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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57288	The Scots episcopal innocence, or, The juggling of that party with the late King, His present Majesty, the Church of England, and the Church of Scotland demonstrated together with a catalogue of the Scots Episcopal clergy turn'd out for their disloyalty ... since the revolution : and a postscript with reflections on a late malicious pamphlet entituled The spirit of malice and slander ... / by Will. Laick.	Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	1694 (1694)	Wing R1465; ESTC R28104	55,845	73

THE Scots Episcopal Innocence OR The Juggling of that Party with the late King his present Majesty the Church of England and the Church of Scotland demonstrated Together with a Catalogue of the Scots Episcopal Clergy turn'd out for their Disloyalty and other Enormities since the Revolution And a Postscript with Reflections on a late malicious Pamphlet entituled The Spirit of Malice and Slander Particularly addressed to Dr. Monroe and his Journeymen Mr. Simon Wild Mr. Andrew Iohnston c. near Thieving-lane Westminster Rampantur Ilia Codri By WILL. LAICK Impavidum feriunt Ruinae London Printed in the Year 1694. To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Right Honourable Reverend and Worthy IT is not from any Opinion that the Author has of himself or what he can do that he presumes upon such a Dedication but only as a true Son of the Church of Scotland he finds himself oblig'd to espouse her Cause and obviate the false Calumnies which those of our own Nation do so industriously spread Abroad not only to the Disparagement of your Government and Discipline but even of your Doctrine and Morals And therefore he begs that what is well design'd may not be ill taken but that you would be pleased to accept of these weak Indeavours as a Testimony of his Zeal and Affection for his Mother-Church with that same Benignity that that Great Prince accepted of the poor Man's handful of Water which was offered him amongst a Crowd of more valuable Presents He is sensible that neither the Matter nor the Manner deserve the Patronage of such a grave Assembly but he hopes that you may thence be convinc'd of the Necessity there is that you should take such Measures as your Wisdom shall suggest to provide Antidotes for those poysonous Libels which fly abroad here against you in such Numbers by the United Endeavours of your Enemies You cannot readily imagine how much you lose by a Neglect herein and it 's not easy to express the Grief of your Well-wishers to hear the Church of Scotland made the Song of the Drunkard and the Ridiculous blasphemous Stories printed here against Her to be the common Entertainment of Debauchees who triumph in all publick Places over your silence May the great Shepherd of his Church whose Servants you are inspire you with such Counsels that as the Church of Scotland had formerly Nomen inter caeteras Celebre upon the Account of her singular Unity She may also be famous in Time to come clear as the Sun fair as the Moon and terrible like an Army with Banners to the Conviction of all those who oppose her upon the Account of the Purity of her Doctrine and Strictness of her Discipline And blessed be God who has not left her without this Testimony that her greatest and most avow'd Enemies are generally the most Vicious and debauch'd and visibly embark'd with an Interest altogether destructive to the Protestant Religion and the common Liberties of Europe The Scots Episcopal Innocence c. PART I. IT being undoubtedly his Majesty's Design as well as Interest to manifest a fatherly Concern for the Welfare of all his Subjects in General it 's unaccountable that there should not be found a sutable Disposition in them to concur with his Royal Intentions and be ambitious to out-do one another in their returns of Love and Zeal for his generous and impartial Administration by which like the Sun he dispenses the Rays of his benign Influence towards all Men whereof his admirable Temperament towards his Church of England and Dissenting Subjects are undeniable Demonstrations and do so clearly evince that Justice and Equability have the Ascendent in his Soul that it can be hid from none but those whose Interest and Passion blind their Eyes But my Thoughts being at present confin'd to his Government in Scotland I shall endeavour to keep within my Limits though I must confess it puts a Violence upon my Inclination when I have so large a Field wherein I could expatiate with delight From the sense of the Calamities under which that Kingdom hath for a long time groan'd upon account of their Differences in Church-matters it might have been reasonably expected that both Parties should have greedily embraced the opportunity of a Comprehension which his present Majesty hath done more to accomplish than he who coveted the Motto of Beati Pacifici or any other of his Successors had either Interest or Inclination to do but to the Amazement of all Good Men those who petition'd for it now when it is obtain'd stand aloof from it and as I hope to make it appear chiefly if not meerly because they are obliged to abjure all Interests which are opposite to his Majesty's who procured it which as I am confident there is no need of Rhetorick to perswade you is a piece of the blackest Ingratitude But to set this Matter in its true Light be pleased to read the following Address of the Scots Episcopal Party and then the Act of Parliament which his Majesty with no small Application hath obtain'd in Answer to their Request and I doubt not but you will discover that there is a Snake in the Grass To his Grace their Majesties Commissioner and the General Assembly met at Edinburgh We Vnder-subscribers for our Selves and our Constituents Ministers of the Gospel in Scotland Humbly shew THAT since Episcopacy is abolish'd and Presbyterian Government establish'd by Act of Parliament as it was establish'd in 1592 and we being desirous to exercise the Holy function wherewith we are invested in our several Stations for the Glory of God Advancement of Religion their Majesties Service and the Peace of the Nation Do therefore humbly desire that all Stops and Impediments may be taken off so that we may be permitted to Act as Presbyters in Presbyteries Synods and General Assemblies in concurrence with the Presbyterian Ministers in the Government of the Church as now by Law establish'd The TEST or Declaration to be Signed by all those who shall be assum'd I A. B. do sincerely declare and promise that I will submit to Presbyterian Government of the Church as it is now established in this Kingdom by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary by Presbyteries Provincial Synods and General Assemblies and that I will as becomes a Minister of the Gospel heartily concur with the said Government for suppressing of Sin and Wickedness promoting Piety and purging of the Church of all Erroneous and Scandalous Men. And I do further promise That I will subscribe the Confession of Faith and larger and shorter Catechism now Confirmed by Act of Parliament as containing the Doctrine of the Protestant Religion professed in this Kingdom ACT for setling the Quiet and Peace of the Church Edinburgh Iune the 12th 1693. OUR Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties with Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament Ratify Approve and perpetually Confirm the Fifth Act of the

that with so many Advantages as have hardly been seen before for all the different Titles of Birth Marriage and the Peoples Choice are centred in his present Majesty whom God hath indowed with such Qualifications that if Alexander the Great had had such a Successor he would never have said detur digniori But Doctor I am so much a Scots-Man that I am no otherwise for the House of Nassaw than as the Champions whom God hath chosen for the Protestant Interest and one of the most Illustrious Cyons that ever was engrafted in old Fergus's Stock Nor is it any Diminution to the Honour of our Country to have a King from that Family which gave Emperors to Germany But Doctor Hinc illae Lachrymae proh dolor Here 's the thing that grieves your Party That that very Family which cut the Turkish Bowstring of Passive Obedience when sent from Spain to choak the Netherlands should by the Wheel of Fortune be tumbled from beyond Sea to do the like for Britain and Ireland which have been in horrible Convulsions ever since the Apostles of Slavery Sibthorp and Manwaring preached in 1626 That the King might make Laws and do whatever pleaseth him and that the Subjects under pain of Damnation ought to pay the Loan-Money demanded by Charles I. and obey the King's Will in all things Which by the way Doctor gives quite another state of the Doctrine of Passive Obedience then what your Doctorship is pleas'd to exhibite P. .... And if it be not Nefas dictu I humbly conceive that the Authors of that Doctrine understood it as well as your Doctorship or any other of their Scholars But in truth Doctor Ignorance and Malice are so very discernable in your Spirit of Calumny that it 's hard to know which of them has the Ascendant for I perceive your Elect Lordship so much upon the Fret and in such a terrible Rage against the Presbyterians that you charge them with as little Sense and as much Malice as did that Fellow who came home drunk and not being able to find the Key-hole of his Door swore That the Fanaticks had stole it away Then Doctor I would fain know whether it be not against the Logical Axiom ex particulari because Herriot appointed an Anniversary to be kept by those of his Hospital for whom he hath provided a constant Maintenance on condition that they observe his Rules of which this is one To argue thence that the Observation of Anniversaries may be impos'd upon a whole Nation by Churches or Civil Magistrates Really Doctor I think this to be just such a way of arguing as that of a foolish Girl who being a gathering of Berries with her Mother said O Mother here 's abundance of Berries for I have found one Or tell me Doctor whether it be not a Nonsequitur that because a particular Man may impose an Anniversary upon those of an Hospital whom he maintains and who by the Observation of his Rules whereof this is one are entituled to all the Benefits of his Munificence to argue thence That the Church or Civil Magistrate may impose Anniversaries upon all the Christians in a Nation seeing they are neither the Founders of their Religion nor Donors of the Benefits which they reap thereby Next I would pray your Doctorship to resolve me Whether if I affirm such a Man to be a whining Fellow who drivles at Eyes and Mouth which in all English Construction must signify Weeping and another calls that same Man a Ludicrous Fellow in relation to that very Action I say I would pray you to resolve me Whether we do not contradict one another But if the Doctor have such a Faculty that he can drivle at Eyes and Mouth in Jest I confess that he not only deserves the Name of Scaramouchi but to be a Merry-Andrew in the principal Booth in Bartholomew-Fair But Doctor to argue this Point a little further tell me Whether there be not a direct Contradiction betwixt your Parties saying as I cited it Pag. 37. That there was nothing like Iustice amongst the Presbyterians and your owning that the Presbyterian Privy Council and a Presbyterian Synod treated Dr. Canaries with special Honour acquitted him and reproved his Accusers Really Doctor if this be not a Contradiction I do not understand one but I wish you understood a little more Honesty to quote your Adversary fairly and not leave out my Words on which the stress of the Argument lay as you did here You make a great Noise with me for leaving out the Word Sense when you oppose the Quality Sense and Interest of your Party against ours and yet charge me falsly with saying that Nero and Iulian the Apostate had the advantage of the Primitive Christians in Quality Sense and Interest whereas I only said in Quality and Interest which you cannot deny But Doctor I 'le allow you Sense too and yet the Argument will hold pretty well for Nero and Iulian the Apostate were Men of much better Education and Sense too if we mean Philosophy or Natural Wisdom than any of the Apostles Paul excepted And yet the Christian Religion is no loser by it for St. Paul himself declares that not many Wise not many Mighty nor not many Rich are called and here is Quality Sense and Interest allowed to be on the side of our Enemies by the Apostle so that the Presbyterians might yield all three to the Prelatists and be no losers in their Cause but blessed be God we need not for we have the King and Parliament on our Side and I hope there 's Quality Sense and Interest enough to over ballance you Then you alledg that I own your Honour and Integrity whereas I only tell you that it 's none of my Business to question it but the Instances they are charged with come under none of those Heads which to any Man but the Doctor would be understood a denial of it and therefore your Doctorship must either confute those Instances or yield your Cause for I still say it 's none of my Business to question their Honour and Integrity in Terminis But Doctor to make an end of our Logical Controversy look to the last Page of your Postscript and tell me Whether those words he begins his Book with a Lie in the Title Page or this Proposition that such a Book was printed for Thomas Anderson at Charing-Cross is a Lie be Affirmative or Negative Doctor I maintain the former and for this reason because there is somewhat affirmed of the Subject And to make it plain to every Capacity that they are Affirmative let 's try whether they be the same with these Propositions He does not begin his Book with a Lie or that such a Book was printed for Thomas Anderson at Charing-Cross is not a Lie which are undoubtedly Negative Doctor I presume that you have not forgot the Logical Canon Vt propositio sit Negativa necesse est particulam Negandi vel toti propositioni praemitti