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A75313	The anatomy of Dr. Gauden's idolized non-sence and blasphemy, in his pretended Analysis, or setting forth the true sense of the covenant that is to say, of that sacred covenant taken by the Parliament, the commissioners of Scotland, and the assembly, September 11. 1643.		1660 (1660)	Wing A3055; Thomason E765_14; ESTC R207156	29,164	31

Tributary to him yet rebelled against him 2 Chron. 36.13 His rebellion was his sending Ambassadours into Egypt that they might give him Horses and much people to arm himself to throw off the yoke of the King of Babylon to whom he had sworn to be subject Ezek. 17.15 Now much might have been said for this That Nebuchadnezzar was an enemy a great Tyrant over the people of God who were Abrahams seed and that were not to be in bondage to any man And the Covenant was imposed on him by force c. But all this notwithstanding mark how God takes this breach of such a forc'd Covenant as this Shall he break the Covenant and be delivered Nay now he that cared not for his Oath makes God himself to swear his ruine As I live saith the Lord God surely in the place where the King dwelleth that made him King whose Oath he despised and whose Covenant he brake even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty Army and great company make for him in the war by casting up mounts and building forts to cut off many persons Seeing he despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant when lo he had given his hand and hath done all these things he shall not escape Therefore thus saith the Lord God again As I live surely mine Oath that he hath destised and my Covenant that he hath broken even it I will recompence upon his own head And I will spread my not upon him and he shall be taken in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against ME. And all his fugitives such as first counselled him to break that Covenant and all his bands that adhered to him in that war shall fall by the Sword and they that remain shall be scattered abroad towards all winds And ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it Vers 16.17 18 19 20 21. By this it is clear as the Sun that God will never put up the wilful breach of any Covenant but dreadfully punish it even upon Kings themselves and will extend his wrath not onely upon themselves but upon all that counsel them to it Take heed Doctor and joyn with them in it Of how much sorer punishment then suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who shall dare to trample under feet any Covenant made with God himself in what manner soever as an unholy thing Nor will this end with temporal plagues in this life but in Hell hereafter although the Vow and Oath were but voluntary and not imposed For the breach of such an Oath Vow or Covenant is a sin and the wages of sin is death r Rom. 6.23 not onely natural but eternal if not repented of That this is a sin appears plainly by Gods own Declaration Deut. 23.21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thoushalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee to wit not to pay it yea to be slack to pay it And that this is meant of even a voluntary vow appears in vers 22. But if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee Wherefore he addeth vers 23. That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform even a free-will offering according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God which thou hast promised with thy mouth Can there be a clearer proof Take one more that by two or three witnesses every word may be established It is that of the Preacher Eccles 5.4 5. When thou vowest a vow unto God defer not to pay it for he hath no pleasure in fools which with God are wicked men Psalm 73.3 Pay that which thou hast vowed Better is it that thou shouldest not vow then that thou shouldst vow and not pay This therefore makes it out that it is a sin not to perform a voluntary vow Now lest after a vow the Covenanter should not think to evade his vow by pleading that he did it rashly and it was an errour in him so to do it is added by way of anticipation vers 6. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin neither say thou before the Angel that it was an errour Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice that is wherefore shouldst thou anger him by so speaking and destroy the work of thy hands It being now plain that this is a sin it cannot be denyed that a wilful continued breach of a voluntary Vow and Covenant if not duely repented of will certainly end in Hell If it be said These instances are of particular and private persons what is this to prove the like sinfulness and danger of the breach or throwing off of a National Oath League and Covenant not imposed by due or Supreme Authority To this I Answer 1. The Obligation of an Oath or Covenant consisteth not in the Paucity or multitude of those that enter into it but in the making use of God in it and his declaration thereupon This was a tye upon all Israel the swearing to the perfidious Gibeonites by the Lord God of Israel as we have shewed before Hence that of Solomon Eccles 8.2 I counsel thee to keep the Kings commandment and that in regard of the oath of God Where this comes the Oath and Covenant is indissolubly binding If we once lift up our hand to the most high God he will be sure to lift up his hand against us if we Vow and not pay be we few or many 2. Nor will the imposing or not imposing of it by Supreme Authority alter the Case For it is observable that in all such National Vows and Covenants neither the Supreme Magistrates imposition or so much as consent is at all recorded in Scripture or mentioned which shews that there is no necessity of either It is God not Kings that makes the Covenant obligatory Take an instance or two The one is of all Israel in the Wilderness When they were set upon by King Arad the Canaanite who at first worsted them and took some of them prisoners Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand then I will utterly destroy their Cities s Num 21.2 Here is no word or hint of Moses their Supreme Governour as this Doctor unadvisedly calls him yet the Vow and Covenant was binding For God took notice of it and by his acting confirmed it The Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites and they utterly destroyed them and their Cities ver 3. The other is of Judah and part of Israel many hundred years after in the days of Asa who being by him gathered together at Hierusalem to make an offering to the Lord they entred into a Covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their