The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.
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The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.
Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?
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The
SPIRIT
of
Calumny
and
Slander
,
Examin'd
,
Chastis'd
,
and
Expos'd
,
IN
A
LETTER
TO
A
MALICIOUS
LIBELLER
.
MORE
Particularly
Address'd
to
Mr.
GEORGE
RIDPATH
,
Newsmonger
,
near
St.
Martins
in
the
Fields
.
CONTAINING
Some
Animadversions
on
his
Scurrilous
Pamphlets
,
Published
by
him
against
the
Kings
,
Parliaments
,
Laws
,
Nobility
and
Clergy
of
Scotland
.
TOGETHER
With
a
short
account
of
Presbyterian
Principles
and
Consequential
Practices
.
Tenue
est
mendacium
,
perlucet
si
diligenter
inspexeris
.
Senec.
London
:
Printed
for
Joseph
Hindmarsh
,
at
the
Golden-Ball
over
against
the
Royal
Exchange
.
1693.
TO
THE
READER
.
IT
is
not
much
worth
the
while
to
inform
the
World
,
that
now
Mr.
George
Ridpath
is
at
the
Head
of
the
Presbyterian
Party
in
Scotland
.
His
Associates
there
,
and
here
,
have
such
an
Opinion
of
him
,
that
they
consider
him
as
the
Invincible
Champion
of
their
Cause
;
and
the
truth
is
,
if
any
Man
be
so
inconsiderable
,
and
so
much
a
Brute
,
as
to
fight
him
at
his
own
Weapons
,
Mr.
Ridpath
will
certainly
carry
the
Prize
.
He
's
the
Man
,
that
is
now
most
likely
to
pull
down
Antichrist
,
and
the
Whore
of
Babylon
.
And
as
for
the
Scotch
Episcopal
Clergy
who
yet
retain
any
kindness
for
the
Hierarchy
,
and
the
former
Government
,
if
he
lives
another
year
,
they
must
all
of
them
be
banish'd
the
Isle
of
Britain
.
It
is
enough
for
you
to
know
,
that
now
the
Presbyterians
,
as
is
probable
,
have
by
an
unanimous
Suffrage
chosen
him
to
manage
the
Libels
against
their
Opposites
.
He
now
appears
in
the
Field
of
Battel
,
with
all
the
Noise
,
Lies
,
and
Clamour
,
that
becomes
a
Zealous
Covenanter
.
He
began
this
last
years
Campagne
with
a
Libel
against
Dr.
M
—
o
,
which
valuable
Book
he
Dedicated
to
the
Parliament
of
Scotland
;
by
this
,
one
may
easily
infer
,
that
either
he
had
a
mean
Opinion
of
the
Parliament
,
or
extraordinary
thoughts
of
himself
.
If
the
following
Treatise
cannot
be
reduc'd
into
any
certain
Method
,
this
is
not
to
be
imputed
unto
me
;
for
I
must
confess
that
I
too
much
follow'd
the
Excursions
of
Mr.
Ridpath's
invention
.
I
was
willing
to
contract
the
Animadversions
that
I
made
upon
his
Book
into
as
little
room
as
was
possible
;
and
therefore
the
frequent
Transitions
from
one
thing
to
another
,
are
best
understood
,
by
such
as
have
Read
his
Continuation
,
&c.
I
hope
most
Men
are
better
employed
than
either
to
think
or
speak
of
the
Calumnies
and
Lies
,
that
he
industriously
heaps
together
against
the
Clergy
.
His
Party
is
resolv'd
to
make
use
of
such
Engines
against
the
Church
,
as
they
and
their
Fore-Fathers
found
most
successful
to
the
Extirpation
of
Root
and
Branch
:
and
they
that
are
unacquainted
with
their
Malicious
Methods
,
are
great
Strangers
to
our
Nation
,
and
History
.
If
the
Reader
meet
with
some
Paragraphs
that
are
more
particular
,
and
peculiar
to
Mr.
Ridpath
,
than
the
Publick
is
oblig'd
to
take
notice
of
,
I
must
be
excus'd
,
since
I
was
compell'd
;
for
I
assure
you
,
that
I
value
personal
altereations
no
otherwise
than
a
good
Christian
ought
to
do
:
Nor
did
I
ever
Write
to
satisfie
or
convince
Mr.
Ridpath
,
that
being
a
thing
in
it self
impossible
.
There
is
a
certain
Order
of
Mean
Spirited
Fellows
(
I
do
not
mean
by
their
External
Quality
)
who
think
that
there
is
nothing
written
by
their
Party
,
(
were
it
never
so
ignominiously
fulsome
and
scandalous
)
but
what
is
invincible
and
unanswerable
.
Their
Pride
,
and
Vanity
are
Incurable
.
It
is
not
my
meaning
that
we
ought
to
put
our selves
to
the
Drudgery
of
answering
all
the
Scurrilous
and
Obscene
Libels
that
are
propagated
by
our
Enemies
,
but
't
is
reasonable
to
let
our
Friends
see
,
that
at
some
times
we
can
Confute
them
if
that
be
thought
convenient
.
I
am
so
far
convinc'd
of
the
weakness
of
their
Reasonings
,
that
I
know
no
Sect
,
Antient
,
or
Modern
,
that
ever
broke
the
Peace
of
the
Christian
Church
,
but
may
be
more
plausibly
defended
,
than
the
latest
Edition
of
Presbytery
in
Scotland
.
I
never
thought
that
the
Reputation
of
my
Friend
was
in
any
hazard
by
being
attack'd
by
Mr.
Ridpath
,
or
the
Little
Creatures
who
instigate
him
;
yet
by
the
following
Papers
,
I
make
it
plain
to
all
disinteressed
persons
,
that
Mr.
Ridpath
lies
Willfully
and
Deliberately
in
several
Instances
;
and
therefore
I
may
be
allow'd
to
take
leave
of
him
for
the
future
,
if
he
does
not
manage
his
accusations
,
as
becomes
the
Spirit
of
Truth
,
Innocence
,
and
Ingenuity
.
If
you
think
that
the
Style
is
more
sharp
than
is
Decent
or
Just
,
then
I
intreat
you
may
Read
his
Books
which
occasion'd
these
Papers
,
and
then
I
am
confident
that
you
will
retract
your
Censure
,
and
find
that
I
have
meddled
with
his
Person
as
little
as
was
possible
.
He
is
in
some
places
so
Obscene
that
there
is
no
coming
near
him
,
and
therefore
I
made
all
possible
hast
to
rid
my
imagination
of
him
,
and
the
paultry
Trash
that
he
gathers
together
.
The
Bookseller
was
willing
to
Print
a
Sheet
or
two
more
than
the
Letter
that
I
address'd
to
Mr.
Ridpath
,
and
therefore
I
gave
him
some
Propositions
that
are
extracted
out
of
such
Books
as
are
most
in
Vogue
amongst
the
Scotch
Presbyterians
,
that
the
Reader
might
have
a
sample
of
their
Moral
Theology
with
regard
to
Obedience
,
Government
,
and
Subjection
.
To
which
I
have
added
a
Letter
,
written
from
the
Tolbooth
of
Edinburgh
by
the
Famous
Assassin
Mr.
James
Mitchel
,
who
endeavours
to
prove
from
several
Texts
of
Scripture
,
that
he
ought
to
kill
Dr.
Sharp
,
Lord
Archbishop
of
St.
Andrews
.
In
short
,
to
use
the
words
of
a
Great
Man
,
Rebellion
is
the
Soul
of
the
Kirk
.
And
though
we
had
not
known
the
History
of
that
Parliament
Anno
1645.
(
So
they
call'd
the
bloody
Meeting
at
St.
Andrews
)
we
have
later
Instances
of
their
Arbitrary
and
Tyrannical
Malice
against
the
better
half
of
the
Nation
.
Their
very
Patrons
are
asham'd
of
them
(
not
through
any
ingenuous
remorse
)
but
because
their
bare
fac'd
Villanies
are
frequently
expos'd
.
I
think
the
following
Letter
needs
no
other
Preface
than
what
is
already
hinted
by
Sir
,
Your
humble
Servant
,
S.
W.
The
CONTENTS
.
THE
Occasion
of
this
Letter
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
the
Author
of
two
or
three
Scurrilous
and
abusive
Pamphlets
against
the
Kings
,
Parliaments
,
Laws
,
Nobility
,
and
Clergy
of
Scotland
Page
1
His
Rage
and
Passion
against
the
Author
of
the
Apology
for
the
Clergy
of
Scotland
Ibid.
His
Challenge
fairly
embrac'd
.
The
Author
of
this
Defence
undertakes
to
prove
that
there
is
not
a
good
Consequence
in
Mr.
Ridpath
's
Books
from
the
beginning
to
the
end
p.
2
The
Character
bestowed
upon
Mr.
Rutherford
by
the
Author
of
the
Apology
,
no
justifiable
ground
of
Mr.
Ridpath
's
clamourous
bawling
against
the
Learn'd
Advocate
Ibid.
●●●path
's
accusation
against
Sir
George
Mackenzie
in
the
case
of
C.
of
C.
founded
only
on
his
own
Petulance
and
Malice
p.
3
Ridiculous
advices
to
the
Ministers
of
State
in
England
,
and
his
Civilities
to
K.
W.
and
Q.
M.
Ibid.
His
imitation
of
the
famous
Presbyterian
Buffoon
Dr.
Bastwick
,
when
he
reviles
the
present
Clergy
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
p.
4
His
impudence
in
charging
the
Archbishop
of
Glasgow
with
so
many
unheard
of
Crimes
p.
5
His
Vanity
in
thinking
that
his
Books
do
greater
Feats
than
the
other
Scriblings
of
his
Party
p.
6
His
Civilities
to
the
Clergy
of
the
Church
of
England
;
and
his
particular
Forgeries
against
the
Author
of
the
Apology
Ibid.
His
Critical
Skill
examin'd
.
And
his
officious
interposal
in
the
Defence
of
Mr.
Rule
further
Chastis'd
Ibid.
Train
of
many
impertinent
Lies
together
against
Dr.
Monro
expos'd
p.
7
His
stupid
ignorance
in
the
History
of
the
first
Reformation
of
Scotland
;
and
in
the
Doctrine
of
the
first
Reformers
p.
8
His
Feeble
attempts
to
prove
the
Divine
Right
of
Presbytery
Ibid.
His
abominable
Lies
in
charging
the
Government
with
unheard
of
Cruelties
p.
9
The
Cameronians
prov'd
to
be
the
most
zealous
Presbyterians
.
And
Mr.
Radpath
's
Argument
against
their
Authority
,
prov'd
from
Presbyterian
Principles
to
be
no
Argument
at
all
Ibid.
His
Argumentum
ad
hominem
from
the
Viscount
of
Dundee
's
Practices
proves
no
more
than
that
he
is
ignorant
in
the
first
Elements
of
Logick
p.
10
His
comparison
between
the
Practices
of
the
Church
of
England
,
and
those
of
the
Scotch
Presbyterians
,
scandalous
and
impertinent
Ibid.
Presbyterians
more
cruel
and
barbarous
than
any
other
People
.
This
prov'd
by
a
memorable
instance
in
the
year
1645.
p.
11
The
Covenanters
less
skilful
than
the
Inquisitors
,
but
equally
Cruel
p.
11
His
ignorance
further
expos'd
p.
12
The
Dr.
us'd
no
Equivocation
when
he
said
,
that
the
Covenant
was
rigorously
impos'd
upon
Children
Ibid.
This
prov'd
by
an
Act
of
the
Gen.
Ass
.
1648.
p.
13
The
Charge
of
Equivocation
disprov'd
and
retorted
p.
14
,
15
The
Practice
of
the
Episcopal
Clergy
in
exposing
the
Presbyterians
,
vindicated
from
Levity
and
Profanity
Ibid.
The
Cameronians
the
most
active
,
and
the
most
consequential
Presbyterians
p.
16
His
derivation
of
the
Word
Enthusiasm
,
compar'd
with
such
another
Critical
Essay
of
a
Bedlamite
Ibid.
The
Acts
of
the
General
Assembly
,
especially
those
of
48
,
and
49
,
do
sufficiently
Vindicate
K.
Ch.
2.
from
all
imputations
of
rigor
and
cruelty
p.
17
Sir
George
Mackenzie
gave
a
true
Narrative
of
the
first
Rise
and
Occasion
of
those
Laws
that
the
Presbyterians
complain
of
p.
18
One
of
the
Pedling
Scribles
in
favours
of
Presbytery
,
his
weakness
,
silliness
and
ignorance
,
fairly
expos'd
in
some
Particulars
p.
18
,
19
Mr.
Ridpath
's
Lies
,
viz.
that
Sir
Geo.
Mackenzie
persecuted
Hamilton
of
Hallside
,
refuted
by
Hallside
himself
Ibid.
No
Laws
made
against
Presbyterians
as
such
,
but
against
Seditions
,
Tumults
,
and
Insurrections
Ibid.
His
method
of
answering
Arguments
by
suppressing
such
Words
,
upon
which
their
strength
depends
p.
19
,
20
The
Presbyterians
in
general
charg'd
with
Rebellious
Principles
and
Practices
.
This
made
good
against
the
whiffling
exceptions
and
evasions
of
Mr.
Ridpath
p.
21
The
King
and
Parliament
did
not
consider
them
as
Presbyterians
,
but
as
stubborn
and
incorrigible
Rebels
Ibid.
The
Majority
of
the
People
for
the
Episcopal
Clergy
Ibid.
His
rude
and
inconsiderable
Lies
against
the
Earl
of
Airly
,
and
the
Laird
of
Meldrum
p.
22
The
Doctrine
of
Passive
Obedience
fairly
stated
and
defended
p.
23
,
24
The
Presbyterian
Exceptions
disprov'd
and
retorted
Ibid.
Mr.
Ridpath
's
incurable
infelicity
in
mistaking
true
Sense
for
Contradictions
Ibid.
The
Writings
of
Mr.
Rutherford
prov'd
obscure
,
and
Mr.
Ridpath
invited
to
defend
them
p.
25
,
26
Mr.
Ridpath
's
impudence
in
denying
the
Blasphemies
that
are
to
be
seen
in
Mr.
Rule
's
Books
p.
26
,
27
His
blustering
ignorance
further
expos'd
p.
28
The
Presbyterians
prov'd
to
be
the
first
aggressors
in
the
Trade
of
Libelling
,
and
the
only
experienc'd
Practitioners
p.
28
,
29
,
30
The
additional
accusations
against
Dr.
Monro
proves
no
more
than
Mr.
Ridpath
's
wickedness
and
malice
p.
30
,
31
The
Murder
of
Archbishop
Sharp
prov'd
to
be
the
result
of
Presbyterian
Principles
p.
32
The
Presbyterians
by
their
Principles
not
oblig'd
to
Forms
p.
33
The
Charge
of
Pedantry
brought
against
the
Doctor
disprov'd
and
retorted
p.
33
,
34
,
35
Our
Ecclesiastical
Superiors
did
not
connive
at
the
Faults
of
the
Subordinate
Clergy
,
tho
they
proceeded
against
such
as
were
complain'd
of
by
the
Orderly
and
tedious
Methods
of
the
Law
p.
35
Mr.
Ridpath
further
chastis'd
for
his
ignorance
in
the
History
and
Principles
of
the
Presbyterians
p.
35
,
36
His
ungovernable
Malice
against
Dr.
Canaties
in
many
rude
and
impertinent
efforts
canvass'd
aad
examin'd
p.
37
His
willful
and
affected
mistake
of
the
Author
of
the
Postscripts
meaning
p.
38
His
ignorance
of
a
formal
Contradiction
p.
39
The
Presbyterians
accuse
all
Men
of
plotting
against
the
Government
,
because
plotting
is
their
only
Element
p.
40
Mr.
Ridpath
's
Hypocrisie
,
wishing
,
that
both
Parties
may
be
tender
of
one
another
,
when
his
Practice
in
the
next
Line
confutes
all
his
pretences
of
Piety
Ibid.
His
common
Topick
to
justifie
his
Calumnies
,
viz.
That
he
does
not
know
what
he
writes
to
be
false
,
further
expos'd
and
ridicul'd
Ibid.
His
Ignorance
in
opposing
the
knowledge
of
Arms
to
the
Liberal
Arts
and
Sciences
p.
41
,
42
The
charge
against
the
Clergy
of
Stealing
their
Sermons
retorted
upon
an
Impudent
Presbyterian
Plagiary
p.
42
,
43
His
Vanity
and
Ignorance
further
Chastis'd
p.
43
,
44
His
affectation
of
Theology
,
Logick
and
Wit
,
expos'd
by
plain
and
palpable
instances
p.
45
,
46
His
Catalogue
of
Cruelties
and
Treacheries
paralell'd
p.
47
,
48
,
49.
Another
Objection
against
the
Bishops
of
Scotland
consider'd
p.
51
,
52
,
53
Several
Certificates
and
Letters
in
favours
of
the
Calumniated
Clergy
p.
55
,
56
,
57
,
58
,
59
,
60
,
61
,
62
,
63
,
64
,
65
,
66
Several
Propositions
extracted
out
of
the
Presbyterian
Books
p.
68
,
69
,
70
,
&c.
Mr.
James
Mitchel
the
famous
Assassin
his
Letter
.
Justifying
from
Scripture
his
Villanous
attempt
to
Murder
the
Archbishop
of
St.
Andrews
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
Have
good
information
from
several
Persons
of
known
integrity
here
at
London
,
that
you
are
the
Author
of
two
abusive
Pamphlets
by
which
you
endeavour
to
defame
our
Kings
,
Parliaments
,
and
Nobles
,
such
as
we
had
in
Scotland
before
the
Revolution
.
Our
Kings
were
perjured
Tyrants
,
and
K.
Charles
II.
knew
that
he
himself
had
forfeited
his
Title
to
the
Crown
*
.
Our
Parliaments
were
but
pack'd
Clubs
,
a
company
of
slavish
Parasites
,
that
contributed
all
they
could
to
the
ruin
of
our
Liberties
,
Civil
and
Religious
;
and
consequently
our
Nobility
can
deserve
no
better
Character
,
who
made
so
great
a
Figure
in
all
our
Parliaments
.
As
for
the
Episcopal
Clergy
whether
Bishops
or
Presbyters
,
you
give
them
so
many
names
,
that
it
is
a
wonder
you
did
not
think
such
a
despicable
company
of
men
below
your
Notice
.
The
Book
which
you
call
your
Continuation
,
most
of
it
is
levelled
against
one
particular
man
;
and
when
I
undertake
his
Defence
(
if
that
be
necessary
)
I
find
that
the
reading
over
your
book
,
and
transcribing
so
many
parts
of
it
was
all
the
toil
I
was
likely
to
undergo
,
and
tho
you
call
him
whom
you
fancy
to
be
your
Adversary
a
man
of
ungovernable
passion
;
yet
I
must
tell
you
that
he
could
not
but
be
mad
to
the
last
degree
,
if
he
were
angry
at
the
names
you
give
him
,
since
they
of
the
first
quality
in
Europe
,
have
no
fairer
quarter
at
your
hands
;
A
Scribler
.
a
Pedant
,
a
Hawker
,
a
Villain
,
an
Ass
,
an
Ignoramus
,
a
Blunderer
,
are
all
of
them
words
that
he
can
hear
with
patience
,
when
his
Superiours
are
not
better
treated
.
One
may
modestly
conclude
that
you
are
very
angry
,
and
that
's
a
greater
punishment
than
any
of
your
Adversaries
can
inflict
upon
you
.
The
Author
of
the
Postscript
to
the
Apology
for
the
Clergy
of
Scotland
,
told
you
already
,
that
he
was
not
at
all
concerned
in
that
Scuffle
between
you
and
your
Antagonist
,
nor
is
he
likely
to
offer
his
mediation
to
end
your
Debate
;
and
he
is
still
of
the
opinion
,
that
he
can
employ
his
time
better
than
to
read
again
your
Answer
,
or
the
Book
that
occasioned
it
.
His
Postscript
is
a
short
Epistolary
account
of
the
first
,
or
rather
a
Character
of
the
present
methods
of
Presbytery
,
in
imitation
of
their
Predecessors
,
than
any
particular
view
of
your
Book
,
and
I
am
content
that
you
impute
this
to
his
ignorance
or
weakness
or
what
else
you
please
to
call
it
.
It
is
very
odd
that
you
should
think
that
you
have
power
to
summon
any
body
to
the
Press
when
you
please
,
even
when
you
lurk
behind
the
Curtains
.
You
take
it
for
granted
that
Dr.
M.
—
was
the
Author
of
that
Postscript
,
and
it
may
be
you
hit
right
enough
;
yet
tho
your
Party
be
lashed
in
it
with
some
severity
,
he
takes
no
great
pleasure
in
medling
with
particular
men
further
than
necessity
constrains
.
He
said
,
that
there
was
not
a
good
consequence
in
your
Book
from
the
beginning
to
the
end
;
this
could
not
but
provoke
a
man
of
your
courage
and
mettle
.
By
a
Consequence
,
I
humbly
think
he
understood
a
truth
deduced
from
true
and
solid
Principles
that
overthrows
the
common
cause
of
Episcopacy
,
or
the
reputation
of
those
men
whom
you
asperse
,
I
mean
such
of
the
Clergy
who
were
never
under
any
publick
censure
of
the
Church
.
He
told
you
likewise
that
he
had
no
inclination
particularly
to
examine
the
imaginary
contradictions
that
you
charge
your
Enemy
with
,
and
now
I
give
you
the
reason
,
partly
because
the
Theme
,
as
you
manage
it
,
yields
no
edification
,
partly
because
the
publick
is
not
at
all
concerned
to
read
such
Libels
and
altercations
,
and
he
gives
you
liberty
to
triumph
as
much
as
you
please
upon
this
Head
:
but
if
your
honour
and
credit
is
at
stake
,
and
that
you
find
your self
concerned
more
particularly
to
run
him
down
than
any
other
,
he
is
content
to
meet
you
before
any
competent
number
of
grave
witnesses
,
who
by
their
authority
may
mitigate
such
excursions
of
rudeness
as
may
be
feared
,
if
your
blood
should
boil
to
its
usual
fervor
:
and
to
reason
the
matter
calmly
,
and
(
without
either
huffing
,
or
the
terrible
language
of
an
Almanzor
)
to
demonstrate
that
there
is
not
a
good
consequence
in
your
Book
from
the
beginning
to
the
end
.
And
indeed
you
may
excuse
me
to
tell
you
,
that
in
your
last
Pamphlet
you
seem
not
to
understand
the
very
first
Elements
of
Logick
.
Moreover
,
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
incurr'd
your
high
displeasure
,
by
saying
,
that
there
were
abusive
Metaphors
in
Mr.
Rutherford's
Letters
,
and
some
dark
and
unintelligible
passages
in
his
Scholastical
Essays
:
and
is
this
the
unpardonable
Crime
for
which
there
can
be
no
atonement
?
Mr.
Ridpath
,
this
was
no
reflection
upon
his
Morals
,
but
a
plain
matter
of
Fact
to
be
seen
by
every
body
that
peruseth
the
Books
that
are
cited
.
And
therefore
this
could
not
at
all
justifie
your
accusing
Sir
George
Mackenzie
to
have
suborned
Witnesses
;
a
practice
so
infamous
and
so
wicked
,
that
I
am
confident
no
man
of
honour
will
ever
say
any
such
thing
of
the
truly
Just
,
and
Learned
Advocate
.
A
previous
examination
of
Witnesses
in
criminal
Cases
is
not
Subornation
,
but
precognition
,
practised
at
all
times
in
Scotland
before
they
deponed
judicially
;
and
Sir
George
Mackenzie
wanted
not
many
clear
evidences
to
prove
that
C.
of
C.
was
plotting
an
insurrection
against
the
King
and
Government
about
the
time
of
Argyle's
rebellion
.
You
may
read
the
elegant
History
of
that
insurrection
written
by
the
*
Bishop
of
Rochester
,
and
there
you
may
see
with
your
own
Eyes
several
authentick
Evidences
,
upon
record
,
against
C.
of
C.
and
I
must
tell
you
that
Sir
George
Mackenzie
needed
not
that
Gentleman's
Assistance
to
re
commend
him
to
the
present
Court
,
if
he
had
been
ambitious
to
have
been
a
Favorite
;
and
if
he
told
C.
of
C.
that
he
had
done
him
an
Injury
,
and
begg'd
him
pardon
,
how
came
this
Confession
to
be
made
publick
?
if
he
to
whom
it
was
first
revealed
,
under
trust
,
spread
it
abroad
,
he
is
guilty
of
something
that
no
Gentleman
will
readily
own
;
but
the
plain
truth
is
Sir
George
Mackenzie
never
told
him
any
such
thing
,
after
the
manner
you
represent
it
;
and
he
had
very
good
reason
to
expect
that
the
Witnesses
against
C.
of
C.
would
judicially
depone
in
publick
,
the
very
same
things
that
they
asserted
in
private
;
and
if
you
please
you
may
remember
that
there
is
a
greater
difference
between
Sir
George
Mackenzie
and
your self
,
than
between
Mr.
Rutherford
and
those
of
our
Clergy
you
trample
upon
.
Your
Advices
and
Threatnings
to
the
Ministers
of
State
in
England
are
idle
,
and
of
no
use
at
all
;
for
Ministers
of
State
will
advise
according
to
their
Light
and
Conviction
,
without
any
regard
to
the
short-liv'd
Pamphlets
that
fly
about
the
City
;
nor
are
they
likely
to
receive
their
Measures
either
from
you
,
or
any
of
us
who
see
so
little
in
their
Sphere
.
The
Presbyterians
in
England
are
not
yet
ripe
for
a
Rebellion
,
and
they
in
Scotland
can
do
little
to
disturb
England
,
without
their
Assistance
,
and
therefore
you
had
best
forbear
your
Threatnings
,
for
I
am
apt
to
think
that
your
Influence
in
either
Nation
goes
but
a
little
way
.
You
treat
King
William
no
better
than
other
Kings
,
since
,
you
say
,
he
is
prevailed
upon
to
write
Letters
to
the
General
Assembly
that
they
are
not
obliged
in
Law
to
comply
with
;
but
better
Lawyers
are
of
another
Opinion
,
and
if
King
William
venture
upon
such
Essays
of
Arbitrary
Power
,
in
a
little
time
(
according
to
your
Hypothesis
)
he
may
forfeit
his
Title
,
since
he
has
none
but
such
as
is
twisted
with
the
Divine
Right
of
Presbytery
.
But
indeed
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
think
we
had
Kings
in
Scotland
,
before
we
had
either
Covenants
,
or
Presbytery
,
or
the
Claim
of
Right
;
and
that
our
fundamental
Constitution
does
not
depend
upon
an
Act
of
the
General
Assembly
,
tho
the
General
Assembly
sometimes
venture
,
in
terminis
,
to
make
an
Act
against
an
Act
of
Parliament
.
It
is
a
gentile
Compliment
that
you
bestow
upon
Queen
Mary
,
when
you
allow
the
Jacobites
to
invite
her
Father
to
keep
the
Solon-Geese
in
the
Bass
;
and
I
think
none
is
permitted
to
speak
so
but
Mr.
Ridpath
.
It
is
not
safe
for
any
Government
to
suffer
Buffoons
to
treat
crowned
Heads
so
familiarly
;
whatever
be
the
Quarrel
between
Princes
,
this
Language
is
intolerable
;
yet
some
Animals
are
privileged
to
bark
at
this
rate
.
The
Clazomenians
,
coming
to
Sparta
,
fullied
the
Thrones
on
which
the
Ephori
sat
;
when
the
Ephori
came
to
know
this
Indignity
,
they
bore
it
patiently
,
and
called
for
a
publick
Herald
,
and
ordered
him
to
proclaim
through
the
City
,
that
it
was
lawful
for
the
Clazomenians
to
do
things
that
were
unbecoming
and
undecent
,
that
is
to
say
,
such
barbarous
Rascals
were
below
Reproof
and
Revenge
.
Two
of
our
Archbishops
you
treat
in
the
same
Language
that
Dr.
Bastwick
,
the
famous
Presbyterian
Buffoon
,
used
towards
the
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
and
his
Collegues
,
when
he
tells
them
that
the
Hierarchy
came
from
the
Pope
and
the
Devil
,
Diabolus
caccavit
illos
;
They
forsooth
must
be
called
Magnates
Ecclesiae
,
and
the
Verity
of
the
matter
is
,
They
are
Magnae
Nates
Ecclesiae
.
It
is
tedious
to
transcribe
his
Civilities
to
Archbishop
Laud
,
and
his
Venerable
Brethren
,
and
therefore
I
refer
you
to
the
Book
cited
in
the
Margin
:
only
there
is
one
of
his
Complements
which
I
set
down
,
because
it
hath
in
it
the
mean
and
scurrillous
Spirit
of
the
Party
;
which
you
copy
so
exactly
that
one
would
have
thought
Dr.
Bastwick
had
been
your
Father
;
thus
he
goes
on
(
speaking
of
the
Priests
of
the
Church
of
England
)
They
are
secundum
Ordinem
Diaboli
,
a
Generation
of
Vipers
,
proud
,
ungrateful
,
illiterate
Asses
:
the
Church
is
as
full
of
Ceremonies
as
a
Dog
is
full
of
Fleas
.
And
again
,
One
would
think
that
Hell
were
broke
loose
,
and
that
the
Devils
in
Surplices
,
in
Hoods
,
in
Capes
,
and
Rochets
,
and
in
four-squared
Cow-turds
upon
their
Heads
,
were
come
among
us
,
and
had
beshit
us
all
.
Pho
!
how
they
stink
!
This
is
the
Wit
and
Civility
of
an
enraged
Presbyterian
;
these
are
the
Flights
of
a
Zealot
,
when
inspired
to
the
heighth
.
You
treat
Archbishop
Sharp
and
the
Archbishop
of
Glasgow
,
in
the
same
Language
that
Archbishop
Laud
,
and
Archbishop
Spotswood
were
complemented
by
your
Predecessors
.
There
is
a
Letter
here
,
which
I
have
seen
,
from
the
Archbishop
of
Glasgow
to
one
of
his
Friends
;
which
,
some
time
or
other
may
see
the
light
in
a
larger
Treatise
.
It
was
occasioned
by
your
obscene
Libels
against
him
;
I
must
tell
you
one
thing
that
is
in
it
,
and
it
may
provoke
your
Curiosity
to
see
it
;
He
promises
two
hundred
pound
sterl
.
to
any
Man
that
will
prove
,
by
Witnesses
of
known
Probity
,
any
one
Particular
that
is
maliciously
vented
against
him
by
your self
or
any
of
your
Informers
.
Why
then
do
not
ye
appear
openly
above-board
,
for
the
Bishop
declines
no
competent
Judge
in
Scotland
?
'T
is
true
,
He
thought
that
the
Book
that
treated
him
so
barbarously
had
been
writ
by
some
of
the
fluttering
Damme's
about
the
City
,
whose
most
compendious
Method
to
destroy
Religion
,
is
,
at
any
rate
,
to
run
down
the
Clergy
;
but
if
he
had
known
his
Accuser
,
't
is
more
than
probable
he
would
forbear
any
Vindication
.
He
was
sometimes
opposed
by
Persons
of
the
first
Quality
in
the
Nation
,
and
if
he
had
been
so
wicked
a
Wretch
as
you
represent
him
,
he
had
certainly
forfeited
his
Life
to
Justice
,
and
his
Name
to
Infamy
,
as
he
expresses
it
himself
in
his
Letter
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
do
not
take
it
ill
that
I
do
not
go
through
the
Particulars
of
your
Libel
against
the
Bishop
,
for
I
have
made
you
a
fair
Offer
already
;
and
besides
,
when
you
are
better
informed
,
you
will
find
your self
that
you
name
some
Persons
in
your
Libel
,
who
are
lasting
Monuments
of
the
Disgrace
of
your
Faction
;
so
that
you
have
as
little
of
the
Wisdom
of
the
Serpent
,
as
of
the
Innocence
of
the
Dove
.
You
may
go
on
and
accuse
the
Bishop
and
his
Collegues
of
all
the
Crimes
that
your
Predecessors
charged
the
former
Bishops
with
,
in
the
year
1638
;
nay
,
which
is
more
,
you
may
accuse
him
of
all
the
Villainies
which
your
own
Major
Wier
actually
committed
,
when
he
ran
about
with
so
many
of
the
Sisters
,
from
one
Communion
to
another
:
and
I
assure
you
that
neither
he
nor
any
of
his
Friends
will
take
notice
of
you
.
We
know
very
well
that
you
are
at
extraordinary
pains
to
gather
Intelligence
against
the
Clergy
,
but
all
your
Evidences
hitherto
are
of
no
Authority
at
all
.
You
think
that
if
Mr.
Rule
's
Book
provoked
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
to
Undecencies
of
Passion
,
the
reading
of
yours
would
make
him
stark
mad
.
Not
so
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
we
may
sometimes
get
a
more
deadly
Wound
by
an
Arrow
that
flies
near
the
Earth
,
than
by
the
Thunder
that
goes
over
our
Heads
.
He
begins
,
you
say
,
with
downright
Nonsense
and
a
notorious
Lie
;
but
one
and
the
same
Proposition
cannot
be
both
Nonsense
and
a
Lie
;
one
cannot
tell
what
to
make
of
the
first
,
and
therefore
it
is
neither
a
Lie
nor
a
Truth
:
he
continues
still
in
the
same
Opinion
,
that
the
Principles
and
Practices
of
the
Covenanters
occasioned
the
Laws
that
you
complain
of
,
whether
you
mean
their
Practices
from
the
Year
1637
,
to
the
Year
1650
;
or
their
Behaviour
after
the
Restoration
of
King
Charles
II
,
all
is
one
to
me
;
they
overthrew
the
Monarchy
under
King
Charles
I
,
disturbed
it
by
frequent
Insurrections
under
King
Charles
II
,
and
are
ready
to
do
so
still
,
if
at
any
time
their
boundless
Tyranny
and
Ambition
be
restrained
.
The
rest
of
that
Paragraph
is
a
Declamation
against
Prelacy
,
and
the
Clergy
of
England
must
be
lashed
with
the
same
Severity
,
wherewith
you
chastise
those
of
Scotland
;
and
in
your
first
Book
you
represent
those
of
England
as
a
Company
of
treacherous
Prevaricators
:
that
the
Crown
set
them
up
by
a
daring
Perjury
,
and
that
the
same
Party
hath
thrust
that
Family
from
the
Throne
,
by
a
Copy
exactly
answering
the
Original
.
They
are
obliged
very
much
to
your
Civilities
,
if
the
Family
be
thrust
from
the
Throne
,
you
are
the
Author
of
a
new
Discovery
;
but
I
leave
this
to
their
consideration
who
are
more
concerned
.
You
are
diffident
of
your
Arguments
against
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
,
and
therefore
you
will
take
more
effectual
and
compendious
methods
to
ruin
him
:
for
you
tell
us
that
upon
the
taking
of
Namure
,
he
was
heard
in
St.
James's
Park
to
salute
Mr.
Shields
by
the
title
of
a
Bishop
,
no
doubt
in
view
of
a
Revolution
which
was
likely
to
follow
.
There
is
one
thing
that
I
thank
you
heartily
for
,
viz.
that
this
accusation
is
express
,
particular
,
and
circumstantiated
,
for
when
accusations
are
loose
,
general
,
and
indefinite
,
nothing
can
be
fixt
upon
that
can
lead
us
unto
the
Truth
,
and
therefore
Mr.
Ridpath
,
here
I
plainly
give
you
the
Lye
;
I
know
a
man
of
your
honour
will
resent
this
affront
.
The
affirmative
part
is
your
own
,
and
therefore
common
sense
obliges
you
to
prove
it
if
you
can
,
you
are
here
upon
the
place
,
so
are
they
whom
you
accuse
;
the
Dr.
declines
no
competent
Judge
in
England
,
and
if
you
can
prove
that
ever
he
spoke
with
Mr
Shields
in
St.
Jame's
Park
,
he
'll
acknowledg
all
the
Libels
against
him
to
be
true
,
and
the
only
method
to
save
your
Reputation
in
this
particular
,
is
to
put
it
to
a
fair
Trial.
But
I
perceive
that
you
are
as
unfortunate
in
the
informations
that
you
receive
against
the
Clergy
,
as
you
are
hasty
and
unadvised
in
publishing
of
them
.
Whether
the
error
in
Scotch
Grammar
with
which
you
charge
the
Dr.
be
an
omission
of
the
Printer
or
his
inadvertence
,
is
not
material
to
enquire
,
he
had
rather
commit
a
thousand
such
,
than
one
Latin
Solecism
in
a
publick
Harangue
ex
Cathedra
.
It
is
uneasie
to
live
next
door
to
a
Grammarian
.
Read
over
again
the
2d
.
page
of
your
Continuation
,
l.
21.
or
the
5th
.
p.
of
your
Preface
,
l.
30.
and
tell
me
if
it
be
exact
Grammar
.
It
is
impudence
beyond
comparison
,
to
say
,
that
the
Dr.
charged
Mr.
Rule
falsly
with
speaking
wrong
Latin
;
't
is
a
wonder
to
me
,
why
he
himself
or
any
of
his
Friends
should
be
so
zealous
to
defend
him
upon
that
Head
,
and
if
you
would
be
so
wise
as
to
let
those
stories
alone
,
I
know
none
would
be
so
idle
as
to
revive
them
;
and
because
you
will
not
suffer
us
to
forget
his
Latine
,
I
will
give
you
one
instance
more
of
the
purity
of
his
Stile
.
Asking
one
of
the
Students
what
was
his
Name
,
the
Youth
told
him
so
and
so
,
but
not
adding
his
Sirname
;
He
asked
again
,
quid
est
totum
nomen
?
At
another
time
missing
the
Key
of
a
certain
Box
which
is
kept
in
the
Library
,
when
he
would
have
opened
it
,
he
told
them
that
were
about
him
,
Nescio
quid
factum
est
de
iis
,
habui
mox
.
Now
the
Affirmative
is
mine
,
I
am
obliged
to
prove
it
when
ever
you
put
me
to
it
.
You
are
all
of
you
so
tender
upon
the
point
of
Honour
,
that
you
let
nothing
pass
without
present
Revenge
,
and
Mr.
Rule
himself
may
know
the
Witnesses
when
he
pleases
,
tho
it
be
not
decent
to
print
their
Names
.
The
next
accusation
against
the
Dr.
is
,
that
he
cannot
forbear
Swearing
.
Mr
Ridpath
,
I
hope
it
is
otherwise
;
and
this
is
but
an
Article
of
the
original
Libel
,
answered
already
in
the
Presbyterian
Inquisition
.
You
was
advised
by
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
,
rather
to
insist
on
the
old
Libel
than
to
trust
to
your
own
invention
.
Moreover
you
say
that
it
can
be
proved
,
that
he
said
to
a
certain
Minister
,
that
if
the
Episcopal
party
had
not
the
Government
,
he
cared
not
if
the
Devil
had
it
.
By
other
accusers
this
Calumny
is
otherwise
represented
,
viz.
that
if
the
Episcopal
party
had
not
the
Government
,
he
cared
not
if
the
Papists
had
it
;
but
both
are
beat
out
upon
the
same
Anvil
*
.
I
wish
you
had
named
the
Minister
to
whom
this
was
said
;
the
Devil
has
but
too
much
of
the
Government
of
the
World
already
,
and
I
am
affraid
that
they
who
publish
such
malicious
and
indefinite
reports
,
are
more
governed
by
him
than
they
are
aware
of
.
You
charge
him
again
,
that
he
hindered
the
printing
of
Mr.
Jameson's
Book
,
against
Quakerism
;
he
had
no
authority
to
do
so
,
nor
was
it
possible
for
him
to
treat
Mr.
Jameson
with
greater
civility
than
he
did
.
As
for
the
Oath
imposed
on
the
Scholars
in
King
James
his
time
,
that
is
sufficiently
accounted
for
in
another
*
Treatise
,
and
whether
you
are
satisfied
or
not
,
it
matters
not
much
.
The
Objejections
started
against
it
,
were
but
the
Whimsies
of
a
malicious
Pedant
who
knew
not
well
what
he
said
.
It
must
be
confessed
that
He
preferred
the
French
Refugies
to
the
Scotch
Presbyterians
,
when
both
petitioned
the
Town-Council
for
the
use
of
the
publick
Hall
to
preach
in
upon
the
Sundays
.
I
am
not
obliged
to
believe
,
upon
your
authority
,
that
he
had
any
undecent
expressions
upon
that
occasion
.
I
incline
to
think
that
if
the
Presbyterians
had
the
publick
Hall
of
the
College
,
very
many
naughty
persons
would
resort
unto
it
,
though
the
Presbyterian
Ministers
should
endeaviour
to
hinder
it
.
Now
I
would
gladly
ask
you
one
Question
,
whether
ever
you
had
a
Scholar
,
that
answered
you
with
greater
submission
and
obedience
than
I
do
.
You
name
a
Person
at
the
foot
of
the
15
pag.
whom
you
say
,
the
Dr.
was
careful
to
vindicate
,
that
he
never
so
much
as
mentioned
his
Name
;
but
Newsmongers
have
a
greater
priviledge
than
their
Neighbours
.
'T
is
certain
that
the
Scheme
of
the
Presbyterian
Religion
,
as
far
as
they
differ
from
the
Episcopalians
,
is
nothing
else
but
ungovernable
Humour
and
Rebellion
.
Now
is
it
necessary
to
strike
off
the
Doctor
's
Head
for
this
one
Expression
.
The
Presbyterian
Opinions
,
as
such
,
are
new
and
lately
started
,
and
peculiar
to
themselves
,
nor
is
there
any
of
the
Reformed
Churches
that
ever
asserted
Presbyterian
government
to
be
founded
upon
such
Divine
Right
as
is
exclusive
of
all
other
Ecclesiastical
Polities
.
The
Church
of
Scotland
,
which
,
you
say
,
was
Presbyterian
from
the
beginning
of
the
Reformation
,
declares
positively
,
in
her
Confession
of
Faith
,
that
Church
Polity
is
variable
,
and
the
Order
of
Bishops
was
never
condemned
by
our
Reformers
;
and
Buchanan
tells
us
expresly
,
that
our
first
Reformers
were
so
far
from
being
Presbyterians
,
that
Scoti
ante
aliquot
annos
Anglorum
auxiliis
è
servitute
Gallica
liberati
Religionis
cultui
&
ritibus
cum
Anglis
communibus
subscripserunt
.
To
say
that
the
Church
of
Scotland
should
be
governed
by
Presbytery
,
because
Presbyters
were
most
active
in
the
first
Reformation
,
is
an
unpardonable
Impertinence
.
If
all
the
Bishops
in
the
Church
of
Scotland
had
been
as
zealous
to
promote
the
Reformation
as
the
Bishops
of
Galloway
and
Argyle
,
would
it
therefore
follow
,
that
if
the
Bishops
had
reformed
the
Church
without
the
assistance
of
Presbyters
,
there
ought
to
be
no
Presbyters
in
the
Church
when
it
was
fully
reformed
.
No
,
I
think
this
could
not
follow
;
and
therefore
when
the
Bishops
own
the
Doctrine
of
the
Reformed
Churches
,
they
must
be
obeyed
,
and
our
Reformers
never
declaimed
against
their
Order
;
and
if
they
would
adhere
to
the
Doctrine
of
the
Reformed
Churches
,
Calvin
determines
positively
in
that
Case
,
that
nullo
non
anathemate
digni
sunt
,
who
stubbornly
oppose
their
Authority
;
but
we
had
no
such
thing
as
Presbytery
in
Scotland
,
settled
by
Authority
in
all
its
Pretences
,
until
the
Rebellion
brake
out
in
the
Year
1638.
Presbyterians
we
had
,
Tumults
,
Combinations
and
Factions
in
abundance
,
and
Interruptions
of
the
legal
Government
,
and
Parliamentary
Concessions
to
pacify
the
Faction
;
but
a
total
abolishing
of
the
Order
of
Bishops
,
before
the
Rebellion
in
King
Charles
I.
his
time
,
was
never
heard
,
and
to
say
otherwise
contradicts
the
Series
of
all
our
Records
.
If
the
places
of
Scripture
that
you
cite
,
prove
that
the
names
of
those
Clergy-men
that
were
above
Deacons
were
not
distinguished
;
yet
this
cannot
infer
an
Equality
among
them
,
for
the
Apostles
themselves
were
called
sometimes
Presbyters
,
and
the
Church
was
never
governed
by
a
perfect
Equality
of
Presbyters
.
The
Ecclesiastical
Senate
had
its
constant
Praeses
,
without
whose
Authority
nothing
of
any
moment
was
transacted
.
How
often
do
you
meet
,
in
the
Old
Testament
,
the
Jewish
Clergy
dichotomized
into
Priests
and
Levites
?
Will
it
therefore
follow
,
that
there
was
no
High-priest
among
them
to
govern
the
whole
Society
?
you
seem
to
have
no
other
Notion
of
a
Presbyter
than
what
you
meet
with
in
your
late
Pamphlets
;
but
it
was
an
honourable
Appellative
,
bestowed
,
in
the
Apostolick
times
upon
all
Orders
of
Ecclesiasticks
above
a
Deacon
.
Let
us
know
where
this
Superiority
and
Jurisdiction
of
one
Presbyter
above
another
is
forbidden
.
It
was
established
by
God
himself
in
the
Old
Testament
,
let
us
see
it
repealed
in
the
New.
I
think
we
may
leave
this
Dispute
to
other
Combatants
,
who
may
have
occasion
to
discourse
of
it
more
fully
,
when
the
Mortar
pieces
are
shot
that
you
threaten
us
with
.
Only
be
mindful
to
let
us
see
those
Epistles
of
St.
Augustine
to
St.
Jerom
,
wherein
you
say
that
Episcopacy
is
proved
to
be
of
humane
Appointment
.
Your
next
contains
a
lamentable
Catalogue
of
Crueltiess
that
you
say
the
Presbyterians
in
the
West
did
undergo
under
the
former
Reigns
,
viz.
that
some
were
roasted
before
Fires
,
&c.
I
thank
God
I
never
heard
any
such
thing
before
,
and
if
it
had
been
true
all
Christendom
would
have
heard
of
it
,
and
tho
you
had
the
Aauthority
of
the
General
Assembly
to
vouch
it
,
you
must
excuse
me
if
I
continue
in
my
former
Unbelief
.
All
your
Bauble
about
the
Cameronians
is
neither
to
your
Purpose
nor
mine
,
their
Practices
can
never
be
condemned
by
Presbyterian
Principles
,
and
they
may
be
the
Standard
of
Presbytery
as
much
as
the
Ministers
you
name
in
that
Paragraph
.
The
Protesters
were
not
so
numerous
as
the
Resolutioners
,
yet
you
must
acknowledge
they
were
the
only
orthodox
Presbyterians
;
for
the
Resolutioners
were
rotten-hearted
Malignants
,
and
the
Protesters
are
the
present
visible
Church
of
the
Presbyterians
;
and
if
they
had
stood
upon
the
Plurality
of
Votes
,
they
had
yielded
to
the
General
Assembly
against
whom
they
protested
.
And
this
is
the
fatal
and
fundamental
Error
of
your
Party
,
that
they
have
no
principles
of
Unity
,
but
such
as
a
plausible
Protestation
seconded
by
the
Rabble
can
shake
your
Ecclesiastical
Authority
upon
all
occasions
,
according
to
the
Original
Maxim
of
Mr.
Andrew
Melvil
,
Vota
sunt
ponderanda
,
non
numeranda
.
Your
Argumentum
ad
hominem
taken
from
the
Viscount
of
Dundee's
Practices
,
proves
no
more
than
your
thick
and
palpable
Ignorance
in
the
first
Principles
of
Logick
.
Nothing
can
be
improved
as
an
Argumentum
ad
hominem
against
any
Man
,
but
such
Practices
as
naturally
overthrow
his
own
Principles
;
and
do
you
think
that
my
Lord
Dundee
own'd
any
true
and
indisputable
Right
in
them
against
whom
he
sought
?
and
if
upon
his
Hypothesis
there
was
no
Title
,
pray
what
becomes
of
your
Argumentum
ad
hominem
?
My
humble
Advice
is
,
that
some
one
or
other
of
your
Friends
may
teach
you
the
Vocabula
Artis
,
before
you
write
so
magisterially
:
and
you
'll
find
this
to
be
but
a
friendly
Advice
before
I
have
done
with
you
,
and
whatever
Proficiency
you
have
made
in
Grammar
,
your
Logicks
are
but
of
about
two
Months
standing
.
Your
Parallel
between
the
Practices
of
the
Church
of
England
towards
King
James
and
those
of
the
Scotch
Presbyterians
towards
King
Charles
11.
is
a
true
Specimen
of
your
Skill
.
We
know
no
such
Practices
of
the
Church
of
England
,
nor
are
we
to
learn
her
Doctrines
from
Scurrilous
Pamphlets
,
but
from
her
Articles
,
Homilies
,
Liturgy
,
and
Canons
.
That
the
Presbyterian
Cruelty
towards
the
Episcopalians
after
the
Year
1637.
were
unparallel'd
in
History
,
remains
still
a
Truth
,
because
they
suffered
from
Men
who
declared
themselves
to
be
of
the
same
Religion
with
their
Neighbours
;
the
Cruelties
of
Papists
towards
Protestants
,
and
of
Infidels
towards
Christians
,
and
of
Pagans
towards
them
who
worship
one
God
,
cannot
make
up
an
exact
parallel
,
because
the
Rebels
by
whom
our
people
were
persecuted
,
pretended
to
be
of
the
same
Communion
.
But
since
you
name
the
Massacre
at
Paris
,
you
may
call
to
mind
that
in
the
Year
1645
the
Presbyterians
under
the
Command
of
General
Leslie
,
cut
in
pieces
some
hundreds
of
the
Marquess
of
Montross
his
Infantry
,
in
cold
blood
,
after
quarter
given
;
when
the
Marquess
was
betrayed
,
and
that
he
was
forc'd
to
retire
,
a
considerable
body
of
his
Army
surrendred
their
Arms
upon
Articles
,
and
stood
,
as
they
were
directed
by
the
Covenanters
,
in
a
plain
open
Field
,
having
nothing
to
defend
themselves
with
but
their
Nails
;
then
it
was
time
for
the
Presbyterians
to
discover
their
true
Intentions
,
and
to
let
the
world
see
that
no
Promises
;
no
Capitulations
could
bind
up
the
hands
of
Covenanters
,
when
it
was
in
their
power
to
do
Mischief
,
and
you
are
to
remember
that
this
horrid
Tragedy
was
acted
at
the
special
Instigation
of
the
godly
Ministers
in
the
Army
,
for
Souldiers
know
no
such
Villanies
.
But
the
Enthusiastick
Zealot
who
preached
,
thought
that
the
Blood
of
so
many
innocent
people
was
a
good
beginning
of
a
through
Reformation
.
He
chose
his
Text
1
Sam.
15.
14.
What
meaneth
then
this
bleating
,
&c.
infinuating
that
they
could
not
be
said
to
obey
God
,
as
long
as
they
left
any
alivethat
were
not
Covenanters
,
and
when
General
Leslie
,
contrary
to
his
own
Inclination
,
Honour
,
and
Authority
,
yielded
to
their
Fury
,
he
asked
this
Sanguinary
Enthusiast
,
Mas
John
ha
not
you
Blood
enough
now
?
Compare
all
Circumstances
,
and
match
this
in
History
if
you
can
;
not
to
mention
now
the
throwing
so
many
Women
and
Children
over
the
Bridge
of
Lithgow
,
without
either
Form
or
Process
,
for
no
other
Crime
,
but
that
they
followed
their
Husbands
and
Relations
to
Montrose
his
Army
.
And
the
former
instance
is
by
so
much
the
more
remarkable
that
the
poor
people
who
were
murdered
in
cold
bloud
,
contrary
to
the
Laws
of
Nations
,
the
faith
of
mankind
,
and
the
ancient
honour
of
the
Scots
,
were
all
of
them
Protestants
,
and
laid
down
their
Arms
upon
capitulation
for
their
full
freedom
and
safety
:
to
embrew
their
hands
in
the
bloud
of
their
Countrymen
,
contrary
to
the
solemnity
of
Promises
,
was
a
thing
that
could
only
be
acted
by
Covenanters
;
so
that
your
instances
of
the
Massacre
at
Paris
,
and
the
Duke
of
Alva's
butchery
in
the
Netherlands
,
are
indeed
sad
abuses
of
Supreme
Authority
,
and
lasting
Monuments
of
cruelty
:
but
that
which
I
just
now
named
,
adds
to
cruelty
perfidious
treachery
,
such
as
blows
up
the
foundations
of
humane
Society
.
But
Mr.
Ridpath
,
you
ask
if
ever
you
put
the
Prelatists
in
Dungeons
to
be
eaten
up
of
Toads
and
Serpents
and
if
not
,
you
think
you
may
conclude
that
you
fall
short
of
the
cruelty
of
the
Inquisitors
.
I
answer
,
whether
there
are
Toads
and
Serpents
in
the
lower
Vaults
of
the
Tolbooth
of
Edinburg
,
I
cannot
tell
,
but
I
am
very
sure
the
Reverend
Bishop
Wiseheart
was
almost
eaten
up
of
Vermin
in
that
Dungeon
,
and
bore
the
marks
of
the
Covenanters
cruelty
,
as
well
as
the
evidences
of
his
own
invincible
patience
to
his
dying
hour
;
and
if
your
Covenanters
at
that
time
were
not
so
ingenious
in
inventing
instruments
of
bodily
torture
as
the
Fathers
of
the
Inquisition
were
,
yet
you
cannot
deny
but
that
they
were
equally
fierce
and
bloudy
:
the
Presbyterians
were
only
acted
by
a
lower
order
of
Daemons
,
who
had
not
so
much
light
and
art
,
(
yet
altogether
as
furious
and
as
opposite
to
true
goodness
)
as
those
by
whom
the
Inquisitors
were
guided
.
But
you
think
that
though
the
Dr's
Conscience
be
prostituted
to
a
Prodigy
,
yet
it
flies
in
his
face
,
when
such
and
such
things
are
said
of
the
Covenanters
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
am
now
pretty
well
acquainted
with
this
Noise
,
and
you
see
that
I
meet
your
loudest
Thunder
without
any
disturbance
,
and
all
that
I
return
to
this
Civility
is
no
more
,
than
to
advise
you
to
distinguish
between
a
little
fluttering
Rhetorick
and
common
Sense
;
when
ones
Conscience
is
prostituted
,
as
you
say
,
to
a
Prodigy
,
he
feels
no
remorse
at
all
;
and
therefore
his
Conscience
cannot
fly
in
his
face
,
't
is
seared
with
a
hot
Iron
,
he
is
proof
against
all
light
and
conviction
,
altogether
blinded
and
stupified
under
the
power
of
his
Error
.
And
if
the
Dr's
Conscience
fly
in
his
face
,
he
is
still
within
the
possibilities
of
being
recovered
,
but
you
must
treat
him
a
little
more
softly
if
you
intend
to
make
him
a
Proselyte
.
But
you
tell
us
next
,
that
the
Dr.
learnt
the
art
of
Equivooation
as
well
as
if
he
had
been
at
Rome
;
for
he
says
,
that
the
Covenant
was
rigorously
imposed
upon
all
,
Children
at
the
Schools
not
excepted
.
To
this
you
answer
,
that
you
believe
it
was
required
of
little
Children
that
offered
to
take
the
degree
of
Masters
of
Art
about
the
age
of
thirty
years
,
and
then
you
hoise
all
your
Sails
,
and
leave
the
poor
Dr.
exposed
to
all
the
contempt
that
a
silly
Sophister
deserves
.
Now
Mr.
Ridpath
,
we
are
again
closely
engaged
,
and
if
I
do
not
get
the
Dr.
out
of
this
mire
,
I
must
run
for
it
.
If
you
was
your self
near
thirty
years
old
when
you
went
to
the
University
,
as
you
seem
to
insinuate
,
one
might
reasonably
presume
,
that
your
bloud
had
been
colder
before
now
;
and
that
you
would
not
vapour
at
this
rate
,
when
you
had
no
reserve
to
defend
you
,
but
your
ignorance
in
a
plain
matter
of
Fact
;
and
therefore
all
that
know
Scotland
,
know
very
well
,
that
the
Children
in
our
Country
ordinarily
go
to
the
University
at
the
age
of
twelve
,
thirteen
,
or
fourteen
years
;
and
such
may
in
the
strictest
sense
be
called
Children
,
and
of
such
it
was
required
to
take
the
Covenant
:
for
my
part
I
never
knew
one
amongst
them
that
arrived
to
the
age
of
thirty
before
he
received
his
degrees
.
There
was
no
Equivocation
in
the
case
,
when
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
told
you
,
that
the
Covenant
was
imposed
upon
Children
at
the
Schools
,
for
he
meant
it
of
no
other
Children
than
those
younger
ones
who
entered
the
University
,
and
who
were
not
allowed
to
delay
their
swearing
the
Covenant
until
they
left
it
,
but
were
forced
as
soon
as
they
entred
,
to
take
it
upon
implicite
Faith
;
if
this
is
made
evident
,
you
must
acknowledg
that
there
was
no
Equivocation
used
by
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
.
If
you
set
up
for
a
Patron
of
Presbyterian
practices
,
and
must
needs
hector
the
World
into
a
belief
of
your
blustering
Romances
,
if
you
intend
to
be
succesful
,
you
ought
to
read
more
and
write
less
;
and
because
the
Affirmative
is
now
mine
,
I
am
obliged
to
prove
it
,
and
if
you
desire
better
proof
,
I
'll
make
you
amends
;
it
is
the
following
Act
of
the
General
Assembly
.
Act
for
taking
the
Covenant
at
the
first
receiving
of
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
and
for
the
taking
of
it
also
by
all
Students
at
the
first
entry
to
Colleges
.
THE
General
Assembly
according
to
former
recommendations
doth
ordain
,
that
all
Young
Students
take
the
Covenant
at
their
first
Entry
to
Colleges
,
and
that
hereafter
all
Persons
whatsoever
take
the
Covenant
at
their
first
receiving
of
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
.
Requring
hereby
provincial
Assemblies
,
Presbyteries
and
Universities
to
be
careful
that
this
Act
be
observed
and
account
thereof
taken
in
the
Uisitation
of
Universities
,
and
particular
Kirks
,
in
the
tryal
of
Presbyteries
.
Now
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
hope
you
are
satisfied
,
that
by
Children
were
meant
those
young
ones
who
are
but
newly
come
from
Country
Schools
.
The
word
Equivocation
brings
to
my
mind
some
practices
of
the
Presbyterians
,
still
upon
Record
;
I
mean
publick
and
Solemn
Deeds
,
which
seem
to
justifie
Equivocation
,
if
it
be
for
the
glory
of
God
,
i.
e.
if
it
promote
the
ends
of
the
Covenant
.
It
is
nothing
to
see
you
or
me
equivocate
;
these
are
the
failings
of
us
two
private
,
obscure
,
and
particular
Persons
,
but
to
see
the
General
Assembly
,
the
true
and
only
supreme
Representative
of
the
Kirk
of
Scotland
,
shift
,
double
,
and
equivocate
,
is
treachery
and
hypocrisie
with
a
witness
.
To
make
you
sensible
of
this
,
you
are
to
remember
as
an
introduction
to
what
follows
,
that
the
Covenanters
who
went
to
Aberdeen
to
recommend
the
Covenant
to
the
Clergy
and
Professors
of
Divinity
there
,
told
them
,
that
notwithstanding
they
should
swear
the
Covenant
,
yet
they
were
left
at
liberty
to
Vote
for
Episcopacy
when
the
General
Assembly
met
;
but
when
the
General
Assembly
met
,
they
concluded
primâ
instantiâ
,
that
Episcopacy
was
abjured
in
the
Covenant
:
This
prevarication
is
complained
of
by
the
Marquess
of
Hamilton
,
His
Majesties
Commissioner
,
in
a
printed
Declaration
,
Anno
1639.
To
this
they
answer
,
that
they
did
not
expresly
and
Specificè
abjure
Episcopacy
,
but
only
generally
and
virtually
,
by
abjuring
whatsoever
was
abjured
in
the
Confession
1580.
Now
the
meaning
of
this
is
,
by
their
Covenant
they
abjured
Episcopacy
virtually
,
but
not
specificè
.
But
how
could
the
Members
of
the
Assembly
be
left
at
liberty
to
vote
freely
for
Episcopacy
after
they
took
the
Covenant
,
if
Episcopacy
was
virtually
and
generally
abjured
in
the
Covenant
?
this
is
as
much
to
say
,
as
,
tho
I
am
obliged
by
the
Christian
Religion
virtually
and
generally
against
all
degrees
of
Theft
,
yet
I
am
not
obliged
specificè
by
my
Baptismal
Vow
against
picking
a
Man's
Pocket
of
his
Watch.
What
a
juggle
was
it
to
say
,
that
Men
might
vote
freely
for
that
Government
which
was
,
for
the
matter
,
abjured
?
These
are
the
Metaphysical
Lectures
that
are
to
be
learned
in
Presbyterian
Schools
,
who
think
nothing
to
dally
with
Mens
Consciences
,
by
the
jingle
of
a
distinction
,
which
,
at
bottom
,
is
but
Hypocrisie
and
Impertinence
.
But
would
you
have
another
sample
of
their
Casuistical
Theology
?
read
what
follows
,
*
in
their
Answer
to
the
third
Reason
,
Albeit
by
the
meaning
of
the
Prescriber
of
an
Oath
,
the
Swearer
were
tacitly
bound
to
maintain
Episcopacy
,
five
Articles
of
Perth
,
and
such
like
;
yet
according
to
the
premitted
Considerations
he
is
more
obliged
to
the
reality
rei
juratae
,
which
is
now
declared
and
found
to
abjure
Episcopacy
,
†
nor
to
the
meaning
of
the
Prescriber
,
or
his
own
either
,
being
contrary
to
the
Explanation
of
the
sovereign
Judge
competent
.
Thus
far
the
Covenanters
.
Now
Mr.
Ridpath
,
name
any
one
Proposition
more
knavish
,
hypocritical
and
damnable
than
this
is
,
that
the
Swearer
is
neither
bound
to
the
meaning
of
the
Imposer
,
nor
to
his
own
meaning
who
takes
the
Oath
,
but
to
the
reality
of
the
thing
sworn
,
as
it
shall
be
afterwards
explained
by
the
competent
Judge
;
which
,
in
their
meaning
,
was
none
else
than
the
General
Assembly
.
Did
you
ever
read
any
thing
worse
in
the
Casuistick
Writings
of
the
Jesuits
?
But
it
may
be
that
your
Curiosity
reaches
not
so
far
as
the
moral
Theology
of
Escobar
,
Filiucius
,
or
Emanuel
Sa.
Did
ever
the
transcendent
Power
of
Rome
go
higher
?
If
Oaths
neither
oblige
sensu
dant
is
nor
jurant
is
,
but
in
the
sense
of
the
Kirk
,
then
we
are
obliged
,
without
any
further
Enquiries
,
to
submit
our
Necks
to
the
infallible
Decrees
of
the
Assembly
,
tho
we
neither
know
what
is
in
them
,
nor
never
intended
to
oblige
our selves
by
them
.
I
cite
a
very
authentick
Paper
,
being
under
the
hand
of
Mr.
Archibald
Johnston
,
Clerk
of
the
Assembly
.
So
that
the
Mother
Kirk
can
evacuate
the
force
of
all
Oaths
,
Promises
and
Subscriptions
,
to
the
End
of
the
World
:
for
they
do
not
oblige
in
the
sense
of
the
first
Imposer
,
nor
according
to
the
meaning
of
him
that
swore
,
but
according
to
the
Commentary
and
Interpretation
of
the
General
Assembly
;
and
so
the
next
General
Assembly
may
pronounce
,
that
by
the
Test
(
against
which
they
objected
so
many
sad
Stories
)
we
are
obliged
to
maintain
and
support
Presbytery
,
tho
we
swore
it
with
quite
contrary
.
Intentions
;
and
indeed
there
is
not
any
thing
to
be
met
amongst
the
Jesuits
,
more
subversive
of
all
Religion
and
true
Morality
,
than
that
memorable
Position
that
I
named
from
the
Authentick
Records
of
the
Covenanters
.
Some
grave
Men
have
been
displeased
that
the
Presbyterian
Fooleries
have
been
exposed
to
laughter
;
and
for
my
part
I
was
not
of
their
Council
who
first
assaulted
them
in
that
manner
,
yet
those
Gentlemen
who
accuse
the
Episcopal
Clergy
of
Scotland
,
as
if
they
had
exposed
Religion
it self
,
by
publishing
some
of
the
impertinent
and
ridiculons
Bauble
of
Presbyterians
,
must
consider
,
that
the
learnedest
and
gravest
Divines
,
in
this
as
well
as
other
Nations
,
have
treated
Enthusiasts
in
no
other
manner
.
I
have
no
room
to
insert
Monsieur
Paschal's
excellent
Letter
to
the
Jesuits
,
wherein
he
proves
,
from
the
Example
of
God
himself
,
our
Saviour
Jesus
Christ
,
the
Prophets
,
the
Fathers
of
the
Christian
Church
,
and
the
holy
Men
of
all
Ages
,
that
it
is
ordinary
,
just
and
lawful
,
to
ridicule
such
as
profane
and
pervert
Religion
by
visionary
and
fantastick
Glosses
,
or
such
as
deprave
its
Morals
by
loose
and
scandalous
Interpretations
of
God's
most
holy
Law.
Must
we
be
said
to
laugh
at
Religion
,
if
we
smile
when
we
hear
a
Man
gravely
telling
us
,
that
Abraham
left
the
Land
of
Chaldea
for
Debt
?
No
;
we
are
as
far
removed
from
that
profane
humour
,
as
this
Commentary
is
from
the
Gravity
and
Authority
of
the
Holy
Scriptures
;
't
is
one
thing
to
laugh
at
Religion
,
and
another
thing
to
laugh
at
them
who
profane
it
by
their
extravagant
Opinions
;
and
they
ought
to
remember
,
that
the
Friendly
Debate
treated
them
in
as
familiar
a
manner
as
some
of
our
Party
have
done
;
nay
the
most
leading
Men
among
the
Presbyterians
,
in
their
most
publick
Appearances
had
always
something
or
other
to
provoke
the
People
to
laughter
,
I
instance
in
Dr.
Burgess's
Sermon
before
the
House
of
Commons
,
1640.
the
fifth
Motive
by
which
he
persuaded
them
to
take
the
Covenant
was
,
that
*
the
Devil
himself
will
have
a
Covenant
from
all
his
Vassals
that
expect
any
extraordinary
Matters
from
him
;
there
is
not
a
Witch
that
hath
the
Devil
at
her
beek
,
but
she
must
seal
a
Covenant
with
him
sometimes
with
her
Blood.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
you
are
very
angry
when
we
charge
the
Presbyteterians
with
the
odd
and
extravagant
practices
of
the
Cameronians
,
as
if
such
things
were
unagreeable
to
their
Sentiments
:
to
tell
you
the
truth
,
I
think
the
Cameronians
are
the
most
active
and
ingenuous
Subdivision
of
the
Presbyterians
;
they
are
the
Pioneers
in
your
Camp
,
whom
you
hug
and
embrace
as
your
dearest
Brethren
,
when
the
roughest
part
of
your
Work
is
to
be
performed
.
Upon
the
late
Revolution
they
drove
the
Clergy
out
of
the
West
,
and
guarded
the
Convention
,
and
many
other
considerable
Services
(
they
'll
tell
you
themselves
)
they
have
done
you
;
and
yet
forsooth
they
must
not
be
allowed
to
be
Presbyterians
.
The
Act
of
the
West-Kirk
,
and
the
Remonstrance
in
the
Year
1650.
are
better
Evidences
of
Presbyterian
Principles
,
than
all
your
little
whiffling
Excuses
and
Evasions
.
Our
People
took
care
to
publish
an
Epitome
of
the
Hind
let
loose
,
not
because
it
was
written
by
any
of
the
Cameronians
;
but
rather
because
he
that
wrote
it
,
gathered
together
the
Publick
Papers
,
Remonstrances
,
Declarations
,
and
Wrestlings
of
that
Party
against
the
State
,
in
which
they
lived
since
the
Reformation
;
and
therefore
if
any
suffered
hard
things
under
the
late
Reigns
,
they
were
the
high-flown
Presbyterians
;
such
of
them
as
lived
peaceably
and
modestly
,
suffered
nothing
at
all
:
for
our
Laws
never
forbad
any
man
to
think
but
that
Presbytery
was
preferable
to
Episcopacy
,
if
his
Opinions
and
Education
led
him
to
think
so
;
but
our
Governours
took
care
that
the
Principles
of
Presbyterians
might
not
break
out
into
Tumults
and
Insurrections
;
such
as
formerly
pulled
down
the
Monarchy
,
overthrew
the
Fundamental
Constitution
,
and
turned
our
Nation
into
a
Field
of
Blood.
We
are
very
much
obliged
to
your
Wit
and
Invention
for
your
Derivation
of
the
word
Enthusiasm
;
you
prove
us
Enthusiasts
from
two
Arguments
,
first
because
we
are
Drunkards
,
and
next
because
we
use
unscriptural
Ceremonies
.
I
cannot
deny
but
I
was
refreshed
a
little
with
this
extraordinary
Flight
of
your
Fancy
,
and
I
leave
it
to
all
impartial
Men
to
judge
whether
this
Witticism
of
yours
,
or
another
which
I
am
going
to
tell
you
,
be
more
coherent
,
rapturous
and
gentile
;
nay
,
I
think
I
may
leave
it
to
your
own
decision
,
if
you
are
but
a
little
recovered
from
the
career
of
your
Passion
:
the
Story
is
this
,
One
of
my
Friends
once
persuaded
me
to
go
along
with
him
to
see
that
sad
sight
of
Bethlehem
Hospital
;
as
we
entred
the
lower
Apartments
,
we
drew
near
to
the
Cell
of
a
little
grave
Man
,
whom
we
found
reading
Ovid
de
Tristibus
with
great
Application
.
My
Friend
and
I
asked
him
several
Questions
,
all
which
he
answered
very
pertinently
,
so
that
we
could
not
discover
for
a
good
while
where
his
Madness
lay
:
at
last
I
asked
him
if
he
understood
the
Book
he
read
,
he
told
me
he
did
,
and
convinced
me
that
what
he
said
was
true
.
I
asked
him
again
,
how
he
came
to
have
such
a
kindness
for
that
Book
beyond
other
Books
;
at
which
he
smiled
with
some
appearance
of
Disdain
,
pitying
my
Ignorance
,
that
I
did
not
know
a
thing
that
he
thought
was
known
all
the
World
over
:
why
(
said
he
)
Ovid
is
of
our
Family
;
and
do
not
you
know
,
(
said
he
)
that
Ovidius
is
from
Ovis
a
Sheep
,
and
the
Butchers
take
Ovis
by
the
Neck
,
and
therefore
he
began
his
Book
de
Tristibus
,
with
Parve
nec
invidio
;
from
all
this
he
concluded
that
Ovid
was
of
his
Family
;
and
,
I
think
,
he
argued
as
wisely
as
you
do
to
prove
us
Enthusiasts
.
It
is
true
,
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
said
,
that
the
Acts
of
the
General
Assembly
did
sufficiently
vindicate
King
Charles
II.
and
his
Ministers
of
State
from
any
Shadow
of
Rigour
or
Cruelty
;
but
I
must
tell
you
that
he
meant
other
Acts
than
those
you
guess
,
and
it
is
a
sad
thing
to
have
to
do
with
such
an
Adversary
as
you
;
it
appears
that
you
have
a
very
good
Opinion
of
your self
,
and
there
is
not
a
Quality
more
essential
to
a
Presbyterian
than
Pride
and
Vanity
,
you
have
not
read
the
Books
you
are
concerned
to
read
,
if
you
set
up
for
the
publick
Advocate
of
the
Kirk
;
how
came
you
to
guess
what
Acts
your
Adversary
meant
,
unless
he
had
cited
those
Acts
particularly
:
and
therefore
I
advise
you
to
read
the
Acts
of
the
General
Assembly
more
narrowly
,
and
see
if
you
can
name
any
of
the
Papal
Enchroachments
upon
the
Civil
Magistrate
more
daring
and
ambitious
than
that
one
Act
which
is
cited
in
the
Margine
,
and
which
is
recorded
to
the
Honour
of
Presbytery
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
you
see
that
I
have
a
great
desire
to
court
your
Friendship
,
since
I
cite
the
Books
exactly
,
that
you
look
upon
as
Oracles
.
You
tell
us
,
after
a
long
Declamation
against
King
Charles
II.
his
Government
and
the
Doctrine
of
Passive
Obedience
,
that
Sir
George
Mackenzie's
Arguments
in
the
defence
of
his
Reign
,
are
all
of
them
built
upon
a
false
Narrative
of
Matter
of
Fact
;
as
if
the
Rebellions
against
King
Charles
I
,
and
II.
were
not
notorious
,
and
known
all
Europe
over
.
The
Scotch
Rebels
laid
King
Charles
I.
upon
the
Altar
,
and
the
English
Rebels
sacrificed
him
;
and
this
is
no
other
Censure
than
what
is
obvious
to
every
Man's
Observation
.
Must
we
sit
down
and
transcribe
all
the
Presbyterian
Protestations
,
Remonstrances
,
seasonable
Warnings
,
and
Declarations
,
when
every
little
Pamphlet
is
answered
?
Must
we
prove
that
Presbyterians
are
Rebels
?
that
is
as
needless
as
to
prove
first
Principles
:
for
since
the
Covenant
is
the
Magna
Charta
of
your
Religion
,
as
you
are
distinguished
from
other
Christians
,
why
should
you
think
the
Imputation
of
Rebellion
to
be
any
Reproach
?
Sir
George
Mackenzie
gave
the
World
a
true
Narrative
of
the
first
Rise
and
Occasion
of
those
Laws
that
you
complain
of
.
And
we
are
very
glad
how
much
you
write
against
it
,
you
but
wound
your
own
head
,
and
kick
against
the
pricks
:
for
his
Narrative
remains
true
,
and
founded
upon
the
Records
of
Parliament
,
and
Progress
of
your
Rebellion
,
and
still
unanswered
,
as
it
is
unanswerable
.
I
know
that
one
of
your
Club
wrote
a
Pamphlet
against
his
Defence
of
King
Charles
II
'
s
Government
,
entituled
,
a
Vindication
of
the
Presbyterians
in
Scotland
,
&c.
It
peeped
out
,
as
if
it
were
afraid
to
see
the
light
,
but
no
body
knows
where
to
find
it
,
and
in
a
few
days
it
evanished
.
'T
is
said
to
be
printed
for
Edward
Golding
,
1692.
I
got
one
Copy
accidentally
,
but
all
my
Industry
could
not
procure
another
.
The
Author
is
a
very
accomplish'd
Gentleman
,
no
doubt
of
it
;
he
tells
you
,
in
the
very
first
page
of
his
Pamphlet
,
that
he
left
the
Law
part
unanswered
.
And
this
one
Expression
is
enough
to
proclaim
him
a
Fool
,
that
he
who
had
no
knowledge
in
the
Laws
,
should
venture
to
answer
Sir
George
Mackenzie's
Book
;
just
as
if
one
should
censure
the
Works
of
Tully
and
Quintilian
,
without
any
knowledge
of
the
Rules
of
Oratory
and
Rhetorick
;
and
,
to
let
you
see
how
grosly
ignorant
this
poor
Creature
is
,
he
tells
us
,
that
King
Ch.
I.
when
the
Earl
of
Traquair
sat
at
the
Helm
of
Affairs
,
imposed
on
the
Subjects
an
Oath
,
commonly
called
the
Tender
,
with
great
Severity
,
and
that
,
it
is
not
improbable
but
that
the
Covenant
was
a
Counter-Oath
to
that
.
Now
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
ask
you
how
any
Man
can
forbear
smiling
to
see
how
such
a
little
Shuttle-cock
can
assault
the
Memory
and
Writings
of
Sir
George
Mackenzie
?
Was
the
Covenant
no
older
than
the
Tender
?
and
was
the
Tender
,
(
by
which
Men
were
made
to
part
with
all
degrees
of
Loyalty
;
and
to
renounce
the
Family
of
the
Stewarts
)
imposed
with
great
Severity
by
King
Charles
I.
and
is
this
the
Book
that
you
think
confutes
Sir
George
Mackenzie's
Vindication
,
better
than
the
Doctor
can
defend
it
?
But
your
learned
Author
goes
on
,
and
tells
us
that
the
General
Assembly
(
I
suppose
he
means
that
in
1638.
)
did
not
throw
out
the
Bishops
without
the
Authority
of
Parliament
,
since
they
had
their
allowance
for
it
;
as
if
the
General
Assembly
that
threw
out
the
Bishops
had
waited
for
the
determination
of
a
Parliament
:
and
when
Sir
George
pleads
,
that
the
Ecclesiastick
State
were
always
the
first
of
the
three
Estates
of
Parliament
,
your
little
Man
tells
us
,
in
opposition
to
this
,
some
Stories
of
Monks
and
Culdees
,
by
which
the
Church
was
governed
from
the
beginning
of
Christianity
in
Scotland
.
But
is
this
any
thing
to
our
purpose
,
when
we
plead
,
that
by
so
many
Laws
and
Parliamentary
Constitutions
,
our
Bishops
make
up
the
first
of
the
Three
Estates
of
Parliament
;
and
which
is
more
,
those
very
Laws
are
not
yet
repealed
,
by
which
the
Ecclesiastick
State
is
declared
to
be
the
first
.
And
tho
in
the
days
of
the
Covenant
,
when
the
Bishops
were
expelled
by
Tumult
and
Violence
,
one
of
the
three
Estates
was
split
into
two
,
contrary
to
the
fundamental
Constitution
of
Parliaments
,
yet
by
unrepealed
Laws
and
immemorial
Possession
,
they
remain
the
first
of
the
three
Estates
of
Parliament
.
He
tells
us
next
,
that
there
were
no
Bishops
during
King
James
'
s
Residence
,
and
consequently
none
sat
in
Parliament
;
and
must
we
be
put
to
the
drudgery
of
confuting
such
a
sad
Creature
as
this
is
,
when
the
Records
of
Parliament
give
him
the
lie
?
And
I
speak
it
sincerely
,
I
never
saw
any
thing
in
Print
more
ignorantly
writ
than
that
Pamphlet
is
:
for
he
tells
us
again
,
that
he
knew
of
no
Persons
of
Quality
put
to
death
by
Covenanters
,
save
the
Earl
of
Montross
.
And
if
you
please
to
defend
your
learned
Brother
,
you
may
;
for
my
part
,
if
I
am
not
constrained
to
it
,
I
am
resolved
never
to
look
into
his
Pamphlet
;
nor
do
I
know
how
to
excuse
my self
at
the
Reader
's
hands
,
for
inserting
so
many
of
his
lamentable
Impertinencies
.
In
another
place
of
your
Book
,
you
accuse
Sir
George
Mackenzie
of
having
persecuted
Hallside
;
but
this
Gentleman
is
here
also
,
and
no
Man
can
speak
more
to
the
advantage
of
Sir
George
Mackenzie
,
in
all
Companies
,
and
upon
all
occasions
,
than
he
does
;
and
he
flatly
denies
all
the
malicious
Fictions
that
you
have
heaped
together
on
that
Subject
.
If
Laws
have
been
made
under
the
Reign
of
King
Charles
II
,
to
restrain
the
Fury
of
Madmen
and
Incendiaries
;
neither
the
State
,
nor
such
as
advised
those
Laws
to
be
made
are
to
be
blamed
;
for
there
were
no
Laws
made
against
the
Speculations
of
Presbyterians
,
but
against
the
Practices
of
such
of
them
,
whose
Principles
and
Endeavours
were
equally
destructive
to
humane
Society
,
as
they
were
pernicious
to
the
particular
Settlement
of
our
Nation
.
The
Paragraph
that
follows
is
a
true
sample
of
your
way
of
reasoning
,
when
you
say
that
Nero
and
Julian
the
Apostate
had
the
Advantage
of
the
Primitive
Christians
,
in
regard
of
Quality
,
Sense
,
and
Interest
.
But
I
still
think
that
the
Apostles
and
Primitive
Christians
were
Men
of
the
best
Sense
,
and
far
beyond
all
their
Persecutors
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
to
do
you
no
piece
of
Injustice
(
for
I
disdain
it
,
and
one
needs
not
take
any
Advantage
of
you
)
I
let
the
Reader
know
,
that
in
the
Correction
of
your
Errata's
,
you
advise
to
dash
out
the
word
Sense
out
of
lin
.
32.
of
pag.
27.
but
then
when
the
word
Sense
is
dashed
out
,
you
do
not
repeat
faithfully
the
Doctor
's
Argument
:
for
you
know
very
well
that
he
reckons
the
Quality
,
Sense
and
Interest
of
the
Nobility
that
are
for
Episcopacy
,
as
things
that
bear
down
the
noise
and
clamour
of
all
their
Antagonists
;
you
may
raise
Monsters
as
many
as
you
please
,
and
then
fight
with
your
own
Dreams
and
Imaginations
;
but
since
you
do
not
repeat
an
argument
faithfully
,
you
should
let
it
alone
.
And
what
followed
in
the
same
Paragraph
of
the
Postscript
,
viz.
That
the
Episcopal
Nobility
were
men
of
parts
,
honour
and
integrity
,
was
to
be
considered
in
conjunction
with
the
former
;
the
Characters
last
named
you
do
not
deny
to
be
true
,
and
if
so
,
how
can
men
of
honour
and
integrity
be
perjured
oppressors
?
For
my
part
,
I
never
thought
that
Honour
in
its
true
notion
could
be
separated
from
a
good
Conscience
:
and
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
intended
to
baffle
the
Calumnies
of
their
opposers
,
by
a
compendious
enumeration
of
the
outward
and
inward
advantages
that
the
Patrons
of
Episcopacy
possessed
;
so
that
if
you
was
at
the
pains
to
answer
this
Argument
,
you
ought
not
fraudulently
to
suppress
such
words
,
as
contained
its
frame
and
energy
:
and
I
am
content
that
you
call
me
as
well
as
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
,
a
Pedant
,
an
Ass
,
a
Blunderer
,
a
Villain
,
a
Lyar
,
and
a
Papist
;
if
I
tell
you
that
you
seem
to
have
nothing
in
your
view
than
to
raise
a
little
Dust
,
when
you
repeat
an
argument
but
not
in
the
Authors
words
,
it
is
no
more
his
but
yours
;
you
may
be
taught
your
mistake
by
that
of
the
Poet
,
Quem
recitas
meus
est
O!
fidentine
Libellus
Sed
male
dum
recitas
incipit
esse
tuus
.
You
tell
us
next
,
that
Sir
George
Mackenzie
owns
,
that
Presbyterian
Ministers
,
and
Presbyterian
Jurors
who
were
summoned
to
the
tryal
of
Malefactors
of
their
own
persuasion
,
seldom
failed
to
condemn
them
;
From
this
you
conclude
,
that
Sir
George
gives
himself
and
the
Dr.
both
the
Lye
,
when
they
charge
those
Principles
upon
the
Presbyterians
in
general
:
and
this
you
say
,
discovers
the
falshood
of
that
necessity
,
that
the
Episcopalians
pretend
the
Government
was
under
to
make
such
Laws
against
the
Presbyterians
in
its
own
defence
.
Your
argument
may
be
reduced
into
form
thus
:
Some
Presbyterian
Ministers
who
lived
peaceably
at
Edinburgh
,
blamed
and
condemned
the
practices
and
rebellions
of
the
Cameronian
Presbyterians
:
Ergo
,
the
principles
of
Rebellion
are
not
to
be
charged
upon
the
Scotch
Presbyterians
in
general
.
But
Mr.
Ridpath
,
here
I
deny
your
Consequence
.
For
when
we
charge
the
Presbyterians
in
general
with
rebellious
principles
and
practices
,
we
do
not
intend
to
include
every
individual
of
that
persuasion
;
for
many
of
them
do
not
see
the
just
consequences
of
their
own
Principles
,
many
of
them
have
not
courage
enough
to
put
them
in
execution
:
many
of
them
may
be
naturally
of
so
sweet
a
temper
,
that
the
felicity
of
their
complexion
resists
the
malignity
of
their
Tenents
;
yet
notwithstanding
of
all
this
,
the
Presbyterians
for
the
most
part
are
guided
by
a
Spirit
of
rebellion
and
ill
nature
.
When
one
says
such
a
thing
is
true
of
such
a
Sect
or
Fraternity
;
generally
speaking
,
he
does
not
intend
that
it
should
be
understood
in
a
strict
universality
,
but
with
that
latitude
that
the
subject
matter
will
allow
;
and
if
you
say
,
that
the
severe
Laws
that
you
complain
of
were
made
against
such
Malefactors
,
as
Presbyterian
Ministers
themselves
condemned
;
then
I
infer
,
that
the
Laws
were
not
made
against
Presbyterians
as
such
,
but
against
those
Rebels
who
improved
their
Covenants
and
Associations
into
Seditions
,
Tumults
,
and
Insurrections
.
'T
is
very
true
,
that
those
Presbyterian
Ministers
who
were
of
a
calmer
temper
,
were
sometimes
employed
to
reclaim
the
Malefactors
to
their
Duty
,
yet
they
could
not
prevail
with
them
,
because
the
Western
Enthusiasts
had
a
higher
opinion
of
their
own
Preachers
,
who
were
Remonstrators
and
through
paced
Covenanters
,
than
they
had
of
the
more
peaceable
and
sober
Presbyterians
;
why
then
are
our
Laws
and
Governours
blamed
for
restraining
the
madness
of
such
who
were
thought
intolerable
by
Presbyterians
as
well
as
by
the
King
and
Parliament
,
and
your
reasonings
in
this
Paragraph
plainly
infer
,
that
the
King
had
nothing
in
his
view
but
to
preserve
his
hereditary
Right
,
and
the
peace
of
his
Subjects
,
when
such
and
such
Laws
were
made
against
illegal
and
tumultuous
meetings
,
as
men
of
all
persuasions
were
necessitated
to
condemn
.
But
you
add
further
,
that
this
concession
of
Sir
George
Mackenzie's
,
discovers
the
falshood
of
that
necessity
which
the
Episcopalians
pretend
the
Government
was
under
,
to
make
such
Laws
against
Presbyterians
in
their
own
defence
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
if
the
Government
was
assaulted
,
and
the
peace
openly
disturbed
,
there
was
a
plain
necessity
to
make
such
Laws
as
were
thought
proper
to
restrain
the
fury
of
such
Zealots
,
whether
they
were
Presbyterians
or
Anabaptists
,
all
is
one
to
me
;
and
if
you
say
that
Presbyterians
were
not
guilty
of
such
practices
,
then
I
say
there
were
no
Laws
made
against
the
Presbyterians
:
for
the
King
and
Parliament
did
not
consider
them
as
Presbyterians
but
as
heady
,
incorrigible
,
and
stubborn
Rebels
,
who
were
restless
in
their
nature
,
and
gave
them
perpetual
disturbance
.
What
follows
is
of
the
same
nature
with
the
former
;
You
tell
us
that
Sir
George
says
,
that
the
hereditary
Sheriffs
refused
to
put
the
Laws
in
execution
against
Conventicles
,
by
which
they
became
formidable
.
This
you
pretend
destroys
two
other
Assertions
propagated
by
our
Party
,
viz.
That
Presbyterianism
is
not
popular
,
and
that
none
but
the
Rabble
are
their
friends
.
But
Mr.
Ridpath
,
all
this
proceeds
from
your
incurable
precipitancy
and
ignorance
.
For
some
heritable
Sheriffs
might
be
inclined
to
favour
Presbytery
,
and
yet
't
is
very
true
,
that
the
most
of
their
friends
are
among
the
Rabble
;
and
when
we
say
so
,
we
do
not
intend
to
say
,
but
that
here
and
there
an
heritable
Sheriff
,
or
a
Gentleman
,
may
be
a
stiff
Covenanter
,
and
may
differ
very
little
in
his
Education
and
principles
,
from
the
inferiour
sort
of
people
,
and
if
at
any
time
we
say
that
the
Rabble
only
favours
the
Presbyterians
,
we
understand
that
Proposition
in
a
limited
sense
,
as
all
such
Propositions
must
be
understood
,
for
generally
speaking
(
except
it
be
in
the
West
of
Scotland
)
the
Presbyterians
have
very
few
Friends
among
the
Nobility
or
Gentry
;
and
though
they
had
not
the
majority
of
the
Nation
,
yet
they
might
prove
formidable
,
and
when
Sir
George
says
that
they
were
formidable
,
can
you
infer
from
it
that
they
were
more
numerous
than
their
opposites
.
At
this
rate
you
may
prove
,
that
High-waymen
,
and
Robbers
are
more
numerous
than
honest
Citizens
and
Subjects
,
because
a
very
few
of
them
are
able
to
frighten
a
whole
County
.
We
are
ever
and
anon
told
by
you
and
the
rest
of
your
Party
,
that
the
Majority
of
Scotland
is
for
Presbytery
;
but
the
wiser
men
of
your
Faction
think
otherwise
,
and
therefore
they
took
care
to
secure
their
inclosure
(
into
which
they
stumbled
by
a
fortuitous
concourse
of
many
accidents
)
by
several
Laws
and
barricadoes
not
to
be
named
in
this
place
.
When
you
recollect
your self
a
little
,
perhaps
you
may
acknowledge
that
it
is
not
wisely
done
of
you
to
abuse
so
many
of
the
Nobility
of
Scotland
,
by
such
infamous
Lyes
and
Forgeries
as
you
are
pleased
to
print
,
particularly
when
you
tell
us
,
That
the
Court
employed
bloody
,
cut-throat
Papists
to
ruine
the
Country
.
You
name
the
Earl
of
Airlie
,
and
the
Laird
of
Meldrum
;
't
is
true
,
this
may
pass
in
a
Coffee
house
at
London
where
the
Earl
of
Airgile
is
not
known
;
but
there
is
not
a
Scots-man
alive
that
ever
heard
that
either
of
these
Gentlemen
were
Papists
.
Now
this
is
very
sad
stuff
Mr.
Ridpath
,
and
any
man
that
undergoes
the
toil
of
considering
your
Books
,
if
he
knew
not
whence
they
came
,
must
be
guarded
by
extraordinary
patience
,
when
truth
and
innocence
are
almost
in
every
line
so
boldly
invaded
.
What
you
mean
when
you
tell
the
Dr.
that
he
has
wounded
his
pretences
to
Loyalty
by
defending
Sir
George
Macknzie's
Book
,
is
to
me
a
Mystery
;
for
I
am
confident
that
you
are
but
very
little
acquainted
with
him
or
his
pretences
either
.
But
you
complain
that
he
did
not
answer
your
argument
taken
from
the
consequences
of
Passive
Obedience
,
and
that
he
turns
his
back
and
takes
no
notice
of
you
.
Well
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
it
is
but
just
that
a
person
of
your
valour
should
be
met
in
open
Field
;
but
you
must
not
conclude
that
a
man
is
pusillanimous
when
he
retires
,
unless
you
have
him
so
much
under
your
authority
that
he
dare
not
move
a
step
without
your
order
,
nor
answer
any
thing
unless
in
the
method
that
you
appoint
him
.
You
impute
all
the
direful
effects
of
Arbitrary
Power
,
to
the
Episcopal
Party
and
the
Doctrine
of
Passive
Obedience
;
yet
I
am
apt
to
believe
,
that
there
is
no
people
in
the
World
loves
Arbitrary
Power
so
much
as
the
Presbyterians
do
,
and
that
they
hate
it
only
when
it
is
not
in
their
own
keeping
.
If
by
Arbitrary
Power
the
Presbyterians
mean
some
such
power
as
is
unaccountable
to
any
earthly
Tribunal
,
such
a
power
there
must
be
in
every
Government
,
and
if
it
be
not
managed
by
a
true
Christian
publick
Spirit
,
it
may
be
as
grievous
and
intolerable
in
the
hands
of
a
Parliament
,
as
in
the
hands
of
a
King.
To
declaim
against
arbitrary
power
,
is
to
declaim
against
all
Government
;
for
there
is
no
Government
upon
Earth
but
exercises
in
its
Supreme
Judicatories
arbitrary
power
and
jurisdiction
.
for
which
it
is
not
accountable
to
any
but
to
God
alone
,
where
this
finally
decisive
and
Supreme
power
ought
to
be
lodged
,
is
a
Question
that
I
leave
to
Lawyers
and
Statesmen
;
they
know
our
municipal
Laws
and
Constitutions
.
When
the
sins
of
a
Nation
provoke
God
,
then
he
punishes
them
by
foolish
,
extravagant
;
and
cruel
Magistrates
;
when
it
is
otherwise
,
and
that
God
is
pleased
with
them
,
they
enjoy
good
Laws
,
peace
and
protection
under
wise
Governours
;
and
this
is
all
the
remedy
that
is
left
in
humane
affairs
,
against
publick
calamities
and
disasters
.
There
was
no
Meeting
since
the
World
began
that
declaimed
against
arbitrary
power
so
much
as
the
long
Parliament
did
,
nor
was
ever
England
so
miserable
as
under
their
Tyranny
and
Oppressions
;
as
long
as
the
administration
of
publick
affairs
is
left
to
the
disposal
of
men
,
so
long
we
may
be
exposed
to
arbitrary
power
;
and
the
former
must
be
as
long
as
the
World
continues
:
a
Parliament
may
be
as
tyrannical
as
any
King
;
and
when
they
are
thus
pack'd
together
to
serve
a
particular
design
,
we
must
truckle
under
them
until
those
Laws
are
repealed
by
another
;
so
that
Passive
Obedience
thus
stated
,
is
necessary
under
all
Forms
and
Models
of
Government
;
it
is
all
one
thing
to
me
whether
I
am
oppressed
by
the
King
,
or
by
King
and
Parliament
;
there
is
no
Judicatory
allows
the
remedy
of
a
Rebellion
,
and
what
all
Judges
determine
in
all
Nations
,
and
at
all
times
,
must
be
the
Voice
of
God.
They
who
plead
for
the
Supreme
and
decisive
Authority
of
the
General
Assembly
in
Ecclesiastical
affairs
,
ought
to
be
more
friendly
to
Arbitrary
power
;
for
though
their
sentence
against
any
particular
Clergyman
were
never
so
unjust
and
oppressive
,
yet
he
must
strike
Sail
and
hold
his
peace
,
and
practice
Non
Resistance
to
a
greater
heighth
,
than
ever
the
Episcopal
Clergy
preached
it
,
if
he
would
not
incur
the
highest
Censures
of
the
Kirk
.
And
this
Spiritual
Tyranny
is
more
insupportable
,
than
that
which
reaches
only
our
temporal
concerns
;
and
I
am
content
without
any
blustering
or
foaming
to
reason
this
modestly
with
your self
,
or
any
other
that
you
can
name
,
but
still
with
this
proviso
,
that
there
be
many
more
present
than
you
and
I
,
for
I
am
afraid
that
we
do
not
well
understand
one
another
,
and
therefore
,
if
ever
we
meet
we
must
have
a
Moderator
to
keep
the
peace
.
You
say
that
the
Dr.
contradicts
himself
,
because
he
thought
that
there
was
no
injury
done
to
the
Presbyterians
,
in
publishing
a
Book
that
exposed
their
Fooleries
;
and
yet
he
grants
,
that
the
Author
of
that
Book
was
perhaps
unwary
as
to
some
instances
.
Good
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
see
no
contradiction
here
at
all
,
for
a
Book
may
serve
the
end
for
which
it
was
published
,
though
perhaps
the
Author
mistakes
himself
in
some
single
instances
.
There
is
no
Author
now
adays
sets
up
for
an
infallible
Dictator
;
and
you
tell
us
in
another
place
of
your
last
Pamphlet
,
that
it
is
not
possible
to
publish
so
many
particular
stories
without
committing
some
faults
;
there
is
no
doubt
but
you
have
a
very
good
opinion
of
your
own
Book
that
you
last
printed
,
yet
I
hope
you
are
convinced
before
now
,
that
the
Covenant
was
imposed
upon
Children
when
they
entred
the
University
.
Whether
the
Author
of
that
Book
mistook
himself
or
not
,
is
not
positively
affirmed
by
the
Dr.
so
your
contradiction
vanishes
into
air
and
noise
.
You
raise
more
dust
than
a
Coach
and
six
Horses
,
when
you
are
about
to
kill
a
Fly.
It
is
probable
that
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
may
be
chastised
for
having
said
that
Mr.
Rutherford's
Writings
,
in
some
places
were
past
all
human
understanding
.
I
have
no
commission
from
him
or
any
of
his
Friends
to
return
your
Language
in
Specie
.
You
tell
us
,
that
if
Mr.
Ruhterford
were
alive
,
he
would
have
scorned
to
have
fouled
his
Fingers
with
such
an
Episcopal
Hawker
;
but
indeed
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
do
not
think
that
Mr.
Rutherford
was
so
proud
,
but
that
some
time
or
other
,
he
fouled
his
Fingers
with
meaner
Creatures
than
the
Doctor
.
But
what
was
it
that
he
said
of
Mr.
Rutherford's
Writings
?
that
,
in
some
places
they
were
very
dark
and
obscure
;
and
was
this
any
such
extraordinary
Crime
?
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
love
to
say
very
little
of
Men
that
are
dead
,
if
you
think
that
his
Writings
are
so
clear
,
pray
give
us
your
Commentaries
upon
his
second
Chapter
of
his
second
Exercitation
Pro
divina
Gratia.
2.
Resp
.
Distinguo
vocem
(
verum
)
quod
unusquisque
tenetur
credere
,
id
est
,
verum
,
metaphysicè
&
fundamentaliter
,
in
se
&
quoad
eventum
,
concedo
majorem
&
tum
minorem
pernego
.
But
still
he
left
us
to
guess
what
the
other
Member
of
the
Distinction
may
be
.
Therefore
take
it
thus
,
Quod
unusquisque
tenetur
credere
,
id
est
,
verum
,
logicè
,
formaliter
,
extra
se
,
&
quoad
non
eventum
;
nego
Majorem
.
And
then
both
the
one
and
the
other
are
good
strong
Nonsense
in
all
its
formalities
.
But
he
goes
on
,
Christum
enim
pro
unoquoque
mortuum
esse
in
se
fundamentaliter
&
metaphysicè
,
non
est
verum
sed
falsum
.
Christum
pro
unoquoque
Mortuum
esse
metaphysicè
falsum
,
is
a
Phrase
I
am
not
acquainted
with
;
and
if
one
durst
speak
it
,
the
Author
seems
not
,
(
notwithstanding
of
all
the
Flights
of
his
Metaphysicks
)
to
advert
to
the
trite
distinction
between
the
Veritas
Metaphysica
and
the
Veritas
Logica
.
For
Veritas
Metaphysica
numeratur
inter
proprietates
Entis
,
&
consequenter
non
objectum
fidei
sed
simplicis
apprehensionis
;
at
propositionibus
logicè
veris
assentimur
vel
propter
testantis
auctoritatem
,
vel
propter
rei
evidentiam
:
And
the
Question
is
not
de
Metaphysica
veritate
hujus
propositionis
,
sed
de
veritate
Logica
.
This
is
not
the
only
Instance
that
may
be
pick'd
out
of
this
Paragraph
to
prove
it
obscure
and
unintelligible
;
that
other
Phrase
in
se
&
quoad
eventum
concedo
Majorem
,
is
as
dark
as
any
thing
can
be
;
nor
do
I
remark
here
the
Solecism
of
his
Latin
,
quoad
Eventum
;
but
I
name
this
Exercitation
as
unintelligible
from
the
beginning
to
the
end
.
And
because
you
are
a
Man
of
honour
,
and
cannot
endure
Contradiction
with
any
Patience
,
it
were
a
more
gallant
Exercise
for
you
to
prove
that
this
Exercitation
of
his
,
is
plain
and
solid
Theology
,
than
to
blot
so
much
Paper
with
your
imaginary
Libels
against
the
Clergy
.
You
fight
much
at
the
rate
that
the
Tartars
do
,
when
they
are
driven
before
their
Enemies
;
or
rather
like
the
Dutch
,
who
are
mounted
on
Horseback
that
they
may
flie
with
greater
Convenience
:
but
if
you
have
as
much
Courage
and
Honour
,
as
you
have
Bawling
and
Impudence
,
come
to
a
close
Engagement
,
and
prove
that
Mr.
Rutherford's
Answers
to
the
forementioned
Argument
are
solid
,
plain
and
intelligible
.
What
miraculous
Feats
other
Presbyterians
can
do
,
is
nothing
to
your
purpose
.
Add
to
the
former
Instance
Mr.
Rutherford's
Argument
in
his
22.
Chapter
of
his
Disputatio
Scholastica
de
divina
Providentia
,
to
prove
that
there
is
no
opposition
between
Sin
and
the
Divine
Nature
,
which
I
cannot
now
transcribe
,
and
yet
still
I
have
the
Confidence
to
say
that
it
is
foolish
,
childish
and
frivolous
,
and
of
the
most
pernicious
consequence
upon
the
Morals
of
Mankind
.
For
if
there
is
no
opposition
between
the
Divine
Nature
and
Sin
,
antecedenter
ad
liberum
D
E
I
decretum
,
Men
may
be
brought
to
think
that
Sin
is
not
so
odious
in
it self
,
nor
at
so
great
a
distance
from
true
Perfection
,
as
the
Scriptures
represent
it
.
But
if
you
would
see
many
more
passages
that
are
unintelligible
,
read
his
Disquisitiones
de
Ente
possibili
,
and
the
former
Exercitation
,
and
if
any
thing
can
convince
you
,
you
may
be
then
forced
to
acknowledge
that
his
Writings
are
obscure
,
and
consequently
the
Doctor
's
saying
so
did
not
furnish
you
with
the
least
umbrage
of
charging
Sir
George
Mackenzie
with
the
grossest
Immoralities
of
Life
,
for
such
I
think
the
subornation
of
Witnesses
is
.
The
next
Blow
is
for
his
Incivility
to
Mr.
Rule
,
that
he
does
not
allow
him
the
Title
of
Doctor
.
Truly
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
if
he
wilfully
made
use
of
any
other
Complement
towards
him
,
than
what
is
just
,
there
is
no
Man
alive
more
ready
to
retract
his
Error
than
he
;
he
thought
there
was
no
rudeness
in
bestowing
upon
him
the
Title
by
which
he
was
ordinarily
known
;
and
if
the
Doctor
knew
not
the
several
steps
of
his
Promotion
,
I
see
no
reason
why
you
can
accuse
him
of
Incivility
,
and
the
thing
being
purely
indifferent
;
if
he
had
been
better
informed
,
he
would
not
deny
any
thing
that
he
knew
to
be
so
easie
and
innocent
.
Next
you
tell
us
that
you
do
not
believe
the
two
instances
that
are
cited
in
that
Postscript
against
Mr.
Rule
upon
the
Doctor
's
Authority
.
But
why
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
did
the
Author
say
so
of
him
barely
upon
his
own
Authority
,
or
are
they
not
to
be
seen
both
of
them
in
his
Printed
Books
;
and
are
not
you
much
more
uncivil
to
him
,
who
revive
Stories
when
perhaps
they
are
entirely
forgotten
by
others
?
The
decretum
praedamnatum
was
not
the
Fiction
of
my
Friend
,
nor
yet
his
new
and
unnaccountable
Criticism
of
the
word
Ordinatio
;
and
now
you
may
add
another
,
which
is
decretum
praeteritum
.
And
you
may
see
these
new
Decrees
(
never
mentioned
before
by
any
Class
of
Divines
)
in
page
66
of
his
Vindication
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
.
And
now
I
think
one
is
sufficiently
provoked
to
call
you
impudent
,
that
you
bring
above-board
things
that
you
neither
understand
nor
defend
.
You
complained
,
in
your
former
Pamphlet
of
the
Injuries
done
to
Mr.
Urqhuart
and
Mr.
Kirkton
;
because
the
first
was
said
to
have
spoken
contemptuously
of
our
Blessed
Saviour
and
the
Lord's
Prayer
,
and
the
other
alledged
,
that
Abraham
run
out
of
the
Land
of
Chaldea
for
debt
.
The
Author
of
the
Postscript
told
you
that
both
these
Stories
(
which
you
your self
thought
unpardonable
)
could
be
proved
;
and
I
am
confident
many
more
of
that
nature
.
But
you
tell
us
that
you
are
sufficiently
satisfied
,
by
those
who
have
lately
made
enquiry
into
the
Affair
,
that
the
whole
is
a
malicious
Calumny
.
So
we
must
take
it
upon
your
Word
and
theirs
,
it
might
be
reasonably
expected
from
you
,
that
,
at
least
,
you
would
have
procured
under
their
own
hands
solemn
Attestations
that
they
never
said
any
such
thing
;
and
that
was
all
that
you
could
do
to
prove
your
Negative
:
and
this
might
have
been
easily
had
,
especially
from
Mr.
J.
K.
who
lives
at
Edinburgh
;
nor
is
there
any
of
us
so
far
exasperated
against
him
as
not
to
believe
his
own
Testimony
solemnly
and
seriously
delivered
.
And
this
is
more
Civility
on
our
part
,
than
any
of
them
will
allow
us
at
any
time
,
or
upon
any
occasion
.
If
I
were
at
Edinburgh
I
could
prove
the
Affirmative
;
and
you
must
excuse
me
to
continue
just
where
I
was
,
notwithstanding
of
all
the
Informations
you
have
received
.
The
following
Paragraph
hath
in
it
more
Impertinencies
than
there
are
Lines
,
and
yet
it
is
probable
that
many
of
your
Sect
may
think
it
seraphically
witty
.
The
Author
of
the
Postscript
said
,
that
the
absurd
and
ludicrous
Sect
metamorphos'd
Religion
and
its
solemn
Excercises
into
Theatrical
Scenes
.
Another
of
the
same
Fraternity
says
,
that
your
Preachers
were
whining
Fellows
that
drivelled
at
Mouth
and
Eyes
.
And
thus
you
make
them
contradicct
one
another
,
and
then
you
run
away
with
a
loud
holla'a
,
as
if
you
were
at
the
Head
of
the
Rabble
pulling
down
a
Cathedral
,
to
see
so
many
Curates
slain
with
the
Jaw
bone
of
an
Ass
.
The
word
Theatrical
Scenes
does
not
determine
whether
your
Preachers
acted
Comedies
or
Tragedies
,
and
a
whining
Scaramouchi
may
act
his
part
in
either
;
and
if
so
,
the
many
Words
,
which
you
have
gathered
to
no
purpose
,
discover
your
Ignorance
,
and
not
any
Contradiction
amongst
them
whom
you
hate
.
But
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
are
you
not
in
a
strange
Career
when
you
can
never
hit
upon
the
true
nature
of
a
Contradiction
;
I
am
not
surpriz'd
that
you
do
not
know
the
Nature
of
a
Comedy
and
Tragedy
,
for
you
never
read
Aristotle
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
nor
none
of
the
Commentators
upon
him
,
either
ancient
or
modern
;
yet
you
might
,
in
two
months
time
(
for
so
long
I
am
told
you
was
at
the
University
)
have
learned
what
a
strict
and
formal
Contradiction
is
.
That
the
Presbyterians
were
better
at
Libelling
than
their
Neighbours
,
is
evident
from
all
Records
;
and
therefore
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
had
good
Reason
to
say
,
that
Libelling
was
their
Characteristick
,
as
that
which
they
most
practised
,
and
excelled
all
others
in
;
that
,
in
which
they
placed
most
of
their
Strength
and
Confidence
,
and
which
they
will
never
forbear
,
if
they
happen
to
live
where
there
is
any
to
be
accused
.
But
you
say
that
your
Enemies
were
the
first
Aggressors
,
and
their
bold
Attempts
against
the
Godly
,
justifies
all
the
rough
Treatment
that
they
have
met
with
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
there
is
one
thing
that
I
would
entreat
you
to
condescend
to
,
and
it
is
,
in
itself
,
very
just
and
reasonable
,
and
unless
you
yield
to
it
,
we
may
fight
to
our
last
breath
without
satisfying
one
another
or
serving
any
good
Design
,
the
thing
is
this
,
when
you
accuse
Persons
and
Parties
,
you
must
be
more
express
,
definite
and
particular
in
your
Libels
.
I
am
of
the
Opinion
that
it
is
not
possible
for
Presbyterians
to
forbear
Libelling
,
especially
upon
all
publick
Turns
and
Revolutions
;
their
Libels
against
the
Clergy
both
in
England
and
in
Scotland
,
are
still
upon
Record
.
Did
you
never
see
the
Centuries
of
scandalous
Ministers
accused
before
the
Long-Parliament
.
The
General
Libel
against
the
Bishops
of
Scotland
may
be
seen
,
when
you
please
,
in
the
King
's
Large
Manifesto
,
and
in
the
first
Volume
of
Nalson's
Collections
,
and
if
you
believe
neither
of
these
Books
,
since
they
were
both
written
by
Malignants
,
read
the
Acts
of
the
General
Assembly
,
1638
,
and
there
you
have
the
very
same
Libels
mentioned
;
and
there
is
no
Presbyterian
but
knows
,
that
the
Libels
against
the
Bishops
,
in
the
Year
1638
,
were
read
from
all
the
Pulpits
of
the
Nation
where
the
Assembly's
Authority
was
obeyed
:
and
what
is
said
,
by
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
,
of
their
Behaviour
towards
Archbishop
Spotswood
,
is
commonly
attested
by
the
oldest
Men
in
that
corner
of
the
Country
,
near
St.
Andrews
.
Particularly
this
is
more
carefully
preserved
in
the
Family
of
Ballfour
.
And
the
Bishop
of
O.
and
Mr.
Sage
of
Glasgow
,
had
this
very
Story
from
the
Laird
of
Ballfour's
own
mouth
.
'T
is
true
that
there
is
an
Act
of
the
General
Assembly
,
mentioning
the
Libels
against
the
Bishops
,
but
there
are
also
among
the
unprinted
Acts
,
Acts
of
Excommunication
and
Deposition
against
some
Prelates
;
and
when
those
Acts
are
produced
,
I
offer
to
prove
,
from
their
own
Authentick
Records
,
many
more
steps
of
their
Fraud
and
Artifice
.
That
there
are
such
Acts
as
I
last
named
unprinted
,
vid.
Index
of
the
principal
unprinted
Acts
of
the
Assembly
at
Glasgow
,
1638.
And
if
they
were
not
afraid
of
being
discovered
and
exposed
,
upon
this
very
Head
,
those
Acts
had
been
printed
as
well
as
the
other
Principal
Acts
;
nay
,
the
Act
against
Episcopacy
it self
was
not
printed
,
because
it
could
not
but
alarm
all
the
Protestant
Churches
abroad
against
them
,
when
the
Order
of
Episcopacy
was
condemned
as
simpliciter
unlawful
;
a
thing
unheard
in
the
Christian
Church
,
until
the
mungrel
Conventicle
at
Glasgow
sat
:
therefore
the
Act
against
Episcopacy
was
left
unprinted
as
well
as
the
Acts
of
Excommunication
and
Deposition
against
some
Prelates
.
And
this
is
either
altogether
unknown
to
,
or
dissembled
by
Mr.
Gilb.
Rule
,
when
he
denies
the
Truth
of
that
Story
,
as
related
by
the
Author
of
the
Five
Letters
.
And
you
are
a
Fool
to
think
,
that
,
in
those
days
,
when
Rebellion
and
Hypocrisie
were
triumphant
,
they
would
have
stuck
at
such
little
Punctilio's
,
and
not
practise
all
Arts
to
delude
the
Populace
.
I
hope
you
do
not
deny
what
use
they
made
of
Margaret
Mitchelson's
Visions
,
Raptures
and
Revelations
,
by
which
they
persuaded
the
People
that
the
Covenant
was
authorised
by
immediate
Revelations
from
Heaven
,
as
well
as
by
the
Popular
Tumults
at
Edinburgh
.
The
Knavery
against
Archbishop
Spotswood
was
an
Injury
done
to
him
and
the
Church
;
but
the
counterfeit
Raptures
of
Margaret
Mitchelson
(
countenanced
by
your
Party
)
mocked
and
defied
God's
Justice
and
Providence
,
no
less
than
it
ridicul'd
and
prophan'd
all
Religion
.
[
Vid.
King
's
large
Declaration
.
]
Nay
,
they
procured
Libels
against
the
Clergy
from
most
Counties
in
England
;
and
in
those
Counties
where
they
had
none
to
work
upon
of
their
own
Gang
,
they
forged
Libels
,
and
presented
such
counterfeit
Petitions
in
the
name
of
such
Counties
,
and
dispersed
their
Forgeries
for
real
Truths
,
to
make
their
Party
appear
numerous
,
and
the
*
Clergy
odious
.
And
Sir
Thomas
Aston
petitioned
the
House
of
Lords
against
this
villanous
Practice
;
but
this
was
not
welcome
to
those
Lords
who
favoured
the
Faction
,
and
therefore
Sir
Thomas
Aston
was
reprehended
,
and
the
Forgerers
gently
rebuked
.
And
my
Author
truly
observes
,
that
this
was
like
to
prove
aglorious
Reformation
,
which
was
built
upon
such
Foundations
,
and
advanced
by
such
Arts
and
Methods
.
So
that
if
you
mean
the
former
Presbyterians
,
they
were
the
first
Aggressors
;
and
if
you
mean
the
modern
,
they
practised
this
Trade
of
Libelling
ever
since
the
beginning
of
the
Revolution
,
and
long
before
the
Book
appeared
that
provoked
your
displeasure
,
and
they
are
much
better
at
it
than
their
opposites
;
their
curiosity
reaches
to
the
meanest
concerns
.
There
are
no
people
in
the
World
can
give
such
exact
account
of
their
Neighbours
,
when
they
rise
,
and
when
they
go
to
bed
,
what
they
eat
,
and
what
they
drink
,
what
they
say
,
and
with
whom
they
converse
;
and
this
is
the
reason
why
they
so
often
blow
up
the
neighbourhood
into
flames
of
Contention
and
Calumny
.
Name
me
but
one
Man
since
the
name
of
Presbyterians
was
known
to
the
World
,
that
ever
gave
them
any
sensible
provocation
,
whom
they
have
not
persecuted
with
their
Tongues
and
Libels
to
the
utmost
of
their
power
.
They
were
not
only
the
first
Aggressors
,
but
they
continued
their
practices
under
the
Reign
of
Charles
II.
and
since
the
Revolution
the
Libels
against
the
Clergy
have
employed
their
Presbyteries
,
Synods
,
and
Assemblies
,
not
to
mention
the
Libels
against
Masters
of
Universities
,
where
there
was
no
Accuser
.
I
have
insisted
the
longer
upon
this
,
to
let
you
see
the
vanity
of
a
common
topick
that
runs
through
both
your
Pamphlets
;
Libelling
is
so
peculiar
to
the
Presbyterians
,
that
they
cannot
think
of
reforming
it
;
in
all
their
conversations
their
discourse
runs
most
upon
them
that
are
absent
.
It
is
an
idle
thing
to
deny
plain
matter
of
Fact
,
especially
when
it
is
supported
by
publick
Records
,
Practices
,
and
the
unanimous
Suffrages
of
a
whole
Nation
.
I
think
it
enough
to
prove
by
the
most
undeniable
evidence
,
that
in
this
art
of
Libelling
you
are
the
first
aggressors
,
and
the
only
experienced
practitioners
,
without
putting
my self
to
the
pains
of
calling
you
Rogue
,
Villain
,
Rascal
,
impudent
Lyar
,
and
such
like
gentile
names
as
you
bestow
upon
your
Adversaries
.
You
add
,
That
it
is
natural
for
a
Cadet
of
Dumbarton's
Regiment
,
which
used
to
plunder
people
of
their
goods
,
to
rob
Men
of
their
good
Names
,
and
therefore
ought
not
to
be
believed
.
This
is
a
new
Article
which
we
have
not
heard
of
before
,
that
he
plundered
people
of
their
goods
,
and
it
supplies
the
defects
of
the
Original
Libel
in
the
Inquisition
;
and
it
is
very
ordinary
for
the
Presbyterians
to
represent
such
as
they
Libel
,
actually
guilty
of
the
breach
of
the
Ten
Commandments
:
Now
Your
Woman
amongst
the
Corn
,
and
the
plundering
people
of
their
goods
,
added
to
the
former
Libel
makes
him
actually
guilty
of
the
breach
of
all
.
For
in
the
first
Libel
,
He
is
accused
of
having
no
Religion
,
and
of
Swearing
,
so
at
one
stroke
he
transgresses
the
first
four
;
and
the
two
Articles
added
in
your
Continuation
,
together
with
his
Reflections
against
the
Presbyterians
make
him
guilty
of
the
rest
,
either
expresly
or
by
necessary
consequence
.
But
Mr.
Ridpath
,
you
do
not
know
the
discipline
of
the
French
Army
,
and
if
he
had
inclinations
to
rob
and
plunder
,
this
is
a
more
proper
time
to
practise
it
;
when
He
is
turned
out
of
all
his
Possessions
,
and
allowed
no
other
employment
under
this
Reformation
than
to
answer
Libels
.
And
indeed
I
think
if
you
were
a
Soldier
,
you
have
no
principle
to
restrain
you
from
plundering
when
you
might
venture
with
safety
,
especially
in
a
Popish
Country
,
the
true
Israelites
,
and
Covenanters
might
take
the
Egyptian
goods
without
scruple
or
remorse
;
as
they
formerly
did
at
New-Castle
,
contrary
to
Articles
and
Capitulations
.
Your
Grammatical
Lecture
of
the
Literae
Mutabiles
,
you
may
recommend
to
your
Scholars
,
and
whatever
proficiency
you
have
made
in
Grammar
,
you
seem
to
me
to
reason
much
like
the
Gentleman
that
I
formerly
named
,
who
thought
himself
of
Ovid's
Family
.
You
had
better
let
fall
the
mention
of
Archbishop
Sharp
,
than
bring
him
so
often
upon
the
Stage
to
the
disgrace
of
your
Party
.
He
was
certainly
murdered
,
not
by
an
accidental
effort
of
fury
and
passion
as
you
alleadge
;
but
in
a
most
deliberate
manner
,
after
many
Cabals
and
consultations
kept
for
that
very
end
;
and
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
did
not
reason
from
Shields
his
authority
so
much
as
from
the
Principles
he
went
upon
,
his
Book
being
an
accurate
Collection
of
several
authentick
Papers
,
and
avowed
practices
of
his
Party
since
the
Reformation
;
nor
was
it
ever
said
,
that
sober
Presbyterians
did
allow
of
his
Murder
:
but
how
few
of
them
are
sober
?
and
I
can
tell
you
more
,
that
the
Presbyterian
Ladies
in
Fife
at
that
very
time
,
did
industriously
shun
in
all
conversation
to
call
this
bloody
Act
,
a
Murder
;
but
gravely
said
,
that
indeed
the
Man
was
slain
,
but
they
could
not
think
that
any
thing
that
was
performed
by
so
great
a
Saint
as
Rathillat
and
his
religious
Cut-throats
,
could
be
called
a
Murder
.
And
when
such
practises
are
charged
upon
the
Presbyterians
in
general
,
it
is
not
intended
(
as
I
told
you
once
already
)
to
involve
every
individual
;
it
is
not
possible
to
deprave
the
nature
of
some
particular
men
to
that
degree
,
though
they
seem
to
maintain
principles
that
yield
pernicious
Consequences
.
But
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
by
conversing
with
your self
I
am
become
a
little
more
bold
,
and
I
offer
to
prove
from
Presbyterian
principles
,
that
Archbishop
Sharp
ought
to
have
been
murdered
,
are
not
all
the
Covenanters
obliged
to
bring
their
Enemies
to
condign
punishment
?
and
when
the
Magistrates
are
open
and
avowed
Enemies
to
the
cause
of
God
,
is
it
not
lawful
for
some
to
interpose
?
especially
when
acted
by
Heroical
impulse
to
stop
the
universal
deluge
of
Impiety
,
that
was
likely
to
drown
the
whole
Nation
,
to
recover
the
freedom
of
the
Church
that
was
run
down
by
Tyranny
and
Perjury
,
contrary
to
all
National
Obligations
,
former
Laws
and
Liberties
.
Did
not
King
Charles
II.
himself
know
*
,
that
he
had
forfeited
his
Title
to
the
Crown
?
and
was
it
necessary
according
to
you
to
delay
the
execution
of
Justice
in
this
calamitous
posture
of
publick
affairs
,
unless
it
could
be
procured
in
due
form
?
when
it
was
not
possible
for
honest
men
to
be
heard
:
especially
since
the
Covenanters
struck
off
the
heads
of
Montrose
,
Huntley
,
Haddo
,
Spotswood
,
for
acting
by
a
Commission
from
the
very
King
,
by
whose
Commission
they
themselves
pretended
to
hold
their
places
.
What
is
there
in
the
Murder
of
Archbishop
Sharp
that
may
not
be
justified
by
your
Principles
?
Did
not
He
deserve
death
?
No
doubt
you
think
he
did
;
and
if
it
be
only
the
Forms
that
you
stand
upon
,
must
the
seasonable
execution
of
Justice
be
delayed
,
because
it
cannot
be
had
in
all
its
regular
steps
and
formalities
,
when
the
Magistrates
openly
tyrannize
and
oppress
our
Liberties
Civil
and
Religious
?
At
this
rate
you
disown
the
most
publick
acts
of
the
Covenanters
.
By
what
form
of
Law
then
in
being
,
did
the
Tables
of
your
Govenanters
sit
at
Edinburgh
,
when
they
were
forbidden
by
open
Proclamation
to
continue
any
longer
their
Consultations
and
Cabals
.
If
you
pretend
the
necessity
of
their
affairs
,
was
there
ever
any
state
of
things
more
lamentable
in
it self
,
than
you
represent
the
Reign
of
King
Charles
II.
to
be
?
and
if
so
,
why
might
not
some
resolute
and
gallant
Heroes
,
some
true
Sons
of
the
Covenant
,
venture
,
without
the
ordinary
forms
,
to
do
justice
speedily
upon
such
an
eminent
opposer
of
Religion
as
Archbishop
Sharp
was
?
The
Laws
of
self-defence
and
preservation
,
as
you
explain
them
,
dispence
with
Forms
,
when
the
thing
is
for
the
matter
right
in
itself
,
and
the
Magistrate
not
only
neglects
,
but
avowedly
opposes
Truth
,
Justice
,
and
Innocence
;
then
't
is
time
for
men
of
Courage
and
Resolution
to
step
forth
and
assert
their
Religion
and
Liberties
,
not
by
the
tedious
method
of
Law
,
Order
and
Process
,
when
Covenants
and
Original
Contracts
are
turned
topsie
turvy
,
but
speedily
and
by
open
Force
pull
Antichrist
from
the
Throne
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
be
advised
by
me
,
do
not
stand
so
much
upon
Forms
;
else
you
must
part
with
your
best
beloved
Principle
and
Covenanted
Reformation
.
And
if
the
Murder
of
Archbishop
Sharp
be
sincerely
disowned
by
the
Presbyterians
,
since
they
are
so
often
upbraided
and
reproached
with
it
;
why
do
not
they
by
some
solemn
Act
of
their
Assembly
declare
,
that
the
killing
of
Cardinal
Beaton
and
Archbishop
Sharp
were
villainous
Murders
?
tho
the
first
was
usheredin
by
Prayer
,
and
the
other
by
singing
of
Psalms
.
You
oppose
your
own
Authority
to
Mr.
Shields
,
and
this
I
am
sure
many
of
your
own
party
will
laugh
at
;
whether
you
have
the
Ascendent
of
the
Doctor
in
the
point
of
Philosophy
,
I
will
give
you
my
Thoughts
of
that
before
I
end
this
Letter
.
The
Doctrine
of
Passive
Obedience
comes
again
in
your
way
,
and
nothing
is
more
odious
to
so
brisk
and
daring
a
Spirit
as
the
very
thought
of
so
tame
and
silly
a
Discipline
;
and
you
refer
us
to
the
incomparable
Argument
lately
published
by
Mr.
Johnson
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
agree
with
you
,
that
the
Preface
of
Mr.
Johnson's
Book
hath
in
it
very
pleasant
Stroaks
of
Wit
and
Fancy
;
but
as
to
the
argumentative
part
of
his
Book
,
it
proves
the
Doctrine
of
Passive
Obedience
to
be
Heterodox
,
by
an
Argument
of
equal
Strength
with
that
of
your
own
,
by
which
you
prove
the
Episcopal
Clergy
to
be
Enthusiasts
.
You
tell
us
next
,
that
his
Defences
of
Mr.
Brown
and
Mr.
Cant
,
are
so
like
a
Pedantick
Doctor
,
that
they
deserve
no
regard
,
and
what
you
said
of
them
you
can
bring
the
Authors
to
avow
it
to
their
Faces
.
Now
we
fall
upon
the
Common-place
of
Pedantry
;
and
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
you
must
understand
that
there
are
Pedants
in
all
Employments
.
If
the
vanity
of
appearing
learned
and
knowing
where
there
is
no
solid
Foundation
to
support
the
Character
deserve
that
Name
,
perhaps
the
citing
so
many
Logical
Axioms
in
your
Pamphlet
,
which
you
do
not
at
all
understand
,
may
,
in
the
Opinion
of
some
,
make
you
pass
for
a
Pedant
.
But
,
to
let
this
go
,
tho
the
Doctor
's
being
a
Cadet
in
Dumbarton's
Regiment
,
was
not
,
in
your
Opinion
,
an
auspicious
Omen
of
Piety
and
Humanity
,
yet
one
might
think
it
a
good
Presage
of
his
Freedom
from
Pedantry
,
at
least
as
good
as
any
of
your
most
remarkable
Adventures
in
my
Lord
Wh
—
ton's
Kitchin.
The
Doctor
said
,
that
Mr.
George
Brown
,
Minister
of
Drysdale
,
processed
Andrew
Johnston
of
Lockerby
,
vigorously
before
the
Ecclesiastical
Court
for
his
Crime
of
Adultery
,
and
therefore
his
alledged
connivance
was
a
Presbyterian
Fogery
.
And
here
the
Affiemative
was
his
,
which
I
prove
by
the
following
Certificate
under
the
hands
of
four
Witnesses
;
two
in
the
Parish
of
St.
Margaret's
Westminster
,
another
in
Cornhill
near
the
Exchange
,
and
the
fourth
without
Aldersgate
.
WE
whose
Names
are
underwritten
,
hereby
testifie
and
declare
,
upon
Honour
and
Conscience
,
that
,
to
our
certain
knowledge
,
Mr.
George
Brown
,
Minister
of
Drysdale
in
the
Diocese
of
Glasgow
,
processed
Andrew
Johnston
of
Lockerby
so
vigorously
,
for
his
Crime
of
Adultery
with
Sarah
Brown
,
that
he
got
him
formally
excommunicated
.
Given
under
our
Hands
at
London
the
Fourth
of
July
,
1693.
Alex.
Guthrie
,
Andr.
Johnston
.
Tho.
Mitchell
.
Alex.
Johnston
.
Now
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
where
lies
the
Pedantry
in
saying
so
and
so
of
Mr.
Brown
;
is
not
your
Accusation
against
him
proved
to
be
a
Lie.
And
as
for
your
Charge
against
Mr.
Andrew
Cant
,
that
he
was
suspended
,
&c.
it
is
purely
a
Fiction
from
top
to
bottom
we
cannot
prove
a
Negative
otherwise
than
by
informing
the
World
that
we
who
are
his
most
intimate
Acquaintances
never
heard
of
any
such
thing
;
he
was
never
suspended
,
and
consequently
never
used
any
mean
Arts
to
ingratiate
himself
with
his
Superiours
,
the
first
is
a
Romance
,
and
therefore
the
Superstructed
must
be
a
Forgery
.
And
when
you
charge
the
Doctor
with
Pedantry
,
read
over
your
own
learned
Book
of
the
Sufferings
of
Presbyterians
from
the
Episcopalians
,
especially
your
nasty
and
fulsome
Epithets
that
you
bestow
upon
such
as
you
bark
at
,
viz.
that
they
are
Tyranno-Papa-Prelatical
,
and
then
let
any
impartial
Reader
judge
whether
you
do
not
deserve
a
place
ante
omnem
circulum
amongst
the
Pedants
.
There
is
nothing
in
all
the
Athenian
Flexions
and
Compositions
,
like
that
High
and
Majestick
Word
,
Tyranno-Papa-Prelatical
.
'T
is
worthy
of
the
noble
Mr.
Ridpath's
high
flown
Genius
;
and
if
you
were
on
the
top
of
a
Hill
in
Galloway
,
preaching
to
a
Field-Meeting
,
this
one
single
World
would
confound
your
Auditors
into
a
belief
that
you
were
a
precious
,
gracious
,
convincing
Man.
Who
could
stand
before
so
much
Eloquence
and
Acuteness
,
Bombabamachides
,
Clunenstaridesarchides
in
Campis
Gurgustidoniis
.
The
Author
of
the
Postscript
said
,
that
you
charged
our
Superiours
with
such
as
were
deposed
for
their
Immoralities
,
ad
Dean
Hamilton
,
and
Cockburn
of
St.
Bothens
.
To
this
you
say
,
that
you
charged
them
only
with
having
protected
those
Men
from
the
Punishment
due
to
their
Impieties
.
But
did
they
protect
them
when
they
were
deposed
?
And
how
can
you
say
that
ever
they
were
protected
?
If
their
Superiors
waited
for
full
and
clear
Evidences
against
them
before
they
pronounced
Sentence
,
here
was
no
protection
of
Criminals
,
but
Obedience
to
the
Laws
;
and
tho
your
Party
be
not
tied
to
Forms
,
yet
we
think
our selves
obliged
to
act
as
we
are
directed
by
the
Laws
.
You
fall
next
upon
Archbishop
Paterson
,
and
the
Lies
that
you
have
published
formerly
of
Archbishop
Cairncross
,
which
are
plainly
refuted
in
his
own
printed
Letter
,
to
the
Conviction
of
all
men
,
shews
what
credit
you
deserve
when
you
accuse
either
of
them
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
you
think
it
a
palpable
Blunder
to
say
,
that
some
who
complyed
with
Episcopacy
after
the
Restoration
of
King
Charles
II.
were
Presbyterians
;
and
this
is
another
sad
Instance
of
your
Ignorance
;
for
they
were
required
to
do
nothing
inconsistent
with
the
Principles
of
moderate
Presbyterians
;
and
all
the
Ringleaders
of
the
Covenanters
,
had
their
Mission
from
the
Bishops
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
and
do
you
think
that
they
did
not
then
conform
to
Episcopacy
,
or
that
they
were
not
Presbyterians
?
I
am
afraid
that
the
little
Club
,
whereof
you
are
Moderator
,
does
not
throughly
understand
the
Principles
of
Presbytery
.
Had
we
no
Presbyterian
Ministers
in
Scotland
,
but
such
as
deserted
their
Churches
in
the
West
after
the
Restoration
?
was
it
ever
required
of
any
of
them
that
conformed
to
Episcopacy
,
to
assert
that
Episcopacy
,
was
preferable
to
a
Parity
of
Presbyters
?
No
;
they
still
enjoyed
their
own
liberty
of
thinking
what
they
pleased
,
if
they
obeyed
their
Superiours
in
licitis
&
honestis
.
Were
not
Mr.
Meldrum
and
Mr.
Wilkie
,
and
many
others
that
I
could
name
,
Presbyterians
,
tho
they
conformed
to
Episcopacy
?
They
themselves
think
that
they
were
so
still
;
to
my
certain
knowledge
the
last
was
,
and
I
know
him
to
be
so
honest
a
Man
,
that
he
never
endeavoured
to
hide
his
Principles
,
and
he
thought
that
he
did
nothing
in
conforming
to
Episcopacy
,
inconsistent
with
his
own
Opinions
,
and
he
would
have
continued
still
in
the
Communion
of
the
Episcopal
Church
if
a
later
Test
had
not
removed
him
.
You
must
not
think
that
all
the
Presbyterians
are
warmed
to
an
equal
degree
of
Heat
:
there
are
some
,
tho
very
few
,
more
calm
and
solid
than
their
younger
Brethren
.
Read
Mr.
Rutherford's
due
right
of
Presbytery
(
and
I
cannot
name
a
Book
more
acceptable
)
perhaps
you
may
meet
with
some
Notions
there
that
are
not
so
agreeable
to
the
late
Model
of
Presbytery
;
the
last
Edition
of
a
Book
is
still
auctior
&
emendatior
.
And
if
it
was
a
Blunder
to
say
,
that
some
who
continued
Presbyterian
in
their
Principles
,
conformed
to
the
external
Order
of
the
Church
under
Episcopacy
,
they
who
did
so
conform
are
obliged
to
defend
him
.
You
still
oblige
your
Adversaries
to
prove
Negatives
;
when
you
libel
Dr.
Canaries
,
you
tell
us
,
that
tho
the
Ministers
and
Judicatories
declared
,
that
they
could
make
nothing
of
the
Accusation
brought
against
him
,
yet
that
will
not
amount
to
prove
it
false
;
and
because
a
Negative
in
matter
of
Fact
is
not
demonstrated
(
a
thing
in
it self
absolutely
impossible
)
you
therefore
conclude
,
that
still
you
may
accuse
him
as
guilty
;
but
if
nothing
could
be
made
of
it
why
should
you
propagate
or
continue
the
Slander
?
for
not
only
are
you
destitute
of
true
and
solid
Proofs
,
but
all
your
Evidences
when
they
are
aggravated
by
Presbyterian
Malice
,
could
never
be
heightned
into
a
plausible
Presumption
of
his
Fault
.
If
I
should
accuse
you
of
having
committed
Incest
with
your
Mother
,
you
could
not
prove
it
to
be
false
otherwise
than
by
letting
the
World
know
,
that
nothing
could
be
made
of
it
;
and
if
so
,
no
honest
Man
will
defame
you
upon
that
head
.
But
you
tell
us
,
that
there
is
unexceptionable
Evidence
of
the
Woman's
having
declared
the
thing
her self
.
What
thing
her self
declared
I
know
not
;
but
for
the
unexceptionable
Evidence
,
't
is
only
upon
Record
in
the
World
of
the
Moon
,
else
we
had
seen
it
in
legible
Characters
long
e'er
now
.
But
you
tell
us
,
that
the
reputation
of
your
Informer
is
fairer
than
that
of
either
of
the
two
Dr's
.
Mr
Ridpath
,
I
do
not
know
who
this
Gentleman
is
,
and
therefore
in
modesty
I
must
forbear
to
make
comparisons
;
but
if
he
will
preserve
his
Reputation
,
he
must
smother
his
Evidence
.
What
you
drive
at
towards
the
close
of
this
Section
,
is
past
my
skill
to
find
out
;
when
you
say
,
That
we
have
a
very
pregnant
instance
of
a
Person
of
no
mean
Note
,
whose
accusation
,
most
in
England
are
satisfied
is
true
,
and
yet
we
see
nothing
can
be
made
out
,
neither
before
the
Judges
nor
the
Lords
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
You
leave
it
uncertain
whether
the
Person
of
no
mean
Note
be
the
Accuser
or
the
Accused
.
But
to
demonstrate
the
impertinence
of
this
Instance
,
and
that
you
understand
Law
as
little
as
you
do
the
Rules
of
Logick
.
I
put
the
case
,
that
Titius
accuses
his
wise
Moevia
of
Adultery
;
the
Judges
may
be
persuaded
that
the
accusation
of
Titius
is
true
,
though
the
evidences
be
not
so
full
as
the
Law
requires
;
yet
being
plain
and
positive
in
their
nature
,
and
but
a
degree
removed
from
full
proof
;
such
presumptions
of
guilt
which
the
Civilians
call
praesumptiones
juris
&
de
jure
,
leave
deep
impressions
upon
all
,
when
duly
conveyed
to
our
knowledge
:
because
they
are
as
near
as
can
be
to
that
which
is
plena
probatio
in
foro
.
But
pray
,
have
you
any
such
presumptions
against
the
Dr
?
Is
there
any
plain
evidence
against
him
?
and
if
nothing
can
be
made
of
it
as
the
Judicatories
declare
,
then
't
is
many
degrees
below
a
Presumption
;
much
less
that
higher
presumption
which
is
the
ground
of
a
reasonable
Suspicion
.
But
you
add
,
that
,
Suppose
the
accusation
against
the
Dr.
to
be
false
,
yet
it
argues
a
great
want
of
cleanly
Men
amongst
the
Episcopalians
,
that
they
should
choose
a
Man
for
Agent
who
lay
under
a
flagrant
Scandal
.
The
Apostle's
Rule
is
clear
,
that
a
Bishop
ought
to
be
blameless
.
A
surmise
magnified
by
Presbyterian
malice
illustrates
rather
than
darkens
a
man's
Reputation
,
and
clears
his
innocence
;
not
to
be
evil
spoken
of
by
such
whose
Element
is
Calumny
,
is
an
argument
of
no
great
Spirit
,
and
far
less
activity
.
But
you
say
,
that
the
Apostle's
Rule
is
clear
;
I
say
so
too
,
but
your
Head
is
not
clear
because
the
Apostle
says
,
that
a
Bishop
ought
to
be
blameless
;
therefore
you
conclude
,
that
if
Bishops
at
any
time
are
evil
spoken
of
and
traduced
,
they
must
be
no
longer
Bishops
.
At
this
rate
the
most
innocent
and
deserving
men
must
be
disowned
,
and
the
greatest
Luminaries
of
the
Church
must
expect
to
be
cashier'd
.
Athanasius
was
accused
of
abominable
immoralities
;
and
St.
John
the
Baptist
was
said
to
have
a
Devil
;
and
the
Great
Bishop
of
our
Souls
was
accused
of
being
a
friend
to
Publicans
and
Sinners
;
he
went
to
Feasts
and
entertainments
which
the
Puritanical
Pharisee
could
not
behold
without
grumbling
and
censuring
;
they
would
quietly
whisper
in
their
Neighbours
Ears
,
that
though
he
said
many
good
things
,
and
wrought
many
Miracles
,
yet
he
was
still
a
stranger
to
the
power
of
Godliness
;
he
kept
ill
Company
,
and
the
Modern
Phanaticks
would
add
,
that
he
was
for
forms
of
Prayer
;
and
a
great
many
other
things
he
did
,
that
the
Spirit
of
detraction
took
by
the
wrong
handle
.
If
your
Commentary
upon
these
words
,
A
Bishop
ought
to
be
blameless
,
had
appear'd
before
the
Scotch
Eloquence
came
abroad
,
it
ought
to
have
had
its
own
room
in
that
Book
,
Corah
,
Dathan
,
and
Abiram
,
raised
many
Scandals
,
and
they
were
Scandals
of
Prelacy
and
Priest-craft
too
,
against
Moses
and
Aaron
;
and
by
your
argument
they
ought
both
of
them
to
have
been
deprived
of
their
Honour
and
Government
.
The
next
mistake
is
as
foolish
and
impertinent
,
though
not
so
dangerous
as
your
wresting
the
Holy
Scriptures
to
serve
the
heats
of
your
deluded
Fancy
.
You
tell
us
,
that
Dr.
M
—
o
was
very
angry
that
you
said
of
him
,
[
commonly
called
Dr.
]
but
I
assure
you
,
you
mistook
his
meaning
:
he
could
not
but
remark
a
Quaker
expression
[
commonly
called
]
and
so
much
the
rather
,
that
there
are
many
Presbyterians
who
industriously
shun
the
giving
any
such
Title
;
for
those
Academick
distinctions
look
so
near
the
Whore
of
Babylon
,
that
it
is
not
safe
for
the
Saints
to
use
such
words
;
and
if
the
Dr.
has
any
grains
of
Pride
(
which
perhaps
might
be
allowed
in
a
Cadet
of
Dumbarton's
Regiment
)
yet
his
ambition
runs
in
another
Channel
than
to
affect
empty
sounds
and
big
words
.
I
thought
(
and
I
think
I
know
him
better
than
you
do
)
that
a
careless
easiness
rather
than
reserve
,
distance
or
singularity
,
made
up
his
Character
;
the
affectation
of
Titles
at
this
time
is
very
unsuitable
to
the
Scotch
Clergy
,
yet
it
is
not
in
the
power
of
might
or
malice
to
make
some
of
them
fawn
upon
the
Presbyterians
:
and
though
we
are
obliged
to
forgive
our
Enemies
heartily
and
sincerely
,
we
must
not
be
so
abject
as
to
encourage
them
to
continue
their
Hostilities
,
but
there
is
a
greater
impertinence
in
your
Censure
of
the
Dr
;
for
when
you
made
him
to
ride
in
the
Popes
Guards
with
a
—
●o
insinuate
the
many
Crimes
that
he
was
guilty
of
at
Rome
,
you
conclude
thus
,
which
methinks
looks
somewhat
strange
that
such
kind
of
men
should
be
the
greatest
sticklers
for
the
Party
.
If
you
represent
the
Party
as
odious
and
irreligious
,
and
him
of
the
same
temper
with
his
Party
;
what
is
there
strange
in
this
,
that
an
ill
man
should
defend
an
ill
cause
:
but
the
most
ordinary
things
appear
to
you
in
your
Dreams
and
Visions
,
Monsters
,
Miracles
and
Contradictions
.
You
are
so
sharpsighted
in
discovering
Contradictions
,
that
you
see
them
almost
in
every
line
;
and
because
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
said
,
that
Dr.
Canaries
was
treated
with
special
Honour
by
a
Presbyterians
Judicature
;
therefore
this
is
made
a
contradiction
to
what
others
say
of
them
,
that
they
are
a
proud
,
soure
,
unconversible
Tribe
.
But
this
is
your
everlasting
mistake
,
that
you
do
not
understand
what
a
Contradiction
is
.
That
they
are
a
proud
,
soure
,
unconversible
Tribe
,
is
true
in
the
sense
,
that
all
such
propositions
are
understood
;
not
in
a
Logical
universal
sense
,
but
generally
speaking
;
the
proudest
Man
upon
Earth
is
not
soure
and
unconversible
in
all
the
intervals
of
his
life
;
Mad
men
have
their
lucid
intervals
,
and
a
wise
Man
may
sometimes
act
foolishly
:
Solomon
says
,
that
a
wise
Man's
heart
is
at
his
right
hand
;
yet
the
presence
of
his
mind
may
sometimes
forsake
him
,
and
he
himself
was
a
sad
instance
of
this
Truth
;
His
Proverbs
,
that
are
livinely
inspired
,
many
of
them
are
true
in
no
other
sense
than
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
is
it
not
sad
that
the
poor
Curates
should
have
no
other
employment
now
adays
,
than
to
dispute
with
●uch
as
know
not
the
nature
of
a
Contradiction
;
yet
for
your
●ncouragement
,
I
believe
George
Stirling
,
and
Harry
Ferguson
●ay
think
you
one
of
the
learnedest
men
this
last
age
has
produced
,
and
perhaps
there
is
none
beyond
you
in
their
Opinion
already
.
Your
quarrel
against
the
Dr.
is
never
at
an
end
,
and
he
expects
no
fairer
quarter
at
your
hands
.
You
are
angry
it
seems
●hat
he
denied
that
ever
be
rode
in
the
Pope's
Guards
;
He
denies
●t
still
,
and
he
offers
to
prove
this
Negative
as
far
as
any
thing
●f
that
nature
can
be
proved
,
and
he
is
still
of
the
Opinion
,
●hat
,
none
knew
him
to
have
ridden
in
the
Pope's
Guards
:
but
Presbyterians
who
discover
plots
in
the
World
of
the
Moon
.
This
●●st
expression
raises
your
indignation
higher
,
because
you
say
,
it
hath
in
it
an
impudent
hint
of
denying
the
late
Prelatical
Plots
against
the
Government
.
And
must
he
be
impudent
because
he
does
not
know
the
Plots
against
the
Government
?
and
how
came
you
to
know
that
there
are
no
Plots
in
the
World
of
the
Moon
?
are
you
so
well
acquainted
with
the
Inhabitants
that
you
know
exactly
their
times
of
Peace
and
War
,
the
several
Revolutions
and
Designs
in
that
Country
?
for
my
part
I
know
of
no
Plots
against
this
or
any
other
Government
,
and
I
never
read
your
News-Letters
,
and
I
think
that
the
great
and
dangerous
Plots
of
which
no
man
is
found
guilty
,
are
all
of
them
in
the
World
in
the
Moon
.
Presbyterians
are
so
well
acquainted
with
plotting
,
that
some
of
them
cannot
forget
it
no
more
than
a
Jew
can
forget
his
Religion
;
they
speak
of
Plots
and
Designs
,
they
dream
of
them
,
they
talk
of
them
in
all
Companies
;
and
if
an
innocent
man
steps
aside
to
ask
his
Neighbour
what
a
clock
it
is
,
he
is
immediately
found
in
a
Plot
by
some
Presbyterian
Informer
.
But
now
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
you
fall
into
a
fit
of
Devotion
,
and
you
wish
that
the
Falshoods
which
have
been
mutually
charged
on
one
another
,
may
oblige
both
to
be
more
tender
of
publishing
Reports
upon
trust
.
Alas
!
Mr.
Ridpath
,
is
it
come
to
this
,
that
you
acknowledge
that
there
have
been
Falshoods
charged
upon
the
Episcopal
Party
by
the
Presbyterians
;
no
doubt
a
Man
of
your
Tenderness
and
Sincerity
regrets
this
infamous
Practice
;
yet
in
the
next
Breath
you
tell
us
,
that
when
the
Doctor
was
Parson
of
—
he
was
accused
of
Villany
with
a
Woman
amongst
the
Corn.
Such
Stories
are
the
very
things
that
confirm
me
in
the
Opinion
that
your
Tribe
is
so
very
well
acquainted
in
the
World
of
the
Moon
.
Where
was
he
Parson
when
he
was
accused
?
by
whom
was
he
accused
?
who
heard
of
this
Accusation
before
your
scurrilous
Pamphlet
appeared
?
You
do
not
say
positively
that
he
was
guilty
.
No
;
you
let
it
sneakingly
drop
thro
your
Fingers
:
so
that
the
Question
now
between
you
and
me
is
not
whether
he
was
guilty
or
not
guilty
;
but
whether
accus'd
or
not
accus'd
.
The
Affirmative
part
is
yours
,
and
if
an
honest
Man
had
it
by
the
end
he
would
either
prove
it
or
retract
it
;
the
Negative
is
mine
that
he
was
never
accused
,
and
if
none
of
them
amongst
whom
he
lived
,
in
the
most
eminent
places
of
the
Nation
ever
heard
that
he
was
thus
accused
,
none
but
an
impudent
Liar
will
affirm
it
.
But
if
you
were
to
speak
your
last
,
you
can
freely
declare
,
that
you
do
not
know
one
Syllable
of
what
you
write
to
be
false
.
At
this
rate
,
you
may
accuse
him
of
all
the
Crimes
that
the
Presbyterians
invented
against
the
Bishops
in
the
Year
1638
,
as
I
have
told
you
before
when
I
mentioned
the
Archbishop
of
Glasgow
;
and
of
all
the
Crimes
which
your
own
Major
Wier
actually
committed
with
Mares
,
Cows
and
Cats
;
not
to
name
the
Sisters
that
run
with
him
from
one
Communion
to
another
,
for
his
extraordinary
Gift
of
extempore
Prayer
;
for
after
all
,
you
may
safely
say
,
that
you
do
not
know
them
to
be
false
;
and
if
any
should
accuse
Mr.
Ridpath
to
have
committed
Incest
with
his
Mother
at
Cockburnspeth
,
before
he
went
to
the
College
of
Edinburgh
;
I
may
safely
say
,
that
if
I
were
to
speak
my
last
I
do
not
know
it
to
be
false
.
And
how
should
one
know
such
Negatives
in
matter
of
Fact
without
Omniscience
?
and
because
you
do
not
know
such
things
to
be
false
,
you
think
you
have
liberty
to
spread
and
propagate
romantick
Lies
,
pure
and
unmixt
Calumnies
against
particular
Persons
.
Are
these
the
Weapons
by
which
you
serve
your
Party
?
and
do
you
think
to
impose
upon
the
World
by
such
Bedlam
Fooleries
?
But
tho
the
Dr.
was
not
in
the
Pope's
Guards
,
yet
he
was
a
Cadet
in
Dumbarton's
Regiment
in
France
,
and
there
is
no
such
odds
,
you
think
,
between
being
a
Cadet
in
Dumbarton's
Regiment
,
which
guarded
Popery
and
contributed
so
much
to
enslave
Europe
,
and
riding
in
the
Pope's
Guards
.
Yes
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
there
is
very
great
odds
,
tho
you
do
not
see
it
,
as
much
as
there
is
between
the
Liberties
of
the
Gallican
Church
,
and
the
unlimited
Supremacy
of
the
Pope
:
and
do
you
think
that
the
King
of
France
was
fighting
for
Popery
,
when
he
wrested
the
antient
Rights
of
the
Regale
out
of
the
possession
of
the
Roman
Bishop
?
But
Mr.
Ridpath
,
the
Dr.
was
certainly
in
Dumbarton's
Regiment
,
I
assure
you
of
it
,
and
,
which
is
much
worse
,
he
never
thought
shame
of
it
.
The
strict
Alliance
between
the
liberal
Sciences
and
Arms
is
a
Common-place
too
well
known
,
and
he
is
very
sure
,
that
neither
Scholar
nor
Gentleman
will
ever
reproach
him
upon
this
head
;
and
his
passing
some
of
his
time
in
France
(
the
great
Theatre
of
Breeding
and
Civility
)
was
a
more
auspicious
Omen
of
Piety
and
Humanity
than
the
most
remarkable
Gallantries
of
your
Life
.
*
Plato
had
strong
Inclinations
to
follow
the
Camp
when
he
was
young
,
until
he
was
diverted
by
the
Advice
of
Socrates
.
I
hear
you
sometimes
teach
Grammar
(
a
Study
in
it self
very
commendable
)
why
then
do
not
you
read
our
Buchanan
,
*
not
to
name
any
of
the
Antients
;
and
if
nothing
else
must
please
you
but
the
Example
of
a
Presbyterian
of
the
latest
Edition
,
why
may
not
I
justifie
the
Dr's
Practice
,
when
he
was
very
young
,
from
the
Example
of
your
Mr.
Williamson
,
when
he
was
old
.
I
mean
the
celebrated
Mr.
Williamson
whom
all
the
Ladies
flock'd
to
see
from
all
the
corners
of
the
Court
,
when
he
delivered
his
Harangue
before
Queen
Mary
;
for
he
was
a
Captain
of
Horse
in
the
Rebellion
at
†
Bothwel
bridge
.
And
I
think
any
Cadet
in
Dumbarton's
Regiment
may
,
without
Vanity
,
be
compared
to
a
Captain
of
the
Rebellion
at
Bothwell
bridge
.
And
now
that
I
mention
Mr.
David
Williamson
,
I
intreat
him
not
to
take
it
ill
if
I
recommend
the
Censure
of
one
part
of
your
Preface
to
the
Parliament
,
to
himself
;
for
amongst
many
other
things
with
which
you
asperse
the
Clergy
of
Scotland
that
sojourn
in
England
,
this
is
one
,
that
they
troop
about
the
Country
with
their
stoln
Sermons
.
Truly
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
do
not
know
any
one
of
them
that
preaches
,
except
such
as
are
provided
with
some
Benefice
in
the
Country
,
and
I
think
that
is
no
small
part
of
their
Disaster
and
Infelicity
,
so
you
cannot
tell
whether
their
Sermons
are
stoln
or
not
.
In
some
cases
it
is
not
only
allow
able
to
borrow
but
expedient
,
and
if
your
Curiosity
would
engage
you
to
read
St.
Cyprian
de
Idolorum
vanitate
,
you
would
find
that
he
hath
several
Sentences
,
nay
the
very
turnings
of
Phrases
from
Minutius
Faelix
;
and
this
argues
his
Love
to
the
Author
and
to
the
thing
rather
than
any
Indigence
of
his
own
.
If
the
Curates
read
good
and
solid
Books
and
preach
them
to
the
People
,
why
may
not
they
be
allowed
to
bring
out
of
their
Treasure
things
new
and
old
.
If
the
sparkish
Daw
in
the
Fable
had
only
filled
up
the
vacant
places
of
her
Wings
with
Feathers
of
her
own
kind
,
she
had
never
been
ridiculous
;
for
we
all
of
us
acknowledge
heartily
that
we
borrow
;
but
still
it
is
from
Birds
of
our
own
colour
.
But
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
am
to
give
an
instance
of
an
impudent
Plagiary
,
who
lately
before
the
Presbyterian
Parliament
,
in
a
Sermon
designed
to
abuse
the
whole
Order
of
Bishops
,
borrows
from
*
Bishop
Brownrig
,
no
less
than
about
16.
or
17.
Lines
.
I
do
not
at
all
find
fault
with
Mr.
Williamson
for
reading
Bishop
Brownrig's
Sermons
,
nor
yet
do
I
blame
him
for
preaching
them
to
the
People
;
would
to
God
he
would
preach
none
else
,
but
to
borrow
so
much
from
a
superstitious
Sermon
preached
at
the
Inauguration
of
King
Charles
I
,
a
Martyr
for
Prelacy
,
and
before
my
Lord
Melvil
,
in
a
Discourse
calculated
to
incense
the
Meeting
against
Prelacy
,
was
truly
becoming
Mr.
Williamson's
Genorisity
:
I
do
not
declaim
against
his
Stealing
,
for
I
am
as
much
obliged
to
Bishop
Brownrig
as
to
any
Book
of
that
kind
that
ever
I
read
.
And
this
very
Observation
I
have
from
another
*
Curate
who
read
Mr.
Williamson's
Sermon
,
and
compared
it
with
the
place
in
Bishop
Brownrig
,
whence
he
stole
his
most
beautiful
Feathers
:
and
if
the
Members
of
Parliament
had
known
,
when
they
groaned
under
Mr.
Williamson's
powerful
Preaching
,
that
his
smooth
and
nervous
Conclusion
,
full
of
Laconick
Majesty
and
Solidity
,
had
been
borrowed
from
a
Bishop
,
they
might
think
that
such
a
Man
as
Brownrig
was
,
was
not
altogether
unworthy
of
Mr.
Williamson's
Conversation
;
and
the
plain
truth
is
,
it
was
a
very
hard
thing
to
treat
a
Bishop
as
a
Limb
of
Antichrist
,
when
his
own
Jewels
were
borrowed
to
make
such
a
Figure
before
the
Parliament
.
Next
comes
your
Compliment
to
the
Memory
of
my
Lord
Dumbarton
,
as
an
Evidence
of
your
extraordinary
Prudence
and
Caution
.
You
knew
,
that
when
your
Book
appeared
my
Lord
Duke
Hamilton
was
Commissioner
to
the
Parliament
,
and
then
you
expected
the
thorough
Settlement
of
Presbytery
,
which
now
you
have
in
Folio
,
by
the
late
Act
;
and
therefore
it
was
not
safe
to
reflect
upon
my
Lord
Dumbarton
or
his
Regiment
.
But
good
Mr.
Ridpath
,
speak
out
plainly
,
do
you
truly
think
that
Persons
of
my
Lord
Duke
Hamilton's
Quality
and
Sence
read
such
Pamphlets
as
yours
;
certainly
you
cannot
be
so
mad
,
your
Books
are
calculated
for
a
lower
order
of
Men
,
and
tho
you
sent
some
of
them
beyond
Seas
,
yet
they
are
only
considered
by
such
who
never
read
any
thing
but
nasty
Pamphlets
,
and
who
now
and
then
dream
of
Plots
,
and
reason
about
them
with
the
same
profound
Sense
that
you
do
when
you
cite
your
Logical
Aocioms
.
Now
when
you
draw
near
to
a
Conclusion
,
you
give
the
Dr.
such
a
Blow
,
that
he
is
not
able
to
recover
:
for
the
Author
of
the
Postscript
said
,
that
you
began
your
Title
page
with
a
Lie
,
that
your
Book
might
be
all
of
a
piece
.
And
this
again
provokes
your
Heroick
Passion
,
and
you
load
your
Antagonist
with
some
of
the
most
odious
Reproaches
that
your
Dictionary
could
furnish
you
with
.
But
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
what
was
it
that
he
said
?
why
,
he
said
that
your
Book
,
was
not
printed
for
Tho.
Anderson
near
Charing-Cross
,
and
you
charge
him
upon
credit
,
to
prove
that
it
was
not
printed
for
him
.
And
must
you
never
be
cured
of
this
impertinence
,
that
you
oblige
your
Adversary
to
prove
a
Negative
in
a
matter
of
Fact
?
and
then
to
make
your
ignorance
the
more
conspicuous
,
you
guard
your
desire
with
a
Logical
Axiom
,
Affirmanti
incumbit
probatio
.
I
am
ashamed
of
you
,
that
you
do
not
know
the
difference
between
an
Affirmative
and
a
Negative
Proposition
;
when
he
said
that
it
was
not
printed
for
Tho.
Anderson
near
Charing-Cross
,
he
affirmed
nothing
;
and
if
he
called
you
a
Lyar
,
though
such
a
Proposition
sounded
like
an
Affirmative
,
yet
it
was
no
affirmative
Proposition
,
but
finally
resolved
into
a
Negative
,
and
can
no
otherwise
be
proved
than
as
a
Negative
may
;
and
since
he
could
meet
with
no
Bookseller
near
Charing-Cross
,
who
knew
any
such
man
of
their
Trade
,
might
not
he
reasonably
presume
that
your
Title-page
had
a
Lye
in
the
bosom
of
it
;
notwithstanding
all
this
it
may
be
true
that
your
Book
was
printed
for
him
,
and
that
he
lives
in
some
dark
Vault
near
Charing-Cross
.
Such
a
thing
is
possible
,
though
it
be
not
very
probable
that
a
Bookselseller
should
hide
himself
under
ground
;
for
that
is
not
their
ordinary
way
of
selling
Books
.
I
insist
on
this
only
to
chastise
your
ignorance
,
and
vanity
,
when
you
darken
the
whole
Hemisphere
with
Dust
,
out
comes
your
affirmanti
incumbit
probatio
,
as
if
your
Adversary
had
the
Affirmative
that
ought
to
be
proved
.
You
are
so
foolishly
vain
,
that
if
all
the
particular
Paragraphs
of
your
first
Book
have
not
been
considered
,
you
conclude
that
your
Adversary
was
convinced
of
their
truth
and
solidity
.
The
Error
that
I
just
now
named
brings
to
my
mind
another
piece
of
fulsome
ignorance
of
the
same
nature
with
the
former
.
You
may
meet
with
it
in
the
place
cited
on
the
Margin
.
Your
Antagonist
loaded
the
Presbyterians
with
inconsistencies
,
and
particularly
he
exposed
your
dorage
and
fooleries
concerning
anniversary
Days
,
and
he
might
do
it
with
the
greater
safety
,
because
you
still
retain
something
in
your
practice
which
overthrows
your
Principles
:
for
you
celebrate
the
great
Charities
of
George
Herriot
by
an
Anniversary
commemoration
:
Ergo
(
says
he
)
you
are
not
against
anniversary
Solemnities
.
But
you
confute
this
argument
very
learnedly
,
and
you
prove
from
clear
Scripture
that
Anniversaries
are
unlawful
,
because
the
fourth
Commandment
says
positively
,
Six
days
shalt
thou
work
:
Ergo
,
you
conclude
,
that
all
Anniversary
Solemnities
are
unlawful
.
Now
Mr.
Ridpath
,
let
us
calmly
consider
the
strength
of
your
argument
.
All
men
are
obliged
by
this
Precept
in
the
sense
that
you
put
upon
it
,
or
they
are
not
;
if
all
are
obliged
(
as
no
doubt
they
are
)
by
what
dispensation
are
they
of
Heriot's
foundation
exempted
?
and
if
particular
Societies
be
exempted
,
why
may
not
the
whole
Nation
pretend
an
exemption
?
for
one
Society
is
no
more
privileg'd
than
another
,
and
if
all
Societies
may
equally
pretend
an
exemption
,
why
may
it
not
be
granted
to
the
whole
Kingdom
,
which
is
but
the
political
aggregate
of
so
many
Societies
?
For
,
if
they
of
Herriot's
Hospital
may
celebrate
an
Anniversary
,
why
may
not
all
the
Inhabitants
of
Edinburgh
do
it
?
But
you
fortifie
your
Opinion
by
a
Logical
Axiom
,
Ex
particulari
non
licet
Syllogisare
,
which
you
think
signifies
,
that
we
must
not
draw
precedents
from
the
allowable
practice
of
particular
Societies
;
and
this
is
the
Philosophy
that
you
make
such
a
noise
with
,
whereas
every
Boy
in
the
second
Class
that
does
not
deserve
whipping
,
can
tell
you
that
the
meaning
of
that
Logical
Rule
is
,
that
either
of
the
premisses
at
least
must
be
an
universal
Proposition
,
whether
affirmative
or
negative
:
for
two
particular
propositions
cannot
bear
the
weight
of
a
conclusion
,
no
more
than
two
Negatives
.
Now
tell
me
sincerely
,
whether
the
making
such
a
noise
with
Logical
Rules
,
when
you
do
not
understand
what
they
mean
be
not
Nonsense
and
pedantry
,
in
all
their
pomps
and
formalities
.
If
the
practice
of
Herriot's
Hospital
were
to
be
defended
by
argument
,
the
patrons
of
it
would
reason
from
the
religious
practice
of
all
other
Societies
,
the
rules
of
gratitude
,
and
the
constitutions
of
the
place
,
and
a
conclusion
regularly
deduced
from
such
principles
is
not
I
hope
ex
particulari
,
as
you
ignorantly
fancy
.
But
not
to
trifle
with
you
any
more
,
the
answer
to
your
argument
is
contain'd
in
that
short
,
but
undeniable
Axiom
received
by
all
Divines
,
Praecepta
affirmativa
obligant
semper
,
sed
non
ad
semper
;
and
we
may
work
six
days
,
nisi
interveniat
feriationis
causa
legitima
,
auctoritate
divinâ
vel
humanâ
stabilita
.
Pray
Mr.
Ridpath
,
forgive
all
this
Latine
;
for
I
do
not
think
that
the
speaking
of
Latine
is
at
all
times
pedantry
,
and
many
are
apt
to
let
that
pass
for
pedantick
which
they
do
not
understand
;
but
if
the
phrase
,
of
your
infectious
Breath
,
be
the
Word
that
provoked
the
Severity
of
your
Censure
,
the
Dr.
in
all
Humility
retracts
it
;
for
tho
your
Breath
be
putrid
,
yet
the
Contagion
spreads
no
further
than
People
of
your
own
Complexion
,
Men
sufficiently
infected
before
you
breath'd
upon
them
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
do
not
pretend
that
this
Treatise
is
methodical
,
and
therefore
I
take
no
other
Care
to
methodize
my
Animadversions
on
your
Book
,
than
as
they
tumble
into
my
Fancy
,
I
lie
open
to
the
censure
of
your
Histeron-Proteron
as
oft
as
you
please
.
Your
Dedication
to
the
Scotch
Parliament
is
as
considerable
as
the
Book
it self
,
for
being
the
only
Book
that
was
dedicated
to
them
,
it
contains
your
own
grave
and
serious
Advice
how
to
manage
the
publick
Affairs
.
Next
you
fall
upon
the
poor
Dr.
and
he
must
be
lash'd
and
chastis'd
for
his
Rashness
and
Precipitancy
,
because
he
presumed
to
give
such
an
account
of
your
first
Book
:
but
since
you
paint
him
as
an
Ass
at
the
very
beginning
,
why
was
you
at
so
much
pains
with
him
?
so
mean
a
Creature
was
below
a
Man
of
your
Elevation
;
and
since
you
can
defame
and
expose
Crowned
Heads
,
Dukes
,
Earls
,
and
Prelates
,
why
all
this
Noise
to
run
down
a
poor
Hermite
.
Your
very
first
Blow
hath
in
it
so
much
Life
and
Wit
,
that
one
of
his
cold
and
phlegmatick
Temper
can
never
reach
it
,
As
Postscript
in
Answer
to
the
First
.
In
the
second
Page
of
your
Continuation
there
is
a
Catalogue
of
the
most
tragical
Stories
,
made
up
to
justifie
all
the
Bitterness
and
Buffoonry
of
your
former
Pamphlet
.
You
justifie
the
Severity
of
your
Stile
by
the
Answer
of
a
Tinker
.
And
truly
if
all
the
Parts
of
your
Book
had
been
equally
pertinent
,
it
had
been
the
best
Presbyterian
Farce
that
appeared
since
its
late
Erection
:
but
because
I
would
let
you
understand
that
our
Registers
of
Fanatick
Cruelties
,
Rebellions
and
Perjuries
are
as
exact
as
the
Legends
of
your
imaginary
Grievances
,
I
will
set
down
eight
Particulars
in
an
opposite
Column
to
your
eight
,
and
then
we
have
sixteen
.
I.
As
long
as
we
remember
the
Tumultuous
Meetings
,
Rebellious
Protestations
,
and
the
bloody
Consequences
of
the
Presbyterian
Covenants
and
Associations
,
the
Murder
of
our
King
,
whom
they
tied
Neck
and
Heels
,
until
their
Confederates
brought
him
to
the
Scaffold
,
the
Miseries
of
an
intestine
War
,
the
Taxes
,
Contributions
and
Free-quarter
imposed
by
the
Arbitrary
Power
of
rebellious
Subjects
and
mock
Parliaments
,
the
Multitude
of
Errors
,
Heresies
and
Dreams
,
that
were
proclaim'd
from
our
Pulpits
,
so
long
we
remember
that
their
Principles
were
inconsistent
with
the
Royal
Prerogative
,
our
antient
Constitution
,
as
well
as
the
Primitive
Order
of
the
Christian
Church
.
Ridpath
.
I.
While
the
Memory
of
King
Charles
II.
and
King
James
VII
.
endures
,
and
till
Time
,
the
Consumer
of
all
things
hath
eat
up
their
Parliament
Rolls
,
it
will
hold
an
undeniable
Truth
,
that
the
Prelatical
Party
of
Scotland
are
Persecutors
,
and
that
in
denying
the
same
they
have
made
themselves
notorious
Liars
.
II.
As
long
as
we
remember
that
the
first
Covenanters
had
all
sworn
the
Oaths
of
Canonical
Obedience
to
their
respective
Bishops
in
their
several
Dioceses
,
and
that
they
dispensed
with
the
said
Oath
of
Canonical
Obedience
in
their
General
Assembly
(
An.
163.
Sess
.
13.
Dec.
5.
)
and
forgot
their
Allegiance
to
their
natural
Lord
and
Sovereign
,
and
imposed
their
Babel
Covenant
on
all
in
the
most
tyrannical
manner
,
and
that
to
this
day
they
continue
to
declaim
against
the
legal
securities
of
our
Religion
and
Constitution
as
contradictory
to
it self
;
so
long
we
must
be
excused
to
say
that
Presbyterians
have
no
rule
of
Faith
,
but
the
Covenant
,
nor
no
Standard
of
Morals
but
the
Practices
of
their
rebellious
Predecessors
.
Ridpath
.
II.
So
long
as
it
appears
by
the
same
Acts
,
that
they
imposed
a
contradictory
Test
,
so
long
will
it
hold
that
they
are
perjured
themselves
,
and
chargeable
with
the
Perjury
of
others
.
III.
So
long
as
we
can
remember
that
the
Western
Bigots
and
Incendiaries
blew
up
the
People
into
such
mad
Fancies
,
that
they
laid
the
whole
stress
of
their
Salvation
upon
their
Zeal
to
promote
the
Covenant
,
and
taught
them
to
resist
their
lawful
Sovereign
,
and
to
proclaim
War
against
him
,
and
printed
Books
to
justifie
the
most
barbarous
Assassinations
;
so
long
we
may
conclude
that
the
People
who
are
led
by
such
Guides
are
in
a
most
miserable
Condition
;
and
as
long
as
we
retain
the
exercise
of
Reason
,
and
the
Sense
of
Self-preservation
,
so
long
our
Governours
must
be
commended
,
who
guarded
against
the
Dangers
that
threatned
us
under
their
Administrations
;
and
so
long
as
Men
love
their
Peace
,
Constitution
and
Comfort
,
so
long
they
must
endeavour
by
the
supereminent
Law
and
first
Principle
of
all
Societies
,
to
teach
Sanguinary
Rebels
to
feel
the
Effects
of
their
open
Villanies
and
Conspiracies
.
Ridpath
.
III.
So
long
as
it
remains
in
the
Records
of
Council
,
that
they
ordered
Men
to
be
killed
without
any
Tryal
or
colour
of
Law
,
or
so
much
as
with
an
Exception
,
whether
they
resisted
or
not
resisted
,
so
long
will
it
bold
that
they
are
bloody
Murderers
.
IV.
As
long
as
there
are
any
Records
of
that
Mock-Assembly
preserved
,
the
World
may
be
easily
satisfied
,
by
their
Impertinent
Queries
and
Disobedience
to
the
King's
Order
,
of
their
Tyranny
and
Ambition
,
and
their
Lording
it
over
others
,
who
,
by
their
Confession
are
their
Equals
in
Power
and
Jurisdiction
,
and
that
by
divine
right
,
and
yet
they
suspend
the
Exercise
of
that
Power
which
is
conferred
by
divine
Right
,
by
virtue
of
an
Act
of
Parliament
,
which
I
hope
they
do
not
think
to
be
of
any
thing
more
than
Human
Authority
.
Ridpath
.
IV.
So
long
as
the
Records
of
the
last
General
Assembly
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
remain
,
it
it
will
appear
by
their
Evasions
,
Answers
,
and
disingenuous
refusals
to
declare
their
Abhorrence
of
Arminianism
,
Socinianism
,
and
Popery
,
that
they
are
Firebrands
in
the
Church
,
and
Incendiaries
in
the
State.
V.
As
long
as
such
blasphemous
Nonsense
as
the
Decretum
praedamnatum
,
and
the
Decretum
praeteritum
,
are
to
be
seen
and
read
in
the
Writings
of
their
greatest
Champions
;
so
long
they
are
iustly
charged
with
Nonsense
and
Blasphemy
.
Vid.
Second
Vindication
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
.
pag.
66.
Ridpath
.
V.
So
long
as
any
of
their
villanous
Libels
,
called
the
Scotch
Presbyterian
Eloquence
,
exist
,
wherein
they
charge
Holiness
with
Deformity
,
God
with
horrid
Decrees
,
and
mock
at
Seriousness
and
Piety
;
so
long
will
it
be
evident
that
they
are
Blasphemers
.
VI.
The
Address
of
the
Bishops
of
Scotland
,
before
the
Revolution
,
to
the
King
,
contained
nothing
but
what
was
agreeable
to
the
publick
Prayers
used
in
behalf
of
the
King
in
both
Nations
;
and
Mr.
Ridpath
knows
that
the
other
Branch
of
this
Particular
must
not
be
touched
:
yet
as
long
as
the
Act
of
the
West
Kirk
,
and
the
Remonstrance
in
the
Year
1650
,
(
not
to
name
preceding
Papers
of
the
same
Nature
,
and
Acts
of
the
General
Assembly
in
the
year
1648
)
are
preserved
;
so
long
the
Presbyterian
Principles
are
known
to
be
subversive
of
all
Kingly
Power
,
and
destructive
to
all
Allegiance
,
and
the
Rights
of
Sovereignty
.
Ridpath
.
VI.
So
long
as
that
scurrilous
Address
of
their
Bishops
against
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
their
opposing
him
in
Parliament
,
their
refusing
to
pray
for
him
,
or
swear
to
him
now
he
is
King
,
and
the
legal
procedure
against
them
on
the
said
accounts
are
on
record
;
so
long
it
will
appear
that
they
are
Rebels
.
VII
.
So
long
as
the
Acts
of
your
Rebellious
Parliaments
from
1639
to
1649
,
and
the
Acts
of
your
Assemblies
in
1648
and
1649
continue
upon
record
,
and
your
zealous
*
Preachers
importuning
the
Committee
of
Estates
in
person
,
to
execute
the
King
's
most
faithful
Servants
,
so
long
the
World
may
be
informed
of
Presbyterian
Spite
and
Malice
.
Ridpath
.
VII
.
So
long
as
their
bloody
Acts
of
Parliament
,
and
barbarous
Execution
of
those
Acts
against
us
,
and
our
gentle
Acts
of
Parliament
,
and
moderate
Execution
of
those
Acts
against
them
,
are
upon
record
,
so
long
it
will
appear
that
they
are
infamous
Liars
in
asserting
that
we
treat
them
more
barbarously
than
they
treated
us
.
VIII
.
As
long
as
the
West
of
Scotland
continues
unreformed
from
barbarous
Principles
,
so
long
they
are
a
Plague
to
the
Nation
,
and
a
Reproach
to
the
Protestant
Religion
.
This
is
only
understood
of
such
of
them
as
deserve
this
Character
.
Ridpath
.
VIII
.
So
long
as
the
West
of
Scotland
(
which
was
the
principal
Scene
of
these
bloody
Tragedies
)
has
a
being
,
so
long
will
it
appear
that
they
were
barbarous
.
Before
I
take
leave
of
you
,
I
must
put
the
Reader
in
mind
of
one
Argument
by
which
you
endeavour
to
fully
the
Reputation
of
such
of
the
Bishops
as
voted
in
the
late
Convention
,
before
the
King's
Letter
to
them
was
opened
,
that
They
were
a
free
and
lawful
Meeting
,
notwithstanding
of
any
Order
that
might
be
contained
in
that
Letter
to
dissolve
them
;
from
this
you
conclude
,
that
they
were
inconsistent
with
their
own
Principles
and
after
Practices
.
And
the
truth
is
,
if
they
intended
by
that
Vote
nothing
less
than
what
the
Presbyterian
Party
advanced
,
they
were
inconsistent
with
their
Principles
;
but
tho
they
concurred
in
that
Vote
,
they
took
the
Words
a
free
and
lawful
meeting
,
not
to
signifie
any
Meeting
of
the
People
contrary
to
the
King's
Prerogative
,
Authority
,
and
standing
Laws
;
but
rather
a
Meeting
to
support
all
the
three
,
and
they
were
to
sit
notwithstanding
of
a
Prohibition
,
until
such
time
as
they
could
duly
inform
the
King
of
the
Straits
and
Difficulties
that
they
were
involved
in
:
Necessity
made
them
bow
under
the
Weight
of
that
Opposition
that
they
wrestled
with
;
and
they
hoped
that
a
Vote
might
be
forgiven
,
which
their
Practices
would
have
vindicated
from
any
suspicion
of
lessening
the
Royal
Authority
.
But
Mr.
Ridpath
,
did
you
never
hear
of
a
Merchant
throwing
overboard
his
Goods
in
a
Storm
,
his
Principle
is
(
no
doubt
)
to
preserve
,
and
improve
his
Stock
,
yet
when
Life
,
and
Ship
,
and
all
is
in
hazard
,
Silver
and
Gold
,
and
the
best
Cargo
that
he
is
Master
of
,
must
be
flung
over
.
Men
sometimes
,
in
the
Simplicity
of
their
Hearts
,
may
yield
to
some
publick
Acts
in
a
time
of
Danger
and
Confusion
,
which
,
in
their
own
Nature
and
Tendency
are
inconsistent
with
their
Principles
:
the
wisest
Men
may
sometimes
mistake
their
measures
,
and
the
presence
of
ones
Mind
does
not
perpetually
attend
him
.
A
great
many
of
the
Presbyterians
of
Scotland
took
the
Covenant
as
it
was
enjoin'd
by
King
Charles
I.
in
the
sense
intended
by
King
and
Parliament
,
in
the
Reign
of
King
James
VI.
yet
this
act
of
their
duty
and
obedience
was
by
the
Leading-Covenanters
thought
inconsistent
with
their
principles
and
practices
,
and
therefore
they
were
forced
to
disown
it
afterwards
,
and
to
adhere
to
the
Covenant
it
its
true
and
genuine
sense
of
Sedition
and
Rebellion
.
All
the
Presbyterians
of
Scotland
after
the
Restoration
of
King
Charles
II.
both
Ministers
and
People
came
to
Church
without
scruple
or
hesitation
,
yet
afterwards
they
began
to
think
that
this
practice
could
not
be
reconciled
to
their
mutinous
Associations
and
Covenants
;
and
therefore
for
the
most
part
all
of
them
left
the
Church
and
publick
Worship
of
the
Episcopalians
.
There
is
a
Protestation
upon
record
in
the
Year
1641.
in
the
journal
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
May
3.
which
in
its
nature
was
but
a
Prologue
to
the
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
and
very
derogatory
to
the
King's
prerogative
,
and
the
ancient
settlement
of
the
Nation
;
and
yet
I
find
that
several
of
the
Loyal
Nobility
,
and
six
Bishops
,
signed
this
Protestation
.
Things
may
appear
very
plausible
in
the
beginning
,
that
are
introductiory
to
the
saddest
consequences
.
The
Nobility
and
Bishops
that
signed
the
Protestation
that
I
just
now
named
,
had
reason
to
repent
of
their
precipitancy
,
when
the
Faction
owned
above
board
,
that
no
Reformation
woul
satisfie
but
the
extirpation
of
Root
and
Branch
,
according
to
the
phrase
that
then
was
in
vogue
.
We
are
to
take
an
estimate
of
mens
principles
,
not
from
their
indeliberate
and
casual
stumblings
in
time
of
darkness
,
uncertainty
and
danger
;
but
rather
from
their
constant
Doctrine
,
their
habitual
Byass
,
their
more
calm
and
sedate
reasonings
,
their
Books
,
Homilies
,
and
Sermons
.
I
could
name
later
instances
than
any
that
I
have
touched
,
which
might
reasonably
be
presum'd
to
be
inconsistent
with
their
Principles
who
were
actors
,
and
yet
I
am
so
far
from
thinking
them
disingenuous
,
or
treacherous
,
that
I
know
them
to
be
men
of
the
greatest
Candor
upon
Earth
.
All
this
I
have
said
upon
the
supposition
that
the
Bishops
who
concurred
with
that
Vote
of
the
Convention
intended
it
in
its
full
extent
and
latitude
;
but
I
know
that
they
intended
no
more
by
the
words
,
free
and
lawful
meeting
,
than
what
they
are
capable
of
in
the
lowest
sense
that
they
can
be
taken
in
,
and
as
Privy
Councellours
some
of
the
Bishops
might
suspend
the
execution
of
the
King's
Orders
contained
in
his
Letters
,
until
he
should
be
better
informed
of
the
state
of
affairs
,
and
until
he
should
reiterate
his
Commands
:
in
that
case
I
am
apt
to
think
that
all
who
own
his
authority
would
leave
the
Convention
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
would
gladly
know
whether
you
think
that
a
Libel
against
Dr.
Monro
was
a
Book
worthy
to
be
dedicated
to
the
Parliament
of
Scotland
?
and
whether
your
returning
to
Scotland
was
such
an
extraordinary
advantage
to
the
Nation
,
that
you
thought
they
would
upon
this
consideration
go
forward
to
the
through
settlement
of
Presbytery
?
for
no
doubt
you
are
among
the
first
of
those
Students
who
promise
to
return
,
if
your
Model
be
established
in
its
height
.
The
Books
that
you
have
written
against
our
Kings
,
Dukes
,
and
Parliaments
,
may
make
atonement
for
the
former
Gallantries
of
your
Life
.
I
despise
the
knowledge
of
your
particular
History
,
and
unless
you
are
as
stupid
as
you
are
petulant
,
you
may
guess
by
some
dark
hints
in
this
Letter
,
(
which
I
took
care
that
no
other
should
understand
but
your self
)
that
I
am
not
altogether
a
stranger
to
your
Adventures
.
I
had
your
Life
sent
me
,
written
by
one
of
your
Acquaintances
,
but
though
I
may
have
many
faults
,
yet
I
never
loved
personal
Reproaches
and
altercations
.
When
you
are
in
the
heighth
of
your
humour
and
passion
,
I
think
you
still
below
Revenge
:
It
may
be
that
the
Lay-Gentleman
who
is
next
to
take
you
to
task
,
may
handle
you
more
briskly
;
notwithstanding
that
Presbytery
is
now
triumphant
,
and
setled
by
an
Act
of
Exclusion
of
the
Episcopal
Clergy
:
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
sincerely
wish
you
more
sense
and
modesty
,
and
I
enter
my
Protestation
before
all
reasonable
men
,
that
I
am
not
obliged
to
answer
indefinite
Libels
.
If
you
think
that
you
are
so
extraordinarily
qualified
to
manage
the
Debates
that
are
on
foot
:
chuse
one
of
the
Questions
that
are
toss'd
between
both
the
parties
,
eithe
the
divine
Right
of
Presbytery
,
or
the
unlawfulness
of
Anniversary
Days
,
or
significant
Ceremonies
in
the
worship
of
God
:
I
name
these
,
because
you
offer
to
vindicate
your
own
Opinions
concerning
them
in
your
Books
;
and
since
you
cite
the
Epistles
of
S.
Augustine
to
S.
Jerome
,
from
which
you
say
,
the
antiquity
of
Presbytery
may
be
demonstrated
,
pray
do
not
forget
to
name
that
Epistle
;
but
I
am
affraid
you
will
be
forced
to
go
to
the
Booksellers
in
the
World
of
the
Moon
,
before
you
can
meet
with
it
;
and
to
make
you
amends
,
I
offer
to
prove
positively
that
there
is
not
one
of
your
party
in
Scotland
,
that
truly
and
sincerely
represents
the
Opinions
of
St.
Jerom
:
nay
more
expresly
I
offer
to
make
evident
from
the
writings
of
St.
Jerome
,
that
Eiscopacy
was
established
by
the
Apostles
,
and
that
he
never
dream'd
of
any
such
period
of
the
Church
wherein
the
parity
of
Presbyters
prevailed
after
the
death
of
the
Apostles
.
And
if
you
must
write
Books
,
you
ought
to
come
out
from
behind
the
Curtains
,
and
let
us
know
where
your
Bookseller
may
be
found
,
and
by
whom
they
are
Licensed
,
and
take
the
assistance
of
all
your
Fraternity
,
read
all
the
Books
that
you
think
defend
your
Cause
to
the
best
advantage
,
and
let
us
plainly
hear
what
grounds
you
have
to
assert
,
that
your
new
and
upstart
Discipline
is
founded
upon
devine
Right
;
and
why
the
Ministers
of
the
Episcopal
persuasion
are
turned
out
,
if
they
do
not
solemnly
promise
never
directly
nor
indirectly
*
to
alter
an
Ecclesiastical
Government
,
which
can
no
more
be
reconciled
to
the
former
constitution
of
Presbytery
,
than
to
the
Word
of
God
,
the
Canons
of
the
Universal
Church
,
and
the
practice
of
the
first
Ages
of
Christianity
.
And
let
us
know
if
ever
Clergymen
were
turned
out
of
their
Livings
upon
their
denying
to
make
any
such
promise
,
since
the
name
of
Christian
was
heard
in
the
World
:
and
do
not
run
up
and
down
,
and
make
a
noise
as
if
I
opposed
and
Act
of
Parliament
,
I
only
dispute
against
the
Opinions
of
blind
Zealots
,
who
have
no
more
regard
to
the
peace
of
the
Nation
,
than
they
have
to
the
Order
of
Episcopacy
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
If
you
are
as
resolute
as
you
are
clamorous
,
you
cannot
but
think
it
reasonable
to
appear
,
for
no
man
is
obliged
to
consider
fulsome
Lampoons
,
no
accusations
ought
to
be
heard
against
any
man
(
far
less
against
Kings
,
Dukes
,
and
Prelates
)
unless
the
accuser
openly
pawn
his
reputation
to
prove
the
Crimes
fairly
before
a
competent
Judicature
.
There
are
many
things
in
both
your
Books
that
I
have
not
mentioned
,
yet
I
am
ready
to
prove
that
they
are
less
material
and
more
ridiculous
than
those
I
have
named
;
for
I
know
no
man
so
pusillanimous
as
to
turn
his
back
upon
you
for
fear
of
any
harm
that
you
can
do
him
,
and
therefore
I
set
down
the
initial
Letters
of
name
and
sirname
,
and
that
in
Mr.
Rule
's
Latine
,
makes
up
Totum
Nomen
:
and
there
are
a
great
many
here
who
know
me
,
though
at
present
I
neither
wear
the
Doctoral
Scarf
or
Canonical
Habit.
I
have
hitherto
treated
you
with
all
Civility
,
though
there
be
none
alive
has
fewer
Engagements
or
Obligations
to
continue
,
Mr.
Ridpath
,
Your
humble
Servant
.
S.
W.
POSTSCRIPT
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
THE
following
Certificates
and
Letter
came
to
my
hands
from
Scotland
,
not
until
the
former
Sheets
were
wrought
off
,
else
they
had
been
set
down
in
their
proper
places
,
to
which
they
are
more
immediatly
related
.
The
first
is
under
the
Hands
of
so
many
honest
Inhabitants
of
Leith
,
in
favours
of
Mr.
Andrew
Cant
sometime
their
Minister
;
and
it
fully
and
plainly
disproves
and
overthrows
the
Original
and
Fundamental
Libel
propagated
by
your self
,
and
your
Informers
,
against
him
,
viz.
That
he
was
suspended
from
the
exercise
of
his
Ministry
:
and
therefore
the
other
Fabulous
accounts
that
you
raise
upon
this
Calumny
,
must
necessarily
fall
to
the
Ground
.
It
is
not
possible
to
prove
Negatives
in
a
Matter
of
Fact
otherwise
,
than
when
they
who
ought
to
know
the
thing
in
Controversie
,
declare
upon
Honor
and
Conscience
,
that
there
never
was
any
such
things
;
and
if
the
Course
of
his
Ministry
had
been
interrupted
by
any
Sentence
,
how
easily
might
this
be
prov'd
;
nay
how
impossible
had
it
been
to
have
deny'd
it
,
since
in
so
numerous
a
Parish
,
so
near
the
Centre
of
the
Nation
,
their
would
have
been
so
many
Witnesses
of
so
recent
a
Transaction
.
We
whose
Names
are
underwritten
,
(
Inhabitants
of
Leith
)
do
by
these
presents
declare
upon
Honor
and
Conscience
,
that
Mr.
Andrew
Cant
,
(
sometime
our
Minister
)
was
never
discharged
the
Exercise
of
his
Office
(
by
any
Sentence
,
Ecclesiastical
or
otherwise
)
amongst
us
,
but
on
the
contrair
,
continued
very
diligent
and
painful
therein
,
for
the
space
of
eight
years
or
thereby
,
after
which
time
he
was
preferred
to
be
one
of
the
chief
Ministers
of
the
City
of
Edinburgh
.
Sic
Subscribitur
.
Jo.
Broune
,
[
Skipper
.
Ja.
Hutcheson
,
[
Notar
Publick
.
John
Burton
,
[
Baker
.
Alex.
Robertson
,
[
Wine-Cooper
.
James
Cuningham
.
[
Wine-Cooper
.
Patrick
Smith
,
[
Wine-Cooper
.
John
Wilson
,
[
Wine-Cooper
.
Thomas
Riddell
,
[
Skipper
.
Ja.
Balfour
,
[
Merchant
.
T.
Fenwick
,
[
Maltman
.
Jo.
Muchmutie
,
[
Skipper
.
James
Johnston
,
[
Wright
(
or
Joyner
.
)
Rob.
Herdman
,
[
Maltman
.
Robert
Bowy
,
[
Wine
Cooper
.
G.
Farquhar
,
[
Maltman
.
Andrew
Fairservice
,
[
Carter
.
Geo.
Davidson
,
[
Maltman
.
George
Albercromby
,
[
Maltman
.
J.
D.
[
James
Dow
,
Tailor
.
J.
W.
[
James
Walker
(
as
I
took
it
)
Mason
.
The
two
last
could
subscribe
no
otherwise
being
illiterate
but
very
Honest
.
I
have
subjoyn'd
to
this
Certificate
a
Letter
to
one
of
his
Friends
in
London
,
occasion'd
by
your
fulsome
and
unchristian
Libels
against
him
.
Worthy
Sir
,
EVer
since
I
came
to
mans
years
,
I
have
been
very
sensible
that
we
live
here
in
the
Neighbourhood
of
a
Sullen
sett
of
People
,
that
can
never
think
themselves
secure
of
any
measure
of
Reputation
,
unless
they
raise
it
upon
the
Ruins
of
the
good
Name
of
innocent
Men
that
are
not
of
their
Opinion
in
every
thing
,
and
am
farther
confirmed
in
this
Thought
by
a
late
instance
in
what
concerns
me
personally
,
in
a
slanderous
Pamphlet
inscribed
,
An
Answer
to
the
Scotch
Presbyterian
Eloquence
,
It
was
some
months
in
this
place
before
I
could
procure
a
sight
of
it
;
but
when
I
had
seen
it
,
the
thoughts
I
had
concerning
what
I
am
wickedly
Libelled
of
,
were
not
so
full
of
Anger
as
Disdain
,
to
find
an
obscure
sorry
Jack
▪
anapes
(
for
so
he
must
be
)
attacquing
me
with
so
much
Malice
and
arrant
Calumny
,
though
I
was
living
very
peaceably
as
I
haye
always
done
without
being
the
Aggressor
of
any
Person
or
Party
.
At
first
I
was
resolved
to
slight
it
,
as
a
thing
that
can
never
do
me
harm
with
any
one
that
knows
me
;
yet
upon
second
thoughts
,
and
to
satisfie
a
worthy
Friend
of
mine
,
I
give
you
the
trouble
of
this
line
,
which
bears
such
short
answers
to
the
ill-natur'd
and
cursed
accusations
of
that
infamous
Libeller
,
as
I
think
sufficient
.
First
,
Then
he
endeavours
to
vilifie
and
belie
me
,
by
saving
I
was
an
Underling
at
Leith
.
What
he
means
by
this
I
know
not
,
the
true
matter
is
,
that
the
first
appearance
I
made
in
my
Sacred
Office
was
as
second
Minister
of
Leith
,
to
which
I
came
regularly
by
a
Presentation
from
the
Patrons
,
and
Collation
thereupon
from
the
Diocesan
,
I
cannot
apprehend
any
disparagement
in
the
thing
,
and
I
am
sure
I
have
yet
a
very
great
kindness
from
all
that
People
,
excepting
a
few
Bigots
,
and
of
very
little
interest
.
Next
I
remember
he
will
needs
have
the
World
believe
,
that
I
Preached
very
odd
things
to
the
People
,
but
has
not
so
much
as
given
one
instance
,
not
for
want
of
Malice
,
but
(
it
seems
)
invention
,
in
that
particular
.
My
poor
gift
of
Preaching
the
Holy
Gospel
was
but
small
,
yet
I
bless
God
I
am
not
asham'd
of
it
,
and
I
hope
I
have
somthing
of
the
power
of
those
Divine
Truths
I
declar'd
to
the
World
on
my
own
Heart
,
and
Seals
of
them
upon
the
Hearts
of
others
,
but
if
this
Railing
Fellow
doubt
I
be
competently
qualified
,
let
him
procure
me
Liberty
and
Safety
I
will
not
decline
to
Preach
before
the
General
Assembly
.
In
another
passage
of
that
Pamphlet
,
this
Silly
Fellow
charges
me
with
being
a
notable
Brawler
,
and
for
proof
says
,
I
was
Suspended
for
sometime
from
the
Exercise
of
my
Office
for
beating
of
a
Highlander
.
To
lot
you
see
what
Impudence
is
in
this
Contrivance
,
I
send
you
herewith
inclosed
a
Copy
of
a
Declaration
,
under
the
Hands
of
some
of
the
honest
Neighbours
in
Lieth
,
bearing
,
that
I
was
never
Suspended
the
Exercise
of
my
Office
during
my
abode
with
them
,
and
if
it
were
necessary
,
I
doubt
not
but
I
can
easily
obtain
the
attestation
of
all
that
are
yet
alive
of
them
I
left
in
the
place
.
It
s
hard
that
I
should
be
obliged
after
fifteen
years
time
to
give
them
the
trouble
of
attesting
my
innocence
against
the
snarlings
of
a
rank-mouth'd
Curr
:
but
I
have
done
it
very
easily
.
Now
this
being
made
appear
a
manifest
lye
,
with
a
witness
,
there
is
no
place
left
to
suppose
I
made
use
of
any
method
for
returning
to
my
Office
which
I
never
left
,
far
less
such
impious
and
silly
ones
,
as
he
says
,
and
would
have
believed
I
did
,
and
are
not
worth
the
mentioning
,
being
such
as
I
fancy
no
man
on
Earth
,
(
though
of
less
heigth
of
Natural
Temper
than
I
,
and
almost
of
equal
Villany
with
the
scurrilous
Author
)
could
be
guilty
of
;
but
was
it
not
a
Lucky
thing
that
this
mettled
Spark
charged
me
not
with
the
Criminous
Sins
of
Bestiality
,
Incest
and
Sorceries
?
Certainly
he
had
not
failed
of
it
,
if
they
had
not
been
Vertues
peculiar
to
the
Saintship
of
one
of
his
Friends
,
who
was
publickly
burnt
betwixt
Edinburgh
and
Leith
,
upon
consession
of
the
foresaid
Crimes
,
in
my
sight
and
some
thousands
besides
.
In
some
other
part
,
he
charges
me
with
Robbing
of
a
thousand
Marks
Scots
mony
,
from
William
Carfrey
who
came
to
pay
me
my
Stipend
due
by
the
Town
of
Edinburgh
.
I
shall
never
think
it
worth
my
Pains
to
offer
a
Justification
of
my self
from
so
ridiculous
a
Story
;
the
young
man
lives
still
in
the
City
,
and
is
so
Just
and
Honest
to
declare
to
some
of
my
acquaintance
that
it
is
a
most
notorious
Lye
;
but
Innocence
it self
cannot
be
secure
against
hellish
Impudence
.
There
is
one
thing
more
in
his
Paper
,
(
not
worth
the
minding
indeed
)
which
I
had
almost
forgot
,
viz.
That
I
was
,
at
the
time
of
his
Writing
,
a
Vagabond
at
London
;
if
a
Man
must
be
branded
with
this
Character
for
going
from
one
place
to
another
,
he
has
been
much
longer
a
Vagabond
than
I
,
as
I
am
told
,
and
I
am
sure
for
his
bloody
uncharitableness
,
deserves
the
mark
of
a
second
Cain
,
and
the
Character
of
another
Accuser
of
the
Brethren
,
having
been
made
very
skilful
in
the
Art
of
Lying
,
by
his
Father
,
who
has
used
it
since
the
beginning
.
I
leave
this
Letter
intirely
to
your
disposal
:
I
ask
your
pardon
for
this
trouble
,
and
am
with
all
respect
,
Sir
,
Your
affectionate
faithful
,
humble
Servant
,
Andrew
Cant.
Edinburgh
,
July
29.
1693.
THE
next
Certificate
is
in
favours
of
Dr.
Alexander
Monro
,
and
it
serves
the
end
for
which
it
is
publish'd
.
You
say
that
when
he
was
in
Scotland
,
he
was
so
and
so
accus'd
as
is
narrated
in
the
following
Certificate
.
If
this
had
been
true
,
there
is
no
doubt
to
be
made
but
that
Persons
of
Honour
,
Sense
,
and
Interest
,
in
the
Cities
of
Edinburgh
and
St.
Andrews
would
have
heard
of
it
,
especially
since
he
was
preferr'd
to
such
places
as
would
provoke
Rivals
and
Competitors
.
And
is
it
to
be
believ'd
,
that
the
least
surmise
of
that
Nature
could
have
escaped
the
Industry
of
the
Presbyterians
,
who
scrupled
not
to
pretend
to
the
knowledge
of
his
very
Thoughts
without
any
external
Evidence
?
I
have
often
told
you
that
Negatives
in
a
Matter
of
Fact
are
not
otherwise
to
be
prov'd
?
'T
is
no
wonder
that
so
malicious
an
Accuser
should
mistake
Truth
for
Falshhood
,
and
Falshood
for
Truth
,
when
you
have
not
yet
attain'd
to
so
much
Sense
,
as
to
distinguish
between
an
Affirmative
and
a
Negative
Proposition
.
You
are
firmly
resolv'd
to
defame
and
disparage
the
Episcopal
Clergy
at
any
rate
,
and
that
hath
occasion'd
the
following
Evidence
of
your
Candor
and
Veracity
.
Whereas
Dr.
Alexander
Monro
(
late
Principal
of
Edinburgh
College
)
is
said
in
an
impertinent
Libel
,
Entituled
,
A
Continuation
of
the
Answer
to
the
Scotch-Presbyterian-Eloquence
,
to
have
been
accused
when
he
was
in
Scotland
of
being
found
with
a
Woman
among
the
Corn
,
We
whose
names
are
under
written
,
(
living
in
and
near
to
the
City
of
Edinburgh
)
do
by
these
presents
declare
upon
Honor
and
Conscience
that
we
never
heard
that
he
was
so
accused
,
and
that
if
any
such
Accusation
had
ever
been
invented
against
him
,
We
think
it
very
probable
that
we
would
have
heard
of
it
,
especially
since
so
narrow
an
inquisition
has
been
made
into
his
Life
and
Actions
in
the
beginning
of
the
Late
Revolution
,
when
for
Non-Complyance
he
was
turned
out
of
the
College
of
Edinburgh
,
Sic
Subscribitur
.
W.
Binning
.
Sir
William
Binning
of
Wallinford
,
late
Lord
Provost
of
Edinburgh
.
J.
Dick.
Sir
James
Dick
of
Priest-field
,
late
Lord
Provost
of
Edinburgh
.
Tho.
Kennedy
,
Sir
Thomas
Kennedie
of
Kirk-Hill
,
late
Lord
Provost
of
Edinburgh
.
John
Marjoribanks
,
[
Late
Bailiff
of
Edinburgh
.
Ja.
Henryson
,
[
Writer
to
the
Signet
there
.
John
Baillie
,
[
Apothecary
and
Chirurgeon
there
.
Robert
Clerk
,
[
Apothecary
and
Chirurgeon
there
.
A.
Skene
,
Alexander
Skene
,
D.
D.
Late
Provost
of
the
old
College
in
the
University
of
St.
Andrews
.
Ri.
Waddell
,
Richard
Waddell
,
D.
D.
Late
Arch-Deacon
of
St.
Andrews
.
A.
Macleod
,
[
Mr.
Alexander
Macleod
,
Advocate
.
James
Flemyeng
,
Sir
James
Flemyeng
of
Ratho-byres
,
late
Lord
Provost
of
Edinburgh
.
A.
Balfour
,
Sir
Andrew
Balfour
,
Doctor
of
Medicine
.
Ar.
Stevenson
,
Sir
Archibald
Stevensone
,
Doctor
of
Medicine
.
Will.
Monipenny
,
[
Mr.
William
Monipenny
,
Advocate
.
T.
Skene
,
[
Mr.
Thomas
Skene
,
Advocate
.
C.
Gray
,
[
Mr.
Charles
Gray
,
Advocate
.
Al.
Craufurd
,
[
Mr.
Alexander
Craufurd
,
Advocate
.
Jo.
Mackenzie
,
Mr.
John
Mackenzie
,
one
of
the
Clerks
of
Session
.
Du.
Mackintoshe
,
[
Late
Bailiff
in
Edinburgh
.
Aen.
Macleod
,
[
Town-Clerk
.
J.
Wedderburn
,
Mr.
John
Wedderburn
,
Clerk
of
the
Bills
.
Al.
Gibson
,
[
One
of
the
Clerks
of
the
Session
.
Mr.
Ridpath
,
I
Would
have
gladly
taken
leave
of
you
long
before
now
,
but
that
I
am
not
left
at
liberty
as
to
the
following
Letter
.
It
is
occasioned
by
your
own
Civilities
to
the
Archbishop
of
Glasgow
and
others
.
We
oppose
the
Publick
Records
of
the
Nation
to
your
Clamorous
and
Obscene
Libels
;
and
if
there
were
nothing
else
to
prove
the
madness
of
your
Temper
than
that
one
Story
of
Margaret
Paterson
,
we
need
no
other
proof
to
convince
the
World
of
your
desperate
Impudence
.
A
Letter
from
a
Gentleman
in
Scotland
to
his
Friend
in
London
.
Edinburgh
,
July
22.
1693.
Sir
,
I
Had
not
yours
till
last
Night
,
which
lets
you
see
that
it
hath
been
a
month
by
the
way
,
and
this
is
the
true
Reason
your
return
is
so
late
.
As
to
that
silly
Varlet
Ridpath
,
all
I
can
say
of
him
more
than
yours
to
me
contains
,
which
I
know
to
be
most
exact
Truth
,
is
,
that
being
apprehended
and
made
Prisoner
here
about
Christmas
1680
,
for
contriving
and
writing
a
Bond
of
Combination
,
or
kind
of
Association
,
for
burning
the
Pope
in
Effigie
,
which
you
know
was
a
folly
never
before
that
time
attempted
here
,
and
was
design'd
then
by
the
Rogues
of
this
City
,
particularly
the
Presbyterians
,
as
an
indignity
to
his
(
then
)
Royal
Highness
.
This
Bond
being
found
in
the
custody
of
this
Villain
,
by
the
diligence
of
the
Learned
and
Reverend
Dr.
Cant
(
then
)
Principal
of
King
James
his
University
of
Edinburg
,
(
who
,
though
he
was
a
Celebrated
Champion
for
the
Protestant
Church
,
yet
had
he
a
just
indignation
against
all
Rabbling
and
Tumults
.
)
This
Bond
,
I
say
,
is
now
in
the
Council
Office
,
and
I
have
often
seen
and
read
it
.
'T
is
indeed
a
young
League
and
Covenant
,
containing
a
Clause
of
Mutual
Defence
,
not
excepting
the
King
,
or
any
in
Authority
under
him
;
and
an
invitation
to
Prentices
,
and
all
others
to
joyn
in
this
their
Association
.
Now
a
Bond
of
this
Nature
is
by
many
Laws
and
Acts
of
Parliament
declared
Treason
;
and
that
,
not
only
since
the
dreadful
effects
of
the
Infamous
League
and
Covenant
,
but
even
by
very
old
Acts
in
the
Reigns
of
King
James
the
First
,
and
Second
,
So
much
for
this
.
This
Scoundrel
was
committed
,
who
was
not
then
a
Boy
,
but
a
Fellow
come
to
Years
,
and
then
a
Servant
to
two
Sons
of
one
Gray
,
a
person
living
on
the
English
Border
,
and
of
the
same
Gang
with
his
Man
Ridpath
.
The
Fellow
confess'd
before
the
Committee
of
Council
,
that
he
had
drawn
this
Bond
,
but
would
not
own
that
he
had
been
prompted
to
it
,
or
assisted
in
it
by
others
,
though
the
Council
well
knew
,
that
many
of
the
Ringleaders
of
the
Party
were
the
promoters
of
this
Trick
,
which
was
design'd
as
a
Prologue
to
a
Rebellion
against
the
(
then
)
Government
.
For
this
Villany
the
Law
here
might
have
justly
sent
him
to
the
Gibbet
,
and
perhaps
the
Council
had
put
him
in
the
hands
of
the
Judges
Criminal
,
had
he
not
been
preserv'd
by
the
unparallel'd
Clemency
of
the
Prince
that
(
then
)
sate
at
the
Helm
here
,
which
you
know
is
so
natural
to
that
Sacred
Race
.
I
remember
the
Duke
of
Rothes
the
Chancellour
,
and
several
other
great
Lords
having
examin'd
him
,
and
finding
him
very
false
and
obstinate
in
his
Answers
,
ordered
him
to
be
committed
Close
Prisoner
till
he
were
further
examin'd
.
And
as
he
was
going
to
Prison
,
seeing
a
Crowd
about
him
,
and
considering
them
as
a
Rabble
,
he
cry'd
out
aloud
,
that
he
was
suffering
for
the
Protestant
Religion
,
the
ordinary
,
but
false
pretence
of
all
Seditions
and
Rebellions
here
.
For
which
he
was
for
some
days
put
in
Irons
,
and
a
little
after
by
the
Goodness
of
his
(
then
)
Royal
Highness
,
who
was
always
too
compassionate
to
that
Generation
of
Vipers
,
he
was
dismissed
.
This
is
all
I
can
remember
or
learn
of
this
Creature
.
I
hear
in
his
late
Pamphlet
,
which
I
have
not
yet
seen
,
he
has
the
Impudence
to
say
,
that
one
Margaret
Paterson
(
a
Prostitute
sufficiently
infamous
)
should
have
confess'd
somewhat
before
the
Criminal
Court
relating
to
the
Archbishop
of
Glasgow
and
me
;
I
am
satisfied
that
all
that
that
Villain
has
scribled
of
the
Bishop
be
believed
,
if
ever
she
named
either
the
Bishop
or
me
in
her
Confessions
,
either
before
that
Court
,
or
any
Confessions
else
,
whether
publick
or
private
.
Nor
did
the
Bishop
hear
of
such
a
Creature
,
till
the
noise
was
made
at
her
being
taken
naked
in
the
Bed
with
the
late
Presbyterian
Moderator
Kennedy
his
two
Sons
,
for
which
they
stand
declared
Fugitives
in
the
Justice
Court
Books
,
for
the
horrid
Crime
of
Incest
.
As
to
what
relates
to
the
C
—
ks
,
I
make
you
this
distinct
Return
.
In
the
year
1684
,
Sir
Hugh
and
Sir
George
Campbels
of
C
—
k
,
with
Baylie
of
Jerviswood
,
Commissar
Monro
,
Mr.
William
Spence
,
Mr.
William
Carstairs
,
and
some
others
were
sent
down
Prisoners
here
by
Sea
,
and
were
kept
close
for
some
Weeks
;
during
which
time
I
had
occasion
to
be
often
with
them
,
for
the
Council
ordered
any
of
their
Friends
to
converse
with
them
,
and
see
them
,
in
presence
of
any
of
the
Clerks
of
Council
;
and
such
of
them
as
are
yet
alive
,
and
their
Relations
will
bear
me
witness
,
that
I
was
as
easie
to
them
that
way
as
they
could
desire
.
For
,
the
truth
is
,
they
all
professed
so
much
Innocence
in
the
matter
they
were
accused
of
,
(
which
was
for
being
in
a
Conspiracy
with
the
late
Monmouth
and
Argyle
for
raising
a
Rebellion
in
both
Nations
at
the
same
time
,
and
which
fell
out
the
next
year
accordingly
)
and
that
with
all
the
circumstantiated
Imprecations
to
them
and
their
Families
,
that
I
began
to
believe
the
Government
had
been
imposed
upon
in
this
matter
,
and
contracted
such
a
compassion
for
them
,
as
made
some
of
our
then
Statesmen
angry
with
me
:
and
yet
Carstairs
upon
the
first
application
of
the
Thumb-Screw
,
even
the
first
touch
of
it
,
confessed
all
,
as
may
be
seen
in
his
Printed
Confession
in
the
Tryal
of
Jerviswood
;
and
then
Monro
,
and
afterwards
the
two
C
—
ks
themselves
;
which
two
Campbels
were
upon
their
Judicial
Confession
forefaulted
in
plain
Parliament
1685
,
and
their
Estates
annex'd
to
the
Crown
:
tho
the
King
gave
them
not
only
both
Remissions
for
their
Lives
,
but
even
ordered
their
Estates
to
be
returned
to
them
,
upon
their
paying
a
very
inconsiderable
Composition
to
some
of
the
then
Statesmen
.
That
which
the
Rascal
Ridpath
aims
at
,
I
suppose
,
is
a
Process
which
was
commenced
some
time
before
that
,
against
old
C
—
k
:
the
undisguised
matter
of
Fact
was
truly
this
,
which
you
may
rely
upon
for
certain
and
recorded
Truth
.
There
was
one
Wallace
a
Collector
or
Surveyor
in
Airshire
▪
This
Man
gives
Information
to
the
Secret
Committee
,
that
there
were
three
Men
in
that
Country
who
had
assured
him
that
old
C
—
k
had
encouraged
several
Country
People
to
the
Rebellion
at
Both
well
Bridge
,
1679
;
and
that
particularly
he
had
said
to
themselves
whom
he
rencountred
with
upon
a
place
,
called
the
Bridge
of
Gastoun
,
near
his
own
House
,
What
meant
such
young
lusty
Fellows
to
stay
at
home
,
when
the
People
of
God
were
in
Arms
for
their
Covenanted
Cause
;
and
bid
them
go
on
to
the
rest
(
the
Whig-Army
being
then
at
Hamiltoun
,
within
ten
Miles
or
thereby
to
that
place
)
for
he
and
the
rest
of
the
Country
would
quickly
be
with
them
Upon
which
Information
the
three
Fellows
are
brought
in
,
and
kept
some
time
in
the
Cannon
gate
Prison
.
I
heard
them
examined
before
the
Secret
Committee
,
and
all
of
them
both
jointly
and
separately
were
very
positive
,
clear
,
and
distinct
in
their
Depositions
.
Upon
this
an
Indictment
is
raised
against
C
—
k
,
and
the
same
Witnesses
are
again
examined
upon
Oath
before
the
Justices
,
which
is
called
by
our
Law
a
Precognition
,
and
there
they
were
again
very
firm
,
and
seemed
altogether
clear
and
sincere
.
But
the
Day
of
the
Tryal
being
come
,
and
a
disaffected
Crowd
getting
in
about
these
Witnesses
,
when
they
came
to
depone
they
began
to
waver
much
,
and
upon
the
matter
deny
much
of
what
they
had
twice
clearly
made
oath
of
before
;
so
that
the
Jury
brought
in
C
—
k
not
guilty
;
and
so
he
was
acquitted
from
that
Indictment
.
And
the
next
day
the
same
three
Rogues
begged
to
be
heard
before
the
Council
,
where
I
heard
them
again
upon
their
Knees
,
and
with
all
the
Solemnities
of
Truth
and
Sincerity
,
Protest
and
Swear
,
that
what
they
had
first
Sworn
was
simple
Truth
,
and
that
their
Carriage
the
day
before
in
the
Court
,
was
occasioned
by
their
being
terrified
to
swear
against
C
—
k
,
so
great
a
Man
in
that
Corner
of
the
Country
.
But
upon
the
whole
Matter
,
the
worthy
Sir
George
Mackenzie
had
no
more
hand
in
all
this
Affair
,
but
meerly
to
pursue
as
the
King's
Advocate
.
And
in
general
I
can
affirm
,
as
in
the
sight
of
the
God
of
Justice
and
Truth
,
I
do
believe
,
after
all
the
Enquiry
I
have
made
,
that
never
a
person
suffered
in
Scotland
by
Subornation
or
false
Witnesses
employed
by
the
Government
since
the
Restoration
of
the
Royal
Family
.
Tho
many
of
the
Rebels
have
been
brought
off
,
and
assolzied
by
the
scandalous
and
bare-faced
Perjuries
of
their
own
Party
:
for
in
the
Tryals
of
those
Rebels
,
the
Witnesses
for
the
King
being
formerly
engaged
in
the
saids
Rebellions
,
made
use
of
such
strange
and
uncouth
Fetches
and
Strains
of
Words
,
that
no
Jury
could
fix
any
Verdict
or
Doom
upon
;
for
being
interrogated
,
if
they
saw
the
person
at
the
Barr
in
Arms
with
the
Rebels
(
as
particularly
in
the
case
of
one
Sprewel
,
an
eminent
Ringleader
and
Captain
,
several
of
his
own
Kinsmen
as
well
as
Acquaintances
,
and
who
had
ridden
under
his
Command
)
they
were
brought
with
great
difficulty
to
confess
,
that
they
thought
they
had
seen
a
Man
there
which
seemed
to
be
somewhat
like
the
Prisoner
at
the
Bar
,
but
for
a
World
they
could
not
swear
,
that
this
Prisoner
was
the
person
they
saw
there
.
Being
ask'd
,
if
he
had
a
Sword
;
they
answered
,
they
saw
that
person
have
something
like
the
end
of
a
Scabbard
,
hanging
from
under
his
Cloak
,
but
whether
there
were
a
Blade
there
or
not
they
could
not
tell
;
and
being
question'd
on
oath
all
the
while
if
that
person
had
Pistols
;
they
confessed
they
had
seen
something
like
Hulster-Cases
at
his
Saddle
,
but
whether
there
were
Pistols
in
them
or
not
,
they
could
not
swear
for
a
World.
And
by
such
Presbyterian
Canting
Prejuries
as
these
,
this
Sprewet
,
and
many
others
were
brought
off
.
Dear
Sir
,
I
am
afraid
I
have
been
too
tedious
in
this
Return
,
but
since
it
contains
nothing
but
simple
Truth
,
it
will
be
the
wellcomer
to
you
,
and
therefore
is
subscribed
by
Your
Humble
and
Faithful
Servant
,
W.
P.
ADVERTISEMENT
.
THE
Following
Propositions
are
taken
out
of
such
Books
as
are
most
in
Vogue
amongst
the
Scotch
Presbyterians
.
They
contain
a
short
Account
of
their
Moral
Theology
with
regard
to
Obedience
,
Subjection
,
and
Government
.
I
desire
the
impartial
Reader
to
let
me
know
,
wherein
the
Sentiments
of
the
Kirk
differ
from
the
Doctrines
propagated
by
the
Jesuits
.
You
have
many
of
them
gathered
together
in
one
view
,
not
at
all
as
an
Answer
to
any
of
Mr.
Ridpath
's
Scriblings
,
but
as
a
sufficient
Confutation
of
the
impertinent
Clamours
against
the
Government
of
King
Charles
the
Second
.
For
since
they
were
taught
by
their
Religion
to
rebel
against
their
King
and
Parliament
,
our
Governors
could
not
but
secure
the
Peace
of
the
Nation
against
such
barbarous
Practices
as
were
indeed
the
natural
Consequences
of
their
Principles
.
1.
A
Man
ought
no
more
to
suffer
when
the
Sentence
is
unjust
,
than
he
ought
to
do
that
which
is
unjust
and
sinful
at
the
command
of
Authority
.
Jus
Pop.
throughout
.
2.
No
Authority
can
command
or
can
oblige
until
he
himself
that
is
commanded
be
convinced
and
persuaded
that
the
thing
is
just
,
reasonable
and
expedient
.
Gillesp
.
Ingl.
pop
.
Cerem
.
3.
To
oppose
the
persons
invested
with
Authority
,
is
not
to
oppose
the
Ordinance
of
God
,
for
the
Ordinance
of
God
is
Magistracy
in
abstracto
,
that
is
it
that
we
are
commanded
Rom.
13.
not
to
resist
,
but
the
person
of
the
King
ought
to
be
resisted
.
Lex
Rex
pag.
265.
and
when
the
Parliaments
of
both
Kingdoms
fought
against
the
King's
Person
,
they
fought
for
his
Royal
Interest
,
and
as
he
was
a
King
,
and
tho
the
person
I
of
the
King
was
absent
,
and
denied
his
consent
as
a
Man
,
yet
they
were
as
valid
Parliaments
as
if
he
were
personally
present
with
them
.
Lex
Rex
270.
4.
Patient
Suffering
fall
under
no
Law
of
God.
Lex
Rex
pag.
314.
Vide
Napht.
pag.
157.
5.
The
Presbytery
hath
the
power
of
making
peace
and
war
,
neither
ought
the
Parliament
enter
into
war
without
them
no
more
than
Joshua
did
offer
battel
without
Eleasar
the
High
Priest
.
Acts
Gen.
Ass
.
48.
Agust
.
3.
6.
Since
Religion
is
the
highest
Interest
of
Mankind
,
it
is
not
only
lawful
but
necessary
for
private
Subjects
to
rise
in
Arms
against
the
King
to
reform
the
Abuses
crept
into
it
,
and
when
the
supreme
Powers
serve
not
the
great
Ends
of
Religion
,
we
are
ipso
facto
loos'd
from
all
Tyes
of
O
bedience
to
them
.
Naph
.
pag.
154.
Vide
Jus
Populi
throughout
.
7.
The
Presbytery
may
excommunicate
the
King
,
and
when
he
is
excommunicated
,
none
of
his
Subjects
owe
him
Obedience
,
neither
may
they
converse
with
him
.
Jesuits
and
Presbyterians
.
8.
There
is
nothing
to
be
allowed
of
in
the
Worship
of
God
as
to
its
Order
and
Circumstance
that
is
not
founded
on
the
express
Letter
of
the
Scripture
;
the
unscriptural
symbolical
Ceremonies
are
the
Badge
of
Antichrist
.
All
the
Sectarians
.
9.
It
is
a
good
Argument
against
any
part
of
the
Worship
of
God
to
have
it
abolish'd
,
that
it
was
or
is
still
to
be
found
in
the
Mass
Book
.
Bailies
Parallel
of
the
Liturgy
.
10.
It
is
lawful
and
necessary
to
enter
into
Covenants
and
Leagues
without
the
King
,
and
formally
to
protest
against
the
King's
most
legal
Methods
to
the
contrary
.
Prot.
at
the
Cross
Ed.
37.
p.
38.
11.
The
King
having
now
for
many
years
usurped
the
power
of
Christ
,
and
most
palpably
tyrannized
in
Civil
Matters
,
he
is
to
be
deposed
and
brought
to
punishment
,
and
all
the
Covenanted
People
of
the
Lord
are
to
fight
against
him
and
his
Adherents
,
under
the
Standard
of
Christ
Jesus
.
Sanchor
.
Declar.
22.
June
1680.
and
Cargill's
Cov.
broughtout
.
12.
It
is
downright
Idolatry
,
and
prejudicial
to
the
Honour
of
Christ
and
the
Interest
of
Reformation
to
appoint
anniversary
Days
for
Benefits
bestowed
on
the
King
and
Kingdom
.
Apol.
Narrat
.
Naph
.
p.
87.
13.
The
minor
part
of
a
Kingdom
that
is
for
God
and
his
Cause
against
the
King
,
if
they
be
in
a
probable
capacity
to
bring
their
Design
to
pass
,
ought
by
the
Call
of
God
to
endeavour
the
Reformation
of
their
Nation
by
Force
of
Arms.
Naph
.
and
Jus
Populi
throughout
.
14.
Tho
our
Saviour
told
his
Disciples
,
John
18.
36.
That
his
Kingdom
was
not
of
this
World
,
and
that
they
ought
not
to
fight
for
him
,
yet
it
obliges
not
the
Christians
now
,
they
may
fight
without
and
against
the
Consent
of
the
supreme
Magistrate
.
Jus
Pop.
Proef.
to
the
Reader
.
and
Naph
.
pag.
159.
15.
The
greatest
reproach
that
the
People
of
God
could
be
exposed
to
,
was
to
own
the
King's
Proceedings
,
without
Satisfaction
to
the
covenanted
People
of
God
in
both
Kingdoms
.
Vide
Act
of
the
West-Kirk
.
16.
None
have
right
to
the
Creature
but
the
People
of
God
,
or
Dominion
is
founded
in
Grace
.
Enthus
.
and
Sect.
17.
The
Scots
Covenant
is
the
Magna
Charta
of
all
Religion
and
Righteousness
,
and
not
only
obliges
those
who
personally
swore
it
,
but
the
whole
Nation
to
all
succeeding
Generations
in
all
its
Tendences
and
natural
Consequences
.
Naph
.
pag.
83.
and
185.
18.
The
Success
that
the
Presbyterians
had
in
the
late
Troubles
against
the
King
and
his
Adherents
,
were
undeniable
Signs
of
God's
Favour
to
that
Party
,
and
to
follow
and
promove
their
Success
,
was
to
follow
Providence
.
Act.
of
Gen.
Assem
.
frequently
.
And
those
who
fought
for
the
King
fought
against
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
Ibidem
An.
45.
19.
It
is
the
Duty
of
the
meanest
Subject
in
his
most
private
capacity
(
nay
,
they
are
indispensibly
obliged
to
it
)
to
admonish
and
reprove
the
King
when
they
observe
any
thing
that
they
think
contrary
or
disadvantageous
to
the
Presbyterian
Interest
and
Reformation
.
Naph
.
pag.
86.
20.
The
covenanted
People
of
God
adhering
to
the
faithful
Ministers
of
Christ
that
owned
the
Cause
and
Covenant
,
and
forsaking
the
Apostate
Hirelings
,
the
many
Conversions
wrought
upon
them
were
infallible
Marks
that
God
did
approve
them
in
their
Proceedings
against
wicked
Rulers
.
Cup
of
Cold
Water
.
21.
The
Change
made
in
the
Church
of
Scotland
at
the
King's
Return
,
from
Presbytery
to
Episcopacy
did
naturally
,
and
in
its
just
Consequence
and
Tendency
,
overthrow
the
very
Foundation
of
Religion
,
and
the
change
is
no
less
than
from
the
pure
Worship
of
God
,
to
down
right
Idolatry
.
Naph
,
Pref.
to
the
Reader
,
pag.
4
,
and
5
,
Ibidem
84.
22.
Whoever
is
a
sincere
Seeker
of
God
,
and
truly
Regenerate
,
will
immediatly
discern
upon
his
seeking
of
God
,
ipso
facto
,
the
profanity
and
wickedness
of
all
that
adhere
to
the
Episcopal
Church
.
Naph
.
pag.
11.
23.
It
was
the
peculiar
Lot
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
more
eminently
than
any
other
Church
upon
Earth
,
to
contend
against
the
Powers
of
this
World
,
for
the
Scepter
and
Kingdom
of
Jesus
Christ
,
by
their
Protestations
,
Petitions
,
Remonstrances
,
Declinators
and
all
other
Methods
to
advance
Presbyterian
Interest
.
Naph
.
Pref.
to
the
Reader
,
pag.
16.
24.
Papacy
and
Prelacy
have
one
and
the
same
Original
,
and
their
adherents
are
the
Synagogue
of
Antichrist
.
Naph
.
Pref.
to
the
Reader
,
pag.
20.
and
pag.
154
:
and
pag.
184.
and
pag.
53.
25.
The
People
of
God
in
these
Nations
ought
to
rest
assur'd
that
their
Enemies
shall
be
ruin'd
and
destroy'd
,
for
the
Lord
hath
said
that
the
false
Prophets
shall
pass
out
of
the
Land
,
and
all
that
Countenance
them
shall
be
asham'd
,
and
ought
we
not
to
believe
what
God
himself
hath
said
.
Naph
.
Pref.
and
pag.
153.
26.
No
Ecclesiastick
is
oblig'd
to
give
the
King
or
his
Council
an
account
of
any
Doctrine
Preached
by
him
immediately
,
and
Prima
instantia
,
he
is
oblig'd
to
the
Presbyterian
Classis
;
and
if
the
King
meddle
with
him
,
or
call
him
to
an
account
immediatly
,
he
invades
the
Scepter
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
if
he
arrogate
unto
himself
the
power
of
Convocating
National
or
Provincial
Synods
,
he
confounds
the
Government
of
Jesus
Christ
with
the
Civil
,
and
invades
his
Authority
;
therefore
it
is
not
safe
,
nor
Scriptural
Dialect
,
to
say
the
King
is
Supreme
Governour
over
all
Persons
,
and
in
all
Causes
.
Naph
.
frequently
,
and
page
38
,
and
40.
The
Royal
Prerogative
in
cognoscing
upon
the
Doctrine
of
Ministers
,
is
the
Devil
's
great
design
to
endear
the
Powers
on
Earth
to
the
Prelates
.
Ibidem
.
27.
The
Presbytry
can
Counter
Act
the
Acts
and
Statutes
of
the
Supreme
Court
of
Parliament
,
and
can
forbid
all
the
Subjects
to
obey
those
Laws
,
if
imposed
without
their
Consent
.
July
28.
Anno
1648.
Act
and
Declaration
against
the
Act
of
Parliament
.
28.
No
Man
can
enter
lawfully
to
the
Ministry
,
but
by
the
Call
of
the
People
,
but
when
the
People
are
Malignant
,
then
the
Presbytery
may
give
them
a
Minister
.
Act.
Gen.
Assem
.
August
4.
1649.
29.
When
the
Presbytry
appointed
a
Fast
,
upon
King
James
his
appointing
of
a
Feast
,
they
did
nothing
but
what
they
were
oblig'd
in
Conscience
to
do
.
Lex
Rex
Pref.
to
the
Reader
.
30.
If
the
King
will
not
Reform
Religion
,
the
Assembly
of
godly
Pastors
and
People
ought
to
Reform
it
,
and
they
may
swear
a
covenant
without
the
King
;
and
if
he
refuse
to
build
the
Lords
House
,
they
may
relieve
and
defend
one
another
,
when
they
are
opprest
and
hinder'd
in
the
Work
and
Cause
of
God.
Lex
Rex
Pref.
to
the
Reader
.
31.
Inferiour
Judges
are
no
less
essentially
Judges
and
God's
Vice-Gerents
on
Earth
than
the
King
himself
.
Lex
Rex
,
pag.
159.
32.
The
King
is
under
the
Law
as
to
its
Coercive
limitation
,
and
ought
to
be
resisted
by
force
of
Arms.
Lex
Rex
,
pag.
231.
Duglas
Coron
.
Ser.
pag.
22.
and
elsewhere
frequently
.
33.
The
King
is
not
the
final
and
supreme
Interpreter
of
the
Law.
Lex
Rex
,
pag.
252.
34.
The
King's
Pretogative
Royal
,
and
the
Oath
of
Supremacy
are
directly
contrary
to
the
Word
of
God
,
and
the
Fundamental
Laws
of
this
Kingdom
.
Naph
.
pag.
86.
35.
To
allow
that
the
present
graceless
Hirelings
and
Curates
,
had
so
much
as
an
external
Call
to
the
Ministry
,
were
as
much
as
to
make
the
God
of
Order
,
the
Author
of
Confusion
.
Naph
.
pag.
104
,
105.
And
the
true
Zeal
of
God
would
inspire
us
to
eradicate
those
Plants
that
our
Heavenly
Father
never
planted
.
Ibidem
pag.
108.
And
to
bid
the
Covenanted
People
of
God
come
to
the
Church
,
is
the
height
of
Oppression
and
Rigour
.
Ibidem
pag.
109.
36.
A
King
that
transgresses
the
Law
is
degenerate
into
a
Tyrant
,
and
ought
to
be
ranked
amongst
such
as
destroy
the
Peace
and
Advantages
of
Human
Societies
,
because
they
transgress
the
limits
and
bounds
of
their
Constitution
,
therefore
are
they
hateful
to
God
and
men
,
and
to
be
looked
upon
as
no
better
than
Wolves
,
Tigers
,
and
Lions
,
and
the
death
of
such
ought
to
be
rewarded
by
the
whole
People
,
and
every
one
of
them
.
De
Jure
Regni
,
pag.
36.
37.
The
Oaths
given
by
Intrants
to
their
Bishops
,
at
their
Ordination
,
do
not
oblige
at
all
,
because
they
bind
us
to
those
Constitutions
that
were
not
allowed
by
the
Presbytery
.
Act.
Gen.
Assem
.
Decemb.
5.
1638.
38.
The
call
of
a
clear
and
necessary
Providence
is
,
enough
for
Christs
Witnesses
to
resist
and
stand
up
against
earthly
Powers
,
and
to
this
they
are
indispensably
obliged
,
when
they
are
in
a
probable
capacity
to
act
successfully
,
although
the
Motive
of
Self-defence
were
not
conjoin'd
;
and
all
such
Combinations
for
Just
and
Necessary
ends
,
are
warranted
before
God
and
men
,
notwithstanding
of
any
pretended
Law
to
the
contrary
:
and
to
affirm
that
the
first
and
last
Covenanters
were
acted
by
a
Spirit
of
Rebellion
,
is
a
sin
the
next
degree
to
the
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Naph
.
pag.
7
,
8.
12.
16.
39.
The
great
Law
of
Self-Preservation
,
in
its
immediate
and
most
natural
Effects
,
teach
us
,
and
indispensably
oblige
us
to
resist
Kings
,
and
all
Superiour
Powers
when
they
command
things
contrary
to
the
Word
of
God
;
nay
when
the
great
ends
of
Government
are
perverted
,
then
the
Bond
thereof
is
dissolved
,
and
the
People
thus
liberated
therefrom
do
relaps
into
their
Primeve
Liberty
,
and
may
upon
the
very
same
Principles
Combine
and
Associate
for
their
better
defence
,
that
they
first
enter'd
upon
unto
Society
.
Naph
.
pag.
147
,
148.
150.
40.
When
the
faithful
of
the
Land
are
destitute
of
the
best
and
surest
means
to
overthrow
the
present
Government
and
wicked
Governours
,
they
are
still
oblig'd
to
use
their
utmost
endeavours
.
Naph
.
pag.
155.
41.
We
ought
not
to
believe
that
the
Primitive
Christians
were
so
numerous
as
the
first
Apologists
for
Christianity
did
give
out
,
they
were
deceived
in
a
Matter
of
Fact
,
for
the
Sufferings
of
the
Martyrs
do
not
at
all
militate
against
the
lawfulness
of
Defensive
Arms.
Lex
Rex
,
pag.
2.
71.
42.
The
very
power
to
Extirpate
the
present
Government
is
God's
Call
to
do
so
.
Cargil's
New
Cov.
Art.
1.
43.
We
are
no
more
bound
by
any
tie
of
Allegiance
to
the
present
Governours
,
than
we
are
bound
in
Allegiance
to
the
Devils
.
Cargil's
New
Cov.
Art.
9.
If
the
Scotch
Presbyterians
under
the
former
Reigns
had
satisfied
themselves
with
the
Theory
of
Rebellion
,
and
if
they
had
not
actually
practis'd
according
to
the
full
extent
and
tendency
of
their
Principles
;
then
,
their
Writings
and
Seditious
Sermons
might
have
been
tolerated
with
the
greater
Ease
:
but
since
those
active
Gentlemen
ventur'd
upon
the
Natural
Conclusions
that
their
Principles
yielded
,
so
that
none
of
the
Kings
Loyal
Subjects
knew
but
that
they
were
to
be
murder'd
as
soon
as
they
stept
out
of
Doors
.
I
hope
modest
Men
will
allow
that
severe
Laws
were
very
necessary
when
the
Holy
Scriptures
were
perverted
to
destroy
the
General
Peace
of
Mankind
;
and
fiery
Enthusiasts
were
made
believe
,
that
they
might
make
bold
with
the
Life
of
any
Man
,
whom
they
took
to
oppose
their
own
Dreams
,
if
they
fancyed
that
their
Neighbours
were
Canaanites
and
Moabites
.
Most
of
them
that
bawl'd
against
the
Government
of
Charles
II.
are
such
as
never
understood
the
Temper
of
our
Religious
Incendiaries
,
or
were
themselves
deeply
ingaged
in
the
Rebellion
;
and
therefore
I
have
added
to
the
former
Papers
,
the
following
Letter
,
to
undeceive
such
as
are
misinform'd
,
and
to
let
the
World
see
that
it
was
impossible
for
our
Kings
and
Parliaments
to
forbear
the
making
of
such
Laws
as
our
Enemies
complain
of
;
when
the
Holy
Scriptures
were
wrested
contrary
to
their
True
Meaning
,
and
made
to
truckle
under
the
hellish
designs
of
incorrigible
Hypocrites
.
The
following
Paper
is
a
very
Authentick
one
,
written
by
the
famous
Assassin
Mr.
James
Mitchel
,
who
attempted
the
Life
of
the
Arch-Bishop
of
St.
Andrews
upon
the
Streets
of
Edinburgh
,
and
in
doing
so
,
wounded
the
Bishop
of
Orkney
.
This
Sacrilegious
Effort
he
endeavours
to
justifie
from
the
Holy
Scriptures
.
The
Presbyterians
cannot
take
it
ill
that
the
Monuments
of
their
Martyrs
are
preserv'd
;
if
they
say
that
all
Presbyterians
have
not
such
Principles
,
I
say
so
too
:
but
then
,
they
must
remember
,
that
such
were
the
Presbyterians
against
whom
the
Laws
were
made
under
the
former
Reigns
;
and
't
is
difficult
to
know
whether
all
of
them
have
not
the
same
Principles
,
if
once
they
are
provok'd
to
anger
,
and
if
they
are
consequential
to
the
Doctrine
of
the
first
Puritans
:
for
*
Goodman
saith
expresly
,
That
,
If
the
Magistrates
shall
refuse
to
put
Mass-mongers
and
false
Preachers
to
death
,
the
people
in
seeing
it
perform'd
do
shew
that
zeal
of
God
which
was
commended
in
Phineas
,
destroying
the
Adulterers
,
and
in
the
Israelites
against
the
Benjamites
.
Let
any
sober
Man
consider
what
Improvemnnts
the
Principles
of
the
following
Letter
are
capable
of
;
and
then
let
him
tell
me
,
whether
he
can
name
any
Crimes
punished
by
any
Magistrates
in
any
Corner
of
the
World
,
more
dangerous
to
human
Society
,
than
the
Doctrines
that
he
may
read
with
his
own
Eyes
in
this
Letter
.
I
have
copied
it
from
that
Collection
of
Mr.
Mitchel's
Papers
,
which
his
own
Consederates
took
great
care
to
Print
and
preserve
in
the
latter
Editions
of
Naphtali
.
THE
COPY
OF
A
LETTER
FROM
Edinburg
Tolbooth
,
February
—
1674.
ME
who
may
justly
call
my self
less
than
the
least
of
all
Saints
,
and
the
chiefest
of
all
Sinners
:
yet
Christ
Jesus
calleth
to
be
a
Witness
for
his
despised
Truth
,
and
trampled
on
Interests
and
Cause
,
by
the
wicked
,
blasphemous
and
God
contemning
Generation
,
and
against
all
their
perfidious
wickedness
.
Sir
,
I
say
,
the
Confidence
I
have
in
your
real
Friendship
,
and
Love
to
Christ's
Truth
,
People
,
Interest
and
Cause
,
hath
encouraged
me
to
write
to
you
at
this
time
,
hoping
you
will
not
misconstruct
me
,
nor
take
advantage
of
my
Infirmity
and
weakness
.
You
have
heard
of
my
Inditement
,
which
I
take
up
in
these
two
particulars
;
First
,
As
they
term
it
Rebellion
and
Treason
,
anent
which
I
answered
to
My
Lord
Chancellor
in
Committee
,
that
it
was
no
Rebellion
,
but
a
Duty
which
every
one
was
bound
to
have
performed
in
joyning
with
that
party
,
and
I
in
the
Year
1656
,
Mr.
R.
L.
being
then
Primar
in
the
Colledge
of
Edinburg
,
before
our
Laureation
,
tendered
to
us
the
National
Covenant
and
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
upon
mature
Deliberation
,
I
found
nothing
in
them
,
but
a
short
compend
of
the
Moral
Law
,
only
binding
us
to
our
Duty
,
towards
God
and
towards
Men
in
their
several
Stations
,
and
I
finding
,
that
our
banished
King's
Interest
lay
wholly
included
therein
,
and
both
Coronation
and
Allegiance
Oaths
,
&c.
and
they
being
the
Substance
of
all
Loyalty
,
and
my
Lord
,
it
was
well
known
,
that
many
were
taking
the
Tender
,
and
forswearing
Charles
Stuart
,
Parliament
,
and
House
of
Lords
,
I
then
subscribed
both
,
the
doing
of
which
,
My
Lord
Chancellour
would
have
stood
at
no
less
rate
,
if
as
well
known
,
than
this
my
present
adhering
and
prosecuting
the
Ends
thereof
doth
now
,
and
when
I
was
questioned
what
then
I
called
Rebellion
,
I
answered
,
it
is
in
Ezra
vii
.
Verse
26.
And
whosoever
will
not
do
the
Law
of
God
and
of
the
King
,
&c.
but
being
questioned
before
the
Commissioner
and
the
Council
therea
nent
,
I
answered
,
as
I
said
to
my
Lord
Chancellour
before
,
in
the
Year
1656.
Mr.
R.
L.
being
then
Primar
in
the
Colledge
of
Edinburg
,
before
our
Laureation
,
he
tendered
to
us
the
National
and
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
:
He
Stopt
me
,
Saying
,
I
'll
wad
ye
are
come
here
to
give
a
Testimony
:
And
then
being
demanded
what
I
called
Rebellion
,
if
it
was
not
Rebellion
to
oppose
his
Majesties
Forces
in
the
Face
:
To
the
which
I
answered
,
viz.
My
Lord
Chancellour
,
if
it
please
your
Grace
,
I
humbly
conceive
they
should
have
been
with
us
,
according
to
the
National
and
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
at
which
Answer
I
perceived
him
to
storm
.
But
,
saith
he
,
I
heard
ye
have
been
over
Seas
,
with
whom
did
ye
converse
there
?
Answer
,
with
my
Merchant
:
But
,
saith
he
,
with
whom
in
particular
?
Answer
with
one
John
Mitchel
a
Cousin
of
mine
own
.
Saith
he
,
I
have
heard
of
him
,
he
is
a
Factor
in
Rotterdam
,
to
which
I
conceded
.
But
,
saith
he
,
did
ye
not
converse
with
Mr.
Livingston
,
and
such
as
he
,
to
which
I
answered
,
I
conversed
with
all
all
our
banished
Ministers
.
To
which
he
replyed
,
banished
Traitors
,
ye
will
speak
Treason
at
the
Bar.
Then
he
answered
himself
,
saying
,
But
they
would
call
the
shooting
at
the
Bishop
an
Heroick
Act.
To
which
I
answered
,
that
I
never
told
them
any
such
thing
,
but
where
did
you
see
James
Wallace
last
?
Answer
,
Towards
the
Borders
of
Germany
some
years
ago
.
But
what
alled
you
at
My
Lord
St.
Andrews
?
(
pointing
at
him
with
his
Finger
)
Answer
,
My
Lord
Commissioner
,
the
grievous
Oppression
,
and
horrid
Bloodshed
of
my
Brethren
,
and
the
eager
pursuit
after
my
own
,
as
appeareth
this
day
to
your
Grace
,
and
to
all
his
Majesties
Honourable
Privy
Council
.
After
which
he
commanded
to
take
me
away
,
that
they
might
see
what
to
do
next
with
me
.
The
Second
is
,
the
shooting
of
the
Shot
intended
against
the
Bishop
of
St.
Andrews
,
whereby
the
Bishop
of
Orknay
was
hurt
,
to
which
I
answered
My
Lord
Chancellor
in
private
,
viz.
that
I
looked
on
him
to
be
the
main
Instigater
of
all
the
Oppression
and
Bloodshed
of
my
Brethren
that
followed
thereupon
,
and
the
continual
pursuing
after
my
own
,
and
,
my
Lord
,
as
it
was
credibly
reported
to
us
(
the
Truth
of
which
your
Lordship
knows
better
than
we
)
that
he
kept
up
his
Majesties
Letter
inhibiting
any
more
Blood
upon
that
Account
,
until
the
last
Six
was
execute
:
And
I
being
a
Soldier
,
not
having
Laid
down
Arms
,
but
being
still
upon
my
own
Defence
,
and
having
no
other
End
nor
Quarrel
at
any
Man
(
but
according
to
my
apprehension
of
him
)
that
as
I
hope
in
Sincerity
with
fixing
either
my
Sense
or
Action
upon
the
Covenant
it self
,
as
it
may
be
understood
by
the
many
thousands
of
the
Faithful
,
besides
the
Prosecution
of
the
Ends
of
the
same
Covenant
,
which
was
,
and
in
that
point
the
Overthrow
of
Prelates
and
Prelacy
,
and
I
being
a
declared
Enemy
to
him
on
that
account
,
and
he
to
me
in
like
manner
.
So
I
never
found
my self
obliged
,
either
by
the
Law
of
God
,
or
Nature
,
to
set
a
Centry
at
his
Door
for
his
Safety
,
but
as
he
was
always
to
take
his
Advantage
,
as
it
appeareth
,
so
I
of
him
,
to
take
any
Opportunity
offered
.
Moreover
,
we
being
in
no
Terms
of
Capitulation
,
but
on
the
contrait
,
I
by
his
Instigation
being
excluded
from
all
Grace
and
Favour
,
thought
it
my
Duty
to
pursue
him
at
all
occasions
:
Also
My
Lord
,
Sir
William
Sharp
making
his
Apology
,
anent
his
unhandsome
and
cheating
way
taken
,
He
took
me
,
under
pretence
to
have
spoken
with
me
about
some
other
Matters
.
I
not
knowing
him
until
five
or
six
of
his
Brothers
and
his
Servants
were
laying
fast
hold
on
me
,
they
being
armed
of
purpose
,
desired
I
would
excuse
him
,
seeing
what
he
had
done
was
upon
his
Brothers
account
,
which
excuse
I
easily
admitted
,
seeing
that
he
thought
himself
obliged
to
do
what
he
did
to
me
,
without
Law
or
Order
in
behalf
of
his
Brother
,
much
more
was
I
obliged
to
do
what
I
did
in
behalf
of
many
Brethren
,
whose
Oppression
was
so
great
,
and
whose
Blood
he
caused
to
be
shed
in
such
abundance
.
Moreover
,
he
persisting
in
his
Bloody
Murthers
,
as
witnesseth
the
wounding
of
Mr.
Bruce
at
his
taking
,
by
his
Emissaries
some
few
days
before
that
fell
out
concerning
himself
.
Now
if
by
any
means
in
taking
him
away
,
I
could
have
put
a
stop
to
the
then
currant
Persecution
.
Thus
far
I
have
truly
resumed
what
passed
.
But
this
Answer
to
the
second
part
of
the
Inditement
may
be
thought
by
some
to
be
a
step
out
of
my
ordinary
way
;
wherefore
I
shall
offer
to
your
Consideration
that
passage
Deut.
23.
9.
wherein
it
is
manifest
,
that
the
Seducer
,
or
Inticer
to
worship
a
false
God
,
is
to
be
put
to
death
,
by
the
Hand
of
those
whom
he
seeks
to
turn
away
from
the
Lord
,
especially
by
the
Hand
of
the
Witnesses
,
whereof
I
am
one
,
as
it
appeareth
Deut.
13.
which
Precept
I
humbly
take
to
be
Moral
,
and
not
merely
Judicial
,
and
that
it
is
not
at
all
Ceremonial
,
or
Levitical
;
And
as
every
moral
Precept
is
universal
,
as
to
the
extent
of
Place
,
so
also
as
to
the
extent
of
Time
,
and
Persons
.
Upon
which
Command
,
Sir
,
I
think
that
Phinehas
acted
in
taking
away
the
Midianitish
Whore
,
and
killed
him
whom
she
had
seduced
,
Num.
25.
8.
Also
Elijah
by
virtue
of
that
Precept
gave
Commandment
to
the
People
to
destroy
Baals
Priests
,
contrary
to
the
Command
of
the
seducing
Magistrate
,
who
was
not
only
remiss
and
negligent
in
executing
Justice
,
but
became
a
Protector
and
Defender
of
the
Seducers
.
Then
,
and
in
that
Case
,
I
suppose
it
is
the
Christians
Duty
not
to
be
very
dark
.
Moreover
,
we
see
that
the
People
of
Israel
2
Chron.
31.
1.
destroyed
Idolatry
not
only
in
Judah
,
wherein
the
King
concurred
,
but
in
Israel
and
in
Manasseh
,
where
the
King
himself
was
an
Idolater
.
And
surely
what
all
the
People
was
bound
to
do
by
the
Law
of
God
,
every
one
was
bound
to
do
it
,
to
the
uttermost
of
their
power
and
capacity
:
And
as
it
was
in
Zach.
13.
3.
There
the
Seducer's
Father
and
Mother
shall
put
them
to
death
:
I
take
this
to
be
meant
of
the
Christian
Magistrate
;
but
when
he
is
withdrawn
by
the
Seducer
from
the
Exercise
of
Office
and
Duty
,
and
is
become
utterly
remiss
and
negligent
in
putting
the
Seducer
to
death
,
according
to
God's
express
Law
,
which
is
not
to
be
expected
of
him
,
for
then
he
should
do
Justice
upon
himself
,
but
is
become
a
Protector
and
Defender
of
the
Idolater
;
then
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
it
doth
become
the
Duty
of
every
Christian
,
to
the
uttermost
of
his
power
and
capacity
,
to
destroy
and
cut
off
both
Idolatry
and
Idolaters
.
Yea
,
these
presumptuously
murthering
Prelates
ought
to
be
called
so
by
the
Avenger
of
Blood
,
when
he
meeteth
them
,
by
the
express
Commandment
of
God
,
seeing
the
thing
is
manifestly
true
,
and
not
to
have
liberty
to
flee
to
such
Cities
of
Refuge
,
as
the
vain
Pretext
of
Lawful
Authority
:
But
they
should
be
taken
from
the
Horns
of
such
Altars
,
and
be
put
to
death
.
Moreover
,
was
it
spoken
concerning
Amalek
,
upon
the
account
he
designed
and
resolved
the
Extirpation
of
the
Lords
People
and
Truth
,
which
are
his
Throne
,
upon
which
he
put
forth
his
Hand
,
and
because
he
took
occasion
against
them
,
Exod.
17.
14.
Num.
24.
20.
he
endeavoured
God
should
not
have
a
People
to
serve
him
according
to
his
Revealed
Will
upon
Earth
:
And
if
he
could
have
effectuate
his
Design
,
there
should
none
have
lived
,
who
would
not
have
worshiped
and
served
him
,
and
his
Idol
Gods
:
And
for
the
better
effectuating
his
Design
,
he
took
occasion
against
them
,
when
they
were
wearied
coming
out
of
Aegypt
,
Deut.
25.
17
,
18.
and
the
Reason
there
annexed
is
,
he
feared
not
God.
And
because
I
know
that
the
Bishops
both
will
and
do
say
,
that
what
they
did
against
the
Lords
People
,
whom
they
murthered
,
they
did
it
by
Law
and
Authority
,
but
what
I
did
was
contrary
to
both
.
I
answer
,
the
King
himself
and
all
the
Estates
of
the
Land
,
and
every
individual
person
of
the
Land
,
both
were
,
and
are
obliged
by
the
Oath
of
God
upon
them
,
to
have
by
Force
of
Arms
extirpated
the
perjured
Prelates
and
Prelacy
,
and
in
doing
thereof
to
have
defended
their
Lives
and
Fortunes
,
the
Covenants
being
engaged
to
on
these
Terms
,
viz.
after
Supplications
,
Remonstrances
,
Protestations
and
all
other
Lawful
Means
have
been
used
now
for
that
Effect
:
As
the
last
Remedy
we
took
up
Arms
,
upon
which
condition
,
our
Nobility
,
and
all
the
Representatives
of
the
Nation
,
according
to
the
National
Covenant
,
and
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
gave
to
the
King
both
the
Sword
and
the
Scepter
,
and
set
the
Crown
upon
his
Head
;
and
he
accordingly
received
them
,
and
promised
and
sware
by
the
ever
living
God
,
to
use
and
approve
them
for
the
use
aforesaid
:
And
especially
in
order
to
the
performing
this
Article
,
viz.
the
Extirpation
and
Overthrow
of
Prelates
and
Prelacy
,
and
now
they
vaunt
of
Authority
;
of
what
Authority
do
they
mean
or
speak
of
,
truly
I
know
not
,
except
it
be
the
Authority
of
their
aggregated
Gods
,
new
Gods
,
Gods
of
whom
they
have
their
Gain
,
Life
and
Standing
,
Chemosh
or
Bacchus
,
which
drunken
Moab
delighted
to
dwell
within
dark
Cells
,
Ash●aroth
,
or
Venus
,
whom
they
worship
of
the
female
kind
,
because
of
their
Adulteries
and
Whoredoms
,
as
also
Malcome
,
or
Molock
,
which
signifies
Tyrannical
King
,
or
a
Devil
,
if
they
will
have
it
so
,
in
whose
Arms
and
Power
they
put
their
poor
Infants
and
Posterity
to
be
burnt
according
to
his
lust
and
pleasure
,
Amos
5.
vers
.
26.
Psal
.
106.
37.
and
their
Mammon
,
which
they
delight
to
worship
daily
,
together
with
their
own
Bellies
,
whose
glory
is
their
shame
,
who
mind
earthly
things
,
whose
end
will
be
destruction
,
except
they
repent
,
which
there
is
little
probability
of
,
Ph.
3.
vers
.
19.
to
which
we
may
add
their
abominable
Pride
,
and
blasphemous
Perjuries
,
then
their
Gods
will
be
equal
in
number
to
the
Whore
their
Mothers
Sacraments
,
from
whom
they
have
their
Being
,
Strength
and
Standing
,
and
from
the
Devil
their
Father
,
who
was
a
Deceiver
and
Murtherer
from
the
Beginning
.
And
now
seeing
the
Prelates
possess
whatever
their
God
Chemosh
giveth
them
to
possess
:
Then
should
we
not
possess
what
the
Lord
our
God
giveth
us
to
possess
,
viz.
the
eternal
Truths
manifested
to
us
in
his
Revealed
Will
,
and
keep
and
defend
the
same
from
all
Innovations
and
Traditions
of
his
and
our
Adversaries
,
defend
our
Lives
and
Liberties
out
of
the
Hands
of
our
usurping
Enemies
,
Judg.
11.
29.
for
sure
I
am
,
that
God
once
dispossessed
the
Prelates
and
Malignants
of
all
these
;
and
should
they
again
possess
them
through
our
Defect
?
God
for
bid
,
but
the
like
of
this
Work
our
murthering
Prelates
like
not
,
who
plead
like
the
Whore
their
Mother
for
Passive
Obedience
,
and
that
all
the
Lord's
People
,
who
may
not
comply
with
their
Idolatries
and
Persidies
,
should
lay
down
their
Bloody
Axe
,
with
whom
too
many
of
our
hypocritical
,
time-serving
and
perfidious
Professors
do
agree
,
who
had
rather
abide
with
Reuben
among
the
Sheepfolds
,
than
jeopard
Life
or
Fortune
in
the
Help
of
the
Lord
against
the
Mighty
;
do
not
consider
the
bitter
Curse
pronounced
by
the
Angel
of
the
Lord
against
Meroz
,
to
which
immediately
he
subjoins
a
Blessing
on
Jael
the
Wife
of
Heber
the
Kenite
.
Others
excuse
themselves
thus
,
Vengeance
is
mine
,
and
I
will
repay
it
,
but
so
the
Throne
of
Judgment
is
the
Lords
,
and
by
this
they
will
take
away
the
Use
and
Office
of
Magistracy
,
which
erroneous
Principles
I
detest
:
For
God
even
in
the
working
of
Miracles
in
dividing
the
Red
Sea
,
Exod.
14.
16.
commanded
Moses
to
stretch
forth
his
Rod
:
And
Christ
when
he
opened
the
Blind
Man's
Eyes
,
maketh
use
of
Clay
and
Spittle
,
tho
indeed
I
mean
not
of
any
who
were
willing
to
have
helped
,
but
wanted
Opportunity
,
yet
there
are
many
peevish
time
serving
Professors
,
who
shall
never
suffer
,
so
long
as
they
have
either
Soul
or
Conscience
to
mortgage
,
providing
that
they
may
keep
them
from
suffering
.
And
if
it
will
not
do
their
Business
,
it
seemeth
before
they
suffer
,
they
resolve
to
sell
all
out
at
the
Ground
.
Now
,
Sir
,
I
have
neither
misinterpret
Scripture
,
nor
misapplyed
it
,
in
regard
of
the
persons
here
hinted
at
,
nor
been
wrong
in
the
end
,
which
ought
to
be
the
Glory
of
God
,
the
Good
of
his
Church
and
People
.
Then
I
think
that
some
persons
ought
to
forbear
to
scourge
me
so
sore
with
their
Tongues
,
while
I
am
not
yet
condemned
by
the
common
Enemy
.
And
my
hearing
of
some
things
reported
by
some
behind
my
Back
,
hath
occasioned
my
writing
to
you
at
this
time
.
O
,
Sir
,
be
intreated
to
pray
to
the
Lord
in
my
behalf
,
that
he
would
be
pleased
out
of
his
Mercy
and
Goodness
,
to
save
me
from
sinning
under
Suffering
in
this
Hour
and
Power
of
Darkness
:
For
my
Soul
is
prest
within
me
in
the
Search
betwixt
Sin
and
Duty
,
viz.
lest
I
should
be
niggard
and
too
sparing
of
my
life
,
when
God
calleth
for
it
:
And
on
the
other
hand
,
too
prodigal
and
lavish
of
it
,
in
not
using
all
legal
Defences
in
preserving
of
it
,
and
in
any
of
the
like
nature
;
I
am
in
a
strait
,
O
Lord
,
undertake
for
me
.
Sir
,
I
hope
ye
will
excuse
me
in
sending
you
these
indistinct
and
irregular
Lines
,
when
you
consider
my
present
condition
.
Sir
,
believe
me
,
I
would
many
times
,
when
I
am
before
them
,
think
a
Scaffold
a
sweet
Retirement
,
lest
they
should
cheat
and
deceive
me
,
in
making
me
either
to
stain
the
declarative
Glory
of
God
,
my
own
Conscience
,
or
his
People
and
Interests
,
and
wronging
of
them
,
either
by
opening
the
Enemies
Mouth
against
them
,
or
letting
loose
their
Hands
upon
them
;
henceforth
let
the
Adversaries
both
say
and
do
what
they
can
,
yet
the
righteous
shall
hold
on
in
his
way
,
and
he
who
hath
clean
hands
will
be
stronger
and
stronger
,
Job
7.
v.
9.
But
he
that
saith
unto
the
wicked
,
thou
art
righteous
,
him
shall
the
people
curse
,
Nations
shall
abhor
him
,
Prov.
24.
v.
24.
Farewel
in
the
Lord.
Sic
subscribitur
Mr.
JAMES
MITCHEL
:
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A51160-e2460
*
Continuat
.
*
A
true
Account
of
the
horrid
Conspiracy
against
the
King
,
&c.
printed
by
Tho.
Newcomb
.
Edit
.
2.
1685.
Contin
.
p.
4.
Aeli
.
Hist
.
Var.
Dr.
Paterson
,
Dr.
Caincross
.
Nals
.
Coll.
1
Vol.
pag.
499.
Vid.
p.
500
,
&
501.
Ib.
p.
503.
Ib.
p.
502.
Contin
.
p.
10.
pag.
12.
Ans
.
Scot.
Eloq
.
p.
4.
Pag.
14.
Ibid.
*
This
is
glanced
at
in
a
late
Letter
written
by
a
Presbyterian
Minister
to
a
member
of
Parliament
,
p.
11.
P.
15.
*
Presb.
Inquisit
.
pag.
16.
Buchan
.
Hist
.
lib.
19.
Calvin
.
Inst
.
lib.
4.
And
again
,
Lib.
4.
c.
10.
§
6.
Sane
si
veri
Episcopi
essent
,
aliquid
eis
in
hac
parte
Auctoritatis
tribuerem
,
non
quantum
sibi
postulant
,
sed
quantum
ad
Politiam
Ecclesiae
ritè
ordinandam
requiritur
.
Vid.
Nals
.
Coll.
1.
Vol.
and
the
K's
large
Manifesto
.
pag.
17.
pag.
18.
Pag.
19.
Vid.
Hist
.
Obs
.
MSS.
by
Guth
.
Montross
def
.
at
Philiphaugh
.
Pag
20.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Gen.
Ass
.
1648.
p.
mihi
44.
printed
by
Ev.
Tyler
,
Edinb
.
An.
1648.
An.
1638.
Nals
Hist
Col.
1.
Vol.
p.
128.
V.
King
's
large
Manifesto
.
&
Nals
.
Hist
.
Coll.
1
vol.
pag.
151.
*
Nal.
Hist
.
Coll.
1
vol.
Ans
.
to
the
3
Reasons
.
pag.
152.
†
than
.
I.
Theologie
Morale
des
Jesuites
,
pag.
mihi
149
,
150.
A
Cologne
,
An.
1666.
En
verite
,
mes
Peres
,
il
ya
bien
de
la
difference
entre
rire
de
la
Religion
,
&
rire
de
ceux
qui
la
profanent
par
leurs
opinions
extravagantes
.
Ce
seroit
une
impietè
de
manquer
de
respect
pour
les
veritesque
l'
esprit
de
Dieu
à
revelées
:
mais
ce
seroit
une
autre
impietè
de
manquer
de
me
pris
pour
les
faussetez
que
l'
esprit
de
l'
homme
leur
oppose
.
*
Nals
.
Hist
.
Coll.
1
vol.
pag.
532.
Pag.
23.
July
28.
1648.
ante
mer.
Sess
.
18.
p.
mili
7.
Act
and
Declar.
against
the
Act
of
P.
pag.
17.
Pag
3.
Pag.
4.
Ibid
Pag.
5.
Ibid.
Pag
28.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Pag.
29.
Ibid.
pag.
30.
pag.
31.
Pag.
32.
*
Nals
.
Coll.
1.
Vol.
pag.
795.
Pag.
33.
Ibid.
Ibid.
*
Continuat
.
Pag.
34.
Pag.
35.
Pag.
36.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Pag.
37.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
*
Aelian
.
Var.
Hist.
*
Ad
Illustriss
.
Vir.
Car.
Coss
.
Franciae
Maresch
.
in
Jephth
.
Tragoed
.
Praef.
Absurdam
fortasse
;
rem
facere
quibusdam
videbor
:
qui
ad
te
,
hominem
ab
ineunte
aetate
militaribus
imbutum
studiis
&
inter
arma
Tubasque
semper
versatum
munusculum
hoc
literarium
mittam
:
sed
ii
fere
hoc
absurdum
existimaturi
sunt
qui
aut
harum
rerum
inter
se
consensionem
non
salts
animadvertunt
aut
ingenium
tuum
parum
habent
perspectum
.
Neque
enim
inter
rei
Militaris
&
literarum
studium
ea
est
quam
plerique
falso
purant
discordia
,
sed
summa
potius
concordia
&
occulta
quaedam
naturae
conspiratio
;
quanquam
enim
superioribus
aliquot
saeculis
sive
hominum
inertia
sive
falsâ
quâdam
persuasione
divisae
fuerunt
hae
professiones
,
nunquam
tamen
perversa
imperitorum
opinio
tantum
potuit
ut
ipsae
inter
se
veterem
illam
&
naturalem
(
ut
it
a
loquar
)
cognationem
obliviscerentur
.
†
Hist
.
of
the
Consp
.
against
K.
Ch.
II
pag.
118.
Continuat
.
Pref.
p.
10.
*
Bishop
Brownr
.
Serm.
Lon.
Printed
,
1664.
Ser.
1.
pag.
10
compared
with
Williamson's
Serm.
Jun.
15.
1690.
pag
20.
*
R.
B.
Answ
.
to
the
Scotch
Eloq
.
pag.
53
*
Guth
.
MSS.
Vid.
Nals
.
Coll.
1
Vol.
from
pag.
811
,
to
817.
*
Vid.
Act
of
Parl.
for
settling
the
peace
of
the
Church
,
Edinbugh
,
June
12.
1693.
Notes for div A51160-e22180
De
Jure
Regnipag
.
46
,
47.
Vide
Seasonable
Warning
.
An.
45.
*
See
dangerous
Positions
by
Bishop
Bancroft
,
p.
35.