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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	papist_n	protestant_n	3,430	5	8.0447	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70609	Presbyterian inquisition as it was lately practised against the professors of the Colledge of Edinburgh, August and September, 1690 in which the spirit of Presbytery and their present method of procedure is plainly discovered, matter of fact by undeniable instances cleared, and libels against particular persons discussed.	Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?	1691 (1691)	Wing M2443; ESTC R5724	77,713	110

Bibliothecarius is not capable being a Youth of such Modesty and Ingenuity it may be he might be blamed for leaving out a word or for Writing carelesly From the Answers I have given to these several Queries The Reader may see what was the occasion of this Change in the Publick Formula after the Proclamation and it is so much the more wonderful that they blame the Doctor for obeying that Proclamation that first warmed the Phanaticks into their present Strength and Confidence But before I set down the Bibliothecarius his Declaration let me Inform the Reader that when the Doctor was sisted before the Commission several Questions were asked at him and five or six times he was Removed and the Report of the Committee was but once Read in his Hearing It was not possible for an Hour together to give an Answer to all the particulars they had heaped together in their Report The Doctor endeavoured to give a true Account of the Formula which was challenged He desired that Mr. Gregory Professour of the Mathematicks and Mr. Cunninghame Professour of Philosophy who knew the Registers much better than he did might be Examined but this was denied If Mr. Gregory and Mr. Cuuninghame had been Examined they would quickly have explained any thing that was dark or intricate about it But the Earl of Crawford would not hear any Defence or Explication of that Formula he alledged that it obliged them only to be Christians and that the Papists were Christians The Doctor answered that by the Protestant Religion he never understood any thing but unmixed Christianity and that the Papists as such were no Christians i. e. Popery is no Christianity for tho' they were Baptized and so Members of the Catholick Church yet their Popery is no part of their Christianity else the Protestants are obliged immediately to turn Papists unless they renounce their Christianity And therefore tho' we allow the Papists to be Christians and some of them excellent Men too yet the Errours which are mixt with their Christian Belief and which obliged the Protestants to Separate from them is no part of the Christian Religion and if the Students did continue firm in the Christian Religion I hope it had no tendency to make them Papists But there is a Sect of Men amongst us who value the nicest Punctilio's of the Covenant more than they do the fundamentals of Christianity It is time now to leave this and to insert Mr. Robert Henderson the Bibliothecarius his Declaration A Declaration of Mr. Robert Henderson Bibliothecarius and Secretary to the Colledge of Edinburgh relating to the report of the Committee against Dr. MONRO At Edinburgh the 18th of October 1690. I Mr. Robert Henderson Bibliothecarius and Secretary to the Colledge of Edinburgh hereby declare upon the word of a Christian that whereas I have deponed before the Committee appointed for the visiting of the said University that what I wrote in the Magistrand Book was by Order of the Primar or some of the Regents yet notwithstanding of my said Deposition I declare that the manner of Writing was entirely left to me and that I never intended a Blank and that I was never enjoyned by the Primar or Regents to leave a Blank but that the promise being drawn up into Three Articles the Second Article being so much longer than the line the remaining words were placed below towards the middle for Ornament there being scarce half an Inch of distance on both hands And hereby I further declare that I was never enjoyned to leave out the word Puriore or Reformata and that I never perceived any Design thereabout And that the Classes of the two last Laureations in the Years 1689 and 90. were ingaged by the same promises to which the former Classes were obliged In Testimony whereof I have Signed these Presents before Mr. Gregory Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Edinburgh and John Smith Student therein and Servitor to the said Mr. Gregory Day and Date foresaid Sic Subscribitur Dr. Gregory and J. Smith Witnesses Rob. Henderson ARTICLES Against Doctor STRACHAN Professor of DIVINITY I. THat in the New Kirk of Edinburgh in a Publick Sermon before the Diocesian Synod be Preached Reconciliation with the Church of Rome adducing the Instance of the two Brethren called Reynolds who in Dispute the one being a Protestant was turned Papist and the other being Papist turned Protestant and yet said he they were both good Men and for any thing I know they both went to Heaven What need then is there of all this din betwixt Protestant and Papist He also holds Consubstantiation saying the Church of Rome holds Transubstantiation but I hold Consubstantiation II. That he is commonly Repute to be an Arminian and he Preached and Maintained Arminian and Pelagian Principles and Tenets in the Trone-Church and was opposed herein by Mr. Trotter his Collegue And particularly had one Expression That without special Grace Renewing the Mind and Heart a Man might Believe and Repent and that having Believed he might still continue or not as to the Exercise of Grace and Believing or words to this purpose III. That he has innovate the Worship of God in setting up the English Service which was never allowed nor in use in this Church and suppose it were tolerated yet no Toleration allows any to enjoy Legal Benefices and Charge in the Church or Universities who in Doctrine and Worship does not agree with the Church in her present Establishment IV. His negligence of his Duty in teaching Lessons to the Students is evident in that for the first two years his Prelections went no further then his Harangue V. That since the Establishment of the Government be hath Baptized Children without any Testimony from the Minister to whose Congregation they belonged And also has without Proclamation in a Clandestine way Married several Persons as for Instance Mr. Alexander Chaplain's Daughter to Mr. John King Apothecary taking a Guiny for his pains which should have been given to the Poor of Edinburgh VI. His dissatisfaction with the Government both in Church and State is evident hereto both by the Verbal Expressions in Censuring and Condemning both these grounds whereupon be then left the Ministry are sufficient for turning him out of his present Station VII That the said Doctor does ordinarily neglect the Worship of God in his Family AN ANSWER TO THE ARTICLES Given in Against Doctor STRACHAN Professor of Divinity in the Colledge of Edinburgh TO these Articles or Libel I am not in Law obliged to give any particular Answer unless it were owned and subscribed by my Accuser and Witness adduced for the probation of the Particulars Lybelled for since the Accuser is so Conscious to himself of his gross Prevarications and notorious Falshoods alledged in his Libel that he dare not subscribe the same yet since I know my intire Innocence as to many of the particulars Libelled against me for some of them I do not acknowledge

the Clerk proceeded to other Articles And after having read one Paper another far more Impertinent and ridiculous was put into his hand to heighten the Libel The Articles whereof follow Articles of Inquisition against Dr. MONRO to which he was made to Answer before the Committee upon the 27 th of August 1690. I. THAT he Renounced the Protestant Religion in a Church beyond Sea and Subscribed himself a Papist II. When Mr. Burnet the Regent being suspected to be a Popist entered to the second Class most of the Parents of the Children that were to enter to the said Class enclined to put them back to the first Class for fear of there being tainted with Popery But Dr. Monro made on Act in the Colledge That none should go back particularly Bailzie Gram's Son who had entered to the first Class was made to enter to the Second Likewise Dr. Monro went and told the Earl of Perth his Diligence and Care of Mr. Burnet whom the said Earl thanked kindly for his love to any that went under that Character III. That he set up the English Liturgy within the Gates of the Colledge a Form of Worship never allowed of in this Nation since the Reformation And tho' it were tolerated yet no Toleration allows any of different Form of Worship from the State to enjoy legal Benefices in the Church or Charge in Universities IV. The Act for Visitation of Colledges requires that none carry charge in them but such as be well affected to the Government both of Church and State But so it is that it is known by all that know Dr. Monro that he is highly disaffected to both as appears by a missive Letter written by him to the late Archbishop of St. Andrews Dated the 5th Day of January 1689. And which may also appear by his leaving the Charge of the Ministry to shun Praying for King William and Queen Mary and his rejoycing the Day that the News of Claverhouse his Victory came to Town And how much he Dislikes the present Government of the Church may appear by the bitter Persecuting of all that Persuasion to the utmost of his Power And particularly the breaking up of Mr. James Inglish his Chamber Door in the Colledge and turning him out of the same notwithstanding he had been in peaceable Possession thereof for many Years and paid Rent for it and all this betwixt terms and the said Mr. James Inglish was willing to part with the Chamber at the Term. And this be did only because the said Mr. James Inglish Preached in a Meeting-House in his own Parish being called to it by them And when the said Doctor was challenged for this He said he would suffer none of such Principles to be within the Colledge And when Mr. Gourlay was Licensed to Preach by the Presbyterians the Students of Mr. Kennedys and Mr. Cunninghame's Classes beat up his Chamber Door and Windows with Stones and pulling off his Hat Cloak and Periwig and reproaching him with Phanatick c. They forced him to remove from his Chamber which he had possessed peaceably before and when this Abuse was Complained of and the Boys Names given up to the Principal there was no redress given V. At the late Publick Laureation He sat and publickly heard the Confession of Faith after it had been approven in Parliament rediculed by Dr. Pitcairn yea the existence of God impugned without any Answer or Vindication VI. He caused take down out of the Library all the Pictures of the Protestant Reformers and when quarrelled by some of the Magistrates gave this Answer That the sight of them might not be Offensive to the Chancellor when he came to Visit the Colledge VII When Mr. Cunninghame had Composed his Eucharistick Verses on the Prince of Wales he not only approved them but Presented them to the Chancellor with his own hand VIII That the said Dr. is given sometimes to Cursing and Swearing an instance whereof is be said to one of the Scholars God Damn me if it were not for the Gown I would crush you through this Floor or to the like purpose IX That the Doctor is an ordinary Neglecter of the Worship of God in his Family X. That on Saturday last he Baptized the Child of Mr. James Scott in the Parish of the West Kirk without acquainting the Minister thereof Answer to the Articles given against Doctor Monro upon the 27th of August 1690. My Lords and Gentlemen I Return you my humble thanks for giving me a Copy of the unsubscribed Articles given in against me upon Wednesday last And by their being such I find my self under no Obligation to take notice of them Yet I make bold to intreat your Lordships Favour and Patience for some Minutes to hear a more particular answer to that Paper than that which I then gave resolving to trouble your Lordships with none of the little shifts and Niceties of form that are usual on such occasions I. That I Renoimced the Protestant Religion and Subscrib'd my self a Papist beyond Sea This is a Spiteful and Malicious Calumny for as it is Libelled it is not supposable that it can be true for any thing I know The Papists require no Subscriptions of such as go over from the Protestants to their Party If I had Inclinations to Popery when I was in France it is more than the Libeller knows and more than he will be able to prove and being now for Twenty Years past by all the Evidences by which one Man knows another of the Protestant Religion any Man will see the Impertinence of this Suspition It is not worth the while to give a particular Account of my Life but I allow them to make the Inquisition as narrow as they can And therefore if your Lordships think it worth the while Mr. Reid the present Serjeant of the Town Company who knew me all the time I was in France may be examined particularly upon this Head or upon any other thing relating to my Life and Behaviour But your Lordships will consider I hope the impertinency of this Accusation since it is not possible to be ordained a Presbyter of our Church without renouncing of Popery And our Ecclesiastical Superiors who ordained Priests and Deacons according to the Forms of the Church of England always since the Restitution took care I hope to distinguish Papists and Protestants by the most Solemn Oaths and National Tests Next let it be considered whether I endeavoured to advance the Doctrines and Designs of the Roman-Church since I entered into the Ministry what good evidences for my being inclined to Popery Had I not a fair opportunity to take off the Mask some Years before the Revolution Was it any of the Sermons I Preached against Popery in the High Church of Edinburgh and in the Abby of Holyrood-house when our zealous Reformers were very quiet To all which some Hundreds of the best Quality of the Nation were Witnesses And the Libeller knows this Article is