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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

precious time to satisfie the objections of those that are not present to recover satisfaction There are some men of whom I may say as the Apostle doth to the Galatians Gal. 1. 6. I marvell that you are so soon removed from him that called you c. And as Gal. 4. 15. I beare you record that if it had been possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me Am I therefore become your enemy c. So may I say of many I wonder and marvell to see how suddenly they are changed from that good opinion they once had of the Covenant For I bear thē record that there was a time when they not onely took it willingly but would have hazarded their very lives in defence of it How is it then that the Covenant is become an enemy to them and they unto the Covenant Surely the change is not in the Covenant but in the Covenanters I have much to say in defence of it and did say much when it was first taken which now to repeat will not be usefull and I believe for the company here present very unnecessary and therefore I forbeare The second use is to exhort you to be Covenant-takers this day and to take it with these qualifications 1. Solemnly and seriously and tremblingly as in Gods presence Ezra 10. 3. 2. With hearty griefe and sorrow for all our former Apostasies and Covenant-breakings Jer. 50. 4. 5. 3. With judgement and understanding Neh. 10. 28. rightly informed of the true sense and meaning of every particular 4. With a full assurance that it is an act very pleasing unto God and that God is much honoured by it 5. Freely and cheerfully as they did 2 Chron. 15. 14. 6. Faithfully and sincerely with all your hearts and soules and with your whole desire 2 Chron. 15. 12. 2 Chron. 34. 31 32. with a purpose to joyn your selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant never to be forgotten Jer. 50. 5. As for motives to perswade you to the practice of these things and for rules and directions about the manner of taking of it I shall leave them wholly to my Reverend brother who is to succeed who will undertake this work fully and at large My chief aym is at the second doctrine which is That for a Covenant-taker to be a Covenant-breaker is a sin that makes the times perilous For the opening of this point I must distinguish again of Covenants There are civill and there are religious Covenants A civill Covenant is a Covenant between man and man and of this the text is primarily though not onely to be understood Now for a man to break promise and Covenant with his brother is a land-destroying and soule devouring abomination We read 2 Sam. 21. that because Saul had broken the Covenant that Joshuah made with the Gibeonites God sent a famine in Davids time of three yeares continuance To teach us that if we falsifie our Word and Oath God will avenge covenant-breaking though it be forty yeares after Famous is that text Jer. 34. 17 18 19 20. Because the Princes and the People brake the covenant which they had made with their servants though but their servants God tels them Because ye have not hearkned unto me in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother c. Behold I proclaim liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make you to be removed into all the Kingdomes of the earth c. We read also Ezek. 17. 18 19 20. That God tels Zedekiah because he brake the covenant he had made with the King of Babylon that therefore he would recompence upon his head the oath that he had despised and the covenant that he had broken would bring him to Babylon and plead with him there for the trespasse which he had trespassed against the Lord David tels us Ps. 15. 4. that it is a sin that shuts a man out of heaven The Turkish histories tell us of a covenant of peace made between Amurath the great Turk and Ladislaus King of Hungary and how the Pope absolved Ladislaus from his oath and provoked him to renue the warre In which war the Turk being put to the worst and despairing of victory puls out a paper which he had in his bosome wherein the league was written and said O thou God of the Christians if thou beest a true God be revenged of those that without cause have broken the league made by calling upon thy name And the story saith that after he had spoken these words he had as it were a new heart and spirit put into him and his souldiers and that they obtained a glorious victory over Ladislaus Thus God avenged the quarrel of mans covenant The like story we have of Rodolphus Duke of Suevia who by the Popes instigation waged war with Henry the fourth Emperour of Germany to whom he had sworn the contrary The Pope sent a Crown to him with this Motto Petra dedit Petro Petrus diadema Rodolpho but in the fight it chanced that Rodolphus lost his right hand and falling sick upon it he called for it and said Spectate hanc dextram legitima supplicia expendentem quae fidem sacramento munitam Henrico Domino meo datam vobis urgentibus praeter aequum jus temere violavit Behold this right hand with which I subscribed to the Emperour with which I have violated my oath and therefore I am rightly punished I will not trouble you in relating the gallant story of Regulus that chose rather to expose himselfe to a cruell death then to falsifie his oath to the Carthaginians The summe of all is if it be such a crying abomination to break covenant between man and man and if such persons are accounted as the off-scouring of men not worthy to live in a christian no not in a heathen Common-weal If it be a sin that drawes down vengeance from heaven and excludes a man from heaven much more for a man to enter into a covenant with the great Jehovah and to break such religious engagement this must needs be a destroying and souldāning sin And of such religious covenants I am now to speak There are two covenants that God made with man a covenant of nature and a covenant of grace The covenant of nature or of works was made with Adam and all mankind in him This covenant Adam broke and God presently had a quarrell against him for breaking of it Gen. 3. 8 9. And to avenge the quarrell of the covenant he was thrust out of Paradise and there was a sword also placed at the East end of the Garden of Eden to avenge covenant-breaking And by nature we are all children of wrath heirs of hell because of the breach of that covenant And therefore we should never think of originall sin or of the sinfulnesse and cursednesse of our naturall condition but we should remember what a