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A71139	Cargill, Donald, 1619?-1681.	A true and exact copy of a treasonable and bloody-paper called the Fanaticks new-covenant which was taken from Mr. Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry the third day of June, anno Dom. 1680 one of their field-preachers, a declared rebel and traitor ; together with their execrable declaration published at the Cross of Sanquhair upon the twenty two day of the said month of June after a solemn procession and singing of Psalms by Cameron the notorious ring-leader of and preacher at their field-conventicles, accompanied with twenty of that wretched crew.	1680		.xml	application/xml	5521	96	33	IV. Seriously considering , that the hand of our Kings has been against the Throne of the Lord , and that now for a long time , the succession of our Kings , and the most part of our Rulers with him , hath been against the purity and power of Religion and Godliness , and freedom of the Church of God , and hath degenerate from the vertue and good Government of their Predecessors into Tyranny , and hath of late so manifestly rejected God , His Service and Reformation , as a Slavery , as they themselves call it in their publick Papers , ( especially in these last Letters to the King , and Duke of Lauderdale ) disclaiming their Covenant with God , and blasphemously inacting it to be burnt by the hand of a Hang-man , governed contrary to all right Laws divine and humane , exercised such tyranny and arbitrary Government , opprest men in their Consciences and Civil Rights , used free Subjects ( christian and reasonable men ) with less discretion and justice then their beasts ; and so not only frustrate the great end of Government , ( which is , that men may live godly , holily and peaceably under them , and might be maintained in their Rights and Liberties from injury and wrong ) but hath also walked contrary to it , So that it can no more be called a Government , but a lustful Rage , exercised with as little right reason , and with more cruelty then in Beasts , and they themselves can be no more called Governours , but publick Grassators , and publick Judgments , which all Men ought as earnestly to labour to be free of , as of Sword , Famine , or Pestilence raging amongst us ; and besides , hath stopped ( instead of punishing ) the course of Law and Justice against Idolaters , Blasphemers , Atheists , Murderers , Incestuous and Adulterous , and other Malefactors ; and instead of rewarding the Good , hath made Butcheries and Murthers on the Lords People , sold them as Slaves , Imprisoned , Forfaulted , Banished and Fined them , upon no other account , but for maintaining the Lords Right to rule Consciences , against the usurpations of Men , for fulfilling their Vows , and repelling unjust Violence , which innocent Nature allows to all ; of all which , and moe particulars , we can give ( we speak as before God ) innumerable and sure Instances : Neither can it be thought that there is hope of their returning from these Courses , having so often shewed their Natures and Enmities against God and all Righteousness , and so often declared and renewed their Purposes and Promises of persevering in these Courses . And seing , that the Ministers of the Church of Scotland , ( at least the greatest part of them before ) not only were defective in preaching and testifying against the Acts of these Rulers , for overthrowing Religion and Reformation , abjuring our Covenant made with God , establishing a Government in the Church , which that King calls His own Government , ( and so not Gods , ) contrair to our Covenant ; Against inacting of that blaspemous ( so Calvin calls that Supremacy of Henry the Eight , upon which this Prerogative is founded , and from which it is derived , and is no less , if not more injurious to Christ , and inslaving to His Church , ) and sacrilegious Prerogative given to a King over the Church of God , and against the other Acts and Incroachments of His Church , and hindered others also who were willing , and would have testified against them , and censured some that did it , ( for which , together with the other Causes in their trust and administration , we may say , God hath left them to do worse things ; ) but also hath voted in	cache/A71139.xml	txt/A71139.txt
