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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35038	Analepsis, or, Saint Peters bonds abide for rhetorick worketh no release, is evidenced in a serious and sober consideration of Dr. John Gauden's sense and solution of the Solemn League and Covenant : so far as it relates to the government of the church by episcopacy / by Zech. Crofton.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6984; ESTC R7749	30,761	39

fierceness of it is much manifested in those multiplied invectives uttered against the Covenant and authority which did enjoyn it and persons who did compose it in these and the like intemperate terms a stratagem of State a flag of Faction an engine framed of purpose to batter down Episcopacy Fierce expressions p. 13. Covenanting complements and Reformings of bungling Reformers page 24. The petty composition of a few politick men Subjects not Princes and very mean Subjects too some of them either as Lawyers or Ministers a great part of whom I and others well know to be no very great Clerks or Statesmen fitter for a Countrey cure than to contrive Solemn Leagues and Covenants whose heads rather than their hearts and their State correspondencies more than their consciences brought forth the Covenant pa. 11. The effect of Scottish importunities English compliances and Presbyterian insolencies page 5. brought forth by the Midwifery of Tumults and Armies engaged and enraged parties and factions whose wrath and policy were not probable to work the righteousness of God evil Angels turning our waters into blood page 6 7. These and many the like Railing Taunring and Intemperate terms much below the expected sobriety of a so publickly professed healer yet as an evidence of his fury he falsely chargeth the Covenant with most sad and unblest effects and to have been the cause of all the havocks in Church and State improsperities disorders False charge confusions contempts wars spoyles bloodshed upon all estates and degrees contempt of Religion and neglect of Sacraments page 7. One of the great rocks for the King's shipwrack no less than the Churches and States and that it was watered with the King's blood pag. 8. I cannot but wonder to finde Dr. Gawden thus audacter calumniare for can any considerate Reader or competent observer of the transactions of our Nations in these last years reade these reproachful speeches and not conclude them a most positive and publick calumny Let the Covenant it self be considered and can it by reason of any tendency in it self be charged to be the proper cause of such prodigious effects Is it not the most fervent profession of piety towards God Loyalty to the King and Justice towards men that can be made Is it not the most firm tie to Religion that can be fastned and the fullest security of all kinde of Interests the prerogative of the King the priviledges of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject which can be given can any thing but ill-will represent to the world such unblest effects as the natural products of it and if some persons engaged in it have engaged in and acted such horrid impieties inhumane and barbarous actions under the false cry of the Covenant shall a man of justice charge the bastard-brood of such prophaneness to be the natural issue of so Solemn and Sacred an Oath But Sir will not an observation of the time when these sad and unblest effects fell upon us acquit the Covenant from being in the least accessary unto the production of them If my observation fail me not and I be not mistaken in my account the throwing stools at the heads of the Bishops in Scotland Confusion before the Covenant the pulling down the Star-Chamber and High Commission Courts those grand supports of Prelatical power the taking away the Bishops Votes and Session in Parliament The preparations against Scotland by Bishop Peirce his Bellum Episcopale the tumults about Lambeth the imprisonment of the Bishops in the Tower the tumults about Whitehall and Westminster with his late Majesties departure from the two Houses the setting up his Majesties Standard the alarums of War with many battels and blood-shed the violence of the vulgar against the Liturgy Crosses and Altars with all that confusion and disorder which attended our first unhappy differences are of some years date before the Covenant was imposed or so much as devised or digested all which were not only begun but carried to some considerable progress before it had its being how then could these be the black shadows of its appearing and prevailing in England Some have observed that from the time of the taking of the Covenant success fell on the side of the Parliament and things did thenceforward grow into a tendency to peace and rested not untill it effected the Resolves that His Majesties Concessions were satisfactory and sufficient ground of peace And here let it be noted that it was so far from being watered with the King's blood that when the debate relating to His Majesty engaged the Contests in the House which run the Armies on those high insolencies against the Parliament as to pull out violently 120. Members who in conscience of the Covenant did pursue and struggle for His Majesties Restitution with honour and happinesse Covenant contest against the King's death And the Covenant was by that perfidious pack openly declared useless an Almanack out of date and violated with the highest impiety imaginable to make way to that execrable murther of His most Sacred Majesty Nay Sir can the clamours of the Covenant which were so loud in Press and Pulpit by the Ministers of London in their Representation to the Armies at Saint Albans before they perpetrated their horrid designes in their publick Vindication Printed with their names subscribed witnessing to the World the inconsistency of that Barbarous proceeding with the Solemn League and Covenant be so far out of the Doctor 's remembrance as to charge the Covenant so Eminently approved the pillar of witness against it to have been the Rock of the King's shipwrack and watered with his blood Your Casuist was willing to have all the world to know * Reprinting his own protest against it his innocency as to that inhumane wickedness methinks Sir he should not quite over-look others no less innocent than himself Moreover Sir many that are no Rigid Bigots or virulent spirits The more likely cause of our late confusions and have considered the concurrence of affairs in this Church and Kingdom think that without breach of charity or sobriety they may conclude the arrogancy of Prelates the alterations of publi●k worship the innovated Ceremonies and Superstitions the Oath with its etcaetera binding to Canonical obedience the excommunications banishments stigmatizing Confiscations imprisonments and high Commission-Censures against pious Non-conformists with the silencing and suspending painful powerful and pious Preachers with the Arbitrary Illegal imposition of the new Service-Book in Scotland look much more like the natural parent and proper cause of our late Confusions Commotions War and Bloodshed then doth the Solemn League and Covenant but I intend not to retort or recriminate I shall Sir leave wise men to judge how unlikely a course it is by such unadvised expressions to satisfie conscience which is so tender and tickle that all offences should be avoided passion is not only a perturbation to the mind but also a prejudice to the understanding of what is