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A78965	The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.; Great danger of covenant-breaking, &c.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing C254; Thomason E327_6; ESTC R200648	37,036	51

upon a willing Covenant-breaker The Lord fasten these meditations and soul-awaking considerations upon your hearts The Lord give you grace to keep close to the Covenant in keeping of it to keep God and a good conscience wth are both lost by covenant-breaking There are six things which I shall perswade you unto in pursuance of your Covenant 1. To be humbled for your own sins and for the sins of the Kingdome more especially Because we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us Gospel-sins are greater then legall-sins and will bring Gospel-curses which are greater then legall-curses And therefore let us be humbled according to our Covenant for all our Gospel-abominations 2. You must be ambitious to go before one another in an example of reall reformation You must swear vainly no more be drunk no more break the Sabbath no more c. You must remember what David saith Psal. 50. 16. But unto the wicked God saith What instruction and castest my words behinde thee To sin willingly after we have sworn not to sin is not only to sin against a Commandement as I have said but to sin against an Oath which is à double iniquity and will procure a double damnation And he that takes a Covenant to reform and yet continueth unreformed his Covenant will be unto him as the bitter water of jealousie was to the woman guilty of adultery which made her belly to swell and thigh to rot c. Numb. 5. 22. 3 You must be careful to reform your families according to your covenant and the example of Joshua and Jacob and the godly Kings forementioned 4. You must endeavour according to your places and callings to bring the churches of God in the three Kingdoms to the nearest conjunction uniformity in religion c. O blessed Vnity how comes it to passe that thou art so much sleighted and contemned Was not unity one of the chief parts of Christs prayer unto his Father when he was here upon earth John 17. 11. Is not unity amongst Christians one of the strongest arguments to perswade the world to believe in Christ John 17. 21. Is it not the chiefe desire of the holy Apostles that we should all speak the same things and that there should be no divisions amongst us but that we be perfectly joyned together in the same mind in the same judgement 1 Cor. 1. 10. Phil. 2. 1 2 3 c. Is not unity the happinesse of heaven Is it not the happinesse of a City to be at unity within it self Is it not a good pleasant thing for brethren to dwell together in unity How comes it then to passe that this part of the Covenant is so much forgotten The Lord mind you of it this day And the Lord make this great famous City a City of holinesse and a City at unity within it self For if unity be destroyed purity will quickly also be destroyed The Church of God is una as well as sancta It is but one church as wel as is it a holy church And Jesus Christ gave some to be Apostles some Evangelists some Prophets some Pastors and Teachers c. till we all come to the unity of the faith Not only to the purity but to the unity of the faith The government of Christ is appointed for the keeping of his Church in unity as well as purity Those things which God hath joyned together let no man put asunder That government which doth not promote unity as well as purity is not the government of Christ Oh the misery of that kingdom where Church-divisions are nourished and fomented Would it not be a sad thing to see twelve in a family and one of them a Presbyterian another an Independent another a Brownist another an Antinomian another an Anabaptist another a Familist another for the Prelatical government another a Seeker another a Papist and the tenth it may be an Atheist the eleventh a Jew the twelfth a Turk The Lord in his due time heal our divisions make you his choice instruments according to your places that the Lord may be one his name one in the three kingdoms 5. You must endeavour in pursuance of your Covenant to extirpate Popery Prelacy Heresie Schisme Prophanenesse whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godlinesse c. That so this City may be a City of holinesse unity and a City of truth as is prophecied of Jerusalem Zach. 8. 3. Oh blessed truth how is it that thou art so lightly esteemed on Is not truth more precious then gold and more to be prized then Rubies Are we not to buy the truth and sell it not Did not Christ come into the world to bear Witnesse to the truth Did not grace and truth come by Iesus Christ Is not Christ the way the truth and the life How is it then that truth is fallen in the streets and equity cannot enter how is it that truth faileth and he that departeth from evill maketh himself a prey Esay 59. 14 15. How is it that men bend their tongues like bowes for lies but they are not valiant for the truth upon earth The Lord make you lovers of truth and peace 6. You must take heed of that cursed monster of Indifferency Neutrality Study these six texts of Scripture Judg. 5. 23. Judg. 8. 6 7. 16. Deut. 23 3 4. Jer. 48. 10. Mat. 12. 30. Mar. 8. 38. O that these Scriptures were written in your hearts with a pen of iron A Neuter in Gods cause is a lukewarm Christian whom God will spue out of his mouth he is a dead member of Christs body fit to be cut off Oh that the Lord would raise up your hearts this day Right Honourable Right Worshipfull and Well beloved to a high pitch of zeal for him and his cause God hath made you instruments to do wonderfull things for this kingdom you have been the Saviours of the kingdom you have vindicated the liberties of the Parliament and your own liberties and the Kings army by your means in a great measure is brought very low But yet as Christ said to the young man so do I to you There is one thing wanting and that one thing is the one thing necessary The Church is unsetled Discipline unerected Religion is tottering For Zions stir up your zeal and your strength Use your interest and your power in an orderly and regular and peaceable way according to your places And what can you not do You have ventured one arrow already shoot another and if that miscarry shoot another you will speed at last He that cuts down a tree though he cuts it not down at the first and second blow yet the first and second and third blow