to Our Royal Peifon and Government^ and their true Concern for the Socccffion in the Proteflarit Line of the Houfc of HJKOFER as EftabiiOiM by Law, that it cou'd not but be very Acceptable to Us, and your h\oderation and Unanimity amongil your feU'cs is not more for your own Good, than ni will he for Oar * SacisfaQicn. And We ajfnreour fehis that there will be nothin*^ ' in your Procedure, but what fliall be Dutiful to us, and (hall Mani- ' fefb the Wifdom of your Condud, and fo we bid you heartily fare- *' wel. Given at Our Courtat St. Jjwfs's thei5f/3day of y^/3n7i7i3^ ' in the i zth Year of Our Reign. By Her Majefly's Command, DARTMOVTH, There can't be a grcaterDemonllration ofLoyalty to HcrMajefty, than to Oppofe a Vofiflo Pretender to her Crown, and to ufe all pof- fible endeavors for fupporting and Maintaining theProteRant Succef- fion in the Illuflrious Houfe of Hanover ^ wherein the Aflcmbly have ihown themfelves fo Zealcus as to recommend ie to all Miuifters of that National Church with all foffihle Earneflnefs^io fray heartily for the faidSuccfffionof the HANOrER-FAMlLT. And in Regard there are no Jacobites within her Majefty's Dominions that are fo Open and Barefac'd in venting their P w^ell known, of their. having fiifFered grievous Pcrfecution, meerly becaufe of their being of the Eplfcopal Perfuafion. This is another ofthetr Amficesj to procure unto themfelves the more Favour and Countenance from others, whofe Proteftion they abufe^ to Profecute their Malicious- •Defigns againft the Revolntion^Settlement: But this their Clamour and' Noife is akogpther groundlefs; and bleffed be GOD, we can Appeal^ to the Cpnfciences of all who know ourCondud,That we have never fince the late Happy Revolution, in ihe Icafl: returned the Severities, and unparallelled Cruelties which we met with, when they had the Afcenc^nt, and which we from their prefent Temper, as well as their Behaviour, may reafonably conclude,, they want nothing bjit- Power to Rpnew againfl; the Minifters and Members of £hisChurch.> Moreover, Thacrhey may diminilh the jufi- A'uerfwn^f the People of this Land to the Pretender^ and engage them to his Intereft, they do> Artfully fuggeft, and wiih the utmoft Confidence affure cUem, T^^att. were. Her Trefent Mctjefiy §l^een Anne. Ch. 4. 4.59 * were he cnceadvanced to the Throre, ^e would procure the DifTo- P^^rf 9 ' lution of the Union. But wc intreat all Perfons to confider, That whatever be the Inconveniciicias, aud dangerous C)nrtquences of ^^^'V'NJ the Union to our Civil [nteiefts, or the Grievances of this Church under it, againlt which la(t, both the Communion and General Af- fcmbly gave folemn and feafonible Teflimony. particulaily, in the Tenth Act of the General AfTembly h«ld j^nno 1712, Entitl'd,/^^ affrevhg the Reprefentatioris and Addrrffes by the Commijfion^ concern- ing the Toleration and Patronages ; yet to exjx^ a Remedy to tbcfe GikV2incc$ from the Pretender^ is a MOST GROSS DELUSION, and a Bait which we cannot think will catch any, but fuch as are very ftmple and crtdnlous ^ yea, fiippofing there were Ground, as there is none, to expedt that the Pretender would diflolve the U- nion, if he fhould come to the Throne ^ yet that could not be at ■ all a fufficient Compenfati^n for t^e Dreadful Traia of the far greater Evils of Tvrannical Government, and the Abominations of Popery, which we could not but meet with, if a Perfon of bis Principles and Education fliould be advanced to the fupreme Au- thority i any Remedy that can be looked for from him xcculd proie fo much vforfe than our frefent Difeafe^ that we cannot but bi confi- dent, there is none who have any juft Concern for our Religion and Civil Liberties, which oughr to be dearelt to us, as ProieHants and free-born Scots Alen, will fufFer thcmfelves to be deluded with fuch an abiurd and enlharing Infinuation. * We find it neccflary alfo, to Guard People againfl: another Artful Contrivance of the Jacobite Party : Thefe of ihcm that profefs to be Proteftants, that they may the more cafily engage People into their Meafure?, do fitquenily tierlare, That they zxc fsr a Protefiart Suc- cejfiony and with great jilfurance advance as a tkitg to be relied upon^ That the Pretender hath ceclar» I SucctfTion is, foi the Security of our Religion and Liberties, and W^^... . of all that is dear to us as men and Chriftians •, we cainoJ fiorbear < at fiKh ajundture as this, to Excite our felves, and all of our ^ Communion to Teriifie, as bklTcd be GOD THEY HWE * HITHERTO DONE.a firm and fteady Adherence thereto,undeu i xthatev'cr DlfcoHragemer^ts may hapfcfi -^ and in the Bowels of our * Lord and Saviour jefus Chrift, we do feripufly obtelt and be- * fcech aU Ranks of Perfons, to hear the Voice of God's Difpenfati- l ens to us in thefe Lands, and to humble themftlves deeply under , the many fad Gaufes and Tokens of the LORD's Anger, to pre- • * pare to meet our God hy taming unto him .with all their Hearts, < by unfeigned Repentance and Reformation of Life, fleeing to 'the Blood of Spiiakiing for Reconciliition and making known our * rrquells to God with all Prayer andSupplicatioii in the Spiric,That t he would continue, flrengthen and perftd what he has v^^roughc * for us, diCspi^int the Deflgns and Hopes of a Pcpi/har.d Jaco- * K'e Party, prefer ve the happy Conftitution of thisNdtional Church, I fandifie and remove our prefent: Grievances, and teach us to 4 profit by all his Difpenfitions *, That he would profper and blefs * our Sovereign Queen J^re^ direft Her Councils and prcfper * Her Government j That H€ would preferve and maintain, agaiiif^: J all it's Oppofers, the Proteflant SuccefTion in the Houfe o{ Hano.^ « ver^ and Etninently blefs tliat IlluRrious Family ^ That He would i give Wifdom to all Ranks to Uaderfland theTime?^ that he would - * pour out a Spirit of Lo/e, ofPowerandof a found Mind upon * Miniders, Tfiat with one Heart and Mouth they may ftrive to- \ get.her, in Defence of the DodrinejWorfnip, and GovcrnmenE « of this Church, ss now fettled ^ That he would blefs thera wich * Meeknefs, Wifdom and Zeal, to avoid all Divifions that bring a * Scandal upon Religion, Endanger our Conftitution, and expofe us * to ths Scorn of our Enemies, and give them Advantage over us^ I Thai the LORD would give to all of us, to rcfl.5 ferioilly « on the many Troubles which have afHi^ed our Sion^ and * tofhun carefully all thofe Sins which procure them. That he * would keep up in our lively Remembrance, the great Danger our ^ Religion and Liberties were in, when in his Infinite Good-nels he i furprized thefe Nations, with the late happy Revolution, a mercy ^ never to b§ forgoiren, without the highert Ingratiaide to GOD ^6 2 Ch. 4. The Loyalty ofPrefhjterians under Part 2-; and die greut fl; In juftlce to the Meirory of the late glorious King Williatn^ v's Sibjcds, that is ^^-f^*^^ moie firmly Vnitei in Piiriciplcs of LoyAty to her Wajcfly, and more link'd i.]Co the TntereRs of the H-wover'Sacceffion, and the Liberties of their Quntry, than they. They have during her M.'jifiy's Auf- picious Reign, fleer'd the fame Cou^fe, dnd*.45:ed by' ihc fame Prin- ciples they follovt'd in k{'Cl{}:ing our Great Deliverer io lUtrkve oni' Fiolated Liberties in io88. Her M^jefty hath exprefs'i her batisfa«fti- cn with their Dutiful Behavior and Conduit, by her Craciohs j^nfrvcrs to their L^^yal AddreIRs, and by her Contiruiti'n oihtr Royal LoHn- ty and FroieBion to 'em ; BlefTings, which the llngenerous£/it)' of their Enemies wouM willingly blaft, and which tnemlelvcs thankfully Im- prove for the Service of their Q,iieen and Country. Bat I /hall farther Illuflrate the Loyalcy and Peaceablenefs of their B'ehsvior, by Anfwering our Author's Objedions againfl it, which confifl of a parcel of Stragling Disjointed Stories-, and ter Order's fake, I fhall reduce 'em to ihefe five Heads, i. Their Ei/^^^/^;^ the Force of the- Tefl- Act,and continuing in Offices in Contempt oi that Law. i. Their refuling to inlifl: in the Militia^ and lo take the Oaths, ' on" the Array appointed by the Government when the Pr^/f;7 thelntereft of theChurch. 5. Their InfolentBehavior about the 7zfkj,inflanc'd in theCafc' cfArch- deacon Fordh Prodlor, & the People to whom he wasfctting his Tiths. As to the firfti/Zs,, T\\m Evading the force of the Tefl-Acl^and con- tinning in Offices in Contempt of that Luvp, he affirms that Ni^mbers of Dillenters evaded the force of this Law by Cohformiyg Occaficnallyy and taking the Sacrament to EptitU themto- Tlaces afTruft and Profit, Were this ^nte in fa£t, it ought not to be turned to the Reproach of Diflcnters by any who Approve of the Tell- Adf, and are fo fond of it as this Author feems to be ^ becaufe that Law allows the Receiving of the Sacrament to be a Legal Qlialification for Civil and Military .Imployments.But what he a&rts is not Faft ; For in Ireland thei e arc veryfexv Occaftonal Confdrmifis smongfl' the Difientcrs.But our Author complains (p. 30^, \ There was anotber Ijla^jk, who wou'd not PrcP • ti-.- 4^4^ Ch, 4. The Lojalty of Treshyterians under Part ^ ' tUute their Confciences, but had the Hardnefs againfl: the Letter ' *■ and Conftruftion, and in Contempt of that Law, to continue Bur- \y*V^ ' aifjes and Aldervi:n of Towns, withous ever quilitying themfelves*. He aggravates this Matter thus, ^ And in all likelihood had continuM ^ ^o till this day. Had it not been for -a Refolution of the Heufe of ' Commons^ obrain'd in their Debates upon a Petition prefer'd by the * Lady Donegd^ chaf'Jing Mv, George Macartney mVa ^amt Irregu- ' laricies in the Government of the Corporation oi Bclfajt. How that * Affiir WIS Drop'd and Mifcarried in the Honje^ I know not ; bus ' this is certain, that it produc'd the Senfe of the Commons^ with ^ela- ' tion to the Icfr-CUufe^ which feem'd of vafl: Importance to the In- ' lereftofthe Church, viz.. That all the BurgefTes of Belfafi- were * obliged by that hd to t^kc the Sacrament al-Tefi • and confequent- * ly the Places of thofe DilTencing BurgefTes, who had refufd to ' Qualifie therafelves were void. No foo .er was the fenfe of the houfe ' of Commons ^iv en ia this point, than Mr. Macartney c^Wd an Af- ' fembiy and filled all the Places of the Unqualify'd BurgefTes with ' Churchmen. * It was then expe(^sd, when all the Corporations in this King- « dom, in the fame Circumflances with Belfafi^ wou'd follow that '* Example: But to the Amazement of all Men, who refleded upon * the thing it felf, and the Confequences, which might follow, there » was feat ce one of the Inferiour Corporations of this Kingdom, ' that thought fit to follow that Precedent^ but moft of all the places ' of theUnqualifyed DifTenting BurgefTes are kept Vacant to this ' Day, without the leaft Regard to the Letter, Intention or Con- * ftrudtion of that Ad of Parliament, to what End is much more * eafy to fee than to be well accounted for h-j the Magiitrates of ' Tuch Corporations, who were obliged to put the Laws in Exe- * cution. Anf: The PfQteflant DifTenters of Ireland did indeed believe Cand do flill,) That Ehat Law put a hardjhip and Marh of Infamy upon 'em, which they had not Merited,andA'hich will be fct in a farther light in the lalt Chapter of this Book^ but they were not guiky of the Con- tempt of that or any other Law. And their Conformifl Neighbours, who continued in the feveralOffices in the Corporations fince iheCom- mencement of the Tefi-Ml^ werefo fenfible of thdrLoyaity and Peace- able Bshavior, that they delay 'd the filling op of their Places (in di- vers Her Pre[ent Majefty §lueen Anne. Ch; 4^ j^6^ vers Corporations) as long as they couM ; and when the RtflUfs Im- Poft ^ >' fortunity of fnme Zeahts extorted from 'em the Execution of thatL^w, ^^^ 'twas with fome Averfion and Uneafinefs they comply'd with it: And U^V^!^ ■'tis very oblervable, that a certain Set of Men on the other Hand, arc much more keen for iheAf^or<7«yExecutionof zhcTefi-CUufe againftPro- teftint Difiie.iters, than for the Execution of the fubdanceof the y^(^f<' prevent the farther Gromh of Popery ^^^ainit the Papifts^ for what Rea" -fons, they themfelvres belt know. Ii is hard to concci/e what our Author's Intention cou'd be ia Mlf- reprefenting the Proceedings of the Houfe of Commons in the Cafe of George Macartney Efq ; Council at Law, and at that time Sove- reign of i5f//4ffection to your * SacKd iMa jefty's Perfoa and Govemuient. Others, who had more Tier Yrefent Majesty §l^een Anne Ch. 4/ 46 7 Underfianding, took the Oaths, but defired for the above Reafons Pof»f n to be excufcd ftom ferving in the Af/7/>/^. Others hating only ^ f^^*- ^m heard the Oath ofAllegiince&Dcclaration againft Pfipery 3v>A Fo- \^W*^ reign j^risdt[ltcn read publickly,and having never heard 'em before did not iinueiflaiid 'cm, and tor wtint of time to be informed of ^ the Meaning of fonae ExprefTions in them, which tho'earneftly * dellredjWas refus'd 'em, could not confcientioufly tske 'em at thai * time. And we beg leave toafTire your Majefly, that we are IN- ' riRELY UN^NLViOUS in Oppoftion to the Pretender '^notwhh- t /landing of this or any other Infinuaiion to the Contrary. Every Impartial Man muft be fatisfy'd^that thefe Reafons fufficient- ly prove the Conduct of the Di0enters in the Matter of tht AJthna to be veryconfiflent withLoyalty &Duty to theQueen,and with a jufi: Abhorrence of thatActempt of the Pretender, which was over before thcMilitia was array'd.Our AHthorpufelilheth farther Accounts of the faid ^rray fubfcribed by two Gcntlemen,thai were concerned in id viz,. Mr Spencer and Mr Waring, wherein there are fevcral things Mifreprefented *, and upon which miflakes our Author builds his fevereRcfle(f^ions upon Dijjenters in general,as well as upon particuUr Perfons.He fpeaks very indecently of a very Worthy Gentleman -z/ZzLi Clotworthy Vpton oiCaflle-Vpton Elq j whofe Candor is Acknowledged by his Worfi Enemies, and was particularly known to the late Houfe of Commons in Ireland, whereof he was a Member, having had the Honour to be one of theKnights of the Shire for theCounty oi Antrim, I have ^ttii a Letter from Mr Vpton to his Friend, wherein he Vin- dicates himfclf from the Calumnies of this Author,a irue Copy where- of is as follows. , ;^^5/r, " CafiU'Vpton, Feh. i^h. 1712.13." ' * So many Concurring Circumflances have happen'd,l!nce the Pub- f lication of that Pamphlei, Inlitul'd the CoKdnH of the Dtf enters of * Ireland &c. to delay my Anfwering what relates to me •, that while * now I have not put Pen to Paper. And now that I am begun,! am fo far * from making any further Apology for myDelay, that I am in doubt 1' wliether I ought to take any Notice of what is faid of me. * lafTurc you the Credit of the Author, whfther Clergy or Lay- *, man,(hou'd by no Means Engage me to regard it, as being above his t Malitious, Vindictive, f alfe and ContradtUtry Glofles. And clearly O o 0 2 to 4^8 Ch. 4' The Loydty of Trejlyterians under Part 2. to (how that he has not the leafl Regard to his own Credit, or the Credit of the Church he pretends to Write for, I im pejfuaded he- do*s not believe what he Infinuates of me, -y.x. That I am a J ACQ. BJTE^ and COMMON^VEALtH's-MAN'^ an Undeniable Con- . tradition *, and were it pQfTiblc to be true, no ways Condufive a- gainlt Presbyterians «• More than that becaafc the Author is Mali- cious, Vindictive, without Regard to Truths or Chifiian Cioitnty^ . therefore the Church of which he is a Member is Malicious &c. ' Tne only Reafon why I take Notice of what this Pamphleteer fays of me is, the Credit of his Informers, being both vf Ute Jufti- . ces ct the Peaces and from thai Character only, what they Inform m^y have fome ^A^eight with thofe that know t?ehher o[ h5\ bnt this [ miy fay, without Vanity, tliat where the Author, his Informers and I are known, what they Alledge will have little Effedt to my Prejudice. Bu I niill not detain you longer from the Con^deration of the Particulars charg'd on me. Tde fivfh is in Mr. Wanri£% Letter A^- Ud at Belfafi^ M^^^ ijth,i'7 10. p. s(Sy ??• which runs thus, IVhen we came to tender the Oaths to the Difjenters^ they Jhev^d themfdves A- verfeto talethem^ very unwiHin^to jervein the Militia for the De- fence of the Country, and thofe of them that did take the Gaths^ feem^d to take them thro^ fear of Punijhment^ ard by Comfulfion^ and wtth an Apparent great Rtht^ancy , and many of ''em Ahfolutely refused to take the fat d Oaths, er to be mlifiedin the Militia, partfcidarly when I Ar- ray'd the Inhabitants »f the Farijb of Temple- patrick, all or mofi of them being Tenants to Clotworthy Upton £/^ j wou'd not take the Oaths.or belnlifted.Mr.Shavf and I committed fourteen ofem whom we had pitched upon for t'r.e Service^upon their Refafd to take the faidOaths^ or to ftrve in tkfe Militia, the Names of thofe Perjons are John Jack- fon,j"hn Green-hall &c. before the A^ittimns for thofe Ferjons to fend ' the n to Goal^c&u'a be drawn, they Petition'' d to be Baifd till the fir fi of June following , being the next Meeting of the Cort.miJfionerS upon Adjourn' tneni ^ • Alle^gi'g, they were Vnac^uamted with the Naturi of the Oaths, an^ th'ttn that time they wou*d mjorm themfdves from ih'ei"' Landlord Mr. UjHon,' and the Presbyterian Tea:her in the faid Panflr of Temc pif patri^ k; (^ the Sig^ i^ation, and Import offhefntd (Mihj^and wgu'd § -beadvii^d mtb 'rw about inhtg the fatd Oaths ' Stcl'-- ^ '}. \ "" . * l-.o£Urc 10 DC R'tfolv'd in iome plain Queftions I MiFi^iit,' \\^\dX ■- Her Trefent Majefty §^en Anne: Ch. 4: 5<5p * was Mr. W^^^/V>^fign in Writing that p3nage,and the Author's p^«*. ^ ' * Deligain /'rindng iJ i. Why Mr iVarirg Name!$ me,anclmyTc- ^ ^ ^* * naatsfo particularly, when he own% many Difmers dfolntelyre- V/VNi^ *" fufed to take ihe fifd OathsyOr to be inliflfdin ihe Militia?\ wilJ * take upoa me to give an obvious /^nfwer to both, that nuifl oc- * eur to every Reader at firft Witvj^viz. That thofe two Gentlemen *■ dcfign'd to mark me out as a Jicebitc^ and an Enemyto her Maje- ' lly , Tho' I am perfuaded neither of them in theirConfciencebe- * lieves me fo, and I am fure dare never fay it- 3. By what law * cou'd any man be compeil'd to inlifb in the MtUtia ? 4. What * Law impower'd the CommifTioners of y4rray to prefs the * Oaths upon all who were Summon'd upon that Occadon ? ,m * 5 By what Law could the Refufcrs be ftnt to Goal ? In other ♦l * parts ofiheCountry^tho'twas thought the r!ecefTity,oufGonflitu[f- * ouj&the Proteflant-Intereft were then under^oblig'dVm to Array * the Country,yei generally they did notfee that neccfTity fcr 3 ge- * neral Tender of theOaths, for which they cou'd produce no Za.v, ' But I fhall with great Sincerity tell you the true Maitcrof Fad. ' I acknowtkdge that aljche fouiteen Peifons nam'd, except one, ' were my Tendnts,& molt of 'em my Day-LaborcrsTome of them ' fo to my Father between 30 and 4.0 years; (bme of 'cm and other * of my Tenants came to me the Evening before, and told me they * were Summon'dto appear next Day at rbe Array in Bfljafi and * delired of me to know whit theylhould do-,myAnrwer wa?, if they *• were f-jmrnou'd they ought to appear, but for Direftions wliaE * they fli:>uld do when there,! v/cu'd give 'em none, but bid 'em do •■ asihey thoaght beft* ' I hive fincedifcou'fed feveralof 'em who all Hy, they were in a ' Honfe for fomeHours under the Care of aCoriftible,or the Higb- ' Conftahle then Mr. Jlexander Adair oi Bdf^/}, that they were ' adviftd to Confuk me, but they told the Advifcr, they did thac ''before they left Hom,e, but that I woud give 'ein no Advicr,th:iE * they never petitioned, to be Rtl€aCed,on zi^y Terms;,mnch kis oa * the Terms mcniion'tiiijhat they were inCu{todyw'iiIeTvventy/^//r« * timmh mi;i,ht havt b:en wrote, thjt they heard.^Vewf.f Craford the Gonftable of TcmfUfatrick had ei.ired into Bail for their ap- pearance^biiE nnr with their Confenc which they arc ready to ' fwear. y^ud further to (h-w the FailTiood of the Information, *' there was :hen no Prcib^ceiian ISiiniftei bvlongirg to the Paiilli; * of Jtr^plip'tritk.. ^N.ow i flijli give youtheReafbn why I did- not aJv^ft 'em jt 47^ Ch. ^,The Loyalty of Treshperia ns under Part 2. and it fhall be tiie fame Igavein the Houfe ofGimmons,asone Argument agaiiifl paffiiig the Sacrumental-Teft-CUufe; I dedar'd h then as my opinion, and do now, that every Private CeminalSz every MiUtia-man by that Law is obli^M to take the Sicrament according to the Rices and Ceremonies of the Church oU'eUnd-^ the renfon of my opinion then, and now i?, bxaufe Centi.^Us and Afllitia-men have that great Truft repos'd in tnem, of be- ing the prefervation of Ganijon a^d Camp-^ nimy inftinces may be given, where the Treachery of fuch has ruined b.)th army and Garrifon; therefore I did not give my advice. And I mufl con* fefs, were there nothing in ii, but the Methods that have been foraetimes taken to get Grand and petty Juries to find Riots,Trer- p:iflc.s,nay Trearon,to ferve a turn, wiien ihey have not kad the tenth pirt of the Color of Law, as in this dfQ they have : it will make rre more Cautious, how 1 ^^,or Advife a thing whereby Men may be led into that, which may Ruin them by a packM Jury, of which there have b^earaany Precedents in for- merTimes. ' This the Author calls p. if. a Diftinguifl^ing themfclves in all Marks of Pa^ive-Obeciience to thePreteNde.'^upon his exfe^i'd Inva/iof?^ of which more hereafter. I maywithout anvForceon thylExpreflion hereafter^ fay it refers to Mv-fVaring^s Letter ^but I thi; k 1 may (ay with greater Juftice and Trath,that it's i diftingulAiing my. felf in all Marks of Pajfive-Obedience to the Law, and if my obedience to the hw, happens to promote the Pretender'^s Interefl , he re- fledson theLegiflature that made fach a law, whereby Men are involv'd in fnch Difficulties.- yet after all the Difficulties, I dare be bold to affirm on fure and certain Grounds,that where ihtPro- tender has one Friend amongfl the Presbyterians,he has twenty a- mongflthofe of another Perfuafion. May God of his infinite Mer- cy to ihefe Kingdoms, her Majcfty's Perfon,and our Happy Con- ftitution, prevent theExperiment. ' The next place 1 am attacked in is p. 41. where the /Author, to fhow thelntenfenefs of his Malice, mull llfher in his Invedtive a- gainll me, over Head and Shoulders,with a Probability^ and fuch a Probability, that it's not in his power to give the leall ground for. The Pafljge is this, Mr Charles O Neile whefi Camrmffioner of Array, was Expofinlating with fnch of the Diffemers^xvho had raifed their Sff of ScrnpUs againB taking the Oaths, and askfd one of \m whe- ther Her Pre/ent Mxijefly §^en km\^. Ch. 4* 47 c * ther he would rtof fxptur to be tfue to the Queen ? 5;V, Replfd the Fel/owT} ^x. ^ S * in the Face of the Country ^we'*Hhe true to the Oueenias Iovjt asjh will he *■ ^'■^ "' * tff(e to ta. Then il e Author proceeds thus, U/*^0^' *" h is Probable this Conditional Sfibjefi was a Difciple of a Celebrated ^ *' Elder and Patriot in that Coitmry veho had the Hardynefsto drink at a * Piiblic Table to his Sovereign Lord the People. Bntpich Vntainted > Loyalifis would do well to Conftder^ Thdt our' Monarchy ts not yet re ■*, ducedfo low^ to be infitlted in this Mariner with TmpHnity^ &c. ■ *" I own my fell the Perlbn here defcrib'djbecaufe I did drink at a * Public- Table to our fovereign Lord the Pe&ple. I am glad 10 find ' the Author obliged to own, that I am a Celebrated Patriot j a 'Title I am proud of, and what I will evereadeavor to deferve of * my Count! y, but Idcfire to know hbw I can be that Patriot he * defcribes me, and yet infult she Mbnardiy, for certainly no P^r- ' fon«can be a Celebrate Patriot that wo'uM in/idt that well-Ordered ' Government, LI ider which he lives, as I take the Limited Mon- ' archy of thefe Kingdoms to be the bcft in the SVorld. ' I defire to know ofthe Author, whether he looks on the Con- stitution of the fw^/r/fe Government to be a Limited or an ^bfo-^ - * /«f* Defpotic Monarchy ? VVhjt ever his Thoughts, or Wilhes ' may be, 1 fuppofe he will fay the fir/J- •, If then the Conftitution of ' the Englijh Government be a Limited Monarchy, I defire to * know how that can be fupported without a Conditional SubjeElion^ * which in Truth is the very ^^/?j of the Revolntion, and own'd by v * th€ prefent Lord Cha icellor,vide Dr 5^c/7'j pr&^> Mr. Walkmgton^ iMr. Magill^ Mr. SftNcer^ Capt. ^r/Vff * Mr ^'t.'iiar/j Craford and my felf, with two or three other Clergy- ' men,&fome ocherswhofeNamesJ can't rememVer,were in companj ^ * but the Oc<.afion of the Health happening after Dinner,and fome of ' the company going out ^nd iq, I cannot fay they were all prefenl ' at the whole Qifcourfe. TheOccafion of this Meeting vva-s the ^ Diflribution of the Mony Colleded (or LisbHrn^m.0^ ot 'em named ' being CommilTioners tor that Purpofc. .^> Atter Dinner, One of the Company and I fell on the two *T General Topicks, then of G(5nverfaiion ^ viz.. PafTive Obedience ' and Non- Refinance, and Hereditary Right; he alledgM there was ' no Rtfiftance mide to the late King Jamts ^ which oblig'd me to * Inftance the Glorious Behavior of OMV moll Ora<:iom g«/^«,when the * whole Conftitution was like to be overturnM ; the Bifliop of Lon- ' ^. 84. and here I muft ob- ferve, that the Author rather than mifs me, will take up with a fecond-hand /nformer, tho' the Original Informer was within fcven Miles of him. The PjfTage in Mr Waring^s Letter, I own to be in Subftance true. 1 did accolt MrSpencer at Carrickfer^ns in theFami • liar manner therein exprefs'd, by calling him honefi Brem ^c. for there was no Referv'd Converfation between us for feveral Years, wc mutually us'd friendly Freedoms with each other of all kinds, he wis as Welcome, and free in my houfe as in his own, and 1 ap- prehended I was the fame in his^But now I find 1 was Miftaken .- I wifli I had been Undeceiv'd in a more Gentlemanny Manner, thaa by revealing Private Converfation. * The whole Pafljgc is not worth inferting •, the only life that the Author and his /nformers feem to defign it for,is, to infinuate that I am a Jacobite, becaufe I'm a Friend to Mr McCrackan who hath not taken the Abjuration-Oath : To which 1 aaiwer, tiiat my having a veryParticularPrieodlhip forMr AdcCrackan {vi\\iQ\\ I free- ly own I hive) do's not prove me to be a Jacobite : becaufe I am fo fure that Mr McCraclan himfell is no Jacobite^ that I am ready to Oblige ay f elf to the Value of what I am Worth,for his Loyalty to theQueen,hisOppofition to the Fretender^and for his being heart- * tily in tie Intercfl of the proteftani Subctffion in the Houfe of P p p H4. 474- ^^- 4* T^^^ Loyalty of Preshyterians under Part 2' ' Hanover, And I ofTe^ to find undeniable Security iox forty thou^ * ' *" [and pounds iox l\\Q Lo^'dXl^ Qi2\\t\\tihreg No n- Jar ant s ^ Vi\{omxh\% " Author groandiefl/ Accufeth oijacohiiijm , And I can Tay it from '"'■■ my fifw-n Kfiowlcdge, and prove it hy ociiei s, That that Great and ^ NobI« Patriot my Lord Donegal offer'd to be bound for Mr Mac' ' Br isle, to the Value of his Eflare, which may anfw^r ihe l^It Para- [ graph of Mr J'J^??^s letter p. 8>. Tho' this Letter nas exceeded what I at firfl: thought it wou'd^' yet 1 mull beg yoar Patience while I make one Obfervation, '^ix., * That fipice this Jfor^^-C^rckw^ Author has been at fo much pains in examining my Public Actions, and us'd f> great Indnflry as to P'-y into my Private Converiation, and after all is Cap iblc to make no greater Difcovery of my Diflayalty, Jacohit^fm and Common* * vctAith Principles^ this proves me beyond Contradiction a molt Loy* ' al Subject, a true /:/^«0t/fn4», and real Lover of our prefent Hap- * py Conftitucion, as Reftor'd by our Glorious King VVdUam^ and * PiTfefvM by our Gracious Queen y4«»r, in which Principles I'm ! refolv'd to live and die /am, Sir^ ToHr very Humbls Servant^ CLOT. 11PT0>^, In Mr 5/Jwc«'s Account of the Array, there is a PalTage told of Mr Grainger^and the Elders and other Presbyterians in L/j^//?«,which plainly insinuates 'em to be J^r o^if« Cp. 3$, 36.) in thefe Words, ' Uponthe Call oftheRolloffuchPerfons^ who were judged bcil * Qualify 'd to ferve, one RicloardGrainger^ Merchant M Lishurn^ at * theHeadoffeveral Ruling Elders, and other Presbyterians, upon * the faid Mr Spencerh icndring the Oath of Allegiance^ abfolutely re- * fus'd to take the faid Oath to her Majefty; in which they ail coir- * curred £0 a Man, faying that there was f )mcthing in that Oath re- * lating.tothe Prince of Wales^ and that God forbid, they Ihou'd * Iwear,. That he was noiKing James\Son ^ upon which they defired * time to confider of it, and went immediateJy out of the Court * and in a Ihort time returned again, and faid they had confidered * ^f it, and finding nothing in it relating to ih« Prince of Wahs^ were f willing to take it, and accordingly did.- To' this Uu Grainger hath Reply 'd in a Letter to his Friend as fol-l lows; Her Trefent Majefty §^een Anne. Ch. 4^ '47 $ Sir, Lisburn^ Seftemher ^th. 1713. Pa.rt 2 ^ C A Ccording to your Defire, I here fend you what I an Remenr * ■ J V' ber,ntfuch adiftance of time, with Refpcd to what con- l./'V'NJ ' ccrns me in ihe CoriduB of I)ijf'.ters.(p. 35, 35.) efpccially con- * (idet ing that I never DreamM tlie PS\gc (hou'd be Piinted : Upon * the calling the Roll in the Market-Houfe of Usburn, Ido pcrfedly ' itmtmh^v^JamesWhittell who Lives in this Town and I were call*d, * and we defii'd time to confider the Oath before we took it, which ' V/3S eafily granted by Mr. Spencer and Mr. John Peers : if there were * any Elders while I was in Court, I do not remember thai 1 faw * them •• but this I can fay as if I were u pan Oath , That my Neigh- ' bomjafws Whittell and I only fought time to confider tht faidOath^ and * about halfan hour after, we came and pleafantly took the Oath, and * I declare I am as free to take the Oath againft the pretended Trince I ofWales^sts^ny: lam, 5;V, roftrsd^c. RICHARD GRAINGER, * 5rV, I let 'James Whittell k^ the AbovCjand if neceflary he will pul * bis Hand to it, R. G. Mr. Spencer has been Miiinform'd about John Toimg^ one of thofc who refus'd to take the Oath at Lishurn upon the Array, when he fays that the faid Toung was Married to Mr. Mc Craclanh Sifter, Mr. Mc. Crackan having had no Sifter tkefe Sixty Years paft, and the faid John Toung has given it under his Hand in a Certificate which I have in my Cuftody, that he is neither Married to Mr. Mc. Cradan^s Sif- ter, nor that he refus*d the Oath with the Icaft degree of InfoJence or Impudence, and that he fpoke to Mr. Spencer in thtfe Words, as for to Swear againfi Tope or Popery, Vm X'cry Willing.^ and to Maintain the Queen & the Proteftxnt Rtligion as \ar as Life & Ability TviHgo^bHt as to this Oath^ J have never fe en it before^ do not underfiand it, and therefore cannot nove take it. This honeft Man was juft offering to Swear all that was in the Oath, which was the Cafe of divers who refus'd it at that time Our Aflthor inlinuates that the Presbyterian Minifters difcourag'd the People from taking the Oaths, and that they did it from Difaftec- tion and Difrefped to her Majefty's Service*, of this he pretends to Name but two Inflances ^and tho* both of 'em be falfe, he draws ^ge- mral Concluiion againft the whole,which wou'd not follow, evcB tho' P P P i the 47 <^ Ch. 4. The Loyalty ofPrefhjteYtms under Pa \ysrs^ rt 21 ^^^ twolnftance^ had b?en h^th true: The firfl Inflince he mentions 15 rp. 59 J thaf of the Revert-nd Mr. Patrick Adnir Pn by ccrian Mi- nifter at Carrtckfer^as.ot whom Mr. Mnh ws Curate of thac Place cells a Scory of 'VIr. Mair's going out of Town on the d ly of the Array ia CarrukfergHs^ tho' the Mayor had defir*d him to ftay, and advife the People to take the Oith. This is a mi flake in Faft,as will appear by Mv.Adarh Letter, and the Certificates he has obtain'd tor difproving Mr. Mathews's Narrative i^ vvtich I will infert under the following Head, becauie theLetter has fome things in it relating to that, as well as the fecoJid Head^ which I am now upon. His fecond Indaace is of" Mr. Mt.CrAelixn whom he Accufes in thefe Words (/?. 41 J * Mr. McCmchtn the A^(7n-7«v/>j^ Teacher of Lishnrn^ at a Comruu- ' nion held in the Parifh oi Anahilt^ in the County cf'Doi^n^ about 2 ' or 3 Years ago. Preached a Sermon upon a Text out of GaUtians^ ^'' Chap. 5. Veif. i. His Method of fpeaking to it was, KVy?, He En- ' largM upon the Slavery of the jewjfll Toh of Ceremonies ^ Next he '■ defcended to the Pofijh Yoke \ and then fell to a Third Yoke, in the ' manner following, viz.. There is (fays he) another Toke.^ as bada^ any cf the former^ I mean the loke of Common- Prayer^ of Kneeling ^ of the Sign of the Crofs^ofthe Surplice diCC- That is the DevtPs Yoke., and they that bear it are In the way to Hell. \(ee a great many of you here that go * that way^ I tell you again it is the Devd's Take *, but Chriff's People they " f,ry are to be tryed by it ', but 1 fay., they tbat are Chrifi^s People will ne- ' ver fnbmit to it ^ andjer my fart I think the Government have no Good ' in their Eyes. ^rMcCrackan owns that he preach'd at Jinahilt onGalatitns 5. i.and that the Scope of his Difcourfe was to defcribe true Chrifl-tan Liberty, •St theObligation theChurch lyes under to maintain it,&that he took Occalion to difcourfe of ajtx-fold Yoke, from which Cbrifl hath made »js free, viz..i. from the Law as a Covenant ofWorks^by bring- ing in a better Heb. 8. 5. ily From the Curfe of the Law by being riadcitCHrfe for us Gal. 3. 13. 3/y, From the Dominion of Sin in our Souls and BDdies, Rom. 6. u, ii- ^(y From the Tyranny of Satan, 2 Ti<^. 1. \6. Heb. 2. 14, 15. 5 /y From the Ceremonial law injoining Pricfty Sacrifices and Leviiical Ceremoniss, j^Rs i$, if €al. 4, 4, 5. Col. 2. 14. 6ly. From the whole Train of human Inven- tions^ as parts in, or of the Worfliip of God r This takes in, i. The ©oftriacs of Men, and Church-Tradiiions brought in as Rules to or parrs Her Prefent Majefty ^ren Anne. Ch. 4. 4.77 parts of the Worfhip of God Matt. 15. 9. i/y, That High Pricftly P^*.f q' Hierachy,fupporced now by the Pe Common-Prayer, Kneeling, Crofs, Sm plice were the Dcvirs Toke^ he denies; and is wiiHngto Appeal to any 4, 6. or 10, judicious Hearers then prefent, nor doth he believe any fuch wil] fjy it. And ^ He declares he was fo far from faying ic, that to his Kn;jwkdge he had never any fuch Thought in his mind, nor never remembers to have read or heard of fuch an Exprcflion, but from this AuthiOr. He alfo denieSjthat he faid thofe who bear it (if this be uncierflocd ot Common Prayer^ kneeltng^ farfUce &c; are in the way to Htll : Tho' h.e do's not deny that he (aid fo of all thofe who bsur thiDevWs Yoke in- deed^ and who are under his Tyranny : which he believes every true Chrifiian^^nd every found divine do's allow to be true. And he Abfo-^ lately denys, thashefpoke thefe undcceat and uncharitable words ■ of the Government, viz., that they had no good in their Eyes\ ai:d fays that the uttering of chefe or aiy fuch like words was what he al- ways hated, ss being very inconlistant with the duty and Gratitude he ows to them, for their great lenity towards him. A third fault our Author finds with Presbyterians during this Jleign, is, the Infolency of their Addrefs to the Qiieen upon the Tretender^s defign'd Invalion, ancT the \infair Methods they took to procure addrefles from others, upon thai occafion.In the beginning of the year »7o8, while the Nations were alarm'd with an Invafion defign'd by Ehe Pr(fff«^rr,The Presbyterian Minifters of the North of Ireland drew up a moll Dutiful and Loyal Addrefs to Her Majefly, .with/rr/^ JJfarances of their fleddy Refolution to adhere to Her Majefty's intcreft, and to fW of the Trote(lamSncce(fion Ggaii.fl- the common Enemies of both j This is the Addrefs our Antnor quards VlMxiov having mo^ exalted Encomiums of thsir oven great Merit rim- Her A'fajefty andthe fnblic f. 3; 3. That part of the Aodrefs he reterrs to and ieems tn Confurefor it's Vanity is in ihefe words ' Our \ii\- l tainted Loyalty in all tHrm of Government, our early ;;,eal for the lats- 478 Ch 4- The Lojdty of Treshyterians under X'dVt 2 ' J'^t«^ ^-rpy devolution 2nd the »v;>e^f.^i/f;/f£'j Of ov.r known Principles both from Duty and ' Inclination .' If all this be true, fas thisB>ok will make it ap- pear to be) I think it was very fcifonible to aflcrt i?, when a ^. 33, and beltows his Cenfure very Liberally upon ihetTi, and all who were of their Opinion, inthefe Words, ^But it feems * thefe Undertakers for the Party, had lefs oppofition in Dublin where * thty gained their point, and had this Grievance infinuated in the ' Addrefs of that City, that Her Majefty might be induc'd to believe ' Her Metropolis had mter^os'd In behalf of the Perfecuted Diflen- * ters of Ireland^io have them put in Places of Trufl; and Profit. This * raifed an Amazement and Indignation m all worthy dLi^d con fder ate * Men, to obferve how the City fliou'd be /nfluenced to Ad what was * Judged fo contrary to the Sentiments of a Majoiity oi Aldermen^ * Common-CouncU Men and Free-me:7. All thofe who were for lepealing the tefi-jr^ as a grievance to the Nation, are, in the judgment of this Author, unworthy and incor- fiderate Men ^ For he aflsrts all worthy and confderate Men to be raifed to Indignation^'^Y.tn it's but infinuated ifl an Addrefs : But how far this Author has fhown himfelf to be acjthcr fo worthy nor covfi'ierate him- felfashe ought to be, inmiking fo bold with the Charaders of fo many Excellent Worthy Gentlemen, to whom he fcems to be in aU reipeds iiiferior, I won't take upon me to Determine. He thai wou'd behave like.aG€ntleman,& Argue like aSchol^r, ought calmlyto Gonlider the Arguments of his Adverfaries, and not to intermix Per J o?j al RefieUions mih the DQb^iSy which very often ixe^k hot Mm 480 Ch.4. The Loyalty oj Preshyterians under p^ rt* ^ ^^"^ upon, for wane of better reafons. J. ail «. Our Author falls foOl upon Mr Adair 0^ Carrickfergus^ for his un» V'V^'^J fait- pradices in procuring fuch an addrefs in Carrickfergus as had been agreed to by the City ot Dublin : In anfwer to which, Ifhall here Infers a true Copy of ]s\x' Adair's Letter to his Friend, which is as follows. SlRy Carriclfergus s^fh April 1713. ' !n your lafl: to me you defire to know, how far I am able to * Vindicate my felf from what I am Charged with in that pamph- ' let, Called, tioe Condt<6l of the Dijfenttrs &c. I fliall therefore fei ^ what I elates to me in fuch a clear ligh8,as may undeceive thofe who ' have been Impof'd upon, by the Author of the faid pamphlet 6c his * Correfpondents. ' 1 am Accufed by the faid y^uthor of 2 things, the firfl is repre- * fentedfp, 32) in thefe words " Great art was ufed, and Ap- '• plicution Made, wherever they had the leaft Influence to obtain " AddrefTes to Her Majefty with Inmendo^ that their Incapacities *' by the Teft-Adt was a Grievance to the Nation. Amongfl the *' Managers in this Affair there was one Adair^ the Presbyterian *' Teacher at Carrichjtrgus^ who had Clandeltinely procur'd an Ad- *^ drefs of his own to be fubfcribed by forae fern of theTown-jnry ^vikh' *' out the privity either of the Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder or *' BurgefRs of that Corporation ; which they fo highly refented, " that they fent up the following Advcrtifement to Bublin^to be ** publifhed in a Printed News-paper, which was accordingly done '' in the Flying-Pofl for feptemher the ^oth 1708. * The true ftate of the cafe is this.The Grand Jury of the County * of the Town of Carrickfergus drew an Addrefs to the fame purpofe -* wi^/i that of the City of i:>«^//« j and it was prefented to Her * Majefty by the Earl of Penbrook at St. James\ May 21 1708, and ^ Her Majefty was pleafed to receive it gracioufly, as appears from '' the Lot7don.Gaz.ette Publifhed by Authority from fW/^^t)' w^^ 2or)b * to muuday May l/\, 1708. ' As to the charge againft me for mannageing the faid adrefs, * it con lifts of three partsj one is, that I fhculd have ClandejHnely * procured an Addrefs oj my own •, another is,that It was fubfcribed hy * ^fev? «fthe Town-jury.^ a third is, without the privity of the Mayor .• Aldermen, Her Prefent Majejfy §l^en AnnQ: Ch, 4. 481 ' Aldermen, Recorder or Burgefles of that Corporation. It is fur- Part 2.' ' prizing, to thinic witli what j^Jfurance iIq Auchor publi/lietli * facli tnijhhs-.viVew iliey can be fo Eafily dtff^ov^d^ and my Vindica- ^■Z'*^^^"^^ ' tion fo well actclted, as appears by cue following Cercificate. ' H^HEREJS^ in a (ate Pamphlet Entiiled the Gindud of the Dif- ' fenters &C./> tsfetfonh^thfit an j^d^refs to Her Majefiy Entitnlid &c. <• wherein was fignified the Grievances the Nation Uy nndcr ky the Late *- 'Te^i'Ad\s2L% claiideftindyprocurtd byoEey^i<«»>(bywhom we fnppofe ' tiey meantheReverend Mr Pat-nck Ad.nr ]^\\A lubcrifeed h^ fonie few of the Jury. NO vV therefore we the J'abcribers bting AlK^Excent one John Macomb ir/?^ isjlncedead) that were upon the Cr and jury Enqiitringfor our Sovereign Lady the Quten^ ar.dthe Body of the County cj the Town 0/ Carrickteigus at the General Quart er-fejfi.ns of the Peace held at theTholkl ot ibe fat dT own ^w hen andWhere the [aid Ad^ * drefs vcAs made, do heieby Certify than the faid Addrefs vjdi% done *■ by our «rdcr^ and by each of us Suhfcrtbe.d^ when we were ' all together conveened^ and upon our Oaths, At faid Sejfons En" * quiring for our Sovereign Lady the Qnei?;. Witnefs our Hands the 2 \ji * day 0/ January 171; William Mc Hendry James Irwin James Monfon James Watfon Davtd Morifon John Aiathews Wdliam fairfoote Jofiah Hamilton Daniel Aickirk John Brown John Campbell William Jafrie William Bell John Jackfon ' From which you fee, the Addrefs was procured by the Grand * Jury,and there fore,nolC/rf;7^/'/f>r/yr7-^r«rrown.^\i' James Irwin, and Mr David Hood^\XKg'^&%^ there- ' fore not without the privity of all the Bitrgefes ^ wichal the Addrefs f was put into a fliop in the moit public part of the Town, and * there fubfcribed by theGentlsmen &Inhabitints of the Town vviih- out Diftindion, as W€ll thofe of the Eftablifli'd Ciiurch,as Prcsby te- rians. This might be done, without the privity of the Miyor, Aldermen, and Recorder : theGrand-jur y w/iofe Addrefs it was, very well knew they were bound by thtir Oath to do whaE might any way Contribute to the Interelt of their Gracious So- Q. q ^ verei£n 2 Ch. 4. The Loyalty of Prejhyterians under art 2.C Vf reign and ihofe they reprefented^ and therefore concluded, that they might frame an y^ddicfs for thcfe ends. ' ThefecondchingObjided againftme is, with Relation to myBeha- vior at the time of the Array of the Militia^xfs contain'd in a part of Mr. Mathews^ Letter irierted by the Author r/>. 39J in thcfe Words j ToH know vphat offjfition the Commiffiomn of Arrc%y met with in tht CcHiity of Antrim ufon tke Array i?///?^ Militia, which mads our then Mayor Mr, Horfeman, a'^^r then jive of the fame difficulties tn j4rr ' of the Clock Afternoon, feeing the Array wasovcr abouLNcon the' '*^^ ^* . ' fime diy j for which I refer my fdf to the following Certificate, \/*VN.5 ' T Do hereby Certifie thtit the day the Milti.i of CarriLkfergus ri'.is J[^ * Arrayed upn thePreKnder^s pretending to hvadeQvt2L\.'^nmV[.;he ' Reverend Mr. i'at Adair xvmin Tow:? in Lorf.paty ir/V^RicIiard Harfe- * man Efc^ \th:n Mayor^ and Others^ and did continue in the [aid Term till * yf.v- oj the Clock in the Afternoin of the [aid day-long before which time the ' Array vcas over. Dated this i ^th c/Febr. 1712-3. Wm, Wilki fon. ' It had been the Author's ^Ldvnntage.he had produced hisAuthori- * ty for what he advanced agair.fl me upon Managing the A ddrefs^as he ' has done againfl me in my behavior \ipon Arraying theA/(//>/^,Tli3t of ' the Addrefs falls upon himfelf, that of the Array upon Mr. MAtthtws. ' I hope when the Reverend Mr. Matthews hears any thing to myDlf- ' advantage, he will give meanOpportunity of Confefling if Guilty,or * Vindicating my felf if Innocent, this will be according to thcRule of ' the Gofpel, and a kindnefs to himfelf as well as to me. I have fenE ' you the Original Certificates, from which I drew the Copies Infer- * tedinmy Letter^ lam, Sir, Yours e^c. TAT, ADAIR. I have feen thofeOr/g-^W Certificates referM to mMv.Adair^ Let- ter, and find the Copies he gives of th€m to be exaft. And upon the whole, the Reader will fee that our Author's Argument againfl Dif^ [enters wouM be very good, were it no for two things that are wanting in h^vix,. Truth in Fadt, and good Reafoning in his Confequences. The fourth Fault our Author finds with Dilfenters in Ireland^, during this Period, is. Their j-)ining with the Town o( Belfa/t in defending a Suit againfl ths Intereft of the Church. He expreiTcth himfelf thus, fp. 42.; ' About this time the Minifter of Belfafi was call in a Suit, ' which highly concerned the Intereft of the EftablifhM Church of * Ireland 'j the Judgments and Reafons upon which it was grounded * having entirely defeated the A(k of Parliament, for the Provifion of * Mtniflers in Towns Coryorate^ and affefted moft if not all the Com- * miflions of Valuation which had been, or couM be granted by Vir- * tue of that Aft. He firft endeavours to make the Caufe Odious, and then he purpo- feth to gain his End, by (heviring thcDifTenters engaged in it, of whom Q. q q Z lie 84 Ch. 4- The Loyalty of ^rejhyterians under Part 0 ^^ TjysCp. 43. /There never furely was any Suic,which the D'flcnters * ' iiv general made more a Pany-Cauff^ and which the)' and their Ad- t/'V^ *'-*?> vocatcslaid more to heartland indeed^ail things being confidef'cl) * itis not to be wondred at, b.-ing likely to prove of the lafi: Coiife * qucnce to the Incerefl: ofihe A7rt, upoa feveral Accounts. As to the Merits of the Caufe^oar ^^achor acqusin^s us thst he in- tends veryYoan to publifh a full y^ccount of it ; but I hope it will be a more ) iR one, thin what's cont3in''d in the little Ab.lrafI: ot it, he has given in his BoDk *, the uiireafoniblenefs whereof will app:ar to Inch 35 fcrioifly Perufe a Pri ited hdf Sheet, with the St.-^te of th.itCife^ pnbliih'd before Judgment was given in the Qjieen's- Bench, in favor of theTown. Tiie Town of Befafi (tho' a Corporation of an hundred Years Standing) never paid Houfe-Mony to their ^?,and the Liberties thereunto adjoyning, * and in other Cities and Towns Corporate of this your Majefty's * Kingdom of //-tfi^w-;^. Therefore be itEnafted &c,'That they were not ^ff (ftedby it, leeing Belfafl is a Ficarage Endow'd by Law with . GUhe-Land^ all the [mall Tithes, and a third of the great Tithes :^ and that by a modefl Computation, the Product of thefe and of the other " Dues paid by the Inhabitants ot the Town of Belfafi to their Vicar, will amount Comwanibfis ylnnis to i%o lb. per Annum, which they Pleaded from Adjudg'd Cafes was a Competency for the f^iear 5 and that therefore the Reafon of the Law was not binding in their Cafe. And they farther Pleaded^that tho' the faid Sum of 180/^. per Annum ■ fhon'd not be look'd upon as a Competency, yet even in that Cafe, winch is the moft favorable fuppolitioa for the Vicar, he can't legally , Kqcoyer.Houfe- Money from the Inhabitants of the Town, bus muft . Sue.. Her Present Majefty §^en Anne. Ch. 4: 48^ Sue for an Augmentation to hlsMaintenanceout of the^^^^^n";?/ Tithes, P^j-^ 2, brcjufe he thjt receives the Impropriation of tliefc Tithes ought toEn- rsfSJ ' clow the ricar with a Gompecen? Maimenancc. ** Thefe .^ere f ine of the Fleas m ;de by the Corporation of BelU/?^ nnd upon v;hich Judgment was given in their Favor, agreeable to the Intention of the /jd: of F.nluiKMent. Ai,d the fame an never be Frcjit.-iicuxly either in it felf or id Conftqncmes, to the Eftablfll'd C' urch, beciiufe it deprives 'em of no Right to which they have any LcgU Title; nor can itL.ffl.5t any Faluation thit h^s beer> made in any Town Corporate, ^.ccordi^ig to Law. Andfhou'a cur Author be able to produce any Inftanceof a r./.«4f/i?.\grantcd in a Cafe Pa- rallel to thatof^/. i.e. where the Minifler has at leafl: i«o lb fer /^nnum^ and where there are fufficient Reftorial i irhes to fapply the Dc feds of his maintenance, if there be any, 'twou'ti be no Inju- ry to the Chm ch that fiich a F^ihiation were m^de void, becaufe noE Legal. And in the mighty Notfe this Author has mi^de about this mat- ter, he has not been fo tender of the Reputation of the Church, as he ought to have been . For inltcad of it's being for the Imercjl of the Cicurch^ 'tis rather a RcficEiion upon \m^ to feek v. hat is «'f their ' crr>M^ and not to reft Connmed v.'it'i the Pioviiion the Laws of the Kingdom have made for the Clergy, which is as handfome and Ge- nerous in /rr/^^W (efpecially fjr the Inferior Clergy) as in any Efta- blifh'd Proteflant Church in the World •, and therefore our Author, if: he had thought lit, might have forbore the heavyCompbintshe makes oi f.nhr.g the hcotne of the Efrahhjlj'd Clergy,, Calling it a Dmgonnhic Jiate^ into which this Judgment wou'd reduceall Miiiifters in Towns Corporate in this Kingdom. That the Vijftnters in general made this Law- Suit in Mfafi a Party- ^ Cai'.fe^ is Utterly denied. And it can be made appear/rom thofewho Colledled the Mony for defending the Right of the Corporation, that notoA-^ P^»«) was paid tcwardsit by any, bat by ihe Inhabitants cf > the Town of Belfafi., who were all perfonally concerned it, and were to be affecied by the Judgment to be given upon it: And almoft all the inhabitants of any Figure and 5ubl'tance, of ALL PERSUy^blONS, - did with equal Cheartulnefs make. their -Voluntary Contributions to- wards if. And the DilTcntcrs were far from following the Example - of the Co«':/oc.'?^o«,who indeed made it a Tarty Caufe.and warmlyKe^ commended it to the Clergy for their ^fliltance, as appears from the ^ 485 Ch. 4. The Loyalty of Trejhyterians unde,, "Part 9 Ptiblic Printed Paper of the Lover- H cafe of Cotrjccaiior^ diredly ef- "^'poufi.ig ic as clie C^«;V cf the Church, %yy^ The ;^/^r/j Tauk our Author finds with Presbyterians, during this Period is', their Inioknt Behaviour about the Tithes, inflanced in the Cafe of Arch Deacon Ford's PrcQoi&the People to vvhcm he was fettingbis Tithes, where be tells a Ridiculous Story fp. 45J in thefe Words '' it feems during that Strugnle, they wereSpirited * up to the faiTie Height, that they had been, when tbey Petitioned ' the King for the Church-Livings, as before-mentioned. And this ' you may learn from the fecondRel;ition,given to meby the R^vd.Mr ' /7;r^ Archdeacon of £>frry, v;ich Authority topubliftiit ^7;^. That * when his Proftor George Leah was fetting'his Tithes in the Diocefs ' of Derry for ths Year 1710, feveral of the Pariihoners demanded of ' the faid Liuke^ that he fhould engage before \Vitnefies,ro return the *" feveral Sn>ns agreed for^ frovia'edthat they^ whc rvere Dijfentirsjhould ' he Exempted Jrom Paying their Tithes, before the Terms oj their Ref- * feElive Payments became due. Our Authi rCompares thislndance with auother he hadAccufed 'em of before t*/^. Their Vetitioning theKingfor the CkHrch-Livings'^viheie'ia 1 think he is very much in the Rights the Comparifon is very apt, & ivellChofen: For I have fhownCp, 405.&c.Ilibat they prefented no fuch Petition. And 'tis probable, this Story of the Archdeacon*s Prodor is cither a meer-Jifi of fome of thefe Drolling Country- Farmer j^ or the Height of Folly, if they were in Earnefi; ; which needs nothing elfe to demonstrate it, but the Terms of their own Propofals,-!"/;?.. That he fiwnldretttrn the feveral Sums a^rted for^ provided th^t they who were Dijfenters fhould be exempted from paying their Tithes^ before the Terms jf their RefpeBive Payments became due. For how could the -Sams be returned betore they were paid, or is h credible, that they wou'd be pjid before the Terras of kheir Relpedive Payments became due.^And iftheywere not paid before thatjincafe theDiflentersfhauM be Exempted frompaying beforethcRefpeftive paymentsbecaraedue, in that Cafe they needed no Covenant to fecure 'em, becaufe there wou'd be nothing due by 'c/w.And therefore fuch afenfelefsPropofal could eome from no wife man, nor cou'd it be the Effed of diny general Concert or iv?f/t///ifro« of the DilFenters. What he offers about, their Synods^ and Jlifijfionaries as he calJs them, invading the Conformifis Congregations, aaU their Manag- ments "'^4 . . Her Prefent MajeBy §^en Anne, Ch 4; 487^ ments in Droghtda (all which he touches fhortly in this Period) ftall Po j-f o ' be fet in a true Lights when I come to Gonfider his more Particular * Account of thefe FaU:s in the Ufl Pan of this Book •,llpon the whole, UO'?!N!l I muft fubmit it to the Judicious i^eader, whether our Auth'or has not induflrionfly ralCd into aParcel of (at beftj illAttefted andground- lefs Stories,unreaforjably fl:rain'd,to/«//ythe Charafters oi Loyal ^?e ace » able and Sound ProCeftants. /have been obliged fby his Method) to mention fome few things^ particularly the /iiftances of Charity, under the former Reign, which Properly belong to this Period •, which / did, toprevtntthe X^ouble of going back to Review his Accounts of 'em, after I had finilhed what properly belonged to that Reign. 488 Chap, I : The Loyalty and Veaceablenefs ^^ PART III- Wherein the Second and Third Parts of the Pamphlet Entitled, The Conduct of, the T>ijjenlers of Ireland with rejpeii both to Church and State^ are Examined. CHAP. L Wherein the firfl Four Fa6ls Charged upon Presbyterians in the Second Part of the Conduci of tJoe Difjenters viz, i ft. Their Synods and^ffemblies. 2ly, Their Ruling Elders, Q^ly.T he private Philosophy-School ^/Killeleagh, ^;7<^ 4thly, Their Writing and Preachingagainsi the EHabliJh^ dForm of Marriage ; Are Set in a true Ltght^ and a Modest apology o^ered for them. Our Auihor Uadertakes in his fecond Part of his lecond Letter to give an EnHmtration of fome farticuUr F^cl.^ rcell attefied^ illHJlrat- ing and confirming what is affirmed of them in the fir J} Part. And thcre- Ibpr p^ naiurai-Method oi tieating chis fubjed will oblige me,j?r/?. Of their ^reshyteries and Synods. Chap, i ; 4.89 to confider ihzfdh byhim alledged againfl:Presbyterians,&then,2/y,in- P^^j^f O quire how far ihey illuftrateand confirm what he has cffirircd sgaicft ^^^^^,* 'em in his firft parr. OO^V The firfc of chefs he fets forth in thefe terms p : 48. FACT I. *■ The Diflentcrs of this Kingdom (fays he) prefurae fo far to ex- ert the inherent Right of Chrift*s KivgJom/ 3Sthty phrafc Presby- ttrianGovernwent) Ehar they convecn ipfe^«and where thty pkafe, form themfelves into Prff;^^fcr/>j, CUfsicd zv[(X Provinciil fynods.- in which AfR-mblies, by the piincipksoftheir Ecclefiallical Polity, they exercife a jnrijdidticn////jtfmrrc and Independant of the Civil Ma giftrate, in Many Infl;a»ces. Thefe Aflemblys arc ^recjuert and Numerous of l3te,very publick^wiih an appearance of yt/uihority^at fome times .-as private with doors and Windows fhut, at other Times: infomuch that all 0«/?^5Mf* Men area msz'd at their Pre- fumption, and ALirmcd at ihe Manner of their proceedings. Let us hear what the Presbyterian Minillers in the North of he- land offer in their own defence, in their humble Addrefs and A^dagy 0 her Majejly^vihh refped to this very hdi (Vide prefent State of Re- Igton in Ireland p. 28) * That we not only meet for the Worfhip of God, but alfo in fmaller and larger Societies, for preferving of Order ^ purging our Communion oi Scandalous and irregular Per- fbns,5c for fupprelTing Immorality and profanenefs,is what we free- ly acknowledge to your Majefty. And thofe Meetings (as their Lordfhips obfcrvej are commonly caHed Sytios's and Judicatories, being fo termed in thtfe Churches where they have Civil fanc- tion. ' Thefe Judicatories in North- Britain being Eflablifbed by the ^m/J/j Parlianiert, as a FUNDMENTALof that UNION which your Majcfty has in your Gracious fpeeches from the Throne dechr- ed to be One oj thtgreateft Glories of your Reign ;We hun'ibjy hope, that your Majefty's Permi/sion of them here, to thofe of the fame principles, will not be Prejudicial to your Prerogative. ' And we humbly befeech your Majefly to reft Aflured, that no- thing derogatory to your Majefty's Honor and Safety, nor to the Royal Dignity and Prerogative of the Crown, was evcrfo much R r r as 4-90 Chap. I. The Loyalty and TeaceaUenefs Ptfift # ' as once moved or thoughs upon in any of thcTe Meetings. No 3* ' Civil AfTiirs were ever under their Confidcration : None but i^C^V^^ ' thofe who t'oluntartly decUred thcmfelves £0 be of their perfnalion, *' were a£ any time affected by them. No Coercive power was ever •^ cxcrcifed upon any, nor was there ever any Circumftance or * Management iathele Meetings inconnflciit with the peaceof the ' Kingdom^ or with the Liberties, and Properties of ycur Sub- ! jefts. . This Contains afull Anfwer to our kwihovh general Charge^ about ibis faEi : As to the principles of Presbyterians, about CbHrch- Government^ and the ruks of their Z)z/£-//?/i«f^ar:d their opinion about tht Inker ent or htrhfic power,! have confidered them in the fiifl: part cf this book, and Vindicated 'em trom oar Author's Calumnious Mifieprefentations of 'em as injurious to the Civil MagiHrate. Her Majefty has been gracioufly pleas'd to allow her Presbyterian fubj^dls in IreUnd the Liberty of Meeting for the Public Worship of God, according to their Confciences : And therefore they Humbly bope,that her Royal Wifdcm and Clemency will permit them to meet ?n ihofe AfTcmblies likewife, which are neceflary (in their humble opinion, &^ccording to the principles which their Confciences dictate to them) for the dtcent ordering of their Worfljiplrg AiTemblies , tht purging of them of fcandalous and irregular perfons, for preventing the facred ^ndi folemn feals of the New Covenartt from being prodituted to the openly prophane, contrary to the Invariable rules of the Gof- ' pel, and the pious ConJritutio?7s of the primitive^ & of all the Reformed Cbiirthes in fche world^and for preventing the people from being fedu- ced in their principles, and debauched in their Morals, by Heretical and Scandalous piifons creeping into, and cominning m the Office of the hdy Minifiry. How can, they enjoy the Liberty of public Worfhlp, unlefs their 'pAJlors be allowed to Meet and to Ordain qualified Pei Tons, to prtfide in it ? How can they Adminifter the Sacraments to their People , without Encoaraging Scandalous £«crwiV?w, unlefs they may be aljow- «d a Liberty of denyitg them to impenitcntly Scandalous Offenders ? and how can they do this without hearing them, and endeavoring to Re- form them l Wou'd it not be a Reproach to the Proteflam Religion, and tend to the Dilhonor of God, to permit a Man that is an open Heretick or iewdly ^rofane^ to be a Frcshytarian Minifiert And how OftheirVreshyteries and Synods. Chap, i,' 491 Ihall Presbyterian Miniflers (hew their Regard to the Honor of Reli- Pg^j-f; o gion, to the Souls of Men whom they have the clr^rge of, and to the ^ J* WeU'ire of Civil Society and the Nation, if they Aiou'd not difcoun- '^i^'V%^ tenance «verv fnch Perfon ? Might not all Men f.hink them Parti/^hnd Bafe^ if theyfiiouM admit any on« to be a Minifter or aMember of any of thtir Congrcgstions, or to r in this cafe the Presbyterians Ihall have no benefit of any Difcipline ^ or, whether they fhou'd be Urcedtofahmit to one agaifllt their confcience jor,wheihcr they fliall be - 1 Of their Treshyteries and Synods Chap. [ . 493 htfertnitte'd to x\^t it, as they have done above fcvcniy yciis by p^It Paj*t O. in Irela»ci^With fubmiflj^n,! chink the Refoluuon very cafy. For, to ^^-^* deny rhem the Bifrcfit of all Difcifl:7:( is to give loofe reins to all kind U^^*^ of wicked nefs •, and wb^ihcr Frcjl')iery or open Jmmoraluyhe more toleTable,lei: the world jidge, B} torcing any one Scheme upon 'cm againfl; their C'^nfcieqces^the ends ofDilciplinecan never be ob'.ain'd. Finesjlmpiifonmen:s,6^Baniflimcnt may make men Hypocrites, bi;t will never make thcmGoodChrillians nor goodChurch-Men,as Experience abundantly fhovvs.y^nd therefore it fccnis plain to n e,th a 'tis beiter to permit ihem theLibertyof their own Siheme^than either to J<-rce another upon 'em that won't reach the End, or to deny them D/JufUne alto^ g'-ther. Thhfati fet thus in a true Light,can never be FrejudiciaUlihtv to CiSj^rc/j or 5f«?rf, and therefore can never confianwhat our v^^uihor has affirmed againft Presbyterians in the fir ft- P^rt of his fecond Letter. ■ Let him difprove fif he can) what their Miniiters aver to her Ma- jefty, in their above-mentioned ^;?'. And unlefs the fyomoting of Piety,and thero/T/i/Zr/v^ of thebeft Expedients they can ihii.k of for offofing Sin, be thowght Pre judicid to the C';urch, 1 know no Prejadice they receive by fuch Meetings. Bcfidcs, 'tis Evident from the Reverend Mr Hall's Letter, in name of the largeft Meeting of themjin the cafe of Mr ^z/?o;?,which I have inferced f. 414. thit fuch Meetiogs are ufeful and have been accordingly tifed, tor corre^ivg the Indifcrttions of any of their own Members to the Eftahlilhed - Chnrch ^ fo far are they from doing any lhing,ihaE is nmdghhonrly or undecent. But our Author, from the General Account he gives of this fad^ defcends to a particular inftance of the procedure of a Meeting of Presbyteiian Minifter?, in the cafe of Mr WilUam Cray \ < a Mini- • Iter of their Perfuafioa, near the City of London-Derry) which he thinks may ferve for all .- He gives the Narrative of tbi: Cafe, as ( he faysjit was read by theRevercndArch-deacon Jrid-rew Hamiliofi^in tiis ^ information to the Convocation y^ngiifi ijn. 1 Ihill give the Reader a fhortand true Account of it, frcm the MinHtesoi thofe Meetings who confidered it, and fhow wherein the Reverend Dodor Hamilton has been mifinfarmfd in fome circum- 494 Gh, I. T'he Lojalty aniTeaceahknefs Part Q-. *f^^'^'^ jnndthen FinMcate the pjocccdings of the, Minifters, from _J' ih^ invidious R(fl>t}:or.'S c^^i \\\)0\\''imhy ox^r AmhQX. I^Or^w Mr Wtllia-n Gray^iho' a man of Good fenle and a good Preacher^ finding that he cou'ci not obtain the confeiu of his Parent?, >l/jtry'd Clarjcicjlmely^aud conceal'd it for a cor.fiderable tirne.As foon as it was difcovercd, the Presbytery reproved him, fnfp ended him from his MivAihy, and fent one of their Number to receive his Penitential ^cbinxvlee'gment before his Congregation ;which he made very rejdy- ly, m\ very much to the fatisfaction of ail who heard him. In the Riejn time, they were under lome difficulty ab3ut fuftainlng his Marriage, kecaufe he offered only one witnejs to prove it •, and re- iiiled toacquainE them with the name of the Perfon, wlio Marri- ed him, being under fomeEngagemenE to conceal thaE,as he affirmed; bat upon their Opinion of his P^eracity^mth the ctncunent Teftimony ot thaco;;f witnsfs.thcy believed he was really Married. In the mean time, One 5fir/?^f;7.f(?>z who lived near Z.Wo«-Dfrry, accufed the faid Mr Gray of Notorious fcandalous pra(flifes, which he with great j^f- ffi'^nce and Violence offered to prove againft him, and this laid the P/csbycery under a ncceffity of hearing what the faid Stephenfon cou'd fay : The fame of this being fpread through the Country,A/r Gray^t Cangregation, which is very numerous,came to hear what cou'd be faid againft their /l^/;;'/?^^ whom they ftil] believed to be innocent. The Presbytery were obliged, for their fatisfaftion, and for the fatisfadion of many others who were longing to know the iffie, to inquire into this Maner pnblickly in' the Meeting-houfe of London- Derry with open doors^vihtTQ they took an Account of what5.*;p^f»/o«'s Evidences cou'd fay. Stephenfon al'edging thit they were partial in favor of .4/r Cr^jjapplyed to a Afeeting of all the other Presby- teries at Antrim in June 1706, Upon which that Presbytery flopt any furti*ier proceedings, at that time. The aforefaid Meeting in June ^1^6, finding 5ff;?tf^w/i>?7 adhere £0 his Accufation againft A4x Gray^ and that he pietended he cou'd not bring his Witntflcs fo far abroad, .but thas he cou'd prove al),if fomeMinifters and Elders were alloA'ed by them to hear thisCaufe in feme conveniem PUce^wh^re they coy'd ••attend, j did therefore concert that fixteen Minifiers and as maay jElders fhou'd meet at Strahane^md bring that matter to an ifPuc .• and that tix Presbyterian Minifter^Wf fhou'd be allowed to (ignifie to ell Pirfons cj our Perfuafion^ who eltherby Stephenfion or Mr Gr^y , Ihou'd be ailedged capable of difcovering the truth in that affair, i:'t .thai Of their Presbyteries and ?>ynods. Chap, i. 495 thai h was tlelr tameft c^efre^ihcy might appear and declare it befo:e Povf O ^ th^tCommtttde. 1 cii l ^. When this Committee met, they firH fpcnt Come time inPrayer for U/VNJ Divine Direction ; and there being a ^reae Number of Mr. Cr^iy's Congregation prefent^ defirino; to be heard in his cife, and divers Gentlemen and others oi the Country, and fome of 'em of the £fta- hUp)^d Churchy whodeflred the favour ot being admitted to be prefeni as Auditors, The Committee cou'd nor,iii point of Difcret'.on and Ci- vUiiy hinder them, which was the Caufe of their Managing fo publick- ly. They finding,that Mr. f//jfr. And accordingly in fome fhorc time after, Mr Gray produc'd a Certificate of the Clergyman who married him, and a Re- folutioa of t}?e Official Court, judging and approving the fame to be a Tcga! . t^()6 Ch: I. The Loyalty and Teaceahlnefs T>^Yf' rs Legal and Valid proof of his Marriage^ w?ierenpon, witkout ^^y i art ^. -f^j-d^crC^rSure^ lie w£S reflored to thiExercife of his Mirillry. h/"*^^^^ The Reverend Dr. HarrMton has been Misinformfd in fome part of his Narrative cf this Cafe (and his miflakcs aje imputed to nothing elfej and paTiicularJy in what he offers in thefe Words * The Com- ' mictee^as I am inform€d,tcol^ an Oaih each of them to examine, ' and judge Impartially, Swearing after the manner of Scotland with ' their Right hand iifc^ up The Witncfies were called, and moS: ' of them 5A'orn after the fame manner'. For tho' the Committee made a Declaration to that purpoie he mentions, they took no Oath, nor were any of the Witnefles Sworn, hat made a fdems Dedaratim as in the fight of God,that wbat they fpcke was true. And that this is the general Pradice of fuch Meetings in fuch Cafes,?? plain from the follcwTng Paragraph of the fecond apology of the Presbyterian Minifters in the North of InUnd to her Majefly (ndc Prefent State of Religmtin Ireland z^. 34J * For we Adminifter no Oath {fay they) toWitneflss ' examined by us, unlefs a fokmn Voluntary Declaration of the truth * before us may be accounted as ibch*. Neither did the Members of that Committee, nor the Wirnefles who appear'd there Itft up their battds at the making of thefe Declarations, neither was the Diflxnting Minifter of Strabane Clerk to that Committee, nor was there any fuch Rf folution taken, thai the whole expcnce ihat fhou'd attend this v^fFair fliou'd be dcfray'd oue of the common Stock. But there are fome thirgs in the Dr's Narrative, which are true in Fadt; but leem to be faid (at leafl: quoted by our Author) with an Air of rtfiedlion upon the Conduct of that Meeting at Strabane^ ?.s namely, firfi, 'That they continue'] ficting with their dears * Nor do 'we of their Preshjteries and Synods. Chap, i.' 497^ ' we ilTue out Summons to any, but eameflly deftre (without any Pe- P^j'f o^ * nakyjfuch as we fuppofe can give us a true account of Scandalous /kJzi *■ IiTinioralities in any o^ our Perfuufioyj^ to acquaint us wich 'em, in ^^-ZT^'^IN^ ' order to the fuppreffing of Sin,andConvi.icmgand Reforming the ' Guilty .-Thefc eameft def.res^ in co^nplyance with the C«/fom^ry way ' of rpeaking,are fometimes calCd Summons^ being all we ufe inHead of * Ehem'. And the very Copy of €he Paper which the Archdeacon inferts is a proof of this : for it runs fhus, ' Tnefe are therefore to * defire and obtfjl you^ as you value the Glory of God, the good of ' Religion, and the Maintaining of Truth, to appear before a Com- * mittee of Minifters at Strahane &c.^ What can this be call'd but an CArneft defire with a- 1 any Penalty '{ Oui Author p fTeth fame Invidious Rcfledions upon ibis proceed- ing in Mr. Gray\ Cafe^and he can't have patience till he come to the Cafe it felf, but mud prejudice his Reader with a fa^ft State of it, in the Contents prcfixt to his Letter, in thefe Words, p. 3^. *■ Fad I. Of ' tkeir Synods and Afr€mblies,in what manner they Exercife their 11- ^ ' legal Jurifdidion, an ialtance given of their whole procedure in the ' Cafe oi William Gray a Difienting Teacher, for being Alarriedhy a ■' Minijier of thi Eftahlip^d Church'. Tliis is a notorious Miftake in Fadt, for Mr. Gray was never Cenfur'd for being Married by a Mini- fler of the Eltablilh'd Church, but becaufe he Married Clandtfitrely^ and becaufe for /owf f/wff he did not make fatisfyi?:g Proof of the Marriage : lb far was he from being Cenfuf 'd on the account mentio- ned by our Author,lhat it was_ agreed, that as fcon as he fhou'd pro- duce a Certificate of his Marriage,from the Clergyman who Married him, his Cenfure fhou'd be taken off. He infinuates grievous rtfleftions in two Qtieftions propofed by him. Thefirftis ' if the Presbyterians of this Kingdom dare a(ft ' with fuch an appearance of Authority in the Exercife of an illegal ' Jurifdidion *, if thty prcfjcne to aft info puhlic&avowed manner ' ' as in the cafe mentioned, what may be reafonably fuppofed to bethe ' fubjeft of their confultations,when their aflemblies arc kept with * the^rf^f:ts, that there are no bad defigns hatched amongft Presbyterians in fach private JJfmblifs^ either a- gainfl: Church or State ^ I freely publifn to the World the reafonsof their holding their Meedngs more privately upon fome occaflons. Sometimes Inch sffiirs come before them, as they cannot fhun a more public way of hearing them, for fcch reafons as 1 have Mention-' ed in the cafe of Mr Gray. Bui; then a great deal depends upon the prudent way ofcor:certinga Utthod of treating fuch Affiirs,that preci- 0U3 time be not fpent by hesring nesdhfs Jliercati-ms^ snd muhiplying Bjhnefs unnecefsarily. To pievent which, The Miniflers ufually confidt amovgthemfelveshQW 10 Manage decendy and expeditioufly , and I'ometimes fall upon an happy Excedient for agreeing the Matter, and preventing trouble to themfelves and others , and v?here is the fault of all this ? Frequently Vacant Congregations apply to fuch Meetings,for their Advice & concurrence, about fit Peifons to be recommended to their Choice for Palters •• In fuch cafes, Miniders think it prudent to confi.'k privately amongft themfel'/es, than they miy ufe their ov7n necejfary freedom about the CharaU:ers of men*, and it wou'd be im- frndeNt and uncharft able to uCq that neceffiry freedom ofenly before the Worlds whas needs, or vfhy fhou'd the World know, what every Minifter/r^^/y «^;/t:o«ry^/ about the^^i/>f, temper^ and fitfiefs or mfitnefs ^of fuch zndfuch a man for fuch a Congregation f' is not this a very Innocent fccret.^ The public Gaz.ettex and other News- Papers fti3W, that the Presby- terian Miniflers in ihc North of Ireland^ have oft prefeaied to herMa- jelly and herPvoyal Predecefpjrs, moft Loyal and Drnjid Addrejfcs'^ . and that when troubles were brought on them, upon account of their Non-Conformity^ they have been obliged by humWe Petitions to apply for Relief." And it being the Right of the SubjeSl^ to have a Liberty of Petitioning and Addreffing the Civil Magiftrate both fnpreme and/«- hordinate ♦, I know no Law, to hinder Presbyterian- Minillers to meet for that purpofe. If they have a Right to Petition, muftnot they have a Righi alfo to met^ in order lo prepare and Sign their Petition, and Of their Treihyteries and Synods. Chap, i] 499 and to confuh of prudent Methoc's, for Mirnging it? To deny tb^m Part 3 > t\\Q latter^ is to deny cheoi ihc former, whkh is ihQKtght ef every ft hjii. ijr\/P^ ' Now the Pieibyteiid:i Miniltcis can't be bUui'd , irihey retire aid Vjv^'w conrnhaiBongd themfjives upon ihefe poii ts •, what Right has any man to be preienc wiih theiTi ? or what injury is done to any man by their being together wiihouc his prefence, when ihey deliberate upon fisch matter?'' What re^.fon has any man to tal^e it ill, that the Pres- byterian Miniflers do not think fit, to Jet him in to their bnfinefs with the Government ? I'm fure the more pirace able and moc(ej[i- ihey are hi their appllcuions, uds only in the matter.hjt the manner of 'em, they are the m;:>rc Gxnniendiblei and the way to fhow thcmiel/es to be of that Temper, is not to mike a noife with open doors abouE their Grievances, and their Repreftntations of 'em to their Supe- riors, I hope this Ingenuous and dindid Jiccownt of what the Presbyterian Miwiflers Traniad in their more private Concerts and Jjfcmhhes^ will fatishe all the Charitable ^nd jndictoits of another Perfjafion, that there is no harm in them •, tho* our Author has done what he cou'd 10 fomert uncharitable jealoufies, v;hen he can prove nothing. His fecond Qiieftion is of a piece with the firfl ' Since {f^tys he) by * thefe Synodicai iMeetings, as well as by their Monthly and quarter- ' ly GDmmonions, the Diilenters take occafion of calling their Mem- ' bers together, n>k«and rvherethty pleafe : whether this device * feems not more ?ilitical than Keligtons^ and whether this Libeity ■ of Numbring their people, at fucli times and places as they ihall J judge convenient, may not prove of dangerous confeq lence ? Hardly can any thing be more uncharitable than thefe i.ifinr.ations. For all Proteltants Inok upon the Lord's Supper to be the muft pAemn. jiEt of devotion^ and Covenanting with their BlelTM Redeemer v, and to infinuate that Presbyteiians call their Members to£ether ^znd take a liberty of w/fn-j^^jw^ their people at fuch times, and places, more from a po/mV/?/ device than from Religion, is to call them abominable Hypocrites'. Thcy can appeal to the fearcher of Hearts, that they ne- ver had, nor have fuch ad elign in Meeting for die fervice of God, nor yet in Cwhai he calls j their Synodic at Aleetings^ the true ends whereof have been defcrihed above. As to the bufinefs of PentUnd-hills and Bothwell-Bridge, and the Sanguinary Laws which occafion'd 'em, and the tumults in King S f f 2 Charle s 500 Chap, I. The Loyalty and PeaceMenefs P'lrf O ^^^^^^^^ ly^'itime, which, he fays, were concerted At thefe ^JfsmhLes^ J* they have been confidered already in their proper place. Ail I Ih-ill 'aO'*'^ lay of em here, is, than what he calls Tumults in Km^Charles ijps Reign in Scotland^ were (in their opinionj nothing buE the People's jaft defence of their Liberties, if he underftands this of their afllfting the Parliament of £7/^/^*z/?,by the D^fcription of them taken from * their Books of Difcipline, Acts of AflTetibles and raofl ^uthentick ' Writers. Secondly^ from fbm.e Practices in their Eccklialliral Capa- * cities amongfl the People.' The Presbyterian Miniflers Judge it agreeable to the Word of God, and tor EMjicatiotj^ to have fome of the more knowing and difcreet Peo- ple of theirCongregations, to join in Confultation with them, tor the better Ordering their Affnrs, and advancing the Ends of Dilcipli.ie ; thefe are called Ruling EUers, and reprefented by our Author, as dan- gerous AitxiLa-ies •, bUL if the Minifiers tloemftlvts cannot be proved dangerous^ then their JaxUia^ies may pals without this Rtfludtion. In our Author's Defciiprion of the Rhlirg Elder ^ he fets forth his Irherent Power in Ciourcif- ^jp Mies^ to excumrnnnicate M^^ipr^fs, In- ^rmsaale in teace & ^P^arx^-it^rooate all LaiVi^wlQiCh ^n fouudNoijoiae and Of their Elders. Chap i $oi Vfiprofitabley and agree not with the times^ or are ahujed by the People^hi- Pa,rt 5J ' ving an afpeal CO hiinlelt in thoCe Ajfemblies^^vom the FarlbmeiK^wich a 3* Power according to dicir Difcipline to declare a L:i:vroid. wh en he's WV^il. O^^et-rurd in Pa; liament. Bue 1 h ive fuily AnfA'cred ail this in the firft part of this Bock p. ^5 Gr-c ^ whether 1 refer my Reader. Our Autlior having Dcfcrib'd an imaginary Formidable PoWir i;i thefc Riding El^ers^ with Relation to the Prince and Laws, he adds p. S3' ' ^°*" ^^ ^'^'s Power Itfs exorbitant wich rcfped to the People. * It is plain to any Perlbn acquainted with tlieir Dii'ciplme, that the ' Common-people arc perfe^ Slaves and Kijf^ds to thefe Riders, elp.ci- ^ aHy when thefe Eldets have a good undeiftanding &A(^ in ConforE * with their iMinifter, they command not only the mind and bodies * but the vti ySfibJUnce of the poor people^whom I take to be Actually in * a State oj Perfecutiort^ when ever their Elders pleafe to be Tyranni- * cal. Here is a bundle of uncharitable and unproved Afiertions. Thefe El- ders are aH chofen by the People, are commonly of the difcreereji and wifeft among them, and neither have nor can Have any feparare Imetefi , from them. Wherein then and by v*'hat poflijle Means, can they ex- cicile this Tyranny over them ? have they any CompuUbry Po.ver ? they can't ComTnar.dxh^ix Subllance, nor do they a^k them to employ IE any ir^^,but as they do themfdves employ their own. He mult nave a very difcerning Judgment, who can find PerfecHtion in this. He's Alarm'd(/J/^J at the Kirk of Ireland^ endeavors for feme Years, to fmgle out the mcjt Considerable and j^5Hve -Mtn^ and xoho havs the mofi Numerous Dependence in point ofTrade^ to be Elders j and this in theCourfe ot their Hillory (fays he) will ht generally found to Pre* [age fome Attempt towards the Erection of Chnfi's Kingdom. 1 cou'd heartily wifh our Author had forbore, and that tor the future he wou'd forbear, ihcfcoffing Jears with which he Treats thx Kwg do k^. of Chrtfi. But however that be, 1 can fee no force in his application .* For his meaning is, that whenever the better for£ of the people arc made Elders, then they muft have Ibme attempt for a Legil EllabLfkmeni in View 5 as if none but Legal Eftablifh'uChurches were to have any rich ©r wile Men to be of their Ojjiiers j and all others muft contenE themfelves mi\\ fools and poor folks. He makes thefe Elders Powerfl LBhovrctsinFml^rg up the Kir^^ (p. ^4 1) taking for their Materials al' the loofe btones and KiubsJJj ihcy can ikkii'cm the Uwih, No Uiurch cau be the worfc lo want her Rnb- biJh; ^02 Chap, r ^ The Loyalty and Teaceablenefs P3.rt 5 ^'^ '' ^'^^ ^'"^'" ^'^^' ^^^^^ 5/-^«?j, the Church h.is more acivaniage to j' JHement them, than the Elders have to pick iheni oui:. And |^'V'**^«if any of them be fo looje^ as to fall by their own weight, and never flop till they get into a Mectirg-Hmife^ t" know no reafon why the Minijttr and his LUen fhoii'd c^^'em out again. As for any Induftrioas Pradifi ig upon the Members of tSie Church, to draw them from her Communion \ 'tis utterly deny'd, that the faid Elders make that tl^eir bulincfs. The Presbyterians do generally in all mixt Compa- nies forbear ths r,?/,/?'/^ of any X)«?^.'?^?j about their Ttrfn.iftou -^ when they have been attaqu'd by others, they frequently havedeclin'd to en- gage 'em, for Peace fike : When they have been muzX'ifiovok'd,, tliey have gWcw i modefi: Account of the reafo.is of their Dijfcnting koni the Church, but are feldom or never the Aggrefibrs. And if any of 'em have at any time from hdlfcretion begun fuch Difputes^ or Main- taln'dthem wich too much Acrimony^ the Body of Presbyterians doa's approve fuch Pradices, and are not C largeable with them. But Oar Author has found out the Arnfces of thofe intriguing Elders, when he tells us (ibid) ' They level and adapt themfelves to ^ the failings of the Common-People, theyyi>^ ^^d groan to fednce * the Melancholy ^ fmile in the Ucq of thofe ftubbom and undutiful . * Children, at whom the Church /roip/7f ^ and are ready, with open * arms, to cii)brace tiiofe w lom Hie Excornmunicates 'i can't but call this tnsre Calumny^ i'm fare jt dti'cvvts no better fiar^.e. Fcr I neither know nor believe, that there is any Elder fo pr>^fig^te and Void of ConfciencSjQs to be guilty of :his: If a man be excommunicat- ed fjr meerZN/<2« conformity ^ot anEfi her groat or a TV/^f, rheDilTenters are not fo very/tT,'.ip/c«i',as to refufe to join inCommiinion wiEh him: If the Excommanlcated peifon has been a member of the Eflablifhed Church, and Excommunicated by them for notorious fcavdubus (In Impsnitcntly perfifled in, tho' the Presbyterians can't (Imt their Meeiing-hjufe doors upon fuch an one,more than they can do upon a Papift^ a Jsrv or an Heaihen^ yet they never admit fuch a perf^m to fel- lowfhip in the Lords- fupper with them,beforehe repent of his fin and become a new man. And our Author is put to his defiance^ to fliow an inilance to the contrary, unlefs it has happen'd thro* inadvertency and I^norance^ and without any defign. Seeing Presbyterians neither confine trade norCharityto themfelves, nor aref) bufe as to make quitti.ig the Eflablifhed Church and going ^0 Meeting, the Condition of any peifon's fubfiftance among them ^ 0S Of their Elders: Chap i.\ 503 as 1 have ftiown p. 433, 440 &c. the Author's pretending Xafix thefe P^ff Q; things upon their £/^(rr.r,isa^ro//;r^/f/} afperfion. /'sjif^ He is either mightily under the dominion of 3 ^amilch fear^ov of 3 X^Tjf^^ fliong p^ppfrz/^V/to ptetcnd ir, when he tells his Reader ' that ii * Pjme tff. dual care be not taken to proted the common-people '■ from thefe pervertirs (i. e. the iUers) the rvhcle m.ifsmuft be in dan- ' gcr of being feduccdfrom their Conformity io theEItablifh'd Church, ' to which Q^i^^ that p3rt of their Dilciplinefeemspiincipally calcu- ! laced ' He wonders great numbers are not drawn over, and he gives this rcafon ' For it niiifl be confidered^in theConflict between the Church ^^gg^ ' and the Kirk^ in the prefervation and enlargement of their refpedt- ^^w ' ive Flocks, ibe Difienting Teacher with his »8 or perhaps 36 vclitn* ' r-/^iyo( oui Communion ^ * who arc all according to onr known Principle? and Pradice, unani- ' moiiflyioY the Monarchy of Grc^u- Britain and Ireland^ as an happy ' Conflitution, which ought to be Inviolably preferv'd in tlrcfeKing- *do ms. If the Author's defign be, that when any Presbyterian Minifter Dies, he ihall hawe no Succffor^ let him fpeak out. But if Presbyteri- ansbe permitted to ha\'e a Succcflion of Miniilers, they muft either have unlearned and unqualified Men , or, they muft go abroad for their Education, which, befides the carrying of fo much Mony out of the Kingdom and putting hardjlups upon Loyal Sub] e<5ts, won't be very Serviceable for the Interefl of the Eftablifh'd Church, unlefs they I- magine that Scotch Presbyterian Education will make 'em lefs dange- rous to the Church of Er.gland, than Irip Education wou'dj or, they raufl be allowed fome Philofophy-School at home, which is no fingu- lar thing in Inland; For the Reverend Mr. Thomas Cowan, a Man of bright Parts and Learning,for many Years Taught both Divintiy and ThUofcphy in Antrim in King Charles idh Rcign, without diflurbjncc, & with great dexterity and fuccefs. And his printed Works are juflly valu'd, even in a time when Philofophy is much imppovM fince they were pufelifn'd. He had a peculiar faculty of Managing a great Varie- ty of bulinefs both in the exercile of his Miniflry, and his public Pre- le(n:ionsi and acqait himfelf in every part with fuch Accuraey,as if each Branch of his employment had engrofs'd the Studies of his Life. And Mr. John Hutchifon^ an Ingenious Man,and one not only of a very Phf- lofophical Head, but of llniverfal Learning, Taught Philofophy for divers years zlX^nvtovpn in the County oiDtwn, T t t th - 1^66 Ghap. r The Validity of Part 3. The Rev if it were woUth while. But I come to the confideration of FACT IV. * The Diflenting Teachers {fays he p. 55) do avowedly and pub * Jickly, both from the Prefs and Pulpit, alTert the Unlawfulnefs 0 * Marrying according to the form of the Church of Ireland.^ ^ I never ht ard beforc,that they managed or ever mentioned this Con- troverfie in their Pulpits , and I believe, there can be very few In- teices given ofit, limy at all And theie was but one inftance of going of Their CMarriages. Chap, i? 507 going to the pre/s upon jt, by a Pamphlet Entituled a Vindication of P^i^f A "^ Marriaae as SoUmniTied air.org TresbytertAns in the North of Ireland, ^mJt printecT y^nno 17. Andthae had not been publifhed neither, but u- \J^^f\^ pon extreine provocation givenCabonii ihaE time)hy numeious and violeae prorecutions \nihe fpiritn7y that I iberty il e. that they wou'd be all willing that the Banns of Matrimony Ihou'd be proclaim'd in their parifli Church. And as there is (at kaft; a parity of Reafon, from the nature o| Hie thing, for extending Her Majefly's gracious connivance to the fame Libertv to her proteffant Diflcnting Subjeds in Ireland, at there can be for the above-rirenironedCIaufe of theTok ration- Bill inScpf Z*?;/^- T t t 2 fo ^o8, Chap: I i \ , ,7\fe J^alidity of Pa rf ^ foh iseyidef?t. to the world, that the Di0>nters m/reUnd being fa'th- "^ 3' ful Siibie<9:§,ard true Hanoverian s^have far better pretenlions, on that WVNJ fcote.,tolucn a privileQbi,e. And ihey cin'c bnt think it an hardfiiip, that they fhou'd be UhtPd in the EccUfiaiik i[ Courts &$ formcatoys^-and (by that mean?) their chil- dren dccIar'dS/>«m«;, when theiriMarriagcs have aii the ejfcntiab ofMar- riage.They en^er into a folemn vow in. thcfe woids,l ^. take thee B. in be my la-vfid Married xoife^ and 1 Covenant and vow in-t he fight of God, aad before th&fi H''itnijfes^ to be a Faithful and an yiffe^ionate Husband to tiste^ ftniii God Jlallfeparate us by death \ and the Woman vows in the- fame word^, AU'.tatii Matand/s % ehefe marriages thus foIemniiC'd,and ati-.trvvards conrurnmated are ind'J[oIuhle^exc^i)t tor the ca.ufes of W///-^ toy and wilful Defer tion. And therefore, it isa trifling dillindion, to fay, that the perfons cohabiting upon fuch marriages, iho' noE- guilty of Forrication before God, are guilty of Fornication in the eye of the Larv'^ (or that places an high refiedion upon the Law, as if it df^c) 2iv-d.th.it to be Fornication, which the Law of God declares to- be none. N athing can be F'jrnic at i on jhut wlwt is tJeclar^d hy the Law^ of God to be Fornication j and all that humane Laws can do with re- - fped to chat crime, is to daeB and piwijh it, but they can't jure mak^ a ncrv Species of Fornication, which is not fo in it felf by the Divine Law,. Autecedent to any Humane Confiifution. .j4nd it were in ail re^ ' f]:>eds as rational) tpfay, thatfuch andfucha pradiceis Idolatry, or Muft her, or Robbery, or Sabbath-breaking, in the eye of the Law, t\\o\ not beforeGcd. (which every one mul^ aci^powledge to be abfurd>,5 ai to /4)'yo of Fornication, ^-^-n '{riBrn. v.-st Upoa the whole, it wouM exceedingly becopie the Charity and Moderation of good ProEeftancs, to be more csotious and tender of the /?f;'«f4/io».of their Brethren, and of the fr^ Their Marriages, Chap. i7 509 inatter, to procure a Liberty ofConfcience to Jhofe, who fcruple being P^ft o "»' married according to die Liturgy ^ and therefore, humbly plead upoa D * the great Liw ofCWi^^'and Brotherly Compaflion, and upon their i^N^N! Right by the Lam of Nature^ that they may not be deprived of tbe benefit of Marriage fwhich is one of the Rights of Mankind) meerly for their fcrupling to comply with the Eftablifh'd Form of it ^ and that themfelves and their pollerity may not be dedar'd Infamous, nor troubled With P^exatlous Prof ec ft t ions ^ for a point of men Non- Conformity, CHAP ^10 Chap 2. t>4n c^plogy for p^ CHAP. II TVhereinthela/ifomFadis Charged upon Presbyterians in the fecond part of the Condu61: of the Diflenters, ^c. viz. ift, Their ere^ing New Congregations^ and panicularly one in Droghcda. 2dly, Their diHurbingthe Eftahlijlfd Clergy in the Burial of the T>ead, 3dlyp Their Printing Booh of bad Principles ^ against the Go- vernment, andy zj^thly, Their Entertaining fome Miniflers amongH them who have not takmthe^bpiratim-Chtb \are examin'd^ and anfwefd. The Author of the ConduB of the Vijfentirs &rc. gives the following Repreientation of the %th Fad chir^'d upon them f. 57. F A C T V. X TT^Ormerly the Seeds of Non-Conformity were fcattcred, and J[j * fown through the conforming Congregations of this King- * doiHj and grew underground by imperceptible degrees) till num- ' bers of the people were perverted, fufiicient to fupporta Labor- ^ er in tlieir Vineyard, and then they gave their Teachers regular ■*^i|f}sl^.tli^i§15if^pline required. There ftill remained federal Towns Their New Congregations Chap, i^ ^li, * in this Kingdom, in which by the piaus care of the Eftabl fh'd Mi- P^rt 2* *' niftcrs, wich the concurrence of the Civil Magiflratcs or fuch ^-sTi ' places, the Conforming Congregations, were prcfcrv'd encire, U/vnJ ' without any rnixtureo^ Difleure's. Thcfe Congregations had long ' flood proof sgiinn; all their fecret Atttmpis, ana theietore thi\s ' iindinfi tJjrmrcI'.':! ohl's'd co aker the nature of their attacks frcm * a conlciournefs of their growing p37vcr anu liircirit, cncy ;v.?ivcd * upon an experiment nevct bifore trytd that we know cf, which ' was, to fend their Mijfiofuries to pervert the Cn;.fo;niins Gongre- ' gations, v\'i?hout any call from fuch places, which they had for- * merly expeded. ' Thhvi^iAoi-ifi generally through the Nation \ new MifUons were ' ordered (vt)y day^ by tncir Presbyteries onu Sy^^^'^s. tO unfettk - ^ and divide fuch ofthe Conforming Congregations of thisKingdom, ' ss were hitherto prefeived. The Presbyterian Minifters in the North of Ireland utteily deny thi? to be Fad,in their jirfi Jpd gy to the Queen /?. 16^ 27. 'The fiid Presbyxenes never fent any Minifter to anyplace^ but at the defire and Invitation of People of their Perfuafion ihere. The Principal Oc- cafion of their Preaching in feveral Places, where there were no Meetings before, is, that many parts of the Country were laid De- folateby thelate War ; whereupon, feveral Proteftant Landlords - (and even /owr^/r^.? £/rf^/«//;V Church j encou aged thofe of our Perlualion to fettle ihemfclve^ and their Families on their Eilates, formerly occupied by Irijh Papifls*. Aud to draw 'em to fuch New Settlements, have ajjifted the m ia Entertiining Miniilers of their own to Preach amongft them ^ and they hope it can neitlier appear reafonable, that fuch Proteftant DifTenrers fliouM be d-^rived of the fame Z.iT'tfrr)' of Worlhipping God in their own way, which their Brethren every Tt>here elfe tn'py^ nor that it will be thought dange- rous to Church or State^ that Briti\h and Protejlam liihabuants, tho' Dljjenttrs j Ihou'd be fettled in Places that before hadfcarce any but: Pa0s. ' The Proteftant Diffenting Minify ers in the City of Dffbllnsnd South ^ilreland^affert the fame thing with theirBrethren in th:Nonh,in [heir ^ Humble Addrefs to her Majefty />, 44. ' We beg leave to afllire your * Majefty, that no Minifters were ever feni by us where there were * not a Competent Number of thofe of our Perfaafjon , who gave * 'cm an Invitation aod Call,' '^ ' From- 512 Chap. I. ^n i^pology for Part 5? f\om all which the Reader may Judge, that if all the Presbyteriaa J* Minlllers in Ireland have any Truth and Veracity in them^ Oar Au- \ V/'V*SJ thor aflerts that which was never done in any pan of the Nation^ to be done generally thro* the Nation^ and f vrry day too. T\\\ii'i i^o bold a mi» JJ-ake^tbat nothing but Credulity and Ignorance can give it the cAVf«//4- f^r^Circumftances of an i^WwwMr^Error ^ and he muft be allowed the benefit of his Weaknefi^ to defend his henefij. From his general Charge of this Fad, he defcends to an inftanc^ of it in Drogheda-^ The true State of which cafe I fhall give theReadcr, as it is reprefented in the fir/t Jpology of the Presbyterian Minifters ia the North of !> eland to Her Majefty p. ii. ' In the Reign oiK'ingCharle! the fecoBd, Dr. DanietWilUams CnoiV ' in London) was DijTenting Minifter to a fettled Congregation in * Droghedaj and was fixceeded by one Mr. Toy, who continued in the * exercife of his Miniftry there till about the time of the Late Hafjiy ' Revolution: the ^fw^w of that Congregation have fevcral times, ' at their own defire, enjoyed the occafional Labors of divers Mini- * flers of our Perfuafion while they wanted a fixed Pajior of their * own. And upon r^^tr /^-y/r^^tf^ and earneJtRr^nefi in the Year 1708. * Several of our Brethren Preach'd among them, of whom Mr. Fleming ' mention'd by sheir Lordfhips was one, who, for no other Caufe pre- * tended or objedted againft him, but that of Preaching, was bound * over to the next Aflizes at Drogheda: tho* there is a vaft Number of * Papifts there, much fuperior to the whole Proteftant inhabitants o- * penly going to Mafs, undifturbed, while fome of our PerfA^afian * were obliged to pay Twelve-pence a piece, to prevent their being/ff * in the Stocks as they werePeaceably going home from their Meeting, * upon pretence of Travelling upon the Lord's Day ^ and yet others ' -at the very Ame time were really Guilty of Profaaing it by carry- * ing Loads openly,with Impunity. ' Another of our Brethren Mr. William Big^ar^ who fucceededMr. * F/r/Kw^ inPreaching to that Congregation, was on the fame Ac- ^ <;oun£, committed by the Mayor of Drrgheda to Prifon, and after ^ his Imprifonment for fix Weeks, ivas Releafed by the Mayor with- .^ out any farther Profecution. Whereupon we had afluranccs given ^ «s, that the Profecution againfl: Mr. Fleming fhou'd be Dropf. And ^ tho' Mr. Z?/f^^r was advisM tha? he might have had an Action for .^ falfe Imprifonment agaiiift the Mayor, and the whole Proceedings Their Mew Congregations, Chap. 2* 513 art 3. ^^., . . ..... r^\i * lb far from a coir.pLuning Temper, cr from charging the Members ' of the EUablilh'd Church with Opprtfllon ajid Perfecution, ciia! we ' were Panent and Silent ^ when we humbly conceive we had feme ' y/V^^m:»^forReprefenting to the Gcvernment,the hardfliips pus ^' upon us. ' Mr. f/fw/»/s Profecinion being Reviv'd, and three Members of ' the Fresbyceiian Congregation in Drcgheda being Inditflcd only for ' Heuring him Preach, after Amicable and private Meafnres taken on * our pare for preventing any further trouble had prov'd nnfuccefsful, ' we were Conftrain'din our own Defence to apply to the Earl of ,.^A * Wharton then Lord Lieutenant of tiiis Kingdom, who, by your Ma- ji^B * jelly's Dirtcfrion wrcte to the Lords-Jitflices to Order Noli- Projfe^Mi''s '^^B * for cur Relief-, upon which Accounr, vyc Crave leave to exprcfs * our Dutiful and grateful Senie of Your Majefly's Princely Favor and 5 Goodnefjf. Let the Reader be pleafed to take a farther Account of this matter from the Reverend Mi James Fleming (who was particularly con- cerned to krow it) in his Letter to his Friend, the true Copy where- of is, as follows, ^IR, X« rg-^-n \Jl Jannary 1712.13 ' Upon my Perufal of a late book Eiititui'd the Condu^ of the Bif- * fentsr< of Irtla id rvith rejpeil both to Church and State, I was furpriz- ' ed to find a relation ot Ti / Condud and Management at Drogkecla^ ' in the ytar 1708, which rjmefeemed either Ad.fionfirmd or not ' fully given •, w;uch has obliged me faccording to my promife when * laft with you) tu fet thai affair in a irue light, and g^vc you this ' fjort and imf arti (it ^QZomM oi matter ofFaEh. * On Friday the 27f6uf ..//i^«//- 170S. Iwentto Drogheda with a * defign to preach to tho{(- of our Perfuafion there, upon the RE- * PEATED INVITATIONS of feverals of them, whom I had cc- ' cafion toconvcrfe with, .md hear from ^ who then ag.ii.i at that ' time prfj^w^/)/rtf;7<>n7'^£heif former Requcffcs to me. And accord- ' inglyl did preach theLord's-day followingto a confidernblc; nijmber * of peoplcioiolt of chcm InhMtants of Ihe Town/^wfjof the Country U u u about 514 Chap. 2. An Apology for Fart y about ic, and two or , / did. The Dean fpeaks 5 O. Had you any call to come to this place, by the People of the Town > ' A. I had rio formal call from them, but had their free^uent and earnefi Invitations and deftres to comet, with ajfurences of their readinefs to entertain me. And therefore to oblige them and fever aU of our Perfua* fion^ who frequently travel this road, I came here to f reach, and - ac- cordingly did^. Q,' B^ Their New Congregations. Ch^^. 5. ^15 ' |Q_. ^y what Auilioricy did \ on come here to prc^.ch .'' Pa I't 2 .' * A. S.r^ 1 am an ordained Mini ft er^ and fo Aiithoriz.ed to f each ' _ _ 5 the Gofpel^rrberever Provide?:ce may open a door for me. * O . I am not ia zhh place to difpuce your Ordination, but vi'ere you lent or appoinscd by any to preacb here ? *" yi, Tes'y Sir ^I was. * O. By whom? * A By the Presbytery oj Ardrn^gh^of which I am aMemher] * Q.Have you any writtenOrdersorCommiflion from that Presby- tery ? *' A.No^ S:r, I have nut, rtor did I require any from them^ th^t not bein£ nfnal with us infuch cafes. ' Q^ Who was Chair-man, when you were appointed ? ' A. \fViHi Chair-man at that time my felf. ' Q. Oh / then you fent your felf here ? ' A. No^ Sir^ J fftppofe it is proper for a Chair 'man to hear, anirC' ceivt the judgments of other s\ rather than give his own j and tho* I had not a Vstein my coming here^yet I readily obeyed the appointment of my Presbyter). ' O. Did the Presbytery promife, or give you for your encourage- ment in coming here, any of the twelve hundred pounds^ albw*d by the Queen? ' A. Thty neitf:€rdid promife nor give me any^ nor do I fetk or ex- peSi the leaft reward from any perfon whatfotver^ it was not gain mr a dvantag^ tkM /proposed to my felf in coming here. ' O. Hive you any licence or orders from the Government to preach here ^ I am told by fome that you have ? * A. J won'' d look upon h as my honor and happinefs^ to have fs much countenance and encouragement from the Government-^ but I affn^re yoH^ / have no fuch Licence as you /peak of\ tho^^BUffed beGod^by their Mildne\s and Moderation we peaceably enjoy the Liberty oj our Conjciences. *• O. Why did not you upon your coming here, apply to the Ma- giftracy of the Town, or come to me, and ask my leave to Preach, this being my Parifli ? ' A. I never knew hitherto^ what it was to ask leave from any Man to Preach, wherever I have been i and fo look'd upon ie nomo^c nc- U u u 2 cefliry U'-VN^ ^1(5 Chap. 2. /in Apology Jor an c^. cefTiry here tbjii ill ocher PI ices, and withal I am psrAiadcd ihit any Applicicion to you or them i\'ou'cl have been unfiiccefsful. * Yoa ca^Tis i.-i here amo.igfl us (faid the Dean; to Create f^i- vifion and difturbinc^, where is nothing but Unity and Love, not as it is with yoa i.i L'irgw^ «vhere a:e Ouahrsj Presbyterians^ and Papifis, and all forts. * A. A'fy d:'Jign .-nd bnfifiefs ts ?iot tj Create divifion^ twr difinrh^iKce a mfigfl a-iy^ hit^ to Preach Unity and L-'Ve to all^ and inL\Mg^n tho" there are thffe/evnal Peyfitafions^ yet no diftiirbance *, but Peace ^.nd a good Vnderji-avdtng amwg them^ and Pm forry it is not fo here too. * O. If you tro-Jiblc us no more, we fiiall not trouble you ; fo yoa had beft nuke off with what you have done, and there fhall be no more o' it ^ l>e plain, Sir, do yoa Rcfoh'e to fettle here ? ' A. Nj ^ Bifffed be God, I have a more comfort cible SsttlemeK'tr elfewhere^ hit 1 tol i my flearers yefierday^that I did refolve to Preach to them next Lord''s' D,y^ nndfo God willing intend to do. ' Q^ I Sir, You bad a parcel of fid fellows Hearing you, fjch as !^. 7. ^c. and icis no grc^t Honour for you to have fuch ? *" A. We ijoh upon it as no Honour to have fuch of car Comtnit'^iof7» but it it our' Grief and Trouble that there are any f'Ach^ of our Commit' nio^^ and vpe do therefore Pray for them^ and Preach to them^ in Order to their Reformation aid j^mcnd-nent. ' O. What ! do you think by your Preaching to do any good to fuch Men as thefe ^ No, you need not cxped it? ' A. J dffigr good to them and all to whom I Preachy by tht bl'jfing of Cod, rpithciit which the Preaching of Aien and Anqeh will be to no fur- pofe J and withal our Savior came not ^to call theRighteous but Sin- ners to Repentance,/;? that fuch are to be Preached to as well as others. ' 6^ Were you appointed to Preach l?ere three Sabbath-Days ? ^ ' A. No. only Two. * O. And will you Preach here again next Lord's-day.? *" A. As I faid before^ I told my Hearers that J wo f^^dj and 1 refJve Cod-willing fo to do. * (A It is great Aflurancc in you to come here to Preach, and to promife to Preach again ^ but you m Ay depend upon it, that I w ill oppofe yon with all my mighty I will complain you to the Government^ and will put the Laws in Execution againft yon j fo that I fhall orevent your Preaching here any more. A.I Their New Congregations. Chip. 2; 517^ * A. J cafi^t hut rnitrn yon th.tnJis.for fo nr.li an Exfre^ion iU Affj- P^J*!; O,' VZnc^'^IamStibjcn: to theLaw ansiGoverrnntm:^& if they thn^kjit toPufiljh ^r*,^>-^/^ me for what 1 have done or p-ev:t!t my yreacbiMg here a>iy morc^ I rr.ufi' ^ ^ - pihmit\t.h6* I hops by thtOitec»^s Rcfeue/sl protnifes of her rrotetlipn;^ and their cxrn Afildnefs a> d Moderation^ they will he (edto do otherivije' ' This is vvn:it the>i pad betwixt us, And 1 don't doubi bur. tlftcfe Gentlemen win reac'iIyacl^no\\k-dge it, tbo' they have much ai- briJg'd tnefe Qjtefior.s and./^7/irr.f,prohabiy tor brcvicy% f^skc: and with all the Reverend DeanCV.v Miinfler o{ Drcgheda uiay remem- ber thac when be was with his Gnce the Primate ; r: en one of the Lord's- JnRiccs) tabling this matter before i:im, the. i\\tkQjieJlions ■ oud yi'fwers zs here ir^ferted, wcie Read to him ^ And be'.i^ asked by lii; Grace whether this was Mat-cr of Fst[i, he acknov icdtf.cd i: was \ and. made not the leafl Obje(ftion i^gaiaft any piit or 'cm, ck- ccpt only to that of the Woi'd (formal) in my Anfwn to \mp.yft Qucflion, alledging that I did not fay 1 had no'torm.zl Call, buc that 1 h.^d 7:oCdl\yui\.Q. Litter part of theAufwer fhevvs that thiscovrd be no otherwife meant than that I had no Call to he their Miniiur^ feeing I plainly tfl'iied that I had the Peoples Dcfires anu J.'?vitations to come and Preach to them ^ And if tins ha> cfcjptd tho Dean's Memory, there are fome Gentlemen who were then p.'cfcnt, wha might confirm this psfl^jge. *- But now dftcr all this Bafllc, one might have expe;f^cd that the Reverend Di'an wiib a Gamahel- UkeMWd and Modeiace Difpofition, wc-u'd really have given the Advice of thatGrave and Learned 1)3- • £tor, to refrain from thofe Men nndi let them alo//e^ for if this Ci'u/jcil O^ this Worli be of Aden ^ it tvillcome to nought^ hut if it ie aj God xve c.in- not overthrow it, leaft happily we be found even to fight againjl Csd • bui inftead of this, he compUins me^to the Government, difharges me to • Preach tliere any more, and threatens me with the Excciiii..n of the Lav/ if I did ^ but 1 willing to do my Doty, and in this lochoy dd y»?r^^r//?^« ^/<2«^ Preached ^he next Lord'sday, upon which I wa5 again fcnt for on Monday Morning the 6th of September by the.''^/^^cr and Towrt Council, and when I appeared before them the Mayor fpokc to me as follows •• Mr. Mu)or. Seeing iou have Preached here again, notwithftanding of the fair offers we made you before.we have fcnt for you in order to BindyouOver to the ncxt GencralAfljz«s,tobeheJd for this Town and County. YIeming $t8 Chap. 2. (^n apology for Part 3; * Ylcming. Pray Sir, what is my Crime for which I am to be boand over ? Mr Mayor, Ic is for yonr preaching in this place. ' Ylem. That is whac I hop: I fhall aever be afhimed of, either be- fore God or Man ^ Bat, pray, Gentlemen^ do you charge me wich preaching any Do[irine that is Heterodox or VnfoiinA^ or any thing againfl the Queen or Government ? if fo, 1 ihink you have juft rei- fon to bind me over. Mr Mayor. No we don't charge you with any thing of that Na- ture. ' F/^w, Ti en I think flrange, that you will hind any mm evcrfov ^reflchivg the Truths of the Gcjpel. ' Mr Dean. No, Sir, icis not for that, but (or preaching te^ and ajfembling people together,. cow/r^ir)' to La-x>. *• ^lem. As it is not contrary to the Liiw of God^^ I hope it canY be contrary tothe Laws of chefe Nations, nor do I know any Law that this is a breach of. * Mr Dean. Come, Sir, let us have no further reafoning upon if, you mufl: be bound over (and io accordingly I wasj and the Dean fpeaking thus fo bitterly,3S I apprehended ; I fald,Mr Dean,/^^^* mire to feeyoii fo eager in this matter^ the Oneen (may Her Reign be long and Glorious) hath given ns fo many gracious promifes of her pro* tertion^ which xvltk the C!.em:ncy and Mildnejs of a very good Govern- ment inthisKingdotn^ might encourage to Moderation and Brotherly love. * MrDean.WJQ have as well as you the promifes of theQiieen's pro- tedion, and the protection of the Laws too, which you have not. ' Ylcm. Sir, you h^.re •, and I hope while we behave our felvcs as good and Loyal SiihjiCts, we fhiil have both too : which as we hive always hitherto done^ by the help of God we ihall fliU continue to do. '' I thought not to have been farthei> tedious, buE I can't emit feme few remarks upon their relation of this affair. *■ 1^, It is obfsrvable, that they Endeavour to perfuade the world, that it isour^r They fay the Congregation there, was partly made up of [irangers which I brought with me,wliich indeed was not fb .- and this can be confirmed by the Oiths of feveral perfons, if there were any thing in fuch a Circumflance to m:ike it neccllaiy. ' d^Uy^ They tell us there was a caufe infiitutcd againfi vt: andfomg ofmyhearers^&:m\ghK as well have been plain in this^^s in ot'^er things and informed the World.that I was Indi^led^ and three or four of rr.y hearers for aRiotavdan unUwfiilJjfcmbly : while in truth we ow/y n tt together to Worjhip Cfj^^^accordinjgi to tbe rules of the Gcfpel, on the Lord's day. And behaved oui Cdves peaceably towards all Me.i,^/<- tifiil/y towards our Superiors,pray;pg heartily for the Qj een and Go- vernment.and endeavouring to ha\'tCorjfciences void oj Offence tovoardi Cod and Man. * Thu5,Sir,I have given you a true Account of this affair •, wh.ich it it may be ferviceable to you or the public,! (hill be bearc'ly fleas'd; & if I have ufed anyfreedoni thatanymaytake ofTer.ce at,l doDeclare it was far from my de%a to give it. I am Your Affedionate humble Serv'ant J A: FLEMING As to theDifcourfsandConference of Mr. Bey/eand Mx^Jredtlmih my Lord Primate M^on the Affair oiDrogheda^ I fhall here infer c the True Copy of a Letter which Contains Mr. Bbyfe aad lAx,Jredels Sen- tioieflls- ^20 Chap. 1. Part 3; u^n ^poJogf for I timentsoffChat Affiir, wkh a Vindicuion of Mr. ^c^y^ in fome other par ticnlais laid to hh Charge by our Author, it runs thus .• SiR, ' Since you defire my thoughts on what the Author of the ConduB of tki Dijfmters &:". has mentioned in that Book relating to Mr.Bsy/^, 1 have in Gomply-jnce with your Reqiiefl, feni you all the Acimad- veriion". I Gin think needful, in Reference to thofe Paffiges where- in ^U.BoyJe is coiiccrn'd. * For what he 1 peaks p. 39-ofIVIr. Boyje^s Tradacin^the E/l^bUjJi''d EccUJiafiical CoriflitHtion^ tn an Vncharitahle nnd ScnrriloHS Manmr^ for which he appeals to Mr. Boyfis Works^ the Charge is too gene- ral,to defer \'e any other Notice than thafe he has offi^r'd nothing ia Proof of it. ' That Mr. Boyfe has Mlfreprffmed the Bifljops of the Eflablilh'd Church as Idle or Scand:ilous (as this Author infmuatesj is utterly groundlefs, as may rufRciently appear to any thai confulg the Prin« ted Sermons he refers to in bis Margin, and the Pcfi-fcript in De- fence of 'em, aad the Jpptndlx to a late Jcconnt of tht Ancient Epif- copacy. ' For ih^P^tndtcation of the VijfentingVroteflanf. C^fe^ which he faith was evidently confuted by the BifhopofD/flwicr* /?. 65, The Reader \^ refei'd to thcPapsrs thjuifelves chae pafs'd on that occafion. And if they do^ p."ihip"' what he is pleas'd to call an evident Confutation will appear bat aLimg A:ifwer to more Uni)yars'd Jadge*. The on- ly reafon why liie Aiirhor of -the ymdicAticn did not Anfwer the '■'Bifhop's la[l: Paper' was, becauils there was no farther occafion to ■profecute that D^bace. ' That Mr, Boyfe e.'er AflauUed the Doclrine of the Eflrablifh'd Church C as ht LifiauasesJ is utterly falfe. What he has faid in his Strmon of the Scriptural Bi'Jwp agiinft the Claim ot 'd Divine Right for Diocefcin Epifc'fMy^^^s only in Order^ to the neccfTary defence of our own Ordinations as vdid^ in oppofition to iuch as declared 'em null and void. ' For the Affiir of D/oaheda, and the Account this Author gives of what pafs'd between Tny Lord Primate and Mr. yredell and Mr; ■Boyfe on that occafion, he has run into fume ^rofs mij-iakesas well as OmrffKmsiw matter of Fad, ofwhich I flidii mention the following partiailars. J It. 'Tis Their New Congregations. Chap. a. ^21 ' Tis utterly filfe, that any fucli Condkion of Mr. Big£ar''s En- P^it-f r> largemciu was ever agreed on, as that there fno it d he no moreVreac ^. ' 3* ^>;r /A& Mr. A. 72.' ' When we conlider, that Mr. Shields the famous Author of the Hind * /(f//(5(5/>, was made Chaplain to a Regiment in f/<^?7^(?r«, and admit- ' ted a Member of the General yf^flembly of Scotland iincc the latePve- * vclutioH.,and that neither the Beck nor the Author incerwent sny ' Cenfuie by aSynodicalAdof thatAflembly, it gives us jufi: grounds * to f.ifped that fome Prnjpcl of popular Reformation, to promote * which this Book was Writ and Publifh'd, mufl have been concerted ^ by a more confidcrable Number, than that poor Remnant. But this reafoning is very inconfcquenual, being grounded upon this filfe Maxim, viz. that a Church approves every baok which fie dcth r.r,t exprrjly pafs feme cenfure iipon^ by jome fpecial decree or deciJionJ Was it not mov'd in the lower houft of Convocation, that Dr Brett^s popifii Dt-drine In his printed lerraon upon the forgivenefs of Sins^ fiiou'd be Cenfiu'd ^ and yet it was not confured .• bug ibill any man conclude from thence, that the Houfe approv'd his Doctrine f multitudes of Examples can be given of Books wrote by Clergy-- with Diflojal Booh. Chap. 2, ^tt^ Clergy-men h England^ nnd Members of the Convocation too,whichp^*.^ ,5 ean'c be (aid co be i^e fenfeofths EfiahlifJj'd Church there, tho' /he ne- ^ ***■ ^ :5* ver pafs'd any decree againft 'era. Biu in this Cafe of Mr ShieUs's^ '^yV%^ . there was a fpeci il reafoii which j-aflificd the Conduct of the Aflem- bly. For he an>i f^vo more had embrac'd too narrow principles, and ■ headed chit FatTiion which arc ommonly known in Scotland by the rx^mzoi Mountait-pfople : The AfTembly wifely concluded, that the bed ^vay to heal tf'.e Re.jc was co take offche L'^aders, and therefore recciv'd thofe Miiiillers upon terms of Sub.Tiinion to them, and as a prudent expedient to gain the people as well as them Entred no judi- • cial procels agiind'eni, for what had been formerly amifs in them ^ which had a good effect, for many of the people qni't their Schifm ^ and MrShields himfelf wrote an accurate refutation of the principles of thofe who concinu'd in it. He fliow'd a peculiar /;r^'yrr;/ of Mind, and Loyalty in Flanders amongfl the Soldiers, which King WilUayyi took particular notice off. But tho' the AfTembly ( for the Reafons men- tion'd) did not Record anyCenfure of tkat book wrote by MvShields-^ yet, I am credibly iaform'd^ they teftify'd their difl.ke of it to him- felf. As to the Solemn League and Covenam^l refer the Reader to what I fhall offer upon it in Anf.ver to his flrft '^refumpiive FM^ in the next Chapier^'ind tho' the printing of it in Belfafi wis not the deed of the* Presbyterians, yet / don't know how ma-iy Hijiories and debates that refer to li will be very intelligible, unlels men miy fez and read it. And tho' it be againft Epifcop^cy, I don't think it fo if?, as our Au- thor and many more reprfifene itpt's but fair, that the IVorld fee what fort of thing this i?, about which ib much buflle is made, and for that end it mull be publljV^ (omew'kere. The Clergy man, who informs Our Author of the feizing of a par- cel of G .pys of the Book, entitul'd the Hmdlet loofe, tells a llory a- bout A/i7fo«'j wQiks, with fome air of reflexion upon Diflentcrs as if they had been rnduftrioufly fpreading them: For his Letter begins thus, fi'Ke yon defire an account of what I formerly Xcld you^ concer- ningthe mcthod^vohich theX^ijf enters take^to propogate their Republican princi- ples^ by Ciifperjing up & dorvn the Kingdom fuch hooks as manifejlly avow the fame^^d^ one inflance of this, he tells the folio wiug(lory,in thefe words p. 68. ' I further Cert\fie that about the fame time the Right Hono- ' table the Earl of Donegal, meeting me in the ftrceE of Bdfaft ask'd ,5 2(5 Ch. 2. The refufal of the Ahjuratm-Oath Part :3 \ ^^ '^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^'^ ^^^ Mtlton\ work5-,l anfwet'd his Lordfhip, I a /"V^' < ^^a^. i^^n feme but not all, His Lordfhip Aid he had them bound - up in one /r-//^ rtf///vjf,3nd woii'd fend it me to reafi^vvhich he did -• ' And fometime after meeting h(sLord(hip,he was pleas'd to ask my *. Opinion of it.- I told his Lordfhip, x\\u Mdten ftill ftuck to his Kug.Depcfi-:^ and King' Killing Dokrine^ th.iE I hpped his Lordlhip ' wou'd not Ipend his time fo ill as to read fo dangerous a Book: FhaE * I plainly peraiv'd one of the Methods taken by Ahtinior,archicd ' Men^ to debauch the Young Nobility and Gentry of thefe King- * doms, was to Print, PuhlKfi aud Induflrrioully difperle ihofe fort of Books among thsm ^ upon whirb his Loidfhip told me with a ' fraile, that Mr McBride ( theDifTvr^Sing rcacbcr of Bdfafi) had ' fenE him tiiat Book, and he doubted not bui chat other Geatlerafn ' in the Country had received the likv prefcnt. Mr^itB /V/(f do's polirively averr^Ehat he goiMiUon^s Works from My Lord Donegd and uct My tord from * i:;v and diat his Lordfliip told him he had iheBook fent him if omLond6)i-MQ\\^v. McBride did return to MyLoid's Jiro ^er. -Tid her- fore i bf^HevCjthc Clergy-man whoaflerts this,has eisher mifapprebeiided thaiNoblt' Lord's words to him and their Meani.ig-, or, ;t viis vi, ni:.'ry &e fo ex.i£l as to remem- ber them and be pofitive in them, thit my Lord has only fpoke the thing in jefl ; ror he iVid it with a SmiU^ as t"e Clergyman himfelf obferves. But 'cis certai.-i, that the gct'.tng or givi ig of a book,which is Mr McBride's Ccftscan be eafiiier remcmhred,than words paft about itcaa be, 14 or i 5 Y ars after tney wc e laid, which is the Cift; of the Author of this Gciti ficase But however that be, no Presbyterian Will induiltioi.'fly piop3gateyl he heard he had, 1 further ask'd the Dodor if he did not think Mr * Mc Bride had feen and Read the Oath, before he advifed his * Brethren to take ic.^ He faid he bdiev'd he had. And alfo whe- •^ ther he did not hear thaE Mr. McBrtde had met Mr. McCrachan aC ' his return from 5r of Z^;/^, before he declar'd his fcruple againll the ' Oath ? The Doctor faid he believed he might. The Dodor blamed ' Mr. mcBride^ f.nd he endfavoi'd to convince him, but to no pur- ^ poic, and that it was an Unfortunate Bulinefs. * The Improvement our Author makes of this Stoiyisp. 85. 'The ^ Reafons with refpect to Mr. M^. Bride as appear by Mr. Warivg''% ! Letter, are prp;^ he own'd . to Dr. IFergufon he refufed that Oath, be- hy fome feiv.Confiflent with Loyalty, Ch. 2 . 529 * brcGufe he w."!S no Jn£f£;eof Tit Us ^^nd that he apprehended the Oath P^rf n '^ *• obli^Ted him to Swear chai the Pretender was not King James's S-.n. j* * which niiift amount at kaft to this, he did not know but the Pre^ t/'"V''NJ « tender might be King James\ Son \ and if he were, he mii',hE have *■ z good Title to O^Q Crown, and therefore vvou'd not Abjure him. * This it feems was one of the Reafons which he was Advifed by bis « Friends not to Publish j and how fir he followed their Diredion?, * you may judge from whan he told a ^ft'fre.Tfl? Clergyman i.i the ' Diocefs of I>£?n7?r,expoflulating with him abouj his Refufal of the < Oath 1//Z,. that he wou'd tell him a Story, the Sum Total whereof * W3S,T/7^f once ufon a, Time there was a Bearn^ that coit*d not ve perfitw ' ded tohann the De'el^ becanfe he did not know but he might foon come ' into his Clutches. By all which it feems, that Mr. Mc Bride has a par- * ticular Regard, not only for the Hereditary^wi for the Indefeafeablc ' Right of the Pretender^ and is in expedation of being foon in his [ Power. Let us hear Dr Fergufon upon this Head, \a a Letter to his Friend, the true Copy whereof I fhill here Ififerc , ) SIR, Belfjfijiifie^.ljty, ' Had I dream't that my two Neighbours and Acquaintance wou'd, ! fo Hngentleman4tke^ have made ufe of my namein print, on a pri- vate accidental difcourfe in a mile or two's riding^ I had redify'd { both their judgments, when I was inform'd this Author was pen- ning iht Con diiB of the Diff enters of Ireland. And now I do gfFure you, I did nottell Mr W^ my Opinion ?(jo. And this Author groundlefly defcants upon it.- for Mr Wanng^ccm^d 10 me to believe,Mr McBr.de was as firm fortne late , 5. 87. the firfi is, that hs was the per/on that influenced Mr McBride, in their confer- i"e.ii«^ i?eld upon Mv^fCrjtckany rcturfl from Scotland. Our Author ' "" ' ' ' fpeakes •• hyfomefew Conjiflent with Loyalty, Ch ^. 531 fpcakes as if he had beea at that Conference,^ heard all thai pafi:,tho'Jp^j-j- /y^ he cannot prove anyihia'<^of whu he alTirts of ii-,&if it couM be prov'd !>* thiiWlr Afacrahri did iufiaer.ce Mr McByt4e.\h nofihingto tl^ putpore, (V^VNi unkfs he can prove tha: Mr AKe \ \i Qvct th^ Pretender .fhou'd mjke an attempt Twhich God forbid) upon thcfe Mitions,rnay not hisFriends thinkthat Attempt hopsful^wlyen it mayprove unfuccels-" fiih^&uponthat hope,declare for him'*And whymaynot ihefe thrcetMen (if they were Jacobites) beflnter'd inio fuch an hope, and fuch^ De- -claration in thas cafe, as well as others ? do's any Man believe that e- ver he will or dare make fuch an Attempf, without Encouragement from his Friands in thtfe Nations ? And will they encourage a thing to their own Ruin, which they don'i look upon as Fealible? And won't they endeavor to engage as many as they can into their Mea- fares.? And tliercfore, thofc Gentlemen who offer to enter into "Re- <;ogniz.eince iox iQooo lb. for the Loyalty of thofe 3 Men, neither can n'«Jr wouM be eafie in their Minds, unlefs they were iirmly pcrfwa- dedjthat they were Loyal in their Principles,and quite oppofite to the Pretender. Bjt idiy^ Let usconfider what our Author alledges, of thcfe Non- \ jtl^ing Teachers being Countenanced and Protected by the Northern Dif- f enters of all Degrees^ and other Perfons of Eminent Station, Seeing our Author goes upon a Miflake,as if ihefe 3 Miniflers were Jacobites^ and had refused the Oath upon that Account, the Odinm he ' endeavours to call upon thofe who countenance them, has noy^/Foun- dation. For their being true Friends to her Majeftie's Perfon and Go- vernment,and to the Proteftent SucctfTion in (he llluftrious Houfe of Hanover^ do's Plead for Compaffion , and that a difference fliou'd be made bitwten the'H and other Nonjurors, whofe Retufal of the Ab- jiration-O.ith proceeds from a Zed for the Pretender. And all the Countenance given 'em by the Northern Diflenters fays no more. If we confider the Intention oftheLegiJlature in impofing theOath,which was to Defeat the Defigns of the Pretender^ we can't fuppofe that they ever mean'd to difcourage thofe who were true friends to the Proteft- ant and Enemies to a Popifl) Succeffi^n •• Bat that the Penalties of this Aa hy fome few Confident with LoyaUy. Ch. 2, 535 At!t were intended to Reich J<«c' from the Rcafoi and2,ronp.d,iip- on which it W2S fram'd \ yet it ciu't be dcny'd, thic t!ic Gifeoffjch Pcrfons Renders them fit Objects for Her iMa);fty's Princdy Ciemeruy^ and coiif<.qi>€iKly for the Owpy/JjEaTz of their Protefta.'i! Neighbour*., who know them to be Truily Friends to her T/r/^ and Go/ctrunenr. And this Rf miiic leems to me to be a jud Inference from what our Author obferves as a Seventh Injlunce of the Countenance given them, which he finds fault with in thefe Words, p. ^^. ^ Seventhly^ the whole procecdii gs of the Judges in i\Ir McBriJe^ ^ profecutioii, Tryal a id acqaictai fcems (.from what account Mr * Waring gi7es):o be fo \^ery cxcraordinary,thaE 1 purpof^ly decline *■ animadretingupon it, fearing that my Excurfions might carry me ' too far, both with refpeft to them and my felf^ however, thus ' far I will Venture to affirm, that had not thofe non-juiors mcE ' with chat countenance, Protcftion and fupport from all Degrees ' of People both Dijfenters and others^ they wou'd never have iafilted ' the Laws as they did *, nor have influenc'd iuch numbers of the ' Common people to follow their examples, in refufing the Oaths* * upon the expelied Invajton of the Pretender. I believe the proceedings of herMajeflie's Judges in the above cafe can be very well def€nded,againft thofe undecent Inji'mations of our Author. Ani it IS no great vronder, that Pr^i%fe, and taking npon hlmftlf the Stile VV"SJ '*■ of our Hearts, Declare and Bcliev be the Prince of Wales during tne fince his Deceafe pretending to be, and Title of King oiScotlmd by the Name oi James viii, or o^Evg- land by the Name of James 111. or the Stile and Title of Ki-^g of Great' Britain^ hath no Right to the Crown of Great. Bntaifi^ or any Dominions theieunco belonging; Therefore vve diBw a and reiulc any manner of Allegiance or Obedience to him ; as alfo we firml/ rfifolve, through Grace, in our Stacions to Maintain, Defend and Sopnore the Succefliorn to the Crovvn in the liluftrious Family of Hamuer , for wUich we MOST HEARTILT PRAl\ reckoning it next to the Prefervatiou of HerMdjefly, the on- ly fopport under God, ot our Religion, Laws and Liberties. * And feeing we are heartily agreed upon all that's conrain'd in the faid Oith, wich may be thongbt any real Security to the Govern- ment and Proteflant SucccflioD, which we judge to be a ftrong Bul- wark ay;ai .ft Popery and Tyranny; IVe earncltly defire and firmly hope, That our not taking the faid Oath, (hall not be thought to proceed fvnm any Principles of D>floyaIty and Difobedience to Au- thor ity. but entirely from fear o^'Cou^ueravfting oiirknownPfinciples, and Crave that this our Dtchrauon may be inferted in the Records of the Synod. VVrictea and SubfcribM at Edinburgh the %th of No- vember 171^. This is a Demonftration^tbat a Presbyterian maybe a Non-Juror, ad no Jacobite ', And that it may be neither prejudicial toChurch nor Stace,to g\w e fuch ail the Councenjnce that has bten given ''em^ either in ScntU'.d jC IreLind, in that Cafe. And this fully atifwers all that's ad- vanc'd by our Author upon this Head, fo far as his AlTertions are true in Fa!t. B iE there are forae of 'em which indeed defer ve another An- fwer, dnd particularly his fecondinitai^ct of chs Countenance given 'em p. 88. ' idly^ Mr. Ak. Bride having taken Sanctuary in Scotland upon a ' Legal Profecnt^on in this Kingdom, vvas rccall'd to his Congrega- ' tiou by Mr. Smith a Riiling Elder Merchant in Belfafi, Purfuant fas ' 1 am inform'd) to an Ad of Presbytery, and conduced into Beljafi * in great Triumph, acicnded by numbers of People of aii Degrees, * and this while the Suit was Adually depending, all vvhic'i appears ' by Mi\ Wuringh Lttcer. M'C: Wurtng nas been flrangely impos'd upon in his Narrative of this Matter, as will appear by the following Certificates. Z22 we ^38 Ch ^.The Refpfcd of the \Ahjuration*Oath Part 0 ^^T\T^'^^ herebyCerdfy^rhat when theReverend Mi\JohnMc^ '5* V V ' Bade Cimz iO Bdfajl.^iltX Mr. SarnudSnith h\Q\ch^m iy\r\^ ' had gone to Giaf^oWyio invite the faid Mr. A4cB'id< ('who was then ^,^. ac Glafgorv) to return to his Congregation, the fiidMr. AkBride Lin- «. ded in the D^ck of Belfufi about three of the Clock in the M >rninz, k and wjlked flraight to the Houfe of Mr. John McMnn Merchant in '■ B'.l:.-fi, being /^ccompinied by none but Siv James A^new Hsret^ble ' SheiifTof 6'^//!3rp.iy,our felves and fjme Servarjts : and a"l this we ' Certify from om ownKnow]edge,having beenPafiergers \i^ the fjme * B >at and Voy jge with Mr Mc.B ride, alonsiil with the faid Sir James ; ' and we aie ready to confirm thisourCertificite upoiOjth, i/ rcquir'd. ^ Giveu under Oar Hands at Beljafl^ Stptcmi^er thci<^ib. 1713. J awes Adair. William Mitchell; / I do hereby Certify when the Reverend Mr Johv AfcBnde Lan- ded in Beljafi, at the time mention'd in the above Certificate fte came to my Houfe, while I and my whole Family were lying in Bed, ^that 1 was waken'd bycne of myServants who acquainted me with it^ aud that I Arofe & Entertain'd the fiid Mr McBride^md found no Compjny with him but one of my Servants. Given under my Hand * at Vtdfajl Ser/te nher 25. 1 71 3. J'jhn Mc i'Uw. I fhou'd not have thought it worth while to have taken notice of ihh [mall CircumJlaKce^ were it not necefTiry to caution the Reader againfl: that exctjfivt Credidity^ which is the vifihle Infirmity of cur JlH'hor and his Injormers \ who are founaccounta'ily miltaken, in their Hifloiy otthe very Fads done in the places of their o-vn refidence, and in their own time, that it procures *em no great Credit when r hey fpeake of things done ^^ was in C/^^oir waiting upon Mr McBride^ the P?Y/^^r:^(ry and his French Forces came' upon the 5cof/ Coaft ^ upon v/hich Occafion, Mr McBride gave as plain a Demonftration of hia being no 5^.«t:o/'/>^, as any man in bis Station. The Presbytery, of G/V^tfip 'of which he was then Moderator; drew a moft Loyal Acl- drels to Her Majefly, exprefling their Abhorrence of that Traiterous t/ittempt of rhe Pretender and his Abettors^ and their Zealous Difpoiiti- on and Rcfoludon to 0/7p&/«r tf with their utmofl mi-^hr, and to ad- here to Her Majftfty's Title. Tnis Addrefs was amonglt the very firfi that was fign'd upon that Oct<»lion, and Mr McBride was the hy Jome FeWyCon(iflent "with Loyalty. Ch,2 5 59 i firfi man who fignM it ; and the Man, to whom Mr Naim^ (fub- P^*-*- ry ' licrctjry at chat time) rec.irn'd V^^f M. jelly's Anfwer, wherein fhc •'■^^^ ^« exp* efs'd a pirticul.ir Satisfaction wiih iluirLoyalty. U^^^VN^^ The Miiiillers of chat City a^. the lame time, made a Propofal to the Privy Council of Scoiiind^ that they would raife men for her Ma- jefty's Service, and the Defence of iheir Country againlt ihzPrtteidtr^ and furnilh 'em with ^/;w/ ai.d Ammunition, and pay each of 'em ^d. per diem, for 40 days, all upon thar own proper LhrVge. Each Minif- ter propos'd to raii'e, arm and pay 5 men ^ and Mr Mi,)iride cfFci'd bisProporti )nas chearfullyas anyof 'em.&over&above hisProportion, offtr'd to fend one cf his ownSonsinto that Service. ThisZ>o)'^/i'r<;p.p/ of the Minifl,trsj;7/w/2r«s^) is continued a Tiuflec ' alfo in the pitent for receiving iheRoyal- Bounty of noolh. per an- * num^ as was prov'd by VVejtenra Warirg Efq ; before a Committee ' of the Right Honorable Houfe of Lords ' What Mr ^r».^ offered to that Honorable Committee, i can't tell, but 1 am fure, all that's true in ihcmatccr is tlisjthjt in her Majvflie's patent for that petilion, which is dated A^anh i i:h 1702, aud conftquenily before tiie Oath of AbjuraiidD wasimpofed upon irtUndy lAr AicBnde is named as one'of the Tr^jftees, but that lince he fcrupled tne Oath, has never afted 5s a Truftee, and that all the other fruflees have laktn the Oath. Wherein this can be a jufl: ground cf reflection either upon Her Majcfty, or the Presbyterian Minifters in the North oi Ireland, I can't difcern. And I am apt to believe, chat if Mr W.irirrg\ E- vidence was given x.o the Committee that prepar'd a Reprejtntution with r&latioa to the Presbyterian Minifters, their Lordfbips wou'd 2 z z Z bavf 540 Ch.^. Neither their Mintfters mr Elder ^ Psirt 2 ^'"^^'^ tjken forne notice of the matter of it in their Reprefffitation^ JV^^'had they found ic any thing ?o ';he purpafe. ^''/y^>J That Mr AfMom told Mr McBnde, that he was a knave &c. (vvhich our Author afTerts p. 79J is what both of 'cm abfolucely deny, and aver it to be a meer Mion. CHAP. III. Wherein the four Prefumptive Fadls chared upon Vresbyterians in //^^ Third Part of the Condu6l of DifTenters ^c. Vi2;, I . Their taking the Solemn League &:c.2 dljy Their Common Funds again B the Church, ^dly^ Their Enjlaving Teople hj their Certificates \ And 6^thly ^ The many Dreadful things, prevented by the TeH^ Claufe^ are Examined. The fir ft of thefe/o«r Fa(^s is Reprefented by our Author f. pii in the fpllowing Words. FACT I. frTpHE firfi: Prefumptive Fad I wil) mention fhal? be, that we have J^ ' feveral Reafons, which may tive v- hffit)ei,c gionnt^s for a * violcnr Sufpicion, that the Diflliitir-^ Itacito, ih ot iheir KiJling J Elders aie obliged to take theSoiciUii Lefij^u^aud Ca/cnanc, before Jbejf, Take the Solemn League and Covenant i. Ch. 5, $4. 1 1 ^ they arc- admitted to Tc^h and Govern the Northern Congrega- P^^rf o ^ The Presbyterian Minifl^rs in the North of Ireland in their Second. LO^f?^ Apology to Her M ))-;!: jj v3 g'^e a fail Anfvver to this Acca'acion ' We are furpriz'd (Hiy they> chat the Convocation (h >u'd Inflnnate ' any caufe ot Fear, that our .Minifters flioii'd be oblioej at theirOr- ' A\mx.\'>ii%io u\iiiht Solemn League ^xnd Covenant -^ feeing they can'l ' but know thae all our Ordimtions are fokniiily perform'd in the * face of public and nun^eroHsCoHgregations, where generally diverS ' of the Ellalilifh'd Charch are pselenc .• And yci we are aflji'd, ihali ' not any one Inftance of thai kind can be given, nor is it done either * in the EftablifhM Church of Scotland^ or amongft us. Ar.d che Proteftant DilTfnting Minifters of the Gity o{ DubLn^ and SouUi of Ireland agree with their Brethren in ihe N^rth, in giving i\\tfarne Jf trance to her Majefty, as appears by their Printed Ad- drefs in Anfwer to the Reprefentadon of the Convocation. And tho' neither the Addrefs from the North nor Soitth makei mention of the Rulir.^ Eldersj becaufe the Convocation don't exprcfs the leaft Sufpi- cion of their taking the Covenant ^ yet 'cis plain, from our Author's Reafoning upon this Prefumptive Fad. (as ke calls it) that his grcateffc Sufpicion is of the Minifters, for he fpeaks of a violent Sufpicion thaa the DifTenting Teachers,t/ ^of thetr huUrg Elders^sive oblig'd &c. And therefore feeing all reafonable ground is given for removing his Suf- . pic'on of the former ^ I think be needs not bs in pain about ihz Latter. But to fliow that there is no defi^n to Wave a pofitive Anlwer aboue it ^ I do here for the Satisfaction of all perfons whatfoever, who de- Cre it, declare that no Ruling Elder amongfl the Presbyterians, is ever oblig'd to take l\\J^';?//?«r J and £/^'/, and therein ^'?^, Speak aad give their Koices^ accordiitg to ih^befi of their Kwvpledgt for the Glory of Gcd, theHc- nour of Religioi, and the good of the Church of Chrifl:,according to the Word or God, and the Meihods of Cbrilliaii Difcipline C(7«/cr/;7^- ^/p's fears were, that they were Zealous for a Covenant to (xcirpare Epifcop'cy &c. inftc id of denying which, he fays he believes /?f m^^ybe mijlaketr^^ox their Zeal for thaE Covenmt as a League wic!iE"^/^^/^&:c. Which does not infer, but they miy be Zealous for it, as a folemn Oith to, and Covenanc with God, to extirpate Epifcopacy •, but he f;ems to me rather to Imply it. when he pretends to Explain the matter more fully, and tells us, that as a League it can have no farther obligation on them than Leagses formerly had with ^rance^ oblig'd EngUnd^ fince the French viohted them. Now, I defite to hz relolv'd by this Gentle- - man, whether when the matter of any Covenant be of it felf ne- cefTiry, and Obligatoryby the Command of God, and for the more ■ effeiftual Obedience to that Command, feveral Countries fh ^uld en- ter into a League, to promote an Uiiverfal Obfervation thereof i /fay, I defire to be refolved, whe:her upon the Failure of one Par- ty in that League, the Obligation upon the ether party ceafts /"this I prefume he is not fo Ignorant to afllrt, and yet he anfwers theBi- • (hop by drawino a Parallel, betwixt the Ancient Leagues with ■ lcrance^'[\d England^ which were purely Condition3!,and no farther Obligatory then as thev were mutually kept, whereas the Cove- nants entered into to extirpate Epifcopacy root and hrafich^ and e- reEi Presbytery, and further a Reformation, are all of Eternal Obligation to all Presbyterians, from their Principles^ y^ntecf^ent 10 and AhfiraUed from, any Conditional Leagues, or breach of them which can be mi de. The ^cope of all this reafoning , is to prove that the Presbyterian Minifters and People are a Society of Intolerable Men, and that the Magiftrite (hou'd neitherTolerate nor connive at their Reliaious Li- berty, becaufe their Principles make 'em dangerous to theEftab ;fli'd Church $44- Ch. 3. They hold no Intolerahle Principle "PsLYt ^ Churdi.That I may give a fall and fatisfadory Anfwer,! fhall T/,gi'/e j' 3. E.-ne Reprefentation of the Principles of Presbyterians with Re- t/^N^*^ fped to a Reformaiton^ and the Extirpation of E^ifcopacy\ and how far thtir l^rinciples bind them toit^v^i^/r^r^i^^ trom^ and A'lteudtvc to any Covenant forthat pnrpcie, and 2^/);, Show thai their Principles iti thefe Matcsrs jdo noj render them InteUrdle by the Civil Magi- ftratf. As to the firfl:^ I {hall recommend to the Reader a paragraph of the flrfi J]io'r;gy of the c'resbyterian Minifters in the North of Ireland^ to Her M jjefty p. 24. ' That our Confciences do nofi allow us a freedom ' of Conforming to ihepreftntModel of Epifcopacy in tiieEflablifhM * CharcU, nor to H«r Liturgy •, and that we found our DifTent «poa * tl»e Holy Scriptures, is as well kno^n as that we are Presbyteri- ., ais, under whiLh Denomination we have always H nibly AddrefTed * Your M^jefty and your Royal PrsdecefK^rs. Bui wc humbly beg ' leave to be excus'd from giving >our Majcfty the Trouble of anyDe- * bate from us, upon points controverted among Proteflatts : A Mu- * tujl forbeirance in thofc Matters, and a Chriftian Management, * with a Sp/r/V of Adodcratien^ tree of all bitter Invediives is what we ' highly approve ^ feeing Cordially agreed with all the Rtlormsd * Churehes at home and ibi oad, ui all the De^rina held by them m Com' * W3ff«, and in all tiac'- Eflliuial to the Reformation. And let us confider what ine Proienan? Dflenting Miniftcrs of the City of Dublin and South of Ireland dclivrei as their Setitiments upon this Head in their Addrersp.43. *• lis indeed our knowi judsmcnr, ' that the Holy Scriptures, m..kv not Bijhops anf\Pres,hyters two diflin^ ' Orders-^ and our Op nion htiein we nusnbly conceive, is contorm- * able to that oimoft of the EettrrndChptrches^ deJared in their p^- ' lickCor:fefflonsoi^m{\^ and *tis no moietban what many Learned ^ Divines oUhe E/labli(h'd Church, and even feveial of thofe ihaE * were Eminent Inllrumencs in the EvgUjh Reformation, have AlTerted * and Maintain'd. ^ From thele Accoums it is plain, that they lock Upon Epifcopacy (as it is now niodel'd^ to be an Efuman Ordinance *, and fo far our Autkor do's them Jiiftice. There i a Confcqiunce which follows Natively from this Prificiple, vtz,. That they think a Divine Ord'u nance better than a human one, and another from that,wz,.^ That they cannot but heartily wilh that all other People were of their Opi- Rioatoo. Nay, itmuUbe own'd, that thc'iv Prtneiple ir: dines and obliges al it wouM be an Abnfe put upon the ^ead«^r, to tire hii Patience with the ReftJtatbnof it. In a C^/'^/V/zT? Country, fhall all Lutherans be Abridged of the Liberty of ferving God, according to their G >arci- ences ? V\ a Z/.'.'r/;dy 33 v7ou'd (xdadg a/ltderation and mutuil forbearance amonpft Proteilaacs ; AaJ yet withou'i Maintain.iiig that unwarranta- ble Principl'-^Presbyterians muH be allov/'d to be as Tolerable as other Pf.ople. For I fcvou'd fain know what Argument can any Eftabl^fli'd Epifco^ ' ;j;v/ Church give againfl; the Toleration of P^-^jt'^fm^w;, bat what will fcrvt a rwrw^and prove as Iliong an Argument to any Fjiabliflj'd Prc- teftint Church whatfocver, for denying a Toleration to any of her fellcxv Prcteflants vvho diflent from her. Is it, becaufe Presbyterians think their Perfualion the befit and becaufe their Principles oblige ■tmiovoi^j^ and by 4// peaeeable and lawful methods endeavour, to have all others to be of their mind ? This very reafon vvou'd infer, that thofe of the Fpfcopal Communion ought not to be tolerat- ed m ScotlarJ : For the Eftrbliibcd Church there may fiy, that the Epifcopal DifTenters look upon E^ifcopacy as the only Jpcfidicd Government of th« Church, and thu therefore AbfiraFting from and A7iteccdent to 2.ny Covenant or Oa.h, their Vrincifles oblige *em to Extirpate Presbytery^ and to ruine the Church EltaWlifhed, and there- fore being Dangerous people they Mufb not be Tolerated. And 'tis certain, Che Argumeat can be managed theri with more colorable pre-.. j4hout the Extirpation of Epifcopacy. Ch. 9 5 ^7 pretences of£ cnccs agaittfl the Toleration oUhnr Dinciiterf,tha:i the C'.iurciicsp/jl*f- q ' ngUv d c.^(Mrclavci cdiU^o 2i%m-\\\ the T'-lcration ofthera. Tor, be- J' fidss thai a coiifcieutious Ef-fcofal Diflenter in ScetUndh obliged ^-/'^VT^^ from fais ownPrinciple t) nfe ths fame Effbnsfor PieUcy m ScotU'id, as the Presbyter iaii DifH-ntcrs are, lor Presbytery in E7igland and IrtUnd^ they are ir.ore dangerous in another refpedl-, becaiife \\\i ?it%' byterians in £^;e/^"'^ and IreUvi nre not fuch /:^/^fe-7?)'fr/ in their Principle about Zpifcopal Ordinicioji, a?, the Epifcop.d Dif- fefiters are about Presbvterian-Ordiiiaiion. The former^ tho' they can tin Cotjfcicnce Comply with Epifcopal Ordinatioii, yet they do not deny the Validity of it, nor of the Tiered Miniftrations of thofe who receive it ^ h\ii many o{ i\\t Utter look upon Presbyterian Or- dination to be null and Void, and therefore are more oblig'd froin their principle to endeavour the [iibverfion of Presbytery, than rhe 0:hers are to endeavour thep/^t/^r/'/i?/? of Epifcopacy. ^\nd may noE the Eflahlifhed Church oi HelLind argue the lame way sgaiuft tolerat- ing Epifcopal Congreg3[ions there ? The Lutherans nny tell the CalvmijU, thauhey mult not be tolerated, becaufe they i. c. tl"e Cnhimp lock upon their own Z^oArine and Worlhip to be grounded upon the word of God, and that the Pectdiar Points of Lutheranifm are erroneous Tc«^fj,contradi(ftory to the Scriptures-, and therefore ought to be extirpated Rost and Brdnchj^nd ail this is realy true ; For the C^/^vVny?/ are firrrly of that Opinion ^ a.id yet it would bs ua- reafonabie to infer ftora thence, that they fliouM not be tolerated in a Lutheran Country. This kind of >^rgament is fo far from being ftrong enough for rc- fufing txTolerati&nox Connivance to anyParty of Proteftants^that on ths Contrary, it is one of the necelTary qualificacicn>,which any party thas ^em^ndii -a Tcler/ition ox Connivance oMghi 10 have. For thole v^in think an Efbablilh'd Church fo well conftituted^ as ihey may join fafely in ConFlrant Com-nunion with her withouj fi.i, d-jfent from hcr^ not from ■principle but ////wo«r,&therefore have no plea from Confcience toeiiitle them to theProteStioa of"theMa^iIlratt,in thiir feparation from fuch a Chi-irch.- In a word. No pany ought to be tolerated except they ihink their own Communion better than that of the £ftai)liLhedChurch, and except they wilh all other people whatfoever may approve of, embrace, and profefs ih&lame piincipk's, and join in ihejame Com- munion with then-, y^nd therefore the Presbyterians having fi.ch a Principle, can never render ihrm i.itolerable^ofw ich herbacrcd Ma* jefty and the Englijh ana Bntijh Pai liamcnts were foj.fjiiy convinc'd, A a a a 2 tna 548 Ch.'^. They hold no TntolerahkTrinci^^^ ^ait Ct ^^^-^^ '^^y h^v^ dcclar'd, that the Fokration in EvgUnd ought to J* be /«wc/^^/y Maintain'd, & yei iht Tnr. cities ci ilc\t ccmpithcrided %./^y'\J ia it 2iXQ exaUly tht fame wkh thofe ot Their Brethiea ia /;-r» Bi3,c to recura to the fab]e£^, that gave occiiGon for thefe obferva- tXo\\%v\z..\\-it jolemn League mdCovenant^ all 1 fhitl fay for it is, that iz was full of Loyalty to the Kiiig, and was a ^^rticnUr Mcmns of the ' R«Itaiiracioaof the Royal Fainiiy, tho' ic ivasagaiafl Epifcopicy. The Presbyceriaas always p/(f; :Iie * command olGod^and tor the more effcc^Uol obedience to that com- ' mand, feveral Couniries fhou'd enter iwio a League to promote an ' iiniverril Obfervacion thereof: i fay, I difiie to be rdolv'd whe- * ther upon the failure of one Party in that League, the Obligation ' upon tlie other Party ceafe?.' 1 his was indeed the cafr. For the Presbyterians thought it nccelTaryjihat there fhouM Le a Rcfcrmati- on and Reduction of Epifcopacy, and that the fame was necelTai/ by the comm md of God, and their Covtr.Ant was delignM for nothing elie , buE [o hind Men to what they thought God had hvunA them to by his AnthoYity^ Anteceder,t to thcir Covenant. I think it woud ex- ceedingly contribute to the promoting of Chriflian Charity 2ud Peace amon^ Proieftants, to put no other Conftrudion upon thedelign cf i\\t Covenar:ters than ihi?, which fhows that they A^ed upon a C'c?'*- /c;>//7/(j/// Principle j ana that they Ihou'd not upon all occalrns be re- proach'd, for following the light of their Conflicnccs. There are two Objections more againfl: ihe Covenint made by our Author, in both which he is Miltaken. The fir (} iscontain'd in imp- fc».sf part oi the Condu^l of the Dijfentcrs Cy^c. p. 73, where (after he had given the Abft! act of the Covenant j he cafs it /Z?^/ ^rr/.r- jed Injirumcnt of all our Notorial CaUmities in tksformir RibelliotJ. B.iC if he will be at the pains to look iLto the Hillory of shofe time?, he will find that there were many National Calamities during the time which he calls the /fw^ oj Rebellion^ fby which I fiippofe, he means tne Civil War between the King and the Parliament) before ever the Covenant was fram'd. For it was not rcceiv'd by the Parliament of England before the Year ; 543; whereas the Civil War had broke out a Year before that, and he mull be very little acquainted with Kiftory and reafon, who will fay that there weie no A^^^noi^^f/ Calamities while |he Nation was groaning under the Mifnits of an Intifline War^ or, that the Covenant was the Inftrument of thofe. Calamities before it fclf had abeing:& yet one ot thefe tvro muft be true,or othcrwife his ObjcdionisgroundUfs.The iruelnftruments ofall ihefeNationalCalami- tieshavebeenlaid openin mydifcourfc uponthat unhappyCivil war,Parl id.Chap.i.Where thcReader will fee that thofe who put the King up- oa Arbitrary Govcrnmint, that was dcftruftivs to Religion and Li- berty 5^0 Chap. 5. Their public Funds no Inva/ion Pcirt 2. ^^'^^y ^^^'^ InRaiments of aU thofe Miferies, and by engaging Lmti j' and the H^gh-Flying Epilcupdl Clergy into the Meafures of the Court a. iyV^Si) gairip: the Intereft 0} theKingitom^ ruin'd Epifcopacy k felf,and brou^hs oa thole Cahmicies on the Epifcopa] Church, of which the Co^renaoc was the £^<'^ and not the Caafi'. His fecoad Objeftion againft theCovenant is fet down in the clofe of his Rcfleftion; upon hisfirfiPrrfumptive Fa^p, 94 where he affirms that the Covenant makes it a Religious Duty to refi.t the Sup ems Mn. g\ fir ate in his Defence of arty other Church Government^ hut that of Presby^ tery^ he delivers this nsked Aflettion without any (hadow of Proof, and ] don't fee that any o«^\rticle or all the y^rdcles of the Covenans compared, give any ground for fuch an Inference. But I come toconfider his fecofjd Preemptive Fath^ which he expref- fes thus f . 94. F A C T II. * The fecond Prefumptive Faft is, that, Shey have csmmon Funds raisM among the People and kepi in Bank to defend any Advances they can make upon the Rights of the Eftablifh'd Clergy. Ckrgy will pretend lono Rigk\bui what tke Law has q^iven them.^fiich as x.\itTtthes^ theChurchcs^ and the Execution of their OfRcei, and there- fore what Right of theirs do the Presbyserians deprive them of ? Per- haps our Author may fiy, that it is the Right of thdr Clergy, thai there fhou'd be nofparate Congngations^ nor no other Mmifters^norL)//^- cipline^ nor Worfioip aliow'd but their own ^ if this be all his Meaning, lie has juit told the World that there are fuch a People as Nor/- Conform vjifis^ which is no great; difcovery, and need not be call'd a Prefum- five FM, being kaoi'-^n to the whole Kingdom. Bui then they muH reckon ie a great hardfhip, th^t thsy can'e obtain Liberty of Confci- ence, bus h mult be call'd an Invading. -of the /lights of the Cleigy^. Is is known to the VVorUl, that the Fresbyserian Minifters in he- landh'dVQ no other way of fubliilance to their families, ihan by Her Maiefty'sRoyalBoufityAsheVo^«'^£3'"y^'^"^^^^'^^*^^"5°^^^'^'^^'^*^^^^^^- And Of the Rights of the Clergy. Chap- 3; 551 And therefore, there are Methods hid dc>wn in their ieveral Goa- P^j-f o gregations for their fupport •, andbecaufe fome poorer Gongrega- j ' tioiis are not able of themfelves to Maintain a Aftnilhr^ thofe whom VyVNJ God hath bk0ed with more worldly fubilance in other CongregaciciiS corAribnte towards their afliflance, and think it their duty to do fo : For Alms-deeds are not confined to the h^Mes of Men, but ouglit to be ixrrnded to the benefit of their fouls too. And this is not doac to Kew trebled Congregations only^ but iofame of the OL-lcJi- Congregations in'c^///c>',and it feems a little unneighbonrly zn and therefore 1 can't comprehend his Meaning, when he i' finuares the NecefTity of carrying an Jppeal to the Hottfe of Lords, or to the Ouien's Bench in Ergland. Tm fure lie has no reat^n to Hifped the Judges of Ireland of ParliaUty in favour of Presbyterians, againft the Eftablifh'd Chn^^ch ♦, or, that all the public funds the Presbyterians are c jpabk ofraifi.ig, /hou'd be able to corr///?/- their 5^«^^wf»f,dnd make 'em give z rvroi7 jDrcrrfagainfl a Clergy-Man. Our Author comes next to vent the frightful Ideas he has got of the Royal Pendon of iiooltb. per anftum^ to the Presbyterian Minif- ters in the North of Ireland; he fpeaks of their mifapplying it, and the fubflance of what he fays is fully anfwerM in the following Paragraph of their fi-fl j^pology to Her Majefly, p : 27. ' That any even the lead part of your Majefty's Royal Bounty was ever ap- ply'd eitlier to the fending out t\yc\\MtUionarUs ( as they are called.) or Employing any Agents, or fupp^rting any Law fjits, or Forming and Maintaining anySeminaries tor the inllrudion of Youth,is what we can by no mems AfT^nt to, believing thek Lordfhips opini- on in this Matter to be entirely owing to Mifinformation ^ for that Fund has been d^vays divided ^man^^ the Presbyterian Mini- flcrs VH^fuant to Tour Royal Letters -^ as may be fully prov'd when- ever it is defir'd, with all the Demonflraiive evidence that any Matter of Facft is capable of. He infinu3teF,that Mr. Hugh //VwryPresbyterian Minifler 2iiDrnghe- di ( whom he calls the Trefent A?r,and think it for her Inter efi^ I wiil Adventure 10 fay, that the Presbyterian Mi- niiitxsntmim Contradictnte will tharikfully accept of it, Andifitfhall pleafeHer Mofl ExceHent Majefty to be of the fame opinion with oar Author, they had rather have 12000 lib^fer annum divided a? mongftand appropriated difbinftlyto them, fo as the whole'fhall have no power to touch one farthing ofany iMan^s property ^ than to have only -4 200 lb with the utrnojl imaginable latitude of Difcretionary power to themfclvcs to divide it and apply it as they (hall think His id Prefumptive Fad is exprefled f ; 95. in thefe words v F A C T III; * The Presbyterian Miniflers of the North of/r//^»^' have in my * Opinion made the wholebody of their coramott People,* fb Depend' 'dent upon them, that- they are infiirely i& their Power, to' * move and dired them as they pleafe, and one main' Spring which ' feems to influence all the lelfer Wheels in thert^ Political Machine, ' is the Certificates of their Miniflers, and the manner of Managing, * them .• For it is fo contriv'd that there is not one of their Commcu * People vvhodare change his Mafter^ or remove from one place to' ^ another, but he mull apply to the Dijfenting Minifter for a Certi- ' ficaie, and that under fuch fevere Penalties, which neither iheLaws ' of God, or Man do juflify ; for if they produce not fucb Credenti- ' als) they are given to underftand by their Teachers in their public ' Examens^ (as they call \i) that they will m: be received into Prcf^ * bytciii^n Families, that ihey are to be ProIeLUted as Vagabonds,&nd * lent to the Houfe of Coirection j for the-proof of which I here hj- ; fert an Affidavit, takeii bffore two JUitic^ pi the Peace in the Coan" En/laving of people. Chap, (f 55$ f County of Antrim*^ th« Original whereof I have in my Hands. Pn ft 5 Our Anchor lays p. ^9. It mnfibe allowed the Original and life of Cer J' tlficatesis very Antitm and Commendable. NoW the Qiieftion will turn VipOv^*^ Upon this firigle point, whether Presbyterians pervert the Original De- jign of that Ancient and Commendable Practice of Certificates, whicii thev humbly coneeive they do not. They believe that every Paflor oughtcarefully £0 ip>ifj';j over the Flock, and acquaint himfelf with the Spiritual State of every Soul under his care, fo far as he can ; that as a faithful and wife Steward of the Lor d"* s Honfljold, he may give them their Portion of Aieat in diieSeafon^ and may not ^ive the Cloildriti's A'fent t9 the Dogs. P^n^ they believe, That the Original deHgn and ufcof Cer- tificaLes was, to enable the Minifter to obferve the Rules of the Gof- pel. For whsn a Man that hasL.iv'd in another place oi i\[tWQi\(^,Qon\&% to demand the Privilcdges of Ci^r/yfwfzC(?>ww««/o» from a Minifter to whom he is a perfeft ftranger, that Minifter miifl be perfuaded thai thePerfonhas a Title (To far as Men can judge of fiich Titles) to ChriftianCommunion} before he can inConfcience admit him to it; hovr fhdl he know whether he was Bapttz.ed, or whether he was not jafily fufpendfid, or excommunicated team the priviledges of Chriffian Comr?2ii- nioHy in and by the Ghnrch, whereof he was formerly a Member/* And in either of theft two cafes, he ought not to be admitted to the Lord^s Supper a.iy where. For a Man that is y^^/Zy deny'd the Commuiion in any one Con^regiEion, ought not to be admitted to partake of it in any other, becaufe the reafon is the fame in all places ot the Woild ^ Now all chefe doubts are refolv'd liy the Perfon's brin'^ing alongft with him a Certificate of his good Behavior ', if he dcferves fuch a Cer- tificate, 'tis a kindnefs done himfelf 10 bring it ', if he do's not defervc it, why {ho\}i'*iM\tC\^{m Church' Priviledges , in a place where he is notknown,vf'^tn they have been jnftly refus'd him by thofe who know bim beft. All this bein^ a Confeqnence from the hfiitutions of the Gofi pel, there can be no Hardfbip put ']pon any Man^ and this is all the Intention the PresbyterlanMInifters have ingranttng and demanding fuch Certifitates. Our Author Much Mifreprefents this FA For a man may change as mavy Mafters as are Members of any one Congregation, and never be ask'd for fuch a Certificate at all, and the Realon is plain, be- caufe the psrfon is ftill under the Infpection of they^v?«Miiiifter.The Law indeed requires .fuch Gertificues from their lefpedive Miftcrs, B b b b 2 'bni Chapr ^^ Their Certificates No b'U the Minifters do not, except when tlicy leave one Congregation and come to be merabsis oi anothtr^ aad thai for the reafons above- mention'd. fih mterly deny'd, that perfoHS wamtng fuch Certificates are threatned to be profecuted 2i%yagabonds^^x\^ to befent to the Houfe of Correclton mcfdy for wanting fuch Certificates, but the cafe often happens, that luch perfons of the Presbyterian perfuafion as warn thefe Gertificices,are frofligate znd frandaloHr^^nd that, upon the want of thcm^Presbyterians make featch into their former Convcifetioa, and find them guilty of fuch Crimes !i% occafiaaM them either to fly fromjHftice^ov to remove becaufe of the jufi dilgrace their fcandajs had brought ihem under, in the former places of their abode \ And for thefe reafons, they have refused to fhehfrthem in their Houfes, & have profecuted 'cm as vagabonds & public Nufmces to theCoun- try, which, inftead of being criminal^ is stx'j Commendable ^2i% being good fervice to ihi'i^ Country, andfliowsan Imjiart iaUty zmongQ: Presby- terians, in not Countenancing Men that area reproach to Religion, tho' they prof*fs lo hi oi their prfuap&n. That this practice of requiring Certificates, is fo managed as to make the Common j>eeple entirely dependent on the Presbyterian Teachers^ in allthirgs both Temporal andfp:ritttJ[iSOW Author AfFerts p. 99) is calumnious and falfc. Indeed if the Presbyterian Miniflers made (heir granting Certificates, to fuch as deferve them, ^m Arbitrary thing, fo as to grant or refufc 'em at pleafure without being accountable to cne another for the reafons of their Pradiice ; and at the fame time rc- fufed to admit Men to Chriltian Communion who want them, this woa'd go a great way to prove them Guilty of enfliving the People -, and of rendring Chrifliun Commmion a very precarious rhing-,buE their Prad'ce is quite otherwife. They give fuch Certificates ex dehtto to a\\ who deferve them^and if any Mau be unjuftly refus'd one,he has a Re- eled y according to their Diicipline. And they are lo nicely exad, and accurate in this Matter, that in many Years there will fcarce occur one inflance of any Pcrfon's complaining of their being injur'd that way, whereas it were irapoin^kto make the People bear fucii an Intolerable Yoke at their hinds, as our ^iuthor reprefents it to be, when he Ua- cha' itably calls it the mofi refined Arcanum of all their Political Schemes^ to gain an ^bfolute Power over the Commoi' people.-And they are as fare as they can be pf their own Hearts and Adions, that what they defigq. r En/laving of the TeopJe^ Chap. 3 . 5^7 defign by it, is nothing elfe but .to briig Men into Obedience to the P^j-(; 5 * Scheme o^fhcGofpel, le^wing the Refined yi>c^rja dUd Political bchtmes J* to ihofe who may hive mareoccafion for Vm, and who Love 10 deal tyV^w more in that fort «.f Trading. Our Author gucfles at a j;real deal of terrible things^ that may be the Confequcnre of this Presbyterian way oiCertiftcatei. *" This way(f3ys * be) effcftually Teriifies Ignorant People who aie Cor/formifis from ,' Settling amongfl: them". Pray how can it? Do the Presbyterian Miniftcrs ever go to Conformifls, to ask fuch Certificates from them ? No, they leave their oTrn Mmifiers to Treat them as they fee Caufe, without concerning ihemlelvcs with them Jiiny further than as one Neighbour may do by another. ' This may (fays he, Jbid.)bt the great * reafon why amongft fo many thoufand Families who have come o- * over from Scotland^ fince the hte Revolution ^ fo few of them iiave * Conformed to the Efl;abli9i*o Church'. 1 can't well comprehend this way of Arguing ; nor c . K?E VI' O.- AM SurprizM tpiinfl m j^ late Pamphlet fEntitled the ConduU ^'■' 3l of the Dtffenttrs in Ireland^ my felf Mifreprefcnred in what is pretended K^ have been faid upon Oath againft me by one John Wloit&'m theie Words, (p. 97.) This Deponent farther faith^ that^^p the Examining, nt which time the Servants generally fhew thefe NcteSy one Samuel Shannon the Pre-bytenan Admijler in Portaferry^ did opinly declare te the Peofl^. that except they had their Certificates Signed by him upon tf:eir leaving the Par ijl}^ they. Vfm\d not only be denfd jidmittance into any tther Congregation^ and to the Sacrament^ but &e turned out of fuch Pariflies where they went^ when it was known that they wanted fuch Certif.cates. To which I a.ifwer, my conftant Method at fuch oc- cafions is this, if any Servants or others have lately come into the Bounds of my Congregation, protifliDg iheiafelves of cur Commu- nion, and that they have not before Ihown me their Teftimonials, I do then demand them ^ and without thefe or fomething Eqnivo- lent to Satisfie meof their Chnftian Behavior, and that they arc not juflly excluded from Chriflian Communion, I do not admit them to Church Priviiedges : But as for any fuch Declaration as the De- poiition Mentions wz,. that they won' d not be employ'' d as Servants, but ' be turned cut of fuch Parifhes where they went^ and that barely becaufe they wtnt my Certificate^ 1 do utterly deny it, jind raufl look upon the Afleriingof thi^ to be, in the moil favourable Conftruftion, a miflake, l.e where ic will-, for I do very vvell i<.now it, we have no Power to ufe fuch Meafures for Reclaiming Offenders or Diforder- ly Perfons. * 1 haye bcea atforae paias t« Inform my fclf of what the above- * mcnti- EnjlmngofVeapl^. Chap. 3 359 * mentioned Joh>t J^f^tefay^oftfie examination pVinted in the O^.p^vv*.- a < duB &C5 and two very Wcnhy GemUmm of Good Credit having^ **^^ 3' ^ Difcomfcd him, Returned me the foil )wing Account. VjTVTSJ ^ The faid ^FW^ acknowledg^-s that he made ?,n Affidavit, con- * cernmg feme things m'eiuion'd in the Examination cbntain'd in the * faid Book,before Captain Z^T/h^i and Dodor Tisda/i; and that he ' faid, that he did apprehend there was no need of any; other dr. ^ ttfcate than that of the Preshyterian Minifttr of the Parifh from ' whence he came, but lie lays he told the Dc6ior than his Maftet' * Robtrt iVelJlj gave him 3 difcharge, wliich he gave to oRe in Bdfuj}, ' tho* the Printed AfHda it rmportsehat he did not- get a pifctiarge * from the faid Wclpr^ and the rejifon (as he believes) why the Doctor ' infer ted that in the Affi-avi? fwhich he wrote himfelf; was, be- ' caufehc the faid John white told the Doftor, that tho' he got a dif- ' charge from thefiid PVeljlj he thought it not needful,ieting he had * the Miniftei's Certificate, as abovcy not knowing, that by the lav/ * of the Land fuch a dirch'arge was neceflary. He o#ns that' he faidy * that'fcrvants in thepb'ce from whence he ckme dare not quir * Mafl-erar Parifh withbufc the^Presbyttrian Minifttr's Certificate, but fays thafhe ui'derllbod this of Scot land, ht having formerly liv'd * there. He acknowledges, he faid he had heard Mr Samnd bhannoH ' fay at the examining that unlefs fervants and others brought Cer- * t'ificates from tlie Congregations where they had been before, he * wou'd not admit t\\ivci lofealitiv Or dinnnces'^hxit ViXiQrX^ dfnies * that ever he heard ^tShartvon^?iii'^\\)tit ttnlefs they got his Certificate ^)ioey fcould Hot ht Emflcr^ed ^f f&VAhts, hh he tntred out of fuch * Pariflies where they rvent .-and denies, that he aflcrted any fach * thing in his faid Oath, -^ud he farther afferts, that all thcfcope and ' meaning he had in the wholc Oath vva?^ to ftow that To far as he * knew or couM obferVe, that the praftice of Presbyterian Miifillers *' was this; that fervants x)f their Gomitmnldn when tliey reiiidve * from owe Congregation to ^wc/W, ought to bring Certificates 'of « their good behaviour with them, otherwfft they wcuM not'be * admitted toChriftian Communion, and gave an Inftance of this in what Mr Shannon had faid at the Ixumtntrg, ard thjit whatever * words are in the printed affidavit which import any more than ^ this, were either nonfe of his words, or not undcrftocd by him at w that tiine, to iirporl apy more. And the faid Jfhn nbtt farther add' *■<.*- $6o Chap. 3. Their Certificates mtjlavijh. Part Q c ^^^^» '^^^ ^^^ Occafion of his making this Jffiadvit was fome debate *" j' thathehadwich the Doffor (whofefervanthe hadbcenyabomget- ^y^fi^^ * ting a Difcharge from bim, when he was leaving his fervice, which ' brought on the difcourfe aboQt the Certificates of Presbyterian MU ' mjtersj whofe Cuftom inthat matter he told the VoSieras above, ' and the Dotlor asked him if he was willing to fwcar to it,which h« * complyed with. * I think, from this account there can be nothing infcr'd againft * that commendable pradice of Certificates^ as it is uTed at prtfeiit a- * mongftthe Presbyterian Minifters, and has been generally pra^ifed ^ in the ^Hrtfi and hej} Churches of the world. I am, SrV, Tours ^Q SAMUEL shannon: There is one Inftancemore with relation toCcrtific4tes,containcd In a Letter from a Clergy- man ir the Diocefs of Dovon^ viz.. the Reverend Mr 'John Unhifion^ publifhed p \ p8, wherein Mr F/«- nifion alledges, that the t^iesbyterians Iqo\ upon the want of thefe Cer" tfficates to be more ttinble^ than fermitting thetrChildren to die unbaprtzed'y 10 fupport 4vhii.(t ojjinion, he tells aftoiy of one James Moor ^ who had a new born lufaiit in th^ //^onits of Death, who feemed inclinable to fend for him to baptize the Child, as he pflerts, until he ' was ob(erved to be taken afide bv one of the Elders^ that was theiin the Houfe 5 after wiich, he wou'd not fuffer any one to call him j and when Mr. fiHnifton was cxpiftulating the Matter with him next day, and asking ! im the reason why he wou'd fuffer his Child to die un- bapnz'd, while he was lo near him, he fays, the faid Afoor anfwer'd in thetc words, ' why then fays he, I will confefs to you, I durft ' noi do it ; for if I did , 1 (hou'd neither be admitted to the ^ Ordi- * nances, nor have the benefit of a Certificate from thcEldflrs, in cafe * Ifhu'd have occafion to remove out of this Parifli into Ano- J ther. I have fecn a Certificate under James Mo»r\ own hand, whercla he give? fuch an Account of his own words, and of the meaning of 'em,' as clearly ftjws that there is no fuffi lent Foundation from this fad for the Oafervation that is made upon it : and tho' I am far from ac-. CufingMr F.««//if<;/ofany wiljiil perverting., or wrong Recital oi James M(>itr\ words.yei \ think every man is able to explain his own Mean- iajg Ijelt. The Certificate is as follows : ! 1 Their Cfrtificates mt Slavijh. Chap. 3. 561 I JamesMoor oiCa/tle reagh folpmaly declare that about June the \eih . 171 T. my. wife was delivered of a very weakCbild/zAr or eightWeeks P^^f- o before her time, and that I was urg'd by Mrs iVoods and Jatte Star?. ^ ^^ 0* hoitfe to have it baptized by Mrfinnyfion^then keeping Court in Mv UOTN^ Wood's Houfe^but 1 ever refufed to do it.- There was then ho Man ii myHoufefeutmy felf, and feeing >/;;/ Mo^.tgomery (Who is no Eldct ) pafs by the Road, 1 went out and ask'd his Opinion, and found it the fame wish my own Judgment, and fpoke to mo man elfe, and theCbild died within three hours after it was born, and 1 buried it at Knock thic Evening. * Next Morning Mr ^wnyftoij coming by my houfe challenged me very feverely for letting my Child die Unbaptized, and asked nie the Reafon, why 1 did notimploy him who was my Minifter to baptize it^ 1 anfwer'd I knew ia Jeed he was the Eftabiifh'd Miniiler of Knock ?ii''}f}'j but that J. was none of his ComiP.union^nor was he n-y Teacher, and unclear in my Confcicnce to h2ve my Cl^ild baptized by iiim, and that ! did not underfland how, if I had gone to hiai for Baptiim to my C-ild, I couM exped Ordiiianccs from thefeof my own PerfH.iJiot:., but mi^httake the red of the Ordinances froin him 3S well asthat to my Chiid, and lo leave my own People altogether, wnicfe I was not rcfolv'd to do, having found nofaulc v.'iih 'em ; Nox cou'd 1 expert a Certificate in that cafe from the Elders flnu'd I remove, feeing that liippofcs me to have left their Commuinon, or words to this purpofe ^ But I utterly den/, thjc I ufcdin this difcourfe thefc words, 1 Ccnfefs to yen I durst not da tt^ or any words^ that coiiM imply that I was o^rr^trp',;/ by the El- dcrsjor {or fe^zr ofbcirg denyed a Certificate^ an d what 1 fiid about a Certificate, W35 only to fliow that I wou'd not change my Per- luafioujand 1 declare it was nothing but tear of finning ?ig3infi: God that made me noE_ imploy Mr FinrSfion to baptize my child ; Given ander my hand this i^th of September 1713. Jarnes A4ocr Our y^uthor's U^ TrefHrnptiveFa^ is exprefs'd thus,(p. loojF^ct \V. ' UA not tleLegiflature timely I(.te:pos'd with the Tcll-Chufc^ ^ as.afenceagainft the Encroachments o{ ihQ D-.Jfcrners^ the Presbyl * tertans. wou'd in all likeliliood have loon wrought themfclves into ' mofrof the Corporations of thisKingdom,and infenfibly worm'd * out the Conforming Burgijfes^ Mdermen ar,d Freemen^ till the/ ' ha(? obtained a Majority of the Corporations of this Kingdom, and * chofenfuch Magiltrates, and fent up fuch Reprcfentatives to Par- C c c c liamene •yy^' wiap. 3; The Sacramental-Te^ con(id€r€d: Part 5. * l^^"^«"t as wouM lift in their Service. J* 'In what manner and by what D.-ere( ursrsi by what D.-grecs the Vijfcnters wrought themfckes into the Government of fo many ct the Northern Corporations in a few years, I (hewtd fuily in the firft pan of this Paper-^ and from what I have there prov'd I wou'd gladly be refolved by the LearnM in Politicjl Armmetick in this one Pro- blem. If in o Years the Dif enters of Ireland gain'd a Majo- rity oi AUermeft^Bur^fps^^nd freemen in o Corpoi aliens, how many years wou'd gain a Afajority of voices in the Majority of the Corporations of this Kingdom ? and it fuch a Computation can be reafonably made, die following Corollaries may as reafonably be , infer'd. This fhouM have been callM rather a remote rrefumptive Poffihilitv, than a PrefumptiveF^B. And all iht^c guejfts ofwhat might have been,are bulk upon the mifhaken Account our Author has given of the unfair Practices pretended by him to have been ufed by the Dijfemersfor getting thenifelves into Offices in Corporations. And therefore ihe Learn'd mPohtieal Anthrhetick may eafily anfwer his Problem from the Refutation I have given ofthofe Mi[iakesof his^ upon which it IS built. Uhfour Corollaries have been all confidered already , For the/?i?- relates to the Principles of Presbyterians aboBf the ExtirpatU tn of EpifcepAcy • The fecond to their pretending to make Presbytery the Condition of their Allegiance to Princes.- Thcthird to their fet- tiag up for a Power to Abrogate fuch Larvs as are judged Noifom and Hn~ prcfitable &c. and the fourth to their claiming an iaherent^^^k t» intermeddle ir! all points ReUttng to War and ^e ace. All which have been vindicated alreadytrom our^^uthor'sj^ro/} A'iifreprefentatioftsoi the Principles ar.dPra^ices of Presbyterians,with Refpeftto thefeHeads. -^nd therefore when he pretends by the help of his problem and tbefe ^onr Corollaries^ to prove that many dreadful Evils and bad Confcqnences to Church and State have been prevented by tbeTrjf- Claufe^ his whole reafoning is grcundlefs, being founded upon pal- pable miftakes. ^I am not refolv'd in this Book to debate that Point concerning the Continuance or the Repeal of the Law that Enadted the Sagra" mental'TeB in heUnd : But thus farl mult affirm, that the Diflenters in Irelandy tho' they have always iook'd upon it as not only aGric- vance to themfelvcs in particular, but a fenfible weakening ot iHe Pro- teftantand BritijhAmtxti^ in that Kingdom, have behav'd modeflly and peaceably under that Preflure. Jho*i won't meddle with what parti; The SacramentaUTeB conjidered. Chapi 3. 563 Particular Authors have pyblifh'd upon that Subjcft, yet I fhall here Pa* f r*. inferi a true Copy of two puHic Pafers^ which cxprefs the fenfe of the "* j' Diffentcrs in htUna as a Body ^ the firft of 'em was offer 'd lo the V^N^^ late Houfe ot Commons 1704, and is as follows .♦ ' To the Honourable, the Km^hts Citizens and Burgtfts of ' IreUnd in Parliament aflemblcd. * The Humble Petition of jivtlouf Vfton^ William Hamilten^ * j4rchihald JEdjnorfion^WilliamCHnningkntmWtlliam Cairnes^DavidBut* * f/(r,and Wrlliam Mackte Efquires, in behalf of ihemfelves and the ' reft of the DifTenting Proceftant Subje(f^s of helaftd. SHEWETH, ' That your Petitioners Unfhaken Fidclityto the Crown of £;;^- ' land under all RevolutionSjtheir Pe^tceacleShl^miJfioft to the Laws, ' and their Readinels to expofe ihemfelves and employ their all in ' the Defenceof the Piotefl-ant Inteieft, their Lawfnl Sovereign and ' the Liberty of their Country, have been Evidenc'dby many phin ' and undenyable Inftances, not only in their Sufferings for the Roy- ' al'Famdy^ but alfo in tkeir Signal Services anciSuffeiings in the Ci- * ty of Lovdon-de^ry^ InnishlUrg^ and other places, upon the late *- HaffyRevchttion, The Truth whereof hath the vote of the Honor- ' able Houfe of Commons ii this Kingdom, Anno 1695. for it's ' public and Authentic Voucher ^ v^nd was farther corifirm'd by the *■ Vote of the Houfe of Commons ot £^^^/^«r?, Anno 1698, wherein ' it's Refolv^d that the Services aft dSujftri^gs at Lcndon-Derry xvere ve- ' ry Fmmiticfit Affd of great Co^ifeque^ice to his Adaje[iy''s Servicc^affd the ' PRESERVATION OF THE THREE KI.\GDOMS. which is ' alfo further Evident fiom the marks of Royal favor,which theirlate * Majcflifs King William and Qiieen Mary of Glorious AI(t?iory^d>c cur * prefent Gracious Sovereign Queen ANNE, were plegs'd in their ' Great Goodneis and Wildom to confer upon your Petitioners, by * allowing divers of 'em to partake in Common with their fellow- * Proteftants in places of PuhlicTrufi^boih Civil and Military -^ to the ' Vnitivg of the Hearts sL\]d cherifhing the Mutm\ Affection of all her ^ Majcfty's Peaceable andLoyal Subjtdh of this Kingdom^jnoneofycur ' Petitioners having been declar'd Incapable ofpromotingfnci Blefs'd "' & Glorious Ends & which their Principles naturally inclined 'em to. ' And your Petitioners further Craveleave to rcptcfent to yourHo- *, norSjthal when the Bill Entitled, ^m Jtl to pretext tne farther Grcmh * of Popery was return'd from LrgUnd^ yoir Petitionersf to theirGreae ' Surprize and DifcouragemenOrouad aClaule infer ted therein,which 1 L^j »^* :.v^ n :r:. :^ kU:. rj- t.i. ti. ^6^ Chap. 5' The SacramentctUTeft confidend^ r '^ ' ' abled from Executing any Public Tin ft for the Service cf Her Ma- Part ^ ' f^^^' ^^^ Proteftant Religion and thcii Country -tho' as Willing& L All. ^. £ j^gacly to do the fame as ever) unlefs contrary to their Confcicnces ^^^^ ' they fho»'d receive the Sacrament of the Z.or^'j5*<;>/?fr, according to ' the Ps.ites aad Vfagrs of the Eftablifh'd Church. ' Thai Voar Petitioners Cafe, as they humbly conceive, is Difftr-- * ens from thaE of the Proteflant Diflenters in Etglan^^ who have noi ' fo iVumerous and inveterate an Enemy in the Bowels of the r Coun* ' try as the /r?y?j /'^/'//^j are^ who by the moft modcft Computation ' ar'efuppo'd to hz fix to one to the vi'hcle Proteftants of this ' Kingdom^whofe Common Safety and not the intereft. Gain or IVkr- ' cenary Ends of a Party^can only weigh viMth Your petitioners. ' May it therefore pieafe this Hoaorable Houfe to Order a Bill for '■ Reiloiingfuch a CONSIDERABLE k^art of tf e PROTESTANTS ' of this Kingdom to a Cipacity of defending Her Majcfty's Sacred ' Pcrronaiid Government, and the PrOfeflant-Ssiccefllon as by Liw ' EflablifhM ', and your Petitioners (hall ever p;a> &c. ThQjecond FiihliC Paper I (hall infert is, The J?//? Jfclcgy of the. Presbjiterians in che North of heUr.dio Her LVIajefny : That part of il. which I dates to the Sacramental-Tffi is in thelc Words, p. 25, ' * vVc mud acknowledge to your Maj fty that ih^bacrArnentdl-Tefi *■ (of v;liich their Lordfhips are pleal'd to t^^ke notice jis llich a grive- ^ anee, as doth in i\\tmvs} ferjible manner touch us and all others of ^ cur Perluafion .• The Ciaureirapofiag ic hath placed :i'a odious Mark * of infamy upon at leafl the one half ot the ^roteflanrs of this King- dom,whoic early ^aEiive and / mc c effn I Z^'al t be charged with thisjn allerting what we *' believe is not peculiar to ^U»j(/f«r(^?',wehumblyli]bmit it toyourMajefty» * And we b^g leave with all Humility coacqaaint your Majefty, that cur Non- * Cow/orm/ty in this particular, among other reyfons is founded I'pon this, that, we * beheve that holy Ordinance by the Inftitutionoi J-^fusChrift, was never^df fign'd. * for aCiz;/7-/e(?,andth^t none ought to b-^ excluded from a Capacity of ferviBg • * the St^te for thiir Icrupling Forms wet commanisi-in the Gofpeh 31: o^'' ' rnon A i'h &c. from p. 59. ,^ V-^i- ABBOT ^ichbp. ftqueflred >4RMlNlyi?NblVlPTh< ^Jommons becaufe he wou'd not ferve the Petiiion againfl it, and the WXfbcu- Dcligns of the Court p. 192, 193. tion ©fOrihodox Minifters bcthCoft- v^BjURv^nON-Oath.The Pre?- formift and Non-Conformift.p. 189* byterian Miniflers who fcrupkd it >^RT1CLES of Peace made by the ciear'd fi cm the Charge of 7^cc^/- Marquifs of Orwo»^ wi:h the JnJJ}. rzy'w.Many f.lfe Stories of 'em, and from p. 259, to p, 267. Remarks Mifrcprefentationsof ilveirBrethreri upon ibefaid y^rtides, proving Vm oil tbcir account detecled,from p. 10 be illeg:l^and dc[hi;divc of Rcli- 527, top. 540. gion, the Frerogaiive of the Cr^wa M.j^SLO John. King Edward (S's and the Liberty of theSubjcdirom Patent to him, and the G^w^^Con- p.* 257, to p.- 28^ grcgation.l he dcfign of theLidPa- >^5SOCIATlONSfif n'd ?L^Exeterk\n. tent, to perfcd the Reformation of ibtNortk upon the Prince ofOratfge's the Church oi Ev gland. Mafco's own Arrival afTert it's noRebellion to re- Narrative of the matter ^theCredit fill Tyrants, p. 17, i 8. of it. Remarks upon the whole.frcm . B p 86, to p. 9+, BANCROFT his Charaaer. ^j ^NNE Queen. Her Government 154- his Sermon anfwer'd by Mr one of the BleHings of the RevoKu D^W4^6>/-,the QiiotatioBs out of is tion.TheLoyalty of allH:r Presbyte- againft Piesbyerians confider'afronii lian Subj.dstoHcr. p,453, 454Pir- p. 155*, top t%Z, ticnlar Proofs of the Loyalty oi the B AS (LI CON Dcron 3 Quotation- ^''^A^'/jDifTenters^ .ind oftheChurch our of it aTvvcr'dp. 148. ^i^coiiuiid:^ thebtter prov'd from BELFy45T; ibc \ awfuic betAreen* her lV1:^jeRy's Letter to their lafl y^f- the Town and the Fxar about houfc- fcmbly ^ acd from tx^o ExcelU^t Pa- moMy not made a PariyCaufe by the persofrhe Commiflion againft the D/jfe;/rfri, hut made a Party Gaufe- P?'fr,ov£/fr,and for t!ee Houfe of Ha- by theCwy^c^now. a brief (late of wo-vifr, from p,4 .523. 10 f. 517. BOrHWEL-BRIDGE. The in- furre(^ion There and at FcntUftd vindicated by cheParliament of Scot- land iince the Revolution from the Charge of RebcUioa from p. 3^^, to BUCKINGHAM the Duke of, impeach'd! by ihc Ccn^i^cns p. 197" fupported by the King who diflblves the Parliament •, the Commons in- tended Remonftrance againft him p. ip8» T99. kiirdp. 207. BUB.ML. The Presbyterians not Chargeable With 7)ifturbing the Clergy at the burial of the Dead. p. 512. BURLEIGH the Lord Trcaforer, his Teftiraonyof the Non-Confor- tnift's Loyalty,and oiWkiigijVsScyz- rity. p. 103, &c. c Cv^MBDEN's Hcflcaionson the ?«m/««'jgroundIefs p. 118. CARTWRIGH r'sBook againft the Rhfmifi trartflation of the New left- ament^ Encouraged By Sr ^raficts Walfiffgham, difcouraged by iVhit- ^i/i.'rw/^f^-'j great Character of it p. ltd, 117. CER riFIC^TES, the Original and anriquity of 'em agreeable to the Kcks of the Gofpel: not perver- ttu Ly Presbyterians, for iiifluving the People or injuring their Epif- copal Brethren. fr.mp. 554, to p. CHy^RlTY. and alms deeds not Gonfin'd by Diflenters in Ireland to thefe of their o-vnPeriwafion; par- ticular iiwft<^ncesof thiJs in Bcli^fi & Lishurtt^ and in the Utter a memor- able FaiT^gt which proves it of all the Difleiiters both of EvgUnd and IreU^d.-d vindication of theDiflenters of Lisbitrvh^ theOaths of eight men, and the atteftation of the Biihop of DoH^ and G>««or,and otherClergy- men and Gentlemen, her Majefty's Truflees from p 440, to p 449. CH/^RLES I King. The Civil War between him and thelongPar- liameat,whethera Rebellion or nor, ftated from Biihop BiirMet on the one Hand, and the >^uthor of faults »n both %idcs^ on the other, from p, 169, to /?. 173. his Pirliamencs Petition againft Papifts, with his anfwcrp; 179, 180 .another to the fame purpofe anno 1616, and an- other to the fame pu/pofe again anna » 527. from p i2o xo pi 1 84, He fuff^ss no Parliament to meet from 162JB, to i^4o^during which period the danger of ?opery appears from public Records p. 184, 185. Parliament in 1640 refufes to give him any Subfidy againft the Sfots^ U'Stil fheir Grievances in Religion were confidered p. 185. Bh> Muriher not Chargeable on PresbyteriaBsfrom p. 239. to p.249.* CHARLES The INDEX. CH/^HLES 2. -K'iflg. WrDecla- and praftices proves the fame p. 25. ration and R«fl:oration CHURCH, her Power of Abro- gating of Civil Laws not claim'd 6y Prcsby-erians, asapnears by the an- fwer loLyfimachHs Nic^ngr^iYie Ads of the Scots Aflcmbly. tf om p. 55, 10 p 59 A Letter of the Presbyterian Miniftcrs of the North of Ireland anrro 1 690 aoalnft their Brethren's C0NG^£GAriONS, The rea- fons for ere<^t»ng NewCongregations among the Presbyterians^ a plea for 'emi the Hiftory at one in Droiheda^ with fevcral remarkable Ci/cum- ftances. fromp» 510, to p. 522* farther Rcalois tot i^iefe New Ere- d'cns p. SS3 COO r Sir CharUt^ his Dcclarati- invading of Churches, and a vindi- on ag lift the Pesbj terians for their cation of *em from that i^nputation Stcadinefs to King CtjurLs 2. a proof from p, 412 to p. 414. of their Loyalty p 297, 2^8. CLAR£NDON's the Earl of, ac- CORPOR^IlONbi the Diflent- countof theinfolenceof Papifti in ers in Irr/^«<« came fairly and noacft- E^^lartd anderK Charles t^ p. i85, ly into Offices in 'em, a.id maaagM 1 Sy.and of the Oppredive Arbitrary juftly and peaceably; wneieof a par- proceedings of rhe5cofjBiIhops.from ticular account is given mBelfafi and p. 31? fop, 320, London- Dtrry^ with (omc Remarks COMMONWEALTH fet up by on their proctedings in Colrani t\d the ^«wp inOppofition toAf(7« EX, Sp:cch in the r4me Piiliinaent and imprifoa'd for afl'^rting the Liber- to the frnie Purpofe. p 2 i i* tie^ of their Courier y. p. 2c8. GRIND/^L //rchbifh -p, under HUNTER. Mr, Depos'd from Dilgrace with Queen ELz,abeth^ ihe the Miniftry by ihc Scotch Aflesnbly Ov:ca(ion ot ic, his Lecter to her Ma- anno 1594.- for Rebellio 1. Bothrttl^ jeftyiUpon ?.hat Occafioii, afTerting others wtio jjin'd m it excommuai* the Churches Inherent Power.p. 35, cated.A Rematk upon it fhewing the 35. Loyalty of that Church p. 149: H I HAMILTON the Duke of, his JAMES 1, King-, many In- undertaking in £;v;^/.zW anno \6i\.^- ft-inces of the Z-oyaky of theChurch for the King ^ oppos'd by t\\t Scotch o^Scotlandio him. p. 146. his Am- Ailerably and fheir CommifTDn^not pie Teltimony of that Charch, pre- from my Difrefpedt or Di (loyalty to ferring it to all others, p. 146, 147. the ^ing Cas appears by thdvFapers his Letter to Qiieen Eliz^abcth in and acivas) but for three Reafons, favor of the perfecuted Puritan Mi- which are dJfcufs'd in the Papers of nifters o'^Evgland^ with Remarks the Committee of Eftates and the Af- upon it p. 147, 148. The Loyalty f;^mbly's Commijf.on, from p. 227, top. 238 They did not txcom- municate the Duke. An Account of what Ceiifures they appointtd on that Occfion and wny.p. 238,239. ofthofe who (ign'd the MiHenary Petition p. 149, i5«. ^^Rematkable Vindication of the Loyalty of Dif- fentcrs in a Book EntituPd a Re- mi.val of certain Imputations laid upon HAP.COURT Sir Simor.^ a'tiows the Mniflcrs &c. Never yet An- of the Doctrine ot refiflan.ce to the fwei'd^p. 150. The reafons of his Supreme Magiftrace in cales of ex- Spleen againft the P«m.2«/ after his treme nfc^fiitv p. 16, Accrflion to the Crown o^EngUnd-^ HEiVRY r'ritice.fonto Kingjames colkdkd from Coke^Iiurret ^c. And 1. Ms Chargfter ^ and favor to the improved to their. y^dvantage.fiom pHritansp. ji^^. '54. P> » 5 ' to p, i 54. The Loy^ilty of HOADI.Y /I/r, proves the Djft- the PresbyterinjS in Inland during rlne of Pafli-e Obedience 'o be con- his Reign. A fhort Hiflory of their irarv to the Law of Nature, theRe- firft Sectlemenc in that Kingdom, & veaPdWill of God, and the Princi- ot their (Irengtheningt'ie/'roteiitanE pies of the late Uappy devolution p.' 4 S- fciOLLlS Denztl^^nd other mem- bers of Par liument profecuttd and D d d d dniBntiJ}} 'ntereIlthere,fome memo- rable inftances of it collected from Mr Adair\ Manufcript Hiflory a .d from Mr Livivgflon^ and M'' Watrs Lives. The INDEX. Lives In Manufcrips. from p. 159, top, 168 J/^MES II. King, his proracting of Popery and Qavery and Barbarous Sanguinary Laws againftPresliyf eri- ans. Their Embracing of hislndul- gence j iflify'd. Their AddnfTes to him compared with thofe of the High-Church, and vindicated from Flittery. From p. 385 to p. i9y iNHERENiT Powerof theChmch, claim'd by Presbyceiiins. exnlain'd, and limitc d ^ vindicated from the imputation of Difliyaltf •, affcrted bv the Chrifti'.nrin the three firft Centuries, by the Counal oiAmioch^ by the General Ceitncd of Confianttn- e/?/f,and by Hofiits and by Chryfofiom^ by the Convocation of Ireland^ by ^rchBifhop Grindal^ and by Arch- bifliop Vjher^ and by fome of the fnoft Eminent £«^/.7^Reformers and Martys ; by B'fhop Burnet^ Do(^or lotter &c. With Remarks apon the whole from p« 27, to p. 50. The danger V Inherent Church- Power to the State iufficiently guarded a- gainfl: by the Concefllons of Presby- terians to ehe Civil Magiftratc, and ky this Pi inciplc of theirs viz.. Thai fiheir Clergy ought not to have any &ire of the Lrgiflature, nor oiSce in the CivilMagiftracy, p. 50 which Is j'lftified from Bifhop Dnrnet p.^i . ^2. The Inherent Power has no Pretenfion to the Civil J urifdidioii of iheMagiftrate anr to deprive him ofii. p. 5J 54. Nor to the Power of making v'eacc aaal War, from p. IF 5, to p 68. laHiHSGN Mr,argucs ag^ainftPa ^ five-O^edience p. t «;. KING Sr Pettr^ liis Speech con* ccrr.ing the wholfomSevcritiesofQj Eliz.abeth\ ^eign from p. 141, to p; 144. L LAWS made a^ainfl Presbyte- rians in King C/j4?/ toP' .353- PETITION of Rjaht^ another Magia Charta of England infcrted at large. When framed j and upon wiiat Occafion. The Hilfory of the Management of it, and fome Remarks upon is, from p 2 o, to p. 205. Petinons of Presbyterians m she.NDrcn.of JrgUhdAo ihs C/eneral v^flemhly of Scotland in 1542,1^43,; and 1645. vindicated from the Charge or D fl yalry, and other re- fl.dioac^ffoni p. 225, top. 227. PHiP-> Sr Cor.J}af't nf, owiis the GeneralDodr ine of Non-Z'efifLance to admit of Exceptions, and thaE ' the devolution and all fucH Excraor- dir.ary cifes v^'ere always imply'd as Exceptions p. r5. 17- PRESBYTERIAN Governraena eonfiftcnt with g!i theRightsofPrin- ces^from p. 49, to p. 63. my Lord hchicjuin and my Zord o{ /^hds did both dcclire for having itEflabiifh- ed i:i the North oi Ireland in Jtily^ 1649. p. 4c^. a great advaxitageand a ftrong Birrier to Civil Liberty : this prov'd by the Author of the ac-count of the Prccetdirgs of the Par- "• liament o/Scocland May 6, 17G3. p# PRESBYfERiES, the Manage- mrntand Gondudt of Presbyctnes and Synods, Loyal and peaceable. Pleas fcr a Connivance and To- Jeiationof 'em, fiom p. 485;'^, to p. 5 00. Presbytery at Ba>gar videDe- daration. Ergh'Jh Presbytery (a Book fo Entitul'd; giving the main O- pinions of Presbyterians in Ef gland proves the Loyalty of their Fiinci- pies. p 255 a Presbytery at Wandf-;' vporth\i\ SHirey.^ anio '572. Seme account of thur Proceedings p. ii6y h27- LRINCIPLES of Presbyter iins miivdy piodU^iVc of LoyTcy. Aa accoanfc; The I N D E X. Account of 'em from their Public-Confef- fionsuf Faith and their moft v^uthenirc Wriring":. Clear'H f'om many gpfs Mif- KpreleptJtions, fmrn p. t,to p. 69. I-RIVY-COUNCJL'3 Litter ro the from p, 415, to p. 419. REslDKNCE. thf Debates about tbeKefidvrncc and N'jn- Refidence of the Clergv, and about Flural^y (if Ben'^ftcrs in the Houfe ofLords Aynio 1 5^7^.. Whitgift and his Party peti.ii n the Q.'. 101, to/?, loS. PUCKLRlNGhis Speech aga^'nft the Furita-ns a breach rf the Privileges if Par- liament p. lOjt'isCalumniesagainft 'em re- futedf, 115 1 16, PU£<.irANS, ThePetition of the houfe of Commons to the houfe of Lords, in their favor -jwwo 15S7. The Artifices of {ri6/f^//> fes. All tticfc ccmpired witli W\\\\o^Biirnsfs jiHiciciUsCenfure cf Not! RcfuUncits an^ „ Pluralities as Scandalous, frum p- 1 1 1. toi, ^^ 1 I "j- RES/5 I hNCE to Mjiiftraces. f*4f;/ lawfulnefs rheitof in catcs of cxCieui'^, '^ NecefTity aff:rtcd by many Parlia.r.ents,.,|if ' EviUfid,^n(\ not only by the nioftCeUbrat^ * ed Divides but alfo by wl'ole £'on- 19 RESTOLl.4riON . 304 and ir£^^/t:«ifromp.305, Q. ir'/'- 3 lO. and in /f' fnnd ibid ard trom /?. QUESTIONS anfs'er'dupon oath byMr 224. to/>. 303. RLlDYARZ^Sr. Boi]mwj., Stone, avmi<,^\. to theExaminerfor tht^^r- his famous Speech in Patliar-ent anno 1640, Chamber concerning the Pre grefs of the dif- condemning theSereiities ufcd againft Non' ciplinarians in th'^ir Presljteriei and Spwdiy ^'onformifis as implous.and tt nding toPope- fromp. 132, to p. i3<;. <^ueftions propoRd ry* P- 190. 191. RYE-HQlbE-P/et falfe- by theMayor i>Wrogkedazvd Dear. i^oxM- 'y cha-gcd upon Presbyt rians . Contriv'd no i7o8toMrple»j/>;g,with his anfvverifrem '^y thep^pifty/ocvver their ownplot.Yheir p. 514. to ^, 518. Intrigues', and hr unjuft SufFrings of the R brave a ud Ncble Lord i^(/t/, and others REMONSTRANCE of the Houfe of from;. 3 s 5, to;. 366. Commons concerning theSfateot theKing- S dom,txpreffing the Miferiesofir.jtwvo 1627. SACHEV-REL />r, his Council gave p. 205, The Ring underftanding it fends up the D (trine (;f iv;>n-Refiftar;ce p, \<5, for 'em to the Houfe of Lords, ard ends -the i6> 1 he iffuc of I is tryal p- 19. SACRA- Seflionwith an angry Jpeecb, p, 706. Re- MENTAL- 1 Eif. The Behavior ©f (he monftrai.ces of the prt-sbyteriansin ail the Moderate C>-urchmen to the Presbvterians Three K-ingdoms i^gainft the Murther tf in Corporati'. ns, if;er the Commencetrent; King C^;z>-/e5 i.frwmp 241, top.-2'47, of it in helxnd. from p. 463, to p. 4S5.. RENT, f her resbiteiiansir /?da?7dv;n- The Ad'.ird"-, of the Piesbxtreitnj' wirii dica ted from ^n Afpetlion caft i']».'n'en,as JttheyTefus'd.to pay the Landkrd's,fUnt, relation (©it anno 17L.3. and addttrfj of the Cicy of Dublin and of C7;m,«» /f'''pwj,ard the fair Mcin.ig(meniS( ff! fD;^ Itu.erswith rclpt^l to i;,c laijl The INDEX. m r ' "cIVo eTa?; fe!ffJ,'te^st?/;*»i to V.ut. make no Monopoly of „ade,but deal promifcuoHily with Ctiurehmen as acU ai the huufe of Commons, for repealing if p.56s>5^4.a grea- -par of the firft Apology of the Prcsbytfrid '^s 111 the North of/rdand relating to it p-564. St. ^>JDREWS arch- Blhop of,(fibiZ'-^)hisdc-ath not chargeable on th^Bo'iyot Presbyterians p. 366. isEMIN- ji^lES. a Defence of Seminaries of learn- ing amongft Presbvteriansfrora/. 504> to f 506. SERVICE BOOR, impofed ill- ega'Kupon Scotland by /-(fwi and his Party p, (94,:}i8,&c. SHIPMONY i.npoied by R- Cib*!>-/:?5 !• cou.rary to Migru Chann and petition ofRig,ht. p. 2)9. SPEARER of the /Toufc of Co nmons ia Ojedicncc to K. Ch. I's Commjnd, refufes to put the Queftion at the defire of the Houfe p. 2o8- SP0RT> the Book cf\ enj.iin'd i.o be read en the Lord's day. The jPefign and EC^ft ef that Order p. 193. SPR^T'i" Hiitory c{ tht Ffs- Houjc-?lot fubfervient to Popery and Slavery- His Manurcrioc alt^r'd and publiih'd by R. James's Order. Remarks up- on it-from p-3!S^top.966. STiH.Ai'PORD his arbitrary Government in EngUnd f 213^214. 2ndjrel(f*jdp.226. SYNOD of Presbyterians in Ctf»itr/% ^w«» J5S7, and another at Covcwtry anm 1588 foms Pro* ceedir.gs»f the lateer. p. 30 131. THOMPSON ^chard an infam.ous par- fon in Briftol rums the Popifh plot upon the Ptesby tcrians,is impeach'd by ihc Houfe of Commons as a fcandal to his Funftion p- 359. Sr ^oBert Cj^exp^Il'd the Houfe for the fame fault 7^/.^. TiTHES. The Dif- fenters i-^ Ireland vindicate d from an afper- fion.'ofcheir rcfjfi'ig CO pay Tithes. The Archbp. of Dulling Teflimony in their favor p. 414, 415. That matter farther coo- fider'd p. 485. TOLERATION. Aa ac- count o^'amocunmade in the houfe ofCom nonsof Ireland about it p. 4$i» 452- A.\ Objeclion agiinft granting it to Presbyter- ia-^s, bccaufe their Panciples lead to the Extiriat) ^T: of Epifcopic^', anfvver'd Th ir Princjp'es in chat point ricplain'd und prov'd culerable, fro:n p. 542, to with one another an Authenfic Certificate of this ffsm BeJfuji (the nroft trading pLcc of the Norfl))r!gn d by above eighty per fons all Churchmen. They are beneficial to the Kirgdom, bypromocing trade, from p. 433, to p, 440 . TQNKAGEand Poundage an illegal taximpot'd by R- Cb. i. p.207.2©8. VENABLES. his Conference with the Presb reriaa\liniftersi"7rf/jwi5^«w? 1650 their brave f^and .igsirift uimtor cne Ring and Royal Familv- from p. 238. to p. 297. ViND/CAT/.^N of the Preshjterian Governmcm&i. Mi/iijiryfA boekfo Entituled) by theMinif^eis andEldc^ s of thr Provincial affcmbiy of Z.wio», demc^-,ftrate«the Loyal- ty ©f Presbyrerian PrincipL-sp 25, 26- W W \ LSINGH AM Sr Fravcis^ his Letter to Mnnitur Critoji fpeaks thcQi-een'slenfe and r( t his own, examined aRdanfwer'd fromp. 120, top: 1^1, waiTG/r'T Archhifhop his Jfverifyagaiiiltth* Purhnns t^is divilive Articles p. I02&C. W/CRLiEt-Efloarifh- cd in the t4t.iCentury,aiiiort;Hift iiy ofnim; his Dectrine and Followers inEwg/it«i:f,theic Doftrlne trul', Presbyterians, perfccuted by >irtabi(hop Sudbury cuuntenanc'dbv'theduke of Lancafter Lord PJerejivA other greatmen, the prugitfs of his D)£triae to the i6ih Century jthefirft who attempted a R^.'for- mationin Evghnd' The U iverlUy of Ox /brcf certify in his favor ; countenanc'd by God, clear'dfrom the gro'undlers imputaci- o 1 of Difloya/ty. From Pox, Fuller &c.frotn P 7r>, '"O p, -5( 2. WlttrAM II r, Nins!, our Great Deliverer under God. J95. TheLjyiltfot" tnePresBy'erianii m thst^re-KinRd >m* 10 him ; -)r which they wrr-i E.utjlifhed in Stttl^n^. i;-lerat. ei in En^ix.id,tndvToif^i:d lit /reU;i« .• h» ?,"«•. I eir Mi- nifters in t .e iittet a Pcnlion of iiun H \ht ^nnum; vntes two GracK>ut ieit-rs m thfir fa/or one to D. Scmmhe.g a- nother lotir Ci.'!e:'tor tf Safari, from p. 59;, !•• p 198 T'letr Lo ;;i V conhrm'd by c >e vute of t.e Co^iLnoni trf li^ixnri-.m/K/ i6gi, »ndtT- Ad.reffes ol the C jrnmons ot /ff n«(< ««n» 17 9 Hid, * Petition to hiai for (li- Presb-ter- im- in v.e N > ..-, o»/rr/« nd much mifreprefented i>\ ■: Pre: late, vindicate > : a true Cij|j» of it, ani j ihort Hiftotv «t the Maiusemei'i of it in i»)irfo4 a/ik* lOOfrou 1^404: Re marlc*ble addreffisof tiie i>ifl,;iiMni; Mmi'lers of iunon dc3, to htin and Queen M«r/, wuh their MijeUies Aiifwcrs ttom p, 410- to p' 412, WiNO£BANK Secretary Oiet fron Mk? p/ 219: UTJtW «'»T ^nmr. S( w •> • ^