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A80277	The complaint of the boutefeu, scorched in his owne kindlings. Or The backslider filled with his owne wayes: in two letters of the ministers of the Presbytery at Carrick-Fergus, to the Lord of Ardes, now in rebellion in Ulster, in Ireland, against the common-wealth of England: with his answer to the first of those letters. Together with some animadversions upon the sayd letters.		1649 (1649)	Wing C5614; Thomason E566_18; ESTC R206202	7,759	16

my witnesse I am free notwithstanding of the jealousies raised upon some expressions in that Letter of Sir George Monroe to Sir Robert Stewart which was intercepted and that among other many prevalent reasons and motions too long here to expresse induoing at this time to owne his Majesties Commission It was not the betraying but the securing of these Garrisons from Sir George his party which in our distracted and disjoynted condition for want of Authority and by reason of the Souldiers affection to their former Officers were likely to be rendered to him The Lord he knowes that the preservation of the established Church-government your peace the good and quiet of this poore corner and the advancement of Religion according to the Covenant all which by private underminers to your owne knowledge were in apparent hazard of ruine are the chiefe reasons which induces me to this course of making use of that Authority as the onely meane to secure us being so united under command from the violence of opposers hereunto It request you therefore and untill my carriage after that now I am cloathed with Authority may witnesse whether my intentions and resolutions be not according to my profession you would be pleased to have more charitable thoughts of me and rest assured that I am Your affectionate faithfull Friend and Servant MONTGOMERY Belfast June 30. 1649. THE poore Thunder-stricken Lord answers with the humility that becomes a good Son of the Kirke he now ownes 〈◊〉 his Commission and thereby confesseth himselfe guilty of Treason to the Common-wealth of England but dare not owne his juggling with George Monroe and Sir Robert Stuart because perhaps that might be Treason against the Presbyterie and Covenant which may not be forgiven him neither in this World nor that to come neither dares he tell the reasons why he did not declare his Commission till then nor is it convenient for me to tell them though they cannot be unknowne to him that is acquainted throughly with the state of those affaires The poore Man hath learned from them to appeale to God too take heed my Lord you know who was wont to doe so and the World hath seen that God will not be mocked nor is an 〈◊〉 but an Omnipotent and Omniscient God that judgeth in the Earth whether the New Rebels of Vlster beleive it or not But now your Lordship is clothed with Authority we shall see how Georg Menro will give you leave to use it which the Presbytery have told you in their next Letter they doe not beleeve will be for the good of Religion and the Covenant being Associate with the Enemies of them both indeed your Lordship is in bad tearmes with them and with all men else you had better been still persevering Right Honourable WEE received yours wherein you with greife resent our bitter expressions and ill grounded wrong aspersions as much as to call them false which you say we cast upon your Lordship Truely our expressions flowe from the bitternesse of greife and sorrow and not disaffection towards you You have often knowne our aboundant affections and endeavour to serve your Lordship in our stations These which your Lordship cals wrong aspersions are the words of truth and sobernesse Intercepted letters from that party together with Colonell Conawayes discovery of that which is now clear w●● many other circumstances of your Lordships latter carriage and the exact correspondence betweene Colonell Monro's motions and yours does evince the reality of our assertions as well as his owne Letter which we beleive spake neither affection nor a conjecture of your Lordships designe being written to such a close friend It is a sad jest to your Lordship to tell us that it was the securing of these Garrisons from Colonell George Monroe that moved you to put on that commission wheras by the conjunction of your Lordships forces and command he lyes before this Garrison to destroy it It were a good proofe of the reality of your purpose if yee should with your whole power urge him to remove which if yee were cordiall in were easy to doe Neither know we how to beleive that your Lordships present course is intended for the good of Religion and the Covenant when yee are not onely associate with the enemies of both but your commission as we are informed subjects you to the immediate commands of the Marquesse of Ormond whose infamous and irreligious peace made with the Rebels may easily tell us what establishment to the Covenant or Presbyteriall government we may expect from his Orders and Authority his owne printed speech to the councell of Kilkenny explaines to us his reall resolutions concerning Religion to maintaine Christian Religion in the large extent and not under a strict notion of new invented names and besides the King yet refusing to secure Religion how shall you establish it except ye doe very far transgresse the limits of your commission which we beleive you desire no man to thinke In a word your Lordship hath but reassumed the old quarrell which the Engagers the last yeare and before them James Grahame and the Malignants in England were of old pursuing Neither we are confident will it prosper better in your hands nor it did in theirs The Lord in Justice hath declared his displeasure against that course will do so against all them who seek to advance the King against Christs throne and even while he refuses to give Christ his due first We would therefore yet againe as lovers of the standing of Christs Kingdome and of your Lordships salvation as the Messengers of God beseech your Lordship before you run a further hazard of the Lords wrath to leave of that ungodly course and take better meanes to effectuate the good of Religion Remember those who honour God he will honour and those who despise him shall be lightly esteemed of Whereas your Lordship desires our charity towards you truely as we have ever testified a due respect to your selfe and family we shall yet continue but you have involved your Lordship already so far in the guilt of unfaithfulnesse to the cause of God and your owne subscriptions that we cannot but testifie against the course you are in and denounce judgement upon your person family and all your party till the Lord perswade your heart to return which shall be our fervent desire and shall remaine Your Lordships servants in all dutifull observance the Ministers of the Presbytery At Carrick-fergus the 2 of July 1649. TO the reply of the Presbytery there remaines little to say they here discovered his falshood and tell him by whom and all his humble and calme language gaines him nothing of credit with them they now see he that could be drawn from his fidelity to the Common-wealth of England by the Presbytery at 〈◊〉 may also be drawne from them by the glorious ●●●mises of a pretended King they will trust him no 〈◊〉 they are inexorable And so doe the Presbytery 〈…〉 deale with those that will not serve their turn 〈…〉 shadow of it here in England though they want a 〈◊〉 story for the forming those dreadfull Thunder-bolt 〈◊〉 they make the Pulpit serve for a shift to blow the Tr●●pet to Rebellion and a new War what would our 〈◊〉 doe if they had the power of the Kirk of Scotland T●● poore Viscount Montgomery lyes under their Prophesies and Fulminations which may be like 〈◊〉 come upon him though he should repent his s●ule ●gainst the Covenant And for a close of all I shall aske them onely these Questions Whether it be not as dangerous for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of men as for another to set up themselves against the Throne and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ And whether it be not a great part of his Kingly office to rule in the understandings and consciences of Men Whether the true light that lightneth every one who commeth into the World may not give out that light in what ●●●ner and measure and by what meanes he pleaseth And whether they doe not usurpe his Throne that seeke to oppose those beames or limit and present the 〈◊〉 And whether the Presbytery be not every where more imployed in this worke then is for their safety if the wrath of the Lambe be kindled FINIS

THE COMPLAINT OF THE BOVTEFEV Scorched in his owne Kindlings OR THE BACKSLIDER Filled with his owne VVayes In two LETTERS of the Ministers of the PRESBYTERY at CARRICK-FERGUS to the Lord of ARDES Now in Rebellion in ULSTER in IRELAND against the Common-Wealth of ENGLAND WITH HIS ANSWER TO THE FIRST of those LETTERS Together with some Animadversions upon the sayd LETTERS Published by Authority London Printed by Matthew Simmons 1649. TWO LETTERS FROM THE PRESBYTERY OF CARRICK-FERGUS to the Lord Ards and his answer to the first of them Right Honourable THE present strange alteration of affaires moves us to write our minde freely to your Lordship especially since as it appeares now clearely you have been the chiefe Author of all those calamities We would first put your Lordship in minde of the hazzard you were in before the Covenant was renewed and how yee complyed with us then for your owne safety with solemnity and forwardnesse ye renewed the Covenant Ye your selfe first moved and framed a Declaration in opposition to Malignant courses and all the present enemies of the cause of God In the Propositions to be offered to 〈◊〉 King you agreed that these concerning Religion should be first offered and if these were not granted no other should be presented Your Declaration also beares very large profession both in generall that ye would doe nothing in reference to Religion without our consent and advice and that least God should leave you to fall in errour and particularly that ye would acknowledge the Kings Demands when he should give satisfaction in securing Religion before he were admitted to the exercise of his Royall Power you all along shew your selfe ready to subscribe all Orders against Malignants and so by ample professions engaged us the more deeply to give credit to your Declarations and trust your faithfulnesse Yet neverthelesse your Lordship hath had secret dealing to bring in Malignants and had correspondence with them and all this time has been dealing subtilly in your heart professing one thing and intending another which has beene a most notorious deceit to insnare the people of God to advance your most synistrous ends Who cou●● have beleiv'd that your Lordship would have avo●●ed a Commission from the King when he yet ●●●●●ses as much as his Father to secure Religion 〈◊〉 followes wicked counsell and so avowedly to violate that Article of your Declaration or that yee would owne a wicked association of Irish Papists and under colour of strengthening should have betrayed that Garrison of Belfast We must be faithfull in warning your Lordship though the Lord knowes what heavinesse it is to us that the Lord will reward you if you repent not for such a betraying of the faithfull servants of God who would have plucked out their eyes for you and the Lord will visit your Familie with sudden ruine and irrepairable desolation for that you have beene so grand an instrument to destroy the worke of God here We exhort your Lordship in the Name of the living God to whom ye must give an account in haste to forsake that infamous and ungodly course you are in and adhere to your former profession otherwayes all the calamities that will ensue will be laid on your score The Lord himselfe and all the faithfull will set themselves against you and we will testifie of your unfaithfulnesse to the World so long as the Lord shall give us strength we shall yet continue to pray for your Lordships conversion and shall expect your Answer remaining Your Lordships servants in all duty the Ministry of the Presbytery At Carrick-fergus June 29. 1649. HAD not the strange and treasonable Libell of the Scots Presbytery at Belfast by them there published the 15. of Feb. last prepared that simple people to put on the yoak who are alwayes ready to be fired by such Boutefeux and led by those Demagogues from their duty and their Interest to their ruine there had not been at present that strange alteration of affaires in the Province of Vlster nor the Ministers of the Presbytery at Carrick-fergus the same men or some of them who were at Belfast had beene furnished with an occasion to write so freely to his Lordship and to tell him that he hath beene the chiefe Author though themselves were the pri●● ones of all these Calamities That Libell of theirs against the Parliament of England the Supreame Authority under whose protection these Incendiaries lived hath been Declared against by Parliament and also examined by a private Pen and the Treason of it layd out to the World before these effects were visible to all though they might then have been foreseen and were so in the tendency of their cause They then must needs cry down the Sectaries that is as themselves interpret the Parliament of England and will determine that the Fundamentall Government of England and Ireland is by King and Parliament and stirre up the people not to depart from it beleeving like cleare sighted men that Charles the second the hastily proclaimed King of Scotland would most readily imbrace and Cordially maintaine their Idoll Covenant Yet he that could see but as farre as a Batt at Noone may very well judge though hee should onely take the ground from the people that are about him that Cu●● loves the Covenant as well as a Scotch Priest loves a Bishop But their obedient Sonne Montgomery the Lord of the Ards is so well Catechised with that Doctrine of the Classes that he accepts a Commission from the same Charles the second of Scotland which he yet conceales going first out into Rebellion with the most of his Nation there if not all upon the account of the Covenant to prevent those dangers from the wicked Sectaries of which he had so zealous and pious warning from his received Ghostly Fathers Meane while thereby besides their owne Rebellion giving such a Diversion to those forces of the English Nation in Vlster as held faithfull to their duty that they were not able to contribute any assistance to Collonell Jones for resistance of Ormond and Inchiquine and the rest of the Irish Rebels that now entred Colonell Jones quarters tooke in many out Garrisons and among other Drogheda and Besieged Dublin it selfe which also had been in great danger to have been lost had it not beene with great prudence and foresight cleared of all suspected Vermin within and with much Courage and Gallantry defended against all efforts without by that worthy Governour Colonell Jones now Leivtenant Generall of the Horse in Ireland who ought to be loved and honoured of all true English that would promote the Interest of this Nation Thus these Sons of Bichri have blowne a Trumpet of Rebellion to all that Kingdome which themselves poore men now see is not like to stablish their blessed Covenant or their Canonical Presbytery For whil they had thought their well taught Son of their Kirk the Lord of Arder had been onely in Armes against the Sectaries He though a young