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A77444	An historicall vindication of the government of the Church of Scotland from the manifold base calumnies which the most malignant of the prelats did invent of old, and now lately have been published with great industry in two pamphlets at London. The one intituled Issachars burden, &c. written and published at Oxford by John Maxwell, a Scottish prelate, excommunicate by the Church of Scotland, and declared an unpardonable incendiary by the parliaments of both kingdoms. The other falsly intituled A declaration made by King James in Scotland, concerning church-government and presbyteries; but indeed written by Patrick Adamson, pretended Archbishop of St. Andrews, contrary to his own conscience, as himselfe on his death-bed did confesse and subscribe before many witneses in a write hereunto annexed. By Robert Baylie minister at Glasgow. Published according to order.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.; Adamson, Patrick, 1537-1592. Recantation of Maister Patrik Adamsone, sometime archbishop of Saint-Androwes in Scotlande.; Welch, John, 1568?-1622.	1646 (1646)	Wing B460; Thomason E346_11; ESTC R201008	133,114	153

appeare and she shall quickly appeare with him in the glory and happinesse of a consummate Marriage But I must remember my selfe I know I have been greatly strengthned and sustained by your prayers honourable Lady and dearly beloved in our Lord Jesus continue I pray you as ye have begun in wrestling with the Lord for me that Christ may be magnified in my mortall body whether living or dead that my soule may be lifted up to those third heavens that I may taste of those joyes that are at the right hand of my heavenly Father and that with gladnesse I may let my spirit goe thither where my body shall shortly follow Who am I that he should first have called me and then constitute me a Minister of glad tidings of the Gospell of salvation these sixteen yeers already and now last of all to be a sufferer for his cause and Kingdome To witnesse that good confession The matter of this gracious mans suffering was the very controverfie now in hand betwixt us and the Erastian Statesmen that Jesus Christ is the King of Saints and that his Church is a most free Kingdome yea as free as any Kingdome under heaven not onely to convocate hold and keep her meetings Conventions and Assemblies but also to judge of all her affaires in all her meetings and conventions amongst her members and Subjectsd. These two points first that Christ is the head of his Church secondly that she is free in her government from all other jurisdiction except Christs These two points I say are the speciall cause of our imprisonmēt being now convict as traitors for their maintainance we have been waiting with joyfulnesse to give the last testimony of our blood in confirmation thereof if it would please our God to be so favourable as to honour us with that dignity yea I doe affirme that these two points above written and all other things which belong to Christs Crowne Scepter and Kingdome are not subject nor cannot be to any other authority but to his owne altogether so that I would be most glad to be offered up upon the sacrifice of so glorious a truth But alas I feare that my sinnes and the abuse of so glorious things as I have found deprive me of so faire a Crowne yet my Lord doth know if he would call me to and strengthen me in it it would be the most glorious day and gladdest houre I ever saw in this life but I am in his hand to doe with me whatsoever shall please his Majesty It may suffice me that I have had so long a time in the knowledge of the Gospell and that I have seen the things I have seen and heard the things I have heard and that through Gods grace I have been so long a witnesse of those glorious and good newes in my weak ministery and that my witnessing hath not been altogether without fruit and blessing so that I hope at that great day I shall have him to be my Crown my glory my joy and my reward and therefore boldly I say with Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace not in a peaceable dying but by rendring up to him my spirit in stamping of this his verity and in sealing the same with my blood I have fought a good fight and have finished my course 2 Tim. 9.7 I have kept the faith henceforth is laid up for me a Crowne of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me onely but to all them also that love his comming Now is the prophesie at hand to be fulfilled which these two worthy servants of the Lord Master George Wishart and Master John Knox my Father in Law spake which was That Christ should be crucified in this Kingdome againe but glorious should his resurrection be e This strange Prophesie of Knox and Wishart is here explicat and mervailously enlarged by this divine man the first part thereof whereupon alone be here infists has been performed lately in every tittle before our eyes the second part of Christs glorious resurrection and our glorious deliverance we expect shall be as punctually performed in the Lords good time as Master Knox with his owne hand upon the Margin of Calvins Harmony upon the Passion did write which is yet extant But alas for the Kingdome my testimony now doth not differ from that of many before this time who said That the Judgement of Scotland should be blood this Kingdome shall be drowned in blood a furbished and glittering sword is already drawne out of the scabbard which shall not returne untill it be made drunke with the blood of the men within this Land f More blood shed by the sword in Scotland the other yeere then for many Generations before first the heavy intestine sword and then the sword of the stranger g This indeed was the Lords method with us the blood shed in our first troubles at the Bridge of Die and divers parts of the North from the Castles of Edinborough and Dunbartan and in the South was onely by the intestine sword but the great bloodshed in our present troubles was for the most part by the sword of strangers the barbarous Irish Rebels having their Commission from Ireland O dolefull Scotland well were he that were removed far from thee that his eyes might not see nor his eares heare all these evils that are to come upon thee h Never so great a flight in Scotland as the other yeer the m●st considerable persons fled away to England or Ireland or some corners and strong holds of the Land for the safety of their lives neither the strong man by his strength nor the rich man by his riches nor the Noble man by his blood shall be delivered from the judgements there is a great sacrifice to be made in Bosrah in thee O Scotland of the blood of all sorts in the Land Videf. Ephraim shall consume Manasseh and Manasseh Ephraim Jsaiah 9.21 Brother against brother and every man in the judgement of the Lord shall be armed to thrust his sword in the fide of his neighbour k Thus indeed it was among us under the standard of the enemy many of our Brethren Kinsmen and Neighbours did fight and by their hands much of our blood was spilt and all for the contempt of the most glorious Gospell and that blood which was offered to thee O Scotland in so plentifull a manner that the like thereof hath not been offered to any Nation Therefore thy judgement shall be the greater but the Sanctuary must be begun at and the measure is not yet fulfilled till the blood of the Saints be shed then the cryes will be great and will not stay tili they bring the Lord downe from Heaven his Throne to see if the sinnes of Scotland be according to the cry thereof neither shall there be any Subject in the Land from the greatest to the

best Governour that any King of Scotland did ever injoy this man did Huntly kill without any cause at all but his owne meere envy and malice for these crimes he was againe excommunicate the Earle of Argile at the Kings intreaty and direction persued him with an Army of ten thousand men many hundreds of these good subjects were killed by that Rebell when after Argiles deseat the King himselfe with his prime Nobles went out against him he with displayed banner went to the fields against the King all this Spotswood reports at length Let any conscientious man here be judge King Iames for his owne respects requires a conscientious Minister to consent and concurre with him to obtain from the next ensuing Assembly the absolution of such a man from the censure of Excommunication for this was the main question the honest Minister could not be perswaded to consent unto the relaxation of such a bloody obstinate Apostate confessed by all to be still imponitent from the censures either of Church or State As for the inconveniences his Majesty did alledge the dangers from the Papists of England if Huntly and the Popish party in Scotland were too much irritate was it any great crime for Mr. Bruce to differ in this from his Majesty and to tell him plainly that which was the opinion of all the good Ministers of Scotland though the ground of the Kings quarrell with them That it would prove his best policy to make fast with the Protestant party of England and over-sea renouncing all correspondency either with Papists or Prelates that if he walked upon this ground God and his right would carry him through all both seen and imagined difficulties The world long agoe is satisfied with the wisedome of this advice for it was quickly found that too much connivence and compliance with Papists did bring that Prince upon the very brinke of ruine for the Popish party of England finding themselves disappointed of their great hopes did run to the desperate attempts of the Powder-plot and other Treasons Also the keeping up of the Bishops was a great cause of all the mischiefes which since that time to this day have fallen either upon our Church or State It is true the words you ascribe to Mr. Bruce are very unmannerly but who will beleeve that ever any such phrases proceeded from the mouth of so grave and wise a man your only Author is Spotswood His testimony in this case ought not to be trusted but if you will looke to the matter of Mr. Bruce his counsell I subject it to the touchstone of the severest censurers Upon the fourth head of Generall Assemblies Page 18 19 20 21. The reason of the Authors malice against the generall Assembly you spew out the whole remnant of your gall the wrath of a child does kindle against the whip that scourges him I will not remember you of the dogs snarling at the stone that hath hit him The Generall Assembly for just causes did chastise you with their sharpest rod of Excommunication they did deliver you into the hands of the Father of lyes and Blasphemies if there were no more then what here you write it is a demonstration that the sentence of that Reverend Assembly against you is ratified in heaven and that God in his justice according to the word of his faithfull servant hath delivered your obstinate soule to be acted by that evill spirit who else could move you to blaspheme the crowne of Christ and the holy One of Israel by name and to make the holy Scriptures the ordinary channell through which your profane girds at the Generall Assembly must run What you bring the most of it is so impertinent and so remote from all relation to any Assembly and set downe in such confusion that the very effects though the cause were not knowne may evidence the distraction of your Spirit I shall handle the fieryest of your darts as they come from your furious hands You make us to ascribe to our General Assembly False and rayling slanders against the generall Assembly a jurisdiction universall and infallible you will have it to meddle with all affaires both Spirituall and Temporall you would make the world beleeve that all disobedience thereto is censured with excommunication and that it commands the King to punish i● estate body and life all who disobey otherwise that it causes the King himselfe to be dethroned and killed this often you repeat moreover you call this Assembly an untamed furious Beast you advise the King much rather to submit himself to the Pope then to be in the reverence therof what spirit makes you break out into such discourses your selfe will see if ever God give you repentance however it is evident that lyes and malice do here strive which shall predominate The Generall Assembly in Scotland hath no more power then what the Parliaments since the first Reformation have heartily allowed unto them they meddle with no temporall case at all It exercises no power but what the King and the Laws authorize and all the spirituall cases which to this day they have touched may be reduced to a few heads That every disobedience brings with it Excommunication is a wide slander we doe not excommunicate but for a grievous transgression joyned with extraordinary obstinacy This censure is so rare with us that a man may live long and before his death never be witnesse to it What civil punishment the State in their wisedome findes meet to impose on a person who contemnes the Ordinances of God let themselves be answerable But that the Assembly medles with any mans life or goods is like the rest of your Assertions and yet no more false then the other lye you have here That ever any Assembly of the reformed Churches upon the highest provocations did take it so much as in debate to excommunicate much lesse to dethrone any King its most false but the Spirit that leads you must be permitted to breath out his naturall aire and to lye according to his very ancient custome You object it once and againe that the Commissioners of Burroughs and Universities are received as Members in our generall Assemblies behold the greatnesse of this crime The Commissioners of Burroughs and Vniversities are all Elders out of every Classicall Presbytery we allow one ruling Elder to goe as Commissioner to that Nationall meeting and if there be a royall Burgh within the bounds we allow two and three if there be an University What would you say to the Parliament of England who appoints foure ruling Elders out of every Classis to accompany two Ministers to the Assembly though there be neither Burrough not University in the bounds of this we are carefull that whoever comes either from Cities or Universities be not only ruling Elders but also have an expresse approbation from the Eldership What you speak of the Kings presence in our Assemblies We ascribe to the King so much power