The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence; Or, the Foolishness of Their Teaching Discovered and Some Remarks on Mr. Rule's Late Vindication of the Kirk [Signed Jacob Curate]. [Followed By] an Answer to the Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence [By G. Ridpath (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to your protection, as cordially as you do the authors of them: If your Lordship's unknown modesty would allow it, I could tell the world, in a few words, some of your unnatural and acquired endowments; to your courage and conduct, which are equal, you have added such a success as to raise the church and state of Scotland to be the wonder and amazement of the world: Such burning and unquenchable zeal, such strange and unaccountable prudence, and uuparallelled pieiy, have appeared in all your public actions, that if others had but wrought to- ' gether with your Lordship any measure, then, I dare say, (as your Lordship excellently words it, in your pious printed speech to the Parliament, ) A greater dispatch had been made of the Prelatists, and many honest suffering ministers, ere -/tow, had been delivered out of their pinches; and the enemies of the Kirk and Covenant had evanished, as they did lately from court, when your Lordship condescended to appear in person at it: It is to you that the nation owes her miraculous deliverance from the idolatries of the Creed, Lord s Prayer, and Gloria Patri: It is your Lordship that hath rescued us from the superstitions of observing Christmas, Easter, and Whitsunday, and from all the Popish fopperies of cassocks, close-sleeved gowns, and girdles: It is your Lordship that has euriched their Majesties' treasure with the revenues of fourteen fat bishops, and with admirable expedition have voided more than half of the churches of the king- ' dom; and advanced such a set of preachers, as, it is certain, never flourished in any period of the Church of Scotland under any of their Majesties' predecessors: and now that some malignant lords have been brought into the council again, your Lordship hath retired from it, bravely scorning to sit chapter{...