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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50970	The case of the afflicted clergy	G. M.	1691 (1691)	Wing M22; ESTC R217340	91,229	99

only the Reader may know that this was never alledged nor given as the reason of their deprivation by any of us Whatever might possibly be talked in England by them who knew little of our Affairs The Council did not consider their Immorality nor freedom from it but only their obedience or disobedience to the Law His story about Bishop Lighton will not Vindicate the Western Clergy from gross and multiplied Immoralities But that is not now the thing under our consideration That Scandals were represented at Court as the ground of their deprivation by the Council is as injurious and false as any thing that can be said The plurality of Episcopal Ministers above the Presbyterians he seemeth to brag of But is it any wonder when twenty eight years ago many had complyed with Episcopacy and all that did not were driven away and in that long time many of them were removed by death Was it not so at the Reformation from Popery How far did the number of Popish Priests exceed that of Protestant Ministers But what he hence inferreth hath no weight viz. That many of the Episcopal Ministers must be removed lest they should over-vote the others For a more rational and sure course was taken to obviate it viz. That the Government should be setled only in the hands of Presbyterians and such as they shall receive which he or his Fellow Censurer of the State had above complained of and we have vindicated He concludeth this Narrative with a warning to the Church of England of the Enmity of Presbyterians against them and their hazard from us And indeed the strain of these Pamphlets is mostly a complaint against the King and Parliament and all the Authority of this Nation and an Appeal to the Church of England for deliverance from this Yoke And I hope our Rulers will consider them accordingly § 9. We now come to consider the Authors several Collections of Papers in which he hath been at a great deal of pains but to little or bad purpose as I hope by Examination of them shall appear His first Collection is of accounts that he hath had from his Complices a Company of Men avowed and malicious Enemies of all Presbyterians concerning their Sufferings from them and all this attested by themselves as I above observed He beginneth with the Story of Mr. Bell of Kilmarnock which I have above answered on Letter second Next he cometh to the Presbytery of Hamiltoun Where it seems he findeth three Mr. John Dalgliesh of Evendal Mr. James Crichtoun of Kilbryd Mr. Angus Mackintosh at Sten-house whose Gowns were torn and they discharged to preach Attested by Dr. Robert Scot Mr. George Leslie and Mr. John Dennistoun To all which I give no other Answer but what hath been said on the like occasion That the Presbyterians are not to answer for such practices which were done by such as Sober Presbyterians do not own nor are owned by them but rather hated and opposed As also that so many lying Stories of this kind have been told by him that it is not worth the while to enquire into the truth of these Men use to slight what is asserted by a common Liar We have next a general account of the Ministers of the Presbytery of Irwin that all their Houses have been assaulted their Gowns torn and they discharged to preach many of their Wives and Children turned out of Doors like to starve by Hunger and Cold in the Winter some forced to fly and lurk that they cannot meet to make known their Grievances Only three or four give these accounts from their own knowledge and certain information Signed Charles Littlejohn Minister of Larg Alexander Laing Minister at Stewartoun One may easily answer all this without particular information Considering the veracity that is to be found in this Pamphlet viz. Here is nothing but Generals and that by report Personal knowledge is pretended but for little of what is Asserted And we have cause to think that these were none of them who are of our Communion who Acted these things Then follows the Sufferings of the Presbytery of Glasgow in the persons of Mr. Russel at Govan Mr. Finny at Carthcart which two Stories are answered and found to be forgeries 〈◊〉 Letter 2. Mr. Blair at Rutherglen Mr. Gilbert Mushet at Cumern●… Mr. David Mill at Cumernald which we may rationally judge 〈◊〉 be of the same stamp Neither have we time to search into all the groundless Tales that he thinketh fit either to invent or to take up from them that devise them But that which he laboureth to set off by the Circumstances of it is that January 17. 1689. A Rabble mostly Women came with a design to drag the Minister out of the Pulpit he being warned and forbearing and returning from the Church was assaulted his Gown and other Cloaths torn The same day Mr. Alexander George had his Doors broken and he being upon his Sick-bed they had dragged him out of his Bed if the Provost with ten Men had not come to his Relief Next Sabbath January 20. there was no Sermon in the City on the 22 d they sent a threatning Letter forbidding all Ministers to preach on the highest peril this is attested by Alexander George John Sage the Ministers of Glasgow All this is answered above § 10. Another Paper of History he setteth down page 41. of the Sufferings of the Presbytery of Paislay upon the Bedele of Paislay on the Minister there on the Minister of Kilbarken And how Mr. Houstoun usurped the Pulpit of Eastwood This attested by Robert Fullertoun Moderator and John Taylor Minister at Paislay The answer of all this we take out of the Accusation it self It was done by Mr. Houstoun and his Party A man who not only is disowned by the Soberest sort of Presbyterians but even by the Cameronians as of most unsound Principles and most immoral practices Followeth a Letter Signed by four Ministers George Gregory Francis Fordyce William Irwine Minister at Kirkmichael John Hog Minister at Ochiltry What is not repeated out of the former Stories and answered before is the People of the Meeting-house Battering and Bruising the Minister of Kirkmichaels Man-servant commanding him to remove with what was his Masters from the House Ans It is witnessed under the Hands of David Bell James Cathcart Thomas Craig William Niven all of that Parish That they were present when one Robert Donaldson with some others came to the Minister of Kirkmichlaes House and that they did not beat or use any Violence to the Ministers Man servant But only took the Communion Cups from him and that they two drank together and shook Hands at Parting And that the said Servant lived there peaceably a year after and disposed of the Crop of his Masters Glebe It is also witnessed under the Hand of John Kennedy and George Monaught that the forementioned Robert Donaldson who was said to use Violence in the house of the Minister of Kirkmichael was a common