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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

carp or quarrel never so much yet the purpose and determination of God will not be disappointed in living Witnesses against this mis-believing Generation viz. that he is both al 's powerful and willing to deliver one or more of his People trusting in him yea and that there is no restraint unto the Lord to save by many or by few 1 Sam. 14. 6. If any be obedient to the voice of his Commandments although success doth not always follow thereupon more than it did to Israel Jos 7. 12. against the City of Ai because there was an Achan in the Camp and alas there are many Achans in the Camp of our Israel which cause the Lord's People to fall daily before their enemies and which makes all their endeavours unsuccessful I mean the hidden time-serving Hypocrites and Murmurers who have preferred their backs and bellies to the Interest of God and their hearts still desirous to return to Egypt I say until such Rebels be purged and dye we can have little expectation to prosper in any enterprize or undertaking for they have both betrayed and mis-believed God notwithstanding of all his Miracles which he did of old and which he has done in our days for his people and before their eyes yet they are so far gone back in a course of Apostacy and compliance with the Canaanites of our times and are become so brutishly ignorant of the express Law of God and are such enemies thereto that they do rather concurr with the said Canaanites Judg. 6. 25. to have Gideon put to death for performing his duty conform to the express command of God than either to study thereof themselves or give obedience thereto But if it be objected that Gideon had an express command from God for throwing down of Baal's Altar and for cutting down of the Grove and destroying of the Midianites Answer Indeed he had an express command of God for his encouragement but he had no new command from God save that which was expresly enjoyned upon all the Israelites by vertue of which every one was obliged to have done what he did without any such message from God Deut. 7. 2 3 15. and who are readier with Judas before they incurr danger or loss to send three thousand Men to bring Sampson bound to the Philistines than to have sent him ten of his assistance against the common enemy concerning the truth of which we have gotten many sad experiments But however I hope that what hath been said shall occasion a further cognition of and a more serious search into these forementioned truths than hath been for a long time by-past That albeit I have here singly declared my own motives and reasons for that attempt and shooting wherein I then had and now have peace and hope to find acceptance of God according to the multitude of his Mercies to such as seek and fear him in sincerity yet I will not take on me absolutely and in every respect to justifie or assert that it is my own deliberate and fixed principle let be that it is justified by and is the principle of the Non-conforming Presbyterian Party of the Church of Scotland of which I have the honour and happiness to be one the unworthyest of many Nay if I should say so of them I would be found a Lyar against the Truth for I adventured on it upon my own pure and proper motion without the instigation of any yea without the privacy of that party whom therefore I earnestly desire that none may charge with and if any shall I do with the greatest confidence averr that they deal with them most unjustly I have I say again in the simplicity of my heart with candour and ingenuity becoming a dying Man and a Christian believing that he must be made manifest before the Tribunal of Christ and there receive according to the things done in the body whether they be good or evil given an account of the reasons and motives poussing and pressing me on to it wherein I had quietness of mind in the time and have still to this present hour hoping that as he is Soveraign Lord over all Creatures and may use any of them as Instruments to whatsoever his Pleasure is and that as I say I did take and do still look upon the motion as from himself so he will accept of my sincerity in it and one day both bring forth his own and my Righteousness as the Light FINIS I Suppose some will be desirous to know what hath brought me to this place of suffering to which I have no other Answer than that which Elijah gave when threatned with death by Jezebel 1 Kings 19. 14. I have been very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts because the Children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant thrown down thine Altars and true Worship and slain his Prophets and Ministers And they seek my Life to take it away With all my Heart and Soul I own and adhere to the work of Reformation as it was begun and carried on in this Kingdom according to the Word of God and the National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant as it was settled amongst us in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government by general Assemblies Synods Presbyteries Kirk-Sessions and the Peoples Just Power to choose and call their own lawful Pastors and I do declare that I judge Patronage to be a Popish Right and an usurpation in the House of God I do believe and am perswaded that Magistracy is an Ordinance appointed of God as well under the New Testament as it was under the Old and that whosoever resisteth the lawful Magistrate in the exercise of his lawful Power resisteth the Ordinan●● and appointment of God Rom. 13. 3. For he is God's Minister to you for thy good and in doing good thou needs not be afraid of him 1 Pet. 2. 12. We must obey the lawful Magistrate for Conscience sake Deut. 17. 15 16 17. The lawful Magistrate must be a Man qualified according to God's appointment and not according to the Peoples Lust and Pleasure least in the end he should prove to them a Prince of Sodom and a Governour of Gomorrah whom God in his Righteousness should appoint for their Judgement and establish for their correction he must be one of thy Brethren and not the Face of a Stranger he must not make himself strong by multiplying of Horses to the end he may compel the Lord's People to rebel against the Lord's express command Nor Jeroboam like compel the people to any course of Apostacy he must not multiply Wives to himself and much less Whores nor marry an Idolatrous Wife like Jezabel 1 Kings 16. 31. Nor be covetous in multiplying to himself Silver or Gold he must be a diligent Student of the Law of the Lord all the days of his Life that he turn neither to the Right Hand nor to the Left Hand therefrom but must judge the People accordingly otherways neither he nor his Children can expect

having first asserted the priviledge that is granted to Bishops to have their depositions taken at home according to the Civil and Canon-law and protested that his Obedience to the Court should be no prejudice to that priviledge depon'd that having ask'd the Prisoner what mov'd him to make such a bloody attempt on an innocent man he answer'd That he did it because he apprehended him to be an Enemy to the People of God The Lord Halton deposed that having ask'd him how he durst be so wicked as to do such an execrable Fact he answer'd That he did it because the Archbishop was an Enemy to the Godly people of the West Furthermore the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Halton testifi'd upon Oath for with us the greatest Peers must be sworn that he own'd the Confession produc'd in the Court before the Privy Council and acknowledg'd their names which were subscrib'd under it and the Pannel could not deny his These Depositions being taken there was no way left to save the Pannels neck but by making it appear that he had made this Confession upon promise or hopes of Pardon and therefore his Advocats desir'd that the Lord Chancellor might be call'd to declare upon Oath if he did not encourage him to confess upon Promise or Oath to endeavour to secure him life and limb as he alledged his Lordship did But he declar'd upon the great Oath he had taken that he never made any such Promise or Oath unto him and the Duke of Lauderdale and the Lord Halton being also call'd to Depone upon that particular testifi'd that they never knew that the Lord Chancellor or any other had encourag'd him to make that Confession upon hopes or promise of Pardon which if it could have been legally prov'd he must have been absolv'd The impudent Villain likewise desir'd the Lords Justitiary whom before I call'd the Judges in your style that the Primate himself might be cited into the Court to declare upon Oath if he did not encourage him to confess upon a promise to endeavour to procure his Pardon to which being sworn he answer'd that immediately after his apprehension he took him aside to discourse with him in private where he did assure him he forgave him and would endeavour to save him from publick Justice if he would confess the Fact but that upon this encouragement he would make no Confession nor ever after offer'd any to him so that though he still forgave him yet he did not conceive himself bound to endeavour his preservation after more than five years obstination in his Crime There were many other Witnesses ready to depone of which there was no need One of them could have testifi'd that he heard him say that he would do the Fact if it were to be done again and another could have depon'd that he heard him say let me but shoot at him again and I 'le be content to be hang'd if I miss The Jury which consisted of Fifteen Gentlemen unanimously found him guilty and when sentence was pronounc'd that he should be carried to the common place of Execution and there be hang'd he told the Justitiary Lords that he took it as from God but not from them Since he was condemn'd he desir'd that some Conventicle-Ministers that are imprison'd with him might be admitted to give him Comfort and obstinately refused the assistance of the Ministers of our Church However one of them went to him to remind him of the Murder he was guilty of in the eyes of God though he suffer'd him not to effectuate his design But instead of making any impression upon his hardned heart or receiving common acknowledgments for his good will he received nothing from him but reproaches being told by him that he was a Murderer of Souls and had the blood of Souls to answer for with many more rude and Enthusiastick expressions which would be too long to relate He was a lean hollow-cheek'd man of a truculent Countenance and had the air of an Assassin as much as a man could have He came with his Periwig powder'd to the Bar and behav'd himself there with as much assurance as men devoted to do mischief by their Principles and Complexion resolve beforehand always to do As for his original 't is so obscure that the mean Proletarian condition of his Parents affords no notice of his birth And as for his Education after he had passed through the subsidiary part of Learning he was sent to the Colledge of Edinburgh in the time of the late Usurpation where he made very small Progress in any part of good Literature but apply'd himself to the reading of such silly Fanatical Books as were fit for his narrow capacity and Enthusiastical temper So that the acquir'd or artificial part of Fanaticism which Whigs call Grace being added to his Nature he might qualifie himself for Employment and Reputation especially among the Remonstrator-Presbyterians who were then the the principal part of the Kirk This Faction especially in the West was advanc'd so far towards Enthusiasm that they despised and suspected men of Learning and Sence and began to look upon it as a stinting of the Spirit to spend any study or time in preparing themselves to Preach The people especially were so possessed with this opinion that if they came to know that their Ministers preconceiv'd much more penn'd their Sermons in their Studys they thought it a sufficient ground of withdrawing from them as believing it utterly impossible to receive any spiritual benefit from such carnal Sermons as were compos'd by the help of Study and Books Among these people it was that Mitchel design'd to Teach and Preach and therefore after he was graduated Master which is here at the end of four years he apply'd himself to the Study of Popular Divinity under Mr. David Dickson a great Apostle of the Solemn League and Covenant under whom he continued his method of Reading modern Fanatical Pamphlets that he might be an able Workman and compleatly furnished with all those Canting affected Phrases which discriminate a Spiritual from a Carnal Preacher among our Presbyterians and are Musick and Charms to their Enthusiastical Ears And that he might add the Practical to the Speculative part of Fanaticism and be perfectly Master of his Trade he frequented those private Meetings where Conferences Prayers and Sermons were spoken in that Dialect and where Tone Grimace and Gesticulations are far more powerful than all the true Learning and Eloquence in the World Having acted sometime in these Nurseries of Enthusiasm he thought himself fit for any Ecclesiastical Employment and therefore offer'd himself to be try'd by the Presbytery of Dalkeith who rejected him for insufficiency as some yet alive can testifie to the World After this repulse he began to project some other way of living and was shortly after recommended to the Laird of Dundas to be Pedagogue to his Children and Domestick Chaplain for saying extemporary Prayers He passed sometime in this Family for a guifted

with many more and that in such an Extraordinary dreadful and terrible manner for my engaging to Prelacy and a Lordly Government over the Church of Christ contrary to which there lie so many ties and obligations on this Land that with the Grace of God I would not adventure to abide the terror of the Lord for all the stipends and preferments in Europe And truly the worst I wish to you or any Prelate in Britain or Ireland or their adherents is that they may have as sound a yokeing with their Consciences as I have had if they be not incorrigible Enemies of Christ Next upon serious search of the word of God and of Antiquity I am the more confirm'd in my Resolution Blondellus Salmatius Gerson Bucer yea the whole current of Primitive Fathers especially Smectymnuus have vindicated Presbytery against the whole World I want not many more solid Reasons to add only I suppose I could never be satisfied in them and therefore I forbear To conclude I do here before God and the whole World profess my disowning of Lordly Prelacy as it is now Established in our Land which I was once most fully engag'd into and my firm and resolute adherence to the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of the Church of Scotland as it was professed in this Nation from the year of our Lord 205. and downward for the space of 230 years and then since the year 1580. till the year 1610. and then from the year 1638. till the year 1661. and from thence downwards by many Godly in these three Lands till this very day is and more particularly to the point that Government of Christs Church by an equality and parity of Pastors and Ministers all of them with one shoulder carrying on the work of the Lord and exercising the Keyes of Order and Jurisdiction Doctrine and Discipline in Communi according to due Order and feeding the flock of God not as being Lords of Gods Heritage but ensamples to the flock yea I do here with all the Lords faithful Servants and Witnesses in these three Lands both in the present and some former Generations and with all the Lords Witnessing and Suffering Servants and people that have heen or now are in this Land or present Generation confess and bear my Witness and Testimony the cause of God and work of Reformation so much as was attained thereof how afflicted and born down now soever and to the confessions of Faith of the Church of Scotland and of the three Kingdoms and to the rational and trinational Covenant and that I do rather choose to suffer affliction with the poor suffering people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a season esteeming the reproaches for Christ greater riches than all the pleasures and preferments in the World I desire you with your Brethren to consider those Scriptures and take them home to you Isa 66. 5. Zachary 11. 5. John 16. 2 3. John 9. 1 10. Remember your worthy Bedfellow that is this day I hope in glory shall bear Witness against you Farewell for ever Lordly Prelacy for I had never a joyful hour since I engaged therein and welcome welcome my dear Lord Jesus Christ I embrace thee with the arms of my Soul and thy Cross I profess this confess thee bearing my Testimony to thee and thy persecuted Truth and by thy blood and the word of thy Testimony and not loving my life unto the death I hope to overcome Cambre-Ile August 6. 1677. Sic subscribit Alex. Symer Minister of the Gospel at Cambre Unless you are vers'd in our Historian Buchanan you will wonder why this Learned Antiquarian should assert That the Government of our Church was Presbyterian from the first Plantation of the Gospel in 205. or rather 203. till the arrival of Palladius in the middle of the Fifth Century You must know therefore that all the Authority our Presbyterians have for this assertion is from Buchanan that furious Enemy of Bishops who in the Fifth Book of his History writes that the Church in the aforesaid time was not governed by Bishops but by the Monks or Culdees which were it true as it is false would prove that the Government of the Church in that interval was not Presbyteterian but perfectly Laical seeing it was long after that time that Monks were admitted among the Clergy and permitted to meddle with Church affairs But you may find a larger confutation of this groundless assertion of Buchanan in Archbishop Spotswoods History in the seven first Pages of the First Book But to continue my Narrative of Mr. Mitchel I proceed to acquaint you with other memorable things that happen'd between his Condemnation and Execution which was on Friday the 18. of January last in the Grass-market about Three of the Clock in the Afternoon Some time before the execution the Reverend Mr. Annand Dean of Edinburgh not discourag'd with the unthankful returns one of his Brethren had receiv'd from the Malefactor before out of his tender compassion to his Soul wrote him a very affectionate and pious Letter wherein he endeavour'd to shew him from the Gospel how contrary his Principles and Practices were to the Doctrine of Christianity and exhorted him to Repentance for that Un-christian attempt by which he design'd to take away the Life of one Sacred Person and grievously wounded another c. to all which he return'd this Answer SIR I Received yours and since my time is very short and so very pretious I can only thank you for your Civility and Affection whether real or pretended and I tell you I truly close with all the precepts of the Gospel to Love and Peace and therefore pray I both for Mr. Sharp and you But knowing both Mr. Sharp's Wickedness and my own sincerity and the Lord 's Holy Soveraignty to use his Creatures as he pleases I can only refer the manifestation of my Fact to the day of God's Righteous and Universal Judgement praying heartily that God may have mercy on you and open your eyes to see both the wickedness of all your ways and of your Godless insulting over an unjustly condemn'd dying Man and grant unto you repentance and remission of your sins I am in this your well-wisher James Mitchel The Dean in his Letter urged an excellent argument to convince him that the impulse which was upon him so many years to assassin the Primate could not come from God like the Impulse of Phineas and the Zealots because he fail'd in the attempt which never any person did or could do that was moved by God to do an Heroick Act. But you see the blind Pseudo-Zealot takes no notice of this Argument in his Answer wherein to shew what an implacable enemy he was to the Office as well as the Person of the Archbishop he mentions his Grace not by his Character but by his Name Having been told in the Prison that he would not be permitted to speak to the People before his Execution he transcribed

involvens cuncta tenebris Huc ruit impietas tenues sic ivit in auras Pacta fides perjura manus coit omnis in unum In scelus horrendum saevos feritate Leones Mittit ab Occasu suscepta ut faedera Regni Deleat Christi praedetur ovile Cupido Namque tenet lucri nunquam satiata nefandum Proh Scelus in Pharias remeavimus oras Atque iterum nostrae sic Relligionis habenas Papa regebat adest nunc nunc Deus ultor inulti Ne pereant justi dextrâque ultrice ●urorem Comprimet Hunc Divina lupum non terruit ira Fraudibus occultis odiisque immanibus actum Grassantem rabie solitaeque cupidine caedis Horruit ejectum Patria peregrinus at aequum O coelum exilii postquam mala tanta tulisset Tormenta in Patria atque homicidae vincla parantur Tandem perstringunt sccleratum vincula collum Exitus hic dignus tam prodigialibus ausis Jus aequum perpessus obit sed caetera nescit Aeternos quisquis nondum damnatur ad ignes Finis Epitaphium ejusdem ubi ipse ab inferno introducitur loquens Quò vesana ruis Grex vis effera praeceps Quò ruis impietas sine lege furor Heu mea sero nimis constantia victa fatiscit Sera sed atroci faenore paena venit Jam Coelo extorri terror Deus ipse coquenda Dum manus in Stygio Sanguinolenta lacu Christi si quis adhuc lupus expugnator Ovilis Se sciat in magnum tela movere Deum Finis Iisdem pene verbis convellitur quibus adstruitur impietas Ambros There was also a severe Satyr in Scottish made in revenge to the many Libels which the Fanaticks scatter'd about Town upon this occasion I got a Copy of it which I here present unto you Entitled as it was to the Memory of Mr. James Mitchel O-Y-ES O-y-es Covenanters Filthy Cruel lying Ranters Come here and see your murdering Martyr Sent to Hell i' th' Hangmans Garter Your sealing Witnesses we hear Are Mr. James Mitchel and Major Weir One with his hand but had no pith Th' other your Wives know well wherewith Which makes them sigh and sighing say Welsh can but Preach but Weir could pray It 's this that all Religion shames To give Hells Vices Heavenly names Then Devils then cast off your Masks Murder and Whoredom are your Tasks Which you to all the World proclame Boasting and glorying in your shame And say your Covenant doth allow This Maugre your Baptismal vow And that the holy Oath doth bind you To leave such holy Seed behind you For at and after your long prayers You lye together pairs by pairs And every private Meeting-place Is a Bawdy-house of Grace You shew it is your loving Natures To be sweet fellow-feeling Creatures But to prophane your Holy Order With Incest Buggery and Murder Is plainly to proclame you Devils And horrid Crimes to be no evils Mas James Mitchel lay four year In Grissald's house with Major Weir And from his Ghostly Father learns To lye with Women and get no Barns The Mystery of the Tribe a Trick Makes all the Women mad Fanatick And now they both in Hell are met Where for your Company they wait Then fill your measure and post on To your deserv'd Damnation Go Whore and Bugger Kill and Pray Till every Dog shall have his day Or go together to Hell in Troops Else strive for new Grasse-market-loops He that Whores best and Murders most Of him the Sect shall always boast And put him as they 've put Mas James Among their Saints and Martyrs Names YOu see the Latin Verses take notice of the West as a place above all others of this Kingdom wherein Fanaticism most abounds This must needs awaken your curiosity to enquire from what magnetism it is that our Conventicle-preachers have acquir'd such a strong verticity to that point Truly the reason is the same for which yours haunt London and the most opulent Towns and Countys of England even the Riches of the place for where the Silver is there are the Suisses where the Carcase is there are these Vulturs gathered together There 's a necessity laid upon them to Preach the Gospel there yea woe unto them if they Preach it not in Fife and the West where so many Rich Traders and Heritors live But as for the Highlands and other poorer Countys they have no Christian compassion for them but let them live and dye in Ignorance and Idolatry because their Souls are not so precious for want of Silver and Gold I remember when I was at London in 76. I heard a famous Conventicle-minister say That if it were not for the Non-conforming-ministers thousands of Souls in that populous City would starve for want of the Word I very much wondered to hear him say so considering how many hundred Sermons were Preached every week by the Orthodox Ministers and the best I thought that ever I had heard But being the next day in some Company which was discoursing about Conventicles one or two of them began to tell of the great store of Mony the Conventicle-preachers had in the Banks and how some of them kept their Coaches and he believ'd it would not be long er'e their Wives kept their Chairs Then I began to understand the reason of the great care those Gentlemen had to feed the Souls of the good Citizens and was very glad that to keep a Coach was no longer a sign of Prelatical Pride When I return'd home I told our Whigs that the Non-conformist-ministers of London began to keep Coaches but the greatest part of them would not believe me and those that did said with sighs they were sorry that there were Diotrepheses among them that loved the preeminence and that God would have a controversie with them for their Prelatical Pride The like I have seen in a Preface to a Presbyterian Treatise of Divinity Printed about that time wherein the anonymous Author whose name I have been told complains of the Prelatical Spirit that began to shew it self among the Non-conforming-ministers whereof some living in great Plenty and State contemned others who were poor and whose lot was fallen in places where Persecution did abound In the Scottish which you will call the English Verses you see the Poet upbraids their Baptismal Vow with the Covenant not as I conceive upon the common account as another Poet may do but because 't is the frequent practise of our Whig-preachers to Baptize the Children of their Disciples into the Solemn League and Covenant as well as into the Covenant of Grace He also takes notice of the intimate Familiarity betwixt Mr. Mitchel and Major Weir and unless you will be at the pains to read the life of the latter as well as the former you 'l never be able to understand the Satyr nor know whether the Satyrists indignation be just or unjust He promise you beforehand That the Narrative shall affect you both with Wonder and Indignation