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book_n	blood_n	covenant_n	sprinkle_v	1,619	5	12.4273	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67146	An abandoning of the Scottish Covenant by Matthew the Lord Bishop of Ely.	Wren, Matthew, 1585-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3674; ESTC R11962	26,795	60

possible indeed for Men to be men and to be perverse enough in these Of these therefore they must be understood to speak when they profess on this Fashion That They have not dealt perversly in His Covenant Now I might easily here enlarge again about the Particulars that were of this kind For Covenants he had bound them to before Moses received his Law To the Covenant of Circumcision Gen. 17. 10. and the not observing of it was the breach of Gods Covenant ver 14. The Sabbath also they had before they came at Horeb Exod. 16. 29. and it alone by it self was a perpetual Covenant to the Children of Israel Exod. 31. 16. Pactum Religionis BUt then at Sinai when the Law came that took in all Sabbath and Circumcision and all other duties And by this means that above all especially as comprehending the Ten Commandments which by themselves have the Title of His Covenant Exod. 34. 28. carried away the Name of the Covenant of God Therefore the book of it was called the Book of the Covenant Exod. 24. 7. and the very bloud that Moses sprinkled the Book with call'd the Blood of the Covenant ver 8. And their walking contrary to it was made the Quarrel of avenging Gods Covenant Lev. 26. 25. What shall we need more I should but trouble your memories and tire you out if I should draw you here to the several parcels of Moses Law To shew you that the Shewbread it self bare that stile of an everlasting Covenant Lev 24. 8. and the very Salt of their Sacrifices termed the Salt of the Covenant of their God Lev. 2. 13. So was the Priests portion A Covenant of Salt for ever before the Lord Numb 18. 19. Beside the Additional granted to Phineas and those after him as a perpetual Covenant Numb 25. 12. But all this may be spared the Point we are in yet you know is but what they took here for granted And having proved that it is the Church of God that sayes this of necessity it must be granted That they had the Right worship of God among them Other Church there was none then in the world and nothing could make it a right Church but that They had both the Rule and the exercise of the Service of God as he by His Law had Covenanted it with them Their Protestation ANd in that They had no way carried themselves perversely that 's now the next Part And t is the main Drift of all the Text aymes at the Protestation that Gods Church here makes Of which this would be noted at first They make it not to men Men by men may be fouly deceived But to God himself t is made Non in Tuo t is to the Knower of all Hearts and to the Judg of all men As much as to say Thou O God knowest that we lye not there hath been no falshood no frowardness in us We have been true in and to thy Covenant So to that we come now yet alwayes remembring that the Sermon now is to us and not to God Not to tell him what he knows so well But to tell you from him what he hath taught us of this matter That so If you find them that say it true By their Line you may level your selves If wrong yet you may see by them where and how to mend it For us then the prime Enquiry will be For the Matter of Law That we be not fooled with Fancies in our Religion nor led by the nose with every false Semblance But that out of the Laws of God we may be truly informed what it is to be True or false in Gods Covenant Matter of Law I Pray therefore mark it In Gods Covenant I say onely I do not say in any Covenant No-tis out of our Quest that For such as the Covenant may be The forwarder in it the worse and the frowarder the better the further from mischief I know they have used a great while to tell you of a Solemn League and Covenant as though the Name of that should carry it Alas poor Souls The Solemner the League is the Covenant's the more damnable Unless it be a right and a lawfull Covenant 'T is not the Name therefore that warrants any thing Nothing more usual then wrong Names and false Titles But they must be sure the thing it self be without exception if they look to have the Name of it without Question Otherwise Do not we know that there were Covenants with Devils such as went for the Gods of the Heathen Exod. 23. 32. And the Prophet tells us of a Covenant with Death and Hell Esa. 28. 15. And such Covenants as these the frowarder in them the further off them happier man be his dole ever As 't is in some Diseases the less yielding the better sign and the more peevish the more hope of life So to fly off from such Covenants with all the speed we may is to fly from Destruction And the sooner they are broken and quite abandoned the sooner is our return back into Gods Covenant and the safer we by so much The shorter our Sin and the surer our Salvation Now the word that the Holy Spirit here hath chosen comes of Shakar and the Hebrews by that signifie all manner of Lying and Prevarication Our search therefore here must be whether men in the Covenant of God that is in their Religion or in any part of it carry themselves thwart and contrary to it as far as they can make a lye their Refuge or can shelter their foul Carriage under any false pretence in it Let it offend no body this Language for t is not mine but the Prophets own description in terminis Esay 28. 15. And he has another Question about it also that would be a little thought on Is there not a Lie in my Right Hand says he Esay 44. 20. A lie there What means He by that Why because it was a Jewish Ceremony in their Covenants and Oathes to lift up the Right Hand by that he expresses his mind And these false dealers in their Religion He saith they had so beguiled themselves that 't was not possible for them to free their Souls Now God forbid Why not Because they never would think with themselves Is there not a lie in my Right Hand A Lie then to be sure there may be there that 's once Satanas ad dextram as Davids curse goes Satan at a mans right hand Psal 109. 5. The Devil standing there not onely to resist the man as he stood by the High Priest till the Angel took his room Zech. 3. 1. but to entice him and win him to himself And wo is me for such poor men so willingly bewitcht by him as that they could ever think they did best when that they did was but to make good a lie for him and by making so foul a lie in their Religion to snake hands with the Devil But I am onely now to lay the Law to