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A25118 An Account of the doctrine and discipline of Mr. Richard Davis of Rothwell, in the county of Northampton, and those of his separation with the canons of George Fox, appointed to be read in all the Quakers meetings. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1700 (1700) Wing A280; ESTC R12424 28,976 34

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promise in the strength of Christ and in the presence of our Royal Husband to profess our Allegiance to him as King of Nations and to * The asserting of the Kingly Power of Christ over Nations does assert also the Rights and Authority of Kings and these Magistrates that Reign under him maintain his Rights and Prerogatives as the King thereof to whom the Kingdoms of the World belong with our Lives and all dear to us every manner of way as his Word Spirit and Divine Providence shall from time to time call us thereunto And in all those things we in the Grace that is in our dear Lord shall endeavour to walk according to his Word and the Explication of this our Covenant which is annexed thereto To the only Wise God be Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Amen AN EXPLANATION OF THE COVENANT WE the Covenanted People and Church of God being greatly humbled that in our former and latter Covenanting we were so ignorant and legal and that it came to pass thence that we have been guilty of so many Breaches thereof both we and our Officers now in the steadfast believing Views that all those Breaches are blotted out and Transgressions pardoned in him and for his sake who is our constant a 1 John 2.1 Advocate at the Father's Right hand Jesus Christ the Righteous and being constrained by the Sense of the boundless Love of the Father and the Son and the past and present Testimonies thereof to our Souls do professedly and publickly b Deut. 26.17 this day avouch again solemnly the Lord Jesus to be our c Isa 33.22 Judge and King and Lawgiver and d John 8.36 compar'd with Rom. 6.8.22 profess our selves his Subjects according to the Tenour of his blessed Word and our former Covenant And for as much as many of us if not all of us were then more or less ignorant how extensive our former Covenant was when we engaged to obey e Exod. 19.8 all his Voice f Heb. 12.25 that speaks from Heaven g Rev. 19.10 in his House and because since through Grace we are more enlighten'd by his Spirit from his Word concerning our Generation-work We think it highly Necessary now to declare our Sense of those several particular h Ezek. ●3 10 Ordinances Laws and Judgments that we now are engag'd to maintain and to perform by the Bowels of his tender Mercies his holy Word and our consent thereto in our former Covenanting And First We do judge that our then solemn Covenanting as a Church was a publick Declaration and i Rom. 1.9.10 Confession with our Mouths that we had by Faith with our Hearts laid hold of Christ Jesus as k Rev. 22.16 1 Cor. 15.45 our Root l Heb. 7.22 Surety and m Rom. 5.12 c. Representative The Grace of Election as being from Eternity fixed on a certain number of n Ep. 1.4.5 Persons and that those determinate number of Persons for the most part should be of a Race Kindreds Families and Fatherhoods not excluding the Seed of Strangers in all Ages but especially in the latter Age of the World when the Partition-Wall was to be broken down between Jew and Gentile This is abundantly witness'd to by the Word of God Deut. 4.37 c. 10.15 which words though they speak literally of literal Israel and of the Election of their Seed to suceed in their then Church yet Israel and their Seed was typical inclusive and expressive of the whole Election Rom. 9.6 and the Election and Separation of the Seed of Abraham out of the World was to prove and exemplifie God's Eternal predestinating a certain number for himself to the Adoption of Children This Truth also was attested to by the series of Divine Providence in all Ages chiefly causing Electing Grace to run through Godly Families and filling up the Old and New Testament Church with their Seed yet never excluding the Seed of Strangers We likewise judge that in our Covenant we profess that by Faith we laid hold of the Eternal Compact made with our Lord the Redeemer as our Root Surety and Representative and with us in him and ours too that were of the true Israel Isa 59.21 which words though they be spoken by God the Father to our Lord Jesus the Surety and Dispensator of the New-Covenant and Testament to his Seed and Seeds Seed in him yet he therein is also the Messenger or Angel of the Eternal Compact And the New-Covenant it self in its most glorious Administration is but a fuller Copy thereof promulgated and publish'd We professed then and now do also to lay hold of this Eternal Compact as promulgated in a more comprehensive way in the Old and New Testament as running with Noah Abraham the Patriarchs David the Righteous the Godly the Church and their Seed Rom. 4.16 compar'd Gal. 3.8 Gen. 17.17 compar'd 2 Cor. 6.18 with Acts 2.39 1 Cor. 7.14 Gen. 12. 7.13.15.15 compar'd with Heb. 14.8 with Rom. 11.17 2 Kings 8.19 1 Kings 2.4.8.25 Psal 132.12 Psal 25.13.112.2 1 Kings 1.2.33 Psal 37.25 26 89.28 29.36 2 Sam. 7.11.19.29 Deut. 1.8.11.9.10.15.4.37 Psal 22.30.69.36.102.28 Num. 24.7 Deut. 30.6 ver 19. Psal 105.6 Deut. 4.10 Prov. 11 21. Psal 25.13.112.2.127.3 4 5.128.3.6 John 5.25 Isa 22.24.65.23 Psal 72.4.103.17 Prov. 14.25 26.20.7 Gen. 17.13 Deut. 7.9 Psal 122.28 Isa 6.13.43.5.44.3 4 5.54.3.61.9.65.23 59.21.66.22 Joel 2.28 Heb. 8.10.11 compar'd with ult pars 11. Rom. 11.16 17. Acts 2.16 17. vers 39. 1 Cor. 17.14 Matth. 10.12 13. Luke 10.5 6. Luke 19.9 Acts 16.31 Matth. 19.14 Mark 10.14 Luke 18.16 Being therefore convinc'd that in our first believing we laid hold on the Covenant in the most comprehensive extent of the Grace thereof for us and ours And filled with joy and wonder at the Manifestations of this Covenant-blessings and Privileges declar'd in the Gospel as we have in our former Covenanting so in this our Renewal do now again publickly and solemnly give up our selves and ours to the Lord Jesus our Royal Head and Husband to be his for ever now again publickly declaring that he is our Lord a Psal 45.11 and we will Worship him We likewise do judge that in our former Covenant with the Lord we being b Pet. 18. Col. 1.13 Chosen and Redeem'd by him c Mat. 19.27 28 translated into his Kingdom by his Spirit at Effectual Calling gave up our selves to follow him in the Works of our day to be Assertors of his Spiritual Ecclesiastical and Temporal Interest in the World and to be witnesses of this threefold Interest of his against all Oppositions or Opposers whatsoever And now considering we are not our own but bought a 1 Pet. 18.19 with a price and redeemed from a vain and fruitless Conversation to serve him Mov'd with a sense of his unspeakable Love to us ward being greatly humbled and filled with self-Abhorrence that we and our Fathers have too much declined and forsook the Cause