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A71282	Three kingdoms made one by entring Covenant with one God wherein we have these remarkables, worthy all observation : I what it is to Covenant with God, II how hardly his people are drawn into it, III how the Lord has suffered His adversaries from time to time to buffit His people thereinto, IV The height of this covenant above former covenants and reasons why ... / by E.W.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3507; ESTC R21107	47,316	48

is the readiest way to compleat the Militia of a Kingdome It is Answered this is the way Come up to Gods termes enter into Covenant with Him So Asa did and untill he had done that he had done nothing It is true he took away the Sodomites he threw down the Altars thrust aside their Service And what of all that Sodomites had thrust in againe Altars had been hoysed up again If he had not Covenanted against all these It is so still We must every man for his own part Covenant against the accursed thing in his own heart So also against the accursed Persons and things in the Kingdome to throw them out else Fasting do's no good nor Praying nor Preaching neither Covenanting must go together with all these else nor the Kingdom nor the Christian Souldier there can be in any safe Posture What is done to day in this Posturing work will be undone to morrow If we do not Covenant against Idol-men and Idol things and with the Lord So engaging our heart to cast them all out But do as aforesaid and the Kingdom is sure so is the Person too There is no hope but in this way mark it We have trespassed against our God sayes Sheshaniah What had they done They had taken the daughter of a strange God I know not how many strange Wives and then they had taken the readiest way in the world To stock up their Kingdom by the roots yet sayes he There is hope in Israel concerning this thing Though such a grievous Trespasse be committed and the Chiefe in the Kingdom are Chiefe in that trespasse Yet there is hope What hope Even now therefore let us Ezra 10 2. make a Covenant with our God There is the hope If any thing under the Cope of Heaven will do it That will do it What Away with the daughters of a strange God Set them packing who would thrust us from God and God from us Let us thrust them away and Covenant so to do and then we shall keep our God and close to His worship And if we keep God and close to Him at that point All is kept for God is all and he will keep us all if we keep to Him and stand to the Covenant There is the hope of Israel concerning this matter sayes good Shechaniah It is a sure way it is an only way to save a Perishing a down sinking Kingdom brought to the Pit of destruction upon which are all the Symptom's of death and for which the grave is made because it is so vile Come let us make a Covenant It is the onely hopefull way to save such a Kingdom An hopefull way say I I will say a great word and I will boast of the way but in the Lord There is more then hope There is a certainty of Successe in this Covenanting It never failed the Righteous it never shall faile unto the worlds end I know what the good man will say now heare him VII VII A This way has fayled the most Righteous King that ever had his Kingdom in this world Josiah by name it fayled him even him B. No it did not he Covenanted with his God and so kept close to his God and God to him all his dayes and at death they were not divided he that breathed after GOD all his life long breathed his soul into Gods hand at his death and so departed and is now for ever with the Lord This Covenanting with God did not deceive Josiah A. It failed his people all his whole Kingdom and that is my meaning They were carried away at last though first their King made a Covenant with his God yea and made His People stand to it B. He did indeed and it shall ever be spoken to his Praise when that Scripture is Read Josiah made a Covenant with God and caused to stand to it But if we observe it well we shall tremble for here is a But will spoyle all But Judah did not stand to it Stand to it alas no The Covenant did not faile they failed the Covenant The people dealt wickedly there The King layed an inforcement 2 Chr. 34 35. upon them hi very example was of force to pull and drag the People to enter Covenant to lay them under those sacred bands to make them stand to it but there was not an heart in them much they did in seeing such a glorious example before them but they did nothing in truth They were not a whit humbled for all the Blood that Manasseth had shed not for the Idols he had set-up they were as Idolatrous as their King Not a whit humbled were they for all their abominations theirs and their Princes not a Ier. 15 4. Pag. 121. whit therefore wrath came upon them Indeed I should be large in this point but I finde it somewhat inlarged in the Kings Chronicle whereto I will referre the Reader I will say but this here never was there such a Back-sliding people no not in our dayes never was there such a Departing from God as at that time in Judah I tell you what makes me think verily it was so read the last of the Chronicles what a declining what a fallingback was there from their God from His worship of all degrees of all estates high and low Rich and Poor To what an height of Provocations did they rise But for ought I can observe in that Chapter the Prince and People did not more wickedly in those dayes then we have done in our dayes our abominations have risen to the same height But yet I observe what I Read in Jeremy and that is thus I find more goodnesse Ier. 38. in one Ethiopian then was in all the Princes of Judah I would Intreat the Reader to mark that Chapter As our Lord sayes of the Centurion a stranger to the Common wealth of Israel I have not found so great faith no not in Israel So not so much goodnesse in all the Princes of Judah as Mat. 8. 10. in that one Ethiopian Not so much goodnesse said I there was no goodnesse in the Princes at all all nought all Rebellious and fallen off from God They did not pray to God they prayed to the King That Jeremy might be put to death Certainly Reader Certainly though we I say we for Scotland and England are one though we are a very wicked a very wretched People fallen very low parted very far from our God yet not fallen so low as Judah was at that time not so farre departed but a Covenant with our God will fetch us back again for there are many Nobles in Scotland many Princes there I find Priests called Princes there 2 Chron. 17. 7. a Psal 110 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A people of Devotions 2 Cor. 8 23. to say nothing of the Common people a very willing people a people of willingnesses a willingly offering Devoting their estates and lives now To help in the battle of the Lord and

as a burnt Mountain Thus it must be Lord for Thou hast said it and strong is The Lord God who judgeth Her In the mean time Thy People Lord are not afraid not a whit afraid They incourage themselves in Thee and they boast in Thy Name all the Day long I will speak a word more in the Ears of the fearfull Thy people Lord are no more afraid of these Rebels in the Land Instruments in Thy Hand then Children are afraid seeing some Instruments of Death Carbine Pistoll or Cannon in their Fathers Hand fully assured they are Their Father intends not to shoot at them not at his Children No the Father is making ready and bending these Instruments against the Faces of His and His Childrens Enemies against them He intends all this And let the fearfull attend to this and a little more Why Lord thy Church do's not lie at the mercy of Instruments whose mercies are cruell rather none at * Prov 12. 10. Plane nulla Jur. all Thy Church lyeth at the mercy of a God who is all mercy and has the Instruments all English Irish French all these Malignants in His Hands the Hands of a Father Truly Lord Thy people are assured That these Instruments in their Fathers Hands shall not kill his Children Kill They shall not hurt His Children Not hurt These Instruments in a Fathers hand must do His Children good and the more Malignant the more good It must be so Lord Instruments in a Fathers Hand must work for the good of His Children they know it and are as confident and fully assured of it as that their Father ever liveth and ever loveth His people Amen for so sayes the Faithfull and true witnesse Amen 2. The Heathen rage now they take counsell together all against Thy Sonne Thine Anointed our Lord and Christ We know thou hast taken to Thy Self Power now Thou wilt see to Thine own House Thou Sonne of David Psal 2. Thou do'st laugh now but wo to the world the men of the earth there Revel when Thou do'st Laugh for now they shall howle bitterly When Thou shalt speak unto them in Thy wrath and vex them in Thy sore Displeasure 3. Thy Name Lord Thy Glory is engaged upon it for Thy Name-sake for Thy Glory-sake Thou must do it maintain Thine own Cause The Cause Thy servants stand-up for is not theirs but the Lords Thy Cause and though Thy servants have offended Thee yet the comfort is The Cause never offended Thee Thou art as well pleased with it as with Thy Sonne yea in Him Thou lovest Thy People as Thou lovest Thy Sonne But Thy Cause Lord Thy Sonnes Cause His Churches Cause Thou must help it Thou must deliver it Thou must bring it forth to victory Thy Cause Lord Thy Glory That is engaged Were the Cause ours and no more but our selves interested in it let it sink or let it swim Thy people could not be carefull about it they would be as carelesse of it as those have been who have turned Taile upon Thy servants in the House of Parliament and dealt treacherously with Thee But but The Kingdome is Thine The Battell Thine The people Thine The Cause Thine The Glory Thine ours by free gift and so returned back with all thankfulnesse All is Thine Thou must look to Thine own Thou must do it We are not our own Thy Purchase Lord engaged to Thee Thou must help us We have done our duty blessed be Thy Name for That Grace we have Fasted we have prayed we have Covenanted taken Thee for our God we said in uprightnesse of heart Thou art our Rock our high Tower Truly Lord Thou must be our Refuge heaven is our place of Esa 45. 11. Josh 1 5. Heb. 13. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Five Ne gatives to ascertain the affirmative and to give the Church strong Consolations for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Randevouz still in life and in death whereto we must continually resort Thou must do it it is Thy Cause and Thy Glory Thy people will not let Thee alone they will give Thee no rest Thouhast bid them saying Command ye me They take Thee at Thy Word they command Thee to prosper This Cause in all the peoples sight It must bee so Lord for so Thou hast Commanded and not wee but Thou hast said it I will never never never never never leave Thee not forsake Thee Thou didst not give so full an assurance to thy servant Joshua but Thou hast said it so often and given so full an assurance to thy servants now a dayes Thou didst assure indeed Thy servant Joshua That Thou wouldest hold him fast Thou wouldest not let go Thy hold of him a Thou wouldest bear him up in Thine hand A full assurance this Yet Thou hast given a fuller assurance to Thy servants now a dayes so as they can say boldly and beleeve perfectly that Thou wilt never forsake Thy Kingdome never forsake Thy Church never forsake Thy Battell never forsake Thy Cause never forsake that matter wherein Thy Name Thy Glory is engaged In confident assurance hereof All Thy faithfull servants all the world over do stand still calme and quiet in their mindes not sad nor carefull having done their duty expecting the Salvations of the Lord and ascribing salvation to their God Praise Glory Honour and Thansgiving To Him That sitteth upon the Throne for evermore So be it Amen Postscript THat these things I have said may not seeme Parables I have singled out a single man a good Souldier of Jesus Christ by him to exemplifie all this As the Nobles have done before him in ancient dayes touching the well posturing Kingdomes so he has done in the maintaining his own Militia and posturing himselfe for he has done as aforesaid and at last entred into Covenant with his God and by help of God stands to it and so made himselfe as a Wall or Mountain of Brasse able to stand it out against all Storms and Batteries he mocketh at Famine now and laugheth at the Sword If his Adversaries threaten to Storm him he will laugh at them And if it be told him that the Rebels in Ireland will joyn with them in England for that purpose He will reply That he fears God and is not afraid of the beasts of the earth He now that will take a full sight and view of this Souldier Job 5. 22. throughout all his Ranks and Postures must haply be at three pence cost which thinking he may stick at I will onely make honourable mention of this Souldier here and of one of his exploits which makes him more renowned than were they whose conquest made them famous all over the world He has overcome himself That is a conquest indeed he has ever-powred Self-will neerest of Kin to the great troubler of the world Master of Mis-rule and Prince of Rebels which next to the Devill has and do's cause all the stirres tumults and mischief there He has overcome this

them anon I suppose now even a good People somewhat slow of Belief touching this matter being fearfull now hearing of the breaking-in of more grievous Wolves into the Lords Vineyard I mean hearing that the Irish I should call them Brethren now but I cannot call these Children of the Devill These Enemies of Christ I cannot call these by so friendly a name I must call them and their Legion by their right Names as their Father is called Abaddon Apollyon Destroyers Murtherers all hearing that these are coming-in to joyn vvith the English I cannot call them Brethren neither Rev. 9 11 but Monsters here supposing I say that a good people are slow of Belief and too much shaken vvith fear now I vvill speak to their hearts first from the Mouth of The Lord as follows If all the good men in the House of Parliament vvere sick Men all and all the Bad there some there may be as bad as those that have run from them if all our Men of War good Men there vvere wounded men all and all the bad as bad as are the Irish and English Monsters and so bad they are if any there vvho in shew stand up for God but in vvord and heart are against him If some in our Councells for vvar in our Committees for all concernments of the Church and State vvere as false and treacherous God knowes vvhat they are as bad and rotten as some have been suspected to be If so be the Scottish Army never joyn vvith ours our hearts joyn and our prayers joyn that is as good nay better though vve think it best of all that our Armies may joyn that vve might be all as one Stick in Gods Hand to beat the dogs away vvhich so infest pester and trouble his people Amen but If not so yet as it vvill follow anon vvell for God is good to Israel still If the Irish The English Legion of Devils I had almost said if these vvere Devils indeed not Flesh but all Spirit as their father is and if This Legion vvere multiplyed by such a number as they have hairs on their head vvhat then Then vve shall all be destroyed every Mothers Childe No as sure as God lives and loves His people as sure as His Sonne is King and rules in the the vvorld amidst His enemies there so sure This Cause and all the Helpers in it shall prosper and all that the Adversary does shall helpe but to advance the prosperity thereof so sure God vvill issue-forth great good out of this great evill and sore affliction These bloody men shall be so far from hurting the Church that they shall do the Church infinite good The Adversaries thoughts are as his were and as alwayes they have been Esay 10 7. bloody devouring and destructive But Gods thoughts are all mercy and Truth all towards His people to edifie and build them up by these desolations To stablish them by these shakings To heale them by these woundings What men do wickedly God orders holily They think evill against the Church but God means it unto Good He is contriving a way now to make His Name and His Church Glorious Can this be so do the fearfull say they doubt it very much whether this Pacification in Ireland those bloody execrable there Those Outrages Insolencies those here shall turne to the Churches good Can this be Can God bring good out of this evill Can He bring Comfort out of this sorrow Glory out of this Crosse Life out of this Death Can He do it Yes indeed He can But truely we should never question His Power no nor His Good-will neither towards His people Can said I He will He will nay He must He must else he does not like a God after His manner from the beginning of the world for evermore it was thus when the Envy the Malice the Rage the wrathfull executions of the Churches Adversaries rose like a mighty Flood to the Highest-top against the Church Then presently the Lord God so ordered it That His People have had Rivers Floods Brooks of Honey and Butter streaming down towards them from whence From the love of God issuing good towards them still out of every evill even from these Floods of ungodlinesse before mentioned From the Rage Envy Hatred Malice of the Churches Adversaries have streamed down to the Church Floods of Honey and Butter The highest Comforts the strongest Consolations from out of the lowest bottome the place of Dragons whereinto the wicked have smiten the Righteous even from thence He give the Reader but one Instance here amongst many whereby to exemplifie this I conceive verily That the most envious hatefull Act that ever was offered to the Lord Christ untill this day was acted upon His Body when he hanged upon the Crosse He had shed His precious Blood four times a little before 1. In the Garden 2. When He was Crowned with Thorns 3. When He was whipt at the Post 4. And when His Arms and Legs were nailed to the Crosse which Commands our Estates and Lives for Him now He say no more Notwithstanding all this for the Lord Christs Adversaries then as now may be glutted with Blood they cannot be satisfied A Souldier then would have more Blood yet and and so with his Spear opens the Lord Christs Side and Heart together both at one thrust Ah Lord never was there such an horrid Act heard of from the beginning of time to that day untill now as it is at this day But what followed then And forthwith came there out Blood and water Look you there what the Souldiers Rage and Envy has done He has opened Joh 19 34 the Heart of Christ to all the world of Beleevers and let-out from thence streaming towards them floods of Honey and Butter from that very time to the worlds end What shall I say O the thoughts of God towards His people O the love of Christ How inexpressable there is blood to justifie water to sanctifie there is all There are the two Sacraments Seals of the Righteousnesse of Faith Rivers Floods Brooks of Honey and Butter So the Souldiers Rage wrought then so wonderfull for the Churches Comfort then when he pierced the side of Christ hanging on the Crosse Shall we doubt what will be the effect of his rage now now the Souldiers are piercing the living Body of Christ as dear to Him as the Apple of His Eye now in Glory Doubtlesse and he has an hard heart that do's not firmly beleeve it That these Souldiers now thrusting their Spears now into the sides of Christ still with the same hatred and envy as once that Souldier did do make but a passage wider open whereout to flow unto the Church floods of Honey and Butter All their Malignity shall serve but to whiten the Church first and then let in streaming into them the strongest Consolations As sure as the Lord lives this must be so These Souldiers are now with one hand filling up their measures