Memorials of the family of Row

Gospell in their Pulpits, but now you may heare the proud Prelates rum-
bling up and downe the streets in their Coaches, in their long gownes, and
if you would heare them speake, follow them to the Councell Table, and
there you shall heare more then you will be content to followe.
For her smelling, I am sure she smels better than ever she did, for shee
can smell a Bishoprick, ten years before it fall ; but it may be those that
smell best shall never lay their fingers ends on it now.
The Kirke tastes better then ever she did ; for in old time shee would
have beene content with a messe of milke and bread and such homely
fare ; but now they must feed on the finest, and take a licke of the best
liquor.
Lastly, she touches now better than ever she did, for where she would
touch nothing formerly but spirituall matters, now she will take upon her
to handle the temporall businesse first, and leave the other till they have
leasure.
I have now shewed you that the Kirk is wounded in .her head, and de-
cay of her sences, and I will returne to show you the rest of her wounds.
Secondly, she is wounded in her heart, which is by the doctrine of the
Kirk through the aboundance of Popery and Arminianisme, now common
in our Kirks and Schooles.
The Kirk of Scotland was once a bonny grammer school, and then shee
was skilled in Regimen Sf concordantia, and could have made a pretty
peece of Latin, for everie thing she did was forced dare regulam, and
when she offended, was pandere manum; but afterward when she went to
the Colledge shee either had, or would take more liberty unto her ; and
then first of all shee began ber Rhetorick, and instead of true and proper
speaking, shee learned nothing but alegories and hyperbolies ; then shee
came to the logicke, and instead of the true demonstration shee learned
nothing but Homogenes and Syllogismes ; afterward she came to the
Ethicks, but she did not much trouble her selfe with them, but studied
the Politicks, where she prospered so well, as she turned true religion into
state pollicy ; and for the Metaphysicks ye know their ends, which should
be unum utrum et bontirn ; so true religion must be one true and good re-
ligion, but this was too high and honest for them, too hard to learn, wher-
fore she studied no more the Physic, but turned true religion into materia
prima, and made it capable of any forme they pleased to impose upon it.
So that yee see our Kirke is wounded in her heart, by the doctrine of
the Kirk and teaching of the Schooles, which have beene such, as I am
sure that many of you that heare me at this time have wished a hundred
times to have beene out of the Kirk, when you heard such paultry stufFe
as came from them.
Thirdly, the Kirk is wounded in her hands, which is the discipline of