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<HEAD><HI>A SERMON</HI> Prerched by Mr. <HI>James Row,</HI> &s;ometime Mini&s;ter at <HI>Strowan,</HI> in St. <HI>Geilles</HI> Kirk at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> which has been commonly known by the Name of <HI>Pockmanty Preaching.</HI></HEAD>
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<BIBL><HI>Jeremiah</HI> Chap. 30. Ver&s;e 17.</BIBL>
<Q>For I will re&s;tore health to thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, &s;aith the LORD, becau&s;e they called thee an Out-ca&s;t, &s;aying, This is Zion whom no Man &s;eeketh after.</Q>
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<P>I Need not trouble you much who is meant by <HI>Zion</HI> here, ye all ken it, it is the poor Kirk of <HI>Scotland,</HI> for the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> is wounde<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> her <HI>Head,</HI> in her <HI>Hands,</HI> in her <HI>Feet,</HI> and in her <HI>Heart.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t</HI> in her <HI>Head</HI> in the Government. 2dly. In her <HI>Hands,</HI> in the Di&s;cipline. 3dly. In her <HI>Heart,</HI> as in the Doctrine. 4thly. In her <HI>Feet,</HI> as in the Wor&s;hip.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> The Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> is wounded in her <HI>Head,</HI> &s;he has gotten &s;ik a Cla&s;h in her <HI>Head,</HI> as has gart all her Harns jaap, and her Sen&s;es, that is, her Sen&s;e of Seeing; for the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> wald a &s;een als well as any <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;tian Kirk</HI> in the wyd Warld, but now &s;he cannot di&s;tingui&s;h between whyt and black; For bring but Pepery before her, and &s;he cannot di&s;cern between that and the true Religion.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> She is wounded in her Hearing: The Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> could a Heard and Di&s;tingui&s;h|ed, out &s;en the Organs were brought in, &s;he has grown as Deaff as a Door-Nail.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> The Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> coud a &s;in<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> as well as any Kirk in the Warld, but the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> is
<PB REF="2" MS="y">of <HI>Rome</HI> &s;melt &s;o &s;trangly, that &s;he could a ta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> you, &s;he &s;mell'd of the Whore of <HI>Babel;</HI> Bu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> now bring the &s;tinkene&s;t Pepery to the Kirk <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Scotland,</HI> and it will &s;mell to her as &s;weet as a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Apple: Now poor Spectacle! ye have &s;een he<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Hands,</HI> and her &s;are <HI>Legs;</HI> A wofull Object pity her if ye will: What &s;ay ye to the Cureing of her Sen&s;es; but &s;ome will tell, &s;he is in as good a Ca&s;e as ever &s;he was. I'le tell you how &s;ae,</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> The Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;ees better than e+ver &s;he did before; the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;ay her Mini&s;ters in good little &s;hort Cloaks, wi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> black Velvet Necks, and their little Cloa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> turned mae Sauls to God, nor ever the Ia<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters"> Gowns did; but ye &s;hall &s;ee the Prydful Prelats harled up and down the Town in Co<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">s, as in as many muck Carts; that is a bra &s;ight indeed.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> The Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> Ta&s;tes better then ever &s;he did, and how &s;ae? I'le tell you, a good Mini&s;ter wald a been content of a Di&s;h of plain Milk and Bread, humble Meat indeed, but our Prelats now, will have a Lick of the be&s;t o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> it: So ye &s;ee the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> Ta&s;tes bet|ter then ever &s;he did, and I have done with h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Sen&s;es.</P>
<P>Now, I'le tell you, how &s;he is wounded in he<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Hands,</HI> and that I call the Di&s;cipline of the Kirk. For,</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> They fflichtered the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> ye ken well they u&s;e to flighter Theives and Runaways; the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> was baith.</P>
<P N="1">1&s;t. She was a Runaway, and that was the Glorious time of Reformation, when &s;he came <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lear awa fra <HI>Rome,</HI> and hard did they follow <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er, and fain wald they been at her, but and
<PB REF="2" MS="y">they had gotten their will, &s;he wald a been &s;ure of her Ladetties, or to &s;peak more plainly of her Dichells, but God be thanked they did not oretake her.</P>
<P N="2">2dly. The Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> is a Theif, alas &s;he has gane to <HI>Rome,</HI> and has &s;town awa the Tra&s;h and Trumpery, as the Books of <HI>Common Prayer and Cannons,</HI> wallawa! But what trou ye &s;he is flichterd with, but with a Silken Threed and a Cannonical Obedience to their Ordinary, and wow but we have taken great delight to be bound: We had once a bonny Kirk, but after they got us fa&s;t, they made the &s;ilken Threed a Cable-Tow, with which they girded us &s;o fa&s;t that we could not &s;ae much as fidge, but either we mu&s;t run into the Danger of blind Obedience on the one &s;ide, to accept of all Idolatry and Super&s;ti|tious Cerimonies they impo&s;ed on us, or on the the other hand, be Men&s;worn Men; Na, the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> is &s;ae wounded in her <HI>Hands,</HI> that thir Twenty Years bygane, &s;he coud not make her Hummock in a cald day, for the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> thir Twenty Years bygane, coud not have a Meeting in a Lawful A&s;&s;embly; and &s;o I have done with her <HI>Hands:</HI> Now I come to tell you how, how &s;he is wounded in her <HI>Feet;</HI> and that I call the Wor&s;hip of the Kirk of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>The Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> was a bonny trotting Naig, but then &s;he ttotted &s;ae hard, that never a Man dur&s;t rid her, but the Bi&s;hops, wha after they gat on on her Back, Cor&s;s langed her and Hap&s;hackled her, and when &s;he became a bonny pacing Bea&s;t, they took great plea&s;ure to Ride on her, but their Cadging her up and down from <HI>Edinburgh</HI> to <HI>London,</HI> and it may be from <HI>Rome</HI>
<PB REF="3" MS="y">too, gave her &s;ik a het Coat, that we have the&s;e Twelve Months bygane been &s;tirring her up and down to keep her faae foundying; Yea, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> made not only a Hor&s;e but an A&s;s of the Kirk <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Scotland:</HI> How &s;ae quo ye? what mean ye b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> this? I'le tell you how, they made <HI>Balaams</HI> A<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of her, ye ken well enough, <HI>Balaam</HI> was go<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> an unluckie gait, and fir&s;t the Angel met <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> in a broad way, and then the A&s;s bogled <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;tartled, but <HI>Balaam</HI> got by the Angel, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> her and Battand her &s;ufficiently, that was wh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Epi&s;copacy came in, and then they gave th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> her Paiks; Afterward <HI>Bala<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> met the Angel in a &s;trait gait, and then &s;he &s;tar<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+led more then before; but <HI>Balaam</HI> till her <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> gain and whaked her &s;oundly, that, was whe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the five Articles of <HI>Perth</HI> were brought in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">&punc; The third time the Angel met <HI>Balaam</HI> in fa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;trait a gait, that the A&s;s could not win by; and then it plea&s;ed the LORD to open blind <HI>Balaams</HI> Eyes, and that is this happy days wark: Now GOD has opened all our Eyes, we were like blind <HI>Balaam,</HI> ganging an unluckie gait and Riding po&s;t to <HI>Rome,</HI> and what was gotten behind him upon the A&s;s, wat ye? I'le tell you, there was a Pockmanty; And what was in it trou ye? but the Book of Cannons and of Com|mon Prayer, and the High Commi&s;&s;ion; But as &s;oon as the A&s;s &s;ees the Angel, &s;he falls a fling|ing and a plunging, and oregangs the Pockmanty, and it hings by the &s;tring on the one &s;ide, and aff-gaes blind <HI>Balaam,</HI> and he hings by the Hough on the other &s;ide; and fain wald the Carle been on the Sadle again, and been con|tent to leave his Pockmanty. But Beloved, let
<PB REF="3" MS="y">not the fal&s;e Swingour get on again, for if he get on agai<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> he will be &s;ure to get on his Pock man|ty al&s;o.</P>
<P>The 4th Wound the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> got was in her <HI>Heart,</HI> and that I tald you was the Doct|rine of the Kirk of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and that is <HI>Peperie</HI> and <HI>Ariniani&s;m,</HI> whilk is &s;ae ryfe in our Schools and Kirks; ney, are there not &s;ome of you that are &s;iting here and hears me, wha wald not a wi&s;ht your &s;elves a Hundred times to a been out of the Kirk, when ye heard the <HI>Peltrie Stuff</HI> that came frae them. Ye have heard many times Brethren (Compared together) the Kirk and our Lord Je&s;us, for he is the Head, and the Kirk is the Body, and that our Saviour ere he enter|ed the Mini&s;try he was carryed by <HI>Luciter</HI> (God &s;ave us) to the Wilderne&s;s where he was Temp|ted of the <HI>Meikle Devil,</HI> then he was Rejected and let light of by all; But as &s;oon as he began to work his Miracles, he was carried up to <HI>Je|ru&s;alem</HI> in Triumph, there was nothing in their Mouths then, but <HI>Ho&s;anna's, Ble&s;t is he that comes in the Name of the Lord,</HI> but the next News that they heard, in they came with <HI>Halbarts</HI> and <HI>Jothard Stalves</HI> frac the High Prei&s;t to appre|hend him; ju&s;t &s;ae is it with the Poor Kirk of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> for this year bygain &s;he has &s;itten De&s;olate and in the Wilderne&s;s cotemned, nothing cared for by man, and now is the Glorious Day, &s;he is Rydding in Triumph to <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> now there is nothing in all Mouths but <HI>Ho&s;anna's,</HI> but take heed when they come with <HI>Swords</HI> and <HI>Stalves</HI> frae the Hight Prie&s;t, that &s;ome do not with <HI>Peter</HI> &s;haw a pair of Heels and for&s;ake her.</P>
<P>They have not only made an A&s;s of the Kirk
<PB REF="4" MS="y">of <HI>Scotland</HI> but they have betrayed her, ye h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> wha betrayed our Saviour, they betrayed hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> that were &s;ilent in &s;ae good a Cau&s;e, they b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+trayed him that accu&s;ed him, that Judged him they betrayed him that for&s;ook him; but whe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> will ye find the fal&s;e <HI>Judas</HI> all the while? an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> now I'le tell you a Tale, I dar not &s;ay it is tru<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> but ye &s;hall have it as I have it; When I w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> little Boy at the School, there was a Hop<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> Theologue, wha is now na &s;mall Man in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Land, and being to Preach the very &s;ame Wor<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Judas, What will ye give me and I will betr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> him?</HI> The young Man Learned his Text &s;ae w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> that he could a tald it baith in <HI>Latine</HI> and <HI>Sc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> Quid mihi dabitis &amp; ego Tradum illum?</HI> what w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> ye give me and I will betray him? There was <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Good-man Sitting at the Foot of the Poupit, was &s;tanding up looking in his Face, &s;aid, Marie <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> give you a good Fat Bi&s;hoprick, and then I a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;ure ye will betray him, &s;ay ye &s;ae; Wha ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Betrayed the Kirk of <HI>Scotland?</HI> I need not te<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> you, but the Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> was once an <HI>Bo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+nie Kirk</HI> and a <HI>Bonnie Gramar School,</HI> and well <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> wat, &s;he had Skill in <HI>Regimen &amp; Concordenti<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and could a made a peice of <HI>Bonnie Latine,</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> for every thing &s;he was forced to <HI>da Regula<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> and when &s;he offended &s;he was &s;ure of <HI>pan<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Manum;</HI> But afterwards when &s;he went to the College &s;he had mair Liberty, and fir&s;t of all &s;he began to <HI>Rhetorick,</HI> but in&s;tead of proper &s;peaking &s;he Learned nothing but <HI>Hyperboles</HI> and <HI>Allegories,</HI> then &s;he came into the <HI>Logick,</HI> and in &s;tead of <HI>true Demon&s;trations</HI> &s;he Learned nothing but <HI>Homonimaes</HI> and <HI>Captious Sylogi&s;ms,</HI> after|wards &s;he came to <HI>Aethicks,</HI> but &s;he did not
<PB REF="4" MS="y">trouble her &s;elf meikle with them, but Studied the <HI>Politicks,</HI> and that &s;ae well, that &s;he turned all Religion into <HI>Meer flat Policy:</HI> for Metaphy|&s;icks &s;he kens they are Ens, and that mu&s;t be <HI>unum, verum, bonum,</HI> and that all the&s;e three mu&s;t be in true Religious, but this was too high a Theme for her, wherefore &s;he &s;tudied more the <HI>Phy&s;icks</HI> and turned all into <HI>Materia prima,</HI> and made it &s;elf Capable of any Form they plea&s;ed to Impo&s;e upon us.</P>
<P>After he had done with Sermon and Prayer, then &s;tood he up to give the Ble&s;&s;ing, and there|after &s;aid as follows.<LB>
<Q>I ken well enough it is not the Fa&s;hion of this place to Speak any thing after Prayer, but becau&s;e I had meikle to &s;ay, and one thing dang another out of my <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ead, wherefore I mu&s;t beg Leave to add a Word or twa.</Q></P>
<P>AND fir&s;t of all, I will &s;peak to you who are the Members of the <HI>College of Ju&s;tice,</HI> and why I pray you, will not ye Sub&s;crive the Co|venant? ye will &s;ay to me, ye are Imployed by His Maje&s;ty in &s;ome &s;pecial Affairs, and you cannot with your Honour Sub&s;crive the Covenant; This is a bra An&s;wer indeed, there is not the Meane&s;t Man that gathers up Twenty Merks for the King <HI>per Annum,</HI> but may have this Hole to go out at, then we &s;hall have a bra Sub&s;criving, yea, yea, there is but one Man between God and you, get by that Man, and get to God.</P>
<P>And in the &s;econd place, Why do not ye No|blemen Sub&s;crive the Covenant? ye will &s;ay <HI>noli me tangere,</HI> How&s;oever I'le give you a Touch, It may be you will be put to it, ye will fay, we mu&s;t Ride in Parliament Order, the mean|e&s;t
<PB REF="5" MS="y">man mu&s;t go foremo&s;t and Sub&s;crive the C<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+venant, and then we will come after, that i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> bra An&s;wer indeed, you have a Fa&s;hion in t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">uth</HI> part of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that wh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n ye come to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Foord, the Jackman mu&s;t venter over fir&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+pon his weak weary Naig, and if he can go an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> come back again, then up comes the Laird mounted on his Stately Steed and over goes <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> this is no Right, But we that are <HI>Highlanders</HI> have a better Fa&s;hon, for we u&s;ually come <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n Foot, and when we come to the Foord we ar<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> loth to leave a Man; therefore we join Ox&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> to Ox&s;ter, and Arm to Arm, and Loups al<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">+gether in the Foord, and if one Drown all Drowns even &s;o here, &s;et your Hands to the Covenant, and if an peri&s;h, let all peri&s;h.</P>
<P>Now, I'le &s;peake a word to you of the Town of <HI>Edinburgh;</HI> and albeit I &s;ee two of your Chief Chayrs empty, yet have at you; And why do you not &s;ub&s;crive the Covenant? It may be you will &s;ay, ye are in Office now, &s;tay till the next Year till your Office be out, then ye will &s;ub&s;crive the Covenant; That is a bra An|&s;wer indeed, it may be God will get this wark done ere the next Year: What will your Thanks be then? get your Clerk Regi&s;ter and look over your Rolls, and &s;ee if ever the Town of <HI>Edin|burg</HI> &s;uffered for joining with the Kirk of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Last of all, I have a mind to Speak a Word to you who are Strangers, and then Turning him&s;elf about to the place where the Provei&s;t and Baillies of</HI> Aberdeen <HI>Sat; And what is the rea&s;on ye &s;ub&s;crive not the Covenant? It may be ye will &s;ay, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e came here about your Civil Affairs; and when ye came out <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e re|&s;olved not to Sub&s;crive the Covenant, will re take my Advice. I &s;ay <HI>Abvrdeens-men</HI> will you take your Word again, and go home and Drink the <HI>Cup of Bon <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ccord,</HI> and join to the Kirk of <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">otland</HI> and &s;ub&s;crive the Covenant, and &s;o farewell.</HI></P>
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