Fanatical Moderation; or, unparalell'd villany display'd, being a faithful narrative of the barbarous murther comitted upon the most reverend father ... Scotch Presbyterians, May the 3d, 1679 With

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1711 Excerpt: ...those should be put to Death that would not Obey the High Priest. And as Davila relates in the Ninth Book of his History, the Pope compared-the Duke of Gusse, that Patron of the Cursed League, to Judas Maccabeus, and the Jefuites complimented him with the name of Gideon, and' bid him go on and prosper in the name of GOD. According tb which damnable Notion of salse Zealotry, when they Consecrate an AjfaJJin (as Hofpinian hath proved they sometimes do) to Murder an Heretick Prince, they Solemnly Consecrate him to the Work of the Lord in such a like Form as this, Thou E/ect Son of God, take here the Sword of Gideon, the Sword of Jeptha, the Sword-of Sampson, the Sword of David, the Sword of the Maccabees, go, and be of gootk Courage, and the Lord Brengthth thy Arm. Can any thing be more like Mr. Mitchel's Justification, than this? Would. not one think his Soul had entred into that Secret of the Jesuits, seeing he hath not Acted only like one of their Assajfins, but written his Apology with their poyfon'd Ink. If Father Brown the Jesuit, that Preach'd among them so many Years, had Penn'd it, Could it haye savour'd stronger of the Society of Jefus, or become such an Author better than it doth? He boasted on his Death-bed at Ingest, onbrigges, that he had Preach'd as down-right Popery in our Field-Conventicle. as ever he had Preach'd in komc it self; and had he been the Author of this Paper, he. might also have boasted,' to the Comfort of his 'departing Soul, that he had written as true a Papistical Pamphlet, as eVer was written in the Romish Church. I think these is great Presumption to Assert, That the Father might help' to Indoctrinate Mitehel in this Mystery of Iniquity; but if he did not, yet both he and the Author of Napbthali might invenfthese Doctrines wi...