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<P>A True and Exact COPY OF A PRODIGIOUS and TRAITEROUS LIBEL, Affixt upon the Church-door of <HI>Kettle,</HI> in <HI>Fife,</HI> the third of this in&s;tant, being <HI>Ea&s;ter|day;</HI> written and &s;ub&s;cribed by <HI>James Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> one of tho&s;e bloody and Sa|crilegious Murtherers of the late Lord Primate of <HI>Scotland,</HI> his Grace.</P>
<P><HI>Publi&s;hed by Authority, for the &s;atisfaction and information of all His Majesties Loyal and dutiful Subjects.</HI></P>
<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH.</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His Mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1681.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>eighteenth day of</HI> April, 1681.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>VEra Copia</HI> collationed with the Original, (all written and &s;igned by this execrable Murtherer his own Hand) which is kept a|mong&s;t the Records of His Maje&s;ties Privy Coun|cil; and atte&s;ted by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>WILL PATERSON,</HI> Cl. Sti. Concilij. <HI>and PAT MENZIES.</HI> Cl. Sti. Concilij.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A True and Exact COPY OF A PRODIGIOUS and TRAITEROUS LIBEL <HI>Affixt upon the Church-door of</HI> Kettle <HI>in</HI> Fife, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>BE it kend to all men, That whereas the&s;e who were once lawful Magi&s;trats and Rulers, and were exerci&s;ing their power, in oppo&s;ition to all the Enemies of God, and were a terrour to allevil doers, are now become Tyrants and Land judge|ments, and Murderers of all the&s;e who departs from iniquity, and who are jeoparding their lives every day for maintaining and pro|moving of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t and the true <HI>Presbyterian Govern|ment,</HI> which the three Kingdoms &s;wore oftner nor once or twice to maintain with their lives and liberties, which Oaths they have all now broken, and have taken new Oaths contrair to the word of God, in oppo&s;ition to their former Oaths and Ingagements, by the which doing, they have overturned the whole Government, Civil and Eccle&s;ia&s;tick, and having made butcheries and havock of all the truly Godly, and Loyal and true Subjects of the Land, and rai&s;ed &s;uch Per&s;ecution, that I was forced to flee the Country; and I hearing tell that my Mother, and others who medled with my Affairs, were &s;till paying the Few Duty (which properly belongs to the Crown of <HI>Scotland</HI>) and Se&s;s, which that Tyrant cau&s;es up|lift for the bearing down the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t, and for maintain|ing the&s;e Butcherers, Troopers and Souldiers, and was paying that Teind which properly belongs to the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t, to Mr. <HI>John Barkley,</HI> who is both a thief and a robber; by the paying of which, they acknowledge <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> to be a law|ful Magi&s;trate, and Mr. <HI>John Barkley</HI> to be a Mini&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, which is bla&s;phemy to &s;ay, as I &s;hall prove afterwards; and after &s;everal times writing to my Mother, and &s;ome others who pretend|ed kindne&s;s to me, &s;hewing the great &s;in that we were involved in, by owning any of the&s;e Tyrants any manner of way, and ear|ne&s;tly de&s;iring her to forbear and not to own them any manner of way directly or indirectly, but rather to &s;uffer the outmo&s;t of ha|zard, than to &s;in again&s;t God by &s;trengthning the hands of the
<PB N="4" REF="3">&s;tated and avowed enemies of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who is King, and alone Head of his Church; but my writing being to no purpo&s;e, and I being convinced of the greatne&s;s of this &s;in, and the hei|nous aggravations thereof, and the Judgements that would follow, if repentance prevented not, and being exerci&s;ed for a long time, about what way to take for exoneration of my con&s;cience before God and the World, and a te&s;timony again&s;t all others who does go on in that &s;in, the clear conviction of the indi&s;pen&s;iblene&s;s of this my duty, I have now re&s;olved through the grace of God, be the outward hazard what&s;omever, to write thir two or three Lines, and cau&s;e put it on the Kirk-door of <HI>Kettle,</HI> being the mo&s;t publick place, as my te&s;timony again&s;t all the wrongs and injuries done to my &s;weet Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>As I do own and declare before God and the World, that Magi&s;tracie is an ordinance of God, &s;o I di&s;own and declare, that Tyranny is not of God, and &s;o in oppo&s;ition to God, and &s;o again&s;t God, and therefore cannot be of God: and <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> being once made King of <HI>Scotland,</HI> upon condition that he &s;hould keep the&s;e Covenants, and rule according to the&s;e Covenants, and the Covenants being the Coronation Oath, which Oath he has broken, and cau&s;ed burn the&s;e Covenants (which was the contract and Co|venant betwixt him and the people) by the hands of the Hangman, by the burning of which Covenant, he has forfaulted his right of the Crown and Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and is no more a King, but is become a Tyrant; therefore the people is loo&s;ed from all obliga|tions and ties as to him. <HI>Buchannan</HI> acknowledges and &s;ayes, <HI>When the King breaks the Contract and Covenant that was betwixt Him and the people, and doth contrair to that He covenanted to do, whatever Right or Privileage did belong to Him by that Agreement &amp; Covenant, is then lost.</HI> Likewi&s;e he &s;aith, <HI>When a King does tho&s;e things which are directly for the di&s;&s;olution of Society for the continuance where|of He was created, He is a Tyrant.</HI> Other Loyali&s;ts acknowledge and &s;ay, <HI>When a King overturns one of the Fundamental Laws, He is no more a King, but a Tyrant.</HI>
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<ITEM>2. They &s;ay, <HI>When a &s;upream Magi&s;trate maketh u&s;e of a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> ab&s;olute power, and &s;o breaketh all Bonds for the good of the main Society, He is a Tyrant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. They &s;ay, <HI>When He taketh from one or more members of the Common-wealth, free ex|erci&s;e of the Orthodox Clergie or Religion, He is a Tyrant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. They &s;ay, <HI>When a King doth not defend His Subjects from injuries, when he may, but &s;uffereth them to be oppre&s;&s;ed, He is no more a King, but a Tyrant:</HI> (And much more when he oppre&s;&s;es them and mur|ders them him&s;elf, as <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> does.)</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. They &s;ay, <HI>VVhen a King oppre&s;&s;es the Subjects by immoderate exactions, and hindereth the free &s;uffrages of Members of Parliament, &s;o that they dare not &s;peak what they would, He is a Tyrant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6. They &s;ay, <HI>When He taketh away from the people all power to re&s;i&s;t His Tyrany, as Arms, Strengths, and chief men though innocent, he per&s;ecuteth and exhau&s;ts their goods without right or rea&s;on, He is a Tyrant.</HI></ITEM>
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<PB N="5" REF="3">and other Play-hou&s;es, and &s;uffers the Colledges, and other Seminaries of Learning to be corrupted, they are unfit for any Office, therefore He mu&s;t be a Tyrant.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> Prov. 6.13. <HI>Righteous lips are the delight of Kings, and they love him that &s;peaketh right,</HI> therefore <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> cannot be a King, becau&s;e the unrighteous lips are his delight, and he loveth all them that doeth evil and &s;peaketh again&s;t the truth, and therefore he mu&s;t be a Tyrant: and &s;eing that the lea&s;t of all the&s;e forenamed particulars makes a King a Tyrant, &s;urely without debate <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> mu&s;t be one of the Mon&s;truous and wilde&s;t of Tyrants, for he is guilty of all the&s;e, and has overturned the whole Fundamental Laws of the Land, by that Act <HI>re&s;ci&s;sory,</HI> and has &s;et up Lu&s;tful and Tyrannical Laws of his own, in oppo&s;ition to the Laws of God, and the Ancient Laws of the Land; and if we will believe <HI>Buchannan</HI> and other &s;ound Writers, <HI>A Tyrant has no just Authority over a People, neither is the People to own or obey him in any thing, for he is their enemy,</HI> and &s;ayeth he, <HI>there is a ju&s;t and lawful War with an Enemy;</HI> much more with the enemy of all Mankind, that is Tyrant, of the which Tyrants <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> is one: and he &s;aith, a lawful War being once under|taken with our Enemy, and for a ju&s;t cau&s;e, <HI>it is lawful not only for the whole People to kill that Enemy, but for every one of them.</HI> I would &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"> that Que&s;tion at the&s;e who are not of this judgment, &s;eing that Tyrants are reckoned in among&s;t the number of the mo&s;t cruel bruit Bea&s;ts by all &s;ound Writers; and the Scripture, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 22.12. calls them <HI>Bulls of Ba&s;han,</HI> of the which Bulls, <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> is one, and all his A&s;&s;ociats are Bulls and Kine of <HI>Ba&s;han:</HI> What would you judge to be your duty, if there were a wild and mad Bull running up and down all <HI>Scotland,</HI> killing and &s;laying all that were come in his way, man, wife, and bairn? would you not think it your duty and every ones duty to kill him, according to that Scripture, <HI>Exod.</HI> 21.28, 29. and if this be granted, as it cannot be denied, wherefore &s;hould any &s;ay, that it is not lawful to kill <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> or his A&s;&s;ociats, that hath been the&s;e twenty years, as it were, running up and down <HI>Scotland,</HI> killing and &s;laying all the true Subjects of the Land, and are &s;till continuing, and killing all that are departing from Iniquity, and are adhering to, and pur&s;uing the ends of the <HI>Covenants,</HI> by de&s;iring to bring all Malig|nants to condign puni&s;hment, according to the <HI>Covenants,</HI> which all the three Kingdoms did &s;wear with lifted up hands to the mo&s;t High God.</P>
<P>Therefore, I <HI>James Ru&s;&s;el</HI> Portioner of <HI>Kettle,</HI> does reject <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> from being my King, or from having any lawful authority over me; and I do declare before the world, that <HI>I</HI> will not own nor obey him any manner of way, either by paying of Few-Duty or any other thing which properly belongs to the Crown of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> or that which they call Se&s;s, which is fal&s;ely impo&s;ed upon the Kingdom, and lifted up for the bani&s;hing Chri&s;t and his Go&s;pel out of the Land, yea, for upholding and maintaining ruffian Troop|ers and Souldiers, for no other thing but that they may Cru|cifie Chri&s;t in his members every day: and likewi&s;e I prote&s;t
<PB N="6" REF="4">again&s;t <HI>my Mother</HI> and <HI>James Dale,</HI> who is now labouring my Land, at my Mothers in&s;tance, again&s;t their paying of the Few-Duty, or any other thing which properly belongs to the Crown of <HI>Scotland,</HI> but not to a Tyrant, and therefore not to <HI>Charles Stewart;</HI> and again&s;t the paying of that which they call Se&s;s. And likewi&s;e, I do prote&s;t again&s;t all the&s;e who take the name of Chri&s;tians to them|&s;elves, who owns him or acknowledges him to have any lawful authority over them; and I do prote&s;t again&s;t the owning of any that has their authority and power flowing from him, either higher or lower Courts of Judicatures, for the&s;e who have no power them|&s;elves, cannot cloath others with power and authority: and <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> hath no power, therefore he cannot cloath any other with power and authority, for he cannot give others that which he hath not him&s;elf; therefore all the&s;e Courts and Judicatories that have their Power flowing only from <HI>Charles Stewart,</HI> have no lawful Pow|er nor authority, more nor the&s;e who receives a commi&s;&s;ion from a Robber to go and kill and &s;lay all that they meet with on the High way; therefore cannot be owned, nor obedience given to them any manner of way, except they &s;ay that we mu&s;t <HI>obey the Devil, who&s;e Vicegerents they are,</HI> and that will not be granted. And I do de|clare, that I look upon all who own that Tyrant or any under hin to be lawful Magi&s;trats, to be guilty of Bla&s;phemy, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> I prove it, Rom. 13. <HI>For there is no power but of God and the powers that be, are ordained of God;</HI> therefore that power that is exerci&s;ed in oppo&s;ition to God and godline&s;s cannot be of God, for Rulers are not a terrour to good works, but to the evil, for he is the Mini&s;ter of God to thee for good: Therefore <HI>Charles Stewart<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> power is not of God, for he exerci&s;es all his power in oppo&s;ition to God and Godline&s;s, and he is a terrour to good Works, and he gives prai&s;e and gifts to all the&s;e who do Evil; therefore <HI>he is the Mini&s;ter of the Devil,</HI> to thee for Evil, for he executes Wrath on the&s;e who do Good, and therefore he hath no power of God; and therefore it mu&s;t be acknowledged that it is the height of Bla&s;phemy to &s;ay that he is a lawful Magi&s;trate, &s;ee|ing that he exerci&s;es all his power in oppo&s;ition to God; and there|fore is no lawful Power, but an u&s;urped tyrannical Power: There|fore, I would de&s;ire all that profe&s;&s;e to be Chri&s;tians, to be war of calling <HI>Charles Stewart</HI> a lawfull Magi&s;trat, or any who&s;e power flows from him, to be lawfull Rulers, le&s;t ye be found among&s;t the number of the&s;e Bla&s;phemers, who &s;ay, that God is the Author of Sin; and ye may read the Bla&s;phemers doom in <HI>Lev.</HI> 24.16. <HI>And he that bla&s;phemeth the Name of the Lord, he &s;hall &s;urely be put to death, and all the Congregation &s;hall &s;urely &s;tone him,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Number</HI> 15.30.31. I would de&s;ire all who are ex|pectants of Heaven, as they would not have God to be their enemie, to be war of doing any thing that &s;trengthens the enemies of Chri&s;ts hands, if it were but to give them a leepy of Corn, or a bottle of Straw to their Hor&s;e, or Bread or Drink, or Lodging to them|&s;elves: for Chri&s;ts enemies is another thing, nor our particular enemies. They that will prepare a Table for that Troop,
<PB N="7" REF="4">and furni&s;h the Drink-offering for that number, they may read their &s;entence in <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 65.12. <HI>Therefore will I number you to the &s;word, and ye &s;hall bow down to the &s;laughter,</HI> &amp;c. and do it who will, when the Lord makes inqui&s;ition for the blood of his Saints, I am &s;ure they will be found guilty, and to be more nor con&s;enters to the Saints murdering, <HI>Act.</HI> 25.20. Yea, it is, as it were a buying of a &s;word &amp; putting of it into a Robbers hand, to cut of all that's walking or trafficking in the Kings free road; yea it will be found to be a joyning I&s;&s;ue and intere&s;t with Gods &s;tated and declared enemies, and they may expect to be ranked up among&s;t the number of the&s;e enemies (that our &s;weet Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who is King and alone Head of his Church,) will pa&s;s that Sentence again&s;t, if &s;peedy Repentance prevent not, <HI>Luk.</HI> 19.27. <HI>But the&s;e mine enemies which would not that I &s;hould reign over them, bring hither and &s;lay them before me.</HI></P>
<P>Likewi&s;e I do prote&s;t again&s;t the paying of Teind (which pro|perly belongs to the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t) to Mr. <HI>John Barckley,</HI> which is acknowledging him who is both a Theif and a Robber, to be a lawful Mini&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, according to that Scripture, <HI>Joh.</HI> 10. <HI>He that entereth not by the door into the &s;heepfold, but climbeth up &s;ome other way, the &s;ame is a theif and a robber,</HI> which Theif and Robber Mr. <HI>John Bar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> is; for Chri&s;t is the door, <HI>ver.</HI> 7. <HI>I am the door of the &s;heep,</HI> and not the Lordly Prelats, which was the entry that Mr. <HI>John Barckley</HI> entered in, and all the re&s;t both did, and doeth enter; therefore they are all Thieves and Robbers, <HI>Mat.</HI> 20.25. <HI>Ye know that the princes of the</HI> Gentiles <HI>exerci&s;ed dominion over them,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>ver.</HI> 26. <HI>but it &s;hall not be &s;o among you, but who&s;oever will be great among you, let him be your Mini&s;ter,</HI> Luk. 22.25, 26, 27. <HI>But I am among you as he that &s;erveth;</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Neither as being lords over Gods heritage, but being en&s;amples to the &s;tock:</HI> And Mr. <HI>John Barckley</HI> was thru&s;t in upon the flock again&s;t their wills by the Lordly Prelat, without &s;o much as the Call of the lea&s;t of all the Paroch; yea, I was witne&s;s that day, that he was thru&s;t in (to my &s;hame I may tell this, and to the prai&s;e of his free Grace that has reclaimed me) and there was not one that would ri&s;e to take him by the hand, till they were threatened by the re&s;t of the Hire|lings; therefore he entred not in by the door, but clim'd up an other way, therefore he is both a Thief and a Robber, and a fal&s;e Prophet, <HI>Jer.</HI> 23.21. <HI>I have not &s;ent the&s;e Prophets, yet they ran; I have not &s;poken unto them, yet they prophe&s;ied.</HI> Mat. 7.15, 16. <HI>Be|ware of fal&s;e Prophets, which come to you in &s;heeps clothing, but inward|ly they are ravening Wolves, ye &s;hall know them by their fruits:</HI> 2 Pet. 2.12. <HI>But the&s;e are natural brute beasts,</HI> &amp;c. Jer. 10.21. <HI>For the Pa&s;tors are become bruti&s;h, and have not &s;ought the Lord; therefore they &s;hall not pro&s;per.</HI> Ezek. 13.3. <HI>Thus &s;aith the Lord, wo unto the fooli&s;h Prophet,</HI> ver. 9. <HI>Mine hand &s;hall be upon the Prophets that &s;ee vi&s;ions and divine lies, they &s;hall not be in the a&s;&s;embly of my people, neither &s;hall they be written in the writings of the hou&s;e of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>nei|ther &s;hall they enter into the land of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>and ye &s;hall know that I am the Lord God, becau&s;e, even becau&s;e they have &s;educed my people, &s;aying,
<PB N="8" REF="5">peace, and there was no peace,</HI> &amp;c. to the 27. 2 Cor. 11.15. <HI>Therefore it is no great thing if the&s;e Ministers al&s;o be transformed as the Mini&s;ters of Righ|teou&s;ne&s;s, who&s;e end &s;hall be according to their works.</HI> Ezek. 34.4. <HI>Wo be to the &s;hepherds of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>that doth feed them&s;elves,</HI> &amp;c. Ezek. 13.4. <HI>And it &s;hall come to pa&s;s in that day, that the Prophets &s;hall be a&s;hamed,</HI> &amp;c. Mal. 2.8. <HI>But ye are departed out of the way, ye have cau&s;ed many to &s;tumble at the Law, ye have corrupted the covenant of</HI> Levi, <HI>&s;aith the Lord: therefore have I al&s;o made you contemptible and ba&s;e before all the people,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>O ye dumb dogs, the blood of many &s;ouls will be found in your skirts, and in a little God will bring you to judgement, and will require the blood of all the &s;ouls in that congregation at your hands,</HI> Ezek. 3.18. <HI>the &s;ame wicked man &s;hall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand;</HI> I doubt nothing, but it would be acceptable &s;ervice to God, to do with you all as <HI>Elijah</HI> did with <HI>Baals</HI> prophets, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 18.40. <HI>Take the Prophets of</HI> Baal, <HI>let not one of them e&s;cape, ye greedy dogs which can never have enough; come &s;ay ye, let us fill our &s;elves with &s;trong drink, and the morrow &s;hall be as this day, and much more abundantly.</HI> Ye think your kingdoms will never be &s;haken, I doubt nothing but <HI>Baals</HI> Prophets thought &s;o to, but they got a di&s;appointment, and I doubt nothing but ye will meet with the like: They cried to their God, but they were not heard: When any thing troubles you ye may cry to your god, which is your Belly, and to your King, which is King <HI>Charles,</HI> but rather that <HI>Tyrant,</HI> which you are all crying up &s;o fa&s;t, and ble&s;&s;ing him; it may be ye may get &s;ome kind of com|fort, but I am &s;ure of that, the day will come, that both you and others that are crying him &s;o fa&s;t up this day, will cry and not be heard, and will be made to cur&s;e your King and your God and look upward. I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> may be &s;ome will &s;ay, What needs all this ha|tred? I an&s;wer, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 139.21. <HI>Do not I hate them O Lord, that hate thee, and am not I grieved with tho&s;e that ri&s;e up again&s;t thee; I hate them with a perfect hatred, I count them as mine enemies.</HI> They'll may be &s;ay, I may hate them, and not cry out to let all the world know of it. I an&s;wer, <HI>Luk.</HI> 19.40. <HI>I tell you, if the&s;e &s;hould hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.</HI> I doubt not but &s;ome will &s;ay that I am mad to do that which will procure the hatred of all Ranks; I care not what perjured Apo&s;tats &s;ay, for my God hath &s;aid unto me, <HI>fear not, for I am with you, be not di&s;mayed, for I am your God, I will &s;trengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteou&s;ne&s;s.</HI> I confe&s;&s;e if I would have &s;ought coun&s;el at fle&s;h and blood, or yet at back&s;lid|ing Mini&s;ters or Profe&s;&s;ors, I would not have ventured; but prai&s;e to the Name of my God, he hath advi&s;ed me better in <HI>Matth.</HI> 18.28. <HI>Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the &s;oul, but rather fear him which is able to kill both &s;oul and body in Hell.</HI></P>
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