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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	covenant_n	law_n	life_n	4,307	5	5.4437	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79831	Emanuel, or, God with us. Wherein is set forth Englands late great victory over the Scots armie, in a battle at Dunbar, Septemb. 3. 1650. And by many particulars of Gods acting and appearing then for us, it is certaine (and so much is clearly proved) that our armies marching into Scotland, and the wars undertaken and prosecuted against that nation, to be upon grounds of justice and necessity, as the Parliament of England hath declared. Also here is shewed, how grosly the Covenant is abus'd, and what an idoll it is now made. With the fraud and falshood of the Scots, and their kings hypocrisie and dissimulation. Moreover such objections are answered, as seeme to have any thing in them, against the point here asserted. / By John Canne. The first part, published by authority.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1650 (1650)	Wing C439; Thomason E614_11; ESTC R206534	45,110	52

further thus As it is a * Canem rabidum Hier Catalog Script Eccle. mad dog as Julian was cal'd biting where it should not so it is a dumb dog in the Presbyterian sence not barking or biting where it should doe and where there is just cause and reason for it The Scripture sayth p Gen. 9.6 He that sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed q Num. 35.31 Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a Murtherer which is guilty of death but he shall surely be put to death r Deut. 19.13 Thine eye shall not pitty him c. ſ Pro. 28.17 Let no man stay him from the Pit Now howsoever it be acknowledged by the Presbyterians that the late King was a man of blood and did most unnaturally murther and kill many thousands of his best Subjects yet they say by the Covenant Oath men were bound although clearly against the Law of God to preserve his person and not to put him to death notwithstanding all the innocent blood which he had shed and other high crimes committed As his Excellency sayth away with the Covenant if this be so a Heathen could say † Nihil honestum esse porest quod justicia vacet Cicero offic lib. 3. Nothing can be honest which wants justice And 't is a Maxime in Law * Contractus vel pacta contra legem prohibitam n●●ùnt jure nulla L. non dubinm C. de 11. l. ●bemujs nulli Prohibited contracts or Covenants against Law are by right nothing Againe ‖ Conditio turpis vel impossibilis vitiat actum de Verb. Obligat A condition evill or impossible makes the Action voyd Our Divines also affirme the like * Si factum sit juramentum de rebus quae non sunt nostrae pocetatis ill●t●● Alsted Ca●● c. 15. p. 288. An Oath is unlawfull being taken concerning things which are not in our power † Nihil honestum esse porest quod justicia vacet Cicero offic lib. 3. It is Tyranny sayth another to oblige others unto impossible things So Rivel ‖ Tyrannicum est ad res non possibiles ali●s ad stringere Pareus Com. in Gen. 24. v. 8 No man ought to be constrained by Oath to act any thing that is unjust His Reason is Because obedience to Gods Commandements which never disagree among themselves is to be preferred before all things That it is not in mans power to preserve the life of a Murtherer whither King or Subject the word of God clearly holds it forth and so much I have in another place proved and therefore it is Tyranny in the Covenant to force men to do that which is not in their power neither can they do it possibly Or if they should * Nemo juramento cogi debet ad aliquid inique perpetrādum Quia obedientia erga divina mandata quae inter se nunquam pugnant Omnibus est praeferenda Explicat de Catalog 3. prae p. 90. it were then a sinfull and most unjust thing ‖ Non tantum non obligat sed si observetur auget reatum Ames cont l. 4. c. 22. Amesius goes further If a man saith he should sweare that hee would not doe his duty and office he is so far in such a case from keeping his oath that keeping it he encreaseth his sin So then by this it appears if men by the Covenant did bind themselves not to doe what God required of them and what their duty and office was to doe namely not to put a Murtherer and Tyrant to death yet they ought not to keep such an unlawfull Oath or Covenant but rather repenting of it fulfill the Commandement and will of God t Pro. 13.14 The law of the wise is a fountaine of life to depart from the snares of death 5. Howsoever the Scots and some here cry up the Covenant as they did the Image which fell down from Jupiter Great is Diana of the Ephesians Neverthelesse and let it be well minded what the Covenant is it is not yet known not the Negative or Affirmative parts of it neither can the Takers of it agree among themselves about the particulars contained therin Some think it was in taking like the Jewish Manna in eating of which a report goes that it tasted as every one would have it so it is supposed that the Covenant might be applyed every way and to any thing as men did desire to please their pallat But here was not that way which David desired the Lord to lead him in u Psal 27.11 Margent A way of plainnesse here would be no x Jer. 4.2 Juramentum licitum est de rebus veriscerto cognitis Polā Syntag. l. 9. c. 23. p. 628. swearing in judgment that is consideratly knowingly and understanding what they did But here rather the doctrine of blind obedience and the Colliars faith was countenanced and what * Hos Confut. Petti c. 14. p. 18. Hosius saith ignorance in most things is best of all to know nothing is to know all things And Cusan ‖ Obedientia irrationalis est consummata perfectissima scilicet quando obeditur sine inquisitione rationis sicut jumentum obedit domino suo Cusan Exercit l. 6. Irrationall obedience is the fullest and perfectest that is when obedience is shewed without enquiry or asking any reason as a beast obeys his Master This blind obedience in taking the Covenant I much pitty and howsoever the time of this ignorance God winked at neverthelesse let men take heed of presumptuous sins as not to plead for Baal against knowledg and conscience the Lord of Host hath begun to cast dung in the face of it he will every y Rom. 1.18 day more and more y Rom. 1.18 declare his wrath from heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men who hold the truth in unrighteousnesse 6. That the Covenant the Scots Cause was the Achan who will not think so if he duly consider how after a Scots trick it serves to make men hypocrites and lyars Of their King made to * Qui nescit dissimulare nescit imperare dissemble before God and the world and that by the Covenant I shall speak no more only it is worthy of note as one saith of Traytors ‖ Proditores etiam ijs quos anteponunt invisi sunt Tacit. Annal. lib. 1. they are odius to those even whose instruments they are So many men although they make use of the Covenant as a Traitor to further their design yet is the same detested and hated by them The Covenant usually hath been taken as men do physick in extremity and for necessity sake not but the purge is bitter and loathsom to them so in extremity to prevent sequestration and the Kinks curse they have swallowed it but sore against their wills Neither would they have done so if necessity had not been As a monster occasioneth griefe to those that