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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

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with you alway unto the end of the world are the last words He sayes to them Math. 28. 20. But loe By your leave you shall not Sir have the brave Baal Berithans your new Covenanters sworn if men will but rightly conster them For to be with Them to the end of the world Christ could not mean it not with the Apostles themselves That was impossible but in their Successors And the Successors of the Apostles were those whom the Apostles themselves called Bishops with whom the Apostles left the Power of Ego mitto Vos of continuing that Order or of Subordaining any New And concerning the Bishops you know what the Covenanters have sworn and in very that have forsworn sufficiently But I make no stay at this though I thought it not unfit to cast it in onely by the way because of their word Covenant that you might have a taste of all the Covenants of God and of these mens Counter-Covenanting But I have another-gates Covenant now to conclude all with Full well therefore may this Covenant in the Text be said to concern the King Gods Secular Minister and the Priest Gods Spiritual Minister when as Christ himself the Son of God He the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Author of all our Religion our great High Priest and the Bishop or our Souls the very root therefore of all Episcopacy which they shall never be able to root out howe're they may sometimes lopp of His Branches He that is the Maker of all that are His to be Kings and Priests unto God his Father Apoc. 1. 6. is Himself the very Covenant for all those that belong unto God Think not strange of this I can shew you the very Charter of it and 't is worthy your looking on It begins in a most Solemn and Divine Form Thus saith God the Lord He that created the Heavens and stretched them out that spreadeth forth the Earth and all that comes out of it That giveth Breath to all People upon it and Spirit to all that walk therein I the Lord have called Thee in Righteousness and I will take Thee by thy Hand and will preserve Thee and will give Thee for a Covenant to the People for a Light to the Gentiles Esay 42. 5 6. And lest that should not stick with them again he is at it In an acceptable time and in the day of Salvation will I give Thee for a Covenant of the People Esay 49. 8. Now we have S. Pauls warrant That time was then when Christ was given 2 Cor. 6 2. There are of the succeeding Prophets also express in it By Jeremy the Record of it is at large set down under the Title of a New Covenant Jer 31. 31. And that he means it all of the New Covenant Christ is clear by the Apostles recital of it Heb. 8. 8. Then it was a New one But ever it was to be New because to last Eternally never no other Covenant to be after It after Christ. And so likewise Ezekiel after many Heavenly Amplifications of it and exclusive all to the old Covenant Ezek. 16. 61 He reduces it all into this Personal Aphorisme I will be their God and they shall be my People Ezek 37. 27. And that this also is all meant of Christ himself the same Apostle informs us 2 Cor. 6. 16. For the Love of God then I beseech you all have some care of your Souls and be not thus fooled out of them Away with all other Devices All these Baal Beriths these Idol new-fangled Covenants Avant All but the Covenant of Grace in Christ. And in the Ministration of It what alterations at any Time are needful doubt it not but God is more mindful then You and when He sees Time that God that when need was did put it into that way that so long you had then forgotten into the Heart of His Deputy the King and of his Bishops at the Reformation to do it is the same God still the God of his Church And needs no Aerian Presbyters now to lift up a lying Hand because God is asleep to waken Him No God is awake in His Holy Temple and howe're he seems to wink a while yet they will find that He sees through all Et palpebrae ejus interrogant Psal. 11. 5. His very Eye-lids try the Children of Men. Hold we onely therefore to this sure Covenant of God that in it self we are sure is Christ and as to us 't is with Christ in Christ and for Christ and Christ to be sure will see well enough to it without any of these new bold and blind Seers Be we therefore All in All alone for Christ for our Anointed Lord and for the Lords Anointed Taking Care for nothing else but not to behave our selves perversely in this Covenant no way to be froward and untoward to Him Of all the rest not to put such foul scorns upon Him as if He needed our Lying and could not well be God any longer without our abominable Dissembling which was the Badge that Christ put upon the old Pharisaisme and is the very Soul of that new Scotish Covenant Now God be merciful unto them all that lie but within the Shadow of it Amen FINIS