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A True and Exact COPY OF A PRODIGIOUS and TRAITEROUS LIBEL Affixt upon the Church-door of Kettle in Fife, &c.
BE it kend to all men, That whereas these who were once lawful Magistrats and Rulers, and were exercising their power, in opposition 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 these who departs from iniquity, and who are jeoparding their lives every day for maintaining and pro∣moving of the Gospel of Christ and the true Presbyterian Govern∣ment, which the three Kingdoms swore 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 opposition to their former Oaths and Ingagements, by the which doing, they have overturned the whole Government, Civil and Ecclesiastick, and having made butcheries and havock of all the truly Godly, and Loyal and true Subjects of the Land, and raised such Persecution, that I was forced to flee the Country; and I hearing tell that my Mother, and others who medled with my Affairs, were still paying the Few Duty (which properly belongs to the Crown of Scotland) and Sess, which that Tyrant causes up∣lift for the bearing down the Gospel of Christ, and for maintain∣ing these Butcherers, Troopers and Souldiers, and was paying that Teind which properly belongs to the Ministers of the Gospel of Christ, to Mr. John Barkley, who is both a thief and a robber; by the paying of which, they acknowledge Charles Stewart to be a law∣ful Magistrate, and Mr. John Barkley to be a Minister of Jesus Christ, which is blasphemy to say, as I shall prove afterwards; and after several times writing to my Mother, and some others who pretend∣ed kindness to me, shewing the great sin that we were involved in, by owning any of these Tyrants any manner of way, and ear∣nestly desiring her to forbear and not to own them any manner of way directly or indirectly, but rather to suffer the outmost of ha∣zard, than to sin against God by strengthning the hands of the