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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43666	Ravillac redivivus, being a narrative of the late tryal of Mr. James Mitchel, a conventicle-preacher, who was executed the 18th of January last, for an attempt which he made on the sacred person of the Archbishop of St. Andrews to which is annexed, an account of the tryal of that most wicked pharisee Major Thomas Weir, who was executed for adultery, incest and bestiality : in which are many observable passages, especially relating to the present affairs of church and state / in a letter from a Scottish to an English gentleman.	Mitchel, James, d. 1678, defendant.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Weir, Thomas, 1600?-1670, defendant.	1678 (1678)	Wing H1860; ESTC R10945	57,651	80

next to do with me The second is the shooting that shot intended against the Bishop of St. Andrews whereby the Bishop of Orkney was hurt to which I answered My Lord Chancellor in private viz. That I looked upon him to be the main Instigator of all the Oppression and Bloodshed of my Brethren that followed thereupon and the continual pursuing after my own and My Lord Chancellor as it was credibly reported to us the truth of which your Lordship knows better than we that he keeped up His Majesties Letter inhibiting any more blood to be shed upon that account until the last Ten were Executed and I being a Souldier not having laid down Arms but being still upon my own Defence and having no other quarrel nor aim at any man but according to my own apprehension of him and that as I hope in sincerity without fixing either my self or any one upon the Covenant it self and as it may be understood by many thousand of the faithful besides the prosecuting of the ends of the same Covenant which was and is in that part the overthrow of Prelates and Prelacy and I being a declared Enemy to him upon 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 ready to take his advantage of me as it now appeareth so I of him when opportunity offered Moreover we being in no terms of Capitulation but on the contrary I by his Instigation being excluded from all Grace and Favour thought it my duty to pursue him on all occasions Also My Lord Sir William Sharp making his Apology anent his unhandsome cheating way when he took me under a pretext to have spoken with me about some other matter I not knowing him until Five or Six of his Brothers and his own Servants were laying fast hold on me they being armed of purpose he desired that I would excuse him seeing what he had done was upon his Brothers account which excuse My Lord I easily admitted of seeing that he thought himself obliged to do what he did without Law or Order in the 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 had caused shed in such abundance Moreover he insisting in his bloody Murders as witness the wounding of Mr. Bruce at his taking of 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 current Persecution Thus far I have truly resumed what past But this answer to the second part of the Indictment may be thought by some to be a step out of the ordinary way wherefore I shall offer these things following to your Consideration viz. That passage Deut. 13. 9. Where to me it is manifest That the Seducer or Inticer to Worship false Gods is to be put to death by the hands of those whom he seeketh to turn away from the Lord especially by the hand of the Witnesses whereof I am one as it appears Deut. 13. 9. which precept I humbly conceive to be Moral and not merely Judicial and that it is not at all Ceremonial or Levitical but 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 do really think that Phinehas acted in taking away the Midianitish Whore and him whom she had seduced Numb 25. 6. Also that Elijah by vertue of that precept gave Commandment to the people to destroy Baals Priests contrary to the mind 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 the Christians duty not to be very dark Moreover we see what the people of Israel did 2 Chron. 31. 1. They destroyed Idolatry not only in Judah where the King concurred but in Ephraim and Manas●eh where the King himself was an Idolater and surely what all the people were bound to do as their duty by the Law of God every one was bound to do it to the uttermost of their power and capacity And as it is Ezek. 13. 3. Where the Seducers Father and his Mother shall put him to death I take this to be meant of the Christian Magistrate But when he is withdrawn by the Seducer from the exercise of his Office and Duty and he 's become utterly remiss and negligent in putting the Seducer to death according to Gods express Law which is not to be expected of him for their be should do Justice upon himself but is become a Protector and Defender of the Idolater then I doubt not but 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 presumtuously-murthering Prelates ought to be killed by the avenger of blood when he meeteth them by the express Law of God seeing the thing is manifestly true Numb 25. 21. and not have liberty to flee to such Cities of Refuge as the vain pretext of lawful Authority But they should be taken even from the Horns of such Altars and be put to death Moreover what is spoken of concerning Amalek upon the account that he design'd and resolved the extirpation of the Lords People and Truth who are his Throne upon which he puts forth his hand and because he took occasion against them Exod. 17. 15. Numb 24. 20. He endeavouring that God should not have a people to have served him according to his revealed will upon the Earth and if he could have effectuated his design they should not have lived who would not serve and worship him and his Idol Gods And for the better effectuating of this his design he took occasion against them when they were weary in coming out of Egypt Deut. 25. 17 18. And the reason there annexed is That he feared not God Now because I know Bishops both will and do say That what they did against those of the Lords people whom they murdered they did by Law and Authority but what I did was contrary to both Answer The King himself and all the Estates of the Land and every individual person therein both were and are obliged by the Oath of God upon them to have by force of Arms extirpted perjured Prelates and Prelacy and in doing thereof to have defended one another with their lives and fortunes the Covenants being engaged into upon these terms viz. After Supplications Remonstrations Protestations and all other lawful means have been used now for that effect as the last remedy we take up Arms upon which conditions the Nobility and all the representatives of the Nation according to the national and Solemn League and Covenant gave to our King both