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<HEAD>An ANSWER, To Dr. <HI>Jaques</HI> Vindication, AGAINST Ma&s;ter <HI>KIRKWOODS</HI> Defamation.</HEAD>
<P>WERE it not on the Con&s;ideration, that this mo&s;t Invective, Fal&s;e, and lying Paper has gone through the hands of ma|ny Hundreds of People, who, 'tis like, never once &s;aw, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> read the account given by Mr. <HI>Kirkwood</HI> of his Plea with the Kirk-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ion, and Presbitry of <HI>Kel&s;o,</HI> it might be thought altogether need|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;s to make any An&s;wer thereto; For in effect, 'tis &s;o far from being <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Vindication of the alledged Defamation, that it is not only a down|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ght Confirmation, but a clear Commentary on, and an Enlarge|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ent of the whole affair.</P>
<P>Know therefore, that all Mr. <HI>Kirkwood</HI> &s;ayes, (<HI>Page:</HI> 38) upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">is head is, that Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> did let go one <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;s <GAP DESC="blank"> Stone,</HI> an <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ngli&s;h</HI> Woman, who brought forth a child in his Hou&s;e, and that, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the common report went, to his own Son, without bringing her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">fore any Judicature, Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, or Civil.</P>
<P>Now all this, and much more the Dr. confe&s;&s;es, giving, as he &s;ayes Faithful and plain account of the whole affair; The &s;umm where|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"> is, that this Mrs. <HI>Stone,</HI> a rich Merchants Daughter in <HI>London,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">ing acquaint with on <HI>Vanderki&s;tee</HI> a <HI>Dutch-man,</HI> is married to him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">thout her Parents Knowledge; Which thing &s;he letting fall to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> and his Wife, who was her near Kin&s;-woman, they contrary to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> inclination, inform her Parents. After inquiry made by them out <HI>Vanderki&s;tee</HI>'s Circum&s;tances, 'twas found he Cohabited with other Woman, who was reputed his Wife, and by whom he had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">eral Children then Living. Whereupon the Parents re&s;olves to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">r&s;ue for a Divorce. In the mean time the Dr. is advis'd by them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> carry away their Daughter to his Hou&s;e in <HI>York-&s;hire,</HI> which ac|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">rdingly was done: tho very much again&s;t her inclination. And
<PB N="2" REF="2">be&s;ides it was al&s;o their de&s;ire (&s;ayes the Dr.) that &s;he &s;hould &s;till go under the name of a Maid, in order to conceal the Marriage. After &s;ome abode in <HI>York-&s;hire,</HI> he brings her and his Wife into <HI>Scot|land</HI> to his Fathers Hou&s;e at <HI>Biggar;</HI> Where &s;he liv'd about three Moneths, as a cha&s;te Virgin, None all this time (except the Dr. and his Wife) knowing &s;he was with Child, till the very Minute her pains of Child-Birth came upon her. The Dr. being at <HI>Lanerick,</HI> a|bout 7 Miles di&s;tant, is alarm'd with the &s;udden news; For 'twas expected the Dam&s;el had &s;ix weeks longer to go. Home he flees to his Fathers Hou&s;e, to Apologize for concealing the &s;ecreet &s;o long: But his Father (he &s;ayes) was &s;o incen&s;'d, both again&s;t him and Mrs. <HI>Stone,</HI> that he would neither hear, nor believe what they &s;aid; Tho &s;he produc'd a Certificate from the Mini&s;ter that Married her.</P>
<P>Now further know, that the Drs. Wife died &s;ome days only before this fell out; So that immediately the report run through the Coun|try, that the young Gentle-woman, whom all took to be a Virgin; had brought forth a Child to Mr. <HI>Jaques</HI> Son, and that not without &s;trong Pre&s;umption, his Wife was ha&s;tened a little too, early off the &s;tage of this Life. In the mean time Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> fretted, and was ex|ceeding Impatient, till he got the &s;ick Woman turn'd out of Doors: <HI>She was no &s;ooner able to &s;tir about</HI> (&s;ayes the Vind.) <HI>but he requir'd her to be gone.</HI></P>
<P>Now, Pray, tell, wherein Mr. <HI>Kirkwood</HI> faild in his Relation of this affair. Certainly, if in any thing, 'twas, that he comes &s;hort in telling all the Truth. Many things he omits, which might, and ought to be told: Others he qualifies and minces by repre&s;enting them in milder terms, than the matter requires. Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>Let that Woman go,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>He requir'd her to be gone,</HI> &s;ayes the Vind.</P>
<P>This is a &s;trange bu&s;ine&s;s, if &s;ounded to the Bottom. The Dr. confe&s;&s;es he was extreamly faulty, and incon&s;iderate; Guilty of an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Egregious Act of Imprudence and Folly. An Act! A wonderfull Act <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> An Act with &s;o long a train, that no Eye under Heaven can reach its End. 'Tis a continued <HI>Series,</HI> or Concatenation of a Thou&s;and Acts; And all the&s;e perfect lyes, In a word, 'tis a meer <HI>&s;ham;</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y">down right <HI>Impo&s;ture.</HI> The beginning is told us; But where it was to end, GOD alone knows. It was hatch'd at <HI>London,</HI> From thence carried to <HI>York-&s;hire,</HI> where it abode for &s;ometime; Then came into <HI>Scotland,</HI> and &s;ettl'd at <HI>Biggar,</HI> in the wor&s;t place on Earth; In a place, where it was capable to do mo&s;t Hurt.</P>
<P>Me-thinks I &s;ee the Dr. with this young Virgin laughing very heartily together, while alone in a Chamber, con&s;idering how not|ably they cheated all the World, and E&s;pecially the Hone&s;t, Old, Reverend Couple, the Father and Mother. And yet this laughter could not but end with great Anxiety of mind, how to carry when matters came to a Pinch.</P>
<P>Pray, might one &s;ay, Think you the Dr. had a mind to unfold this &s;e|cret to his Parents, &s;ometime before the Maids bringing forth the Child. It &s;eems, No, for certainly the &s;ooner the better. And, &s;ince he did it not any time of the &s;ix Weeks before his Wife fell &s;ick; Nor in the eleven days of her &s;ickne&s;s, nor after her Death; 'Tis highly probable he had no thought to do it at all. It would &s;eem &s;o indeed, but I mu&s;t &s;till a&s;k what they re&s;olv'd to do, when things came to extremity. He and &s;he had &s;ix Weeks, you know, to advi&s;e about that; For according to her Reckoning, layes the Vind. &s;he had &s;o much longer to go. No que&s;tion they had de|termin'd already what to do. But I'm &s;till in the mi&s;t; and therefore you'l excu&s;e me; if I repeat my que&s;tion by asking what cour&s;e, or Method you think, they wou'd have taken, if GOD had not prevented their de&s;ign. That's a Riddle, which I believe <HI>OEdipus</HI> him&s;elf could not unfold to you: But if I may give you my Conjecture, I'm apt to &s;ancy, the Dr. had a mind to carry her to &s;ome &s;ecrect Corner, where &s;he might be ea&s;'d of her Burden. A Doctor you know, can in a &s;trait, act the Mid-wife pretty well. But, Pray, tell me, what they would have done with the innocent little Babe. GOD knows: All, I can &s;ay, is, if it chanc'd to be dead Born, any little hole was &s;ufficient to &s;hut it in. It was but &s; curious Brat, begotten, as the Dr. conceives in Adultery, what matter where it lye. And if it hap|pened to be Born alive, many means, you know, are us'd to convey &s;uch poor <HI>Animals</HI> out of the way. And what next think you, wou'd the Dr. have done. He might then with great freedom return back to his Fathers Hou&s;e with this young Lady, and there get her Married to &s;ome Per&s;on of Honour, or rather take her to him&s;elf? For no que&s;tion her Father (as the Dr. &s;ayes) being an Eminent and Opulent Merchant in <HI>London,</HI> wou'd
<PB N="4" REF="3">not &s;tand to give with his only Daughter, a very con&s;iderable Portion, E&s;|pecially to the Doctor, who had done him and her &s;uch Extraordinary <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Service.</P>
<P>This i&s; duely Con&s;idered, will be found a bu&s;ine&s;s of a mo&s;t horrid Nature: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> by this means the Doctor, or any other Per&s;on, who &s;hould marry this Woman, wou'd live and dye guilty of Adultery: So that at lea&s;t, he is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> and <HI>Part,</HI> as we &s;ay, of that abominable iniquitie, he confe&s;&s;es in his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ind. (we need not cite the Page, there being but 7 in all) that with much difficulty he got this Woman per&s;waded to for&s;ake her Husband, and go with him to <HI>York &s;hire.</HI> He forc'd her to Perjure her &s;elf; and to break that Tie, which God and Nature had made. He forc'd her by his Rhetorick. Cur&s;'d is that Rhetorick, which per&s;wadeth to do wickedne&s;s.</P>
<P>For this he &s;eems to make an Apology, &s;aying, he had promi&s;'d to her Parents to do &s;o and &s;o. Ah! He promi&s;'d to do wickedne&s;s, and mu&s;t he perform it? Surely the Doctor, who is al&s;o a Divine, having once enter'd into that Sacred Function, will teach no &s;uch Doctrine. Nor had the Pa|rents &s;uch power over their Daughter, being now Married, as to force her to leave her Husband, and to go away with another man into a forraign Kingdom.</P>
<P>He further Apologizes thus: <HI>It was found,</HI> &s;ayes he, <HI>that Vanderki&s;tee Cohabited with another Woman, who was reputed his Wife, and by whom he had &s;e|veral Children then Living; and therefore Mr. Stone re&s;olv'd to pur&s;ue for a Divoree. Vanderki&s;tee Cohabited with another Woman, &amp;c.</HI> Pray, where, Doctor? In <HI>Holland,</HI> or <HI>London?</HI> You are &s;ilent in this, as in many other very nece&s;&s;ary Points. 'Tis more than Probable, 'twas not in <HI>London;</HI> For it can hardly be well &s;uppol'd, that a man, e&s;pecially one of &s;o publick Imploy, as they &s;ay he is, <HI>Viz.</HI> a <HI>Mountebank,</HI> who Cohabites with a Woman, that's reputed his Wife, and by whom he has &s;everal Children living, will be &s;o mad, as to marry another Woman in that &s;ame City, it being a Capital Crime &s;o to do. 'Tis therefore more likely 'twas done in <HI>Holland</HI> his Native Country.</P>
<P>The Doctor it &s;eems has a great Veneration for common Fame tho at a good di&s;tance, even beyond Seas in a forraign Nation; and yet Condemns others fortaking notice of &s;uch matters done at their very door. He carries away a mans Wife again&s;t her will, becau&s;e it wastalk'd that her Hus|band had Cohabited with another Woman; as his Wife in a &s;trange Na|tion.</P>
<P>He adds, <HI>that Mr. Stone re&s;olv'd to u&s;e his outmo&s;t Efforts to get-a-Divorce for his Daughter.</HI> Pray, Doctor, has he yet got it? Yea, tell me, if he did ever Commence the Plea? 'Tis &s;trange, if he re&s;olv'd to u&s;e his out mo&s;t
<PB N="5" REF="3">Efforts, as you &s;peak, and yet to this hour, now after many years, has not &s;o much as begun the work. It wou'd &s;eem you have found out a much bet+ter way, to &s;eparate man and Wife, than by a long and expen&s;ive Pur&s;uit in Law. One thing here, Doctor is pretty a&s;toni&s;hing, you will not &s;urely deny, but the Wifes pre&s;ence is ab&s;olutly nece&s;&s;ary at the obtaining a Di|vorce; And yet in the mean time that this is to be had, you carry her out of the way into another Kingdom. Doctor, Doctor; Your tale tells very ill. You'll have hard work to reconcile one thing with another. And be|&s;ides, by this your carriage, you &s;hew your &s;elf to be above Law; For you will not wait, till matters be decided by a Judge, and that in a bu&s;ine&s;s, where|in you are little, or nothing concern'd.</P>
<P>A third Apology, is the Doctors acknowledging his Fault. He confe&s;&s;es that he was <HI>Extreamly faulty and incon&s;iderate in the matter; guilty of an Egregious Act of Imprudence and Folly in not making the thing known to his Parents before the Womans delivery.</HI> He adds, <HI>that be is &s;o far from. Extenating his Crime, that he is willing to Agravate it again&s;t him&s;elf.</HI></P>
<P>May it nor &s;eem very &s;trange to &s;ee a man, who is guilty of &s;everal faults, &s;ome of le&s;s, &s;ome of more heinous a Nature, only troubl'd for a le&s;&s;er fault, but not touch'd with the &s;en&s;e of the more horrid Crimes. There's too ju&s;t ground to &s;u&s;pect the &s;incerity of &s;uch a mans Repentance, even for the le&s;&s;er fault. This truely is the Doctors ca&s;e. He &s;eems &s;orrowfull for what he has done in this Affair Relating to his Parents, which is but a &s;mall fault, when compar'd with the great injury done <HI>Vanderki&s;tre.</HI> Where's his &s;orrow for that? Not one Syllable here relating thereto. Hence the Doctors Repentance is but in part, and by far the more incon&s;iderable. And be&s;ides, we have too great rea&s;on to think, that even this &s;orrow the Doctor &s;eems to have, is at be&s;t but forc'd; For, if Providence had not prevented him, he had run on; God knows, how far.</P>
<P>There's one thing here following, which by far is the mo&s;t a&s;toni&s;hing of <HI>any</HI> in this whole Paper; And gives the greate&s;t Offence to all, that hear the &s;ame. <HI>The Doctor,</HI> &s;aves the Vind. <HI>has ever &s;ince &s;uffer'd, as a puni&s;hment, his Fathers di&s;plea&s;ure, and has been an Exile both from his Favour and pre&s;ence.</HI> Now, think you it not a very &s;trange thing, if the &s;ons Crime be, as is here Repre|&s;ented and he &s;o penitent for it, and mo&s;t willing to fall down on his knees to beg his Fathers pardon; Is it not, we &s;ay, a very &s;trange and Unnatural thing, that the Father, now after many Years will not &s;uffer his &s;on to come into his pre&s;ence, and that tho much pains has been taken by &s;everal Per&s;ons, to Reconcile Father and Son; but all in vain. And certainly never any in the World had more, and &s;tronger motives, pre&s;&s;ing them to be reconcil'd, than <HI>Mr. Jaque</HI> has.</P>
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<P>To pa&s;s that he is a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel, and a man of no &s;mall Natural parts, and one well advanc'd in Years, being above 70 and not only very tend|er and &s;ickly; But is, and has been the&s;e 7 or 8 Moneths before the publi&s;hing of his &s;ons paper, &s;o exceedingly oppre&s;t with &s;everal painfull Di&s;ea&s;es (<HI>Gout</HI> and <HI>Gravel, &amp;c.</HI>) that many alledge he can hardly well recover. To pa&s;s, we &s;ay the&s;e verie weightie Motives to induce the Father to be reconciled with his &s;on, further know, that he is his only Child alive, and being a Profe&s;&s;or of Medicine is thereby in a Capacity to be very &s;erviceable to him in his pre|lent Circum&s;tances. And is it not a cruel and Unnatural thing in a Father ab|&s;olutlie to refu&s;e to admit his only Child into his pre&s;ence; and e&s;pecially now when he is very like to go off the &s;tage of this World, and &s;tep into E|ternity? Now, I &s;ay, when he ought to call for him; And give him his be&s;t advice, and his ble&s;&s;ing before he die. What is this, but as't were to Cur&s;e his &s;on in &s;tead of Ble&s;&s;ing him? Good <HI>Jacoh</HI> did not treat his Sons <HI>Reuben, Simeon</HI> and <HI>Levi</HI> after this manner; Tho the fir&s;t was guilty of Ince&s;t, <HI>Gen:</HI> 35 22. The other two of many cruel Murders, 34.25. Yet this holy man did not bani&s;h the&s;e his Sons out of his Family, And at his Death ble&s;&s;ed them, 40.28. There's one Con&s;ideration, which highly Aggravates Mr. <HI>Jaques</HI> (a riage, <HI>Viz.</HI> That his &s;on goes frequently to his hou&s;e (they both living in <HI>Kel&s;o</HI>) but is never admitted into the &s;ame Room with his dying Father: For know that Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> in time of his &s;ickne&s;s being in an upper Chamber, and his Wife in one below, neither of them for &s;everal Moneths were able to go the one to the other; For &s;he is no le&s;s infirm than he; So that the &s;on has fre|quent acce&s;s to his Mother; But never &s;uffer'd to go in to his Father.</P>
<P>Another very pre&s;&s;ing Motive is, That this unnatural carriage of the Father does much confirm the Report, that went of his Son at <HI>Biggar.</HI></P>
<P>The chief Rea&s;on, why he ought to be reconcil'd, is the great Scandal his Carriage gives to many thou&s;ands of People. And that which exceedingly aggravats this Point, is, That of late he preach'd near a whole Year twice a day upon that Ver&s;e of St. <HI>Luke</HI> 15.24. about the Prodigal. And does it not, think you, give ground of Of|fence &s;o palpably to teach others one thing, and practi&s;e the contrary him&s;elf.</P>
<P>We mu&s;t not here omit to do Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> all the Ju&s;tice that's due him, tho perhaps it will not a little empair his Son's Credit; Nor likely much advance his own Prai&s;e. In &s;hort therefore know, that,
<PB N="7" REF="4">when &s;ome Per&s;ons of good Note were di&s;cour&s;ing with him about his &s;evere Carriage towards his Son, he told them, 'twas not &s;o much for that bu&s;ine&s;s, which fell out at <HI>Biggar,</HI> as for a matter of great|er Con&s;equence, which he would communicat to no per&s;on &s;ave one, and that he had done already.</P>
<P>How here to reconcile the Father's Words with the&s;e of his Son above-mentioned, we can't &s;ee, the one &s;aying their difference is on the account of that bu&s;ine&s;s at <HI>Biggar,</HI> the other for a matter of greater con&s;equence.</P>
<P>We now come to the grand Apology made u&s;e of by the Doctor, the Summ whereof amounts to this; viz: <HI>I'm not,</HI> &s;ayes he, <HI>the Fa|ther of that Child brought forth by Mrs.</HI> Stone <HI>at</HI> Biggar, <HI>becau&s;e &s;he is married to one</HI> Vanderki&s;tee <HI>a</HI> Dutch <HI>Man.</HI></P>
<P>That &s;he is Married, he proves thus. <HI>1mo.</HI> She produc'd a Certi|ficat to Mr. <HI>Jaque,</HI> from the Mini&s;ter that married her. <HI>2do.</HI> Her Father wrote from <HI>London</HI> to Mr. <HI>Jaque,</HI> that &s;he was married to <HI>Van|derki&s;tee. 3tio.</HI> Mr. <HI>Burroughs,</HI> Son in Law to Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> wrote al&s;o to him from <HI>London,</HI> that he hear'd out of <HI>Vanderki&s;tee</HI>'s own Mouth, that he was Lawfully Married to her, and had bedded with her.</P>
<P>To pa&s;s here, that &s;ingle Letters about Matters of this kind from remote places, are often found meer Cheats and Lies, e&s;pecially coming from per&s;ons &s;o much Intere&s;&s;ed; We &s;ay, that Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> ought not to &s;it Judge in &s;uch a Cau&s;e relating to his Son: He was not to determine, whether the&s;e Letters were &s;ufficient Evidences of the matter under debate, or not.</P>
<P>But let us grant all that's crav'd, and &s;uppo&s;e, that Mrs. <HI>Stone,</HI> is Lawful|ly married to <HI>Vanderki&s;tee, &amp;c.</HI> It will not hence follow, that the Dr. is free, as he pretends, of any Crime, except that Act of Imprudence and Folly, (as he calls it) in not making known to his Parents, Mrs. <HI>Stone</HI>'s Circum, &s;tances before her delivery. That's indeed an in&s;tance of great Folly; Yet no real injury is thereby done to any per&s;on, only a great offence given to all that hear thereof. But be&s;ides this Scandal, there is horrid iniquity and inju&s;tice committed in this matter, And that, which highly aggravates the Crime, is, that the injury is irrepairable. Pray, good Dr. (to pa&s;s that 'tis a mo&s;t Heinous Crime, to per&s;wade a young Dam&s;el to perjure her &s;elf)
<PB N="8" REF="5" MS="y">In &s;ober earne&s;t let me a&s;k, if you think it not a very great Act of inju&s;tice, to carry away a Mans Wite &s;ome few days after Marriage, into a Forraign Nation, to a place 3 or 400 Miles di&s;tant. If you take away a Mans Hor&s;s, or Pur&s;s, he may get you hang'd for your pains, tho you offer to repair the Damnage. What mu&s;t it then be to take away a Mans Wife, being that which is deare&s;t and neare&s;t to him of any thing in this World; And the lo&s;s altogether irrepairable. Be ingenuous, I &s;ay: Would you contented|ly have &s;uffer'd this of another Per&s;on. Suppo&s;e <HI>Vanderki&s;tee</HI> had entic'd your Wife three or four days after Marriage, to go with him to a Forraign Kingdom, and kept her there till &s;he brought forth her fir&s;t Born; Pray, good Dr. tell me freely, what thoughts you wou'd have had of him in &s;uch &s;trange Circum&s;tances. What wou'd you have &s;aid to him, if he had been ca&s;t in your way; Or rather, what wou'd you have done to him, if you'd had &s;uch an opportunitie, as you could wi&s;h. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">urclie You'l &s;ay (if you have but one dram of ingenuity) that cudgelling in the &s;evere&s;t manner imaginable, is too too &s;lender a puni&s;hment for &s;o Heinous a Crime, Yea, that tho you pur&s;ued him to death by the Hand of Ju&s;tice, he wou'd get but what he de&s;erv'd.</P>
<P>I know very well, Dr. you'l tell me; That I'm &s;uppo&s;ing all alongs that which is not; That I &s;peak, as if you had been too too familiar with Madam <HI>Vanderki&s;tee;</HI> Whereas you never once had a thought tending that way. Doctor, I mu&s;t freely tell you, that what you &s;ay, is no le&s;s ab&s;urd. and Ridiculous, than if you &s;hould carry away your Neighbours Mare 3 or 4 Miles, and when you are challeng'd, to tell him, you never once laid your Leg over her, Be&s;ides Dr. what if he in the <HI>Interim,</HI> having u&s;e of his Mare broake into &s;ome Bodies Park, and there took the Readie&s;t? Certainly you are a Sharer in his Wickedne&s;s, and if one of you mu&s;t hang, far rather you, than he. You pretend. you are altogether Innocent as to this particular, and will have the World to believe 'tis &s;o and that upon your &s;imple word, in oppo&s;ition to the &s;tronge&s;t pre&s;umptions almo&s;t can be. Doctor, We have a good old <HI>Scots Proverb,</HI> very applicable to your Ca&s;e.</P>
<Q><L>If you do no Ill, do not Ill-like;</L>
<L>If you &s;teal not my Kail, break not my Dyke.</L></Q>
<P>I dare not, nor will I &s;ay, you are &s;urely guilty as to this Point; Yet I mu&s;t be &s;o free, as to tell you plainly that, which ten thou&s;and
<PB N="9" REF="5">think, <HI>Viz.</HI> They &s;ee not wherein they tran&s;gre&s;s the Bounds of Chi&s;tian Charity, th&ocirc; they have thoughts quite differing from what you pretend to in this Matter. They &s;ee you but a Man, and that a Young Man, made up of Fle&s;h and Blood like them&s;elves. They find al&s;o the Gentle-woman forward enough that way, el&s;e &s;he had not behav'd, as &s;he has done without her Parents Con&s;ent: And hav|ing once, you know, travelled that Road, &s;he would with the great|er freedom go it over again.</P>
<P>I need not tell you, Doctor, what a mighty Temptation Oppor|tunity is; And this you had in an eminent manner a thou&s;and times. Be&s;ides, 'tis &s;afe Fi&s;hing, as we &s;ay, in drumly waters. There was no fear, &s;uch underhand dealling &s;hould appear above Board.</P>
<P>Nor will it &s;atisfie a con&s;idering per&s;on to &s;ay, you had Work e|nough to do at home. Alas, &s;ee we not too too many going abroad, when it were fitter, they &s;hould be employed within their own doors.</P>
<P>But I know <HI>Topical</HI> Arguments are of no Force with tho&s;e, who think their bare word &s;hould pa&s;s for a <HI>Demon&s;tration,</HI> which is all the Doctor can pretend to in this, and many other Points of his Paper.</P>
<P>We &s;hall leave off to &s;tart any more Que&s;tions, th&ocirc; hundreds all a|longs this Paper offer them&s;elves very appo&s;itely to our Con&s;iderati|on, and come to &s;ome other Things of greater Moment, at lea&s;t more pertinent to our pre&s;ent purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t, We appeal to any indifferent, and unbya&s;&s;ed Per&s;on, that will &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider this whole Affair, with all its various Cir|cum&s;tances, whether or not Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> acted like him&s;elf in requir|ing that Woman to be gone, who in &s;uch a Surprize brought forth a Child in his own Hou&s;e to his own Son, as the common report went? Was it not, we &s;ay, his Duty, as a Chri&s;tian, much more as a Mi|ni&s;ter of the Go&s;pel in that place, and Father to the Per&s;on &s;o calum|niated by common Fame, as is pretended, to have vindicated him in a legal manner from the&s;e horrid A&s;per&s;ions, that went up and down the whole Country of him. And if it was his Duty &s;o to do, no per|&s;on ought to blame Mr. <HI>Kirkwood</HI> for what he &s;ayes in his Book re|lating to this Affair.</P>
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<P>As to other things in this Paper, 'tis needle&s;s to be at much pains to give them any return, mo&s;t of them being altogether impertinent, others in &s;o general and ambiguous term: that the be&s;t An&s;wer is a flat Denyal; Some not only gro&s;s Fal&s;hoods, but manife&s;t Lies; And in not a few one may very well grant the Premi&s;&s;es, and yet deny the <HI>Inference:</HI> We need not travel far into it to find out In&s;tances. Lo, one in its very Front. The words are, <HI>The like of Mr.</HI> K<HI>'s. Pamph|let, all things being con&s;idered, was never writen in any Language by any Per&s;wa&s;ion, being both Prophane, Bla&s;phemous, and Ob&s;cene.</HI> We may &s;afely grant you, that never before this time &s;uch a Book was writen; Becau&s;e never any per&s;on had &s;uch an Occa&s;ion, or &s;uch a Subject to write on: Never, we &s;ay, was &s;uch a Judicature on Earth, and acted &s;uch things, as that, which &s;at at <HI>Kel&s;o</HI> 24. <HI>September</HI> 1695. Of which at large from the 8. <HI>Sect.</HI> to the 22, <HI>Part</HI> 3.</P>
<P>We &s;hall al&s;o confe&s;s, that there are &s;ome Words in Mr. <HI>Kirkwood</HI>'s Book, which may give Offence to a Mode&s;t Ear, and therefore may be called Prophane, or Ob&s;cene, (for both the&s;e words may pa&s;s here, as one, th&ocirc; the Doctor makes a difference by interpo&s;ing a third, and that without any ground) Yet we po&s;itively a&s;&s;ert, that Mr. <HI>Jaque</HI> and his Elders are ju&s;tly blameable upon that head, and not Mr. <HI>Kirkwood.</HI> They mo&s;t fal&s;ly in&s;erted the&s;e words into his Libel, and have recorded them in all the Regi&s;ters of the Kirk of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and publi&s;h'd them by Word and Write, far and wide, through the Kingdom to di&s;grace him; And may not he repeat their Words for his own Vindication?</P>
<P>And further know, that it were very ea&s;ie, were we not ha&s;tening to a clo&s;e, to &s;hew you from this Paper a va&s;t number of abominable Lies: But we &s;hall content our &s;elves with this one, which may well pa&s;s mu&s;ter for all the re&s;t. The Doctor's words are, <HI>The Honourable, Pious, and Learn'd Nobility and Gentry of this Ancient Kingdom, who favour the Church Judicatures with their pre&s;ence and a&s;&s;i&s;tance as Ruling Elders, are not exempted from Mr.</HI> K<HI>'s. &s;evere and fal&s;e Cen&s;ures of Par|tiality, Inju&s;tice, Envy, Malice, Ignorance and Fal&s;hood.</HI></P>
<P>Now know, that the very contrary is again and again repeated in
<PB N="11" REF="6" MS="y">his Book; And that not tran&s;ciently, or by the by; But brought in as 't<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">re with an OES in expre&s;s Terms, prefixing to it a Title, viz. <HI>A nece&s;&s;ary Caution,</HI> Page 79. <HI>Pray,</HI> &s;ayes Mr. Kirkwood, <HI>do not mi&s;|take us, as if we were charging ALL the Members of the Syond as guilty of the above-mentioned Crimes, No, No: We are far from that. ALL the Worthie Gentle men, Sir</HI> John Home, <HI>Sir</HI> John Pringle, <HI>and others, with a good Number of the People, did what lay in their power to &s;top the Carrier of the furious multitude, but were not able; E&s;pecially, when it came to a Vote, where a</HI> Dunce <HI>can do as much as much as a</HI> Solomon. And page 128. are the&s;e words; <HI>As to the many Honourable and Wor|thy Gentlemen, the Ruling Elders, Mr.</HI> Kirkwood <HI>here declares them al|together Innocent, and free of having any hand in the Sentence pa&s;t again&s;t him.</HI></P>
<P>Yea, how frequently in his Book does he lament and bemoan his &s;ad misfortune, that Gentlemen &s;at not his Judges, page 49. <HI>We mu&s;t not here omit</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>to tell you, that we are far from a&s;cribing the&s;e wild and exorbitant Actings to every Member of the Committee. No, No, Not to the half of them. The&s;e Worthie Gentle-men above nam'd, would certalnly have abhor'd to &s;it among&s;t the Actors of &s;uch gro&s;s Enormities. Alas! alas!</HI> (he adds) <HI>It has been Mr.</HI> Kirkwood's <HI>great Misfortune, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hat Gentle-men kept not Diets: Many never came, and &s;ome very &s;eldom.</HI></P>
<P>Now, good Reader, do you not think the Doctor has been be|witch'd; At lea&s;t hudgely demented and blinded with the Pa&s;&s;ions of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">xce&s;&s;ive Malice, Envy, Revenge, and &s;uch like Prejudices, which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ave in&s;tigated him to write again&s;t the very Light of the Sun at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oon-tide? By this one In&s;tance you may conjecture, what kind of Paper the Doctors is, if duely compar'd with Mr. <HI>Kirkwood</HI>'s Book.</P>
<P>To conclude; The&s;e mo&s;t &s;currilous, affected, and bomba&s;t words, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">herewith the Doctor's Paper is, as 'twere cram'd, viz. <HI>The Crazie|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">eaded Pamphleter; The Vacuum of his Cholerick Brain; He has the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ickets in his Under&s;tanding,</HI> &amp;c. de&s;erves no An&s;wer, except to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ught at, or retorted upon him&s;elf with far greater Rea&s;on, than he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> a mo&s;t malicious manner would throw them upon another. Such <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ords may perhaps amu&s;e the Vulgar Reader, who&s;e capacity &s;el|dom
<PB N="12" REF="7" MS="y">reaches further, than the out-&s;ide of things; But Men of Un|der&s;tanding, who can di&s;cern the true U&s;e and Importance of words, will laugh at &s;uch &s;illy, empty, and frivolous <HI>Notions</HI> and <HI>Chimera's</HI> of a Pedantick Mountebank, and not the grave Expre&s;&s;ions of a Learn|ed and Skilful Profe&s;&s;or of Medicine: For in effect, who&s;oever &s;hall narrowly con&s;ider this whole Affair, will palpably &s;ee that the Doctors Intellectuals are mighty &s;hallow, if we may judge of the Tree by its Fruit: So that upon ju&s;t Ground it may be &s;aid, that he not olny has the Rickets in his di&s;torted and decrepit body in a very eminent man|ner; But that they are flown up into his empty brain, and there have begot &s;uch a &s;trange <HI>Vertigo</HI> or Giddine&s;s in his Noddle, that it made him run round two Kingdoms with another Man's Wife hanging by his tail, giving out to all per&s;ons whether&s;oever he went, that &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> was a Cha&s;te and Pure Virgin.</P>
<P>The Doctor concludes with this old Saying, <HI>Quos Deus vult perde|re, prius dementat,</HI> applying it to Mr. <HI>Kirkwood:</HI> But with his leave he may upon better Ground take it to him&s;elf; &s;ince he openly ac|knowledges, that he is guilty of the height of Imprudence and Folly&punc; And that not in a &s;ingle Act, or two, but in a long continued <HI>Serie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> of a va&s;t number of various kinds of mo&s;t horrid and wicked deed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> amounting to no le&s;s, (in the Sen&s;e and Judgement of his old Father than that unpardonable Sin again&s;t the HOLY GHOST: So tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> GOD, it &s;eems, has quite robb'd him of all his Intellectual Facultie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> leaving him nothing in their Room, but a <HI>Chimerical Vacuum,</HI> (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> u&s;e his own word) as a fit Receptacle for all &s;orts of malign Spirits&punc; For certainly no good Quality can lodge with exce&s;&s;ive Folly an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Imprudence, if we may apply with a little Variation, that Saying <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the Morali&s;t.</P>
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