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A70864	Concordia discors, or, The dissonant harmony of sacred publique oathes, protestations, leagues, covenants, ingagements, lately taken by many time-serving saints, officers, without scruple of conscience ... by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P3928; ESTC R22150	38,103	48

so hanging nor after the same cause And that ye take no fee as long as ye shall be Justice nor Robes of any man great or small but of the King himself And that you give none advice or counsell to no man great or small in no case where the King is party And in case that any of what estate or condition they be come before you in your Sessions with force and arms or otherwise against the Peace or against the forme of the Statute thereof made to disturbe execution of the Common-law or to menace the people that they may not pursue the Law that ye do their bodies to be arrested and put in prison And in case they be such that ye may not arrest them that ye certifie the King of their names and of their misprision hastily so that thereof he may ordain a co●●venable remedy And that ye by your self nor by other privily nor apertly maintain any plea or quarrel hanging in the Kings Court or elsewhere in the Country And that ye deny to no man common right by the Kings Letters nor none other mans nor for none other cause and in case any letters come to you contrary to the Law that ye do nothing by such Letters but certifie the King thereof and go forth to do the Law notwithstanding the same Letters And that ye shall do and procure the profit of the King and of the Crown with all things where ye may reasonably do the same And in case ye be from henceforth found in default in any of the points aforesaid ye shall be at the Kings Will of Body Lands and Goods thereof to be done as shall please him as God you help and all Saints Anno 18 E. 3. Stat. 4. The next Oath is that of Supremacy made and prescribed to be taken by all Judges Justices Sheriffs Maiors Recorders Civil and Ecclesiastical Officers Barresters Benchers Graduates Ministers Attornies whatsoever and all Members of the Commons House before they ought to fit or vote therein by the Statutes of 1 Eliz. cap. 1. 5 Eliz. cap. 1. 17 Car. cap. 7. I A. B. do utterly testifie and declare in my Conscience That the Kings Highness is the only Supream Governor of this Realm and of all other his Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and therefore I do utterly renounce all forein Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highness his Heirs and lawfull Successors and to my Power shall assist and defend all Iurisdictions Privileges Preheminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highness his Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the Contents of this Book 5. The 5th Oath of equal Latitude and Extent as the former of Supremacy is that of Allegiance prescribed by the Statutes of 3 Jacobi cap. 4. 7 Jac. c. 6. 17 Car. c. 7 tending only to the Declaration of such Duty as every true and well-affected Subject not only by Bond of Allegiance but also by the Commandement of Almighty God ought to bear to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors which Oath such as are infected with Popish Superstition do oppugn with many false and unsound Arguments the just defence whereof his Majesty King James hath heretofore undertaken worthily performed to the great contentment of all his loving Subjects notwithstanding the gainsayings of all contentious Adversaries And to shew how greatly his Loyal Subjects did approve the said Oath they prostrated themselves at his Majesties feet beseeching his Majesty that it might be enacted that the same Oath may be administred to all his Subjects The words whereof are these I A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the world That our Soveraign Lord King CHARLES is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries And that the Pope neither of himself nor by any of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorize any forein Prince to invade o● annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Majesties Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty or to give licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise tumult or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or sentence of Excommunication or deprivation made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be excommunicated by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred unto me and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the expresse words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and Acknowledgement heartily willingly and truly upon the true Faith of a Christian So help me God 6. To these Oaths I shall subjoyn the c Protestation made and taken in pursuance of these Oaths by all the Well-affected Members of the Lords and Commons House the last long Parliament and voluntarily taken by all the best affected

people throughout the Realm and by all or most Officers and Souldiers of the Army by their Authority We the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in the Commons House of Parliament finding to the great grief of our hearts that the designs of the Priests and Jesuites and other Adherents to the See of Rome have of late been * more boldly and frequently put in practise than formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the true reformed Protestant Religion in his Majesties Dominions established And finding also that there have been and having just cause to suspect that there still are even during this sitting in Parliament * endeavours to subvert the Fundamental Laws of England and Ireland and to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyranical Government by most pernicious and wicked Counsels Practises Plots and Conspiracies And that the long intermission and unhappy breach of Parliaments hath occasioned many illegal Taxations whereupon the Subject hath been prosecuted and grieved And that divers Innovations and Superstitions have been brought into the Church multitudes driven out of his Majesties Dominions jealousies raised and fomented betwixt the King and his people a Popish Army levyed in Ireland and two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdom to the hazard of his Majesties Royal Person the * consumpsion of the Revenues of the Crown and Treasure of this Kingdom And lastly finding a great cause of Jealousie that endeavours have been and are used to bring the English Army into a Mis-understanding of this Parliament thereby to * incline that Army with force to bring to passe those wicked Counsels have therefore thought good to joyn our selves in a Declaration of our united Affections and Resolutions and to make this ensuing Protestation I A. B do in the presence of Almighty God promise vow and protest to maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may with my life power and estate the true reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realm contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the duty of my Allegiance His Majesties Royal Person Honour and Estate as also the power and privilege of Parliament The lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in pursuance of the same And to my power and as far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and means endeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by force practise counsels plots conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrary in this present Protestation contained And further that I shall in all just and honourable waies endeavour to preserve the Vnion and Peace between the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland And neither for hope fear nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow Protestation 7. The next in time is the Solemn League and Covenant taken in the most solemn manner with hands lifted up to heaven and subscribed by all Members of Parliament in England and Scotland by all Civil Military Officers Souldiers and well-affected persons in our three Kingdoms by f sundry special Ordinances of Parliament approving and ratifying the same A Solemn League and Covenant for Reformation and defence of Religion the Honour and Happiness of the King and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland WE Noblemen Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospel and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland by the Providence of God living under one King and being of one Reformed Religion having before our eyes the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the honour and happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity and the true Publique Liberty Safety and Peace of the Kingdoms wherein every ones private condition is included and calling to minde the treacherous and bloudy plots Conspiracies Attempts and practises of the Enemies of God against the true religion and professors thereof in all places especially in these three kingdoms ever since the reformation of Religion and how much their rage power and presumption are of late and at this time increased and exercised whereof the deplorable estate of the Church and kingdom of Ireland the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdom of England and the dangerous estate of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland are present and publike Testimonies We have now at last after other means of Supplication Remonstrance Protestations and sufferings for the preservation of our selves and our religion from utter ruine and destruction according to the commendable practice of these kingdoms in former times and the Example of Gods people in other Nations after mature deliberation resolved and determined to enter into a mutual and Solemn League and Covenant wherein we all subscribe and each one of us for himself with hands lifted up to the most high God do swear I. THat we shall sincerely really and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in our several places and callings the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the Example of the best Reformed Churches And shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Form of Church-Government Directory for Worship and Catechising That we and our posterity after us may as Brethren live in Faith and Love and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us II. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons indeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy that is Church-Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy Superstition Heresie Schisme Profaneness and whatsoeuer shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godliness lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms III. We shall with the same sincerity reality and constancy in our several Vocations endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Privileges of the Parliaments and the Liberties of the Kingdoms and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms that the world may bear witness with our consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatness IV. We shall also with all faithfullness endeavour the discoverie of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil Instruments by hindering the reformation of

have a tacit condition in it violated and dispensed within this case it being not simplie evil in its own nature to spare the Gibeonites upon their submission but onlie a prohibited evil by particular Precepts than his Name prophaned dishonoured Religious Oaths wittinglie infringed and perjurie committed by his own people against his moral Law Precept being sinful scandalous in their own nature and of dangerous consequence to all Posteritie if admitted approved to encourage them to commit perjurie and violate all lawfull Oaths Covenants in succeeding Ages to the scandal of Religion and prejudice of Mankind Wherefore this Oath League though against these judicial Precepts not only firmly bound the Princes who made them and all the Congregation in that Age but King Saul himself and all the Israelites in succession four hundred years after Of which we have another President of Joshuaes and the Israelites care to perform their Spies Oaths made to Rahab and sworn unto her by the Lord to save her her Parents Kindred and Family alive though Canaanites devoted by God to destruction Iosh. 2. 1 to 24. compared with c. 6. 21 22 23. Heb. 11. 31. But our Oaths Protestation League Covenant were all made not to or with Amorites or Canaanites particularly deuoted by God to the Sword Slaughter and utter extirpation without any Truce or League of Peace but to and with our own hereditary lawfull Christian Kings their Heirs Posterities and Successors whose Persons Lives Crowns Rights and Royal Authoritie we are all expresly obliged commanded by God himself to defend protect with our own lives fortunes estates to the uttermost of our Powers against all Attempts Treasons Conspiracies Traytors and Invasions whatsoever yea precisely prohibited to offer the least violence injury to their Persons Lives and Regal Authority in thought word or deed Prov. 24. 20 21. Eccles. 8. 2 c. 10. 10. 1 Sam. 24. 3 to 20. c. 26. 8 to 12. 2 Sam. 1. 12 c. c. 4. 10 11 2 Sam. 18 3 c 21 17 Estch 2. 21. 12. 23. c. 6. 2 Rom 13. 1 2. 3. 1 Pet. 2 12. 13 17. Tit. 3. 1 1 Tim 2. 2. 3. John 18 36. Therefore our Oaths League Covenant are much more obliging and conscienciouslie to be observed by us and our Posterities for ever than theirs to the Gibeonites as the only ready way to our peace and settlement 10ly This League of theirs to the Gibeonites was ratified only with one single Oath yet it bound both them and their Posterity but ours to our Kings their Heirs and Successors is ratified with seven successive Oaths Protestations Covenants here recited besides sundry others of like nature taken by our Ancestors in former Ages which I pretermit Therefore much more strong indissoluble obliging to us and our posterities than theirs If a threefold cord be not easily broken Eccles. 4. 12. much more then a sevenfold Oath successively renued should not easily or quicklie be broken but remain inviolable to all posteritie 11. The violation of this Oath League to the Gibeonites by Saul and the Israelites near 400 years after its first making when perchance quite forgotten by them or conceived to be unbinding to them as gotten by surprise as not made or taken by themselves personal to the Gibeonites and Israelites then living when first made or at least expired and grown quite out of date by so long a tract of time was reputed by God himself a great sinne perjury in them and exemplarie punished by God with three years famine on the whole Land though Saul and the Israelites then living never took this Oath nor made that League themselves but onlie their Ancestors so long time before their births Therefore our violations of the forecited Oaths Protestation League Covenant so freshlie made taken sworn subscribed with hands lifted up to Heaven successivelie one after another by whole Parliaments the generalitie of our Nation and not onlie by our deceased Ancestors but by our selves in person and so oft reiterated yet infringed by us time after time in the highest degree most needs be a more detestable damnable Perjurie crime in the eyes of God than theirs and draw a more long-lasting famine and other sorer judgements of God upon our particular Persons * Families Nation than that breach of their Oath and League with the Gibeonites brought down on them 12ly That Oath League continued in force to bind the Israelites both to observation and punishment when violated by King Saul and them after the whole frame of their Government was quite changed from a Principality or Common-wealth as most of our present Grandees would have it into a Kingship and Kingdom by the earnest unanimous desire consent of all the Elders of Israel the generality of the people and by Gods own approbation as is evident by the 1 Sam. c. 8 to c. 13. Josh. 9. 2 Sam. 21. compared together Therefore our Oath Protestation League Covanant forecited must by like reason consequence much more oblige our whole Nation in present and future to our Kings their Heirs and Successors notwithstanding all late violent forcible illegal Alterations Revolutions of our Governments and Governours against the Votes of both Houses of Parliament the desires of the generality of our three Nations since our Laws admit no Interregnum nor Disseisin of the Crown Kingship Kingdom as the Statutes of Praerogativa Regis 1 Iacobi ch. 1. Cooks 7 Rep. f. 10. and u other Lawbooks resolve And so our violations of them must be more perjurious sinfull and exemplarily punishable than theirs 13. This Oath League with the Gibeonites was violated by King Saul only out of zaeel to the Children of Israel Iudah who it seems solicited him thereunto for their own self-ends or advantage yet this was no sufficient excuse nor justification thereof in Gods esteem being punished with exemplarie justice on his posterity and a three years famine upon all the Land Therefore the violation of all our precedent Oaths Protestations Covenants by the Army-Officers confederate Members and their Adherents against the Votes of both Houses the dehortations of our Ministers and desires of our three whole Kingdoms must needs 〈◊〉 a far more detestable crime and be avenged with a more heavy punishment both on them and us than theirs was heretofore 14. This breach of Oath Covenant notwithstanding all circumstances which might extenuate it was most exemplary punished though not on Saul the chief Offendor during his life yet upon seven of his Sons and Family after his death in King Davids Reign 35 years after this Offence committed and upon the whole Nation by a three years famine though it was never infringed but only by one single Act in slaying some of the Gibeonites posterity and not re-violated by any other subsequent slaughter of them Therfore though many of the grand Infringers of the precedent Oaths Protestation Covenant may perchance scape scot-free for a time in their own persons and die without exemplary justice inflicted on them